After the Battle of Huaiyang, Jieshu's army also returned to the court, and part of it had already returned to Shandong just after the first month. The Ming army took the initiative to retreat after the Battle of Huaiyang, and it is said that it is now harassing Jiangxi again, which made the Qing court breathe a sigh of relief, because the actions of the Ming army were in line with the propaganda of the Qing army. Previously, the Qing court claimed that the Ming army had suffered a crushing defeat and that the Qing army had successfully resolved the Jiangnan crisis.

Now the Beijing court suspected that the war in Huaiyang was not going well, but even Suppilon concealed the true situation, claiming that it was the Mongols who suffered the most losses in Huaiyang. In order to restore morale, the Qing army planned to reorganize the army in batches, so that the officers and men could regain their belief in victory. Jieshu and Kupilon agreed on this issue, that is, a battle must be won before they can admit defeat in the battle of Huaiyang to the imperial court.

Li Guoying's situation was not very good, because his superintendent performed extremely poorly in the Huaiyang War, and he could be called fleeing from the wind. If it weren't for the fact that Jie Shu and Kubi Long had worked together for more than half a year, they were convinced that Li Guoying was a loyal minister of the imperial court, and perhaps they would have suspected him of being a traitor of the Sichuan army -- if it had been left at the beginning of last year when Jie Shu and Kubi Long had the worst impression of Li Guoying, maybe they would have really taken him to the imperial court as the culprit.

Because the performance of the superintendent has lost Li Guoying's face, he is now cooperating with Jieshu and Kubilong to hide the truth from the court as much as possible, that is, it is unlikely to conceal the past, and he is also in the attitude that he can delay it for a day.

After the First World War of Huaiyang, both Jie Shu and Ji Bilong suspected that the officers and soldiers of Liangjiang and Caoyun had colluded with the Ming army, and afterwards Lin Qilong's help to ransom people through Mu Tan further strengthened their suspicions, and they felt that the frequent contacts between Lin Qilong and Mu Tan provided an opportunity for the Ming army to spy on the Qing army and buy off the greedy elements in the Qing army. However, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion were very supportive of the ransom, and since Jieshu and Kupilon also benefited from it, it was not easy for them to investigate Lin Qilong's fornication with Mu Tan. Only Li Guoying felt that this was not Lin Qilong and Mu Tan's friendship at all, but Deng Ming's consistent policy, and the Ming army lied that Mu Tan took bribes and released prisoners of war just to deceive Prince Kang, but Li Guoying couldn't explain why he had such an understanding - this is already common knowledge among the feudal officials along the Yangtze River, and in the end Li Guoying still chose to remain silent.

After February, Zu Zepu informed Jieshu and them that Zhou Peigong brought a group of miscellaneous troops from Liangjiang and Huguang to Jiaodong to cooperate with Shandong Green Camp to clear and help the Qing Dynasty destroy the Ming army. Zu Zepu's strategic idea is to use both grace and power to promote peace. Now the Qing army that is being reorganized and trained is still chaotic and morale is low, so Ji Bi Long does not snatch the opportunity to train troops in Jiaodong with Zu Zepu, and Jiao Dong, especially the surrounding area of Ashan, has been almost robbed by the Qing army last time when they suppressed bandits, Ji Bi Long feels that Jiao Dong is already quite desolate, and going to fight not only can not improve morale, but may harm the morale of the army.

For Zu Zepu's strategy, Beijing also agrees, the last crusade against Jiaodong spent millions of silver taels on military spending, which is still on the premise that the army can basically solve the military food on the spot. Now Jiaodong has been tugging for half a year, and the newly emerged Fuqing Ming Army has leveled the capital city and county seat, and then mobilized 100,000 troops into Jiaodong, it seems that it cannot be solved without spending a few million. Zu Zepu also hinted to the imperial court that due to Prince Kang's tyrannical conquest, a large number of gentry joined the rebels to rebel in rebellion. I heard that the gentlemen in Jiaodong were all reversed, and Sony also felt that Jieshu had probably made too much trouble in Jiaodong before, and he repeatedly advised Prince Kang to be careful, not to force the gentlemen to rebel, and it turned out to be like this. Even if you don't forget about Jieshu, Curb Pilon is so ignorant.

In the end, Sony, Aobai and Suke Saha discussed and secretly instructed Zu Zepu that as long as Jiaodong was willing to accept Zhao'an and promised to pay this year's taxes, the court was willing to pardon the scourge including Yu Qi, and also tacitly accepted the rebel group to rule in Jiaodong for a period of time.

In the opinion of the auxiliary minister, if you use violence to defeat Jiaodong, which is all against the gentry and heroes, it is estimated that it is unlikely to spend tens of millions of military spending, and the bandit army, the Yu Seventh Army, and the Fuqing Ming Army have already come and gone back and forth in Jiaodong three or four times, and it is estimated that the reward of the army will also come out of the court after the war, and they cannot let them rob it by themselves. After spending so much, he finally got a blank piece of land, and it is estimated that he will not be able to pay taxes normally for ten years, and the auxiliary minister feels that it is a bit of a loss, and it is not in line with the Qing court's strategy of concentrating its main forces on dealing with Deng Ming.

Previously, Deng Ming also vaguely hoped that the Fuqing Council would further penetrate the Qingzhou Mansion and continue to expand its influence to the west, but after learning that Prince Kang's army had returned, the Fuqing Assembly weighed again and again and still did not dare to continue to provoke Jinan.

