The book picks up.
Many years later, in the face of Hu Linyi, Tang Shuyi's son Tang Jiong will remember the night when his father committed suicide by throwing himself into the river.
Hulin wing image
After saying the opening words of cos", let's look at Xianfeng again. Xianfeng was known as the Son of Bitter Destiny, half of the reason was that as soon as he came to power, he encountered the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. I don't know if there is a novel written by modern people crossing into him, although the editor has not read it, he also wants to get that the crosser must be possessed by the whole country and must first use the power of the whole country to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
In fact, although Xianfeng did not foresee the future like the crossers, he never took the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lightly from the beginning. As soon as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sprouted in Guangxi, he sent Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Yao Ying, Xiang Rong and other heavyweights, and later, he sent Cézanne, a university scholar and chief military minister.
In contrast, the future commander of the Xiang Army, Zeng Guofan. Watching the people work, he said cool words on the side, mocking the emperor for using the heavy minister Cézanne to hit the Little Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as "a crossbow of a thousand gold, lighter than one shot." ”
Statue of Cézanne
XianFeng had worked very hard, but he still hadn't stopped the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from growing. It soon left Guangxi, fought Changsha, captured Wuchang, and finally Dingding Jinling.
During the Taiping Army's march into Nanjing, there was a Gongbu waiter named Lü Xianji who was related to Li Hongzhang. The two Anhui people were both officials in Beijing, so they got closer and closer, and their friendship was so good that they mixed oil in honey.
At that time, Li Hongzhang was the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and those who had read the previous articles of the editor would know how idle this position was. Therefore, after learning the news of the Taiping Army's activities in Anhui, Li Hongzhang could not resist the impulse to create and the passion of talking on paper, and with his familiarity with the geography of his hometown, he wrote a strategic plan overnight.
However, Li Hongzhang was a small editor of the Hanlin Academy, and his status was not enough, so he consulted with Lü Xianji and handed over the fold in the name of his friend to show the emperor the plan.
Who knows, Li Hongzhang's plan was written in an earth-shattering ghost, Xianfeng was fanned by the speed of light, hated not to give him a thousand likes, and immediately ordered: Military wizard Lu Xianji went to Anhui to assist in military affairs.
The next morning, Li Hongzhang went to visit the Lu family with a nervous and expectant mood, just like when the editor wrote an article and posted it in the headline, saw someone replying, and was ready to click. As a result, he heard the Lu family crying in the distance.
"Is Lu Xianji dead?" Li Hongzhang rushed into the Lü family despite Hanlin's image, but saw that Lü Xianji was safe and sound, but the fifty-year-old man cried like a tearful man: "Hongzhang, you can hurt Xianji!" ”
Portrait of Li Hongzhang
Indeed, running to the noisy place of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom during this time period is to send death. How many Qing Dynasty officials would rather fight for the future than learn from Mr. Wuliu to return to Xi.
However, there was such a person, people were afraid of long hair, but he secretly moved and took the initiative to ask to go to Hubei, the most difficult place in the Qing Dynasty, to suppress the Taiping Army.
He is Hu Linyi.
In the Battle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hu Linyi was the three giants of the Xiang clan who stood with Zeng Guofan and Luo Bingzhang. However, at this time, the Xiang group was still in its infancy, and Hu Linyi was just a small Daoist.
Hu Linyi wanted to go to Hubei, of course, not to get his brain into the water, but to have a perfect plan for his career. Speaking of which, this is not the first time he has done this.
Hu Linyi was a soldier of Daoguang for sixteen years, and before the Taiping War, the nature of his work was bounded by the death of his father, which was divided into two completely different types. Before his father's death, he was a Hanlin in Beijing, and he was as idle as Li Hongzhang and Li Hanlin. After his father's death, he kept filial piety at home. At the end of filial piety, Hu Linyi donated a prefect of Guizhou Province, and became a dog every day. As the saying goes, busy into a dog, what is the use of earning more money? But the problem is that Hu Linyi has become a dog, and the money has not been drawn to the house. It is not that the editor has a mysterious confidence in the moral character of Hu Linyi, but in such a poor place as Guizhou, even if Hu Linyi scrapes the ground down three inches, he cannot scrape out oil and water.
