By the end of the parade, the words of the emperor and queen had ended, and the monk Greenqin knelt down under the general's stage, telling him that the parade had been completed, and the queen mother smiled at Prince Gong: "Now the military appearance is prosperous, which can be called the first in ten years. Dot@"

Prince Gong leaned over and replied: "Yes, thanks to the Queen Mother's blessing, the emperor is benevolent." ”

"It's not something that our mother and son can do, it's all up to you, the sixth master." Empress Dowager Cixi said with a smile, "If there is no military aircraft to bother, the soldiers will use their lives, naturally it will not be when our mother and son are sitting in Diaoyutai now." Prince Gong hurriedly said that he didn't dare, and the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't mention it anymore, and said to Chen Fuen, "The military parade has been completed, so let's draw lots." ”

Lang Zhong of the Zeng State Domain went down to deliver the decree, "Draw lots? "What is this?

Li Hongzhang Guofan's eyebrows furrowed, and he wanted to ask something, but the generals and ministers on the stage stood up, and no one spoke, only those Western envoys who didn't know each other were whispering, and it was not easy to say anything.

The soldiers of the towns below have all been present, that Langzhong, rushed to the stage, and recruited a group of Sula from the military department, each holding a huge pot-bellied porcelain vase in his hand, and walked into each team in turn, so that each soldier drew lots, and there were sturdy soldiers holding large flags to enter, and the number of Dou Da was written on the flag, from one to twelve, the Queen Mother asked Chen Fuen, "This is divided into twelve groups?" ”

"Yes."

I thought it was the zodiac, so much. The Empress Dowager Cixi wiped her sweat silently in her heart, and she didn't speak, but she saw that the soldiers of the Jianrui Battalion who had drawn lots first were so confused that they were assigned to different flags, and Jinbao stood under the seventh flag, and before she came back to her senses, a few of the Hunan soldiers who fought together came over, looked at each other, and couldn't help but be angry, but she didn't dare to make a move, she glared angrily for a moment, and then snorted coldly, no longer letting herself be upset.

When half a cup of tea, the armies had already drawn lots, and had gathered under the twelve-pole flag, Zeng Guofan, who was originally unwavering, seemed to realize something, his face changed greatly, and he couldn't help but raise his head suddenly, and he thought of something towards Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and others on the stage, and couldn't help but look at each other, Zeng Guofan's heart was in turmoil, I didn't know what Chen Fuen was talking about, it took a long time to come back to his senses, but he finally heard a sentence,

"The Twelve Banners will rest for three days, and then take the first army in the world!"

"This!" Zuo Zongtang knelt and waited for the emperor to drive back, and couldn't help laughing while being dumbfounded, "This is really, hehe." Seeing that a guerrilla of the Chu army was about to come up and salute, Zuo Zongtang waved his hand, turned around, and didn't say anything, and went straight out of the Fengtai camp......

Hearing the Queen Mother's troubles, Gao Xinkui fell into deep thought, and the Queen Mother did not urge, but waited patiently, and after half a cup of tea, Gao Xinkui raised his head: "This matter of Weichen is related to the authority of the center, and it is also about the relationship between the local government and the center, and it must indeed be handled carefully." ”

"That's the reason, in your opinion, how to deal with it?"

"The queen mother means to collect the military power in the center, the first point, naturally not allow the governors to lead the troops on their own, if the new army is trained in the future, and then let the commanders of the soldiers know the army, it doesn't hurt, Weichen thinks, there are three strategies!"

"Make a decision, drive the tiger and devour the wolf, go directly to the bitter cold and remote places, and use these regimental training in the south to fight with the British in Mongolia Kokand or defending India, or go north to fight with the Russians, and consume the regimental training soldiers in foreign warfare!"

"The middle policy is to mix sand, replace the middle and high-level generals who are loyal to the governor, and promote the low-level generals, the queen mother has won the hearts of the people since the martyr's shrine, although this method is slow, but after all, it is a long stream, moisturizing things silently."

"Well, you're right, but what about the best policy?" The Queen Mother asked.

"Miscellaneous!" ……

After the general exercise, according to the lottery will be so to participate in the drill of the soldiers disrupted, a total of 12 groups of each item of the competition, through five levels of six generals, 15 days later, finally Liu Changyou led the seventh group ranked first, Wu Yundi group second, Zhang Shusheng group third, the queen mother and the emperor personally came to the Fengtai camp, the Tongzhi Emperor personally awarded the seventh group of "the first army in the world" of the pennant, the seventh group of officers promoted to one level, Liu Changyou personally waved the pennant, the troops under the stage cheered loudly.

"The queen mother's envoy's good plan," Wen Xiang's moving people, accompanied by a roar, whispered to Cao Yuying, "Scattering the armies not only eliminates the view of the portal, but also makes the army more able to share the same hatred and hatred of the enemy, thinking about seizing this rare glory, but also letting, hehe, let those governors have hardships and can't speak." ”

"I'm afraid this matter is not so smooth," Cao Yuying's governors of different colors, "there will always be many waves in the future." However, the Queen Mother was not stingy, and gave Zeng Guofan a position of Taibao, and added a first-class duke, and the others were all rewarded, so that there was less resentment, and it could be done. ”

"That's right, in the first year of Tongzhi, now this start is very beautiful." ……

On November 20 of the first year of Tongzhi, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Ruilin, rushed to play 600 miles, and the Hui people in Huazhou rebelled, stretching over Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. The Queen Mother read the chapter for the first time, and was furious, and then rejoiced, "Good! ”

End of Volume 3 "Listening to Politics with the Curtain". (To be continued......)