"Your words are biased, the water bandits have been rampant for many years, the people of North Vietnam have suffered greatly, the officers and soldiers have repeatedly advanced and suppressed and cannot be leveled, and their fierce flames are becoming more and more blazing, thinking that no one can control them, so they have done evil and are unscrupulous, and today the soldiers are bitterly attacking, although they are slaughtering, it is not an exaggeration! And in this way, it can deter the bandits, and it can be a ring for the bandits! From now on, let's see which one dares to be a bandit? Scourge to the people? The middle-aged businessman reprimanded.

After listening to the words of the middle-aged businessman, other businessmen also said yes, and the Vietnamese scholar saw that most of the businessmen were from Qianguo, so he sneered and stopped talking.

At this time, Cen Chunxuan was thinking about arriving in Kunming as soon as possible, taking out the money that his father had left him that he didn't have time to take away, and according to Lin Yiqing's instructions, he rescued his father and saved his father's life.

Somehow, in front of Cen Chunxuan's eyes, the girl who was still in Mr. Zhao's church suddenly appeared......

Cen Chunxuan tried hard to suppress his thoughts about her, and discussed with the businessmen how to get out of here.

But Cen Chunxuan would not have thought of what his father Cen Yuying would look like at this moment.

On the post road, several prisoner vans were jolting along.

Among these prisoner cars, they were all well-known in the past.

They were Cen Yuying, the former governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Tang Jiong, the former governor of Yunnan, Xu Yanxu, the former governor of Guangxi, and Zhao Wo, the most trusted Taoist of Xu Yanxu, as well as several other local officials in Yunnan and Guangxi.

It is now the ninth month of the lunar calendar, leaving the hot land of Yunnan and Guizhou, and arriving in Jiangxi, the weather is not so hot, and the spirit of the convicts who have worked hard all the way has recovered. Cen Yuying began to scold again. Xu Yanxu and Zhao Wo cried opposite each other. Only Tang Jiong, who is known as "Tang Desperate", was silent.

"Lin's child! You colluded with foreigners to betray the country for glory and frame Zhongliang, you will not die well! At this time, Cen Yuying scolded Lin Yiqing and couldn't restrain it for a while, and her voice was a little hoarse.

"Lord Cen, you better rest! is a handful of years old, so the liver is angry, but it will hurt the vitality. It's only half the way, but don't wait for the capital. You are out of breath for a long time, the court blames it, and the little ones can't afford to bear it! The escort officer laughed.

"You shameless villain! Come here! See if I don't kill you! Cen Yuying glared at the servant angrily, and tried hard to raise his foot and stretch out the prisoner cart to kick him, but his foot and neck were shackled, and he couldn't lift it at all, just dragged there with a rattling of chains.

"Yes, Lord Cen, you are not tired, so you will continue to scold. I won't provoke you, and you won't come and ask me for water again. The officer smiled and took out two cotton balls. Blocked in his ears, he took out his leather bag and took a sip of water, looked around, and ignored Cen Yuying's scolding.

Cen Yuying scolded for a while, feeling a little tired, and thirsty, so she stopped talking. But seeing Xu Yanxu and Zhao Wo crying there with pus, completely unofficial, he couldn't help but rush up angrily, and a burst of fire was thrown at Xu Yanxu.

"Xu Xiaoshan! Haven't you always been known as a 'soldier of knowledge'? How did you make that Lin child so embarrassed? Now I just cry like a woman! Cen Yuying scolded Xu Yanxu angrily.

After listening to Cen Yuying's scolding, Xu Yanxu did not fight back, but cried even more aggrieved.

"Qing Yi misunderstood me!" Xu Yanxu cried this sentence repeatedly.

Xu Yanxu even said that "the Qing discussion misled me", not without reason.

The high hat of "the number one expert on Vietnamese affairs in the Great Qianguo" was generously put on his head by Qingliu. In fact, this title is not too much, when Xu Yanxu was the prefect of Taiping, he was ordered to receive Vietnamese envoys and survey the border passes and roads between China and Vietnam. When the French invaded Vietnam, Xu Yanxu was ordered to go to Vietnam to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and later wrote articles such as "The Evolution of the Vietnamese Lineage", "The Passes of the Sino-Vietnamese Border", and "The Outline of the Vietnamese Road", which was regarded as an official who knew the situation in Vietnam at that time. Although there are many errors and omissions, these things he wrote were an important reference for understanding Vietnam at the time.

