What is called hypocrisy? Zeng Guofan and Wu Chaoyue, the unscrupulous teacher and student, perfectly interpreted and displayed this word.

When we met again after a long time, despite being dissatisfied with one hundred dissatisfied, Wu Chaoyue slowly walked to Zeng Guofan step by step, and knelt down slowly on his knees. Before his mouth was opened, two lines of sad tears had already burst out from his eyes very obediently. Then he hugged Zeng Guofan's legs and cried loudly. He couldn't say a quick word for a long time, "Teacher..., student Wu Chaoyue..., met..., teacher..."

The barber teacher also performed perfectly, and he felt ten thousand dissatisfaction and jealousy towards the comprador student. The barber teacher gently stretched out his hand and patted the comprador student's head lovingly. Tears flashed in his eyes and choked with sobs, "Very good, very good, you are very good, I have read the wrong person, you are not wrong as a student."

Hearing this touching conversation, he heard the touching scene of Zeng Guofan and Wu Chaoyue crying with their heads in their arms. The Zeng brothers and the Hunan Army generals next to him all had sore noses, and many people shed tears. They were all moved by the teacher-student relationship between Zeng Guofan and Wu Chaoyue, the teacher-student relationship between Zeng Guofan and Wu Chaoyue, and the resentment accumulated for Wu Chaoyue who had not come to Wuchang to take office for a long time was completely wiped out. He had a good impression of Wu Chaoyue who had met for the first time.

In fact, the disgusting performance has never ended. After personally helping up the best student, Zeng Guofan asked with concern how Wu Chaoyue broke through the Taiping Army blockade and came to Wuchang Prefecture City. When he learned that Wu Chaoyue had only brought more than 200 people, Zeng Guofan also complained repeatedly: "It's too risky. You are the lord of a province, how can you take such a risk? The Chaos Water Channel, but there are no towns and ports to stay along the way, and there is no protection for the imperial government. Changmao only needs more than a thousand bandits to block the river surface, and it also makes you have no place to retreat even if you want to retreat. Doing this is simply a joke to use your own life."

Of course, Wu Chaoyue would not say that his more than 200 followers were the most elite Wu Jun's bravery, and he also carried advanced weapons such as grenade launchers and grenade bombs. It was no problem to break through the interception of the 3,000 Taiping Navy. Wu Chaoyue said just as if he had a honey on his mouth: "Students also know the danger, but students are more concerned about your teacher's safety, and they wish they could grow wings and fly directly to your teacher's side, helping them with their help. So even though they knew the danger, the student still took the risk."

"Nonsense!" Zeng Guofan shouted loudly and said, "You are still a governor of a province. It is impossible to distinguish which one is more important? Is it important for you to come to Wuchang Prefecture to help me defend the city, or is it more important for the safety of ten prefectures and one prefecture in Hubei? You are the governor of Hubei. After you arrive in Hubei, you must first consider how to organize Hubei's official troops to prevent the long-haired traits and not give the long-haired bandits the opportunity to continue to expand. You don't understand this?"

After Yizheng scolded him, Zeng Guofan muttered in his heart: "Besides, what's the use of bringing more than 200 people here? What can you do to help me?"

"Yes, yes, the student is wrong." Wu Chaoyue quickly lowered his head and admitted his guilt, and said sincerely: "The student was confused for a while and forgot his mentor's earnest teachings. The student deserves to die, so please punish him."

After saying that, Wu Chaoyue also muttered in his heart: "Teacher, this is what you said. If you really encounter any danger in the future, if I don't save you, it's your teaching. I won't save you as you ask."

After saying a very high-sounding word with each ulterior motive, Zeng Guofan ordered people to set up a banquet to welcome their dear students, and then introduced the Hunan Army generals to Wu Chaoyue. When he heard familiar names such as Hu Linyi, Peng Yulin, Zeng Guoquan and Luo Zenan, Wu Chaoyue sighed quietly, and couldn't help but feel a little greedy and said intimately: "It's a pity that if these people were my accomplices and lackeys."

