Even the Liu family army was a nouveau riche in the past. Although it was called the four major families in Shandong, who would take them seriously? Many people thought they were all nouveau riche, and those who were powerful in the Ming Dynasty were called nobles. Those who were rich were called nouveau riche or fat sheep. Those who were officials disliked you and would kill you.

Moreover, the Liu family was often regarded as a fat sheep and wanted to slaughter, but strangely, the people who wanted to slaughter him as a fat sheep were all resolved by the Liu family, and some people were killed by him. However, the Liu family's shortcomings are still very obvious. This is because they lack sufficient talents. They have now controlled such a large territory and are already one of the top chaebol forces in the Ming Dynasty, but they do not have enough talents to manage the place for them.

With their current momentum, it is impossible to win over the officials born in Jinshi to serve them. Even Jingyun Gong, who is very close to Liu Yuanqiao, is just his aide, not his life for him.

Therefore, they can only recruit talents through various methods. The court recruits talents by taking the Jinshi exam to recruit talents and recruit talents from all over the world. The Liu family can only set up a recruitment hall to recruit capable talents and serve them.

Of course, Liu Yuanqiao has been an official for more than ten years and has been in Shandong for more than ten years. His opinion is that even if he is a Jinshi, he may not be a person among the people. He does everything well. Many people cannot even pass the exam for fame and fortune, but his ability is very strong and outstanding. For example, Wang Wendong, who is by his side, is only a scholar, but his ability is indeed very strong. If he can choose, Liu Yuanqiao is willing to let him serve as the prefect of Laizhou or the prefect of Liaonan.

After Zhou Wentong took the initiative to recommend himself and requested to be the prefect of Liaonan, Liu Yuanqiao recommended that Wang Wendong be the prefect of Laizhou without hesitation.

Liu Yuanqiao knew that it was definitely impossible to elect Wang Wendong as the prefect of Laizhou. He first made him the deputy chief of the prefect, but now there is no magistrate, so Wang Wendong, a prefect, is equivalent to a prefect. Although he does not have the name of a prefect, he does the work of a prefect, but he holds the power of the prefect. This is the old nest of the Liu family army and the old nest of Liu Yuanqiao. It is impossible for him to let others serve as prefects.

Even the imperial court elected several candidates for prefectures, but these people did not dare to come, for fear of being choked to death by Liu Yuanqiao in the cesspool.

Liu Yuanqiao was extremely capable and managed the three eastern prefectures in an orderly manner. At the same time, he was also cruel and ruthless. He never ruthless in dealing with his enemies. This was well known to the court, so that although everyone in the court officials wanted to be promoted and everyone wanted to make a fortune, no one was willing to go with Liu Yuanqiao's colleagues, for fear of being killed by him.

Originally, those who are officials were not bold, and those who were not locked on their belts to make money and greedy for money? Although such people are greedy for life and death, they are never brave enough. However, most people choose not to go to the same Jiangnan as an official. If they are an official in the East Three Prefectures, they may be killed by Liu Yuanqiao.

There is no doubt that the three East Prefectures are developing very well now. The Liu family has completed control of the local area and extended its power outward, which also made the court deeply think that they would become another warlord who would be too big to lose.

But the good news finally came. This was the Liu family army fought against Jiannu in southern Liaoning, and both sides suffered losses. This was what the court liked very much. Seeing the Liu family army suffered such heavy casualties, the court, civil and military officials, celebrated each other with each other. The most important minion of the Liu family, the Liu family army was finally eradicated. Their elimination means that the Liu family became a tiger without minions and could no longer be arrogant, and the court no longer had to worry about him day and night.

This is one of the main reasons why the court asked the Liu family army to send troops to southern Liaoning to fight with Jiannu, and they died with Yannu.

However, some knowledgeable people in the court were worried about this. What they were mainly worried about was that the strongest army as the Liu family army was already the top army of the Ming Dynasty and the most capable army. Even they could not defeat Jiannu. What else could I do to deal with Jiannu in the Ming Dynasty?

This also confirmed the myth of the Jurchens being less than ten thousand and invincible. You should know that there are hundreds of thousands of Jiannu now, and they can easily break through the Great Wall and break into the pass. This strength has surpassed the Mongolian threat to the Ming Dynasty in the past. Now that the Liu family army has died, it has caused such a small harm to them, which makes everyone deeply worried.