If you only rely on this ability, it is not enough to let the little emperor and the queen mother behind him know that I still have such a talent. However, Lord Xu also has one of the traditional virtues of the Central Plains nation: helping others. Regardless of whether colleagues or neighbors encounter major disasters or small disasters, the kind and generous Lord Xu will inevitably generously give his share of money and help his colleagues tide over the difficulties. If it's just being helpful, it's not enough to let the "peak" know. But who to help is too particular. Among the many people who have received relief from Lord Xu Yanxu, there is a person surnamed Lu Chuanlin, whose name looks ordinary, but his identity is definitely not ordinary. This person is not only a jinshi in the Tongzhi period, a prosperous official (successively served as the prefect of Guilin, the envoy of Fujian, the political envoy of Sichuan, and the governor of Henan), but also the top celebrity in front of the current queen mother, the proud protégé of Li Gaoyang, the leader of the "Northern Qingliu" Military Aircraft Department, and the third brother-in-law of Zhang Zhidong and Zhang Nanpi, the Qing school athlete, is also, the difference between helping this person is greater than helping others. For those who have helped his brother-in-law, Zhang Zhidong, as the brother-in-law of the recipient, is naturally bent on finding an opportunity to repay him, and he does what he says. It didn't take long for Zhang Zhidong to play together with Qingliu's comrades-in-arms Zhang Peilun and Chen Baozhen, and the empress dowager and the little emperor suddenly remembered this "Vietnamese expert" who "knew about military affairs" and was also "familiar with Vietnamese affairs".

Therefore, Xu Yanxu, the "number one expert on Vietnamese affairs in the Great Qianguo", was promoted by the imperial court to the political history of Guangxi in the first month of the eighth year of Guangxu. I was afraid that the emperors of Guangxi would not buy it, and the imperial court also specially issued an edict to the governor of Guangxi Ni Wenwei on May 19, the eighth year of Guangxu (the word leopard cen, a native of Wangjiang, Anhui. Xianfeng is a second-year jinshi. He was more accomplished than him as an official in landscape painting): "After the arrival of the feudal department, if the border defense is urgent, he will immediately send an order to supervise the customs to be effective. (To put it bluntly, we must fully cooperate with Lao Xu's work) As soon as this order was given, Xu Yanxu became the commander of the "order to supervise the military affairs outside the Guangxi Guan" and became the actual commander of the cadres stationed in Vietnam. Isn't that graceful enough? Then add one more: "Allow it to do things"! That's the greatest grace to a former enemy commander! What is a "special folding"? It has the right to directly hand over the fold to the Empress Dowager, and even the Military Aircraft Department has no right to dismantle this fold first. It means that Lord Xu is the master who can directly contact the "supreme leader", which is not easy to mess with.

But even so. Zhang Zhidong, who is eager to repay his kindness, still thinks that he is not good enough. I was afraid that Lao Xu would be bullied by those snakes in Guangxi. Of course, the return of kindness is in place. Then he tried his best to unite Zhang Peilun, Chen Baochen, Zhou Derun (the word Shenglin, Lingui people, Tongzhi Jinshi in the first year), and Liao Shouheng (the word Zhongshan, Jiading people, Tongzhi Jinshi) to go out together. The Empress Dowager ordered the Empress Dowager to make an order: transfer the two major local snakes, Feng Zicai, the governor of Guangxi, and Ni Wenwei, the governor of Guangxi mentioned earlier, so as not to hinder Lord Xu's hands and feet.

Why did you ask Feng Zicai to go? It turned out that when he was in Tongzhi for ten years, he participated in the impeachment of Xu Yanxu, who was the prefect of Taiping at the time, in the name of the governor of Guangxi, and now Lord Xu has "made a comeback" with the order of the Son of Heaven. Zhang Zhidong thinks that Feng Zicai, who was born in a martial arts, will naturally not buy this scholar who participated in the impeachment back then, and the scholar Xu will inevitably suffer, and this stumbling block must be removed. However, before Zhang Zhidong and others' "action to move Feng" had a result, Feng Zicai, who was far away in Guangxi, heard the wind and grass, and instead of being "invited" to go away by a very faceless person, it was better to ask for illness and old age first, so he resigned from the post of governor of Guangxi in June of the ninth year of Guangxu (for an old man in his sixties and seventy, the excuse of "telling the sick" was tried and tested), and the vacancy was temporarily taken over by Huang Guilan, the general of Beining.

