Zhao Zhilong had thought carefully about asking Zuo Maodi to hand over the certificate to him, because his defense in Nanjing was very weak. He was a distinguished nobleman from Beijing who came by air. He was not familiar with the place in Nanjing, and he had not been in office for much time.

No matter how many cronies he brings to take office, he cannot control the Nanjing camp army, and may even be under the surveillance of Nanjing nobles.

Therefore, he did not dare to let people from Nanjing's capital camp submit secret documents to him, and he did not even dare to send his own servants to him. This was too cowardly. In fact, how could those nobles in Nanjing handle things so carefully?

And Zhao Zhilong didn't know what he was thinking. He actually thought that Zuo Maodi was reliable. Zuo Maodi did not express his position on the issue of the return of the prince to power, and he did not participate in Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu's Qin Wang. He was the censor who patrolled the river and was in charge.

Navy man, why are you going north?

In addition, Zuo Maodi was from Laizhou, Shandong. The Laiyang Zuo family was a famous family in Laizhou and owned a large amount of land. Zhu Cixiang adopted the policy of "returning people to their native lands" in Denglai Second Prefecture, which was equivalent to turning Laiyang County into the Zuo family

A de facto "fiefdom". Therefore, Zhu Cixiang's "land policy" did not harm the interests of the Zuo family in Laiyang, but instead benefited the Zuo family.

Moreover, Zhao Zhilong also believed that Zhu Cixiang would settle down the troublesome nobles from the southeast as soon as possible and take control of the southeast, which would be beneficial to Shandong's anti-capitalist struggle. As a large landowner in Shandong, Zuo Maodi would definitely support Zhu Cixiang.

Therefore, it would definitely not be wrong to send a memorial to Zhu Cihong through Zuo Maodi to express his feelings.

In this way, he can change from a rebel to a loyal minister who has infiltrated the rebels!

However, he never thought that although Zuo Maodi, a gentleman, would not get involved in the "King Qin" quagmire, he still sympathized with the "King Qin and his loyal ministers". Confucianism is the most important thing about filial piety. No matter what Zhu Cihong did, he was a traitor!

Zhao Zhilong wanted to betray the "loyal minister of King Qin" to the disobedient and unfilial prince, so he was a cunning villain. How could Zuo Mao, the most honorable gentleman and the successor of Donglin, pass on the secret secret to betraying the loyal minister to Zhao Xiaoren?

Isn’t this the accomplice of a villain? This is not what a gentleman would do!

So the gentleman Zuo Maodi collected Zhao Zhilong's secret documents in Nanjing and then threw them into the Yangtze River.

"Zuo Qing, I admire your majesty's loyalty very much. Although she died for her country after Li Zicheng was defeated in Beijing, she is still a virtuous husband and a martyr daughter of the Ming Dynasty!"

Listening to Zhu Cixiang's words, Zuo Maodi felt weird! His mother was clearly a chaste woman who died for her country, but how could Prince Zhu say that she had died for Li Zicheng?

Zhu Cixiang frowned when he spoke. He actually disapproved of Chen's practice of starving himself to death. What harm could an old Han lady do to the Qing Dynasty by starving herself to death? It would be better to stay in the traitor Zuo Maotai's house.

Eating and drinking so much! If a traitor is eaten up, it can also weaken the strength of the Qing Dynasty a little bit, right?

And this Zuo Maodi also died in vain in history. It seems that he was sent by Nanming to the Qing Dynasty to have Dorgon catch him and force him to surrender. In the end, he refused to surrender and lost his life. Although Zuo Maodi did not surrender, he

Dorgon actually achieved his goal!

Dorgon didn't really think much of Zuo Maodi. Without his help, the Qing Dynasty would still have unified the world! Dorgon did this to show his feelings to all the scholars in the world who are aspiring to be traitors. He is very eager for you to come and seek refuge.

! Even if you are as stubborn as Zuo Maodi, as long as you are willing to surrender, you will still have an official job. But if you fight against the Qing Dynasty to the end, there is only a dead end.

Therefore, Zhu Cixi would never send someone like Zuo Maodi as an envoy to the Qing Dynasty!

But Zuo Maodi can still be reused. Just because of his inherited stubbornness, he can fight the Tatars in Shandong to the end!

Zhu Cixiang continued: "Actually, your grandson's death was not because of the bandits entering Beijing, but because of the Tatars entering Beijing! Therefore, your grandson was martyred by the Han people, and the Tatars are your mother-killing enemies!"

