I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Speaking of the four major names in the late Qing Dynasty, the common saying is "Zeng, Li, Zuo, Zhang", but in fact, when Zhang Zhidong was not famous in the early days, the four ministers actually said "Zeng, Zuo, Li, Zhang". Hu".

In terms of fame at this time, Hu Linyi should be ranked ahead of Zeng, Zuo, and Li.

Moreover, Hu Linyi is one of the few great men who is admired by both the teacher and the principal.

It's just that the former mainly values ​​his national integrity, while the latter mainly values ​​his officialdom power skills.

The word "Runzhi" for the teacher is taken from Hu Linyi's nickname "Runzhi", which shows the weight in his heart.

In 1860, the armed forces of the Han Chinese landlords had completely controlled the Yangtze River Basin, which aroused the suspicion of the Qing court.

Taking advantage of the "Fan Xie Incident", Emperor Xianfeng issued an imperial edict demanding that Zuo Zongtang be "rectified on the spot".

Zuo Zongtang's six years of hard work in Hunan, in Pan Zuyin's words, "this world has seen it all", and the imperial court saw the official memorial, and issued an edict to "rectify the law on the spot", which really chilled the Han people.

At this time of life and death, Zeng Guofan, Hu Linyi, Li Hongzhang and others showed the side of the three armies of Hunan, Huai, and Chu. Xianfeng backed down.

They lived in Susong for more than [-] days, eliminated outsiders, and discussed some unspeakable matters day and night.

It can be said that this is the closest to opening a new chapter in the modern history of the Chinese nation.

According to the "Biography of Zuo Zongtang" written by Zuo Zongtang's descendant Zuo Jingyi, what these people discussed at that time was exactly about changing the day and changing the day.

The first person to discuss it was Hu Linyi, Governor of Hubei.

He bluntly said: "The world is corrupt, how can we sit still and be courteous? I should let the world slander with me!"

Zuo Zongtang also believed that the Manchurian rule of the world has become rotten, and the Cantonese bandits are no longer to be feared after the civil strife in Hongyang.

In fact, in Jian Youwen's "The Complete History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", Xiao Yishan's "General History of the Qing Dynasty", Zhang Jiashang's "Zuo Zongtang: The Practitioner of the Modern Land Defense and Coastal Defense Strategy", and Inaba Junshangen's "The Complete History of the Qing Dynasty", etc. There is an unverifiable rumor.

As early as the beginning of the Hongyang Rebellion, when the Taiping Army conquered Changsha, Zuo Zongtang believed that "the current state affairs are extremely corrupt, the imperial court is misunderstood, the good and the bad are not distinguished, the outside surrenders, the inside is corrupt, and the foreign enemies are invading endlessly. "

Zuo Zongtang tried to defect to the Taiping Army, "Advise not to advocate Catholicism, not to destroy Confucianism and Buddhism, in order to win people's hearts... If you don't listen, Zuo Nai will leave and serve the Qing court."

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Hearing Li Hongzhang talk about Susong's old affairs, Zuo Zongtang picked up the teacup and sipped it, and then sighed: "Runzhi was so high-spirited at that time, how can I hate the sky for not fulfilling people's wishes, but being provoked by foreigners. died young...

Shaoquan, have you ever been to Citigroup, where there are really booming machines, strong ships and sharp guns? "

Li Hongzhang heard the sadness in his words, so he had to persuade him: "Mr. Wen Zhong is not only your life-saving benefactor, but also my Bole. In the past, when he saw foreign ships passing by on the river as fast as the wind, he was angry and vomited blood. My generation is even worse. We should inherit his legacy and learn from Western skills to control... the world!"

"Ok?"

Zuo Zongtang raised his brows, and heard a hint of ambiguity, "Why, you don't claim to be a disciple of Zeng Shengren, but now you want to inherit Runzhi's legacy?"

As we all know, in the original history, Zuo Zongtang fought Li Hongzhang for half his life, and he was also a senior "Zeng Hei".

