When Liu Zeqing was killed, there were many people talking and it was difficult to hide it.

After these concerned people worked hard, they learned the true situation of King Zhou's execution of Liu Zeqing and his troops.

When they knew that King Zhou led only a few dozen men into Pei County, where tens of thousands of troops were stationed, and killed Liu Zeqing in one fell swoop, they felt awe-struck in their hearts.

Feng Yuan killed the generals, captured the army, and in a matter of seconds forcibly collected nearly a hundred thousand soldiers and horses. What he did was really neat and tidy.

Even the Jiangnan scholars who were enemies of King Zhou had to admire him.

After the news of the collapse of Liu Zeqing's forces came out, Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, who were stationing troops in Fengyang Prefecture, quickly tightened military discipline and placed strict security in the city where troops were stationed.

Like a touched hedgehog, it curled up into a ball and defended itself tightly.

After gathering his troops, Feng Yuan wrote a memorial to Emperor Chongzhen of Jinling, accusing Liu Zeqing of mobilizing an army without reason to assassinate the vassal king with the intention of treason.

All the court officials in Jinling lost their voices because of it.

After recruiting Liu Zeqing's troops, Feng Yuan's troops suddenly increased to more than 100,000!

Although most of these more than 100,000 soldiers and horses are just a mob, they don't have much combat effectiveness.

But the officials in Jinling didn't know this. These gentlemen and gentry who didn't know anything about soldiers only knew how to judge the strength of others by the number of soldiers.

In their eyes, Zhou Wang Zhu Lunsheng was already a powerful vassal town.

If we send troops south, it will pose a great threat to Jinling and we must guard against it.

Emperor Chongzhen had a suspicious character. When he first arrived in Jinling, he was still somewhat grateful to Feng Yuan, so he rewarded him very generously. He first made him a king, and then let Feng Yuan take charge of the military power in Jiangbei.

But as time passed, his old habits recurred, and he became wary of Feng Yuan.

After the ministers in the court reported it, he followed the trend and agreed to Shi Kefa's suggestion.

Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie and Huang Degong, three generals with tens of thousands of troops, were each transferred to Luzhou, Chuzhou, Hezhou and other places.

It poses a threat to Feng Yuan on the flank.

Feng Yuan watched this with cold eyes and had no objection.

What he has to do now is to digest the nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses as quickly as possible, and at the same time clean up the people who oppose him in Xuzhou and Huai'an Prefecture.

Seeing that Feng Yuan made no other moves, the officials in Jinling and the gentry of the Donglin Party also breathed a sigh of relief.

These people thought that Feng Yuan didn't know about their secret actions.

They were happy too early...

A few days later, on the streets of Jinling City, unknown people posted notices all over the city, which mentioned the "great achievements" of a certain big family in Jiangnan and a certain person in the past few years.

Among them, there are those scholar leaders who claim to be upright gentlemen, with perfect morals, and who always pray for the people, but at home they let their slaves commit crimes and force the people to be killed.

Some famous people who claim to be clean and honest have thousands of acres of land and millions of gold and silver at home. They write to the emperor in the court to be frugal and cherish the people, but at home, they spend hundreds of taels of silver on a single meal.

These guys who talk about benevolence, justice and morality, but are secretly committed to stealing men and prostitutes, have their true colors revealed, and their true colors have been completely exposed.

In the past, these people controlled the world's public opinion, and they were the only ones to mobilize public opinion to attack others. This has never happened before.

Suddenly, the whole city was in an uproar.

After Emperor Chongzhen saw the information on the notice, he was immediately furious and ordered the Jin Yiwei and Yushitai to investigate the matter thoroughly.

The celebrities and celebrities targeted by these notices were put aside for the time being without any charges. Those with definite evidence of guilt were all put in jail.

Chongzhen was too afraid to order punishments for those generals who had large armies.

But he killed a lot of these civil servants who had no soldiers.

What's more, these people's true colors were revealed, they became infamous overnight, and there was clear evidence of their crimes. Chongzhen dealt with these people without any psychological burden.