Revenge for killing one's mother is irreconcilable! Zuo Maodi, do you want to take revenge?"

Ah! Is this the revenge of killing my mother? Zuo Maodi said in his heart: My mother committed suicide and was not killed by the Tatars. This cannot be said nonsense.

Seeing that Zuo Maodi was silent, Zhu Cixiang frowned: "Do you want to take revenge? Are you a filial son?"

"I want to take revenge!" Zuo Maodi said quickly, "But I have to return home first, and Ding You can't lead the troops in the Northern Expedition!"

Who wants you to lead the troops in the Northern Expedition? Zhu Cihong said in his heart: If you want to lead the troops in the Northern Expedition, my life will be difficult to save!

"Of course I know that Zuo Qing is a filial son," Zhu Cihong said, "I will not let Zuo Qing get back in love. But Zuo Qing is from Shandong! The Tatars will soon go south to Shandong to dig the ancestral tomb of Saint Kong.

Maybe I will go to Laiyang to dig your family's ancestral graves. You are a filial son and a Confucian scholar, do you want to stand by and watch?"

What? The Tatars want to dig up my family’s ancestral graves? Zuo Maodi is a little nervous. There is probably nothing valuable in Confucius’s grave. But there are still some funerary objects in the ancestral graves of Zuo’s family in Laiyang! Maybe the Tatars really want to dig up the graves.

How can he be a dutiful son if his ancestors' graves are dug up?

Besides, even if the Tatars don’t dig up their graves, they can’t be allowed to occupy Laiyang! Because Laiyang’s surname is Zuo now.

Zhu Cixiang said sternly: "I have made arrangements in Shandong, especially in Denglai Second Prefecture to reorganize the guards, establish regiment training, and repair the city. Now the defense of Denglai Second Prefecture has improved greatly. However, the regiment training in other places in Shandong has failed.

Still unsatisfactory, so I want you to take over the errand of the minister of regiment training in Shandong while you are Ding You, and lead the Shandong gentry to organize regiment training, fight against the Tartars, and protect ancestral graves.

Zuo Qing, are you willing to go to Shandong to take over this assignment?"

Shandong already has two governors, two governors, a vassal king, Duke Yansheng, and many general soldiers. Now they have a regimental training minister added, and it is really busy.

However, Zhu Cihong sent Zuo Maodi to Shandong to preside over team training matters, and this was also weighed repeatedly.

Because most of Shandong was impossible to defend under the fierce attack of the Qing army, Zhu Cihong would not be stupid enough to leave Shandong and engage in a decisive battle with the Qing army. Therefore, except for Dengzhou, which must be defended, other places in Shandong can be abandoned.

But Shandong's "struggle against the Qing Dynasty behind enemy lines" must be persisted for a long time!

Under such circumstances, there is no need for unified command on the Shandong battlefield. Arranging more sets of leadership groups that can give orders to the Shandong gentry will be very beneficial to the Shandong people's struggle against the Qing Dynasty.

Su Guansheng, Shen Tingyang and Li Ruolian, who are now placed in Dengzhou by Zhu Cihong, have very low appeal to the Shandong gentry. Therefore, they only watch Dengzhou and maintain the presence of the Ming Dynasty in Shandong and Beiyang coastal areas.

Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Zhu Yihai and Zuo Maodi are the people who can truly lead the overall situation of Shandong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

As for who among them will stand out and who will be beaten to death by the Tatars soon, Zhu Cixiang doesn't know. He just uses the method of diversifying investment and invests in a few more companies.

After Zuo Maodi left Pingshan Hall, Zhu Chunjie, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, came together with Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites.

Both of them came for the Qing Dynasty's pro-promotional delegation that had arrived in Jinan. The diplomacy of the Ming Dynasty was tribute diplomacy, which was handled by the Host and Guest Department under the Ministry of Rites. Although the Qing Dynasty was not a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty did not have a Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Therefore, Qian Qianyi still had to serve as the Minister of Etiquette and be responsible for the reception.

And Jinyiwei's Beizhen Fusi became a yamen for spying on external intelligence, so it had to participate in diplomacy with the Qing Dynasty.

"Detain the Qing envoy!" Zhu Cixiang has already made a decision. The two traitors Sun Zhixian and Jin Zhijun are of great use!

He added: "Send reliable and capable people to do it, escort them to Yangzhou and hand them over to Nansi's Huaiyang Station for close custody!"

"Master Qiansui, they are envoys after all," Qian Qianyi reminded in a low voice, "My Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette!"
Chapter completed!