"The regent is magnanimous, how can the Kong clan not be interesting? How can you not be grateful to Dade? ”

In the small flower hall of the Confucian Mansion, Kong Yinzhi and Wang Aoyong, the governor of Qing Qilu, sat opposite each other, and the two had known each other for a long time. That Wang Aoyong is also a Qilu person, originally from Zichuan, Jinan.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), he was a Jinshi, once served as the commander of Yicheng County, Hubei, and was the governor of Yunyang. He was reappointed as the imperial history of the capital, the governor of Tongzhou, and supervised the military affairs of Tongzhou. When Li Zicheng captured Yanjing, Wang Aoyong did not obey Emperor Chongzhen's orders and went south, but fled to Jizhou, and later surrendered to Li Zicheng very happily.

He was appointed by Li Zicheng as the governor of Jiliao, and only a few days after taking office, the new boss was defeated and retreated to Yanjing, and Wang Aoyong turned around and took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Now with the title of the head of the household department and the head of the Ministry of Works, he led the Jingcheng Dao Fang Dayou, the outer lang Zhang Xianyan, the director Hu Zhibin, Pan Chen and others to appease Qilu and the Central Plains.

So it was normal for him to appear in the Confucian Mansion and talk to Kong Yinzhi. Or rather, it must be!

The influence of the Kong family is still there, this is the 'great righteousness', and with the Kong family as a representative, his task can be carried out smoothly and successfully.

And that's exactly what happened.

With the Kong family's public kneeling and licking, Wang Aoyong's 'appeasement' matter was simply a mess. easily settled down half of Qilu. Ziyang, the capital city of Yanzhou, broke down without a fight, and the prefect Deng Fanxi and Tongzhi Tan Si had no choice but to flee to Huaishang.

As for Jinan City, Liu Zeqing was decisively cleared. It is also a shame that Guo Sheng is an old bandit who has accumulated years, he has the courage of his own, and his luck is not bad, he got out of the Hongmen banquet set up by Liu Zeqing, although he was slashed several times, but he finally saved his life.

But Jinan City is also clean. Li Shunjun, whose morale was not high, faced Liu Zeqing's sudden attack and was defeated.

The two armies were only half an hour apart, and thousands of remnants of the Dashun army embraced Guo Sheng, who was seriously wounded, fled in confusion and rushed westward. Liu Zeqing naturally sent people to chase him, but the more important thing was to surrender to Wang Aoyong, and even if he became the chief military officer of Qilu in the Qing Dynasty.

Zheng Zhibao had arrived at Zhifu Island at this moment, and when he heard the news of the change in Jinan, he immediately told Li Shiyuan and He Yongqing not to conflict with Guo Sheng, so that the Manchus could enjoy their success. Naturally, the Dashun army that was also sent to make peace, thinking that Guo Sheng was not a reckless man. The tacit understanding between the Zheng family and Li Shun has long been formed, and Guo Sheng is not unaware.

Zheng Zhibao's response was very appropriate, but at this moment, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had become a general trend in Qilu. Denglai didn't say anything, just look at Qingzhou, after Fang Dayou and Liu Zeqing entered the territory, it was like entering a no-man's land, and everywhere they went, officials in Le'an, Shouguang, Changle, Zibo and other places either abandoned their officials and fled, or surrendered.

Although Guo Sheng and Li Shiyuan did not see a battle, it was not possible for them to join forces to deal with the enemy. The Dashun army continued to move south and rushed into the Yimeng Mountains, while Li Shiyuan and He Yongqing held on to Qingzhou City.

Zheng Zhilong quickly contacted Zeng Ying, and at the same time, Jiang Zhe from Jiaozhou was also enthusiastic and ready to meet new challenges.

Before going north, Jiang Zhe actually had two paths to choose from. First, stay by Zheng Zhilong's side, play the role of a military adviser, and become an official in the future is the same as his current official position, taking the civilian official line, just like the wise man who left his name in history; The second is to go out. The Qilu coast is tortuous, and there are too many places to garrison and hold on. As long as the Zheng Navy's division is still the hegemon of East Asia, there is no need to consider cutting off the road back.