Wu Chaoyue coveted the barber's accomplice and lackeys, but Zeng Guofan was also jealous of the dog-headed military advisor Zhao Liewen, thugs Huang Dasha, Cao Yanzhong and others brought from Shanghai, Zeng Guofan had long understood that Wu Chaoyue's proclamation to the whole world issued to the whole world was written by Zhao Liewen, and he was very depressed that even the disobedient students who wrote a letter were nonsense, could actually recruit such outstanding talents. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue's two

The powerful thugs Huang Dasha and Cao Yanzhong have long been famous in the Qing army. Huang Dasha's thirty-meter gun-fire tactics like crazy on the Jiangyin battlefield have been rumored to be a beautiful story. Zeng Guofan had long wished that he could have such a brave and loyal general under his command. He finally met Huang Dasha, who always stood straight and had a strong face. Zeng Guofan was also a greedy life. "If such a brave general could be sent by me."

By the way, what Zeng Guofan is most inferior to his disciple Wu Chaoyue is that he has no advantage in his historical prophet, so he is not very interested in Wu Chaoyue's future father-in-law Feng Sanbao and his brother-in-law Nie Shicheng. He didn't even know that the development potential of these two masters is actually far above that of Huang Dasha and Cao Yanzhong.

The banquet to welcome Wu Chaoyue was held in a warm atmosphere. Li Qinggu, the Hubei Censor, Duoshan, Wuchang Prefecture Duoshan, and the garrison generals Yang Dingguo, Lin Tianzhi, Bao Chao and others rushed to the Hunan Army to pay homage to Wu Chaoyue. Wu Chaoyue greeted each other with them, comforted each other, and took the opportunity to treat these subordinates with the teacher's food. However, while saving a lot of money, Wu Chaoyue keenly realized that in Wuchang City, whether Yang Dingguo, who led the green camp or Lin Tianzhi, who was in charge of the regiment, showed great respect to Zeng Guofan, and there was no lack of flattery in his words. He was obviously impressed by Zeng Guofan and the Hunan Army. Bao Chao, who was originally a Hunanese, even sat directly among the crowd of the Hunan Army generals, chatted and joked with the Hunan Army generals in the Hunan Arrogance, and obviously had already worn a pair of pants with the Hunan Army.

It was also taking advantage of the opportunity of the banquet that Wu Chaoyue quickly learned about the green camp and regiment training situation in Wuchang Prefecture City from Li Qinggu and others. What made Wu Chaoyue frown was that there were only about 1,200 green camp soldiers in Wuchang Prefecture, and there were only more than 3,000 local training soldiers in Hubei. Not to mention that this power was at a disadvantage in front of the Taiping Army, it was not worth mentioning even in front of the Hunan Army. Even if Wu Chaoyue mastered all of them, he would not have much capital to challenge the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army. So Wu Chaoyue quickly made up his mind and decided not to reorganize the local Hubei army before the end of the Wuchang war, so that Yang Dingguo and Bao Chao and other two-five boys could enjoy the whole life. Only Zeng Guofan's leader was to avoid stimulating the barber teacher and affecting his current seemingly intimate friendly relationship with the barber teacher.

Zeng Guofan did have the capital to suppress Hubei Green Camp and regiment training. When Wu Chaoyue asked about the current military strength of the Hunan Army carefully, Zeng Guofan told Wu Chaoyue proudly that after the Hunan Army's great victory in Yuezhou and the restoration of Wuchang, the naval and land forces once expanded to more than 16,000 people in thirty-two battalions. Later, although some troops were damaged several times and suffered a lot of losses in the battle to defend the city, there are still more than 11,000 people in 22 battalions, and the weapons and ammunition are sufficient. The navy's strength is still more than 80% of the peak, which is enough to compete with the Taiping Navy on the water.

He murmured secretly that Qi Zhizao and Wild Boar Skin Ninth Generation were so vigilant about their barber teacher. Wu Chaoyue inevitably made his own small plan again, thinking about whether he could use the barber teacher's hand to drive the Taiping Army out of the Wuchang battlefield as soon as possible, and then expel all the Taiping Army from Hubei, so that he could completely free up his hands to show his strength. After calculating for a while, Wu Chaoyue asked the barber teacher: "Mr., although the students were lucky enough to enter the city, they did not bring any soldiers. After entering the city, they could only get some money and food for your teacher and cheer for you. How should you fight in the next battle in Wuchang Mansion City? Please ask your teacher to give me a message."

