As soon as you enter the gate, you are faced with a screen wall, which is about three feet wide and one foot high. There are gates at the two corners. The Qianzongguan Hall is divided into the front office and the back house, with the gate, lobby, second hall, and third hall as the central axis.
The buildings are all symmetrical. Inside, counselors, clerks, duty officers and other officials work here. The lobby has five rooms and seven shelves, and the layout is very majestic.
Li Guolou brought deputy envoy Hongdu, masters Fan Dahui, Wei Hanyu, Xu Lan, school officials Cheng Kun, Bater, Xun Xi, Fan Ye, medical officer Wang Bizhen, adopted son Li Yunkai, and accompanying Goshi Hayi.
A large crowd of more than fifty people came to the banquet of Python
Disaster. Among the people attending the banquet, there was even Cao Jiqin, a veterinarian who accompanied the army. He has no high-ranking officials here. The only person who came to play as a friend was Jinshi Zhu Dinghe. Wan Niang is a personal maid and cannot be on the stage. There is no trace of her on such occasions.
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The banquet has been arranged. There are ten banquet tables in the West Flower Hall, with several charcoal basins placed on the ground around them. You have to take off your coat when entering the door. It is steaming. People from Li Guolou occupy five tables, and people from Datong Commander-in-Chief Liu Qiuzheng occupy two tables.
The hostess, the guard general Qian Zongqing, and his people occupied three tables.
Li Guolou was sitting with Liu Qiuzheng and Song Qing. When he saw young Liu Guangcai about to sit at the table of Datong officers, he waved and said, "Liu Guangcai, come sit here. I asked my godson Xiao Shitou to accompany you."
After some arrangements, Liu Guangcai, Li Yunkai, Hongdu, Fan Dahui, and Zhu Dinghe sat at the main table.
Among them, Hongdu Hongyun is the leader. He used to be a quartermaster at Dagukou Fort. He was called out by Li Guolou because he was fat. He was confused and didn't make it clear, so he was appointed as the deputy escort. Along the way, in addition to the car,
In Mlawton, the accommodation and food are decent. I didn't expect to live on dry food. It's easy.
I carried a large pot of dry food in the carriage, but I haven’t tasted it until now. Tonight, the table is full of delicacies. Two large copper basins are filled with fragrant and fat pork hooves, and
A copper basin was filled with beef curry soup. The pungent aroma made everyone in the room drool.
There were many rules in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty. They had to say a piece of official language first to wish the emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces a long and healthy life. The host and guest toasted each other, and there was a lot of red tape. But there was always an end, and there was no distinction between the host and the host.
Sit down, drink, and spank.
Niangziguan's water-milled noodles include corn flour, bean flour, wheat flour and various miscellaneous noodles. They are famous for their sweet taste and are famous in the three Jin Dynasties. Noodles are indispensable for banquets. They taste chewy and sweet in the mouth.
Fan Dahui fulfilled his responsibilities as a master, stood up, raised his glass and said: "Everyone, Mr. Li has a limited capacity for drinking and cannot bear the power of alcohol. This stuffy thing is really difficult for me. I hope you can forgive me. I'll just go with you and punish myself."
Three cups.”
This is Li Guolou's opening remarks every time he attends a banquet. As for the effect, it depends on the benevolent and the wise, and everyone will show their special abilities.
The wine cup was not big, so Fan Dahui drank three glasses of wine in a row. He just sat down and had not yet taken a breath. Liu Qiuzheng, the commander-in-chief of Datong, who was not good at words, raised his wine glass and said: "Master Li's drinking capacity is acceptable, and his expression does not change after three glasses of wine.
Come! I’ll give you a toast, let’s have a deep feeling.”
Liu Qiuzheng went first as a token of respect. What could Li Guolou say? He had a higher official title than him, but he only had one mouthful. The custom at this banquet was to drink three cups in a round, which meant that Liu Qiuzheng had to toast twice. Who called Li Guolou and his party?
People should rest in Niangziguan
He couldn't even find a reason to avoid drinking, so he had to sit down at the banquet tonight, and no one would let him go. Just now, Dahui's words had no effect at all, and the people who should come came one by one.
Come up and clink glasses with Li Guolou.
In the second round of toasts, Li Guolou excused himself a little and said: "The banquet has just begun, drink slowly, don't be in a hurry. Liu Zhentai, I am very concerned about the war in the northwest. There has been no news in the newspaper recently."
