Zhang Zongyu's face was blue and white for a while, full of struggles, Zhang Lexing treated him like a son, he thought that revenge for Zhang Lexing was justified, but Li Hongzhang was reasonable, especially the result of insisting on going his own way, which woke him up.

Don't look at him as a small company commander now, but this company commander is the company commander of Black Hawk, and the gold content is at least equal to that of the regiment commander of an ordinary army, and he also has a lot of room for promotion, if Zhang Lexing's matter is really troublesome to the point of making Wang Feng unhappy, he is afraid that his life will come to an end, and he needs to think about the entire Zhang family.

In other words, if Li Hongzhang does not frame Zhang Lexing, will Zhang Lexing be willing to be Li Hongzhang's deputy? This is obviously impossible, because as Wang Feng pointed out, the combination of Zhang and Li is that they all have ghosts, and they are all calculating each other, and Zhang Lexing's death cannot be said to be who is right and wrong, he is just a loser in the political struggle.

And more importantly, Zhang Zongyu has no evidence to prove that it was Li Hongzhang's poison, and everyone knows that it is not equal to evidence!

Wang Feng was amazed, Li Hongzhang first took the lead, suppressed Zhang Zongyu, and then avoided the truth and made a fool, and then singled out, you have no evidence, what can you do with me? In the end, he brought out the righteousness and cited the examples of Ling Tong and Gan Ning as persuasion, the process was like flowing water, the sense of rhythm was very strong, and he firmly grasped the initiative, so that Zhang Zongyu was difficult to parry from the beginning, and he had been completely defeated before he could play.

Such a person meets all the conditions for Wang Feng to select foreign ministers, and is a natural candidate to preside over foreign affairs in the future!

Wang Feng set his eyes on Zhang Zongyu and asked, "When is the time for retribution, take a step back and open the sky." Letting go is sometimes more admirable than clinging, and forgiveness is an eternal human virtue. Zhang Zongyu, tell me about your decision. ”

"This" Zhang Zongyu saw it. Wang Feng had no intention of killing Li Hongzhang at all, and now that he had no reason to kill Li Hongzhang, he had to grit his teeth violently, and said very aggrievedly: "Zong Yu admits gambling and loses, and this matter is stopped!" ”

The atmosphere in the hall was suddenly relaxed, if it weren't for Zhang Zongyu's face, I'm afraid that someone would have congratulated Li Hongzhang, because Li Hongzhang showed ability. It must be reused by Wang Feng, and Wang Feng is notoriously jealous of his jealousy.

Wang Feng also smiled slightly: "Although Zhang Lexing's matter ends here, he was one of the anti-Qing rebels after all, let's go to Bozhou together another day and give Zhang Lexing a pillar of incense." ”

Li Hongzhang understood that this was mediating the tense atmosphere between himself and Zhang Zongyu, and immediately arched his hand: "It should be so." ”

After all, he will work with Zhang Zongyu in the future, although Li Hongzhang is not necessarily afraid of Zhang Zongyu, but there is a person who always targets himself everywhere, which is also a troublesome thing. Give Zhang Lexing a fragrant incense, focus on the main points, and say a few more good words, which is nothing. The dead are great!

Sure enough, Zhang Zongyu's complexion softened slightly.

On the contrary, Wang Feng's face suddenly sank. looked at Zeng Guofan and said: "Do you know that a few years ago, I accepted more than 3,000 Hunan troops led by Zhao Liewen outside the city of Guangzhou. Only kill Zeng Guoquan? ”

Zeng Guofan said secretly, so he had to bite the bullet and say, "I don't know." ”

"I'll tell you now." Wang Feng said coldly: "You are very powerful. Act without leaving room for others, under your influence, the Hunan army has destroyed countless walled cities, and there is a wound to the heavens and the peace, I must give an explanation to the innocent people and the old and weak women and children who died in vain, although the murderer is not your Zeng Guofan, I can also not worry about the Hunan army generals, but you, as the commander of the Hunan army, must take responsibility, and you always have to pay it back, you, can you understand? ”

Zeng Guofan's face instantly turned dead, and scenes of the past appeared in front of him, it was cool to kill people at that time, but retribution was also coming.

Subconsciously, Zeng Guofan looked left and right, it was impossible for the Huai military department to intercede for him, although most of the Hunan military department was unbearable, but no one stood up.

If Zeng Guofan is the one who ordered the slaughter of the people, then they are the executors, Wang Fenghe exempted them, and it is already very interesting to punish the evil, and Wang Feng is right, slaughtering innocent civilians, someone must come out to confess, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is Hong Xiuquan was eaten alive by the people of Nanjing, and the Hunan army, who else can Zeng Guofan not come forward?

No one will have much to do to complain about the Zeng State Domain, the so-called success and defeat of the king, the blame can only be blamed on the defeat of the Zeng State Domain.

In fact, Wang Feng insisted on killing Zeng Guofan, and there was another unspeakable reason, because Zeng Guofan in history had slaughtered Nanjing and killed 800,000 people, and Wang Feng was originally from Nanjing in his previous life, and he hated all those who destroyed Nanjing.

From Su Jun, Hou Jing, to Yang Jian, to Hong Xiuquan, to Zeng Guofan and the Japanese!

Although the Zeng Guofan in front of him did not have the opportunity to slaughter Nanjing, it did not affect Wang Feng's hatred, and with Yang Jian's merits, he actually surpassed Li Shimin, Yang Jian restored the Han family's rivers and mountains, and all kinds of measures were groundbreaking in the times, the Tang Dynasty followed the system of the Sui Dynasty to a large extent, and Yang Jian was a very self-disciplined person, and his personal morality was far stronger than Li Shimin, but why was there Li Shimin in Zhongyuan and not Yang Jian?

