Dezhou was very miserable, so miserable that in order to give the soldiers "protein" supplements, Lu Si had to lead his troops everywhere to catch cicada monkeys, a delicious delicacy that Shandong people loved the most in his previous life.

The so-called "cida monkey" is a cicada that just crawled out of the soil.

How miserable is Dezhou? It is even worse than Jinan, which was slaughtered. It is probably because "only one or two people are left in a household, and only one or two acres of land are planted in ten acres."

There is no way, who made Dezhou the gateway to Shandong? Every time the Qing army invaded, it would pass through Dezhou.

In May of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji, bypassed Shanhaiguan, divided into four groups and entered the Great Wall. This time, the Qing army invaded North China with the goal of "killing, burning, and robbing", which was called "destroying Ming is like cutting down a tree", that is, it could not capture the roots of the Ming Dynasty, which was the Ming Dynasty. So the branches and leaves of the capital, Beizhi, Shandong, and Shanxi were cut down all the branches and leaves of the capital, Beizhi, Shandong, and Shanxi, and continuously bleed the Ming Dynasty to weaken the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and then nourish the Qing Dynasty.

This was the first time Dezhou was attacked by the Qing army, but Dezhou City was not captured. In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered the pass again and conquered Gaoyang, Hengshui, Zaoqiang and other cities one after another.

In order to defend the northern gate, Yan Jizu led the main force of the Shandong Ming army to Dezhou to defend the northern gate. The Qing army avoided the heavily guarded Dezhou city and marched into three directions to the south of Dezhou, causing Yucheng, Qihe River and towns along the Yellow River south of Dezhou to be severely damaged and plundered, and suffered from the brutality of the Qing army.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji appointed Dororaobeile Abatai as the general and led the Qing army to attack the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji gave Abatai the order: "The army has no right to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty."

After the Qing army entered the mainland, it was like entering and leaving an uninhabited land. Officials from all over the Ming Dynasty either fled in sight or surrendered to the city. The Qing army successively captured Hebei, 88 cities in Shandong, and Dezhou City was also broken. This disaster was the worst plunder and destruction that Dezhou suffered.

When Lu Si led the Huai army to capture Dezhou, after counting, there were less than 8,000 people in the city.

The yellow book of the third year of Chongzhen shows that Dezhou City had more than 132,000 Dingkou, and the number of Dingkou before entering the Dingkou should be two or three times that of Dingkou. This means that the three invasions of the Qing army directly led to a drop in the population of Dezhou City by 90%.

During this period, no peasant army entered the Texas area.

The same is true for all prefectures and counties under Dezhou.

When the censor Lu Shijie, Zhao Jiding, was in charge of Cheng Xianzhen, and the younger student Xie Bi, the younger student of the Grand Secretary Xie Sheng, supported Zhu Shuaiqin to rebel as the "King of Ji" and called on heroes from far and near to come to join us. It may be that the highest glory in Dezhou in the past decade, the military and civilians in the city once reached more than 30,000.

However, as the "King Ji" surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, most of the more than 30,000 people dispersed.

Bahana's 100 Zhenman in Texas, and the two hundred Han troops fought desperately with the Huai Army. In order to show respect for these hostile heroes, Lu Si ordered to cut off the first patrol army. The remaining corpses did not destroy them, and chose a pile of soil to bury them, and wrote the word "Soul" in it.

The locals also call it "Soul-Stationing Monument".

Dezhou was liberated, but except for seizing some food and grass and tens of thousands of taels of silver that were hoarded from the Qing army camp in the city, the Huai Army had nothing to do.

The weather is so hot, and Texas is also facing many difficulties.

In order to give the soldiers a protein supplement, Lu Si could only set an example and took his personal soldiers to personally catch cicada monkeys in the evening, which was called "monkey soldiers and monkey commanders" by the people of Dezhou.

At the same time, Lu Si began to persuade the Ming gentry in Dezhou.

