Yongding Gate, the gate directly south of the Forty-Nine City of the capital, is tall and majestic. Looking south, you can see the vast fields and villages on the outskirts of Beijing!
No one from all the troops stationed in the capital dared to stop the Marshal's spirit-shifting team. Even the soldiers guarding the city gate knelt down to give the Marshal a ride!
People's hearts are made of flesh. No matter whether the commander is Manchu or Han, no matter whether he is a threat to the imperial court, the Hongyang Rebellion is for everyone. Without Commander Zeng, the best outcome for the Manchu Qing Dynasty would be to rule across the river. !
Even the possibility of being beaten back to the outside world by the Han people is very high. Ordinary Manchus don't understand the reason why the Han people became warlords. They just know that they can still eat some hard-core crops at the moment. Marshal Zeng deserves credit!
After being sent here, Xiao Letian could not go any further. Various Chinese officials stopped the head of state. The capital still had a lot of important work to deal with, and we could not waste any more time!
Xiao Hexin took the head of state's arm and whispered, "The commander-in-chief has ascended to heaven. He has completed his mission in this world, but we living people must continue to struggle, and we cannot delay it any longer!"
"Just send it here! Don't leave anymore..."
The Second Young Master also came to bid farewell to the Head of State, kowtowed three times and said with tears in his eyes, "After three years of filial piety, my nephew is willing to serve the Head of State in the Chinese community. I hope the Head of State will not despise my nephew for being stupid!"
"Hey... what are you talking about? Second Young Master, you are looking down on yourself! I have heard of you. Although you failed in the imperial examination, it was actually the commander-in-chief's protection for you. If the commander-in-chief just handed you a note, where would you be? Will the Second Young Master not have your official position?"
"I heard that the second young master is proficient in Western arithmetic? Okay, okay... After three years of mourning, come to our Chinese family, whether it is to study in the university or do some coordination work, I will definitely wait for you!"
"Thank you, head of state!" The second son, Zeng Jihong, kowtowed to the head of state and turned around to help Ling go south. The old camp of the Hunan Army in Liangxiang and Zhuozhou in the distance also received the telegram. At this moment, the cavalry had begun to go north to greet the commander's coffin!
Standing at the gate of the city and looking at the long snake-like mourning procession, Xiao Letian looked a little dazed. The Zeng Guofan in his previous life and the commander he met in this life began to overlap!
Zeng Guofan was born on November 26, 1811, and died in Nanjing on March 12, 1872, at the age of 61!
Although Xiao Letian's time travel brought Western medicine and new nursing technology to Zeng Guofan, it only extended the Marshal's life by seven months!
"The way of heaven is indeed difficult, and it is really hard to change! Whatever you gain, you will eventually lose something!" Xiao Letian said quietly.
Although Marshal Zeng lived seven months less in his previous life, he did not suffer from serious illness. He only showed some signs of paralysis before his death, and died soon after!
He didn't suffer too much, and he died a good death. Moreover, he died while serving in Nanjing, and his coffin was soon sent back to his hometown for burial!
But in this world, in the last two years of his life, the Marshal has endured the pain of illness and tried his best to serve Emperor Tongzhi and even Xiao Letian!
If you have a deep influence on the court, you will naturally offend others, and in the end, you will end up with someone walking away from the teacup!
Which life is the best? People, the blessings they bring are always certain. If you gain an extra seven months of life, you have to use other blessings to fill up the shortfall of these seven months that should not be there!
"Hey... maybe I'm dragging you down. If my appearance hadn't given you such a dream of a prosperous age, maybe you could have spent your remaining years in your hometown. Why would you have to bear the last bit of your bones?"
"It's my fault for delaying you..."
"Don't worry, let's go. I'll take your baton... Let's go back to the city and drink His Majesty's wedding wine tomorrow. It's time for us to get busy!"
The group of people rode back from Yongding Gate to the north. To the west was the Xiannong Altar, to the east was the Temple of Heaven, and just past the two royal sacrificial sites was the overpass!
People in later generations are familiar with the overpass, but most people have never seen this stone bridge in history, and no one understands the river under the bridge!
During the half year that Xiao Letian was in power in the capital, he really knew that there was a river under the overpass, and that the river was actually the upper reaches of Longxugou. By then, it had already turned into a stinky ditch!
After half a year of the capital's sanitation renovation campaign carried out by the head of state, the lower reaches of Longxugou became a bustling commercial street. The river channel was also dredged on the overpass side, and the smelly ditch became a clear water river!
As soon as the head of state's cavalry arrived at the overpass, spies from the Northern Bureau sent the latest news. Bureau Wang looked at it twice and immediately stopped Xiao Letian, "Head of State, there is a secret report... Someone on both sides of the Qinghe construction site suddenly started spreading rumors!"
"What rumor?"
"Well..." Director Wang looked around and saw no one and whispered, "There are unknown people secretly spreading rumors that Marshal Zeng... was poisoned by His Majesty!"
"Ah!" Xiao Letian's mind buzzed, "What other rumors are there?"
"Some people say that after His Majesty's wedding, he may turn all the flag slaves into factory slaves and go to repair factories... There are also many mysterious rumors that we often hear in the early stages of industrialization!"
"Some people are creating panic, and some people are starting to demonize His Majesty!"
"Haha... I knew it! I knew something was wrong! Are those people going to fight to the death?" Xiao Letian recalled Guiziliu's abnormal behavior today, and his heart was aroused, and a chill suddenly ran up his spine.
Xiao Letian and his party temporarily requisitioned a tea shed and threw 180 silver dollars to the boss. The boss smiled with his molars exposed, "Oh... the head of state is here in person. This is a blessing that the young man has cultivated in three lifetimes... …”
"That's right, stop flattering... leave now, the head of state wants to drink tea alone!"
Everyone in the tea shed gathered together to carefully analyze the situation in front of them, and after discussing for a long time, they reached a consensus. Sima Yun said coldly, "The commander-in-chief passed away, and the coffin was forced out of the city by these bastards!"
"The Hunan Army garrison in Liangxiang will retreat into Zhili tonight, and will almost reach Baoding Prefecture tomorrow!"
"The capital was originally made up of three stones that set up a pot, and the evidence was barely stable. The Xishan Camp, the commander-in-chief of the Hunan Army, and the royalists who were pro-His Majesty!"
"In the final analysis, the royalists, conservatives and Han forces... we and Dongjiaominxiang should be considered the periphery of the royalists. Although we don't admit it, that's how people in the court see it!"
"The new Yulin Army, Lord Fu Qing, and the Confucian scholars who are loyal to the emperor are the backbone of the royalist party!"
"Now the leader of the Hunan Army, who represents the power of the Han warlords, has passed away! One of the three stones has been removed at once, and the pot must be unstable!"
"These rumors must have a purpose! I suspect there is a serious riot! I'm afraid your majesty will not be happy about this wedding!"
"But I have no idea how those people want to control this riot, and I really can't figure it out!"
