Zhu Dadian's official voice was not very good, because his greed and openly solicited bribes were not a good person at all.

However, his ability is very outstanding. When he was the Left Governor of Shandong, the Wuqiao Mutiny occurred. He was the commander of tens of thousands of troops to quell the rebellion. Many elite soldiers and generals obeyed his orders. He could also control these figures, coordinate the army, and pacify the Wuqiao Mutiny.

It is because of this that he became the Minister of War and the Governor of Shandong. When Zhongdu was in trouble, the country was in trouble and the court was the first to send him to pacify Huai, which was also a great trust.

However, during his reconciliation with the Liu family during his revenge, the court was very suspicious of him, and even the court was thinking that if it were not for Zhu Dadian's indulgence, the Liu family would not have expanded so quickly.

He was even worried that Zhu Dadian would raise an army to respond, so he deprived him of his military power at the first time and then investigated his evidence of his crime.

Zhu Dadian has been an official for thirty years. His best attitude is to understand the superior intentions. The court's actions made him very angry and very angry. His idea was that I was looking at the bright moon, but the bright moon was walking towards the ditches. Since the court did not trust him, he could do nothing.

So he handed over the power at the first time and handed over the military power and power in his hands to Wu Zongda, but he was too lazy to talk about the situation and some major issues that should be paid attention to, so he just stayed at home, looking like he was staying behind closed doors.

Coincidentally, during the period when Wu Zongda was comforting Jiangnan, his relationship with Zhu Dadian was not very good. Wu Zongda was Qingliu in Qingliu. He liked to use moral articles to discuss people. Zhu Dadian was very capable and was good at using the cleverness of all parties to suppress opposition forces. However, he was extremely greedy, so local officials did not have a high reputation for him. His reputation in Shilin and Qingliu was even worse, and no one liked him.

Since everyone doesn't like this person, Wu Zongda has no reason to like him. With Zhu Dadian in his real power, there is no way to take Zhu Dadian. Now that he has taken over all his power, he has left him idle.

Since the court appointed him to take over Zhu Dadian's rights, he knew that the court did not favor Zhu at all, so he was not interested in supporting such a person. He knew that one day, he might even follow the imperial edict of the court to deal with this person, so he would naturally not give him any good face, and naturally he would not ask the other party for advice.

Although Wu Zongda felt like a mess after taking over various powers, he didn't know where to start, but he just couldn't lower his head and asked Zhu Dadian for advice. Instead, he distributed the matters at his hands to several subordinates and masters to take care of them, and then he was chanting poems and paintings with a group of literati and poets, and was very happy.

His typical lazy government, when the country was facing a life-and-death crisis, actually put aside its main government affairs and recited poems. People at that time called it the master of poetry and painting. He also called this behavior a kind of behavior a master of inaction and governance. When someone pointed out that the country was in trouble, he also said with confidence: "If I have to do all these things by myself, and so many officials should do, I can just do all these people's positions by myself."

Therefore, the court was decisive in this regard, and immediately made personnel changes and arranged new people to be in charge of defense. Its cautious use of Zhu Dadian cannot be wrong. After all, the court did not know the true relationship between Zhu Dadian and Liu Yuanqiao, and was afraid that they would cause more disasters.

Moreover, their measures were effective. After the Liu family raised an army in Shandong, although they did not raise the anti-flag flag high, this was not something the court could tolerate. They sent elite soldiers to encircle him from all directions.

Judging from the map, they have no problem with their approach, which is extremely clever, but it is hard to say what the effect is. For example, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng in Northern Zhili are close to the emperor, and they can immediately force each other and let them fight to fight to the death. However, Wu Zongda, who is far away in Jiangnan, is the emperor far away. The imperial envoys come and go, and they don’t know how much time it takes to force him. It is not easy.

In this way, Wu Zongda was considered a high mountain and the emperor was far away, and the court had no way to deal with him. Wu Zongda still had the leisure to recite poems and write counterfeits because he was only responsible for managing the military affairs of the entire Jiangnan and dispatching military forces to attack Shandong.

But another capable person is actually responsible for attacking the Liu family in Shandong, namely Guangdong Governor Xiong Wencan.

According to Wu Zongda's intention, the matter of fighting was his Xiong Wencan's business, and it had nothing to do with him. As long as he arranged his troops and dispatched his troops, the rest was his Xiong Wencan's business. He was a civil servant and asked him to go to war. This was a loss of identity and a lack of moral character.

