A new yamen had opened at the entrance of Yutang, which was close to the governor's yamen. The signboard had the words " Hunan Judicial Bureau " written on it. had
Guofan had been working in this yamen for two months as the assistant minister of regimental training whose main responsibility was to protect the people.
He remembered that on the day he entered Changsha, when he, Guo Songtao, Guobao, and Kang Fu came to the big store, Jiang Zhongyuan brought a hundred yuan.
Chu Yong was waiting for them in town and personally accompanied them into the city. When they arrived at the new shop, Zuo Zongtang brought a group of Changsha squires and former teachers.
Friends, such as Huang Mian, Sun Guanchen, Chen Jimu and Yuelu Academy Mountain Chief Ding Shanqing, Chengnan Academy Mountain Chief Ding Fuchen and so on came to meet. came to
At the entrance of another village's governor's yamen, the middle door was wide open. Zhang Liangji brought the former Efu Luo Raodian, the governor Pan Duo, and the judge Yue Xing 'a.
A group of high-ranking officials from the salt and grain routes were already waiting there. That night, Zhang Liangji held a banquet in the governor's yamen for Zeng Guo.
The vassal washed away the dust. Zeng Guofan was deeply moved by Zhang Liangji's grand and sincere welcome. For a few days, Zhang Liangji and Zeng Guofan kept secrets.
Talk. The two of them hated Hunan's lax administration of officials and the rampant bandits. Zeng Guofan believed that in troubled times, severe laws should be used and officialdom should be strictly enforced.
They must be put in order, especially to suppress bandits. Zhang Liangji agreed. As for Zeng Guofan's "I would rather lose it than be strict."
Zhang Liangji also appreciated the strategy of losing in leniency. Zeng Guofan also proposed to build a large regiment in the province.
Choose the best local soldiers, recruit them to the province, strictly train them, and use this regiment to protect the safety of the provincial capital and suppress the construction of bandits everywhere.
Talk. Zhang Liangji personally agreed. However, this was a serious matter and Zeng Guofan had to personally write a memorial to the Emperor. In the end, Zhang Liangji tightened his grip.
He held Zeng Guofan's hands and said,"From now on, everything related to the protection of Hunan and the safety of the people will be entrusted to you.
Hunan is my dear brother's hometown. My dear brother's love for Hunan is definitely not below that of Liangji. Don't have any thoughts of avoiding suspicion. Just let it go.
Hands and feet, use the art of mending the sky, so that the elders of Sanxiang can get peace as soon as possible.”
These words made Zeng Guofan's blood boil. He hated that he had met Zhang Liangji too late and felt ashamed of his previous rejection.
The next day, Zeng Guofan submitted a memorial to the imperial court. Zeng Guofan wanted to build a large regiment in the province, naturally not just for
Defend the city and suppress the bandits. His main intention was to build a new army. His idea was to recruit a small number of people first, then
He trained them strictly so that they could fight ten enemies at once. Then, with this group of people as the backbone, he would recruit ten or twenty times more people.
They could become a strong force and when the time came, they could pull out of the province to compete with the Taiping Country Army. The Manchu people had always been on guard against the Han people, and the military power was in the hands of the imperial court.
They were firmly in control and never allowed the Han to lead more troops, much less allow anyone to build a "Qi Family Army" like Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty. perhaps
Zeng Guofan's memorial was vague, perhaps because of the crisis of the situation, Emperor Xianfeng knew that the Green Camp was not reliable and hoped to have a new army.
The appearance of power, or perhaps with the guarantee of King Gong, Sushun and Tang Jian, made Emperor Xianfeng especially believe in Zeng Guofan.
He quickly replied,"Take care of it to defend against the enemy.”
Zeng Guofan received this imperial edict and immediately transferred Luo Zenan and his few elite students to Changsha. His 1,000 men had been selected.
After the selection, he brought eight hundred. These regiments were divided into two battalions, each with 360 men. Luo Zenan led one battalion and Wang Wei led another. and from
80 elite soldiers were selected to form a personal guard team led by Zeng Guobao. Zeng Guofan also personally passed the assessment and comparison, from eighty years old,
He picked out Peng Yuju, Xiao Qingyan, and six others from his personal guards, and Kang Fu was in charge of training them to act as his personal bodyguards. these six individuals
They were all Zeng Guofan's relatives or friends. Zeng Guofan believed that the leaders of the big regiment must have a close relationship with each other.