So much so that when Zeng Guofan passed away, the Zeng family didn't dare to accept Zuo Zongtang's elegiac couplet, worrying about some bad words.

On the contrary, the only thing Zuo Zongtang admired in his life was Hu Linyi, whom he cited as his confidant.

On the day Hu Linyi proposed a big plan, Zuo Zongtang vigorously responded, Li Hongzhang was ambiguous, and Zeng Guofan wanted to be his apologist saint, and tried his best to oppose such rebellious words.

Zeng Guo is the strongest among the four and has the absolute right to speak, so this matter can only be shelved temporarily.

In the following year, foreign soldiers entered Beijing, Xianfeng died, and Zai Chun succeeded to the throne. Zuo Zongtang felt that the time was ripe, and wrote to Zeng Guofan: "The gods depend on virtue, and the importance of the tripod may be asked?"

Hu Linyi even persuaded Zeng Guofan: "Use thunderbolts to show the heart of a Bodhisattva." Peng Yulin, Zeng's beloved general, also persuaded him to become emperor in the southeast, and the Xianghuai children must work hard to help him.

However, Zeng Guofan made up his mind and suppressed everyone's persuasion one by one, neither punished nor obeyed, and just pretended nothing happened.

In Zuo Zongtang's view, "The Zeng family set up their lives with loyalty to the emperor and defended the Tao, which missed our Han people's plan for a hundred years!"

From then on, he and Zeng Guofan started to fight against each other. By the way, Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan's protégé, became displeased.

However, Zuo Zongtang seemed to smell an unusual smell today.

Chapter 232 Trouble from the Far East

Li Hongzhang still had that harmless smile: "Zeng Shuai and I are both teachers and friends, and Mr. Runzhi are also teachers and friends. Brother Ji Gao, so why not be Shaoquan's good teacher and friend?" ..."

"By the way, Brother Ji Gao, do you know the recent fight between Yehenala and Prince Gong's Mansion?" Li Hongzhang asked suddenly.

"I have always been at odds with Beijing officials, and I have never heard of this matter." Zuo Zongtang replied.

"The reasons for this are all dirty things. It doesn't matter if Brother Ji Gao doesn't listen. Just know that the story of Sushun in the past may happen again in the near future. At that time, the court will be in chaos. The southeast matter may... change. !"

Li Hongzhang said this on purpose, and when he raised his eyelids, Zuo Zongtang was really teased and his eyes lit up, saying: "This statement is true? That's really great...It's too unfortunate. Seeing that the disaster of the Cantonese bandits is about to subside, I don’t want to add another disaster.”

Seeing Zuo Zongtang's appearance, Li Hongzhang's heart was settled. It seems that the yellow mandarin jacket and the title of Prince Shaobao just awarded by the court did not succeed in buying this pretentious Hunanese. He still has that longing in his heart !

Thinking of this, Li Hongzhang smiled and didn't answer, but changed the subject and asked again: "Last year, Yudi went to Citigroup. Everyone knew that I got back 60 taels of silver for Prince Gong's mansion, but few people knew that Yudi had a relationship with The leader of Citigroup talked and laughed happily, and signed a package of treaties..."

"I've vaguely heard of some, but I don't know the details..."

Zuo Zongtang said hesitantly, "It doesn't look like an agreement to lose power and humiliate the country?"

"Hey, brother, you are joking. I, Li Shaoquan, have never signed such unequal treaties in my life!"

Li Hongzhang waved his hands again and again, and said, "I won't spread the word about this matter, I'll just tell Brother Ji Gao in detail..."

At the moment, Li Hongzhang will explain the details of the treaty signed with the two-hundred-pound "President Lincoln".

Including the dividends that can be distributed from the second half of the year, the convenience of purchasing foreign guns from Citigroup, and the regular dispatch of newborns and military attaches to Citigroup for training.

As for the fact that Jiangsu Governor's Yamen and "Citigroup" secretly linked up with the piglet business, exchanging Chinese laborers and women for silver dollar loans or food weapons, Zuo Zongtang didn't say much about such scandals.

