"Why hasn't Gao Yingwu (Gao Jie) come yet? What is he doing so procrastinatingly?"

"What else can we do? The prince has sent the censor to check on him! He is trying to think of a way to deal with it!"

"Censor? Who is it?"

"Ji Yan Wang Gao Yingwu is in a terrible situation this time! How much has he embezzled in Haizhou in the past two years? More than two to three million! Ji Yan Wang must have come to the north to check him out!"

"That's right. We all have the best of both worlds. Even if the King of Hell comes, he won't be able to find us!"

"But Gao Yingwu is the commander-in-chief of the army. He has 20,000 men who dare to fight. Now it is time to use the army. Will the prince argue with him about corruption?"

"Are there still too few military leaders who have been involved in corruption and bribery in the past two years? There are five or six new army commanders, commanders and generals from various places, and I don't know how many deputy generals have been lost!"

"Yes! And how can Gao Yingwu be a man who dares to fight? It's all the wealth and wealth that have exhausted his fighting spirit. His Highness the Crown Prince is about to be promoted. The new king will use three fires when he comes to power. He must be burned in the first one!"

In the middle hall of the government office of the Seven Provinces Military Gate of the Governor of Qufu, Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, Huang Degong, Kong Xingxie (son of Kong Yinzhi), Li Huajing, Liu Zhaoji and others took advantage of Shi Kefa, Kong Yinzhen and Lu Wang Zhu Yihai to

Before I arrived, I was drinking tea and talking loudly.

The thing they were talking about was that Ji Kun, the censor of Shandong Province, was about to take office. Contrary to Zhu Cixiang's expectation, these warlords all felt very good. No one thought that Ji Kun was here to deal with them, and they couldn't make any money.

Many, Gao Jie is the most corrupt official. The manor on Yuzhou Island is as gorgeous as the imperial palace. It is said that a Shaanxi Street was built in Shanghai, and all the houses on the street belong to the Gao family! In Nanjing

He also built a mansion in Wuhan, and deposited a huge sum of money in the Salt Merchant Bank in his wife's name.

In addition to taking bribes, Gao Jie also passively avoided war. As the commander-in-chief of Xu Hai, he did not have a good fight with the Donglu. The last time Shi Kefa gathered all the troops to break the Qing army's Yishui camp, everyone came out.

As for the soldiers, Gao Jie was just perfunctory and just sent some food and gunpowder, so he tried his best.

Now the prince is about to ascend the throne and become the emperor, and then he must start the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. Now the bandits have been hit hard, and Li Zicheng is probably dead! Xiangyang and Nanyang, the two lairs that have been occupied by bandits for two or three years, have also been occupied by the army.

.The situation in Huguang and the southwestern part of the Central Plains is excellent.

At the same time, the anti-Qing situation in Shanxi was also quite good. The Dai vassal vassal in the Luliang Mountains was getting stronger and stronger. Although Datong Prefecture was once again surrounded by the Qing army, the current situation could still support a large number of Qing troops and was therefore restrained on the battlefield in Shanxi.

In addition, Li Ruolian, Su Guansheng and Shen Tingyang also made considerable progress in plundering the coastal islands of Liaodi. They have currently occupied Juehua Island, Zhangzi Island, Shicheng Island, Big and Little Changshan Island, Wangjiashan Island, Guanglu Island,

Tieshan Island even landed on Changsheng Island, a large island in Fuzhou Bay this summer! They pretended to attack Jinzhou Guard and Fuzhou Guard, causing great panic in Liaodong.

Judging from the current situation, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will most likely launch a Northern Expedition to establish his authority after taking the throne, and the chances of winning are quite high!

And before sending out troops, it is indispensable to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys!

Therefore, a general like Gao Jie who only knows how to make money but does not know how to fight against the Qing Dynasty will definitely be unlucky. The chicken that needs to be killed is him.

While everyone was discussing, there was a cough from behind the screen. Gao Hongtu and Zuo Maodi looked at each other and stood up from their chairs. Gao Hongtu also said sternly: "Stand up, Prince Lu is here."

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There are many big names here in Shandong. Even Shi Kefa, the governor of the military sect of the seven provinces, is not the biggest. The biggest one is King Zhu Yihai of Lu!