Xiong Wencan stayed in Guangzhou. He became famous for successfully surrendering Zheng Zhilong and pacifying the political affairs of Fujian. Because Xiong Wencan had outstanding political achievements in Fujian, he was appointed as the Minister of War and Right Assistant Commander of the Ministry of War in February of the fifth year of Chongzhen, and was the Prime Minister of Military Affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi and the Governor of Guangdong.

Xiong Wencan is far away in Guangdong, and it takes time to take office. More importantly, Xiong Wencan serves as the governor of Guangdong in Guangdong, but he is a good person and has no interest in being transferred to the governor of the five provinces. He knows that this is a chore, so he wrote a letter to "Five difficulties and four musts" and refuses it.

However, Chongzhen still entrusted a great task and insisted on appointing him as the governor of the five provinces and leading troops north to attack Shandong. On the one hand, it was the appointment of the court, and on the other hand, it was his strong refusal. When the governor of the five provinces took office is a question.

Wu Zongda also held his own identity and believed that he was not a person who led troops to fight. All this should be handed over to Xiong Wencan. However, Xiong Wencan tried his best to refuse and did not want to take on this job at all. This made the South send troops to attack Shandong, which became an unrealistic thing. At least the court hoped to launch an offensive against Shandong in the short term, but according to the nature of officials in the south, it was very difficult to achieve this step.

It is because of this that the Liu family and the others had the time to calmly deal with the heavy army groups of Hong Chengshou and Lu Xiangsheng in the north. If the court also organized the same size army in the south and Henan directions, it would have been difficult for them.

Liu Bu appeared in Dezhou secretly, in order to deal with a fatal blow to the court's heavy army, Lu Xiangsheng's army.

The court focused on attacking Shandong and was preparing to take them down. Now the court was extremely afraid of Liu Zeqing's 100,000 troops. They understood something. If they wanted to deal with the Liu family army, they could only send heavy troops to deal with him. If they just sent ordinary troops, this would be a delivery of vegetables. Therefore, the court was temporarily unable to launch a full-scale attack on Shandong and could only launch a key attack.

They are Lu Xiangsheng's Eastern Army and Hong Chengchou's Western Army, one east and one west, and they join forces to attack Shandong, hoping to resolve the battle in the short term. This is their key offensive strategy.

If the current strength of the Liu family army is to fight in full swing, the troops will be very divided, because after they occupied the three Western prefectures, their troops will become less abundant and they will have to face the attacks from all directions of the court.

The attacks in Henan and Jianghuai directions can be ignored for the time being, but at the same time, they have to face the attacks of two imperial troops, which is also a very difficult thing, so they gathered their superior forces and prepared to take down the other side first.

Liu Bu analyzed the personalities of the head coaches of the Ming army. He was an old opponent to Hong Chengchou and knew both of them. He knew that Hong Chengchou was more cunning.

Although he was also obedient to the emperor, he was greedy for life and feared death, and his control over his subordinates was far inferior to Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng is a person who is loyal to the emperor. If the emperor asks him to fight, he will fight with the Liu family army with all his might. Even if the Hong Chengchou group is wiped out, he will still pounce on them and fight them.

So Liu Bu formulated a strategy, first using Lu Xiangsheng's army to attack. As long as they were defeated, Hong Chengchou's group would leave with their tails and dare not go south easily. As long as they defeated the Ming army, they could teach the imperial army to be human, and then they would promote peace through war.

In the short term, they still hope to establish superficial peace talks with the court.

Because the people's hearts of the Ming Dynasty have not been completely lost, they are now going to raise an army, whether it is military strength or equipment, they are afraid that they will fight with the Ming Dynasty court and die together. This is a bargaining for Jiannu or bandits.

If it were Liu Bu in the past, he would have some naive ideas, that is, even if he fought with Jiannu and died together, he would eventually get the bandits, after all, he was still the Han people, and the meat was still rotten in the pot.

But after experiencing these things, he had a clearer idea.

As the contemporary head of the Liu family, once the Liu family was defeated, it was not that they could escape by surrendering, but that the whole family was killed. I believe that no one would easily spare the Liu family if they gained power.

The struggles of this era are life and death, and any failure will be caused by death, and all descendants will be slaves and prostitutes. In this case, he will know that this is a powerful force and cannot retreat even if he wants to retreat, so he will be prepared to face all the enemies with all his strength.

He will not fight with the court to join the enemy and let the bandits take advantage of the situation. The court must guard against one hand, and the oil bandits must guard against one hand. He must win and become the only winner, rather than fulfilling anyone.
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