Fengyang Mansion, at the foot of Bagong Mountain.

Li Weiguo took Shen Ziyan and Su Sanniang to say goodbye.

At this time, three months had passed since the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition, and the first and last supplies sent by Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing to the Northern Expeditionary Army had been sent to Fengyang.

Li Weiguo knew that Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing would no longer provide supplies to the Northern Expeditionary Army, and soon the Jiangbei Qing Army would suppress the Northern Expeditionary Army from all sides, and the Northern Expeditionary Army would fight alone and was doomed to failure.

"Eldest sister, don't you really consider coming to me as a secretary?" Li Weiguo was unwilling to persuade again.

Su Sanniang smiled: "Okay, don't grind!" ”

She paused and continued: "We're about to kick out, this time there are many vicious battles, I'm afraid Jiangbei won't be at peace, hurry up and take your Ziyan sister back to your Shanghai, the province is forced by the imperial court to fight with us!" ”

Li Weiguo said: "It's because of the vicious battles that I want you to go with me and enjoy a peaceful place in Jiangdong!" ”

Su Sanniang shook her head and said: "The war is together, and the lives are devastated, how can there be a place of peace?" ”

Li Weiguo also sighed: "The people of the country are killing each other, it is not what I want!" It's a pity that I don't have enough strength to stop this war! ”

"As long as you come over and help us, overthrow the Qing court as soon as possible and end this war, then there will be peace everywhere!" Su Sanniang suddenly winked at Li Weiguo, and said with a slightly playful smile: "Then I can consider being your secretary!" ”

"You're trying to turn against me?" Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, he was very happy in his heart that Su Sanniang would give him a secretary, just let him join the Taiping Army, that plan was impossible, at least now is not the time.

"If you don't want to, forget it!" Su Sanniang knew that it was impossible for Li Weiguo to defect to the Taiping Army, so she just mentioned it.

Li Weiguo knew that no one could persuade the other party, so he gave Shen Ziyan a look.

Shen Ziyan understood, nodded, and took two bowls of wine. handed it to Su Sanniang and Li Weiguo respectively.

Li Weiguo said: "Since the eldest sister insists on returning to the Northern Expeditionary Army, I don't know when we will meet in the future, how about doing this wine for you?" ”

"Good!" Su Sanniang also knew that the Northern Expedition was dangerous, and it was unknown whether she could come back alive, and today's farewell might be goodbye, so she quickly drained the wine in her hand.

Seeing Su Sanniang drink the wine, Li Weiguo was immediately happy, how could he let Su Sanniang return to the Northern Expeditionary Army to die, knowing that persuasion was ineffective. So I made arrangements early and let Shen Ziyan deliberately put the drug in the wine.

"What did you do to me?" Su Sanniang is also an old man, she has never seen any strong winds and waves, as soon as she felt her head dizzy, she immediately understood that she had been drugged, but it was a pity that she guarded day and night, and in the end it was difficult to prevent thieves, she just didn't defend against Li Weiguo, so she fell into his way.

"Big sister. Don't blame me, I didn't want you to go back and die, so I drugged you and waited for you to wake up. If you want to beat or scold, I admit it! Li Weiguo said frankly.

Su Sanniang was furious, because she no longer had any relatives in this world, and Li Weiguo was her sworn brother, so he became her only relative. She can tolerate anything, but she can't tolerate being calculated by Li Weiguo, so she raised her hand and wanted to beat Li Weiguo. It's a pity that the medicine is too strong, and she can't stand steadily.

Li Weiguo stretched out his hand to hug her, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Su Sanniang quickly fall unconscious.

Su Sanniang in history is a mystery, and like Hong Xuanjiao, there are many theories about the cause of their death. For Su Sanniang, there are only two of the most authoritative statements, one is to die in the Northern Expedition, and the other is to die in Tianjing City. Li Weiguo believed that it was the former, but he had successfully stopped it.

Unconsciously, Li Weiguo rewrote Su Sanniang's life trajectory, as for how much impact it has on the historical process, Li Weiguo can't care about it, he believes that as long as he keeps growing his strength, no matter how his history changes, the soldiers will block the water and come to Tutun, and it is the king to respond to all changes without change.

Su Sanniang brought a lot of entourage, they were all old members of the Heaven and Earth Society, especially Chen Wu, who was loyal to Su Sanniang, and because of this, they were all negligent in guarding against Li Weiguo.

At this moment, seeing that Su Sanniang fell unconscious in his arms after being drugged by Li Weiguo, Chen Wu and the others suddenly became angry and drew their knives and rushed towards Li Weiguo.

It's just that Li Weiguo has been prepared for a long time, and the Li family army behind him has already been prepared, and more than 1,000 people surrounded less than 100 people.

"Don't shoot!"

Li Weiguo shouted loudly, preventing Li Jiajun from shooting at the people of the Heaven and Earth Society, and at the same time explained: "Brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society, don't get excited, listen to me!" ”

Chen Wu shouted angrily: "What else is there to say? Li Weiguo, count me blind, I missaw you, I thought you were a man who stood up to the sky, I didn't expect you to calculate your sworn sister, Master Su really treats you, but you want to take her to the dog court to receive merit and reward, how can you do it? If you dare to touch the hall master today, I will fight with you! ”

"That's right! If you dare to move the master of Su Hall, we will fight with you! The members of the Heaven and Earth Association shouted angrily, wanting to fight hard with Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo didn't blame Chen Wu and the others, but was happy that they dared to protect Su Sanniang with their lives, so he said calmly: "Brother Chen, brothers, you should know that I have been persuading my eldest sister to come to my side to do things, because I don't want my eldest sister to return to the Northern Expeditionary Army and give her life in vain. So don't get excited, because I can swear that I won't hurt my eldest sister at all, let alone hand her over to the imperial court, I just want to bring her back to Shanghai, war is a man's business, women shouldn't be allowed to shed blood and tears, I'm for the good of my eldest sister. ”

Sure enough, as soon as Li Weiguo said this, Chen Wu and the others also felt that it made sense, after all, they all knew that Li Weiguo had been persuading Su Sanniang to go with him every day in the past few days. It's just that people's hearts are separated from their bellies, and they don't dare to be gullible.

"You hand over the hall master to us, it's a big deal that we don't return to the Northern Expeditionary Army, we will send her back to the Heaven and Earth Society Flame Hall!" Chen Wu suddenly proposed.

Li Weiguo shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, do you think that after my eldest sister wakes up, you can persuade her to return to the Flame Hall?" Even if you really persuade her, will your chief helmsman spare her? ”

Chen Wu and the others were speechless for a moment, they knew Su Sanniang's temper, and it was absolutely impossible to return to the Heaven and Earth Society, even if they went back, the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society would not spare it.

"And what are you going to do?" After all, Chen Wu has no courage and lacks the backbone.

Li Weiguo said: "The eldest sister will stay in Yu Garden until the end of the war. ”

"No way!" When Chen Wu heard this, he immediately disagreed, what is this. Is Su Sanniang under house arrest? He would not allow it.

"You're not qualified to bargain with me!" Li Weiguo said domineeringly, although his tone was flat, he released the strength of the superior, making people dare not face him.

Li Weiguo handed Su Sanniang over to Shen Ziyan, put him in the carriage, and then led the Li family army to leave.

From beginning to end, Chen Wudu could only watch Su Sanniang being taken away by Li Weiguo, he didn't have any brains, he knew that he couldn't beat the other party if he came hard, so he could only return to the Northern Expeditionary Army to report the matter first. At the same time, the flying pigeon sent a message to inform the chief rudder of the Heaven and Earth Society that this matter was beyond his ability.

In this way, Li Weiguo brought Shen Ziyan and Su Sanniang and her two daughters back to Shanghai Yu Garden, of course, Su Sanniang has been asleep, Li Weiguo didn't dare to let her wake up halfway, and was thinking about what Su Sanniang would do when she woke up after returning to Yu Garden.

"It's inevitable to be beaten!"

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, it's not easy to be a good person!

