Chongzhen was immersed in the false Taiping concocted by Xue Guoguan, and was ignorant of the impending crisis, but Zhang Bin was like Mingjing in his heart, the anti-thief and Jiannu had not yet been cleaned up, the anti-thief could rise at any time, and Jiannu could also launch an attack on Haizhou City and Phoenix City at any time.

The anti-thief was deliberately left by him to sharpen his foreign skills, he was not too worried, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng had been disabled by him, even if they recovered, they couldn't jump a few times, the key is Huang Taiji, Jiannu is sparing his life, but they have no choice but to force it, and they are ruthless.

The Battle of Salhu and the bloody battle of Hunhe River proved that if they really want to fight hard, the general Ming army is not their opponent at all, and they dare to be tough with the elites of the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers in the world!

Originally, after annihilating and capturing all the ordinary foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Manchurian and Han Eight Banners, Huang Taiji only had 60,000 elite cavalry and 60,000 heavy armored infantry in his hands, plus they still had two big cities of Liaoyang and Shenyang to garrison, and the troops that could be mobilized were less than 100,000, which did not pose much of a threat to Haizhou City, which was garrisoned by 40,000 Qin troops and Phoenix City, which was garrisoned by 50,000 Fuguang troops.

However, Xue Guoguan advocated peace talks, and put back all the captured Manchurian Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners foot soldiers, and the forces that Huang Taiji could use were suddenly doubled, and Haizhou City and Phoenix City could face the siege of 200,000 or even 300,000 Jiannu coalition troops at any time, so it would be dangerous, if Huang Taiji drove the servant army of Meng Baqi and Han Baqi to attack the city without their lives, Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao may not be able to withstand it, at least, with their current strength and equipment, it is very likely that they will not be able to withstand it.

Zhang Bin is not as stupid as Chongzhen, and he believes that if Haoge stays in the capital as a proton and builds a slave, he will not dare to start a war with Daming.

Huang Taiji is not a good man and a woman, in order to win the world, he did not even let go of his own brothers, like his cousin Amin was imprisoned to death by him, and his fifth brother Mang Gurtai was also killed by his depression, and Dorgon, Duoduo, Azig The three brothers are often sent by him to perform dangerous tasks, if these three guys are not a little capable, they would have been killed by him, a son compared to the world, in his eyes, which is more important, do you still need to ask.

If Chongzhen is willing to give him the country and let him send a few more sons to Chongzhen, it is estimated that he will not frown!

Zhang Bin knows Huang Taiji quite well, and it is impossible for a son to make him have the slightest scruples, and he even suspects that the reason why Huang Taiji took the initiative to leave Haoge in the capital as a proton is to paralyze Chongzhen.

This guy is the real hero, if he is careless and neglects to take precautions, the situation in Liaodong is likely to be reversed again.

So, how do you prevent this guy from fighting back?

It is definitely not possible to attack as defense, because he now has more than 200,000 troops under his command, and the defenders of Liaoyang and Shenyang must be more than 100,000, Sun Chuanting can't take him, Cao Wenzhao can't help him, and even Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao can't help him when they join forces.

Since he can't attack and defend, he can only find a way to strengthen the defense of Haizhou City and Phoenix City, although Zhang Bin stayed in the capital honestly and didn't seem to have done anything, but secretly he was letting Dongfan Jiuwei continue to send artillery and thunder to Haizhou City and Phoenix City.

Huang Taiji is paralyzing Chongzhen, and he is also paralyzing Huang Taiji, all of this is done in secret, no one in the court knows about it, not even the Liaodong Army.

Jiannu had spies in the Ming Dynasty and the Liaodong Army, which Zhang Bin was quite aware of, so he sent artillery and thunder to Haizhou City and Phoenix City, without informing the Ministry of War at all, nor did he pass through the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Army, but secretly transported it through the fishing ports of Gaizhou Wei and Zhenjiang City.

The Qin Army, the Fuguang Army, and the Dongjiang Army are all his descendants, and it is almost impossible for Huang Taiji to infiltrate them, and all the artillery and thunder are disguised as grain and grass, as long as you don't come forward to open the package to see, you don't know what is inside, so that even if Huang Taiji sends spies to Gaizhou Wei, Zhenjiang City, and even Haizhou City and Phoenix City, it is difficult to find clues.

Huang Taiji really didn't find any clues, he could at most send some spies to sneak into Haizhou City and Phoenix City to look around, the city wall, the spies couldn't go up at all, the military camp, the spies couldn't get in, the mountain of thunder boxes in the barracks and the dense tiger squat cannon spies hidden in the grain and grass couldn't detect it at all.

Of course, he was not in a hurry to attack, because he also needed time to prepare, casting artillery and building armor was not something that could be completed in a day or two, and the newly recruited foot soldiers also needed to practice, and in a few months, they would not be able to form combat strength at all.

The two sides spent a quiet and peaceful New Year without incident, until the end of the first month, the surroundings of Daming were still calm, as if the world was really peaceful.

Of course, Zhang Bin knew that this was an illusion, at this time, he was not idle, after the New Year, he changed his normality, no longer nested in the cabinet room to approve and write votes, he would take time out to go to the Ministry of Industry every day to stay for an hour or two.

Bi Maokang is his cronie, which the court knows from top to bottom, and he did not deliberately hide what he did in the Ministry of Industry, because it seems to have nothing to do with Jiannu, let alone any seizure of power, he is just urging the Ministry of Industry to build a railway network in the Gyeonggi area.

Chongzhen didn't object to the railway, because he didn't have to pay a penny, and after having the railway, it seemed to be really convenient, at least there was no loss of grain and grass to Shaanxi.

Dongshengtang's slogan at this time is trial operation, and there is no freight at all, and the grain and grass transportation of nearly 100,000 troops in Shaanxi does not need to pay a penny!

He naturally will not object to such a good thing, you must know that in the past, it was necessary to transport grain and grass across a distance of nearly two thousand miles, and how much freight had to be pasted in, and if you sent a stone of grain, you had to lose the freight of a stone of grain on the way, but now this freight is free, and the court is equivalent to saving half of the expenses, why not do it.

Zhang Bin's slogan is also to save the transportation cost of grain and grass, because there are nearly 100,000 troops in Shanxi, as well as Jizhou Town, and Liaodong, adding up to more than 200,000 troops, as well as grain and grass transported from Shandong and other places by boat, which used to be transported by land, and the loss was also quite large.

Therefore, he made a big plan and built four railways at one time, one is from the capital to Taiyuan Fu, one is from the capital to Tanggu Port, one is from the capital to Jizhou Town, and one is from the capital to Shanhaiguan.

Now Chongzhen is finally relieved, Zhang Bin can find something to do by himself, if Zhang Bin sits in the cabinet all day long, he doesn't go anywhere, he doesn't do anything, he always feels that Zhang Bin is secretly doing something!

This time, Zhang Bin devoted all his attention to repairing the railway, okay, the construction of the railway has nothing to do with the power struggle above the court, and it is indeed much more convenient to have the railway grain and grass transfer, he had better build the railway for a lifetime, and the entire Ming Dynasty will repair the railway!