In the autumn of the fourth year of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's envoy to Wang Yixu and Yixin's governor in Yingtian, Wuren, came to the Bohai Duke Yixin in Kulun City one after another. The messenger of Yi Su is Guerjia, who leads the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the name of the palace of obedience. Longevity. Although Yi Su has not yet publicly raised the banner against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Guerjia. Changshou has been replaced by the crown of the Qing Dynasty, and he appeared in front of Yi Xin as a Qing Dynasty minister.

"Sixth Prince, the last will of the first emperor is to hope that you and the fourth master will work together to restore the Qing Dynasty. Now that the fourth master has been supported by the Qaidam Mongols, and the monks and commanders have been sent to supervise the army into Lhasa, the two Buddhas of D Lai and Panchen have already stood on the side of the fourth master. ”

Yi Xin looked at the courtyard covered by the first snow, "Fourth brother, do you know that the Russian fleet suffered a defeat in Japan?" "The news of the defeat of the Russian fleet has long reached Kulen. This news made Yi Xin and other high-level officials of the Bohai Kingdom extremely frightened, and then the Russian crown prince's plan to visit Kulen was also canceled, and Alexander went directly back to Petersburg! It seems that he has suffered a defeat and has no face to see people. But Muravyov arrived in Kulen in the spring of this year and came up with a plan for a common defense. It was also required to hire soldiers from the territory of the Bohai State for the defense of Eastern Siberia. This also proves from one side that the Russian naval fleet really suffered heavy losses in the Far East.

"Sixth Prince, Fourth Lord means to set up the banner of our Great Qing Dynasty first......" Guerjia. Longevity Road. "The sixth prince has been the emperor, and the fourth master said that if you are willing to restore the throne, he is willing to serve you as the lord."

Yi Xin snorted: "Did he think about addicting the emperor himself?" How much territory does he have now, how many troops does he have now? ”

"This, there are no less than 200,000 string controllers under the command of the fourth master. It has four towns in Hexi in Gansu and Tibet. And Xinjiang ......"

"Xinjiang? Didn't Alimukuri of the Kokand Khanate send Maimai Diming and Busuluk of the Hezhuo family back to Xinjiang with troops? ”

The news was told to Yixin by Baron Zaitsev, the consul of the Russian Empire in Kulen. The purpose is to cheer Yixin up.

"Maimai's Ming and Busuluk have already put a table on the fourth master, and they are willing to serve the fourth master as the master and discuss the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom together."

Gualca. Changshou said with a smile: "Now that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has forcibly implemented the religion of worshipping God in the land of Guanlong, it has also divided the land equally, and imposed heavy taxes, which has caused the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people. Moreover, Hong Xiuquan is extravagant and obsessed with women, and the government is entrusted to Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui and Hong Renji. ”

Yi Xin smiled bitterly and shook her head: "So what? The greatest enemy of my Qing Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Jishi already owned 16 Han provinces and most of Manchuria, concurrently led the king of Joseon, and recently regained the lost territory of Jiaozhou to establish a Jiaozhou province...... It's not something that my fourth brother and I can deal with. ”

"The meaning of the fourth master is to restore the Qing Dynasty in the northwest." Gualca. Changshun said with a smile.

Yi Xin was silent. He had already guessed what Yi Su meant, not to restore the Qing Dynasty, but to divide a piece of territory in the northwest to live the emperor's addiction. But he was worried that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would send troops to attack, so he wanted to pull him into the water together.

"Now is not the time, I don't have a firm foothold in Mongolia, I don't dare to be this emperor, you go back and tell the fourth brother. If he wants to be the emperor, he should be. ”

What does that mean? Will Yi Xin follow along or watch from the sidelines? Gualca. Changshun tried again.

"The fourth master wants to rule the world with the sixth master, if the sixth master doesn't want to reset. The fourth master is willing to respect the sixth prince as the emperor. ”

"My Bohai Gong still has to do it!" Yi Xin avoided Changshun's gaze. "The Ming Dynasty sent a prison in the Bohai State, and also set up hundreds of military tuns (referring to collective farms) in North Manchuria, and set up four towns of Huining, Changchun, Jilin, and Songyuan. It was even more in South Manchuria to rebuild the Liaodong military town and deploy the Liaodong Army, if I didn't do this Bohai Gong, hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners would be slaughtered. ”

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Gualca. On the second day after Changshun arrived in Kulun, the governor of the Bohai Mansion in Yingtian City, Wuren, rushed from Yingtian to Kulun. Uren is a Mongolian Zhenghongqi person, Uzigri clan, the word Genfeng, and the ninth year of Daoguang. He was born in the Eight Banners of Henan Garrison, and his living habits have long been sinicized, and he is also a famous master of Cheng Zhu in this era, known as "the true biography of Confucius and Mencius Cheng Zhu" and "Cheng Zhu's true vein". He escaped from Yingtianfu after receiving the news of Su Shun's possible arrest in the spring of the fourth year of his recovery, and disguised himself along the way, but did not dare to take the main road, took a lot of detours, and walked for several months before reaching Kulun.

