Zhao Laoqi quickly walked into the Han Wang's Mansion with a solemn expression, and hurriedly came to Li Yunzhong's study.

"Your Highness, according to the spy report: Zuo Zongtang, the squire of the military department, Wang Qinglu, the deputy imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zhao Liewen, the servant of the criminal department, and others had a secret conversation in Lu Jianying's mansion for an hour, and at the same time, Hu Yihuang, the governor of Anhui, Li Xiucheng, the governor of Jiangsu, Lin Daji, the secretary of the military department, and others also gathered in Mengsheng's mansion, and they were very careful when talking, and the spies could not listen to what they were talking about!"

In fact, Meng Sheng also invited Zhao Laoqi to go, but Zhao Laoqi felt that he no longer belonged to the Gui faction, and he only obeyed the orders of His Royal Highness the King of Han, so he refused the invitation on the grounds of physical discomfort.

"Zhilu said," Li Yunzhong said lightly.

"This ......" Zhao Laoqi guessed the reaction of King Han after hearing the news countless times, and scolded him angrily, and summoned Zuo Zongtang, Lin Daji and others to confront him on the spot.

"What else? Say! Li Yunxin was not calm either, and asked a little angrily when he saw Zhao Laoqi.

Zhao Laoqi's head was in a mess, and he secretly scolded for his mistakes, could it be said that there was nothing wrong? Isn't this looking for scolding! But what did you do to perfunctory King Han for a while, there is!

Thinking that His Royal Highness ordered him to pay attention to the intelligence of the Hunan army, he suddenly had an excuse, and Zhao Laoqi replied: "Weichen still has some information about the Hunan army. ”

"The intelligence of the Hunan army!" Li Yunzhong said with a straight face: "Come quickly, has the Hunan army become an army now?" ”

Zhao Laoqi took advantage of the situation to touch a handful of sweat, respectfully took out the secret fold in the show, handed it over, and said: "The Hunan army has a small climate now!" The whole army was divided into army and naval divisions, with a total of more than 10,000 men.

Among them, the army has a total of 6,000 people, divided into 13 battalions, each battalion is generally 500 people, and is equipped with 200 people, less than 500 people are organized into small battalions, and the battalion is divided into sentinels, each post has 100 people, each team has 10 people, the army battalion officers have Taqib, Zhou Fengshan, Zeng Guobao, Zhu Sunyi and others, of which Taqib is the vanguard.

The naval division is divided into 5 main battalions and 5 deputy battalions in the front, rear, left, right, and middle, with more than 300 large and small ships, and battalion officers Yang Zaifu, Peng Yulin, Chu Ruhang and others. ”

Li Yunzhong listened to what he said in detail, and said with satisfaction: "You can listen to it in such detail, it proves that you have really worked hard, Zeng Guofan has sent troops recently?" ”

Zhao Laoqi said uncertainly: "According to the report from the spies, it seems that the Hunan army intends to send troops to Hubei, and I heard that it was the Qing demon Xianfeng who set a deadline for Zeng Guofan to relieve the siege of Hubei!" ”

Li Yunzhong frowned and reprimanded: "It seems? Heard? Can intelligence work use such words! In the future, we must find out clearly, and there are secret agents of our army in the Hunan army? ”

Thinking of the secret conversation planted in the Hunan army, Zhao Laoqi was embarrassed and complained to Li Yunzhong, "This is ...... Damn it! The Hunan army was different from ordinary armies in that their officers were personally selected by their superiors, who generally appointed their brothers, relatives, and friends as subordinates, and were never willing to promote strangers. ”

"That's not it?"

"It's not...... Weichen inserted more than 50 people into the Hunan army, but only 2 people were team officers. ”

"2 team officers? The rest of the people are creeps? ”

"It's not...... And "

Li Yunzhong breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the teacup, and asked, "I don't think there is hope for the battalion officers, how many sentry officers are there?" ”

Zhao Laoqi said with a sad face: "The rest of the people, only 15 are ordinary officers and soldiers, and the rest of them are all incorporated into the ranks of the people!" ”

"Poof...... Ahem...... cough cough ......" Li Yunzhong almost choked, and reprimanded angrily: "Bastard! You can't even get a sentinel with 100 people, what are you doing with so much money? ”

Seeing that Zhao Laoqi was still arguing, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go down first!" In the future, we should try to pay attention to the intelligence of the Hunan army! ”

Early the next morning, Li Yunzhong got up early because there were two meetings today, and he couldn't afford to be lazy! One is a five-day pilgrimage meeting, and the other is a monthly military meeting!

Speaking of the court meeting, we have to mention Li Yunzhong's lazy mentality, the court meeting formulated by Lu Jianying was completely modeled after the Qing court, and it was ordered at 5 o'clock in the morning every day, and it didn't end until 9 o'clock, and the generals who came out of Guangxi complained bitterly, Li Yunzhong vetoed it and changed it to a five-day day, starting at 7 o'clock in the morning and ending at 9 o'clock.

