Chen Tongwen was as anxious as a dog who was stranded, and quickly fled back to the capital. He imagined that he was as majestic as he came and went back all the way. However, when he returned, he did not have such a scene and could not be so majestic, because Liu Yuanqiao issued an order that Chen Tongwen was listed as an unpopular person.

Since he was listed as an unpopular figure by the governor, all the people in the three eastern prefectures quickly spread, that is, all the people were not allowed to do business with him or sell things to them. This made him not say that he had no place to extort or even want to stay in a hotel and play the leading role. They could only sit in the wilderness or live in dilapidated temples, and there was no place to live. This was incomparable to the scenery when he came.

Chen Tongwen made a vow that if he didn't go to court, he would sue him ruthlessly, Liu Yuanqiao, he would be his grandson.

In fact, this time the court learned his lesson. At least they also secretly sent spies to inquire about the reaction of the Liu family. The spies did not delay their work like Chen Tongwen. When they heard Liu Yuanqiao's public rejection of the imperial edict and refused to be summoned, they immediately sent the news back to the capital. Three days before Chen Tongwen returned to the capital, their spies had already passed the news back from Dengzhou, so that the officials and the people of the court knew about this news. This news spread, but it made the officials of the court furious and angry.

You should know that they all believed that the Liu family would surrender this time. Who knew that this time the Liu family did not surrender at all, and they were as tough as ever, publicly rejecting the court's levy. The court issued an imperial edict to ask him to pay additional taxes, but he refused. This means that he extremely despised the authority of the court.

Whether it was Emperor Chongzhen or the chief assistant Wen Tiren, he was very angry about this matter and was very angry. Emperor Chongzhen began to speak. If he did not punish this person severely, he would not be the emperor.

The emperor ordered Liu Yuanqiao to be removed from the position of governor of Liao and demoted to a commoner, and immediately took effect. His son also removed the position of general of Liaonan and ordered him to temporarily act as general of Liaonan.

When the emperor was angry, he immediately issued an order, which was to take away all the honors of the father and son of the Liu family. In his eyes, the honors of you father and son were given by me, and I could actually give them to you or take them back.

However, the emperor's fierce reaction made the court officials opposed it. The court officials also hated Liu Yuanqiao, but why did they oppose it?

The reason for their opposition is relatively simple, which is because they are afraid that the court will issue an imperial edict again to remove Liu Yuanqiao from his position. If Liu Yuanqiao refuses to move and continues to work here, he has the army and the support of the people, and the court will be unable to do anything to him. Will the court be so embarrassed?

Because of this idea, they were afraid of being afraid to remove Liu Yuanqiao from his position without scruple. According to the plan of the chief minister Wen Tiren, it was to first let Liu Zeqing's army enter the three east prefectures. If Liu Yuanqiao was successfully taken down, he was tied to the capital, then removed from his position, and then executed at Caishikou, which reflected the authority of the court. If the court removed him from his position again, it would be completely unavoidable, and his face would be completely lost.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he thought it made sense, that the current court is constantly embarrassing, and they must pay attention to this matter, so he immediately issued an order to order the Ministry of War to formulate a combat plan, and asked Zhang Fengyi to order Liu Zeqing to lead his army to enter the three eastern prefectures, take down Dengzhou, and capture Liu Yuanqiao.

Originally, the emperor did not have such confidence, but since they fought against Ziwu Valley, they have also shown confidence. Even the emperor has shown confidence. As long as he is in a bad mood, he can beat the other party. If people like Yuanqiao are not taken down in time, others will follow suit, and the Ming Dynasty will lose its country.

This is also a big deal for the court. After all, Liu Yuanqiao's current behavior is no different from rebellion. A minister who controls the three eastern prefectures and southern Liaoning openly despises the court and disobeys the authority of the court, angers the court and asks the court to dispatch a large army to attack. This is a very big deal, and the entire court has caused a sensation.

The Jinyiwei was not polite, and rushed to Liu's backyard in the capital, preparing to arrest Wu Xiuwen, who was in the water in all aspects of the capital, and asked for punishment. Especially Liu Bu's cousin Liu Yu, who was eating, drinking, gambled in the capital, and made friends with the powerful and powerful children. He heard a lot of news and bribed many ministers to speak for them. This was an extremely dangerous person, a super borer. Who knew that the people of the Liu family had already received the news and they fled early.

