For this mission, Nanming prepared for four months, from the dispute of the envoy to the terms of the negotiation and the credit of sharing the profits, he was red-faced by the dispute at all, but the real envoy was over in one day, and Zuo Maodi had to bring this unprecedented bad news back to Jiangnan.

It's time for war!

After being kicked out of the palace, with the mission, the two rubbed at the palace gate for a long time, and even paid money to bribe the palace gate guards to meet the prince or Mao Jue again, but unfortunately, not to mention that the pension was lost when they were caught, these bastards wanted to rob their jobs, and these guards didn't care about them at all.

Standing on the Chengtian Gate, watching the group of people walking outside the city with their heads drooping and heavy, the corners of Mao Jue's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile.

Indeed, the war is about surprise, like the German army in World War II, lightning into the empire, give a fatal blow, like Mao Jue in front of the entire court bluntly tell people, Lao Tzu will you next year, wash your neck first and wait! No matter what, it has a bit of the meaning of Song Xiang's formula "benevolence and righteousness", so that Nanming has time to prepare for war.

However, will those guys who are full of benevolence and morality prepare for war? In history, half of the Jingshi fell and half of the country was gone, and these Donglin Party people, who were known as righteous men and gentlemen, were not only busy fighting verbal battles, but they spared no effort to chase down the former ministers, and took the opportunity to overturn all the cases in the history of the Ming Dynasty that they couldn't see, and did not add a soldier and a silver to the front, and when the Qing army went south, it was defeated in an instant.

If in this time and space, those ministers of Nanming can unite and actively prepare for war, Mao Jue can still look down on them.

The question is, can they?

The pit snorted, and with the big sleeves on his back, Mao Jue turned around and went back to the palace.

…………

Time passed bit by bit, the biggest historical turning point in history, Chongzhen seventeen years, 1644 A.D., in such a tranquility was smoothly passed, over the years, Chongzhen years have also become history, Mao Jue ordered to change the first year of the Yuan Enlightenment, on the one hand, it indicates that he will change the Ming Dynasty from closed to open This national policy is a great change, on the other hand, it is to fight against the Hongguang year of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In this half a year, the energy of the entire north is all focused on the iron boss, and the local officials and political achievements are based on iron, even if it is a cold winter, the railway site has not broken the twist, in February of the following year, the north-south Xu Lei railway is really repaired to the gate of Xuzhou, and thanks to Liu Liangzuo, the general soldier of Xuzhou, as long as the silver is in place, even if Mao Jue declares war on Jiangnan, this goods still launched more than a dozen battalions of infantry to help Dongjiang pave the road.

Mao Jue also counts, wherever the railway leads, the grain produced by the granary of Heilongjiang will come in boxes and boxes, and the work for relief will be distributed to the local residents as wages for building the railway.

However, the new item of the train still caused a great shock among the people, such as Tancheng, Shandong, which is closest to Xuzhou.

Early in the morning, Zhao Jin, an official of Tancheng County, was also wearing a black gauze hat and led a large number of employees of the county public security, county industry and commerce, and county bank to wait at the station near the city gate, waiting to welcome the supplies.

Looking at the railroad tracks that were freezing hard in January, Liu Deguan, a county judge who was also born in Jiangnan, was a little apprehensive, and couldn't help muttering in a low voice.

"I heard that the Kun of this Liao Town is eight feet tall, with a copper head and iron forehead, a mouth that spews flames, and has the courage of ten thousand people, and can split mountains, I really don't know what kind of monster it is!"

"Yes! Oh, yes! I heard that in the neighboring county of Fucheng County, there are more than a dozen county officials who are so frightened that they are paralyzed and can't get up!"

Listening to the whispers of his subordinates, Zhao Jin, the county magistrate, immediately showed a sense of disdain on his fat and brightened face, and raised his head proudly.

"Zi Bu is strange and confused, what a kun, at most a bigger carriage, look at you one by one you have never seen the world, shame!"

"It's still the county magistrate who is calm!"

"Yes! No wonder the adults were promoted as soon as they came, and they were so trusted by the King of Liao. ”

"My lord, Taishan collapsed in front of him and his face did not change!"

A series of sycophants came all over the world, and Zhao Jin, who has always been a sycophant, put his head high comfortably.

"Colleagues are false! This official just reads more books and goes to more places, and everyone is loyal to the regent, haha!"

As he spoke, the county police officer in the distance rode a horse and waved a red flag, and then in the morning mist, a huge red eye slowly came into view, and he could faintly feel the huge shock coming towards him.

The train is coming!

The discussion came to an abrupt end, and the county officials held their breath and looked north nervously, and after a while, a strong wind suddenly blew on their faces, and suddenly, the head of the car that dragged the black smoke suddenly broke through the morning fog, and appeared in front of the people in Tancheng County, followed by the deafening whistle buzzing, and the dark green train-skin dragon flashed in front of him as quickly.

"This ......, this is ......, this is a miracle! The regent can enslave the dragon! It's really a real thing! What a god! ”

Frightened, Liu Deguan's mouth trembled and shouted loudly, and immediately, he shouted excitedly.

