35. Steamship Crossing (2)
Zeng Zuo and the two were fellow villagers in Hunan, and when Zeng Guofan ran the Hunan Army in Hunan, he had a relationship with Zuo Zongtang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Zeng Guofan later developed in the field of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, supervising two rivers and leading four provinces, and his staff was full of talents. The huge difference in personality makes the two superficially harmonious and full of contradictions in private. Zeng Guofan pays attention to personal cultivation and is a physicist, and it goes without saying that he is very "faced" everywhere. And Zuo Zongtang's personality is upright and decisive, impassioned, with a clear distinction between right and wrong, and evil like hatred. Zuo likes to cut the mess with a quick knife, and once liked to work slowly and carefully, so the two often have the gong and drum and the board do not fit. Zuo Zongtang went to Beijing many times to catch the exam but failed to get the first, so he has always been very sensitive, and the slightest neglect or excessive humility can cause a fierce reaction, and his words are spicy and even vicious. Once Zeng Guofan used polite words such as "right leaning" in a letter to Zuo Zongtang out of humility, Zuo Zongtang was very unhappy and said: "He wrote 'right leaning', do you want me to 'lean left'!" Zeng Guofan once made a joke about Zuo Zongtang: "Ji Zi dares to speak high, and his opinions are very different." "Zuo Zongtang's surname (left) and word (Ji Gao) are embedded in it, which is harmonious and harmonious, both pertinent and meaningful, slightly unpolished, and natural. Zuo Zongtang couldn't stand this "evil supplement", and even became a little annoyed and angry, so he decided to bully the other party in momentum, so he punched a fierce punch: "The vassal vassals misled the country and asked him what the economy was?" The surname (Zeng) and first name (Guofan) of Zeng Guofan are also embedded in the beginning and end. The combination of the two words is just a pair of absolutes. Although it is neat, the words are vicious. As the days go by, the suspicion grows.
If these are all daily small contradictions, then after Tianjing City was conquered, the two of them fought a pen and ink lawsuit against the court on the question of whether Hong Xiuquan's successor, the young lord Hong Tianguifu, was dead, which was the root cause of the great contradiction between the two.
After the capture of Tianjing, Zeng Guofan listened to what the believers said, and believed that Hong Xiuquan's son Hong Tianguifu had died in the chaos, and the Jiangnan bandit flame would be extinguished, so he reported to the imperial court to recover Jinling, and all the thieves were wiped out, and specifically pointed out that after the city was broken, the puppet young lord accumulated his salary in the palace and set himself on fire.
I don't want Zuo Zongtang to also make a secret fold, saying that according to the confession of the refugees who escaped from Jinling, the puppet young lord Hong Tianguifu fled from Dongba to Guangde on June 21 in Tongzhi, and was welcomed into the capital city of Huzhou by Huang Wenjin, the general of the Taiping Army, and wanted to use the name of the puppet young lord to gather the remnants of the Taiping army. After the Qing government saw Zuo Zongtang's report, it was very dissatisfied with Zeng Guofan. Zeng Guofan thought that he was based on honesty in his life, and if he followed what Zuo Zongtang said, it would be tantamount to bullying the king. So Zeng Guofan refuted Zuo Zongtang, saying that Hong Tianguifu may be dead and Huang Wenjin pretended to be still alive in order to entangle the remnants of the Taiping army, which is a common thing in ancient times. The implication is that Zuo Zongtang is bluffing, and he is suspected of inviting merit and rewarding. After Zuo Zongtang saw this performance, he defended himself, said thousands of words, and was angry, accusing Zeng Guofan of being a bully. Now things are going to be big, so the two of them have been going back and forth for a while, and there is a big war of words, even if the young king and Li Xiucheng join Li Hongzhang's army in the end, it can't change the fact that the two have torn their faces. So far, the relationship between Zeng Zuo and the two has completely broken down, and more than ten years of friendship have been in vain.
Thinking of these things, Master Li nodded again and again, and thought deeply of Mu Yang'a's words, and then changed the topic, "The will is vague, and Dong Weng is ordered to go to Beijing to report on his work, only to explain the Ningbo trade ministry, and I don't know what position to arrange for Dong Weng. ā
Mu Yang laughed, quite complacent, "I feel that I have enough to be a household secretary, but who called our resume ugly, but it is just a military preparation road, a Taoist, a prefect, and a five-mouth minister of commerce, if this book is a part, then it is naturally the queen mother's pity and blue eyes, if not, I am not afraid, I look at the queen mother, as long as you do a good job, it will be of great use, not afraid of not having a good position, six departments and nine qing can go anywhere!" Besides, with the face of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, the Empress Dowager and her old people also like to use people close to her, have you seen Wu Yundi? That's it! ā
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"The British and French warships have finally arrived!" The Empress Dowager Cixi was very excited with the fold, and said to Tang Wufu, "Call, you don't have to wait until the afternoon, just say that you want to prepare for the water division!" ā
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Whether it is rented or bought, in short, China's first fleet in the military sense will begin to be formed immediately, the Queen Mother was excited, turned her head to see Wu Yundi still standing on the ground, and couldn't help laughing, "How about it, General Wu Yundi, do you want to be a commander in the newly built naval division?" On the horse, I don't know if it is a dragon in the sea or a chicken in the soup when I get in the water? (To be continued.) )
PS: Mom, where's the monthly pass?