Although Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue both resent and hated the official civil service platform from the bottom of their hearts, they have done a lot of corruption, bribery, abused power, bullying men and women, raped and robbed, etc. in Huguang, but our Emperor Xianfeng was very satisfied with the official service platform from the bottom of their hearts.

The reason is nothing else. Our official platform has completed the real task assigned to him by Emperor Xianfeng very well. We closely monitored the every move of the two capable Han officials Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue. We suppressed Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue from beginning to end. Without affecting Huguang's military and internal affairs too much, we always tied up some of the hands and feet of Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue, and did not give these two capable Han officials the opportunity to hold troops and respect themselves.

The same was true for Zeng Guofan. With the status of an unemployed official at home, he raised his arms and shouted. Without receiving too much political and economic support from the Qing court, he almost immediately pulled up a powerful army of more than 10,000 troops in a blink of an eye, and still obeyed Zeng Guofan's army alone. Emperor Xianfeng had long regarded Zeng Guofan as an extremely dangerous target of guarding. After Guan Wen took office, he was closely monitoring Zeng Guofan, while cleverly using Wu Chaoyue's hedgehog personality to indirectly suppress the Hunan Army, which successfully greatly weakened Zeng Guofan's strength and reputation. At the same time, he could continue to use the Hunan Army to restrain and weaken the Taiping Army, and play Zeng Guofan and the Hunan Army in their hands. This ability also made Emperor Xianfeng very satisfied.

In this case, in fact, whether it is Wu Chaoyue, Luo Bingzhang or Zeng Guofan, there is no hope for him to defeat Guanwen alone. Even if he gets real evidence, Emperor Xianfeng will at most demote Guanwen and punish him, and will never take back the real power in Guanwen, let alone transfer Guanwen out of Huguang.

Emperor Xianfeng only miscalculated one thing, but he never expected that Luo Bingzhang, the famous governor of the real power and Zeng Guofan, the front-line official, would join forces to deal with Guanwen. He even did not expect that Guanwen could be so greedy and debauchery, and violated the etiquette and forced local officials to pay their birthday to his concubine, kept a male lover and granted the imperial position to the lieutenant, and accepted bribes from tea merchants to take commissions. In the end, he was caught and found that he was jointly impeached by two second-rank officials, Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan, which made it difficult for Emperor Xianfeng to cover up Guanwen this time.

"Unsuperable dog slave! Useless dog thing!"

After scolding, after throwing the impeachment letter jointly issued by Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan on the pseudo-dragon case, Emperor Xianfeng still couldn't bear to let go of the obedient and loyal Guan Wen. His face was gloomy. What he was thinking in his heart was actually how to excuse Guan Wen, a loyal dog slave, and reduce the punishment.

Wen Qing, the new leader of the memorial, saw the thoughts of Emperor Xianfeng, and quickly stood up to share the worries of the master and spoke to Emperor Xianfeng: "Master, Guan Wen is indeed wrong, but he is still diligent in his post as a Huguang and is still forgiven. Although Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan have evidence, it is still unknown whether it is exaggerated. The slave suggested that it might as well issue an order to go to Hubei Governor Wu Chaoyue, so that he could verify whether Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan's report was true and whether there was any exaggeration, and then decide how to punish Guan Wen's crime."

Emperor Xianfeng nodded with satisfaction, knowing that Wu Chaoyue had a little brain, and seeing such a decree, he would definitely understand that he actually didn't want to touch Guanwen. Then Wu Chaoyue just followed his wishes to plead for Guanwen to get rid of his crime, and he could immediately go down and reduce the punishment for Guanwen and keep him in Huguang and continue to be a guard dog. Therefore, Emperor Xianfeng did not hesitate and immediately ordered: "Just as my decree, give Wu Aiqing a decree, and ask him to check whether the participation of Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan is true and whether there is any exaggeration."

The advice was exactly what the master meant. Wen Qing, who was called the beloved minister, agreed happily and immediately went down to draw an order. Emperor Xianfeng glanced at the impeachment memorial jointly by Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan, and cursed in his heart: "Dog slave, now even I have to owe Wu Chaoyue a favor."

