Hu Guozhu did not go to Shandong to fight, and under his operation, there were 500 henchmen in the army who reported that they were wounded and stayed in the barracks to recuperate, plus the 10,000 soldiers and horses guarding Nanjing, there were not many soldiers and horses under his control.

Of course, it is already Hu Guozhu's limit for these 500 soldiers and horses to stay, what he wants to do now is to use these soldiers and horses to quickly train a new army, and the army in the Shandong battlefield is estimated to not be too much left after this battle, and he will still be the controller of the army at that time.

Of course, 10,000 soldiers and horses are the most elite soldiers and horses selected, and even when Gao Dajie took over, Hu Guozhu was also very tough: "Nanjing is Kyoto, and only 10,000 soldiers and horses were originally left in consideration of the urgency of the war on the front line. ”

Everything related to the emperor is a big deal, where does Gao Dajie dare to argue about anything, but he also has a worse impression of Hu Guozhu, everyone knows that Zheng Jing's army is definitely a disease of scabies now, and it may not be able to achieve great things in the next three or five years, because they have made trouble in Fujian and Guangdong, and they have endangered the interests of those big families, without the secret support of those big families, they are rootless trees, destined to not go far, so the momentum is very large, but the harm is very small.

Even if Zheng Jing wants to buy people's hearts through benevolence and righteousness, those big families still have one more layer of consideration, if they are defeated, they can get on the ship and run back to Taiwan, the roots of these big families are here, then there is no way to run, and after Cheng Xiaolian pulled out the Confucian Mansion, the Confucian scholars in these two places also had a lot of complaints about him, so it is basically impossible to buy them.

Although Zheng Jing originally had several county towns in Fujian, the army of the Zhou Dynasty had swept through it, and now it can only find some small islands not far from the land as a transit station, and what can be done is very limited.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is impossible for Zheng Jing to kill under the city of Nanjing, unless the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang personally lead the way for him, and most of the people must be willing, now it seems that it is definitely impossible, Hu Guozhu left this 10,000 elite soldiers purely for himself.

As for the extra 500 people, most of them are team members in the army, these people are veterans, and they have a very good set of recruits, Hu Guozhu left them for this day, and the army promoted a new team leader, Gao Dajie just took over there to understand these cats, until he took the army to Shandong, things were revealed, but it was impossible to go back to find Hu Guozhu.

Hu Guozhu's move did not escape Xia Guoxiang's eyes, but Xia Guoxiang was not worried, originally when he and Hu Guozhu were one, Gao Dajie had a good relationship with the two of them, and now Hu Guozhu has hated Gao Dajie, and it is not impossible to deepen his bad feelings. As for those little cats in the army, it is enough to see that Hu Guozhu's overall view is very ordinary, and the battle between the two factions cannot hurt the country in any case.

Xia Guoxiang was not born in a literati, he also had a certain foundation in the army, and even the army garrisoning Nanjing was his people, so he had already prepared some low-level officers and asked them to rush to Shandong and send them to the account of Gao Dajie.

If these low-level officers were sent at the beginning, they might not have such a good effect, he received the 800-mile expedited sent to him by Gao Dajie, and in Gao Dajie's eyes, it was another feeling, Xia Guoxiang in the court could withstand things, and he could solve his urgent needs at a critical time, and his relationship with Xia Guoxiang was a little closer.

Of course, these will not miss the war, the situation in Shandong is now a little turbulent, the Ming army is on the defensive, this is well known, as long as Gao Dajie does not launch an offensive, the Ming army will never take the initiative to attack, otherwise it has now reached the city of Nanjing.

Originally, part of Yuan Zonghao's army had already arrived in Henan, preparing to deal with the position of the Yarkand Khanate, and after hearing that Mu Xiaodi had won a big victory, he immediately returned to Shandong.

Shandong has been known as the hometown of Confucius and Mencius since ancient times, and now there are many people who want to move Confucius Sage, and there are naturally many people who refuse to agree.

Cheng Xiaolian was forced by the situation, transferred Zhou Peigong from central Hubei to alleviate the situation of erosion in Shandong, he knew that his current position, just like the original Kangxi, insisted on withdrawing the feudal domain, if it succeeded, it would be a great cause for thousands of years, and he would be famous in history. If it fails, it will be the king of the dead country, and the affairs of the government will be played indiscriminately.

Now, if he can pass this hurdle, the Ming Dynasty will go to a new chapter, and if he can't get through, he will leave behind infamy through the ages, and even the evidence that he is Burmese forged by the Zhou Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty may also be recorded in the history books, and then he will be the conspirator who subverted the Central Plains.

Zhou Peigong was ordered to rush to Shandong, he didn't think Cheng Xiaolian did something wrong about this matter, Confucius Mansion has been eating ugly over the years, in the past, those family lords still let several sons belong to different camps, whoever wins can pass on the family, Confucius Mansion is good, relying on the good of his ancestors, he surrendered directly to the victor, and no matter how kind those failed regimes treated them before, not to mention knowing that they couldn't do it, they didn't even have the spirit of dying for their confidants, and what kind of descendants of Confucius and Mencius were talking about, Even the children in the village who had just read and could read were better than them.

Almost everyone saw this, but everyone was unwilling to stand up against the thousand-year-old Confucian family, and Cheng Xiaolian dared to stand up, which shows that he really wants to do something beneficial to the world's scholars, which is already very rare in Zhou Peigong's opinion.

Since Cheng Xiaolian is willing to do this, then Zhou Peigong is naturally obliged to do it well, so after arriving in Shandong, he immediately implemented a harsh policy, called the law of joint sitting, ten households in a village are a group, ten groups are a guarantee, the lives of these hundred families are implicated, if there is a family secretly doing things for the Zhou Dynasty or secretly murdering Daming, others know that they do not report the same crime as them, and they are all innocent if they report in advance.

The city is also in accordance with this kind of rule, the city is divided into various camps according to the streets, and the troubled times are used to re-enact, and now the people's hearts are in chaos, if they can't be stabilized quickly, they don't know what chaos will happen.

Sure enough, as soon as this rule came out, there was a lot of scolding in secret, but many people who wanted to do things were honest.

(End of chapter)