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It can be said that at this time, Zuo Zongtang was thinking more about the world and bloodline. If the Manchu Qing can be expelled, it may not be a good thing for him. If he can drive the foreign people from the outside and the people inside, it is his grand ambition since childhood. He completely understood that the Qing Dynasty couldn't do this, so he had that remark. I just want to test Zeng Guofan's heart.

He now felt that there were two more paths in front of him. The first is to leave Luo Bingzhang to join Zeng Guofan's new army, that is, the Hunan army, because only an army trained by Zeng Guofan can withstand the war. Once successful, there will be a path to promotion, and his ambition is utopian without the support of officials. The second is to fight back and go to the Taiping Army. If he had taken the first path, he would have really begun to worry that there would be a moment when the Qing Dynasty would fall. It doesn't matter if you lose your life, and you don't have to worry about your family being implicated, at least he sees this very clearly, no matter what you scold the Taiping Army, they will never kill the opponent's family. What he fears most is to be scolded by future generations like Qin Hui. But this second path is not easy to follow. He had considered the letter of appeal issued by the Taiping Army for the Yong'an Breakout, together with the notice issued by Shi Dakai to persuade him to surrender, and he was indeed willing to accept their proposals. However, he also explored the set of doctrines of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he could not tolerate many nondescript and perverse heavenly rules. It's hard to do anything now.

Zeng Guofan's silence had already told him that he would not accept his hints, and Zuo Zongtang's words changed, "Judging from the entire battle situation, I still can't guess why Shi Dakai didn't go all out to take Jingxiang first, but came to Hunan." If Jingxiang is occupied by them, the Yangtze River channel is blocked, and Jiangnan loses its connection with the imperial court, then the nine provinces of Jiangnan will soon cease to exist. Because of this, I have always agreed with Brother Disheng's proposition that you can't fight until Shui Yong is trained. ”

"Alas," Zeng Guofan sighed, I had written to the imperial court, and I must first let the soldiers and horses in the Jingxiang area fight for Wuchang, but" He shook his head, feeling that it was no fun to continue.

"Brother Disheng didn't go to Wuchang to take a look," Zuo Zongtang smiled bitterly, and snapped the lid of the cup that he had been fiddling with on the cup, "For more than a month, the three towns of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou have simply become impregnable, and the spies sent out by Changsha have either gone and not returned, or they have turned around and fled." Jing Xiang's wretchedness, do you still dare to attack the city? If you look outside Changsha City, Shi Dakai's claim that hundreds of thousands is indeed an exaggeration, but there are always tens of thousands, and there must be as many as 40,000 or 50,000 people brought by the army alone, and the north of the city is densely covered with people digging trenches. This is not to stop if Changsha is not taken. ”

Zeng Guofan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, digging a trench? Isn't this the method I just came up with to deal with long hair? In the face of the usual long-haired practice of sticking to the fortified city and waiting for work, he was originally preparing to use the long-haired man who accompanied the battalion commander to dig trenches around the city every time he went, and fought a protracted battle, digging little by little, until he was trapped to defend the city or defend the fortress. Dizzy, I haven't used it yet, but they did it first.

Zuo Zongtang smiled and shook his hand, "So, the best way at the moment, that is, thirty-six plans, go ahead." ”

"Let's go?" Zeng Guofan was confused, "Where are you going?" ”

"Brother Disheng really doesn't understand, or is he deliberately taking the test Zuo?" Zuo Zongtang stood up, "Of course it's Jing Xiang." ”

Zeng Guofan smiled bitterly again and shook his head.

Zuo Zongtang was a little puzzled, "Brother Disheng is the governor of the two lakes ordered by Qin, and it is natural for him to sit in Jingxiang, which can not only deal with the imperial court, but also temporarily avoid Shi Dakai's edge and expand his strength." ”

Zeng Guofan sighed, "I built the Hunan army, left my hometown, sent people under the fence, where else to expand the army?" Can't go. ”

"Why can't you expand the army?" Zuo Zongtang pointed casually, "According to Brother Disheng's military training method, to form and incorporate Chu Yong, isn't it the same?" ”

Zeng Guofan was silent. He didn't believe in Chu Yong, and he didn't believe anyone when he left the children of Sanxiang.

"Why can you only fight hard?" Zuo Zongtang looked at him and asked.

"Yes, Xiangtan, the advanced soldiers, and Changsha are at the angle of each other." Zeng Guofan said decisively.

