Jinan. The original Dewang Mansion, later the Linqing Marquis' Mansion, Shandong, and Denglai Governor's Mansion, has now become the residence of Rao Yu Belle Abatai.

Outside the gate of the house until the east and west gates, every few steps there are soldiers of the Eight Banners with bright armor standing guard, holding swords and guns and carrying bows and arrows. A pair of eyes stared viciously at every official and person who tried to enter the gate and the mansion.

Outside the gate, these officials, generals, gentry, sedan chairs, horses, vehicles, and entourage, etc., were all driven here and crowded in a corner of the square.

A very ornate and rich carriage ran over the road paved with burnt bluestone slabs, and the wheels wrapped in rubber tires only made a rustling sound when walking on it, not like the rolling sound of other cars when they ran over the road.

"Hurry! Move out! Niu Lu Zhangjing, who led the team, saw the sunlight reflected from the glass eyes on the carriage fan from a distance, and immediately shouted, and his soldiers hurriedly moved the horse-resisting gun racks that were blocked in the middle of the road so that the carriage could pass. Hurry up, don't miss Mr. Wang! ”

Seeing this, the officials and gentry who were waiting for Abatai's meeting with their notebooks and resumes in their hands outside the gate immediately flocked to the gate. They knelt down in front of the carriage and kowtowed to say goodbye, reporting their names, official titles, divisions, resumes, etc., hoping to catch the line of the big man in front of them, and then move forward.

The silk curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the coachman very quickly placed a stool next to the carriage for his master to step on. Wang Ke was supported by two small servants from the car and stood on the wheel.

"Li Zhangjing, are these adults and gentlemen?"

"Back to Mr. Wang's words." Niu Lu Zhangjing, who led the team on duty, was a coat under the White Banner of Manchuria, because he disregarded his life during the battle, and made several contributions, not to mention being carried the flag, and now he is also a Niu Lu Zhangjing with the rank of Jiala. Although Wang Ke did not have any official position in front of Abatai, he was just a coat of Abatai's subordinates. However, everyone in Shandong at this time knew that Abatai was using Wang Ke as a strategist. This person spoke in front of Abatai, and it carried more weight than Cao Zhenyan spoke in front of Dolgon! Therefore, this Li Zhangjing replied respectfully to the second master in front of him.

"These gentlemen have come to see Lord Baylor's master. Waiting here. ”

"You damn thing! Don't you know that our master has always been a corporal of Lixian and respects his teacher? In such weather, you let these adults and gentlemen be blown by the wind in the open space and freeze here?! The master knows, be careful of your dogskin! ”

Li Zhangjing didn't dare to refute, so he could only admit his mistake resignedly, nodding his head constantly, and admitting his mistake vigorously.

"Why don't you go and clean the porter, prepare tea and snacks, and ask the gentlemen to wait inside?!"

Wang Ke's pretentiousness immediately made the officials and gentry who had been blown by the cold wind outside the gate all morning grateful. So, with their round necks, gauze hats, and beasts, they hula and knelt down in front of Wang Ke, who was in a horse coat and leather robe. "Sir loves us so much, Baylor is so courteous and virtuous, we should be broken in case of emergency"

The New Year's greetings of gratitude to Dade kept talking, and the handbook resume in his hand was stuffed into Wang Ke's hand, as for whether there were rice bills, bills of exchange, land deeds, house deeds, and the deed of sale of the little maid, it was unknown.

After a few polite words with these people in the porter's room, Wang Ke got up and went to see his master, Abatai.

"What's going on with those things out there?"

In the originally fresh and elegant flower hall, the Ming tile made of glass is full of oil stains, probably because Abatai drank wine happily one day, and the soup oil, water, tea and soup were spilled. There were fish bones and bones all over the ground.

Seeing Wang Ke come in, Abatai put down the Lanling wine jar in his hand and looked at his henchman with smug eyes.

"It's a group of people who have come to serve their master. I plan to find a career here with my master. Wang Ke also looked disdainful of his own fellow people outside the door, probably because his peers were enemies, and he didn't want to be robbed and sold.

