Jiang Zhe didn't know that Zheng Zhilong, who appreciated him, had been suffering from a cold for many days, and he didn't know Dorgon's joy, since he bumped into Guo Sheng, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief in the vast Yimeng Mountain.

Then Jiang Zhe 'chased' Guo Sheng's remnants and rushed all the way into Yanzhou.

It's just that Guo Shengjun's army has unknowingly increased from more than 1,000 remnants at the beginning to more than 3,000 now.

More than 3,000 soldiers holding the banner of 'Dashun' easily seized the county seat of Surabaya, but Guo Sheng only paused slightly, and the people rushed along the Surabaya River non-stop to kill Qufu, the hometown of Old Master Kong.

This really scared the Kong family.

Qufu County ordered Kong Zhenkan to secretly send people to Guo Sheng's army to negotiate with him on the "ransom of the city silver". In the case that Kong Yinzhi is not out for the time being, Kong Zhenkan, the Qufu County Order, is the most decent person in the Kong family. This gentleman held this position in the Ming Dynasty, and when Guo Sheng led the troops into Qilu, Kong Zhen was able to get Kong Yinzhi's order, so he impatiently ordered to enshrine the dragon throne of the Dashun Emperor. And after Li Zicheng was defeated at Shanhaiguan and withdrew from the capital, Kong Zhenkan hooked up with Wang Aoyong early at Kong Yinzhi's instructions.

When the Kong family got Dolgon's promise that "adults don't remember villains", Kong Yinzhi personally signed and presented a few articles with insensible words and sycophants to shoot the Qing court's sycophants, and as a result, one of the two continued to be the county lord of Qufu, and the other became my Yan Shenggong of the Qing Dynasty.

In the process of the Qing army's entry into Qilu, the Confucian family, together with the Meng family, the Yan family, the Zeng family and other clans, donated money and materials, shouted and paid food, responded positively, and also used their own network to recruit officials and gentry for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and worked hard. It greatly boosted the prestige of the Qing court, and the impact was extremely bad. There is more than one Li Shiyuan among the bitter masters who have been pitted, and there is also Guo Sheng.

Now that the Ming army has gone on a northern expedition, Liu Zhaoji, Gao Jie, Cao Bianjiao and others led the army to insert into Yanzhou and Kaifeng as soon as possible. At this time, Zu Kefa had already led his troops to Qingzhou, there were few Qing troops stationed in Yanzhou, and the Ming army broke Ziyang all the way, but as Zheng Zhilong expected, Hong Chengchou still did not dare to touch Qufu Kong. Strictly ordered everyone not to march to Qufu, and then while appeasing Luxi's Yuyuan army, the troops were divided into two routes, all the way north to Dongchang Mansion, all the way to the northwest to the southernmost Daimyo's Mansion in North Zhili.

Hong Chengchou not only asked people to avoid Qufu, but also asked people to deliberately avoid Jinan, giving Haoge enough safe space to let him and Zheng Zhilong have a good fight.

As for the current Kong Yinzhi, is it that he has already cried bitterly and asked Emperor Chongzhen of Jinling for a guilty fold, this outsider does not know, they only saw that the Kong family sent a large amount of money, grain, pigs and sheep into Ziyang City.

All the units of the Ming army that were killed in Yanzhou were so uncomfortable. It turned out to be a reward sent by the envoy of Yansheng, which felt so beautiful.

I'm used to living a hard life (I have been dissed by literati openly and secretly for hundreds of years), and now that the conditions are a little better, I can make people happy.

At this moment, it was the Wang Tingchen who was stationed in Ziyang City, and Hong Chengchou was still in Xuzhou.

Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo recovered Kaifeng Mansion, although this is a great achievement, but this is not the end of the Second Northern Expedition, with the Cao Bianjiao army that has entered the Daimyo Mansion, Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo also need to cross the Yellow River as soon as possible and advance towards Huaiqing, Weihui and Zhangde in northern Henan.