"Of course, we must stick to wait for assistance." Zeng Guofan replied without thinking: "A few days ago, Yang Jiantai's people also contacted me, saying that Yang Jiantai had ordered Hunan Governor Luo Bingzhang to organize a reinforcement army to go north to reinforce, and Xi'an General Zarafen has also led Shaanxi and Gansu troops to Suizhou. So soon, he can meet with Yang Jiantai and join forces to rescue Wuchang. So we just need to stick to it, and it will take a turn for a long time."

Wu Chaoyue didn't say anything, but exchanged a glance with Zhao Liewen, and saw the worries in the other party's eyes. Then Wu Chaoyue hesitated for a moment and said to Zeng Guofan: "Mr., what should Changmao do if he adopts the tactic of besieging the city and attacking aid? Leave some troops to confront our army, and then divide the troops to defeat our reinforcements one by one. What should we do?"

"It's possible." Zeng Guofan nodded and said casually: "But it doesn't matter. As long as our reinforcements advance carefully, they will respond carefully when they encounter Changmao's division of troops. Even if they cannot destroy Changmao's division of troops, they can restrain Changmao's division of troops for a long time and share the pressure for us."

Zeng Guofan's tactical choice is actually not wrong. Even if the reinforcements from Hunan and Shaanxi cannot beat the Taiping Army, as long as you are careful not to be killed by the Taiping Army in an instant, you can indeed restrain the Taiping Army's partial divisions and share the pressure on the Wuchang battlefield, and then may even create fighter jets for the Hunan Army to take the opportunity to counterattack in a comprehensive manner. This is definitely the best choice for the Hunan Army to exchange the largest gains at the minimum price.

However, this is the most unfavorable choice for Wu Chaoyue. The worse the Wuchang Prefecture and Hubei fight, the longer the fierce battle lasts, and the greater the land affected by the war, the more unfavorable it is for Wu Chaoyue, the governor of Hubei! Therefore, Wu Chaoyue's best choice is actually the exact opposite of Zeng Guofan, that is, to lure the Taiping Army to concentrate its troops mainly on the Wuchang battlefield, and design that the Taiping Army does not divide its troops to intercept the Qing reinforcements, and try to let the war poison the surrounding land as little as possible. In this way, after the Taiping Army withdrew from the Wuchang battlefield and Hubei, Wu Chaoyue, the governor of Hubei, can reorganize Hubei's military and civil affairs in the shortest time and save astronomical money and grain expenditures.

The way to lure the Taiping Army to concentrate its troops on the Wuchang battlefield is very simple. Just let the Hunan Army attack properly. If you launch a few counterattacks appropriately, the Taiping Army will certainly not divide the troops easily. Of course, Wu Chaoyue’s barber teacher is not a second, so of course he will not do such a loss.

"Mr. Teacher, students' humble opinion, we might as well consider taking appropriate attacks, putting some pressure on Changmao, and buying time and opportunity for our reinforcements to advance. I wonder what my teacher thinks?"

Sure enough, when Wu Chaoyue made this suggestion carefully, he was indeed rejected by Zeng Guofan. Zeng Guofan also taught his proud disciples a lesson: "Weiting, although you are very unique in military affairs, you still like to take risks when using troops. Now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, our army is still worried about lack of strength when defending the Wuchang Prefecture City. If there is any danger in the army leaving the city, then we will have the troops to defend the Wuchang Prefecture City? Don't forget, this is the capital of Hubei Province, and your governor will not be able to make any mistakes!"

He secretly scolded the barber's selfishness. Wu Chaoyue had to thank the teacher for his advice in a submissive manner. Zeng Guofan refused to give in and taught Wu Chaoyue the truth about the right victory and the host and guest. He forced Wu Chaoyue to nod and constantly thanked the barber's teacher for his teachings and guidance. He had to lose his teeth and blood even after suffering a great loss. He was extremely depressed.

The banquet ended well, and with Wu Chaoyue's strong patience, the banquet finally ended in a good atmosphere. When he said goodbye and left, Wu Chaoyue, who was preparing to stay at the Governor's Yamen, took the initiative to order Li Qinggu and other Hubei civil and military officials: "Li Nietai, many prefects, just ask you two to lead me to the Governor's Yamen. General Yang, Lin Lianguan, General Bao, and you generals will return to your posts to serve on duty and are ready to obey Zengbutang's orders at any time. Once Zengbutang has military orders, you must implement them immediately without any delay!"

