The Tianjing Incident happened like history, but it was just a few days late, but it became even more violent.

Hong Xuanjiao, who was supposed to die in the Northern Expedition, actually returned to Tianjing alive. She had been dead for life and knew that all this was Yang Xiuqing's intentional conspiracy to eliminate his dissidents and wanted to murder her, so she vowed to take revenge.

The woman was ruthless and desperate. Hong Xuanjiao kept provoking Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, causing the conflict between the two to become increasingly fierce. However, as Li Weiguo's Shanghai army entered the incubation period, the pressure on the Taiping Army on the eastern front weakened, while the growing strength of the Hunan Army and the Huai Army were abnormal and did not fight the Taiping Army to the death. Whether it was Zeng Guofan or Li Hongzhang, they were deliberately conserving their strength, deliberately keeping the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom immortal, using this as a bargaining chip to bargain with the Qing court and secretly strengthening their own strength.

The Shanghai army was lurking secretly to avoid fighting with the Taiping Army and accumulate strength to prepare to deal with the invasion of the great powers. The Hunan Army and the Huai Army did not take any attention to attacking the Taiping Army, secretly developing their own strength, which greatly improved the external environment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Only the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Ye Mingchen was loyal to lead the Qing army from Guangdong and Guangxi to attack the Taiping Army. Unfortunately, as the British and French coalition forces captured Guangzhou and captured Ye Mingchen, the Qing army from Guangdong and Guangxi was quickly defeated by the Taiping Army, stabilized the territory of Jiangxi, and even captured many cities in Guangdong and Guangxi, which made the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at its peak and its momentum.

The situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very good, and the Taiping Army recovered to a million troops again, which made the senior officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gradually become proud. In addition, after the capital of Tianjing, the lives of the senior officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom such as Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, and Wei Changhui became increasingly corrupt, and they all became very happy. Especially Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing competed in all aspects. Hong Xiuquan took over more than 10,000 beauties of various colors to enrich the harem. Yang Xiuqing was not willing to be outdone, and there were nearly 10,000 concubines and maids in the Eastern Prince's Mansion.

However, no matter how hard Yang Xiuqing tried, he was only nine thousand years old and did not dare to surpass Hong Xiuquan with great fanfare. So he forced Hong Xiuquan to give him the title of Long Live.

At this moment, Hong Xuanjiao thought that the opportunity to get rid of Yang Xiuqing came, so she tempted the pursuer Chen Cheng-he, to report to Hong Xiuquan. He said that the Eastern King had an attempt to kill the throne. Hong Xiuquan was so scared that he hurriedly ordered Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai and Qin Rigang to lead the army to eradicate Yang Xiuqing. Wei Changhui had been resentful of the defeat in the Battle of Zhejiang. It was Yang Xiuqing who deliberately delayed the military situation, which led to heavy casualties in Wei Changhui's subordinates, so Wei Changhui had always wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge. Qin Rigang's younger brother Qin Rilie also died in this battle, so Qin Rigang was also moved. But they thought that Yang Xiuqing was the military advisor of the Taiping Army and controlled the military power of the entire Taiping Army. Once it failed, it would be a dead end. Therefore, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang did not dare to act rashly. Shi Dakai did not advocate killing Yang Xiuqing. He did not want the Taiping Heaven to consume the domestic waste.

At this time, Hong Xuanjiao stood up and hoped that she would marry whoever killed Yang Xiuqing. Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were coveting Hong Xuanjiao's beauty and identity, so they agreed to take action one day.

On a dark and stormy night, the Northern King Wei Changhui led 5,000 elite soldiers to meet with the three thousand elite soldiers of the Yan King Qin Rigang. With the help of Chen Chengying in the Eastern King's Mansion, he easily deceived the Eastern King's Mansion patrol army. Suddenly appeared and attacked the Eastern King's Mansion. Yang Xiuqing was killed. More than 10,000 men and women in the mansion were killed. Later, Wei Changhui killed dissidents in the name of searching for "Dongdanang". Many Eastern King's subordinates were killed after abandoning their weapons. Civilians were not spared.

Afterwards, Shi Dakai blamed Wei Changhui for killing innocent people and pretending to be public and private. However, Hong Xuan was rude to the debt and did not marry either Wei Changhui or Qin Rigang, but instead fell in love with Shi Dakai. As a result, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were furious and rushed into the Yiwang Mansion overnight. Shi Dakai fled. However, his parents and subordinates of the royal mansion were all killed.

Shi Dakai arrived in Anqing overnight and raised an army to attack Wei Changhui the next day, begging the Heavenly King to kill Wei Changhui to thank the world. At this time, most of the Taiping Army outside Tianjing supported the Wing King, and Wei Changhui was desperate to attack the Heavenly King's Mansion, but it was unpopular. Soon Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were killed, Shi Dakai returned to Beijing, and the Tianjing Incident ended.

