Summary: Under the persecution of Zeng Guofan, Luo Bingzhang had to make some concessions and agreed to the joint efforts of the governor's yamen and the Issuance and Examination Bureau to arrest fugitives in various provinces. After Zeng Guobao and Zou Shouzhang changed guards, a windfall fell from the sky unexpectedly, which not only saved the vegetable money, but also enriched the hand. After Zou Shouzhang found out, his eyes turned red.

So, outside Changsha, a farce that should not be staged kicked off......

Luo Bingzhang hurriedly said: "Disheng, you sit down first." If you have anything to say, you can't just quit when something goes wrong. Besides, I don't care about what happened today. You've got to give me some time, don't you? ”

Zeng Guofan sat down and suddenly asked, "Luo Futai, Disheng just wants to ask you one sentence: What do you want to do with today's affairs?" Do you want to participate in Qingde, or do you want to participate in Bao Qibao? Or are they both in the same position? ”

Luo Bingzhang smiled bitterly and said, "My Lord Zeng, can you change the way you do things?" You can't just want to join people at every turn! When we go home, Long Hair suddenly counterattacks, who will guard this provincial city for us? ”

Zeng Guofan opened his mouth wide in shock, and couldn't help asking: "The agreement has become like this, do you still want to tolerate it?" ”

Zeng Guofan jumped off the ground and said while pushing the door: "This group practice can't be done any longer!" I'd better go home and keep the rules!! On the day when something really happened, it was not cost-effective to save yourself from keeping up with the situation and not being able to say it clearly, which would affect your future! ”

Luo Bingzhang shouted: "Zeng Disheng, you come back to the headquarters!" ”

Zeng Guofan had never seen Luo Bingzhang make such a big fire, and when he saw it, he was stunned.

Luo Bingzhang got off the ground, took Zeng Guofan's hand, and said in a soothing tone: "Disheng, Zhang Caichen's ghost behind my back has made me anxious. You and I are in the same city, and we can't be angry anymore! Zhang Caichen is restrained, if you drop the seal again, Hunan will be completely finished! Sit down and we'll talk about the agreement. ”

Luo Bingzhang didn't care whether Zeng Guofan was willing or not, he pushed him to a wooden chair and sat down, and sat next to him.

Luo Bingzhang whispered: "Disheng, do you think this is good?" The Governor's Yamen and the Issuance and Examination Bureau jointly issued a wanted document to arrest Li Dusi throughout the province. ”

Zeng Guofan said: "If you don't send such wanted documents, you can't send them." You always think, as soon as the wanted document is sent to the green camp, Bao Qibao and Qingde will definitely send the prisoners out of the province. When will we be able to apprehend him? ”

Luo Bingzhang said: "Disheng, how should you handle it in your opinion?" ”

Zeng Guofan said: "Unless he is wanted in all provinces, don't think about arresting him!" ”

Luo Bingzhang said: "Disheng, why are you confused? The province wants a criminal Green Camp Division, and it is not okay not to ask for a decree! What's more, even if we ask for an order, the court may not allow it. Once refuted, we're too much of a back!

Zeng Guofan said: "As long as we jointly ask for a decree, there is no reason to refute it!" Disheng thought that the green camp had been taken by Bao Qibao and Qingde to become a teacher who harmed and disturbed the people. At this time, if you don't pay attention to rectification, you will definitely make a big mess! And to rectify the green camp, we will start with Li Dusi. Although Changmao is in Anhui and Jiangxi at the moment, the heart of Huguang is not dead. There is a police in Hubei, and Hunan is bound to shake. Relying on the current green battalion to defend Changsha, can it be defended? Although Zou Shuji recruited Xiangyong and had gone to Changsha to practice, there was only one battalion of men. Although Shiheng's first battalion has been outside the city for a long time, to this day, there are still more than 300 people without firearms. The situation is so grim, but you are still appeasing Qingde and will be Bao Qibao! What the hell do you think? ”

Luo Bingzhang shook his head and said, "Disheng, you are confused again. You won't know that Bao Qibao and Qingde are both leaders who are more believed in above. Even if you and I join him, can we participate? Maybe the two of them were safe, but the two of us fell first! It's not me talking nonsense, it's documented. ”

A few words, Zeng Guofan was speechless for a long time.

After a long time, Zeng Guofan said: "On the one hand, we jointly ask for an order, and on the other hand, we write to the provinces, how about arresting the criminals?" We can't let him go unpunished! ”

Luo Bingzhang pondered for a while, nodded and said, "This is really a solution." According to my private speculation, the emperor can't blame the governor of a province and a minister of regimental training for a useless four-grade capital, right? Disheng, after you go back, start the manuscript first. After we sent the excerpts, we sent them to the provinces. How is it? ”

Zeng Guofan said: "Disheng thinks that we should put the wanted notice, go to the provinces first, and mark the reward." Then I will ask for a plea. It is best for the governor's yamen to post the rewards and key prisoners at the four gates of the provincial capital and on the main roads, and at the same time report them to the military camps. Officials, civilians, soldiers, and brave people, as long as they find wanted criminals and report them to the local yamen, they will all be rewarded; If the key offenders are captured by the government, they will be rewarded heavily. ”

Luo Bingzhang got up and said, "According to what you said, the ministry will handle this matter now." ”

Zeng Guofan's sedan chair fell at the gate of the Issuance and Examination Bureau.

