Chapter 486

Chapter 486

Chapter 486

Texas.

Liu Zeqing, who was newly conferred the title of Cao Guogong and appointed governor of Shandong, walked down the canal and finally stepped into the border of Shandong.

Behind is Wuqiao in Hebei, and in front of you is Dezhou, Shandong.

"This is an amazing place!" Liu Zeqing said to his nephew Liu Zhiqian, confidants Zheng Longfang, Yao Wenchang, Li Huajing, etc., "Back when Kong Youde sent troops from Denglai to reinforce the Daling River, two people walked on the road. In the month, I walked halfway back by water, and after a long time by land, I finally came to Wuqiao.

Then he mutinied because of a chicken! "

When he said this, he laughed disdainfully.

Li Huajing and others also laughed. In fact, everyone is a soldier. Who doesn't know why Kong Youde mutinied and rebelled.It is said that the imperial court did not pay the food, the soldiers were hungry, and in the end they robbed a chicken from the gentry's house in Wuqiao to trigger a mutiny. In fact, these are just excuses.

The real reason is very simple. Kong Youde is from Dongjiang Town, and belongs to the Mao family. Because Mao Wenlong was killed, Mao Wenlong's adopted grandchildren were also implicated. In the end, Kong Geng and others came to Denglai, Shandong with Wang Huazhen, but they didn't like him. The imperial court has long buried resentment and dissatisfaction.

There are also old grievances with the Guanning Army in western Liaoning.

So Zu Dashou was besieged by the Daling River, and the imperial court dispatched Denglai soldiers to reinforce it. Kong Youde was ordered to send troops. The imperial court gave him food and grass for two months, but he just tried to delay it, first by sea, then by land. For two months, he did not leave the border of Shandong.

In the last two months, I ran out of food and grass, and was still in Dezhou. I was urged to do nothing, so I left the border of Shandong and went to Wuqiao in Beizhi.

Then something happened just after leaving Shandong.

It is said that they robbed a chicken and were forced to mutiny by the gentry, how could the gentry have such great skills.

In the final analysis, it was just that Kong Youde and others refused to go to the west of Liaoning to rescue the Guanning army. It was barely okay to stay in Denglai with the court's salary, but it was impossible for them to go to Liaodong to work for the Guanning army.

Li Jiucheng and his son were greedy again for the money that the court pulled out to buy horses. At this time, they were even more afraid of the incident, so they simply took the opportunity to make a mutiny.Kong Youde said he was coerced, but as soon as he rebelled, Geng Zhongming responded in Dengzhou, and even Mao Da immediately led his troops across the Liaodong Sea to help.

Liu Zeqing was a general in Liaodong back then, and later he also made contributions in the Pingdenglai Rebellion, and then his official career was promoted.

His hometown is Cao County, Shandong Province. He was born in the army. He served as a garrison in Ningyuan in Liaodong.

Later, Ping Denglai made meritorious service and was promoted to the general army.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Liu Zeqing was also impeached and demoted many times, but he would take advantage of it.She paid off to bribe the court officials, such as Zhou Yanru who joined the cabinet in the 14th year of Chongzhen. He calculated Zhou Yanru's itinerary from his hometown Yixing to the north, especially waiting halfway, escorting him all the way, and giving him 2 taels of gold.

Afterwards, Zhou did not treat him badly, and reinstated him as the general soldier.

In the last years of Chongzhen, Liu Zeqing was stationed in Shandong, and had a large number of soldiers, but he had already supported himself and refused to obey the orders of the court. Even before the fall of Beijing, when Chongzhen ordered him to serve as the king, he lied that he could not fall off the horse.

In those few years, Liu Zeqing plundered and looted, stayed behind, lied about his military exploits, and even killed the censor who passed by the defense area and impeached him.And after Hongguang proclaimed himself emperor, he became one of the four towns, Feng Bo Kaifan, and became even more domineering.

But when the Qing army went south, this guy surrendered without firing a shot, and nearly [-] soldiers and horses under his command were disarmed.

It's just that after the Qing Dynasty, his treatment was not good. He has been engraved in Beijing. He said it was engraved, but in fact he was idle or even under house arrest. Even the generals under his command were treated similarly.

Having been idle in Beijing for more than a year, Liu Zeqing has been regretting it all the time, especially after hearing that there is a Zhu Yihai in the south, who is so great, how ZTE, he regrets it even more.

Although Liu Zeqing did not rescue Yanzhou back then, resulting in Lu Wangfu being breached by the Qing army, Lu Wang Zhu Yipai was killed, Zhu Yihai was injured, etc., but this does not prevent this cheeky fellow Yishao Tiandi from claiming himself.

"Uncle really decided?"

"If people do not do what they want, heaven and earth will perish." Liu Zeqing touched his bald forehead.

This guy has never been a person with no bottom line.

Thinking back to the matter of supporting the new king, he saw that the Donglin Party was powerful, so he agreed to support Donglin to support the King Lu. In the end, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, and Liu Liangzuo joined forces with Ma Shiying to support King Fu and proclaim him emperor. Seeing that the momentum was not right, Immediately see the wind and turn the rudder, and change to embrace the king of blessing.

Later, it succeeded in supporting the establishment and became one of the four towns in Jiangbei, and even won the garrison in the most affluent Huaiyang area.

Having been the local emperor in Huai'an for less than a year, he had enough of his addiction. As a result, when the Qing army came, he brought nearly 10 people and surrendered directly.

It’s just that I thought that after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, I would be crowned as the prince. After all, Wu Sangui was conferred the title of King Pingxi by Daming Ping Xibo. He, the earl of Daming, was also crowned king. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he was not also crowned king.

Even the Qing court had to marry Princess Gege to him.

It's just that he didn't expect that there would be nothing after the surrender.

