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Chongzhen suddenly became furious. In the palace, he cursed Yu Xiaotian for being a rebellious minister and a traitor, and everyone would punish him. However, he found that he could no longer use any means to restrain Yu Xiaotian's behavior.

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But he still hasn't discovered that Yu Xiaotian's hand actually extends far beyond what he knew. In fact, the entire Denglai, and even most of the Shandong area that faces the sea, has already become Yu Xiaotian's hand.

Heaven’s dark sphere of influence.

If he knew this, he would probably pee his pants on the spot. Shandong is no better than the southern provinces. It is only a few hundred miles away from the capital. Moreover, the Yu family army has sufficient warships and cargo ships and can leave at any time.

The sea route goes straight to the Bohai Bay and lands at Tianjinwei. It only takes a few days to reach the capital city.

If Chongzhen understood this, he would surely understand more things. Unfortunately, he has been kept in the dark. He has no idea that his Ming Dynasty and the coastal provinces have already been infiltrated by Yu Xiaotian's forces.

To such an extent.

But even so, he was also strongly aware of the biggest crisis of the Ming Dynasty. Now in his mind, the hidden danger of Yu Xiaotian is almost equal to the Jiannu and the Central Plains refugee army, becoming the third group that can destroy the Ming Dynasty at any time.

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So within ten years, Chongzhen began to seriously consider how to deal with Yu Xiaotian's matter. After repeated discussions among the court ministers, Chongzhen and the ministers believed that Yu Xiaotian's hidden danger must be eliminated.

But how to cut it off has become a big problem. Yu Xiaotian now has a self-respecting army, powerful weapons at hand, and controls the strongest naval fleet along the Ming Dynasty. His potential strength is so strong that no one can figure it out.

Simply dismissing him from his official post or reducing his position is no longer of much use. Maybe as soon as the news comes out that he is going to be reduced from his position, Yu Xiaotian may start a rebellion over there.

As for arresting him for questioning, no one even dared to think about it, because the information sent to the capital from Fujian had already shown that Yu Xiaotian had turned the entire Weitou Bay, and even the Quanzhou Prefecture area, into an iron bucket.

For one thing, it can be said that the government is impenetrable. It is simply impossible to arrest Yu Xiaotian.

Some people proposed to solve the problem by force, and mobilize officers and soldiers from Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces into Fujian to wipe out Yu Xiaotian. However, as soon as this proposal was put forward, it was immediately rejected by everyone.

Are you kidding me? If it could be solved by force, wouldn't the Emperor have already found a way to solve it by force?

Now Yu Xiaotian basically controls the entire Fujian army. Even those who are not controlled by him are still weak troops. Yu Xiaotian can destroy them with a wave of his hand.

There are some officers and soldiers in Guangdong and Guangxi, with a strength of tens of thousands. However, if the officers and soldiers in Guangdong and Guangxi are transferred to Fujian to conquer Yu Xiaotian, the troops in Guangdong and Guangxi will be empty. During this period of time, Guangdong and Guangxi themselves are not peaceful.

The smoke is coming out, and the gourd is pressed down to float the ladle, and there is no way to mobilize troops to deal with Yu Jiajun.

The She'an Rebellion has just been put down in Yunnan and Guizhou, but it has not yet recovered? After recovery, there is an even shortage of troops. Needless to say, Zhejiang's troops have been transferred to the north in large numbers in the past few years, and almost all of them have been consumed. Zhejiang itself has insufficient troops.

, how is it possible to be transferred to Fujian to conquer Yu Xiaotian?

What's more, now that the imperial court is in serious financial shortage and there is a severe drought in Shanxi, the imperial court has only allocated 3,500 taels of silver. If hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers were mobilized to invade Fujian to conquer Yu Xiaotian, it would cost at least one million taels of silver.

Above, it may even cost several million taels of silver. Where will the court raise these military salaries and rations?

This didn't work, and that didn't work either. Chongzhen just felt like his head was as big as a bucket. Finally, someone came up with a way. He asked Chongzhen to repeat his old tricks and transferred Xiaotian to lead his army northward to Henan to suppress the refugee army. He was ordered to accept Wang Jiazhen's orders.

Or maybe it was Hong Chengchou's restraint that allowed Yu Xiaotian's troops to be consumed in the battle with the refugee army.

In this way, it can not only solve the threat of Yu Xiaotian, but also make Yu Xiaotian and the refugee army dog-eat-dog. No matter who kills whom, it will be a good thing for the court.

As soon as this method was proposed, Chongzhen was overjoyed when he heard about it. He immediately made a final decision and decided to recruit Yu Xiaotian to go north to Henan to quell the rebellion. Anyway, the Central Plains had already become a mess, and the dilapidated places could no longer be dilapidated. Let Yu Xiaotian take the lead.

Wherever the soldiers go to confront the refugee army, no matter how bad the situation is, it can't get any worse.

Moreover, Yu Jiajun is good at fighting. If Yu Xiaotian still leads the expedition this time, then we can take the opportunity to keep him in the Central Plains. As long as he does not return to Fujian, nothing big will happen.

So Chongzhen immediately issued an order to go to Fujian to deliver the order to Yu Xiaotian. He ordered Yu Xiaotian to once again lead 15,000 soldiers and horses from Fujian and go north to Henan to conquer the refugee army. He was given two months to lead the army to arrive.

Henan was controlled by Wang Jiazhen.

In August, the imperial edict was sent to Fujian, but at this time, news came out that Yu Xiaotian was ill. Before the imperial edict arrived in Fujian, Yu Xiaotian actually caught wind and cold on a hot day. He was so ill that he could not see anything.

He sent a message to the governor of Fujian and stayed behind closed doors.

