Prince Alcohol shook his head and sighed incessantly, as if he was going to the execution ground.Until this time, Zuo Zongtang still did not want to surrender to Huaguo, he knew what kind of system Huaguo was, after surrendering, he would definitely not be able to take charge of the army anymore, those who were officials were addicted to officials, which was more uncomfortable than killing him, the most important thing is that in fact, most of the Qing people were not willing to surrender to Huaguo, even if it was the people of Huaguo, in fact, there were many people who were interested in the Qing court just because Huaguo's public security was good, the economy was good, and the situation was controlled, so Huaguo has not been in a big mess.
This does not mean that Huaguo is stable, Prince Alcohol went to Xi'an City alone to contact Zuo Zongtang, and he was worried, but Zuo Zongtang was very enthusiastic."
Prince Alcohol, please."
Zuo Zongtang personally greeted him, holding Prince Alcohol's hand, and laughed.Prince Alcohol wiped his sweat for fear that Zuo Zongtang would kill him, "Lord Zuo."
Don't come unharmed. ”"Prince Alcohol doesn't need to be polite, are you here to persuade you to surrender, as the emperor's biological father, how can you take the lead in surrendering the Huaguo" Zuo Zongtang asked.Prince Alcohol sighed and told him how President Meng invited him, and then how King Jun was spying on him on the side.The two of them have their own thoughts, there is no need to conceal it, the current situation, in fact, even ordinary people can see and understand, President Meng does not want to fight, does not want to kill people, this idea has been continuously promoted through the Huacui Evening News, public opinion has been a little biased towards President Meng, including the public opinion of the Qing court's territory.Although most of the common people in the Qing court's dependent territories still did not want to belong to the Chinese state, the common people were even more afraid of war, and if the two sides could not get along, the Chinese army would definitely fight in the Qing court's dependent territories, and the Qing army would never be able to fight in China.Zuo Zongtang sighed, "I'll tell you honestly, what King Xuanjun said is not wrong, no matter how we resist, without the imperial court, the Great Qing Kingdom will definitely not be able to defeat the Hua Kingdom, now the key is that if they want to accumulate strength to sweep the Qing Dynasty, there will be at least ten years of hard work We don't have to be afraid for the time being, the key is to see what price they can give us" Prince Alcohol was stunned, "You still want the price code I think now, it's good to be able to save my life, people are dead, what do I expect to risk going out of Beijing City, the president has not promised a word, What he said was empty words, saying that he had made a meritorious contribution and would be a meritorious hero in the future, alas, who knows what a meritorious hero is" Zuo Zongtang's mood was a little affected by Prince Alcohol, and shook his head, "Lord Wang, please be relieved, when you come to me, you don't have to be afraid anymore, in the future, you will stay in this Xi'an city, and with you here, you can also make the people in the northwest feel at ease." ”Prince Alcohol was so frightened that he stood up suddenly, "Lord Zuo, what do you want to do, do you want to pull my banner, and fight against Huaguo, I won't do it." ”Zuo Zongtang squinted at Prince Alcohol and said with a smile: "What do you mean, I will pull you to rebel, don't say that you don't do it, I don't have the courage or the strength, but we don't agree to Huaguo's empty persuasion, it's still okay." ”"Lord Zuo, don't go your own way, the Qing Kingdom is like this, what are you still tossing about, surrender early, it's early."
