Changsha, Hunan

When Zeng Guofan first arrived in Changsha, the township Yong was mainly trained by 1,000 people from Xiangxiang with him, and this summer it increased to 3,000 people in the 8th battalion, and the good times did not last long, Jiang Zhongyuan was awarded the post of Hubei according to the inspection envoy by the imperial court because of his repeated military exploits, and was transferred to Hubei to listen to it, Zhang Liangji acted as the governor of Huguang, Zeng Guofan's backers were all transferred out for a while, and his subordinates Zhu Sunyi, Luo Zenan, Wang Zhu, Li Xubin and others have found another way out, they do not believe that Zeng Guofan, a scholar who is not an official or a gentleman, can play well in Hunan officialdom. No one wants to be tied up with this regimental training minister in a hopeless situation.

Zeng Guofan decided to train the village warriors strictly, so that they had no time to think nonsense, so he chose Taqib, Yang Zaifu, and Peng Yulin in the green camp to train the village braves.

this day

Yang Zaifu, Taqibu, and Peng Yulin were busy all day and decided to sit together in a tavern on the street.

"Little Er, quickly serve a few good dishes to the uncle." Yang Zaifu shouted

"A few military masters, wait a while, the little ones will go to you to prepare immediately." Xiao Er hurriedly ran over, for fear that several officials would be dissatisfied and deliberately embarrassed.

Peng Yulin poured wine for Taqibu and Yang Zaifu, and said, "I heard that you are a big official in the Tuanlian Lord Baoju Zhiting, don't forget our brother when the time comes!" ”

Tazib drank a glass of wine and opened his heart and said, "Will you not understand? I am a person with the yellow flag, belonging to the three flags on the eight banners of Manchuria, if I serve in the army, do you say that the emperor will treat me as a supervisor of the army, and the regimental training adults can not see that they will do a lot of work! ”

The two next to them nodded in unison, the Manchu Qing Dynasty practice was to place a Manchu man next to the Han people who were commanding the army, and monitor the Han people for rebellion nearby.

Yang Zaifu sighed: "You and I are all officers of the Green Battalion, and we really have to train a bunch of hillbillies all day long, hey! ”

Taqib slapped the table and said angrily: "Why don't you want to follow the group training to make the adults do it!" Lao Tzu doesn't accept anyone, so he obeys Lord Zeng. You don't speak ill of Lao Tzu in front of him! ”

Peng Yulin hurriedly pulled Taqi and said: "I said Lao Ta, why are you always so impulsive, don't you know Brother Yang, he just complained that he didn't have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, how could he complain about Lord Zeng?" ”

Yang Zaifu knew that he had misunderstood Taqib, and explained: "Brother Xian, I didn't mean that, I'm grateful to Lord Zeng It's too late, how can I blame him, I'm angry that Green Camp is not angry, otherwise Lord Zeng wouldn't be with us all day long!" ”

Taqib sat down and said, "What can be done, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and the Admiral has nothing to do all day, the only thing he cares about is how much silver he has scraped today!" ”

This is Xiao Er brought a few dishes up, there are fish and chicken, Xiao Er put all the dishes on the table, and said: "A few military masters use it slowly, and the small ones are on call." ”

Yang Zaifu proposed, "Why don't we propose to the regimental training master and let the green battalion also train together, and then I am afraid that there will be no chance to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions?" ”

Taqibu smiled, raised a glass of wine and said to Yang Zaifu: "This method is good, come to Brother Yang, I will apologize to you, I misunderstood you just now." ”

"Everyone is a brother, what do you say to make amends! It's time to do it. Yang Zaifu raised his glass to Peng Yulin again

Peng Yulin said: "We are good brothers, don't forget to pull brothers when we go to the battlefield in the future"

Ha Lu Ha ......

Zeng Guofan listened to Yang Zaifu's suggestion and felt that it was feasible, so he unilaterally announced that the green camp of the Changsha Association would also go out to drill every day and train with Xiang Yong.

For many years, the soldiers of the green battalion have long adapted to a life of casual and untrained, and there is no one in the barracks in peacetime, and the soldiers all do their own small business, or gamble in the casino, and have a big addiction to smoking in the opium hall, who cares about what training, and the commander and the general soldier come to inspect at ordinary times, and each of them also hires a hooligan beggar to go to the order, holding a colorful flag and walking behind others, and the officials also turn a blind eye and do not expose it, everyone is messing around.

Now, Zeng Guofan, as an assistant minister of regimental training, actually proposed to train the green battalion soldiers with these rustic warriors from the countryside, which damaged the face of the soldiers, and went to Deqing, the deputy general of the Changsha Association, to complain.

