Updated: 2013-11-22

September 28, Jinan.

The current governor of Shandong is Zu Zepu. His father is Zu Dashou, the famous general who commanded the Guanning Iron Cavalry. Zu Zepu, the former left governor of the Ming Dynasty, followed his father to eat up all the people in Jinzhou, surrendered to Huang Taiji without hesitation and became a bannerman. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, he followed Dorgon into the pass to fight against the rebel army. He was appointed as the first-class imperial guard and became a close minister of the Qing royal family. He took office as the governor of Shandong last year.

After arriving in Shandong, Zu Zepu was devoted to banning the sea. The people of Laizhou Prefecture, on the inside of the Bohai Sea, were not spared. Zu Zepu posted a notice saying that the emperor loved the people and in order to prevent them from being looted by thieves, they were asked to move to a safe area in the mainland. He also set a three-day deadline, and any officers and soldiers who were overdue were killed. By the time of the Yuqi Uprising, there were no living people within 20 miles of the coast of Shandong.

When the rebel army suddenly emerged, Zu Zepu adopted the Huairou policy for the leaders who were fantasized by Qi and other leaders, concentrated their efforts to attack the various rebel troops besieging the county town, and then followed Prince Kang to siege Qixia with all his might. It was not long before Yu Qi could be eliminated, but Jiangnan suddenly encountered attacks from the Sichuan army. The main force of the Qing army moved south, and Zu Zepu also returned to Jinan to take charge of supplying the food and fodder of the army heading south.

Although the main forces of the court went south, Shandong Green Camp still left many soldiers, and continued to besiege the rebels who fled into the mountain village. In addition, Li Guoying's 600 battalion also left 30% of them, and handed them over to Zu Zepu for command. In the previous battles, the Sichuan and Shaanxi cavalry performed very well, cruising on the official road and killing people when they saw each other, completely cutting off the communications of the rebels and turning the rebels distributed in Jiaodong into unconnected lonely soldiers. However, Zu Zepu recently was thinking about returning the 200 cavalry to Li Guoying, because the Shandong rebels had basically lost their ability to resist, and he was unwilling to continue to distribute his contributions to Shandong.

As the governor of a province and his godson who was more at ease to the Manchu Taijun than Li Guoying, Zu Zepu also had a Biao battalion organization with a thousand-armor cavalry. Most of the officer positions of Governor Zu were used to resettle his old age. Shandong was far away from the front line and there was no great military pressure. It just so happened that everyone was born as a Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the command of the cavalry was familiar with it.

The officers who raised the bid in Shandong also exhaled their anger with the Governor's Office and strongly advocated the use of Sichuan and Shaanxi Green Camp as soon as possible. The Sichuan and Shaanxi Green Camp not only had strong combat effectiveness, but also made the Shandong Green Camp a little dull, but also had much better military discipline than the Shandong Green Camp. At the beginning, it did not massacre the people and raped and plundered them, which simply did not give Shandong Green Camp face.

Not only Zu Zepu was surprised by the military discipline of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Camp, but also Prince Kang and Ebilong were also impressed. They believed that Li Guoying was very strict in governing the army, and the knights under his command would not forget the military tasks they shouldered because of greed for the people's wealth. Li Guoying also boasted about this, and he could not say that it was turned over by Deng Ming. In fact, many of the officers in his Biao battalion were redeemed with cattle. Many of the people who later joined the Biao battalion also stayed in Deng Ming's prisoner of war camp, and even went in twice. After the publicity and education of the Ming army in the prisoner of war camp, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Camp knew that if they left a bad reputation, they would not be able to escape even if they received a release coupon or coupon. These people had been in contact with the Sichuan-Shaanxi Army for two years, and formed a psychological burden. They did not change when they arrived in Shandong, so they were relatively good for the people and the rebel prisoners of war.

It took a long time to come back to the taste of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Camp. This is Shandong, not Sichuan, and I can't meet the devil Deng Ming, but at this time Li Guoying had already finished blowing the magic snails, so he had to continue to pretend. Besides, the people around the road were all robbed by the Shandong Green Camp and the Central Army, and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Camp had no targets for robbery. Before they could break through Yu Qi's mountain village and kill, they received the order to go south and stay away from the residents of Shandong.

This time, Zu Zepu's performance was praised by the Qing court, who believed that he was a good job and responded well. There were rumors that after he was a governor of Shandong, he would be allowed to work in Jiangnan after he had been trained for a few years.

Jiangnan is definitely richer than Shandong, and the sky is higher and the emperor is farther away, so it is much easier to get a full bag. Zu Zepu is naturally full of expectations for this. However, Zu Zepu also knew that another reason why the court was thinking was because he was a firm hawk and advocated an uncompromising tough attitude towards Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang and Yunnan. Compared with those Southeast Governors who were already scared by Deng Ming, tough guys like Zu Zepu were obviously more favored by the court.