As soon as Zeng Guofan walked out of the sedan chair, he immediately found that there were more Xiangyong outside the gate, and he couldn't help but whisper to the porter who greeted him: "Is there something wrong?" Which battalion are these brave men from? ”

The porter said: "My lord, there is nothing else, it is that the Evergrande people have entered the city, and now they are waiting for you in the signing room." ”

"Oh!" Zeng Guofan nodded, and immediately knew that the extra brave soldiers outside the gate must be his younger brother's personal soldiers, so he quickened his pace and walked into the Issuance and Examination Bureau.

Pushing open the door of the signing room, Zeng Guofan couldn't help but be stunned.

Zeng Guobao's eyes were red, his eyebrows were locked, he was sitting on a wooden chair, with a bowl of tea in front of him, and he was looking down and thinking about his thoughts. Looking at Zeng Guobao's expression, it was obvious that he had just cried, and there were faint tears on his cheeks.

Zeng Guofan's heart tightened, and he asked casually: "Shiheng, what's wrong with you?" ”

As soon as Zeng Guobao saw his eldest brother appear at the door, he hurriedly stood up, and asked with his hands down: "Big brother, are you back?" ”

Zeng Guofan changed his clothes and sat down, and his own soldiers had already brought in tea; In front of Zeng Guobao, he also removed the herbal tea and replaced it with a bowl of new tea.

Zeng Guofan motioned for his younger brother to sit down, and asked softly, "Shiheng, could it be that something happened at home?" ”

Zeng Guobao lowered his head, subconsciously flicked the placket of the battalion official uniform with his hand, and said, "What can be going on at home?" Big brother, don't think about it. ”

After a pause, Zeng Guobao said again: "Big brother, I want to hand over Ying Yong to others and go back to study for a few years." I don't want to be brave anymore. ”

Zeng Guobao didn't finish speaking, and big tears rolled out of his eyes.

Zeng Guofan was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Shiheng, what happened?" What did you hear? ”

Zeng Guobao burst into tears, choked up and said, "Big brother, my battalion doesn't even have a defense ground now, how can I be a battalion officer?" Now the people in the battalion are scolding me behind my back. ”

Zeng Guofan took out a cloth towel and handed it to his younger brother, and whispered: "Shiheng, swallow the tears back into your stomach." There can be no crying in the detention room of the Issuance and Examination Bureau; People who cry when they encounter something are not worthy of being Zeng Disheng's younger brother! ”

After a long time, Zeng Guobao stopped his tears and explained the reason to Zeng Guofan in detail.

It turned out that not long after Zeng Guobaotong took the Hengzi battalion to be stationed outside the south gate of Changsha, Zou Shouzhang also rushed to the provincial capital with the Xiangyong he recruited.

Before Zou Shouzhang arrived in Changsha, Luo Bingzhang had already chosen a defensive place for his battalion: stationed outside the east gate of Changsha. But Zou Shouzhang did not follow the orders. After surveying the terrain, Zou Shouzhang actually chose the camp where Zeng Guobao was stationed. After submitting an application to Governor Luo Bingzhang, Luo Bingzhang ordered Zeng Guobao to move to the east gate and give up the original defense area to Zou Shouzhang without consulting with Zeng Guofan and without Zeng Guobao's consent.

Zeng Guobao knew that although the name of the regiment led by Zou Shouzhang was also called Xiangyong, it was actually not under the control of Zeng Guofan, and was directly dispatched by the governor Yamen, so he did not dispute with Zou Shouzhang, nor did he want to make trouble for his eldest brother, so on the day he took the order, he pulled out the camp and drove to a flat place outside the east gate. Digging trenches, setting up tents, and fences, it took several days of chaos to set up the camp.

Why did Zou Shouzhang have to be stationed in Zeng Guobao's original defensive place? Because of Zeng Guobao's original defense site, the terrain is relatively open, and there are two passages of water and land to reach Changsha. It has the advantage of attacking and retreating. This is not the case at the East Gate. Backed by a big mountain, the mountain is the rippling Xiangjiang River. If an enemy attacks from the water, there will be no ship to rely on if he wins; If you lose, you must return to Changsha by mountain path. According to the art of war, this is a fierce place, and it is not allowed to camp and garrison.

However, Zeng Guobao led the people of the camp to stay here not long after, and soon found that this place was not useless.

First of all, the defense ground was not directly located at the foot of the mountain, but on an open land about five miles away from the mountain. There is a small river fork there, which diverges out of the Xiangjiang River, winds around an arc, and returns to the Xiangjiang River. The water is not very deep, but it is quite turbid, and you can't see the bottom of the water with your eyes, and you can't see the situation in the clear water. A man went to wash vegetables one day, and inadvertently, his hand touched a lot of slippery and greasy things. The man was curious, so he found a wooden stick and explored the depths of the water, and found that he had just lost his waist and eyes. So he took off his pants and jumped in, touched with his hands for a while, and found a few fish that were very poundy.

That night, Hengziying ate a full meal of fatty fish.

Zeng Guobao immediately prepared a few large nets in the room, and sent two people to jump into the water to fish, which not only saved the cost of three meals a day, but also produced a lot of fish and shrimp. They dug a big pit and kept it in it, and they were always picked up into the city to be sold. It's also an income. At that time, not only Xiangyong was short of salary, but even the green camp was not timely enough. After Zeng Guobao moved to the east gate of Changsha, although he was in arrears as usual, he was able to ensure that he had an income every month, and the food was more abundant than that of other battalions.

After Zou Shouzhang knew the news that there were fish to eat and sell in the Hengzi camp, he didn't believe it at first, and sent someone to visit the Hengzi camp secretly. When he got the exact secret report, Zou Shouzhang opened his mind again.

This is something Zeng Guobao did not expect in any case. (End of chapter)