Chapter 111: The County Lord Goes South

Half a month before Li Zhongju's marriage, the Qing court got the news, although they were very angry, but in the end Cixi and many ministers still chose to hold back. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, Xu Tong was also questioned, but in the end he was fine, after all, Xu Tong was also one of the important ministers of the Qing court.

It is said that the Empress Dowager Cixi was persuaded by Li Lianying, when the Empress Dowager Cixi asked Li Lianying, "Lianying, do you think the mourning family should send troops to attack the king of Zhennan?" ”

Li Lianying thought for a while and said, "Lafayette, the slave thinks it's better not to fight, and Prince Gong also said last time that he is buying weapons with the British." At the same time, Britain and other Western countries may not be able to swallow the breath of the Wuyi Mountain battle, and they will definitely find the opportunity to attack Li Zhongju. We just need to watch the tiger fight from the other side. When Li Zhongju really suffered heavy losses, our Qing Dynasty was sending troops to raid, believing that he could win a battle. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi nodded, "Okay, that's it, it seems that the mourning family can only pin their hopes on the foreign army." ”

Xu Tong has been in a very bad mood these days, and he finally thought of a strategy, but he didn't expect Li Zhongju, the king of Zhennan, to ignore it, this is simply looking down on himself!

Xu Tong roared in his heart, he was very unwilling, but immediately he had another idea, since Li Zhongju didn't want to come to Beijing. Then we can send the county lord to Guangzhou.

Then Xu Tong played the Empress Dowager Cixi and explained his thoughts. The Empress Dowager Cixi thought about it for a while, and then asked Emperor Guangxu to issue a holy decree. At the same time, let Xu Tong be fully responsible.

After Xu Tong received the holy decree, he was very excited in his heart, King Zhennan, you wait for this official, this official will definitely discredit you this time.

Xu Tong immediately contacted the county king and asked him to prepare everything, Xu Tong planned to let Pan Fei go to Guangzhou in person, but he didn't expect Pan Fei to refuse him, although he was unwilling, but Xu Tong didn't say anything, so he could only find another person, anyway, there were so many people in the ministry.

A day later, Xu Tong found Guo Su in the Ministry of Officials and asked Guo Su to serve as the minister of the Imperial Mission, Guo Su was very excited and immediately agreed, this is to be able to show off his power once, and the Empress Dowager Cixi also nodded in agreement.

Immediately, Guo Su finished packing up and led the convoy to the south, with a dozen or two carriages, and one or two of the most prosperous carriages, which were the carriages of the county lord. The county lord's carriage looks very atmospheric and luxurious.

Guo Su also sat on one or two carriages that were slightly inferior, and the rest of the characters rode fierce horses, galloping all the way, a team of more than 200 people, galloping towards the south.

On the third day after Li Zhongju got married, this wedding team came to Guangzhou City, in fact, Li Zhongju had already received the news yesterday, but Li Zhongju did not order to stop it, Li Zhongju wanted to see what the Qing court wanted to do.

The arrival of the ministers and county lords of the Qing court, Li Zhongju sent Zhang Zhidong to greet them in person, which was already a great face for the Qing court.

Zhang Zhidong's face was very embarrassed at this time, and he didn't know what the Qing court was doing, was this the rhythm of fighting to the death with the king of Zhennan, and why did the Qing court dare to compete with the king of Zhennan. It's really a group of poor guys, others don't know, isn't Zhang Zhidong still unclear about the strength of King Zhennan at this time?

Guo Su didn't see the king of Zhennan, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, after all, he came to Guangzhou on behalf of the imperial court this time, he was the minister of the Qincha, and the king of Zhennan didn't greet him in person.

However, when Guo Su saw Zhang Zhidong, the arrogance in his heart disappeared a lot, after all, Zhang Zhidong's fame is also very great, this is a big man like Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang. How dare he, a small man, shout at such a big man.

Guo Su just looked at Zhang Zhidong, and then said more respectfully, "The lower officials have seen the governor." Although Zhang Zhidong is no longer the governor of Liangguang, Guo Su still shouted, in fact, deep down, Guo Su wanted to disgust Zhang Zhidong.

But what kind of person is Zhang Zhidong, he is a person who is used to seeing these big scenes, and he is not affected at all, "This official is ordered by the king of Zhennan to welcome everyone into the city, Lord Guo is bothering you to be the county lord, and we will enter the city." ”

Guo Su nodded, and immediately came to the county lord's carriage, "County lord, Lord Zhang Zhidong invited us into the city, what do you think?" ”

"Then let's go into town."

It's a lot of money.

Then Guo Su led the convoy and followed Zhang Zhidong into Guangzhou City. Guo Su looked at Guangzhou City, although it was not as big as Beijing City, but it was more prosperous than Beijing City, and Guo Su felt a sense of frustration in an instant.

Driven by curiosity, the county lord of Yiyang opened the curtains and saw the pedestrians all over the street, all of them were smiling, hurried, and well-dressed, and the most conspicuous thing was that none of them had braids.

A sense of chagrin arose from the heart of the county lord, this king of Zhennan is really hateful, and he actually ordered the common people to cut off the braids of our Qing people, which is really an unforgivable sin.

But immediately she remembered her father's entrustment, and told her to be careful, and it was best to dig out all the secrets of King Zhennan and send them to the capital. In this way, his father, King Yong'an, had a chance to rise to the rank of prince.

The county lord of Yiyang showed a mysterious smile, King Zhennan, don't blame the county lord for harboring ill intentions towards you, you can only blame you for subverting our Qing Dynasty. The county lord of Yiyang secretly swore in his heart that he must do everything possible to get what the Qing court and the queen mother wanted.

Soon Zhang Zhidong took everyone to the largest post station in Guangzhou City, saying that it was a post station, but it was actually a large hotel in later generations, which had everything in it.

Zhang Zhidong was just about to say goodbye, but a county lord's maid came to Zhang Zhidong's side and invited Zhang Zhidong to the county lord's room.

The county lord of Yiyang is eighteen or nineteen years old this year, but she is a scheming woman, she looked at Zhang Zhidong in front of her, and immediately had an idea, if she can persuade Zhang Zhidong to return to the Qing Dynasty, then how much credit she should have.

Zhang Zhidong just looked at the county lord of Yiyang lightly, "I don't know what the county lord has summoned, what's the matter?" ”

The county lord of Yiyang ordered all the other maids to go out, and then said, "This palace thanks Lord Zhang for the Qing Dynasty, not for fame and fortune, not greedy for glory and wealth, and selling himself as a thief." This palace knows that Lord Zhang has always been the pillar of our Qing Dynasty, even if you serve under the command of King Zhennan, then you are also an official of our Qing Dynasty. ”

The subject of Yiyang County was shocked, "This palace knows that Lord Zhang has always been a good official of my Qing Dynasty, and you are in Li Ying's heart." I'm afraid Li Zhongju couldn't have imagined that there was a heavyweight undercover agent lurking beside him. ”

Zhang Zhidong took a deep breath and said helplessly, "County Lord, this official doesn't understand what you're talking about?" ”

The county lord of Yiyang seemed to be angry, "Lord Zhang, you have already heard what this palace meant, you must make a choice today, otherwise this palace will not let you have a good time!" ”