He was taken to Beijing Enyang, and ended up being idle. Dorgon even got two maidservants to be his concubines, which made him feel very disgusted. If you don’t marry Princess Gulun and Princess Shuo, you should marry Gege anyway, what about the princess? Yes, you gave me two maidservants as concubines, that's too contemptuous.

The gap is too big.

Not only can it not be compared with the treatment he received when he was in Huai'an Tuhuang during the Hongguang Dynasty, it was not even as good as when he was in Shandong at the end of Chongzhen.

In Beijing, it is also often heard that so and so turned against the Qing Dynasty and voted for the Ming Dynasty.

Including Huama Liu Liu Liangzuo who used to be one of the four towns, as well as Gao Jie's general Li Chengdong, Wu Shengzhao, Tu Guobao, Li Yuchun, Zhang Tianlu, etc., plus Jin Shenghuan from Jiangxi anyway, He Zhen from Hanzhong, etc., which made him It's getting itchy.

Before leaving Beijing, he was already secretly planning how to fight against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

When Dorgon granted him the appointment of Admiral of Shandong and named him Cao Guogong, Liu Zeqing had already successfully connected with Nanming early in the morning.

He sent people everywhere to contact Daming, and sent his family members secretly to Shaoxing and Nanjing, etc. Such actions even made Daming suspect that this guy came to surrender on purpose.

After several trials, I came to the conclusion that this guy is really not particular.

Capricious and unscrupulous, he really doesn't want to play with the Tartars, he wants to belong to Daming.

Zhu Yihai hated this kind of person, but he personally instructed to accept him as a subordinate.

Finally, when Daming sent a secret envoy to contact him, Liu Zeqing was very excited, so even if the Tatars finally sealed Cao Guogong and gave him the title of Admiral of Shandong, he didn't care.

He had already seen through it, and the Tartars were like this. There was also a lot of luck in entering the customs, but it was just a coincidence.

Now Chuangshun is dead, and the West Camp is almost gone, but Daming is not only alive, but also stronger. The Tartars have been beaten by the Ming army on the east and west defense lines thousands of miles away. No matter what to play, the Tartars will not reuse him anyway.

"Uncle, what shall we do now?"

"Entering Shandong, that's our territory, but if you want to become powerful in the future, you have to rely on your skills, you have to have people and land."

Liu Zeqing stroked his beard, full of confidence.

"Li Huajing, you go back to Caozhou first, that is our hometown base camp, you go there as a general of my bid, in name to recruit the township party to join the army, secretly you contact the various rebels and villages west of the canal .”

"Yao Wenchang, Zheng Longfang, you two also go to Yanzhou and Xuzhou in the west of the canal to contact various rebels, local villages, and the Ming army as my nominated generals."

"He and I will go to Jinan. When the time comes, we will rise up together and take back Shandong. At that time, we will command an army of [-] and occupy the land of Shandong. Can Emperor Shaotian make good use of us?"

"Uncle is right."

"We have to hurry up before Duoduo goes south to Jinan. If Duoduo arrives in Jinan, it will be difficult to handle it. Hurry up."

Li Huajing patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Commander, how many people in Shandong are our old troops. As long as the flag is raised at that time, and the slogan of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty is raised, with the prestige of the Commander, there must be a large number of responders."

"Beware of Xu Dingguo in Henan, this guy has a dark heart." Liu Zeqing and Xu Dingguo were appointed admirals at the same time, one admiral of Henan and the other admiral of Shandong. Each land has its own prestige.

"However, there is good news. Li Jiyu from Dengfeng, Henan has secretly joined Daming. When we raise the flag, he will also raise troops there. When Xu Dingguo's backyard catches fire, he can't take care of himself."

"The commander-in-chief strategizes and wins a thousand miles."

"Hahaha!"

Liu Zeqing smiled smugly, feeling like a dragon returning to the sea.

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In Cangzhou, on the canal.

The canal, which used to be busy in the past, is particularly deserted because of the cut off of water transportation in the south, and because of the recent raids of pirates harassing the coast and invading the interior, there is even more panic everywhere.

Cangzhou produces salt and is also the hometown of martial arts.

However, Cangzhou Salt Field was attacked by Nanming pirates before, and people were panicked.

In the reeds by the canal.

There is a group of people hiding in it, the same group of people who came from the sea and attacked several saltworks before.

At this time, the leader is none other than the national treasure of the former governor of Jiangning in the Qing Dynasty. At this time, he led a group of people to hide in the reeds, staring at the canal, obviously thinking of something.

"Hong Chengchou's ship will pass by here today. There are about a dozen ships accompanying him, all of which are merchant ships from Beijing. They are traveling together. Hong Chengchou is on their ship, not on a military ship. There are about 30 ships on his ship. Accompanying servants, there are about [-] staff and scribes accompanying."

"Our whereabouts have not been revealed yet. No one knows that we are here. We can easily intercept them and capture the newly appointed governor of Zhili, Henan, and Shandong provinces and the governor of Shandong in one fell swoop."

The one who spoke was Yang Guohai, the nephew of Tu Guobao. This guy used to sell private salt, and he was also very familiar with the salt farms and salt households in Cangzhou. He led the way for this landing raid.

"Hong Xianggong is my old boss and my benefactor. I can't watch him go further and further down the wrong path. I have to help him." Tu Guobao held the knife, "In a while, except for Hong Xianggong, the rest Not one of them will be left!"

"If Hong Chengchou doesn't know good from bad, won't he go with us?"

"Knocked out, or tied up and taken away." Tu Guobao said bluntly.

"What if he resists to the death?"

Tu Guobao said impatiently, "As long as the ship is robbed, can he still fly with wings? Try to capture him alive. A living Hong Xianggong is definitely worth more than dead!"

(End of this chapter)