If so, when Guo Sheng, who was still 'disappearing', suddenly held a big banner and killed Yimeng Mountain, the scalp of the Kong family in Qufu was numb for a while.

They had previously contributed greatly to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in other words, they had done great damage to Dashun. Especially in Liu Zeqing's repeated incidents, Guo Sheng not only failed once, but even his life was almost folded at Liu Zeqing's Hongmen banquet.

This is going to give Guo Sheng a chance, won't he destroy the Qufu Kong clan?

Kong Yinzhi asked Kong Zhenkan to contact Guo Sheng for 'ransom fee', or 'forgiveness fee', while sending people to ask Wang Tingchen for help.

After Wang Tingchen received the news, don't say it, although he despised the Qufu Kong family for a hundred times, he really didn't dare to sit back and watch the Qufu Kong family be unlucky, so he got up and transferred his troops forward.

"Dashuai, there are people outside the door asking to see you."

The royal courtiers had already issued military orders, the drums were beating, and the people were all clothed, waiting to go to the hall to summon the generals to go to the battle. At this time, someone rushed to ask for a meeting?

"Who's coming?"

Wang Tingchen asked, but there was no pause under his feet. The generals in front of him had already gathered, how could he not delay just because someone had asked him to see him? It's a joke.

"Dashuai, it's the Zheng family."

The king's courtiers were about to step out of the threshold, and their feet stopped suddenly.

There is nothing to say, Zheng Zhilong is going to do Qufu Kong this time, so if Hong Chengchou is in Ziyang, he is still a little embarrassed. But now it is Wang Tingchen who is in charge of Ziyang, which is much easier to talk about.

"Dashuai, when I was in Songshan City, if it wasn't for the Zheng family's efforts before and after, I would have died there. Now that Minister Zheng Guo has come to ask for personal favors, how can he not agree? ”

Wang Tingchen did not appear in the lobby, but he made people call out three or two of the henchmen of the generals gathered in the lobby.

When the latter heard the news, someone immediately spoke.

That's right. If it weren't for the Zheng family's vigorous rescue back then, I would have died a long time ago. What's more, there is no need to say more about the ...... of the Qufu Kong family, and the eight words "Chao Qin and Dusk Chu, three surnamed domestic slaves" echoed in everyone's minds.

Heibingtai did not let go of the Qufu Kong family, and the "News" even gave a big revelation about the actions of the Qufu Kong family. The scolding is too hard!

The royal courtier sank for a half-sound, and then there was no more.

The army went out of the city as usual, but unfortunately it did not go to Qufu in the west, but to Jining Prefecture in the east.

Qufu Kong looked forward to the stars and the moon, but what they were looking forward to was such bad news, Kong Yinzhi and Kong Zhenkan were about to vomit blood. If they knew that Wang Tingchen was unreliable, they obediently took out money and food to Guo Sheng.

The latter lion opened his mouth widely, and when he opened his mouth, he asked for 200,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stones of grain, rice, and rice.

It is true that the Kong family is rich, but this money is not blown by the wind, not to mention that it is also related to the many famous families in Qufu City, "how much you pay, how much I pay". Of course, he couldn't agree to Guo Sheng for a while, and even held the army of Wang Tingchen by his side, and his refusal to Guo Sheng's blackmail was quite tough.

But now, Kong Yinzhi and Kong Zhenkan can't wait to swallow back all the words they said before.

Helpless, although the Qufu Kong family has a big business, it is really unbearable to fight.

Kong Zhenkan has already gathered a large number of people to defend the city as Ding Zhuang, and he also has to maintain Kong Lin, and he also knows that there are not many soldiers under Guo Sheng, but they just don't have a score in their hearts.

A group of scattered sand-like rabble, their hearts are no longer in the same place, and their hearts are not aligned. I'm afraid that Guo Sheng only screamed outside the city, and he could make the farts and urine flow under the dense young and strong people at the head of the city.

