Nowadays, the entire Forbidden City is full of panic, and the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace have even begun to sneak out of the palace.

This is still the case in the palace, not to mention outside the palace, the entire Youzhou City (Tang changed the Ming Jingshi to Youzhou) is a mess, there are still a lot of soldiers in the city, about more than 20,000 people, but these Ming troops who stayed in Youzhou City are all those old Beijing battalions that have nothing to show for themselves, and they are not the new Beijing battalions that Zhengde has trained in recent years.

Whether it is the quality of personnel or equipment, they are still at the previous level, and it is impossible to expect them to block the puppet Tang army.

And there are many people who can see this, the adults in the court can see it, and the ordinary gentry in the city can also see it, even if they are the same as the small people in the market, they all feel unreliable.

As a result, in the last few days, people in the city have been going out of the city on a large scale!

If you don't leave now, it will be troublesome when the pseudo-Tang thief army comes, and when the time comes, there will be no eyes for the knife and gun, and it is normal for a careful person to lose his life, and he will die in vain, and there is nowhere to reason.

The crowd fled out of the city on a large scale, trying to avoid the fighting, especially the gentry, who did not want to stay in the city, preferring to hide in the country manor because it would be safer.

The monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty also discovered this situation, but they did not stop the escape of the personnel, but they were not allowed to flee with a large amount of food.

Why, because there are too many people in the city, but there is too little food in the city!

Since the caustic transport was cut off, Youzhou lost the support of the southern grain, almost all of a sudden fell into a food crisis, the price of grain is rising day by day, before the battle of Anping, the price of grain in Youzhou City, has been more than ten times that of previous years.

And when the Ming army was defeated in the Battle of Anping, and the Tang army quickly went north, because of the fear of besieging the city, the price of grain was getting higher and higher day by day, and now, the price of grain in Youzhou City has been dozens of times that of previous years, and it is still priceless and marketable, in other words, money may not be able to buy grain.

There is some grain in the official warehouse, but it is all military food, and it is naturally impossible for the imperial court to take it out and sell it, so it can only let the people flee on their own.

However, before the people fled, the Ming Dynasty also took precautions, that is, tens of thousands of young people had been forcibly recruited, and these people could not escape, as for the rest, just flee if they escape, and staying in the city is just a waste of a few grains.

Not only ordinary gentry, in fact, many incumbent officials of the Ming Dynasty quietly went out of the city, on the one hand, to avoid the war, and on the other hand, they naturally did not want to sink with the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty.

The fiasco of the Battle of Anping made almost the entire world see that the Ming Dynasty was going to end, this broken ship was going to sink, and if you didn't jump ship to escape, it would be too late.

But in such a dangerous predicament in front of them, the ministers in the court are still vying for power and profit, intriguing, and arguing endlessly.

Although Emperor Zhengde poisoned the civil and military ministers who were brought to Shandong, there were actually many civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty who stayed in Youzhou City, and there were many important ministers.

After Emperor Shaowu ascended the throne, he immediately promoted a group of civil officials he trusted to take power, but after these civil officials came to power, the first thing they did was not to actively guard against the puppet Tang thief army, but all kinds of arguments, but the things discussed were still things that did not help the overall situation at all.

Just arguing about the name and temple number of Emperor Zhengde for three days, and then arguing about all kinds of messy things also took a lot of time.

This made Emperor Shao Wu go from disappointment to anger!

Ma Dan, Da Ming is going to die, you are still playing at home!

But there is no way to be angry, although Emperor Shao Wu is deeply educated by Renjun, it does not mean that he is stupid, he knows that the situation is very dangerous now, and now he has to rely on these courtiers, after all, he is not the first emperor, he can't personally lead the troops to fight, even if he wants to, he doesn't have that ability!

The more than 20,000 Beijing camps, who listens to them still don't know!

When Emperor Shaowu was in crisis, Chengdu, Sichuan, the third son of Emperor Zhengde, King Jing, was different!

What's he doing?

At this moment, he was staying in the barracks to hold a military meeting.

Although Sichuan is a little far away from Shandong, but through the five-hundred-mile urgent report, King Jing in Sichuan also learned the news today, after learning the news, he immediately took his henchmen to the barracks, and then stayed in the barracks and didn't come out, he was waiting!

What are you waiting for, waiting for Zhang Yue to enter Sichuan!

Since King Jing was able to be placed in Sichuan by Emperor Zhengde, he was deeply loved by Emperor Zhengde, and even gave him a copy of the book of succession at the end of his death, which shows that King Jing's ability is not bad, and it is somewhat similar to Emperor Zhengde.

When he arrived in Sichuan, he used the power given to him by Emperor Zhengde to recruit and train troops in Sichuan, and now he has pulled out a palace guard army of 5,000 people, and is still recruiting and expanding in large quantities.

