In September 1858, Zhao Sanbao, the chief officer of the fourth town of the Pingyuan Army, led 100 people to make trouble in Yanping Mansion and shot Mu Yin, the squire of the Qing Army. At the same time, he led two battalions of riflemen to set up an ambush with 1,000 people, crushed the enemy from Jianning and Fuzhou, killed and captured more than 5,000 thieves, and in the realm of southern Fujian, there was almost no resistance, so he fell into camp and Yanping, and the officials of Fuzhou and Jianning fled one after another, and the fourth town of the Pingyuan Army was shocked to the southeast for a while.

After the large golden and jade table case in the Yin'an Palace, Ye Zhao was flipping through several telegrams, one of which was an excerpt from the Fourth Town's camp in Yanping. In the Yan'an Battalion, the Green Battalion Patrol Battalion was incorporated into the Southern Patrol Battalion, and the Southern Fujian Patrol Battalion was originally adapted from Gang'an Ma Xinyi, etc., and many soldiers were originally committed to the Southern Dynasties, but this time the reconquest of lost territory pushed the influence of the Southern Dynasties into Fujian, and since then most of the land in Fujian has been placed under the rule of the Southern Dynasties, and the Fujian Governor has already had a candidate, that is, Liu Denghuan, the prefect of Yanping Prefecture.

Ye Zhao has read his articles and letters with Zhao Sanbao, this person understands and understands, but he can use talents, but it is a pity that Gang'an has become a different person from himself after all, speaking of the little brother when he first established, he has seen the clues of not coming to Guangzhou in many ways, maybe he is also the same as what Shen Baozhen said in his eyes, the annihilation of the troubled times. It was because of his kindness that he chose another path.

As for Ma Xinyi's death, it is even more impressable that he could have become a very capable minister, but only he knew that in this life, his name is annihilated and in the long river of history, even if the experts who study history in later generations will never be interested in his name.

And Zhao Sanbao, Shenbao, Harwich and even Liu Denghuan and others may become characters in the history books, how can it not be emotional?

Another example is the Shanghai telegram mentioned that Luo Zenan, who led the Huai army to urgently enter Fujian and Zhejiang, the father of the Hunan army, if he remembers correctly, he should have died in the battle two years ago, but now he is in charge of the Huai army by the Hunan army, and he is like Zeng Guofan's minister, but Hu Linyi, one of the four ministers of Zhongxing, died in battle early, and no one can see the bright light that should have bloomed.

However, when it comes to Luo Zenan, it is really not to be underestimated, some people commented that he "led the students to organize group training, and transferred to Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei and other provinces, with more than 200 battles and 20 battles in Kecheng. Today, the famous generals in Jiangnan are all said to be the champion. ”

The Huai army is adjacent to Shanghai and is also extremely well-equipped, Luo Zenan led the Huai army into Fujian and Zhejiang, which can really be said to be Zhao Sanbao's opponent.

Just pondering wildly, the guard entered the hall and knelt down and said, "Lord Wang, Baigui has arrived." ”

Ye Zhao bowed slightly, and after a while, the guards led the two into the hall, and a chubby red-topped official in front of him was Bai Gui, the governor of Guangdong, and behind him was a middle-aged man about forty years old, with a green cloth robe, and his eyes were bright, but his hair was sparse and a little white.

"Humble duty to the prince to say goodbye." Bai Gui was busy playing thousands when he entered the hall, and Ye Zhao said in his heart, this guy is getting fatter and fatter.

The person who followed behind Bai Gui bowed down on his knees: "Grass people Feng Zicai see the prince!" ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "Get up." He got up and went down to the hall, and led the two to sit down behind the yellow mantle.

Every time Bai Gui comes to Yin'an Palace, what he is most afraid of is that the prince will give him a seat, although he is a little shorter than the prince after sitting down, but he feels uncomfortable all over, and at this time he carefully sat down with half of his buttocks, it is better to stand and listen to the prince's hearing.

Feng Zicai didn't dare to sit down, but like other officials, when he saw the prince sitting down, his eyes could look down at the top of his golden crown, which made him feel even more disrespectful, so he had to sit with the governor.

