Updated: 2013-11-22

September 28, Jinan.

The current governor of Shandong is Zu Zepu, and his father is Zu Dashou, a famous general who commands the Guanning Iron Cavalry. After Zu Zepu, the former governor of the left capital of the Ming Dynasty, followed his father to eat up the people of the city in Jinzhou, he surrendered to Huang Taiji without hesitation and became a banner man. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he followed Dolgon into the customs and fought against the army, was appointed as a first-class imperial guard, became a close minister of the Manchu Dynasty, and became the governor of Shandong last year.

After arriving in Shandong, Zu Zepu devoted himself to the forbidden sea, and the people of Dengzhou and Laizhou on the inner side of the Bohai Sea were not spared. Zu Zepu posted a notice, saying that the emperor loved the people, and in order to prevent them from being looted by thieves, he asked them to move to a safe area in the interior. A three-day deadline was set, and any officers and soldiers who overstayed the deadline would be killed. By the time of the Seventh Uprising, there were no living people within 20 miles of the coastal area of Shandong.

At the beginning of the rebel army, Zu Zepu adopted a policy of gentleness towards the leaders of the seventh rank, concentrating on attacking the rebel armies besieging the county seat, and then followed Prince Kang to besiege Qixia with all his might. It didn't take long to eliminate Yu Qi, but Jiangnan suddenly encountered an attack by the Sichuan army, the main force of the Qing army moved south, and Zu Zepu also returned to Jinan to sit in the town, responsible for supplying the grain for the southbound army.

Although the main force of the imperial court went to the south, the Shandong Green Battalion still left a lot of soldiers and continued to besiege the rebel army that fled into the cottage in the seventh rank, and Li Guoying's 600 standard battalion also left 30% and handed it over to Zu Zepu for command. In the previous battles, the Sichuan-Shaanxi cavalry performed quite well, cruising on the official road and killing people when they saw them, completely cutting off the communication of the rebel army, and turning the rebel armies distributed in Jiaodong into a lone army that was not connected with each other. However, Zu Zepu recently thought about returning the 200 cavalry to Li Guoying, because the Shandong Righteous Army had lost the ability to resist, and he did not want Li Guoying's people to continue to share his credit in Shandong.

As the governor of a province, and the godson who reassures the Manchurian Taijun even more than Li Guoying, Zu Zepu also has a standard battalion of 1,000 cavalry. Most of Governor Zu's standard battalion officer position is used to house his old age, Shandong is far away from the front line, there is not much military pressure, it just so happens that everyone is from Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the commander of the cavalry is also familiar with the way.

The officers who raised the standard in Shandong also breathed out of the same nostril as the governor Yamen, and strongly advocated that the Sichuan-Shaanxi green camp should be blown away as soon as possible. The Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Battalion not only had strong combat effectiveness, which made the Shandong Green Battalion a little disgraced, but also had much better military discipline than the Shandong Green Battalion.

Regarding the military discipline of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Battalion, not only Zu Zepu was surprised, but even Prince Kang and Kupilon were also impressed, thinking that Li Guoying was very strict in governing the army, and the knights under his command would not forget their military tasks because they were greedy for people's money. Li Guoying also boasted about this, he couldn't say that it was pulled over by Deng Ming. In fact, many of the officers in his standard camp were redeemed with cattle, and many of the people who were later added to the standard camp also stayed in Deng Ming's prisoner of war camp, and even went in twice. After the propaganda and education of the Ming army in the prisoner of war camp, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Battalion knew that if they left a bad reputation, they would not be able to escape even if they got a release coupon or coupon in the future. These people have been dealing with the Sichuan army for two years, forming a psychological burden, and they have not changed since they arrived in Shandong, so they are relatively good to the people and the prisoners of war of the rebels.

It took a long time for the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Camp to come back to its senses, this is Shandong, not Sichuan, and it can't touch Deng Ming's devil, but at this time, Li Guoying has already finished blowing the conch, so he has to continue to pretend. In addition, the people around the road were robbed by the Shandong Green Battalion and the Central Army, and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Battalion had no looting target.

This time, Zu Zepu's cousin Xiàn was appreciated by the Qing court, thinking that he was able to handle the errand and dealt with it very well, and there were rumors that after he had been in the post of governor of Shandong for a few more years, he would be released to Jiangnan on an errand.

Jiangnan is definitely richer than Shandong, and the emperor is far away, so it is much easier to fill his pockets, and Zu Zepu is naturally full of expectations for this. However, Zu Zepu also knew that another reason why the imperial court moved this mind was because he was a staunch hawk, advocating an uncompromising tough attitude towards Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang and Yunnan.

After Caoyun was robbed, Zu Zepu strongly advocated killing Lin Qilong to thank the world, and even questioned what those who interceded for Lin Qilong regarded as the court? Recently, after hearing the rumors that the imperial court was discussing peace with Deng Ming or appeasing him, Zu Tough Guy went against the wind and resolutely expressed his opposition. Like Caoyun's statement after being robbed, although the imperial court did not listen to Zu Zepu's opinion, it expressed obvious appreciation in the reply. Seeing that the governor of Shandong was so excited, he cried blood and said that he did not share the sky with the Sichuan thieves, and the Qing court also sent someone to appease him, saying that Zu Zepu's loyal court knew it, and the friendship between his father and son and the court would not be forgotten, but now even if he appeases Deng Ming, it is also the grand strategy of the imperial court, and the governor of Shandong will obey if he does not understand.

