The Tianjing Incident happened like history, but it was only a few days late, but it was more violent.

Hong Xuanjiao, who was supposed to die in the Northern Expedition, returned to Tianjing alive, and she knew that all this was Yang Xiuqing's deliberate conspiracy to exclude dissidents and want to murder her, so she swore revenge.

Hong Xuanjiao continued to provoke Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, making the contradiction between the two increasingly white-hot, and as Li Weiguo's Shanghai army entered the incubation period, the pressure on the eastern front of the Taiping army weakened, while the growing strength of the Hunan army and the Huai army was abnormal, and did not fight with the Taiping army, whether it was Zeng Guofan or Li Hongzhang, they were deliberately preserving their strength, deliberately keeping the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom immortal, using this as a bargaining chip to bargain with the Qing court and secretly strengthen their strength.

The Shanghai army lurked in secret, avoiding fighting with the Taiping army, accumulating strength to prepare for the invasion of foreign powers, and the Hunan army and the Huai army also did not bother to attack the Taiping army, secretly developing their own strength, making the external environment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom greatly improved, only Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, still loyally led the Liangguang Qing army north to attack the Taiping army, but unfortunately with the British and French alliance captured Guangzhou and captured Ye Mingchen, the Liangguang Qing army was quickly defeated by the Taiping army, stabilized the territory of Jiangxi, and even captured many cities in Liangguang, For a time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in full swing, and the momentum was huge.

The situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very good, and the Taiping army once again recovered to an army of one million, which made the high-level leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gradually proud, and after the capital Tianjing, Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Wei Changhui and other high-level leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom became increasingly corrupt, and they all rejoiced. Especially Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, they compete in all aspects, Hong Xiuquan has collected more than 10,000 beauties of all kinds to enrich the harem, Yang Xiuqing is not to be outdone, and there are nearly 10,000 concubines and maidservants in the East Palace.

It's just that. No matter how hard Yang Xiuqing tried, he was only nine thousand years old, and he didn't dare to surpass Hong Xiuquan in a big way, so he pretended to be the arrival of his heavenly father and forced Hong Xiuquan to crown him long live.

At this moment, Hong Xuanjiao thought that the opportunity to get rid of Yang Xiuqing had come, so she tempted her suitor Chen Chengying to tell Hong Xiuquan. It is said that the king of the east has an attempt to kill the king and usurp the throne. Hong Xiuquan was half frightened to death, and hurriedly ordered Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai and Qin Rigang to lead the army to eradicate Yang Xiuqing. Wei Changhui has always been haunted by the fiasco of the Battle of Zhejiang, and it was Yang Xiuqing who deliberately delayed the military situation that caused Wei Changhui's subordinates to suffer heavy casualties, so Wei Changhui has always been looking for an opportunity to take revenge. And Qin Rigang's younger brother Qin Rilie also died in this battle, so Qin Rigang was also moved. It's just that they thought that Yang Xiuqing was the military advisor of the Taiping Army, and he controlled the military power of the entire Taiping Army, and once he failed, it would be a dead end, so Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang didn't dare to act rashly. And Shi Dakai did not advocate killing Yang Xiuqing. He didn't want the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to be consumed.

At this time, Hong Xuanjiao stood up and promised that whoever killed Yang Xiuqing would marry her. Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang both coveted Hong Xuanjiao's beauty and identity, so their heads agreed to do it one day.

On a dark stormy night, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, led 5,000 elite soldiers to meet with the 3,000 elite soldiers of Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, and under the response of Chen Chengying in the Dongwang Mansion, he easily deceived the troops of the patrol battalion of the Dongwangfu, suddenly appeared and attacked the Dongwangfu, and Yang Xiuqing was killed. More than 10,000 men and women in the house were killed. Subsequently, Wei Changhui killed dissidents in the name of searching for "Dongdang". Many of the Eastern King's subordinates were killed after abandoning their weapons. Civilians are not immune.

Afterwards, Shi Dakai accused Wei Changhui of indiscriminately killing innocents and pretending to be public and private. However, Hong Xuanjiao relied on her debts and did not marry either Wei Changhui or Qin Rigang, but fell in love with Shi Dakai. As a result, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were suddenly furious, and they entered the Wing Wang's Mansion overnight, and Shi Dakai fled. But his parents and royal subordinates were all killed.

Shi Dakai arrived in Anqing overnight, and the next day he began to attack Wei Changhui, begging the king to kill Wei Changhui to thank the world. At this time, most of the Taiping troops outside Tianjing supported Yiwang, and Wei Changhui was desperate to attack the Tianwang Mansion, but he was unpopular. Soon Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were killed, Shi Dakai returned to Beijing, and the Tianjing Incident ended.

