Chapter 119: Winter is coming
Shi Qingxuan immediately stood up, with an angry face: "Of course not, why did he take away one of our qiē!" ”
Shen Chiyun also had a gloomy face: "What do the ministers in the center of the imperial court think, how could they let Gilhanga Hui serve as the governor of Jiangsu, how can such a clown shoulder the livelihood of tens of millions of people in Jiangsu, and how can he maintain the overall situation in southern Jiangsu?" ”
Qu Panyun also spoke in time: "If you want me to say, we should let our family marshal be the governor of Jiangsu, so that there will be nothing to do!" ”
At this time, Shi Langyi, who had just turned back, looked at everyone's reactions, and sighed secretly in his heart before speaking: "This matter is indeed not authentic on the side of the governor's yamen!" ”
Seeing these people express their positions one after another, Lin Zhe finally breathed a sigh of relief, although these generals still cared about the imperial court, but they had already shown a trace of dissatisfaction, and more importantly, after their own guidance many times, they had begun to put the interests of Yu Shengjun above the interests of the imperial court.
Therefore, Lin Zhe raised his right hand falsely, pressed it down, and then said: "I will fold it to the court when I turn around, let the court see the hard work and dedication of our Yu Shengjun for the country and the people, and then let those central ministers carefully consider the situation in southern Jiangsu, don't mess around like before!" ”
At this time, Bi Yutong, who had not spoken for a long time, said: "Shuai, the ministry is willing to countersign!" ”
Several other people were slightly stunned when they heard Bi Yutong's words, but they all quickly reflected it, and one by one expressed their willingness to sign their names on this excerpt.
Lin Zhe looked at Bi Yutong and showed a satisfied smile, this Bi Yutong is his brother-in-law, and the two of them are grasshoppers tied to a rope, not to mention that Lin Zhe is going to fold his son to the court, it is estimated that now Lin Zhe is going to rebel, and he has to follow it whether he wants to or not.
If such an excerpt jointly signed by many generals of Yu Shengjun is handed over, it is enough to make those bigwigs in the imperial court who feel good and want to suppress Lin Zhe every day know that Lin Zhe is not fighting alone, and there are thousands of soldiers behind him to fight with him!
This ad hoc meeting has been convened. Lin Zhe was still not idle, he began to call Yu Shengjun's generals into his office one after another, and then talked one-on-one, which was naturally not a topic that the imperial court wanted to force me to oppose. You'll have to follow me and do the opposite.
Instead, talk about business, and then ask for warmth, and make it clear that it is to envelop the generals.
In addition, he also asked Shi Qingxuan's supervision and training office to speed up the training of those newly recruited soldiers, when they were fighting in Huzhou and Suzhou. Lin Zhe has already sent personnel back to Zhejiang to recruit troops, and returned to Shanghai to purchase guns, and the total number of recruits is as high as more than 5,000, if this expansion plan can be completed smoothly, the total strength of Yu Sheng's army will exceed 10,000 by then.
The first recruits have now arrived, with soldiers from the 8th, 9th and 10th Infantry Battalions in place and are currently undergoing initial training.
More soldiers are still being recruited, and Lin Zhe has successively set up the 11th Infantry Battalion, the 12th Infantry Battalion, the 13th Infantry Battalion, the 3rd Baggage Battalion, the 3rd Cavalry Company, and the 7th Artillery Company.
"Now Changzhou and Zhenjiang are still in the hands of the thief army. We don't have enough troops in Suzhou, so it's okay to defend, but if we want to counterattack Changzhou and regain Zhenjiang, our troops are still far from enough. There are also many thieves in several other counties and towns in Suzhou Prefecture, and they need to be cleared one by one! Lin Zhe looked at Shi Qingxuan as he spoke, and then he paused for a moment before continuing:
"In addition, when the newly formed battalions are formed, I plan to establish the third mixed regiment, and I am ready to consider you as the candidate for the commander of this regiment!"
