The fact that Yang Ming and other Han thieves occupied Dongxiang County and beheaded the official army eventually reached the center of the Ming Dynasty - the Forbidden City in Beijing. Moreover, it was none other than Emperor Chongzhen's ears who first passed on this news, it was Liu Zhibo, the governor of Sichuan, who planned with Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, to hide the news of Yang Ming's occupation of the county seat first, and then report it after the thieves were suppressed.

Seeing that Yang Ming and other Han thieves were not only not exterminated by tens of thousands of officials and soldiers, but swept the entire eastern Sichuan with the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, not only occupying Kuizhou but also besieging Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan, Liu Zhibo knew that it was impossible to hide from the imperial court in this way, in order to shirk the responsibility, he took a step ahead of the governor Chen Shiqi, but the content of the recital was to impeach Chen Shiqi for being greedy, deceitful and incompetent, causing the thieves to become bigger.

Liu Zhibo is a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, but he is a member of the Donglin Party.

At the same time that he sued Chen Shiqi, he also passed the news that Mao Xiang and Chen Yan's second son Chen Shixun were killed by thieves to Mao Qizong and Chen Yan, but in his mouth, Chen Shixun and Mao Xiang were killed by thieves, but it turned out that Chen Shiqi was derelict in his duties and secretly colluded with thieves for money, which caused the thieves to be rampant.

In this way, according to Liu Zhibo's attempt, as long as Chen Shiqi is convicted, the post of governor of Sichuan will be vacant, and he is also a second-class jinshi and a governor of the imperial history, which can be said to be one of the strong competitions for the governor of Sichuan.

But contrary to his wishes, Yang Ming's attack on Chongqing City was just a false shot. When Liu Zhibo's preemptive strike was about to pull Chen Shiqi down from the post of governor of Sichuan, Chen Shiqi was able to defend the city out of thin air because the Han army took the initiative to give up attacking Chongqing City.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was already besieged by Li Zicheng and defeated in Songshan and made the Manchus plunder Shandong, have no intention of taking care of other places, seeing that there are thieves in Sichuan, and Chen Shiqi still holds Chongqing, he did not severely punish Chen Shiqi, and ordered him to exterminate the thieves within a time limit to ensure the peace of Sichuan.

"It seems that we helped Chen Shiqi, otherwise he would have been miserable by this Liu Patrol, and I don't know if this governor will accept the invitation, but it is estimated that he will not dare to encircle and suppress us without authorization in the short term, even if he dares, the Sichuan officials and soldiers who were afraid of us would not dare to do anything to us."

Bai Qian would summarize the news of the government and government obtained in the newspapers of various residences every month according to the degree of relevance to the Han army, and then hand it over to Yang Ming for his reference before the case.

Under the influence of Yang Ming, Bai Qian is no longer the street gangster who only knows how to take shortcuts, and now he has gradually begun to care about the situation in the world and the affairs of the court.

"These court officials are like this, now there are Tartars outside the territory, and there are thieves inside, just our Han army can already threaten Sichuan and Hubei, but they still have the leisure to play with these, it seems that the Ming Dynasty is also about to run out."

After that, Bai Qian sighed, but Yang Ming, as a modern person, was not very sad because of the decline of a dynasty: "If these officials don't fight infighting, don't engage in power schemes and fraud, and deal with thieves wholeheartedly, can you and I still gossip here calmly, okay, don't mention them, let's talk about the situation in the past month, how is the court army of Ding Qirui's commander Kaifeng and Li Zicheng fighting now?" ”

After Yang Sichang's death, Ding Qirui succeeded him as the secretary of the military department.

Emperor Chongzhen initially relied on this Ding Shangshu very much, and asked him to supervise Huguang, Henan, and Sichuan, and control the military affairs of Shaanxi and Shanxi, so as to eliminate the thieves in Yuzhou.

