The next morning, Prince Gong and his family all cried and waited for the final verdict. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

If you want to say that the most sheltered the Yan family, among the Manchu magnates, there are the people of Prince Gong Yixun and his family, and now that the Yan family is rebelling, Prince Gong Yixun and his family are completely dragged down by the Yan family, even if everyone knows that no one in the court colludes with the Yan family.

On the contrary, Weng Tongyi and other Qing school ministers were arrogant, they tried to raid the Yan family many times, although there were Prince Gong and his family to obstruct and unsuccessful, but the righteousness was on their side, and they could laugh at Prince Gong and his family to their heart's content.

The centrists Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and others were indifferent.

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who basically held the power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, issued the final verdict: Prince Gong Yixun and his family were all deposed, Prince Gong Yixun was suspended, and he was ordered to "recuperate at home". Weng Tongyi and other Qing school ministers who exposed the crimes of Yan's rebellion in advance made great contributions and were promoted to knighthood; Li Hongzhang and others once sheltered the Yan family, but did not collude with the Yan family's ministers, fined them or reduced their official positions, while Li Hongzhang was only reduced to an unimportant official position, and still served as the minister of Beiyang.

The Empress Dowager Cixi took advantage of this opportunity to directly dismiss some members of the Military Aircraft Department headed by Prince Gong Yixun, expelled them from the center of power, and replaced them with the alcohol party group that had become a taming tool.

The administrative ability of Prince Yixun, Prince Shiduo, and Prince Qing-Prince Yixuan is far inferior to that of Prince Gong, so some people compare this major change of the central organization to: Yi Zhongshu uses a horse to replace Lu with firewood. The horse is a stupid horse, and Bupleurum is a traditional Chinese medicine with a higher price than reeds, in order to satirize the cowardice of these new princes.

The composition of the new Military Aircraft Department is far from that of the former Military Aircraft Department in terms of knowledge, prestige, ability, and character. The only characteristic of the bureaucrats who are ignorant of international affairs and do not understand domestic political conditions is that they obey the orders of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Therefore, after that, the power of the Empress Dowager Cixi was further expanded.

Prince Gong's faction was expelled from the center of power, and the Empress Dowager Cixi would turn to the last goal of the Qing faction, until she finally had unchecked supreme power.

The palace struggle was very important to the Empress Dowager Cixi, but the rebellious Yan clan also needed to be resolved, the external enemy was internal, and the external enemy could never threaten the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, but the internal troubles could.

The veteran Zuo Zongtang went out and commanded the Hunan Army, the Huai Army, and the Green Battalion to encircle and suppress the short-haired thieves in Siqi Province (the Manchu Qing Dynasty's name for the Yan regime and the Han army, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom people wore long hair, and were called long-haired thieves by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Han army was called short-haired thieves), and at the same time strictly ordered the whole country to strictly prohibit conflicts with foreign forces during the encirclement and suppression of short-haired thieves in Siqi Province, and if necessary, some interests could be given up, and the short-haired thieves in Siqi Province must be exterminated in the shortest possible time.

The Manchu ministers who knew the current situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty knew that the Manchus were now worried about internal and external troubles, such as territorial disputes between the outside world and Tsarist Russia, France's desire to completely occupy Vietnam, and the invasion of the Ryukyus.

However, the country is not peaceful, the people's taxes are heavier, coupled with some corrupt officials and corrupt officials oppress the people, so that there are often rebellions in various places, fortunately the scale is relatively small, can be eliminated in time, in addition to a large number of bandits everywhere activities, it is difficult to exterminate in a short period of time.

Until the Yan rebellion occupied Siqi, the whole Manchu Qing was shaken, who did not know the Yan family, who was rich and rivaled the country? The first floor of the world, Yan's Bank, and Yan's firm, unless you have been living in the mountains, you will not be able to contact people or things related to Yan's.

The huge Yan clan actually rebelled, and the shock to everyone can be imagined, and at the same time, everyone was also shocked by the strength of the Yan clan, and in a short period of time, the entire Siqi Province was defeated.

The Manchu magnates in the surrounding provinces of Siqi Province were scared, afraid that the short-haired thieves would come over, and I heard that the short-haired thieves had killed all the magnates after occupying Siqi, and if they didn't run now, they would all die when the short-haired thieves came.

For a time, the full-duty magnates in the surrounding provinces of Siqi Province evacuated one after another, only hoping to get as far away from Siqi as possible, and they also hoped that the imperial court would send a large army to exterminate the short-haired thieves as soon as possible, and it was best to get back all the silver they had stored in Yan's bank.

Zuo Zongtang led the army to encircle and suppress the short-haired thieves, but the army had not yet assembled, and there was not enough food, grass and salaries.

The army of encirclement and suppression of short-haired thieves is easy to solve, Zuo Zongtang can mobilize officers and soldiers from all over the country to encircle and suppress short-haired thieves, but how to solve the problem of grain, grass and soldiers' salaries? It is impossible to mobilize enough troops to encircle and suppress the short-haired thieves without food, grass and salaries alone.

At present, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not received any news about how many troops the short-haired thieves have, and they don't know the specific strength, but they only know that the short-haired thieves occupied Siqi Province in a short period of time, and there is no clear statement about how much time this short time is.

Zuo Zongtang estimated according to Yan's financial resources that Yan's could build an army of more than 100,000 people, which is still the lowest data, Siqi Province has a population of 40 million, and the adult males suitable for serving as soldiers are more than 5 million, so 100,000 is only the lowest number, and the specific number is not yet known, even if the enemy's army is only equipped with cold weapons, if it is a million, it is a big trouble, Zuo Zongtang can only mobilize as much as possible the troops that are allowed to be mobilized in various parts of the Manchu Dynasty.

But if you want to transfer the army, you must have a military salary, and if you don't have a military salary, then everything is in vain, fortunately, the Empress Dowager Cixi knows the importance of short-haired thieves, and allocated 2 million taels of silver to Zuo Zongtang from the treasury.

However, only two million taels of silver is not enough, Zuo Zongtang has to mobilize at least 100,000 troops to attack Siqi Province, based on two taels of silver per officer and soldier a month, the salary of a hundred thousand troops is 200,000, and two million taels of silver is only ten months' salary, not counting the cost of grain and grass, and two million taels of silver may not be enough to exterminate the short-haired thief.

Zuo Zongtang could only raise military salaries from wealthy merchants.

Hu Xueyan can't count on it, at present, Hu Xueyan is still busy hoarding raw silk and fighting with Western merchants, how can there be any silver to support Zuo Zongtang.

In desperation, Zuo Zongtang could only hit Qiao Zhiyong with his idea, and after cutting the meat last time, Qiao Zhiyong's net worth rose again.

"Qiao Zhiyong should be able to take out two million taels of silver, right?" Zuo Zongtang guessed.

In addition to Qiao Zhiyong, if you take a little meat from other rich businessmen, the salary is almost enough.

The Manchu army was ready to go.