Prince Chun shook his head and kept sighing, as if he was going to the execution ground.

Until this time, Zuo Zongtang still did not want to surrender to China. He knew what system the country was. After surrender, he would definitely not be able to take charge of the troops. Officials were addicted to officials, which was even more uncomfortable than killing him. The most important thing is that most Qing people were actually unwilling to surrender to China. Even the Chinese people still had many people who were interested in the Qing court!

It is just because China has done a good job in public security and economy, and has controlled the situation. Therefore, China has not caused major chaos, but this does not mean that China is stable!

Prince Chun went to Xi'an alone to contact Zuo Zongtang, feeling uneasy, but Zuo Zongtang was very enthusiastic.

"Prince Chun, please." Zuo Zongtang came out to greet him personally, holding Prince Chun's hand, and laughed.

Prince Chun wiped the sweat from the end, fearing that Zuo Zongtang would kill him, "Master Zuo, don't be fine."

"Prince Chun, you are here to persuade the surrender? As the emperor's biological father, how could you take the lead in surrendering to China?" Zuo Zongtang asked.

Prince Chun sighed and said, "How did the Meng CEO invite him, and then the Prince of Li was monitoring him."

Both of them have their own thoughts, and there is no need to hide them. In fact, even ordinary people can understand the current situation. The idea of ​​the cute CEO not wanting to fight or killing people has been continuously promoted through the Huacui Evening News. Public opinion has become a little biased towards the cute CEO, including the public opinion in the Qing court.

Although most of the people in the Qing court still did not want to join China, the people were even more afraid of war! If the two sides could not reach an agreement, the Chinese army would definitely be fighting in the Qing court, and the Qing army would never have the ability to fight to China.

Zuo Zongtang sighed, "I'll tell you honestly. Prince Li said nothing wrong. No matter how we resist, the Qing Dynasty without the court will definitely not be able to defeat China. The key now is that if they want to accumulate strength to sweep the Qing Dynasty territory, they will have at least ten years of hard work! We don't have to be afraid for the time being. The key is, it depends on what price they can give us!"

Prince Chun was stunned, "You still want the price? I'm thinking now that it's good to save my life. What else can I expect when a person dies? I risked leaving Beijing. The president had never made a promise. He said nothing but empty words, saying that he made meritorious and became a hero in the future. Oh, who knows what a hero is?"

Zuo Zongtang's emotions were a little affected by Prince Chun, and he shook his head, "Prince, please be relieved. When you arrive at me, you don't have to be afraid anymore. From now on, you will stay in this Xi'an city. With you here, you can also make the people in the northwest feel at ease."

Prince Chun stood up in fear, "Master Zuo? What do you want to do? Would you like to pull my flag and fight against China, right? I won't do it."

Zuo Zongtang narrowed his eyes and looked at Prince Chun and smiled, "What do you mean? Don't say you don't have the courage or strength. However, it's okay if we don't agree to the Chinese country's verbal persuasion to surrender."

"Master Zuo, don't just do it alone. The Qing Dynasty has been like this. Why are you still trying to make trouble? Supreme? Surrender early, and it's too early." Prince Chun was a timid and afraid of things. He sighed and began to wipe his tears again.

Zuo Zongtang looked down on Prince Chun and thought how did such a person become the prince?

The Prince of Li outside the city knew that Prince Chun had gone was useless. He had never expected Prince Chun to play any role. He had already contacted the entourage of the Statistics Bureau of China and had sent people to Gansu to contact Dong Fuxiang to see if he could instigate Zuo Zongtang's troops!

Gansu has Dong Fuxiang's army, and Dong Fuxiang's army is mostly composed of local troops in Qinghai and Gansu. Ma Zhan'ao cannot be ignored here.

In the tenth year of Tongzhi (1871), after Zuo Zongtang led his troops to Gansu, he defeated the Shaanxi Uprising Army retreating in Longdong and captured Dong Zhiyuan. Later, he besieged Jinji Fort with a large army.

Under the command of Ma Hualong, the Hui Muslim Rebel Army of Jinjibao resisted stubbornly. After killing Liu Songshan, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army on the northern route, severely injured the Qing army. Finally, the ammunition and food were exhausted and could not be supported. In order to protect the troops, Ma Hualong asked the Qing army for comfort. The Qing army took the excuse of finding more than 1,200 guns hidden from the fort and executed Ma Hualong "both father and son Lingchi."

