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这个建议也没有被采用。等到贵州的事情弄得非常棘手了，皇帝才下诏书起用朱燮元总督贵州、云南、四川、广西的军务。
及是黔事棘，诏起燮元总督贵、云、川、广。
This suggestion was not accepted either. It was only after the situation in Guizhou became extremely difficult that the Emperor issued an imperial decree and appointed Zhu Xieyuan as Governor-General of the military affairs of Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guangxi.