Seeing Emperor Xianfeng call his name, the young Prince Gong naturally did not want to continue to be silent, but he did not directly speak nonsense, although he had become the Minister of Military Aircraft and the foreman of the military aircraft this year after entering the duty last year, Prince Gong Yixun was not as beautiful as outsiders imagined.

He and Daoguang's fourth son Yixu were competitors to the throne, and finally Emperor Daoguang chose Yixu to inherit the unification, which was for Emperor Xianfeng, and although Yixu was named Prince Gong in Emperor Daoguang's testament, Emperor Xianfeng's defense against him was still extremely strict, and he had been trying his best to suppress him in the past few years, until last year, he failed to suppress the power of the ministers and the clan, and was forced to pinch his nose to let Yixin enter the military plane.

Because it does not implement the primogeniture inheritance system like the Han Dynasty, but selects the best among the princes to inherit the unification, so in the Qing Dynasty, the competition for the throne is very fierce, and most of the losing side is more tragic.

Prince Gong is such an unlucky guy who competed for the throne and failed!

Although under external pressure, Emperor Xianfeng let him be on duty in the military aircraft department, and he himself soon served as the foreman of the military aircraft as a prince, but in fact, he has always been cautious in his words and deeds, and he did not dare to interfere too much in the major affairs of the DPRK and China.

Rao is like this, in history, he still found a military aircraft in 1855 when Emperor Xianfeng found a way to get rid of the army, until Emperor Xianfeng died of illness, he failed to re-enter the core class of power in the Qing court.

Facts have proved that Emperor Xianfeng was right to guard against him everywhere, no, as soon as Emperor Xianfeng died, he and Cixi jointly carried out a coup d'état, treating Emperor Xianfeng's only son as a puppet, and becoming the king of parliament himself, and joined forces with Cixi to control the government for decades.

More than ten years later, Prince Gong Yixun, who controls the government, is now a person who has to be cautious about his words and deeds just to save his life, and he heard Emperor Xianfeng's questioning.

He pondered for a while before saying: "Now that the situation in Jiangnan is unstable, I am afraid that every move will cause it to get out of control, so we must be cautious about this!" ”

Just after saying such a short nonsense, Yixun just closed his mouth, if it was an ordinary courtier who said this, Emperor Xianfeng would be unhappy. But when Yixun said this, Emperor Xianfeng nodded, and then said, "Be cautious!" ”

Then he turned his gaze to the other ministers of military aircraft: "You all talk about it!" ”

Everyone here is a human spirit, so they naturally know that Yixun can play with ostriches. No matter if they don't ask, so as not to arouse the suspicion of Emperor Xianfeng, but they can't, if they fool Emperor Xianfeng casually, it is estimated that it will not be long before they will be dismissed and dismissed.

So one by one, they just said what they had been preparing for a long time.

The last person to speak was the oldest qualified in the Military Aircraft Department, the former foreman of the military aircraft. I saw that he didn't speak, but took out an excerpt: "This is the excerpt sent by Lin Zhe in front of me!" ”

"It is said that the situation in Jiangnan is unstable now, and southern Jiangsu is in danger, but Yu Sheng's military salaries are short, please pull out 500,000 taels of silver for military needs!"

Seeing Qi Liaozao take out this fold of Lin Zhe, everyone present frowned, they have all read Lin Zhe's fold, the surface content is in addition to the previous Suzhou and the follow-up war, but also said that Yu Shengjun is now a few major generals, and there is a shortage of military rations and silver. Asked the imperial court to allocate 500,000 taels of military spending, and also said some affairs of the trade zone, saying that a few days ago, the governor of Jiangsu, Gil Hang'a, threatened that the trade zone was not in accordance with the charter, and asked to abolish it, which attracted the criticism of many foreigners.

None of this is important, what really matters is that there are more than 20 names at the back of this fold.

Except for Lin Zhe who took the lead in signing his name, all the other senior generals of Yu Shengjun were listed, even if Lin Anfei and others were not in Huzhou, they were also signed on their behalf.

This is not just Lin Zhe's excerpt alone. It is an excerpt on the entire Yu Shengjun.