Even they had a lot of business in the capital, and these businesses were transferred underground, and they could not hold them. They could only search. Although the Liu family is not an open enemy of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has already treated him as an enemy.

In the eyes of the people of the court, these disobedient officials should clean up what they should be and deal with what they should be dealt with. There should be no hesitation.

Zhang Fengyi, the Minister of War, was very happy to hear this news. He had long disliked the Liu family and wanted to deal with the Liu family. He was waiting for an excuse and reason. With excuse and reason, he had nothing to hesitate. He took this opportunity to avenge his private revenge and destroy the Liu family in one fell swoop.

On the issue of dealing with the Liu family, Zhang Fengyi and Liu Zeqing reached an agreement. Zhang Fengyi even sent his own personal representative to go to Liu Zeqing's army to supervise the army to prevent Liu Zeqing from taking all the benefits when he attacked the Liu family and destroyed the Liu family. He did not even leave three walnuts and two sour jujubes for him.

It was not a matter of one or two days for Liu Zeqing to deal with the Liu family. He had long wanted to deal with the Liu family, but he had no excuses. After all, the other party was also officials of the court, and they could not break up and fight openly without any scruples. Now, Liu Yuanqiao has no such protective umbrella from the court and has become an enemy of the court, which gives him a reason and excuse to deal with him openly.

With the order from the Ministry of War, Liu Zeqing immediately began to send troops, and he ordered all his troops to assemble.

As the general of Shandong, Liu Zeqing was nominally only had more than 50,000 troops, but now he did not hesitate and directly expanded his army into 100,000 without hesitation. This was also the fact that he became angry and exaggerated after a series of struggles and failures with the Liu family, and he strongly expanded his army.

One hundred thousand troops were considered top in the Ming Dynasty. His 100,000 troops were prepared for the Liu family. As long as the Liu family was destroyed, he would have enough money and food to support the 100,000 mouths. Otherwise, he would not be able to support so many troops and so many mouths to eat.

It can be said that Liu Zeqing expanded his army to 100,000, which was also forced by the Liu family and came to deal with the Liu family. If the Liu family was not destroyed and supplemented, he would probably collapse after he arrived, because he would not be able to support these 100,000 people under his command.

What does 100,000 people mean? People say that more than ten thousand people are boundless. He is a 100,000 army, and even Jinan City cannot accommodate so many large troops, so he dispersed his troops in various parts of the Western Three Prefectures. Since he received the imperial edict from the court, he immediately ordered the troops to go all out to Jinan and then gather under Jinan City, and marched towards Dengzhou in a mighty manner.

Why did Liu Zeqing gather the troops scattered all over the country and then set out to Dengzhou in a mighty way? As the saying goes, soldiers are the most important. You should quickly dispatch your troops to attack the other party without time to respond and not have time to deploy, so as to win.

But Liu Zeqing was different. He was not in a hurry because he knew that I had a 100,000 army, and he had the upper hand. Secondly, the court behind me was the court. With the support of the court, he was equivalent to having endless power and could not be defeated at all. Moreover, the Liu family has declined now, and even became these people. In the past, the people supported them because they exempted taxes and brought benefits to the people. But he is now a traitor in the court. Under the attack of the court, these people heard that the court sent 100,000 troops to conquer, and they probably would only fall down and scatter and escape one after another.

Liu Zeqing even believed one thing, that is, when his army of ten thousand entered Dengzhou or Laizhou, it was estimated that the Liu family's army had almost escaped, leaving only some hard-core confidants to resist. The number of these people should not be large, and they are definitely not the opponent of his 100,000 army.

So this time, Liu Zeqing did not make any reservations. He personally led a 100,000 army and launched a large force. Even his most elite three thousand servants, who were known as the Three Days of Iron Cavalry, had also taken action and went there together.

Liu Zeqing also made a decision, that is, this time he would take down the Three East Prefectures in one fell swoop, destroy the Liu family and even take over all the Three East Prefectures, and take the opportunity to dominate the entire Shandong. As long as he dominates the entire Shandong, even the court would have to act according to his expression.

As for the Minister of War Zhang Fengyi, he was like a fool. He thought that he had sent a few people to monitor me and could clamp me.

This representative named Zhang Zhong is also a fool. As Zhang Fengyi's personal representative, he dared to take care of my dignified Marshal Liu's affairs. A small general actually became domineering and rode on Liu's head and pointed at him, but I, Marshal Liu, didn't want to argue with him.
Chapter completed!