The Tianjing Incident happened too suddenly and too short. In addition, Hong Xiuquan deliberately blocked the news, and it was not until a month later that the major forces around him knew about it. However, Shi Dakai was in charge of Tianjing, and neither Zeng Guofan nor Li Hongzhang acted rashly.

However, the Shanghai army was ready to move.

Early in the morning, members of Li Weiguo's staff team and senior generals of the Shanghai Army came to see Li Weiguo together. Their purpose was very direct, and this was the best time to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"Sir, you must not miss the opportunity!"

"Sir, Yang Xiuqing is the military advisor of the Taiping Army and has a very high prestige in the Taiping Army. Once he dies, the Taiping Army will inevitably be in chaos!"

"We have investigated. The combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army is no longer as good as before. Although there are one million people, it is far worse than the Taiping Army seven years ago."

"I also felt it! When we fought with the Taiping Army in the past, the Taiping Army had absolutely no surrendered. He would rather die than take our soldiers to take the lead. But in recent battles, most Taiping Army was not as desperate as before, and there were even those who took the initiative to surrender to our army, which was unimaginable before!"

"That's right, the Taiping Army has already become weaker. After this Hongyang civil strife, the Taiping Army will go downhill. It's the time for our army to attack!"

In the conference room, everyone was talking about the feasibility of conquering the Taiping Army.

After a long time, they found that their master Li Weiguo had fallen asleep on the chair of the Grand Master since then.

Is this a situation?

How could you fall asleep?

Everyone was immediately drunk!

Look at me, I look at you, and I'm all winking. I don't know who will wake up Li Weiguo.

"Since I don't dare to wake up the adults, I will either go to the meeting or call the third lady to come!"

In the end, Wu Yong only asked everyone for help. This was not the first time. Whenever everyone talked about something that made Li Weiguo feel bored, Li Weiguo would go to bed directly. No one knew whether he was really sleeping or fake. He just guessed that what everyone talked about must have made Li Weiguo unhappy, so no one went to wake up Li Weiguo on his own initiative.

At this time, either everyone will know the fun of the meeting or find someone to help.

At this time, there are usually only three people who can help, namely Li Weiguo's three wives. However, as the eldest wife, Fu Shanxiang, will not interfere in military affairs. The second wife Shen Ziyan will only interfere in matters related to finance. Only the third wife Su Sanniang will appear when everyone discusses military affairs.

Today, because it was discussing the matter of dealing with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Su Sanniang did not come to avoid suspicion.

Li Weiguo was just pretending to sleep. When he heard that everyone wanted to invite Su Sanniang to wake him up, he smiled bitterly in his heart, so he yawned and woke up.

"What's going on? Have you decided to find the result?"

Seeing Li Weiguo asking, everyone was angry and funny, but they understood that their master was very independent and would be arbitrary in many things. This was not a manifestation of the wise ruler, but every time he insisted on it, it was proved to be wise and correct, so it was admired by everyone.

"We just talk about it casually, and you will have to make your own decisions in the end!"

"Yes, sir, you have always been far-sighted. You can predict the enemy's initiative in everything. Tell us, what should we do now?"

Li Weiguo smiled. He also knew that there must be a reason for the three of them to go, but after all, he is a reborn person. Since he knows the direction of history, no matter whether his subordinates support him or not, he must have a dictatorial decision.

However, this time Li Weiguo did not directly and arbitrarily reject everyone's plans like before. Instead, he was more tactful.

He asked, "Do you know what Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others are doing now?"

What are Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang doing?

When everyone heard this question, they thought about it.

Soon Chen Jingnan seemed to think of something. He said: "I heard that Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army had 300,000 people, and Li Hongzhang's Huai Army had nearly 200,000 people. Their strength expanded very quickly. Logically speaking, their strength could have destroyed the Taiping Army long ago. Even if it could not be destroyed, it would not be possible for the Taiping Army to develop so rapidly. It is quite strange!"

"Yes. I also heard that the Hunan Army and the Huai Army are very powerful in combat, equipped with a lot of muskets and cannons. They could fight a few decent battles five years ago, but recently they have only made small fusses, and it seems that they will no longer fight with the Taiping Army!"

"Can Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang have privately hooked up with the Taiping Army?"

"Didn't we have worked with the Taiping Army in private before? There is nothing to be a big fuss about this!"

Listening to everyone's answers, Li Weiguo smiled and said, "You talked about the key to the problem! Why didn't Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang fight to the death with the Taiping Army?"

