In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Jinan, the spring city of Jinan, which had declined because of the massacre of the Qing army and years of war, once again showed some prosperity and liveliness.

The revival of Jinan also has something to do with the Qing Heavenly Soldiers. This time, the Qing Heavenly Soldiers marched along the canal, except for Dezhou, which was located along the canal, and the three prefectures and counties of Leling and Haifeng, which were intertwined with the dogs of Beizhili, were occupied by the Qing army. The rest of the places are still under the control of the regimental training army of Gao Hongtu, the governor of Shandong and the chief military officer of Jinan Town!

And the city of Jinan, Licheng, has become a paradise away from the war. Wealthy families who escaped from the northern prefectures and counties of Jinan Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture, several counties in the north of Yanzhou Prefecture, and even the Beizhili territory of the Qing Dynasty have successively gathered in Jinan Prefecture to settle down.

After all, Jinan Mansion is a big city, the city is high and deep, the internal area is also large, and because of the massacre of the Qing army, there are enough vacant land and empty houses to live in. In the more than a year after Gao Hongtu took office, he spared no effort to strengthen the city defense, hoarded grain and grass, and formed regimental training. looks like they want to stick to Jinan to the end, which also gives refugees and wealthy families from all over the country a little more confidence. I began to settle down in Jinan, which is relatively close to my home...... Not all people are willing to leave their homes, especially those who have some property in their hometowns and have no place to return to when they are far away, so that they can return and start their lives again.

On the streets of Jinan in summer, in addition to the traders who gathered from all over the world to work hard in this relatively stable place in the troubled times, it was the regimental training soldiers wearing gray cloth jackets who were circling around, opening their mouths wide to watch the excitement. These soldiers are all poor middle peasants from poor backgrounds, and it is rare to go to the county seat on weekdays, that is, to wander around the nearby towns and villages. Now that they have arrived in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, such a prosperous place like heaven and earth, how can they not be amazed?

There are also too many officials here, wearing crimson, cyan, and green official uniforms, with all kinds of complements on their chests, or riding horses, or sitting in sedan chairs, swaggering through the streets, and some of them are quite pompous, and they have a large group of long attendant guards in front of and behind, so they are not majestic.

A group of carriages and horses entered the Luoyuan Gate in the west of Jinan City, and this team of carriages and horses attracted the attention of many people. The team that opened the way was a fierce cavalry, and many of them still had the wounds left by the battlefield on their faces, and there was a murderous aura in their eyes. Different from the regimental training army that wandered around in Jinan City, these cavalrymen were all dressed in well-made cloth iron armor, with iron-cast battle hats, horse guns, sabers, and Kaiyuan bows. At a glance, you can tell that it is a regular cavalry of the Ming army!

The carriage they guarded was also very special, it was a "chariot", the carriage and the wheels were reinforced, the carriage was equipped with thick wooden planks, and the wheels were inlaid with a lot of iron sheets.

The wooden window of the car was open, and from time to time the head of a black-faced scholar poked out, looking at the prosperous and lively city of Jinan.

This black-faced scholar is the Yanzhou military preparation officer, and the thousands of households in Yanzhou in Jinyi Weinan Town.

Of course, Shi Kecheng's position as a Jinyi Wei Qianhu is confidential - a spy, where can his identity be made public? It's open and still so secretly watching? Therefore, Shi Kecheng is a spy, and only a few people know about it.

And his business trip to Jinan this time has nothing to do with spy activities, it was Shi Kefa who sent him, a military officer, to discuss with Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, Zhu Yihai, and Li Ruolian how to encircle and annihilate Duoduo......

That's right, after the victory in Qufu, Shi Kefa, the military gate of the governor's seven provinces, has gained momentum, and is ready to make persistent efforts to meet Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, Zhu Yihai, Li Ruolian, Li Huajing, Huang Degong, Gao Jie and other departments, and have a general battle with the golden prince of the Qing Dynasty!

However, he, the governor of the Seven Provinces Military Gate, is in name only, and his orders can't even go out of Yanzhou Mansion, that is, they are effective around Qufu City.

