"I was ordered to capture the former Jinhua Prefecture Promoter of Zhejiang Province, and the Zhejiang-Fu Governor General's Office praised Li Zhifang, and no one was involved in retreating."

As soon as this sentence was said from the head of the Green Camp officer, Li Zhifang was shocked and immediately understood the key point.

There were many Chen Jin's aides present, but he was arrested only. The only difference between Li Zhifang and other aides was that he was not in Chen Jin's room before Chen Wen captured Jinhua. During this year, he was highly valued in Chen Jin's room. He was young and energetic, and he didn't know how to restrain himself, and accidentally offended these villains.

Chen Jin, they will definitely get rid of him as much as possible. This is not only the relationship between the boss and his aides, but more importantly, they also need to show this loyalty to their new master.

In this case, shifting the blame to others is the easiest way to get rid of Chen Jin. After all, Chen Jin defended Quzhou and died for the Qing court. If someone took part in the blame, Chen Jin's family would naturally be fine.

After thinking through this, Li Zhifang suddenly had another idea - perhaps from the beginning, Chen Jin was tolerant and supportive of him because if there was no need to wait, there would always be a guy who took the blame to share some responsibilities, and he was the unlucky guy!

Once Li Zhifang thought of this, he felt like he fell into an ice cellar, and even the green camp took him away without any response.

Soon, Li Zhifang followed these Qing troops to the lobby of a yamen. Several Qing officials on it could tell their identities at a glance - Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Zhou Guozuo, who was supposed to be in Suzhou, and the others were officials such as governors, inspectors, prefects and the like.

"The criminal below is the former Jinhua Prefecture of Zhejiang Province, and the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian praised Li Zhifang?"

"The lower official is Li Zhifang."

"I ask you, in August of the eighth year of Shunzhi, the rebel Chen Wen captured Dongyang County, but did you order to abandon Yiwu County and withdraw the Green Camp that besieged Luochengyan?"

"It was the order given by the subordinate, but at that time..."

Seeing that Li Zhifang wanted to explain, the voice immediately interrupted him. "Please give me a message, I will only ask you whether you are right or not. Why I will naturally know, and you don't need to explain."

At the end of August last year, Chen Wen captured Dongyang County and captured all the magistrates of Jinhua, Dongyang County, and Ma Sansheng, who left in Jinhua by Ma Jinbao. The situation in the capital city was critical at that time, and the defenders were not enough to defend the city defense. Once Chen Wen came to capture the city, it was inevitable that Chen Wen would fall. However, there was no city wall in Yiwu County, and Luo Chengyan was easily attacked by the Ming army and Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army. Instead of staying there and waiting for death, it would be better to withdraw to the capital city for defense.

This incident was originally praised by Chen Jin, but now it seems that since these people did not allow him to explain, they obviously intend to use it as a crime!

"I ask you, in November of the eighth year of Shunzhi, the rebel Chen Wen defeated the Zhejiang-Fujian Governor Biaoying, Jinhua Town Biaoying, Quzhou, Yanzhou, and Chuzhou Green Camp. At that time, he decided to give up the matter of Jinhua Fucheng, so you have participated?"

At that time, the green camp of the four prefectures suffered heavy losses. Although the Super Biao camp suffered small losses, they were unable to fight again. It was up to debate the proposal to abandon Jinhua, but it had nothing to do with him at this time, but it was Zhang Guoxun's intention, because he was eager to return to defend Quzhou, Ma Jinbao refused to argue about this. However, he and Zhu Zhixi expressed opposition to the fact that setting fire to the city would push the local gentry to the Ming army, but it was useless. The news that the Fubiao camp was gone, which also proved that this decision was not wrong.

But now, when these people have this question, they are clearly instigating him to confront Zhang Guoxun. There are many dirty things. Although Li Zhifang has not worn away the edges and corners in recent years, he has heard and seen a lot. He is extremely smart and can naturally figure out the tricks.

"Xiaoguan remember that it was General Ma who proposed to give up the city at that time. Xiaguan was a civil servant, and he said he could not be."

Ma Jinbao is already dead and is also a traitor. It is very convenient and safe to leave the blame to him.

Seeing that Li Zhifang actually reacted immediately, Ma Guozhu in the hall paused slightly, and then continued to ask: "I ask you, after you entered the curtain of Chen Jin, the former governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, did you propose to spread the news that Jinhua had fallen into the thief's hands to the Fujian thief Zhu Chenggong occupied the area?"

Although this strategy is dangerous, the effect is obvious. If this strategy had not been implemented, I am afraid that Quzhou would have been captured by the Ming army long ago. But when they have this question at this moment, it is obviously not that simple.