After a pause, Li Weiguo continued: "We are smart, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang are not stupid either. Fighting with the Taiping Army to the death, it will not end well if the Taiping Army is destroyed, because Xianfeng will not sit idly by and watch our Han people rise and take control of the military and political power of the Qing Dynasty. He will definitely kill the donkey."

Chen Jingnan nodded and said, "What the Lord said is very much. The Qing Dynasty is the world of the bannermen. If we Han people have the power of military and political power, it would be a big deal."

Li Hongzao also reconsidered: "Now looking at the world, half of the Qing Dynasty has fallen into the hands of the Han people. We are the governor of Liangjiang, with two rivers and four provinces under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai army of more than 200,000; although Zeng Guofan was only the governor of Hunan, the actual 300,000 Hunan army has already controlled Hunan and Hubei provinces. Li Hongzhang is the governor of Anhui, with nearly 200,000 Hunan troops alone. The three families alone have more than 700,000 troops. The Qing army of the court is less than one million. Under the combat power, it is worse than our Shanghai army. Even the weakest Li Hongzhang and others cannot defeat it. The Han people in the country are not less than one million. The Qing court will definitely not know about these."

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Yes, the stronger our Han armed forces develop, the more fearful he will be in Xianfeng. The reason why he is polite to us now is that he wants to use us to deal with the Taiping Army. Once the Taiping Army is destroyed, he will immediately attack the Qinggong Tower, set up a Hongmen Banquet for us, and eliminate us."

Everyone is a core member of the Shanghai Army Group, and each of them is a smart person, and he understands a little bit.

The person with deep understanding immediately blurted out: "My lord means that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang also understood Xianfeng's intentions, so they were not in a hurry to attack the Taiping Army!"

"Not bad!" Li Weiguo smiled and said, "Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang have many talented people. Even if they can't see it, their subordinates will remind them. At present, not only are the Hunan Army and the Huai Army not in a hurry to attack the Taiping Army, but they will deliberately indulge the Taiping Army and make the Taiping Army bigger. Only when the Taiping Army becomes stronger and stronger will they have an excuse to expand the army on a large scale, and their strength will become greater and greater. When one day their strength can not only easily destroy the Taiping Army but also easily destroy the imperial army, it will be time for them to show their fangs."

Wu Yong suddenly asked, "What do you mean is Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang also have rebellious intentions?"

Li Weiguo smiled mysteriously and said, "As long as Xianfeng is still alive, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang will rebel. Even if they don't, their subordinates will force them to rebel!"

Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang in history initially followed the persuasion of their subordinates and were preparing to rebel, because they all knew that Xianfeng was suspicious and would not let them go. Therefore, when the British and French forces invaded, they all held their troops and refused to save them. If Xianfeng did not die, they would inevitably rebel. But Xianfeng soon died and replaced him with a woman and a few years old child in power. After the threat was gone, they would no longer have to bear the infamy of rebellion and happily became a powerful minister for this life.

Chen Jingnan frowned and said, "Then in this way, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang will inevitably be the ones who will compete with the Lord in the future. We must find a way to get rid of them as soon as possible!"

Wu Yong suddenly smiled and said, "What are you anxious about? Isn't it a good idea to get rid of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang now? Isn't it a good idea to get rid of Xianfeng and Hong Xiuquan? It's not too late to join forces with them to destroy Hong Xiuquan and Xianfeng first, and then get rid of them."

Chen Jingnan shook his head and said, "But by then, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang will become stronger!"

Yung Wing suddenly smiled and said, "No matter how fast they develop, can they still be faster than us?"

This made Li Weiguo and everyone very happy. After all, the rapid development speed and rapid improvement of the Shanghai Army Group are definitely not comparable to Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang.

"That's right!" Li Weiguo said seriously: "Hong Xiuquan will not surrender to us, and Xianfeng will not surrender to us. This can only be resolved by force. Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang have no direct enemies with us for the time being. In comparison, there is a possibility of persuading surrender. Everything is prioritized. Now the civil strife of the Taiping Army will not pose a threat to us. We need to be prepared to deal with the upcoming British and French coalition forces. This is a big war and we cannot escape."

When everyone heard Li Weiguo's words, they were immediately indignant.

"Damn foreign devils, they are so greedy. When they see that our Shanghai wealthy ones, they want to come and rob them!"

"Let them come, kill one, kill one, kill two, kill one, we can fight them once last year, and they will fight them again next year!"

The topic of the meeting was soon led back to dealing with the British and French coalition forces by Li Weiguo. Everyone offered suggestions and had many wisdom and ideas.

However, Li Weiguo thought of another thing in his mind.

What can I do to keep the Old Summer Palace? It would be a pity that such a beautiful garden was burned. If millions of rare treasures were snatched away by foreigners, it would be too frustrating.
Chapter completed!