Originally, as Wu Xiuwen, he was not qualified to meet Wen Tiren, the chief minister of the cabinet, but Wu Xiuwen is now the Liu family army's subordinate in the capital. They were eager to understand the specific ideas of Liu family army through Wu Xiuwen's mouth.

What the Liu family army and the others are doing now is no different from rebellion, and are even more rampant than the rebels in history, but they did not promulgate the world and rebel.

Moreover, he was not like a bandit. Every time he captured a place, he would rob, massacre officials and smuggle smuggle.

Even Wen Tiren, a cunning old man, could not think of what he wanted to do as an eight-faced Buddha Liu Yuanqiao.

In fact, Wen Tiren himself was not at Liu Yuanqiao Bridge and he was thinking, but the problem now is that the Liu family army is often strong and has the upper hand, which makes them have no choice.

If the court had the upper hand, Liu Yuanqiao sent someone to come. With what he did now, Wen Tiren immediately asked someone to push them out and beheaded on the spot.

Wu Xiuwen changed into a fourth-rank official uniform and went to the palace where the cabinet was located. This is a palace near the Wenhua Hall on the left side of the Meridian Gate. Although the members of the cabinet were from the Grand Secretary of Huagai Hall, Wuying Hall, Wenyuan Hall, and Dong Pavilion, the office location was not.

Wen Tiren saw Wu Xiuwen and shouted: "What do you mean?"

Wu Xiuwen didn't hide it either. He said, "However, on the order of my master, I came to pass the message, hoping that both sides could reconcile."

Wen Tiren said coldly: "Get reconciled with the army, Liu Yuanqiao thinks beautifully."

Wu Xiuwen said, "The current situation is very unfavorable to the court. Once my master cuts off the canal, I don't know how long the capital can last, one month or two months. If you want to know how much food is stored in the capital, you should know what kind of food is stored in the capital?"

Wen Tiren said gloomyly: "If you think that Liu Buqiao can control part of the canal, he can threaten the court, so he is very wrong."

Wu Xiuwen said: "It is not a threat, but a pointing out the facts. If the canal is blocked, the court will probably not be able to hold on for three months."

Wen Tiren said, "Nothing nonsense, just Liu thieves are just scabies. Once our imperial army arrives, we can completely wipe out you without any effort."

Wu Xiuwen said, "At this point, if you still persist so much, then you have nothing to say?"

Wen Tiren said, "What are his plans for Liu Yuanqiao?"

In fact, he knew that Liu Yuanqiao could not put forward any good conditions, but he wanted to hear it and see what the other party had planned and could deal with it.

Wu Xiuwen said, "What is this a plan? My master has been in Shandong for many years, and his politics is harmonious, and the people live and work in peace. Everyone is called sages. Since ancient times, all sages are lonely, because they are all because they are full of expectations of the world. The people of Qi and Lu all said: If Liu Gong does not come out, why should the people live? Liu Gong then proposed to respect the king and expel the barbarians, Qi and the people will govern Qi, protect the territory and safeguard the people, and be highly autonomous, and Qi and the people will be praised for their goodness. He said that he could follow the example of the Mu family in Yunnan, be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, guard Qi and Lu, and not listen to the tune and not the prophecy!"

Wen Tiren was so angry that he heard the other party say this. The other party said it nicely, but in fact he wanted to divide Shandong. He wanted to be the local king of Shandong. Shandong was located on the shoulders of the world. How could the court allow Liu Yuanqiao to learn from the Mu family in Yunnan in Shandong?

The Mu family in Yunnan was able to guard this place for generations. First, their ancestors made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Second, Yunnan is the southernmost place in Daming and a deserted land. Liu Yuanqiao dared to be obsessed with it and listed Shandong as his territory. Is this a dream in the daytime?

Wen Tiren said coldly: "Liu Yuanqiao is indeed a bad intention and is very ruthless."

Wu Xiuwen said: "There is no master in the world, and only those who are virtuous live there. Since ancient times, the world has been like this, Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Xia, Shang, Zhou and Qin, and the country is so beautiful, only those who are virtuous live there."

Wen Tiren said coldly: "It's true that the wolf's ambition. When the court makes a vacant move, it will destroy you. The nine clans will be destroyed, and the others will be infamous for thousands of years."

Wu Xiuwen said, "This also requires the court to have a chance to free up his hands. The current court has long lost its courage and any prestige at all?"

Wen Tiren said, "If this is the condition proposed by Liu Yuanqiao, I can reply without meeting the emperor: I will dream that the court will send a large army to destroy you. If you know the truth, you will surrender quickly to avoid being cut into pieces."

Wu Xiuwen was laughing secretly. The gang of high-ranking officials in the court were just skinny donkeys to shit. If they were not defeated, they would still dare to be so stubborn when the sun sets. If their fists were so stubborn, they would not be so embarrassed.