So Shi Kefa had no choice but to send his cousin Shi Kecheng out of the horse, risking being chased and killed by the cavalry of the Qufu battalion of the Qing army, and ran to Jinan to contact Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, Zhu Yihai and Li Ruolian and others.

The process of highlighting Qufu was very smooth, and there was no danger - because the Qufu camp of the Qing army was only a stronghold for confrontation with Qufu City, and it was not next to Qufu City, let alone the ability to encircle Qufu City. At most, it is to send some cavalry around Qufu City to clean up the night of the Ming army.

For Shi Kecheng, who was covered by a large group of cavalry, he couldn't hurt a single hair, so he could only watch him go away safely.

And the way from Qufu to Jinan made Shi Kecheng see a lot of hope for victory.

Because after leaving Qufu County and entering the Taiyi Mountains, he found that the people here had been organized. It was organized by the big leaders of the Shandong landlord class such as Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, and Zhu Yihai!

Don't think that the landlords and the old wealth and the poor middle peasants are antagonistic in class, so there is no way to organize them. In fact, before the imperial examination system flourished, the landlord class of the scholar clan could still organize village soldiers, build forts, and dominate one side. Even in the Song Dynasty after the imperial examination, the wealthy family with the big surname will still huddle together for warmth - because the Song Dynasty did not have the two-level fame of lifting people and showing talents, and the number of Jinshi was too small, and there was no system such as the north and south lists to ensure that a few Jinshi could be spread in various places, so many Fuluzhou County, where culture and education were not very prosperous, basically did not have any Jinshi officers, and the big surnamed Hao family relied on the development of many people to survive. Therefore, there are many "righteous doors" that are not separated for more than ten generations.

In the Ming Dynasty, because of the emergence of people and talents, the cohesion of the powerful surname declined. For example, the "Eighteen Mao" on the ninth floor of the Laiyang Zuo family, all of them have fame, and no one is convinced, so the cohesion of the family has dropped significantly.

However, Zhu Cihong's measures a year ago to change the flow and return to the land and to support the three major land snakes in Shandong, such as Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, and Zhu Yihai, have greatly strengthened the strength of Shandong's landlords. At least in the prefectures and counties of Tai'an, Feicheng, Changqing, and Licheng (Jinan Fucheng) in the Taiyi Mountains, there were regimental training organized and trained regiments and forts built in dangerous places.

This is just the beginning! If Shandong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty can last for ten or eight years, and Shandong's regimental training army has been trained, then Gao Hongtu will become "Gao Guofan", and Zuo Maodi will become Zuo Zongtang! It's time for the Great Qing Kingdom to cry. But Shi Kecheng's cousin Shi Kefa couldn't wait for ten or eight years......

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"Gao Futai, my brother thought that the Tartars had touched the Golden Prince's Duoduo department, and they had formed a lonely army. Tens of thousands of troops marched along the canal and stopped at the city of Qufu, occupying only Wuqiao Town, Dezhou, Wucheng County, Linqing Prefecture, Tangyi County, Zhangqiu Town, Dongping Prefecture, Jining Prefecture, Ziyang County and other cities along the way, like a thin line, maintaining the retreat of Duoduo's headquarters.

And to the east of this fine line, there are Gao Futai, Zuo Tuanlian, King Lu and Li Zongrong's headquarters, with no less than 100,000 troops! To the west of the thin line, there were 100,000 soldiers and horses from Li Zongrong (Li Huajing), Huang Zongrong, and Lu Futai.

In the south of the Tartars, there are my brother's Qufu army, Xuzhou's Gao army, Huai'an Road Futai soldiers and horses, all the departments are combined, and there are no less than 100,000!

Duoduo is only tens of thousands tired, and he is clearly in danger when he is attacked by my 300,000 people...... As long as all parties can work together, they will definitely be able to annihilate this fang! ”

In Jinan City, in the lobby of the governor's yamen, Shi Kecheng was talking eloquently, and what he said was Shi Kefa's words.

Of course, Shi Kefa's analysis makes sense...... At least judging from the map, Duoduo is really alone, and it means that he is about to be surrounded and annihilated.

It's just that when the Qing army went deep into Shandong in the last two times, they seemed to be alone, and they went deeper and more powerfully, and they were not annihilated by the Ming army, but after being plundered, they went away.