On December 1 of the second year of Xianfeng, the Taiping army besieged Huangzhou for a long time, went down the river to the east, and on December 5, it broke through Huanggang County in one fell swoop, and the magistrate of Huanggang County was martyred.

The military aircraft department is gloomy, several military ministers are drinking tea that they don't know the taste, some are looking at the folding, Shao Can is picking up the pen to write, but just grind the ink, the rabbit is stained with ink, just want to write some notes on the jade paper, the pen stopped for a while, but shook his head and sighed and put down the pen.

Lin Kui saw Shao Can's restlessness, and he also felt that he was infected by Shao Can, and the book he pretended to read was also black and white, and he couldn't read it anymore, the "Book of Han" in his hand was resting on the coffee table, and there was a bunch of folds on the side that had not been approved and ignored, he put down his crossed legs, walked to the kang of Qi Liaozao, the foreman of the military aircraft, and hugged his fists and saluted, "Qi Zhongtang, this Hongyang rebel in the south has captured Huanggang, everyone can see it, the thief's mind is not small, and he probably wants to go to Jinling," Lin Kui turned his head and saw the meaning of the ministers of the military aircraft pricking up their ears, and knew that his words were right, at least in the few rooms of the military aircraft, everyone thought that there was nothing wrong with Hong Rebellion's place. "You say, if the emperor smells it, how should we tell it?"

The question is what to do?

Historically, after the Taiping army captured Wuhan, it was faced with three directions of advance: north into Henan, west into Bashu, east and southeast. Shi Dakai persuaded Yang Xiuqing to "first try to enter Shu, and then try to disturb the four things"; When Hong Xiuquan was in Changsha, he intended to enter Henan, "want to take Henan as his home", win the Central Plains, and go straight to the tiger's den, but the first time he captured Wuchang, he wanted to "build the capital" in the first provincial capital, and gave up with the fall of Wuchang, so it was not reluctant to take Nanjing as the capital next; Yang Xiuqing "covets the wealth of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and wants to take Jiangning from the Yangtze River as a 'nest'". Yang Xiuqing pretended to use the ruling of the Heavenly Father to seize Nanjing, which was based on the foundation, and Xu Tu made progress. After occupying Nanjing, Hong Xiuquan advocated dividing the army to defend Jiangnan, and the army went straight to the Central Plains, taking Henan as its business, pushing the anti-Qing war to the north, overthrowing the Qing Dynasty's rule, and seizing the national power. The Qing Dynasty was in crisis, and the people were flocking in all directions, "the North Road has not yet been fortified, the city walls are not strong, and the land is not dangerous."

In this era, the Taiping army did not take Wuchang City, and after a big setback outside Wuchang City, it still followed the previously established goal and went all the way down the Yangtze River, preparing to turn the world upside down in the Jiangnan of the Qing Dynasty.

Qi Liaozao read the fold in his hand without hurry, wrote a small note on the side, drafted his own handling opinions, held his beard, thought for a while, and returned to Lin Kui, who was still standing in front of him and looking at him anxiously, and said: "Meigu, what you said is not what I think, and it is what our emperor is most worried about. ”

Shao Can also came over and sighed: "Who said it wasn't, Zhongtang, we have eaten a lot of headlines at the emperor's place, and if we continue like this, we can't do anything about the situation in the south, you are the emperor, so naturally you are not afraid, just afraid that a few of us will take off the crown on our heads." Several military ministers on the side sat on the kang and nodded yes, with a look of approval.

Qi Liaozao also smiled bitterly: "How can I not know, but hey, many years of accumulation" Qi Liaozao said vaguely, but the one here has not been in the ups and downs of officialdom for many years, they are all human spirits among the human spirits, and they all understand that this is about the corruption of the officials, the degeneration of the army, and the corruption of the officials. How many Manchu and Han Eight Banners Green Battalion saw the banner of the Taiping Army and fled, if a few troops were willing to step forward to fight, they would already belong to the army of tigers and wolves! But this one who is willing to fight against it is really a straw bag, just like when Bai Xue meets the brazier, the ice disintegrates!

"The army is rotten to the roots! Daoguang Ye came to attack Yingyi at that time, our sailors were useless, and now this Hongyang rebellion has made this Eight Banners Green Camp lose the face of the court, the old man said something rebellious here, even if the Hongyang rebel thief came to the north, we have no soldiers, no generals can resist! Everyone was frightened and looked at the people on the side, and they all looked frightened.

"For today's plan, only by training elite soldiers can we eliminate the army of traitors in one fell swoop, but how can this elite soldier be trained for a while! The emperor heard the idea from others last time," Qi Liaozao looked blank, and his eyebrows twitched inadvertently, "It's a good way, let the squires from all over the country run their own regimental exercises to defend the township, how much can contain the marching speed of the rebels, let's now, let's make the charter of this regimental training more complete, what to do, how to give rewards, when will we take the regimental training and use it, how to open the salary and silver for the regimental training, this is all to ponder carefully, fill this idea to fill in, fill it wonderful." ”

"Qi Zhongtang is old and seeks the country, and he will wake me up with a word."

"Exactly."

Chuxiu Palace, Slow Blessing Hall.

The sun shone obliquely on the eaves of the Slow Blessing Pavilion, several eunuchs and palace maids stood outside the cotton curtain and waited, waiting for the call of the concubines inside, the snow in the palace was swept clean, and the two little eunuchs stood in front of the hall with two thick blue books, and the two palace maids hurriedly lifted the door curtain and let the two little eunuchs hurry in.

The two little eunuchs entered the gate of the palace of the Slow Blessing Pavilion, only to feel that the palace was as warm as spring, and there was the fragrance of fragrant flowers and rouge, only to feel that they were in the imperial garden in the spring of March, and they heard the sound of rings in their ears, and there were murmuring swallows, so they didn't dare to look up, and hurriedly handed over the booklet in their hands to Anqian and Fan'er who were guarding the door, hit a thousand, and hurriedly went out.

Anqian walked into the main room, only to see a large rosewood long carved rich Ruyi table in the middle of the middle of the room, Lan Concubine sat on the top, and sat on the left and right hands of Ying Concubine and Zhen Concubine looking at a large number of books, Li Guiren sat at the bottom of Ying Concubine, holding her head with one hand, drowsy without any image, looking helpless at the account book, Yun Guiren had already put aside all kinds of documents on the table, holding a black plum white porcelain bowl and drinking tea with relish, and there were two small snacks on the side, Yun Guiren was looking at which dim sum to use, it was normal for Wan Chang to be there, and he was still trying to insist on looking at the things in his hand, but the booklet in his hand was already a little shaky.

Xingzhen was even more helpless, gritting her teeth and looking at the account book written vertically with a fly's head, looking at the first two big, it was really impossible, the book written vertically was really ugly, Xingzhen saw Anqian and Fan'er take a stack of account books again, and suddenly exclaimed, "Where are there so many again!" ”

Lan Concubine's exclamation diverted the attention of all the women, and Anqian flipped through the several booklets on the top, knowing it in her chest, before she replied: "Back to the Niangniang, this is the list of dishes for the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet arranged by the Internal Affairs Office, rewarding fireworks and some decorations, presumably the Internal Affairs Office does not know what year the example is asking the ladies to decide." ”

"What do the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs say?" Xingzhen flipped through the booklet she had brought and asked Tang Wufu who was waiting on the side.

Tang Wufu bent down and put a freshly brewed plum blossom jade dew tea in Xingzhen's hand, before he quietly replied: "The intention of the Internal Affairs Office is that it is not appropriate to act according to the regulations of the first year of Xianfeng, because, because of the south, isn't it still peaceful." ”