Tongzhi five years, spring. Zeng Guofan ordered Li Hongzhang's sixth brother Li Zhaoqing to recruit 2,000 horse training troops, and increased the Huai army Yang Dingxun, Liu Bingzhang, Liu Shiqi, Wu Yufen, Wang Yongsheng and other troops with a total of 20,000 people to enter the battlefield of suppression.

Liu Xian's film can be regarded as being publicly marginalized.

He is like Feng Zicai [1] who was stationed in Zhenjiang at the beginning, although he fought with the small twisted army horse team in Xiaogan from time to time, but he was always in a state of watching the battle in the main body.

Beijing has turned a blind eye to this. Liu Xian also wrote to Beijing, asking to rush to Shandong or return to his hometown in Hanzhong, but Beijing refused to allow it.

But there is a loss, there is a gain. Zeng Guofan didn't use Liu Xian anymore, but in the eyes of the governor of Huguang, Liu Xian was a treasure.

In the fourth year of Tongzhi, the monk Greenqin died in Shandong, and the edict was issued and disturbed in Hubei in the year before last, and the official documents could not be annihilated on the spot, only driven out of the country, so that the spread of Yiblazing, the next strict discussion, the downgrade of the three levels of transfer, the reform post was retained, and the palace title and flower feather were removed.

To put it in the vernacular, it is that the monk Lingqin Shandong died last year, and why did he die? That's because when the Twist Army Huoshan was defeated and entered Hubei the year before last, the official document could not annihilate them on the spot, but only drove them out of the country, so that the Twist Army recurred and the disaster spread, and Monk Greenqin died for some reason in order to exterminate the Twist Army.

Because of this, it is difficult to say whether it is anger or the crime of the Beijing Big Three who look at him unpleasantly, Guanwen was demoted by the official by three levels, and lost the title of the crown prince and the prince.

Last year, he also struggled with Zeng Guofan to make the first official document, and he was beaten with a stick, and he was almost seventy years old, and he was frightened and panicked, and he was bedridden for two months before he recovered.

But just after the New Year, when the joy had not subsided, Zhang Zongyu and Ren Huabang led the main force of the twisted army to patronize Hubei again. Ren Huabang led more than 10,000 cavalry first, occupied Macheng, entered Huangpi, and Wuchang imposed martial law. In February, the Twist Army broke the enemy army in Huanggang and killed Liang Hongsheng, the general soldier of the Hubei army.

At the time of crisis, it was Liu Xian who turned the tide. The army first thwarted the front of the army, and then relied on the advantage of guns and artillery to recover Huangpi.

Although Liu Mingchuan's army is coming, half of the Twist Army's energy should be focused on guarding against the inscription battalion, and what Liu Xian is fighting is not the full strength of the Twist Army. But to win, to win, is to win.

The official document rewarded 20,000 taels of silver and a number of military rations. Then a letter was sent to Beijing, asking Liu Xian to be transferred to the governor of Hubei.

At this time, the governor of Hubei was Guo Songlin, a famous general of the Hunan army, a native of Xiangtan, Hunan. The old man of the Hunan army, although he is not among the big guys, has a deep foundation. The six or seven thousand soldiers in the department are very sharp, if they are here, the role of turning the tide may not be Liu Xian.

Guo Songlin, because of the chaos in Fujian, led his troops into Fujian to suppress the rest of the Taiping Army at this moment.

The governor of Hubei was furious after he got it, and Liu Xian was almost completely 'cut off' with the three armies of Hunan, Huai and Chu in a daze. Because the current governor of Hubei is Zeng Guofan's ninth brother, the boss of the Hunan army - Zeng Guoquan.

God is pitiful, if Liu Xian has the heart to hug his thighs, why is he looking for an official document? He would rather hold Li Hongzhang's stinky feet with a dead face. Relying on Runan to rescue Liu Mingchuan's friendship, he did not and could not get his wish.

Official Text! What kind of person is that?

The Manchu Qing Dynasty used him to control Huguang, not because he was an official and a talented man, and he had both civil and military skills, but because Hubei had the world to rush and control the Yangtze River, and Beijing had to arrange his confidants. As a full man and obedient, Guan Wen is the best candidate.

As early as Xianfeng five years before the governor of Huguang, he was famous in the officialdom for "no outstanding talent", and reigned for more than ten years, but everything was decided by domestic slaves, so that people at the time called the Huguang Governor's Mansion "three big": concubines, doors, and cooks. and the former governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the largest Le Bin [2] in my family, and called today's officialdom wonderful, 'a moment of brightness'.

After Guan Wen took office, he repeatedly had discord with the Hunan army. first did not cooperate with Zeng Guofan's strategic deployment, and then almost killed Zuo Zongtang, so the "Hunan Gang" had no good impression of him at all. Later, it was Hu Linyi, who succeeded as governor of Hubei, who "got it" the official document.