In fact, these people are very toxic and they are quick and neat.

The officials appointed by Li Zicheng, including Yan Jie, the governor of Wu Dedao and Wu Zhengwen, were hung by these people. The officials appointed by the Central Government of Jingzhou, Gucheng, Wuyi, Dongguang, etc. were either beheaded or dismembered. There was also the Gucheng defense envoy Cui, who was chopped into a human pig by these people.

The rebellion of "Jiwang" in Dezhou had a great influence. Except for some prefectures and counties in Shandong such as Dezhou, Dongchang, Qingzhou, Linqing, Wuding, Gaotang, etc., the Ming Dynasty officials, gentry and landlords in the north of Zhili all responded, resulting in the collapse of the local regimes in Dashun in Shandong and Beizhi overnight.

It can be said that the reason why the Qing court was able to recruit and pacify in Beizhi and Shandong was so smooth because these Ming gentry rebelled, which led to the paralysis of the military and political system of Dashun in this area and was unable to organize resistance.

Regarding these people, according to Lu Si's thoughts in the past, he would just ask for a group of people without saying a word.

However, the complex situation in the north and the struggle for the so-called "human hearts" made Lu Si not be able to lower his character and start to carry out ideological work on these Ming gentry officials and gentry.

After all, these people represent the ideological dynamics of most officials and gentry in the north. The consequence of the strong attack was to push all of these people to the Qing camp and fight to the death to become enemies of the Huai Army.

Lu Si did not ask these people to submit to him, but he asked these people to at least make some contribution to the Qing Dynasty.

Or they can be honest officials during the day or become anti-corruption officials at night, either.

Under the dual effects of the "United Front of the Anti-Qing Dynasty" and the difficulties encountered by the Huai Army in Shandong, Lu Si began to look for a breakthrough.

The breakthrough point was Xie Bi. This guy was the younger brother of Xie Sheng, a grandson of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and was also the first initiator of the rebellion in Texas.

Of course, a scholar could not call on so many Ming dynasties to take action. The real envoy behind it must be the young security guard and crown prince Taibao appointed by Emperor Chongzhen, the Minister of Personnel, the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace, and Xie Sheng, who was just appointed by the Qing court as the Grand Secretary of Jianji Palace and the Minister of Personnel.

However, Xie Shengshang did not work in Beijing and was still in his hometown in Deping.

Since you haven't taken office yet, no matter whether you, Xie Sheng, really wants to be a traitor, Lu Si decided to pull the person over first.

After all, with the help of a Grand Secretary of Chongzhen, it could have played a significant role in recruiting officials and gentlemen from Shandong, Beizhi and Henan.

Zhu Tinghan, who was actively "anyway" in Jinan, received a glorious task and rushed to the Xie family in Deping.

"Mr. He is a great scholar. He is familiar with the great scholars of sages and has thousands of knowledge in his mind. Therefore, he should know that the Chinese and foreigners are defending each other. The so-called "non-one of our race will have different hearts. Manchus have entered the pass several times to slaughter my millions of Han people, so that our people can live in dire straits. He saw it in his eyes. Are he willing to be accomplices of the tiger? He willing to be poisoned by the alien race? He willing to see my Chinese clothes cut off from then on?... My governor knew that Mr. has great ability, and surrendering to the Qing Dynasty was just a last resort. Therefore, today I would like to ask me to help him and participate in the great cause of anti-Qing!"

Zhu Tinghan thought that Dezhou had fallen into the hands of the Huai Army. Although the Huai Army had not come here yet, there was no Qing army. If Xie Sheng knew what was right, he should have made a wise reply without saying it.

Unexpectedly, Xie Sheng said that he had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and had no reason to turn around again.

Zhu Tinghan was shocked, wondering why Xie Sheng thought so. He thought that Xie Sheng was learning from Zhuge Wuhou and asked Liu Bei to visit the cottage three times, so he sincerely advised him again.

