Qufu has always been the domain of the Confucius family. Since the Five Dynasties, the land of Qufu County has been under the rule of the Confucius family for most of the time. There are countless direct descendants of the Confucius family who have served as Qufu magistrates or Qufu chief administrators. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Qufu order was turned into a hereditary position of the Kong family!
Qufu County became the fiefdom of the Kong family!
The rule of six to seven hundred years has made the people of Qufu County accustomed to regard the Confucius family as their heaven. Once Yan Shenggong escapes, the residents of Qufu Castle will definitely fall into extreme panic.
The Qing army's cavalry was operating outside the city. Once they discovered that there was chaos in Qufu City, the people fled one after another. So what's the point of being polite? Not allowed to kill each other and fight to make a fortune?
But Kong Yinzhi couldn't care about that much anymore. He just wanted to run away from Qufu as soon as possible-in short, he couldn't let the Qing army capture his old bones that were about to be buried.
However, the Kong family in Qufu is a thousand-year-old family with a large population, accumulated wealth, and now has thousands of retainers and servants. It is impossible to escape quietly. Therefore, after Yan Shenggong gave the order, before dark, the entire Qufu city was in chaos.
The common people and military family members in the city, the Miao descendants of the Kong family in Qufu, the officials and family members of Shi Kefa, the governor-general of the military gate of the seven provinces... Half of the city's residents took to the streets and flocked to the main hall of Yanshenggong Mansion. There are several city gates in Qufu City at the door, and there is a lot of noise.
Some people want to escape together.
Some people wanted to prevent Duke Yan from escaping.
Others are panicked and don’t know what to do, so they just want to find a backbone.
The noisy sound crossed the high wall of Yanshenggong's mansion and reached the ears of Yanshenggong Kong Yinzhi, who had already put on his clothes.
Kong Yinzhi is 56 years old this year. He looks young, but his health is very poor and he has been sick. Now he has to abandon his ancestral business and flee. He feels irritable and stuffy in his heart. Stars are rising in front of his eyes and in his ears. It's also buzzing. The noise coming from outside reached his ears, and for some reason there was the sound of a golden drum shouting for death, which made him even more panicked.
He sat on a Taishi chair covered with soft cushions in the corridor, watching the servants and maids in the yard cleaning up the household items, watching boxes of heavy silver being carried out of the cellar by the strong men at home, and then from here. After passing through the courtyard and walking towards the back door of Confucius Mansion, I felt a little calmer.
Kong Yinzheng, who always calls him "Brother Shenggong", is actually very good at getting things done. In less than half a day, he has almost organized his escape. As soon as it gets dark, he can leave this sad place of Qufu and go to Yidu. It's been a peaceful life for a few days... I can't go to Nanjing. Nanjing is the world of that black-hearted emperor. If I go, I will have to waste my remaining two million taels of silver.
Fortunately, Kong Yinzhi has a good relationship with Zhu Yihai and can seek refuge with him. Moreover, the situation in Qingzhou Prefecture is much better than that in Qufu. With Gao Hongtu taking charge in Jinan Prefecture, Donglu has not been able to invade in the past two or three years.
In addition, the Kong family has a mountain city in Taihe Mountain in Qingzhou Prefecture. The terrain is dangerous and the scenery is very beautiful. It can be used as a place for Kong Yinzhi to recuperate...
Just when he was imagining that he was cultivating himself in Taihe Mountain, he saw his newly appointed family leader Kong Yin striding in wearing iron armor and riding boots. He saluted with an uneasy expression: "Master... ..The servants have been sorted out. There are 2,000 elites, half of them are fire soldiers and half of them are armored soldiers. They can protect the father-in-law out of the city at any time..."
Kong Yinzhi looked at him: "How is it outside the city? Are there any large groups of Donglu cavalry?"
Kong Yin was shaking his head: "No large group of Donglu cavalry was found, but a small group of Donglu cavalry came... Master, do you really want to leave?"
Hearing Kong Yinzheng's words, Kong Yinzhi breathed a sigh of relief, "Let's go... We have been in Qufu for so long, we are worthy of the Zhu family!"
If Kong Yinzhi had not left, he would indeed have been worthy of the Zhu family's favor for so many years. However, his departure relieved Dorgon from a difficult situation.