At first, Hu Linyi also felt constrained and wanted to impeach. Fortunately, his subordinate Yan Jingming woke up with a word: "The husband and the governor impeach, whether it may be victorious, that is, victory, can ensure that the latecomer will be virtuous?" The official has no prejudices, and he is also subordinate to the flag, and whenever there is a major event, he can use his words to ask for it. And the staff around Guanwen also suggested: "Today's major events rely on the Hunan people, if the public can be committed to the appointment, the success will be successful, and the fame will be revealed." The public is handsome, and the merits of the Hunan people are the merits of the public, why not make friends with Hu Gong, and be covered by one or two? So the two sides tacitly agreed, the official attitude suddenly turned clear, Hu even pushed the boat along the river, often gave the provincial treasury balance of the treasury to the official documents, and even did not hesitate to please his concubine, asking his mother to accept her as a righteous daughter. So "what Lin Yi said, everything is followed; The text invited, and the court also obeyed."

However, the friendship between officials and Hu is actually driven by interests, not like-minded, so Zeng Guofan asserted that "each other is just perfunctory, not sincere."

Sure enough, after Hu Linyi's death, his successor was repeatedly cleaned up by official documents. At the beginning of his tenure, Zeng Guoquan strongly expressed his willingness to "work together with the governors and officials to help the times of difficulty". However, although you were intentional, he was ruthless, and Zeng Guoquan soon felt the sinister nature of Hubei officialdom.

Liu Xian was also one of the people who lined up to welcome Zeng Guoquan to take up his new post in Hubei, and he was very clear about what happened in Hubei officialdom at the end of last year and the beginning of this year.

Tang Jisheng, the political envoy of Hubei, had a holiday with Huang Nanpo, Zeng Guoquan's best friend, Zeng Guoquan came to Hubei, and Tang was afraid that he would seek revenge for his buddies, so he privately drafted a fold on behalf of the official, and built a court not to give Zeng Guoquan the governor a seal, but only to protect the military of Hubei Province. The official document is still a little clear, and it is considered inappropriate and not adopted.

But the heart of the villain is unstoppable.

When the plan failed, Tang Jisheng made another move, and actually sent this fold to Hunan, which was widely disseminated, creating the false impression that the official document blocked Zeng Laojiu from going to Hubei. Zeng Guoquan was furious when he learned of this, and he and Tang have since formed a relationship.

It's easy to understand, and it stinks. Although Liu Xian is a novice in officialdom, he also shook his head and sighed as an idiot after hearing it.

Later, Tang Jisheng instigated Guan Wenjuan to ask Zeng Guoquan to help with military affairs, so as to firmly take the military power into his hands. This incident made Zeng Guoquan furious, and said, "Check the national custom, the governor should have supervised military affairs, and he has never been called a helper." At the end of the year, Zeng Guoquan, who had only been in Hubei for more than two months, used the special fold to perform the matter (this is a secret communication channel between the governor and the emperor, which can play a role in controlling the officials of the feudal territory and making emergency decisions), impeaching Tang Jisheng, demanding that he be "immediately reprimanded and never used". At the same time, he also pointed out the official document by the way: "The governor is generous and is seventy years old, and he is allowed to hold it hostage in major matters, and he is blinded by small things", which is tantamount to slapping the official document in front of the highest level.

This is the public second-in-command and the first-in-command. got rid of his own watchdog, and still played his own small report in Beijing, and the official documents that have always eaten soft and not hard will naturally not give up. But before he could act, tens of thousands of troops were killed.

Liu Xian's soldiers frustrated the army and quickly recovered Huangpi, which had immeasurable benefits for the official documents at that time.

ps: [1] Since the Taiping army broke through the "Jiangnan camp" for the second time, Zhang Guoliang fell into the water and drowned outside the south gate of Danyang, Feng Zicai gathered the remnants of the army and retreated to Zhenjiang to hold on. Later, although the Taiping army repeatedly attacked Zhenjiang and eliminated some of Feng's troops, they did not pose a great threat. Feng Zicai's department always stayed in Zhenjiang and was under the jurisdiction of Zeng Guofan.

In the days to come, Feng Zicai guarded Zhenjiang with a lone army of 3,000 people, and from time to time engaged in battles with small units of the Taiping army, but because the Taiping army was already lacking at that time, he could not invest many troops in the Zhenjiang area, and Zeng Guofan did not plan to reuse him, Feng Zicai actually watched the battle on the periphery of Tianjing for more than two years.

[2] :** power can scare a candidate Daotai [Hexiang. should still be a flag man], because of a dispute between his cook and an entourage of **, he ran to the governor's palace early in the morning to kneel down and plead guilty, and knelt down to beg for grief.