Ye Zhao smiled and said to Bai Gui: "Can the grain sent to Tingzhou be done?" ”

"Yes, Zhao Junmen Kuang restored southern Fujian, and he did his best to make the military gate have no worries." Bai Gui said respectfully, and his heart was even more grateful, when the prince first established the little brother, he was really a little apprehensive in his heart, but now that he sees that although the prince only occupies a corner, he may not be able to compete with the Southern Dynasty. As the governor of Guangdong, Bai Gui is very aware of the development trend of Guangdong, and the growth rate of tax and silver in the treasury is really amazing, not to mention the Guangdong Customs, which has a tax of more than 10 million this year. If it weren't for the fact that the prince used most of the money on the "infrastructure construction" that the prince said, but for comprehensive armament and the issuance of war bonds, he was afraid that the trend between the north and the south would be reversed immediately, but the prince was right, and if he was reckless, he would lose the support of the people in the south wall, and in the words of the prince, it would be easy to "go bankrupt in all directions". And this "infrastructure", although the investment is heavy and the return is slow, can greatly stimulate the development of people's livelihood, and the poorest people will also benefit, which is the way of the good surname. Roads and bridges were built, wharves were expanded, telegraph railways, educational hospitals, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and Hunan provinces, two provinces and three borders, but they were in full swing.

And now Zhao Junmen is powerful in southern Fujian, the second town of Hashuai has a small collision with the Hunan army, the Hengzhou camp is as stable as a rock, and the Su Jue who sits in Guangxi does not need to be mentioned, where do the soldiers and horses of Yunnan and Guizhou dare to look east?

According to this momentum, it is impossible to say that in a few years, you can really smash the Yellow Dragon and pull the six kings off the dragon bed, but now the bandits are rampant, and there is a slight taste of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is difficult to break out in a large-scale conflict for a while, and the prince also took this opportunity to vigorously develop infrastructure construction, in the words of the prince, the infrastructure is up, the industrial and commercial agriculture is leaping forward, and the industrial manufacturing capacity is up, how can this battle be easy to fight in the future.

Ye Zhao took a sip of the teacup and said: "I am preparing this barracks, setting up the right director, and the prime minister's military dispatch of various provinces, so under the overall planning, the burden of you and others will be lighter, and there will be no need to control it at all levels as it is now, and the efficiency will be greatly improved." "This organization in my heart is probably similar to the General Logistics Department of the later generations.

Bai Gui hurriedly said: "The prince is high. "In fact, how did he know what was going on with the Prime Minister's Quartermaster Dispatch? However, some of the ideas put forward by the prince are often not known until they are really operational, and it is only then that it suddenly dawns on me and admires the prince's insight.

Ye Zhao pondered and said: "This matter still needs to be presented to the Queen Mother and the Emperor of the Two Palaces. "In fact, Ye Zhao's office, if it is not necessary, he will not convene a meeting of the ministers at all, but only convey the documents up and down, and hold a regular meeting every month. But since the little brother ascended the throne, he has to go to Guanyin Mountain from time to time to perform things, and the head of the sixth house has to go to the Qinzheng Hall of Guanyin Mountain every once in a while to listen to the training of the Queen Mother of the two palaces.

To say that Ye Zhaoben is advocating the streamlining of the army and improving the efficiency of the various yamen, but now the least efficient is the Qinzheng Palace, but Ye Zhaozi can't write to the two palaces to advocate the form of "taking documents", lest the two palaces think that he is deliberately contemptuous.

Ye Zhao looked at Feng Zicai again as he spoke, and said, "Feng Shoubei, your twelve points to break the Northern Dynasty have been carefully studied by this king, and they are very insightful. ”

Feng Zicai was sincerely frightened, and immediately stood up and knelt down on one knee, and said: "How dare the arrogant words of the grass people be praised by the prince?" ”

Ye Zhao looked at him, feeling a little strange in his heart, after all, this was the anti-French hero and patriotic general in the history textbooks of later generations. But how do you feel that in front of you, you are really no different from Bai Gui?