Prince Alcohol was a timid and fearful man, sighed, and began to wipe his tears again.Zuo Zongtang looked down on Prince Alcohol, and felt that this kind of person could do it The prince outside the city knew that Prince Alcohol was in vain, and he didn't expect Prince Alcohol to play any role at all, and he had already contacted the entourage of the Statistics Bureau of Huaguo, and had sent someone to Gansu to contact Dong Fuxiang to see if he could plot against Zuo Zongtang's people Gansu has Dong Fuxiang's army, and Dong Fuxiang's army is mostly composed of local armies in Qinghai and Gansu, and Ma Zhanao cannot be mentioned here.In the tenth year of Tongzhi, after Zuo Zongtang waved his army into Gansu, he defeated the Shaanxi rebel army that retreated in Longdong, captured Dong Zhiyuan, and then besieged Jinji Fort with a large army.Under the command of Ma Hualong, the Jinjibao Hui rebel army resisted stubbornly, and after killing Liu Songshan, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army's North Road, and severely inflicting heavy losses on the Qing army, it finally ran out of ammunition and food and could not support it.In order to protect his subordinates, Ma Hualong begged the Qing army for comfort, and the Qing army found more than 1,200 guns hidden from the fort as the truth, and put Ma Hualong "father and son to death".More than 80 of his fathers, brothers, sons and nephews were killed at the same time, women and children were sent to the army, more than 10,000 members of the church were forcibly relocated to the poor and arid mountainous areas of Guyuan and Huaping, and hundreds of Hui villages and forts were all destroyed.Now Zuo Zongtang's methods are fierce, and he is ruthless, and he is also dead in battle, and he is also dead in surrender.He also thought of sending the grievances and rebellions of the Hui people to the heavenly court, but the monarch's gate was far away, and the mountains and rivers were obstructed, and it was impossible to get a letter of pardon to protect the family and the sect.Ma Zhanao is desperate.He had no choice but to fight to the death.As for the future, it is only left to fate.But after all, Ma Zhanao is not a scholar who is at a loss and can only sigh and write poems.Since taking command of the military, the imam of this mosque in the countryside has coordinated with various ministries, unified the powers, commanded the Hui army to dig tunnels and break down the city walls, and successfully captured Hezhou City, an important military town in Gansu, showing considerable military ability.Today, he is tied to the lives of hundreds of thousands of Hui people in the Hezhou area.At this time, Ma Zhanao's mind was extremely clear.Looking down on the general situation and weighing the strength, he thought about it again and again alone, and suddenly proposed to the leaders who were in high spirits that he should take advantage of this victory to ask the Qing court for comfort.Zuo Zongtang incorporated the Hezhou anti-Qing rebel army into the third team of Ma Qi.In the blink of an eye, Ma Zhanao became the central banner of the Qing army's horse team, stepped on the war horse again, and used the butcher's knife to slaughter his compatriots and brothers who were born and died together.In this way, it became a tool of the Qing government to "return to the back".After the pacification of Gansu, Zuo Zongtang carried the coffin to the west to recover Xinjiang.Ma Zhanao stayed in Hezhou and died soon after, and until his death was just the flag governor of the Hezhou horse team.But he paved the way to officialdom for the generals Ma Haiyan and Ma Qi, his son Ma Anliang, and another Hezhou Hui armed group, Ma Fuxiang and Ma Hongkui.After Ma Zhanao's surrender, the troops were incorporated into Dong Fuxiang's department, and made great contributions in the process of attacking other Hui troops and marching into Xinjiang, and Dong Fuxiang's troops were also surrendered by the rebel army, so they were particularly fierce in their rebellion, and once declared that they would not be taken prisoner, only the head.Therefore, it is incorrect to attribute the great northwest slaughter to Zuo Zongtang's head, and the real history is "to return to the back".Later, the warlords of the Ma family in the northwest couldn't help but remind people of Ma Fuxiang, Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, Ma Bufang, Ma Zhongying, and so on.Their origins, tracing their roots, all came from an ordinary farmer.This person's name is Dong Fuxiang.Dong Fuxiang, the fifth word star, the second in line, is a native of Guyuan, Ningxia.He was born in 1839 and died in 1908.Because the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor remembered that he was brave and good at fighting, and participated in a series of historical events such as the suppression of the Wuxu Rebellion to maintain feudal rule, he was a meritorious minister in the history