Along with the fiasco of the Battle of Anping and the death of Zhengde, there was also the edict of Emperor Zhengde and a handwritten letter from Zhang Yue, Zhang Yue said that he would immediately meet in Sichuan and let him slow down!

It was precisely because Zhang Yue was coming, and it was an attitude of supporting him, that King Jing was not in a hurry to rely on the succession of Zhaoshu to ascend the throne as the emperor directly, but was waiting!

He didn't just have to wait for Zhang Yue to come, he was also waiting for the prince of Youzhou City to die!

Even if there is a Zhaoshu, but he doesn't want to be unjustifiable, leaving any handle for outsiders, after the defeat of Anping, the prince who stayed in Youzhou needless to say, he will definitely ascend the throne as soon as possible, which has nothing to do with whether Emperor Zhengde gave him the Zhaoshu, because the one in Youzhou City is the current prince, the rightful heir to the throne.

But Beizhili is definitely going to be finished, and the prince who stays in Youzhou will be finished in a short time, King Jing knows this very well, and Zhang Yue also knows it!

Now, all they have to do is wait, wait for which prince of Youzhou will die!

Then he King Jing, as the third prince, and at the same time has the edict of Emperor Zhengde, so he can inherit the throne justifiably without giving outsiders any handle!

As far as he knew, his sixth brother King Hui was no worse than him in Liaodong, and he actually persuaded the military leaders on the Liaodong side and got the support of the local Liaodong military leaders, and also began to contact the surrounding forces, such as the Mongols, the Jurchens, and even sent people into North Korea, and directly accepted the concubines of the Korean royal family as concubines, of course, not the real princess, but the side princess, more precisely, it should be called 'Mrs. Li', or Li's.

That's not at all restless, to a certain extent, he actually controls more military power than him, the king of Jing.

But King Jing also has his own advantages, he has the edict of Emperor Zhengde, he is also older than King Hui, and more importantly, he has the support of Zhang Yue!

Before entering Sichuan, Zhang Yue had already hinted to Emperor Zhengde that he would support King Jing, and after King Jing entered Sichuan, although Zhang Yue did not enter Sichuan to visit, Zhang Yue wrote to him many times, hinting to him that once there was a change, Zhang Yue and Dubiao would stand firmly on King Jing's side.

At the same time, Zhang Yue's henchman, Song Zhiwen, is also in Chengdu now, and he is a frequent visitor to the palace!

The internal situation of the Ming Dynasty, with the defeat of Anping, Zhengde's death became extremely complicated, the city of Youzhou was chaotic, Liaodong was not stable, and Sichuan was even more so.

After Zhengde's death, the three sons of Emperor Zhengde, although they did not begin to compete on the surface to ascend the throne, but in fact, King Jing and King Hui were ready, once the puppet Tang thief army entered Youzhou, whether it was King Jing or King Hui, they would ascend the throne as soon as possible.

Regarding the turmoil within the Ming Dynasty, Li Xuan didn't care much about it!

No matter who inherits Zhengde's position, it will not make much difference to him, and it will not change the established strategy of the Tang Dynasty: first the north and then the south!

In short, it is to take the north first, and then control the northern provinces of Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and other provinces, then free up your hands to clean up Zhang Yue!

As for Zhang Yue's support for King Jing or Emperor Shaowu, for the Tang Dynasty, there is no difference!

Now the real enemies of the Tang Dynasty are actually not the three sons of Emperor Zhengde, but Zhang Yue!

Zhang Yue's hundreds of thousands of superintendents and training troops, this is the henchman of the Tang Army!

This is also why the First Army was stationed in Hunan all the year round, and after the Second Army went north to Henan, after winning the Battle of Anping, it also quickly moved south to the southwest and returned to defend northern Anhui.

Now in the north, in fact, only the Third Army and the Fourth Army are fighting, and Li Xuan himself is leading the Guards to stay in Anping first, and will continue to go north to Youzhou with the Guards in the future.

If nothing else, he will also go to the Forbidden City to browse the Forbidden City.

After the end of his trip to Youzhou, he will return south to Jinling.

As the emperor of a country, although Li Xuan is a pro-conquest, he can't stay away from Jinling all the time, so it is easy to have various variables.

With the passage of time, when the Tang army approached Youzhou, the news of the Tang army's victory in Anping was also widely circulated, at first, only some upper-level people were either relatively close to the people who knew, but now, even the people in Guangzhou have learned the news.

After the sample was sent to Guangzhou, it was printed on a large scale, and then within a few days, the entire city of Guangzhou knew that the Tang Dynasty had defeated the last main force of the Ming army.

In the trade zone outside Guangzhou, some businessmen don't even have time to inquire about the detailed information, so they directly purchase all kinds of goods, and then load them on ships, where to ship? Naturally, I went to the north!

The northern market is not small, and now it looks like it is about to fall completely into the control of Datang, so they naturally want to seize the local market as soon as possible!