Chapter 550

When the Liu family raised troops, they secretly sent some people to Jining Prefecture at the first time. This team secretly sent to Jining Prefecture is mainly to protect the safety of Qufu Kong family. Although Qufu county is headed by the Kong family, the urban defense also learned the lesson of breaking the city in the Wenxiang education rebellion a few years ago. They did a very good job in urban defense, But he was still afraid that he would be retaliated by the imperial court, so he sent an army nearby.

This soldier and horse made great contributions when Liu Kangbing arrived in Jining. You should know that Liu Kang's troops kept going south day and night. In fact, they were very tired. It was very difficult to launch a fierce attack quickly, but with the help of these troops, he could win here quickly.

Liu Kangneng won the chongyanzhou Prefecture in just a few days, which also has something to do with their prior layout. With their prior layout, they won Jining Prefecture with lightning speed. Yanzhou prefecture has always taken Jining as the absolute core. After Jining, other county governments fell in the wind.

After winning Jining Prefecture, Liu Kang went to Qufu to visit Lord Yan, hoping that he would remain neutral and not help each other. At the same time, he also sent an army to be stationed nearby to ensure that they would not be attacked by other people in this time of chaos.

After taking Jining mansion, Liu Kang sent troops to protect the Kong family. After taking Zoucheng, he also sent troops to protect the Meng family. He showed great courtesy to these saints.

Of course, his arrangement was also made by Liu Yuanqiao. Liu Yuanqiao already had the ambition to win the world. Since he won the world, he had to compete with the imperial court in all aspects, and the scholar was the focus of his competition.

Like Liu Bu, he may look down on the scholars of this era and think that these people are a group of soft bones, but Liu Yuanqiao knows very well that if he wants to compete for the world, he has to compete for the official heart. Only these upper class people support them can he calmly clean up all parties.

Moreover, he also knows very well that if Daming can have today, or if he fails to compete with Shilin, most scholars will lose confidence in him. Only if he can get the full support of these scholars will he have today's situation.

What Liu Yuanqiao knows most is that to govern the world, we must rely on these scholars, because we can't rely on farmers and craftsmen who don't even know a word?

Therefore, although he has many conflicts and contradictions with these people in terms of interests, the two sides must be consistent in terms of general principles and positions.

After taking Yanzhou mansion, several transfer stations of Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, Jining, Jinan and Linqing, fell into Liu Jiajun's hands. Liu Jiajun immediately blocked the canal without mercy. All grain and silver transported to the north were expropriated for public use by him. Zhu Dadian, who was far away in Jianghuai Yangzhou, was afraid to send a fleet to the north, which was the lifeblood of the Ming Empire, The Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal was interrupted.

The interruption of the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal has brought great difficulties to the Ming Dynasty in the north. You should know that the north is short of food. For hundreds of years, it has relied on the Grand Canal as the lifeline to continuously transport food to the north. The food transported every year is nearly 4 million stones. Such a huge quantity and gap can only be transported by water through the canal. If people choose it, This is impossible. As for sea transportation, it used to be that there were many winds and waves at sea, which is very unreliable.

The most important thing is that all the ministers in the DPRK have great interests in this grand canal, so that they can't give up their interests and refuse shipping.

But now, when the Grand Canal is cut off, they can take the opportunity to carry out sea transportation and split this interest. Unfortunately, the Liu family has the most powerful navy. Their navy has long gone out of the coastal area of dongsanfu, and even the far southeast coastal area of Zhejiang is under their control.

If the imperial court transported grain to the sea, it was estimated that it would not be possible without their consent. Therefore, shipping and shipping were controlled by Liu Jiajun at the same time.

Such a news is even worse for the imperial court, because they are already very desolate. At this time, whether it is the suppression of bandits in Shaanxi or the resistance of beizhili to the construction of slaves, he needs a lot of food and silver. If it is normal, they are afraid that they will ask the governor of water transport to increase human and material resources to transport grain day and night. Now it's better, Not only did it not increase, it was also cut off directly, which dealt a great blow to them.

Since Liu Jiajun left Jinan, they knew that the other party could cut off the canal at any time, which posed a fatal threat to the imperial court, but they didn't expect it to be so fast.

Such a situation, but the court quickly fell into a desperate situation. They were at a loss whether to send troops to attack Jinan or destroy JianNu.

JianNu, who entered the pass, originally came for Liu Jiajun, but he found that Liu Jiajun was doing the same thing with him. It was impossible to use the previous strategy, so they had to try their best to seize cities in the north, hoping to seize more population, food and finance and expand themselves.

