In the cold winter season, for the Qin army personnel who stayed in Hanzhong, this should be the rarest leisure day of the year.

Because the combat intensity of the Qin army in winter will be greatly reduced, whether it is a tent or a weapon or ammunition, the consumption will be greatly reduced. There is no need for the remaining troops in Hanzhong to be transferred to Hubei, only the output of the accompanying craftsmen in the army can be used for consumption, and there are even some surpluses.

Tan Fusheng's small life was quite comfortable before the middle of December of this year, and he had served the Qin army wholeheartedly for three years, and now he was a squad leader of the Third Transportation Brigade under the Logistics Department of the Qin Army. He is in charge of ten carriages and twenty junior brothers, and Xiang Qian is equivalent to the squad leader in the army. And when the convoy is operational, a large number of civilian chariots, horses, and long-husbands fill the troops, and the number of people under his command can exceed 100 people, which is comparable to the amount of a squadron in the army.

Tan Fusheng also married a wife and had children, a big fat boy who landed in the middle of the year, and he couldn't be satisfied with his current life, he couldn't eat enough three years ago.

From an objective point of view, he, Tan Fusheng, is the interests of Qin Jun, that is, decent. All of his qi qi were closely tied to the Qin army. Such a person is, of course, the most loyal supporter and adherent of the Qin army.

And the rise of a force, its development and strength, the biggest change brought about is that Tan Fusheng's interests are decent. Such people will develop with the development of power, and when they become more and more, it is not clear what kind of power will become.

There is no long-distance transportation task, Tan Fusheng has been in winter for more than two months, in addition to routinely taking people to the horse circle every day to inspect it, he occasionally receives small tasks at close range, and then there is live ammunition shooting and hand-to-hand combat training on five days and one day.

Baggage troops also need combat effectiveness. Otherwise, wouldn't it be bad to be encountered by a small infiltration force of the enemy during transportation or directly encounter bandits and bandits?

But on the 19th of December, a terrible task was given to all the convoys. Tan Fusheng is no exception.

They were to transfer supplies from Hanzhong to Songpan Hall in Sichuan.

That's a long distance of 1,500 miles! It is even more in the cold winter wax moon.

Three transport brigades, 300 carriages, and a large number of carriages, horses, and grooms were requisitioned and transferred from various prefectures and counties in Hanzhong, and the overall number of vehicles coordinated by the logistics department reached the scale of 1,000.

In addition, Zhang Zhongkui and Li Xueming personally led two integrated brigades and 1,000 recruits to set up a quartermaster station on the road from Hanzhong to Songpan Hall along the way.

As a result, a problem that had to be faced surfaced in the minds of all the middle and lower strata of the Qin army's remaining troops. What happened to the team? Transporting materials to Songpan Hall, setting up transfer stations along the way, isn't the main force of the military gate in Hubei, how can you look like this is to enter Qinghai?

Liu Zhuo and Fan Debang in the Han Dynasty were speechless. What can they say to the people below? Let's just say that the Qin army is really about to march into Qinghai, and not only Qinghai, but also across Qinghai into Xinjiang! Can they say that?

At the beginning of December of the fifth year of Tongzhi, the position of governor of Hubei, which had been suspended for a period of time, was finally settled, and Guo Baimeng sat on the throne of governor of this thoroughfare of nine provinces.

When Liu Xian heard the news, he was instantly dumbfounded. Guo Baimeng, hasn't he already been awarded the governor of Guangxi? Why did he just pass by Hubei and turn around and become the governor of Hubei?

Of course, the more important thing is not this, but because Guo Baimeng is Li Hongzhang's staff.

Although he is as much as sixteen years older than Li Hongzhang, when he was admitted to the Jinshi, Li Hongzhang was still a nine-year-old child. But people's lives are different, although Guo Baimeng took the Jinshi exam early, his official career was very unsmooth. The reason why he can be the governor of a province now is completely because he held a group exercise in his hometown and hugged Li Hongzhang's thigh.

Liu Xian's mind was buzzing, he still thought that the new governor would rely on him to suppress the Hunan army in his province and fight against Li Hongzhang above his head. And now that's what happened......

Liu Xian didn't know what to do at all.

Zhang Shouyan was also helpless and didn't say a word. Liu Xian understands that this shows that the Zhang family behind Zhang Shouyan is also helpless. Although now the news has just arrived in Xiaogan from Beijing day and night.

"Will Beijing really be so brain-dead that it will hand over the entire Huguang to the Xianghuai Department?" Liu Xian was trapped like a beast going back and forth in the big tent. Liangjiang is still in the hands of Xianghuai, Fujian and Zhejiang are in the hands of Zuo Zongtang, and now with Huguang and Sichuan in half of his hands, he is completely going to be crushed.

"Maybe it's a deal with the bosses?" Zhang Shouyan has been thinking about it in his heart since he received the news from the north. But no matter how he thinks about it, he can't understand how Beijing can make such a move!

Could it be that the significance of Zeng Guoquan's withdrawal from officialdom this time is so important?

Zhang Shouyan couldn't imagine it.

Since the early years of Xianfeng, the war between the north and the south of China has been burning for more than ten years, and he has seen too many dramas that are exempted today and will come back tomorrow.

In his opinion, after Zeng Guoquan left his post, he would rest in his hometown for a year and a half at most, and he would still be a provincial feudal official when he returned to the mountain.

"If Zeng Laojiu quits officialdom from now on, it is worth ......"

Zhang Shouyan has actually guessed most of the facts, after Zeng Guoquan was dismissed from office this time, he directly lived in his hometown Xiangxiang for eight or nine years, and only in the first year of Guangxu did he re-serve as the governor of Shaanxi and move to the governor of the east river of the river. In the second year, he was transferred to the governor of Shanxi, and he was paid more than 13 million taels of silver in Shanxi, which helped the great famine that encompassed the whole province of Shanxi.

[The Ding Chou famine, which is not famous in history: it started in the second year of Guangxu (1876) and ended in the fourth year of Guangxu (1878), and some areas such as Shanxi dragged it to the fifth year of Guangxu (1879). The disaster spread to nine northern provinces, affecting as many as 200 million people. The Great Plague caused by starvation and inability to bury the carcasses of humans and animals claimed 13 million lives! Among the 16 million residents of Shanxi Province, 5 million have died, and millions more have fled the famine or been trafficked to other places. 】

The people of Shanxi were grateful to him and had built a shrine to commemorate him.

In the first year of Guangxu, the real pillar of the Zeng family, Zeng Guofan, had died of illness for three years.

Guanwen, the governor of Zhili, did not extend a helping hand to Liu Xian, Zhang Shoudai wanted to pull Liu Xian a hand, but he was only the political envoy of Sichuan, not the governor of Sichuan, so he was not qualified or capable at all.

Liu Xian, who was anxious, could only tentatively send a handwritten letter to the Xi'an general Duolong'a. But there was not much hope in my heart.

Now his relationship with Dorona is no longer the time when he was not in Hubei.

Time is the world's best weapon to cut off friendship. More than two years have passed, and the relationship between the two sides has been estranged much.

The current Liu Xian may be an acquaintance in the eyes of Duolonga.

And acquaintances, what is an acquaintance?

Nodding acquaintance. If you are not strict, you can help a bunch. This kind of large-scale gesture that may touch the entire Xianghuai and Chu system is something that relatives and friends have to think about twice, right?

But in fact, Liu Xian was wrong. Dorona held out a hand to him—