"Look at it, look at Lin Zhe's letter, there is a little grievance there, he is demonstrating to the imperial court!" The military-level minister Qi Liaozao floated his beard and said, "More than 20 people signed together." He's telling us that he has nearly 10,000 troops under his command! ”

"It's not the first time I've heard of Lin Zhebahu, some time ago, Minister Xiang and Minister Tuo and others have impeached Lin Zhebahu, even if the generals can fight, but they must not be tolerated and indulged, otherwise the rest of the generals will follow suit. What prestige does the imperial court have! Peng Yunzhang, another military-level minister, said the same.

"If you put heavy pressure on Lin Zhe, what if you push him too hard?" Ruilin, who was on duty at the same time as Prince Gong, said a different opinion at this time:

"Everyone has also said that Lin Zhe is a domineering general, and the rest of the Shengjun under his command are all arrogant generals, so a domineering general must be reckless by nature, and he will do things regardless of the causes and consequences, if he is forced to be anxious, I'm afraid he won't worry too much!"

The implication is that people like Lin Zhe are brave and unscrupulous, and they will not think twice about things like those officials and commanders with great wisdom.

"Then what you say, do you have to ignore such lawless martial arts behavior?" Qi Liaozao snorted coldly: "Not severely punishing Lin Zhe is not enough to calm the hearts of hundreds of thousands of officials and soldiers in Jiangnan!" ”

When Ruilin heard this, he didn't answer immediately, but looked at Yixin on the side with the corner of his eye, and saw that Yixin was as if he was blind, ignoring the argument in front of him, as if he was not here to discuss military affairs, but to rest and drink tea.

Then Ruilin immediately said aloud: "Everyone has read the letter to the minister, Lin Zhe is sure, maybe there is a counterintention, but now we can't force him to rebel, once he is forced to be anxious, Lin Zhe will directly lead the troops to rebel regardless of the consequences, what should we do then?" ”

"Yu Shengjun with 5,000 soldiers can defend northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu without losing, Suzhou defeated at least 50,000 thieves with less than 5,000 troops, its combat power can be seen, and the Jiangnan battalion sent 10,000 troops to counterattack Danyang, and now it is still blocked by nearly 10,000 thieves.

It can be seen from this that the more than 5,000 victorious troops can be used as at least 50,000 soldiers in the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps.

To suppress Yu Sheng's army, we need to transfer at least 50,000 troops, but my Jiangnan and Jiangbei battalions may send at least 50,000 troops in the future? ”

Ruilin's words were that Qi Liaozao and a few others were speechless, yes, it is simple to punish Lin Zhe, and it is okay to suppress Lin Zhe as a thief, the problem is where is the army?

The two large battalions in Jiangnan and Jiangbei are very reluctant to protect themselves in the face of the Taiping army, and they can still send out 50,000 fresh troops to suppress Yu Shengjun, don't be able to suppress it at that time, but let Yu Shengjun and the Taiping army merge and flank the Qing army. At that time, the overall situation in Jiangnan will be completely finished.

Seeing that everyone was suppressed by his own words, Ruilin turned to Emperor Xianfeng and said: "According to the slaves, Lin Zhe should be rewarded first and then suppressed!" ”

"Now the Huguang and Hunan armies have taken Wuchang and other places, and are going down the Jiujiang River. After taking Jiujiang, he can directly approach Jiangning, and with the cooperation of Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps, it is just around the corner to completely exterminate the Guangdong thieves. Before completely exterminating the Yue thieves, Lin Zhe must be appeased and let him send troops west to fight the thief army. Under the high-ranking officials, they will definitely be able to appease Lin Zhe's heart.

After exterminating the Yue thieves, my hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in Jiangning and directly coerced Lin Zhe to disarm and return to the field, if he didn't obey, he would directly exterminate Yu Shengjun! ”

After Emperor Xianfeng listened to Ruilin's words, the corner of his eyes not only glanced at Yixun unconsciously, but also scolded in his heart, he didn't come out, but let Ruilin speak, I really don't know.