When Wu Xiuwen saw the other party directly rejected him, he bowed to him, saying, "This is the request of my master. If the court agrees, my master will immediately open the canal and allow the ships to travel freely. All the rules, Xiao Gui and Cao will follow, and there will be no change. He is also willing to pay one million taels of taxes to the court every year. This one million tax is twice the normal year."

This condition sounds very good, but how could Wen Tiren and others regard themselves as the country of Heaven and the Celestial Empire accept the threat of domestic slaves? He said: "Impossible."

When Wu Xiuwen saw the other party saying something directly to death, he was not angry, but bowed and then said goodbye.

Who knew Wen Tiren said coldly: "Where do you think this is? It's the place you want to come and go whenever you want? Come! Put this traitor to be imprisoned and considered guilty."

When Wu Xiuwen saw that the other party had thrown it into the prison, his face changed and he said, "When two countries are fighting, we will come and envoys."

Wen Tiren said coldly: "Just just a slave, the country of that family will one day deal with you."

Wen Tiren gave his order and found that the officers and soldiers here immediately arrested Wu Xiuwen and sent him to the Heavenly Prison.

Although Wen Tiren directly and strongly rejected Liu Yuanqiao's request, although the other party was just passing the message to the emperor, he did not pass it to the emperor and refused directly.

He knew that with the authority of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to accept such conditions. Once such conditions were accepted, it meant that the court had no authority. If the local governor and generals followed suit, the Ming Dynasty general was not a country, so it was absolutely impossible for such a thing to happen, and it was impossible to allow such a thing to emerge, and anyone who emerged would beat him.

Wen Tiren still told the conditions of the Liu family and told several other cabinet ministers that he did not seek the opinions of these people, but just informed them.

Although the Ming Dynasty's cabinet had only one cabinet minister, the Prime Minister still had the greatest power, because all the votes were planned to be taken by the Prime Minister.

During the Tianqi period, Wei Zhongxian once divided the power of the cabinet, that is, the four cabinet ministers in the cabinet had the right to vote for the bill, but they were soon reformed. The only ones who were qualified to vote for the bill in the memorial were the chief minister, and the others were his assistants, who helped him.

Several cabinet ministers were very angry when they heard about Liu Yuanqiao's conditions. The ambitions of this surname Liu were too great. He actually wanted to rule Shandong and still hoped that the court would admit it. Isn't this crazy?

Shandong is really important. As long as the court takes out his hands, it will send troops to attack and take back the place. As for the Liu family, it will naturally confiscate the family and destroy the clan. Liu Yuanqiao, who was in charge, will inevitably be cut into pieces. He dares to even imagine that with his temporary military advantage, he forced the court to admit the fact that they were separatist.

However, the court is now overwhelmed by Jiannu and Liu's army. Both enemies are so powerful that neither of them can be dealt with. When the two come together, the court is in a hurry and I don't know which one is better to deal with.

Jiannu raged the land of Northern Zhili and almost captured the capital. This was a crisis in front of him. The Grand Canal controlled by the Liu family army cut the section of the canal to transport grain from the south, which was also fatal.

There is one thing Wu Xiuwen said very well, that is, the food in the court's north was always limited and it would not last long. Once the south stopped transporting it to them, the north would fall into a crisis of food shortage.

So after the Liu family cut off the canal, the court could no longer bear it, so they could only find a way to immediately draw out some of their troops to attack Shandong, hoping to regain control of the canal and transport the food to the north.

But the most tricky thing now is that Jiannu is still in the northern Zhili area and surrounded the capital. If they are not careful, they will conquer the capital and the Ming Dynasty will destroy the country.

The Ming Dynasty is about to destroy the country, so why bother to consider the future issues?

Therefore, the most urgent task is to drive away Jiannu and restore the canal afterwards.

Since the Liu thief raised his army and Jiannu entered the frontier, Emperor Chongzhen has not had a good night's sleep. He got up early every day to discuss with the court officials how to deal with the Liu family army and Jiannu.

But they had never had any good plans. The imperial army was so frightening that they both fled against Jiannu and Liu's army.

Even the Tianxiong Army, which the court thought was elite, were all in the Zhuolu area, fighting against the Jiannu army. Another army of the imperial court, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, were also tightly restrained by Jiannu in the Ningjin area of ​​Shanhaiguan and unable to move.

How to break the deadlock in front of them is what they urgently need to do.

Emperor Chongzhen also felt very sad and frustrated, that is, since his ancestors built the Great Wall, they have been blocking the nomadic peoples outside the Great Wall, making it difficult for them to make progress.

The Jiajing Emperor was careless and asked the Mongols to invade the pass, but he quickly curled them and later defeated the powerful Tumochuan tribe. But he had only been ten years since he ascended the throne. Jiannu had already invaded the Great Wall Pass three times, and robbed and massacred in the Senei, which made him very embarrassed and very frustrated.

The Great Wall is no longer a wall to deal with Jiannu, it is just a fence. They can break through the encirclement and rob the Senei at any time. Such a tragic situation has never happened in the Ming Dynasty in more than 200 years.
Chapter completed!