The autumn wind is blowing on the left side of the mountain, north and south of Mount Tai, east and west of the canal, everywhere are armed heroes who have taken advantage of the situation. The most important leader of the Dashun Army in Shandong is not the one who succeeded Gu Kecheng and became the economic envoy of Shandong.
Ma Bao is not the old guard general who was the deputy general of Liugou of the Ming Army and is currently the governor of Shandong Province Guo Sheng, but the heroic hero Xu Du of Shandong Province who is full of arrogance and scolds Fang Qiu.
Since the Dashun Army's Northern Expedition, wars have been raging from the east and west of the canal, and the situation in Shandong has been unpredictable. In the past, during the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army destroyed the border wall several times and headed south, focusing on massacre and plunder in Shandong. Indeed, the Eight Banners Army came and went freely.
, the brutal and unusual style left a very terrible impression on the people of Shandong.
When Li Laiheng first settled in Shandong, he relied on the Manchu Eight Banners prisoners captured from the Dangshan victory. He had repeatedly ordered Gu Kecheng to take the Eight Banners prisoners to Shandong, parade them through the streets and hold public trials in various prefectures and counties in Shandong.
In order to boost the momentum of the Shun Army, Li Laiheng even played a lot of tricks. One of the most typical methods was that Li Laiheng secretly ordered Gu Kecheng to "repeatedly publically interrogate" the prisoners of the Eight Banners soldiers. Only a few hundred prisoners were taken.
Almost every prefecture and county in the Shunjun-controlled area of Shandong participated in several public trials.
In this way, the deep-rooted fear of the Manchus among the Shandong military and civilians was finally chipped away, and the prestige of the Dashun regime in Shandong was consolidated through the capture of the Eight Banners soldiers.
So when Haoge went south in a big way, Xu Du, who was already very heroic, stepped forward and, as the Dashun Army's Shandong Recruiting Envoy, recruited and contacted anti-Qing rebels everywhere, causing all parts of Shandong to start a prairie fire.
a lively scene.
These anti-Qing rebels were active in Dongsanfu, Shandong Province, especially in the Qingzhou area.
They sometimes harassed the supply lines of the Qing army, sometimes hijacked grain ships on the Grand Canal, and sometimes united with the gentry to retaliate against the traitors and scum who surrendered to the Qing army. As a result, even though Hauge once came to Yanzhou and Xuzhou, he was still unable to establish a solid foundation in Shandong.
The basis of governance.
The Qing army mobilized the troops of the three rebel kings led by Kong Youde to Dengzhou, which was an even more scandalous failure.
After Kong Youde launched a mutiny in Wuqiao, he burned and robbed Denglai, and already had a deep hatred for the local military, civilians, officials and gentry. The Qing government believed that Kong Youde had been stationed in Dengzhou for a long time and was familiar with the local people and geography, so it reused the three rebel kings to conquer the eastern part of Shandong.
The result of the three government affairs was to anger the army and people of Shandong and make the local gentry and people furious, which ultimately led to Hauge's defeat in Shandong and further led to the collapse of Prince Su, the emperor's brother who had all the power for a while.
For three days in a row, the autumn rain poured down like a bucket, and the rainwater all over the mountain gathered into a torrent, roaring away like a wild horse. At dusk, at the foot of Mount Tai, Xu Du led various rebel generals to mount their horses.
The troops and horses of the brigade were arranged neatly, with everyone wearing raincoats and bamboo hats on their heads, carrying spears and broadswords on their shoulders, and sabers tied around their waists. The ordnance and equipment looked a bit out-of-date and messy, but the figures were powerful and majestic, and the team and military appearance looked good.
All quite impressive.
The rebels recruited by Xu Du were not just local Shandong heroes. As early as when Li Laiheng first arrived in Shandong, he sent Ma Bao and some key Shun army officers to Jiaodong to conduct military training for the rebels.
Therefore, the discipline and style of this team are of course still far behind the main field force of the Fifth Army of the Dashun Army, but they are more well-trained than the general local bandit armed forces.