Although the abacus of Emperor Xianfeng and Wen Qing were well-known, they never expected that within a few days, Wu Chaoyue's impeachment of Guan Wen was also sent to the capital. In the memorial, Wu Chaoyue not only impeached Guan Wen to slaughter in the Hankou trade, but also impeached Guan Wen's Supervisor's abuse of inhumane, recruiting social scum torture, destroying the fields and harassing the people, pretending to be thieves and robbing the public, and taking personal expenses to withhold military pay. He directly under the Supervisor's camp has all kinds of tobacco, poisoning prostitution and gambling, causing extremely bad influence among the people, and also presented real evidence.

It was only after seeing Wu Chaoyue's impeachment memorial that Emperor Xianfeng learned that Luo Bingzhang, Zeng Guofan and Wu Chaoyue had actually secretly joined forces to fight against Guanwen, and Guanwen would never be able to protect the Emperor Xianfeng, so he would not have been able to remove Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue, two rare ministers, in order to protect the official document with a conclusive evidence, right? Moreover, even if Guanwen is forcibly left in Huguang, Huguang will definitely be a mortal squabble between the governors and governors in the future, and the power is the same as fire. Not to mention that he directly threatened the Taiping Army from the upstream, personnel disputes and quarrels alone are enough to drink a pot of food for the Qing court.

Of course, not everyone thinks this way. He summoned several close ministers to discuss this. At this time, several Manchu slaves believed that they would not encourage such arrogance. They urged Emperor Xianfeng to force the Guanwen to keep the official article in Huguang, so that the Han governors knew who was the master and who was the slave, so as not to follow the example of other identities and work together to target Manchu officials. Emperor Xianfeng, who had extremely soft ears, was also shaken for a while, and almost wanted to forcefully protect the official article and suppress the arrogant arrogance of the Han officials in Huguang and the Han people in Huguang.

Fortunately for the Qing court, and unfortunately for Guanwen, the most beloved minister of Emperor Xianfeng, Sushun, was a person who attached great importance to appointment and appeased Han officials. He knew that protecting Guanwen would inevitably make Wu Chaoyue and Luo Bingzhang feel sad, and would lead to no peace in the future in Huguang provinces. Therefore, he urged Emperor Xianfeng to give up his official article to appease capable local officials, and listed the various adverse consequences of protecting Guanwen.

When he was refuted by his political enemy Bai Wei, Su Shun asked directly: "Baibutang, since you think it doesn't matter if you give up Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue in order to save Guan Wen, then I would like to ask, who do you want to take over as the governors of Hunan and Hubei? Can the two governors you recommended be like Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue, one of Hunan, which only counts as medium-sized provinces, manages in an orderly manner. While clearing the territory, it constantly sends troops to cross the border to suppress the bandits. The other can quickly restore the livelihood of the people in the place that was destroyed by the war, and at the same time, it is invincible. It often wins with less, so that the bandits dare not look west?"

The most important thing for the Qing court was that Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue were too strong to the point where almost no one could replace him, so even if he was unwilling to accept it, Bai Wei could not find anything to refute Sushun. Sushun ignored him and just turned to Emperor Xianfeng and bowed, "Master, you don't want the Han governor to be too rampant, I understand and understand. But this time, the official article was indeed guilty. If you force him to keep him in Huguang, you cannot maintain the majesty of the Qing Dynasty Code, you will definitely be cold. The hearts of Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue will be cold, and the hearts of the soldiers ahead will be cold. In terms of military morale, people's livelihood and government affairs, they will all have benefits but no harm. Only by punishing the official article and reflecting the majesty of the national law is the best strategy."

After thinking for a while, Emperor Xianfeng made up his mind and nodded and said, "Su Ai Youqing is right. Since Guan Wen is not good at it, let him dismiss his post and go home to retire. As for the candidate to replace Guan Wen..., let me consider it again."