Even Wen Tiren, the chief minister of the court, sighed that it was really bad, and drinking water was stuffy. There was no such thing as comforting these days. Finally, the arrogance of the Liu family army was suppressed. Who knew that they had to worry about the issue of Jiannu. The ministers in the court were worried about this now. The reason why they were worried was that Jiannu was no longer interested in Liaonan, so where would they be interested? Many people pointed out that Jiannu might have to break into the pass again and loot the north again.

Even the battle reports submitted by the Liu family army pointed out this possibility, and it was recommended that the Ming Dynasty strengthen the defense of the border to prevent Jiannu from entering the pass again.

The court still believed the Liu family army's suggestions and suggestions to a certain extent, because they were all afraid. Since Jiannu was not interested in Liaonan, where would they be interested? With their temper, they would not suffer this loss in vain and would definitely find the place. Otherwise, their group would not be able to gain a foothold and would never be able to hang out in this area. So Wen Tiren immediately ordered that the nine-sided generals were ready to take charge and not relax at all.

In fact, there is no need for the imperial court to order. When the border is in a cool autumn, they have also strengthened their combat preparations. You should know that when the weather is in a cool weather, it is when the nomadic peoples head south to fight against the Qiu Valley.

Jiannu sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty and looted the Ming Dynasty several times in the autumn. The Mongols attacked the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, which became a common practice, so that the major officials of the Jiuye of the Ming Dynasty would have different places to garrison in autumn and spring, especially in autumn, they would push their garrison toward the border, which is called autumn prevention.

These border generals were very nervous, and after receiving the notice from the court, they were even more nervous and afraid. You should know that they suffered all the hardships of Jiannu, but they knew that Jiannu was very difficult to mess with. Their troubles in this way would definitely cause them to suffer a lot. Once Jiannu went south in a large scale, the generals of the border would definitely suffer.

Of course, the Minister of War Zhang Fengyi was also worried about this. When he was very happy to eradicate the Liu family's forces, he received such an order, which made them unhappy. At the same time, the Ministry of War still sent some spies outside the pass, and these spies also proved that the major tribes of Jiannu had begun to retreat from southern Liao, and then gathered in the Daling River and border areas. Their intention to go south to attack the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty was very obvious.

The border generals had already received some news, believing that Jiannu could go south with all his might. At the same time, they also wrote to the court, asking the court to release more money, grain and more silver to them for their use to deal with the enemy.

Faced with the extension of various people, this also caused a headache for the cabinet. Logically speaking, it would be enough to leave these military rations and military pay to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue to handle it. However, the Ming Dynasty court is too poor now, and every amount of money is not enough to spend. How to spend every amount of money and where to spend it first must be decided by several big bosses in the cabinet before it can be implemented. Almost all the Minister of Revenue has been wiped out.

But even so, there was no change in their tense financial situation. Especially after the incubation of silver in Jiangnan, people's livelihood withered, and the taxes collected were more than half less than in previous years, which made the court's financial difficulties and reached a very tight level.

The taxes on money, grain and taxes from Jiangnan have been greatly reduced, which has left them with no choice but to continue to pay levies to various places and increase taxes. They have no other way except to increase taxes.

The local economy is already very difficult, and people's livelihood has faded. The court did not introduce effective economic measures, but only ordered officials to increase taxes from the local government, which made the local government even more sad.

The most tragic place in the Ming Dynasty should be Shaanxi. The former imperial land of Guanzhong has been broken into white land, and uprisings and turmoils broke out in various places, even the provincial capital Xi'an is no exception. The various official troops had nothing else to do except to wipe out bandits and bandits. This situation was originally just in Shaanxi, but now it is better that it is spreading across the country. The situation in the Ming Dynasty is rapidly deteriorating. Even if these high-ranking officials of the court are above the court, they have discovered this and understood this.

This shocked them very much and was very uneasy. The situation in the Ming Dynasty was approaching collapse. Uprisings broke out in various places. Even though the court sent a large army to wipe out these rebels, they just pressed down the gourd and raised the gourd, which made the imperial government army exhausted and in great difficulty.

It is because of this that the army of the imperial court has always been in the process of conquering rebels and riots from all over the country, which has left them with no laws on the Liu family, which is near Shandong. You must know that it is already very difficult for them to maintain the current situation now, and it is also very difficult to dispatch large troops to conquer the Liu family, which means that their situation will be facing a collapse.
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