My life skills in Daming Liver

After receiving the news of the failure in Hanzhong, Jiang Dongchen, the governor of Sichuan, felt numb all over.

Shuzhong and Hanzhong were originally one. When Hanzhong was lost, Shuzhong was immediately exposed to the attack of the new southeastern army.

Although there are mountains separating Hanzhong and Shuzhong, there are still mountain roads connecting Shuzhong and Hanzhong.

Micang Road to the east of Micang Mountain, and Jinniu Road to the west of Micang Mountain.

After crossing these two roads, you will directly enter the Sichuan Plain.

Although Micang Road and Jinniu Road are also relatively difficult and dangerous, and Jinniu Road has the famous naturally dangerous Jianmen Pass, Sichuan Governor Jiang Dongchen did not expect his Sichuan soldiers to be able to defend these two roads.

Moreover, without Hanzhong, the connection between Sichuan and Shaanxi was also cut off. Although it was still possible to send messages to the Ming court via Gansu, the timeliness was greatly reduced.

There is no way for the Ming court's support to be transported to Sichuan. Strategically, these three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou have been cut off by the forces in the southeast.

This was naturally fatal to Sichuan. On the one hand, Jiang Dongchen sent people to report the situation to the Ming court via Gansu. On the other hand, he organized troops and stationed troops at Jianmen Pass and other important roads, waiting for the attack from the southeast.

But this time, Xiong Kuang did not continue to charge.

Lin Deyang stopped Xiong Kuang, who wanted to continue going south, and asked him to lead his troops in Hanzhong to eliminate the surrounding bandits and defeated troops and maintain order in Hanzhong.

Although Xiong Kuang was a little reluctant, he still obeyed the order and began to lead his troops to eliminate the bandits and defeated troops wandering in the Hanzhong area.

As the New Year was approaching, Sichuan Governor Jiang Dongchen did not dare to neglect and still asked soldiers to station at the pass to celebrate the New Year, which aroused complaints from central Sichuan.

But Jiang Dongchen had no choice. In less than half a month, the Shaanxi Ming army was defeated by Xiong Kuang's sudden advance.

The Shaanxi army was more elite than the Sichuan army, and Guo Pu was far more knowledgeable than Jiang Dongchen. However, he was still defeated by the Southeast New Army.

Jiang Dongchen naturally had no choice but to prepare carefully.

There was no peace in Sichuan, and life was not easy for Shaanxi Governor Guo Pu, who had retreated to Guanzhong.

First, Chen Yiqin, the governor of Henan, and Jiang Dongchen, the governor of Sichuan, all impeached him for being afraid of war, saying that he failed to defend Hanzhong and directly lost Hanzhong to the southeast.

There were even censors who directly impeached Guo Pu for colluding with the Southeast, taking the initiative to give up Hanzhong, betting on both ends, and making friends with the Southeast bandits.

Naturally, Guo Pu was not used to these people. He was indeed a member of the Imperial Academy, and he sent memorials to the capital one after another.

He first impeached Jiang Dongchen, the governor of Sichuan, and did not rescue Hanzhong or deliver food to Hanzhong.

He also impeached Chen Yiqin, the governor of Henan. When the main force in the southeast was withdrawing from Hubei, Henan sat back and watched the enemies in the southeast attack Hanzhong and failed to seize the opportunity to regain Huguang.

Guo Pu's memorial made it very clear that Huguang was able to capture Hanzhong so quickly because it had assembled the entire southeastern force.

At least Southeast has exhausted Huguang's troops.

When Southeast was attacking Hanzhong with all its strength, Chen Yiqin did not dare to go south immediately to regain the lost ground. When he "desperately" held back the "main force" of the Southeast New Army, Chen Yiqin sat back and watched the loss of his fighter plane.

In fact, Guo Pu's memorial was considered sophistry. It only took the Southeast New Army half a month to capture Hanzhong, and Guo Pu was not able to hold back the Southeast Army at all.

Chen Yiqin originally saw the southeastern army dispatched and wanted to go south to Huguang to seize some territory.

However, the mobilization and organization of the army takes time. Chen Yiqin's army had just been mobilized and assembled, and when it arrived at the provincial border of Hunan, the war in Hanzhong was already over.

What kind of fighter planes are we talking about at this time?

Seeing that the Shaanxi army was defeated in Hanzhong in less than half a month, Chen Yiqin was so frightened that he quickly ordered the entire army to retreat to Henan, not daring to take another step south.

Chen Yiqin was naturally furious when he heard the news that Guo Pu had impeached him.

Chen Yiqin wrote another memorial to impeach the governor of Shaanxi, Guo Pu, for being a traitor to outsiders. He also brought up the matter of forcing the clan to "donate money" in Shaanxi, impeaching Guo Pu for contempt of the royal family and impeaching him for the crime of being disrespectful.

Li Chunfang also had a big head.

Although he didn't understand military affairs, he also knew that Chen Yiqin was telling the truth.

Mobilization and organization of the military take time.

Guo Pu was defeated in half a month, and Chen Yiqin had no chance to regain Huguang.

But the officials in the capital don't understand.

After expanding the power of Yan Guan, Yan Guan in the capital has formed a trend, which is to take pride in impeaching important officials of the court.

Important ministers who serve as high-ranking officials in the capital need to be impeached, but these important ministers in the capital are related to their future and destiny and cannot be impeached casually.

