Chapter 334 I am the Confucian Saint! (Please vote, please order)
Zeng Guofan squinted his triangular eyes and glanced at Miao Peilin, who was as strong as Zhuge Kongming. Then he took out two envelopes from the sleeve pockets of his official robe and placed them on the desk in front of him: "This is Prince Zheng and Du Jiyuan.
This handwritten letter to me...\n.\n.\n.\nYou all should read it!"
Miao Peilin, Guo Songtao, Huang Shijie, Zeng Guoquan, and Li Wenxuan looked at each other. Then Miao Peilin and Guo Songtao each picked up an envelope and read it first. After reading the letters in their hands, they exchanged them with each other.
They read again, and then it was the other three's turn to read the letter. Soon, the five confidants who had a small meeting with Zeng Guofan today all read the two letters from Beijing, and then each of them frowned slightly.
stand up.
"How's it going? Let's talk about it." Zeng Guofan asked, looking at "Anhui Zhuge Liang" Miao Peilin.
Miao Peilin was a little confused, twirling his beard, shaking his head slightly and saying: "On the one hand, King Zheng asked us to spend money to buy the officials in Huai'an, Haizhou and Xuzhou, as well as the useless posts of Cao Governor and Su Fu.
On the other hand, we are asked to report to the court
Invite the Eight Banners soldiers to go south. And Prime Minister Du asked us to ask the court to invite the Eight Banners soldiers to go south to protect the famous religion and protect the hometown of Confucius and Mencius...\n..\n. What are these two men selling in their gourds?
Medicine?"
After all, Miao Peilin was a local scholar. He had spent most of his life wandering around the countryside in Fengyang Prefecture. How did he know that there were all the flowers and flowers surrounding the uncles in Beijing? Zeng Guofan asked him for advice first, which was really a bit embarrassing.
Then Zeng Guofan turned his triangular eyes to Li Wenxuan, who had been an official in Beijing for more than ten years.
Although Li Wenxuan is not a big official, he is familiar and well-informed!
Seeing Zeng Guofan's gaze, he shook his head and said: "The court must be out of money, right?
The emperor wants us to pay for those officials, but he is actually trying to take money out of our pockets. As long as we can control the salt and canals of Huai'an Prefecture, we are not afraid of not having the money to support the army. What is there in Xuzhou and Haizhou?
Used as "Cadu", "Su Fu" is just a false name, and it will cost money...:::
As for asking Brother Disheng to invite the Eight Banners soldiers to go south to help in the battle...\n.\n·.\n. Hehe, I think the emperor probably wants to touch the hard-core crops of the Eight Banners brothers!"
"Oh?" Zeng Guofan raised his eyelids, "Does the emperor want the Eight Banners soldiers to go south and die?"
Li Wenxuan shook his head: "This is not serious, the emperor is not so cruel. I think he just wants us to be evil people to scare the Eight Banners disciples...\n:::.\nThe price for the Eight Banners disciples to eat the hard-core crops is
Served in the army for generations to defend the Qing Dynasty!
Now that Changmao has almost taken over half of the Qing Dynasty, they shouldn't stand up and let the Han farmers who have paid the emperor's food to feed them for generations come to protect them as soldiers? Why? Why do they also pay money and food to serve as soldiers...
..\n.\nHehe.
If they are unwilling to go south and fight Changmao, then wouldn’t it be justifiable for the emperor to harvest their hard-core crops?”
Zeng Guofan nodded slightly and asked, "What does Du Jiyuan mean?"
"Jiyuan" is Du Han's nickname. The content of his letter to Zeng Guofan is quite different from that of Prince Zheng Duanhua.
Prince Zheng's letter told Zeng Guofan to be a villain by buying an official. Du Han's letter also called Zeng Guofan a villain, but he did not name the official he asked Zeng Guofan to buy. Instead, he mentioned "protecting the Mingjiao religion and protecting the hometown of Confucius and Mencius."
Son.
The hometown of Confucius and Mencius is not in Huai'an, nor in Xuzhou, but in Shandong!
Guo Songtao took the topic and said with a smile: "My father-in-law, Du Jiyuan is from Shandong! Moreover, his grandfather Du Shiqiao and father Du Zhinong were both leaders of Shandong scholars. He himself is now a figure that Shandong scholars look up to. He can be seen with long hair.
He is in his hometown, how can he not think about protecting his hometown?
In addition, he mentioned something about protecting the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, which probably...\n.\n:...also meant to build the Duke Sheng's Mansion!"
Miao Peilin nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, Prime Minister Du and the Kong family must have heard about "Purchasing Captives and Prospering Confucianism"!"
When Zeng Guofan heard "Pursuing Prisoners and Promoting Confucianism", his triangular eyes were full of disgust.
Zeng Guoquan shook his head and said, "Yusan, that was not written by my eldest brother!"
Miao Peilin smiled: "So what? Anyway, now everyone knows that Di Zhang wants to protect the famous religion and promote Confucianism!"
Huang Shijie nodded: "Everyone knows that the teacher still wants to restore the Han family's clothes!"
"Ziying!"
Zeng Guofan called Huang Shijie's name in a deep voice.