"It was indeed proposed by the officials."

Hearing that Li Zhifang did not explain, Ma Guozhu couldn't help but nodded, and suddenly felt a little regretful to the young civil servant. However, he, who had been in the officialdom for a long time, would naturally not change his established plan for such trivial matters.

"I'm pretty honest, then I'll ask you the last question, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, ordered the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian to train the Mandarin duck formation, but did you propose?"

"this……"

The creation of the Mandarin Duck Formation was indeed Li Zhifang who was instigated by Wang Sheng to contact Zhu Zhixi and Ji Zhenyi to persuade Chen Jin. Chen Jin was a little hesitant at the time, but in the end, he agreed to the threat from Chen Wen. The facts proved that this decision was extremely correct. If he could practice a few more Mandarin Duck Formation, the possibility of defeating the Ming army with the help of the people would be much smaller, and it might even be defeated in one fell swoop.

Li Zhifang didn't understand why this question was so she had to answer truthfully. Then, several civil servants didn't ask him anything and directly asked someone to take him down.

After interrogating Li Zhifang, Ma Guozhu returned to the Governor's Mansion, but he did not go to the lobby to take charge or go back to rest. Instead, he headed straight to a secluded courtyard inside the mansion.

The person living in the courtyard was not someone else, but Hong Chengchou, a Grand Secretary who had absent from the imperial meeting not long ago. Since accepting the position of the four Southeast provinces, Hong Chengchou asked for a secret decree to sneak all the way, and even the series of arrangements after taking office were released in the name of Ma Guozhu.

The reason why he was so hiding his head and tail was to try to hide it from Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong so that they could know his arrival as late as possible!

Everyone knows Hong Chengchou's ability, so Zheng Chenggong is his fellow villager, so he will naturally be more prepared; while Chen Wen, the governor of Shandong and Henan provinces of Zhili, Ma Guanghui, drove the officials of Tianjin Wei and Qingzhou to collectively hang himself, but he could never find the record of the Ming army commander. Whether it is the right guard of Tianjin and its predecessor Qingzhou Left Guard, or the records of the Governor's Office, there is no record of Chen Wen's ancestor Chen Sansi and Chen Youdi, and it is even more impossible to find any relatives of Yu Ding, who is still in the occupied area of ​​the Qing army.

This question made Hong Chengchou smell the dangerous signal. In his opinion, the name Chen Wen was probably fake, or it was not from a hereditary military general's family. The reason for acting like this was that some members of his family were in the Qing court. According to the information obtained by the surrendered general named Wang Sheng from Feng Jingdi the previous year, Chen Wen climbed Dalan Mountain with confidential information from the Zhejiang Qing army encircled Siming Mountain. What this meant really made him feel chilled.

In order to deal with the threats caused by Chen Wen, Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo, who was still in Guangxi before he set off, Hong Chengchou can be said to have worked hard.

Chen Wen's offensive was in full swing, but the Qing army in southwestern Zhejiang was unable to counterattack, so he ordered the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian in the name of Ma Guozhu, and the general general of Fujian on the left side of Fujian defended Jiangshan County and went to the Xianxia Pass. He also transferred Jiangxi Admiral Liu Guangbi and Huizhou Green Camp to cooperate in the defense of Changshan and Kaihua counties. Jiujiang General Yang Jie supported it to prevent Chen Wen from threatening neighboring provinces after capturing the three counties, causing a greater chain reaction.

In this way, Jiangxi was naturally empty. In addition to using Shunzhi's imperial edict to order Aljin to defend Nanchang, he also dispatched some green camps from Henan and Jiangnan to assist in defense. As for western Jiangxi, he could only let him die for the time being.

The mess left by Chen Jin is too big, but with his outstanding experience and strategic vision, Hong Chengchou still saw that the key to the Southeast war situation is that Chen Wen must first limit his expansion speed and scope to free up his hands to do other things. Moreover, "today, the wealth and wealth are half out of the Southeast. The important place in the Southeast is like Jiangsu and Zhejiang." Zhejiang is too important and must start from here. At least the first two steps to start must be used here.

Now that Jinhua cannot be killed, Quzhou has more than enough defense but less than enough attack. He originally did not want to give up Chuzhou, but there were too few city walls in the ten counties of Chuzhou. In addition, the heavy losses of Chuzhou Green Camp was not conducive to assisting defense, so he had to order his troops to defend Qingtian County to prevent the Ming army from entering Wenzhou and obtaining an outlet.

Although his relationship with Ma Guozhu was average, he had already had a tacit understanding in his actions for the great cause of the Qing emperor.
Chapter completed!