Chapter 30 Eight forced to leave Hengzhou City

For several days, Zeng Guofan was depressed.That night, he thought of the past seven or eight months when he was in Changsha for group training.He scratched furiously, blood stains covered his body, and the bed was covered with ringworm. Ten years ago, Zeng Guofan got this skin disease in Beijing. I don’t know how many doctors and medicines he took, but he never recovered. Especially when he was disturbed by something, it was very itchy. Sometimes he tossed and turned on the bed and couldn’t fall asleep all night. , There is simply no joy in life.One year, Jing Qi brought a quack doctor who claimed to be an expert in treating ringworm. He visited him for three months and took medicine every day, but in the end there was no effect.The doctor knew that the disease could not be cured, so he thought about retreating.He quietly invited Jing Qi to a hotel on Qianmen Street, begged Jing Qi to give him advice, and offered five taels of silver as thank you gold.Jing Qi was greedy for the five taels of silver, and told the legend that Zeng Guofan was reincarnated as a boa constrictor, and told the quack doctor a way to escape.

One day, the quack doctor asked Zeng Guofan to take off all his clothes and trousers. He carefully looked up, down, front, back, left, and right, and stroked him for a long time. Reading Jing Qi's legend, I was secretly surprised.He helped Zeng Guofan put on his clothes, and said to Zeng Guofan with a flattering smile: "My lord, today I really understand that your lord is not suffering from ringworm, but your innate nature. My lord, you I was not an ordinary person in my previous life, but a boa constrictor who had been cultivating for thousands of years on Kunlun Mountain. The circle all over her body is a clear proof. My lord, there is no need to cure this disease. If there is no such circle, how can my lord wear a crane and python robe in the future? Ascend to the position of prime minister?"

Zeng Guofan listened to the quack doctor's words and remembered the story of the boa constrictor's reincarnation that his mother often told. After the itching subsided, Zeng Guofan got up, rubbed ink and spread paper by himself.He wants to play Luo Bingzhang and Bao Qibao to the emperor.As soon as he wrote the sentence "to play Luo Bingzhang and Bao Qibao, the inferior officials of Shenyong", he stopped writing dejectedly.He remembered the memorial to impeach Qingde, but the emperor has not approved it yet.Do you agree or disagree?How does the emperor view the officialdom in Hunan?Will directly impeaching the highest civil and military officials in Hunan will arouse the emperor's disgust?Besides, how would the emperor think of himself if he went to impeach the other party for the fight between the soldiers? "God's will has always been difficult to ask."Feeling full of bitterness and nowhere to pour it out, he was so angry that he broke the pen holder, crumpled the paper, and threw it into the basket.After a while, he found the piece of paper out of the basket again, smoothed it out carefully, looked at it, put it on the candle, and watched it quickly turn into ashes absentmindedly.Wang Jingqi has been with Zeng Guofan for more than ten years, and he has never seen him so angry.Jing Qi didn't dare to persuade her, let alone go to sleep by herself, so she could only sit outside the door and accompany her.

"Luo Bingzhang and Bao Qibao look down on me, so I just want to fight for it! I want to train a strong army and show them!" Zeng Guofan made up his mind.On the wall, the banner "Don't be a sage, or a beast" donated by Tang Jian jumped into my eyes, and the scene of learning with Mr. Jing Hai back then came to my mind again.Yes, throughout the ages, which hero who has done great things and achieved great success has not experienced a lot of hardship?He gently recited a famous line from Tai Shigong: "The ancients were rich and honored, and their fame is indelible and indelible; only those who are very suave are praised. Gai Xibo played "Book of Changes"; Zhong Nier wrote "Spring and Autumn"; Qu Yuan was exiled. , Naifu "Li Sao"; Zuoqiu was blind, and Jue had "Guoyu"; The three hundred poems in the "Poetry" are mostly written by the sages." After reading, he gradually felt better.

After the anger in his heart subsided, he began to calmly think about the way out.He remembered that what he had done in the past few months was only limited to calming the chaos and stability, and he was still far away from the goal of building Zeng's family army and fighting Changmao. If this goal is not achieved, the officialdom and the green camp will always be there I look down on it, and the ideal of my life is just a fantasy.Over the past few months, he has gradually realized that Changsha is not the place to do things.The officialdom is sluggish, and the green camp is rotten. They don't do any serious work themselves, but when others want to do things, they are jealous and hinder you. In the end, you are not willing to give up until you get nothing done.This place is like a flock of crows, and only when you become as black as them can you not hear the noise of front, back, left, and right.Talking about not being able to build a new army, even if you work hard to build it, you will soon be infected by the bad habits of the green camp, and you will eventually rot with them.Must leave Changsha!Zeng Guofan saw this point more and more clearly.In February, in a memorial to the emperor, Zeng Guofan mentioned that there was chaos in Hengzhou and planned to stay in Hengzhou for a period of time.At that time, he was already aware of the difficulties in Changsha's officialdom, and secretly buried a way out for himself.The emperor had no objection to this.He has not left until now because he has concerns, worried that going to Hengzhou to expand the team training will lead to criticism for leaving the supervision and establishing his own style.I don't care about these discussions now, so I have to go.

Tuanlian and Luying have formed such a deep hatred, and there will be endless conflicts and frictions in the future. Taking stock of his strength, Zeng Guofan knew that he was still unable to defeat Luo Bingzhang, Bao Qibao and Luying.let's go!Go to Hengzhou, leave this group of mediocre people who have not achieved enough and failed, and go to Hengzhou to make a big splash! After making up his mind, the east has turned white.After he finished washing, he picked up a book in the bookcase, flipped through a page, and recited aloud: "The logging is ding-ding, the birds are chirping, coming out of the deep valley and moving into the trees." He suddenly felt that this was a good omen, a prophecy From then on, you can walk out of the valley and step into the sun-drenched avenue.