Chapter 27 Wu took the deputy general Qingde of the Changsha Association for surgery

"Luo Zhongcheng, this Zeng Guofan has gone too far!" Tao Enpei, who had just been promoted from Hengyong Chengui Dao Ren, came to Luo Bingzhang's signing room with a letter from Zeng Guofan. "What's the matter?" Luo Bingzhang asked. "A soldier ruffian voluntarily sold his wife. He made a deal with others and even had his hands stamped. The next day he turned his face and refused to accept the account, and beat him half to death. The case came to me. The situation is true. I will lock up the soldier ruffian. Came to the Yamen for interrogation. On the way, Zeng Guofan intercepted him, saying that he was a talent, and he wanted to keep him. Luo Zhongcheng, do you think there is still a rule for doing this? Killing so many people, why do you set up some stations? It is cruel and inhumane. It kills and robs people, does its own thing, and doesn't pay attention to us people. If this continues, Zeng Guofan will be enough in Hunan province." Tao Enpei said more and more angry.

"This Zeng Guofan is also a bit domineering." Luo Bingzhang sympathized with Tao Enpei, "Those ten cages were finally dismantled after I persuaded them and showed him several certificates. But the arbitrary self-determination has not changed at all. Last month Went to Liuyang to suppress Zhengyitang, and committed suicide without authorization Zhang Yishan, the deputy head of the regiment of the county. Zhang Yishan’s deputy was always approved by me, and he was killed without even saying hello. I’m sorry, although I didn’t talk about him when I came back, I touched him You're a cold nail, don't mention a word about Pingzheng Yitang."

"That's still worth mentioning. If you mention it again, your tail will go up to the sky." Tao Enpei leaned closer to Luo Bingzhang and said, "Zhong Cheng, I heard that Admiral Bao also hates this Zeng." Just as he was talking, Zuo Zongtang came in and gave Luo Bingzhang the draft of "The Order of Elimination of Banditry in Hunan" that he had just drafted. "Zhongcheng, the eradication of bandits in Hunan mainly relied on Zeng Disheng's regiment training, especially the suppression of Zhengyi Hall this time, which was a great achievement. Zhengyi Hall has been in trouble for several years, and Liuyang County has nothing to do with it. Last time, Jiang Minqiao also They were only driven into the mountains, thanks to Zeng Disheng’s complete extermination. But the manuscript only mentions this briefly, and Zeng Guofan’s name is not mentioned at all. Although I wrote it according to Zhongcheng’s intention, I feel a little bit wronged for Disheng after all.”

"Why is it completely wiped out? Zhou Guoyu's three brothers didn't catch any of them, so it's hard to guarantee that they won't be resurrected." Tao Enpei didn't buy Zeng Guofan's account, and even looked down on Zuo Zongtang who didn't even win a Jinshi. Zuo Zongtang glanced at Tao Enpei, pretending he didn't hear his words, he continued to say to Luo Bingzhang: "It's up to Zhongcheng to decide whether to add more or not, but it's not appropriate not to reward those who have meritorious service. Now I don't even want to say a good word in front of the emperor, I'm afraid It will be difficult to convince people in the future.”

After speaking, lift your foot and leave.Luo Bingzhang hurriedly called out: "Ji Gao, you can add a few more words!" and handed the play to Zuo Zongtang.After Zuo Zongtang left, Luo Bingzhang said to Tao Enpei: "Although Zeng Guofan is a bit arbitrary, he is brave enough to do things, which is commendable. The emperor trusts him, so you just turn a blind eye." Tao Enpei said: "I don't care, it's just that you are in such a position, Zhongcheng, that you can't handle it. In terms of age, seniority, and current official position, which one is not superior to Zeng Guofan? Group training can only do group training, not everything. Intervene. Lu Xianji of Anhui, Ji Zhichang of Jiangsu, which one is not under the jurisdiction of the governor? There are dozens of regimental ministers, and none of them is like Zeng Guofan!"

Luo Bingzhang did not make a sound.From his heart, he is not disgusted with Zeng Guofan's style of cutting through the mess quickly, daring to do things, and not avoiding suspicion.He is an old bureaucrat, and he has seen a lot of the habits of prevarication, perfunctory, irresponsibility, and procrastination in the officialdom, and he knows that state affairs are bad because of this atmosphere.It is rare that Zeng Guofan has acted vigorously and resolutely in the past few months, and the turmoil in Hunan has gradually been eliminated, and the credit is great.But Zeng Guofan also disregarded the face of the various yamen too much. He kept saying that Hunan officials were deeply depressed and wanted to replace them with a group of scholars, which was aggressive.He never discusses matters with them, and handles many matters beyond his scope of authority without authorization.If things go on like this, all the yamen are unhappy, how can he be a governor!After a pause, Luo Bingzhang asked: "You just said Admiral Bao hated him, what's the matter?"

