The Ming army in Jiangnan retreated to Yangzhou to celebrate the New Year. Deng Ming also returned to Yangzhou through Chongming and other places on the 15th day of the first lunar month. He and the guards spent the New Year on the sea. After entering the Yangtze River, Qing officials from Suzhou and other places rushed forward, and the many honors almost sank Deng Ming's flagship.

After seeing Deng Ming, Zhao Tianba immediately complained: "Master Gong not only did not allow us to pursue the fleeing Qing army, but also convinced Hu Shuai and others not to pursue."

It is not surprising to defeat Jieshu. The information obtained by Jieshu is basically nothing right. The simplest one is for example, the map shows that it is a moat that diverts water. The Green Camp has worked hard to drag the raft, but found that the bottom of the river is dry and cracked. When carrying a ladder to cross the trench, it is found that it is full of Yangtze River water. As for the height of the camp wall, the number of Ming troops stationed, the direction of the road, all the information obtained by relying on Liangjiang and Caobiao fine work is full of errors.

On the other hand, the Ming army knew the arrangement of the Qing army and sent secret military information to Jieshu, but many of the envoys who were actually the surveyors of the Ming army, "reported" the military deployment of the Ming army to Jieshu. After taking the Bilong, they turned around and brought back the Qing army's military deployment. The entire Jieshu's tentative attack was to command the disadvantaged Qing army to pass through the most rugged and complex terrain, braved cross firepower to hit the key defense area of ​​the Sichuan army, which was ready for battle. When the Ming army launched a counterattack, each heavy punch hit the Qing army's unprepared area, and there were even many passage entrances to the defense line. After the Qing army launched an offensive, it was taken over by the Sichuan army, who was dressed up as the Qing army.

However, after the Qing army began to be defeated, Gong Yan resolutely stopped the Ming army's pursuit and cleaned up the surrounding defeated soldiers. Otherwise, Zhao Tianba would have estimated that the number of prisoners would easily exceed 60,000. Although Zhao Tianba was the commander appointed by Deng Ming, he did not consider much strategy, and his relationship with the Kuidong Army was not as good as Gong Yan.

"Now we have the ability to annex Liangjiang and Huguang in one fell swoop?" Gong Yong explained to Deng Ming calmly. In fact, Zhao Tianba himself was basically convinced by Gong Yong's strategic concept. He complained to Deng Ming just to show that his ability was not limited to existing results.

This time, when fighting on the land of Liangjiang, both the Green Camp in Jiangbei and the Grain Transport officers and soldiers worked hard to cooperate with the Ming army. In order to achieve this goal, Gong Yong has always complained to the Governor's Office of Liangjiang and the Grain Transport Governor's Office, saying that the internal factions of the Ming army are complex and the Central Army from Beijing should not be underestimated. Because Gong Yong has always implied that the Ming army is likely to be defeated, Jiang Guozhu and Lin Qilong both tried their best to assist the Ming army in fighting. Needless to say, both sent suicide squads to destroy Jieshu during the war, and even burned the barracks to create chaos.

"If we wipe out Jieshu's army, or beat Jieshu to the point of breath, Zhang Changgeng, who was determined to be independent, Jiang Guozhu would regard us as the primary enemy. Now they may not have no idea. And now it is not the time to fight hard with them on the land of these local snakes. In a few years, we will gain an overwhelming advantage over them, and may even directly order Zhang Changgeng to surrender." Gong Yong believed that the correct way was to stop when it was good and retain the Qing court.

There was a certain threat to Jiangnan, so that the Qing governors and governors would continue to rely on the Sichuan Army: "Jie Shu did not suffer much this time, mainly because of his morale. After this defeat, he must have known that the yamen in Jiangnan had been penetrated by us, otherwise the information he received would not be so outrageous. Not to mention that just after noon, dozens of places in the rear would be on fire at the same time. Our assault troops were as if they had entered a no-man state and were discovered until they touched his commander's tent - he would not dare to fight us in Jiangnan again in the short term."

Deng Ming also understood Gong Yan's idea. Jieshu was very dissatisfied with his defeat in this battle, and most of them suspected that the governor of the Southeast continued to rely on the Sichuan army, which means that if the governor of the Southeast continued to rely on the Sichuan army, the Qing court would probably not dare to die again. If the governor of the Southeast expelled the Sichuan army, Jieshu would probably come again. He still had the strength and would no longer trust the "friendly army" of the Liangjiang River. Without the assistance of the Sichuan army, Jiang Guozhu would probably not be able to withstand him.

Deng Ming has now disturbed another incident in Shandong, which also gave the Qing court a chance to move the army back to the north to reorganize. As for the fate of the Qing army in Shandong, Gong Yong, Sichuan generals and Kuidong army generals did not understand and were not very concerned. Deng Ming attacked to attract the main force of the Qing army, and finally restrained tens of thousands of Qing army support, forcing the main force of the Qing army to attack recklessly without carefully verifying the information. In the view of the Ming army, the Jiaodong battlefield had completely achieved its goal.

"What is most beneficial to us is to let Zhou Pei go to the public to secretly make trouble, and the Qing court's recruitment in Jiaodong failed. In this way, the Qing court would not have to do anything else this year. We are deeply trapped in the quagmire of Shandong. We can also provide weapons to allow the Jiaodong army and the Qing army to continue to fight for a long time. Zu Zepu will most likely be held accountable by the Qing court. This is another turmoil in the officialdom and is beneficial to us." Gong Yong's view is to let Jiaodong continue to stir up trouble. As long as the peace talks break down, the Qing court will definitely not let the main force go to Jiangnan when there are rebels in Shandong.