"It's a very easy thing to do. There is a will in the capital, as long as they are willing to contribute to the Qing Dynasty, they will be hired according to their talents. If you have more soldiers and horses in hand, it will be even better! "Don't look at the soldiers and horses outside the palace gate with a forest of swords and guns, a large number of generals, strong horses, in fact, the current Abatai is a hollow boss. There are only more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in the Eight Banners under his lineage, and there are only a few hundred people in the real Eight Banners Manchuria. At present, Shandong's main force is the troops of Zhang Linghu and Wu Fengxian, each occupying more than 20 prefectures and counties on the ground in Shandong, and it has already formed a semi-divided situation in which they listen to the tune and do not listen to the propaganda.

At present, Abatai urgently needs to expand more Junjie who is well aware of the righteousness and current affairs, so as to put pressure on military leaders like Zhang Linghu and Wu Fengxian, so that these mothers who have milk are honest from now on.

"Master, the current situation outside, thieves are swarming, wolf smoke is everywhere, although it is not very beneficial to my Daqing, but for those people outside, it is even more panicked." Wang Ke, as the person in charge of military affairs and intelligence for Abatai, first gave him a reassurance.

"What are those people out there afraid of?" Abatai bit a freshly baked grilled chicken in his mouth, and asked Wang Ke vaguely in his mouth.

"Lord Belle is in charge of us, the thief Xie Qian colluded with the people to rebel, and everywhere he went is now a bloody storm, which is unbearable. In Gaoyi Zibo alone, hundreds of virtuous families have been killed for generations, and every family has been wiped out, with men killed for the so-called crime of captivity, and women raped first and then killed. The worst is Sun Zhiqi, who is covered with pig bristles, which is called a hair transplant. ”

Wang Ke deliberately learned the tone of the well-dressed people outside, and used an authentic dialect to imitate the tone of this group of generations of virtuous families who knew the general trend of the world to tell Abatai what Xie Qian had done.

"Since Xie Qian's rebellion, he has conquered Zichuan, Boshan, Gaoyi and other places, and dozens of towns and cities have fallen into the hands of thieves. A squire like Sun Zhiji, who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, didn't know how many died at his hands. Xie Qian also arrogantly let it go, saying that Lord Belle you are a defeated general under the traitor Li Huayu, and you escaped from the Dragon and Tiger Camp by luck, but that is just a chance for God to let him catch you. If I catch you, I will give you a hair transplant. In addition, he also falsely claimed that Li Huayu was not dead, and thousands of giant boats were coming in the wind and waves, which caused those Diao people to be elated, and they all said that the Qing Dynasty ate jujube pills. ”

"Now there are the remnants of the Nanyue Army, Liao Dongzhi, Lu Mahong, the widow, and the thief Yu Dang Wu Xing's department echoing each other in the area of Qingdao Pass in Yimeng Mountain, and they are embarrassed. Li Shouhan, who was located in the south of the Yangtze River, supported them by sea by ship carrying ordnance and food, and bandits like Xie Qian were bound to become even more rampant. ”

Abatai threw aside the chicken bones in his hand, "I don't know! But, Mr. Wang, look! Now we only have so many soldiers and horses, I just asked the regent in the capital for reinforcements, and he didn't have any soldiers and horses to send to Shandong! Perhaps, there will be a decree that will scold Ben Baylor severely! Now that the main forces of the Qing Dynasty are going to fight Li Zicheng in Henan and Shaanxi, how can they have the spare strength to deal with these bandits in Shandong?! ”

"Master, if a large team of soldiers and horses can be sent to the capital, then even if Shandong is pacified, the master's ability will not show anything. Perhaps, after working hard for a long time, I made a wedding dress for someone else in vain. Wang Ke sneered and spoke to Abatai. Abatai didn't understand the words of making wedding dresses for others, but he understood the meaning of being busy in vain and finally cheapening others.

"Mr. Wang, what do you mean?"

"If, we don't want the imperial court to send reinforcements to Shandong from the capital or from other places, as long as the imperial court gives a will and sends some confessional documents, we can exterminate Xie Qian's bandits, will the imperial court agree?!"

"This is natural! You don't have to spend a penny or a grain of rice for a military salary. There is no need to lose a soldier and a soldier, such a good thing if he is old fourteen will not be, unless he has a lot of in his head! In that case, he wouldn't be this regent! ”

"Come, come, come! Mr. Wang, you are my Zhuge Liang! You may be seated! Come on, make tea for Mr.! Remember Li Huayu's favorite one, that 。。。。。 Although Abatai has always been known for his bravery, but his head is not full of muscles, he suddenly woke up, presumably Wang Ke already had a solution, just waiting for his attitude. Thinking about this, he hurriedly asked Wang Ke to sit down, and shouted to order someone to make tea for Wang Ke.

