Chongzhen received the news that Ning Zhiyuan began to send troops from Liangguang, and took advantage of the wind and waves to connect many cities, and Fujian was almost lost. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He understood that this was inevitable, and there would never be a large number of people in these places, so he couldn't resist Ning Zhiyuan's attack at all, just like Huguang, Henan, and Northwest were ravaged by anti-thieves before, and he was quite calm, maybe the situation was really bad to a certain extent, and no matter how bad it was, it would just be like this.

The capital has been very calm these days, since he did not forcibly send these soldiers out of the city to meet the battle, Lu Xiangsheng's strategy of killing a hundred is very effective, unlike before, even if he killed a group and another group of people who did not shoot to death, Lu Xiangsheng had no choice, in fact, it was not that these people were not afraid of death, but the situation at that time was that they were crushed by the other party's cavalry and died, it was better to enjoy themselves before death.

Not to mention that Lu Xiangsheng said earlier that the best thing to do is to stick to the city, and Chongzhen of course understands this, this is different from the time when Huang Taiji besieged Beijing a few years ago, and that siege really only needs to hold on and wait for reinforcements from all over the city to fight a counterattack, but now, can there be reinforcements to stop these murderous Mongolian cavalry from Ningxia?

Chongzhen will not do this when Chongzhen's two years of stubbornness can be effective, and now he will not be even more so, surrounded by anti-thieves and dare not go out of Beijing to face the battle, what is the degree of cowardice, this is the capital, the capital of the Ming Dynasty!

But now he still hasn't been out of the city for a few days, the capital has stabilized, Chongzhen can comfort himself and say that he has a plan now, but it is still difficult to hide the weakness and sadness in his heart, in the face of the blade without any weakness, he is still cowardly after all, and the dignity he thinks still exists in his eyes.

A steady stream of troops is pouring into the capital, but the speed and number of people entering this input have dropped greatly compared to before, and the thieves in Ningxia seem to have no intention of stopping it, just guarding the periphery, and it seems that the confrontation will continue like this for a long time...

At the same time, a holy decree was quietly sent from the capital to all parts of the Ming Dynasty.

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It was almost an impossible task to prevent Li Dingguo from capturing the city guarded by the poorly equipped and ill-prepared rebels, and the disparity between the forces of the two sides was too great.

Zhang Dingguo is very talented, so that Li Dingguo's progress in attacking the city is not so fast, and there are obstacles set up at the gate of the city, and in the end Li Dingguo just used cannons to blast out a clear road, Zhang Dingguo had no choice but to retreat.

His heart was full of helplessness, but Li Dingguo wanted to scold his mother even more, Mingli was indeed his victory, but the reason for the victory was only that the equipment of the Ningxia Army was too strong, and he couldn't beat others by himself, and more importantly, it took six or seven days to capture this city.

In short, it was a scourge, but Li Dingguo could only run over it all the way in such a step-by-step manner, and he seemed to have thought of all the ways he should have thought of, even if he didn't think of the marching military division, he knew that what was said in the military book to lure the enemy and the like was a lie, and the kid on the other side was bent on defending the city and occasionally attacking him, and there was no interaction with him at all.

However, Li Dingguo believes that in the long run, he will not need to go back and forth much, and he will make the anti-thieves on the other side so afraid that they dare not resist, because this time he caught the anti-thieves, all of them were killed by Li Dingguo with iron and blood, and the appearance was miserable, and he didn't believe that the other party could still have the consciousness of death and how firm his belief was.

Thinking like this, Li Dingguo sighed, Zhang Dingguo was actually a small twist and turn at most, the only thing he minded was that he couldn't beat others alone, and when he was depressed, Li Dingguo heard a more depressed news.

Zuo Liangyu finally ran to Henan, and as soon as he came, he sneaked up and occupied the inner township mansion that he had already included in his jurisdiction!