It was in this pacification that the envoy revealed that he might let Zu Zepu go to a certain province in Jiangnan to serve as the governor. If you go to the south, you will have to shoulder the responsibility of fighting with the Sichuan army, the Fujian army or the Zhejiang army, Zu Zepu understands that this is an opportunity and a challenge, so he plans to use Yu Qi's chaos to exercise his standard camp well.

If the governor of Shandong goes south, of course, it is impossible to take all the people in the standard camp away, but Zu Zepu will not object to the selection of a group of people from among them, and I heard that in a few years there will be an opportunity to follow the governor to the south of the Yangtze River to make a fortune, and the officers of the standard camp of the governor of Shandong are also gearing up, saying that they will go all out to train the troops and reproduce the majesty of the Guanning iron cavalry -- everyone knows that if you want to get a place to accompany the governor Zu to the south, you must make the governor feel useful.

"Your Excellency the Governor," a staff member reported as he entered the door with a confused look on his face, "the Tang newspaper from Laizhou Mansion has been two days late. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Zu Zepu frowned when he heard this. Shandong's post station system is mainly for the north-south connection and the canal transport service, and there is only one post road to the Jiaodong Peninsula, that is, from Jinan to the east through Qingzhou Mansion, Laizhou Mansion to Dengzhou Mansion. A few months ago, when the Jiaodong Rebellion occurred, the communication of the post road was affected to a certain extent, but it was only affected, and the rebel army did not regard the post road as the main target. Thus, even in the most tense moments, Zu Zepu was able to learn about the situation in the easternmost part of the Dengzhou Prefecture through the Guò post station, and instructed the magistrates to coax the hesitant rebel leaders.

Since the rebels fled into the mountains, the post road to Dengzhou has been unimpeded, and it is unlikely that there will be heavy rain to close the road this season, which is not surprising to the governor of Shandong, Yamen.

"Could it be that those thieves are so bold that they dare to go down the mountain?" Zu Zepu pondered for a while, thinking that the possibility of this happening was very small, and Yu Qi and the others were trapped in the cottage, since there was no news that the encirclement had been breached, there was no possibility that Zài would rush out to cut off the post road.

But if someone didn't make trouble, how dare the people at the post station delay the news? Needless to say, two days late, even one day late, someone will fall to the ground for this head; If it is said that it is even more impossible for Dengzhou Mansion to forget jì Fatang Newspaper, this is a joke with his black gauze hat, not to mention that even if Dengzhou forgets something, will Laizhou also forget it together?

After sending two teams to ask questions, the governor of Shandong went to sleep suspiciously.

The next morning, the Tang newspaper still did not arrive, but there was a shocking news, the Qingzhou Mansion reported that someone had attacked the post road, and the communication system of the Qing army spread that Deng Ming, the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, had commanded an army of 100,000 to land in Laizhou Mansion, and called on the righteous soldiers of Shandong to respond, and the joint army first took Jinan, and then smashed Beijing.

"Haha, hahaha." After hearing the contents of the skull, Governor Zu was not surprised and rejoiced, and laughed: "Sure enough, it is the remnants of the thieves who are making trouble, but they are just bluffing and struggling to the death." ”

When he was young, Zu Zepu had seen ship loading and unloading in Ningyuan and Juehua, although there were port facilities, but the rice and beans had to be transported ashore by guò small boats, and tens of thousands of people's grain and straw for a month had to be carried for several days. In order to transport to the front line, a large number of livestock and auxiliaries are also needed to serve as the main force. This letter said that Deng Ming landed with an army of 100,000 troops, and Zu Zepu believed that without ten days and half a month, these 100,000 people would not be able to land on the coast of Shandong. Moreover, there were no port facilities in the wilderness, and there was no manpower and animal power for the Ming army, so even if the Ming army could carry grain ashore, it would not be able to follow the troops, unless the Ming army could bring the livestock and vehicles needed by the 100,000 army. But when all these things are shipped off the ship, the storage warehouses are built, and then the roads that can be opened for the army and vehicles to pass through are connected to the road system in Shandong, it will be fast in one or two months.

"It's just some henchmen who have slipped through the net, trying to disrupt the public and create panic." Such a ridiculous message, of course, Zu Zepu will not report it, nor will he distribute it to the prefectures and counties under his rule to disturb people's hearts. He ordered the Qingzhou Prefecture to immediately send a green battalion to eliminate the thieves who attacked the post station system and restore the traffic of the post station.

Zu Zepu estimated that there are probably one or two post stations that have fallen into the rebel army now, and at most there are hundreds of thieves in the rivers and lakes, so that Qingzhou Mansion can send 300 batches of armor to defeat them all.

For Zu Zepu, this is just a small matter, and he has a lot of more important work to focus on. For example, the army that supplied Xuzhou, and the reinforcements mobilized along the canal also needed to supply and control the military discipline. After issuing the order to the Qingzhou Mansion, Zu Zepu left the matter behind him after a while. By the evening of the same day, he had forgotten all about it.