Jiang Zhe chose the second road without much thought, and between Chengshanjiao and Jiaozhou, he chose the latter. This is not because the initial scale of the latter is large and there are many strong weapons and armor, but because the prospects of Jiaozhou are obviously stronger than those of Chengshanjiao.

The latter is too close to Zhifu, and it has developed to the top, and it is only a secondary position.

But what about Jiaozhou? After the development of that place, it will not be inferior to Zhifu at all. Whether it is retreating to Denglai or moving west to Qingzhou, Jiaozhou has a lot to do, not to mention that it can also be connected to Huaishang by sea.

The critical situation will make the mediocre panic, but the talented can see the precious opportunity through the layers of danger.

For example, at this time, when Zheng Zhibao and Zeng Ying were negotiating, Jiang Zhe had already passed the order and was preparing for a war intensely, and it was a defensive battle.

Everyone knows that Zheng Zhilong's stalk of 'rushing to the crown and being angry for a red face', that is to say, the Zheng family's only some land and water mobile forces have been thrown into Japan, and if the Tartars take advantage of the great opportunity to launch a fierce attack, Dolgon will be an idiot.

However, the princes of Gonggong in Jinling City did not even send a single soldier to Qilu, and the sage Xiangzi did not want it. No, it's not just that I don't want it, I don't even mention it. Everyone seems to have forgotten about the Kong family.

It can be seen that this Confucian family is also the same as the urinal for the court and for the scholars of the whole world. If you use it, you can use it before, and when you don't need it, you can throw it aside.

After all, the current situation is different from when the Tartars entered the fortress, when the Tartars entered the fortress, no matter how fierce the offensive was, everyone knew that they were going to leave after all. But now, how can the Tartars go? And as far as the urine of the Kong family is concerned, I am afraid that I hooked up with the Tartars a few years ago.

In such a situation, Jiang Zhe felt that if Dolgon had to suspend his attack on Heluo Li Shun's army, and concentrate on attacking Qilu first, Dolgon would be mentally retarded.

Dolgon, on the other hand, was clearly not mentally retarded.

Judging from some of his actions after the Tartar entered the customs, Dolgon is not only not mentally retarded, but also a masterpiece, very good at judging the situation and pushing the boat along the river. On the contrary, it was his boss Zheng Zhilong who had recently made a coma.

Jiang Zhe was not disappointed in Zheng Zhilong, because he could predict that every move of this Annan Hou had a special significance.

The Zheng family has already restrained a lot of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's forces, if they pile up the navy and army in their hands to Qilu again, why can the Tartars easily appease half of Qilu and eyeing Lu Dong?

If the strength of the Tartars cannot continue to grow, always maintain the advantage of hard power, and maintain the advantage of Li Zicheng in the combat power of the Southern Ming, will Zheng Zhilong still watch Emperor Chongzhen restore the Central Plains in the north, calm the world, and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty? And then raise the flag yourself to rebel and meet the sword soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? It's impossible to think about it on your toes.

It must be that the Tartars have the upper hand, and the Ming Dynasty is dying, so the Zheng family raised a large army into the Central Plains, annihilated the Tartars, and reorganized the rivers and mountains. In this way, the Zheng family will not lose the righteousness of seizing the country, and Zhu Ming can also stop it here.

He felt that Zheng Zhilong couldn't do it for a year and a half. This would give the Tartars plenty of time to wreak havoc on the world, wouldn't they?

From a long-term perspective, Zheng Zhilong's 'escape' to Japan is a clever way to stay out of the situation. Judging from the current situation, this will make the Manchus seize most of Qilu and make hundreds of people fall into the blood.

But in other words, even the Jinling Imperial Court didn't send a single soldier to Qilu, and this Qilu was taken into the hands of the Tartars, so it can't be blamed on the Zheng family, right?