Heard Lin Zhe say this. Shi Qingxuan was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed obvious joy, and he forcibly suppressed his excitement, Shi Qingxuan said: "The handsome lift." The department has nothing to repay, and in the future, it will be the saddle before and after the handsome, and will never live up to the high expectations of the handsome! ”
Although Shi Qingxuan is now the supervisor of Yu Shengjun, in charge of the training of the whole army, and has the power of some staff officers to fight, but in fact this power is limited. Because although Yu Shengjun has a relatively primitive staff system, it is still not perfect, and the training and operations of various units still rely on the commanders of various departments, and the supervision and training department is just a construction.
More often, Shi Qingxuan, the supervisor, follows Lin Zhe as a senior staff officer, positioning and Hunter? William is more similar.
In terms of specific power and status, although Shi Qingxuan is higher than those battalion commanders, he is still inferior to Shi Langyi and Lin Anfei, the two mixed regiment commanders.
If Shi Qingxuan wants to go one step further in the future and become an indispensable senior general in Yu Sheng's army, then it is necessary to become the commander of the first army alone, and now, Lin Zhe has given him this opportunity.
Lin Zhe was ready to let Shi Qingxuan serve as the commander of the Third Mixed Regiment, but he also had his own overall considerations, the scale of Yu Shengjun's army was getting bigger and bigger, and it was difficult for him to directly command various infantry battalions, baggage battalions, cavalry companies, artillery companies and other troops as before. At this time, the establishment of the third or even the fourth mixed regiment, a mixed force with a size of about 2,000 people, became inevitable.
Although Shi Qingxuan has been serving as a supervisor and training officer, on the surface, he seems to have no experience in directly commanding troops, but in fact, he has been staying in Huzhou last year to command the troops stationed in Huzhou, and these troops are the predecessors of the First Mixed Regiment.
Therefore, he still has the experience of leading mixed troops, and Shi Qingxuan has continued to follow Lin Zhe for this year, which has given Lin Zhe more opportunities to observe him, this person is one of Yu Shengjun's many generals who has a strong sense of belonging to Yu Shengjun.
Other people, including Shi Langyi, actually still have great loyalty to the imperial court, but this Shi Qingxuan is not like this, he has always considered the gains and losses of Yu Shengjun first, and then the imperial court and the like.
And if such a person is not reused, what kind of person can Lin Zhe reuse?
Yu Shengjun's current two mixed regiment leaders, plus the future third mixed regiment commander Shi Qingxuan, the three people are different, Shi Langyi can become the head of Yu Shengjun's first mixed regiment, it is purely because of this person's excellent military quality, rich combat experience and Su zhì can be regarded as the first person in Yu Shengjun, he became the head of the first mixed regiment because of ability.
Lin Anfei's words, in fact, his ability can only be said to be average among the middle and senior generals above the battalion commander of Yu Shengjun, but he is Lin Zhe's cousin, and Lin Zhe uses him out of loyalty.
And Shi Qingxuan, on the one hand, has good ability, and on the other hand, he has a strong sense of belonging to Yu Shengjun. In this way, Lin Zhe can be reused.
And when Lin Zhe was recruiting troops and training troops in Shanghai, the news that Yu Shengjun had beaten Gilhanga in the trade zone also spread among the high-level officials of the Qing court.
When he heard that Lin Zhe dared to shoot and kill nearly 100 people in the Fubiao Green Battalion who wounded Gilhang'a, Xiang Rong did not get angry as usual. Instead, he had a gloomy face and did not speak for a long time.
In the end, he walked into the signing room alone and wrote his sixth letter of impeachment of Lin Zhe, in which Xiang Rong started from Lin Zhe's training of the Yuyao County Yongying, saying that when Lin Zhe compiled the Yuyao County Yongying, he paid tens of thousands of taels out of his own pocket to build the army.