For Ni Wenwei Ni painter. The Qing school is not so easy to speak, in order to remove Xu Yanxu's last stumbling block. Zhang Peilun gave the following long list of comments to Ni Dahua: "Ni Wenwei is good at officials, and the battle formation is not customized, foreign affairs are not practiced, border affairs are not practiced, and officials are not generals...... If you move to the mainland, and don't simply know the soldiers to patrol Guangxi (fools know who the so-called 'soldiers here' refers to), the Central Plains has a virtuous cares, and along the Xinjiang has one side, and the way of both. ”

This remark came out of the mouth of Zhang Peilun, who is famous for the impeachment of ministers, but it can be regarded as polite, and Ni Painter is at least still a "virtuous fu". However, in the other two brothers, Zhou Derun and Liao Shouheng, they were not so polite. One said that he was "a little short", and the other said that he was even more polite, "a little narrow". Poor old Ni did not have Feng Zicai's keen sense of smell, and he was unknowingly in front of his Guangxi governor, until Guangxu was transferred to Guangdong as the governor on the ninth day of September in the ninth year, and it was Xu Yanxu who took over as the governor of Guangxi (Ni painter is also a blessing in disguise, if he is still in the position of Guangxi governor, he is the old man who was removed from his official hat and stripped off the lock of his official uniform and imprisoned after the Hanoi Massacre).

It is not an exaggeration to say that Ni Wenwei is "good at being a man and a servant, and he is not accustomed to battle formations, foreign affairs, border affairs, and generals". But is Lord Xu Yanxu a general who is "a long-term official, a battle formation, a foreign affair, and a border relationship"? How much better is a three-legged cat who has met several Vietnamese tribute envoys, suppressed bandits once, and compiled a few literacy-level pamphlets than Ni Wenwei?

Lao Xu did not slack off when he received the appointment, he arrived immediately after receiving the thanksgiving fold and soon stationed in Langshan, the rear base of the Eastern Front cadre army at that time, but he refused to go forward again, Beining was too close to the battlefield, and Lao Xu still spared his life. As a result, all the things on the front line were thrown to Huang Guilan, the governor of Guangxi stationed in Bac Ninh, and Zhao Wo, a Guangxi Taoist who was quite trusted by Lao Xu.

It is really unfair to say that Xu Yanxu is messing around in Langshan. In fact, since Lao Xu was stationed in Lang Son, he has been constantly transporting all kinds of material resources to Bac Ninh. Judging from these things, Xu Yanxu cannot be regarded as "mediocre and incompetent" at all. However, his "outstanding ability" is embodied in being a qualified "logistics and transportation group leader" rather than an outstanding "former enemy commander-in-chief." Pushing a logistics officer into the position of military and political chief is a crime for the military. Who is to blame? The clear stream warriors who personally pushed Xu Yanxu to such a high position.

Does Lao Xu know his situation? Of course you do! Therefore, when the last batch of materials was transported into Bac Ninh, Lord Xu, who was not a few years old at the age of 70, wrote in August of the ninth year of Guangxu: "Now he is more than 60 years old, not as good as the previous time he went out of the customs (referring to the time when Huang Chongying was exterminated), and his strength is strong." The water and soil in the border areas are harsh, there is no medical treatment and no medicine, and the disease is difficult to recover. If you want to move to Nanning, it is best to return to Guilin to recuperate. But what he entrusted was not a person, and he actually asked Ni Wenwei and Ni Painter to take leave on his behalf. I don't want to think about who Lao Ni was transferred from Guangxi to Guangdong. Back then, it was because of you and I who were transferred, and now after you make a reputation, you want to pat your ass and leave-where to find and wait for good things? Ni Wenwei's attitude towards Xu Yanxu's request was to ignore it. In Beijing, the Qingliu generals thought that Master Xu was unhappy on the front line because no one applauded, so they became more and more energetic to wave the flag for the "typical" they set up with their own hands. The helpless Xu Yanxu went to thank him again in October of the ninth year of Guangxu, and mentioned that he was "sick with old age." Begging to return to his hometown". And the treasures that his "fan group" has been shouting for Lao Xu are gone. How can a model that has been established so easily be "taken"? Otherwise, isn't this a capital for Li Shaoquan and others who have said bad things about Xu Yanxu (Li Shaoquan once suggested that Xu Yanxu be transferred back, saying that he "really doesn't know the situation and is not a talent for leading soldiers", so it seems that he is really saving him. If Lao Xu could get off the donkey at that time and throw away this hot potato, it would not have fallen to the point where it is now)? Therefore, Lao Xu's thanksgiving excerpt was understood by the "fan group" as "modesty" - as a result, when Lao Xu was still looking at the court's approval with his eyes in Langshan, the Hanoi Massacre broke out all of a sudden.

