Next to the huge yellow carriage, all the soldiers couldn't help frowning after listening to Wang Chengen's analysis of the six mansions in Shandong.

Gao Di, the commander of the rear battalion, said: "Your Majesty, since the six prefectures in Shandong are not peaceful, why don't you give up, the army will continue to go south, and leave one general to defend Jinan City." ”

Wang Jian was speechless when he heard this, before he entered the city, someone asked him to persuade him to give up, I am afraid that it is not only the first person who thinks so, he asked: "Then who do you say to send to stay and defend Jinan City for me?" ”

Li Shi of the left camp took the lead and said loudly: "The last general originally guarded the city of Jinan, the city is in the people, and the city is lost!" ”

Wang Jian nodded approvingly, he really didn't see the wrong person.

The idea was high, and he had to bite the bullet and say: "The last general is also willing to stay!" ”

Seeing that he was not a greedy person who was afraid of death, Wang Jian could only encourage: "The two generals are loyal and brave, but how can I abandon these six mansions and millions of people?" ”

Meng Shen, the Confucian master of Dongchang, said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, since you don't give up, you can only exterminate the bandits in Shandong." ”

"How? Do you have a solution? ”

Confucius Master Meng Twist said: "The minister has a strategy of three suppressions and three appeasements, and he will definitely be able to pacify the thieves in Shandong within a month." ”

Confucius Meng did have some ability to observe words and feelings, and he saw that Wang Jian was unwilling to give up the land of Jiangbei, so he admonished and said countermeasures.

As a scholar, he was able to climb to the position of the Thirteenth Taibao in Dongchang, how could he do it without some unique ability?

Wang Jian asked, "Tell me about it!" How to suppress, how to caress it? ”

"Your Majesty, this first suppression is to suppress his heart. Since ancient times, although Shandong is rampant, but it is also the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, among which there are many loyal and righteous people, the emperor should choose some lobbyists, they know reason, move them with affection, and then a little grace to soothe their hearts, will be able to recruit them without spending a soldier and let them serve our court. ”

He paused, and then said, "This second suppression is to suppress its weapons." Not all homeless people are bandits, and many of them are forced by life to become bandits. The emperor should treat them differently: those who use farm tools as weapons to make trouble, they should be properly pacified, let them go back to their own homes, and properly exempt them from taxes, so that they will be transformed from bandits into peasant households, and can reclaim the wasted land. But anyone who uses swords, bows, crossbows and other weapons forbidden by the imperial court to make trouble, that is the real bandit, the emperor should send troops to conquer, if they are resisted, they must be killed! ”

"This third suppression is to suppress their people, and the focus of the extermination is the bandit villages in Shandong, and all those who occupy the mountains as kings and build fortresses must be cleared. Especially a vicious person like Wang Jun should send heavy troops to encircle and suppress it, cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. Then it was announced to the world and appeased the people. ”

Confucius Meng knew that Chongzhen's ears were soft and easy to listen to slander, so he couldn't help but remind him in the end: "Your Majesty, this people's heart is the most difficult to appease, you must not change your orders overnight, and you can't believe your words!" ”

After hearing this, Wang Jian felt that the mouth suddenly opened, and the matter finally had a clue. This problem of thieves can be regarded as having a solution, but the ensuing more tricky city defense problem of Jinan City made his head bigger.

Jinan City's adjacent Dongchang Mansion is not very peaceful, the west of Dongchang Mansion is Guangping, the second mansion of the Daimyo, like a nail stretched into the hinterland of the Central Plains, coupled with the Hejian Mansion in the north of Jinan City, Li Zicheng's forces not only formed a pattern of encircling Jinan City on both sides, and Li Zicheng also occupied Kaifeng City, Kaifeng to Chang'an He became a line, and it was possible to go east at any time, cutting off Wang Jian's back road.

The top priority is to first stabilize Jinan City, take Jinan City as the foundation, and then stabilize Guangping in the west, the two mansions of the Daimyo, and then seize Kaifeng, and lock Li Zicheng to the west of Taihang Mountain, so that he has no way to go east.