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Emperor Xianfeng's consideration made Wu Chaoyue disappointed. Emperor Xianfeng had never thought about anything that would make the young and promising Qing Dynasty capable minister Wu take over as the governor of Huguang on the spot. He directly chose to let the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner, the current Minister of Rites, Hua Shana, come to Huguang instead of Guan Wen, continue to monitor and restrain the two Han capable ministers Luo Bingzhang and Wu Chaoyue.

The news about the post station was much faster than Hua Shana's going south. When Hua Shana was still on the way to take over, Wu Chaoyue already knew that Guan Wen had fallen and the Governor of Huguang himself had no job. In annoyance, Wu Chaoyue couldn't help but beat his chest and stamped his feet, and screamed in regret: "It's too hasty. This time it's too hasty. If I could have prepared myself and walked the road in Suzhongtang, the Governor of Huguang this time might be mine."

"It's useless to prepare in advance! You will definitely not have a chance to be the governor of Huguang!"

Unfavorable to Wu Chaoyue's greed, Zhao Liewen poured cold water directly and said, "Why don't you think about it? You join forces with Luo Futai and Zengbutang to impeach officials to build a platform, which is a taboo in the officialdom. If the court allows you, the impeacher, take over the position of the impeacher, then in the future, the governors of various provinces will not be too crazy to collect evidence of the criminals of the governor as if they were crazy in order to promote and make money? In order to protect themselves, the governors of various places can only collect evidence of the criminals of their subordinates. There will be no chaos in the world? How could the court to tolerate seeing such a situation?"

"Also, ask yourself, with your current age and qualifications, are you qualified to take over as the governor of Huguang? Even if there is really no one in the court, or if you want to find an official familiar with the situation in Huguang to take over as the governor of Huguang, you still have Luo Bingzhang on your head. His age, qualifications and merits and abilities cannot beat you?"

He was embarrassed by Zhao Liewen's heart-wrenching words. Wu Chaoyue could only laugh awkwardly and distort the topic: "It doesn't matter whether he can take over as the governor of Huguang. I want to be the governor of Huguang, but I am actually annoyed with Guanwen. The old man and woman are bothered by the immortal man and woman. The gloomy method of stabbing one sect in the back is also clever, which makes me even nervous about expanding and stroking the flag. The new arrival of Hua Shana, we don't expect him to be facing us in everything, just ask him not to plot against me behind the scenes like Guanwen all day long."

"Weiting, if I remember correctly, you must have seen Hua Shana when you were in the capital, right?" Zhao Liewen asked: "What do he like and what are his personality traits? Do you know?"

Wu Chaoyue was even more embarrassed and said truthfully: "When I was in the capital, I was not interested in becoming an official, so I didn't pay much attention to visiting my superiors and colleagues. I had never even been to the Sixth Prince's Mansion once, so I had never met Hua Shana, and I didn't know what interests and hobbies he had and his personality traits."

When Zhao Liewen heard this, he smiled bitterly and could only do his duty as a chief of staff, and quickly sent someone to inquire about Hua Shana from Ma Xiuru, Li Qinggu, Duoshan and others in order to meet his preferences and help Wu Chaoyue deal with his upcoming new boss Hua Shana.

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When Wu Chaoyue and Zhao Liewen were drilling caves around to find out about the situation of Huashana, Guan Wen, who was also in the capital of Hubei Province, had already known the news that his black hat was about to be landed. While he was completely disappointed, Guan Wen of course also hated Wu Chaoyue, Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan, the three unscrupulous subordinates, to the bone marrow, gritted his teeth and wanted to avenge this arrow. He finally disgusted Wu Chaoyue and others before leaving office.

It is disgusting Zeng Guofan and he has forced Zeng Guofan to agree to send troops to rescue Jiangxi. Before leaving office, he only needs to force Zeng Guofan to send troops to Jiujiang and say hello to Wen Jun, the governor of Jiangxi who has always had a good relationship. Wen Jun, who is famously tricky and mean, has some ways to deal with Zeng Guofan, who dares to bully his master with a visit.

