“…… Tens of thousands of corpses were thrown into the river, and the steamer sailed on the river, and it can be seen that the river is full of the corpses of countless Taiping soldiers......"

Even with the solid text in the newspapers, it is still hard to believe the Taiping infighting that took place in Tianjing, and for many others who have fled Nanjing in the past three years, their companies are secretly glad that they made the choice in the first place. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Maybe they went through hardships and abandoned everything, of course, they still left the land of right and wrong after all.

At least there is no need to worry about your own life here, and there is no pain of being separated from your family.

"Fortunately, I left Nanjing!"

Looking at the newspaper, Song Jialin secretly rejoiced in his heart, glad that he had fled to Wuchang with his wife and children.

He was once a roving criminal envoy in Guangdong Province, and he became famous throughout the country for being in charge of the prosecution of the "Lingdingyang Opium Case" -- hundreds of foreign businessmen and sailors were sentenced to sentences ranging from a few years to more than 10 years under his prosecution.

Just a month ago, he received an order, not so much a transfer as a promotion, and he was promoted to Wuchang Torture Envoy. And this position is often a prerequisite for promotion to the provincial criminal envoy, which means that in the next one to two years, he is very likely to become a provincial criminal envoy and be responsible for the provincial criminal envoy.

Because he had just taken over a new job, Song Jialin seemed a little idle, so he had time to read the newspaper here and watch the news in the newspaper. While rejoicing in his luck, he couldn't help but think about it.

"I don't know how Fuchu will deal with this?"

Civil strife in Nanjing!

It was just news for ordinary people, but for the Governor's Office, when the news came, it immediately caused an uproar in the Governor's Mansion.

This is an opportunity!

Almost everyone saw the opportunity to take advantage of this opportunity to sweep Jiangnan, after all, the Taiping Army has always been the biggest obstacle for the Righteous Army to enter Jiangnan, he is not only an obstacle, the Taiping Army has even hindered many actions of the Righteous Army. It was even because of the Taiping Army's control of the Yangtze River that the Rebels would abandon Shanghai and let it be occupied by the Qing Army.

And now, the reality of the civil strife in the Taiping Army has made everyone see the opportunity! I saw an opportunity to solve the problem in one fell swoop.

For Zuo Zongtang, who came to Wuchang from Changsha to report on his work, he didn't even realize what kind of problem he was going to be in.

"It's okay, I'll wait for the lord at the waiting place, you're busy."

Zuo Zongtang had a smile on his face, and he didn't care at all, and then walked into the waiting room outside the lord's office alone, waiting for the meeting to be over, and report to him the changes in Hunan in the past two years, especially the changes in Hunan College, which was held for a year, he knew what the lord cared about. Compared with the limited number of factories in Hunan, the lord is more concerned about the cultivation of talents in Hunan and the education in Hunan.

Because there was only Zuo Zongtang himself in the waiting room, while he was drinking tea and waiting. Suddenly, he vaguely heard the sound of fierce argument coming from the closed door on the other side, as if there was a quarrel, and he couldn't help but be curious, and he couldn't help but prick up his ears, wondering what was going on in the conference room.

“…… Now the Righteous Army has 175,000 soldiers, another 17,300 military police, nearly 200,000 troops, in terms of strength is not a problem at all, and the combat effectiveness of the Righteous Army is far greater than that of the Qing Army, and the Taiping Army is also out of reach, this is also an indisputable fact, even if we are cautious and use 50,000 troops to launch an attack on Nanjing along the waterway from Jiujiang, there is no problem, the fleet can start from Chongming to provide escort, this does not even need to mobilize the main force of the fleet, the Yangtze River Fleet is enough to complete this task......"

Although through the door, Zuo Zongtang still heard who was speaking, it was Zhang Liangji.

Attack Nanjing, fleet.

Could it be that Zhang Shiqing wants to use troops against the Taiping Army?

"Moreover, the bandits and the gentry of the whole country are originally a cult, the gentry are shameless to be with them, at the beginning of the forced environment, we had to be with them, already dissatisfied with the gentry, the local officials had to explain to the outside world, explaining the difference between the government and the bandits, even so, the local and middle school students still have scruples, if the government does not break with the bandits one day, the people under the rule of the government are not stable, the stakes in this, please also ask the lord to know the stakes."

At this time, Zhang Liangji seemed a little excited, the scale of the civil unrest in Nanjing was far greater than he imagined, and tens of thousands of elites of the Eastern Palaces were all killed. Now Nanjing is facing an unprecedented turmoil, and the turmoil in Nanjing is an opportunity for the Governorate, and it is also an unprecedented opportunity.

In the face of Zhang Liangji's admonition, Zhu Yifeng just frowned and kept smoking a cigarette, and did not answer immediately.

"My lord, the minister thinks what Zhang Senjun said is very true!"

Luo Bingzhang also expressed his attitude in a timely manner.