This idea is slightly different from Deng Ming's. After seeing the suffering of the Jiaodong refugees, Deng Ming could not bear to let the war spread in Jiaodong for a long time. However, Gong Yong's view obviously represents the mainstream opinion of the Ming army. Zhang Huangyan and Li Laiheng both supported this idea. After seeing that Deng Ming seemed to be a little reluctant, Zhang Huangyan also said that he could accept some refugees to Chongming.

After the meeting, after Zhang Huangyan left, Gong Yan turned around and pulled Li Laiheng and the others back: "There is one more thing, Jiang Guozhu and Zhao Guozuo plan to build a prison in their province."

After learning about the outcome of the Huaiyang War, Nanjing and Hangzhou sent congratulatory envoys to Yangzhou at the first moment. They also hinted to Li Laiheng and Gong Yong that they had almost emerged in Jiangnan and Zhejiang, and the two cases of "reporting and canceling" were "reported".

"Huzhou Mingshi case is very involved, and there will be many small cases of affiliated cases. Beijing means that Hangzhou will kill dozens of people, exil a hundred people, and search for millions of their property." Zhao Guozuo's secret envoy told Gong Yong that Hangzhou must implement this instruction to repair its relationship with Beijing, and also send half of the proceeds from the house search (on the books) to Beijing. The grain transportation loss last year, and Hangzhou can provide Beijing with millions of taels of cash through this case, which will definitely make Sony happy; while Zhao Guozuo intends to buy Deng Ming to buy one million taels of silver.

"But compared to Jiang Guozhu's case of cancellation, this is nothing. A few years ago, there was a temple crying case. It was clearly Jiang Guozhu himself who also added another charge to Zhu Guozhi, but he actually wanted to overturn the case. These cases combined, more than 13,000 people were exempted from fame and fortune. In terms of death, more than 700 people were exiled, and more than 10 million taels of stolen goods were confiscated and recovered. After the fame and fortune was exempted, it could also bring more than one million taels of tax revenue to Jiang Guozhu." In addition to filling the warehouses of the Qing court, Daxing Literature Inquisition could also shock Han intellectuals, and the Qing court was sure to be happy to see it. However, this time Jiang Guozhu only planned to symbolically pay one million taels of silver to Beijing, and he had to detain the rest himself.

"Jiang Guozhu promised to take out five million taels of silver to buy our bonds," Gong Yong smiled, "and he also planned not to kill a scholar and give them and his family to us. Perhaps he also heard that the Duke of the State needed a large number of scholars to run a college in Sichuan. These people were originally gentry with family property, so they naturally couldn't bear to go to Sichuan, but now they have to choose one of the two ways to go to Sichuan or Ningguta to be slaves."

"Mr. Gong means supporting Jiang Guozhu's case?" Deng Ming asked in surprise.

"Why don't you support it? It's fine if the two cases of Ming Shi and Crying Temple are fine. Many people are not wronged in this case. These people have indeed evaded taxes." Gong Yan sneered. The Qing court punished them for the charge of these gentry escaping the Ming Dynasty's taxes, which was similar to Dashun in Beijing. However, Li Zicheng was too hasty, and the Qing court obviously learned the lesson and had to wait until the world was settled before starting to recover the stolen goods.

In Deng Ming's previous life, the Qing court waited until Yongli was driven to Myanmar before planning a literary inquisition. In this era, because of Deng Ming's threat, the Qing court was always hesitant. If it weren't for the increasing financial difficulties, it might have been tolerated. When Deng Ming threatened the Southeast, the Qing court immediately gave up the idea of ​​recovering the stolen goods.

"Jiang Guozhu and Zhao Guozuo recovered the stolen goods for themselves, but as long as they were still officials of the Qing court for one day, the account would have to be counted on the Qing court." The battle in Huaiyang had just ended, and the Qing court had temporarily slowed down the idea of ​​recovering the stolen goods, but Gong Yan was determined to add a fire and let the Qing court do this: "So as long as Jiang Guozhu is willing to work, we should fully support him and let him do it under the banner of the Qing court, so that we will avoid doing it ourselves in the future."

"Mr. Gong still wants to recover the stolen goods?" Deng Ming was stunned for a moment.

"Of course, why not chase?" Gong Yan asked in surprise: "These people are all ungrateful wolves who are not well-fed. The Ming Dynasty is so kind to them, why don't we seek justice for the Ming Dynasty? Even if the Tartars do not pursue them, I will persuade the Tartars to recover the stolen goods after the Duke of the Kingdom of Jiangnan in the future. Now it's better. The Tartars recover the stolen goods to those who support the Ming Dynasty. In the future, we will recover the stolen goods from Jiang Guozhu, two portions of silver, hahahaha."

However, Deng Ming unexpectedly expressed his opposition on this issue. He did not agree to the Ming army's support for Jiang Guozhu. Now, Jiang Guozhu and Zhao Guozuo did not dare to promote literary inquisition without the permission of the Ming army. They were all afraid that the Ming army would support the gentry to resist and seize their foundation in an instant.

"Can we raise these gentry? Use the taxes of Sichuan scholars to protect them from paying taxes?" Although Gong Yan had just arrived in Sichuan, he was very good at using Deng Ming's rules and principles to oppose him: "Let the scholars to shed blood to protect the gentry and give them the opportunity to be capricious? Duke, I dare to ask, if this situation is put in the voting of the college meeting, do you think the senators and imperial MPs would refuse the 6.5 million taels of silver and hundreds of teachers given by Jiang Guozhu and Zhao Guozuo? "
Chapter completed!