However, hungry people are worthless these days. The Hunan Army has only paid 4% of the military salary for a long time, and it has owed it for nearly 17 months. This is the case for the Hunan Army, not to mention the green camp and the common people. find someone.

Even if Zuo Zongtang's national awareness is higher, he doesn't care about these things.

Both Zeng and Zuo knew that Li Hongzhang had been sold for so long, and even got a lot of benefits, but it would be inappropriate to talk about it on the stage.

If you want to talk, naturally you have to pick the tall ones.

Li Hongzhang held back Versailles for a long time, and this time he finally couldn't help saying to Zuo Zongtang: "Besides, there is another point I just heard from Wang Dajing... It turns out that according to the law of Citigroup, the land five miles on both sides of the railway belongs to Owned by the railway company.

Brother Yu holds 15% of the shares of the Northern Railway, that is to say... Brother Yu has already opened up 400 million acres of land for the imperial court without a single soldier, which is more than the sum of the Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Shanghai concessions. Ten times more! "

"To put it bluntly, Mr. Li is not talented, and the four characters of a national hero dare not be greedy for credit, but if we take the big plan that Wen Zhonggong made back then, we have already had a way out."

"If things fail, we will flee into the foreign concession, and Citigroup will have its own big ships to come to meet us. Even if the 400 million acres of land is not fertile land, it is enough to settle down for the next chapter. For the current plan, we should send our family members, Unknowingly transported...

And before all the preparations are made, brother Ji Gao can't act too hastily and use too much force on the matter of suppressing the bandits...

As for Master Zeng, free and foolish brother will make him fall into a stumbling block, and he will surely break his dream of Tianjing! "

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Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang reached a strategic alliance. If the power of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian (including Taiwan) can be fully mobilized, it will naturally be enough to shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that Zeng Guofan's reluctance to carry the banner is naturally the biggest stumbling block.

But Li Hongzhang had long seen the fact that the Hunan Army was cumbersome, wasting money, and unsustainable, and planned to use cleverness to accelerate their self-collapse.

Since ancient times, bureaucrats have been difficult to succeed, but it is too easy to fail!

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A piece of relevant information soon came to Zhu Fugui's case.

Intelligence work is always the most important job.

Jin Yiwei's spies had already sneaked into Li Hongzhang's governor's office.

Although it is impossible to break into the high-level, even if it is just the porter, servant, and book boy, you can get a lot of information.

The research and judgment of intelligence information is the top priority of intelligence work.

Many people think that the intelligence department is full of guys like 007 James Bond, but in fact, even in MI[-], most of them are civilian personnel, and their importance is not low at all.

What Zhu Fugui was holding in his hand at this time was the report after the integration and analysis of the original information.

"Li Zhongtang is on edge!"

Zhu Fugui really didn't expect that Li Hongzhang would be so bold that he would pull Zuo Zongtang to play the trick of raising the bandits' self-respect.

Zhu Fugui ordered Yin Were to send more spies to strengthen the investigation of Li and Zuo, and ensure that the news of East China was transmitted back to Daming as soon as possible.

After Yin Weasel left, Ito Hirobumi came over with another document.

Zhu Fugui currently has no plans to set up a prime minister. For a real monarch, a prime minister is indeed a troublesome position.

And Zhu Fugui didn't intend to learn from the old ancestor Zhu Ba's daily affairs, and he didn't have the spirit or the will.

So Zhu Fugui plans to rely on the secretary to share part of the government affairs.

The secretary is a very important role. He has various secretaries to deal with various things. In contrast, the prime minister has become a void position.

These secretaries are different from the prime minister and the prime minister. They have no power over the prime minister and are equivalent to the emperor's retainers.

Ito Hirobumi is Zhu Fugui's first secretary now, and he has to do all kinds of dirty work.

