Chapter 564: A Critical Moment
Saishan'a personally came to Guiping, and set up the Qin Dispatch in Guiping County in order to command nearby, and at the beginning of getting off the bus, he started with the rectification of the officials, and dismissed the corrupt officials with a bad reputation in the local area and the generals who were ineffective in combat. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
This time, Cezanne not only had the right to arbitrarily decide on the spot, but also had the right to cut first and then play, but also Daoguang also awarded a 'Curb Pilon' knife to strengthen his prestige.
During the Qianlong period, during the battle of Jinchuan, Emperor Qianlong ordered Fu Heng to defeat the grandson of Jinchuan with the sword of Curb Pilon - when he was a scholar of the Baohe Palace, the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu and other important positions, and led the troops to the army as a minister of economic strategy.
Daoguang awarded the curb Bilon knife, and also specially advised, "If there is a wait-and-see, fear is uneven, or even the thief is about to collapse, the thief does not chase, and the person who misses the opportunity to do so, will be given the curb Bilon knife military law to engage in the accumulation, and the suppression of the line." ”
The first time the army deliberated, Cezanne invited the Curb Pilon Knife to deter the generals from all walks of life, not to mention the identity of Cezanne's own Minister of Military Aircraft and the Minister of the Imperial Mission, only this Curb Pilon Knife and Daoguang's words were enough to make the generals frightened, no one dared to be presumptuous, and no one dared to show off their qualifications.
Feared by coercion, the generals on the front line changed their previous style of fighting separately and not cooperating with each other, and fully cooperated with the newly appointed Guangxi Governor Xiang Rong, and the 30,000 Qing troops worked together to steadily advance and suppress.
Although the morale of the Taiping army was boosted, the disparity between the strength of the two sides was too large, and in the face of the Qing army, they echoed each other, advancing step by step, steadily and steadily, it can be said that the dog bites the hedgehog, there is no way to speak, and the encirclement is shrinking and shrinking under the defeat and retreat.
When the war went smoothly, Cezanne adopted Jiang Zhongyuan's suggestion and launched a psychological war, sending a large number of meticulous workers to infiltrate the Taiping army's war zone to poison them, spreading rumors that Hong Xiuquan had been killed and hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers blockaded the battlefield, creating a tense atmosphere.
Many Taiping soldiers began to flee from the front line, and the Heaven and Earth Society also fished in troubled waters, conspiring to incite mutiny, but fortunately Yang Xiuqing detected it in time, and exposed it in time under the pretense that Heavenly Father went down to earth in time.
Faced with such a bad situation, Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and other high-level leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally decided that it was better to take the risk of breaking through than to sit and wait for death.
In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, taking advantage of the Qing army's lack of preparedness, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing led their troops to break through from Zhongping, and after a series of fierce battles, the main force of the Taiping army was smoothly transferred to the Bauhinia Mountain Mountains.
Jingshi, Haidian, Yuanmingyuan.
In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there was no New Year's atmosphere in the Old Summer Palace, not only because of the new funeral of the Queen Mother, the whole country was mourned, but also because Daoguang was seriously ill.
Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager died of illness, Daoguang was extremely sad, abided by the etiquette of filial piety, laid grass next to the mourning hall, sat on the ground and guarded the spirit, and the water and rice did not enter for several days, and the ministers knelt hard to pray for him to return to the palace, but Daoguang turned a deaf ear.
On the twenty-first day of the lunar month, the coffin of the Queen Mother moved to the Old Summer Palace, and Daoguang sent the coffin out of the city in a filial piety suit, and then rode to the Old Summer Palace and knelt outside the gate of the garden.
The Empress Dowager Zigong was placed in the Yinghui Hall of the Qichun Garden of the Old Summer Palace, and Daoguang made people spread white felt, lamp and straw mattress in their own dormitory Shende Hall, insisting on filial piety, at the age of sixty-eight, he was already weak, and he was infected with wind and cold before, where could he withstand such a toss, and he couldn't afford to be sick.
Daoguang is bedridden, and the princes naturally have no good life, all of them are guarding outside the Shende Hall, one is filial piety, and the other is also convenient for Daoguang to summon, and the two brothers who are expected to become the prince The four elder brother Yixu and the sixth elder brother Yixu seem to be calm, but in fact, they are both worried and anxious in their hearts, and mixed with a bit of indescribable desire.
