October 12, Forbidden City, Chuxiu Palace. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The autumn light in the north is different, the ginkgo biloba leaves have already fallen, leaving only the bare ginkgo trunk in the air to cross the branches of the evacuation, because today's sunshine is excellent, Xiao Zhuzi put a few thrushes and starlings in the cage hanging under the porch to bask in the sun, the few black starlings shouted excitedly, with their mouths dipped in water, tilted their heads to comb their feathers, the two thrushes were not to be outdone, chattering and singing lively.

The emperor accompanied Yi Guifei in the West Warm Pavilion of Chuxiu Palace, Yi Guifei's belly was already very big at this time, wearing a loose cheongsam nest on the kang, although it was still the beginning of October, but Emperor Xianfeng was worried that Yi Guifei was afraid of cold, and he had already asked the Internal Affairs Office to burn the kang, and now this house is as warm as spring, and it is not cold at all.

Concubine Yi picked up a kumquat, put it in her mouth and ate it carefully, smiled and watched Emperor Xianfeng beat the beat, and listened to Yun Concubine sitting on the ground dancing with her hands flying, playing "Fishing Song Singing Night".

Before Yun Concubine finished playing a song, Ruyi, the most favored little eunuch in front of the emperor, hurriedly entered the Xinuan Pavilion of Chuxiu Palace with a stack of folds, knelt down and asked for peace, and gave the folds to Emperor Xianfeng, the emperor impatiently picked up the top one, Yun Concubine hurriedly stroked the zither with both hands, and the guzheng "hummed", and then stopped, and Concubine Yi also suppressed her smile and looked carefully at the expression on Emperor Xianfeng's face.

Emperor Xianfeng casually hit the top fold, his face changed, he became ecstatic, he couldn't help shouting, turned a few pages, his face became angry again, and he snorted coldly. Concubine Yi saw that the emperor's face was not ugly, so she smiled lightly and asked, "What's wrong with the emperor?" Is there anything wrong with the military situation in the south? ”

Emperor Xianfeng nodded, but shook his head again, Concubine Yi wondered in her heart, this is shaking her head and nodding again, what does it mean? The emperor raised his eyes and saw that Concubine Yi was confused by himself, so he smiled dumbly, and handed the fold to Concubine Yi, "Look at it, the situation in the south is not good, it can't be considered bad, and it has won some battles; It's good, but I can't say it, at least northern Jiangxi and southern Anhui have fallen, so I really don't know whether to laugh or be annoyed. ”

Concubine Yi took the fold and looked at it, Zeng Guofan was defeated and then won in Jishui County, Jiangxi, and killed more than 1,000 rebellions, Zeng Guoquan also killed a commander of the Taiping Army with his own hands, and now he is deadlocked on the line of Jishui Qingjiang; Li Hongzhang of Anhui went out of the city to fight head-on with the rebellion, and swept away the rebel cavalry with the musket team, but he won first and then defeated, defeated by the swarming Taiping infantry, defeated back to Luzhou Mansion, and held Luzhou Mansion, but the Taiping Army did not capture Luzhou Mansion, one south and one north, all of which were entangled by the Qing army.

Concubine Yi put down her fold and said to the emperor with a happy smile: "Your Majesty, the concubine thinks you should be happy." ”

"Oh, what can Concubine Yi say to make me happy?" Emperor Xianfeng asked with interest.

"Spontaneously rebelled on the river outside Wuchang City and suffered a big loss, down the river to the east, hundreds of miles, there was no enemy in a war, and now watching the monk king on the north bank of the Yellow River to annihilate Li Kaifang's department, now Li Kaifang's head is still hanging at the mouth of the vegetable market, and in Henan tightly bites Lin Fengxiang, as long as there is no reinforcement to the north, the so-called Northern Expedition of this guy will be wiped out, just around the corner; Now that Anhui is stuck to the reinforcements going north by Li Hongzhang, and there is Zeng Guofan in Jiangxi who is entangled in rebellion and does not let go around, for the disaster of Jiangxi Province, the emperor, what does this mean? Concubine Yi put down the fold in her hand, "This shows that our military spirit is up, in addition to being able to defend the city, we also dare to go out of the city to provoke and fight!" Not only dare to fight, but also kill some rebels, the harvest of these more than 1,000 people can be called a big victory! Emperor Xianfeng nodded again and again, "According to the strategy set before, as long as we work hard to reduce the rebel army, our hope of winning the victory in the end will be bigger and bigger, and the gains and losses of some cities are irrelevant, so why should the emperor care about it." ”

"What you said is very true, but I am a little stingy, and I am not happy when I see some places being invaded by rebellion." Emperor Xianfeng smiled dumbly and shook his head.

"The emperor is compassionate, worried about the army and people in the south, as long as Gannan and Luzhou Anqing are held, the monk solves Lin Fengxiang in Henan, and goes south in victory, or goes east to exterminate the twist army, it is extremely convenient, not to mention that there are two big camps in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, it can't be eaten and not worked, right?"

"Extremely, as long as the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps make some small moves under the noses of Hong Yang's traitors, Jiangning will be in a hurry, and if you want to dump the nest, you have to think about the consequences of the nest being taken away!" Emperor Xianfeng was full of interest, and hurriedly asked Xiao Anzi to bring up the map, and opened it to watch the situation in the southeast carefully.

