"Why can't these Vietnamese hold on for three days?" Zuo Zongtang splashed ink in his duty room, and when he heard the news from Jiang Zhongyuan on the side, he couldn't help but shake his head, finished writing a pair of words, and was a little dissatisfied, he crumpled it and put it aside, the chest of Jifu was covered with ink, he didn't care, he took a sip of tea, "If the old man is in Shenglong Mansion, he will be the first to hang these unsuccessful things." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"When they smell the change of color, they are naturally so useless," Jiang Zhongyuan said, "Once Thang Long Mansion is lost, there will be no important town in Beiqi, and the surrender of the Vietnamese is also predictable." ”

"What about the Vietnamese, it doesn't matter, it's not their turn to speak," Zuo Zongtang said with a twisted beard, "The important thing is to look at our Qing Dynasty and France, otherwise we can decide the fate of Vietnam by relying on that small country and the lord of the country who is swaying from side to side?" It's ridiculous, that's how the widows of small countries don't see it true. ”

"Then Park Cungong is waiting to watch the play?" Jiang Zhongyuan raised his eyebrows, "I have never led troops since the Pinghongyang Rebellion, and now there seems to be a war in the south, but my hands are a little itchy, and I am very quiet." ”

"Haha," Zuo Zongtang laughed, "With such a three-hundred-person person, it is also worth it for us, the great Sima of the Heavenly Dynasty, to go out with his own hands?" Wouldn't that elevate that Li Weiye and lower his identity! ”

"These hundreds of people have not been in Vietnam for a long time, either they are wiped out by the Vietnamese, or they have increased their troops, and the French want to occupy the whole of Beiqi, but they are using this power to force us to make concessions on the Suez Canal, or they really want to take the opportunity to swallow Vietnam."

"These 300 people naturally can't make big waves in China, but in Vietnam, I'm afraid they are also jungle tigers, and no one can resist them."

"Jungle Tiger? That's not Li Weili's title," Zuo Zongtang said with a smile, "As the saying goes, on the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore?" This jungle tiger, no matter what happens, it can't be Willy Lee's turn. ”

"Park Cungong is talking about Liu Yongfu?"

"There are no tigers in the mountains. The monkey is called the king, Liu Yongfu is still worthy of war, if it weren't for his lack of ambition, he sneaked into Vietnam when he saw the Taiping army lose power. Now the situation in Guangxi is not necessarily good, he can lay a piece of land in Vietnam, Baosheng City is like a vassal king, naturally he has his ability, he can't hold Thang Long Mansion. It's not that you can't beat the French. ”

"The French seem to have suffered a great loss under Thang Long Mansion, and have already sent 100,000 francs to reward Liu Yongfu's head, and another 50,000 francs to seize Baosheng City, cutting off the foundation of the Black Flag Army." Jiang Zhongyuan said, "It seems that I hate Liu Yongfu very much." ”

This is one point, and it is also a gesture, as if the person the French fear the most is Liu Yongfu, so that the king of Vietnam can force the Vietnamese king to give an order, so that Liu Yongfu can quickly attack and destroy the legal person, and fight a decisive battle. How could these Black Flag Army, which were originally mountain people, be the opponents of the French? It's also a way to kill. ”

"So we'll just wait and see?" Jiang Zhongyuan said.

"How else do you want to? The king of parliament is thinking about exchanging shares for Vietnam. ”

"Pu Cungong probably doesn't know," Jiang Zhongyuan said idly, "The ordnance accumulated by the ordnance factories in Jinling, Anqing and other places over the years has been taken away by the Xuanli Office with slips, but I don't know where they have been used......

"Don't worry," Zuo Zongtang was a little surprised, then realized and said with a smile, "Naturally, there is a place for him, let's just wait to see a good show." ”

Zuo Zongtang stood up. Personally came up to put on Zuo Zongtang's court clothes, "The Black Flag Army is a donkey or a horse, in the end, we want to pull it out and slip away, let's watch first." Zuo Zongtang rolled up his horseshoe sleeves, and he said to Jiang Zhongyuan, "If they are worthy of war, then we have the confidence, and we can't let the French do whatever they want in Vietnam, if it's useless." So," Zuo Zongtang was used to seeing life and death, and there was a ruthless hint in his tone, "It's all dead, it's not a pity, we haven't been involved yet, so it's not in the way." ”

Zuo Zongtang was going to the imperial front to participate in the discussion of this matter, but Jiang Zhongyuan didn't follow, "Since the king of the council is bent on discussing peace, then I, the secretary of the military department, naturally don't have to go." ”

"Naturally, you don't have to go, it's none of your business, so why bother to come forward? At most, let Yunxian go to fight sloppy," Zuo Zongtang said with a smile, "You still have to go to great lengths to restrain Zeng Laojiu, who lives in Guilin, if you can't control it, let the evil tiger go down the mountain and go to Vietnam, and then there will be a lawsuit." ”

Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, naturally it is worthy of its name, Zeng Guoquan to the governor of Liangguang, a year and a small half a year is not in Guangzhou, just idle in Guilin, under the Elephant Trunk Mountain, Zeng Guoquan with a straw hat, sitting on the bamboo raft along the Li River water slowly drifting downstream, still holding a fishing rod in his hand, the scenery is picturesque, moving to change the scene, Zeng Guoquan is calm, sitting on the bamboo raft is very comfortable, but the fishing rod in his hand has not caught any fish.

Not far away, the singing voice of the Zhuang girl sounded, enthusiastic and tactful, Zeng Guoquan, who was originally very indifferent to the fairy, let out a long breath and threw the fishing rod aside, "Damn, this fishing job is really not suitable for Lao Tzu!" ”

He stood up, looking at the smoke clouds on the mountains in the south with a hesitant face, the smoke clouds changed, like the situation in Vietnam, Su Yuanchun, the governor of Guangxi on the side, was the person holding the bamboo raft, he saw Zeng Guoquan so impatient, and inserted the pole towards the bottom of the Li River, and the bamboo raft stopped steadily in the heart of the river, he smiled at Zeng Guoquan's back, "In the past, the king of Zhuang Xianjun liked fishing the most, saying that he could cultivate his self and cultivate his temperament, and concentrate his mind." ”

Zeng Guoquan crossed his hands on his hips, "I can't learn from my brother, he is both civil and military, I'm just a vulgar martial artist, fishing this kind of thing, I'm really impatient to do it, or I'm willing to do those things that fight and kill, it's a pleasure." ”

"Lord Governor, don't think about it," Su Yuanchun shook his head, he propped up the bamboo pole, and the bamboo raft slowly sailed towards the shore, "The court has already issued an order, and the governors of all provinces are strictly forbidden to provoke without permission, so this is the first one to tell you, the old man." ”

"That's it," Zeng Guoquan waded ashore on his bare feet with an angry face, "I see that this great merit cannot be obtained, but my heart is more anxious than a starving ghost who can't eat delicious food and wine!" ”

Su Yuanchun comforted him a few words, and was still a little displeased when he saw Zeng Guoquan, so he found another word to tear Zeng Guoquan's mind away, "I heard that there is an alternate director of the Ministry who is going to go to the account of Lord Cen of Yunnan-Guizhou, who happened to pass by Guilin these days, and knew that the Lord was there, saying that he wanted to meet the Lord Governor, do you want to meet the Lord Governor?" ”

"What's the matter? If you don't want to do it, Lao Tzu is too lazy to see it, so he will offer the ceremony and send it away. Zeng Guoquan said impatiently.

"Speaking of which, he is also from Guilin, called Tang Jingsong." (To be continued.) )