Of course, he knew very well about the grievances and grievances between Zuo Jigao and the shipmaster.

"Nine handsome ......" Xu Zhanbiao stepped forward to greet Zeng Boheng, Zeng Boheng slightly bowed his hand in return, signaling Xu Zhanbiao to be calm and restless, and then Shi Shiran walked into Zuo Jigao's study.

"Which one is Lao Liang angry with?" Zeng Boheng stepped into the house, looked at the broken porcelain pieces all over the ground, and said with a smile.

Only then did Zuo Jigao notice Zeng Boheng coming in, and a trace of embarrassment flashed on his face. The scholar, who had long been frightened, saw Zeng Boheng come in, as if he had a backbone, and immediately came back to his senses, quickly sprinkled and swept up, and tidied up the study in a while.

"Yuan Fu is here, sit." may have been very comforted by Zeng Boheng's "Lao Liang", the anger on Zuo Jigao's face gradually dissipated, and there was a rare hint of a smile.

Although the relationship between Zuo Jigao and Zeng Bohan has been very stiff after the pacification of the long-haired bandits, the relationship between him and Zeng Bohan's younger brother Zeng Boheng is very harmonious. It can be described as a scene of officialdom at present.

In fact, Zuo Jigao and Zeng Boheng have very similar personalities, and the rhythm of work is almost the same. And more importantly, their fates also have something in common. Both of them failed the imperial examination, and they were promoted by military merits, because they sympathized with each other. What's more, Zeng Boheng has received Zuo Jigao's careful guidance from the beginning of Rong, and he admires Zuo Jigao's talent very much. At the same time, Zeng Boheng has always been inferior to Zuo Jigao in terms of qualifications and merits, and has never posed a threat to Zuo Jigao's prestige and fame, and Zuo Jigao has always calmly maintained a condescending posture. So the relationship between the two has always been quite good.

And the reason why Zeng Boheng and Zuo Jigao were able to do this is actually due to Zeng Bohan. Although Zeng Bohan and Zuo Jigao were out of harmony, he didn't want to affect the relationship between his younger brother and Zuo Jigao because of himself, so he also wrote a letter to his younger brother: "Zuo's treatment of his younger brother is extremely concerned, and his younger brother should be sincere to each other, and he should not always have wisdom to meet each other." Mortals come with hypocrisy, I go with sincerity, and after a long time, the hypocrites tend to be sincere. Zeng Boheng was originally caught between his brother and friends, he didn't know what to do, after knowing his brother's attitude, while maintaining contact with Zuo Jigao, he also tried every means to reconcile the relationship between the two, but unfortunately with little success.

"How's the account of Yuan Fu going?" Zuo Jigao looked at Zeng Boheng, who was sitting there with a big grin, made him a cup of tea with his own hands, and served it to him.

"I've been busy for the past few months, hehe." Zeng Boheng laughed, "I can only echo with 'no evidence'." ”

Listening to Zeng Boheng's answer, Zuo Jigao's heart fell to the ground and he also laughed.

"As long as the salary and equipment are sufficient, there will be no worries about the westward expedition." Zuo Jigao said, "Now that the thieves have lost their chieftains, they can be leveled with one blow." ”

"On the day of success, don't forget the love of the old people." Zeng Boheng said meaningfully.

Of course, Zuo Jigao understood the meaning of Zeng Boheng's words, this time the imperial court sent Zeng Boheng to check the expenditure of his military expenses for Zuo Jigao's expedition to the west, Zeng Boheng helped him block it, this favor is not ordinary.

And the "old man" that Zeng Boheng said did not only refer to himself, but also to his brother Zeng Bohan.

This time, the imperial court sent Zuo Jigao to the west, and Zeng and Zuo also had another opportunity to meet (and the last).

Zuo Jigao attaches great importance to this opportunity to lead the army to make contributions. pacified the long-haired bandits, he has always been a supporting role for Zeng Bohan. This time, he became the main character. Although Zuo Jigao is now old and his beard is gray, he is full of pride and determination to play in his last life drama.