Only by connecting this group of warriors into a strong bond would they be able to share glory and death together. Zeng Guofan is called Luo Ze
Nan and Wang He trained their courage with all their might. In addition, they invited a few more committee members to handle the daily cases. As soon as I heard that the newly opened Judicial Bureau was going to appoint
Immediately, many officials and gentlemen came forward to recommend people. Zeng Guofan wanted to find it himself and not be recommended, but one by one,
It was not easy to find a suitable person. Secondly, he had just finished his work, so he picked out more than ten people from the recommended people and entrusted them to Yue Zhong.
Lu Academy's classmate and good friend was in charge of the Jiangsu Province candidate Zhizhou Huang Tingzan.
Just after the Spring Festival, He Jiagou, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society in Daozhou, ordered Yantou Village, Changning Wudong, Guiyang Baishui Cave, Ningyuan Laizi,
The mountain was the stronghold, and the organization was expanded to four or five thousand people. They were distributed in more than ten prefectures and counties. They won victories in the Taiping Army.
Under the encouragement of, he announced an uprising, claiming to be the king of Punan, besieging the county town, killing the chief Xu Delu and the chief historian Wu Shichang. Zeng Guofan quickly sent Liu
Changyou and Li Chaofu led 400 soldiers of Chu and 400 soldiers of Xiang to suppress them. Not long after he set off, Liu Jihou from Hengshan Grass Market got up again.
Things. Zeng Guofan hurriedly sent someone to inform Wang He to go to the grass market first, and then to Daozhou. A few days later, the Lantian Chuanzi Club in Anhua
Announce the uprising, Jiangxi Shangyou Liu Hongyi's rebel army entered the east of Guangxi, killed the Qing soldiers, the general Lv Zhizhang, the gentleman Huang Dasan, and entered the sand.
The fields. There were also the Red and Black Association in You County, the Half Money Association in Guiyang, and the One Fragrance Association in Yongzhou. They were all actively developing their congregations and brewing.
Things. What gave Zeng Guofan a headache was that in the past few months, a new group of bandits had appeared. There were three types of people in this group of bandits:
They were soldiers who had escaped from Yuezhou, Wuchang, Hanyang and other cities. They had no money to go home and no camp to join. They stayed along the way and robbed everywhere. a
The second type was the people who had their houses burned down during the war between the Taiping Army and the Qing Army. The weak became beggars, and the strong gathered all living beings.
One was the long husband captured by the Qing army in the war. After using it, he did not have money to go home, so he wandered around and became a vagrant everywhere.
Disturb. Most of these wandering bandits wandered in the marketplace and were very destructive.
Zeng Guofan instructed the Criminal Investigation Bureau to severely punish those who endangered social security. In order to encourage the regiments,
He stipulated that every bandit caught would be rewarded with five taels of silver. Under the generous rewards, the soldiers were all enthusiastic, and some even caught a few and sent them over one day. not
Whether it was bandits, bandits, robbers, thieves, or other troublemakers, they would catch and kill one. No matter who comes to talk about love, Zeng Guofan doesn't
Forgive. He often told the committee members that to suppress the bandits, they had to be ruthless and merciless. They had to do it with the methods of Shen, Han and Shang Yang.
Case, don't be afraid of the end of the car in the future. In order to achieve the effect of killing one as a warning to the others, Zeng Guofan ordered people to make ten wooden cages and named them
It was called a cage. The cage was about the height of a person. The prisoner's head was stuck in the wooden cangue, and his limbs were tied up. Pulled by a car during the day, in the city
Inside, they paraded through the streets. At night, they would be placed in the open air and guarded by soldiers. No food, no water. In three or four days, the prisoner died tragically.
In the cage. These ten cages were filled with prisoners every day, and they patrolled around Changsha every day, making the people in the city terrified.
Everyone knew that Zeng Guofan, the assistant minister of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, was cruel and vicious. The scholars and squires demanded the abolition of the station cage and the implementation of benevolent government.