More than 80 of his father, brother, son and nephew were killed at the same time. Women, children and families were assigned to the army. More than 10,000 religious members were forcibly moved to Guyuan, and planted in poverty-stricken and arid mountainous areas where they were equal and "hard and bitter" were all destroyed.

For hundreds of years, the Hui people have been deeply injustice, and the rebellion is a force to go to Liangshan. Now Zuo Zongtang is fierce in his actions and ruthless in his actions. He will die in a battle and also in a surrender.

He also thought of bringing the injustice of the Hui people and the reason for the rebellion to the heavenly court. However, the king's family was far away and the mountains were heavy and the rivers were blocked. It was too unlikely to obtain a book of amnesty and protect the family and the church members.

Ma Zhan'ao was desperate. He had to fight to the death and fight to the death. As for the future, he could only leave it to fate. But Ma Zhan'ao was not a scholar who could only sigh at the risk of danger and could only write poetry.

Since taking charge of military command, this mosque imam in this country has coordinated various departments to unify their affairs, commanded the return troops to dig tunnels and break the city walls, and successfully captured Hezhou, a major military city in Gansu, showing considerable military capabilities.

Now, he is bound by the lives of hundreds of thousands of Hui people in Hezhou.

At this time, Ma Zhan'ao was particularly clear-headed.

Looking down on the general trend and weighing the strength, he thought alone and then suddenly proposed to the leaders who were in high spirits and took advantage of this opportunity to ask the Qing court for comfort.

Zuo Zongtang incorporated the anti-Qing uprising army in Hezhou into three teams of Maqi.

In a blink of an eye, Ma Zhan'ao became the central flag supervisor of the Qing army's horse team, stepped on the war horse again, picked up the butcher's knife to massacre his compatriots and brothers who had been through life and death together. In this way, it became a tool for the Qing government to "use the Hui to control the Hui".

After Gansu pacified, Zuo Zongtang carried the coffin west to recover Xinjiang.

Ma Zhanao stayed in Hezhou and died soon afterwards. He died of illness until his death was just the leader of the Hezhou horse team. However, he paved the way to the officialdom for his generals Ma Haiyan, Ma Qi, his son Ma Anliang, and another Hezhou Huimin armed forces, Ma Hongkui and others.

After Ma Zhan'ao surrendered, his troops were incorporated into Dong Fuxiang's army and made great contributions in the attack on other returning troops and marching into Xinjiang. Dong Fuxiang's troops also surrendered, so they were particularly fierce towards rebellion and once claimed that they would not be captured, but only at the same time.

Therefore, it is incorrect to attribute the killing of the Northwest to Zuo Zongtang. The real history is "using rebirth to control rebirth".

Later, the awesome warlords of the Ma family in the northwest reminded people of Ma Fuxiang, Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, Ma Bufang, Ma Zhongying and others. They each dominated the other side, turned their hands into clouds and turned their hands into rain, leaving unforgettable legendary stories in the memories of the people in the northwest.

Their traces, searching for the roots, all this comes from an ordinary farmer.

This person's name is Dong Fuxiang.

Dong Fuxiang, whose courtesy name is Xingwu, was the second child, and was from Guyuan, Ningxia. He was born in the year of Yihai, Daoguang, Qing Dynasty (1839) and died in the year of Wushen, Guangxu, Qing Dynasty (19o8).

Because Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu thought of him as brave and good at fighting, and participated in a series of historical events that maintained feudal rule such as the suppression of the reform of 1898, they were a meritorious minister in history in the late Qing Dynasty. They were granted the title of Prince Shaobao, and people also called him "Dong Gongbao".

The "Dong Mansion" more than ten kilometers southwest of Wuzhong is the mansion he spent 4,000 taels of silver to build after he was dismissed from office and imprisoned.

Dong Fuxiang was originally a descendant of a farmer. His father Dong Shiyou liked gambling. When Dong Fuxiang was young, his family was in decline and had not been able to study. He was naughty by nature. After becoming an adult, he grew up with a strong body, tall, suave and romantic, capable of speaking and eloquent. He often talked about major events in the world with his fellow villagers, especially with the history of ancient and modern wars and wars. When he was happy, he looked excited and showed his great ambitions to others, saying: "A good man is determined by all directions..."

