The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 109 It’s important not to have Zeng Guofan!

"A Qing demon official who can exchange for my family's Daquan? He is."

When Xu Yuegui heard what Archangel Luo said, her breathing quickened, her chest rose and fell, and her face was filled with unbelievable surprise.

She had actually long regarded Hong Daquan as a dead man. This dead man was asking for death, claiming to be the brother of the second son of God! If Xianfeng caught him, wouldn't he be nailed to the cross and cut into pieces?

It took a lot of effort to catch such a big leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. How big a demon did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have to catch before Emperor Xianfeng was willing to exchange him?

"His name is Zeng Guofan!" Luo Yaoguo laughed, "He is a current vice minister. Before his mourning period, he was the left vice minister of the Ministry of Personnel and served as the chief examiner for the Jiangxi provincial examination."

Xu Yuegui was a little disappointed when she heard what Luo Yaoguo said: "The minister is still in office. It seems that he is not very old. Is Xianfeng really willing to exchange my Daquan for him?"

How can it be?

Luo Yaoguo thought to himself: "Even if Xianfeng agrees, I won't! That's Zeng Guofan, the savior of the Qing Dynasty!
It can be said that if Zeng Guofan had not been there in history, and Zeng Guoquan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang had been the ones to fight the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom might still have been destroyed. But the Qing Dynasty would most likely have been destroyed, too!
Without Zeng Guofan, a leader who could lead the Hunan and Huai armies, Zeng Guoquan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang would inevitably adopt the route of nurturing the enemy and separatism - this is a very common phenomenon in history. The princes of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the feudal lords of the Tang Dynasty, and the heroes of the late Yuan Dynasty all took this approach. I have already made these issues clear in "Anti-Classics", and those scholars will definitely be tempted to become the lord!
Once the Han officials and militia formed an armed separatist regime in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty would be finished, regardless of whether the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom existed in the end!
Therefore, it is very important that Zeng Guofan is not there!

Because only he would, after desperately suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, lay off the Hunan Army on which he depended for his livelihood. Others' love for the Qing Dynasty is not so deep!"

After thinking for a while, Luo Yaoguo said to Xu Yuegui sincerely: "Sister Yuegui, the probability that Xianfeng is willing to change is always more than 50%. Even if he is unwilling to change, he will not easily harm Brother Daquan. Moreover, we will definitely catch more evil Qing officials in the future. Zeng Guofan is easier to catch because he is in mourning! Daquan is our brother, and we in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not give up any of our brothers easily!"

Jiao Hong, Xu Yuegui, Xu Xianggui and Zhang San, the dark hall leaders from the Tiandihui, were all moved after hearing what Luo Yaoguo said.

Xu Yuegui knelt down to Luo Yaoguo: "Your Highness, the Angel, you have been so kind to us! Everyone in the Recruiting Army Hall will follow your lead!"

Jiao Hong, Xu Xianggui and Zhang San also knelt down and expressed their loyalty.

Luo Yaoguo raised his eyebrows. This was an unexpected gain - the "loyalty" of these people in the Recruiting Army Hall had increased again.

"Get up, get up." Luo Yaoguo waved his hand, calling Jiao Hong, Xu Yuegui, Zhang San, Xu Xianggui and others to stand up, and then asked: "Let's think about how to send internal support to Changsha and Xiangxiang?"

Before, Luo Yaoguo had used the strategy of internal and external cooperation when he captured Daozhou, Guiyangzhou, Chenzhou and other cities, and he had achieved success!

Now I naturally want to follow suit and do it twice more!
After Luo Yaoguo, Jiao Hong, Xu Yuegui, Xu Xianggui and others discussed launching an uprising of the Tiandihui in Changsha and Xiangxiang to cooperate with the Taiping Army's attack, they called Su Sanniang and Yu Mieqing to go to the West King's Palace in Chenzhou City.

Inside the West Palace.

"Welcome to the 4,000th anniversary of the Angel of Peace!"