After the Cao Transportation was robbed, Zu Zepu insisted on killing Lin Qilong to thank the world, and even questioned what those who pleaded with Lin Qilong regard the court as? Recently, after hearing the court's rumor about peace with Deng Ming or pleading him, Zu tough guy went up against the wind and firmly expressed his opposition. Like the Cao Transportation's statement, although the court did not obey Zu Zepu's opinion, he showed obvious appreciation in the reply. Seeing that the Shandong Governor was so excited, he made a memorial cry and said that he was irreconcilable with the Sichuan thieves. The Qing court also sent someone to appease him, saying that Zu Zepu's loyalty was known, and that the friendship between his father and son and the court would not be forgotten. However, even if he recruited Deng Ming now, it was the grand strategy of the court. The Shandong Governor must obey even if he did not understand.

During this pacification, the envoy revealed that Zu Zepu might be the governor of a province in Jiangnan. If he went to the south, he would have to shoulder the responsibility of fighting against the Sichuan Army, Fujian Army or Zhejiang Army. Zu Zepu understood that this was an opportunity and a challenge, so he planned to use the chaos of Qi to train his battalion.

If the Shandong Governor went south, of course, the people from the Biaoying camp would not be taken away, but Zu Zepu selected a group of people from them, the court would not object. Heard that there would be a chance to follow the Governor to make a fortune in Jiangnan a few years later, the officers of the Shandong Governor Biaoying camp were all ready to train their troops and recreate the glory of the Guanning Iron Cavalry. Everyone knows that if you want to get a quota to accompany the Governor Zu to the south, you must make the Governor feel useful.

"Governor General," a staff member came in with confusion on his face and reported: "The Tang newspaper in Laizhou Prefecture has been two days late."

"Is there such a thing?" Zu Zepu frowned when he heard this. Shandong's post station system is mainly for the north-south connection and canal transportation services. There is only one post road leading to the Jiaodong Peninsula, which is from Jinan to the east through Qingzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture to Dengzhou Prefecture. A few months ago, when Jiaodong was in chaos, the communication of post roads was affected to a certain extent, but it was only an impact. The rebel army has never regarded the post road as its main target of attack. Therefore, even at the most tense time, Zu Zepu can understand the situation of the Dengzhou Prefecture in the easternmost section through the post station, and guide local officials to deceive the hesitant leaders of the rebel army.

Since the rebels fled into the mountains, the post road leading to Dengzhou has been unobstructed. It is impossible for heavy rain to block the road in this season, which makes the Shandong Governor's Office feel strange.

"Can those thieves be braver and dare to go down the mountain?" Zu Zepu thought for a while, thinking that the possibility of this situation was very small, and Yu Qi and others were trapped in the mountain village. Since there was no news of the surround being broken, there was no possibility of rushing out to cut off the post road.

But if someone hadn't made trouble, how dare the people at the post station delay the news? Needless to say, two days later, someone would have landed on the ground for this person. It would be even more impossible to say that Dengzhou Prefecture forgot to post the Tang newspaper. This is a joke about his black hat. Moreover, even if Dengzhou has something to forget, will Laizhou forget it?

After sending two teams to ask, the Shandong Governor went to bed suspiciously.

The next morning, the Tang newspaper still did not arrive, but there was a shocking news. Qingzhou Prefecture reported that someone had attacked the post road, and issued an edict through the Qing army's communication system, saying that Deng Ming, Duke of the Ming Dynasty, had commanded a hundred thousand troops to land in Laizhou Prefecture, and called on Shandong elf to respond, join forces to take Jinan first, and then go straight to Beijing.

"Haha, hahaha." After hearing the content of the edict, Governor Zu was not surprised but happy, and laughed: "It turns out that the remaining thieves were doing the blame, but they were just bluffing and struggling to death."

When he was young, Zu Zepu once saw ship loading and unloading in Ningyuan. Although there were port facilities, rice and beans had to be transported ashore little by little by little by boat. Tens of thousands of people had to be transported ashore for several days a month. To transport them to the front line, a large number of livestock and auxiliary soldiers were required to serve as the main force. The proclamation stated that Deng Ming landed with a 100,000 army. Zu Zepu believed that if there were no ten days or half a month, these 100,000 people could not reach the coast of Shandong. Moreover, there were no port facilities in the wilderness, and there was no manpower and animal power for the Ming army to use. Even if the Ming army could carry the food ashore, it would not be able to follow the troops, unless the Ming army could bring the animals and vehicles needed by the 100,000 army. However, when these things were transported off the ship, the storage warehouse was built, and then a road system that could be opened for passage between the army and vehicles was connected to Shandong. One or two months was fast.

"It's just some of the gang members who have missed the internet, wanting to disrupt the audio-visual and create panic." Of course, Zu Zepu would not report such a ridiculous edict, nor would he distribute it to the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction to disrupt people's hearts. He ordered Qingzhou Prefecture to immediately send a team of green camps to eliminate the thieves attacking the post station system and restore traffic to the post station.

Zu Zepu estimated that there were about one or two post stations that fell into the rebel army now, and at most there were hundreds of thieves entrenched in it. Qingzhou Prefecture sent 300 batches of A to defeat them.

For Zu Zepu, this was just a small matter. He had many more important tasks to pay attention to. For example, supplying the army in Xuzhou and reinforcements mobilized along the canal also require supply and supervision teams to control military discipline. After issuing the order to Qingzhou Prefecture, Zu Zepu threw this matter behind his mind after a while. In the evening of that day, he had forgotten all the edict.
Chapter completed!