The reason why Lin Zhe and the Qing court broke up faster and faster was that in addition to Lin Zhe's desire to become independent as soon as possible, it was also related to the fact that the Qing court was training the new army faster and faster.

The situation in the world is interrelated, Lin Zhe accelerated the speed of army expansion and self-reliance, and the Qing court felt even more threatened, so it accelerated the support for the new army's new training, and the Qing army vigorously supported the new army's formation and training, which in turn made Lin Zhe feel threatened, forcing him to speed up the expansion of the army.

These factors are all interconnected, and it is not to say that they exist in isolation.

Seeing Li Hongzhang's large-scale expansion of the army in the Jiangbei region, there were only four or five thousand people at the beginning of 1856, but now it has climbed to 8,000 people.

At the beginning of the year, the Qing court vigorously rectified the Eight Banners New Army, and it is said that many of the original generals were dismissed from their posts in one go, so that capable personnel were transferred to take charge of the formation and training of the Eight Banners New Army, and it is said that the atmosphere of the Eight Banners New Army has been greatly improved.

At the same time, the green battalions in Gyeonggi and other places were cut and reinforced, and a new army of more than 2,000 people was trained in the Zhili Green Battalion, which was called the 'Gyeonggi Training Army'.

The soldiers of this Gyeonggi training army did not mean that they were directly selected from the Green Battalion troops, but that the Green Battalion troops in Gyeonggi, Zhili and other places were eliminated through guò, and the military funds were freed up to re-recruit soldiers, and then they imitated the military system of Yu Shengjun's military training.

Lin Zhe felt more and more pressure from the Qing court's vigorous training of the new army in 1856, and he estimated that if the Qing court was allowed to continue to build a new army, perhaps the historical Beiyang New Army would appear in advance.

In this environment, Lin Zhe was no longer willing to wait, he wanted to raise the flag as much as possible, and then completely control southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and other places, and use the taxes in these two places to support the expansion of the army, and then compete with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing court for the ownership of Shenzhou.

And before that, he had to have an excuse, an excuse to raise an army that would give him a name for justice.

In November 1856, a series of personnel adjustments by the imperial court in the Jiangnan region allowed Lin Zhe to find this opportunity.

In November 1856, Hechun, who supervised the military affairs in Jiangnan, due to a series of fiascos, so that the Qing army in the Jiangnan area was reduced from more than 30,000 to less than 10,000, and at the same time he could not suppress Lin Zhe's development, and even sold 500 war horses to Lin Zhe.

Therefore, the Qing court did not hesitate to dismiss Hechun, and at the same time approved the resignation of Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, who has been playing soy sauce for several years, due to illness, which Yiliang said was due to illness, but this was just to give him a step down, and everyone who understands knows that the imperial court is already extremely dissatisfied with Yiliang's inaction.

Subsequently, the Qing court appointed Huang Zonghan, the governor of Jiangsu, as the acting governor of Liangjiang to supervise the military affairs of Jiangnan, and Zhang Guoliang and Lin Zhe still assisted in the military affairs of Jiangnan.

At the same time, Li Hongzhang was appointed as the acting governor of Jiangsu and supervised the military affairs of Jiangbei.

Huang Zonghan was the governor of Liangjiang, no one could say anything, he had enough qualifications, but the Qing court put Lin Zhe aside and directly appointed Li Hongzhang, who was less senior than Lin Zhe, as the governor of Jiangsu?

This caused a great tremor on the ground in the south of the Yangtze River, to be precise, a shock within the system of Yu Shengjun.

As early as 1854, when Gilhanga was dismissed, Lin Zhe had the opportunity to peek into the post of governor of Jiangsu, but the opportunity was too slim, and Lin Zhe and others knew that they were not qualified.

However, two years later, Lin Zhe is no longer the Lin Zhe of the year, although his age and qualifications are insufficient compared with many officialdom, but Lin Zhe's influence in the Jiangnan region cannot be ignored, and his exploits in recovering northern Zhejiang, Suzhou, Changzhou, capturing Zhenjiang and even once hitting Tianjing cannot be ignored.