Write, I wonder how the war is going these days?"
Liu Qiuzheng put down his wine glass, his face as serious as ever, and said slowly: "It is difficult for the army to move out in winter. The rebel leader Ma Wenlu is still rampant in Suzhou. The Chu army Xu Zhanbiao has difficulties in dispatching in winter. He has launched a siege against Dong Zhiyuan, but there has been no progress. Li
Sir, Zuo Zongtang is not in Lanzhou, but in Xi'an. Nowadays, there is chaos around Lanzhou. How could Zuo Zongtang dare to put the governor's residence there?"
As the commander-in-chief of Datong, Liu Qiuzheng had no chance to participate in countering the rebellion and was full of complaints. He could not say anything good about Zuo Zongtang. He was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Datong not long ago because of his contribution to the encirclement and suppression of Xi Nian Zhang Zongyu. But who would dislike him for having so much credit? Originally, he was the commander-in-chief of Datong.
Zuo Zongtang's former collaborator in Shanxi Province, Liu Qiuzheng, now calls Zuo Zongtang by his first name and shows no respect for official etiquette.
When Li Guolou heard that the Qing army was besieging Dong Zhiyuan, he was very excited. He slammed the table, stood up, and shouted loudly: "Li Ziying soldiers sent Dong Zhiyuan, let those bastards see the power of Li Ziying."
People at the ten tables were all shocked. This was not an envoy who came to escort military supplies. He was clearly a member of the imperial court who came to take credit for his achievements. As a master, Fan Dahui always wanted to express his attitude. Li Guolou seemed not to be drunk.
Ner Hong is rice wine with a very low alcohol content. It should be fine if you drink a few glasses of wine. He hurriedly tried to persuade her, "Mr. Li, this is not good. The official document states that we are going to Lanzhou. If we change the destination, I'm afraid we won't be able to make the payment."
"Hey, read the full text of Rebirth of Campus Special Forces! Master Fan is fine! This imperial envoy has the emperor's imperial edict and has the right to act expediently. I have the right to make decisions." Li Guolou has a life-saving talisman and carries a secret edict with him. Who dares to mess with him?
When official affairs reached the Jinluan Palace, someone would try to sidestep him, and at most he would give Emperor Tongzhi a beating. Taking advantage of his drunkenness, his status was raised several levels, and he became an imperial envoy again.
Everyone suddenly realized that Li Guolou's status was indeed extraordinary. He was not an escort in the first place. His identity as an imperial envoy was hidden. No wonder he was so arrogant and domineering.
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Ma Wenlu, the leader of the Gansu Hui Uprising Army, whose real name is Ma Si, is from the Hui ethnic group. He is from Hezhou, Gansu. He was initially a junior officer under Suo Wen, the governor of Ganzhou (Zhangye) in the Qing Dynasty. In the spring of 1865, Hui uprisings broke out one after another in various parts of Shaanxi and Gansu.
Suzhou (Jiuquan) led the Hui people's uprising. Suzhou became a base for the Hui people's uprising. It was also the strongest rebel force in the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion, with more than 50,000 people.
Ma Hualong was a native of Jinjibao, Ningxia. He was the leader of another Hui uprising army. His name was Tobiltula and his name was Said Shuhaidayi (meaning leader of martyrs). In the second year of Tongzhi, he raised his troops in Jinji, Ningxia.
Jibao, killed Ningxia Daotaihou Yundeng, the prefect Lu Jishao, the county magistrate Zhao Changgeng, etc., and occupied Jinjibao.
Ma Zhenghe occupied the Dong Zhiyuan area and became independent. He was the most powerful force in the rebellion.
The cause of the chaos in the Shaanxi-Gansu region was the chain reaction caused by the Taiping Rebellion. After the Taiping Rebellion established its capital in Nanjing in 1853, most of the provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were controlled by the Taiping Army.
In order to raise huge military expenditures and suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the uprisings of various ethnic groups under its influence, the Qing Dynasty intensified its search for the so-called "perfect areas" that had not been damaged by war, including the northwest region.
In addition to paying tens of thousands of taels of salary to the capital every month, Shaanxi also has to assist the provinces with a large amount of military salary. All these burdens fall on the people of all ethnic groups in Shaanxi. As the salary increases, regular taxes are not enough to provide the money.
Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have increased one after another. Corrupt officials have taken advantage of the opportunity to extort and extort, and have taken human lives seriously. Under the cruel exploitation and oppression, the people have no way to make a living, and are forced to gather together to resist officials and fight for food.
Shaanxi is one of the areas where the Hui people are concentrated (mainly in the Jingshui and Weihe river basins). The Hui people in the province have a population of about one million. The Hui and Han ethnic groups live together, but they have different religious beliefs and customs and do not intermarry with each other. In some places, they even
Each Hui Han built a city and used the Hui landlord class to govern the local Hui people and implement the local chieftain policy.
Since most of the Qing troops originally stationed in Shaanxi were deployed to other provinces to fight against the Taiping Army and the Nian Army, in order to prevent the Hui people from rebelling, the Shaanxi authorities ordered all states and counties to vigorously organize regiment training. Zhang Fu, the minister who supervised the Shaanxi regiment training, was once the governor of Jiangxi.
After the defeat of the Taiping Army, he was dismissed from his post and remained in office. In 1861, he returned to the province to defend the system.
In May 1862, the Taiping Army that entered Shaanxi and the troops of King Fu Wang Chen Decai joined forces with the Nian Army to attack Xi'an.
Lan Chaozhu's uprising army had also entered Hanzhong from Sichuan, shaking the whole of Shaanxi. Shaanxi Governor Ying Ji and Minister of Regiment Training Zhang Fu hurriedly mobilized regiments from various places to Nanshan to block the Taiping Army.
When the Taiping Army entered Shaanxi, in May of that year, they trained hundreds of Hui Yong soldiers in Zhao Quanzhong's regiment. They were unwilling to fight the Taiping Army. They killed the leading officer and took refuge in Qinjia Village outside the city. They robbed Qinjia Village and nearby Hui villages.
Distributed notices everywhere, "If Shaanxi does not retain the Hui people, God will destroy the Hui people."
The Huazhou Hui people uprising first, and the Hui people on both sides of the Wei River rushed to respond. Within ten days, the Hui people everywhere underwent radical changes. From then on, the massive Shaanxi Hui people uprising developed rapidly.
Faced with the rapidly developing Hui uprising, Shaanxi civil and military officials headed by Governor Yingqi "had no troops to prepare for the suppression" and "had to provide temporary comfort" and sent officials and gentry to various places to appease them. Zhang Fu and others were negotiating with the Hui people in Youfang Street, Lintong.
, the Hui people were very angry and took him to Cangtou Town to be executed.
The beacon fire of the Hui uprising quickly spread across 800 miles of Qinchuan, and the uprising team expanded to more than 200,000. At that time, in addition to Ren Wu, Hong Xing, and He Mingtang, the main leaders of the Shaanxi Hui army included Ma Zhenghe, Ma Siyuan, and Bai Bai.
Yanhu, Ma Shengyan, Yu Deyan, Yu Yanlu, Sun Yubao, Erhezhou, etc. Some of them were wealthy landlords, businessmen, imams and other upper-class elements, and the leadership of the rebel army was in their hands.
The rapid development of the Hui uprising in Shaanxi seriously threatened the Qing Dynasty's rule in the northwest. The Qing government urgently ordered Jingzhou general Duolong'a to lead his army into Shaanxi. In mid-January 1863, Duolong'a led his troops into Shaanxi from Henan, together with Shengbao
There are more than 20,000 soldiers in each tribe.
In early September, Duolonga arrived in Xi'an and used recruiting tactics, sending people to the Hui rebel army to lure Xianhu Farm to surrender. He used the Hui gentry in Xi'an to frequently recruit the leaders of the Hui army, and Sun Yubao and others surrendered to the Qing army.
Bai Yanhu, Ma Shengyan, Yu Deyan, and Yu Yanlu led their troops northwest through Liquan and Qianzhou to retreat to Pizhou. Afterwards, most of the Hui rebel army retreated to Dong Zhiyuan in eastern Longxi. Other Hui people retreated to Pizhou.
Under the leadership of He Mingtang and others, the civilian army entered the eastern region of Gansu via Wugong, Xixian, Fengxiang, and Longzhou. From then on, the center of the Shaanxi-Gansu Hui uprising shifted from Shaanxi to Gansu.
The rulers of the Qing Dynasty exclaimed: "Now Pingliang, Jingning, Longde, and Anding in Gansu Province, Gongchang, Qinzhou, Fuqiang, and Qingshui in the south of the province, and Ningxia, Pingluo, Lingzhou, and Guyuan in the north of the province are all rising up. "The colonies of bees and ants are gathering together, their spread is difficult to trace, and they stretch for thousands of miles."