Just for this reason, he should be buried in glory...
When Kong Yinzhi took the entire family of Duke Yansheng's Mansion, as well as tens of thousands of civilians, military family members, official family members, officials, soldiers, etc. living in Qufu City, they fled out of Qufu City in chaos. Emperor Amadorgun of the Qing Dynasty had no intention of attacking Qufu at all... He still had illusions about maintaining peace through war, hoping to obtain a precious peace through negotiation.
In order to achieve this goal, he had to set up a battle formation south of the Dawen River, with the Guishan Highlands as the core, and confront Zhu Cixiang on the Yunmeng Mountain and Horse Ti Mountain on the north bank of the Dawen River.
It was just a confrontation, with both sides pretending to show their teeth and claws, but neither had the courage to fight again.
For Zhu Cixiang, he can't afford to lose now - although he has a lot of capital, it will take time to replenish his military strength!
It takes a long time to transport guns, artillery, armor, spears, etc. to Shandong. Moreover, recruiting new recruits and completing training does not happen overnight.
In addition, Zhu Cixi also planned to take the opportunity to organize the armies in the four towns of Shandong and Huaibei Town, organize them into twenty model regiments, and achieve "semi-centralization."
Before this series of work is completed, he needs to use the 30,000 people on hand to suppress the situation... If he fights rashly and is defeated by Dorgon, then the situation in Shandong may be out of control!
And Dorgon can no longer win now... He still has an army of 72,000 people, which is more than twice as many as Zhu Cixiang's army! Moreover, after capturing the artillery and muskets of the Shandong armies, the firepower of Dorgon's unit was no longer inferior to that of his opponents.
If we launch a strong attack, we still have a high chance of winning.
But...Dorgon really can't win!
He already knew that those on Yunmeng Mountain and Horseshoe Mountain were the model troops of the New Army in overcoming difficulties, and now he was defending based on the danger. If the Qing army wants to attack by force, they may lose more than the opponent!
If you kill 10,000 enemies, you may suffer 20,000 self-losses!
After this battle, the Qing Dynasty is not far away from victory and destruction... Dorgon does not want to be the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Amma!
So he didn't dare to fight.
Neither side dares to fight, so the only option is negotiation. The envoys on both sides came and went, cheating and coaxing, and there were several exchanges in less than two days.
"Huang Ama, this servant has met the Southern Emperor himself this time. He is in Yunmeng Mountain..."
It was Zuo Maotai who was reporting the progress of the negotiations in Dorgon's big tent. He had joined the Zhenglv Banner, so he was qualified to be called a slave.
"What are his conditions?" Dorgon asked after seeing Zuo Maotai hesitating.
"He doesn't believe Huang Ama..." Zuo Maotai said, "unless he lets Princess go first."
"What?" Dorgon scratched his scalp, "How can you agree to this? It's not that I don't want Dong Go to go there early, but I have to wait until the two parties have reached an agreement... What has happened now? "
"Huang Ama," Fan Wencheng was also in Dorgon's tent, "I'm afraid the Emperor of the Zhu family still wants to fight!"
Dorgon sighed bitterly: "It didn't hurt from being beaten...but how can we hurt him?"
Fan Wencheng and Zuo Maotai looked at each other and were speechless.
How can we get what we can’t get on the battlefield at the negotiation table?
Zhu Cixiang lost one game, but he could afford to lose and could continue to lose until Dorgon was defeated - war is not gambling, and the army is not a bargaining chip. Zhu Cihong's lost army will not become Dorgon's army.
As long as Zhu Cihong's replenishment rate is faster than the loss rate, and Dorgon's replenishment rate is slower than the loss rate, then the end of the war will be that Dorgon loses everything.
Fan Wencheng paused and then said: "Huang Ama, Zhu Cixi still has a trump card that he hasn't played yet!"
Dorgon took a breath: "Wu Sangui!"
Fan Wencheng nodded: "Wu Sangui may defect at any time... We have to guard against it!"
A flash of ashen flashed across Dorgon's sallow face. Just as he was about to say something, Suk Saha's voice full of surprise came from outside the camp: "Huang Ama, good news, the Ming army in Qufu has abandoned the city. Duke Yan Sheng Kong Yinzhi ran away!"