Tao Enpei said: "I heard that Zeng Guofan wanted to replace Qingde's deputy general and promote Tazibu. Qingde went to Admiral Bao to complain. Admiral Bao was very annoyed. Isn't this eliminating dissidents and cultivating cronies? Tazibu is only a few months early. He was only awarded the title of capital officer before, but now he is actually just an acting bidder for the garrison of the middle battalion, which is far behind Qingde!" "Heh, heh." Luo Bingzhang responded casually, yawning twice in succession.He is sixty years old this year.Often feeling exhausted, Tao Enpei got up and left when he saw this.

Two months ago, after Zeng Guofan had put in order the third battalion of Yongding in the regiment, he discussed with Admiral Bao Qibao that the third battalion and the green battalion in Changsha usually practiced separately, once every five days, and he personally inspected it.After the Taiping Army withdrew from Changsha, all the soldiers dispatched from other provinces returned to defense. Some soldiers from the province went to Hubei with Zhang Liangji, and there were 3,000 soldiers from the province in Changsha.Bao Qibao left them all in Changsha. Together with the 500 soldiers from the Left Battalion of the Changsha Association (the 500 soldiers from the Right Battalion were stationed in Xiangtan), there were still 3,500 people. They were used for defense if something happened.Bao Qibao agreed with Zeng Guofan's suggestion.It is only natural for the army to eat imperial rations, fight in wartime, and practice on weekdays, but I am too lazy to suffer, and I don’t want to go to the playground to supervise.Now that Zeng Guofan voluntarily accepts this hard work, why not do it?

During the drill, Zeng Guofan discovered several top players in the green battalion.One is Taqibu, the garrison of the Chinese battalion under the administration of bidding.The battalion he led arrived on time for every parade. He wore short clothes and tight trousers, and wore straw sandals to demonstrate for the soldiers.Zeng Guofan saw that Taqibu was a member of the upper three banners, so he was very kind to him.For the convenience of handling affairs in the future, Zeng Guofan wanted to push this man up.Therefore, he especially proposed his contribution to defending the city last year, and praised him as a guerrilla general to the imperial court.The other is Qian Zong Zhu Dianyuan who promoted the second battalion.He was born in martial arts, skilled in martial arts, and trained soldiers well.There is also Zhou Fengshan, the commander-in-chief, who is the little leader of the township army.This person is not only good at martial arts, but also familiar with the art of war, and has great prestige among the soldiers in the town.In the third battalion of the big regiment, the leaders are almost all scholars. Although they are very enthusiastic and have good martial arts skills, they lack military experience after all.Recently, although Yang Zaifu and Bao Chao were teachers, they were not enough, so Zeng Guofan invited Taqibu, Zhu Dianyuan, and Zhou Fengshan to be the teachers of the Datuan Yongding, and gave them double pay.The martial arts of Datuan Yongding is improving day by day, and the training of the Green Camp is also improving.But before long, trouble started.

It turned out that those green battalion soldiers were usually lazy, and rarely practiced once or twice a month.Just once or twice, not many people went there, so I hired someone to replace them with a few dollars, while I slept, went to restaurants, and went to brothels.Drills are also in name only, gather together, roll the roll, walk around, and each of them wields their knives and guns a few times, and it's over.Dog days and three or nine days are not practiced as usual.But Zeng Guofan's training style is quite different. The drills of the big group always take more than four hours a day, and everything is done carefully and rigorously, and there is no sloppy in the slightest.He himself goes to the playground several times a day to strictly supervise and supervise.In this way, the green battalion soldiers can only stay there.On the day of the third and eighth gymnastics, we have to gather on the playground before dawn.Those green battalion soldiers wiped their sleepy eyes, put on their jackets indiscriminately, and followed them in a daze, muttering to each other.Zeng Guofan never left the training ground for a moment all day long.The soldiers had no choice but to practice over and over again.At the end of the day, the skeleton of the whole body fell apart.Not only that, but he also had to give lectures, chattering for a long time, talking about military discipline, style of work, hard work, loyalty to the country, etc., which made the green battalion soldiers very tired and drowsy. When they got to the camp, they scolded him: "This one had his head shaved, he should die soon!"