"Brother, what's the point!" Zeng Guoquan said loudly, "What does it matter what clothes we wear, whether we have braids or not? Didn't Luo Xueyan in Shanghai also cut off his braids? The emperor pretended not to see it...\n.\
n.\n.\n.But also to control Yi
The imperial concubine's sister became his wife! Hehe, that man is still a Hakka, and his family is an overseas Chinese leader from Nanyang. He is already in his mid-twenties...\n.\n.\n.\n. How can he not have a wife? Yi
If the imperial concubine’s sister is married, she will be a double-headed girl at most!”
Zeng Guofan glared at Zeng Guoquan fiercely again, but he didn't care about it anymore...\n.\n:.\n. It's not easy to care about this now. Because he really needs a big flag that can fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
The banner of the Qing Dynasty seems to be of no use anymore, so wouldn’t we just be left with preserving the name religion and promoting Confucianism?
And the article "Conquering the Captives and Prospering Confucianism" raised the tone of "protecting the famous religion and promoting Confucianism" too high. Only by restoring the Han family's clothes can we "promote Confucianism"!
Then you can't keep this braid...
And Zeng Guofan couldn’t bear to part with his braids!
But he didn't dare to say publicly that he was determined not to cut off his braids.
The reason is very simple. The leaders of the group of Hunan scholars who followed him all carried "Reverse Classics" and "Pursuing Captives and Prospering Confucianism" in their arms.
Everyone is very excited, waiting for him to become "Zeng Baobao", "Zeng Mengde", "Zeng Jian"!
Now that he wants to declare that he is against cutting pigtails and wants to be the most loyal Zeng in the Qing Dynasty, it is equivalent to pouring cold water on the foreheads of the people below!
Because his height determines the height of the people below him!
If he insists on disobeying the big guys' wishes, he will either betray his relatives or wake up with his braid gone and an extra piece of yellow clothes on his body...
Zeng Guofan thought about it for a while and said: "It seems that the governor of Jiangsu is not worthy of being... the governor of Shandong. I guess the emperor is not willing to give it to me now. It is better to settle for the next best thing and buy a governor first. But the governor
The governor's office must be moved to Jining Prefecture in Shandong Province!"
Jining Prefecture is close to Yanzhou, and Yanshenggong Mansion is located in Qufu County within Yanzhou Prefecture.
If Zeng Guofan opened the Water Transport Governor's Office in Jining Prefecture, it would be easy to collude with Kong Fanhao, the Duke of Yan.
And Duke Yansheng's Mansion has been ruling Qufu for hundreds of years. In Yanzhou Prefecture, Jining Prefecture has great influence! Moreover, Duke Yansheng's financial resources and manpower are also extremely huge!
The government-owned sacrificial land alone amounts to hundreds of thousands of acres!
In addition, there are many clansmen in Yanshenggong Mansion! They are everywhere in Yanzhou Mansion and Jining Prefecture!
Needless to say, these descendants of the Kong family knew that they were definitely hostile to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. And if Zeng Guofan was willing to play the role of "Confucian saint warrior",
You will definitely get the support of the Kong family.
With the support of the Kong family and the assistance of Du Han's Du family, Zeng Guofan can at least become "Zeng Baobao" in Shandong. As for whether he can raise troops to Luo and then threaten the emperor, it is not certain whether the Queen Mother will become Zeng Mengde.
....
Even if he really doesn't want to, this possibility cannot be ruled out!
When the people below heard that he wanted to become the governor of water transportation in Jining Prefecture, everyone was very happy.
Especially Miao Peilin, the smile on his face is almost blooming. I wonder if he is going back to sew yellow clothes all night?
While he was enjoying himself, Zeng Guofan said to him again: "Yusan, let your people take Yang Xiuqing's traffic flag and go to Shanghai!"
Now the land transportation and water transportation from Beijing to Shanghai are smooth!
Although Yang Xiuqing owned the salt industry in Yangzhou and opened the Guazhou commercial port, there was no reason for him to be in trouble with Yinzi!
Moreover, there are a large number of water workers in Yangzhou...\n..\n.\nMillions of water workers are responsible for food and clothing! So not long ago, with the help of the great salt merchant Huang Xiqing, Yang Xiuqing reached an agreement with Zeng Guofan
, the two families operate the canal together to make money!
So now water transportation has been restored, and it is even smoother than during the Qing Dynasty!
Of course, the free rice must be gone. If Xianfeng still wanted to eat rice from the south, he would have to spend money to buy it.
Because Miao Peilin is a local snake in Huainan, he is now responsible for communicating with Yang Xiuqing. When he heard Zeng Guofan's words, he asked casually: "Di Zhang, are you going to send someone to Shanghai to buy arms? Do you want to send money there?
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Zeng Guofan thought for a while and nodded: "It's okay to buy some foreign guns and cannons on the way... But the main purpose is to deliver letters. Concubine Yi wrote a letter to Luo Xueyan and asked my people to help deliver it."
"Concubine Yi?"
Miao Peilin was stunned: "Is there any relationship between this Luo Xueyan and Concubine Yi?"
Zeng Guofan glared at him, "It's weird to be old, that's what the emperor meant!"
"Yusan, don't ask any more questions, just send the courier to Shanghai."
"Is there another messenger?"
Chapter completed!