"It's too much to deceive, it's too much to deceive!"

For Li Yongji's indifference, he thought that he had released enough good intentions, but he still made it difficult for him to ride a tiger, and this time he was really angry, even if it was Fushou ointment and mellow beauty, he couldn't suppress his anger: "What is this Li Yongji going to do?" Do you really want to rebel? ”

"The emperor is angry." Concubine Yi beside her knew that the emperor was actually scared, otherwise she wouldn't have secretly asked herself to say this, so she hurriedly comforted, "Things are not so bad, in my opinion, that Li Yongji is at most a little arrogant, and some of them are not strict, if you want to say rebellion, he doesn't have the courage to do so." Otherwise, it's all here, if you change someone else, you would have reversed it a long time ago, and you wouldn't have been so deadlocked, don't you say? ”

"Hmph, what is he doing like this?" Emperor Xianfeng said dissatisfied, "If you don't rebel or be disobedient, I don't blame him anymore, as long as he exchanges the silver back, I won't blame the past, what else does he want?" What are you trying to do if you continue to drag like this? ”

"In my opinion, I'm afraid that Li Yongji himself is also difficult to ride a tiger." Concubine Yi smiled lightly, "I heard from the people below that the first to intercept the silver was a general under Li Yongji, and he was also his uncle. ”

"So what?" Xianfeng sniffed the snuff bottle, "Since you know it's wrong, you should quickly spit out the silver, he doesn't look like he knows his mistake now." ”

"Your Majesty, it is precisely because he is difficult to ride a tiger that he needs to go down a step." Concubine Yi continued to laugh and said, "You see, normally speaking, if you do something as big as cutting off the silver, you either have to wait to be dismissed and investigated, or you have to rebel altogether." This Li Yongji probably didn't want to be dismissed and investigated, and he didn't want to rebel, so he was in a dilemma.

Your Majesty, you think, although this Li Yongji is the head of the Jingwu Army, and he has recently become famous, but after all, he is only thirteen or fourteen years old, at such an age, how can he really control the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals below?

If you want me to see, even if this Li Yongji is not a decoration that has been pushed onto the stage, his control over his subordinates is limited. So nine times out of ten, his uncle was not willing to give up the silver in his hand, and Li Yongji had no other way for the time being, so he had to be so stiff. ”

"Well, you mean to say that this Li Yongji doesn't want to return the silver to us, but he said it himself?"

"Exactly." Concubine Yi nodded, "Otherwise, there would be no other explanation." ”

"That's just as well." Emperor Xianfeng nodded, "Then this is the situation." How should it be broken? ”

"In my opinion, it's simple, to govern the present, it's nothing more than to promise high-ranking officials and divide them." Yi Guifei said. "Didn't this Li Yongji just repel the bandits? It just so happens that with this title, I will officially give him the position of governor of Liangjiang, and I won't give him anyway. The place of Liangjiang is already their world. ”

"Hmph, he's done such a thing, and he still expects me to add him to a knight?" Emperor Xianfeng was dissatisfied. "If I really do this, how should the people of the world think of me, how should they look at the court? Maybe he will think that the court is afraid of him. ”

"How can it be, one is one, twenty-two, merit is merit, fault is fault." Concubine Yi continued, "The position of Governor of Liangjiang may be given to him, after all, he has just made a meritorious service, and it is unreasonable not to give a reward; However, he hijacked Caoyin, which is also a felony, and the yellow coat can be peeled off as punishment. In fact, we gave him the Governor of Liangjiang in order to kill him, and to facilitate the promotion of his subordinates. ”

"Oh?" Emperor Xianfeng's expression moved, "You mean ......?"

"That's right, I think since Li Yongji has carried everything by himself, it is better to simply give General Wang, who intercepted the silver, a position as the governor of Shandong, and then order him to fight the twist." Concubine Yi said, "Zhang Wei, who defeated Hangzhou, gave him the position of governor of Zhejiang and governor of Zhejiang, and Zhou Da, who defeated Changzhou, gave him the position of governor of Anhui." In this way, the various units of the Jingwu Army will be scattered all over the place, and they will no longer be able to twist a rope, so there will be no threat to us. ”

"That's a good idea." Emperor Xianfeng nodded, "Hey, why didn't I think of it earlier, I was thinking of sending someone to seize power at that time, but I didn't expect it to make them more united, well, you are still smart to love concubine." ”

"Where, the emperor has a lot of opportunities, so many official affairs to deal with, and there are some who don't check for a while." Cixi bowed his head humbly, "The concubines have nothing to do in this palace all day long, and occasionally have a little experience, and it is nothing to help the emperor pick up the missing and fill in the gaps." ”

"Mm-hmm, that's true." Emperor Xianfeng nodded with emotion, and touched Concubine Yi's face again, "I don't dare to say that I can compare with the emperors in terms of talent, but I think I am also diligent, and I must bow to everything every day, but unfortunately, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are all wine bags and rice bags, and no one can give this kind of idea to the concubine, if I listened to the concubine earlier, why would it be so." ”

"The emperor has a good reputation." Concubine Yi said, "The ministers are also old-fashioned, it's not that they can't think of it, but they have a lot of concerns, unlike the concubines who dare to speak out." ”

"Hmph." Emperor Xianfeng pursed his lips and wanted to say something, but in the end he still didn't say anything, but said, "Ai Concubine, the strategy of dividing and transforming is good, but I have thought about it, this can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause."