Xie Sheng was unable to pour oil into it and was unmoved at all. He looked like a loyal minister and righteous man, and Zhu Tinghan was not angry. He knew that he could not speak to him, so he had to leave in disappointment.

"If you can't persuade him, then let his brother go."

Lu Si, who was holding a torch to "catch monkeys" in the woods, called out to thank the emperor.

Xie Bi, who was dragged out of prison, heard that he was asking him to go back to his hometown and persuaded his brother to come and join in. He quickly nodded and agreed.

"Brother!"

"Second brother!"

When brothers meet, they naturally feel sad.

Seeing Zhu Tinghan beside him, Xie Bi hurriedly said to Xie Sheng: "Brother, I am here at the order of Governor Lu of the Huai Army..."

Before he finished speaking, Xie Sheng was shocked and let go of his younger brother, his eyes full of confusion: "The order of the governor?"

Xie Yours nodded with anticipation.

"What do you want to say?"

Xie Sheng's hands began to tremble, and his face was unstable.

Xie Bi advised: "Brother, good birds choose trees to live in. You are a wise minister. Then the Manchus are the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, so why should they be stubborn?"

"You are so confused...ah..."

He glanced at Zhu Tinghan not far away from the corner of his eyes. Xie Sheng pretended to be careless and took two steps forward, and said to his younger brother in a very low voice: "Do you think you really want to die for the Manzhou people?"

"Why is that brother like this?"

Xie Bi was extremely confused. Since my elder brother didn’t want to die for the Manzhou people, why didn’t he surrender?

"Did brother tell you the truth that you should not put eggs in the same blue?"

"I understand this principle, but what does this have to do with the elder brother's surrender?"

"You are confused. Li Zicheng's millions of troops cannot stop the Manchu cavalry. The Lu surname is just a county marquis under Li Zicheng. How can the Manchus stop the Manchus? Don't look at the Huai Army's Qihe victory in a small battle, but the Manchus are busy dealing with Li Zicheng and have not sent many soldiers to Shandong. Now, this Lu surname is a mess. Do you think the Manchus' army will come?"

Xie Yours nodded.

"The Manchu army is really coming, can his Huai army stop it?"

Xie Bi shook his head.

"How can you rebel against the Qing Dynasty with your brothers? If you and my brothers are all on the Huai Army, wouldn't my Xie family have no way out?"

Xie Bi nodded again, and then he was quite worried: "But if the brother refuses to surrender, I am afraid that Governor Lu will be detrimental to his brother."

"Your brother is old and can't live for a few years. If you want to kill him, what are you afraid of? If you can bring blessings to the Manchus for our family, you will be willing to die ten more times."

Xie Sheng really takes life and death lightly. He is 72 years old this year.

"You must know that Brother Wei and you are both eggs in that basket. If they are placed in one piece, they will be broken. If they are placed in two baskets, one can still be broken. Now Brother Wei is the egg that wants to be broken. Only when Brother Wei breaks can you be safe, do you understand?"

"What if the Manchus cannot stabilize China's territory?"

"After you go back, you will serve the Huai Army. They will do whatever they want you to do, do your best, and do your best. You will have to remedy your reputation in the future. Our Xie family will also have to rely on you."

After saying that, with a "bar" sound, Xie Bi slapped Xie Sheng heavily in the face. Xie Sheng pretended to be so angry that he shook his head, pointed at Xie Bi and scolded, "Get out, get out of here immediately!"

"Brother..."

Xie Bi covered half of his face and looked extremely aggrieved.

"Don't get out of here!"

Xie Sheng's roaring voice spread far and wide.

.....

"That's how..."

After listening to Zhu Tinghan's vivid description, Lu Si took off the scarf tied around his waist, handed the oil pan of the fried cicada monkey to Qi Bao, asked him to watch and light the fire, and then said to Zhu Tinghan: "You lead the troops to Deping and kill the whole family of Xie's family and roast Xie Sheng for me."

"ah?
Chapter completed!