"Zeng Guofan is just a regimental training minister, what right does he have to control us!" "Drilling with those farmer's, I'm ashamed." A soldier from Xiangxiang told everyone a secret: "Do you know? Zeng Guofan has a snake skin leprosy. He itches uncontrollably every day, and he scratches desperately. The ringworm skin he scratches has a rice bowl, and the blood is not stop." "It deserves it! This is heaven's retribution." "Let him itch all day long, as long as he can't go to the playground." The soldiers let out their belly full of resentment amidst a burst of laughing and cursing. A few months later, except for Tazib's Fubiao Zhongbattalion, soldiers from other battalions were often absent.In the recent period, there have been fewer and fewer green battalion soldiers on the playground, and the Fubiao Zhongying battalion has also been affected.Zeng Guofan was very annoyed by this.What made him especially embarrassed was that Qingde, the deputy general of the Changsha Association, had not participated in any parade for several months, even if he sent someone to invite him.In these two parades, there were a lot of absentees from the Changsha Association. After inquiring, it turned out that Qingde was very jealous of Zeng Guofan's reuse of Taqibu.When Taqibu was still the guard of the Firearms Battalion, Qingde was already the deputy general.As soon as Zeng Guofan came, he protected Taqibu as a guerrilla, and recently he protected him as a general, and he was about to be on an equal footing with him.How can Qingde be convinced!He thought it was Zeng Guofan's obvious attempt to curry favor with the Manchus, and wanted to replace him with Manchus.Therefore, Qingde not only can't fuck himself, but also secretly supports the soldiers of the Changsha Association who can't fuck.Zeng Guofan was very angry at Qingde's blatant confrontation.He heard that when the Taiping Army besieged Changsha, Qingde once took off his hat and hid in the homes of ordinary people.After checking the facts, he decided to use Qingde for surgery. The opportunity has come.The eighth day of June was the twenty-fifth birthday of Qingde's favorite fourth aunt.As early as five days ago, Qingde sent out invitations, preparing to have a very lively day for Fourth Aunt.And this day happens to be the parade period on the eighth day. On the morning of the seventh day of the lunar new year, Zeng Guofan issued a notice in his capacity as the minister of regiment training, Xiaoyu, all the green battalion and regiment members will hold a drill in the playground outside the south gate tomorrow morning, and they will conduct a comprehensive inspection of the drills in the past six months. No matter who it is, Leave of absence is not permitted for any reason. That night, the soldiers of the Changsha Association, who were arranged by Qingde to serve the banquet, publicly recommended several representatives to the deputy general's yamen, and showed Zeng Guofan's notice to Qingde.After reading it, Qingde crumpled the notice and threw it under his feet, sneering: "Don't pay attention to him, how long has he been so arrogant? Once his hair is flat, he will have to leave." "My lord, do you want him to come back after the roll call?" A foreign committee member asked tentatively. Qingde's eyes widened: "Who is responsible for your salary? Who is in charge of the Changsha Association? A notice from Zeng Guofan, you are so scared to death, do you still have my lieutenant in your eyes! Tomorrow, the person who will arrange the wedding Not less. In addition, brothers who have problems or illnesses don’t have to go. You just say that I, Qingde, said it, and see what Zeng Guofan can do to me!” Early the next morning, Zeng Guofan dressed neatly and rode on the training ground outside the south gate. It's a scorching hot day.The sun was scorching the earth, and there was no wind. The whole city of Changsha was like a red-hot cauldron.In the military training ground outside the south gate, there was no tree, no wall, the dust hit the face, and the sand and stones burned the feet, just like the middle of the bottom of this cauldron, mercilessly torturing the soldiers wearing uniforms and wielding knives and sticks. During the roll call, Zeng Guofan knew that the Changsha Association was short of many people, but he didn't get angry. At the right time, Zeng Guofan came to the training ground of Changsha Association on purpose.There were supposed to be 500 people in Changsha Zuoying, but now there are less than 300 people.Zeng Guofan suddenly became angry, ordered the whole audience to stop the drill, and asked sternly where the Dusi people who led the Changsha Association went.Du Si stammered in fright and reported: more than 50 people held a wedding at General Qingde's house, more than 70 people asked for leave due to illness, and more than 80 people slipped away halfway. After hearing this, Zeng Guofan said loudly to all the soldiers in the audience: "Brothers, take a look and see whether state affairs or private affairs are more important. If you don't come here and know how to fuck, you want your brothers to do private affairs for him. The state pays for recruiting soldiers, right? Was it for him personally? Everyone is only