It is easy to deal with Luo Bingzhang. He was arguing about it before, but he couldn't resist Guan Wen's repeated pressure. When it was impossible to determine whether Guan Wen had fallen, Wu Chaoyue and Luo Bingzhang were forced to agree to Guan Wen's plan to expand the Huguang army to 60,000, and each bear half of the military salary, money and food. Before Guan Wen left office, as long as he could get the Military Affairs Office to approve this plan, it would be enough to make Luo Bingzhang, who was short of money and food, disgusted for a lot of time.

Only when Guan Wen was helpless, he could not catch Wu Chaoyue's handle, nor could he think of any good way to make Wu Chaoyue defeated. Fortunately, when Guan Wen racked his brains and couldn't come up with any idea, an unexpected letter of help reminded Guan Wen that when Guan Wen didn't know that Guan Wen was about to fall, his old friend Senggelinqin sent someone to send a letter, asking Guan Wen to help him purchase a batch of Wu's cavalry equipment in Hankou. At the same time, Senggelinqin also clearly told Guan Wen that he was short of money now and had to ask Guan Wen to help him pay the money first, and wait until he recovered before trying to repay it.

"God helps me!"

The letters of the monk prince were like a ray of inspiration, which suddenly illuminated the whole body of the official platform, because Guan Wen suddenly thought that Hua Shana was both Mongolians, like the monk prince, and was naturally close. At the same time, Hua Shana, like the monk prince, had a passion for calligraphy and poetry, and his words were definitely more likely to be speculative. As long as he combined Hua Shana and the monk prince into a pair, based on the degree of hatred between the monk prince and Wu Chaoyue, Hua Shana and Wu Chaoyue could live in peace in Huguang unless the sun came out from the west.

Then, the official platform immediately thought of a way to completely turn against Hua Shana and Wu Chaoyue when they meet. The weapons transactions in Hankou are basically priceless, and any arms will be sold out immediately. The Daye Guns and Cannon Bureau established by Wu Chaoyue himself can produce revolvers in small quantities. As long as it can lure Hua Shana to reach out to the Daye Guns and Cannon Bureau, Wu Chaoyue, the little hedgehog, will definitely make Hua Shana full of blood.

Thinking of this, with the time left, Guan Wen immediately started to move, and immediately wrote a letter to Senggelinqin explaining his outgoing departure, and also told Senggelinqin about the arms situation in Hankou, so that Senggelinqin knew that only Wu Chaoyue had the spot of arms in his hands. He suggested that Senggelinqin take the opportunity of Hua Shana going south and must pass Henan, and do his best to please and win Hua Shana to his side, and then get the weapons in Wu Chaoyue through Hua Shana.

Finally, Guan Wen instigated Senggelinqin in a very vicious manner, saying that although Wu Chaoyue raised funds to establish such an important yamen, such an important yamen cannot be directly controlled by the Qing court, and it will definitely not be a good thing for the country and the country. At the end, Guan Wen put down his brush and smiled secretly: "Little Man, it is useless even if you make appropriate concessions to please Hua Shana. With Senggelinqin's virtue, it would be strange if you don't keep your Daye Gungelinqin's future!"

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Not only Guan Wen was plotting against Wu Chaoyue. Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan, who were forced to jointly impeach Guan Wen, were all considering such a problem after receiving the news that Hua Shana took over as the governor of Huguang. No subordinates who would like to report on their subordinates. There was a precedent for impeaching Guan Wen. As long as Hua Shana was not stupid, she would definitely be wary of herself after taking office and would never be able to make friends with her.

There is also a way to get Hua Shana, which is to let Hua Shana know who is the culprit of Guan Wen's fall. It was the bad species who secretly leaked the news that Guan Wen was taking commissions in the Hankou tea trade. Who had already obtained the evidence of the crime but was reluctant to send it. At the critical moment, he took it out to threaten his colleagues to impeach his superiors! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!