Even if they go their separate ways, they will eventually come out of the same origin, and if something happens, they will definitely form a group to protect themselves, which will be a trouble in the future. What's more, now the bandits have not been extinguished, and the twisters are making trouble again, there are foreigners raging in the east, and the Huihui people in the west are not at ease when they hear about it. ”

"Don't be too anxious, don't be in a hurry, what's wrong with your body in a hurry." Concubine Yi immediately comforted, "I have enjoyed the country for so long in the Qing Dynasty, how can a few clowns who jump off the beam be able to shake it?" As long as we are not in a hurry, we will get better in the end. ”

"Then you say, how can you figure it out in this situation now?"

"Don't worry, the emperor, listen to the concubine slowly." Yi Guifei said, "Let's talk about Hui Hui first, although Hui Hui has been making trouble recently, but it is located in a remote area, which is a problem of scabies, so you can put it aside for the time being, let them fend for themselves, and then deal with it when we have eased up."

Twist, there are monks and Shengbao watching from the side, plus Wang Sanwu of the Shanghai army, presumably it can't turn the sky, so it's not a cause for concern.

Although the foreigners are hateful, all they want is a fortune, and if they delay it for a while, when they can't find a bargain, they will naturally come to us again for peace talks.

At present, the immediate big trouble is the bandits, and the farther one is Li Yongji's elite army, but fortunately, there is a fire and water between them, what we have to do is to let these two sides fight each other, and at the same time we will seize the time to accumulate strength, and when the two of them are defeated, we will capture them in one fell swoop, and then the emperor can do whatever he wants, and he will no longer have to worry like now. ”

"That's a good point." Emperor Xianfeng didn't have the slightest joy when he heard this, "The snipe and the clam fight, and both sides lose...... You are all a trick, although it can't be said to be useless, but after all, it is not the right way, I am afraid that when the time comes, the two of them will become stronger and stronger, and we ourselves will become weaker and weaker.

Hey, you've heard about the late-summer offensive that the Jingwu Army did some time ago, right? Before the bandits, they were so unstoppable, and we couldn't defeat the army, but when we encountered the Jingwu army, it was like mud, and it became them who couldn't defeat the army, and even the foreigners' troops suffered defeat when they faced the Jingwu army.

Why does this elite army dare to be so arrogant? And not because they can fight? If they weren't so good at fighting, I'd still have to use them, or I'd have endured it so far. Therefore, in the final analysis, it is still our own struggle, if we don't fight ourselves, our own soldiers can't beat others, and no matter how much trickery and power change are useless. ”

"What the emperor said is very true." Concubine Yi agreed, "When it comes to fighting for strength, other concubines don't dare to say it, but I heard that Li Yongji's troops have only been in army for half a year, and all of them are village brave, and if you want to say that you are brave, you are much stronger than our Eight Banners, I don't think it may."

If you want me to say, the reason why they are so good at fighting is because they rely on foreign guns and artillery, a large number of foreign guns and foreign artillery. If our Eight Banners disciples are replaced with foreign guns and cannons, and then dragged to the bitter cold land outside the Guanxi or Mongolia for rigorous training for a while, it may not be impossible to reproduce the majesty of our ancestors, as long as my Eight Banners soldiers are still brave, then the world is still my Qing Dynasty. ”

"That's a good thing to say." Emperor Xianfeng said, "But these foreign guns and cannons are in the hands of foreigners, and now I have such a stiff quarrel with foreigners, they all support the bandits and Li Yongji, how can I buy them from them?" ”

"Your Majesty, you have forgotten that foreigners are not monolithic, but with many countries, I heard that there are still many contradictions between each other, and we can still divide them." Yi Guifei said, "The British, the French, and the Americans naturally can't ask for them, but the Russians don't have a good relationship with them." We can ask the Russians for help. The Russians also have a lot of foreign guns and artillery, which are not necessarily worse than those of the British and the French. ”

"Russians? The Russians are also not a good thing. Emperor Xianfeng frowned and said, "Their appetite is too great, the British and the French are just seeking wealth, they want land." The Russians have been making a lot of trouble in the north recently, provoking everywhere, killing many of us and robbing a lot of things. Hmph, is it possible for such robbers to let me cooperate with them? ”

"Nothing is impossible." Yi Guifei said, "What the Russians want is just some remote and bitter cold places, there are no people in the first place, and they don't produce much food, so if they want it, they will give it to them temporarily." In the future, we will make it clear to ourselves, the country is rich and the army is strong, and it is not too late to settle the account with the Russians, how to say, the Russians are thousands of miles away from us, I am close, he is far away, as long as we are really willing to fight, they may not be able to win. ”

"Humph!"

"Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry and be patient."

Hearing that Concubine Yi said all the words that Emperor Kangxi said to Yongzheng, Emperor Xianfeng silently smoked the Fushou ointment in the snuffbox for a while, closed his eyes and thought for a while, then opened his eyes again and sighed: "Okay, it's up to you, it's all up to you!" I...... Just do as you say. (To be continued......)