"Hehe, that's it." At this moment, Zuo Zongtang's thoughts that he usually didn't look down on Zeng Guofan came up again. What kind of science is everyone, he just looks like a gentleman, but he is actually a villain. Speaking of which, you are still for your personal future and the glory of your family. The emperor is kept in the dark by you, others can't see clearly, but my old left doesn't rub sand in his eyes, the Hunan army you want to establish is, to put it bluntly, your Zeng family's army. I really don't understand, what are you thinking when you educate your protégés with allusions to saints?

"Okay, let's get here today, it's not early, Brother Ji will rest in the camp first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow." Zeng Guofan stood up with a smile.

"Then Zuo took his leave first." Zuo Zongtang also really felt tired.

Lin Haifeng sent Su Sanniang out of the gate of the post station, and watched her leave, then turned around and entered the courtyard. Seeing that the room where the young scholar Zou Guojian lived was still lit, he looked at Liu Xianghe, who was following behind him, "You go back to the house to rest first, there will be more things tomorrow, don't be a sleepy bug on horseback again." ”

Liu Xianghe hesitated for a moment, and persuaded softly, "Your Highness, you haven't rested well for a few days, so it's better to rest early." The bath water has already been prepared for His Highness. ”

Lin Haifeng smiled and pointed to Zou Guojian's house, "I'm not sleepy, let's go talk to him for a while." ”

Watching His Royal Highness push the door into the house, Liu Xianghe sighed softly, went to the stove room to arrange it first, and then came to the outer room of King An's residence and sat down on a chair. After a moment of silence, she took out a red embroidered purse from her arms and fiddled with it. Looking at the two vivid mandarin ducks embroidered with gold thread above, a flush appeared on her face.

Zou Guojian was holding a book and looking at it through an oil lamp. He was originally a native of Zizhou, Sichuan, and was admitted to the show at the age of eighteen, because he was dissatisfied with the weakness and incompetence of the imperial court externally, and he had no intention of continuing to win fame, and devoted himself to books on history and geography to pass the time. Later, after listening to the praise of his friends, he traveled thousands of miles to Yangzhou, and joined the disciple of Wei Yuan, a famous scholar of the Pure Sect of the world, and devoted himself to studying the teacher's magnificent work "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom". Influenced by his teacher, he gradually developed an ambition to abandon literature and martial arts, he wanted to join the army, and wanted to have a chance to compete with Yangyi on the battlefield.

At this time, after the Celestial Army conquered Jinling, it began to attack Zhenjiang and Yangzhou. Zou Guojian took refuge with his teacher's family to Xinghua, Taizhou. For the so-called long-haired rebellion, since the day of entering Jiangsu and Zhejiang, all kinds of rumors have been heard endlessly. It's hard to tell if it's real or fake. However, after he saw the "long hair" Hu Shu book, an indescribable excitement rose in his heart. Although he was born in a wealthy family, due to his unique preferences, he has read the works of Gu Yanwu, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, many times, and was deeply impressed by Gu Yanwu's exposition on the difference between protecting the world and protecting the country, and even more admired Gu Yanwu's "Those who protect the world, the cheapness of the husband, and the responsibility!" The Holy Wisdom calls. He hated the countless literary prisons of the Manchu Dynasty, and in his opinion, this policy of ignoring the people was no less than that of Qin Shi Huang's book burning and Confucianism.

He's not the flippant kind of person. After Yangzhou was captured by the Heavenly Army, Zou Guojian went in and out of Yangzhou City many times, and what he saw with his own eyes made him feel that they were the people he was really looking for. After asking the teacher for instructions, although the teacher didn't seem to be very reluctant, he didn't mean to hinder him deeply, and he decided to join the Heavenly Army.

Zou Guojian made sufficient preparations and did not go to Yangzhou, but chose Zhenjiang, and instead of bringing these books that the Heavenly Army obviously didn't like. He had his ideas, because Yangzhou directly faced the Jiangbei camp of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he also knew that the Heavenly Army did not have much affection for the so-called scholars.

In Zhenjiang, things weren't complicated at first. As soon as the town guard heard his self-introduction, he immediately gave him a closed door to eat, and as for the books he displayed, it seemed that people did not pay much attention to them, or did not care about them at all. But out of Zhenjiang City, it's bad. He had gone into a house to beg for water, but he happened to meet a man who knew a little about writing, and it happened that they had sued him to the chiefs of the village. If it weren't for the fact that he happened to meet such a King An who didn't know what was going on, I was afraid that he would have to complain about his bad luck.

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