Cough cough Zeng Guofan leaned on the bed, coughing hollowly and violently, and his face turned unhealthy red. When Zeng Guoquan saw his elder brother being so excited, he quickly walked over and patted his chest and back.
After drinking a few sips of warm tea, Zeng Guofan finally calmed down. He shook his head and sighed, "I'm tired. I'm really tired. I've explained everything I need to say to you, but you still can't let go of what's in your heart. You Do you really want to take a step forward? How can you be sure that taking a step forward will lead to success?"
"Forget it, don't explain, I don't want to hear it, and I don't have the energy to listen to whoever is coming!" Following Zeng Guofan's shout, a guard with a simple and honest expression like an old farmer walked in, wearing a There are actually a few patches on his black cloak.
"Pass my military order, Jizi Camp will move to Weihui Mansion in Henan Province and break out of the camp immediately after three days. I will personally escort Jizi Camp northward!"
"Brother!" Zeng Guoquan went crazy. He subconsciously wanted to grab Zeng Guofan's hand, but all he saw was that the old farmer stabbed diagonally in front of Jiu Shuai. What Jiu Shuai's hand grabbed was The shoulders of the old farmer.
"Ninth commander, please sit still, the commander has not finished speaking yet!"
Zeng Guofan waved his hand, "Nosy, my brother can still harm me, get down!" After saying that, the old farmer smiled honestly and took two steps back to make way for the gap between the two brothers.
"Continue to pass on my military order. Eagle has worked hard for the country for many years and has made great achievements. He will be given a fourth-grade crown, 120 hectares of land in Foshan, and a big house. Eagle! You can take the dozen or so disciples you have trained to open a martial arts gym in Foshan! If you are a fourth-grade top wearer, I will give you another 40,000 taels of silver, which is enough for your Southern Shaolin sect to flourish."
Zeng Guofan's voice was calm and indifferent, as if he was deciding whether the tofu buns tomorrow morning would be sweet or salty. In the small courtyard outside the study, the eagle was sweating and kneeling at the moment, with several people he had summoned behind him. The disciples also knelt together.
There were only four men in black beside them, all of them were as honest and simple as the old farmer. Each of them wore a weather-beaten, tattered black cloak with patches piled one on top of the other.
However, just these four people standing in the four corners of the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest were so frightened that the Eagle and his disciples did not dare to move at all, and the invisible pressure made them unable to breathe.
"Thank you Marshal for your kindness!" Eagle knocked his head to the ground, shaking like chaff.
"Eagle, I know my Lao Jiu is kind to you, and you want to repay this kindness! But there are things a gentleman does and things he doesn't do. I mentioned you today to block this kindness, and Lao Jiu will use you again in the future. If you do something, you can push it on me!"
After finishing speaking, Zeng Guofan said in an unusually stern tone: "Okay, you have taken the reward and thanked you for the kindness, so go quickly! Remember, without my personal military order, no one can order you from now on! Remember "
Jiangnan has been at peace for four years. It has been a long time and many people have forgotten what the commander's power is like. Today, Zeng Guofan once again deepened the impression on his subordinates that he is the true king of Jiangnan.
In Zeng Guofan's eyes, the Hunan Army was a whole, and even the entire Jiangnan region was a whole. However, there were many factions and hills within the Hunan Army.
Zeng Guoquan's roots are his Jizi Camp, which is the battalion head that made the greatest achievements in the capture of Nanjing City. Xiao Letian also highly praised the combat effectiveness of Jizi Camp. When he was in Tanggu, there was a scene where dozens of war horses trampled the Green Camp soldiers. It still shocks people to this day.
Jiziying's roots are in the south of the Yangtze River, or in other words, the two lakes. This is Jiziying's hometown. The mountains, rivers, grass, trees and people's customs here are what Jiziying is most familiar with. As long as Jiziying does not leave Jiangnan, no one in the world can defeat them, including foreigners.
But once Ji Ziying goes north, he will immediately become acclimatized. Where is Wei Hui Mansion? It is the junction of the four provinces of Zhili, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan. If you don't rebel, the armies from all directions will be your shield, and you will be as stable as Mount Tai.
If you have the slightest dissent, the imperial troops from all directions will pounce on you like Mount Tai, and they will trap you to death without even having to fight.
The eagle was taken away, and he didn't even dare to fart from beginning to end. Immediately afterwards, Zeng Guofan conducted a large-scale rotation of mid-level officers in Jiziying. The most convenient generals used by Zeng Guoquan were all promoted by Zeng Guofan. The officers were transferred in name, and the new officers sent in were all loyal to the commander-in-chief.
He is the kind of elite general whose military exploits and strength are enough to intimidate arrogant generals, but who only obey the commander-in-chief.
Zeng Guoquan was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that his brother would be so cruel and use such a domineering method to oust him. He wanted to resist, but when he looked at his brother leaning on the hospital bed, he was so bitter that he couldn't say anything.
Military orders were issued one after another, and finally the atmosphere in the study became quiet. The two old brothers and the old farmer in black, like sculptures, did not make a sound or move for a long time.
The self-ringing bell suddenly rang, and the Ninth Marshal said, "Brother, are you determined to be a loyal minister of this court? Are you determined to be a dog under the Manchus?"
Zeng Guofan did not answer him directly. He was silent for a moment and sighed, "You, you have been studying in your father's private school since you were five years old, and you came to the capital to study with me at the age of seventeen. Can I not understand your temperament?"
"Do you know what my father said to me when he sent you to Beijing? Listen, he said that you were 'unlucky'. This was my father's comment on you. You are talented, but your temper is too weird. It's weird. Even my father can’t figure it out!”
"In the sixth year of Xianfeng, Shi Da launched an army to invade Jiangxi. The war situation was very critical at that time. I once said at that time, 'The journey is long and there is no way to call for help. I read this at night and my soul is frightened.' But at that critical moment, Ninth Brother You joined the army and recruited three thousand Hunan warriors to go to Jiangxi to aid my brother and attack Ji'an. After the victory, you were given the military nickname "Ji Zi Ying". Among the many famous generals of the Hunan Army, Lao Jiu, you are a rising star, but you are also the fastest rising. He is my true direct descendant."
"My good brother! Back then, you captured Ji'an in three battles, captured Jingdezhen one after another, captured Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province, with a long siege, and then besieged Nanjing, the home base of the Taiping Army. In the meantime, you relied on fifty thousand The exhausted division blocked the Taiping Army's repeated attacks and killings of more than 600,000 reinforcements for forty-six days."
"The greatness of your achievements is unimaginable, but your domineering temper is enough to give people a headache. In order to monopolize Nanjing, which is "the best in the world," you refused the reinforcements sent by me and the imperial court, and still used the long siege It took two and a half years to conquer Nanjing using the iron barrel tactics of being trapped for a long time and digging tunnels into the city. After entering the city, your Jizi Camp went on a killing spree, and even the Holy Treasury of the Kingdom of Heaven was missing."
"My brother, tell me, are your father's four-character comments about you wrong? I'm so angry at these four words, so I won't let you fool around! Brother, how many more years do I have to live? I can't just look at you. I’m following you down the road to death in the underworld!”
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