Walking on the way back to Beijing, this line of brocade guards and the eunuch who passed the decree were all depressed, and they didn't have the same vigor as when they came, and when they got out of Shandong, the eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and asked:

"Liu Qianhu, are those Shandong cavalry still following?"

Hearing this, Liu Qianhu, who was dressed in gorgeous armor, turned around and looked at it, and said unconvinced:

"I haven't seen a shadow since I left Jinan Mansion, but Gonggong Deng, let's go to pass the decree, I haven't seen you like this in the past, then the king can't fight for a foreign general soldier, what's there to be afraid of?"

Hi, this grandfather Deng from Ouchi said:

"What else should our family do, it turned out to be this file, Liu Qianhu, you are a son of Xun Qi, naturally you don't understand the rules of our ups and downs, if you don't have the ability to save your life, our family's head has moved as early as the Apocalypse, how can I still sit here and talk and laugh with you."

Liu Li because he is a descendant of Xun Qi, he has lived a life of fine clothes and jade food since he was a child, and he heard that Cao Huachun, the eunuch who was the governor of Jingying at that time, was the emperor's confidant, loved silver, and was easy to talk, so everyone else arranged for their children to go to Beijing to eat empty salaries.

The Liu family naturally did this, Liu Li was comfortable as a soldier in Beijing for a few years, except for wearing gorgeous armor made of paper shells to rely on it, and fooling the emperor was not doing anything, and then he entrusted the relationship to be this brocade guard Qianhu, and now it is all smooth and obedient.

In fact, speaking of which, this time Liu Li went out of Beijing for the first time, and before he came, the Liu family also found Deng Xun and said that he would take care of him.

It's really this silver that has an effect, if it weren't for the old eunuch surnamed Deng dragging it, Liu Li's unruly temperament is afraid that he will fight with Wang on the spot, in his eyes, what is the general soldier and deputy chief soldier, but just a dog, how can it be compared with their Xun Qi's children.

Of course, if Liu Li really did that, he wouldn't be able to come back, at this time, when he heard the words of the old eunuch Deng Xun, his expression was a little puzzled, and he asked again:

"What do you mean by that?"

Deng Xun smiled, and explained as he walked, after hearing these words, Liu Li suddenly woke up, and he really picked up a life just now.

The current Ming Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, what kind of sons of honor, what sons of heaven and slaves, it is just an empty noble name outside, in addition to those civil officials who love fame and festivals, and also have no real power, who will take you seriously.

If you want to say that the person who will be arrogant and domineering in his bones, Zuo Liangyu, the general of the flat thief, said that no one dares to grab the second place, although he obeys the emperor's will, but that is already the limit, and he will not do it again.

As for the military orders of the local governors and governors, it also depends on the mood to consider whether to respect or not, for Zuo Liangyu, as long as he still holds the military power of the left army in his hands and obeys the imperial court on his head, the rest will not do whatever he wants.

The imperial court is also afraid that the biggest soldier in the world will rebel against the court in anger and cause irreparable consequences, so no matter how angry Chongzhen is, smashing pots and bowls, the final will is nothing more than four words - to make meritorious contributions.

Zuo Liangyu's story of making meritorious contributions has been widely praised by the generals of the world, and even the peasant army regarded it as a joke.

The imperial court did not dare to use the military generals who held real power, so as long as they stayed in their own military camps and turf, it was up to them to decide what they wanted to do.

Today's situation is really getting worse and worse, and the entire Hunan, except for the Kaifeng City area of Jinan Prefecture where Liu Guofu led the headquarters to garrison, the rest of the large and small towns have completely become the world of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang.

The number of the intruding army is increasing every day, and the only Shandong army that has the ability to contain it was transferred back by Chongzhen's order a few months ago.

In several places in Huguang, after Zhang Xianzhong broke through Xiangyang and killed King Xiang, he immediately became the most prestigious peasant army in the world, second only to Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang.

After obtaining most of the military salaries and materials in Xiangyang City, Zhang Xianzhong immediately turned his head and marched eastward, broke through Gwangju with great prestige, killed all the officials of the imperial court and the big gentry in the city, and hung their bloody heads on the city, so he was unanimously praised by the people of Chimin.

Immediately after, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, alias Cao Cao, joined forces, with a real number of hundreds of thousands, known as 200,000 to attack the mall.

It is also a coincidence that Sheng Yiheng, the magistrate of Kaifeng who had just been promoted to the same governor of Kaifeng, had not had time to leave, and the Zhang and Liu coalition troops had already come to the city, and the water surrounding them was impassable.

In desperation, Sheng Yiheng had no choice but to find Yang Suoxiu, the head of the local gentry, and recruit volunteers to defend the city with the official army, but the weather was sluggish at that time, and it was still snowing heavily in the beginning of spring.

Not to mention weapons and armor, the officers and soldiers and volunteers did not even popularize cotton clothes and gloves, and most of them were frozen unconscious and lost their combat effectiveness before the war began.

As a result, the mall was broken by Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's coalition forces, and Kaifeng Tongzhisheng Yiheng Yijie literati were still bloody, and they were exhausted after killing more than a dozen thieves, so they were captured alive.

Seeing that the other party intended to surrender, Sheng Yiheng actually hit the city head directly, scolded him with disgust when he was dying, and vowed not to coexist with the thief.