The Tianjing incident happened too suddenly, the time was too short, and Hong Xiuquan deliberately blocked the news, until a month later, the surrounding major forces did not know, but Shi Dakai sat in Tianjing, whether it was Zeng Guofan or Li Hongzhang, he did not act rashly.

However, the Shanghai army is ready to move.

Early in the morning, members of Li Weiguo's staff group and senior generals of the Shanghai Army who had received the news came together to ask to see Li Weiguo. Their purpose was straightforward, and this was the best time to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"My lord, don't miss the opportunity!"

"My lord, Yang Xiuqing is the military advisor of the Taiping Army, and his prestige in the Taiping Army is extremely high, as soon as he dies, the Taiping Army will inevitably be in chaos!"

"We have already investigated, the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army is not as good as before, don't look at the million people, it is far worse than the Taiping Army seven years ago."

"I feel it too! In the past, when we fought with the Taiping army, the Taiping army absolutely did not surrender, that is, it would rather die than pull our soldiers on their backs. But in the last few battles, most of the Taiping troops are not as desperate as before, and some even took the initiative to surrender to our army, which was unimaginable before! ”

"That's right, the Taiping army is already weakening, after this Hongyang civil strife, the Taiping army will go downhill, it is the time for our army to attack!"

In the conference room, everyone talked about the feasibility of conquering the Taiping Army.

After a long time, they found out that their master, Li Weiguo, had fallen asleep on his side on the Taishi chair at some point.

Is this a Shenma situation?

How can you fall asleep?

Everyone was drunk all at once!

You look at me, I look at you, they are all looking at each other, and I don't know who is going to open their mouths to wake up Li Weiguo.

"Since you don't dare to wake up the adults, then either the meeting will be dismissed, or the third lady will be called!"

In the end, Wu Yong only gave everyone a trick, this is not the first time, as long as everyone talks about something that makes Li Weiguo feel bored, Li Weiguo will sleep directly, no one knows whether he is really sleeping or fake sleeping, but guessing that what everyone talks about must make Li Weiguo unhappy, so no one takes the initiative to wake up Li Weiguo.

At this time, either everyone will dismiss the meeting with interest, or they will go to someone for help.

And at this time, there are generally only three people who can help, that is, Li Weiguo's three wives. However, under normal circumstances, Fu Shanxiang, as the eldest lady, will not care about military affairs. The second wife, Shen Ziyan, will only ask when discussing finance-related issues. Only the third lady, Su Sanniang, will appear when everyone is discussing the military situation.

Today, because it was to discuss the matter of dealing with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Su Sanniang did not come over in order to avoid suspicion.

Li Weiguo was just pretending to sleep, and when he heard that everyone wanted to ask Su Sanniang to come over and wake him up, he smiled bitterly in his heart, so he yawned and woke up.

"What's going on, have you come up with a result?"

Seeing Li Weiguo asked knowingly. Everyone was also angry and funny, but they also understood that they were very assertive, and many things would be arbitrary, which was not originally a manifestation of the wise lord, but every time he insisted on things were finally proven to be wise and correct, so he was admired by everyone.

"We're just talking about it, and in the end, it's up to you to make up your mind!"

"Yes, your lord, you have always been a visionary. Everything can anticipate the enemy's opportunity, tell us, what should we do now? ”

Li Weiguo smiled, he also knew that the threesome must have the reason of my teacher, but after all, he was a reborn person, since he knew the direction of history, no matter whether his subordinates supported it or not, he had to dictate some decisions.

However, this time, Li Weiguo did not directly intervene and arbitrarily veto everyone's plan as he did before. Rather, it's tactful.

He asked, "Do you know what Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang are doing now?" ”

What are Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang doing?

Hearing this question, everyone thought about it.

Soon Chen Jingnan seemed to think of something. said: "I heard that Zeng Guofan's Hunan army has 300,000 people, and Li Hongzhang's Huai army also has nearly 200,000 people, their strength is expanding very fast, it stands to reason that their strength can already destroy the Taiping army, even if they can't be destroyed, it is impossible for the Taiping army to develop so rapidly, which is quite strange!" ”

"yes. I also heard that the Hunan army and the Huai army are very strong in combat effectiveness, equipped with a lot of guns and artillery, and they could still fight a few decent battles five years ago, but recently they have only been petty fights, and it seems that they are no longer fighting with the Taiping army! ”

"Could it be that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang hooked up with the Taiping Army in private?"

