After the Battle of Huaiyang, Jieshu's army also returned to the court, and had partially returned to Shandong just after the first month. The Ming army took the initiative to retreat after the Battle of Huaiyang, and it is said that it has now gone to harass Jiangxi again, which made the Qing court relieved, because the actions of the Ming army were in line with the propaganda of the Qing army. Previously, the Qing court claimed that the Ming army was defeated and the Qing army successfully resolved the crisis in Jiangnan. If the Ming army launched a large-scale conquering city and land in the southeast, Jieshu's propaganda would arouse everyone's suspicion.

Now the Beijing court suspects that the war in Huaiyang was not going well, but even Ebilong concealed the real situation. He claimed that the Mongols suffered a greater loss in the number of people in Huaiyang. Ebilong knew in his heart that the failure caused the Qing army to be disintegrated and a large amount of weapons and equipment was needed. In order to restore morale, Ebilong planned to train the army in batches, so that the officers and soldiers would revive the belief of victory. Jieshu and Ebilong reached an agreement on this issue, that is, they must win a victory before they can recognize the failure of the Huaiyang Battle to the court.

Li Guoying's situation was not very good, because his Governor performed extremely poorly in the battle of Huaiyang, and he could have been called a fleeing. If Jieshu and Ebilong had not been working together for more than half a year and believed that Li Guoying was a loyal minister of the court, they might have suspected that he was a traitor of the Sichuan Army. If it were the time when Jieshu and Ebilong had the worst impression of Li Guoying at the beginning of last year, they might have really treated him as the culprit and tied him to the court.

Because the performance of the Super League lost Li Guoying's face, he now cooperated with Jieshu and Ebilong to try his best to conceal the truth from the court. Even if it is unlikely to conceal the past, he is also in a position of being able to delay it every day.

After the War in Huaiyang, Jieshu and Ebilong both suspected that the officers and soldiers of the Liangjiang River and the grain transport officers and soldiers had collusion with the Ming army. Afterwards, Lin Qilong helped to redeem people through Mutans, and they felt that the frequent exchanges between Lin Qilong and Mutan provided an opportunity for the Ming army to spy on the military situation of the Qing army and bribed the greedy elements in the Qing army. However, the Eight Banners soldiers and the Green Camp were very supportive of the redemption of people. Since Jieshu and Ebilong also benefited from it, they were not easy to pursue Lin Qilong's affair with Mutans. Only Li Guoying felt that this was not Lin Qilong and Mutans had a friendship at all, but Deng Ming's consistent policy. The Ming army lied that Mutans had accepted bribes and released prisoners of war just to deceive Prince Kang, but Li Guoying could not explain why he had such an understanding - this was already common sense among the officials of the ban on the Yangtze River. In the end, Li Guoying chose to remain silent.

February later, Zu Zepu informed Jie and others that Zhou Peigong brought a group of miscellaneous troops from Liangjiang and Huguang to Jiaodong to cooperate with Shandong Green Camp to clear out the Qing Dynasty and destroy the Ming army. Zu Zepu's strategic concept was to use both kindness and power to promote harmony. The Qing army, which is currently undergoing training, is still in chaos and morale is sluggish, so Ebilong did not seize the opportunity to train troops in Jiaodong with Zu Zepu. Besides, Jiaodong, especially around Yashan, has been almost robbed by the Qing army when it suppressed bandits last time. Ebilong felt that Jiaodong was already quite desolate. Going to fight not only could not improve morale but might harm the morale.

Beijing also agreed with Zu Zepu's strategy. The last time he attacked Jiaodong, he spent a million silver on military spending, which was on the premise that the army could basically solve the military rations on the spot. Now that Jiaodong has been tug-of-war for half a year, the newly emerged Qing Dynasty and the Ming army have defeated the prefectures and counties, and mobilized 100,000 troops to Jiaodong. It seems that it would be impossible to solve it without spending a few million. Zu Zepu also hinted to the court that due to Prince Kang's intensive taxes, a large number of gentry joined the rebels to rebel. He heard that all the gentry in Jiaodong had rebelled, Sony also felt that Jieshu had probably made too much trouble in Jiaodong before. He repeatedly advised Prince Kang to be careful not to force all the gentry back, but it turned out to be like this. It was fine if Jieshu was fine, Ebilong was so ignorant.

The gentry had rebelled, so the bandit suppression army would not have to rely on the local solution to the food and grass. Finally, Sony, Oboi and Suksaha discussed for a while and secretly instructed Zu Zepu that as long as Jiaodong was willing to accept the amnesty and promised to pay the tax this year, the court was willing to pardon the disaster, including Yu Qi, and also agreed to the rebel group ruled in Jiaodong for a period of time.

In the eyes of the Minister of the Respondent, if they use violence to defeat the gentry, the heroes and other local tyrants will be unlikely to spend tens of millions of military expenses. Moreover, the bandit suppression army, Yu Qijun and the Qing Dynasty, have fought three or four times in Jiaodong. It is estimated that the army's rewards will be issued after the war, and they cannot let them rob it themselves. They spent so much, and finally got a piece of white land. It is estimated that the regent will not be able to pay taxes normally for ten years. The Minister of the Respondent felt that it was a bit of a loss, which was not in line with the Qing court's strategy of concentrating its main forces against Deng Ming.

