Although the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is now empty, it is not difficult to send troops to recruit the rebels in Jiaozhi again.

As Xia Yuanji said, the Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, a population of hundreds of millions, and the people hide huge wealth, as long as taxes are levied on the people, then it is enough to prepare for counterinsurgency.

However, in this way, it is contrary to the national policy of resting with the people formulated by Emperor Hongxi and Emperor Xuande, and it is suspected of making Emperor Xuande lose his trust in the people, which is inconsistent with Emperor Xuande's holy will.

Li Yuntian was very surprised, it stands to reason that Xia Yuanji should be on the side of Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong, thinking that he had told Emperor Yongle to death back then, and prevented Emperor Yongle from going north to Mongolia on the grounds of the weakness of the treasury, and then was imprisoned.

But soon he figured out the strangeness, when Emperor Yongle invaded Mongolia in the north, the Tatar Taishi Arutai only sent troops across the border to carry out sporadic harassment, and there was no need for Emperor Yongle to conquer in person, and then consumed huge amounts of materials, so Xia Yuanji died.

And the rebellion of Jiaozhi and the Yongle Emperor's northern expedition to Mongolia has a fundamental difference, Jiaozhi is the land of the Ming Dynasty, if you can't quell the rebellion of Jiaozhi then you will lose it, and then become the sinner of the Ming Dynasty, so the only way to fight this battle is to raise the strength of the whole country.

"Your Majesty, Li Qingzheng, the prefect of Xuanhua Prefecture in Jiaozhi, has sent an urgent report of eight hundred miles!" Just when the room fell silent, Jin Ying walked in quickly from the door with a roll of paper rolled together, and said in a loud voice.

"Bring it." Emperor Xuande's brows furrowed slightly, and he put down the chopsticks in his hand and said to Jin Ying in a deep voice, Now it is not good news from Jiaozhi.

Hearing that Li Qingzheng sent an urgent report, Yang Shiqi, Zhang Fu and others all looked at the scroll of paper in Jin Ying's hand, since he was demoted to Jiaozhi Xuanhua Mansion as the prefect by Emperor Hong Xi a few years ago, due to the long distance, they have not heard from Li Qingzheng for a long time.

Li Yuntian's eyes couldn't help but light up, but he knew that Li Qingzheng was now busy in Xuanhua Mansion to resist the rebels, and sending urgent mail at this time would definitely not make Emperor Xuande happy.

"Arrogant!" Sure enough, Emperor Xuande opened the paper roll and looked at it, then he was furious, slapped it on the table with a bang, and threw the paper roll in his hand on the ground.

"The slave deserves to die, and I hope His Majesty will forgive his sins." Jin Ying, who was standing on the side and serving, was startled when he saw this, and quickly knelt down, he didn't know what was written on the scroll at all.

As soon as Jin Ying knelt like this, the attendants and palace maids who were waiting in the room also knelt on the ground, and the atmosphere suddenly froze.

Seeing this, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth couldn't help but show a hint of a smile, it seems that this urgent matter came at the right time, and it angered Emperor Xuande in an instant, it seems that it will definitely not be so easy to withdraw troops from Jiaozhi.

Yang Shiqi, Zhang Fu and the others couldn't help but glance at each other suspiciously, they didn't know what was written on the scroll, and it actually provoked Emperor Xuande, who had always been good-tempered, to be angry.

Then, Yang Shiqi got up and walked over, picked up the paper scroll on the ground and opened it, and his face suddenly changed.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Fu, Yang Rong and others also walked over, circulating the things on the paper roll one after another, and their expressions became solemn.

Li Yuntian also joined in the fun, and in the end, the paper scroll reached his hand, and he shook his head after fixing his eyes, it seems that the successive victories have made the Jiaozhi rebel Li Li become arrogant, and he actually came out like this at this time, and it was clear that he was asking for trouble.

On the scroll of paper is the "Ping Wu Dahe" written by Le Li's subordinate minister Ruan Yan, which reads:

The act of benevolence and righteousness must be in the peace of the people, and the division of the hanging, do not go to violence first.