"Didn't we work privately with the Taiping Army before? It's no fuss either! ”

Listen to the answers of the people. Li Weiguo said with a smile: "You have reached the crux of the matter!" Why didn't Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang fight to the death with the Taiping Army? ”

After a pause, Li Weiguo continued: "We are shrewd, and Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang are not stupid. If you fight to the death with the Taiping Army, you won't end well if you destroy the Taiping Army, because Xianfeng will not sit idly by and watch our Han people rise and control the military and political power of the Qing Dynasty, and he will definitely unload the mill and kill the donkey. ”

Chen Jingnan nodded and said: "What the Lord said is very true, the Qing Dynasty is the world of the banner people, if we Han people grasp the military and political power, it is a big deal." ”

Li Hongzao also reconsidered: "Now looking at the world, half of the Qing Dynasty has fallen into the hands of the Han people, and our lord is the governor of Liangjiang, with four provinces under his jurisdiction and more than 200,000 troops in Shanghai; Although Zeng Guofan is only the governor of Hunan, the actual 300,000 Hunan troops have controlled Hunan and Hubei provinces, Li Hongzhang is the governor of Anhui, holding nearly 200,000 Hunan troops, and the three of us alone have more than 700,000 troops, and the Qing army of the imperial court is less than one million, and the combat effectiveness is low, which is inferior to our Shanghai army, even the weakest Li Hongzhang They can't beat it, and there are no less than one million Han armed people all over the country, and the Qing court will definitely not know about these. ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "That's right, the stronger our Han armed forces develop, the more afraid Xianfeng becomes, the reason why he is polite to us now is that he wants to use us to deal with the Taiping army, once the Taiping army is destroyed, he will immediately bombard the Qinggong Tower, set up a Hongmen banquet for us, and destroy us." ”

Everyone is a core member of the Shanghai Army Group, and each of them is a shrewd person, and they understand it somewhat.

Someone with a deep understanding suddenly blurted out: "What my lord means is that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang also understood Xianfeng's intentions, so they are not in a hurry to attack the Taiping army!" ”

"Not bad!" Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang have a lot of capable people, even if the two of them can't see it, their subordinates will remind them." At present, the Hunan army and the Huai army are not only not in a hurry to attack the Taiping army, but they will deliberately indulge the Taiping army, so that the Taiping army will become bigger, only the Taiping army is getting stronger and stronger, they have an excuse to expand the army on a large scale, and their strength will become bigger and bigger, and when their strength can not only easily destroy the Taiping army but also easily destroy the imperial army, it is time for them to show their fangs. ”

Wu Yong suddenly asked: "What do you mean that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang also have antipathy?" ”

Li Weiguo smiled mysteriously and said: "As long as Xianfeng is alive, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang will rebel, even if they don't rebel, their subordinates will force them to rebel!" ”

Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang in history listened to the persuasion of their subordinates at the beginning, and they were ready to rebel, because they all knew that Xianfeng was suspicious and would not let them go, so when the British and French troops invaded, they all stood still and did not save them, if Xianfeng did not die, they would inevitably rebel, but Xianfeng soon hung up, replaced by a woman and a child of a few years old, the threat was gone, and they did not have to bear the infamy of rebellion, and happily became a minister for this life.

Chen Jingnan suddenly frowned and said: "In this way, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang will inevitably be indispensable to fight for the world with the Lord in the future, and we have to find a way to get rid of them as soon as possible!" ”

Wu Yong suddenly smiled and said: "What are you anxious about, now get rid of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, wouldn't it be cheaper for Xianfeng and Hong Xiuquan?" First unite with them to destroy Hong Xiuquan and Xianfeng, and then it's not too late to get rid of them. ”

Chen Jingnan shook his head and said, "But by that time, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang will be even stronger!" ”

Rong Hong suddenly smiled: "No matter how fast they develop, can they be faster than us?" ”

This made Li Weiguo and everyone very happy, after all, the rapid development speed and strength of the Shanghai Army Group were definitely not comparable to Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang.

"That's right!" Li Weiguo said: "Hong Xiuquan will not give in to us, Xianfeng will not give in to us, this can only be solved by force, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang have no positive enmity with us for the time being, in comparison, there is still the possibility of persuasion." Everything has priorities, now the Taiping army is in civil strife, it will not pose a threat to us, we need to prepare to deal with the upcoming British and French coalition forces, this is a big war, we can't escape. ”

Hearing Li Weiguo's words, everyone was immediately indignant.

"Damn foreign devils, they are really greedy, they want to rob us when they see that Shanghai is rich!"

"Let them come, let's kill one by one, let's kill two and kill a pair, we can do them once last year, and they will do them again next year!"

The topic of the meeting was quickly led back to dealing with the British and French forces by Li Weiguo, and everyone offered suggestions and wisdom.

However, Li Weiguo thought of another thing in his heart.

What can be done to keep the Old Summer Palace? It's a pity that such a beautiful garden was burned, and it would be too embarrassing if millions of rare treasures were robbed by foreign devils.

No way! The Old Summer Palace Lao Tzu has taken a fancy to it, and no one can burn it! Those rare treasures are also Lao Tzu's, and whoever dares to grab them will chop off their hands! (To be continued......)