Jiang Zhe didn't know that Zheng Zhilong, who appreciated him, had been suffering from a cold for many days, and he didn't know Dorgon's joy. Since he bumped into Guo Sheng, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief in this vast Yimeng Mountain.

Then Jiang Zhe "chased" Guo Sheng's remnants and rushed into Yanzhou.

However, before he knew it, Guo Sheng's army had already increased from a thousand remaining troops at the beginning to more than three thousand people.

More than three thousand soldiers holding the banner of "Dashun" easily captured Sishui County, but Guo Sheng just paused for a moment and rushed straight along the Sishui River to Qufu, the hometown of Confucius.

This really scared the Kong family.

Qufu County Magistrate Kong Zhenkan hurriedly sent people to Guo Sheng's army to discuss "repeating the city silver" with him. When Kong Yinzhi was not out for the time being, Kong Zhenkan, the Qufu County Magistrate, was the most famous person in the Kong family. This lord held this position in the Ming Dynasty. When Guo Sheng led his troops to Qilu, Kong Zhenkan was ordered to be worshipped as the dragon throne of Emperor Dashun. When Li Zicheng was defeated in Shanhaiguan and withdrew from the capital, Kong Zhenkan was still in love with Wang Aoyong early at the warning of Kong Yinzhi.

When the Kong family received Dorgon's promise that "the master does not remember the villain's mistakes", Kong Yinzhi personally signed the letter and submitted several slanderous and flattering articles to flatter the Qing court. As a result, the two continued to be the county magistrate of Qufu, and the other turned into the Yansheng Gong of the Qing Dynasty.

During the Qing army's entry into Qilu, the Kong family united with the Meng family, Yan family, Zeng family and other tribes, donated money, materials and food, and responded positively. They also used their own network of relationships to recruit officials and gentry for the Qing Dynasty, which greatly helped increase the power of the Qing court and had a very bad influence. Among the victims who were cheated, there was more than one Li Shiyuan, and Guo Sheng.

Now the Ming army has made an attack on the north, and Liu Zhaoji, Gao Jie, Cao Bianjiao and others have led their troops to Yanzhou and Kaifeng as soon as possible. At this time, Zu Kefa had already led his troops to Qingzhou. There were not many Qing troops stationed in Yanzhou. The Ming army broke Ziyang with great force, but as Zheng Zhilong expected, Hong Chengchou still dared not touch the Kong family of Qufu. He ordered everyone not to advance to Qufu, and then while urging the Yuyuan army in western Shandong, the troops were divided into two groups, and they rushed northward into Dongchang Prefecture, and the Daming Prefecture, the southernmost tip of North Zhili, all the way to the northwest.

Hong Chengchou not only asked people to avoid Qufu, but also asked people to deliberately avoid Jinan, giving Haoge a large enough safe space to allow him to fight Zheng Zhilong well.

As for Kong Yinzhi now, he was already crying and apologizing to Emperor Chongzhen in Jinling, outsiders didn't know that. They only saw the Kong family sending a large sum of money, grain, pigs and sheep into Ziyang City.

The Ming army troops who were asked to kill Yanzhou were very uncomfortable. It turned out to be a reward sent by the Lord Yansheng to take the initiative, which felt so beautiful.

I have been used to hard life (being dissed by literati for hundreds of years in public and secretly), and now the conditions are slightly better, and I can make people feel very happy.

At this moment, the one who stationed in Ziyang City was Wang Tingchen's army, while Hong Chengchou still stayed in Xuzhou.

Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo recovered Kaifeng Prefecture. Although this was a great achievement, this was not the end of the Northern Expedition of the Second Division. Cooperating with Cao Bianjiao Army, Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo, who had entered Daming Prefecture, also needed to cross the Yellow River as soon as possible and advance towards Huaiqing, Wei Hui and Zhangde in northern Henan.

In this way, when Guo Sheng, who was still "disappearing", suddenly raised the flag and rushed out of Yimeng Mountain, the Kong family in Qufu's scalp was numb.

They had made great efforts to the Qing Dynasty before, in other words, they caused great harm to Dashun. Especially for Liu Zeqing's repeated incidents, Guo Sheng was not only defeated, but even his life was almost lost at Liu Zeqing's Hongmen Banquet.

I want to give Guo Sheng a chance, why didn’t he destroy the Confucius family in Qufu?

While Kong Yinzhi asked Kong Zhenkang to contact Guo Sheng to "redemption of city expenses", or "forgiveness of money", he sent someone to ask Wang Tingchen for help.

After Wang Tingchen received the news, let alone it be. Although he despised the Kong family in Qufu, he really didn't dare to sit by and watch the Kong family in Qufu be unlucky, so he got up and dispatched troops to go.

"Master, someone is asking for a visit outside the door."

Wang Tingchen had already issued military orders, and the drum sounded "dong dong" and the people were covered in their bodies, just waiting to go to the lobby to summon the generals to go to the battle. At this time, someone came to ask for a meeting?

"Who is the visitor?"

Wang Tingchen asked, but there was no stop at all. All the generals in front of him had gathered. How could he delay because someone asked him to see him? This was a joke.

"Master, it's the Zheng family who came."

Wang Tingchen's feet, who were about to step out of the threshold, stopped suddenly.

There is nothing to say. Zheng Zhilong is going to be the Kong family in Qufu this time. If Hong Chengchou was in Ziyang, he would be in a little embarrassed. But now Wang Tingchen is in charge of Ziyang, so it would be easier to talk too much.