Mu Zhang'a slowly walked out of the Shende Hall, arched his hand at the elder brothers, and then said: "The emperor has decreed that the fourth elder brother and the sixth elder brother will meet each other, and the other young elder brothers do not need to set up rules outside the palace, and go to the side hall to wait." ”
Summoning both of them at the same time? What's the situation? Yi Su and Yi Xun were all puzzled in their hearts, but they didn't want to ask too much, and they walked into the hall quickly, but Mu Zhang'a didn't stop, and hurried to the outside of the courtyard, gathering a group of ministers to lead the guards, and convey Daoguang's will - to strengthen the police inside and outside the Old Summer Palace, and strictly prohibit any news from leaking.
In the bedroom of Shende Hall, Daoguang was lying on the kang weakly, and the two brothers who saw Yi Su and Yi Xun came in to salute, so he motioned to the eunuch to help him get up and lie down, and then waved his hand to retreat from the eunuch in the room, and then said: "Sit, sit closer." ”
Seeing that Daoguang was weakened like this, Yixu's eyes turned red instantly, and he quickly got up and picked up the small pestle and sat down against the side of the kang, and shouted, "Huang Ama——。 He choked up and couldn't speak, and Yixun was not humble and sat down side by side with him.
Daoguang glanced at the two brothers with pity, and cheered up and said, "Tell me what you two think of Yuanqi..." ”
What do you think of Yuanqi? Yi Su and Yi Xun were both puzzled, didn't Daoguang know what the two of them thought about Yuan Qi? At this time, what does Baba mean by calling the two of them in to talk about Yuan Qi's opinion? Although the two of them were clear-minded, they couldn't figure out the meaning of Daoguang for a while.
For the Qing Dynasty, today's Yuan Qi can be said to be pivotal, with a great impact on the imperial court, although it has not reached the point of controlling the Qing Dynasty situation, but it is not far from each other.
At this time, Daoguang asked, could it be that the storage location has not yet been decided? This is obviously unreasonable, the two of them wondered in their hearts, and they didn't dare to think about it, Yi Su was the eldest son, and he didn't dare to change his consistent position, when he even considered it, he said: "Huang Ama, Yuanqi's semicolon is now all over the southeastern provinces, and it also issues paper money, opens a stock exchange to absorb private funds, and its financial resources are far from being comparable to the imperial court."
In addition, Yuanqi opened factories and mines, with hundreds of thousands of employees, and also opened a military factory and ammunition bureau. ”
Daoguang didn't say a word and turned to look at the sixth child, Yixin hesitated slightly, and then said: "Although Yuanqi is huge and has strong financial resources, the tens of thousands of shareholders of Yuanqi are all gentry and businessmen in the southeast.
As the so-called permanent property has perseverance, the sons and daughters secretly think that the possibility of Yuanqi being troubled is not great, even if it is easy to know that there is a heart of disobedience, Yuanqi and other shareholders may not be subordinate, unless it is the imperial court to forcibly seize and force them to be cornered.
Moreover, in Erchen's view, Yi Zhizhi has no intention of being subordinate, and the foundation of the Nanyang Navy is actually Yuanqi group training, if he really has different intentions, he will not lead the navy to fight in the east and west, he will do everything possible to preserve his strength, and he will not provide huge indefinite loans to the imperial court, will not scatter silver everywhere to help the victims of the disaster, will not provide new muskets to help the imperial court train the new army, and will not take the initiative to ask for the division of troops to garrison the northwest ....... ”
Seeing that he was targeting the fourth child and intended to fight in the ring, Daoguang said slowly: "Off topic." ”
Hearing this, Yixun's face turned red, and he paused, and then said: "Erchen secretly thinks that Yi Zhizhi is following the example of England, in order to make my Qing Dynasty rich and strong and strong, and compete with the West for hegemony overseas."
In recent years, the ministers paid a lot of attention to Yuanqi, who first created a bank, monopolized the local money industry, broke usury, and reduced the interest on loans, and then began to buy a large number of steam engines to build factories and build railways, which was actually to imitate England and develop industry.
Yuanqi founded military factories, shipyards, and ammunition bureaus, which was to explore the development of the Qing Dynasty's own military industry, in order to be able to manufacture warships, guns and ammunition on its own.
The shipyards in Guangzhou are now able to manufacture steam steamers, and I heard that the manufacturing process is slightly better than that of the West, which is a paddle wheel, while Yuanqi's steamer does not use a paddle wheel at all, and I heard that the ..... is propelled by a propeller at the bottom of the stern. ”
Speaking of this, he found that he was a little verbose, so he quickly stopped, paused, and continued: "Yi Zhishu once clearly said that the navy is an offensive branch of arms, and the purpose of preparing to build the navy is to expand abroad.