More than 30 years later, at the age of nearly 70 years old, he led the Qing Army and the Black Flag Army to bravely break the French army in Zhennanguan, which is the famous Zhennanguan catastrophe in history.

However, today's Feng Zicai, but it is an extremely embarrassing situation, he was originally a member of the Guangxi Tiandi Society, which is the old department of Su Hongniang, came to Guangdong a few years ago to participate in the Guangdong Tiandi Association Liu Ba Uprising, and later pulled more than 1,000 people to surrender the official army, and served as a thousand generals in the green battalion, and then accumulated military merits to the co-organized garrison from Wupin, but he has always been subordinate to the Admiral Huang Liangwei and the governor of Liangguang under the rule of Shengbao, and so on Huang Liangwei fell, the little brother became the emperor, Shengbao fled back to the capital, Feng Zicai became a lonely ghost.

Originally, Lord Su's old department, although now Lord Su also abandons the dark and turns to the light, but I think he also has prejudices against him, but his qualifications have always been under Huang Liangwei and Shengbao, and this identity is even more embarrassing. It was because when the old department under the rule of Shengbao was rectified in the sixth room, Feng Zicai, the co-organizer of the garrison, was pushed back and forth by all the camps of the Pingyuan Army, and in the end, he simply withdrew his errand, although he was still eating five products, but he became an idler.

Feng Zicai had no choice but to join the Baigui shogunate and did the work of a cloth cloth scribe, which was also the reason why he called himself a grass man when he saw Ye Zhao.

In fact, Ye Zhao also knew from Feng Zicai's experience that this person is keen on power, in fact, how can there be a perfect person in this world? Whether it is a hero or a famous general in the history books, it's just that the advantages are infinitely magnified and the shortcomings are covered up as much as possible. And at the most critical moment, the backbone of the hero blooms in a thousand ways, which is enough to inspire future generations, and the praise of symbolic heroes is to praise their certain spirit, not to praise them themselves, and later generations are entangled in finding some so-called understanding people who have become the dark side of totemic heroes, in fact, they are the most confused.

However, Feng Zicai is naturally not a totemic hero, and he probably can't even talk about a hero, but no matter what, seeing this figure who sang praises in the history books of later generations kneeling respectfully in front of him, Ye Zhao's heart felt a little weird.

"Get up, you will come to the barracks on an errand." Ye Zhao waved his hand, the person who becomes a famous general naturally has his extraordinary quality, although Feng Zicai's reputation is not obvious now, perhaps because of different experiences, it will be difficult to become a great weapon in the future, but how to achieve it will be higher than ordinary people, in the military room experience, what height he will reach in the future will naturally depend on himself.

Feng Zicai was stunned, and hurriedly kowtowed respectfully, "Thank you, Lord Wang!" The grass people will do their best! ”

Although Bai Gui didn't know how the prince valued him, he naturally smiled and said: "The prince has a good eye for talents, Nangan, you have to work hard to live up to the prince's high expectations." ”

"Yes, yes." Feng Zicai agreed repeatedly.

At this time, the guards outside the hall hurriedly entered, knelt down and said, "Lord, the letter sent by the servants of the Fujin Order." Ye Zhao was slightly stunned, beckoned, and the guards hurriedly bowed down to deliver the letter. Ye Zhao shook open the letterhead, looked at it a few times, and smiled dumbly.

…… Backstage of Xiguan Grand Theater, Ye Zhao came to the dance room accompanied by Ms. Xiangli Zhao of the theater, but in front of the yellow lacquer door of the dance room, he was stopped by two pretty female members wearing pink uniforms of the song and dance troupe, looked at Ye Zhao and the guards behind him vigilantly, and said, "Men are not allowed to enter here." ”

Ye Zhao waved his hand, and several palace guards were scattered in the corridor, and the passages on the east and west sides leading to the dance room were guarded.

Ms. Zhao smiled and said to the two female dancers, "It's okay, Boss Rong knows about this." ”

A girl hesitated and said, "But, but Teacher Sava is teaching, and the rules of the dance class ......"

Ye Zhao smiled and waved his hand: "It's okay, Sava is my friend." The letter was written by Sava, and Grandma Jin Er asked her to pass it on, saying that Sava was looking for him in an emergency.

