Subsequently, Xiong Zhengen's department began to exert great might, and swept away the people and bandits in this area, Jiaozhou Han Jiben, Gaomi Shan Zhisheng, Zhang Yu, Jimo Huang Zongxian, Liuliu, Qiu Shangzuo, Wang Erxi, Pingdu Damao, Zhai Wu Monk, Zhang Guang and other departments one by one.

But in May of this year, the Qingzhou Revolution took place. A unit originally belonging to the Dashun Army, after losing contact with the main force of the Dashun Army retreating westward, came to Qingzhou under the leadership of Zhao Yingyuan and Yang Wangxiu, a former Ming official who surrendered to the Dashun regime. On the morning of May 29, in the name of entering the city to pay a visit, he took the opportunity to enter the door.

Then, Zhao Yingyuan sent foot soldiers to the head of the city to set up the battlements, and he himself led the cavalry straight into the prefect's yamen in the city. However, the prefect of Qingzhou, who was appointed by the Daping Imperial Court, thought that Zhao Yingyuan was leading his troops to surrender, and suddenly saw the soldiers swarming with swords and blades, and was killed by surprise.

And Zhao Yingyuan's recovery of Qingzhou was not to rebuild the local power in Dashun. He himself claimed: just to support the Ming Dynasty alone. So he sat the king in the palace. At this time, King Heng had already returned to Daping, so he was afraid that Zhao Yingyuan's support for Fuming would summon him to kill him. When King Heng was proclaimed, he only knew how to cry every day, and his eyes were swollen like peaches. Liu Adou, who can't help the standard!

And when Xiong Zhengen arrived with his troops, Li Shiyuan, the former Ming Qingzhou garrison who had already been leveled, offered a plan to outwit him, and he secretly communicated with the gentry in Qingzhou City and entered Qingzhou City as a lobbyist. In the lobbying, Li Shiyuan threatened and lured Zhao Yingyuan, persuaded him to switch to the Daping Dynasty, and promised Zhao Yingyuan: not to kill anyone, and to give Zhao Yingyuan a knighthood.

Zhao Yingyuan was really fooled, and took hundreds of soldiers out of the city to meet Xiong Zhengen and others. The two sides swore to the sky with their knives and blood. That night, Zhao Yingyuan set up a feast in the Zhanchen Tower at the north gate of the Fucheng City, and drank and enjoyed a lot. The Daping Army was planned according to the plan agreed by Li Shiyuan and others. Ambush outside the city. During the banquet, the sound of artillery broke out, and Li Shiyuan, Han Zhaoxuan and his entourage killed Zhao Yingyuan and Yang Wangxiu on the spot, and the Zhao army was in chaos. The Daping army swarmed into the city, killed the entire family of King Heng and recruited the rest of the party, and the Qingzhou Revolution was immediately pacified.

When Wu Shigong learned the news, he was furious. He issued a holy decree and angrily reprimanded Xiong Zhengen and others. He also ordered the armies of Daping in the world to strictly implement the "Amnesty Order". We must do our best to maintain the credibility of the Daping Imperial Court, and we must not engage in any more expedient measures.

After that, Wu Shigong sent people to visit Zhao Yingyuan's widow and son. Sent to the capital, awarded the earl, and gave the mansion a lot of money. In order to make up for Xiong Zhengen's mistakes.

But Xiong Zhengen's move was also forced to be helpless. His forces were limited, and the rebellions in Shandong also came and went. At this time, the Marine Corps of the Marines of Gonzalez and Huang Ding in the north. He is preparing a Korean raid to cross the sea. Chi Ming led the New Army Yizhen and the Lu Army left behind by Liu Zeqing. He also put on an aggressive offensive against Nanming to cover up the decisive battle of the Daping army against the Qing army. In addition, Xiong Zhengen's troops were also newly formed divisions, so it was not until the second year of Qiongyuan that Shandong was finally completely wiped out.

