cough cough cough ...... Zeng Guofan leaned back on the bed, coughing hollowly and violently, and his face flushed unhealthily - Zeng Guoquan hurriedly walked over when he saw that his eldest brother was so excited, and patted his chest and back.

After a few sips of warm tea, Zeng Guofan finally quieted down, he shook his head and sighed, "I'm tired, I'm really tired, I've already explained everything to you, but you still can't let go of the ** in your heart, you just want to take a step up?

"Forget it, don't explain, I don't want to hear it, and I don't have the energy to listen anymore...... Someone!" With Zeng Guofan's shout, a guard with an honest expression like an old farmer's rough hands and feet walked in, and there were actually a few patches on the black cloak he was wearing.

"Pass on my military order, and the Jizi battalion will move to Weihui Mansion in Henan...... Three days later, I immediately pulled out the camp, and I personally escorted the Jizi camp north!"

"Big brother!" Zeng Guoquan was crazy, he subconsciously wanted to grab Zeng Guofan's hand, but he saw that the old farmer was actually blocking Jiu Shuai's body in oblique stabs, and Jiu Shuai's hand grabbed the old farmer's shoulder.

"Jiu Shuai, please sit tight, Da Shuai's words are not finished yet!"

Zeng Guofan waved his hand, "It's a lot of things, my own brother can still harm me, go down!" After speaking, the old farmer smiled honestly and took two steps back, making way for the gap between the two brothers.

"Keep passing on my orders...... The eagle has worked hard for the country for many years, and has been given four products to wear, rewarded 120 hectares of fields in Foshan, and a mansion...... Eagles! You take the dozen or so apprentices you have cultivated to Foshan to open a martial arts hall! I will give you another 40,000 taels of silver, which is enough for your Southern Shaolin faction to carry forward......"

Zeng Guofan's voice was calm and indifferent, as if he was deciding whether it would be better to eat sweet or salty tofu brains tomorrow morning, and in the small courtyard outside the study, the eagle was kneeling like a pulp, and several apprentices he had summoned behind him were also kneeling together.

There were only four men in black beside them, all as simple and simple as the old peasant, each wearing a weather-beaten tattered black cloak, patched one on top of the other.

However, these four people stood in the four corners of the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest, but they shocked the eagle and his apprentices and did not dare to move at all, and the invisible pressure overwhelmed them.

"Thank you!" the eagle slammed his head to the ground, trembling like chaff.

"Eagle, I know that my old nine are kind to you, and you want to repay this kindness! But the gentleman has done something and has not done anything, I have asked you to block this kindness today, and in the future, Lao Jiu will ask you to do something, you can push it on me!"

After speaking, Zeng Guofan said in an unusually stern tone, "Okay, you have also taken the reward, and you have thanked you, then go quickly! Remember, without my handwritten military order, no one will be allowed to order you from now on!" Remember, remember ......"

Jiangnan has been peaceful for four years, and many people have forgotten what the handsome tiger is like, and today Zeng Guofan has deepened the impression of his subordinates again, he is the veritable king of Jiangnan.

The Hunan army is a whole in the eyes of Zeng Guofan, and even the entire Jiangnan region is a whole, but within the Hunan army, there are many factions and mountains.

Zeng Guoquan's root is his Jizi battalion, that is, the head of the battalion with the greatest achievements in the capture of Nanjing, Xiao Letian also highly respects the combat effectiveness of the Jizi battalion, when he was in Tanggu, the scene of dozens of war horses trampling on the green battalion soldiers is still terrifying to this day.

The roots of Jiziying are in the south of the Yangtze River, or the roots are in the two lakes, this is the hometown of Jiziying, and the mountains, rivers, grasses, trees and folk conditions here are the most familiar to Jiziying. As long as Jiziying does not leave Jiangnan, then no one in this world can defeat them, including foreigners.

However, once the Jizi battalion goes north, it will immediately be unadaptable, where is Weihui Mansion? That is the junction of the four provinces of Zhili, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan, if you do not rebel, the armies in all directions will be your shield, and you will naturally be as stable as Mount Tai.

If you have the slightest dissent, the imperial garrisons in all directions will pounce on you like Mount Tai pressing on the top, and you don't need to fight with your hands, and you can be trapped to death.

The eagle was taken away, and he didn't even dare to let go of a fart from beginning to end, followed by Zeng Guofan's large-scale rotation of middle-level officers in the Jizi battalion, and the most convenient generals used by Zeng Guoquan were all transferred away by Zeng Guofan in the name of promotion, and the new officers sent in were all the hardcore of the big handsome.

It is the kind of elite military general whose military merits and strength are enough to deter arrogant generals, but only obey the commander alone.

Zeng Guoquan was already stupid, he didn't expect his brother to be so ruthless, and he actually used such a domineering method to elevate himself, he wanted to resist but looked at his brother who was leaning on the sickbed, but his mouth was full of bitterness and couldn't say anything.

One after another military orders were issued, and finally the atmosphere in the study returned to tranquility, and the old brother and the old farmer in black did not move for a long time like sculptures.

The bell rang suddenly, and Jiu Shuai said, "Big brother, are you determined to be a loyal minister of this court?"

Zeng Guofan didn't answer him directly, he was silent for a moment and sighed, "You, you studied in your father's private school at the age of five, and you went to the capital at the age of seventeen to study by my side, I can't understand what kind of temperament you have?"

"Do you know what my father said to me when he sent you to Beijing......? You're talented, but your temper is so weird that your father can't figure it out!"

"In the sixth year of Xianfeng, Shi Da opened an army to invade Jiangxi, when the war situation was very critical, I once said at that time, 'the road is long, there is no way to call for help, I think of this in the middle of the night, and the soul is repeatedly frightened'. But at that moment of crisis, the ninth brother, you threw your pen from Rong, recruited 3,000 Xiangyong, went to Jiangxi to assist my brother and me, attacked Ji'an, and got the military name "Jizi Battalion" after winning. Among the many famous generals of the Hunan army, Lao Jiu, you are a rising star, but you are also the fastest rising, you are my real descendant......"

"My good brother! Back then, you went down to Ji'an in three battles, captured Jingdezhen one after another, and captured Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province, with the method of long-term siege, and then besieged Nanjing, the nest of the Taiping army. In the meantime, with 50,000 tired troops, you blocked the Taiping Army's more than 600,000 reinforcements for 46 days......"

In order to monopolize Nanjing, the "first merit in the world", you refused the reinforcements sent by me and the imperial court, and still used the iron bucket tactics of besieging and digging tunnels into the city for a long time to conquer Nanjing. After entering the city, your Jizi camp went on a killing spree, and even the Heavenly Sacred Treasury was nowhere to be found......"

"My brother, tell me if your father's four-character comment on you was wrong......? I can't let you mess around with just these four words! Brother, I still have a few years to live, I can't watch you go down the road to the underworld!"