of the late Qing Dynasty.The "Dong Mansion" more than ten kilometers southwest of Wuzhong is the mansion built by him for 4,000 taels of silver after he was dismissed from his post and imprisoned.This Dong Fuxiang is a farmer's descendant, his father Dong Shiyou is good at gambling, Dong Fuxiang when he was young, his family background is down, he has not succeeded, he is naughty by nature, after becoming an adult, he has grown into a burly and strong physique, tall, dignified, can speak well, often talk about some major events in the world with the villagers, especially good at talking about the art of war and war in ancient and modern history, and talk about the happy place, he looked excited, revealed his ambition to people, and said: "A good man is determined in all directions" The villagers think that this young man is good, courageous and knowledgeable, and is a rare genius.As a result, when the township was planning to establish a "brotherhood", he was recommended to be the leader of the local "brotherhood".Later, he was dissatisfied with the government, ran to Qingyang and Anhua to gather people to make trouble, and defected to the second year of high school in the Qingyang militia group.A few years later, the team he led grew to hundreds of thousands, and he changed his name to call himself "Security Commander".In 1869, Zuo Zongtang's general Liu Songshan led his troops to attack his old nest town Jingbao.The defeat was like a mountain, and he defected to the old Hunan army.The elite of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people he brought were reorganized into three battalions by Liu Songshan, known as the "three battalions of Dong Zi".From December of the seventh year of Tongzhi to the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, Dong Fuxiang followed Zuo Zongtang, Liu Jintang and others to suppress the Hui rebel army of Ma Hualong in Jinjibao, and he began to have a fate with Ma Zhanao, the originator of the Majia warlords in the northwest.Ma Zhanao was a strong force of the Northwest Hui rebel army at that time, and he formed a righteous army of the "Hezhou Jingnan Army" in his hometown of Hezhou, and Dong Fuxiang was ordered to go to Hezhou to suppress it.Ma Zhanao was dumbfounded and frightened, so he went to the "Dong Zi Third Battalion" to surrender.Dong Fuxiangnian was also from Gansu, not only did he not kill Ma Zhanao, but only reorganized the Hui army he brought into the "Hezhou Qingnan Horse Team", and Ma Zhanao awarded the rank of deputy general.Ma Zhanao has a subordinate named Ma Haiyan, who is the leader of the flag in the horse team, and the whole team is under the command of Dong Fuxiang.In April 1875, the first year of Guangxu, Dong Fuxiang marched into Xinjiang with Liu Jintang, the general of Zuo Zongtang."
Hezhou Qingnan Horse Team" accompanied him all the way, and said that Ma Zhanao was old and unwilling to enter Xinjiang, so he called his eldest son Ma Anliang and said: "Baby, daddy's age, it's not good, you go and break through" Ma Anliang inherited his father's position and became a tiger general under Dong Fuxiang.After Dong Fuxiang successively recovered the territories occupied by Agubai, he was rewarded with the title of Shangshu by the Qing court, and was awarded the title of Governor of Kashgar and Governor of Urumqi.Ma Anliang also benefited.Of course, now that President Meng has strengthened Huaguo, these Ma family warlords in history no longer have the soil to survive, but Dong Fuxiang is still a real local warlord in the northwest.Therefore, Yixuan planned to start from Dong Fuxiang, which was also discussed with President Meng before Yixuan left, and was recognized by President Meng, and praised Yixuan for being resourceful.The journey from Xi'an to Lanzhou was not short, but because it was contacted by people sent out in advance, there was a secret report back on the third day after Prince Alcohol was left in Xi'an by Zuo Zongtang.Although President Meng is in Beijing, he knew Dong Fuxiang's attitude for the first time, and Dong Fuxiang's attitude can be summed up in two words, which is ambiguity.Syllable.President Meng pressed the message on the table, but his eyes seemed to be very calm, with a little murderous aura."
President, what can we do now" Princess Katrina Kafu frowned after reading Dong Fuxiang's ambiguous reply.President Meng shook his head and said: "I don't know, it depends on Yixuan, but I can give Yixuan an idea, his method of besieging the city without weapons is very good, he should continue to recruit a large number of troops near Xi'an, further strengthen the momentum, and put pressure on Zuo Zongtang Zuo Zongtang's soldiers and horses are not mainly locals, if Yixuan recruits a large number of locals, when the time comes, Zuo Zongtang will not dare to fight this miscellaneous army of the Qing army." ”Princess Katrina Kaaf smiled: "President, this is a very good idea. ”t1706231537: