Su Tiancheng came to Texas, and the news soon spread.

The key is that with the rapid development of commerce and trade, more and more businessmen have gathered in Shandong, and the environment of these businessmen in Shandong is very good. After all, the status of businessmen in the Ming Dynasty is very low, and it is difficult to guarantee wealth. But with the accession of Su Tiancheng to the throne, with the establishment of the Great Jin Dynasty, many policies have been introduced step by step, without the slightest change, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu and other places, including Yingtianfu, the attitude towards the merchants has obviously changed, the government protects the personal property of the merchants, only for those merchants who are unwilling to pay taxes, they will be punished in accordance with the rules, of course, the most important thing for the merchants is that the government is completely in accordance with the rules to do things, will not pat their heads around, this is what they are most assured of.

Merchants are born with the nature of drilling camps and making profits, once the imperial court and the government allow, the policy is liberalized, they will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, quickly began to emerge, and with the increase in commercial transactions, the need for goods increased, they began to expand the scale, many large-scale workshops began to appear, these workshops have a lot of hired workers, according to the regulations of the Jin Dynasty, the government does not limit the size of the workshop, let alone limit the number of employees, so the shrewd businessmen, A large number of peasants began to be hired into the workshops to do things.

Su Tiancheng was in Texas, and after hearing the report from Zhizhou on this aspect, he was very happy. In fact, this is a way to solve the problem of land annexation, liberate the peasants from the land, so that the peasants have other ways to make a living, not necessarily completely dependent on the land for food, not necessarily completely determined by God, and with the development of commerce and trade. Farmers can increase their income when they do things in the workshop, and they can even rely on the income in the workshop to support their families, which can avoid the emergence of social contradictions to the greatest extent. The government can collect a large amount of taxes, even if some people are dissatisfied with the government, that is, they talk about it, and it does not have much effect.

In addition to being happy, Su Tiancheng looked around in the city of Texas, which made the news of his coming to Texas spread.

The reason why Su Tiancheng wanted to see it was because he couldn't believe that Texas didn't have many location advantages. But he forgot that Texas was next to Hejian Province. Hejian Mansion is still under the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, the development of commerce and trade there is very backward, a large number of goods need to be purchased from Shandong, many ordinary people also work hard, come to the workshop of the Dezhou businessmen to do things, which promotes the rapid development of trade in Dezhou.

Su Tiancheng's whereabouts were exposed. Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze are unhappy, the expedition to Beizhili is a big thing for the imperial court, and what is needed is speed, if the Ming court learns that Su Tiancheng has personally conquered. I will definitely find a way to deal with it, it can be said that I will do my best, as long as it can cause harm to Su Tiancheng, it will be a fatal blow to the newly established Great Jin Dynasty.

Su Tiancheng was also a little embarrassed, after thinking about it clearly, he felt that his measures were still a little inappropriate, but they had already been made and could not be reversed, so he could only ask the army to speed up preparations and quickly march into Beizhili.

Any expedition, accompanied by intelligence warfare, this has become a law, Jiangning battalion from the intelligence war, obtained huge benefits, whether it is against the Liukou, or in the fierce battle after the Golden Tartars, or even in the process of creating the Great Jin Dynasty, intelligence has played a key role, this expedition, involving the Great Jin Dynasty can smoothly unify the Central Plains, to create the most powerful dynasty in history, the collection of intelligence is absolutely indispensable.

Qu Qingze followed the army on the expedition, and Su Jun stayed in Nanjing, but they were all responsible for collecting and sorting out intelligence.

After the establishment of the Great Jin Dynasty, the intelligence work was also much smoother, and some intelligence networks were successfully established, which was also because some officials in the Ming Dynasty began to seek a way back for themselves.

The time of Su Tiancheng's stay in Dezhou was temporarily determined to be three days, and within these three days, the 70,000-strong army had to make all preparations, especially in terms of grain and grass.

The information has been continuously gathered, Qu Qingze has to carefully sort it out every day, and together with the relevant analysis, it will be handed over to Hong Chengchou, involving important information, Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze will report to Su Tiancheng together, and they will deal with the general information directly, and there is no need to report it.

November 17 of the first year of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Texas official post.

The next day, the army was about to start, and Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze hurriedly entered the official post. The army was stationed outside the state city, Hong Chengchou was generally stationed in the military camp, and Qu Qingze was shuttling between the military camp and the official post, and the expressions of the two were a little serious, obviously they had obtained very important information.

Su Tiancheng was looking at the map carefully in the room, and a lot of marks had been made on the map, these marks were the route of the Jiangning battalion army and the place where the battle began, regardless of the strength of the opponent, Su Tiancheng attached importance to every expedition.

Seeing Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze coming in, Su Tiancheng nodded, did not speak, and continued to look at the map.

