Reading guide: Xiang Yong is about to move to the division, Li Yunguan is responsible for the heavy responsibility, and Xiao Xu has made great achievements.

Lu Xianji went to the Qing court, hit the nail on the head, and became famous overnight.

With only one brave and loyal, he returned home to handle the regimental training, and in vain ruined the lives of the Qing family, and the scholar became a laughing stock with soldiers.

Kowtowing and crying moved the often defeated generals of the Qing Dynasty.

When the fold is in hand, the fake cry becomes the real cry, how do you know......

(text) Li Yunguan, who has always been in peace, what kind of power does he have?

Zeng Guofan, together with Luo Bingzhang, Bao Qibao, and Taqibu, sat in the public court not long after, Peng Yulin's letter arrived at Li Yunguan's desk.

Li Yunguan saw that a big word of urgency had been added to the corner of the letter cover, so he hurriedly picked up the letter and strode towards the court.

When I arrived at the door of the public hall, I saw that there were soldiers standing inside and outside, and the errand officer also walked in and out like a shuttle. It's busy.

Li Yunguan wanted to break into the lobby and hand the letter directly to Zeng Guofan, but he suddenly stopped, thinking in his heart: "Futai and the Admiral are all here, if the letter is about Shui Yong or about food and salary, but it can't be foreheard of by the governor's yamen, the two of them want to ask Zeng Guofan, what can Zeng Guofan do?" Isn't this to embarrass Zeng Guofan? ”

Li Yunguan thought about it like this, and walked back to his office. put the letter on the desk, but my eyes saw the word "urgent" again.

If Peng Yulin really has something that needs to be reported urgently, and he doesn't hand it over to Zeng Guofan in time, what can he do if something goes wrong?

Thinking like this, he walked out of the office room again and saw that the case was being tried at a critical moment.

He returned to the office, gritted his teeth, and opened the letter for Zeng Guofan.

After reading it, he thought about it, and then wrote a letter to Zhao Danian, the prefect of Hengzhou, and Liu Changyou, the minister of Hengzhou regimental training, in the name of Zeng Guofan, and when the two saw the text, they immediately joined Peng Yulin to leave all the cannons, codes, and marbles of Guangxi to solve Hubei; After Zeng Guofan went to Hengzhou for an interview, he invited the imperial court to use the amount of money, and the reason for the use of the Hubei cannon was also given to the Ming court by Zeng Guofan.

After the text was written, in order to prevent the ship carrying artillery from leaving Heng and entering Hubei, Li Yunguan urgently sent an official document to all the ports bordering Hubei, and strictly punished each mouth, and once the ship carrying artillery was discovered, it was immediately detained; The Issuance Examination Bureau will explain the reasons in Guangxi. In this way, even if the Gui ships only have wings, they will not want to fly out of Hunan.

Li Yunguan finally said: "Xia Guan is arbitrary, and in the name of your old man, he sent two official documents in a row. What you always want to do, the lower officials are willing to accept it. Please judge your adult. ”

As soon as he heard this, Zeng Guofan, who was nervous, let out a sigh of relief and said: "In the past half of my life, my brother has done countless wrong and foolish things, and I have only done a good job of inviting my brother to the Issuance and Examination Bureau." Brother, you made a decision on the spot, thank you in advance! You sit down first and listen to my brother explain a few things to you. ”

Li Yunguan sat down happily and said, "The current situation of the Issuance and Examination Bureau, the lower officials know it clearly. You're always having a hard time! The green camp is crowded, Futai is pressed, and the fan is stuck. It's just that you're old, and you've been gritting your teeth. If you change someone else, you will already drop the print! ”

Zeng Guofan made a bowl of tea for Li Yunguan and put it on the table, and said in a low voice: "Yunguan, I will leave the provincial capital tonight and go to Hengzhou to do the affairs of the water master." According to my original plan, I wanted to move the Issuance Examination Bureau to Hengzhou. But just now, I suddenly changed my mind and decided that the Issuance and Examination Bureau will still be stationed in the provincial capital, and you will be entrusted with full authority to handle the affairs of the bureau. ”