Duolong'a prepared to lead Qin to Long to suppress the Hui uprising in Gansu. In order to relieve his worries during the Western Expedition, he attempted to quickly capture Shaanxi's Shaanxi Province, which was held by Lan Chaozhu's rebel army. On March 30, Duolong'a personally commanded During the siege, he was wounded in the head by the rebels and died soon after. The Qing army lost its leader and could not advance westward.
In May and June of 1864, the Qing Dynasty transferred Yang Yuebin, the admiral of the Fujian Navy, to serve as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu to "specialize in dealing with" the Gansu Muslim Army.
After the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Tianjing in July of the same year, the Qing Dynasty transferred the Qing troops who had suppressed the Taiping Army to the northwest to suppress the Hui uprising army, so that "in a corner of Gansu Province, the number of senior military commanders who only talk about things has reached eight." "There are so many", the number of brave soldiers is as many as 70,000 or 80,000.
However, these generals had different factions, worked on their own affairs, and had different opinions. Moreover, they were deeply afraid that they would fight head-on with the Hui people and lose or lose. "It is better to attack them and send them away. Successful reports will be heard frequently, and it will be a place where you can be rewarded for your merits."
Therefore, although the Qing army captured Guyuan, Yancha Hall, Pingliang and other places occupied by the Hui people's army, the strength of the rebel army did not suffer major losses. The Shaanxi and Gansu Hui people's armies cooperated with each other and adopted erratic and erratic tactics. Using mobile tactics, we still won many battles.
The Hui rebel army continued to attack the Qing army, which blocked its newspapers and newspapers, and caused a shortage of food and wages. Lanzhou, the provincial capital, was in an isolated position. The Qing Dynasty's ruling power in Gansu was in turmoil.
Yang Yuebin, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, lamented in his memorial: "Now the thieves from Hedi are harassing the south, the thieves from Pinggu are harassing the east, the thieves from Ningling are harassing the north, and the thieves from Liangsu are harassing the west. It is almost impossible to suppress them. There is no way to defend against it. If I guard the provincial walls, the hungry army will be trapped in the end; if I go out to suppress the province, the foundation will be shaken. It is really not enough to monitor the power from the outside and measure the troops from the inside."
In November of the same year, Zhang Zongyu, the leader of the Nian Army, led more than 30,000 Western Nian Army troops from Henan into Huayin and Weinan, Shaanxi Province, in accordance with the strategic thinking of "advance Gansu and Shaanxi and connect the Hui people" to form a horn. The Qing court was afraid of the Hui people. The army united with the Western Nian Army and urgently ordered the Hunan Army to assist Shaanxi.
Admiral Liu Songshan led the 18th Battalion of the Lao Hunan Army to go from Henan. On the one hand, he ordered the Mutushan Division who defended the central defender to move to Jingzhou at the junction of Gansu and Shaanxi to prevent a backlash. On the other hand, he led the 30th Battalion of the Qing Army from western Shaanxi. Move eastward from Longzhou and Pizhou, focusing on twisting.
Although the Hui People's Army and the Western Nian Army fought independently, they still separated and combined at times, and to a certain extent they played a strategic role in mutual cooperation.
In the process of continuous development, the Gansu Muslim Army gradually formed four anti-Qing struggle centers:
One is the uprising area led by Ma Hualong, centered on Jinjibao and including Ningxia Prefecture and Longdong.
One is the Hui, Salar, and Dongxiang uprising areas centered on Hezhou led by Ma Zhan'ao.
One is the uprising area centered on Xining led by Ma Wenyi, Ma Guiyuan and Ma Benyuan.
One is the uprising area centered on Suzhou led by Ma Wenlu.
Dong Zhiyuan in Longdong is the base area of the Shaanxi Hui Army.
Since the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Yang Yuebin, was helpless in suppressing the Hui uprising in Shaanxi and Gansu, the Qing Dynasty transferred Zuo Zongtang, the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to take over as the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu.
In January 1867, Zuo Zongtang arrived in Hankou from Fuzhou via Jiangxi, and immediately made various preparations. In February, the Qing government appointed Zuo Zongtang as the Imperial Envoy, urging him to quickly go north to supervise the military affairs of Shaanxi and Gansu.