"Long live, it's the secret document of Mr. Zheng, the Governor-General in Japan!" Ito Hirobumi handed it over respectfully, "An accident happened to the Changzhou Domain!"

This so-called secret book is actually not very secret. The real secret book is uploaded through Jin Yiwei, and the Jin Yiwei, which is full of bugs, is the department that Zhu Fugui is most at ease.

Zhu Fugui frowned when he heard about the accident in Changzhou Fan.

Tomorrow is the day of the Southern Expedition to San Francisco, why are moths appearing one after another in the Far East.

When he opened the letter, Zhu Fugui was taken aback. It turned out that more than half a month ago, tuberculosis plague broke out in Changzhou Fan.

The disease is extremely dangerous, Xiaguan and Shankou have reached the point where everyone flees when they see someone coughing.

The most important thing is that even the head of the Maori family and a group of important ministers got sick, and the doctor who relied on Japan did not see any improvement at all.

It's just a strange thing that what was attached to Zheng Baoguo's secret letter was a beautiful letter.

The handwriting of this letter looks like it was written by a quiet girl.

The characters in it are like a cuckoo crying blood, and there are some faint traces on the paper and ink, obviously tears were shed when writing.

"Ankang, the sage of the Ming Dynasty:

The concubine, the daughter of the Maori family, is suffering from a great plague in Changzhou today, and the concubine's father coughs up blood every night...

Please be merciful, the sage, the Son of Heaven, to save my father's life, my concubine, with the appearance of Pu Liu, dare not recommend herself to the mat, even if she is a small man like Fan Su, she has no regrets..."

Chapter 233 Going to Japan for Peacekeeping

Zhu Fugui calmly looked up what the hell "Fan Su Xiaoman" is on Baidu.

After flipping through several pages, I realized that these were two dancers raised by an old Sepi family who lived in Chang'an easily.

Cherry fan Su mouth, willow small waist...

As the Son of Heaven, he didn't know as much as Ji Changzhou, so he couldn't help but feel a little bit ashamed.

In the future, when she comes to the palace to be a dancer, she must take revenge.

These boring thoughts just flashed through Zhu Fugui's mind, and the emergence of the epidemic tuberculosis plague in Changzhou Fan was a major event.

Since ancient times, the plague has been a behind-the-scenes hand that has influenced history.

Whether it was the typhoid fever that ran through the Three Kingdoms, the smallpox that wiped out [-]% to [-]% of the population of the Yin people, or the plague that indirectly caused Li Zicheng and the Manchus to pick peaches one after another, every plague directly changed history.

In this era, the old continent's resistance to smallpox is gradually increasing. For syphilis, after all, the transmission route is relatively harsh.

Therefore, the most troublesome diseases are plague, cholera and tuberculosis.

Thanks to the global plague two years before traveling, Zhu Fugui was very familiar with Wu Lien-teh and the Northeast plague, so he also took precautions against these diseases after traveling.

For example, each ship of Ming Dynasty needs to keep two to three war cats.

Those are extremely ferocious human-eating beasts, very dangerous.

In order to ensure the efficiency of catching rats, the ship will be whipped 10 times without permission. Do you think it is dangerous or not?

In addition, each regiment-level force, or each ship, is equipped with a health worker.

These health workers receive regular training from the Royal General Hospital. In addition to mastering simple field first aid techniques, they also need to learn knowledge related to epidemic prevention.

For example, plague is a disease caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis, which can be transmitted from person to person through droplets, feces and other channels.

This is the basic knowledge that every health worker in Ming Dynasty knows.

But in the original history, when Mr. Wu Lien-teh proposed this point of view at the beginning of the [-]th century and promoted the epidemic prevention measures of isolation + masks, the arrogant European and American medical circles scoffed.

The famous plague expert who once presided over the plague prevention and control work in Mumbai, India, the British Waldemar Mordecai Huffkin firmly believed that the plague could not be transmitted from person to person.

Hufkin's infectious disease ward did not set up an isolation area, and the medical staff did not take any protective measures.