Zhao Zhilong had thought carefully about asking Zuo Maodi to hand him over, because his Nanjing defense was very weak. He was a distinguished nobleman from Beijing who came to Nanjing by air. He was not familiar with the place here in Nanjing, and he had not been in office for long, and he did not bring many close associates with him. Therefore, the Nanjing Camp Army cannot be controlled, and it may even be under the surveillance of Nanjing nobles.
Therefore, he did not dare to let people from the Nanjing camp submit secret documents to him, and he did not even dare to send his own servants there - he was too timid. 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 prince's return to power, and he did not participate in the Qinwang of Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu. He is the censor who patrols the river and is in charge of the navy. What is he going to do in the north?
In addition, Zuo Maodi is from Laizhou, Shandong. The Laiyang Zuo family is a famous family in Laizhou and owns a large amount of land. Zhu Cixiang adopted the policy of "returning people to their native lands" in Denglai Second Prefecture, which turned Laiyang County into a de facto "fiefdom" of the Zuo family. Therefore, Zhu Cixi'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 it would be beneficial to Shandong's overall situation of resisting the invaders if Zhu Cixiang quickly settled the troublesome nobles in the southeast and took control of the southeast. As a large landowner in Shandong, Zuo Maodi must support Zhu Cihong...
Therefore, it is definitely not 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" pit, he still sympathized with the "Loyal Minister of King Qin". Confucianism is the most important thing about filial piety. No matter what you do, Zhu Cixiang is a traitor!
Zhao Zhilong wants to betray the "Loyal Minister of King Qin" to the rebellious and unfilial prince, so he is a cunning villain. How could Zuo Mao, the most honorable gentleman and Dong Lin's successor, pass on secret information to Zhao Xiaoren about betraying his loyal ministers?
Doesn't this become the villain's accomplice? 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...
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"Zuo Qing, I admire your majesty's loyalty very much... Well, although she died for her country after Li Zicheng was defeated in Beijing, she is still a virtuous husband and martyr daughter of my Ming Dynasty!"
Zuo Maodi felt weird after listening to Zhu Cixiang's words! His mother was clearly a chaste woman who died for her country. However, according to what Prince Zhu said, she became a martyr for Li Zicheng...
Zhu Cixiang frowned as he spoke. He actually disapproved of Chen's practice of starving himself to death - what harm could an old Han lady starve herself to do to the Qing Dynasty? It's better to eat and drink in that traitor Zuo Maotai's house! If you feed a traitor to poverty, can you 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 as an envoy to the Qing Dynasty and was captured by Dorgon and forced to surrender. In the end, he refused to surrender and lost his life... Although Zuo Maodi died... Maodi did not surrender, but Dorgon actually achieved his goal!
Dorgon didn't really think much of Zuo Maodi. Without his help, the Qing Dynasty could still dominate the world! Dorgon did this to express his feelings to the scholars all over the world who are aspiring to be traitors - he is very eager for you to come and take 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. And if we fight against the Qing Dynasty to the end, there is only one way to die...
Therefore, Zhu Cihong 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 died not because of the bandits entering Beijing, but because of the Tatars entering Beijing! So your grandson was martyred by the Han people, and the Tatars are your mother-killing enemies!"
The hatred of killing one's mother is irreconcilable! Zuo Maodi, do you want revenge? "
ah! Is this revenge for killing one's 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 to my hometown of Dingyou first... I can't lead the troops in the Northern Expedition!"
Who wants you to lead the Northern Expedition? Zhu Cihong said in his heart: If you are to lead 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 the 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? Are the Tatars going to dig up my family’s ancestral graves? Zuo Maodi was a little nervous. There was probably nothing valuable in Confucius' tomb. But there are still some funerary objects in the ancestral tomb of the Zuo family in Laiyang! Maybe the Tatars really dig it up... How can he be a dutiful son when his ancestral graves are being dug up?
Besides, even if the Tatars don't dig their graves, they can't be allowed to occupy Laiyang! Because Laiyang now has the surname Zuo...
Zhu Cixiang said sternly: "My palace has made arrangements in Shandong, especially in Denglai Second Prefecture to reorganize the guards, set up regiment training, and repair the city...Now the defense of Denglai Second Prefecture has greatly improved. But Shandong The regiment training in other places is still unsatisfactory, so I want you to take over the errands of the Shandong regiment training minister while Ding You. While Ding You, 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, a 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, which was also weighed repeatedly.
Because it was impossible to hold most of Shandong under the fierce attack of the Qing army - Zhu Cixiang 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, everything else in Shandong can be given up.
But Shandong's "struggle against the Qing Dynasty behind enemy lines" must be persisted for a long time!
Under this circumstance, 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 arranged by Zhu Cihong in Dengzhou, have very low appeal to the Shandong gentry. So they just watched Dengzhou and maintained the presence of 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 used a diversified investment approach and invested in a few more companies.
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After Zuo Maodi left Pingshan Hall, Zhu Chunjie, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, came hand in hand with Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites.
Both of them came for the Qing Dynasty marriage delegation that had arrived in Jinan. The diplomacy of the Ming Dynasty was tributary 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, Qian Qianyi still had to be the Minister of Rites to 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 up his mind. The two traitors Sun Zhixian and Jin Zhijun are of great use!
He added: "Send reliable and capable people to do it and escort them to Yangzhou...to the Huaiyang Station of Nansi 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!"
"I know!" Zhu Cixiang smiled, "When the two countries are at war, why don't you kill the envoys! I don't want to kill them... they are of great use!"