Previously, Deng Ming had a vague hope that the Qing Dynasty House would further invade Qingzhou Prefecture and continue to expand its power westward. However, after learning that Prince Kang's army had returned, the Qing Dynasty Council weighed the pros and cons, but still did not dare to continue provoking Jinan.

Zhou Peigong, who was determined to resolve the chaos in Shandong as soon as possible, arrived quickly and devoted himself to his work. After a few years of intrigue with Deng Ming, Zhou Peigong is now a world-class diplomat and negotiating expert, and has even just established a small team to help Zhou Peigong figure out the hearts of the people and analyze the other party's psychology. After half a month, Zhou Peigong reached a successful agreement with the Fuqing Council: all the leaders of the rebel army, including Yu Qi, were pardoned, and they did not need to go to Jinan to meet Zu Zepu; Fuqing destroyed the Ming army and changed it to Deng, and the green camps of the two prefectures in Lai, and the military pay was resolved by the local government; after deducting the military pay paid by the court, the Jiaodong region should pay the full amount of taxes payable, without any tax exemption; Deng, Lai government suspended the imperial examination until they allowed the officials of the court to re-take the power of the prefectures and counties.

Although Zhou Peigong's agreement damaged the imperial court's control over the Jiaodong region, it could solve the problem immediately. If there was a long-term chaos, it would be a headache for the court. Now it will not only not affect this year's tax revenue, but also don't need to pay tax exemptions for the bandit disasters that originally planned to be given to Jiaodong. In addition, with a small area like Jiaodong, as long as the court destroys Deng Ming or successfully negotiates peace with him and restores its own officials to rule again, it should be easy to settle accounts with the rebellion in the future.

When Zhou Peigong was busy sharing the worries of the court, Ebilong continued to cause trouble for the court because the other three auxiliary ministers of Jiaodong were already dissatisfied with Ebilong and felt that he had not fulfilled his duties. Now Ebilong actually created conflicts among the Eight Banners soldiers and came up with a plan to use the Mongolians to grab the jobs of the Eight Banners of Manchus.

After Ebilong started training troops in Shandong, he repeatedly wrote to the court, demanding that 10,000 Mongolians be transferred to the army, and immediately asked two thousand Mongolian soldiers to fill the losses of the Mongols in the Battle of Huaiyang... No, it was to make up for the non-combat reduction caused by the cold and hotness of the Mongols. Compared to his enthusiasm for the Mongolian soldiers, Ebilong, who turned his elbows outward, tried his best to send more than half of the Eight Banners of the Manchuria back to the capital. In order to achieve this goal, Ebilong actually secretly spread rumors that the use of the Eight Banners of the Manchuria was even worse. Often, before the Green Camp started running, the Manchuria supervision team left first, which severely damaged the morale of the Green Camp.

Ebilong's remarks caused a stir in Beijing, and even Sony and Oboi were dissatisfied. Yes, due to the Battle of Zhenjiang and the Battle of Gaoyou Lake, the Eight Banners of Manchuria lost many veterans from Beijing and Nanjing. So now there are many seventeen or eighteen-year-old people in Zhili forbidden brigades, who were born after entering the pass. The grandfathers and fathers of these soldiers made contributions to the battlefield back then, and Sony and others still have the impression that they believe that their descendants will produce cowards?

Some people even argued that Ebilong's move was to prepare for his nephew and son-in-law to return to the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade. After the last Battle of Gaoyou Lake, the Manchu officer who was released was dismissed because he lost the trust of the royal family, including Ebilong's younger relatives. On this issue, the other three ministers of the regent were even more difficult to stand on Ebilong's side. They all had similar experiences with their children, such as Sony's son Soetu lost the prominent position of the imperial guards.

All the Eight Banners who followed Prince Kang to fight not only had the good status of the imperial guards, but also had the additional allowances for the expedition. Now Ebilong actually wants to deprive a large number of people of subsidies and future. Is it tolerant? Seeing the Eight Banners of Manchuria indignation, the Eight Banners of Han also came out to yell. Among the rumors spread by Ebilong, their relatives and friends also followed the Manchurian Taijun to leave before the green camp that was supervised.

Prince Kang was also under a lot of pressure for this. At the beginning, when Ebilong began to train the troops, Prince Kang expressed support. When Ebilong spread rumors that were not conducive to the Ebilong's Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Han, Jieshu remained silent and did not stand up for justice at the first moment. Soon, many people went to Prince Kang's mansion to complain, and even Prince An wrote to the front line, believing that Prince Kang could not sit idly by and watch Ebilong support the Mongols unscrupulously, even if the Empress Dowager was a Mongol. Besides, in mid-February, the Empress Dowager had made it clear that she firmly stood on the side of the Manchu children on this issue. How could there be a reason why a woman cares about her husband's family first without caring about her husband's family?

After Prince Kang publicly asked Ebilong to act cautiously, the Qing army on the front line also began to publicly complain about the regent training work of the regent minister. However, Ebilong did not immediately stop his dissatisfaction with the Manchu and the Eight Banners, and still stubbornly formulated an assessment plan. Ebilong said that only Manchu soldiers who passed the assessment could stay in the army, and those who failed the qualifications would be kicked back to Beijing by him, and even the status of the imperial guards were thrown away.

In the last major martial arts performance in February, the mount of the auxiliary minister Ebilong who was present to supervise and evaluate himself was unexpectedly hit by multiple razor arrows. The frightened horse would have caught Ebilong off the horse. Originally, his horsemanship shouldn't have made such a fool.
Chapter completed!