Yang Dingguo, Lin Tianzhi and other military generals in charge agreed without thinking. Zeng Guofan asked with a smile on his face and said with a smile: "Weiting, isn't this good? You are the governor of Hubei. When you are in charge of the garrison, the green camp and regiment training in Hubei should be directly obeyed your orders. How can they continue to obey my military orders?"

"Mr. Don't be humble." Wu Chaoyue waved his hand in a hurry and said sincerely: "Mr. The talent of his teacher is a hundred times better than that of the students. Now the students are here again. They are blinded by all the situations in Wuchang Prefecture City and don't know anything. Now they take over the military power, which means they don't know the enemy, and they don't know themselves. How can they stop the long-haired bandits? So the students dared to ask their teacher to continue to take charge of the military power for the students for a period of time, so that General Yang and Lin Lianguan will continue to obey orders directly, avoiding the orders from being sent out, causing disasters."

After refusing a few more words, he really couldn't hold on to the kindness of his desirable disciple. Zeng Guofan finally nodded reluctantly and agreed to continue to take charge of the army for the disciple for a period of time. After personally sending the students out of the camp, Zeng Guofan looked at the students' leaving backs, and smiled proudly while twisting his beard and said to himself: "You are smart!"

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The Hubei Governor's Yamen is located in Liangdao Street in Beicheng, with the back of Yanzhi Mountain. Although the feng shui is not very good, the scenery is quite beautiful. Wu Chaoyue's entourage has all moved into the Yamen. Seeing Wu Chaoyue coming, the old Shanghai subordinates immediately came out to line up to greet him. Wu Chaoyue, who was in a bad mood, waved his hand to stop the old lackeys' attentiveness and asked everyone to go back to continue to arrange accommodation. He also asked the personal captain Wu Dasai to temporarily take the position of housekeeper, and then took Li Qinggu and Duoshan into the Yamen. He also asked them to lead the way before they could enter the back hall to sit and speak.

After sitting down, Wu Chaoyue said to Li Qinggu and Duoshan very sorry: "Li Nietai, Duo Prefect, I am really sorry. I have just arrived and don't even have a cup of tea. Don't be surprised."

Li Qinggu and Duoshan quickly said it was okay, and then Duoshan, who was very good at flattering, offered to send some servants, maids and chefs to Wu Chaoyue. Wu Chaoyue, who didn't know Duoshan, shook his head and refused, saying, "Thank you, Duofu Zun, for your kindness, but no need. I'm used to living in the military camp, it's good. At the moment of the enemy, military affairs are the priority, and I will talk about these trivial matters of maids and servants later."

After saying that, Wu Chaoyue asked Li Qinggu and Duoshan to introduce the people's livelihood situation in Wuchang Prefecture City to him. Li Qinggu and Duoshan answered truthfully, saying that because the Taiping Army went north to attack Wuchang Prefecture City, most of the people and gentry outside the city moved to the city to avoid the war, but a considerable number of people refused to enter the city, either fled to other places, or became a suspense person for the Taiping Army. In addition, Li Qinggu introduced Yang Pei's escape when he was extremely afraid, and also took the initiative to say: "Before Yang Jiantai went to De'an, he had an explanation that we must obey the orders of Bizeng's ministry, and no matter military, government and civil affairs, we must not disobey the orders of Zeng's ministry. So..., so..."

"So what?" Wu Chaoyue asked, and said again: "Speak directly, there is no need to be obscure."

"So the money and grains in the vassal treasury were guarded by Zengbutang, saying that it was to guard against the long-haired spies burning grains." Li Qinggu said the truth carefully, "Zengbutang also said that for the convenience of withdrawal, he sent someone to take charge of the accounts."

Wu Chaoyue didn't say anything, but just paid attention to the reaction of Duoshan. Although Duoshan was Manren, Manren Tazibu was also a loyal lackey of the barber teacher, so Wu Chaoyue had to be more mountainous. Fortunately, Duoshan hesitated for a while and said, "The Xiaguan also objected to this matter, but Zengbutang moved out of Yang Jiantai. Yang Jiantai issued a strict order before leaving the city, saying that before he came back, Zengbutang's order was his order. So the Xiaguan had no choice but to hand over the key to the treasury."

