"You taught your son well, I'm very satisfied." Holding Tagawa's hand, Zheng Zhilong said sincerely.

That's what he really said. With the 'ability' that Zheng Ping is showing now, replacing the Tokugawa family in the future will be enough to dominate the four islands.

Tagawa's face flushed suddenly, and for a Japanese woman, it is really a great achievement to be recognized by her husband like this.

"So, you put your heart back in your stomach. My son, will I not find him a real good future? ”

"The Ezo daimyo is just the beginning, and replacing the Tokugawa clan is the end result."

whispered in Tagawa's ear.

There was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and when I heard Tagawa's breathing, I suddenly became short, and the whole person couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

"This, this ......"

I can't even say anything. Just like his son wanted to become a big name before, Tagawa never dreamed that Zheng Zhilong would be so bold.

Replacing the Tokugawa shogunate would be a change of dynasty.

How could his own son become Japan's general of the expedition? The people who were excited by the Tagawa clan wanted to faint.

Zheng Zhilong will no longer make persistent efforts to stimulate him, his plans, as well as the arrangements for Zheng Sen, will be talked about later.

At night, the enthusiasm of the Tagawa clan annihilated Zheng Zhilong's whole person. I didn't expect the irritation to be so huge...... well, it feels really good.

……

On May 8, the eighteenth year of Zeng Ying, Dengzhou.

The warm sea breeze blows this seaside town, God seems to have really opened his eyes, after the beginning of the spring there were two rains in a row, and then there was continuous rain, especially the rain two days ago, I am afraid that before the summer harvest there is no need to worry about the drought of the wheat fields.

However, there was no festive atmosphere in and around Dengzhou. Because the bad news from the west kept coming, I knew that more and more people had poured into Dengzhou in the past few days, and the government could not provide relief, so it could only send people to Zhifu Island by boat.

In the governor's office, Zeng Ying frowned and looked at the Tang newspaper documents in Laizhou Prefecture and County, and in a short period of time, his face was much paler, and his wrinkles and gray hair were even more.

The battle situation turned straight down, the city of Qingzhou was broken, the Qingzhou battalion and the Shun army in the south were defeated one after another, it is said that the prefect He Yongqing had been martyred, the news came, and Denglai was shaken up and down. Flash Dance

The Tartar soldiers were eyeing Denglai, but the Ming Dynasty, or Denglai, was really powerless to stop the Qing army's offensive.

Once the Qing soldiers came to ...... east, although Zeng Ying was the governor of Denglai, he could only watch the cities fall one after another, and there was nothing he could do.

Zeng Ying has been handling political affairs more diligently these days, but she found that she was completely useless. The depravity of the situation exhausted him, and he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

"Kong Yinzhi, Kong Yinzhi ......"

When he mentioned this name, he hated it to the core, if it weren't for the fact that the Kong family took out a large amount of money and food to make the Tartar army pay without worry, and asked Fang Dayou to quickly organize a group of so-called green flag soldiers, how could Bahana and Li Shutai easily pacify the western provinces, and then besiege Qingzhou and attack Guo Sheng twice?

Then Qingzhou rebelled, and the Shun army rebelled, causing both armies to suffer a crushing defeat in a short period of time.

Zeng Ying knew the sturdiness of Qingzhou City, and Zheng Zhilong had sent a large amount of food and weapons to He Yongqing and Li Shiyuan earlier, obviously to focus on managing here.

As long as the Tartars failed to achieve their full success in Qingzhou, they would not be able to go all out to kill Ben Denglai.

However, where did you think that there were gentry and officials in Qingzhou City who made the internal response of the Tartars. The inside should be combined with the outside, so that He Yongqing and Li Shiyuan lost so badly. As for the fiasco of the Dashun army, Zeng Ying felt that it was reasonable. The latter is in his eyes a group of disloyal and unfilial bandits, who gather when they are profitable, and disintegrate when they disperse.

That Guo Sheng was defeated to the current one, and there were people inside who were tartary, which was very logical.