In fact, the original intention of the imperial court to appoint Xu Yanxu as the governor of Guangxi. It was because he wanted him to contain and monitor the disobedient Xinjiang ministers such as Cen Yuying, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Tang Jiong, and Zhang Shusheng, the governor of Liangguang, and to find out the details of the situation in Vietnam, not to ask him to lead his troops to fight the French. As a result, Lao Xu understood the wrong spirit, and after he arrived, he first communicated with Cen Yuying and Tang Jiong (he did not communicate with Zhang Shusheng because he was at odds with Zhang Shusheng), and then joined them under Cen Yuying's flickering, supporting the Black Flag Army to confront the French army, which made the situation further out of control, and finally broke out in the Hanoi massacre.

In this way, Xu Yanxu Xu, who was set up as a "positive model" by the Qingliu warriors and was difficult to ride a tiger and was in a dilemma, could finally let go of this thankless errand, but he was not so glamorous.

March 26, the tenth year of Guangxu. Because of "unauthorized border provocation", "rebellious soldiers slaughtered the Vietnamese people and burned famous cities". Xu Yanxu, the governor of Guangxi, was dismissed from his post and questioned, and on the same day, Cen Yuying, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Tang Jiong, the governor of Yunnan, were dismissed ("Today's order: According to Lin Yiqing's telegram, the whole city of Hanoi was burned down by the Gui Army's Dang Min Propaganda Department, and the people were slaughtered, the corpses were piled up, and the blood flowed and drifted...... Xu Yanxu guarded Langshan, at a loss, without any arrangement, which was very hateful"). Once again, the "political elite" of the Great Qian Empire paid a heavy price for their ignorance and insolence, and this black pot was embarrassed to throw it at Li Shaoquan, who had pointed out the problem before the incident. As a result, this big black cauldron was carried to the old back of Xu Yanxu, who was ruined and discredited, step by step by the shouts of the Qingliu warriors.

After Xu Yanxu was dismissed, he was shackled and loaded into a prisoner car, and he was relieved of the crime of the Beijing Ministry of Communications, and met Cen Yuying and Tang Jiong's prisoner car on the way, so he went all the way, which can be described as a "difficult brother and difficult brother", if Zhang Shusheng, the governor of Liangguang, also came, he could make up a table of mahjong.

Xu Yanxu was crying there and didn't talk back, Cen Yuying scolded for a while, her mouth was dry, and she felt bored, so she stopped, and then Tang Jiong, who had not spoken, suddenly opened her mouth.

"Lao Cen, tell me, was there anything about you at the time of the 'Dian case'?"

Hearing Tang Jiong suddenly ask about the old case of the "Margaret Incident", Cen Yuying couldn't help but be stunned.

"What do you mean, Old Tang?" Cen Yuying asked.

"I'll ask you if that incident has anything to do with you." Tang Jiong snorted and asked again.

"What does it have to do with me? Besides, isn't that the matter already over? What do you think about asking today? Cen Yuying immediately denied it, but he remembered the past, after all, his heart was still a little empty.

"Don't forget, that incident was settled by Lin Yiqing's brother Lin Wenxiang." Tang Jiong said calmly, "If that matter has something to do with you, you owe someone a favor, and it's not appropriate for a Lin child." If that matter has nothing to do with you, and no one turns over the case this time, your crime can be lighter, and if you can't guarantee it, you can still save your life. ”

"How do you know that someone is going to overturn this case?" Cen Yuying suddenly felt a chill and asked.

"I guessed." After Tang Jiong finished speaking, he leaned on the wooden pillar of the prisoner cart and closed his eyes.

Cen Yuying's few words to Tang Jiong made him uneasy, and he immediately began to recall the unknown details of the "Dian case......

The most critical evidence related to him Cen Yuying - the secret letter he wrote to Li Zhenguo, the capital of the left camp of the Yunnan army, "agreeing to do it", has been taken back from Li Zhenguo by him at a great cost and burned!

And Li Zhenguo, who knows the inside story, once assured himself that he must be tight-lipped, "Even if you force each other to die, you will never involve others." ”

“…… met Ma Yangguan in the place of Manyun, and the leather clerk (Li Zhenguo claimed to be self-proclaimed) saw his road ticket license and treated him with courtesy...... The tanners consulted with the Tusi, and used their own mules and horses to carry the goods for them, and sent people to escort them...... He said that he heard that some foreigners led foreign soldiers to come and wanted to protect the place, and the leather clerk asked for instructions from the original letter Ming Palace because of the important matter, but because of the long distance, he did not give instructions, and the leather clerk did not write a letter to the local gentlemen, if he found that the leather clerk had written a letter, he was willing to admit his guilt. ”

Although many years have passed, Li Zhenguo's confession back then, Cen Yuying still does not forget a word. (To be continued.) )

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