"Master General, if we had not tried hard in Songshan City, the Zheng family had been working hard, so we had already died there. Now the Duke of Zheng is here to ask for personal favors, how can we not agree?"

Wang Tingchen did not appear in the lobby, but asked someone to call out the three or two of the confidants of the generals gathered in the lobby.

When the latter heard the news, someone immediately spoke.

"This is right. It was not because the Zheng family strongly rescued us back then, and we had been killed for a long time. Besides, the Confucius family in Qufu..." There is no need to say much, the eight words "During Qin and Chu, the three surnames slaves" echoed in everyone's minds.

The Black Ice Platform did not let the Confucius family go without him. The Newspaper even revealed the actions of the Confucius family in Qufu. The scolding was too fierce!

Wang Tingchen sank for a while, and then there was nothing.

The army left the city as usual, but unfortunately they did not go to Qufu to the west, but to Jiningzhou to the east.

The Kong family in Qufu was looking forward to the stars and the moon, but what they were looking forward to was such a bad news. Kong Yinzhi and Kong Zhenkan were about to vomit blood. If they had known that Wang Tingchen was unreliable, they would have taken out money and grain to Guo Sheng obediently.

The latter lion opened his mouth wide, and he would need 200,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stones of grain and rice.

It is true that the Kong family has money, but this money was not caused by the strong wind, let alone that it also concerns the "how much do you pay, how much do I pay" of many famous families in Qufu City. Of course, I couldn't agree to Guo Sheng for a while, and even held the army of Wang Tingchen on his side, and his rejection of Guo Sheng's extortion was quite tough.

But now, Kong Yinzhi and Kong Zhenkan want to swallow all the things they said before.

There was nothing wrong with it. Although the Kong family in Qufu had a great family, the war was really unbearable.

Kong Zhenkan had already summoned a large number of civilians as Ding Zhuang to defend the city and also wanted to maintain Kong Lin. He also knew that Guo Sheng did not have many soldiers, but they were just unsure.

A group of scattered sand-like mobs were no longer in the same place, and they were uneven. I am afraid that Guo Sheng would be able to urinate the dense green and strong people on the top of the city with just a shout outside the city.

After all, the interests of the Kong family did not benefit all the people of Qufu, nor even all the people of the Kong clan.

There was a law in later generations called the 28th Law, which means that in any group of things, the most important ones only account for a small part, about 20%, and the remaining 80% are secondary, although the majority is the majority.

In the Kong family of Qufu, the number of clan members who occupy the financial and profits of the Kong family, the clan power and official interests is probably not enough to even 10% of the total number, or even five points.

Even many Kong clans at the bottom complained about the legitimate branches of all parties who had huge interests, not to mention how the local people in Qufu were resentful towards the Kong family.

Although Guo Sheng is not as good as before, his name is also well-known in Qilu. It is rumored that he is good at fighting and is very arrogant. Now that Guo Sheng has led thousands of troops to Qufu, the Kong family is naturally frightened, especially after the hereditary families such as the Kong family, Yan family, Lu family, Meng family and other hereditary families outside the city were all robbed by Guo Shengjun without hesitation. They are even more worried that these bandits who seem to be not very disciplined will cause the entire clan to fall into a catastrophe.

In addition to the actions of the Wang Tingchen, this made Qufu Kong's heart even more frightened.

Under such a nervous and uneasy mental confusion, Kong Zhenkan personally came forward to represent several major families to contact Guo Sheng in a tentative contact. He first sent ten thousand taels of silver, thousand stones of grain, five hundred silk and cloth, and two hundred pigs and sheep. He hoped that Guo Sheng could open his mouth for the sake of the saint, and after getting the things, he would happily go to another place. As for the previous entanglements, Guo Dashuai didn't remember the villain's mistakes and gave it all as a fart.

But they really overestimated Guo Sheng's awe of Saint Kong. The coach Guo, who was cheated and almost died, did not buy the Kong family's account at all. After accepting the meeting gift, he insisted on asking for 200,000 taels of redemption of city silver, grain, rice, and 100 stones, plus a hundred cattle, horses and livestock. It would be impossible to lose a single son!

There was no choice but to go back to the city to inform Kong Yinzhi, who immediately summoned all families in Qufu City to discuss matters.

The Kong family cannot take responsibility for the city redemption expenses.

Two hundred thousand taels of silver are not a small number, but for the wealthy Kong and Yan families, they would not be hurt. Even though they had already paid a lot of money, grain and silver for the Qing Dynasty.

After Guo Sheng got the money, he pretended to attack Ziyang City. The joking "battle" ended. The Ming army guarding the city failed to kill a Shun Army soldier, but seized 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stones of grain and rice.

Then Guo Shengjun, who was fleeing west in a panic, was made into dumplings by Jiang Zhe who had crawled out of Yimeng Mountain.

"Master, since the army is going to attack Qufu, why bother me to do this first?" Didn't this take off my pants and fart? Guo Sheng was really puzzled. Isn't it enough for Jiang Zhe to run to Qufu directly with his troops?

Jiang Zhe shook his head, "Your troops are the first to defeat Qufu first, and I will lead the troops to kill you. This was a planned plan. As a result, the Duke of the State asked someone to send a letter, but he asked me to openly do the Kong family, Yan family and other families in the name of being against Ming surrendered to the Ming Dynasty."

"The reason why you did this first is to make a comparison."

"You were a general who was a great success. A person from a bandit army knew the respect of Saint Kong. However, I was a general of the Ming Dynasty, but I was an open general. Wouldn't this be more shocking?"
Chapter completed!