"Exactly, Your Majesty, Sister Yun is still here, why don't you ask Sister Yun to play a song "Ambush on All Sides" to cheer up the emperor and strengthen the power of the Son of Heaven?" Concubine Yi watched Concubine Yun sitting on the ground bored, thought about it for a while, and said to the emperor with a smile.

The emperor raised his head, very satisfied with the layout of his southeast, looked at Yun Concubine nodded, and said with a smile: "Yun Concubine is in a hurry, it is most appropriate to play these sonorous tunes, Yun Concubine, can you play it?" ”

Yun Concubine responded, closed her eyes and pondered carefully for a while The artistic conception in the ambush song on all sides, opened her eyes, flicked her hands, and the sound of killing flowed out from under her fingers.

Accompanied by the sound of the piano, Concubine Yi didn't care that the sound of the piano drove her heart to beat faster and faster, and continued: "However, Your Majesty, don't blame the concubines for pouring cold water on you, at this moment, the situation in the south is still very unoptimistic, and it is estimated that there are still some tough battles to be fought." ”

"Lan'er, the regimental training you proposed to establish is now very useful, Jiang Zhongyuan, Li Hongzhang, and Zeng Guofan led the regiment to practice the township to fight against the traitors, and everything they did was remarkable. Tell me about it. Emperor Xianfeng said.

"The concubine said, judging from the report in the south, the cavalry and musketeers are extremely important, the concubine thinks that if the cavalry is used effectively, in addition to the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, all parts of the world can be killed in the past, the Mongolian cavalry of the monk king, the cavalry of Zeng Guofan, are not enough, the emperor has to think about how to train the cavalry more is enough!" If the cavalry is used properly, it can completely abuse the infantry, and the cavalry of the Tsarist era defeated the modern musket team of Napoleon who invaded Russia, and Napoleon's 500,000 army was killed by the Cossack cavalry with machetes with braids and basically tens of thousands. In the Battle of the Black Sea in the Crimea, the Cossack cavalry caused the British and French to lose a lot of troops, and the Red Cross Society was born.

"Also, the concubine looked at Li Hongzhang's recital, saying that the musket team was not very complete in training, and the firing time was not in place, and there was a time when thousands of arrows were fired, wasting gunpowder, and sometimes there was no shot, which made the rebellious infantry take advantage, if you can train the musket team well, face the enemy head-on, and then use the cavalry to cover the past, why worry about the rebellion!"

Emperor Xianfeng looked at Concubine Yi who was talking eloquently, his expression was a little dazed, this Concubine Yi's vision was many times higher than those ministers outside! Is it a blessing to the country? Emperor Xianfeng put this inexplicable problem behind him for the time being. "What about you?"

"The concubines don't understand the cavalry, so they don't talk nonsense, but the matter of foreign guns, the concubines remembered a sentence, that is, don't bother the two masters, you still have to find foreigners, find Yingyi, or Fayi, and invite the best musket and the best musket instructor at any expense, and tell them to practice well!" This is also the rise of the Huai army in the Tongzhi period in the future, Li Hongzhang built the classic routine of the Huai army, please teach and learn, and a full complement of foreign muskets and artillery, this is to make Li Hongzhang famous, proud of the capital of the Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties, and the successor of the Huai army, Yuan Shikai, also relied on these reformed military forces, held great power, and usurped the fruits of the victory of the republic before the revolutionaries and the Manchu government.

"Huh? But I'm afraid these Xiyi won't help us wholeheartedly, listening to Su Shun, these rebels and foreigners all believe in God's religion. Emperor Xianfeng voiced his concerns.

"Between countries, there are only eternal interests, there is no eternal friendship," Yi Guifei said the normative words of later generations to talk about the essence of international relations, Emperor Xianfeng was not shocked by Yi Guifei's words and the tiger body was a star of worship, "Shanghai and Jiangning are foreigners in our Qing Dynasty, Emperor, think about it, get along every day, can you have some suspicions?" What's more, as long as we can make a lot of money, foreigners will not be tempted, but foreigners are not polite and shameful, and if they can make money there, they will go there. ”

"What Concubine Yi said is very much, then I will let them hire foreigners by themselves, and buy muskets and artillery by themselves, I just have to pay, I am impatient to look at those blue-eyed and yellow-haired foreign ghosts."

"Emperor Shengming," Concubine Yi patted her ass slightly, "and if we use foreigners' guns, there will be an unexpected benefit." ”

"What's the benefit?" Emperor Xianfeng asked Guifei Yi curiously.

"As long as the foreigner's guns are brought back, and the master of the craftsman battalion dismantles a few, the concubine believes that when the time comes, no matter how many years, we can imitate it ourselves, and the foreigners bully us by relying on the ship's strong guns, the emperor said, we have learned the foreigners' musketeer training strategy, plus we will imitate the guns, and when the time comes, let those people understand a word!" This is the technology that the Chinese are best at - copycats! In the future, the republic relied on copycats to fight its way out of the encirclement of foreign powers, and became the world's second largest economy, and the boss of the nuclear club, and a hundred years of blood and tears came to an end.

"What?"

"In the way of others, they should be treated as they are! Daoguang Ye's revenge, we will come back sooner or later! Yun Concubine's zither sound became more and more intense and high, Chuxiu Palace seemed to have become a huge battlefield, Chu and Han heroes were fighting inside, Xiang Yu sang the song of Wu Qi sadly and angrily, holding Yu Ji's corpse and fighting left and right to break through, the sound of the zither was agitated, and it seemed to make a wonderful musical footnote for Yi Guifei's foresight.