When Gu Sanmazi rode to the palace with a breathless horse, he happened to see Zheng Hongkui coming out of the palace. I don’t know if it was because of the heat or Gu Sanmazi’s illusion, Zheng Hongkui’s face seemed a little bad.

After rushing dozens of miles, Gu Sanmazi had already sweated profusely, and the horses under her were breathing heavily. Fortunately, this was the imperial horse specially prepared by the court for the ministers to rush into the city from the dock, so they were not exhausted. Gu Sanmazi wanted to take a breath first, but Zheng Hongkui's official position was above Gu Sanmazi. Gu Sanmazi decided to say hello to Zheng Hongkui and shouted: "Mr. Zheng."

Zheng Hongkui was shocked. When he looked up and saw that it was Gu Sanmazi, he forced a smile on his face: "It turns out it is General Gu. I have something to do, so I won't talk to General Gu anymore and say goodbye."

Looking at Zheng Hongkui's hurried back, Gu Sanmazi was a little confused. Didn't the emperor always feel good recently? How could he see Zheng Hongkui's appearance just now seem to be scolded? He shook his head and had to walk into the palace in wonder.

Under the guidance of the eunuch, Gu Sanmazi walked to the backyard of the palace. There were tall trees here, completely blocking the sunlight. Gu Sanmazi suddenly felt cool. The emperor's figure in the distance was standing in a pavilion, holding some fish food in his hand, and the koi in front of the pond entered to feed. In order to grab the food, koi jumped up to the water. The water was bright and bright, and the koi were shining with each other. With the cool breeze, Gu Sanmazi knew that the emperor's mood must not be bad at this moment, otherwise he would not be in the mood to feed the fish. He hurriedly walked forward and knelt down a few steps away: "My memory, Gu San, pays homage to the emperor, long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!"

Wang Fu turned around, handed the fish food to the palace maid beside him, and raised his hand: "Gu Aiqing is here, please don't have any gifts!"

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty." Gu Sanmazi stood up and quietly looked at the emperor's face again. Yes, the emperor is still smiling now. He really doesn't understand why Zheng Hongkui looked bitter when he left the palace. However, he didn't expect that perhaps it was because of Zheng Hongkui's bitter face that the emperor was so tall that you have been running around the sea for more than a year. Thank you for your hard work."

"It is natural for me to go back to the emperor and serve the emperor. I have been running around the sea since I was a child, and there is no hard work." Gu Sanmazi replied.

"I know whether it's hard or not. I know that I have been doing my job as a guerrilla defence for almost a year, and it's time to move. Tomorrow I will ask the Ministry of Personnel to give you a squad general of the coastal defense. This time I come back, I will be promoted: "I reward the emperor with his kindness."

"However, since you are a general, you must look like a general. How many people and how many boats do you have under your command now?"

"When I go back to the emperor, I have 2,500 personnel, and only more than 200 ships of all sizes. However, there are only five sea boats that can be used for navigation." The minister of defense allocated four sea boats to you. As for the personnel, you need to supplement them. Within two months, it is necessary to make up for the personnel. The four sea boats can go out to sea together. Do you have any problems?"

Gu Sanmazi was overjoyed. A good sea ship worth more than 100,000 taels of silver. If it is operated properly, it can be earned in a year. This is equivalent to digging hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from Zheng Hongkui every year. No wonder Zheng Hongkui looked so bad, but he turned out to be worried about the loss of silver.

"I did not ask for a while to stop running around the sea. I will give you a seven-day holiday first. Let your family get together first. After you come back, you will be recruiting soldiers."

"Yes, the empress is following the order." Gu Sanmazi said happily.

"Okay. It's okay. You take your leave."

"Wei Messenger said," Gu Sanmazi grinned until he left the palace. Unexpectedly, this time he was promoted again and added to the sea boat. People were in a happy mood when they were happy. He even felt that the weather was not so terrible.

Watching Gu Sanmazi disappear, he remembered Zheng Hongkui's bitter face. Wang Fu smiled again. After all, Zheng Hongkui still had no courage to refuse his blatant behavior of digging meat. After all, the Zheng family was still under the Ming Dynasty. Zheng Hongkui was a minister of the Ming Dynasty. He had no land base and had a sea boat alone. Unless they were willing to be pirates again, it would be useless. He was just used to living a luxurious life on land. The Zheng brothers were also willing to go to the sea to cut their flesh. This was called a knife to cut their flesh slowly. With the first time, there would be a second time. In the end, Wang Fu would support someone who could compete with the Zheng family at sea. If Gu Sanmazi was not competent, Wang Fu would have to replace him.

In Lijin County, Qingzhou, teams of men wearing simple clothes, holding spears, harpoons and other weapons in their hands, striding across the street. The streets could see messy scenes everywhere, and there were corpses of Qing army plunged to the ground in some places. People who pretended to be like them were carrying the bodies out of the city.

Xie Qian's rebel army had just captured this county town. This was the fourth county town captured by the rebel army. Now Xie Qian's troops have grown to more than 15,000 people. The county town has been besieged for two days, and hundreds of Qing troops guarding the city either fled or were injured. Because they did not have much experience, the rebel army's forced attack on the city this time suffered heavy casualties, killing more than 500 people and injuring more than 1,000 people.