At the same time, Lin Zhe has already been the political envoy of Jiangsu, and from the second grade, he is already qualified enough to be the governor of Jiangsu.

Now the imperial court has bypassed Lin Zhe, so as to appoint an unworn officialdom newcomer, Li Hongzhang, who has been circling in Jiangbei, as the new governor of Jiangsu, which in the eyes of many Yu Shengjun generals, this is to slap Lin Zhe in the face, and slapping Lin Zhe's face is to slap Yu Shengjun's face.

"Hmph, the court is full of some mediocre and incompetent people, my Yu Shengjun has been fighting thieves in Jiangnan for many years, and his achievements are outstanding, if it were not for our Yu Shengjun, this Jiangnan and Zhejiang would have been taken by the thief army. And he, Li Hongzhang, is just a three-year-old child, and after learning from us, the new army of thousands of people dares to come from behind and climb to the head of our handsome! Shi Qingxuan made no secret of his dissatisfaction with the imperial court.

Lin Anfei, who returned to Shanghai from Huzhou to report on his work, also said with a cold face: "That's it, those Jianghuai New Army are a fart, and if you pull them out, you don't need to do it with the first division of the commander, and my second mixed regiment can destroy them." This imperial court made Li Hongzhang the governor of Jiangsu, and it was clear that it wanted to despise us! ”

Lin Anfei said.

Xu Yanqing, the third person in the house, also frowned and said: "The imperial court has already regarded us as a thorn in the flesh, and it is eager to get rid of us as soon as possible, so it is naturally impossible for our family to be the governor of Jiangsu and the ruling party!" ”

Hearing Xu Yanqing say it so bluntly, Lin Anfei and Shi Qingxuan's faces changed, but neither of them said anything to Xu Yanqing's words.

It is no secret that Lin Zhe and the imperial court are not in harmony, whether it is the high-level of the Qing court or the high-level generals of Yu Shengjun, most of them know that there are many contradictions between the imperial court and Yu Shengjun, and where does this contradiction come from?

Naturally, it was Lin Zhe's anti-will!

As long as you carefully study Lin Zhe's actions in the past few years, it is not difficult to find Lin Zhe's intention to try to rebel.

At the present time in November 1856, Lin Zhe's intention to rebel is just like Sima Zhao's heart, which is known to passers-by, not to mention the high-ranking officials and generals of the Qing court and Yu Shengjun of the parties, even Shi Dakai and Lin Chengting in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom know that it is only a matter of time before Yu Shengjun rebels against the Qing court.

It's just that although everyone knows about this, no one has ever taken the initiative to say it!

Now that Xu Yanqing said it so bluntly, it was obvious that he had put these on the table, but they all knew that the three people in the room were Lin Zhe's hardcore, and Yu Shengjun's real core high-level leaders all put Yu Shengjun's interests above the interests of the imperial court.

"Brother Xu, what do you mean, is the court going to do it to us first?" Lin Anfei frowned at the moment and said, "Now we have tens of thousands of soldiers? How dare they? ”

Xu Yanqing immediately said: "Do it now?" They don't dare, but have you ever thought that now the imperial court is on guard against my Yu Shengjun everywhere, and although the thief army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is now powerful, you and I both know that the thief army is just a rabble, and it is only a matter of time before it is destroyed! ”

"Once the thief army is destroyed, who do you mean the court will deal with next?"

Shi Qingxuan immediately said: "Our Yu Shengjun!" ”

"Our Yu Shengjun has tens of thousands of soldiers, and Lian Zhan Lianjie is already a master of high merit, you look at the front of us to recover Changzhou this summer, and Brother Xu, you conquered Zhenjiang and coerced Tianjing, such outstanding military exploits are in the hands of the Hunan army or other officers and soldiers, at least it must be a position of actual governor. But after the war, whether it was the handsome or me, which one was promoted? ”

"No, let alone promotion, the court doesn't even give the superficial reward! They have turned a blind eye to our credit! ”

"According to me, let alone being promoted and getting rich in the future, I'm afraid it will be a miracle not to be hidden by the birds!"