in their twenties and thirties, when they are young and strong, there are so many people in the Changsha Association who can't bear the hardships, those who don't come don't come, and those who slip away. Is it still like an army? You can’t bear the hardships in front of you. In the future, when the two armies fight, life and death, wouldn’t you be a deserter? Motobutang is over 40 years old, and he is still practicing with everyone. Why do you come? It’s for training Send out an army capable of fighting in order to protect the entire territory of Hunan from being occupied by Changmao. Today's weather is a bit hot, and training troops on such a day is indeed a hardship, but compared to bloodshed and beheading, this hardship is less There are too many. Brothers, please understand the painstaking efforts of this department. As the saying goes, practice during the summer and summer, and practice during the winter. No matter how cold or hot, you have to train. Those who are absent today will be recorded as a major demerit." After Zeng Guofan finished speaking, he asked Li Xubin to take a battalion of Xiangyong to various parts of the city to find soldiers from the Changsha Association and write down their names. That night, Li Xubin reported: Fifty-eight people from the Changsha Association held banquets for Qingde yesterday; Fucking around in the brothel, there are fifty-one people shopping in the city, and only six people are really sick and bedridden. Zeng Guofan wrote a long letter about the situation and sent it to Zhang Liangji in Wuchang overnight.According to the system, the green camps of each province are controlled by the governor, and the governor is not allowed to interfere in military affairs except for the title of admiral.Hunan Green Camp is under the jurisdiction of Zhang Liangji, Governor of Huguang.Zhang Liangji was extremely dissatisfied with the corruption in the Green Camp in Hunan. Zeng Guofan was invited out by him again and again. After reading Zeng Guofan's letter, he was also very angry. So Zeng Guofan wrote a book to the court and wrote in his own hand: Playing as a special member of mediocrity and inferior military personnel, he asked to be dismissed from his post, so as to prevent the fatigue of the army by suppressing military discipline.Since the rise of the Stealing Army, the retreat of officers and soldiers has been cowardly and procrastinated, they have been defeated by the wind, they will not give up when they win, and they will not rescue each other when they are defeated.The reason is that he has no training on weekdays, his skills are unfamiliar, and he is guilty and timid.The ministers punish the past and the past, and since this year, the generals of each battalion have been earnestly practicing, and three or eight ministers have gone to review in person.However, the deputy general of the Changsha Association was pure and virtuous, and his nature was at ease, and he did not follow the instructions.During the rehearsal period, the general never arrives. He sneaks away in the office and cultivates flowers and trees.On the eighth day of June, he gave birth to his concubine, and he ordered more than 50 soldiers to serve him with wine, and openly supported the soldiers who were afraid of suffering and refused to go to the military.The deputy general was ignorant of battalion military equipment, just like a puppet.Now when the military affairs are tight, the generals should be so tired, why should they supervise and lead the soldiers?Correspondingly, he asked for the dismissal of Qingde, the deputy general of the Changsha Association, so as to encourage the soldiers and revitalize the army. After writing, I still don't understand my hatred, so I attach another piece: Furthermore, the deputy general of the Changsha Association was pure and virtuous and indulged in comfort, ignoring the business affairs.On September 18 last year, when I saw the bandits digging the Changsha tunnel and bombarding the southern city, when people were panicking, he should have taken off his hat and hid himself in a private house.The soldiers he led took off their coats and abandoned them all over the street, which is still a laughing stock.Please decree that Qingde be dismissed from office and handed over to the Ministry of Punishment to severely punish the crimes, punish the concubine a few times, and make an example to the hundred, and slightly suppress the army's prestige to improve morale.The minister hates that the civil servants took tricks and the military officials retreated, which led to today's great changes, so I am passionate about this.If the minister harbors a little prejudice, I beg the emperor to investigate closely and punish the minister for the crime of deceiving others. With Qingde removed, who will be the deputy general of the Changsha Association?In terms of talent, Yang Zaifu is the most suitable.But he is only the general manager of a foreign commissioner, and he is a small ninth-rank top general, which is too far from a second-rank deputy general.Zhu Dianyuan can also be competent, but he is only a Qianzong from the sixth rank, and he thinks it is too fast to be promoted to lieutenant general.From the point of view of official rank, Tazibu