Despite the huge casualties, all the rebels were still very happy. Since joining the rebels, everyone was able to have enough food. This was enough. Since the Tartars entered Shandong, they have had enough of the government's exploitation. Instead of enduring the Tartars' desperate exploitation, it is better to fight to the death on the battlefield.

In the county yamen, the magistrate of Yijin was kowtowing desperately and begging for mercy: "Good guys, please spare me, please spare me."

"Hmph, dog official, you have spared no people. In a small Yijin County, you dare to collect more than 100,000 stones of grain. Those who cannot pay the grain will be arrested and beaten by you. I heard that just last month, more than a dozen people were beaten to death in front of the county government. You, dog official, have no king, no father or ancestor, are devoted to following the Tartars, and have no more death. You drag it down and parade in the streets before beheading them!" Xie Qian said with great enthusiasm.

The Yijin County Magistrate was speechless when Xie Qian accused him. Two Yijuns grabbed the county magistrate's clothes and dragged them out. The county magistrate struggled unwillingly: "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I have money, I am willing to give it to all heroes."

Xie Qian, Ding Keze, Cheng Shan and others all laughed. Now the entire county town belongs to the Yijun army, let alone the money of this county magistrate, and he still wants to buy his life. It is ridiculous. The county magistrate's voice soon got farther and farther away from the county government. Then there were waves of cheers coming from the street, all the words of overthrowing the dog officials. It can be seen that the county magistrate has done many evil things in the county and has been hated by many people.

Xie Qian and others attacked four cities in a row. The county magistrates in each city were greedy and extremely angry. It is not surprising to say that although the Qing Dynasty had always advocated that entering the Central Plains was to avenge the Ming emperor, they had never been willing to withdraw from the capital. The most important thing was that the Southern Ming court established by Wang Fu not only did not discuss peace with the Qing Dynasty, but also kept proposing to drive the Tartars out of the Central Plains. The Qing Dynasty's lies were self-defeating.

In this case, no one with a little backbone will come out to become an official. Naturally, what is left is some speculative people. On the one hand, they have to deal with extremely heavy taxes issued by Manchus, and on the other hand, they have to make money by themselves. In this case, it would be strange if officials are not very angry, so they will be executed immediately after parading.

"Brother, what should I do next? Do I need to attack Zibo?" Ding Keze asked.

Although Zichuan is also a county, it was established as a prefecture during the Hongwu period. In terms of prosperity, it is far better than the counties occupied by the Yi army now. However, it has the most soldiers in it, with more than 500 regular troops. With Xie Qian's trouble, the magistrate of Zichuan County was afraid of the rebel army attacking, so he tried his best to expand his army. Now there are 2,000 troops in the county. Although he took advantage of the opportunity, the rebel army also sneaked in dozens of people, but the power was still too small.

If there is an opportunity to attack calmly, it will not be too difficult for the rebel army to conquer Zichuan. Xie Qian originally wanted to capture Zichuan as the central place of the rebel army after he captured Zichuan, but the plan did not change quickly. In order to eliminate them, the Qing army actually sent two princes to lead the troops to kill them.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming are not real princes of the Tartars, but they can only be considered fake princes. However, the combined army of these two people has more than 10,000 people, and the number is not less than that of the rebels. If the rebels are relaxed and recruited, they can attract tens of thousands of people in one county alone. However, if the joining is the elderly, weak, women and children, it will drag down the combat effectiveness of the rebels. For all, Xie Qiandu insisted on only recruiting elite soldiers, and the so-called elite soldiers are only relative. At best, they are men over 16 years old and under 40 years old. Before this, these people had all walks of life, but lacked soldiers.

There were also a large number of new recruits in Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's team, but Haodai had veterans to train, and the quality of the rebel army was much higher than that of the rebel army, and it was complete with weapons and armor. It was not that the rebel army who made a simple spear with just a stick to block it head-on.

If the attack in Zichuan is not smooth, as long as it is delayed, if Kong and Geng’s troops are surrounded, it will be a big trouble. However, Yijin County cannot be waited for a long time. If Zichuan is not attacked, where will it attack?

Xie Qian was also in a dilemma. At the moment, the rebel army seemed to be at its peak, and if he was not careful, he would be killed. He turned to Zhao Shuxiang: "Military advisor, what do you think?"

Zhao Shuxiang was about to answer when a rebel army outside hurried in: "Report, leaders, there is a person outside who claims to be the special envoy of the Ming Dynasty and asks to see all the leaders." This special envoy of the Ming Dynasty is a member of the Jinyiwei. The Jinyiwei's reputation is too bad, and many people have no good feelings for the Jinyiwei. After discovering this, the Jinyiwei used the name of the special envoy of the Ming Dynasty when it was in the Qing army's territory.

But everyone was frightened by the title of the Ming Dynasty's special envoy and could not speak for a long time. Isn't the special envoy the imperial envoy the minister? There was actually an imperial envoy to see them.
Chapter completed!