Although I know that Sava's so-called urgency may be a big matter, but I think I haven't seen Sava for more than a month, and I always have to be concerned about this prisoner of war who was captured by myself, just see what kind of reputation she has.

Hearing that Ye Zhao said that he was a friend of Teacher Shawa, the two girls were suspicious, but it can be seen that Ms. Zhao nodded slightly, after all, Ms. Zhao is the director of the theater, and the two of them dare not disobey her too much, the two glanced at each other, and finally slowly pushed open the two wooden doors of the dance room.

The pleasant dance music immediately rushed in, Ye Zhao strode in, and immediately knew why the man was not allowed to enter, but saw that in front of the huge glass mirror on the yellow wooden floor, Shawa in a snow-white ballet dress was spinning on her beautiful toes, and more than a dozen warblers around Yanyan were stunned.

White gauze tutu, blue eyes and blonde hair, skin is better than snow, Sava's devilish figure curves are exposed, the snow-white tulle tightly wrapped huge pepper milk gently trembles with the dance steps, the lace skirt rotates, the pair of slender and slender snow-white legs looming, Sava is tall, slender and straight, at this time the towering ** beautiful long legs, the sense of oppression is coming, it is the extreme oppression of the surname, which makes people breathless, if the man with low self-confidence probably just wants to turn around and run away at the moment, while another type of man will enjoy this kind of vertigo, She even wanted to ravage this oppression and enjoy the great satisfaction of being oppressed and conquered.

What about Ye Zhao? But he just looked at her and smiled, and said that Xiao Nizi is becoming more and more seductive.

"Sweetheart!" Sava screamed in surprise, and ran quickly apart from the warbler Yanyan, at this time the ballet costume man was wearing stockings, and Sava was bare with a pair of long snow-white legs, wearing soft white gauze ballet shoes, as tempting as she wanted.

Yingying Yanyan watched this scene with wide eyes, and forgot to scream in surprise.

"You're looking for me?" Ye Zhao asked with a smile, but he also let Shawa grab his hand, Shawa's snow-white little hands were delicate and slender, and it tasted wonderful in his hand.

"Yes, my mother came to China, came to Guangzhou, I, I have no friends, just, I thought of you." Sava's Chinese is blunt, crisp and exotic, and extremely beautiful.

"Let's go, I'll go change my clothes first." Sava took Ye Zhao's hand and walked to the side door of the dance studio, but Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Our mother is here?" What are you calling me for? Speaking of which, since he was able to communicate with Sava, he always reminded him of his previous life, and the ease of arguing and joking with his boyfriend and girlfriend, "our mother" blurted out, if it is with the woman next to him, a sentence of our mother is either scolding you shamelessly or answering the secret promise, which is really helpless.

Sava can completely distinguish the meaning of "we, me, you", although the surname is cheerful, but how can I understand the broad and profound meaning of the word "our mother" in later generations?

After being stunned for a moment, Sava put her red lips on Ye Zhao's face and kissed her, and said, "Sweetheart, if you want to propose to me, I promise you, you can call my mother mother too." ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "Wrong, our mother means that we have an iron relationship, and we are very good friends, understand?" In Chinese, it's just a title, it doesn't mean anything. ”

Sava suddenly didn't care about her misunderstanding, and said, "Your Chinese is too difficult to learn. As he spoke, he had already arrived at the door of the dressing room, and seeing that Sava had the intention of pulling herself in, Ye Zhao hurriedly pulled out his hand, pushed her, and said, "Go change it yourself!" Under the tulle, although it only touched her fragrant shoulders lightly, the delicate elasticity had an endless aftertaste.

Listening to Sava squirming inside to change clothes, Ye Zhao asked, "Is your mother coming to pick you up?" ”

"No, my mother and her sweetheart came to China to play, and when they quarreled, she remembered me."

Ye Zhao couldn't help but be a little speechless, but he had heard that Shawa's mother had many lovers, and she was a typical Rakshasa woman.

"You, can you accompany me and my mother to dinner? She said, "I want to see the people who take care of me." ”

Ye Zhao scratched his head even more, once upon a time, he became the person who took care of her in Sava's heart? But it doesn't hurt to have a meal, this Rakshasa is in high society, and he is ready to have more contact.