At this time, the policy of the Southern Ming Hongguang Dynasty towards foreign countries was to borrow the counter-Pingkou. It is necessary to use the strength of the Great Ping Dynasty to resist and eliminate the two mortal enemies of the peasant army and the Qing army. And pinned his hopes on a three-lose situation between the three, so that the snipe and the clam can compete with each other and keep Nanming in the south of the Yangtze River.

For this reason, the Hongguang Dynasty was even willing to negotiate peace with the Daping Dynasty. Put forward: the conditions of being a minister, a year coin, a pledge, and affinity, hoping that the Daping Dynasty will divert its attention. Don't point the blade at Nanming first.

For this reason, the scholars of the Hongguang Dynasty even put forward a theoretical basis, and they even wrote a book on the topic of the Tang Dynasty's pacification of the Huangchao Uprising, with the intention of using historical experience to explain: The Tang Dynasty put down such a large-scale peasant rebellion as the Huangchao Rebellion, and it was not enough to have generals like Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, but also to borrow the Shatuo soldiers used by Li Ke to recruit traitors like Zhu Wen in order to have any hope of rejuvenation.

It can be seen from this that the monarchs and ministers of the Hongguang Dynasty regarded the peasant rebels such as Dashun and Daxi as the first enemy. In order to eliminate them, Hongguang Junchen was even willing to cooperate with the Manchus, not to mention Wu Shigong, who was originally a Ming general.

It should be said that this set of theories is quite unified among the Hongguang monarchs and ministers. is the leader of the "main battle faction" - Shi Kefa, he is only quite noble in personal ethics, but in terms of basic policies, he does not have much difference with other civil ministers, and they are all decision-makers who agree with the policy of "using the reverse to level the Kou".

Even the leaders of the heavens such as Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian of the left capital, also agreed with this national policy. They even thought that Wu Sangui's surrender was just an expedient measure, and they wanted to send people north to get in touch with Wu Sangui, so as to achieve the miraculous effect of persuading Su to return.

What makes people laugh even more is that there are still some officials who think that Wu Shigong can be influenced by "Ming Family Kindness" and let Wu Shigong voluntarily become a minister. I won't comment on this whimsy. However, this topic has been very popular in the Jinling Fengyue Realm, and more than one person is willing to "feed the tiger with his body" and use his beauty and wisdom to complete this impossible task. To this end, some good deeds even organized a "draft" to give you all a strong momentum.

Of course, whether these people are stupid, or the hypeists are stupid, or everyone is stupid, or they are not stupid, which is the opinion of the benevolent and the wise. Anyway, this topic brought infinite joy to Jinling City at that time. Should it be said: "The merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country"?

However, there are still some middle- and lower-level officials who have a clear head. They believe that in the Southern Song Dynasty back then, because of the military attachés such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, they were able to make the Southern Song Dynasty sign a peace treaty with the Jin State. And now the Daping Dynasty is at war with Dashun, Daxi, Qing and Southern Ming, taking advantage of this opportunity, it should actively carry out the Northern Expedition. If you can recover the lost territory, then it is best, even if you can't, you can sign a more favorable peace treaty with the Daping Dynasty, so that it will not dare to invade the south rashly.

However, although the knowledge of these officials is good, their official positions are too low to affect the government of the Hongguang court at all. In addition, the reason why Zhu Yousong ascended the throne was that he relied on contacting the military generals of various towns, and the military generals of each town were knighted with "fixed policies" and had no enterprising spirit, and the disputes within the court caused the ministers of civil and military affairs to take care of the proper management of northern affairs. So these suggestions were quickly ignored.

At this time, Shi Kefa and other important ministers of the Hongguang court were all holding back, blindly defending Jiangnan, but in fact, their hearts were quite cowardly. The main military pillars of the Hongguang court, such as Zuo Liangyu, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and others, were all defeated generals who fled first to avoid the battle, and the Dashun army was defeated by the Qing army and the Daping army successively, and the strength of each army can be seen at a glance.