But what about Qingzhou? Before the Tartars entered the fortress, the gentry and officials of Qingzhou could all work together to resist the Tartars. Now he suddenly started to do the internal response of the Tartars, if you want to talk about the reason, the overall situation is obviously due to this - the Jinling court obviously gave up Qilu; But Qufu Kong wanted to say that he didn't do anything and didn't believe it.

"Disloyal and unfilial ......"

"If you do not remember the deeds of your ancestors, so that you are deeply grateful to the country, you are not only disloyal, but also unfilial...... and the saints should hate and repudiate them. 35xs "It was easy to clean up the indignation in her heart, Zeng Ying looked at a few documents handed over by local states and counties, and her brows furrowed again. "This Kong Yinzhi, if you don't kill it, it's not enough to correct the law of the country."

The instrument is about the situation on the ground. But there are traces that the Kong family has entered Denglai.

The words above were very vague, and I don't know if the local officials really failed to figure out the whereabouts of the Kong family, or if they didn't want to say it, but no matter what, it disgusted Zeng Ying.

But what if you are angry and angry?

Zeng Ying sat in a daze for a long time. finally worried about the military situation and the local situation, and ordered his entourage to invite Zhou Lianggong to come. Zeng Ying had an army directly under his own before, and the person who led the leader took a fancy to Zhou Lianggong.

Soon, Zhou Lianggong came in and respectfully came up to meet Zeng Ying.

was pulled by Zeng Ying, every time she saw Zhou Lianggong, Zeng Ying was very relieved, this is a talent. said softly: "Yuan Liang is here, sit down, sit down." ”

"Where is the Eastern Soldier now?"

Zhou Lianggong said: "Zhongcheng, the main force of Dongyu has converged in the area of Yidu and Shouguang. The cities on the south road also have Li Shutai and Liu Zeqing's army gathered. "And it is said that Nikan, the commander of the Tartars, has not yet set off in Jinan.

But looking at the current layout of the Qing army, their ideas are very straightforward, just like dealing with Qingzhou, they are also attacking from one south and one from the north.

The purpose of the South Road was not to attack Jiaozhou, but only to threaten Zhifu Island, but to attract Zheng Zhibao's attention, making it difficult for Zheng Jun to take care of the governance of the two prefectures of Denglai.

In addition, it has always been difficult to finalize the strategy against the enemy within Denglai, or strictly defend the city of Denglai, or reject the enemy, so far there is no conclusion.

The reason was the attitude of the Den Lai gentry and state and county officials.

Judging from the situation, it is obvious that the most advantageous way is to strictly defend the two capital cities of Laizhou and Dengzhou, but in this way, the other prefectures and counties will be completely unguarded, and whether it is the local officials or the local gentry, their interests will be greatly lost.

This is the same as the western and Central Plains, North Zhili, one by one the states and counties that surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you Ming Dynasty don't want me, and not a single soldier is sent to the rescue, why am I still holding your thigh?

Yanjing's Tartars were very ferocious, but they did not stake their land, second, they did not burn and loot unscrupulously, third, they did not demote good people to subordinate servants, and fourth, they did not ask people to shave their hair and make it easy to obey.

On the contrary, the regent of Yanjing City was still very polite, sent people into Qilu to worship the saints, implemented the Han law, and the benefits that the Ming Dynasty gave us (gentry), and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also gave them all. Why should I abandon my family and business to shed my blood for Daming, who gave up on me?

Is it just a Huayi defense?

What is this?

Since the Five Hu Rebellion in the Central Plains, there have been many times when the northern land has been ruled by the Tatar Huyi. Our ancestors have said: "Those who can use the way of China today and can practice the way of China are also the masters of China." ”

Don't look at the Kong family obediently worshiped Yanjing, that Tatar, no, it is the little emperor of the Qing Dynasty who is about to enter the customs. Yan Shenggong went to Yanjing City to persuade them to enter, what else could they not pull their faces?