is a general. From the third grade, the highest, and in terms of talents, he is certainly not as good as Yang and Zhu, but Tazibu is honest and obedient. Taqibu is a man with a yellow banner.Zeng Guofan knew very well that the emperor had a lot of suspicions about the Han people, and if he wanted to build the Zeng family army in the future, everyone from the emperor to the ruling and opposition parties would be worried.If someone reads a book and adds a crime of conspiracy, they will be executed immediately.Must push a full man out!In name, it is necessary to put this Manchu above himself, so that it is possible to eliminate the concerns of the emperor and the Manchurians.It will be even more troublesome if you push it out with a big heart, and you can't control it in the future.Although Tazib has no great talent, he is obedient and he was single-handedly promoted, so he probably won't intentionally embarrass him in the future.After making up his mind, Zeng Guofan added another piece: Taqibu, a general in the Chinese army who had been investigated and prosecuted, was loyal and brave, hardworking and hardworking, and won the hearts of soldiers.The minister is now practicing in the province, and he often relies on the general to rectify the camp affairs.Taqibu's resume is now invoiced and submitted, begging for the emperor's grace from heaven, and making an extraordinary promotion. In order to make the emperor adopt his suggestion and express his absolute trust in the Manchus, he emphatically added a sentence after the film: "If Tazib retreats in the future, he will punish all the ministers." The news of Zeng Guofan's participation in impeachment of Qingde and the protection of Taqibu quickly reached Qingde's ears. He was anxious and hated, and ran to Bao Qibao's place. The resentment from the practice was embellished.He intentionally provoked and said: "Admiral Bao, the brothers are all saying, are we under the command of the admiral or the regimental training minister? The brothers told Zeng Guofan that Admiral Bao loves soldiers like sons, and he is not outside the camp during the three volts and three or nine days." For drills, you only teach the art of war in the camp. Not only did Zeng Guofan not listen, but he said that you are lax in running the army, tolerate indulgence, and have raised a group of old-fashioned soldiers." Bao Qibao was originally an arrogant and fatuous warrior who always looked down on civil officials. Hearing Qingde's words, he was furious: "Zeng Guofan is a civil servant who can use pen and ink. What a joke! Zeng Guofan dared to ridicule me for not strictly governing the army. Does he understand? How can there be any reason for training in the hot summer? Beetles are not used in June, let alone people? This is not training for soldiers, it is clearly abusing soldiers." Seeing that Bao Qibao supported him, Qingde was secretly proud, so he brought up the matter of impeachment: "The eighth day of June is the concubine's birthday, and it's also the day when I can practice. The humble job wants to be so hot, and I want to let the soldiers rest for a day. Hiding from the heat at home. Zeng Guofan actually asked his regiment to come to my place to count the number of people. How many people went to the street, how many people were in the camp, and how many people helped me hold the banquet. I wrote a book to the imperial court, wanting to dismiss me and let Tazi Bulai will be the deputy general of the Changsha Association." "It's unreasonable! The senior members of the army participated in the impeachment, and they went to the court without passing me first. Has he, Zeng Guofan, read the military laws of the Qing Dynasty? Zhang Zhijun is not here, and even Luo Zhongcheng does not interfere with the affairs of the camp. It's a big matter for the party members. It's really deceiving!" Bao Qibao became angry. "It's Tazibu who flattered Zeng Guofan and broke the rules of our green camp." "Pass my order. From tomorrow on, all battalion soldiers will no longer fight with regiment members, and Tazib is also not allowed to go to the regiment to teach. Whoever dares to violate my order will hit him with fifty army sticks first!" "Lord Bao, I really can't bear the grievance of a humble position." Qingde worried that once the imperial court accepted Zeng Guofan's impeachment, his second-rank title would be removed. "Don't worry, I'll appeal to the imperial court right now, Zeng Guofan can't be allowed to do whatever he wants." Since then, the soldiers of the Green Battalion have never come to practice, and Tazib has never dared to come to teach the regiments again.Datuan Yongding was attacked and reviled by soldiers of the Changsha Association for no reason. Incidents happened frequently, and even Zeng Guobao was boxed by them for no reason on the street.Zeng Guofan felt a fire in his heart, but he endured it, and advised Zeng Guobao and other humiliated regiment members to continue training every day.He was waiting for the imperial court's reply, thinking to himself: If the imperial court supports it, he will not be afraid of his arrogance; if the imperial court does not support it, he will immediately resign and return to Heyetang to guard the tomb!