However, this expedition faced one of the biggest problems, and that was to raise money. Because the northwest is a barren region under heaven, the source of income cannot be counted on the locality, and it is necessary to "use the wealth of the southeast to support the armored soldiers of the northwest." At the beginning of the Western Expedition, he declared to the imperial court that in this war, "raising salaries" was more important than commanding battles.

In this way, Zeng Bohan and Zuo Jigao will inevitably have to deal with each other again. Because in the ninth year of Tongzhi, Zeng Bohan returned to serve as the governor of Liangjiang, and Jiangsu under his jurisdiction was an important source of income for Zuo Ji Gaoxi's expeditionary army. In fact, although the imperial court stipulated that all provinces should supply the military expenses of the Western Expeditionary Army in a timely manner according to their shares, only a few provinces with a good personal relationship with Zuo Jigao did their best to supply, and those provinces with an average personal relationship with Zuo Jigao failed to meet the deadline. However, Hunan has stopped solving one-third, Henan has allocated less than one-tenth, and Guangdong, Fujian, and Sichuan also have many unresolved." Therefore, when Zuo Jigao heard that Zeng Bohan had returned to Liangjiang, his first reaction was that he was worried that Zeng Bohan would not support him sincerely and sabotage his great achievements: "I am not in agreement with Zeng Gong, and now he is the governor of Liangjiang, for fear that he will hide my salary source and lose my merits."

At the beginning of Zeng Bohan's return to office, because of the delivery of formalities, the first batch of salaries arrived a little slowly. Zuo Jigao thought that this proved his guess, and wrote indignantly in a letter to Wu Tongyun: "Zeng Digong is not an old friend for forty years? It is the salary of the first expedition to the east, and then the salary of the expedition to the west. He regarded Ma Gushan's arrival as a salary for several months...... Worlds apart. Di Gong is still like this, let alone anything else. ”

However, it was not long before he discovered that he had misjudged. Subsequently, Zeng Bohan's share of the military salary was continuously delivered, stably and reliably, not only in full but also in a timely manner, "to as much as 1 hundred thousand taels." This surprised Zuo Jigao. "He has always spared no effort to raise salaries for the Western Expeditionary Army, and he has relied on it to make a lot of money."

In addition, Zeng Bohan handed over his most proud subordinate Liu Songshan to Zuo Jigao for use, and Liu Songshan made many great contributions during his western expedition, which helped Zuo Jigao greatly.

The intersection of Zeng and Zuo in his later years can be regarded as slightly touching Zuo Jigao. Prior to this, Zuo Jigao was wearing two pairs of colored glasses, "Imperial Examination Complex" and "Yuliang Complex", and always thought that Zeng Bohan was a hypocrite who used art to control people, and only then did he have the intention of overturning his previous judgment.

Zuo Jigao thought about it, and felt that he was still pressed by Zeng Bohan, since Zeng Bohan did so beautifully, he Zuo Jigao also had to behave more chicly. So, when summing up his achievements in the west, he gave most of the credit to Liu Songshan, an old subordinate of the late Zeng Bohan, and thus gave Zeng Bohan a lot of praise. In the recital, he also said: "The minister tasted the private argument Zeng Bohan is known as a knowledgeable person, and Liu Songshan is especially insightful late. Liu Songshan from Anhui and Henan to the provinces, Zeng Bohan tasted enough of his military food to treat each other, relieved of 1 million taels of salary, so that he was a thief, worry-free lack, with the ability to protect the dying Qin, the Jin who could not support it, the speed of defending Gidian, to see the horse, for the world's first. That is, this huge stock swing, in all fairness, why not Liu Songshan's power? The ministers obey Zeng Bohan's wisdom and loyalty to the country, which is beyond the reach of the ministers...... He did not look up to the grace of heaven, and Zeng Bohan's ability to serve Liu Songshan, his heart was more important than the king, and his effect was attributed to the current situation, and he declared it in detail, thinking that the ministers of Xinjiang would be persuaded to use people's expenses. He also "modestly" said that he knew Liu Songshan more than ten years ago, but he did not discover his talent.

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