After Shi Qingxuan finished speaking, Lin Anfei said: "Are we just sitting still?" Even if we don't take the initiative to attack the thief army, but I'm afraid it won't be able to delay much, according to our spy report, Li Hongzhang's Jianghuai new army is not weak, even if we don't help, it is estimated that he will be able to take Tianjing if he is given a year and a half! ”

At this time, Lin Anfei patted the table: "If you want me to say, we have already torn our faces anyway, we will directly oppose the mother, and then we will be the founding heroes, and it is not a problem to be crowned king and marquis!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Shi Qingxuan and Xu Yanqing glanced at each other, and Xu Yanqing spoke first: "Brother Lin's words are deeply in my opinion, my Xu someone can have today's status and future, it is all given by the handsome, as long as the handsome man raises up troops to stand, I Xu someone will definitely swear to follow after the saddle!" ”

Shi Qingxuan, who was on the side, also spoke: "Yes, I, Shi Qingxuan, have already sold my life to the handsome, as long as he gives an order, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of me, I will not frown!" ”

When Lin Anfei heard the answers of these two people, he immediately nodded secretly in his heart, it seemed that he had come to discuss this matter with the two of them. Why did he ask these two people to mention these rebellions today, one of them was instigated by Lin Zhe, without Lin Zhe's approval, he would not have asked the core generals to contact Yu Shengjun to say anything about rebellion.

And it is obvious that Xu Yanqing and Shi Qingxuan are not stupid, so they naturally understand that Lin Anfei must have Lin Zhe's approval or hint when he said this.

However, they themselves are very dissatisfied with the imperial court, if Lin Zhe wants to raise the banner to rebel, they will naturally follow, they are not like Lin Zhe, the boss of Yu Shengjun, who was liquidated by the imperial court in the future, and was suppressed and guarded by the imperial court, and they, the senior generals of Yu Shengjun, are naturally no better there.

If it waits until it is liquidated in the future, it is better to fight now, if it succeeds, a founding hero will be in hand, and it is not a problem to be crowned a king and a marquis.

As a man, he doesn't have the ambition of a general!

"Naturally, there is no need to say a few of us, but not everyone in our Yu Shengjun is as loyal to the marshal as a few of us, and I am afraid that some people will oppose it when the time comes!" Shi Qingxuan said.

"Hmph, I've long been tired of seeing them on the wall grass now, and now it's time to clean them up!" Xu Yanqing's face was fierce.

The secret conversation between the three lasted for more than an hour, and finally after Lin An flew out, he went directly to Lin Zhe's official residence to report the matter to him.

After hearing this, Lin Zhe nodded: "You have worked hard in this matter!" ”

Then he took out a few more words and said to him: "Take a look for yourself, and you have to know how to act in the future!" ”

After Lin Anfei saw it, Lin Zhe said: "Have you written it down?" ”

Lin Anfei nodded, and Lin Zhe immediately threw these documents into the fireplace and turned them into smoke.

After Lin An flew out, Lin Zhe habitually stood in front of the window, and the Huangpu River outside the window was still prosperous, but how long could this prosperity last?

If you succeed, you should be able to continue, but if you fail, I'm afraid that the prosperity outside the window will also dissipate with your failure!

A few days later, the Shanghai Business Zone ushered in a team of Qincha, and I saw Lord Qincha swaggering into the yamen of the business zone with a large team of people and reading the holy decree.

And as soon as this holy decree was read, it caused a big stir, why, because this holy decree actually said that Lin Zhe supported the army and rebelled, and was immediately dismissed and imprisoned, and the rest of Yu Shengjun and other senior generals were also dismissed and imprisoned for the crime of rebellion, and Yu Shengjun's troops were dismissed on the spot! (To be continued.) )