The three major governors of the Qing Dynasty along the Yangtze River were combined, and the navy was not as good as Yuan Zongdi in Wanxian County. Who would believe this conclusion if it was not said from Li Guoying? However, even after hearing such a ridiculous thing, Ebilong still did not react too fiercely. He felt that Li Guoying was still inappropriate to say that the navy was now. The Qing court did not rely on the navy to conquer the world, so this was at most an icing on the cake.

It's fine if Jieshu is not there, but Li Guoying still has great hope for Ebilong, hoping that the other party will be touched and made up his mind to restore the Yangtze River Navy. There is also a stupid sea ban that is best to cancel it as soon as possible. At the beginning, Li Guoying felt that as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, it had nothing to do with him. Since the court had this intention, Li Guoying followed him and shouted irresponsibly. Now Li Guoying wanted Liangjiang to help build some ships and could not speak. What's worse, Liangjiang and Zhejiang shipbuilders were moved to Chengdu and Xuzhou by the Sichuan army. Although I couldn't understand it

The specific production capacity of western Sichuan, but one year ago, when Li Guoying sat at the head of Chongqing to count Ming army ships, he could see a large number of new ships going downstream, and these new ships were becoming more and more large. Now the biggest bottleneck of the shipbuilding industry in western Sichuan is the problem of wood. It takes three years for the shipbuilding period from being cut down to being able to use. In order to make up for the shortcomings of wood, Sichuan even needs to buy wood from the downstream, drag it back to Sichuan after hard work, and then sell it to Zhou Peigong, because Deng Ming strictly prohibits shipbuilders from leaving Kuimen.

But after hearing Li Guoying's complaints, Ebilong did not express any of it. In his opinion, these governors and governors were all a problem, and they kept shouting about the navy and the navy. But the problem now is how to defeat the 100,000 Ming troops in front of them and reshape the prestige of the imperial court, rather than collecting wood to build ships.

He failed to get any promises from Ebilong. After the military meeting, Li Guoying was full of disappointment. After returning to his tent, he couldn't help complaining to the guards: "The southerners were fighting for boats. Without the navy, they could not fight in Jiangnan. Now this battle should not be fought at all. Even if they win, they would not be able to catch Deng Ming's main force."

Whether it was the Susong Navy or the Dongting Lake Navy planned to be built by Hong Chengchou, they were both annihilated by Deng Ming for more than four years but had no intention of reconstruction. Hong Chengchou did not take four years to build this navy. Once the construction was completed, it became a thorn in Sun Kewang's side, and it was thorn in the flesh, which effectively hindered Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong's strategy of meeting in Nanjing's Yangtze River. After the three kings were in conflict, they could still transport grain to Chongqing.

"What is Governor Zhang thinking? Even if he sells his iron, he must rebuild the Dongting Lake Navy. What is the use of building bunkers around Wuchang? It is to build the ground into a turtle shell. You can't build a castle on the river, right?" Now Li Guoying thinks that the most capable person along the Yangtze River is the young talent Zhou Peigong. This young governor publicly advocated the establishment of a Yangtze River Corps that could catch up with Deng Ming's main force, and emphasized the need to pay attention to the navy.

Because of this, Zhou Peigong also asked the court to allocate some ship workers from the north to him to facilitate him to build new shipyards in Anqing, Yuezhou and other places. Of course, neither the Qing court nor Li Guoying knew that Zhou Peigong's real purpose was to export these ship workers' services to Sichuan. Sichuan shipyards promised that if Zhou Peigong helped them introduce more skilled shipbuilders, they would give him discounts when they sold them to Zhou Peigong's river boats. Now all shipyards in Sichuan know that Zhou Peigong is an important customer and often sends salesmen with a smile on their faces to boast about their new ships. If Zhou Peigong ordered the goods, they would mark Anqing or Yuezhou shipyards on the new ships to show that this was a high-quality canal ship produced by the Qing Dynasty.

But if Zhou Peigong really set up shipyards with self-produced capacity in Anqing and other places, he knew that the owners of these shipyards should change their faces, and he would probably lobby Deng Ming to sweep his shipyard immediately. As an expert on Deng Ming's issue, Zhou Peigong carefully studied the policies and regulations of western Sichuan every day. He also had many friends in Sichuan, knowing that Sichuan salt merchants and bankers had done this. Therefore, once Sichuan shipyard owners found that they had competitors, they would definitely follow suit. Zhou Peigong concluded that the request would be supported by most of the people in Deng Ming's share of the spoils.

...

Two days later, a new report came from Shandong, and Zu Zepu claimed that Deng Ming himself appeared in Shandong and also brought an army of 100,000.

After seeing this report, Ebilong turned his back again. He saw with his own eyes that there were tens of thousands of Sichuan troops in the Ming army opposite. Why did Zu Zepu have another hundred thousand Sichuan troops when he opened his mouth?

"It must be nonsense," Ebilong shouted: "If Deng Mingzhen brought a 100,000 army to Shandong, Zu Zepu would be crazy and dare to fight Deng Ming? He really had the courage to hide in Jinzhou City and eat his own people twenty years ago. He would rather eat people than go out of the city to challenge the powerful enemy."

