After all, Shandong was in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and under the suppression of the Ming armies and local governments in Shandong, the turmoil in various places gradually subsided.

At this time, the Ming court's control of the local area had not yet lost control as it did later. Therefore, after a short period of interruption of communication between various places, the various decrees of the imperial court were gradually smoothed with the efforts of the officials at all levels.

And the most pleasing thing is that at this time came the good news of Kong Youde's mutinous rebellion.

When Kong Youde's army mutinied at Wuqiao, it immediately caused a great shock to the Ming court. Because this rebel army started a mutiny so close to the capital, and the mutinous soldiers carried the most advanced weapons at that time.

Faced with such a critical situation, Emperor Chongzhen immediately convened important auxiliary ministers to discuss how to deal with the situation. To put it simply, it is to decide whether to recruit or suppress the chaotic army of Kong Youde.

At this time, Zhou Yanru, the first assistant, could not be silent. Because Kong Youde's rebellious army was the soldiers and horses of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai. And Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, is Zhou Yanru's absolute confidant. Therefore, in this way, Kong Youde's rebellious army also has such and such a relationship with Zhou Yanru.

Therefore, Zhou Yanru suggested: Let the two governors of Shandong and Denglai see the opportunity to quickly resolve this matter. Because after all, the imperial court could not best understand the local situation in Shandong, and after the governors of these two places grasped the first-hand situation, they had the most accurate judgment on whether to appease or encircle and suppress Kong Youde's rebellious army.

Zhou Yanru's suggestion does have some truth. However, his suggestion is also selfish. Zhou Yanru hoped that Sun Yuanhua would resolve the matter as soon as possible to redeem the impact of this matter and not shake his position as the first assistant.

At that time, Wen Tiren, who was Zhou Yanru's political enemy, acquiesced to Zhou Yanru's proposal without saying a word. Anyway, Wen Tiren at this time is quite active, as long as he stays aside and waits for Zhou Yanru's every move, as long as Zhou Yanru makes a mistake here, Wen Tiren can immediately bite Zhou Yanru off from the position of the first assistant like a poisonous snake hidden in the dark.

Of course, to solve it as soon as possible, that is to appease. Encirclement and suppression will never be possible in a short period of time. After Sun Yuanhua, who understood the idea, received the imperial decree from the imperial court, he immediately took action.

At this time, the news of Kong Youde's chaotic army defeating the Shandong encirclement and suppression army came again. This made the vicinity of Jinan, the capital of Shandong, suddenly without the mobile army of the imperial court, which made the opinion of Zhao Fu prevail.

What makes people feel inexplicable is that Sun Yuanhua has absolute confidence in appeasing Kong Youde's rebellious army. Not to mention Sun Yuanhua's kindness to Kong Youde, the generals of Dongjiang Town, for sheltering and supporting.

Just over half a year ago, Sun Yuanhua had just used food and salary to settle the Phi Dao Mutiny again. Therefore, Sun Yuanhua did not panic at all, because according to his experience, as long as the food and salary were sufficient and no accountability was given, the mutiny could be quickly resolved.

So Sun Yuanhua asked Kong Youde to lead his troops back to Dengzhou, and everything was easy to discuss. And Sun Yuanhua and Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, jointly issued an order that from Wuqiao to Dengzhou and all the way to the county, no troops should be sent to block Kong Youde.

At this time, Kong Youde seemed to have obeyed Sun Yuanhua's orders, and although he was still looting along the way, he still returned in the direction of Dengzhou. The states and counties along the way did not dare to intercept it, and let the passage pass for Kong Youde's department to pass.

This act was extremely ridiculous, because under the re-organization of the Shandong military attaché, another army of more than 10,000 people was organized. Among them, although Kong Youde's department once entered the ambush circle of this Ming army, because those civilian officials who dreamed of appeasement gave thirteen gold medals to the military attache who led this Ming army, so the Ming army, which had no attack order, could only watch Kong Youde's chaotic army escape, which missed the best opportunity to annihilate the rebels in the bud.

And this background, of course, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing, who are in Ningyang County, don't know. They only learned from the Ming Bao from the imperial court: Kong Youde's rebellious army had accepted the appeasement of the imperial court, and they were heading to Dengzhou to accept the reorganization of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai.

At this moment, this coalition army relaxed. Wu Shigong's army was able to maintain restorative training, while Liu Zeqing's army was completely herded.

At this time, Wu Shigong unsurprisingly relaxed, and he also frequently participated in some banquets, and contacted each other's feelings with the local gentry in Ningyang County.

Although because of the extraction of grain, grass and ordnance from Jining Cang, Wu Shigong was so busy that he walked on the road with a convoy even for the New Year. But this time Wu Shigong's harvest is absolutely big.

After distributing it with Liu Zeqing, Wu Shigong could also get more than 1,000 stones of grain and more than 400 stones of gunpowder. Other cloth, spirits and other materials were also worth more than 4,000 taels. It is estimated that this is the ambassador of Cangyun instructing Wu Shigong to carry the property of those merchants who were stored in Jining Cang, so as to shirk it to Sheng Yangong and make a fortune for themselves to intercept those leftover property.

Wu Shigong basically didn't ask for the ordnance that was carried, because he didn't carry those cannons and armor this time. These are all things that Cao Bing needs, and of course Ambassador Cangyun can't go too far.

As for the other bows and arrows, shields and weapons, Wu Shigong himself did not need. As for the bird gun in the warehouse, Wu Shigong is also very worried about its quality. Therefore, Wu Shigong gave these ordnance to Liu Zeqing and Confucius.

Wu Shigong himself only left the cheapest 800 spear heads. Wu Shigong wanted to use these guns to arm the house slave auxiliaries he had just taken in.