In addition, Yuan Qi divided his troops into the northwest, talked about border political reform, and immigrated to the real border, which was not only to resist the invasion of Tsarist Russia in the northwest, but also to take advantage of the outbreak of war in the West to expand westward. ”
Yi Su muttered softly: "How can such an ambitious person be willing to ...... others." ”
"Ahem." Daoguang coughed a few times, waited for his breathing to be steady, and then said slowly: "In order to govern, knowing people first, non-knowing people can't do their jobs well, and non-good people can't be said to know." As a king, the first thing is to appoint meritocracy, and the first thing to employ people is to know people.
Yuan Qi can achieve today's scale in just over ten years, the whole system is easy to be content with the merits of one person, make good use of easy contentment, you can make good use of Yuan Qi, easy to be content is ambitious, but when it comes to the outside world, it can maintain the imperial court everywhere, Western foreign affairs, non-easy contentment can not be competent, resist foreign Yi - southeast coastal defense, northwest border defense, also must rely on easy contentment. ”
Listening to these words, Yi Su was secretly worried, Daoguang said this, it is clear that he wants the new monarch to reuse and make good use of Yi Zhicontent, and it is a well-known thing that he and Yi Zhishu are not compatible, could it be that Daoguang has already set up the sixth child as a reserve? These words are simply for the sixth child, so what's the matter with telling him so in front of him?
Yixin is secretly happy, Daoguang is content with Yi Zhi's attitude towards Yuanqi, most of them will not choose to be evil with Yi Zhi**, and he has no good impression of Yuanqi, he is happy in his heart, but he doesn't dare to reveal the slightest bit and waits for Daoguang to follow.
After a slight pause, and after even breathing, Daoguang continued: "Our Daqing Dynasty is like a stage, whether it is a Manchu and Han dispute, or a party dispute, it is nothing more than you singing and I will appear, but no matter how we toss, we can't dismantle this stage."
This sentence was said by Yi Zhifen, said twice, once in Shanghai, in front of Seng Lingqin and Zhuo Bingtian, when the war with England had just ended, and Yuanqi wanted to develop the military industry, and the second time was in Guangzhou, after Mu Zhang'a attacked Yuanqi, he said it with Huang Entong. ”
Hearing this, Yi Su and the others were secretly shocked, Daoguang actually remembered what Yi Zhizu said so clearly!
"The first time Yi Zhishu said this, it was externally, Yuan Qi wanted to develop the Qing Dynasty's own military industry, so as not to invade the West again, and the second time he said that it was internal, Yuan Qi was already fledgling, and he intended to beat Mu Zhang'a and other courtiers." Daoguang glanced at his two sons as he spoke, and said in a deep voice: "Yi Zhixiang is ambitious, bold, good at training and commanding troops, since the founding of the Yuanqi Regiment training, after countless battles, but not a single defeat ....... ”
Speaking of this, he coughed violently, his face was unusually pale, and the panicked Yixu hurriedly got up to get the towel, and Yixu got up and walked quickly to the door and said, "Quick, pass the imperial doctor!" ”
The imperial physician on duty who had been guarding the side hall quickly rushed over to check the pulse of Daoguang, Yi Su and Yi Xun looked at each other, and did not dare to say a word, for fear of disturbing the pulse of the imperial doctor, both of them were secretly pondering Daoguang's words in their hearts, although the words were not finished, but Daoguang's fear of Yuan Qi's contentment with Yi Zhi was fully revealed, which made both of them very entangled in their hearts.
What exactly does Daoguang mean? Not only to reuse and make good use of Yi Zhi, but also to be wary of Yi Zhixin and Yuan Qi, who will this prince be? The two of them have another question in their hearts, secretly establish the prince, whether this edict of succession has been written, it is said that Daoguang is already old, and his body has never been good, it is impossible not to establish a prince for a long time, and furthermore, when Daoguang himself succeeded to the throne, he almost caused trouble because of the lack of an edict of succession, and it was impossible not to learn a lesson.
But Daoguang gave him the feeling of not yet having finally decided who to appoint as the prince, which made it difficult for the two of them to calm down.
After a while, the imperial physician finished taking the pulse, glanced at the two of them, and slowly walked out of the bedroom, and the two hurriedly followed, and before the two of them could ask, the imperial physician arched his hand and said: "The emperor should not bother at present, he needs to recuperate ......." ”
This is only half of the talk, what Daoguang means, the two of them didn't figure it out, they felt like a cat in their hearts, but the imperial doctor said so, the two of them couldn't help but be interested, so they had to guard outside the hall stupidly, both of them knew that after Daoguang slept for a while, his spirit was slightly better, and he would definitely summon them in, and both of them faintly felt that the critical moment had arrived.