Li Yunguan whispered: "My lord, I'm afraid your old idea won't work. You are always the minister of regimental training in a province, how can the subordinate officials have full power? Don't forget, my lord, Xia Guan is just a six-grade little official! ”

Zeng Guofan sighed and said: "The current Xiangyong is the most lacking of a little official like my brother." ”

After Zeng Guofan finished speaking, he pointed to his hair and said, "I want a few more junior officials like my brother in the Hair Examination Bureau, my brother's hair won't turn gray so quickly!" ,, After the elder brother arrived in Hengzhou, he had to play the imperial court: first, the food and salary of the water division needed to be allocated by the Hunan Domain Treasury every month; Second, all guns and gunpowder that have been allocated to the battalions in Hubei and Jiangnan should be withheld. The elder brother presides over the affairs of the bureau, and sends the food and salary allocated by the provincial treasury to Hengzhou every month, and if there is any arrears, the elder brother will send someone to urge; He sent a powerful man to watch the wharf, but he saw that there were ships from Guangdong and Guangxi, and there were guns and guns, and some cannons and guns. Something happened, and the elder brother came out to explain to the court. Only in this way can I practice as a Xiangyong sailor as soon as possible. ”

Li Yunguan nodded and said, "My lord's words, the lower officials have remembered them." As soon as there is something in the provincial capital, the lower officials will send someone to communicate with the lord in time. My lord, you will still be out of the city in a while, so while you have nothing to do, you can go to your bedroom and rest for a while. ”

Zeng Guofan got up and said, "It's okay." What's the matter, you wake me up in time. ”

Zeng Guofan went to the bedroom, and Li Yunguan went back to his office.

Zeng Guofan quickly fell asleep when he arrived in the bedroom, and at this time in Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province, the war was fierce.

The development of the situation in Anhui to the way it is today is directly related to the improper employment of people in Xianfeng.

As early as the second year of Xianfeng, when the Taiping army was still in Hunan and Hubei, and the Qing army was in a tug-of-war with various Qing armies, Lu Xianji, a waiter from the Ministry of Industry from Anhui, said to the imperial court: "Today's situation, such as illness, vitality and blood have been exhausted, and external evil is blazing. ”

This omission immediately caused a sensation in the DPRK and China, and all civil and military officials admired it. Lu Xianji, who was originally unknown, immediately became a celebrity.

In order to prevent the Taiping army from attacking Anhui, Lu Mingliu gave Xianfeng another fold, and on the grounds that the troops in Anhui Province were too single and insufficient to resist the enemy, he invited Zhou Tianjue, who returned to his hometown and assisted the Anhui regiment, to handle affairs with Jiang Wenqing, the governor of Anhui.

The excerpt was handed into the palace, and under the Xianfeng Imperial Tour, Dengshi's heart was full of joy, and even Kualu Xianji was "rare". Lu Xian is basically a scribe, although he has some kung fu in his pen, he doesn't know much about military affairs, and he relies on a brave and loyal heart. Xianfeng praised him for his rarity, which is also what he refers to.

Before Lu Xianji left, he also transferred Yuan Jiasan from the Anhui Military Department and Li Hongzhang, the editor of the Anhui Hanlin Academy, to handle the regimental training with them. Xianfeng is gracious one by one.

Lu Xianji is a native of Jingde, Anhui Province, with the word Xiyin and the number Hetian. Daoguang Jinshi, awarded the editor, and later moved to supervise the imperial history, to the matter, Honglu Temple. In the first year of Xianfeng, the left waiter of the Ministry of Labor.