After observing his expression, he found that although Li Qinggu and Duoshan were careful when they said these words, they did not dare to express their dissatisfaction with Zeng Guofan too much, but they did not seem to be testing him for Zeng Guofan. Wu Chaoyue then felt a little relieved and said with a smile: "Since this is Yang Jiantai's order, of course you can't blame you. Don't worry, if something happened in the past, the sky fell and Yang Jiantai was tall, and now if something happened, it was my responsibility and it had nothing to do with you."

Li Qinggu and Duoshan quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but they still did not dare to feel completely relieved by Wu Chaoyue, Zeng Guofan's favorite disciple, and they still did not dare to vomit their hearts when they spoke. Wu Chaoyue knew their difficulties and did not force them to express their dissatisfaction with Zeng Guofan. He just suddenly remembered another major event and asked: "What is the military discipline of the Hunan regiment training? Did there be a large-scale disturbance incident in Wuchang City?"

"Return to Futai Master, there is no such thing." Li Qinggu and Duoshan answered truthfully, saying that although the Hunan Army had some quarrels with the people in Wuchang City, it was pretty good overall, at least much stronger than the Green Camp troops.

History is terrible, and I don’t know that the Hunan Army’s military discipline is indeed good at the beginning. It was not until the middle and late stages that it gradually transformed and corrupted. Although Wu Chaoyue, who had long been atrocities with the Hunan Army, was somewhat strange, he was somewhat relieved. If the Hunan Army was acting recklessly in Wuchang Prefecture at this time, Wu Chaoyue’s position would be extremely embarrassing.

He also learned about Li Qinggu and Duoshan about the situation on the Wuchang battlefield and the Hunan Army. He saw that they were afraid and dared not speak freely in front of him. Wu Chaoyue did not force them, but just used the excuse that he did not rest last night and took the initiative to end the conversation with yawning. At the end, Wu Chaoyue also accepted Li Qinggu's invitation to dinner and asked Duoshan to send someone to buy grain, meat and vegetables for the governor's yawn, and politely sent away these two civilian officials who should be able to fight for.

It was still time to see Li Qinggu and Duoshan go back to the back hall, Zhao Liewencai smiled from Wu Chaoyue and said, "Weiting, Yang Zhitai really left a mess for you. The generals don't listen to you. The civil servants are afraid that you are a student of Zengbutang and dare not make friends with you. If you want to firmly take up the position of governor of Hubei, it seems that you have to suffer a lot."

"Money and grain are just small matters. Anyway, Yang Pei is the one who started it, so he doesn't dare to make things difficult for me on this matter." Wu Chaoyue smiled and said, "How can the teacher withdraw it? Anyway, Wuchang City is back on August 13th. In a few months, how much money and grain can be saved in the vassal treasury?"

"Be careful!" Zhao Liewen reminded: "It is better to speak with Zeng Butang. If there is any problem, it is better to get all the accounts before you take office. Anyway, Yang Pei has been convicted of leaving the city and running away. It is natural to blame him. Zeng Butang will not object to maintain your relationship with him."

"Leave this matter to you." Wu Chaoyue casually ordered: "The aide who is now in charge of money and food for the teacher is Guo Songtao. You can come forward and talk to him secretly, so it is easier to speak."

Zhao Liewen, who learned a wealth management skills from his bad brother-in-law, agreed immediately. Wu Chaoyue asked the personal soldiers in the hall to prepare paper and pen. Zhao Liewen also said that Wu Chaoyue wanted to draw an order, so he took the initiative to sit at the desk. Wu Chaoyue smiled and said, "Huifu, I will write this letter."

Zhao Liewen laughed and asked, "Weiting, you are going to show off your calligraphy style again. Who are you showing off this time?"

"Changmao General Lin Fengxiang and Wei Jun." Wu Chaoyue smiled faintly and said, "The teacher refused to send troops to restrain Changmao and create opportunities for our reinforcements to arrive at the Wuchang battlefield as soon as possible. It doesn't matter. He won't send troops. I will ask Changmao to continue to attack Wuchang Prefecture City with all his strength, which is also an effect." (To be continued.)
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