Wu Mengming congratulated Chen Yue for agreeing to drink in Shangfu, and then left first, he wanted to go to the palace to see Chongzhen, and he would return to Yangzhou in two days. Wu Mengming was very remorseful, because the murder of the third prince happened in Huai'an, his jurisdiction, and he had an unshirkable responsibility as the governor of Huaiyang, and he had already asked the princess of the prison country for punishment. However, Princess Kunxing did not blame him, and let him continue to be the governor of Huaiyang.

Wu Mengming left, but Chen Yue couldn't leave, a large number of officials surrounded him and competed to congratulate him, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Chen Yue is now in the limelight for a while, the only prince in the court plus the official position of the metropolitan governor and the relationship with Princess Kunxing, this Ming court is afraid that he will have the final say in the future.

Of course, there are also many people who look down on Chen Yue's sudden victory, all of them are Qingliu officials, these people are clustered around Shi Kefa's side, showing contempt to Chen Yue in the crowd. Looking at the high-spirited Chen Yue, Shi Kefa shook his head slightly, and then took the lead to leave.

In the face of everyone's congratulations, Chen Yue smiled and coped, and after a long time, the officials dispersed.

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On that day, the palace of the king of Qi held a feast, with the princess He Kunxing promoted to the prison state, Chen Yue was crowned king, and the people who were eligible to participate in the banquet were all important ministers and generals of the Qi king's family, as well as the lords who had a good relationship with Chen Yue, such as Zhu Guobi, the prince of Baoguo, Wu Mengming, the marquis of Zhenbei, and Chang Yanling, the marquis of Huaiyuan, who was also a lord, was pulled by Zhu Guobi, and after drinking for a while, he toasted Chen Yue and left.

After the banquet, several core figures of the Qi king's family stayed behind and began the first meeting after Chen Yue became king.

Present at the meeting were Lu Zhenfei, who was about to re-enter the cabinet, Wang Yin, the secretary of the military department who was restored to his original position, Shi Gu Junen, the head of the Qi Palace, and Liu Neng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Chen Yue took the lead and said: "Everyone, the princess is in charge of the country, the future Ming is that we have the final say, what to do next, we have to discuss a charter." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Wang Yin, who was the oldest in his qualifications, spoke first, if he talked about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, it was none other than Wang Yin, who was in the center of the military department.

"Lord, the current state affairs can be described as a thousand things, Jiangxi and Huguang have not yet been exhausted, Sichuan Province is completely entrenched by Western thieves, and the north of Xiangyang is occupied by Shun thieves, Mantar occupies Beijing and several northern provinces, and the territory north of the Huai River is not controlled by the imperial court at all.

In the past six months or so, because the confluence of the thieves and the west thieves out of Sichuan has involved all the energy of the imperial court, resulting in the imperial court being unable to take care of the north, and fortunately, the uprisings of the people in the Hebei area of Shandong and Hebei against the Manchus have come and gone, especially in Shandong, Qingzhou Jiaozhou Denglai Land, the righteous army has involved most of the energy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the imperial court could not take the opportunity to go north, and the Manchus did not have the energy to raise troops to the south, and the two sides were at peace.

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Wang Yin carefully analyzed the situation in the world, and the Ming and Qing dynasties were also encountering great difficulties at present.

The western thieves attacked Huguang Jiangxi, and the menacing history of the four or five hundred thousand thief army caused all the energy of the Ming Dynasty to be involved, relying on Chen Yue, who guarded filial piety, to seize the affection, and then led the troops in Jiujiang to block Zhang Xianzhong's army, and won the battle. However, although the bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong was awarded the head and most of the thief army was captured, there were still more than 100,000 thief troops in Huguang, Jiangxi Province under the leadership of Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Dingguo, and they were not wiped out for a long time.

It is conceivable that within a few months, I am afraid that the imperial court will not be able to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

However, fortunately, there were problems within the Ming Dynasty, and the problems within the Manchu Qing Dynasty were not allowed to be conceded.

After the Qing army's southward army was defeated by Chen Yue, it lost tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers, which can be described as a broken nerve. Especially for the Manchurian Eight Banners, almost two-thirds of the elite troops have been lost, although they can still be replenished from the banners, but the combat power cannot be made up for in a short time.