As soon as Luo Yaoguo entered the yard, a group of Heavenly Kingdom warriors under the Western King Xiao Chaogui and the generals of the upper army such as Zeng Tianyang, Wu Ruxiao, Li Shoucheng, He Damei, who had arrived for the meeting before Luo Yaoguo, all knelt down and saluted.

In Luo Yaoguo's Angel Palace and the Upper Army, the etiquette of kneeling and kowtowing is rare, and more emphasis is placed on "brothers and sisters are one family." In Xiao Chaogui's West Palace and the Front Army, the rules are still the same.

Because Xiao Chaogui possessed the divine power of "Zhen Ji Du Possessed", he not only maintained his rank within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also gained greater voice. Therefore, the commander-in-chief of the Taiping Army's march north to Changsha was Xiao Chaogui, and Luo Yaoguo was only the deputy commander-in-chief.

Therefore, as long as Xiao Chaogui was present, the rules of kowtow and kneeling had to be followed according to the West Palace.

"Stand up, stand up, all of you stand up." Luo Yaoguo was still as approachable as ever, smiling and asking everyone to stand up. The Western King Xiao Chaogui and his wife Hong Xuanjiao were standing outside the main hall waiting together. When they saw Luo Yaoguo coming in, they hurriedly smiled and greeted him.

"Eighth brother!"

"Old Eight!" Luo Yaoguo clasped his fists towards the two of them and said, "Brother-in-law, Sixth Sister." Then he asked Hong Xuanjiao, "Sixth Sister, when did you arrive in Chenzhou?"

"I just arrived yesterday evening," Hong Xuanjiao said with a smile, "I heard that you just came back from the dock outside the city, so I didn't go over to bother you."

Xiao Chaogui continued Hong Xuanjiao's question and asked, "Eighth brother, do those boatmen support our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? They are all brothers of the Tiandihui who want to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty."

Luo Yaoguo has been very busy these days. On the one hand, he has to arrange to send dark hall lecturers to Changsha and Xiangxiang to launch an uprising; on the other hand, he is also busy with the work of the bowmen and boatmen on the Chenjiang and Leishui rivers.

Most of the boatmen on the Xiao River were recruited into the Taiping Army, but not many boatmen on the Chen River and Lei River joined the Taiping Army. It was not that they were unwilling, but Luo Yaoguo could not withdraw all the water transport capacity of several prefectures in southern Hunan.

Water transport is the main force of logistics in southern Hunan. Xiaoshui, Leishui, Chenjiang, Kuishui, Yijiang, plus Quanzhou and Guanyang County in Guangxi, which are adjacent to Daozhou, eventually flow into the Xiangjiang River. If Feng Yunshan can take advantage of the moment when the main force of the Taiping Army is heading north to Changsha and make great achievements in southern Hunan, and take Lingling, Quanzhou and Hengyang, then Xiaoshui, Leishui, Chenjiang, Guanjiang, Kuishui and Yijiang can be connected through the Xiangjiang waterway between Quanzhou and Hengyang.

By then, Feng Yunshan's Southern Palace only needed to control the four important towns on the Xiangjiang River, namely Hengyang, Qiyang, Lingling and Quanzhou, and then mobilize troops and transport food through the water transportation network composed of the Xiangjiang River and Xiaoshui, Leishui, Chenjiang, Guanjiang, Kuishui and Yijiang, and then control several mountain passes on the Nanling Mountains in the south, so as to open up a large and stable base.

Therefore, in order to allow Feng Yunshan to use troops and transport food in southern Hunan in the future, and for the sake of people's livelihood and production in the southern Hunan base, Luo Yaoguo did not intend to incorporate the two or three hundred large wooden boats and the captains and boatmen gathered at the dock east of Chenzhou City into the Taiping Army.

However, he still wanted to build a branch church of the God Worshipping Society among the boatmen and boatmen in southern Hunan, and develop a group of God Worshipping Society members among the boatmen and boatmen in southern Hunan.

