The Auxiliary Minister Kubilong and the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Li Guoying, both of them have experienced more than Zu Zepu when it comes to fighting, but if it comes to reporting a great victory, the two of them together do not have the ability of Zu Zepu Yicheng.

As an auxiliary minister, it is one of his daily tasks to wring out the water in the chapter and read the truth, so this good news is also written in a stable manner, and the staff of the Yamen of the governor of Shandong have been blinded. But Zu Zepu was born in Guanning Tiecai, and his father Zu Dashou began to flee from the battlefield in the year of the Apocalypse, fearing the enemy without fighting, and transferred all the way from Liaoyang to Jinzhou, from an inconspicuous guerrilla to a general town with heavy troops, so Zu Zepu didn't have to bother to think about the good news, and he could see the reality inside at a glance.

"If King Kang really wins, will his men not be able to defeat the remnants of the enemy scattered around? With an army of more than 100,000 people, it will take at least a month to search Jiangnan, right? Zu Zepu saw that there was still a look of doubt on his henchman's face, and immediately pointed out the doubts in the good news: "If you don't let the officers and soldiers make a good fortune, how can you make people fight desperately next time?" ”

Moreover, Prince Kang also admitted that Deng Ming was in Shandong, which was even more outrageous, a while ago, the young master and the watchdog fought for the bones for a long time, the servant pounced and kicked the dog, and snatched the bone from the dog's mouth and stuffed it into the young master's hand - at this time, the young master didn't sneer, scolded the dog, "The dog's eyes don't know Lao Tzu", and then chewed the bones and swallowed them in a big way; Instead, he apologized to the dog and politely returned the bones to it - this is obviously a fraud! Deng Ming is not in Shandong, whether the Qing court sent an envoy to negotiate, it doesn't matter at all, the important thing is that Prince Kang wants to say that Deng Ming is in Jiangnan, and Beijing has recognized it, and even Zu Zepu is not fighting for it - as long as Prince Kang wins in Jiangnan, then this person in Shandong must be a stand-in for Deng Ming,

"If Prince Kang wins, then the Ming army in Jiangnan is not the main force but also the main force, Deng Ming is not there, and now he suddenly says that Jiangnan is a partial division, and Deng Ming is actually in Shandong, why is this?"

After the governor of Shandong did this, this henchman guard also felt strange, but he still couldn't react immediately.

"Because Prince Kang was defeated, because he was defeated, he couldn't rob, and he had to return to Xuzhou in order to escape." Zu Zepu analyzed with confidence: "And Prince Kang doesn't want to say that he has to run because he is defeated, then he can only say that he is loyal and patriotic, knowing that Deng Ming and the main force of his subordinates are in Shandong, and he is worried that I will lose here, so he rushed back in a hurry...... King Kang's golden branches and jade leaves, will he take my life and death to heart? I'm not someone who doesn't know what to do. ”

Zu Zepu tore a realistic picture to shreds in a few words, and revealed the clear truth behind it.

"As for what killed Zhao Tianba, this seems to be a minion who just came out, right?" When I watched the good news just now, Zu Zepu never remembered who Zhao Tianba was: "But Prince Kang won, he can't have no results, say that he killed Deng Ming's subordinates with names and surnames: Zhou Kaihuang, Li Xinghan, Mu Tan, Xiong Lan, Ren Tang, Liu Jinge, Yuan Xiang, ......" Zu Zepu folded his fingers and counted more than a dozen names in one breath before stopping: "I'm afraid that I won't be able to come to the stage if it is exposed in the future, so I have to use this, anyway, this person has no ability, and it is normal to disappear for a few years in the future." ”

Generally speaking, Zu Zepu felt that Prince Kang was still too tender, and after all, the young man was too thin-skinned, so what if he killed a general? As long as the court doesn't want to embarrass Jieshu, it will endorse him, if one day the court plans to rectify him, can it be lighter because of Zhao Tianba's crime? It's not the same bullying.

"If you want me to say, the best way is to kill a general in gold and silver armor, 100,000 thieves wept bitterly when they saw this, and walked away, if any thief has a headache and brain fever, fell into the water and died in the past year and a half, wouldn't it be seamless."

After listening to Zu Zepu's analysis, the henchman had other worries: "Lord Governor, if Prince Kang is defeated too badly, will it affect you if you help him speak?" ”

"Although Prince Kang's battle is a big defeat, it seems that it is far from being out of control," If there is no Ji Bilong in the army, Zu Zepu may hesitate to follow up, because Jie Shu is not sensible, and Li Guoying does not look like a careful person. Since Ke Bilong dared to report the victory, Zu Zepu had an idea of the battle situation on the front line: "It is estimated that the 100,000 army went to one or two stops to two or three stops on the spot, and then broke up, otherwise there is no need to crawl back to Xuzhou; But the thieves were probably also serious, and there was no large-scale pursuit or search, so as soon as Prince Kang and the auxiliary ministers sorted it out, they found that hey, we still have six or seventy percent or seven or eight adults left, and this battle is actually okay. ”

Because the prestige of the Qing court is now crumbling, as long as it is not too badly defeated, Beijing will most likely not hold the defeated generals accountable but help cover it up - if it is too miserable, there is no way, it is really impossible to hide it, then the court can only punish the crime to kill the chicken to show the monkey, for example, Zu Zepu estimates that the court is willing to tolerate its own defeat as victory, and the boundary is whether Jinan is lost. And Suppilon must have the best understanding of the tolerance of the Auxiliary Ministers' group, and since he dared to report the victory, he must be sure that he will not be exposed; Besides, Prince Kang is still the leader of the Manchurian aristocratic forces, and the auxiliary political clique has turned a blind eye, so there is no need to worry about who else has to be difficult with him.

