"Your Highness, we are all rough people and we don't want to be too wordy!"
"We all have sworn hatred against the Manchus and foreigners. Regardless of whether you really want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, as long as you can defeat the Manchus and foreign devils, we can do whatever you want!"
The leader, an unusually strong man, spoke first.
"good!"
"readily!"
Zhu Biao nodded, stood up and said, "Would you mind showing off your strength as ghost masters?"
"I'm just stronger!" The strong man nodded, and without waiting for Zhu Biao to say anything else, he roared, and black air surged behind him, and his whole body suddenly swelled. He looked around and found that there was nothing to beat.
, and finally he chose the ground.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
After seven punches in a row, a big hole was created in the ground.
"This is my strongest strength." He wiped the sweat from his head.
"This guy is really a bit of a tiger!" Zhu Biao thought to himself.
Seeing that Zhu Biao was silent, the strong man hesitated for a moment and then explained: "Actually, you can add more strength, but if you add more, it will consume your life span."
"Forget it!" Zhu Biao waved his hand quickly.
"This person's strength has obviously reached the level of an ordinary Xiantian realm strongman, but his speed and reaction cannot keep up. He can kill with energy, but he will die if he encounters the Xiantian realm." Zhu Biao gave his evaluation.
Zhu Biao looked at another person.
Soon he also showed his ability.
This person's ghost is called Paper Ghost, and he can control paper figures equivalent to the Rongjin realm to fight.
Theoretically, the number of paper figures he can control is unlimited, but once he exceeds seven, he will also have to pay the price of life.
"Why do I feel that the extraordinary beings in this world are a little weird!"
"It feels like those ghosts and gods are tempting the host to exchange longevity for strength?" After these people resigned, Zhu Biao couldn't help but look at Zhang Sanfeng next to him and asked in confusion.
"Perhaps those ghosts and gods are the real extraordinary beings, and humans are just their containers!"
"To be honest, I am more interested in those ethereal ghosts and gods now. If I could catch two and take them back to merge with the spiritual energy, what would they become?" Zhang Sanfeng stroked his beard and said thoughtfully.
"This is a direction that can be studied!"
"We can catch two ghosts and gods later and take them to the Academy of Sciences!" Zhu Biao also agreed with this matter.
Anyway, now the Academy of Sciences has already begun to study even talismans and spells, so it seems reasonable to study ghosts and gods.
No, I should say it's very scientific...
While countless people who were still attached to the Ming Dynasty were gathering towards Guangdong from all directions, in the imperial capital on the other side, Emperor Xianfeng was also urgently summoning ministers to discuss plans to deal with civil unrest in various places.
If Emperor Xianfeng were to rank the current large and small rebel rebels in the country in order of threats to the Qing Dynasty, then the Nian Army closest to the imperial capital would be the least threatening, because they were an uprising led by some big landowners and gentry.
What a big deal it will be.
Now it has corrupted several provinces, and the Taiping Rebellion, which is attacking Nanjing, is ranked second because they are a peasant uprising and are too destructive.
And what made Emperor Xianfeng most uneasy was the pseudo-Ming Dynasty entrenched in Guangdong.
Zhu Hongwu, who was known as the resurrected Emperor Hongwu, had not moved for nearly a year since he occupied Guangdong, but the name alone made his eyelids jump and his neck feel cold.
And just as uneasy as him were the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.
Because they were all local gentry, Zhu Yuanzhang's act of killing 70% of the gentry in Guangdong also stimulated them.
Everyone understands that this person will be everyone's common enemy.
If he is allowed to grow up, the consequences will be disastrous.
But after much discussion, everyone discovered a very embarrassing situation. If we wanted to defeat the puppet Ming Dynasty in Guangdong, we had to eliminate the Nian Army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first.
But now that both the Taiping Army and the Nian Army are attacking the city one after another, what will the imperial court use to fight against it?
"Your Majesty, I have two plans to pacify the world!" Zeng Guofan, who is currently the right minister of the Ministry of War, came out and knelt on the ground respectfully to read the words.
"Say!" Emperor Xianfeng said eagerly.
"First, allow gentry from all over the country to supervise regiment training, completely liberalize the scale, and assist the Eight Banners and Green Camp in encircling and suppressing the Taiping Army and Nian Army. Second, send envoys to Hong Kong to invite foreigners to take action to annihilate the puppet Ming Dynasty in Guangdong."
As soon as he said this, the entire court suddenly became quiet, and everyone was secretly observing Emperor Xianfeng on the dragon throne.
Decentralizing power and allowing gentry from all over the country to supervise group training had actually started as early as the Jiaqing Dynasty, but it was only on a small scale, and at that time the Eight Banners and Green Camps stationed in various places were still useful and could control the situation.
But now, nearly a hundred years have passed, and the situation is different.
From the fact that the Taiping Army relied on a group of peasants armed with cold weapons to fight all the way from Guangxi to Nanjing, it can be seen that although the Eight Banners and the Green Camp were better equipped, they were really unable to be reused.
If the scale of the group training supervised by the gentry is increased at this time, it will undoubtedly make the local power stronger, and even become the tail end of the force.
This can be seen by anyone with eyesight.
But now there are only two ways in front of Emperor Xianfeng. Delegate power to the gentry. Maybe the Qing Dynasty can continue to survive for a while. If it is like Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty who clings on to power, then he may die immediately.
Therefore, after struggling in his heart, he finally gritted his teeth and said loudly: "I got the first one right."
"As for the second point, I also agree. It's just that the British are domineering. Who should I send to negotiate with them?"
Different from the first difficult choice, it is much easier to accept to go to Hong Kong to negotiate with foreigners. After all, after the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty had already been pressed to the floor and rubbed hard by foreigners once, and their buttocks were already naked.
I don't mind twisting it a little bit more.
"My mother is newly deceased and I request to return home to attend the funeral."
"This is a major matter for the imperial court, and I dare not say more." Zeng Guofan was the first to speak.
"Old fox!"
"You are such a filial son!" Countless people in the court retorted one after another from deep in their hearts.
Zeng Guofan obviously wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of attending the funeral to go home and supervise team training.
As for negotiating with the British and letting the British go to Guangdong, relying on the British's shrewdness, those who go will definitely sign a traitorous treaty and be nailed to the pillar of historical shame. How could Old Fox Zeng do such a thing?
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Of course, there is no way to say this. After all, people are attending funerals for good reasons, so how can you object?
Emperor Xianfeng actually understood what this old guy was thinking, and he felt very disgusted.
But there was no way. Zeng Guofan came from a large landowner family in Hunan, and he had a very profound influence in the two lakes. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was now in Hunan, and Hubei was the most violent. He was really needed to organize team training and besiege the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
"That's right!"
"However, you can go to the funeral, but I have to take care of the regiment training. I will leave it to you to wipe out those who are rebellious in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Do you understand?" Emperor Xianfeng felt unhappy, and his tone naturally seemed a bit harsh.
"I obey the decree!"
Zeng Guofan looked miserable on his face, but he was already happy in his heart.