Luo Yaoguo assigned this task to his eldest disciple Wang Yan, who brought several junior students from the first lecturer class. They went down to establish a branch hall ten days ago to spread the principles of "Anti-Scripture" and "Tianchao Tianmu System" to the boatmen and boatmen. The day before yesterday, Wang Yan reported that they had developed a group of disciples and were preparing to open a "small lecturer class", and invited Luo Yaoguo to go there to support the scene.

So yesterday afternoon, Luo Yaoguo took Su Sanniang with him. Not only did he give a speech to the students in the junior lecturer class, he also had a heart-to-heart talk with several well-known captains in the Tiandihui. Su Sanniang even became sworn sisters with one of the female captains.

"We have dealt with the boatmen and boatmen on the Chen River," Luo Yaoguo said confidently. "Sanniang and I spent a lot of time talking and finally let them know that our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will definitely replace the Qing Dynasty. They are willing to follow us in order to have a founding hero. But we still need the Third Brother of the Southern King to personally summon them and reward them with a few official positions, so that they will work hard."

Xiao Chaogui asked: "How many ships do they have? How many soldiers can they carry?"

Luo Yaoguo was mainly busy with the affairs of the lecturers' group and the Dark Hall. The specific military affairs were left to Su Sanniang and Yu Mieqing, so he did not answer but glanced at Su Sanniang.

Although Su Sanniang and Luo Yaoguo had not yet married, their close relationship had long been public. Therefore, Xiao Chaogui and Hong Xuanjiao had already regarded her as their sister-in-law, so they did not dare to let her kneel all the time. After she finished the kowtow ceremony, she stood beside Luo Yaoguo.

Seeing Luo Yaoguo's eyes, he immediately answered: "They always have hundreds of ships. The more than 23,000 soldiers heading north can all take the ships. All the baggage and artillery can also be transported by water, which is very convenient. However, Yu Mieqing said that the Governor of Huguang, Cheng Yancai, is currently stationed in Hengyang. He has 3,000 governors under his command, and they all went to Hengyang. This monster is as timid as a chicken, and Hengyang is not his city of duty. If he knew that my 23,000 troops were going out together, he would definitely abandon the city and go north. If he escaped to Changsha, it would be fine. What if he ran to Wuchang? The loss when the Western King attacked the city in the future will be great!
So I discussed with Yu Mieqing and decided that we could send the main force to advance slowly along the Chenjiang River and the Leishui River by boat, and then send out a group of elite troops to bypass Hengyang by land, go north along the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, and rush to Changsha.

Without waiting for Su Sanniang to finish her words, Xiao Chaogui nodded heavily and said, "Okay! I'll trouble you, my eighth brother, to lead the special forces. It's not that I'm lazy or timid, but my fate is incompatible with Changsha. Next time we attack Wuchang, I will definitely lead the troops!"

Seeing that Xiao Chaogui was determined to go around Changsha, Luo Yaoguo was helpless - after all, it was a "Ji Du warning", and it would be troublesome if Xiao Chaogui didn't believe it!

"Of course," Luo Yaoguo thought for a moment, "Brother-in-law, it's fine for me to lead the troops to attack Changsha, but I don't have many elite soldiers under my command. I wonder if I can borrow some soldiers from the front army to take with me?"

"Okay!" Xiao Chaogui agreed without hesitation, "I'll send Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang to bring two thousand old brothers from Guangxi to accompany you! You can delegate the charge to them."

Luo Yaoguo bowed to Xiao Chaogui and said, "There is one more thing I need to trouble you, brother-in-law."

King Xiaoxi waved his hand nonchalantly and said with a smile, "What's the matter? Just tell me."

Luo Yaoguo said in a deep voice: "Please ask your brother-in-law to lead the troops to Xiangxiang to capture the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's mortal enemy! I have arranged for internal support, and with internal and external support, there should be no loss."

(End of this chapter)