Moutai Ancient Town in Guizhou Province in the 1950s
In fact, at the beginning of Hu Linyi's purchase of official office, he was completely rich, and he also had connections to operate in rich places such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, Hu Linyi chose Guizhou, where birds do not lay eggs. Why is this so, xiaobian has been decrypted in "Lin Zexu's most valued ZTE famous minister is not Zuo Zongtang, but this person", and I will not repeat it here.
Lin Zexu looked at the sword drinking cup diagram
Hu Linyi came to Guizhou and was busy becoming a dog, so what was he busy with?
Busy killing people, of course.
Guizhou, like Guangxi, is poor and can't open the pot, so the people who rebelled because they couldn't eat were like leeks, cutting stubble after stubble. Hu Linyi wanted to make a name for himself in Guizhou in the quickest way, and there was only one thing he was busy with, that is, suppressing bandits, suppressing bandits, or suppressing bandits. He used Guizhou as a testing ground for saving experience and brushing up levels.
Taiping Junxing
As a result, seven years later, even the emperor in the Forbidden City knew that there was a small Hu prefect in remote Guizhou Province who did a very good job in suppressing bandits. Zeng Guofan first organized a group training, and also respectfully wrote to him to ask for experience.
Therefore, when the Taiping Army is prosperous, Hu Linyi will naturally think: With my old Hu's seven years of work experience in Guizhou, it is time to show his face and fight the BOSS.
As a result, when Hu Linyi really got his wish and came to Hubei with 600 soldiers, it was completely stupid. Of course, he thought that PK Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a glorious and arduous task, but he really did not think that glory was out of reach, arduous but spicy. The Taiping Army is not like the bandits born of the starving people in Guizhou, people are organized, religious, and powerful professional soldiers. You also want to play boss, not to be killed by NPCs is not bad.
Therefore, Hu Linyi in the predicament thought of a person, that is, Tang Shuyi mentioned in yesterday's small editor's article. Hu Linyi and Tang Shuyi were both capable members of the emperor's transfer from Guizhou to Hubei to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but Tang Shuyi was more qualified and set out first. Before Tang Shuyi left, he visited Hu Linyi's home in Guizhou, and the two of them scolded the long hair while talking about their ideals in life, and blew off several bottles of Guizhou specialty Maotai.
Moutai ancient wine bottle
Hu Linyi heard that Tang Shuyiguan was stationed in Jinkou with a hubei water division, so he went forward with his men to defect.
However, he came a step too late, and Tang Shuyi drowned yesterday. The ignorant Hu Linyi walked in Jinkou, and the wet and cold wind blew from the direction of the Yangtze River, with the smell of gun smoke and blood. Just at this moment, Hu Linyi heard a miserable cry for help.
But I saw a man galloping on a fast horse without a saddle, with dozens of people chasing after him. Hu Linyi recognized that the person riding the horse was Tang Jiong, the son of Tang Shuyi.
Fortunately, Hu Linyi had a fierce general by his side, and this person's name was Zhu Hongzhang. Later, the Xiang army attacked Tianjing, and he was the first to break through the city. However, Zhu Hongzhang was from Guizhou, and the grand marshal Zeng Guoquan credited li Chendian from Hunan.
In the Xiang Army, Zhu Hongzhang could completely compete with Taqibu and Bijinke to compete in the top three of the "Single-Headed King". Seeing that Tang Gongzi was in difficulty, Hu Linyi hurriedly ordered Zhu Hongzhang to save Tang Jiong.
Readers who have read the previous article of the editor should already know that there are two versions of Tang Shuyi's ending:
One: Hubei version, from two Manchus, Hubei Inspector Chonglun and Hubei Xuezheng Qinglin. They said that Tang Shuyi originally took the water division to garrison catfish outside Hubei City, and the Taiping Army besieged Hubei, and Tang Shuyi fled to Jinkou in a boat. Who knew that he could run the first year of the first year, but could not run fifteen. Tang Shuyi thought that he was safe, and Changmao could not defeat Wuchang, so he went to attack Jinkou. Tang Shuyi was shot just in time.