However, the country of Dayue is really a state of literature, the fiefdom of mountains and rivers is different, and the customs of the north and south are also different. Since Zhao, Ding, Li, and Chen Zhizhao created our country, and the Han, Tang, Song, and Yuan emperors were on their side.

Crazy and bright, because he poisons my people. The evil party harbored treachery and betrayed our country. Yan Cang was born in the flames of abuse, and fell into the pit of disaster. Deceive the heavens and the people, and the tricks cover tens of millions. The soldiers formed a provocation and died for 20 years. Defeat the righteous and hurt the benevolent, and the universe almost wants to rest.

Although the content of "Pingwu Dahe" is not long, there are only three short paragraphs, but the tone is very arrogant, and Daming is not taken into account at all.

First of all, the first paragraph shows that his rebellion against the Ming Dynasty was a righteous move that conformed to the will of the people; The second paragraph emphasizes that Jiaozhi and Daming are two countries as the legal principle of their rebellion; The last sentence counts the crimes of the Ming Dynasty.

Obviously, "The Great Decree of Ping Wu" is extremely inflammatory, and it will surely have a great resonance among the literati of Jiaozhi, and then lay a solid foundation for Li Li's ascension to the throne.

It's no wonder that the good-tempered Emperor Xuande is angry, this is completely a provocation to the Ming Dynasty, does Li Li really think that the Ming Dynasty can't pacify the rebels in Jiaozhi?

"Your Majesty, Chengshan Bowang sent an eight-hundred-mile urgent report from Jiaozhi!" Li Yuntian was about to hand the paper roll in his hand to Emperor Xuande's dining table when a voice came from outside the door.

Since Jin Ying and the others are still kneeling, no one goes out to get the urgent report, and the people outside the door cannot enter without being summoned by Emperor Xuande, otherwise it is a felony of rebellion and will be beheaded.

Therefore, the attendants guarding outside the door had to report loudly after receiving the urgent report from Jiaozhi, so as not to miss the major military affairs.

"Get up!" Emperor Xuande's mood had calmed down at this time, and he said to Jin Ying on the side.

"Thank you, Lord Long." Jin Ying got up at this time, wiped the cold sweat on her forehead, and walked quickly to the door to get the emergency report.

In the palace, it is not so easy to get mixed up, even if Jin Yinggui is the palm print eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, he is also walking on thin ice in front of Emperor Xuande, the so-called companion is like a tiger, I can't guarantee when Emperor Xuande is unhappy, he will be unlucky.

Yang Shiqi, Zhang Fu and others frowned slightly, people often say that blessings are unparalleled, disasters are not alone, Wang Tong came to deliver an emergency report at this time, and nine times out of ten it is not happy news.

Since Wang Tong sent an urgent report, Li Yuntian was not in a hurry to hand over the copy of "Ping Wu Dahu" to Emperor Xuande, and stood there to watch the changes, wanting to see what bad news Wang Tong had come from.

Ever since Wang Tong's previous battle report of Liu Sheng's defeat and Li Li's request for surrender came to the capital, Li Yuntian felt that Wang Tong had been frightened by the rebels in Jiaozhi, otherwise how could he agree to surrender for Li Li?

Obviously, Li Li led the rebels to defeat Liu Sheng's 120,000 Ming army unexpectedly, and now the momentum is flourishing, it is the time to pursue the victory, and now he is asking Emperor Xuande to surrender, making it clear that he is to give Emperor Xuande a step down, in order to take care of the face of the Ming Dynasty, and take the opportunity to force Emperor Xuande to negotiate peace with him with the power of victory.

In fact, Li Li knew very well that although he had defeated Chen Zhi, Wang Tong, and Liu Sheng, the Ming Dynasty was a behemoth with nearly three million standing troops to him, and the total population of Jiaozhi was only six or seven million.

If Emperor Xuande continued to send troops and mobilized the strength of the whole country to conquer Jiaozhi, a corner of the country, then the rebels would eventually be defeated if this war continued.

In the final analysis, the war is a logistical supply, and the Ming Dynasty has inland support, if you are ruthless, it is enough to raise the military salary of the counterinsurgency army and fight the rebels again.