"Your Majesty, Su Shun is in trouble, I don't know how Lu Dao ran away to Chengdu, and he was arrested with a Sichuan scholar who made trouble."

is worthy of being a master of science, and when he said this, he was still calm.

This news shocked Yi Xin, and hurriedly said: "What? Su Shun was arrested in Chengdu...... Who told him to go to Chengdu? ”

"There is no one, he is going by himself, he heard that the Sichuan scholars are boycotting the examination and making trouble, so he wanted to go and see what happened, but he didn't expect to be arrested!"

"This muddy ball!" Yi Xin stomped her feet, and suddenly looked down at Wu Ren who was kneeling on the ground, "Wu Ren, you left Yingtian after you got the news?" ”

Wu Ren was stunned for a moment, nodded, and said in his heart: "If you don't hurry up and apply oil to the soles of your feet, will you wait for someone to arrest you?" ”

Yi Xin sighed: "You are also a muddy ball!" How can you run back to Cullen? ”

"Your Majesty, the slave wants to stay in Yingtianfu and ...... now"

"If you want to stay in Yingtianfu, can you still explain, didn't you just don't confess when you go back to Kulun?" Yi Xin walked around the room irritably.

"Your Majesty, it's useless for the minions to stay, unless the emperor enters the court, Zhu Wei will attack Bohai sooner or later."

Yi Xin clenched her fists, her lips trembled, and she didn't know if she was in a hurry or angry. He was tempted to say, "It's better to die late than early!" "But it is not suitable for his own identity. If sooner or later it is a death, then what else do you have to follow him, the "emperor"? It's better to break up and go your separate ways sooner.

But now is not the time to raise troops, because the Russian governor of Eastern Siberia, Muravyov, clearly asked him to be patient in his letter! Yi Xin was silent like death, and after a long while, he sighed and said, "Wu Ren, you immediately take a generous gift to Changchun to see Zeng Guofan and explain the reason to him." ”

"Your Majesty, Zeng Shaodi's words may not work, and now the Xianghu party is headed by Zuo Zongtang, Chang Dachun, and Luo Zenan...... Why don't you go to Hubei with a slave, please come forward? ”

Yi Xin closed her eyes quietly, still silent, Wu Ren's train of thought was still stuck in the Qing Dynasty, and after poking the basket, he went to Tongluzi to find a relationship, as long as he could find a way, he would always be able to smooth things out by spending a little more silver. However, the current name of the Bohai State is the Ming Domain, but in fact it is tense. Zeng Guofan is the supervisor of Bohai, of course, he can speak, even if he is wrong, it is at most a negligence. Although Chang Dachun is a relative of the country and an important minister, he is in charge of Hubei Province, how dare he accept a gift from the Bohai State to exonerate the Bohai State at this time?

At this moment, an announcement came from outside the door: Master Zhuo asked to see.

The person who came was Yixin's teacher Zhuo Bingtian, and now he is the chief official of the Bohai Duke, and now Yixin is also called the emperor by his subordinates in private, but his public identity is only a public, and his subordinate officials naturally can't be called ministers, university scholars or anything, they all use official titles such as teacher, chief, Sima, Langzhong, and the main book.

"Master Chuanzhuo come up!" Yi Xin shouted to the guards outside the door.

"My lord." Zhuo Bingtian entered the door, saluted with a serious face, and then reported: "Fu Fang, the general of Ningguta, sent someone to report that Zeng Guofan had left Changchun and came to Kulun. ”

"What, Zeng Guofan has come to Kulen? How many soldiers and horses did you bring? Yi Xin took a breath and looked terrified.

Zhuo Bingtian sighed in his heart, and said expressionlessly: "Zeng Guofan only brought guards, and the number was only 500. ”

Yixin breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I only brought 500 people...... Did you know what Zeng Guofan was here for? ”

Zhuo Bingtian said: "Fu Fang reported that Zeng Guofan set off with a large amount of property and foreign guns. ”

"Brought belongings and guns?" Yi Xin frowned and said to herself, "This property and foreign gun are definitely not given to me by Zhu Jishi, that is, they are given to ...... The Khalkha Four Khans! He gritted his teeth, "Zhu Jishi is going to win over the Khalkha Fourth Division, this is digging my foundation!" (To be continued......)