Li Dingguo, who was already angry, felt that there was finally a gas bag sent to the door to find abuse, and then ran to the Neixiang Mansion to find the field with great momentum, although Zuo Zongbing, as a famous general in the world, can only fight against thieves, but his ability to command troops is still commendable, at least there is no problem in collecting a city, so Li Dingguo stopped again, and he finally realized with a sad face that although Ningxia is very powerful, firearms are endless, and he... He is also very strong, but as long as Da Ming has the heart to defend each other, it is really a distant thing to unify Da Ming, as long as they are not soft eggs, there are too many ways to ease the offensive.

Even if it is the city that has been taken from Zhang Dingguo before, how should it be collected, only in the northwest area, how can they have so many troops if every city must be defended, even if the local recruitment is only matched with a little elite, it is a long time, and there is a long way to go... Li Dingguo's heart flashed this thought again, he really didn't know what he should do, he believed that even if he was replaced by Chen Biao, they would not have any way.

Then Li Dingguo didn't find that a big net had opened up to him unconsciously, and even if he knew, maybe he didn't care.

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Jinling recently has two pieces of news that have swept the entire Qinglou.

After all, it is about the future of all of them, whether they believe it or not, and they realize that maybe one day this will be the true orthodoxy.

And there is timely news in the market that scholars from poor families can be reimbursed for carriage and horse expenses after taking the exam there, which is the gospel of many scholars and students in the world, and this topic has escalated again for a while, and the two places of one south and one north are full of great temptation for them, and another group of scholars can't help but run away.

Although the news of the election is very shocking, it can't last long for a woman after all, so Dong Xiaowan is just a momentary interest, she was more surprised by the second rumor, not only her, this second news shocked everyone again, and even added great mystery to the matter of the north-south election.

For those of them who are readers, they have almost acquiesced in the fact that Ning Zhiyuan is a big thief, a high-profile and unobnoxious thief, and he has provoked many people to defect to him, but...

What does it mean that this thief is actually crowned king by Chongzhen? And it's also the king of faith! Believe in the King! But they don't have to guess, because then the answer came out, and now His Majesty wants to give Zen, and Zen will give him the throne.

Compared to any previous rumors about Ning Zhiyuan, this one is the most absurd, but this one is the most credible, because it is from the true holy decree.

"There are virtuous people in the world who live in it...", a large passage of Barala's words, very similar to the declaration of the rebellion, but this is the content of the holy decree, and it has been posted all over the streets and alleys of Jinling, and has been seen by countless people.

This made Jinling more and more lively, because the panic boil caused by the forced conscription seemed to be suppressed, and the old courtyard was even more crowded for a while, but unlike before, these people were not all friendly, they were tossing.

"Why didn't Lord Ning go to the capital to rescue him, and didn't even care about his own uncle in the capital?" A scholar shouted with a red face, he couldn't find another way to vent, so he came here, for him to say that it was the first time to come to this kind of place, he used to be a good baby who studied hard at home, and he was a little nervous when he was angry.

"The Qinwang army from all over the country is moving closer to the capital one after another, why does Lord Ning have the strength but don't save him?! What a vain minister, a son of man in vain, and a thief! ”

"He's a thief! is deeply favored by the emperor but does not know how to repay it, what face does this person have to live in the world? ”

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Dong Xiaowan frowned and covered her ears to listen to the noisy discussions below, and was a little confused for a while, did the forces outside the capital and Ningxia belong to him? If so, how could Chongzhen make such a play, could he really be beaten and didn't even want the throne? Just trying to save your life?

If not, why does Chongzhen believe that Lord Ning can turn the tide? Dong Xiaowan was full of doubts, but Ning Zhiyuan turned out to be Xu Guangqi's grandson, this was what surprised her the most in the whole thing, or rather, she was surprised why Ning Zhiyuan didn't care about his uncle like this, regardless of whether the soldiers and horses outside the capital were his or not, they would always be unable to escape death, right?

Dong Xiaowan felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, she felt that she could accept Ning Zhiyuan's disloyalty, after all, the Ming Dynasty was not doing well and should be disbanded, but she couldn't accept Ning Zhiyuan's unfilial piety, loyalty and treachery have been difficult to distinguish since ancient times, but filial piety and unfilial piety are clear at a glance.