After Hauge and Kong Youde returned to Jinan, the rebel forces led by Xu Du first recovered the Taishan area. They were familiar with the geography and moved faster than the regular troops of Ma Bao and Guo Sheng. Looking at the majestic Dongyue in the rainy day, Xu Du
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But finally, the staff officers of the Military Academy sent to him by Gu Junen reminded him that it would be difficult for the rebels to continue marching in this rainy weather. They needed to set up camp quickly or go into the city to rest.
"Revelation, Kong Yinzhi has lent all the mansions and manors of the Confucius family in Tai'an Prefecture to our soldiers to live in. He also asked the Kong family's family members in Tai'an Prefecture to bring a message, saying that he wanted to bring his own residence in Tai'an Prefecture.
The local mansion was donated to the Dashun Army for the purpose of recruiting people to stay."
After Xu Du heard the news brought by his officers, he nodded and smiled. After all, he himself was also a scholar from Jiangnan. He did not care about the Yanshenggong family as they were warriors like those in the Dashun army, and still maintained a considerable degree of respect.
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Kong Yinzhi was deeply favored by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He was not a direct descendant, but not only was he granted the title of Holy Duke, but he was also promoted to the title of Prince Taibao and Prince Taifu successively. It can be said that "the emperor's kindness is as great as a mountain".
However, as soon as Dashun's army arrived in Shandong and Li Laiheng's troops were still some distance away from Qufu, the Confucius Mansion issued a decree and asked people to enshrine a dragon tablet with the name of King Chuang Li Zicheng written on it. They also offered horses and silver, knelt down to accept the seal, and said
We need to send people to Kaifeng and Taiyuan to help the new emperor preside over the founding ceremony.
However, Li Laiheng was not interested in the Kong family, so he sent Ma Bao to Qufu to politely reject Kong Yinzhi's overly enthusiastic flattery, and asked the Kong family to stay in the mansion with peace of mind and not cause trouble.
At that time, Li Laiheng still believed that the Dashun Army's foundation in Shandong was not solid. He was even prepared to give up Shandong once the Qing Army moved south in a large scale.
Therefore, Li Laiheng's plan for the Kong family was mainly because he was worried that after the Qing army took control of Shandong, the Confucian family would definitely surrender to the Qing Dynasty because of its "most advanced and adaptable to the times" talent in history, which would probably affect the Qing Dynasty.
Dashun Army's public opinion battle to compete for people's hearts.
At that time, Li Laiheng wanted to simply burn down the Confucius mansion in Qufu and take everyone in the Confucius family to Kaifeng or even to Wuchang for resettlement.
However, His Highness the King of Jin only sent Ma Bao to Qufu to test a few words, and he immediately encountered strong opposition from the contemporary Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi.
Without him, the Kong family’s sacrificial fields were all in Shandong. How could they be willing to give up such a huge “ancestral property”?
His Royal Highness the King of Jin could not stop sneering at that time, but he did not force Ma Bao to move everyone in the Confucius family to Henan or Huguang. Instead, he thought that if Kong Yinzhi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, it would be a good opportunity for scholars all over the world to see the Kong family clearly.
This may also facilitate Li Laiheng's future transformation of scholars' thoughts.
However, due to the failure of Hauge's military force and the joint efforts of Guo Junzhen, Gu Kecheng, Ma Bao, and Xu Du, the first battle between Qing and Shun in Shandong was ultimately defeated by the Qing army, who voluntarily abandoned Yanzhou and retreated north to Jinan.
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Li Laiheng's proposal to relocate Confucius was temporarily shelved. The Kong family's proposal to surrender to the Qing Dynasty was also temporarily withdrawn.
Although Kong Yinzhi was very dissatisfied with the rent and interest reduction policy implemented by the Dashun Army in Shandong - because the Confucius' sacrificial fields were not included in the tax exemptions of the Dashun Army - he assessed the situation and believed that for the time being, Nanming
There was no way to revitalize the country, and the Donglu who implemented the order of shaving their heads seemed to be even more evil than "rebellious".
So choosing the lesser of two evils, Kong Yinzhi had no choice but to become Duke Yansheng of the Dashun Dynasty.