The generals of the two armies, Azig and Duoduo, were the brothers of the regent Dorgon's mother, and Dolgon's prestige in the Manchu court naturally plummeted, and Haoge, the eldest son of Huang Taiji, led the troops back to Beijing and tried to replace Dolgon, fearing that Haoge would return to covet the throne of his son Shunzhi after Haoge's victory, the Manchu Xiaozhuang Empress Dowager colluded with the auxiliary king Jierharang, and Jierharang Dolgon jointly suppressed Haoge. This move also brought great harm to the Manchu court, and many heroic clan generals were killed.

At the same time as the civil strife of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the people of Shandong rose up to form a righteous army to oppose the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and after suppressing Haoge, the Manchu Qing Dynasty hurriedly sent the traitor Hong Chengchou to lead the Han Army Banner Green Battalion to Shandong to suppress it, and the war between the two sides on the Jiaodong Peninsula lasted for half a year. The hilly terrain of Jiaodong prevented the Qing army from attacking, and in order to deter the Mongols from maintaining their rule, the Manchu court did not dare to send any more soldiers from the Eight Banners.

In March, Zhao Yingyuan, the general of the Qingzhou uprising, was finally defeated by tens of thousands of green battalions commanded by Hong Chengchou, Qingzhou was lost, Zhao Yingyuan was killed, and Wang Yongji, the governor of Shandong, fled to Dengzhou in embarrassment.

The three prefectures of Dengzhou and Laizhou in Jiaozhou have been recovered for half a year, and the chief soldier Wu Ping is under the banner of Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, and the officers under him are all veterans sent by Chen Yue, and with the full support of Li Yanzhi, a person from Jiaozhou, he has already firmly controlled the land of the three prefectures.

And Chen Yue had already explained when he left Dongfan that he would fully support Wu Ping's actions in Shandong. Under the auspices of Qian Fenglin, Qiyun continued to purchase various materials of grain and transported them to Dengzhou by sea. The large amount of silver earned by Haimao, as well as the silver accumulated by Chen Yue's previous raid of Xungui in Yangzhou to change the salt system, were spent like water, but in exchange for the 100,000 troops under Wu Ping's command.

In Shandong, which has been plagued by disasters for many years, ordinary people basically can't survive, and they can recruit troops if they have food, and under the persuasion of Li Yanzhi under Wu Ping's military coercion, the gentry in Jiaodong have also generously donated life-saving food in exchange for the qualification of their families to go to the safe south, so as far as the source of soldiers is concerned, it is not a problem at all.

Wu Ping's food and salary were safe, and with the full support of the Dongfan system, all the young and strong people in the three prefectures were enlisted in the army, and an army of 80,000 was trained in half a year, which was completely imitated the training model of the Pingnan Army in the past. These 80,000 troops are all really young and strong, there is no old or weak at all, although they are all new soldiers, but except for the fact that they have not experienced a battle and have not seen blood, they are not much worse than the previous Pingnan army. The Jiaodong Peninsula has been a place of elite soldiers since ancient times, and the barren land is exchanged for the tenacious character of the soldiers.

And Wu Ping has always followed Chen Yue's instructions, not greedy for merit or rashness, and firmly rooted in the Jiaodong Peninsula. Wang Yongji, the governor of Shandong sent by the imperial court, tried to dispatch Jiaodong's troops several times, but was blocked back by Wu Ping.

However, after the loss of Qingzhou, Wu Ping had to face the attack of the Qing army, since March, the two sides have repeatedly tug-of-war in the Jiaodong area, relying on the fleet to supply and support, Wu Ping also played a level, and the Qing army won and lost. At this moment, the rest of the Shun army, under the leadership of Li Guo and others, suddenly marched towards Guanzhong through Xiangyang, which was abandoned by the Ming army. At the end of March, Li Guo commanded the Shun army to break through Xi'an, and the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty was shaken, and the Manchu court hurriedly issued an order to transfer Wu Sangui and Jiang Jiu from Shandong to Shaanxi to suppress the Shun army. In order to encourage these surrenders, the Manchu court rewarded them lavishly, and Jiang Hao, Li Chengdong, Gao Jinku and others were all crowned kings.

The army of Wu Sangui and Jiang Jiu was transferred, which also slowed down the offensive of the Qing army, and it was no longer a problem for Wu Ping to hold Jiaodong.