Even if Ning Zhiyuan grew up outside and has no family relationship with them, he can't watch his relatives die, right? Dong Xiaowan felt extremely disappointed.

As for what the following people said, Dong Xiaowan didn't care much about it, and some even scolded Ning Zhiyuan for being a thief, and even pouted with some disdain, just kidding, isn't it obvious that Ning Zhiyuan is a thief?

The guests downstairs are uneven, not just their attitude, but their identity, which has not only been patronized by scholars recently, but also street vendors, private servants, past merchants, dignitaries...

And some of those who supported Ning Zhiyuan stopped talking, the limelight seemed to have changed suddenly, Chongzhen became a weak person who was forced to be helpless and wronged, even if he had only forcibly levied tens of thousands of laborers in Jinling before and looted hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, just because he represented the Ming Dynasty.

If Da Ming died quietly and he was not affected, it might be nothing in their eyes, but at this moment, Chongzhen's sincere holy decree made their patriotic hearts surge.

In the streets and alleys, as soon as this holy decree came out, Ning Zhiyuan seemed to have become a heinous thief, as for unfilial piety... It's ignored by everyone, and in the face of so many disgusts, it's obviously just an add-on.

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The energetic information has always been transmitted very quickly, and then it quickly reached Ning Zhiyuan's ears, and at this moment he has passed through the entire Fujian and arrived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Along the way, Ning Zhiyuan has experienced a very different experience, he has walked through almost every small county and town on this route, and most of them bow down to their ministers, but there are not a few people who are not afraid of death, with joy and anger, these people in front of him Ning Zhiyuan are killing if he wants, he can feel that his temperament has become extremely strange compared with before, there are a lot more evil natures, and he is more freewheeling.

The 20,000 people in the capital can be said to be an unwarranted disaster caused by him, although they will not be killed all, but they will definitely be many disasters, so what, after all, Chongzhen himself is just stupid, although Ning Zhiyuan is a little disregarded for human life now, but he will not do the kind of thing that his subordinates will die in the capital.

The premise of ignoring human life is at least to harm others and not to himself, this kind of thing that greatly damages his prestige is obviously a bit stupid, he has never developed most of the forces on the bright side in the capital, because he knows that even if the Ming Dynasty is weak and useless, Kyoto is not a paper paste.

After knowing Chongzhen's holy decree, he just smiled, although there were reactions from all over the country, the people and scholars of Nanzhili were the most excessive, as if he had lost the hearts of the people he had earned for so long overnight, but he didn't care, he really didn't care.

These people still dare to resist, but they are too tolerant, right? At this moment, Ning Zhiyuan's heart flashed with the idea of killing all these people, and he finally forgot it.

These scholars who have read Baguwen for a few years may be talents who govern the country and become officials in the eyes of others, and now Ning Zhiyuan does rely on them to a greater or lesser extent, but this they do not include these people who put their mouths in the name of loyalty and patriotism.

What's more, there are a lot of people available for a population of 20 million in the northwest, but the people of one place govern the whole world, Ning Zhiyuan is crazy to do this, which is why he has opened the imperial examination all over the world.

In short, after all kinds of considerations, Ning Zhiyuan didn't have any will, he knew that what he had to do now was to speed up his pace, and if he didn't show those scholars the real strength, they would still flutter in the wind.

And it has reached the point that Liangguang and Ningxia scholars have not made the slightest change is a naked proof, Ning Zhiyuan's strong dominance is undoubtedly demonstrated, in fact, it can be defeated with a mouth cannon, as for his two cheap uncles...

Ning Zhiyuan has no affection for them, if it is just like this, Ning Zhiyuan thinks that he will still help them, but they dare to beat Xu Yuya's idea, then if they die, they will die, even if they don't die, they have to take care of them, so that their life is better than death is the right way.

The trip continued, Ning Zhiyuan felt that if everything went well, then he would be able to deal with Chongzhen without waiting for the results of the north-south elections to come out, even if after entering Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it would be useless to resist from time to time with a loyal minister.

They are the shining point of human nature, but the stupidity is also the node of life.

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