"As long as you seize this opportunity in front of you, the government can control Jiangnan, after defeating the bandits, you can from Anhui, Hunan and Jiujiang, three ways to encircle, straight to Changsha, to Jiangxi pacification, Jiangnan provinces, only Fujian and Zhejiang are still controlled by the Qing demon, at this time you can mobilize the fleet, respectively capture Hangzhou and Fuzhou, then Jiangnan will be pacified, when Jiangnan is pacified, that is, the day of the Lord's Northern Expedition, then my China's great rivers and mountains, will be recovered. And the lord can also comfort Emperor Gao's spirit in the sky in the filial piety tomb! ”

Originally, Luo Bingzhang did not have a strong attitude towards the capture of Nanjing, but in the end he was persuaded by Zhang Liangji, and the reason could not be simpler - Nanjing has the filial piety tomb of Emperor Gao, and the lord is the blood of Emperor Gao, and if he ascends the throne, he must first worship Emperor Gao. As a courtier, Luo Bingzhang naturally knows very well that after seizing Jiangnan, the lord will have the capital to ascend the throne, and everyone has the merit of persuasion, but where to persuade him, there is a lot of article in this.

"Yes, Emperor Gao's official swore in Nanjing for the Northern Expedition......"

Lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot!

Now Zhu Yifeng regretted it a little, regretted "recognizing this family", and when he saw them move out of Emperor Gao, he was just helpless in his heart.

In fact, in the past few days, Zhu Yifeng has also been paying attention to the changes in Nanjing, and even specially sent a warship to the river around Xiaguan, but the warship sailed to Xiaguan not to intervene in the civil strife in Nanjing, but to carry out armed demonstrations when necessary - for example, when Wei Changhui wanted to blow up the glazed pagoda of Dabao'en Temple, in history, the glazed pagoda of Dabao'en Temple was destroyed in Nanjing's civil strife and destroyed by Wei Changhui.

For Wei Changhui, Zhu Yifeng has no confidence, after all, this crazy man who not only wants to kill Shi Dakai, but also kills his whole family, and later even Hong Xiuquan He wants to kill him, he may not necessarily care that Dabao'en Temple is in his hands, in case he really wants to do it, there is a warship, after all, it is a deterrent, which can remind Wei Changhui that even if he wants to kill, he needs Wuchang's gunpowder.

In fact, in the current city of Nanjing, the only thing that Zhu Yifeng can care about is the glazed pagoda of Dabao'en Temple, as for the Ming Emperor's Palace, the Xinggong Liangjiang Weaving Mansion and the private gardens in the city, they are either occupied, or destroyed for the construction of the Tianwang Mansion and various palaces.

There is only the glazed pagoda of the Great Bao'en Temple that he exchanged for 1,200 rifles, and it is still standing intact, no matter what, it is necessary to keep the pagoda, the tallest building in China, and it is also the seven architectural miracles of the Middle Ages.

At this time, in the face of everyone's suggestion to mobilize troops in Nanjing, Zhu Yifeng pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, and then broke the previous silence.

"According to the information we said, Yang Xiuqing is now dead, and most of the officials and soldiers in his palace have also been beheaded......."

Flipping through the bookset in front of him, Zhu Yifeng said a number.

"Two to forty thousand! This is the death toll of the current civil strife in the Taiping Army, of course, most of these people are the elite backbone of the Taiping Army, but, I would like to ask what is the strength of the Taiping Army now? ”

Gesturing a number with his right hand, Zhu Yifeng continued.

"Seven hundred thousand, claimed to be a million! Among them, there are 200,000 in Jiangxi and southern Anhui, 300,000 in Jiangbei, 100,000 in Zhenjiang and 100,000 in Nanjing. This is the strength of the Taiping Army, of course, among them, there are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the elite is no more than 200,000 at most! ”

When mentioning the strength of the Taiping Army, Zhu Yifeng did not even mention the nearly 300,000 Taiping troops in Henan, and now those Taiping troops have been in a leaderless situation since Zeng Lichang's death, and they have been wandering on the edge of the Taiping Army, so they are naturally within the scope of his calculations.

"A hundred-legged worm, dead but not stiff! Even if it has lost so many tens of thousands of elites, the Taiping army has not yet reached the point of breaking its muscles and bones, and if we rashly use the Taiping army at this time, then it will undoubtedly cause a result - make it temporarily abandon internal contradictions, so as to unite with the outside world. When the time comes, it will be a big disadvantage for us! ”

Because he clearly knows the direction of history in the future, it is impossible for Zhu Yifeng to agree to move troops against Nanjing now, as early as there was no chaos in Nanjing, he had already made up his mind before, taking advantage of its civil strife, sending troops to Henan, mastering the Central Plains, and waiting until Shi Dakai left Nanjing and took away hundreds of thousands of elites of the Taiping Army, and then took the opportunity to move on the Taiping Army, and now his plan had to be exposed early.

"Then, in the opinion of the lord, when should Fuzhong use troops in Nanjing?"

"Wait!"

Slowly spit out a word, Zhu Yifeng said.

"We have to wait for the opportunity, wait for their civil strife to further intensify, wait for the time when the Taiping Army is divided internally, don't forget that in addition to Wei Changhui, there is also Shi Dakai, and Hong Xiuquan himself, who are ready to make chaos now, but it is just the beginning."

And that's just the beginning! The corners of his lips raised slightly, and Zhu Yifeng took a sip of tea and said.

"As for us, we can't just sit here and wait for the opportunity, but also take this opportunity to prepare for future reunification, so this governor wants to go north to Henan!"

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Opportunity, the Tianjing Rebellion, is an opportunity, but it is not the best time yet. But now that the final preparations for reunification have begun, what reunification needs to be prepared for is not only force, but also what is the most important thing? (To be continued.) )