The Nanjing Tongzheng Envoy Department received a urgent message from Dengzhou today. Novel.

According to convention, the priority of such important towns is the highest, and people will be sent to the palace immediately.

The officials of the Tongzheng Envoy Department did not dare to neglect them and immediately sent someone to send the memorial to the cabinet.

After receiving the memorial, the cabinet did not dare to delay and immediately sent someone to the emperor's bedroom.

Zhu Ci handled official duties in the warm room today as usual, and the eunuch who was accompanying him stood respectfully behind him.

The distance is not far or near, and if the emperor gives him any instructions, he can react immediately.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a burst of rapid footsteps outside the hall, and subconsciously turned his head to look.

"Dengzhou urgently reported!"

The eunuch who was running errands raised the eunuch high above his head and said in a slightly sharp voice.

The eunuch who was with him quickly ran over to take the memorial, and then carefully folded it back.

"Your Majesty, Dengzhou is coming to report urgently."

Zhu Ci was slightly stunned and put down the red pen in his hand.

"Read it to me."

Those who can attend the emperor's throne have read books in the palace, so literacy is not a problem at all.

The eunuch who was with him read out the contents of the urgent report.

After hearing this, Zhu Ci didn't speak for a long time, and his face was as solemn as a pool of stagnant water.

The little eunuch was also frightened, fearing that the emperor would take his anger on him for the matter in the memorial.

"This is confirmed by Zheng Zhilong Tonglu."

Zhu Ci sighed and shook his head helplessly.

The Denglai Navy accidentally intercepted a grain transport ship heading to Tianjin. The pirates on the ship were all ordered by Zheng Zhilong to do this job.

Zheng Chenggong intercepted the ship as a member of the Denglai Navy. It was really a blessing to be fooled by fate.

What is commendable is that Zheng Chenggong chose to stand on the side of the court and signed the name in the memorial of impeachment of Zheng Zhilong by Zhang Kentang, the governor of Denglai.

In this way, Zheng Chenggong expressed his position between his family and the country.

Unfortunately, Zheng Chenggong's current status in the Zheng family is not very high, and his statement cannot have much impact on the Zheng family.

If Zhu Ci wants to solve the problem of Zheng Zhilong, he has to find another way.

He had previously issued an edict, ordering the provinces bordering Fujian to strictly prohibit the sale of grain to Zheng Zhilong.

But this is just a temporary measure.

As long as Zheng Zhilong thought, he could buy grain from Nanyang and then transport it to Tianjin.

The sea is vast, and it is impossible to simply rely on the Denglai Navy to blockade. The Qing Dynasty would definitely receive food supplies.

As long as the Qing army had food to eat, they would not panic and would continue to stay in the north.

This seems like a dead end

Zhu Ci only felt a headache, and the only way seemed to be to plow the yard and sweep the hole and take Fujian.

Without the old nest, Zheng Zhilong's cost of transporting grain will increase, and the Ming army will be better targeted.

It seems that when the southwest is pacified, Fujian will move.

Escaped, finally escaped.

Zhang Dingguo breathed a sigh of relief. The ambush laid by the Ming army was very tight. He thought he could not break through countless times, and just wanted to pull a few more people on the back.

Unexpectedly, the division of troops at the last moment had a miraculous effect, which really led his troops to rush out.

I don’t know how Wenxiu is doing.

Although Zhang Dingguo is not very satisfied with Zhang Wenxiu's recent domineering performance, the two are in the same camp after all, and Zhang Dingguo does not want to see Zhang Wenxiu have any surprises.

Now is the critical moment to conquer the world, and everyone needs to play their role.

For the sake of the overall situation, Zhang Dingguo was willing to endure Zhang Wenxiu's bad temper for the time being.

Of course, he would not rush back to rescue Zhang Wenxiu immediately. Not only did his subordinates not save Zhang Wenxiu, but he also had to get in.

According to the agreement between the two before breaking through, no matter who rushed out first, they would gather the defeated soldiers as soon as possible and then return to rescue them.

Zhang Dingguo took the lead and led his personal troops back along the original route.

Seeing that many soldiers from the Western Army were still burying their heads to pick up copper coins, Zhang Ding Guozhi was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

Haven't these people seen money before? They even ignored military discipline for the sake of some money.

No wonder they were chasing the Ming army, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers around them, and they turned out to be just concerned about picking up money.

Of course, this is not the time to lose his temper. Zhang Dingguo ordered his personal soldiers to gather the soldiers who were scattered everywhere to collect money, and then turn around and kill them back.

He also had only 10,000 troops in his hand, and he was confident that he could rescue Zhang Wenxiu from the siege of the Ming army.

But when he led his troops back, he found that the battle had already ended. The Ming soldiers cut off the heads of the soldiers of the Daxi Army and carried them on the bamboo pole to show them.

The distance was a bit far away. Zhang Dingguo couldn't see clearly whether there was Zhang Wenxiu's head, but he was already glaring.

At this moment, he wanted to fight with the Ming army with an order.

But reason tells him that he still has to endure it.

After all, the number of soldiers in Ming Dynasty has an advantage. If it is to save Zhang Wenxiu, you can still try it.

But now that Zhang Wenxiu's life and death are unknown, it is a bit worthwhile to lead his brothers to fight in the battle like this.

After all, these are all elites of the Western Army. If they were all broken here, how could he explain to Zhang Xianzhong?

Zhang Dingguo held the reins tightly, and hesitated for a moment, but turned his horse's head toward the direction of Chuxiong Mansion.

Now Kun obviously can't stay anymore, so it's better to return to Chuxiong Mansion first and then make a decision.

The chieftains in northern Yunnan have always been paying close attention to the movements in Kunming.

This is really a turbulent time.

First, the Yuanmou Tusi rebelled, then the Shadingzhou Rebellion.

Immediately afterwards, even the Western thieves entered Yunnan and wanted to get a share of the pie.

The whole of Yunnan has become a mess.

It seems that the dispute between Duke Qian and Shadingzhou is no longer the same, but has evolved into a showdown between the court and Zhang Xianzhong.

Both the imperial court and Zhang Xianzhong wanted to take this opportunity to gain actual control over Yunnan.

No matter who wins in the end, Yunnan may have a big change.

Needless to say, Zhang Xianzhong won, they will definitely strengthen their control over Yunnan and even gradually transfer their troops from Sichuan to Yunnan.

If the court wins, it will naturally interfere in specific affairs in Yunnan.

You should know that these matters were handled by a group of chieftains led by the Duke of Qian.

But now that such a big mess has occurred, the court has every reason to intervene.

The reason is very simple. If you don’t manage it well, I will take care of it for you.

The chieftains in northern Yunnan had publicly expressed their support for Mu Tianbo at the beginning.

But soon they discovered that Mu Tianbo did not have the strength to quell the rebellion, and they had become a betrayal dog and needed to rely on others.

So they now need to find a new direction to bet.

Qin Liangyu, or Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Dingguo, who represented the court.
Chapter completed!