"Humph!"

Fan Wencheng's concern for Zu Kefa was reciprocated with a cold snort.

Because Zu Kefa misunderstood him, he was not tired and sick because of Kong Sizhen, but because he was tired and sick in order to rectify the defense of Shandong and the old soldiers left by Kong Youde, he was so sick that he became more and more emaciated.

These two things are really not easy!

Before the Battle of Jieshi Mountain, the Qing army in the direction of Shandong had Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming.

However, after the Battle of Jieshi Mountain, Duoduo withdrew a large number of backbones of the Old Eight Banners from the pass, and also readjusted the deployment, adjusting the original offensive deployment to the deployment of the retreat decisive battle. The Qing Dynasty's territories in Shandong and Henan became defensive depths.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty adopted a tactical campaign deployment of comprehensive contraction and key defense in Shandong and Henan, and in Shandong, the Qing army's defense along the canal and the Daqing River has become a fictitious position, and only five strongholds are left along the canal, including Dezhou, Linqing, Liaocheng, Anping (and the confluence of the Daqing River), and Jining. Along the Daqing River, there are only five strongholds left: Anping (which is also a stronghold along the canal), Huakou, Qihe, Jiyang, and Lijin.

That's nine strongholds in total! Among these nine strongholds, the three strongholds of Anping, Liaocheng and Dezhou along the canal are the main strongholds.

Fan Wencheng personally guarded Liaocheng, his second son Fan Chengmo guarded Dezhou, and Kong Youde's henchman Sun Long guarded Anping. Not only were the castles fortified, but the defenders were also larger, all of them more than 5,000 men, and they were well equipped, with a large number of musketeers and cavalry.

In order to effectively control the troops, Fan Wencheng also concentrated the soldiers he brought from the green flag (Fan Wencheng had previously served as the Gushan Ezhen with the green flag) and the Confucian family soldiers loyal to Kong Sizhen in Liaocheng, and also concentrated the soldiers and family members stationed in Anping, Linqing, Jining, Huakou, Qihe, Jiyang, Lijin and other seven strongholds in Liaocheng and Dezhou to protect them - these things are easy to say, but they are really difficult to do!

Fan Wencheng married seventeen or eighteen-year-old Kong Sizhen, and replaced Kong Tingxun as the king of Dingnan, how could the Kong family army be convinced? Now they have to leave their homes where they have lived for several years to go to nine strongholds to defend them, and they have to hand over their families...... When the traitor is in this position, he really can't cry anymore.

Fortunately, Lao Fan was skillful, and with the support of Shunzhi and Duoduo, he brought a group of traitors with two white flags, two yellow flags and green flags to the post, and finally reluctantly completed the adjustment.

The military deployment has just been adjusted, and economic difficulties have followed one after another.

Before, Zhengluqi took the road of integration of soldiers and farmers!

Now that they have been circled to nine castles, how can they still farm? Kong Youde's subordinates plus the miscellaneous traitors who were sent to the Dingnan Palace, the total number was no less than 20,000 households, and the land occupied by them was no less than 6 million mu, at least half of which were Zhenglv Banner soldiers and their families. Now these lands are either abandoned or out of control - it is not easy to collect some rent in troubled times, and who will hand over the food for life without putting a knife on the neck of the tenant?

Therefore, as soon as the traitors with the green flag shrink up, the grain will not be sent into the city by its own legs.

As a last resort, Fan Wencheng had no choice but to organize many "grain collection horse teams" to patrol the territory to "grab grain", and get some food and drink back to the city, so as to maintain the lives of hundreds of thousands of Green Flag soldiers and Green Flag families.

But the days of the traitors are still Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and every year is not as good as a year. If life is not good, the anger will be great, and it will not be easy to send them to do things......

Therefore, the people below are not happy, and Fan Wencheng, who is the prince, will not have a good time himself. And he's not good inside or out......

Who is Kong Sizhen? How could he possibly look down on Fan Wencheng, a bad old man? Still working day and night? People won't be allowed to touch it at all!

Lao Fan has no way at all, he is now a son-in-law, and the Kong family only recognizes Kong Sizhen, not Fan Wencheng.

And there are still people on Kong Sizhen! The little emperor of Shunzhi had a leg with her, and the Queen Mother Bumu Butai accepted her as a goddaughter...... And Kong Sizhen went to Beijing to save his relatives when he was young, and he was happy when he came back, which is really gratifying!

What made Fan Wencheng even more speechless was that Kong Sizhen didn't let Fan Wencheng touch it, and he didn't allow Fan Wencheng to have concubines, so he sent Fan Wencheng's original concubines away.

