The three Manchu governors along the Yangtze River combined, the sailors are not as good as Yuan Zongdi of Wanxian County, if this conclusion is not said from the mouth of Li Guoying, who will believe it? However, even after hearing such a ridiculous thing, he still didn't react too violently, he felt that Li Guoying's current saying that the water master was still out of place, and the Qing court did not rely on the water master to fight the world, so this was at most the icing on the cake.

Forget about Jieshu, but Li Guoying still has a lot of hope for Curb Bilong, hoping that the other party will be touched and work hard to restore the Yangtze River Water Division; At the beginning, Li Guoying felt that as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, the ban on the sea had nothing to do with him, since the imperial court had this meaning, Li Guoying also shouted irresponsibly, and now Li Guoying can't open his mouth if he wants to let Liangjiang help build some boats. To make matters worse, the shipbuilders of Liangjiang and Zhejiang were moved to Chengdu and Xuzhou by the Sichuan army. Although it is impossible to understand the specific production capacity of western Sichuan, starting a year ago, when Li Guoying sat at the head of Chongqing and counted the ships of the Ming army, he could see a large number of new ships flowing down the river, and these new ships were more and more and bigger -- the biggest bottleneck in the shipbuilding industry in western Sichuan now is the problem of timber, and it takes three years of air-drying period for shipbuilding timber to be used from cutting it down to using, and in order to make up for the lack of timber, Sichuan even needs to buy timber from the downstream, drag it back to Sichuan with great difficulty, and then make it into a ship and then sell it to Zhou Peigong. Because Deng Ming strictly forbade shipbuilders to take a step out of the door.

But after listening to Li Guoying's complaints, Ji Bilong did not say the slightest, in his opinion, these governors are all a problem, and they keep shouting about water masters and water masters, but the problem now is how to defeat the 100,000 Ming army in front of him and rebuild the prestige of the imperial court, not the problem of collecting wood and building ships.

Unable to get any promises from Kubilong, after this military meeting, Li Guoying's heart was full of disappointment, and after returning to his camp, he couldn't help but complain to the guards: "The southerners are fighting boats, and there is no way to fight in Jiangnan without a naval division, and now this battle should not be fought at all, and even if it wins, it will not be able to catch Deng Ming's main force." ”

Whether it is Su Song's water division or Hong Chengchou's Dongting Lake water division, they have been annihilated by Deng Ming for more than four years but have no intention of rebuilding. Once it was completed, it became a thorn in Sun Kewang's side and a thorn in the flesh, which effectively hindered Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong's Yangtze River strategy of joining Nanjing, and after the three kings were infighting, they could still transport grain to Chongqing.

"What the hell is Governor Zhang thinking? Even if you smash the pot and sell iron, you have to rebuild the Dongting Lake Water Division, what's the use of just building bunkers around Wuchang? Even if you build a turtle shell on the ground, you can't build a castle on the river, right? Now Li Guoying feels that the most capable person along the Yangtze River is the young talent Zhou Peigong, a young political envoy who openly advocates the establishment of a Yangtze River corps that can catch up with Deng Ming's main force, and emphasizes the need to pay attention to the sailors.

For this reason, Zhou Peigong also asked the imperial court to allocate some of the northern shipwrights to him, so that he could build new shipyards in Anqing, Yuezhou and other places. Of course, neither the Qing court nor Li Guoying knew that Zhou Peigong's real purpose was to export these shipwrights to Sichuan, and the shipyards in Sichuan promised that if Zhou Peigong helped them introduce more skilled shipbuilders, they would give him a discount when selling Zhou Peigong's river boats to him -- now all the shipyards in Sichuan knew that Zhou Peigong was an important customer, and they would often send smiling salesmen to brag to Zhou Peigong about their new ships. If Zhou Peigong placed an order, they would mark the new ship with the mark of Anqing or Yuezhou shipyard to show that it was a high-quality ship produced by the Qing Dynasty.

But if Zhou Peigong really set up shipyards with self-production capacity in Anqing and other places, he knew that the owners of these shipyards should change their faces, and it is estimated that they would immediately lobby Deng Ming to sweep his shipyards. As an expert on the Deng Ming issue, Zhou Peigong conscientiously studied the policies and regulations of western Sichuan every day, and he also had many Sichuan friends, knowing that the salt merchants and bankers in Sichuan had done so. Therefore, if the shipyard owners in Sichuan found out that they had competitors, they would certainly follow suit, and Zhou Peigong concluded that the request would be supported by the majority of Deng Ming's spoils.

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Two days later, a new report came from Shandong, in which Zu Zepu claimed that Deng Ming himself had appeared in Shandong and had brought with him an army of 100,000.

After seeing this report, Ji Bilong turned his face again, he saw with his own eyes that there were tens of thousands of Sichuan troops in the Ming army opposite, how could Zu Zepu have a big mouth and another 100,000 Sichuan army.