"Your Majesty, Lord Qu and his ministers have received important information and are here to report it."

Su Tiancheng raised his head and looked at the two of them, they have reached this juncture, is there any important information, the information obtained earlier, Su Tiancheng is clear, after Wang Daozhi commanded the Datong border army and part of the Beizhili Guard army came to Baoding Mansion, they were stationed in Xincheng and Gaoyang respectively, of which the main force of the Datong border army was stationed in Xincheng, and Wang Daozhi was also in Xincheng, which was probably expected by Wang Daozhi, Jiangning Battalion was very likely to take the sea route and directly attack Tianjin, and after taking Tianjin, directly attack the capital.

In fact, stationed in Tianjin, there are Tianjin three guards, respectively, Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Left Guard, Tianjin Right Guard, because Tianjin is the gateway to the capital, so the setting of Tianjin Sanwei is still sufficient, it seems that there is also a certain combat effectiveness, after the Wanli period, because of the riots of the Liukou, and the harassment of the Houjin Tartars, the strength of Tianjin Sanwei has been significantly strengthened, and in the Chongzhen period, the three of Tianjin and have become an important military force in the jurisdiction of Hejian and Baoding.

The reason why Wang Daozhi attaches so much importance to Tianjin is also because the location of Tianjin is too important, if the Jiangning battalion takes Tianjin, you can directly enter Shuntianfu and attack the capital along the direction of Wuqing and Tongzhou, even if the army of Shanhaiguan comes to the rescue, I am afraid that it will be too late in time, from Tianjin to the capital, one horse and Pingchuan, there is nothing to stop the Jiangning battalion.

On the one hand, after the Jiangning battalion entered the North Zhili, it marched and attacked along the direction of Jiaohe, Xianxian and Hejian Fucheng, and directly penetrated into Baoding Mansion, took Baoding, and marched into the capital, and also prevented the Jiangning battalion from being a battalion step by step, from Dezhou directly into Hengshui, to which Zhending Mansion belongs, and first took Zhending Mansion, but what needed to be prevented most was that the Jiangning battalion was divided into two routes, attacking from Dongguang, Cangzhou, and Jinghai by land, and taking Tianjin Wei, and the sea route went straight to Tianjin and took Tianjin.

Wang Daozhi's arrangements have long been analyzed by Su Tiancheng, Hong Chengchou, Qu Qingze, etc.

Seeing that Su Tiancheng didn't speak, Hong Chengchou looked a little embarrassed and hesitant, but Qu Qingze opened his mouth to speak.

"Your Majesty, the information that the ministers and others have just obtained, the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin Tartars have discussed secretly, and they have decided to jointly use troops to fight with my Jiangning battalion in Hejian Mansion."

Su Tiancheng's body trembled slightly, suspecting that he had misheard, this should be impossible, how could the Houjin Tartars and the Ming army join forces to fight, no matter what, Zhu Youzhen and Huang Taiji are mortal enemies.

Seeing Su Tiancheng's expression a little surprised, Qu Qingze continued to speak.

"The minister and Lord Hong analyzed, the reason for this situation is estimated to be the news of the emperor's personal expedition, which was learned by the Ming Dynasty court, and the spearhead of the Ming court and the Houjin Tartar was aimed at the emperor at the same time, so there will be such an arrangement."

Su Tiancheng's face began to become serious.

There was silence in the room.

Su Tiancheng didn't speak immediately, lowered his head and continued to look at the map, and after a few minutes, he spoke.

"In such a situation, I am indeed a little surprised, but it is not a big deal, since the Ming army and the Houjin Tartars have joined forces to fight, I just seized this opportunity to strike hard at the Houjin Tartars, and in the future in Liaodong, the pressure will be much less, you come and take a look."

Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze walked to Su Tiancheng's side.

Su Tiancheng pointed to the two places on the map and spoke.

"I see, since the Ming army and the Houjin Tartars are fighting together, the most likely battlefield is in two places, one is Cangzhou, which is the only place for my Jiangning battalion, and the other place is Tianjin, the operational deployment of my Jiangning battalion cannot be completely confidential, the Ming court will know sooner or later, and the deployment is completely timely, according to my analysis, Tianjin is unlikely, once the battle in Tianjin is lost, the capital of the Ming Dynasty will have no rest to rely on, from Tianjin to Beiping, a horse Pingchuan, The Ming Dynasty and the Houjin Tartars had to set up a defense line in Tongzhou, and the loss of Tongzhou meant that the capital could not be saved, so my analysis is that this time the fight is very likely to be launched in Cangzhou......"

Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze didn't say anything, looking at the map, they originally thought that the emperor heard such news and might make some adjustments to the deployment, but who knew that the emperor didn't care at all, but considered the best place to fight, such a demeanor is far from being comparable to Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued......)