After all, the interests of the Kong family do not benefit all the people of Qufu, or even all the people of the Kong family.

In later generations, there was a law called the Twenty-Eight Law, which means that in any group of things, the most important is only a small part of it, about 20%, and the remaining 80%, although it is the majority, is secondary.

In the Qufu Kong family, the number of clansmen who occupy the financial power of the Kong family, the power of the clan and the official interests is probably not even one percent of the total number, or even five points.

It is that many of the Kong clansmen at the bottom are full of grievances against those who occupy huge interests, not to mention the resentment of the local people in Qufu against the Kong family.

Although Guo Sheng is not as good as before, his name is also well-known in Qilu, and it is rumored that he is a good fighter and very angry. Now that Guo Sheng led thousands of soldiers and horses straight to Qufu, the Kong family was naturally frightened, especially after the Zhuangzi (Courtyard) of the hereditary families such as the Kong family, the Yan family, the Lu family, and the Meng family were unceremoniously looted by Guo Shengjun. They are even more worried that this gang of rogues, who don't seem to pay much attention to the rules, will cause their entire clan to fall into ruin.

Coupled with Wang Tingchen's measures, this made Qufu Kong's heart even more frightened.

Under such a nervous psychological entanglement, Kong Zhenkan personally came forward to make contact with Guo Sheng on behalf of several major families. And first sent 10,000 taels of silver, 1,000 stones of grain and rice, 500 silk cloths, 200 pigs and sheep, hoping that Guo Sheng could see that for the sake of the saint, he would open his mouth less, and after getting the things, he happily went elsewhere. As for the previous entanglements, Guo Dashuai didn't remember the villain, and he let it all go.

It's just that they really overestimated Guo Sheng's awe of the Confucian sage, Guo Dashuai, who was almost killed by the pit, didn't buy the Kong family's account at all, and insisted on asking for 200,000 taels of ransom silver, grain, rice, and 100 cattle, horses, and livestock after smiling at the meeting gift. Not a single child is missing!

There is no choice. Kong Zhenkan could only return to the city to inform Kong Yinzhi, who immediately convened the big and small families in Qufu City to discuss the matter.

This ransom fee can't be borne by the Kong family.

200,000 taels of silver is not a small number, but for the wealthy Kong, Yan and other families, it will not make them break their muscles and bones. Even if they had already contributed a lot of money, grain and silver to the great cause of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After Guo Sheng got the silver, he pretended to attack Ziyang City. A joking 'battle' ended, and the Ming army defending the city failed to kill a single soldier of the Shun army, but captured 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stone grain and rice.

Then, Guo Shengjun, who fled westward in a 'panic', was made dumplings by Jiang Zhe, who also drilled out of Yimeng Mountain.

"Chief, since the army wants to fight that Qufu, why let me come like this first?" Isn't this taking off your pants and farting? Guo Shengzhen was puzzled. Wouldn't it be good for Jiang Zhe to gallop directly to Qufu with his soldiers and horses?

Jiang Zhe shook his head, "With your troops and horses first, break Qufu first, and then I will lead troops to kill, this is a predetermined plan." As a result, Grandpa Guo asked someone to send a letter, but he told me to be honest and honest in the name of betraying the Ming and surrendering to the captives, and completely prosecuting the Qufu Kong family, the Yan family and other families. ”

"The reason why you are here first is purely to make a comparison."

"Your previous identity was still the general of Dashun, a person who was born in the Liukou People's Army knows the respect of the Confucian Sage, but I am a military general of the Ming Dynasty, but I am a fair and righteous general, isn't it more shocking?"

"At the same time, a person like you knows that the significance of the descendants of the saint is not trivial, but the Qufu Kong clan is greedy for life and afraid of death, greedy for profit and forgetful of righteousness, and repeatedly grovels to be a thief, isn't it even more hateful!"