They flew like snowflakes to the governor's signing room. A few soft-hearted committee members also went to Zhang Liangji to complain and threatened to resign.
Zhang Liangji ignored this and praised Zeng Guofan for his courage and knowledge. Zeng Guofan saw that the regimental training was effective and the bandits were in chaos.
The number of police calls decreased day by day. He felt that everything was going smoothly and was very proud of himself.
But soon, the political situation underwent a major change.
Ever since the Taiping Army established their capital in Jiangning and went against the imperial court, and the San Fan Rebellion 180 years ago was repeated, the imperial court was in power.
After Zeng Guofan was appointed as the first minister to assist the regimental training, he quickly went to Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhili, Henan, Shandong and Zhejiang.
The nine provinces of Jiang, Guizhou, and Fujian appointed forty-two deputy regimental training ministers to assist the local civil and military forces in suppressing the surging riots in various places.
Chaos. The Taiping Army's prestige rose greatly. Flames rose from the rivers and mountains in the southeast. The Yangtze River was thousands of miles long, and warships were like clouds. Xiang Rong and Zhang Guoliang were ordered to lead
The Green Camp that followed them from Guangxi pursued them along the river and built a Jiangnan camp in the south of Jiangning, surrounding Jiangning City. Qi Shan brought a
The army rushed south and built a camp in the north of the Yangtze River in Yangzhou, looking at Jiangning like a tiger. The already poor, weak, and calamity-ridden Celestial Empire
From then on, the people were once again trapped in a war of blood and fire, and their fate was even more tragic.
The fall of the three towns of Hubei made Emperor Xianfeng furious. Xu Guangjin, Governor of Huguang, was dismissed from his post and severely punished. Zhang Liangji was transferred to Wu.
Chang, take over Xu Guangjin's vacancy. Zhang Liangji regarded Jiang Zhongyuan as his right-hand man. He brought Jiang Zhongyuan and his 1,000 Chu Yong to Wuchang.
The remaining 500 Chu Yong formed a battalion led by Jiang Zhongyuan's cousin Zou Shouzhang and younger brother Jiang Zhongji as the third battalion.
Accept Zeng Guofan's command. At this time, Guo Songtao also left Changsha to return to Xiangyin to raise funds. Then Luo Raodian was ordered to be the governor of Jiangxi.
Pan Duo was dismissed from office due to illness, and Yue Xing 'a was promoted to Hubei governor. Luo Bingzhang returned to Hunan to be the governor. He asked the court to transfer his old staff to Xu.
You Ren came from Yunnan to Changsha as a governor and recommended Tao Enpei, a native of Hengyong, Chengui, to the court for promotion to the post of judge. In Hunan,
The high-ranking officials were replaced. In Zeng Guofan's opinion, Luo Bingzhang was mediocre, Xu Youren was ordinary, and Tao Enpei was incompetent. He despised them from the bottom of his heart.
Get up. Zeng Guofan knew that there would be constraints in the future, but he ignored them and still did what Zhang Liangji did in Changsha.
Go.
Recently, there were often small riots in Changsha City, such as robbery, brawls, and riots. Once the regiment is gone, the perpetrator
If they heard the news and left first, they would often not be caught. Zeng Guofan was furious. To warn the troublemakers, and to show off in front of the new governor
To show the regiment's firm and unyielding attitude of suppression, Zeng Guofan personally drafted a notice of "kill without mercy" and printed hundreds of copies, each stamped.
The purple-colored seal with the words "Minister Zeng of the Imperial Assistant Regiment Training" was widely pasted on the streets, alleys, and docks of the city gates. Send more regiments, four
The city center and the main streets were even more guarded. The commoners lowered their eyebrows and looked solemn, afraid of causing trouble with the bandits.
Sticking to the edge. Changsha City was in a state of terror. For the past few days, it was deathly silent. Seeing the resolute measures of suppression succeed,
Zeng Guofan thought,"It seems that severe punishment and harsh laws are indeed an unchanging way to govern the country and the people."
Who knew that after a few days of silence, an even bigger riot broke out in Changsha City.
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