This is when encountering a general who leads troops, he only obeys and attacks the civil servants with heavy blows.

After Feng Yuan learned about this situation, he couldn't help but curse.

"No wonder when Chongzhen rang the Jingyang Bell in the capital, not many civil and military officials in the entire dynasty were willing to come. With this behavior of frequently going to jail and killing civil servants, it is not surprising that he became a lonely man!"

However, this character of Chongzhen was exactly used to deal with these officials and gentry in Jiangnan.

"This can be considered fighting fire with fire!"

Feng Yuan secretly thought that he was watching the various actions of the emperor and the court ministers in Jinling City in Huai'an City.

He didn't expect much support from these people.

As long as they can not hold back and barely maintain the rule of Jiangnan without causing trouble, that will be enough.

In Jinling City.

After Jin Yiwei jailed the officials whose crimes were confirmed in the notice and ransacked their homes, according to the information on the notice, they found more than two million taels of silver, as well as a large number of calligraphy, paintings, and treasures from the homes of these dozen people.

These people were originally from middle-class families. They had been in office for less than ten years and yet they had plundered such a large sum of money.

This money is obviously from the people's wealth and the people's anointing.

After Chongzhen got a sum of money, the treasury, which was originally in a tight situation, suddenly felt a lot relieved. This can be regarded as an unexpected gain.

After getting the benefits, Chongzhen continued to send Jin Yiwei to attack hard.

On the surface, they want to thoroughly investigate the person behind the notice, but secretly they continue to follow the information on the notice and confiscate family property.

It wasn't until Li Banghua and Lu Zhenfei, the cabinet academicians, tactfully warned that if things continued like this, the hearts of the Jiangnan gentry would be corrupted, Chongzhen finally stopped reluctantly.

In fact, both Chongzhen, Li Banghua, Lu Zhenfei and the ministers in the court had already guessed that the man behind the notice was Zhu Lunsheng, the king of Zhou who was in charge of Jiangbei.

The officials and scholars who were told to expose their background were all those who had submitted a petition to impeach the King of Zhou some time ago for tampering with the ancestral system, competing for profits with the people, mistreating the gentry, and not killing those who did not offend the people.

Unexpectedly, King Zhou's countermeasures were so ruthless and directly hit these people's vital points.

besides.

The people of King Zhou were actually able to post so many notices in the streets of Jinling overnight. They had to pay attention to the hidden power in Jinling.

Soon, based on Jin Yiwei's intelligence, the Golden Dragon Gang fell into the sight of the emperor and cabinet ministers.

It is really unprecedented that a mere martial arts sect can burst out with such power.

Chongzhen and several other bachelors knew this, and they did not dare to attack the Jinlong Gang for a while. They were worried that disturbing this gang would cause dissatisfaction with the King of Zhou in the north of the Yangtze River.

The Donglin scholars and squires in the south of the Yangtze River received a harsh lesson. They hated Feng Yuan in their hearts, so they could only stop their activities and became much more peaceful.

Time passes by in a blink of an eye.

In July of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was chased by the Manchu cavalry. He was defeated again in Taiyuan and had to return to Shaanxi.

Manchu and Qing generals Azige and Wu Sangui entered northern Shaanxi.

At the same time, Duduo, Prince of Yu, the great general of the Qing Dynasty, led Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others to command the army and marched into Shandong and Henan, directing their troops towards the Huaihe River.

Feng Yuan immediately mobilized troops and mobilized 20,000 new soldiers who had just been trained for two or three months to Xuzhou. They were led by Jiang Yingjie to guard the city strictly to guard against a surprise attack by the Manchu army.

However, the Manchu army quickly changed its strategy and prepared to destroy Li Zicheng first.

Duduo led the army to Tongguan and prepared to join forces with Azig to pacify Shaanxi.

The two main forces of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties joined forces, but Li Zicheng could not resist it and had to retreat, preparing to retreat to Xiangyang through Wuguan.
Chapter completed!