"Lord Prefectural Order, look! Really, what a fetish! Hey? What about the county magistrates, the county magistrates? ”

A greeting, everyone came back to their senses and looked forward one after another, but after a while, everyone was laughing and laughing, and Zhao Xianling, who was known to be well-informed just now, stuck on the ground like a big dough, and kept kowtowing to the ground, muttering in his mouth.

"What a kun! God! What a kun! ”

The train rushed forward more than 100 meters in inertia, and then it came to an abrupt stop under the brakes of Si Si braving the sparks, and then the train door opened, and one by one the Liaodong infantry wearing black cotton armor coats and carrying flintlock pistols jumped down majestically.

In the front carriage, more than a dozen capable sergeants who were not easy to mess with at first glance immediately jumped down, lined up as a wall to guard the left and right, and then a man wearing an extraordinarily dark military coat, extraordinarily majestic and solemn, just like the Buddha Zhang in "The Old Nine Gates", while wearing gloves in a chic manner, opened his mouth and asked.

"What about the magistrate here?"

…………

While the north is slowly recovering its vitality, the south is becoming more and more noisy.

As Mao Jue expected, after Zuo Maodi returned to Nanjing, it immediately caused a fierce backlash from Dr. Nan Mingshi, and I really admired the mouths of these literati.

Immediately afterwards, literati from all walks of life also turned into detectives, and pieces of articles were written with noses and eyes, from Li Zicheng's entry into the city, to how they harmed Emperor Chongzhen and the crown prince and his family, and how to paint the news of how Mao Jue suppressed the news, and how to find the folk children to impersonate, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

And countless witnesses have emerged, pointing out how Mao Jue brutally persecuted the prince to death, forced Princess Changping to marry her, and then ravaged the mansion every day, anyway, all kinds of sewage splashed on Mao Jue's body, for a while, Mao Jue seemed to have become a street rat in the south, and everyone shouted and beat that.

But for the upcoming war, these Jiangnan doctors have done nothing!

Shi Kefa, who was in Yangzhou, and Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, panicked, Ma Shiying wanted to transfer the Chu army of Huguang Zuo Liangyu to the south of the Yangtze River for defense, and kept writing letters to Mao Jue.

As for Shi Kefa's in Yangzhou, he also desperately wanted to pull Latin's salary to strengthen the defense of Jiangbei, but unfortunately, Ma Shiying's side, Zuo Liangyu didn't want to move at all, and now he regards Huguang as his own territory, at the end of last year, Mao Jue drove Li Zicheng into Huguang, compared to history, Li Zicheng's forces are also weaker I don't know how many points, Zuo Liangyu is gearing up to fight to the death with the remnants of the peasant army.

On Shi Kefa's side, the tide of the loss of the master has not passed, even the salt merchants are a little anxious, and Mao Jue has a good reputation among the merchants, and there are few who are enthusiastic about defending Yangzhou City.

These two can be regarded as the only two people in the Hongguang Dynasty who have taken action, Zhu Yousong himself is not as good as a cup in hand, and his life is at the head of the geometric month! In the face of Mao Jue's aggressive war signals, Ying Tian didn't even respond to the war with a hard point, but continued to send envoys north in January of the next year to ask Mao Jue about the fake establishment of the emperor.

As for the more than 400,000 troops in the three towns of Jiangbei who were regarded as the iron wall of the Great Wall by the Southern Ming Dynasty, they were not prepared for war at all.

Even Liu Liangzuo of Xuzhou was still proud, early in the morning, standing at the head of Xuzhou City, while drinking, he hummed happily at the generals under his command.

"This hairy barbarian really has a lot of money and no place to spend it, a million taels of silver, and he took out so much good steel, just build these two iron chopsticks, what's the use, haha!"

"It's easy to put a million taels into his pocket, and he has earned tens of thousands of catties of fine iron for nothing, how many knives, guns and combat equipment can be made! As soon as this Mao Man's soldiers come to the city, let's dismantle his broken iron chopsticks again, make arrows with his iron, and shoot them on the head of the Mao Man. ”

"I don't know how wonderful his face will be by then, haha!"

Laughing and pouring a sip of wine into his stomach, the chief soldiers and deputy generals who followed him suddenly slapped them one by one.

"What the military master said is extremely true!"

"It's still wise for our Hou Ye! That hairy barbarian just lost his wife and broke his soldiers!"

But there are still people who are not confused, and Liu Liangzuo's cronies and sergeants muttered worriedly: "Dong Weng! Liaodong, where this Mao Manzi is located, is particularly good at witchcraft, and the previous Qing Tartar won all battles, which is the practice of jumping the great god behind, invulnerable, this iron chopsticks, can it be the spell set by Mao Manzi, breaking our Xuzhou Feng Shui? ”

"Birds! Lao Tzu was born and died for half his life, and he has never seen any spells! If you have the ability, let him ask the man surnamed Mao to invite a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general to take a look!"

Coincidentally, this Liu Liangzuo just picked up the wine jug again with disdain, and a shocking heavy vibration came from the north again, accompanied by a roar.

"What the hell?"

Half-drunk, Liu Liangzuo poked his head out of the city wall in amazement, and in the same morning mist, the same huge red eyes came out, and then, the heavy iron guy appeared in Liu Liangzuo's unbelievable eyes under his yellow, bloodshot eyes.

"Woo~~~"

(End of chapter)