I can't die

It has to be said that Chen Decai's strategy was very vicious. After Zai Chun learned that the envoys excluded by the Qing court were actually beheaded, he was almost blown away.Originally, he didn't like the way of "recruiting security", but now this incident broke out, and the civil and military officials of the whole court were shocked.Even Zeng Guofan, who has always been mature and prudent, turned pale when faced with this situation.After all, he was the one who proposed "recruiting security" at the beginning, but now the envoy of recruiting security has been killed.His face was severely beaten.

Similarly, with the widespread spread of rumors that "Qin will not stay back", people in Shaanxi and Gansu are even more panicked.Under such a big environment, even if Du Wenxiu and Ma Hualong, the leaders of the Hui rebel army, wanted to recruit security, it was obviously impossible.Du Wenxiu and Ma Hualong also knew in their hearts that Chen Decai's tricks must be involved in the killing of the security envoy, but what can they do?Things have come to this, we can only continue to bite the bullet and carry the flag of rebellion down.

As the saying goes, "Where there is oppression, there is resistance." This time the Hui people carried out massacres in Shaanxi and Gansu, and the Han people were not vegetarians. Similarly, the Muslims began to be massacred indiscriminately.For a time, the Han and Hui ethnic groups in the Shaanxi-Gansu region were so jealous that they even rose to the point of "ethnic clean-up".

Du Wenxiu and Ma Hualong, leaders of the Hui nationality, now feel that they are riding a tiger, so they simply do nothing and put forward the slogan of "jihad".

"Jihad" literally means holy war. Naturally, this word is more concerned about the military activities carried out by religious organizations to expel foreigners and heretics and establish a purely mono-religious country.

Whether it is Catholicism or Islam, it is declared that believers can enter heaven after fighting and sacrificing for the "Lord".This kind of spiritual motivation became an important reason for the rapid expansion of Islam, and also became the spiritual foundation of the Catholic Eastern Expedition.

During the European Catholic Church in the Middle Ages launched the Crusades to Jerusalem, the holy city ruled by Muslims in the Middle East, when the European Catholic Church mobilized the general Christian people to join the army, it promised them that they could enter the kingdom of heaven after they died in battle. So it is called Holy War, which later became the spiritual call of the Crusades. Since then, the word Holy War has been endowed with a strong religious meaning, referring to a war launched in the name of God, or the purpose of the war is to practice faith. Therefore, this The word is officially included in the dictionary.

The Hui nationality is a race that almost all believe in Muslims.

"Good guy, apart from terrorism, now you want to build a religious empire and genocide for me?! Is this deceiving me? Who gave them the courage!"

With a cold look in Zai Chun's eyes, he threw all the fish feed into the pool, causing all the carp in Silver Lake to scramble for food.

Zeng Guofan stood by Zai Chun's side, heard what Zai Chun said, and remained silent.

"Old Zeng, I am determined to dispatch troops to wipe out the rebels."

Zai Chun's tone was no longer a discussion, but a final decision.Zeng Guofan knew that Zaichun's holy will had been decided, so he responded, "Then who does the emperor think it would be better to send to quell the chaos?"

"Among the Qing Dynasty, the Hunan Army is the most powerful. Now the Hunan Army, Mr. Zeng is in the capital, and Li Hongzhang is in the southeast. Let Zuo Zongtang be transferred there."

Zuo Zongtang is now the governor of Zhejiang, but because of Zai Chun's vigorous support of Li Hongzhang, he has been excluded a lot.It's not bad to be transferred to the northwest now.Zeng Guofan had no objection to this.

"What about the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces?"

"The empress dowagers of the two palaces don't care about the affairs of the Ministry of War, but those of the Ministry of Households, you should move around more." The Ministry of Households controls the financial power, and Prince Gong has always been in charge.

"So, I suggest that the emperor move his division back to Beijing."

At present, the problem of the American envoy has been resolved, and the summer festival is almost over, so it is time to return to Beijing.What's more, Prince Gong is still staying in the capital now. After all, he is a super-grade prince who discusses politics, so it's not a problem to hang out in the capital and stay away from the empress.

"Success, discuss it with the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces later, and return to Beijing in a few days, and ask Zuo Zongtang to go to Shaanxi and Gansu at the same time. Oh, by the way, ask the Anqing Nei Ordnance Station to send some flowering cannons, and the magic soldiers will always see you." Only blood can be said to be powerful."

Listening to Zai Chun's entrustment, Zeng Guofan sighed in his heart, and he didn't know what the Qing Dynasty could do to calm down all internal troubles!

In this way, the matter of Shaanxi and Gansu was settled. This appointment was passed by the court very quickly, and even the censor, who always liked to talk a lot, remained silent.After all, it would be great if someone else could do this kind of life-threatening drudgery.

After three or five days, the Ministry of Internal Affairs handled the affairs of the Chengde Palace in a similar manner, and the emperor's Luanjia was about to depart from Rehe to fight against Beijing.On this trip, there was a great momentum, and a lot of armored escorts were updated.Apparently, the people from the Sixth Division were also afraid that someone would not be able to open their eyes, so they came together to assassinate at such a time.

Zai Chun returned to the capital faster than when he went to Chengde, and returned to the Forbidden City two days earlier.The big guy returned home in a hurry, and his buttocks were still hot, and the order from the palace came down again, and Prince Zhaogong Yi immediately went to the palace to report on his duties.

Prince Gong was summoned, and before he had time to communicate with Rongshou, he was recruited into the palace.After entering the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he took a look, Zaichun, Cixi Ci'an, six ministers, and ministers of military affairs were all there, as if they were in a state of first-level military alert.

"I kowtow to the emperor, long live the emperor. Kowtow to the queen mother of the two palaces, the queen mother is a thousand years old."

When Zaichun saw Prince Gong, he immediately gave him a seat and asked Zhilan to serve him tea.

"Does the household department still have surplus grain and silver?"

Zai Chun asked Prince Gong this question.Although Hubu Shangshu is Guiliang, he, the old father-in-law, has to look at his son-in-law's face. Obviously, Prince Gong is the one who can talk.

Prince Gong is very good at miscellaneous things, he calculated the things in the treasury in his mind: "There is money, but there is not much food."

Years ago, the military rations for the pacification of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were collected from the northern regions, but now the major provinces near the capital are running out of surplus rations.

"How long can a hundred thousand troops last?"

The ration of the [-] troops is again a unit of measurement, which is also used by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households to calculate the consumption of military rations.

"Two months."

Prince Gong answered truthfully.

two months. . .

too little. . .

Zai Chun was so dissatisfied with this that obviously the number was far lower than his expectation.

"Is there a way?"

Prince Gong thought for a while: "It should be possible to collect food from the southeast."

The southeast area had been under the control of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom before, but now it is under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, there should be some surplus food left by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Thinking of this, Zai Chun's eyes lit up, this is a good idea.Water transportation is now also opened, whether it is river transportation or sea transportation, it can quickly transport grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the north.