After getting the good news just now, Zu Zepu hurriedly swept it over, and immediately decided to believe in the judgment of the situation, and shouted for Prince Kang's return to Shandong, this time climbing the high branches of Jieshu and Zu Bilong, maybe the Qing court's tolerance for Zu Zepu will also rise - it will definitely not work if Jinan is lost, but if Qingzhou Mansion is robbed by thieves, maybe the court can continue to pretend to be confused about Zu Zepu.

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On December 25, the Battle of Dengzhou under the command of Yu Qi ended successfully, and the Green Battalion, which was trapped in Dengzhou, surrendered to the Fuqing Ming Army outside the city.

This victory came very quickly, which made the Fuqing army feel a little sudden, because although they had repeatedly defeated the Green Battalion in field battles, they had not been able to drive all the Green Battalion into the city. This goal was unlikely to be accomplished before the arrival of the New Year, so Yu Qihe and the gentry planned to besiege Dengzhou until February, and then start blasting the city walls and engaging in street battles, so as to complete the great cause of unifying Jiaodong.

However, on the 16th, the general army of Dengzhou Town and a large number of Shandong soldiers jointly sent an envoy to discuss with the Qing army the issue of peaceful opening of the city and the reorganization of the Qing army. The Dengzhou Green Battalion said that as long as their lineage could be preserved and accepted into the Fuqing Army, they could accept the demotion arrangement.

The two sides were led by the secret envoy of Zu Zepu, the governor of Shandong, who was ordered to come to Dengzhou to mediate between the Qing army and the Fuqing army in the war. The envoy of the Governor of Shandong told the Dengzhou Green Camp that the Yamen of the Shandong Governor could forgive the surrender of the Dengzhou Green Camp and regard it as an act of saving the fire as a last resort; At the same time, he also exerted pressure on the Fuqing army, suggesting that if the Fuqing army opened up to the green camp network today, then in the future, the governor of Shandong, Yamen, would also work harder to intercede with the Qing court on behalf of the Fuqing army.

The resistance of the Dengzhou Green Battalion was not strong, because they had long found that the enemies were all local respected and respected families - unlike the military household system of the Ming Dynasty, the connection between the military and the people under the green battalion system was much closer. After receiving the notice of understanding from the governor of Shandong, the Dengzhou Green Camp had no fighting spirit at all.

However, the Shandong green battalion gathered in Dengzhou is not only Dengzhou locals, but also some were sent by Zu Zepu to participate in the siege of Yuqi, these green battalions because they have no friendship with the Dengzhou gentry, and there is no father-in-law, brother-in-law or brother-in-law in the Fuqing army opposite, so the battle is much stronger. Now, through the mediation of Zu Zepu's secret envoy, the green battalion in the field has been guaranteed the personal safety of the Fuqing army, and the officers and their families are allowed to leave Dengzhou and Laizhou with weapons and armor and return to the Governor-General's Zhì District of Shandong.

After reaching a preliminary agreement, the Fuqing army sent the content to Laizhou to ask Deng Ming for instructions, from Deng Ming's point of view, attacking the green camp with low morale is a good training object, but since the gentry are not willing to fight to the death with their relatives in the green camp, then Deng Ming has no choice but to be this villain, so Deng Ming agreed to the persuasion plan of the House and Yu Qi.

On the 25th, the green battalion of more than 10,000 Qing troops in Dengzhou Town was reorganized into two battalions of the 1,000-strong Fuqing Army, and the officers of the green battalion in Dengzhou and Laizhou also left with their own soldiers after handing over all the auxiliaries and most of the armor soldiers. The Dengzhou prefect was tied up and escorted to prison, and the negotiations between the gentry and the green camp had been hidden from the Dengzhou prefect, and he would also be a scapegoat after the city was broken, and the gentry planned to declare him a traitorous villain who framed him in the seventh and blocked the way of speech, and he was also corrupt and perverted the law and oppressed the good - the latter charges are not reversed black and white, and the evidence is also very sufficient.

Although the charges had been confirmed, the secret envoy of the governor of Shandong, Zu Zepu, should not execute the prefect of Dengzhou first, because if the prefect died, the governor Yamen would have to seal his coffin. If the governor of Shandong and the gentry reach an agreement on Zhao'an in the future, then the prefect of Dengzhou will be Tongdeng Xizuo hidden in the Qing court; And if in the end, the governor of Shandong still wants to meet the gentry and soldiers, then he is a loyal minister of the Qing court who died generously.

As long as no agreement is reached or the negotiations break down, Zu Zepu's conclusion may make a political mistake, so temporarily staying in the prefect of Dengzhou is also one of the intermediary fees for the governor of Shandong to mediate.

At first, the Gentry Council was a little dissatisfied with this article, believing that it was a sign that the governor of Shandong wanted to rebel, and almost failed to mediate because of this. However, when Deng Ming learned of this, he immediately spoke for Zu Zepu's secret envoy, believing that it was entirely reasonable for the governor of Shandong to retain the right to freedom of action until a final agreement was reached. Moreover, Deng Ming also secretly pointed out to Yu Qi and the leaders of the gentry that retaining the life of the prefect of Dengzhou was not only beneficial to Zu Zepu, but also to the Fuqing Yuan.

So far, Deng Ming has completed the great promise of "letting the children go home for the New Year", and the first plenary meeting of the Jiaodong Fuqing House was successfully held in Dengzhou.

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