"The ministers pay homage to the King of Han, and may the King of Han be a thousand years old."

"The Prince's Family is Flat"

After greeting as usual, Li Yunzhong got straight to the point and said: "Now the battlefields of the Han Dynasty are in a state of stalemate, the Second Army has repeatedly attacked Xuzhou, and has retreated to the area of Shuyang, Haizhou, Anhui has not been completely pacified, the Third Army has to ask for reinforcements when attacking Jiangxi, and the first army of the First Army has lost the battle in Jiaxing last time!" What does this mean? It shows that the Han army is tired of offensive, and the Qing army is waiting for work, and the situation is worrying in the long run! ”

Chang Dachun immediately acted in accordance with yesterday's discussion, bowed down and said: "Your Royal Highness, Zhejiang is the important place of money and grain for the Qing army, if we gather heavy troops to attack, then we will go down in one fell swoop, then Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi will inevitably spread rumors, the enemy's army is in turmoil, and after the most reluctance, our army has the cooperation of the righteous troops of various provinces, and it is easy to occupy these provinces." ”

After Chang Dachun finished speaking, the Hunan officials calmly waited for the opposition of the Gui bosses, and repeatedly reminded themselves that they must not have a conflict with them.

Li Yunzhong saw that the needles in the court could be heard, and he also wanted to see what the few righteous brothers discussed yesterday! stopped making a sound and slowly sipped the tea.

For a while, only the tea bowls in the court made a crisp collision sound.

Lu Jianying saw that the officials of the Gui Department were smiling, but no one came out to object, and he was secretly funny, more than magnanimous! You big guys are far from it! Signaled the Hunan officials on the left and right to keep silent and wait quietly.

Meng Sheng saw that Li Yunzhong had drunk all the bowls of tea, so he didn't draw a conclusion, and said: "Your Highness, the minister also thinks that it is the best policy to concentrate troops to attack Zhejiang first. ”

Hu Yihuang said: "The minister seconded the proposal"

Li Xiucheng came out and said: "The minister seconded the proposal"

"Seconded by the Minister"

…………

Li Yunzhong said casually: "Since everyone has no objection, this matter is so decided!" ”

Lu Jianying was overjoyed when he saw that things were so smooth and settled, and he couldn't help but have extraneous branches, and said: "Please ask Your Highness to appoint the generals of the Southern Expedition!" ”

The Hunan officials were all smiling, as if they were the ones who were selected for the Southern Expedition.

Meng Shengsheng made up his mind to take the southern expedition marshal as a condition in exchange for the Hunan family, and immediately agreed to support the Han king as the emperor, and stepped forward and said: "Lord Lu, what is in a hurry!" Isn't there still a military meeting in the afternoon? The candidate for the commander of the Southern Expedition was still decided at the military meeting, so as not to leak it to the Qing Demon. ”

Hu Yihuang, Li Xiucheng, Ling Shiba, Lin Daji, Zhang Weikun and other members of the Gui family were all listed and supported in unison.

Li Yunzhong smiled coldly and said, "Okay, then let's talk about it at the military meeting." ”

Li Yunzhong wanted to see if the old brother who came out of Guangxi had changed, whether he only cared about the party struggle and ignored the interests of the country, and also wanted to know if anyone dared to oppose his authority!

Lu Jianying, Chang Dachun and others looked at each other, feeling that they were in the Gui department, most of their Hunan departments were composed of civilian officials, and countless military generals all followed Jiao Liang and others to go out on the expedition, only Zuo Zongtang served as the squire of the military department, and was qualified to attend the military meeting in the afternoon, and the Gui department was different, they were either governors or army commanders, Shangshu, and chief of staff.

These big bosses are very good at fighting, but I didn't expect to be so good at scheming, it seems that they were all underestimated before. Now we can only hope that His Royal Highness the King of Han can subdue them, and if they anger His Highness, it will be better.

According to the content of yesterday's discussion, whether Lu Jianying and others agreed or not, they could not oppose Zuo Zongtang's appointment as the governor of Zhejiang at the military meeting, and could only mix some sand into the candidates for the south.

However, Meng Sheng felt that this was not safe, and discussed with Zhang Suimou in the middle of the night. came up with a plan and said: "Your Highness, there have been a lot of places to use silver in the past few months, and the treasury is empty, so I am afraid it will not be enough to bear the cost of the southern expedition!" ”

Since the rebellion, Li Yunzhong has never asked the treasury, if he uses silver, he will give an order to Zhang Weikun and a few people, and naturally a lot of silver will be handed over, but I didn't expect that the silver is not enough now, "Does the household department have a way to enrich the treasury?" ”