Seeing that Ebilong began to make up old debts, Li Guoying knew very well that the ministers of the regent would be angry, but they all understood that there was another possibility, that is, Zu Zepu found that there were not many Ming troops landed and planned to get some advantage. However, in order to boast about his achievements, it was said that Deng Ming was in Shandong. However, Zu Zepu's boast would have adverse consequences for Ebilong and the others. If the court accepted his statement, wouldn't Jieshu and his gang become just eating but not working?

After Li Guoying's explanation, Jie Shu, who was already confused, suddenly realized that Zu Zepu was climbing upwards like he was stepping on himself, and slapped the tabletop hatefully: "This dog slave, I haven't even bothered with him to equip the green camp with firearms."

The court seemed to have immediately discovered that Zu Zepu was inappropriate in praising his merits. After receiving Zu Zepu's exaggerated report, Sony and Oboi issued an order to reprimand Zu Zepu for not seriously investigating the enemy situation, believing in others' words, and even reporting the absurd report of the detective to the court as true feelings.

Sony and Oboi's handling can also be called a good intention. They saw that Zu Zepu's struggle for merit was to belittle Prince Kang's role, so they would definitely not accept it. However, Jinan was responsible for the logistics of the Southern Expedition Army. If Zu Zepu was too ruthless, he would be worried that he would scare him and affect his normal work. Therefore, Sony set the tone to "misbelieve in others' words". As long as Zu Zepu handed over one or two scouts, the matter would be smoothed out.

Moreover, the Qing court sent the imperial edict to Zu Zepu for 800 miles to Huaiyang at the first time, obviously because it was afraid that Prince Kang would have a knot.

If Ebilong and Li Guoying were not on the side, Prince Kang, who was a fledgling, probably wouldn't understand what Sony, the old fried dough stick, wanted to say. However, after listening to the assistant's explanation, Jieshu was very satisfied with the court's reaction. He commanded the army to confront the 100,000 Ming troops. With such a great pressure, he would bear the responsibility. How could he let a Han man holding the flag slander behind his back?

Ebilong and Li Guoying both believed that Zu Zepu was just eager to praise his merits and did not lose his mind. Once he saw the court's rebuke, he would immediately understand and realize that he had made a mistake. He would obediently hand over the scapegoat and take the initiative to clarify the rumors that Deng Ming had landed in Shandong.

However, the next thing was completely beyond Ebilong's expectations. The emergency report sent from Shandong next time claimed that Deng Ming was in Shandong, and tens of thousands of people had completed the landing and had already entered the Qingzhou Prefecture. Zu Zepu said that he fought hard to kill the enemy and won consecutive battles in the Jiaoshui River, forcing Deng Ming to realize that Jinan was not easily captured, so he had to give up the strategy of attacking Jinan quickly and try to disrupt the entire Jiaodong. However, Zu Zepu's troops also suffered considerable casualties in the continuous hard battles, and were extremely tired, so they could not break through the defense line of the superior enemy on the Jiaoshui River. Now the situation in Jiaodong has become extremely serious.

In this report, Zu Zepu shouted at the top of his lungs to ask the court to send troops to support Shandong quickly and not to worry about the canal transportation. If Jinan is lost, it would be more than worth the loss if it is taken back to Guazhou.

...

Beijing, Jinan now sends one letter every morning and one letter in the afternoon to the court. In the emergency letter, Zu Zepu has increased the number of troops brought by Deng Ming to as much as 300,000.

The order to let the Tianjin Navy go to sea has been sent out long ago, but I don’t know when the Tianjin Navy will be able to send back the news. Moreover, if Deng Ming really came, there would definitely be enemy ships in the seas around Laizhou. It is hard to say whether the Tianjin Navy can rely on it to investigate.

Now when he saw Zu Zepu's urgent letter, Sony was worried. Since Zu Zepu ignored the court's rebuke and hysterically shouted that Deng Ming was really coming to Shandong, Sony has gone from suspicion at the beginning to believe his words - if Deng Ming did not go to Shandong, would Zu Zepu be guilty of taking the blame for himself in order to compete for merit? Especially the court's first rebuke had clearly told him that he would not take away this credit.

Today, Zu Zepu's letter of emergency was even more interesting. In addition to continuing to shout that Shandong needed reinforcements, Zu Zepu also suddenly talked about peace talks, saying that after he carefully considered it, China has been "there is the north, and there is the south" since ancient times. The division of north and south except Mongolia is the general rule, and the result of Mongolia's violation of this considerable law is that it only has a short life of eighty years.

As a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, Zu Zepu certainly hoped that our ruler would be in power for thousands of years. Therefore, he decided to take back the unrealistic and hard attitude of the past and instead suggested that the court seriously consider the issue of advocacy. If the original conditions could not meet Deng Ming, then Zu Zepu thought it would be okay to assign Guangdong to Deng Ming. I heard that the miasma there was very heavy and not a good place. Prince Shang was a loyal minister of the court. Besides, the King of Zhennan had no power to govern anyway, so he would be allowed to return to Liaodong to retire.

"It seems that Deng Ming is really here," Sony rubbed his nose and said to Oboi and Suksaha: "What are Ebilong and Li Guoying doing? Deng Ming both took the main force to Shandong, but they stared at Jiangnan with some of Deng Ming's followers."
Chapter completed!