The general policy and countermeasures were available, and how to march and fight, everyone discussed for a long time and had no clue. Wang Jian decided to make it easy first and then difficult, take one step at a time, he appointed Cui Dazhuang as the chief military officer of Shandong to suppress bandits, and Confucius Meng as the military division, leading 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, a total of 5,000 soldiers and horses.

Before leaving, Wang Jian gave Cui Dazhuang another secret decree, that is, that is, the governors of the state capitals, the prefects moved the people of their own prefectures, and the prefectures recruited government soldiers to escort them to Qingzhou Mansion. The state capitals shall reward those who are advantageous in the organization; Those who resist the decree and do not comply with it will be punished as rebellion.

The people are bitter when they are prosperous, and the people who are dying are bitter.

Wang Jian didn't think that when Cui Dazhuang wasted the strength of the nine oxen and two tigers to suppress the bandits, the army had just left, and the bandits were in trouble again, and then there were people in ruins, and the displaced people were suddenly born, so it was better to move them all to Qingzhou, close to him, and have a response.

After that, Wang Jian still didn't worry about Wu Sangui, and always felt that this person was unreliable. Although Wu Sangui has shown great loyalty to himself in the past dozens of days, he has always had more than 50,000 Guan Ning soldiers in his hands, and these people are loyal to him Wu Sangui, and they have refused Wang Jian's intervention for various reasons.

Wang Jian asked Wu Sangui to lead the Northern Zhili Military Department to the title of Shangshu, and in the name of the governor of Jiliao, he led the 50,000 soldiers and horses of the forward battalion to Dongchang Mansion to guard Liaocheng, the western gateway of Jinan City.

Ma Miao's two uncles, Qin Siming and Qin Liangming, took the Tianjin Three Guards and Horses to guard Yanzhou, which was Wang Jian's main artery to the south of the Yangtze River, and there was no loss.

Wu Sangui received the holy decree, and on the same day, he reorganized his troops and horses and prepared to set off.

Before leaving, his lieutenants Ding Lei and Feng Bao came to his big tent.

They said angrily: "The emperor obviously doesn't trust us, and left Li Yan and Zu Dabi behind, but sent us to Liaocheng, in terms of combat strength and strength, which of us is not as good as Li Yan?" He, Li Yan, is just a broken thousand households! ”

Wu Sangui glanced outside the tent and said in a deep voice: "What, you want to resist the decree?" ”

"Don't dare..."Although the two of them said that they didn't dare, they both knew that they didn't have to pay attention to Chongzhen's will at all, because they only listened to Wu Dudu's words.

"That Liaocheng is the territory of Liu Fangliang, the general of the thief department, Lord Dutang, you should oppose it."

Wu Sangui groaned: "If we don't go to Liaocheng, where can we go?" ”

Feng Bao said: "Yanzhou, it's a good place, the land is vast and there is a lot of grain, and most importantly, Yanzhou is the main road between the north and the south, which can be defended." ”

Ding Lei also said: "Yes, the emperor is partial, such a good place, leaving it to Concubine Wu's two useless uncles." ”

Wu Sangui smiled gloomily, and he said, "Why worry, then Yanzhou will be ours sooner or later!" ”

Wu Sangui was not convinced here, and over there, the brothers Qin Siming and Qin Liangming did not fully appreciate it. They had already received the news that the capital had been breached by King Chuang, but they still did not move. If it weren't for Ma Mi Mei personally coming to ask for help, they even planned to stay put.

Of course, these Wang Jian didn't know it, he still made the mistake that ancient emperors would make, that is, trusting close relatives more than trusting outsiders.

After Wu Sangui left, more than half of the 100,000 people were missing, and Wang Jian personally took the remaining tens of thousands of people to stay in Jinan City, and he was ready to fight Dolgon to the end.

Because Wang Jian felt that since he had crossed over to Chongzhen, then Chongzhen's pot, he had to memorize, and he had to follow the fine traditions of the Ming Dynasty:

Where the current country is, the Son of Heaven must be there!

The Son of Heaven must guard the country, and the king must also die!