The door of the dressing room was opened, and Sava was wearing a snow-white long dress, which was luxurious and dazzling, she pulled her skirt and turned around in front of the mirror to take a look and a photo, and asked Ye Zhao again: "Is it good-looking, me?" ”

Obviously, although Sava does not have a deep relationship with her mother, she is still very happy about her mother's arrival, and she is also very solemn and dressed.

Ye Zhao smiled: "It's good-looking, it's just that there's something missing, you come with me." ”

Sava nodded obediently.

…… On the carriage to Wanghailou, there was a string of dazzling sapphire crystal necklaces on Sava's snow-white neck, and Sava happily kept touching it with her little hands, quite a little loved, women, I don't like jewelry, I'm afraid there are few.

There are countless pearls, jadeite and gemstone jewelry in the county king's mansion, and this Western-style necklace is the most unpopular, because it is necessary to match the clothes with open breasts and necks, which is naturally disliked by the blessings. Ye Zhao casually pulled out a string, and with Shawa's snow-white dress, the blue-eyed beauty was even more dazzling.

Wanghailou is on the bank of the Pearl River, looking at the green island in the distance, and watching the thousands of paintings and sails up close, the scenery is beautiful, and it is refreshing.

Wanghai Tower was built last year, and now it is a first-class place in Guangzhou.

In the Yutao Pavilion, magnificent, Ye Zhao and Sava had just sat down, when they heard the sound of footsteps outside, the door knocked softly, and it was Sava's mother Marina arrived.

When Ye Zhao and Sava rushed to Wanghai Tower, they had already asked people to go to Xiguan Richard Hotel to pick up Shawa's mother, Richa Hotel is a hotel built and operated by the French, red building, beautiful Parisian style, is one of the Xiguan Road Signpost buildings.

The door was pushed open, and a Western beauty walked in first, with a gorgeous skirt and a faint resemblance to Sava between her eyebrows, but perhaps because of overindulgence, her eyes were slightly darkened by deep sunken circles, but it also added a bit of style.

Needless to say, I know that it must be Sarah's mother.

Sava walked up quickly and hugged her mother, kissed each other on the cheeks, and muttered words, Ye Zhao didn't understand, just stood up with a smile and signaled: "Hello madam!" ”

Marina's eyes were suddenly attracted by the sapphire necklace around Sava's neck, and she stared obsessively for a long time, until Sava pulled her to mutter, and Marina looked at Ye Zhao and said something with a smile.

Sava said to Ye Zhao: "Mom said, it's good if you call her Marina." ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "It's just a salutation, please take a seat." Stretching out her hand to give up her seat, while Marlena and Sava muttered a few more words, Marlena suddenly said to Ye Zhao: "Dear Ye, do you speak English?" But it was spoken in English, although it was blunt, Ye Zhao could understand it.

Ye Zhao smiled: "I know a little, I didn't expect that Mrs. also understands English." ”

Marlena giggled: "I had a British sweetheart five years ago, great lad. ”

Ye Zhao was a little speechless, Shawa's mother is also the best.

A few people sat down, and a waiter brought tea.

Marina looked at Ye Zhao and asked, "Ye, how did you meet Valya?" ”

Ye Zhaoxin said that it seems that Shawa's eldest brother didn't tell her about himself, and she thinks so, she has many lovers outside, and she won't tell her secrets such as her identity, I'm afraid that only Shawa's grandfather knows. As for Marina, the most she knows is the address of Sava Coffee, but Sava's father and mother don't look at her at all, although there may be any scruples or the orders of the old man in the family, but it can also be seen that the family affection is weak.

As for the old mother of Sava, most of them couldn't bear the loneliness and came to China with their lover to play, and they lost their fun before they remembered her daughter.

This Rakshasa aristocratic family is really not something that we Chinese can speculate.

