"The lord is not good, the lord is not good......"

Upon hearing this, Kong Yinzhi suddenly trembled with fright. In his sleep, he had dreamed of such a scene.

Kong Qi's face was also pale, obviously frightened by this shout.

Speaking of which, although he is the commander of Qufu County, let alone Qufu, the entire Yanzhou Mansion is almost the sphere of influence of the Kong family, and when he is a Qufu County Commander, who will trouble him.

Therefore, what Kong Qi has experienced is actually a little stronger than Kong Yinzhi.

At this time, it was the county magistrate who came, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately shouted loudly: "What dog is barking, believe it or not, killed you?" ”

As he spoke, the person who reported the news had already rolled into the lobby.

When Kong Gao saw it, he recognized that it was the manager of the outer courtyard in the house, a person who was usually very stable, but he was sweating profusely and looked terrified.

Suddenly, Kong Qi felt a cold sweat on his back. Because he knew that if it wasn't for something particularly bad, it would be impossible to scare the outer court steward like this.

Sure enough, when he heard the steward of the outer court, he said with a panicked face: "The urgent news from the Jingshi has been decided by the imperial court, and the Duke of Xingguo is sent to lead the army that has just triumphed from the grassland to Ludi to suppress the civil rebellion!" ”

"What?" When Kong Qi heard this, he immediately sat down in a chair.

This situation is the worst they have ever thought about. However, the odds are extremely unlikely. As a result, I was really afraid of something!

Even if the imperial court sends troops to suppress it, it is better for anyone in the court to lead the troops than for the Duke of Xingguo to lead the troops. However, it turned out that the Xingguo Gong led the troops.

The steward of the outer courtyard obviously knew something, so after saying a word, he hurriedly asked: "The eldest master, the fifth master, the prince of Xingguo will not be merciful to us, in case he finds out......"

"Shut up!" When Kong Qi heard this, he immediately yelled and told him to get out. Then when he turned around and looked at Kong Yinzhi, he found that his face was so white that there was no blood, like a dead man's face, and the hand holding the handle of the chair was still trembling slightly.

Seeing this situation, he knew that he couldn't expect anything from this Yan Shenggong, so he hurriedly comforted: "What are you worried about, our Confucian family has not fallen for thousands of years, will he Xingguo Gong be bold and dare to risk the world's disapproval and do something to our Confucian family?" ”

Hearing his words, Kong Yinzhi turned his head to look at him.

"Didn't we prepare a few more people, in case we found out about our heads, there are also people who can take the blame!" Kong Gao said, and immediately said with some confidence, "So, what are we afraid of?" ”

It may be that the fact that the Kong family has not fallen for thousands of years has given Kong Yinzhi confidence, or it may be that there is an arrangement to give Kong Yinzhi confidence, in short, after listening to Kong Atmosphere's words, his hands finally stopped shaking, and just instructed Kong Atmosphere: "You go and arrange it again, and you must ensure that nothing goes wrong!" ”

Kong Dawei didn't dare to be careless about this, so he hurriedly agreed and left in a hurry. Leaving Kong Yinzhi alone, he has been in a daze in the lobby for a long time.

………………

The Kong family received the news from Jingshi, and naturally, Haoqiang in other places in Shandong also received news from Jingshi.

Suddenly, everyone in the family panicked.

Not to mention that the Duke of Xingguo led elite soldiers and horses to Ludi, even if it was an ordinary army, as long as the imperial court was determined to suppress rather than appease, many of them would not dare to really rebel and confront the imperial court to the end.

Therefore, on the first day of hearing the news, the scale of the civil uprising in Shandong was almost one layer less.

Most of the thieves who have not dispersed are also panicked, and they are a little afraid of what will happen to the coming?

On December 20, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the Duke of Xingguo led the cavalry into Shandong, which immediately triggered a new round of panic.

When Zhang Mingwei led his troops to Jinan Mansion, the capital of Shandong, Zuo Maodi, the governor of the new government and the imperial history of the left capital, hurriedly led the officials of Jinan Mansion to welcome them out of the city.

Below Zuo Maodi, there were also the highest military and political officials in the local area, such as the envoys, and when they saw the billowing dust brought up by the cavalry, they hurriedly tidied up their clothes again one by one, for fear that there would be some small problems.

The forward cavalry is led by Li Guo.

According to Xingguo Gong's instructions in advance, he didn't give these officials any face at all, and after seeing the officials who greeted him from afar, he increased the speed of his horse, and he couldn't slow down until he was not far away.

The cavalry is inherently more deterrent than the infantry army, especially when there are many cavalry. Not to mention, this cavalry army is an elite, originally the elite of the thieves who fought in the south and the north, and returned from sweeping the grassland, so the momentum of this cavalry army is not to mention.

Zuo Maodi and other civil and military officials who have no shame in their hearts are okay, those officials who have ghosts in their hearts, regardless of civil and military, when they see such a powerful cavalry, their faces are all frighteningly white.

If, in peacetime, the army dares to be so rude, bring up dust on the ground, and pounce on them, the high-ranking local military and political officials, then the leading generals will definitely be impeached. If you have the right to dispose of it, believe it or not, it is possible to take it immediately.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing of committing a crime with force is definitely very rare.