The villagers think this young man is good, courageous and knowledgeable, and is a rare genius.

Therefore, when the village was planning to establish the "Ge Lao Club", he was recommended to be the leader of the local "Ge Lao Club".

Later, he was dissatisfied with the government and ran to Qingyang. He gathered people in Anhua area to rebel and defected to the Qingyang Mintuan General Office. He had a short life in his second year of high school and was assassinated. He was pushed out again and took the first position of the Mintuan General Office.

A few years later, the team he led reached hundreds of thousands of yuan, and he changed his name to himself "Security Commander".

In 1869, Liu Songshan, a general of Zuo Zongtang, led his troops to attack his old nest, Zhenjing Fort.

The defeat was like a mountain of fall, and he followed the trend to join the old Hunan Army. The more than 100,000 refugees he led, his elite were adapted into the Third Battalion by Liu Songshan, known as the "Three Battalion of Dong".

From December to the 13th year of Tongzhi, Dong Fuxiang followed Zuo Zongtang, Liu Jintang and others to suppress the Hui Muslim uprising army in Jinjibao, Ma Hualong, and he began to have a fate with Ma Zhan'ao, the founder of the Ma family warlords in the northwest.

Ma Zhanao was a powerful brigade of the Northwest Hui Muslim Uprising Army at that time. He formed a rebel army of the "Hezhou Jingnan Army" in his hometown, Hezhou. Dong Fuxiang was ordered to go to Hezhou to suppress it.

When Ma Zhan'ao saw it, he was stunned and frightened. He heard the news that he went to the "Three Battles of Dong" to surrender.

In the case of being a native of Gansu, Dong Fuxiangnian not only did not kill Ma Zhanao, but only reorganized the returned army he brought into the "Hezhou Qingnan Horse Team", and Ma Zhanao was awarded the title of deputy general.

Ma Zhan'ao had a subordinate named Ma Haiyan, who was led by the Central Banner of the Horse Team, and the entire team was led by Dong Fuxiang.

In April of the first year of Guangxu (1875), Dong Fuxiang followed Zuo Zongtang's general Liu Jintang to Xinjiang. The "Hezhou Qingnan Horse Team" accompanied him all the way. Besides, Ma Zhan'ao was old and did not want to enter Xinjiang, so he called his eldest son Ma Anliang and said, "Baby, my father's age is not good. Go and continue to make a breakthrough!"

Ma Anliang inherited his father's position and became a tiger general under Dong Fuxiang. After Dong Fuxiang successively recovered the territory occupied by Agubo, he was awarded the title of Shangshu by the Qing court and was awarded the title of Admiral of Kashgar and Admiral of Urumqi. Ma Anliang also gained benefits.

Of course, now that the cute president has strengthened China, these Ma family warlords in history have no more survival, but Dong Fuxiang is still a real local warlord in the northwest.

Therefore, Yi Li planned to start with Dong Fuxiang. Before Yi Li left, she discussed it with the Meng CEO. She was recognized by the Meng CEO and praised Yi Li for being resourceful.

The journey from Xi'an to Lanzhou is quite short, but because it was sent out in advance, there was a secret report back on the third day after Prince Chun was left in Xi'an by Zuo Zongtang.

Although the cute president is in Beijing, he knew Dong Fuxiang's attitude at the first time. To summarize Dong Fuxiang's attitude in two words, it is - Aimei.

Bang.

The cute president pressed the telegram on the table, but his eyes seemed very calm, with a little murderous aura.

"President, what can we do now?" Princess Katrina Kaif frowned after seeing Dong Fuxiang's ambiguity reply.

The cute president shook his head and said, "I don't know. It depends on Yi Li, but I can give Yi Li an idea. His method of besieging the city without weapons is very good. He should continue to recruit a large number of soldiers near Xi'an to further strengthen his momentum and put pressure on Zuo Zongtang! Zuo Zongtang's troops are not dominated by locals. If Yi Li recruits local people in large quantities, Zuo Zongtang will not dare to fight this Qing army miscellaneous unit at that time."

Princess Katrina Kaif smiled sweetly: "President, this idea is very good."
Chapter completed!