Ye Zhao pondered and said with a smile: "I was a soldier, and I knew Valya at that time. ”

Marina asked Sava yesterday, but Sava didn't want to tell her, only said that after being captured, a powerful Chinese man has been taking care of her, how is Sava also her daughter, Marina will not ask more, for fear that her daughter will recall the nightmare, but no, when it first fell into the hands of Chinese, I don't know what kind of humiliation I encountered, and finally I may not know that the identity of my daughter was given to the so-called Chinese man who took care of her, but now this identity, don't mention it, after a few years, His Majesty the Tsar has gained a firm foothold, I'm afraid that they will retaliate against their entire family very cruelly.

I heard that my daughter taught dancing in the big theater, and now I heard Ye Zhao say that she had been a soldier, which confirmed her guess, but the very luxurious sapphire necklace on Shawa's neck was really confusing.

"Valya, did he borrow this necklace from Ye?" Marina asked Sava puzzled.

Sava shook her head, looked down at the beautiful sapphire necklace with joy, and said, "He gave it to me." ”

Marina's eyes widened in disbelief, at this time, she walked into the maid from outside wearing flowers and butterflies to serve the food, the dazzling gold and silver utensils, and the delicacies of the mountains and seas that could not be named, made Marina even more surprised, but the beautiful eyes that looked at Ye Zhao were getting more and more charming.

Eating the fried Chinese food with a knife and fork, Marina glanced at Ye Zhao, her curved eyelashes blinked, and her voice became brighter: "Ye, are you a Chinese official?" ”

Seeing her mother's appearance, Sava muttered a few words, presumably to tell her not to seduce her sweetheart.

Marina laughed twice and said to Ye Zhao: "Ye, Valya is jealous, she won't allow me to talk to you." ”

Although Ye Zhao had already faintly sketched the sketch of Shawa's superb mother from Shawa's words, he really couldn't imagine that it was far beyond his imagination, and he had never met this kind of person in his two lives, if in Marina's opinion, he naturally had a great relationship with Shawa, and blatantly hooked up with his son-in-law in front of his daughter, how could there be such a mother?

Marlena asked Ye Zhao again: "Ye, you Chinese can marry many wives?" How many wives do you have? ”

Ye Zhao had no choice but to say honestly: "Three." ”

Marlena laughed, turned around and said a few words to Sava in a whisper, Sava also muttered something, Marina turned back to Ye Zhaomei and smiled: "Valya said, no matter how many wives you have, I am not allowed to talk to you, you say, is she bullying me?" ”

Sava muttered again, and then Marina's face became stiff, as if she was also a little angry, and the mother and daughter became more and more intense, as if they were arguing.

Ye Zhao's head was big for a while, what is this?

Pulled the white gauze jade arm of Lashawa, hey, that slippery and crispy bomb, which is lovely.

Sava turned her head to look at Ye Zhao, her eyes wide open, as if asking Ye Zhao what to do.

Ye Zhao Zhengse said: "Don't quarrel with your mother, it's not easy to come all the way, when will you meet next time?" I've been happy these days, you know? ”

"Oh." Sava nodded obediently, but it seemed that she was still a little unhappy.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Besides, your mother just likes to joke, have you ever thought about it?" If her family had treated her better, maybe she wouldn't have such lovers. Besides, what do you think of me? ”

Sava blinked wide, thoughtful.

Seeing Marina's frosty face, Ye Zhaoqi said, "What did you tell her?" It looks like it's angry. ”

"I said she's too old to be worthy of you," said Sava. ”

Ye Zhao was helpless, this was really the most hurtful, pointed to the vacant seat beside Marina, and said, "You sit down and talk to your mother." ”

Sava was really obedient to Ye Zhaona, not to mention that she also felt as if she had said the wrong thing, so she sat down right away and whispered something to her mother, thinking that she was coaxing her.

Ye Zhao Zhengse said to Marina: "Madam, Valya is in Guangzhou, I will take good care of her, and please rest assured." Madame and Valya reunited after a long absence, and they should get along well. ”

Marina looked at Ye Zhao in surprise, Valya seemed to listen to this Chinese man's words, and this Chinese man's words and actions were really quite different.

As he was talking, a man in a green robe came in from outside the door, whispered a few words in Ye Zhao's ear, and handed Ye Zhao another thing.

(To be continued)