In August of the first year of the Ming Empire, the four counties of Fuyuan and the Yan State established by the barbarians launched an attack on the new Ming Empire, which was a typical anticlimactic war, starting from the eighth day of August, to the beginning of September, the momentum was huge, the rebels and the Yan allied army of more than 100,000 people were defeated by the Ming army in Tzu Chi, Xinhua, Xinxiang and other places, and had to retreat to the four counties of Fuyuan under the loss of troops. www.biquge.info Just when the world thought that the emperor of the Ming Empire, Qin Feng, would take advantage of the great victory and wave his whole army to attack Fuyuan, exterminate Jiang Haokun, and finally drive the Yan State established by the barbarians back to the depths of the mountains, the military offensive of the Ming Empire came to an abrupt end and there was no follow-up.

The Ming army built a defensive line on the periphery of the four counties of Fuyuan, and then, there was no then, the imaginary attack did not take place, and the Ming army seemed to be very content with the current situation.

Whether it was Chu, Qin, or Qi, they were all a little unclear about this form, so a large number of spies gathered around Fuyuan for a while, and what they saw made them dumbfounded again. The soldiers of the Ming army were not preparing to attack, but vigorously building fences one after another, because this kind of work was going on on all the defense lines, it seemed that it would not be long before the Ming army would build a complete fence that would wrap the four counties of Fuyuan, and it seemed that they were treating each other as pigs and sheep in captivity. At this end of the fence is the military camp of the Ming army, and at that end, a few miles away, is the camp of the Fuyuan army and the Yan army.

The three kingdoms that could not understand the behavior of the Ming army could only attribute it to the fact that the Ming army might now have insufficient financial resources, second, it was eager to stabilize the country's politics, and third, considering that if it forcibly attacked, it would cause the opponent's desperate resistance, so there would be a large number of casualties, but Qin Feng was unwilling to accept such a result.

Trap your opponents! This became the strategy of various countries for the Ming Empire to deal with the rebels. After some consideration, countries also had to admire Qin Feng's seemingly absurd decision.

Jiang Haoyuan's Fuyuan army will not talk about him for the time being, but the Yan State established by the barbarians, the combat effectiveness of its army should not be underestimated, the war between the two sides, except for the first battle Murong Kaishan defeated Huang Hao's Ruijin battalion, other battlefields, the Ming army did not take any advantage, on the basis of the main defense, and the Yan army became a comparable situation.

If Qin Feng wants to sweep away the four counties of Fuyuan in one go, then he must pour the strength of the whole country and fight it down, even if the barbarians are defeated, they can still run into the mountains, and they will not be destroyed, and there will be continuous troubles in the future. What's more, the newly built Ming Empire is not only an enemy of domestic rebels, but the other three countries are not eyeing each other? Among them, Qi is the most blatant, in Dengxian County, they brazenly gathered nearly 20,000 troops, as long as the Ming Empire is not supported, they may attack the Ming Empire at any time.

Under such internal and external forms, Qin Feng's decision-making was extremely wise.

The four counties of Fuyuan, although they are known as the land of the four counties, but the total economic volume of the four counties is not equal to a Zhengyang County, and the territory is only one-third larger than Zhengyang County. It can be said that the Ming Empire can afford to lose in the confrontation with them. But the barbarians can't afford to lose, and if they lose a battle, they will lose everything.

This kind of inequality between the two sides in terms of strategy doomed the four counties of Fuyuan and the Yan State to be ready every day, and time to guard against the attacks launched by the Ming army, but the Ming army didn't care about the opponent at all, and if they wanted to fight, they would fight, and if they didn't want to fight, they would defend.

Militarily, the Ming army had the advantage, and the economy was not above an order of magnitude. Because of special geographical and historical reasons, the economy of the four counties of Fuyuan has always been underdeveloped, and it is a typical imported economy, but now they are locked in the narrow area of the four counties of Fuyuan, and the Ming Empire will inevitably carry out a severe economic blockade policy on them.

Getting poorer and poorer, they had to launch a desperate attack on the Ming army alone, which happened to fall into Qin Feng's calculations, so that the Ming army would continue to exhaust the opponent's vitality in the opponent's attacks again and again, and then at the lowest price, in exchange for the final victory.

This method seems to be very cumbersome and takes a long time, but for the current Ming Empire, it is the strategy that is most in line with their current reality.

When everyone understood Qin Feng's calculations, the people of Qi were stunned, although they successfully provoked a rebellion in the Yue Kingdom, but it was far from achieving their expected results, Qin Feng's strategy of encircling but not fighting minimized the adverse effects, and also made the Ming Empire still maintain enough deterrent power against Qi State.