Now Fan Wencheng is quite a big prince, he is being a gang of useless traitors outside, and he is bullied by a seventeen-year-old hot character inside the house, and he doesn't even have a woman who warms the bed! Not only women, but also men! Miss Kong can't get used to this...... Fan Wencheng can only stay in the empty room alone, where is he to be a prince? It's like being a monk!

And these hardships can only be put in the heart, and on the surface, they have to pretend to be beautiful, but they can't let people know that Kong Sizhen is pregnant with wild seeds in her belly...... Otherwise, someone will kill Daddy!

And what distressed Fan Wencheng the most was that his prince deserved to lose!

He, the king of Dingnan, is also a self-financed "domain", and unlike the "limited liability domain" on the Ming side, his domain is an "unlimited liability domain"! No matter how much you lose, Fan Wencheng, the lord of the domain, has to find a way to make up for it...... Therefore, Fan Wencheng has been the prince for less than a year, and he has been a slave to the Qing Dynasty for most of his life, and the family property that he finally embezzled is almost tossed.

And he didn't even have a place to borrow from usury...... I had to guard the empty room every night and pull the abacus beads, watching the money and food on the account book getting less and less, and my heart was about to be shattered!

Can you live this day without getting thinner and thinner?

"You said that this king will go to Nanjing in the future? What is the meaning? Fan Wencheng asked with a cold face to make Zu Kefa.

"yes!" Zu Kefa said with a smile, "Look, this Dongchang Mansion is the dowry of Princess Jianning, and it is going to be handed over to our Daming...... Our emperor of the Ming Dynasty also knows your ability as the king of Dingnan, so he has already built a county mansion for you in Nanjing. As long as you hand over the city army, you can go to Nanjing to enjoy the blessings. ”

This is as if Fan Wencheng has made up his mind to be a second minister......

"This Wang Sheng is a slave of the Qing Dynasty, and he is a ghost of the Great Relatives when he dies," Fan Wencheng said sternly, "He will never surrender to the Ming Dynasty." ”

Zu Kefa sighed, nodded and said, "That's okay...... Everyone has their own ambitions! So when are you going to hand over Liaocheng? ”

"Hand over Liaocheng?" Fan Wencheng snorted again, then clasped his fists and bowed in mid-air, "This matter has to be decreed by the Qing Emperor!" Before the emperor's decree arrives, this king has to defend Liaocheng! ”

You can't do it if you don't stick to it! His Fan family is a big family in Liaodong, and there are a bunch of people who were big officials in the Qing Dynasty in the Chengzi generation (one generation younger than Fan Wencheng). His eldest son, Fan Chengyin, is now the head of the Qing Dynasty, and he is in high school in Beijing. Fan Chengyin and Fan Chengmo's children are all in Beijing, and Fan Wencheng's four underage sons are also in Beijing. and the children and grandchildren of his brother Fan Wenyu are also in Beijing...... It's going to be all over the place, but it's really busy.

Moreover, there is Kong Sizhen in Liaocheng who is monitoring Fan Wencheng, and there is also Ye Bushu, the fourth brother of Emperor Shunzhi, and Ye Bushu, the general of Zhenguo, who is stationed with more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers, looking at Fan Chengmo.

Therefore, if Fan Wencheng really dares to betray the Qing Dynasty, then he will be destroyed immediately!

In addition, the Zhenglu Banner soldiers under the command of King Dingnan occupy a total of 6 million acres of banner land! It also occupies the territory of Dongchang Mansion, Jibei Mansion, and Yanzhou Mansion (Yanzhou Mansion is divided into two halves, and there is one on both sides of the Ming and Qing Dynasties).

In fact, the Dingnan King line of the Green Banner is already an independent kingdom here in Shandong, and they are the lords of the three mansions of Luxi.

If Zhu Cihong only wanted the land of Sanfu to be nominally obedient, then the heads of Fan Wencheng and his son would have been sent to Xuzhou in two good-looking boxes.

But Zhu Cihong's Beiren military nobles also took a fancy to the tens of millions of acres of flag land in the north, and the value of these lands exceeded 1 billion taels, so there was nothing to discuss......

Zu Kefa also knew why Emperor Zhu wanted to go on a northern expedition - to drive out the Tartars or something, it was not the point at all, the point was one, to fight for the land in the north!

So Fan Wencheng's answer was completely within his expectations.

However, he still had something to say for Emperor Zhu: "It seems that your emperor's will will will not come...... But it doesn't matter, the great tomorrow is kind-hearted, as long as the prince and the soldiers are willing to surrender, their lives can always be left! ”

What can be left behind...... Just life!