Emperor Xianfeng did not directly answer his words. Instead, he took out another excerpt after the conversation: "I just said that Yu Shengjun's combat strength is not bad, I went and flipped through the Yu Shengjun army building regulations sent from Zhejiang, you can all take a look!" ”

Immediately, Xu Naizhao handed it over, and the excerpt about the Yongying charter of Yuyao County was circulated by these people, but they only glanced at it and heard Emperor Xianfeng say:

"Although Lin Zhe is a little arrogant, but the military regulations of Yu Shengjun are still good, you see, can we also follow Yu Shengjun to build a new tiger and wolf division?"

Emperor Xianfeng did not name him, and Prince Gong was still blind. As if he hadn't heard it, he just continued to look at the military regulations of the Yu Shengjun in his hand.

Qi Liaozao said: "I see that the military system of Yu Shengjun and the military system of Huai Army have many similarities, both have five or six hundred people in one battalion, and the company of Yu Shengjun and the post of Hunan Army are the same establishment. It's just a different name. However, the Hunan army fought fiercely against the thief army many times, although there were many victories, but it could not be as strong as Yu Sheng's army, and it was able to defeat the enemy with only a thousand people.

In the minister's opinion, it should be because the firearms of the two are different, although there are many firearms in Hunan Province. But it is still dominated by shotguns and mountain splitting artillery, on the other hand, everyone in Yu Sheng's army is armed with foreign guns and cannons! ”

Qi Liaozao, these ministers of the court are not a wreck, they are just from some war reports and the music sent by local officials to distinguish the difference between the Hunan army and Yu Shengjun, from the surface of the military system, Yu Shengjun's establishment is actually very similar to the Hunan army, the only difference on the surface is that Yu Shengjun is a pure firearms troops, and they use foreign guns, but although the proportion of firearms in the Huai army is not small, the arquebuses and artillery used are quite poor, so the Hunan army is still mainly hand-to-hand combat.

As for some connotations, they are not able to know lightly, for example, the core of the Hunan army's army building is the relationship between relatives, friends, teachers and students, while Yu Shengjun has relatives, friends, teachers and students at the officer level, and there are also extremely strict military laws. Another example is that Yu Shengjun not only imitates the Western army in terms of organization and weapons, but even imitates the Western-style army in all other aspects, which is a very typical modern army.

And these things are all things that Qi Liaozao and other courtiers can't know, or don't pay attention to.

"Although it costs a lot to emulate Yu Sheng's army to run an army, raising a new army of 1,000 is afraid that it can support the old army of 5,000, and those who are preparing to build a new army must be cautious!"

Hearing Qi Liaozao say this, Prince Gong, who had not been very energetic, set his eyes on Qi Liaozao, he definitely didn't think that what he said just now was Qi Liaozao's casual remarks, and he wouldn't believe that Emperor Xianfeng just took out the military fold of Yu Shengjun's military system was a temporary idea.

This must be a plan that has been planned for a long time, a plan to establish a new army to replace the green battalion and banner soldiers, and looking at it like this, this new army must be controlled by Emperor Xianfeng himself, and handled by Qi Liaozao, the emperor's confidant ministers.

He just wanted to say something, but at this time he felt Emperor Xianfeng's gaze sweeping over him, and he knew that if he dared to speak against anything now, he would be driven back to the inner study to read the next day, so he closed his mouth again and once again acted as an outsider to this meeting.

The next day, the imperial court finalized the treatment of Lin Zhe: appreciating Lin Zhe's yellow coat, being promoted to the political envoy of Jiangsu Province, conferring the second rank, and still serving as the superintendent of the Shanghai Trade Zone, Jianghaiguan Road, etc.

At the same time, on charges of 'dereliction of duty' and 'ineffective suppression of bandits,' Gilhang'a, who had just been in office for more than a month, was dismissed from his post, and Huang Zonghan, governor of Zhejiang, was transferred to the post of governor of Jiangsu.

Emperor Xianfeng personally proposed that the regulations for the establishment of a new army supported by Qi Liaozao, Mu Yin and other military ministers were quickly promulgated, according to which a new army under the control of the imperial court would be based on the Hunan army and Yu Shengjun.

However, it was not the well-known important ministers and famous generals who were in charge of the preparation of the new army, but people who many people in contemporary times had never heard of.

He is Li Hongzhang! (To be continued.) )