Therefore, Shi Kefa and others thought to themselves that the most clever strategy was not to take a step beyond Lei Chi, so as not to "provoke" the Daping Army and give them the excuse to go south. Then, the humble word Xunli was better than the Great Ping Dynasty and maintained a peaceful situation. Even at this time, Hongguang Junchen still held the illusion of peace talks, and put on a cautious and pitiful appearance, trying to win the favor of the Daping Dynasty.

And this weakness made it easy for the Daping Dynasty to take over a large number of prefectures and counties in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. In this area, many of the gentry who were still close to the former Ming Dynasty were forced to join Daping because they could not be protected by the troops of the Hongguang Imperial Court. With the great military might of the Daping Dynasty and the successive implementation of some "good policies", in the end, these officials and gentry were transformed into loyal ministers and good citizens of the Daping Dynasty.

It is not that there are no official gentry who still have hope for Nanming, and some even drag their families to move south. However, those officials and gentry who stayed in place couldn't look forward to "Wang Shi Beiding the Central Plains", and they finally abandoned their illusions. And the short-sightedness of Hongguang Junchen has lost the last opportunity to continue Nanming.

In fact, at this time, the Hongguang Imperial Court established in Nanjing, in addition to the combat effectiveness of the troops, some others, whether in manpower or material resources, had a very obvious advantage over the Daping Dynasty, the Dashun regime or the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It controlled half of the country, and south of the Huai River was the most densely populated and economically developed place of Chinese at that time, and it was the least damaged by the war. It should be said that if you work hard, the Hongguang Imperial Court can still make a difference.

However, these armies of the Southern Ming Dynasty have all degenerated into tools for generals to maintain and expand their personal interests. They are timid in public wars and brave in private fights; When the enemy looks at the wind, he flees, and treats the people as if they were the flesh of the army.

It is precisely because the soldiers are not available, so although there are many soldiers and generals in the Hongguang court, they gather in the Jianghuai region to chase joy and have no enterprising intentions. In order to cover up their inner cowardice, Shi Kefa, the superintendent of the university, and the generals of the various towns he controlled could only make a big fuss about the issue of food and salary.

At that time, the Hongguang Imperial Court stipulated: each town has a total of 30,000 soldiers, and the annual supply of rice is 200,000 stones, and 400,000 taels of silver are provided.

This military salary payment is indeed generous enough. However, in order to entrap the military attaches of various towns, in just four months, under the threat of crying poverty from the military generals of various towns, the Hongguang Imperial Court actually issued a silver salary equivalent to one and a half years, which should be said to be very rich. What's more, at the beginning of the establishment of the town, the Hongguang Imperial Court also allocated the income of grain and commercial taxes in some places in Jiangbei to the towns. What a source of money! Jiangnan is really rich enough.

And Shi Kefa, the military generals of the governor's towns, although he is an honest official, he is also very diligent, and he is also quite clear about the number of soldiers in each town, the number of salaries that should be paid, and the number of salaries received, and he also knows the places where the military generals of each town are searched and poisoned by the people. However, in his recital, he even sang the same tune with the towns, which was alarmist, so as to deceive the salary.

Shi Kefa's helplessness can be seen here. Because he had been tempered in the officialdom of the late Ming Dynasty for a long time, he was accustomed to the accumulation of disadvantages of Wen Tian and Wu Xi at that time, and he also accumulated a set of tricks to deal with public opinion in the government and the opposition.

Although Shi Kefa himself did take a lot of trouble in mediating the towns and protecting the territory and the people, and it was not appropriate to blame him excessively, he was indeed afraid of peace like a tiger and regarded the towns as his pride, so that these warlords would attack Jiangbei and blindly fish the people.

Therefore, it can be said that after Shi Kefa became the supervisor, he spent a lot of food and salary on the people in Jiangnan, but he was still at a loss for the military situation, and it was not too much to say that he tolerated and fed the tigers. (To be continued......)