Two: The Hunan version, from two Han Chinese, Luo Bingzhang, the Inspector of Hunan, and Zeng Guofan, a former attendant. They said that Tang Shuyi, in order to defend Hanyang's water transfer division yu Jinkou, always killed the Taiping army and was greatly defeated, so he was regarded as a thorn in the eye by the enemy and besieged. Tang Shuyi was seriously injured after slashing a number of long hairs and committed suicide by diving.
In fact, combined with Tang Jiong's later narrative and other materials, we can deduce the third and closest version to the truth.
It turned out that after Tang Shuyi fled to Jinkou, the Taiping Army attacked. Before he could give the order to resist, his men ran away. Tang Shuyi could no longer bear this kind of torment, and he also knew that he had escaped to Jinkou because he had offended his superiors, so he handed over the official seal to his son and committed suicide by jumping into the river.
After Tang Jiong separated from his father, he encountered the fleeing Qing army. Tang Shuyi's men were impatient with the Taiping Army, but they set their covetous eyes on Tang Gongzi. They plan to grab a vote and kill people again.
Tang Jiong deserved to have dealt with Shi Dakai later, and this bit of cleverness was also there, and he hurriedly turned over to grab a horse without a saddle, fortunately encountering Hu Linyi.
Tang Jiong hugged Hu Linyi and cried: What is the name of being defeated, his father Tang Shuyi is about to be destroyed. At the critical moment, he dragged the largest mini water division in Hubei to escape, hit the muzzle of the Taiping Army's guns, and after committing suicide, the remnants robbed and killed people and attacked friendly troops. Each of these items would be reported to the emperor by the Inspector of Hubei and xuezheng.
"Rest assured! I have a way! Hu Linyi patted Tang Jiong's back, and his tone was calm and powerful.
Tang Jiong nodded tearfully, but he didn't believe it. He borrowed a horse from Hu Linyi and parted ways with it. Before leaving, Tang Jiong was afraid of making a mistake, thinking that Hu Linyi was carrying six hundred people after all, so he handed over his father's seal letter to him for safekeeping.
Hu Linyi said that there is a way, that is really a way. He thought, Tang Shuyi has offended his superiors in Hubei, isn't there still Hunan?
Wuchang, Hubei during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Seeing that the hubei province city of Wuchang was surrounded by the Taiping Army into an iron barrel, running there was to send him to death. Hu Linyi turned his head and went to Hunan. He ordered Huang Feng, a small official from Guizhou who was accompanying him, to come forward and hand over Tang Shuyi's seal letter to Luo Bingzhang, and also made up a story about Tang Shuyi's awe-inspiring struggle with long hair, and his family He Gui risked death to escape. He Gui, of course, is also a person. He is a character created by Hu Linyi's literature. Soon, the story of Tang Shuyi's heroic sacrifice was given to the emperor by Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan.
This story that conforms to the main theme of the Qing Dynasty made XianFeng very moved, and Tang Shuyi received a generous pension. Of course, in the long run, the biggest profit is Hu Linyi.
Hu Linyi did Tang Jiong a big favor, and the Tang family was grateful to him. Tang Shuyi had been an official in Hubei for many years and had a huge network of contacts in Hubei. To tell the truth, in the face of the menacing Taiping Army, which of the officials did not grease the soles of their feet? Although Tang Shuyi was sorry for his superiors Qinglin and Chonglun, the vast number of Hubei officials still understood and felt what he had done. When Hu Linyi did this, they quickly regarded him as their own. This is also one of the reasons why Hu Linyi's future role as the inspector of Hubei can quickly open up the situation.
Hu Linyi is worthy of friends and co-opts colleagues, and the only regret is probably the crime of deceiving the king. However, isn't the emperor born to deceive his courtiers?
The pictures of the Xianfeng Emperor's imperial period look very good to deceive horses
So, does Luo Bingzhang know that this story is Xibei goods? It should also be known. Otherwise, he would not have used this sentence to evaluate Tang Shuyi's death in the report with zeng guofan:
The rebel dared to sneak from Huangzhou to Jinkou and break the official ship, so that the commander of the imperial court (referring to Tang Shuyi) fell into the water and died, which was really crazy.
Dare to rebel? Are you still afraid that the big people will fall into the water? Behind the joyful text, the three giants of the Xiang Army joined hands for the first time to wish the Xianfeng Emperor a happy April Fool's Day.