Zuo Zongtang was dumbfounded, and said in a lost mind: "The Qing Dynasty will not die." ”

Li Yunzhong sneered: "I'm afraid you don't believe this sentence, the Qing Dynasty has been established for nearly two hundred years, and the Han and Tang Dynasties are just like that, I pity your talent, so I persuade you with kind words." ”

Zuo Zongtang is the six gods at the moment, he is not willing to do nothing in his life, the first half of his life was frustrated by the imperial examination, fed up with the ridicule of others, and now it is not easy to learn something, and the world is in chaos, it is the time for him to show his skills and glorify his ancestors, but he was accidentally trapped by the thief, do you really want to surrender to the thief, no...... This not only affected the family, but also sorry for the two teachers.

Li Yunzhong saw that Zuo Zongtang's face was cloudy, and he must have hesitated in his heart, and added to the fire: "Actually, when I was in Hunan, I had already sent someone to bring your family here, and I was afraid that you would be angry and couldn't think about it. Please sir, don't blame. ”

Zuo Zongtang sat down on the ground and said, "If I don't surrender, will the general kill my whole family?" ”

Li Yunzhong shook his head and said, "No, at most, you will be placed under house arrest in Nanjing City." ”

Zuo Zongtang pondered: Now that Li Yunzhong has broken Jiangning, those unambitious scholars will definitely come to vote, and maybe they will really overthrow the imperial court in the future, why don't I take this opportunity, with my talent, the position of prime minister will not run. Besides, it is really rare for him to be so attentive to my scholar, and after thinking about it for a while, Zuo Zongtang said: "You promise me three conditions first, and then I can agree to you." ”

Li Yunzhong heard the good news at first glance, and really thought that he had heard it wrong, and when he saw Zuo Zongtang repeating it again, he hurriedly stepped forward, remembering that Zuo Zongtang was a man and couldn't hug it, he was really at a loss, thinking of Hong Chengchou's allusion, he hurriedly untied the mink fur cloak on his body, put it on Zuo Zongtang with his own hands, and said: "With Mr. to help, I am really like a fish in water, don't say three conditions, that is, three hundred, three thousand I agree." ”

Zuo Zongtang said: "It is good for His Royal Highness to treat scholars well, and my first condition is: the Han cannot follow the example of the Taiping Army, smashing the Confucian Temple everywhere he goes, burning books, and forcing men and women to separate camps." ”

Li Yunzhong said: "Don't hide it from Mr., I am just dissatisfied with Hong Xiuquan and them doing this, so I parted ways with them, this condition does not count, you add another one." ”

Zuo Zongtang said: "The eldest husband said that it is difficult to chase the horse, so His Royal Highness agreed, and the second condition is: not to promote the teachings of foreigners in the Han Dynasty to suppress the doctrine of Confucius and Mencius." ”

Li Yunzhong thought about it and said, "Actually, Christianity also has a lot of praise. Seeing the disappointment on Zuo Zongtang's face, he hurriedly added: "But after all, it is a foreigner's thing, and it is not as good as the Confucianism that has been circulated in China for 2,000 years. Li Yunzhong weighed the pros and cons and immediately abandoned Christianity.

Zuo Zongtang was very disappointed at first, but later saw that Li Yunzhong promised not to preach the 'cult' again, and he was very relieved: His Royal Highness the King of Han can still accept the advice, and he is not the kind of lord who is rigid and self-serving. continued: "Third, if there are meritorious generals in the reward army, you can't split the land and seal the king like the Taiping army, otherwise there will be endless troubles in the future. ”

Li Yunzhong was moved: "I thought that the three conditions proposed by Mr. were all put forward for myself, but I didn't expect that everything was for me and for the Han Dynasty. ”

Hearing Li Yunzhong be so frank, Zuo Zongtang boldly pointed to the sound of artillery outside: "Can the general let the artillery stop firing outside, there are innocent people inside, but he is afraid that the general will slaughter the city, so he has to resist." ”

Li Yunzhong nodded and said: "Yes, I was fascinated by anger, it must be those banner generals who are unwilling to surrender and spread rumors to the people that I want to slaughter the city, so I will go and give an order to them to stop the shelling." ”

Li Yunzhong came to the door and said to Chen Yucheng, who was standing guard outside: "You go and tell Commander Zhang to stop firing artillery, save some shells, and keep it for siege tomorrow." ”

"Obey the order" Chen Yucheng said loudly with a red face, and trotted all the way to the inner city.

Inner City

Hou Xiang looked at the expectant eyes in front of him, people's hearts scattered, and he said lonely: "Do you really believe that they are shouting?" ”

One of the bearded men muttered, "That's better than being killed by a cannon." ”

Huo Longwu, the deputy commander who was sitting under the capital, glared angrily and said: "The Han people can descend, and we can descend!" ”

The bearded man was at a loss for words, and argued forcefully: "We can die in battle, what about the tens of thousands of women and children in the city?" To provoke the ferocity of the thieves, you really want to slaughter the city, are you worthy of them? ”

Hou Xiang waved his hand and said: "Now is not the time to quarrel, you all shut up, in this case, those who are willing to fight sit on the left, and those who are willing to surrender sit on the right." If there are many people over there, they will do what they have decided, and no one should have two hearts. ”

Hou Xiang believed that those who wanted to surrender must be a minority, and the Manchurians were bloody in establishing the country by force. Just cut them off.

Huo Longwu was already sitting on the left, and when he saw the others sitting in their seats and didn't move, he was angry and sad in his heart. Obviously, he was afraid of death and was unwilling to continue to resist, and he was afraid that today's incident would spread and affect his family, thinking that he could be confused in this way.

Houxiang was also desperate, and they made it clear that they wanted him to surrender to this black cauldron with his back.

war, they don't want to.

down, they are unwilling to take responsibility.

Huo Longwu pulled out the sword at his waist and shouted: "Surrender and not surrender, fight and not fight." Are you going to kill you? ”

The bearded Dutong whispered: "Let the people in the city decide, if you want to die, everyone will die together, and Huangquan Road will not be lonely, if you ......"

Everyone understands that if there is something below, the court will ask for guilt in the future, and they will have a reason to shirk it, and they will endure the humiliation for the sake of the people of the city, so they will steal their lives for the time being.

"It's a good idea"

"Yes, yes, that's it, we are also guarding the city for the people, and we should ask their opinions."

…………

Hou Xiang saw that they didn't speak just now, but now they nodded and said some good things about the people loudly, and those who didn't know how to think that they were all Qing officials who "asked for their lives for the people", Hou Xiang understood that he had lost control of the situation and could only hope for the people in the city.

The people in the city heard that the general Houxiang summoned everyone to gather at the city gate, thinking that the thieves were going to attack the city again, they all picked up weapons and ran out of the city, and one after another the flow of people converged on the avenue into a sea of people, for a time only the sound of footsteps, and the noise of panting, to the city gate, seeing that there was no war, all looked around in confusion, and saw Houxiang they stood on a high place and looked at them.

Seeing that there were too many people coming, in order to avoid causing panic, Hou Xiang asked the people below to nominate some leaders and come up to discuss, and in less than half an hour, seventy or eighty people were elected by the people.

The bearded men led them to the attic on the city wall.

Seeing that everyone looked at him suspiciously, Hou Xiang explained: "Fathers and elders, everyone is a person of high moral character, and today there is a matter related to the life and death of the people in the city. ”

The bearded man saw Houxiang looking at him, scolded secretly, and said: "The Han army outside the city sent someone to convey the message of their king, as long as we open the city and surrender, they will not kill a single person, but the inner city can't let us live, so we can find our own way out." ”

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