Later, he said that Lin Zhe fought twice with Lin Chengting's headquarters of the Taiping Army in northern Zhejiang, and each time he won a big victory. However, each time it stopped in Guangde and did not continue to enter the hinterland of southern Anhui north.
He also said that when Lin Zhechi came to Suzhou's aid, he arrived three days after the city of Suzhou was broken.
He also said that after Lin Zhe recovered the state, he sent a letter to invite Lin Zhe to enter Zhenjiang in the west, but Lin Zhe categorically refused, sitting on 5,000 elite soldiers and ignoring the persecution of the people of Changzhou and Zhenjiang by the thief army.
At the end of the excerpt, he said that the new Su Fu Jierhang'a sent an official transport into the trade zone and was refused, in order to prevent the court officials from going to the trade zone merchants, Lin Zhe did not hesitate to order Yu Shengjun to intercept it with firepower, causing hundreds of imperial court economic green battalion soldiers to be killed!
Xiang Rong didn't say anything about Lin Zhe's rebellion in the excerpt, he just told Lin Zhe what he had done in the past two years.
In the end, he said that Yu Shengjun fought against the thief army many times. All won more with less, and in the first battle of Suzhou, more than 50,000 people were defeated by Wu Ruxiao, a puppet inspection point of the thief army, with only 5,000.
After writing this letter, he called in a house slave he had brought with him from Jingshi, and then instructed him to ride a fast horse and send it to Jingshi day and night.
After the slave put away the letter, Xiang Rongcai got up, stood in front of the window of the signing room and looked at the trees outside the window, some of the leaves on the trees had turned yellow, and the wind blowing into the window did not have the heat of early autumn. It's a hint of coolness.
Looking at these, he sighed deeply and muttered, "I'm afraid this cold winter is coming!" ”
Lin Zhe is not the only one who has written to the court because of Lin Zhe, and there is no need to mention the person who is Gilhanga. On the same day, he wrote a fierce wording, directly saying that Lin Zhe was a rebel against the thief.
Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, who has had a very weak sense of the situation for more than a year, and Tuo Ming'a, the new governor of the Jiangbei camp, also sent a more severely worded impeachment memo to the Beijing division in a timely manner.
Some other officials on the ground in Jiangsu have also been on the fold one after another, and even Qu Shengchao, who is far away in Huzhou, Zhejiang, also came to join in the fun, although Qu Shengchao has fought side by side with Lin Zhe many times, but he has always looked at Yu Shengjun unpleasantly, and he not only impeached Lin Zhe. Basically, the senior generals who Yu Shengjun stayed in Huzhou were basically impeached by him.
The excerpts of impeachment of Lin Zhe flew to the Beijing division like snowflakes, and when the news of Lin Zhe's shooting at Gilhang'a in the trade zone reached the Beijing division, a large number of self-proclaimed officials wrote more and more excerpts of impeachment.
In just half a month, the number of excerpts to impeach Lin Zhe has reached hundreds!
Of course, there are still not many people who say that Lin Zhe has the intention of rebellion, and some people think so, but few people dare to really say it, most of them say that Lin Zhe is arrogant, has no one in his eyes, and despises Shangguan and the like.
It's just that whether these are impeached Lin Zhe through public channels, or the excerpts that go straight to Emperor Xianfeng through guò secret performances, they are all left behind.
In the Forbidden City, Emperor Xianfeng looked at the ministers of the military aircraft department below, and couldn't help but feel a little bored in his heart, since Xiang Rong and Gil Hang'a and others impeached Lin Zhe and sent it to him, he just knew that this matter was very tricky, and if he didn't do it well, he would force Lin Zhe to rebel, just one Lin Zhe was nothing, and more importantly, there were thousands of elite soldiers behind Lin Zhe.
"Let's talk about what to do now!" Seeing that these ministers of military aircraft did not speak for a long time, Emperor Xianfeng had to take the initiative to speak: "Prince Gong, you speak first!" (To be continued.) )