What's more, China is not the only country in the world, look at those Xiyi, from Europa more than 80,000 miles across the sea. According to the diagram, China is one tenth of Asia, and Asia is one of the fifth in the world.

In short, there are many reasons for these people, and a series of measures taken by Dolgon after entering Yanjing really provide them with an excellent excuse.

The current situation in Denglai is that if Zeng Ying does not play the strategy of 'rejecting the enemy', then it is guaranteed that there will be many people in the local prefectures and counties who will surrender to the Qing Dynasty; but if he really rejects the enemy, he will be defeated no matter how he looks at it.

The army divided the road, one guarded Weixian, two guarded Changyi, three guarded Pingdu, four guarded Gaomi, and five guarded Jiaozhou. It is equivalent to lining up the army along the western border of the peninsula.

If you keep it all, you can't keep it all.

Denglai's troops are already small, and they are so scattered, and there are so few individual troops, if they can stop the Tartars, they are gods. And if the defense line can't resist it, and the Tartar soldiers enter Denglai, how many of those gentry and officials are willing to die to serve the country?

Those who are really willing to fight with the Tartars don't care if they refuse to keep the enemy out.

"It seems that the time has come for this official to make up his mind......" Zeng Ying felt a headache when she thought of the reaction of the gentry in the territory.

It is not a good strategy to resist the enemy, but if you want to abandon other states and counties, and only stick to the two cities of Denglai, then the local gentry and officials may have a lot of effect. And with the surrender of these gentlemen, the Tartars can be regarded as having a firm foothold in Denglai. It's just that they can't take the capital cities of Denglai and the two prefectures, and they can't get Zhifu, aren't the counties and cities of other states and counties readily available? The Tartar will certainly not go again.

As an official, he is afraid of being disloyal to the country; The operator is afraid that the fishermen will not be filial.

This is a couplet written by Zeng Ying, but it is easy to say, but it is difficult to do.

Zhou Lianggong nodded vigorously, this decision Zeng Ying should have had a long time ago. "The big change is coming, Zhongcheng should make a decision as soon as possible."

Zeng Ying didn't say anything, pondered for a long time, and said: "Qingzhou camp, and that Guo Sheng, there is no news so far?" "I heard that Wang Aoyong has appointed his attaché Fang Dayou as the governor of Qilu, and has begun to check the idle and wasted fields and the people of various prefectures, and is going to grant land to the people, which has attracted the great joy of the people in the western prefectures and counties, and the roots of this tartar in Qilu are getting deeper and deeper.

Hearing Zeng Ying's words, Zhou Lianggong's body trembled.

Zhou Lianggong, who has always been in contact with the Zheng family, knows very well Zheng Zhilong's attitude towards Guo Sheng, which is not at all the appearance of many Ming court officials shouting and shouting and killing, but a feeling of being a comrade-in-arms in the trenches.

Zheng Zhilong's biggest enemy in his heart was always the Manchu Qing.

Before Guo Sheng was defeated, Zhou Lianggong tried to propose to Zeng Ying to appease Guo Sheng and take it for his own use. As a result, Zeng Ying flatly refused. And now, has Zeng Ying's attitude changed again in the case of the coming of the great enemy?

Zhou Lianggong quickly turned one thought after another in his mind, but his mouth did not stop, and he immediately replied: "The connection between Denglai and Qingzhou has been severed for many days, and the official is ......."

"It is rumored that in the first battle of Qingzhou, He Taishou (He Yongqing) was martyred, but General Li did not rumor that something happened. It can be seen that he doesn't mention whether this is good or bad, but General Li is fine. Now that the Tartar Qing is strong, General Li will inevitably seek to hide in the mountains when his troops are defeated, so as to rest his strength and regroup. The news was not rumored for a while, and in the opinion of the lower officials, this is excellent news. ”

Zeng Ying sat silently, in his heart, he also agreed with Zhou Lianggong's words, no news at this time is good news. But thinking of Qingzhou Jiancheng and the thousands of elites of the Qingzhou battalion who had been fed with money and food, he felt distressed when it was destroyed like this.