At this stage, azig also wanted to take the opportunity to capture Beijing, but Beijing was too big. It was very difficult to surround this huge city with his troops, and it was even more difficult to launch an attack.

Because Beijing has the highest wall in the world. If you don't prepare enough siege equipment for such a high wall, you can't win it.

So he could only encircle Beijing without attacking, but instead attack the surrounding cities and beat all the surrounding cities. His troops reached TongZhou as far as possible and looted all the large amount of grain accumulated here. Those who could be transported away and those who could not be transported were burned.

Azig also wanted to send troops to attack Tianjin and Baoding, but he had too few troops to support him.

Huang Taiji personally led the army to follow up. He wanted to rush to the capital, but they all heard that Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng led the army to the East. If this army was allowed to attack, it would be a time for them to suffer. Therefore, Huang Taiji personally led his eight flag army to prepare to meet Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng's army.

The imperial court and Emperor Chongzhen had always placed high hopes on Zhang Fengyi, the Minister of the Ministry of war. He had always been trapped in Baoding. The imperial court ordered him to attack again and again, but he could not appease the soldiers who were extremely short of food.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was completely disappointed with Zhang Fengyi. This man was very eloquent in directing the world at ordinary times, but he didn't have a useful strategy when he really fought a war.

A military ministry minister, who went out to supervise the division, hoped that his troops around the governor would go south to deal with Liu Jiajun and go north to eliminate JianNu. Who knows that a military ministry minister like him hid in Baoding and could not shrink out relying on the city wall. He was as timid as a mouse. It was really disappointing.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't wait for Zhang Fengyi to send troops, so he was relieved of his position and asked him to change to Jiliao governor, continue to supervise the troops to deal with JianNu, and appoint Yang Sichang as the Minister of the Ministry of war to organize the defense of the capital. The former Jiliao governor failed to guard the border and was sentenced to prison.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen had been dissatisfied with Feng Yi for a long time, and they all saw that he had an empty mouth, but he didn't have any real ability on hand, so he wanted to find a more satisfactory Minister of the Ministry of war, and Yang Sichang came into his sight.

Yang Sichang's policy of hustling outside and being at home has won his green attention. He also began to promote him and is ready to promote him at the critical time. Now it is the critical and critical time, so he exempted Zhang Fengyi. Yang Sichang served as the Minister of the Ministry of war and is responsible for the mobilization and deployment of troops throughout the country.

Of course, Zhang Fengyi's dismissal did not mean that he did not have to do it, but ordered him to serve as governor of Jiliao, command the army near the capital and drive JianNu out within a time limit.

Zhang Fengyi was not surprised that he was dismissed. All this was expected. Such a big event had happened. It was polite for the emperor not to cut off his head. At the moment, the Emperor just removed him from the post of minister of the Ministry of war and let him serve as the General Governor of Jiliao, who was responsible for commanding the troops around the capital and fighting a decisive battle with JianNu, This is the last chance for him. If he can't grasp the last chance, this is the end of beheading him out of the market.

Zhang Fengyi didn't know his situation. He would be so difficult in just a few days. When he was the Minister of the military department, he was in charge of the mobilization of troops and horses across the country. What a high spirit. How many famous officials and generals flattered him and sent money to his house. What a scenery.

But Liu Jiajun jumped out and JianNu jumped out, but all his scenery was wiped out, making him like a Phoenix. He was pulled out all his hair and exposed his bare ass. he was inferior to a chicken, which became a joke.

He asked to go out to supervise the division to resist the enemy. This was his last resistance. If this resistance failed, he would have to be beheaded.

This is also his effort to save himself. Who knows, when he came to the place, the officers and soldiers of the local army didn't bird him, and didn't abandon him as a military ministry minister at all.

For example, when he came to Baoding and took over the military power here, the governor of Baoding cooperated a little, quickly handed over the military power, then said he was ill at home and pushed everything to him. At first, Zhang Fengyi was still thinking that the governor of Baoding was a good man and didn't pit him at the critical time. Who knows that the governor of Baoding was a chicken thief, and he handed over all the military power, It means that Zhang Fengyi is responsible for everything, not his business.

In addition, although there are thousands of troops in Baoding Prefecture, these thousands of troops are short of food and pay, and even soldiers' armour. To put it bluntly, they are a group of disabled soldiers and defeated generals. It is impossible for him to expect these disabled soldiers and defeated generals to fight. Even if he can persuade them to go out to fight against JianNu, it is estimated that they will die. Facing such a situation, Zhang Fengyi is desperate.