Zhou Peigong, who was bent on resolving the chaos in Shandong as soon as possible, rushed to the scene and devoted himself to his work. After a few years of intrigue with Deng Ming, Zhou Peigong is now a world-class diplomat and negotiator, and has even just established a small team to help Zhou Peigong figure out people's hearts and analyze the psychology of the other party. After half a month, Zhou Peigong reached a satisfactory agreement with the Fuqing Parliament: all the leaders of the rebel army, including Yu Qi, were pardoned, and they did not need to go to Jinan to meet Zu Zepu; The Ming army of Fuqing was changed to the green battalion of Deng and Lai prefectures on the spot, and the military salary was settled by the local government; After deducting the military salary payable by the imperial court, the Jiaodong area should pay the tax payable in full, without any tax exemption; The Deng and Lai prefectures suspended the imperial examinations until they allowed the officials of the imperial court to return to power in the prefectures and counties.

Although Zhou Peigong's agreement undermined the imperial court's control over the Jiaodong region, it could solve the problem immediately, and if there was chaos for a long time, it would be enough to give the imperial court a headache. Now not only will it not affect this year's tax revenue, but there is no need to even give the bandit tax exemption that was originally intended to be given to Jiaodong, and with such a small place as Jiaodong, as long as the imperial court destroys Deng Ming or successfully negotiates peace with him, and restores his own officials, it should be easy to settle accounts with the chaotic party in the future.

While Zhou Peigong was busy sharing worries for the imperial court, Kubilong continued to block the imperial court, because the other three auxiliary ministers of Jiaodong were already dissatisfied with Kubilong and felt that he had not fulfilled his duties. Now Kupilon has actually created contradictions among the Eight Banners and come up with a plan to use the Mongols to steal the jobs of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

After he began to train his troops in Shandong, he repeatedly wrote to the imperial court, requesting that 10,000 Mongols be transferred to the army, and that 2,000 Mongol soldiers should be immediately needed to make up for the Mongol losses in the First Battle of Huaiyang...... No, it is to compensate for the non-combat attrition of thousands of Mongols due to the hot and cold. Compared with the enthusiasm for the Mongolian soldiers, the elbow turned outward, and he tried his best to send more than half of the Manchurian Eight Banners back to Beijing, in order to achieve this goal, he actually secretly spread rumors that the effect of using the Manchurian Eight Banners to supervise the war was worse, and often before the Green Battalion began to run, the Manchurian Supervisory Team left first, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Green Battalion.

Suppilon's remarks caused an uproar in Beijing, and even Sony and Aobai were dissatisfied. Yes, due to the Battle of Zhenjiang and the Battle of Gaoyou Lake, the Manchurian Eight Banners lost many veterans from Beijing and Nanjing, so there are many people who are 17 or 18 years old in the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade in Zhili, and they are Manchurian soldiers who were born after entering the customs. The grandparents and fathers of these soldiers were meritorious on the battlefield back then, and Sony still has an impression, how can they believe that their descendants will be born?

There are even people who are talking about it, thinking that Suppilon's move is preparing for his nephew and son-in-law to return to the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade. After the last Battle of Gaoyou Lake, the Manchurian officers who were released were dismissed because they had lost the trust of the imperial family, and among them were the younger relatives of Suppilon. The other three Vice-Chancellors were even more difficult to side with on this issue, and they all had their sons who suffered similar experiences, such as Sony's son Soetu, who lost his prominent position as the Imperial Guard.

All the forbidden brigade eight banners who followed Prince Kang on the expedition not only had a good status as the imperial guard, but also had additional allowances for the expedition, and now Curb Bilong actually wanted to deprive a large number of people of their allowances and futures, is it unbearable? Seeing the indignation of the Manchurian Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners also came out and shouted together, and in the rumors spread by the Curb Pilon, their relatives and friends also followed the Manchurian Taijun to rush to leave before the green camp that was supervised.

Prince Kang also received a lot of pressure for this, at the beginning when Prince Kang expressed his support when he began to train the troops, and when he spread rumors that were not conducive to the Eight Banners of the Strong Army and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, Jie Shu also remained silent and did not stand up for justice at the first moment. Soon many people went to Prince Kang's palace to complain, and even Prince An wrote to the front line, arguing that Prince Kang could not sit idly by and watch the Mongols unscrupulously support the Mongols, even if the Empress Dowager was a Mongol -- and in mid-February, the Empress Dowager had made it clear that she was firmly on the side of the Manchurian children on this issue, and how could there be any reason for a woman to take care of her mother's family first regardless of her in-laws' family?

After Prince Kang publicly demanded that the Qing army at the front line also openly complain about the training work of the auxiliary minister. However, he did not immediately stop his dissatisfaction with the Manchu and Han Eight Banners, and still stubbornly formulated an assessment plan. He said that only Manchurian soldiers who passed the examination could remain in the army, and those who failed would be kicked back to Beijing by him, and even lose their status as imperial guards.

In the last big military exercise in February, the mount of the auxiliary minister, who was present to personally supervise the examination, was unexpectedly hit by a number of stray arrows, and the frightened horse took the frightened Kupilon off his horse, which should not have been such a foreign appearance with his equestrian skills.

After the incident, the angry Suppilon could not find the suspect who had mistakenly hit his mount, and after consoling him, Prince Kang also tactfully advised him to calm down and not to continue his training plan with his own way. Two days later, a discouraged Kupilon gave up training on the army, and no longer tried to blast out the unqualified elements of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners, and Prince Kang offered to help him ask the court for more Mongol soldiers.