After Jieshu retired from the army, Yue Le was unable to support it alone, and also retreated to the city of Nanjing, intending to stick to the city of Nanjing, which was pushed forward for more than 200 years and was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which was built in accordance with the style of the imperial city at the beginning, and was called two capitals and thirteen provinces during the Ming Dynasty, and the two capitals were divided into Nanjing and Beijing.

Therefore, the city of Nanjing City can be regarded as one of the best fortified cities in the world, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty is united, it will be a matter of effort to defend it for a year and a half.

The Zhou Dynasty did not rush to attack the city, but seized the time to encroach on all the prefectures and counties around Nanjing, and slowly digested them into their own cities, occupying the richest Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the world.

And the Mao family who was far away on the grassland suddenly received a military order, handed over the expanded horse farm on the grassland to Cai Yurong's people to guard, and then rushed to the southeast of Sichuan and Shu, since the Zhou Dynasty was on guard, the Ming Dynasty also had to pay tribute to the exchanges, the battle line of the Zhou Dynasty was too long, once the skin was torn, I was afraid that their news had not yet reached Yunnan, and the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty had captured Yunnan.

The Mao family is also safe in the grassland these days, they have determined their own position after learning from the pain, and the interaction with Mao Ruoling is only the interaction of the woman's family, and His Majesty's harem does not do political affairs, which is something that the Ming courtiers know, and it is not causing suspicion of others.

On the other hand, Qianning Wang Mu Xiaodi out of the town of Gansu, he has been sharpened over the years, although he is not a veteran of a hundred battles, but it will not cause too much trouble in Gansu, Cheng Xiaolian also chose to go out to experience after talking to him thoroughly, and he may be allowed to go out of the town in the future, if he does not go through these experiences, then he can only be a rich prince.

Mu Xiaodi doesn't want to fall into the prestige of his ancestors, the Mu family guarded the frontier for the Ming Dynasty in the era, if he becomes a rich prince in his generation, it will be a joke when it is passed out.

There is no big mess in Gansu, it is to open up the Western Regions trade road, there are many bandits in troubled times, and there is no way to do it if the road is not very peaceful, no one is willing to take this trade road after a long time, if Mu Xiaodi can open up this trade road, it is a good thing, even if he can't get a disgraced back, Cheng Xiaolian will not care about anything.

After completing two years of study, a large number of academy students entered the officialdom, and most of these people were assigned to various prefectures and counties as minor officials, and after three years of evaluation, they would be graded according to their achievements, and then promoted, demoted, or dismissed.

Now Zhou Peigong is also in full swing in central Hubei, not to mention anything else, there are not a few people who fled from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Hubei, this Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich, but whose pocket the silver falls into can be particular, there can be tens of millions of silver output value every year, and the people can't even eat, that is, the rich court and the poor people.

The people have worked hard for a year to end up in such a situation, seeing countless grains growing out of their own fields and falling into the pockets of the government, and eating bran vegetables every day, they are naturally complaining, and they heard that the people in central Hubei do not collect taxes, and the family will run over there, and if they stay here, they will starve to death sooner or later.

At the beginning, the officials below didn't care, anyway, they were all poor people, and these people could only eat the Ming Dynasty when they went, and they just happened to save food for them.

But a month later, the news reached the ears of Xia Guoxiang, Xia Guoxiang dismissed more than ten officials in a row, and immediately sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to dignitaries.

Where the news reached Cheng Xiaolian, Cheng Xiaolian immediately asked Meng Ke and Hu Dadao to withdraw from Henan, stick to central Hubei, and replied that if the people migrated, they naturally had a reason that they could not survive, and instead of coming over to ask for people, it was better to let the people under his rule eat their stomachs.

Xia Guoxiang was furious in the court, and pulled out the sword of the guards to make a move on the messenger of the Ming Dynasty, fortunately he was stopped by the ministers around him, but it is not the right time to really start a war with the Ming Dynasty, if they take Nanjing, they are naturally not afraid of war, but at this time, once the army is mobilized, Yue Le in the city of Nanjing will definitely take advantage of the situation, and the good situation will be reversed immediately.

Cheng Xiaolian naturally didn't want to fight with the Zhou Dynasty, but this person could never be handed over, and the people rushed over, although it was actually to feed themselves, but it was spread out that the people would return to their hearts, if they really returned the people, I was afraid that the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang would be disappointed in the Ming Dynasty, and he would not do this kind of thing that lost the hearts of the people.

At this time, the most important thing for the Zhou Dynasty to do was to take advantage of the weakness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to take Nanjing, and justifiably call the emperor to move the capital, stabilize the situation south of the Yangtze River, and be invincible.

As he expected, Xia Guoxiang really didn't do it, but the alliance between the two countries can be regarded as a crack, if Kangxi knew, he didn't know if he would cry or laugh, in order to provoke the relationship between the two families, he spent millions of taels of silver without success, but at this time he didn't do it, and the two countries themselves had a gap.

Cheng Xiaolian recuperated in Chengdu Mansion, this time the injury was not light, injured the vitality, the war still did not stop, from the early spring of Kangxi 17 to the winter solstice of Kangxi 17, the three soldiers and horses you sang and I appeared, it can be regarded as a mutual victory and defeat, but Da Ming and Da Zhou all hit a mind, taking advantage of his illness to kill him, absolutely not let the Manchu Qing slow down, to the winter solstice day, half of Shanxi, half of Henan have become the Ming Dynasty's bag, and Hu Guozhu also successfully broke through Nanjing on this day, Yue Le died in the city, and his soldiers were killed and wounded.

This year's winter in Beijing is particularly cold, the streets are also a lot more depressed than in previous years, most of the money of the adults in the city is taken to support the treasury, but the situation is not as good as day by day, it is no wonder Kangxi, even if Huang Taiji is reincarnated, Dolgon's regeneration is also a clever woman is difficult to cook without rice, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Great Zhou, if they only have one family, the Qing Dynasty will definitely be able to consume them with national strength, but these two families are in trouble together, and it is obviously not enough to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall.

Kangxi was quite calm, and he didn't kill the generals in front of him one by one in a hurry, on this day he came to see the Empress Dowager, and talked about these things, just joking: "I should have ignored it at the beginning, and tried my best to extinguish the former Ming, that look may let Wu Sangui take advantage of it, but if it drags on for a long time, he must not be our opponent, and now a tiger has one more wolf, and our Daqing is hard to beat with two fists and four hands." ”

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