However, today is different from the past, and the leading commander of this army is the prince of Xingguo, who leans towards the government and the opposition. Even among the forwards, who are on a par with the leading generals, there is also a brocade-clothed guard guard wearing a flying fish suit.

Facing Xingguo Gong, facing Jinyiwei, no matter civil or military, no waist board can be hard.

In fact, they also knew that this army was so behaving and making such an unprecedented move, and if there was no instruction from Xingguo Gong behind it, it would never have happened.

And the reason why Xingguo Gong has such an instruction, they can probably guess it. The scale of the Shandong people's uprising is so large, and they, the local officials in Shandong, will definitely not be able to escape responsibility.

However, who let this popular uprising be triggered because of the Confucian family in Qufu. These civil officials in charge of Shandong did not have the courage to act vigorously and resolutely to suppress the popular rebellion in the first place.

In this way, one cavalry army after another, with earth-shattering might, drove to Jinan City one after another like thunderous hooves.

About an hour later, the Chinese army banner of Xingguo Gong finally appeared.

So, Zuo Maodi took the civil and military officials of Shandong to hurriedly greet the Duke of Xingguo.

Speaking of which, Zhang Mingwei didn't have an opinion on Zuo Maodi, and his actions did not mean to give Zuo Maodi a face. However, whoever asked him to lead these Shandong magistrates together, it would naturally affect the pond fish.

Therefore, as compensation, Zhang Mingwei spoke kindly and pleasantly with Zuo Maodi, but he ignored other civil and military officials at all.

He and Zhu Yujiao, the princess of Kunxing, did not enter the city, but met these officials in the camp set up by the forwards and began to deliberate.

"I heard that the prince of the country led the king to come to Ludi, and now the civil uprising in Ludi has dispersed in three places, and the scale of the civil uprising, according to the express reports from all over the country, has been more than half smaller." Zuo Maodi, as the highest official, first briefed Zhang Mingwei on the situation.

After a pause, he smiled and added with a little compliment: "As soon as the Duke arrives, the Ludi Rebellion will definitely be pacified!" ”

When other local officials in Shandong heard this, they immediately chimed in.

"Guogong fought in the south and in the north, won many battles, and was famous, and now when I see it, it really deserves its reputation!"

"The art of war is cloudy, and the soldiers who surrender without a fight. Now the thieves only heard the prestige of the country, and they collapsed when they heard the wind, but they had never seen it in their lives! ”

“……”

Listening to these sycophants, Zhang Mingwei didn't smile, just coughed.

As soon as they heard his coughing sound, these Shandong officials, who were slapping their sycophants, immediately fell silent, and did not dare to make any more noise.

There was no movement, Zhang Mingwei continued to look at Zuo Maodi, and said with a serious expression: "It was said in the previous report that the officials of the Shandong New Deal were either killed or fled back to the provincial capital. What's going on today? ”

As soon as he heard this, Zuo Maodi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly prayed off.

Zhang Mingwei frowned as he listened.

Shandong's new policy, basically because of this popular uprising, no matter how far away from Qufu, almost all of them were abolished. The best thing is that the progress is stagnant and cannot be implemented. Because the New Deal officials are afraid that if they continue to urge, it will also provoke a popular uprising.

In short, now in Shandong, the people's uprising is a very sensitive word. It's as if a civil uprising would happen immediately if one was not careful.

After listening to these news, Zhang Mingwei asked solemnly: "What is the specific situation of the civil uprising in various parts of Shandong now?" ”

Zuo Maodi listened, and immediately explained the latest situation of the popular uprising to him in detail.

In general, because Jinan Mansion is the provincial capital and the place where Zuo Maodi personally sits, the situation is relatively better. At the beginning, there were indeed some signs of popular uprising, but they were all suppressed by the local army under the coercion of Zuo Maodi.

However, in other places, there is a lot of momentum. The most powerful is Yanzhou Mansion. When the trouble was the most fierce before, nearly 150,000 anti-thieves surrounded Yanzhou City.

After hearing that the emperor sent the elite soldiers and horses of Xingguo to suppress it, nearly seventy or eighty thousand people dispersed, and there were still seventy or eighty thousand horses to continue to surround Yanzhou Mansion. Elsewhere, the number of thieves is far less high.

When Zuo Maodi said this, he took out a text from his sleeve and forwarded it to Zhang Mingwei, while explaining: "This is a public transcript sent by Yan Sheng Gong, and I want to forward it to Jingshi. said that it was the Yanzhou Rebellion, but it was actually the officials who forced the people to rebel, and the people were really forced to suffer. I hope that the imperial court will punish the corrupt officials who caused the popular uprising, and return justice to the people of the world! ”

Hearing this, the Shandong envoy also hurriedly followed: "Guogong, Yanzhou is the place where the Confucian sage is, and the literary style is prosperous, if it is not ...... Forced to helpless, it is absolutely impossible for such a thing to happen. The lower officials thought ......"

He originally wanted to say that he was forced by the factory guard, but immediately remembered that the Xingguo Gong in front of him was still the commander of the Jinyi Guard, so he immediately changed his words. However, as he spoke, he saw a sneer on the corner of Xingguogong's mouth, and he couldn't go on.