"It must be nonsense," Kubilon shouted: "If Deng Mingzhen goes to Shandong with an army of 100,000, Zu Zepu is crazy and dares to fight Deng Ming?" He really had the courage to hide in Jinzhou City and eat his own people twenty years ago, he would rather eat people than dare to go out of the city to challenge a strong enemy. ”

Seeing that Kubilong began to dig over old accounts, Li Guoying knew very well that the auxiliary minister was really going to be angry, but they all understood that there was another possibility, that is, Zu Zepu found that there were not many Ming troops who landed, and planned to go to fight to get some cheapness, but in order to boast of his exploits, he wanted to say that he had arrived in Shandong. It's just that Zu Zepu's boasting will cause bad consequences to Kubilong and them, if the imperial court accepts his statement, won't Jieshu and his gang just eat and not work?

After Li Guoying's explanation, Jieshu, who was still stunned, suddenly realized, and found that Zu Zepu was climbing up like stepping on himself, and slapped the table with hatred: "This dog minion, this king hasn't planned to equip the green camp with firearms with him." ”

After receiving Zu Zepu's exaggerated report, Sony and Ao Bai immediately issued an order to reprimand, accusing Zu Zepu of not seriously investigating the enemy's situation, mistakenly believing people's words, and also taking the ridiculous sentinel report as a true report to the imperial court.

Sonny and Aobai's disposition can also be called well-intentioned, and they can see that Zu Zepu's struggle is belittling the role of Prince Kang, so it is definitely unacceptable; However, Jinan is responsible for the logistics of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and if Zu Zepu is cleaned up too ruthlessly, he is worried that he will be frightened and affect his normal work, so Sony's tone is "mistaken people's words", as long as Zu Zepu hands over one or two scouts' heads, then this matter will be smoothed out.

Moreover, the holy decree given to Zu Zepu was sent to Huaiyang by the Qing court at the first moment of 800 miles, obviously because he was afraid that Prince Kang would have a pimple in his heart.

If there were no Curb Pilon and Li Guoying on the side, most of the fledgling Prince Kang still couldn't understand what Sony's old fritter wanted to say. However, after listening to the assistant's explanation, Jie Shu was very satisfied with the reaction of the imperial court, he commanded the army to confront the 100,000 Ming army, and he was carrying such a big pressure and responsibility, how could he let a Han man carrying the flag slander behind his back?

Both Jubilon and Li Guoying thought that Zu Zepu was just boasting about his merits and did not lose his mind, and once he saw the rebuke of the imperial court, he would immediately understand it, realize that he had made a mistake, and then obediently hand over the scapegoat and take the initiative to clarify the rumors that Deng Ming landed in Shandong.

However, what happened next was completely unexpected, and the next urgent report sent from Shandong once again claimed that Deng Ming was in Shandong, and that tens of thousands of people had completed the landing and had penetrated deep into the area of Qingzhou Prefecture. Zu Zepu said that he fought hard to kill the enemy and won successive battles in the area of the Jiaoshui River, forcing Deng Ming to realize that Jinan was not easy to capture, and had to give up the strategy of attacking Jinan quickly, and instead tried to disturb the entire Jiaodong. However, Zu Zepu's troops also paid a lot of casualties in the continuous hard fighting, and they were extremely tired, so they could not break through the superior enemy's defense line on the Jiaoshui River, and now the situation in Jiaodong has become extremely serious.

In this report, Zu Zepu hoarsely asked the imperial court to quickly send an army to support Shandong, don't care about any luck first, if Jinan is lost, then it will be worth the loss to take back Guazhou.

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Beijing, and now Jinan, send urgent letters to the imperial court every morning and afternoon, and in the urgent letters, Zu Zepu has increased the number of troops brought by Deng Ming to as many as 300,000.

The order to let the Tianjin Navy Division go to sea has long been sent, but it is not known when the Tianjin Navy Division will be able to send back the news, and if Deng Ming really comes, then the sea area around Laizhou must be full of enemy ships, and it is difficult to say whether the Tianjin Navy Division can come forward to investigate.

Now as soon as he saw Zu Zepu's urgent letter, Sony was full of sadness, since Zu Zepu ignored the reprimand of the imperial court, hysterically shouted that Deng Ming really came to Shandong, Sony changed from the initial suspicion to believe his words - if Deng Ming did not go to Shandong, would Zu Zepu be guilty of taking the blame for himself for the sake of merit? In particular, the first rebuke of the imperial court had clearly told him that he did not want to take away this credit.

In addition to continuing to shout that Shandong needs reinforcements, Zu Zepu also suddenly talked about peace, saying that after his serious consideration, China has been "having a north and a south" since ancient times, and the division of the north and the south is the universal law except for Mongolia, and the result of Mongolia's violation of this considerable law is that it is only a short-lived 80 years.

As a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, Zu Zepu of course hoped that our lord would live forever, so he decided to retract his previous unrealistic and rigid attitude, and instead suggested that the imperial court seriously consider the issue of appeasement - if the original conditions could not meet Deng Ming, then Zu Zepu thought that it would not matter if Guangdong was assigned to Deng Ming, I heard that there was a very heavy miasma, and it was not a good place, and Shang Wang Ye was a loyal minister of the imperial court, and besides, the king of Zhennan had no power anyway, so let him go back to Liaodong to retire.

"It seems that Deng Ming is really here," Sonny rubbed the bridge of his nose and said to Ao Bai and Sukh Saha, "What the hell are Suppilon and Li Guoying doing?" Deng Mingdu went to Shandong with the main force, but they stared at each other with some of Deng Ming's henchmen in Jiangnan. ”