But Ding Qirui has always been timid and afraid, Emperor Chongzhen heard that Li Zicheng soldiers surrounded Kaifeng, so he asked him to send troops to rescue, but he was slow to decide, when Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by the official army and led the remnants to flow in Huguang, he did not aid Kaifeng on the grounds of fierce battle with Zhang Xianzhong.

But unable to stand Emperor Chongzhen's three orders and five shen, Ding Qirui had to lead the imperial army to a decisive battle with Li Zicheng, but the combat effect was not ideal, except for a series of failures, there was no other merit at all, Yang Ming also saw this so that he asked Du Xiaoyuan to pass on his intention to accept the appeasement and send troops to rescue Kaifeng through the relationship of blocking Yinxi, hoping to obtain the understanding of the imperial court and delay the speed of the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

"According to the news from the capital, Emperor Chongzhen learned that we occupied the county seat and made trouble in Kuizhou, and did not arouse much alarm from him, it is said that our emperor knew that Gongzi you were from Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and thought that we were just thieves like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, so he just let the supervisor Ding Qirui deal with the camera, and Ding Qirui was fighting with Li Zicheng, and he didn't have time to control us at all, but he just asked Zuo Liangyu to divide his troops to assist Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, to encircle and suppress us."

Here, as soon as Bai Qian finished speaking, Lan Guanwei walked in and said with an indifferent smile: "Let Zuo Liangyu divide his troops to assist Chen Shiqi to suppress it?" Zuo Liangyu I know, is a local warlord who supports the army and tries to preserve his own strength, as long as we don't invade Huguang, he will not come to Sichuan to fight us for the imperial court, for Chen Shiqi, there is no need to worry, it seems that our Han army has a few days of peace. ”

Yang Ming didn't speak, because he didn't think that Kuizhou would be so quiet for a few months.

Although Yang Ming didn't know when Li Zicheng broke through Kaifeng, he knew that Li Zicheng would definitely break through Kaifeng, otherwise there would be no historical Li Zicheng's later troops to capture Beijing City in two ways.

So what Yang Ming can be sure of is that when Li Zicheng leaves, Huguang and other southern officials and troops will definitely free up their hands to encircle and suppress themselves, at least Zuo Liangyu will not sit idly by and watch the existence of the Han army, although the Han army occupies Kuizhou and not he Huguang, but Zuo Liangyu must know that the Han army's occupation of Kuizhou will pose a huge threat to his Huguang, especially Jingxiang, and the treacherous Zuo Liangyu will definitely give the Han army a fatal blow before the Han army becomes bigger, at least drive the Han army to other places.

This is also one of the reasons why Yang Ming wants to join the imperial court as much as possible, after all, once the Han army becomes an official army of the imperial court, it can not only help Kaifeng, but also make Zuo Liangyu have no sufficient excuse to exterminate himself. Now that Zuo Liangyu has embraced hundreds of thousands, Yang Ming is not sure whether the Han army can resist it, so it is undoubtedly the best choice not to start a war with him early.

"If the court is willing to appease, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will still have a rescue, if it is still a soldier to suppress, I am afraid that there will still be an ending of hanging the coal mountain!"

Yang Ming whispered, and saw a brocade-clothed messenger running in.

"Report to the son, the general servant, this is the latest news, Ding Qirui led the imperial court army was defeated by Li Zicheng in Zhuxian Town, Zuo Liangyu fled to Xiangyang against the order, and Ding Qirui was also dismissed; And just ten days ago, Li Zicheng dug the embankment, causing the Yellow River to burst, thus breaking through the Kaifeng City, the army and civilians were killed and wounded countless times, and now he is fighting against Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, with a great victory; However, after Ding Qirui was dismissed, Chen Yan, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, didn't know what he said in front of the emperor, and was ordered by Chongzhen to supervise the military affairs of Huguang, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places to exterminate our Han army! ”

"Let Chen Yan be the overseer to exterminate our Han army? Why does this Emperor Chongzhen pay attention to us again? Lan Guanwei couldn't help asking.