The State of Chu breathed a sigh of relief, for them, whether the Ming Empire was an enemy or a friend, it was impossible to determine whether it was a friend or foe now, but the Ming Empire would make the State of Qi feel uncomfortable, and that was enough. In the battle between Qi and Chu, the balance began to tilt towards Qi again, Luo Liang was forced back to the vicinity of Kunling Pass by the army commanded by Cao Yun, the prince of Qi, and the Gaohu and other territories under the sudden war were lost, and in the Qi and Chu wars that lasted for more than a year, the losses of Qi and Chu were not small. But for the State of Qi, it is a reversal of defeat into victory, and for the State of Chu, it is a victory first and then a defeat, and the morale of the two sides is not the same. Under the situation of boiling public dissatisfaction in the country, Min Ruoying recruited back Cheng Wuben and Jiang Tao, Cheng Wuben was appointed as the secretary of the military department, and Jiang Tao returned to the eastern border country as the deputy general with real power, and the return to power of these two people suppressed Luo Liang's dominance, and also alleviated the domestic public resentment and the dissatisfaction of the eastern border army. After a reincarnation, the two sides seem to be back to the original starting point.

The State of Qin, of course, did not want the Ming Empire to be in chaos. Qi and Chu have always adhered to the policy of economic blockade for Qin, and strategic materials such as grain and iron tools are not allowed to be exported to Qin at all, but the nascent Ming Empire does not seem to be worried that Qin will be like a tiger after obtaining these things, and is willing to export these strategic materials to Qin in large quantities.

The export of a large amount of grain can alleviate the food shortage situation in the country that Qin has always had, stabilize grain prices, and naturally make the domestic politics stable and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the export of iron tools will make Qin's already powerful army step onto a new level.

If the Ming Empire is in chaos, it will naturally be impossible to fulfill the things that Qin Feng promised, and then the policy of supporting Qin Feng led by Li Zhi before will inevitably fall to the end, and there will be no return at all, which will be a bamboo basket for water.

In fact, even now, the court of the Qin State is eager to directly send troops to help the Ming Empire destroy these eyesore in the four counties of Fuyuan, but the proposal made by the envoy sent by Deng Zhong was vetoed by Qin Feng on the spot.

The Qin people were very generous, and they were willing to send the only ironclad heavy cavalry of the Qin State, led by Deng Su, to help the Ming Empire put down the rebellion, and the price was only to ask the Ming State to provide them with weapons and equipment and daily expenses during the war.

There was no shortage of brave warriors in the Qin State, but there was a shortage of money, food, and steel to build armor and weapons, and there were only 20,000 iron-armored heavy horses, not because they had no people, no horses, but no money.

Qin Feng did not consider this proposal of the Qin people at all, which made Deng Zhong very regretful. For Deng Zhong, establishing a good relationship with the Ming Empire is not only a matter for the Qin court, but also a matter for the future of his Deng family.

The border army of Qin State has been in unlimited scenery in the past two years, whether it is against Chu or against Vietnam, they have achieved brilliant results, and in Yue, they have obtained the first piece of land since the founding of Qin, Kaiping County. It's a land of ointment, a grain producing area. But what followed was the joint suppression of the Qin court, and the Western Army in the hands of the Deng family was taken away and replaced by Bian Wenzhong, which greatly reduced the strength of the Deng family, and then, he stretched out his hand to Kaiping County, and actually wanted to send someone to directly take over the jurisdiction of Kaiping County. Send again, die again, the civil officials of the imperial court were finally frightened by the ruthless style of the Deng family, and no one wanted to come to this land anymore.

Although the imperial court was extremely angry, the Deng family's reputation in the country is now in full swing, and the hundreds of thousands of border troops under Deng Zhong are also at their peak, and the most important thing is that Li Zhi did not say a word in this domestic political dispute. After participating in Qin Feng's enthronement ceremony, he returned to the thatched hut on the nameless hill outside Yongdu City, and never went down the mountain for half a step. Whether it was the imperial court taking away part of the Deng clan's military power, or the Deng clan's ruthless murder, he pretended to be deaf and dumb and did not say a word.

But it was this kind of silence that made both sides jealous, they didn't know what the ultimate limit of Li Zhi's patience was, and the two sides died down and shook hands.

It was based on the domestic suppression of the Deng family's court power that Deng Zhong had to firmly grasp the Ming State and send Deng Su to make a move, one is to show the power of the ironclad heavy cavalry, and the other is to further deepen the relationship with the Ming State, as long as he can control the wealth road with the Ming State that is related to the Qin State for the next many years, the Deng family will be invincible.

As long as the transaction with the Ming Kingdom has to go through his hands Deng Zhong, even if the Bian clan joins forces with the royal family again, the Deng clan has nothing to fear.

Unfortunately, Qin Feng rejected this suggestion. Fortunately, the transaction between the Ming Empire and the Qin State was still mediated by the Deng family, and the imperial court and the Bian family did not send people to tour the empire, but as far as Deng Zhong knew, they did not even meet the face of the emperor of the Ming Empire, which made Deng Zhong very pleased.

Qin Feng, what a friend you can make!