Since the establishment of the cabinet, Li Yunzhong has obviously been idle, Hu Yihuang, Lu Jianying, Meng Shengsheng, and Chang Dachun have to go to Wenyuan Pavilion every day to deal with political affairs and share the pressure on Li Yunzhong, and Li Yunzhong will often go to Wenyuan Pavilion to discuss with them and decide on military affairs, so that they can feel valued, otherwise who will be willing to enter the cabinet to govern in the future.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor of Jiangxi, Zhao Liewen's recital, please take a look at the emperor." Lu Jianying has already developed a habit of handing over the twists and turns of military aircraft and warfare to the emperor.

Li Yunzhong took the fold and looked at it.

The Hubei Taiping army was defeated and retreated, the eastern, southern, and northern regions were all lost, Wuchang was surrounded, and Hu Linyi did not rush to attack, but led the army to attack Hanchuan in the west, and it seemed that he intended to isolate Wuchang.

After watching the twists and turns, Li Yunzhong sighed: "I didn't expect the battle in Hubei to be so fierce, the Taiping army captured Wuhan twice, but it was broken by the Qing army, but fortunately, the Han army did not participate in the battle. ”

Hu Yihuang put down the fold in his hand and said thoughtfully: "During his tenure in Anhui, Weichen carefully analyzed the Hunan army established by Zeng Guofan, the foundation of the Hunan army is in Hunan, Zeng Guofan has been repeatedly defeated and lost soldiers, and he can quickly recover his vitality, this is the result of the inexhaustible support of the Hunan people, the Taiping army is dull, and the decisive battle with the Hunan army in Hubei, although it can gain a temporary advantage, it will eventually be defeated by the more and more powerful Hunan army. ”

Li Yunzhong agreed: "The Hunan army is getting stronger and stronger the more defeated, and the Tianping army is getting weaker and weaker. ”

Lu Jianying also heard the key point and asked, "Then why didn't Hong Yang give the order to attack Hunan?" Instead, he sent troops to capture Hubei, which is not a sacrifice! ”

Li Yunzhong thought of Yang Xiuqing's personality. laughed: "The first battle in Changsha back then really scared them." Moreover, last year, the Taiping army was defeated in Hunan, losing tens of thousands of people. ”

Chang Dachun's face was solemn: "Weichen is from Hunan. The emperor wants to attack Hunan, and needs to march on three sides, the first route is Yueyang to capture Xiangxiang and besiege Changsha, the second route is to march to Jiangxi to capture Xiangtan and converge with the first road, and the third route is to enter Hunan from Guangxi and cut off the retreat of the Hunan army. In this way, the Hunan army will inevitably panic, and the emperor will take the opportunity to surrender and rebel, and Zeng Guofan can only be killed. ”

Li Yunzhong nodded: "Not bad!" Attacking Hunan must be killed with one blow, otherwise there will be endless troubles! Zeng Guofan was resolute and resolute, and he was able to persist in desperate situations several times, and there was no shortage of brave and resourceful figures under his command, he was not an ordinary civil general. ”

Lu Jianying said: "Your Majesty, when Weichen was an official in the Qing court. There are many student subordinates, and Wechen is willing to write a letter to summon them to join the Han! ”

Lu Jianying thought about this matter for several months, and at first, he was ashamed to write a letter. That would destroy his image among the students, and later Li Yunzhong became emperor, and the Han became stronger and stronger. Lu Jianying's mind changed again, and for the first time, he felt that his decision to surrender to Han was extremely correct. It can not only drive out the Tartars, but also restore the clothes of the Han family. can save his life and continue to be an official, and now he Lu Jianying is the prime minister, which is a coveted position in the Qing Dynasty.

Li Yunzhong asked meaningfully: "Aiqing has really decided?" ”

Lu Jianying's old face flushed, and replied: "Since Weichen is the official of the Han Dynasty, he must serve the Han wholeheartedly, in the past, Weichen was worried that the Han was weak, and the students refused to come to serve, but now the Han Dynasty has conquered the city, the territory has been expanded again and again, and the situation of unifying the world has gradually become clear, and people of insight are vying to vote, and I am also for their good, so as not to be an official in the Qing Dynasty and be captured by the emperor." ”

Chang Dachun also added willingly: "Weichen is also willing to write to relatives and friends, asking them to serve the Han Dynasty, and ask the emperor to bring their families to Nanjing, so that they have no worries." ”

Li Yunzhong said excitedly: "Quasi! ”

Meng Sheng looked at Lu Jianying and Chang Dachun with a look of resignation, thinking of the consequences of publicizing their surrender, maybe they were ruined and had no desire to gloat.

Hu Yihuang saw another copy of Fujian's recital, opened it and read it, and reported to Li Yunzhongyu: "Your Majesty, Zuo Zongtang from Fujian has come to report that there are hundreds of thousands of Tiandihui parties in Guangdong and Guangxi who have contacted him to seek an official position in the Han Dynasty, and Zuo Zongtang doesn't know how to deal with it, so please make a decision." ”

Li Yunzhong instructed: "The general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, since Zuo Zongtang is the general of the expedition to the south, these matters will be handled by him, and there is no need to report to Nanjing for instructions, in case of delaying the military situation on the front line, the gains outweigh the losses." ”

Hu Yihuang nodded yes, and immediately commented on the fold.