Burying all the 'big rebellion' things in his mind into his heart, Jiang Zhe began to prepare for the war. And just when he ordered all the money, grain and materials in Jiaozhou counties to be concentrated in Fushan Qian, there was another bad news from Qilu - Hou Guoan died of illness.

It's hard to say whether Hou Guoan died of illness or was killed. Because after his death, his attachés, more than a dozen officials, large and small, joined the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Tai'an Prefecture. One by one, they were immediately assigned official positions by Wang Aoyong, and now they have become officials of the Qing Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong didn't know these things, after he led his army to Nagasaki, whether it was Nabeshima Katsushige, Baba Toshishige, and Yamazaki Masanobu (then Nagasaki Commissioner), they were all shocked, and no one could have imagined that Zheng Zhilong would be so crazy.

Baba Toshishige and Yamazaki Masanobu immediately went to Shin Hirado, and then Matsuura Zhenxin took his son to drive more than 100 miles on horseback, personally came to the sea to see Zheng Zhilong, and begged him to think twice.

"Matsuura-kun, I'm already thinking twice. Otherwise, Nagasaki at this time would have been shattered by shells. Do you think that just the two forts and a thousand feudal soldiers outside can withstand this mighty army? ”

Obviously, it was the first time he met Matsuura Zhenxin, but Zheng Zhilong acted as if he was an extremely good friend, and he was getting better and better at acting.

Zheng Jun was angry, angry. The reason why His Excellency Nabeshima stopped his wife was by no means out of bad intentions, but it was really the general's way to lock the country several times, how could the idle people dare not respect it?

Although Tagawa is your wife, she is also Japanese. You should also be considerate of Nabeshima's difficulties. "Matsuura Zhenxin said that the feelings are sincere.

Zheng Zhilong smiled coldly, "Tian Chuan has married into the Zheng family, and that is the Zheng family, not any Japanese." I, Zheng Zhilong, am Chinese, and Tian Chuan is also Chinese. Don't give me any bullshit. Nabeshima Katsushige held people up, don't think I don't know what the hell he was up to. Isn't it just a matter of getting a handle? When I sent someone to pick up their mother and son in the third year of Chongzhen, the shogunate hadn't closed off the country, so wasn't it just looking for a bullshit reason to prevaricate? At that time, I, Zheng Zhilong, was fledgling, and Tian Chuan was pregnant, so I won't argue with you. But now that I, Zheng Zhilong, have hundreds of thousands of sailors and armies, if I still can't keep my wife and children, then what face do I have to stand in this world? ”

"You go back and tell Nabeshima Katsushige, and honestly hand over Tagawa's mother and son, as well as my father-in-law, too. I spared him this time. Otherwise, I wouldn't have overturned a Nagasaki. Saga Domain (Nabeshima family) and Edo, Lao Tzu are going to greet each other, and I want the whole of Japan to be at peace! ”

"Yaga!"

"Zheng Zhilong, a little Haikou, dared to be disrespectful to the general, and dared to be disrespectful to us, he was too arrogant."

Matsuura Zhenshin was frightened by Zheng Zhilong's threat, and hurried back to Nagasaki to tell Nabeshima Katsushige, who was furious when he heard it. Zheng Zhilong's former identity and his threat made Nabeshima Katsushige feel a deep shame.

"Your Excellency, Zheng Zhilong only gives us one day to think about it. He also said that we must ensure the safety of Tagawa's mother and son, as well as the safety of the Weng family, and the safety of all Han merchants and Chinese in Nagasaki. If someone causes damage to property and life safety because of our unfriendly actions, he will make us pay a hundredfold, thousandfold, ten thousand times the price! ”

"Yaga, Yaga, Yaga." Nabeshima Katsushige is the first-class powerful feudal lord in the western country, and the Saga domain is more than 370,000 high, when did he suffer such humiliation?

Pulling out the saber at his waist, he snapped and split the table in front of him into parts. "Damn Zheng Zhilong, I'm going to kill him!"

For the samurai of Japan, shame was to be washed away with blood. Not to mention the famous and surnamed, the Saga clan has already formed a great enmity with the Zheng family.