Chapter 116 Injustice is the best protection

Bao Chao was wronged and angered a person, his name was Xue Fucheng, who was in Zeng Guofan's shogunate.Lao Xue is a person who is serious about everything and must ask the truth. He always feels that there must be a reason for the Zeng and Li families to harm the kind and kind Bao Chao. So he did not hesitate to step on his iron shoes and visit various places to find Liu Mingchuan's identity. The staff and subordinates asked what happened. Everyone was unanimous: Bao Chao was indeed wronged in this matter.At that time, Liu Mingchuan acted without permission and entered the Nianzi camp. Unfortunately, the main force of the Nianzi counterattacked. Under the defeat, it was Bao Chao who fought desperately to save everyone.There was no such thing as Bao Chao disrupting Liu Mingchuan's position.

I dare not forget the contribution of the Ting army to rescue.This is the testimony of those who personally experienced the battle in Jingshan County. The conclusion of the investigation is that this is a completely unjust case. Poor Bao Chao is even more unjust than Dou E.This is also a typical public case of striving for merit first, keeping a secret and winning, repaying virtue with grievances, and blaming others.The people in charge of handling this case are nothing. Liu Mingchuan is a villain; Li Hongzhang is partial and unfair; There was nothing wrong with Zuo Zongtang at first, but his elder brother also scolded Bao Chao. He is a heavyweight with the same reputation as Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang. His views have an important influence on the court, so he is also one of them.

The research results are clear, but what is the purpose of everyone doing this?Think about Bao Chao, who is illiterate, loves to fight, is loyal to the court, obeys Zeng Guofan, and has never been rude to Li Hongzhang. Why do so many heroes and intellectuals come together to frame him? Even if Bao Chao wanted to break his head, he would never have imagined that so many heroes from all over the world joined forces to harm him with only one purpose: to save his old life. What does this mean? The answer is to be found in Zeng Guofan's diary: On April 17th in the fourth year of Tongzhi, the Wenting camp rebelled and abandoned the boat and landed... On that day, 8,000 soldiers from the Wenting camp who entered Gansu from Sichuan went to Jinkou to rebel, abandoned the boat and landed. Unconvinced by the repression, he avoided Wuchang, rebelled bravely and traveled south from Zhikou, claiming to go to Jiangxi to ask for wages, and to Xianning to kill officials and take people into captivity.

Think again why Zeng Guofan suddenly quit the job? At the same time, Zeng Guofan’s diary records that the old Hunan army stationed in Gansu rebelled on a large scale, killing officials and taking people away. The commander of the instigation of the rebellion was the secret society Gelaohui. This is the answer. Even if the real leader of the Gelaohui is not Bao Chao himself, he is also related to him, at least lurking in his army.This is because he is from Sichuan, and he is an outlier in the old Hunan army.Most of the generals in the Hunan Army were Confucian scholars, who mounted their horses to kill the enemy and dismounted to study. Only Bao Chao was weird. He could neither read nor read.There are records that show that the place where the Ting army traveled was a flower boat that stretched for tens of miles, and there were countless beautiful women on board, all of which were trophies captured by the Ting army along the way.

After the era of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang passed, the influence of the Gelaohui in Sichuan has grown to a considerable scale, which shows that this underground secret association is really related to the Tingjun. Of course, the main site of the Gelaohui is still in Hunan.In contrast, Zeng Guoquan seems to be more suspicious than Bao Chao.But the problem is that history has proved that Zeng Guofan really has no intention of competing for the world, and it is obviously redundant to let Zeng Laojiu secretly contact the heroes of the world.Of course, Bao Chao has no intention of competing for the world, but he doesn't study, loves to eat chicken, and likes to invite friends to drink, so it is inevitable that elders will cite him as the same kind.

After Xin Nianzi was pacified, Zeng Guofan went to Beijing and was cordially received by the Empress Dowager Cixi seven times. During the third meeting, the two sides had the following intriguing dialogue: Cixi: Is Bao Chao cured?Where is he now? Zeng Guofan: I heard that he is better. He lives in Kuizhou Mansion, Sichuan. Cixi: Has Bao Chao's old department been withdrawn? Zeng Guofan: All have been withdrawn. There were originally eight or nine thousand people, but five thousand were withdrawn in April this year. When the ministers transferred to Zhili in August and September, they were afraid of causing trouble, so they withdrew the entire group of four thousand.The emperor wants to use Bao Chao, but he can recruit again.

Obviously, what the Empress Dowager Cixi cared about was not Bao Chao's illness, but whether Ting Jun still existed. It is now clear that Zeng and Li secretly teamed up to target the Gelaohui forces in Bao Chao's army.This force is far more terrifying than the Nianzi. The Nianzi are nothing but thugs with no political appeals or goals. The goal of the Gelaohui is to take the Qing court as its opponent and vow to seize the world.In fact, the demise of the Qing Empire was inseparable from the Gelaohui. When Sun Wen was running for the revolution, it was the Gelaohui who responded to Sun Wen’s continuous uprisings, and finally fired the first shot to end the Qing Empire and detonate the Wuchang Uprising. It is a new society that is derived from the organization of the Gelaohui.

As early as when Zeng Guofan suppressed Nian, he had already laid out a plan to eradicate Bao Chao, but Zeng Guofan couldn't do it, so this plan was carried out by Li Hongzhang.In the end, Zeng and Li adopted a clever plan to protect Bao Chao, that is, they did not mention the elder brother's meeting, and found another excuse to wrong Bao Chao. The purpose was to save Bao Chao's life. If the existence of the elder brother's association in the Ting army is brought up as a problem, then Bao Chao will be completely finished. If it is said that he is incapable of managing the army, or if all the responsibilities are put on his head, Bao Chao will definitely die without a burial. land.But now, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, and Zuo Zongtang——Zuo Zongtang intervened to add to the chaos, which once again showed the seriousness of the situation, but the matter was so important that no one dared to speak out—the heroes of the world joined forces , just to wrong Bao Chao, the purpose is to save a way out for Bao Chao.

An unjust case conspired by everyone transformed Bao Chao from the chief culprit in the Gelaohui's rebellion to a wronged person.In this way, Bao Chao won't be blamed if something happens to the older brother in the future. This is also a kind of protection for subordinates under extreme political situations.If you want to protect a subordinate who has made a serious mistake, the best way is not to defend him. Things in the world are always being smeared. The best way is to create an unjust case and plant a fabrication on the person you want to protect. so that everyone would be outraged that he was wronged and forget his real mistake.

This is the final research conclusion of this case, and it is also the embodiment of the wisdom of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang.After all, there is a clear gap between the wisdom of people like Xue Fucheng and Zeng Li, that's why they can't understand Zeng Li's strange behavior.