Qingzhou Prefecture.
Dongchang's fans have been secretly following A Niu for a long time.
Judging from various signs, they have basically concluded that A Niu is a Tatar craftsman.
They have been holding back just to avoid alerting others.
But now they really can't bear it anymore, because A Niu actually wants to sneak into the government office to collect information.
This is something Dongchang Fanzi will never tolerate.
If this Tatar spy really pried away the news under their noses, wouldn't it be too late to start trouble?
They would have to be ridiculed by the bunch of bullies from the Military Intelligence Department of the Inner Factory.
So it must not be tolerated They acted very quickly, and A Niu was subdued before he could react.
Afterwards, they began to interrogate A Niu, hoping to get some useful information from him.
But the result was disappointing.
Dongchang's skills were naturally outstanding, but no matter how they tortured him, Aniu just wouldn't tell them what they wanted.
Now the people in Dongchang felt a little frustrated, as a good clue was suddenly broken.
Just when all the work came to a standstill, a fan came up with a way to make excuses.
He promised A Niu that he would let him go as long as he revealed useful information.
A Niu was really tempted.
He didn't want to die, he didn't want to die in such a confused way like a wild dog.
Since there is hope of living, even if it is slim, he must seize it as much as possible.
He told everything he knew.
He revealed to Dongchang's fans that there were other craftsmen in Qingzhou, numbering no less than fifty.
Although he didn't know who these people were, he was certain that they were all pretending to be disaster victims.
Dongchang Fanzi can continue to investigate along this clue, and he will definitely be able to find clues.
The fans in Dongchang were naturally overjoyed.
While they ordered people to take A Niu into custody, one of them once again targeted the victims.
According to A Niu, these people would not be too old, otherwise they would not be able to come to Shandong alive.
In this way, the scope has been reduced a lot.
Dongchang Fanzi worked day and night to investigate, and finally targeted five hundred people.
The remaining dozens of Tatars must be among these five hundred people.
The next step is to conduct key observations on these five hundred people and record anything strange immediately.
Judging from various signs, many of them are indeed highly suspicious, but most of them are not much different from ordinary disaster victims.
After more than three days of on-site observation, Dongchang Fanzi narrowed the scope to one hundred people.
These one hundred people have serious suspicions, and every characteristic matches A Niu's description of Xiao Zuo.
Dongchang Fanzi decided to wait for them to show their flaws like he arrested A Niu.
Facts have proven that even the best-hidden details will eventually reveal their flaws.
These Tatar spies were captured one after another, and Dongchang Fanzi interrogated them one by one, and obtained a lot of useful information.
It turns out that the main purpose of their visit to Qingzhou this time was to get some potatoes and sweet potatoes to plant back home.
The north under the rule of the Tatars has reached the point where the land is thousands of miles away and Yizi cannibalize each other.
If the situation is allowed to develop, it is very likely that there will be no need for the Ming Army's Northern Expedition in the end, and the Tatars themselves will be in civil strife.
So Dorgon pinned his hopes on potatoes and sweet potatoes, hoping that these high-yield crops, which had just been promoted and planted in the Ming Dynasty, could bring the Manchus back from the brink of death.
This wishful thinking is really sound.
But Dongchang's troubles will naturally not let them succeed.
All these detailed works were bundled and taken back to Nanjing as evidence of the Tatar invasion of Shandong and handed over to the Holy Emperor for judgment.
The Qingzhou prefect was also captured and escorted to Beijing by people from Dongchang because of dereliction of duty.
The specific affairs of Qingzhou Mansion are temporarily handled by Adjutant Tongzhi.
A great threat was nipped in the bud.
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Soon Nanjing received the news.
The first person to receive the news was naturally Liu Chuanzong, the official of Dongchang Factory.
He couldn't help but smile from ear to ear when he learned that his family had captured dozens of Tatars.
OK, OK.
These brats didn't disappoint him.
This battle can be regarded as a turnaround for Dongchang.
Dongchang has always been suppressed by the inner factory and has no chance of winning.
His Majesty the Emperor must have ranked the inner factory ahead of the east factory.
But after the Qingzhou incident, the scale in His Majesty's heart will definitely shift again.
After all, the Qingzhou incident broke out in Dongchang from the beginning.
The subsequent follow-up decisions and arrests were all done by Dongchang.
The internal factory only played the role of spectators during the entire process.
His Majesty the Emperor will definitely favor Dongchang and himself this time.
When he thought of this, Liu Chuanzong could no longer restrain his excitement and ran towards Qianqing Palace.
At this moment, Zhu Cixiang was taking a nap in the Nuan Pavilion.
When he learned that Liu Chuanzong asked for an audience, he opened his eyes to announce his appearance.
After Liu Chuanzong entered the Nuan Pavilion, he knelt on the ground and saluted gracefully, and then said with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, there are results in Shandong."
Zhu Cixiang said oh, waved his hand and said, "Tell me about it."
"After a thorough investigation by Dongchang, it turned out that Qingzhou Prefecture had a Tatar operation.
There were fifty-three people in total, and all of them have been arrested and brought to justice."
Zhu Cixiang was still a little surprised when he heard this.
Fifty-three people, this number was more than he imagined.
He originally thought that the Tatars would send out at most a dozen soldiers, but he never thought that there would be more than fifty people.
Another thing that surprised Zhu Cixiang was that Dongchang was able to capture the Tatars in such a short period of time.
This really impressed him.
"What are these Tatars trying to sneak into Qingzhou for?"
"Replying to Your Majesty, according to their confession, Dorgon sent them here to steal potatoes and sweet potatoes and learn how to grow them."
Liu Chuanzong said everything he knew in one breath, like pouring beans into a bamboo tube. sweet potato, potato Dorgon's news is really well-informed.
Zhu Cihong had only been promoting potatoes and sweet potatoes in Shandong for less than a year, and there was news from the Tatars.
It seems that Dorgon still has some vision and can realize the importance of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
"What else did those details say?"
Zhu Cixiang asked calmly and confidently.
"Reporting to your majesty, those writers say that the north is about to run out of food.
That's why the Tatars place their hopes on potatoes and sweet potatoes."
I see
Zhu Cixi expected that the food problem in the Qing Dynasty would be serious, but he did not realize that they were almost out of food.
It seems that Zheng Zhilong's hasty escape back to the sea had a great impact on the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Without Zheng Zhilong, the Manchu Qing could only raise food through Shanxi merchants.
Shanxi merchants alone were not enough to feed hundreds of thousands of troops.
Zhu Cixiang vaguely felt that the time had come for the Northern Expedition.
Zhu Cixiang had not yet decided whether to start the Northern Expedition immediately or finish the winter.
He decided to summon Lu Zhenfei to discuss it with him
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