Zuo Liangyu was ordered to be reprimanded by Emperor Chongzhen since the defeat of Kaixian, but the training came and went, which was nothing more than to make him guilty and make meritorious contributions, and now he is stationed in Yexian and Wuyang to search for military supplies everywhere.

In order to shrink his strength, Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, transferred back Wu Weizhong, the deputy general stationed in Yangwu, and joined forces with several other generals to defend Yuzhou.

In addition to these more powerful officers and soldiers, the rest are also sweeping the snow in front of their doors, such as Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, who came to Kaifeng to arrange defenses a month ago.

Speaking of which, the governor personally came to Kaifeng to set up defenses, which still improved the morale of the officers and soldiers.

Of course, he also heard some rumors about the relationship between Gao Qian, Chen Yongfu and Liu Guoneng, the foreign department of the Shandong Army, but at present, Kaifeng's defense still depends on Liu Guoneng's Shandong Army to support.

I heard that some time ago, Wang Zheng didn't even obey the holy decree, which shook the provinces of Henan and Huguang.

Although Wang Zheng did not say it explicitly, he implied that there were traitors around the emperor to cause trouble, and asked the eunuch to go back and ask if this was the meaning of the emperor himself.

On the one hand, this is really a big rebellion, a move against the norm, even Zuo Liangyu did not directly refuse to obey the holy decree, at least on the bright side, he still has to pretend, but on the other hand, Wang Zheng does have this capital now.

Everyone knows that the status of the Shandong army in Shandong is no different from that of the Zheng family in Fujian, not to mention that there are official offices, and even the local officials in large and small towns have completely changed a group of people, and they are enough to be the emperor of the soil.

And Li Xianfeng also faintly heard the rumors, Wang Zheng in addition to the influence in Henan's Guide and Kaifeng provinces, and even intervened in the territory of Nanzhili, but he didn't know the specifics, after all, it was too far away.

But this can still make him gasp, the twelve battalions of the Shandong Army, the two battalions of the Navy Army, the firearms battalion, the cavalry battalion, etc., these establishments are all well known, but where the real strength is, no one has a spectrum.

Just talking about the six provinces in Shandong, how many barracks Wang Zheng is holding, and how many salt dings and nursing homes are under the jurisdiction of the Security Division, if these people are all counted, Li Xianfeng dare not think.

Besides, this is only Wang Zheng's strength on the surface, such a character who was born out of nowhere, if he secretly did not have any development, the ghost would believe it.

Although Chongzhen was furious and killed several eunuchs and palace maids, he was probably afraid that the other party's soldiers were strong and strong, and there was no news back until now, just urging the Shandong army to leave the customs.

Li Xianfeng, who heard the news, also thought the same as most officials in various places, Chongzhen was too anxious this time, and gave Wang Zheng several holy decrees in a row.

The first was a severe reprimand, which was nothing, showing the emperor's heavenly might, but it was followed by another reprimand, and asked Wang Zheng to withdraw his troops from Henan.

This has made many officials nervous, if Zuo Liangyu receives such treatment, I am afraid that he will really stay in Kaifeng and see what your old emperor can do.

But Wang Zheng was quite obedient, there was no hesitation, he directly withdrew the soldiers to Shandong, and no longer asked about any matters in Henan, showing great sincerity, but Chongzhen still did not give up, and for the third time he wanted to remove the post of the general soldier of Shandong.

Everyone knows that it is the capital to settle down in troubled times.

Wang Zheng came up step by step from Dengzhou, and after going through so much to get to the point where he is now, how can he let go easily?

Li Xianfeng could see that these three consecutive holy decrees had completely forced the Shandong general soldier who had always obeyed the orders of the imperial court, and the words he said were also quite threatening.

There is a way that the traitorous ministers around the emperor are in charge, and they do not obey the holy decree, and many civil officials hear the news and break out in a cold sweat on their backs, and directly associate three words - Qingjun side.

In all dynasties, the generals who had soldiers and generals under their command were suspicious of the imperial court, and it was not uncommon to raise the flag of rebellion under the banner of the Qing monarch, and it was a disaster every time.

If there are really so many Shandong troops, it will be a hard kick on the already crumbling Ming Dynasty, and the straight-line distance from Shandong to Beijing is not far, according to the marching speed of the Shandong army in the past, that is, within five days.

This is already a naked threat, and being able to say this kind of thing shows that Wang Zheng has not taken any monarchy and courtiers to heart at all, and has completely changed his attitude towards the court.

Li Xianfeng knows that this is another example of being cornered.

Could it be that Xiangyang fell, King Xiang suffered, coupled with Yang Sichang's suicide in fear of crime, the collapse of the official army, and the suppression of bandits in the five provinces completely became a mess.

Those Beijing officials with six divisions are the best at fanning the fire, and after hearing the news from Shandong, they are in a hurry, and they continue to be distracted in the court discussion, begging Emperor Chongzhen to live a good life to appease Wang Zheng.

Chongzhen still couldn't listen to it, and even scolded several officials of the Six Departments in court, but after a few days passed, he couldn't stop the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and his words gradually relaxed, saying that he wanted Wang Zheng to still lead the Shandong army, and led the Shandong army out of the customs to meet with Hong Chengchou, and made meritorious contributions.