Otherwise, Emperor Xuande ordered the Ming army to temporarily withdraw its troops, recuperate for a few years, and then quell the rebellion again.

The reason why the Ming army was defeated in Jiaozhi one after another was not that the rebels in Jiaozhi had the strength to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army, but because of the combination of a variety of complex reasons.

The Ming army to which Chen Zhi belonged was far away from the emperor in Jiaozhi Mountain, and its training was loose, and its combat effectiveness had already degenerated into a third-rate.

Although the troops led by Wang Tong and Liu Sheng were all transferred from the interior, they can be said to be the front-line troops of the Ming army, especially the Ming army led by Liu Sheng, which is the leader of the front-line troops.

Unfortunately, these front-line troops may be able to show their strength and have good combat effectiveness in the interior, but the climate of Cochin is hot and humid, with dense tropical rainforests, and those soldiers from the north are simply not adapted to this hot and humid environment and dense mountain terrain.

What is particularly important is that since entering Guangxi, many soldiers have been unable to adapt to the water and soil, vomiting and diarrhea, and in addition to various diseases caused by insect bites, the combat effectiveness of the army has dropped considerably.

In addition, whether it is Chen Zhi, Wang Tong or Liu Sheng, there is generally the idea of underestimating the enemy, after all, Zhang Fu once quelled the rebellion of Jiaozhi twenty years ago, and the rebels lost their armor and collapsed, so they thought that the Jiaozhi rebels were just a group of uncivilized barbarians, and they were vulnerable.

If a veteran and cautious general led the army to quell the rebellion, it would not be so easy for the rebels to defeat the Ming army, and it was not yet known who would die.

Therefore, what Li Li hopes most now is to take advantage of the opportunity of the defeat of Liu Sheng to negotiate peace with the Ming court, which is the way to do it once and for all.

"Alas!" Under the gaze of the ministers, Emperor Xuande took Wang Tong's urgent report from Jin Ying's hand, opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but sigh, and asked Jin Ying to circulate it to Yang Shiqi, Zhang Fu and others.

As Li Yuntian expected, the news brought by Wang Tong made the current situation in Jiaozhi even worse.

It turned out that on the second day after Wang Tong sent someone to the capital to deliver the battle report of Liu Sheng's defeat, and sent someone to escort Li Li's envoy to Beijing to send a surrender table, he received a war report that Mu Sheng, the Duke of Qianguo, was ambushed by the rebels and killed and wounded more than 10,000 people.

While negotiating with Wang Tong, Li Li sent troops to launch an offensive against Mu Sheng, who was blocked in Shuiwei County, Guihua Prefecture, and attacked Mu Sheng's army who withdrew to Yunnan, taking advantage of the chaos to kill and wound many Ming troops.

Speaking of which, Mu Sheng was very depressed, the rebels gathered people on land and water in Shuiwei County to resist desperately, because the road was rugged and difficult, it was not easy for him to take every step forward.

Just when Mu Sheng broke through the rebels' defense line in Shuiwei County and was about to go to Jiaozhou City to rescue, a news that shocked him came that the army led by Liu Sheng was defeated by the rebels, with countless casualties, among which Liu Sheng died in battle, Li Qing and Liang Ming died of illness and suffered heavy casualties.

Mu Sheng was completely stunned by this news, Liu Sheng's troops were three or four times as many as him, and the soldiers were wide, and Liu Sheng followed Zhang Fu to pacify Jiaozhi, he really didn't understand how Liu Sheng was defeated, and he was so miserable that he actually lost his life, could it be that the rebels' forces were already strong?

For the sake of prudence, Mu Sheng ordered the army to retreat, preparing to leave Shuiwei County and retreat to a safe area to investigate the truth.

Unexpectedly, Li Li had already mobilized the rebels who had defeated Liu Sheng at this time, came to attack Mu Sheng with great momentum, and ambushed Mu Sheng halfway.

If it weren't for Mu Sheng's experience and experience in a hundred battles, and his proper response to the rebels' attacks, I am afraid that he would follow in the footsteps of Liu Sheng and end up in a fiasco.!^!

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