"Yangxian Spring Tea."

"That's right! Just do as the gentleman says! ”

After the tea was put aside, Wang Ke leisurely opened his mouth to Abatai, who was already about to be unable to hold back.

"Master, the solution is on those people outside. Also, master, do you remember how Li Huayu's gang let the master go away with hatred? ”

Wang Ke mentioned the humiliating past that he couldn't look back on, and suddenly made Abatai feel that the whip marks on his back that were rewarded by Huang Taiji jumped a few more times. "How can this be forgotten! Ben Baylor is definitely going to dig up his Li Huayu's grave, and then pull out the dead body and whip the corpse! Finally, the bones are scattered! in order to eliminate the hatred in Benbeylor's heart! ”

"Master, this method is to use his Li Huayu's tricks to deal with Xie Qian, a group of bandits under his banner. Isn't this the best way to get angry and get rid of hatred? Wang Ke still had a smile on his face, and his tone was full of trusting warmth. This is also his necessary quality as a qualified god, if they all look fierce and vicious, people will be scared at a glance, how can they deceive people? How can people willingly take out the money and pay for the incense?

"At the beginning, the master was crisscrossing Qilu and beating Li Huayu at a loss, so why did Li Huayu feel like a god overnight? That's because he found the best help! Use the thieves under Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai to deal with the prince! These people can fight, fight, run, endure hardship, endure cold, and endure hunger. The master's tactics that day happened to be their tactics. That's why the master was unfortunately frustrated. ”

In addition to these thieves, Li Huayu even called on all kinds of people in Qilu to arm themselves and embarrass their masters. In this way, everywhere we went, we were beaten everywhere, and everywhere we were ventilating the Nanban and reporting to our fortified and clear Tunpu polder! ”

"Yes, yes! That's how these dog thieves dealt with us back then! ”

"Master! Now let's give back to the other in the other way! Does the master know that in addition to the officials and gentry outside on the ground in Shandong, who else can use it for the master? Wang Ke's eyes flashed with a psychedelic light, which made Abatai a little overwhelmed.

Abatai does not know, but the unkind author does. On the ground of Shandong, another force that can match the power of the gentry is all kinds of secret sects. It is commonly known as a cult and a sect! These people are the same kind of Wang Ke.

Tracing back to the roots, most of the various cults in Shandong or in China as a whole can be related to the famous White Lotus Sect. And the White Lotus Sect can be traced back to the shadow of Zoroastrianism.

Speaking of Zoroastrianism, everyone will feel very unfamiliar, but when it comes to his other two names, everyone will suddenly understand. Zoroastrianism, Mingjiao, this name is like thunder, right? Called a "cult" by Buddhism, the fire Zoroastrian religion was introduced into China very early, "the name of the fire Zoroastrianism is known in China, since the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang Dynasty, its beginning is called the god of heaven, and the Jin and Song dynasties have not heard of it before." Because later generations often confuse it with Mani and Great Qin, and after the Song Dynasty, because of the prosperity of Manichaeism (Mingjiao) of "eating vegetables and demons", these cults are often called "demons", and the secret sect power at this time is not strong, and then "Yuan entered the Central Plains and ruled China with Mongols, because of the momentum for a while, so the national consciousness of the Han people was lurking, and when it was prosperous and declining, the Han people took the opportunity to rise." The White Lotus Sect carried out a national revolution against the Mongols as a cult. ”

Han Shantong, a native of Lecheng, claimed to be a descendant of Song Huizong, and declared: Maitreya was born, and King Ming was born. The White Lotus cultists wore red scarves and were called the Red Turban Army, carrying out activities against Mongolia and the Song Dynasty. Maitreya is the guardian Buddha of the White Lotus Sect, which developed from the Mida Pure Land Sect. The power of the Red Turban Army of the White Lotus Sect is expanding day by day, and Zhu Yuanzhang takes the opportunity to take advantage of it to gain the world. Of course, he knew the power of the White Lotus Sect, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect was strictly forbidden in the Ming Law: "Vainly calling Maitreya Buddha, White Lotus Society, Mingzun Sect, Baiyun Sect, etc., should be the art of left path heresy...... ......"In this way, the White Lotus Sect has become a cult banned by the imperial court."