When Li Weiguo returned to Shanghai, a major war broke out throughout Jiangbei, and the Qing court mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops from the Jiangbei provinces. The Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army was suppressed on all sides.

Originally, the 30,000 Northern Expeditionary Army, because Su Sanniang was robbed by Li Weiguo, made the 10,000 soldiers and horses under Su Sanniang's original command lose their command, and the backbone of this army was all served by members of the Heaven and Earth Society. Lin Fengxiang appointed Hong Xuanjiao to temporarily replace Su Sanniang, but the command was ineffective.

When the Qing army killed Fengyang on all sides, the 10,000-strong army commanded by Hong Xuanjiao was vulnerable and was defeated by Shengbao's department. As a result, Fengyang, Chuzhou, and Dingyuan were lost successively, and the Northern Expeditionary Army's contact and supply with Tianjing were all interrupted.

Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang had to abandon Anhui and lead their troops to storm Haozhou. Then he turned to Henan and began to fight guerrilla warfare.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing of Tianjing immediately blamed Li Weiguo for all this, and the relationship between the two sides suddenly cracked, because the main force of the Taiping Army's second route was marching westward, Li Weiguo did not order Li Jiajun to attack Tianjing after returning to Shanghai, so that the two sides were temporarily peaceful, but there was already a rift, and it was very difficult to repair it.

Li Weiguo didn't care, he knew that sooner or later he would go to war with the Taiping army head-on, and now with Su Sanniang's matter, there was just an excuse, as long as the Taiping army dared to go east, Li Weiguo would make them pay a heavy price.

However, as long as the Taiping army does not take the initiative to go east, Li Weiguo will not provoke the Taiping army, after all, the two sides still have a deal in private, once the war starts, the Taiping army will not poke this matter out, although Li Weiguo has been psychologically prepared, but still have to be careful, until the last resort can not have a showdown.

On this trip to Jiangbei, Li Weiguo brought back two big beauties in one go, which was naturally a great harvest and success, and he could wake up with a smile when he slept.

But some people laugh and some cry, and some people are proud and some people hate it.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Hu Xueyan, who lay on the sickbed for half a month, vowing revenge. It's a pity that Anhui Governor Pang Jingsong's twists and turns failed to impeach Li Weiguo, and Hu Xueyan spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the capital, but they were all lost.

He hates!

I can't wait to take Li Weiguo's skin, eat his flesh, and drink his blood!

failed to get Li Weiguo in the court, so Hu Xueyan was ready to solve it locally, and he immediately wrote to his eldest brother and asked his eldest brother to avenge him.

Hu Xueyan's sworn brother is not an outsider, it is the famous Zuo Zongtang in history.

At this time, Zuo Zongtang was working in Zeng Guofan's Hunan army, and he was able to get Zeng Guofan's reuse, in addition to his own ability, more important was Hu Xueyan's financial support, because Zeng Guofan wanted to form the Hunan army, which required a large amount of money, Hu Xueyan gave a lot of money to pave the way for Zuo Zongtang, so that he became a general under Zeng Guofan in just one year, and he was highly valued.

After Zuo Zongtang learned of this, he naturally wanted to stand up for Hu Xueyan, but the Hunan army was now fighting fiercely with the Taiping army in Jiangxi, and he couldn't be separated, otherwise he would have led people to Shanghai to find Li Weiguo's dignitaries.

Although Zuo Zongtang didn't have time, he still wrote a threatening letter and sent someone to send it to Shanghai Yu Garden to hand it over to Li Weiguo, which was equivalent to declaring war on Li Weiguo.

"Ya, it's Zuo Zongtang!"

After reading the letter, Li Weiguo also smiled bitterly, and actually provoked Zuo Zongtang, one of the four major bosses in the late Qing Dynasty, as if God couldn't get used to him Li Weiguo has been going smoothly, afraid that he would be lonely, and find him a strong opponent.

"What's the matter, what about Zuo Zongtang, if he dares to declare war on me Li Weiguo, then you can let the horse come over, I, Li Weiguo, just lack a stepping stone for the upper position!" (To be continued......)