Li Yunzhong looked at the bills reported by the household department and reprimanded: "What kind of bills are the household departments doing, it's messy, I don't know what to say!" ”

Meng Sheng hurriedly put down the affairs at hand and asked for sin: "Weichen is guilty, please forgive the emperor, the household department is desperately short of manpower, and it is really impossible to calculate the annual tax." ”

Li Yunzhong looked at the traditional Chinese characters on it, ugly and unrecognizable, without a single Arabic numerals, and ordered: "The household department immediately allocated 30,000 taels of silver to establish a technical academy to teach students the knowledge of arithmetic. ”

Meng ascended and said: "Weichen takes orders"

Chang Dachun browsed a notebook, smiled, got up to present it, and said, "Congratulations to the emperor, Luzhou victory!" ”

Li Yunzhong happily took the fold, looked at it seriously, and smiled: "I didn't expect Jiang Zhongyuan to be so unwise, the small soldiers in Luzhou City are weak, he dared to lead only 500 people to stay in Luzhou, and was forced by our army to commit suicide by jumping into the river...... finally avenged Mr. Feng. ”

Hu Yihuang said: "Jiang Zhongyuan's troops are all brave, except for the 2,000 people who stayed in Nanchang, the rest were all annihilated by our army, and the Qing army lost a good general, and the recovery of the whole territory of Anhui is just around the corner!" ”

Li Yunzhong said to Mengsheng: "This year, the people have been displaced by the drought in northern Anhui, and the household department must prepare enough grain to be transported to Anhui to appease the people. ”

Meng Sheng said: "Please rest assured, the merchant has purchased a lot of grain in Nanyang this year, all of which have been purchased by the household department, and the household department can cope with the drought in northern Anhui." ”

Since our army has captured Fujian, we have ordered the merchants to transport the purchased grain to Fujian, and the household department will send special personnel to manage it, and then it will be transported from Fujian to various places. ”

Hu Yihuang praised: "This plan is very good, the most important cost for businessmen, and shipping to Fujian can save time and cost." ”

It's ridiculous! Chang Dachun couldn't help but sigh when he saw that Hu Yihuang was a businessman as a prime minister, and said to the emperor: "Weichen advises His Majesty to guard against businessmen, businessmen value profit over righteousness, often take care of selfish interests and ignore national law, use the key points in troubled times, the law of the Han Dynasty is tolerant, and the merchants are treated preferentially, which has not been done in all dynasties." ”

Lu Jianying also followed and admonished: "The Han Dynasty has three evils, one is a businessman, the second is a foreigner, and the third is the Qing Kingdom, please ask the emperor to restrict the behavior of businessmen, so as not to get carried away." ”

Hu Yihuang also felt that the status of merchants in the Han Dynasty was too high, and persuaded him: "Merchants are far away from their hometowns just to get money, the emperor encourages business, the common people are ten rooms and nine empty, the fields are not cultivated, the wheat and rice in the fields are not collected, the foundation of the Han Dynasty is unstable, the society is shaken, and the merchants do many illegal things, small merchants bribe officials, and the rich keep slaves privately, this trend cannot be long." ”

Meng Sheng saw that Li Yunzhong's face was not as gloomy as he expected, and echoed: "The emperor thinks twice, businessmen act without scruples, rampant and unreasonable, many local officials are controlled by them, businessmen dare not accept violations of the law, but shirk each other and postpone, and the common people have a lot of suffering. ”

Li Yunzhong remembered Marx's famous words: When capital has 20 percent of its profits, it will become active, if it has 50 percent of its profits, it will take risks, if it has 100 percent of its profits, it will dare to trample on all laws, and if it has 300 percent of its profits, it will dare to risk hanging its head.

I just want to cultivate the strength of the Chinese bourgeoisie, how can there be so much resistance, except for the businessmen, no one is in favor, Li Yunzhong was depressed, decided to temporarily back down, cheered up:

"What several Aiqing said is reasonable, businessmen are suddenly active, but they can't distinguish their status, and they ordered several representatives of the Criminal Department, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites and the Chamber of Commerce to jointly formulate a law, this law is specially designed for businessmen, no bias, and no deliberate suppression of businessmen, just to regulate the behavior of businessmen, than they are a Confucian businessman! Holding the Analects in one hand and an abacus in the other. ”

Listening to the emperor with a Confucian character, Lu Jianying was quite excited, feeling that it was the effect of his own advice, it was really easy to be an official in this Han Dynasty, no need to kneel down, no need to worry about being killed and dismissed, holding on to his three-inch beard and saying with a smile: "The emperor is wise, the son of a Confucian merchant is the essence of business, and this abacus and a discourse are even more exquisite." ”

Meng Sheng asked, "It's just that this is the law-making, why should the merchants be involved, and if they are messing around, how should we deal with it?" ”

Is a businessman really that powerful? Li Yunzhong asked: "You are an official, he is a citizen, and businessmen dare to mess around!" ”

Chang Dachun said with an indignant face: "These profiteers rely on the backstage support, don't take the government in their eyes, steal and play tricks, and repeatedly do some things like stealing chickens and dogs. ”

Li Yunzhong was very surprised and asked: "What kind of backstage is so hard, can you not put the official government in your eyes, even if it is the emperor's relatives, you don't dare to do this!" ”

Meng Sheng, Lu Jianying and the others all looked at Li Yunzhong in surprise, isn't the backstage of this businessman the current emperor!

Li Yunzhong looked at their strange eyes, only then did he understand, and said with a sneer: "This businessman is also beneficial to the country, although the Westerners are mercenary, do not know what shame is, but the industry is developed, the national strength is strong, our Han no longer think of change, sooner or later become their prey, as the saying goes: backward feet will be beaten, foreigners will not reason with me, will only pounce fiercely, loot the people's fat and people's cream." (To be continued......)

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