Zhu Yihai went to the DPRK for a pilgrimage a while ago. Accompanied by King Fat Fu, he met the "semi-retired" Emperor Chongzhen. He also went to Xuanwu Lake and Tangshan to visit the "Summer Palace" and "Winter Palace" where Emperor Chongzhen abdicated.

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Soon after, when Emperor Chongzhen became the Supreme Emperor of Chongzhen, he lived in the Xipu Palace in Nanjing in the spring and autumn, in the Palace in Xuanwu Lake in the summer, and in the Hot Spring Palace in Tangshan in the winter. There were also hundreds of visits every year.

Ten thousand taels of gold and silver are available for flowers.

Zhu Yihai was really envious of this life. After he returned to Shandong and met Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi, he kept praising Prince Zhu for his filial piety!

Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi were also convinced. They accompanied Zhu Yihai from behind the screen, sat down separately, and told everyone the good news.

"The prince is so filial!" Dazhongliang Shi Kefa twirled his beard and said with a smile, "I took the refugees to Huguang to eat, and gave the emperor as much gold and silver as possible. I also built the Xuanhu Palace and the Hot Spring Palace for the emperor.

, so filial.”

Kong Yinzhi nodded repeatedly and agreed: "To give the emperor a round number, Chongzhen still has twenty years! Twenty years as emperor, and the thirty-six-year-old Supreme Emperor is really the Lord of great blessings!"

"Yes, yes!" Zhu Yihai said with a smile, "And the emperor is in good health. He is in his prime. It looks like he will live to be at least seventy-six, twenty years as emperor, and forty years as emperor. What a blessing!"

I don't know what Emperor Chongzhen would think if he knew what these three "loyalties" who had high hopes for him said.

But Shi Kefa, Kong Yinzhi, and Zhu Yihai all spoke the truth!

In the view of the three of them, Chongzhen had been in power for seventeen years and had brought a still-sustainable Ming Dynasty to such a state. However, the prince had been in power for two and a half years and the country had greatly improved. To restore Chongzhen's power would be to harm the country and harm the people, and they were sorry.

Forefathers and ancestors.

So Emperor Chongzhen should retire as soon as possible! If he retires at the age of thirty-six and enjoys all the wealth and beauty in the world, what else is wrong? Does he have to stay on stage and torment himself to death?

Besides, how many filial sons have your Royal Highness given to Emperor Chongzhen? In the future, the twenty-four filial piety can be changed to the twenty-five filial piety by adding the deeds of the filial son Zhu Da!

Huang Degong also felt very good. He had no idea that King Ji Yan was here to check on him! He still laughed and agreed: "When the prince comes to the throne, he will probably go to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. I will be considered useful!"

Shi Kefa stroked his beard and also smiled: "Yes, that's why we invited everyone here to discuss how to carry out the Northern Expedition! In the past two years, the Tartars have been rebellious in the Central Plains, and they have long been angry. I believe that as soon as Master Wang arrives, all places will

There will definitely be a mass response, and the North will conquer the Central Plains, which is just around the corner!"

Yes, Dorgon encircled the land and set up green flags, and allocated land according to plans, and did not give any discount to the scholar-bureaucrats. They all collected taxes at the rate of four liters per mu (this was collected by the Qing court, and there were additional taxes in local areas).

How is it possible not to be angry and resentful?

Everyone who fled to Qufu hated it so much. The same happened in Jinan, Qingzhou, Denglai and other places. There was no one who didn't hate the landlords and rich people!

"It is inevitable to conquer the Central Plains in the north, but the land in the Central Plains must be returned to its original owner!" Zuo Maodi, the filial son, said solemnly, "The Central Plains and Huguang are different!"

"Yes, yes, what Brother Luo Shi said is absolutely true!" Gao Hongtu also agreed with Zuo Maodi's opinion, "In the past two years, there has been a national crisis, and countless gentry in the Central Plains have destroyed their families to help the disaster. The court must not treat everyone badly!"

Kong Yinzhi also said: "In the past ten years or so, Shandong, Henan, Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Liao have suffered from natural and man-made disasters. Both the gentry and the people have lost their vitality. After recovering, they must rest with the people. Why?

They all have to be tax-free for ten years, right?”

Huang Degong shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Master Yansheng, what will we do if we are exempted from tax for ten years? We can't let the imperial court pay for it, right?"

Shi Kefa smiled and said: "Aren't there still official fields and military settlements? We can sell the official fields and military settlements to raise military pay. Can't we just sell them out in ten years?"
Chapter completed!