After Lu Xianji returned home, he relied on the praise he had received from the emperor, and did not take Zhou Tianjue, the minister of regimental training, and Jiang Wenqing, the governor of Anhui, in his eyes at all. Although Zhou Tianjue is a well-known general, because he has been the governor of Huguang and the minister of the Qin Mission, he does not buy Lu Xianji's account. Jiang Wenqing is the governor of a province, so he naturally refuses to bow his head to a person who handles regimental exercises.

Within a few days in Anqing, Lu Xianji became a loner.

Seeing that the provincial capital could not tolerate him, Lu Xianji took Yuan Jiasan and Li Hongzhang to Shucheng and Tongcheng to raise courage and donations, and soon built a regimental training team of nearly 2,000 people.

The regimental training was completed, and it should have been practiced well. I didn't know that he was a scholar, thinking that with a human gun, he could fight if he pulled it out.

Yuan Jiasan persuaded him, but he didn't listen, so angry that Yuan Jiasan turned around and took refuge in Zhou Tianjue; Li Hongzhang also advocated getting a good grasp of training, but he was reprimanded by him. Li Hongzhang couldn't, so he had to take leave to serve his parents.

Lu Xianji is not worried, and still chats with a group of literary friends all day long, so unhappy.

The Taiping army rushed from Jiangxi to Anhui, and the first target was Shucheng.

Seeing that the Taiping army was coming, Lu Xianji said three times in a row, "It's good!" ", quickly picked up the headquarters and opened the city to welcome the past. Before the battle, most of his men had fled. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Xianji hurriedly retreated. Who knew that the Taiping army did not give him time to breathe at all. First, there was a burst of fierce artillery fire, but the artillery fire stopped, and before the attack was officially launched, the people around Lu Xianji had already escaped. Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Taiping Army were shocked, thinking that Lu Mingliu's regimental training had been practiced as Tu Dun Kung Fu.

Lu Xianji never imagined that fighting a war would be more difficult than writing an eight-strand article. In desperation, he had to pull out the sword at his waist and stab himself in the chest, finally killing himself before the Taiping army came to his side.

Li Hongzhang was at home because of leave, but he took the boss's life; When Yuan Jiasan learned that Lu Mingliu abandoned his horse and rode a crane, he also secretly called it a fluke, and even said: "I can't imagine that Lao Yuan is so fateful!" ”

The Taiping army easily captured Shucheng. The search of the whole city is really digging three feet into the ground to find gold and silver, and the men are the heavenly soldiers and the women are slaves. This mainly refers to men over the age of 16 to under 50 and women over the age of 13 to under the age of 30. Those who are not of this age will be killed. The corpses were not buried, lying in the streets and alleys, and the poisonous sun was shining, so that Shucheng was stinking, and no one dared to enter within a month. At the moment before the Taiping army entered the city, Lu Xianji's family, regardless of size, all set on fire**. After the men and women set fire to the hay, they scattered in a hurry, each looking for a way to survive.

After the Taiping army stripped Lu Xianji of the skin and grass, he carried it with a stick and killed Ben Tongcheng. After the loss of Shucheng, the Qing army guarding Tongcheng had already carried grain and grass, abandoned the city and fled to the provincial capital. Although the Taiping army marched into Tongcheng without obtaining food and grass, they found two young women with some qualifications, one of whom was captured by the Taiping army when he fled with his family outside the city; One was a prisoner of the Taiping Army the day after he got married. The Taiping army was even happier to get these two beauties than to get a pile of gold and silver from the boss. That night, he arranged for a car to drive and sent it to Tianjing day and night to dedicate it to the king of heaven. This is the heavenly oracle issued by the king of heaven to all walks of life: if you find a woman of national color, you are not allowed to keep it privately, and all of them will be sent to the capital to be used by the king of heaven first, otherwise there will be no forgiveness! In the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, there are already many ordinary heavenly generals and ordinary heavenly soldiers, because they found a woman that the king of heaven is more satisfied with, and they instantly soared and became big names in the heavenly kingdom.