Those important ministers outside the capital became the targets of the censor's impeachment.

Chen Yiqin, the governor of Henan, became the target of this speech.

A large number of officials began to impeach Chen Yiqin. These censors wrote articles in newspapers and scolded Chen Yiqin, and gave speeches to scold Chen Yiqin everywhere. Chen Yiqin immediately became a public enemy of the capital.

Lu Tianshou came back from outside and it was almost the New Year. Lu Tianshou sent red envelopes to the nominal employees, and the New Year was coming soon.

Since Shen Yiguan left the capital, Lu Tianshou had fewer people to chat with.

The newly appointed editor-in-chief of "Jingshi Xinbao" Wang Shizhen is a literary master, and he and Lu Tianshou, a martial artist, don't have much in common.

However, as the Chinese New Year was approaching, Lu Tianshou decided to pay a secret visit to Wang Shizhen.

After all, the two of them are considered the two top leaders in Southeast on the intelligence front in the capital.

Lu Tianshou is in charge of intelligence, and Wang Shizhen is in charge of publicity. They still have to meet before the year to discuss next year's work.

Wang Shizhen did not return to her hometown Suzhou during the New Year.

After the fall of Zhang Juzheng, Wang Shizhen was also affected.

Because Wang Shizhen often participated in Zhang's cultural gatherings, she was also identified as a member of Zhang's party.

After Li Chunfang came to power, although she did not dare to openly clean up Zhang's party, she also attacked important members of Zhang Juzheng's party.

Wang Shizhen has been living in seclusion recently and rarely attends cultural gatherings in the capital, which provides him with opportunities to study.

At the end of the year, Wang Shizhen's collected works had reached the final stage of proofreading, and literati in the capital were still looking forward to Wang Shizhen's new collected works.

After seeing off a few guests, Wang Shizhen received a notice from the bookboy, and he welcomed Lu Tianshou in disguise into the study.

"Raja."

Lu Tianshou also respected Wang Shizhen. Wang Shizhen and Shen Yiguan had different acting styles.

Shen has always been good at analysis. He can get to the truth of the matter from the news in the capital market, and the articles he uses can always reveal the weakest part of the Ming court.

Wang Shizhen did not have Shen Yiguan's ability, but his status in the literary world was unmatched. He was a guest of scholars in the capital. He had completely blended into the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty. He often attended various high-level literary gatherings and was able to get first-hand knowledge. intelligence.

For example, Wang Shizhen got the news immediately about Zhang Juzheng's resignation. Su Ze even knew the information about Zhang Juzheng's resignation before many governors in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Shizhen was a relatively traditional scholar, and was not used to associating with military men like Lu Tianshou, especially since Lu Tianshou was born in the Imperial Guard and also worked as a spy.

However, the cooperation between the two was quite pleasant. Lu Tianshou could always send out the information Wang Shizhen obtained in time.

Wang Shizhen nodded to Lu Tianshou, then took out a letter from a locked box and handed it to Lu Tianshou.

"This is the latest information from the capital. These days I am studying behind closed doors at home and don't attend many literary conferences. This is the only information I have."

Lu Tianshou took it carefully. These were private letters from the capital's literati and Wang Shizhen, but some information could also be compiled from them.

Lu Tianshou missed Shen Yiguan a little. When Shen Yiguan was in the capital, he could always analyze the intelligence well. Lu Tianshou only needed to send the intelligence analyzed by Shen Yiguan back to the southeast.

But Lu Tianshou had to analyze Wang Shizhen's information himself.

"My lord, the newspapers in the capital have recently been attacking Chen Yiqin, the governor of Henan. Should our newspaper also publish some articles?"

Henan is the land of the Central Plains and is an area with a very important strategic location.

Although according to the southeast strategy, there are no plans to capture Henan for the time being.

But if there is a big turmoil in Henan, Southeast will not give up the opportunity and will definitely take advantage of the chaos to attack Henan.

The current Governor of Henan, Chen Yiqin, although not very capable, can at least stabilize the situation in Henan.

Chen Yiqin was able to implement the New Deal in Henan, and at any rate he was able to control the army in Henan.

Once there are personnel changes in Henan, it will be an opportunity for Southeast Asia.

Wang Shizhen shook his head and said: "These officials cannot bring down Chen Yiqin."

"Stationmaster Lu, times have changed now, and the capital is no longer important."

Wang Shizhen felt very strongly. From Zhang Juzheng's sole control to Li Chunfang's decision to discuss everything with the local governor, the authority of the Ming court declined much faster than he imagined.

In the capital, the Qing gossip officials and the scholars in the Imperial College all attracted attention with their strange and violent remarks and made themselves popular in newspapers.

But this group of people didn't even have the ability to govern a county. Every time the Ming Dynasty had any policy, they would argue for a long time.

As a result, after Li Chunfang came to power, except for the measures to increase the power of governors and improve the treatment of Qingliu when he first took office, the Ming court was unable to implement any decrees.

The only areas that the Ming court could really control were Gyeonggi, Shaanxi, and Liaodong.

In order to raise food and ammunition for the Ming army on the Korean battlefield, Li Chunfang even begged everywhere.

In the fourth year of the New Calendar and the second year of the Wanli Calendar, the year came to 1566.