Deqing also thought that Zeng Guofan's hand was stretched too long and violated the interests of others, so he immediately found Zeng Guofan and said: "Lord Zeng, you are just a minister of regimental training, why bother with the affairs of my green camp, wouldn't it be better for everyone to have no trouble with the well water and not the river water." ”

Zeng Guofan's face was red and his neck was thick by these words, and he pointed at Deqing and scolded: "You are still full of people, now that the country is in turmoil, you don't want to serve the country, and you still bewitch the soldiers to make trouble, you ...... You're a jerk! ”

It's rare to let Zeng Guofan, a great Confucian and physicist who has always pretended to be svenile, scold, but Deqing doesn't buy it, you nerd wants me to back down - no way, it's better than scolding, I don't think you're better than scolding.

Deqing said: "Fuck, you nerd knows a fart, Lao Tzu loves nurses, how can you be a fool who only tortures them all day long, who will work for you in the future." A series of expletives spat out of Deqing's mouth.

Zeng Guofan has never encountered this kind of Hun people, and the rough people he came into contact with are Peng Yulin, Yang Zaifu, Taqibu and a few of them, as long as he put the Confucian shelf and cordially condoled their father and mother a few words, they were grateful, and they couldn't wait to give him their lives.

Zeng Guofan, who was speechless, could only resort to the killer weapon of the civil official, threatening: "You wait, I will write a chapter to impeach you." ”

Deqing, who thought he had won a game, didn't take his words to heart and walked away.

Zeng Guofan is not joking with him, the chapter is written as he says, maybe Deqing has not yet arrived home, and the excerpt to impeach him for indulging the soldiers has already been handed to the post station.

It didn't take long, and after three days, the results came down.

Deqing didn't expect that he was just angry for his subordinates, but he lost his job, was dismissed and investigated, and hurried to Hunan Governor Bao Qibao to complain.

"Lord Admiral, you have to take care of it, isn't this surname Zeng breaking the rules of officialdom! You're going to call the shots for me! As soon as Deqing saw the admiral, he knelt on the ground and pleaded.

Bao Qibao didn't intend to swallow this breath, and helped Deqing to say: "You go back and encourage your subordinate soldiers to fight against those villagers, and if you cause trouble, I will solve it." ”

At the beginning of June, the green battalion soldiers stationed in Changsha and Zeng Guofan's subordinates had a serious bloody incident, the green battalion soldiers actually generously sounded the horn to attack the Yongying troops, don't look at the green battalion lazy nature, but the heroes can not stand the crowd, two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, after a while, Xiang Yong was beaten and fled in all directions, among which the green battalion identified as a traitor Taqib, Yang Zaifu, Peng Yulin is their key object of care.

Zeng Guofan looked at Yang Zaifu and others who came to complain, and was very angry, and decided to kill one or two green battalion soldiers, killing their arrogance, and immediately sent a message to Bao Qibao, the commander of the green battalion.

This really annoyed Bao Qibao, he decided to give Zeng Guofan the last blow, while tying up these green battalion soldiers and escorting them to Zeng Guofan's place of residence, he ordered his subordinates to go and rob people, add fuel to the fire, and see what this regimental training minister did.

A group of green battalions surrounded Zeng Fu angrily.

Deqing personally went into battle and encouraged the green battalion soldiers who were surrounding Zeng's mansion and said: "Brothers, the surname Zeng deliberately rectified us, and now he wants to kill our brothers, what do you say?" ”

These lawless Qiu Ba shouted one after another:

"Beat him up ......"

"Burned down his house"

"Carry him out and strip naked and walk the streets"

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Deqing thought that he had lost the 'golden rice bowl' by Zeng Guofan, and he was resentful, and said bewildermently: "Brothers, rush in, take whatever is valuable, and smash it if it is worthless."

After speaking, he rushed into Zeng's mansion 'first', followed by the green battalion soldiers who wanted to take revenge and make a fortune.

Zeng Guofan was embarrassed, so he had to send someone to the governor Luo Bingzhang for help, Luo Bingzhang, who was already living next door, had already noticed the movement here, and only came forward when he saw Zeng Guofan asking for help.

Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Hunan, also couldn't get used to Zeng Guofan, and especially coveted the thousands of townsmen in his hands, and recently hooked up with Wang Ju, promising to give Wang Ju a lot of benefits, so that he could leave Zeng Guofan and join him.

Luo Bingzhang led a few guards to Zeng's mansion, ignoring Zeng Guofan, who was trapped under the table, but personally untied a few green battalion soldiers, compensated them, promised not to hold anyone responsible today, let them disperse, and left directly after dealing with the green battalion soldiers who made trouble.

Within a few days, the news that the minister of regimental training was deflated spread all over the Changsha officialdom, and everyone was curious about what Zeng Guofan would do next.

Zeng Guofan has a resolute character, Changsha humiliation can not change his determination to train a strong army to repay the country's kindness, just when the Hengyang Hui Party uprising, he proposed to the governor Luo Bingzhang to go to Hengyang to station, leaving the rights and wrongs of Changsha officialdom, his decision is just in line with the principle of marginal effect, muffled to make a fortune.