Just as the Shence army was rushing to Hefei, Monk Greenqin had already received an edict from Emperor Xianfeng, a clear edict and a secret edict.

The two edicts made Seng Greenqin happy and worried, happy that he could finally show his ambitions and lead the army to fight against the Taiping army.

He has always had a wish, that is, he wants others to see that this person who can deal with the Taiping Army, in addition to Zeng Guofan, there is also his monk Lingqin, this time, the opportunity has finally come.

And what he is worried about is that the emperor's attitude towards Zeng Guofan began to waver again, and it was not easy for him to persuade Xianfeng to make up his mind to punish Zeng Guofan, but just because of such an accident, this matter may be in vain again, and the next time he wants to meet such an opportunity, he doesn't know that he will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey Ma Yue, he is really unwilling.

To be honest, at such a critical juncture, he is also in favor of using Zeng Guofan, but if the crisis is lifted, he still hopes to take advantage of the situation to bring down Zeng Guofan, because Zeng Guofan's existence in this world is originally a threat to the Qing Dynasty. And Xianfeng's edict made Seng Lingqin feel that Zeng Guofan had the possibility of turning over the salted fish, how could the iron hat king not be worried.

Although Monk Lingqin has a lot of ideas in his heart, considering the current situation, he still needs to focus on the overall situation, and what is the overall situation, the overall situation is naturally to repel the Taiping army, and other things can be talked about later. He sighed lightly, made up his mind, and decided to take over the position of coach first.

He plans to convene the generals on the front line tomorrow to meet with him, read out the emperor's edict, announce the decision of the imperial court, and use this to understand the thoughts of the generals, he knows that for the Hunan army, he is an outsider after all, if he wants to integrate the hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line in the short term, this is not an easy task, but this matter cannot be delayed, it is difficult to do, and he must also deal with this matter, and he must not make a mistake.

In addition to these headaches, it is not without good news, the 200,000 Shence army is about to arrive, which can be regarded as a forced injection for the Hefei defenders who are in a bad situation. The Shence Army can be regarded as the emperor's personal guard, and Deng Dinggong, one of the leading generals, can be regarded as his cronies.

After thinking about it, Monk Greenqin carefully and repeatedly scrutinized each of these joints in order to achieve perfection.

"Lord Wang, Lord Li is here." Just as Monk Grinqin racked his brains to calculate these problems, suddenly a close attendant came in to report.

"Master Li? Which Master Lee?" Monk Grinqin said unhappily.

"Lord Wang, Li Hongzhang, the military advisor under Lord Zeng Guofan, Lord Li." Seeing that Monk Greenqin's face was displeased, the attendant said cautiously.

"Li Hongzhang? What is he doing at this time?" Monk Grinqin muttered quietly.

"The slave went to tell him that the prince was asleep and asked him to come back another day." Seeing that the monk Grinqin seemed to have the meaning of refusal, so he flattered the authentic.

"Hmm." Monk Greenqin snorted, which was regarded as an answer.

The close attendant got the order, and turned around to refuse Li Hongzhang.

"Wait." Just as the attendant turned around, Monk Greenqin changed his mind again.

Hearing Monk Greenqin's voice, the attendant immediately turned his head, stood in front of him respectfully again, lowered his head, and prepared to listen to the prince's instructions.

"Let's meet him, and take him to the drawing-room and wait, where the king will meet him." Monk Grinqin commanded.

"Yes, Lord Wang." After the servant finished speaking, he went to make arrangements.

After a while, Monk Lingqin met Li Hongzhang in the living room.

After the necessary etiquette, Zeng Guofan asked straight to the point about the purpose of Li Hongzhang's visit.

"Strategist, it's not early, why are you in such a hurry to find this king?" Monk Greenqin asked directly.

If it is a caring person, he will definitely pay attention to a small detail, that is, Monk Greenqin called the word military division too affectionately, you know, only the Hunan army itself will call Li Hongzhang like this, and other outsiders are generally called Master Li. It seems that Seng Lingqin intends to get closer to Li Hongzhang so that he can smoothly lead the Hunan army at the front, because he knows Li Hongzhang's position in the Hunan army very well in his heart.

"Lord, the lower official has an important matter, and he has to report it to the prince, if there is any rudeness, please forgive the prince." Li Hongzhang said humbly.

"What's so important, it's okay for the military advisor to talk about it." Monk Lingqin pretended not to mind.

"Xiaguan got the latest news, Zeng Dashuai has been captured by the Taiping Army." Li Hongzhang is not shocked to die.

"What, what did you say, alive? You said that Zeng Guofan was captured alive, is this news true, and where did you hear it?" Monk Lingqin asked a lot of questions in a row, which showed how shocked he was when he heard this.

Yes, no matter who hears such news, how can they be indifferent, the dignified commander of the Qing Dynasty was captured by the enemy, what a shameful thing, where is the face of the Qing Dynasty, and where is the majesty of the Qing Dynasty.

If Zeng Guofan was only killed or committed suicide to martyrdom, it would not be all a bad thing for the Qing court, and the court could take this as an opportunity to launch a public opinion offensive to build Zeng Guofan into a loyal and unyielding patriotic hero, so as to achieve the purpose of boosting the morale of the military and the people of the country, but he was captured alive, if this matter spreads, the prestige of the Qing Dynasty will definitely be swept away, and if it is not good, it will even shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, and Monk Greenqin does not dare to think about it anymore.

Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan, you really deserve to die, Monk Greenqin was filled with grief and indignation in his heart.

Li Hongzhang had already expected that Seng Lingqin would behave like this, so he didn't think it was strange, but what was incomprehensible was that Li Hongzhang, who had always wanted to cover up the truth about Zeng Guofan's capture, suddenly wanted to say this at this time? This is a bit unusual, and there must be a reason for that.

It turned out that the day before Seng Lingqin received the edict, Li Hongzhang also received a private secret letter from Prince Gong, in which Prince Gong explained the general situation to him and asked him to do everything possible to find Zeng Guofan as soon as possible.

After Li Hongzhang learned from the letter that Monk Greenqin would be appointed as the interim commander, he already understood that paper could not contain the fire, and they originally planned to coax Monk Greenqin away, and then find a way to rescue Zeng Guofan's Jihua It would not work, because once Monk Greenqin became the commander, the capture of Zeng Guofan would come to the surface sooner or later, and at that time, not only would there be no way to rescue Zeng Guofan, but they would also commit unforgivable felonies, which harmed both Zeng Guofan and themselves, so he thought about it again and again, I decided to confess to Seng Lingqin, but the confession also requires a certain skill, that is, it must be justified.

"We also confirmed the news that Zeng Dashuai was captured by the Taiping Army today, and this news was sent to us by a dead soldier we arranged in the Taiping military camp to fight for his life, as for how the Taiping Army captured Dashuai, it is unknown." This passage of Li Hongzhang can be regarded as a reply to a series of questions from Monk Greenqin.

Although Li Hongzhang was prevaricating the monk Greenqin, when it came to Zeng Guofan's capture, he couldn't help but be a little gloomy.

"What should I do?" Monk Grinqin didn't expect this to change so quickly.

Zeng Guofan's capture complicated many things, and the things that were still under their control were now beyond their capabilities, and Monk Lingqin didn't know what to do.

"Lord Wang, the lower officials think that we still have to find a way to rescue the handsome first." Of course, Li Hongzhang will not give up the opportunity to rescue Zeng Guofan.

"Of course, we must save, but how we should save, now we don't know what the situation is, and we can't find a way to deal with it." Monk Grinqin is a belly of fire.

"Please also ask the prince to be the master of our handsome." It seems that Li Hongzhang is entangled with the monk Greenqin.

Yes, after Li Hongzhang knew that Monk Greenqin was going to take the position of acting coach, he was shocked at the same time, but he was a little lucky, because he could finally transfer this huge pressure to Monk Greenqin's head, and asked Monk Greenqin to find a way to save Zeng Guofan, who made him the boss, it is really so-called, blessings and misfortunes are relied on, and disasters and blessings are relied on, it seems that Monk Greenqin came to be the coach, for Li Hongzhang and them, it does not mean that it is all bad.

"What do the Taiping Army want?" Monk Grinqin asked.

"No news has come yet." Li Hongzhang said.

This is the truth, after the Taiping army retreated twenty miles, there was no movement, and Li Hongzhang didn't know what they were playing.

"This is strange, what is the reason for tying up people but not mentioning conditions?" Monk Grinqin couldn't figure it out.

"Lord Wang, do you think we should take the initiative to ask?" Li Hongzhang suggested with the appearance of a loyal subordinate.

"This, this, let's discuss it later, let this king think about it first." Monk Greenqin enjoyed Li Hongzhang talking to him like this.

It seems that this Li Hongzhang is very good, and he must be reused in the future, Monk Greenqin thought to himself.

"Then there is Lord Lao." Li Hongzhang thanks.

"No, it's all his own business, and this king can't ignore it." Monk Greenqin is righteous.

The attitude is impeccable, but I just don't know whether what Seng Lingqin said is true or false, which makes people doubtful

"Then the lower official will not disturb the prince's rest, and retire first." After the matter is done, Li Hongzhang will naturally run as fast as he can, so as not to ask questions and ask questions.

"Oh, by the way, Strategist, there's something that might trouble Strategist." Monk Greenqin said politely.

"Lord, please command." Li Hongzhang bowed and said.

"Early tomorrow morning, please ask the military advisor to gather all the generals, and this king will read the emperor's holy decree." Monk Greenqin Road.

"Yes, please rest assured, the lower officials will definitely handle this matter." Li Hongzhang assured.

"Alright, there you go." Monk Greenqin sent off the guests with a smile on his face.

Monk Greenqin did not let his close attendants send Li Hongzhang this time, but sent it himself, he had to win over this think tank of the Hunan army, because the integration of the Hunan army would depend on him later.

After Li Hongzhang left, the monk Lingqin was sleepy, he wrote the chapter as soon as possible, and sent someone to send it to the capital overnight, he wanted to let Xianfeng know about Zeng Guofan's capture as soon as possible, this matter is very important.

He suggested in the recital that if the Qing Dynasty was sure that it could successfully rescue Zeng Guofan, everything would be easy to say, but if there was no way to save Zeng Guofan, then it was necessary to kill him at all costs, first, to prevent him from being used by the Taiping army, and second, to prevent the Taiping army from making a big fuss about it and a situation beyond the control of the Qing court.

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