Compared with the relaxation of military generals such as Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing, Wu Shiwen and other civilian officials are very busy. Jining Prefecture, Qufu County and Ningyang County, when they arrived in Zuihou, even Yanzhou in the middle was also believed to join in.

The officials of these four places sent messengers to each other, and sent messages to each other, perfecting the details of all the previous recitals, and making up for all possible flaws.

In their recital, Zuihou depicts a magnificent drama of encirclement and suppression of the rebellious people in southwest Lu:

How did those rebels gather tens of thousands of horses and invade southwest Lu; When the envoy of Jining Cang invaded the rebellion, how did he immediately dispose of the grain, grass and ordnance in Jining Cang to prevent the enemy?

How did the rebels run into a bloody mess under the well-defended city of Jiningzhou; After receiving grain, grass and ordnance from Jining Cangzhong, the officers and men of the Runing Battalion who passed by did not hesitate to relieve the siege of Jining Prefecture.

how the scattered rebels under the city of Jining Prefecture scattered and besieged Yanzhou, Qufu County, and Ningyang County; And how did the governments of these three places organize the local people to fight against the rebellious people; And how did Liu Zeqing, the general of Caozhou who came to hear the news, give a blow to the rebellious people......

Anyway, this scene, Wu Shigong was dazzled. When Wu Shigong saw the original manuscript of this recital, he really doubted that he was dazzled, and suspected that he had met a group of great gods who wrote historical war essays at the starting point.

And in this recital, most of the materials in Jining Cang were cleverly swallowed. Of course, those grains and grasses were eaten by the fighting Ming army and the people who defended the city; The ordnance was also worn out in the battle against the rebels; As for the things that those merchants deposited in Jining Cang, in order to prevent capital enemies, of course, most of them were burned. In order to add credibility to this claim, the decisive ambassador resolutely burned down several empty warehouses in Jining.

And the content of these recitals is not believed by the imperial court. Because along with those recitals, there were more than 600 heads cut off by Wu Shigong at that time.

Wu Shigong didn't actually need so many heads, so he gave Liu Zeqing five hundred. This made Liu Zeqing overjoyed, put his arm around Wu Shigong's shoulders and said, "Hello brothers!" ”。

The only thing that bothered Wu Shigong was that he stayed outside Ningyang County, and the house slaves that Wu Shigong had just taken in. When they learned that the domestic slaves here were able to eat enough, refugees from the neighborhood who got the news came to vote.

This snowball-like increase in the number of people is also a bit unbearable for Wu Shigong. So Wu Shigong only took in those refugees who were young and strong and had a lot of labor, and the other refugees were soup kitchens so that they could not starve to death temporarily. But even so, the number of domestic slaves taken in by Wu Shigong soon exceeded 3,000.

Regarding Wu Shigong's behavior of using the military rations he had collected with great difficulty to rescue those refugees, Wu Shiwen and Liu Zeqing also persuaded them several times. But after thinking about it again, Wu Shigong still insisted on doing so.

Wu Shigong was a little helpless, after all, he was not hardened enough to watch those refugees starve to death in the wilderness. Wu Shigong had no choice but to comfort himself: "This can be regarded as accumulating virtue for the three unborn children!" ”

However, the intelligence of the army was very appreciative of Wu Shigong's behavior. These days, Zhizhi has been taking the medical soldiers in the Runing camp to the house slave camp outside the city to treat those sick house slaves.

And in the winter wilderness, there are more sick people among the house slaves, and Zhizhi also came to Wu Shigong to ask for medicinal materials several times. In desperation, Wu Shigong had no choice but to use some military medicinal materials, and also used silver to buy some medicinal materials from pharmacies in Ningyang County, so that it was barely enough.

But these actions made Wu Shigong's food and silver plummet. The only gain is that the loyalty of those house slaves to Wu Shigong has skyrocketed. This can be regarded as a gain and a loss.

At this time, Wu Shigong had already drawn more than 800 auxiliaries from these house slaves, and they simply armed themselves with spears loaded with guns, and followed the military attaches sent by the Runing battalion to carry out basic military training.

These comfortable days passed day by day. Soon it was the fifteenth day of the first month. Wu Shigong was invited to Wu Shiwen's home and spent the Yuanxiao Festival with Wu Shiwen's family.

After all, the war has not passed, so it is impossible to lift the curfew in Ningyang County and release lanterns. Wu Shigong drank with his fifth brother Wu Shiwen, and then used the Lantern Festival after the meal.

was using the Lantern Festival, when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps at the entrance of the yamen. Wu Shigong only saw the fifth brother Wu Shiwen's housekeeper bring in a pond horse.

As soon as Natangma saw Wu Shiwen and Wu Shigong, he immediately knelt down and said, "Say hello to the two adults!" The villain came from Jinan City and sent a letter from the governor to the two adults. Kong Youde's rebellious army rebelled again on the night of the Spring Festival, Dengzhou City has been lost, and the whereabouts of the governor of Denglai are unknown! ”

Wu Shigong and Wu Shiwen's wine was suddenly scared awake. Wu Shiwen immediately said: "Bring the letter." Wu Shiwen's housekeeper immediately took the letter from Tang Ma's hand and handed it over to Wu Shiwen's hand.

Wu Shiwen opened the letter, read the letter at a glance and ten lines, and then said to Wu Shigong weakly: "The Confucian thief deceived and deceived Dengzhou City. The governor demanded that the officers and troops from all over the country immediately move and assemble towards the city of Jinan. ”

"Alas! Fourteenth brother, you have been stable for a few days, but you are going to fight on the battlefield again. You just wait a while and use up this Lantern Festival. The fifth brother first arranged for someone to inform General Liu that he was going. ”

Wu Shigong silently chewed the Lantern Festival in the bowl, but he couldn't taste it......

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