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Sen, the head of the White Lotus Sect from Suzhou, claimed to be the leader of the Wenxiang Sect and developed churches all over Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places. After Wang Sen was arrested, his son Wang Haoxian and Xu Hongru of Julu discussed rebellion, and agreed to start an incident in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the second year of Xizong's Apocalypse. Later, because of the failure of the matter, Xu Hongru was the first to attack, claiming to be Emperor Fulie of Zhongxing, still using the red scarf as the symbol, and successively captured Yun, Zou, Teng, Yi and other counties in Shandong. Xu Hongru's rebellion took seven months to put down, Xu was captured and tortured in Beijing, and the White Lotus Sect came to an end.

After some makeovers, it became the White Lotus Sect, the Luo Sect, the Yellow Heavenly Dao, the Red Yang Sect, the Mahayana Sect, the Zhai Sect, etc., and in the early Qing Dynasty, it became the Mixed Yuan Sect, the Receiving Yuan Sect, the Western Mahayana Sect, the Tianli Sect and so on. (In Stephen Chow's martial champion Su Qi'er, the group that rebelled against the beggar gang was the Tianli Sect.) To the late Qing Dynasty's Qinglian Sect evolved from the Lantern Flower Sect, to the emergence of ***, the innate Dao, and then to the Zhaijiao, Jindan Dao, Mixed Yuan Sect, and the anti-foreign struggle in the Religion of Reason, and then the Golden Bell Jar, the Great Sword Society, and the Boxer Fist, which appeared more frequently in various places. The rulers of the Ming and Qing dynasties characterized these secret sects as cults, and their followers were called "cult bandits."

Because of the turbulent situation and the great chaos in the world, Wang Ke and other cult leaders have been given a good opportunity to develop and expand. They came out of the cave one after another, declaring "the Red Sun Tribulation, the end of the three worlds" and so on. Deceive people and join their sect. The small goal is to cheat money and sex, and the big goal is to gather strength.

For a time, in Shandong, all kinds of sects appeared like poisonous mushrooms after the rain. What is a stick of incense, the Bagua Sect, the Separation Sect, the Sage Dao, the Nine Palace Dao, and the Refuge Dao, they each have their own territory and open an altar entrance. Those with large scale and many believers even have armed forces. There are more than 200 kinds of Jining's ***, Juye's Sage Dao, Zou Ping's Yixin Tiandao Longhua Holy Church, Jinan's Central Dao and Zhengzhong Charity Association, and Tai'an's Congenital Dao. In many places, there is even a saying that "there is no way to make a village". Until the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, these sects also did all kinds of bad things for the tiger under the hands of devils.

Together with the squires, these sects controlled large swaths of the countryside. They should also be grateful to Li Huayu, who is no longer alive, if he had been like the village official system implemented by Li Shouhan in Nanzhong, Liangguang and other places, and the power had been in the village, he would not have handed over the grassroots political power to those squires and virtuous people and these gods.

After being told by Wang Ke, Abatai immediately found the location of his allies. Immediately dressed in full Baylor clothes, he went to the second gate to greet the officials and gentry from all over the country who were waiting in the gatehouse for his reception. It was announced on the spot that all people would be hired according to their talents, and as long as everyone could contribute to the process of pacifying the thieves in various places and pacifying the world for the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court would definitely reward them for their meritorious deeds.

Abatai's move immediately moved all the officials and gentry present with gratitude and tears. "The court is so obedient to the people, respects the heavens and the law, respects the teachers and respects the Confucianism, we dare not follow the work of dogs and horses?" When he said that he wanted to pacify the thieves in Shandong for the imperial court and Rao Yu Baylor, he beheaded Xie Qian, Liao Dongzhi, Wu Xing, Lu Mahong and others in front of Baylor!

Under Wang Ke's special introduction, Abatai had a good understanding of Zeng Chuanxian, the representative of the Linqing Liulin Regiment, who claimed to have 200,000 people, and praised the three of them for the great military exploits of the imperial court. As long as you serve the court well, the governor will not be a matter of searching!

Two days later, dozens of letters written in the name of Wang Ke were sent to sect leaders in various places.

Abatai had hundreds of thousands of more soldiers and horses out of thin air. Countless more Allied forces. 8)