This is not only that the Sui Dynasty was a short-lived dynasty, but the bigger reason is that Yang Jian ordered Yang Guang to raze Jiankang to the ground, and since then, the charm of the Six Dynasties has disappeared.

On the surface, the destruction of Jiankang is equivalent to the destruction of the political and economic center of the south of the Yangtze River, and the southeastern separatist forces have suffered heavy losses, which is conducive to the unification of the country, but the greater significance lies in the fact that the political ideal of the scholars and the imperial power has been shattered, and the signs of the constitutional monarchy in ancient China have been stifled, and the scholars have been forced to bend the backbone to the imperial power.

From the cultural point of view, Confucianism declined in the two Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, during this period, Confucianism was still able to adhere to benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, but from the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the rulers ignored benevolence and righteousness, and blindly emphasized loyalty and filial piety, which laid the groundwork for the ideological imprisonment from the Song Dynasty.

Zeng Guofan couldn't think of so much, he only knew that he would die today, since he was going to die, it was better to be single, begging hard would only make Wang Feng look down on him, so he arched his hand: "Zeng is willing to die." ”

"Your attitude is still sincere, I allow you to commit suicide, and your Zeng clan, if there is no blood on your hands, you will not ask for guilt, come and take it down!" Wang Feng waved his hand.

"Thank you Commander Wang for your mercy!" Zeng Guofan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, bowed deeply, and turned away.

Wang Feng is indeed merciful, only Zeng Guofan and Zeng Guoquan led the troops, and the rest of the brothers are orthodox scholars and have not killed anyone, which means that the Zeng family can be preserved, and there may not be no chance of recovering after a few years.

Wang Feng only killed Zeng Guofan and left the Zeng family, which made everyone nod secretly, because under the influence of the traditional concept of family and country, the family is the biggest, compared with the interests of the family, the life and death of the individual is nothing, and many people will take the initiative to dedicate themselves to the family, which also reflects from the side that Wang Feng is not a person who loves to kill.

But what can't be avoided is that the relaxed atmosphere that came because Li Hongzhang saved his life became dull because Zeng Guofan was ordered to commit suicide.

The hall was silent, led by Li Hongzhang, and some generals of the Hunan military department also gave it to Zeng Guofan, Wang Feng did not stop it, and waited until Zeng Guofan disappeared from sight before he said: "It's almost noon now, let's have a meal here first." After speaking, the palms were clapped alternately, and immediately a soldier brought tables, chairs and benches and set them up in the hall

Chinese people like to talk about things at the wine table, easy to set the atmosphere, push the glass and change the glass, but also easy to get closer to the relationship, not long after, because Zeng Guofan was given to commit suicide The dull feeling disappeared, after all, Zeng Guofan's death can not be prevented by anyone, he must be responsible for his bloody policy.

After this battle, the general trend of the world has been obvious, no one is optimistic about the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's qi is really exhausted, the Manchus can escape back to the northeast, and it is quite optimistic to survive, and it is more likely that they will be pursued by the Democratic Alliance to the slaughter of the entire race.

Although Zeng Guofan's death made everyone in the table feel a lot of emotion, how to adapt to the political atmosphere of the new dynasty and even occupy a certain position in the new dynasty is a problem that nearly 100 people in the top echelons of the Hunan army and the Huai army must consider if they want to face the future.

Everyone toasted Wang Feng, Wang Feng talked with him openly and honestly, and the wine table became an occasion for these generals to make friends with Wang Feng and the high-ranking members of the Democratic Alliance.

This time, the total number of the surrendered Hunan army and Huai army reached an unprecedented 200,000, and on the good side, it was possible to rapidly expand its military strength, and with the current number of troops of the Democratic Alliance Army, in fact, it was a little weaker, and in the case of an expedition to Russia, it was simply impossible to do without a million troops.

Why does the Russian army give people a ferocious feeling? Because Russian lives are not valuable, a famine can starve millions of people, and a political purge can kill tens of millions, which shows that Russian rulers never treat people's lives as their lives.

It is precisely because the lives of the Russians are not valuable, so the Russian army gives full play to the advantages of the tactics of the sea of people, and the battle depends on human lives to pile up, he does not care about the dead, only cares about the result of victory, just a Crimean War, the Russian army mobilized 1.2 million troops, this is still a local war, if China and Russia start a full-scale war in the future, Wang Feng believes that it is not a problem for Russia to organize millions of troops.

Therefore, it is imperative for the Democratic League Army to expand its army in an all-round way, and to absorb 200,000 people at one time, which is a formidable challenge, and for the generals of the Hunan Army and the Huai Army, it is necessary to find out and find out thoroughly, and in the process of incorporation, it is necessary to observe which people are really adapted and which are fake to be reorganized, so that Wang Feng only talks, and does not make personnel arrangements for the time being.

Including Li Hongzhang, who was designated as the Minister of Foreign Affairs by him, Wang Feng decided to let Li Hongzhang follow him to get acquainted with him, and as for Miao Peilin, he also prepared a place to go, that is, to be Li Hongzhang's deputy and serve as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Miao Peilin has all the bad qualities of human beings, but this person is very smart, good at observing words and feelings, bold, daring to challenge authority, and is a very capable person, who can complement Li Hongzhang's old scheming and deep calculations. (To be continued......)