After the imperial edict was sent to Fujian, Yu Xiaotian refused to accept it on the grounds that he was ill and could not see things clearly, so he shelved the edict.

When the news came back to the capital, Chongzhen was so angry that he almost vomited blood. Everyone knew that Yu Xiaotian must have received the news in advance and was just excused for being ill, so he would not be fooled by the court at all.

Well, if you ask me to lead the troops to go to war, I won't say no, but I am sick, and very seriously ill, and I can't even get out of bed. You can't let people carry me to fight! So I'm sorry,

I want to recover from my illness first. When I recover from my illness, I will tell you later!

After Chongzhen heard the news, he was furious, but he had nothing to do with Yu Xiaotian. He wanted to use force or simply depose Yu Xiaotian, but if he did so, he might still force Yu Xiaotian to jump over the wall and directly declare a rebellion.

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Therefore, it can be said that Chongzhen is trying to deal with Xiaotian now, and there is no good way to deal with Xiaotian. After discussing with the ministers, they could not come up with any good regulations, so the final result of the discussion can only be

Let it go, and now the situation is rotten, with slaves outside the pass watching eagerly, and hundreds of thousands of refugee troops in the north of the pass and in the Central Plains making trouble everywhere.

If Yu Xiaotian is forced to rebel now, the Ming Dynasty will soon be finished. Therefore, no one dares to force Yu Xiaotian at the moment. They can only try their best to appease Yu Xiaotian and prevent him from rebelling at this time.

It would be best to let the court survive this period of time and wipe out the refugee army before it can free up its hands to think of ways to deal with Yu Xiaotian.

But Yu Xiaotian's incident really angered Chongzhen. Originally, Chongzhen was dissatisfied with Xiong Wencan's protection of Yu Xiaotian. Now Yu Xiaotian has developed to the point where he can't get rid of him. He thinks that a large part of it is caused by Xiong Wencan.

Moreover, Xiong Wencan did what he did in Fujian. After arriving in Guangdong and Guangxi, he also lured Yu Xiaotian into Guangdong and Guangxi. Now the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi have become Yu Xiaotian's possession. How can Xiong Wencan get away with this matter?

It doesn't matter.

So at the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Chongzhen issued an order to remove Xiong Wencan from the post of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. On the grounds of some trivial matters, he simply demoted Xiong Wencan to a civilian position and drove him back to his hometown in Sichuan to retire.

In doing so, Chongzhen also wanted to cut off Yu Xiaotian's strong support in the officialdom, especially in Guangdong and Guangxi, and isolate Yu Xiaotian from the officialdom.

Xiong Wencan's fate has undergone a major turning point and change from the original trajectory of history. Historically, Xiong Wencan was going to Huguang to succeed Wang Jiazhen as the governor of the five provinces and shoulder the responsibility of suppressing the migrant army. However, Xiong Wencan spoke too loudly at that time

After the news spread to the capital, Chongzhen heard about it, and because Xiong Wencan had a good relationship with Yang Sichang in private, he was recommended by Yang Sichang, so he was transferred to the Central Plains to assume the post of governor of the five provinces.

The result was very sad. Although Xiong Wencan put in a lot of effort, he did achieve some results at first and recruited Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others. However, 12 years after Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others rebelled again, which led to

Chongzhen was furious about this, captured Xiong Wencan, and beheaded him.

But Xiong Wencan didn't know! This time he was inexplicably dismissed from his position by the court and rushed back to his hometown to retire, which made him very depressed. After careful calculation, he felt that the problem still lay with Yu Xiaotian.

Nowadays, there are rumors everywhere in the market that Yu Xiaotian has aroused the concern of the imperial court because of his great power. Moreover, this time Yu Xiaotian refused to lead his troops north to quell the rebellion due to illness, which made the emperor unhappy even more. And today

The Holy Emperor dared not touch Xiaotian because he was afraid of being a rat, so he had no choice but to vent his anger on him, beat him to the bottom, cut his job to serve the people, and drove him back to his hometown.

So after Xiong Wencan was dismissed from office, he was very depressed and almost couldn't think of hanging himself. However, at this time, Yu Xiaotian came to the rescue and sent someone to give him a generous gift and wrote a personal letter to comfort him.

To repay Xiong Wencan for his kindness.

No matter at any time in history, people who hold office have always been idle. This time Xiong Wencan was dismissed from office. Everyone has almost seen the reason. They know that Xiong Wencan will never be able to make a comeback in this life, and even one day, he will be dismissed from office.

If Xiaotian rebels, Xiong Wencan may still be held accountable by the court.

Moreover, this time the Holy One has decreed that Xiong Wencan be sent back to his hometown after he is dismissed from office. This means that Xiong Wencan is not allowed to wander around after he is dismissed from office, and he is directly sent back to his hometown for custody.

At this time, even those colleagues who had a good relationship with Xiong Wencan were avoiding Xiong Wencan like snakes and scorpions, for fear of getting into some bad luck with him.

But at this time, only Yu Xiaotian came to the rescue. Not only did he write a personal letter to comfort Xiong Wencan, but he also sent two hundred servants to Xiong Wencan to escort Xiong Wencan back home. Xiaotian was responsible for all the expenses along the way.

Make sure that Xiong Wencan will not encounter any difficulties on his way back to his hometown.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian stated in the letter that these two hundred servants were given to Xiong Wencan by him. Even after Xiong Wencan returned to his hometown, these two hundred servants would stay with Xiong Wencan to protect Xiong Wencan from being bullied in his hometown, and for

Yu Xiaotian also borne all the expenses of these servants, so that Xiong Wencan could have no worries even after returning to his hometown, and no one could bully him.

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