Sometimes even Xianfeng himself admits that the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan is indeed better than him, the emperor.

In Tongcheng, there was only a two-day delay, and those who could be soldiers were sent to the barracks, and the young women were also distributed, and the remaining old, young, sick and disabled, all helped the crane's back, and then roared to the provincial capital Anqing.

The Taiping army all wore long hair and shawls, bare chests and backs, and shouted long live. It's earth-shattering.

Jiang Wenqing learned that the Taiping army was killing all the way, so he hurriedly mobilized men and horses and closed the four gates; He also urgently sent a quick letter to Zhou Tianjue, the minister of regimental training. Zhou Tianjue didn't dare to slack off when he received the letter, and passed Yuan Jiasan to the bed that night.

Zhou Tianjue had been ill for a long time, and when he saw Yuan Jiasan coming to the bedside, he took Yuan Jiasan's hand and said breathlessly: "Wuqiao, you are good here." ”

Wuqiao is the word of Yuan Jiasan.

Yuan Jiasan saw that Zhou Tianjue's face was yellow and thin, his bones were thin like wood, his breathing was heavy, and his phlegm sounded, so he knew that this week's old-timers were not far from the west. Although Yuan Jiasan looked down on this often defeated general from the bottom of his heart, in order to be able to take over his people, he still knelt down straight. I choked for a long time, and finally squeezed out a few tears from my eyes.

Yuan Jia kowtowed and cried: "I haven't seen you for a few days, how did the old handsome become like this?" Hurry up and get your body up! You really have a good job, who will complete the great cause of suppressing bandits? Who do you learn from in later life? The rivers and mountains of the Qing Dynasty can all depend on your old age! You can't afford to leave your late life behind! ”

After Yuan Jia finished speaking, he didn't know which nerve he touched, so he cried loudly.

Zhou Tianjue's children were not around, and he only had one younger brother who practiced with him.

Zhou Tianjue knew that he was not far away, and he had already written a testament, and asked him to hand over the division to his younger brother to take over. Although Yuan Jiasan was born in two lists, because he was a person from Lu Xianji's side, Zhou Tianjue did not trust him.

But Zhou Tianjue was not very relieved about his brother. Although his brother is not a member of the officialdom, he is very good at using soldiers. The two battalions he led did not win a major victory, but they also did not suffer a major defeat. This made Zhou Tianjue very unhappy. Just ten days ago, he met his brother, explained his future, and told his brother two words. Not only did my brother not cry, but he also said two sentences in a row, "You can go with confidence", as if he was impatient.

After his brother left, Zhou Tianjue was so sad that he shed tears for a whole day. That night, Zhou Tianjue wrote another testament, asking him to hand over his division to Yuan Jiasan. Zhou Tianjue hid the two testaments under his pillow, wanting to wait until he had thought it through before making a final decision.

Jiang Wenqing arrived, and Zhou Tianjue decided to bypass his brother and meet Yuan Jiasan monotonously.

Who knew that Yuan Jiasan, who was not a relative, saw that he was sick like this, not only did he immediately kneel, but he was also heartbroken like his dead father.

Yuan Jiasan's crying made Zhou Tianjue also sad.

Seeing that Yuan Jiasan was still crying, Zhou Tianjue actually found the first part of the testament from under the pillow, and after tearing up the two of the three, he found the second part of the testament.

Zhou Tianjue used trembling hands to hand over the fold to Yuan Jiasan's hand. told Yuan Jiasan that once he died, he would immediately send his bereavement to the court.

Yuan Jiasan hid the fold in his arms, and cried more and more, so frightened that his soldiers ran into the bedroom with their old clothes, thinking that Zhou Dashuai was dying.

Zhou Tianjue was so angry that his eyes widened and trembled. Yuan Jiasan was also angry.

Zhou Tianjue opened his mouth, and wanted to reprimand his own soldiers, but he didn't catch it in one breath, so he went. (End of chapter)