"The Li Clan of Liaodong! They're clearly colluding with that traitor Xiao! They're clearly colluding with that traitor Xiao! I want to crusade against them! Daoist Xiao! Immediately pass on the order to crusade against Liaodong!! "
Shen Yicheng was so angry that he began to speak incoherently. At this moment, Liu Huangchang hurriedly spoke up.
"Grand Secretary, calm your anger! Grand Secretary, calm your anger! The Li Clan of Liaodong has never colluded with that traitor Xiao. They don't even know that traitor Xiao's remnants are stirring up trouble in Jiangnan. This news has been tightly sealed, and those who know are being closely monitored by the Imperial Bodyguard. No one dares to leak it! "
Liu Huangchang's words allowed Shen Yicheng to regain a little of his rationality. Shen Yicheng rested his hands on the table and panted in silence.
Liu Huangchang hurriedly stepped forward to calm Shen Yicheng.
"Grand Secretary, you must remain calm. You can't be too angry. At this moment, your health is the most important."
Shen Yicheng gasped for breath as he slowly calmed his mind.
Truly, with the Imperial Bodyguard getting used to it, the sources of information in the capital were tightly monitored. As long as Shen Yicheng didn't want the people of the capital to know, they wouldn't know.
But Shen Yicheng still had his doubts.
"But Chai Guozhu has already led his soldiers to the barracks outside the city, and he's obediently following the edict. Why would the Li Clan dare to defy the edict? If they're not colluding with that traitor Xiao, what other reason could they have? "
Shen Yicheng looked at Liu Huangchang.
Liu Huangchang thought for a few moments.
"This should have something to do with Li Chengliang. Grand Secretary, Li Chengliang has been in the court for ten-some years and has a deep understanding of politics. If he's guessed something, there's no telling. This lowly official was already suspicious. After that traitor Xiao returned with his soldiers, the first to leave the capital was Li Rusong's Liaodong Army. From this, one can easily imagine that Li Chengliang is behind all this."
A cold light flashed through Shen Yicheng's eyes.
"Li Chengliang …"
Shen Yicheng took a deep breath and said, "Now that the Liaodong Army is not here, we only have twenty thousand soldiers from Ji Town and thirty thousand elites from the capital camp. We only have fifty thousand soldiers who can barely fight. The remaining one hundred thousand soldiers are not good enough to accomplish anything. They can't be trusted. Where else should we deploy troops?"
Liu Huangchang thought for a while.
"We can't afford to leave a reliable army in the capital city. Since we can't trust the weak soldiers in the capital city, we have no choice but to dispatch another batch of soldiers from Ji Town to the south. At least, compared to the soldiers from the capital city, the soldiers from Ji Town are better at fighting. Therefore, we have to hand over the main commander to Chai Guozhu. This is the only way."
Daheng Xiao hurriedly asked, "Isn't this too much? Ji Town guards the northern part of the capital. If a large number of soldiers from Ji Town were to be mobilized to the south, I'm afraid that the defense of the northern part will be weakened. What if the Northern Barbarians take this opportunity to invade the south? "
Liu Huangchang shook his head.
"That won't happen. The Northern Barbarians have just been slaughtered by three hundred thousand people. They are frightened and won't dare to invade the south in the short term, not to mention that we can only mobilize the soldiers from Ji Town. If we don't mobilize the soldiers from Ji Town to the south, we won't have enough soldiers to suppress the bandits."
Daheng Xiao asked again, "Then why don't we mobilize troops from the other regions? The soldiers from Gansu, Ningxia, Guyuan, and Yulin can be mobilized. "
Liu Huangchang looked at Shen Yicheng.
"Ningxia is the bandit Xiao's hometown. At present, we can't mobilize the soldiers from Ningxia. The same goes for Guyuan. We can try to mobilize the soldiers from Yulin and the same goes for the soldiers from Gansu. However, they are too far away. I'm afraid that we can't mobilize them to the south right now. We can only use them to guard the capital."
Shen Yicheng took a deep breath.
"We can mobilize the soldiers from Gansu to the capital. Although they won't be able to reach the south in time, as long as the soldiers from Gansu arrive at the capital, the capital won't have to be guarded by the Imperial Bodyguard. As for the Li Family of Liaodong …"
"Grand Secretary, the Li Family of Liaodong definitely won't dare to enter Shanhai Pass!"
Liu Huangchang was very sure of this. "Li Chengliang only dared to defy the decree because of this. If he colluded with the bandit Xiao, he would have already sent his troops to Shanhai Pass. If he doesn't come to Shanhai Pass now, he won't enter the pass in the future. Thus, Grand Secretary, please rest assured!"
Shen Yicheng frowned and thought for a while before finally relenting.
"This is the only thing we can do now. Once I've dealt with the remnants of the bandit Xiao, I'll go and deal with Liaodong! Now, we'll act according to Assistant Minister Liu's plan. Mobilize 30,000 soldiers from Ji Town to the south, and urgently mobilize the soldiers from Gansu to guard the capital. When the time comes, we can also move south. "
"Yes, sir!"
Daheng Xiao didn't say anything else. He was about to sign the order and send it to the administrative departments when suddenly, there was a commotion outside the door. Then, Daheng Xiao saw Luo Sigong and a few Imperial Bodyguards rush into the Cabinet Duty Room.
"Grand Secretary, something bad has happened!"
Luo Sigong's complexion was very bad, causing Shen Yicheng to frown.
"What's wrong?"
Luo Sigong pursed his lips and said to the person beside him, "Bring him in!"
Immediately, two Imperial Bodyguards carried a man in his forties into the Cabinet Duty Room. When Shen Yicheng saw this, he was instantly stunned.
"You …"
"Uncle!!"
As soon as the man entered the Cabinet Duty Room and saw Shen Yicheng, he immediately cried and knelt on the ground, calling him uncle. Instantly, everyone was shocked. Liu Huangchang, who reacted faster, dropped the document in his hand. Daheng Xiao opened his mouth wide and realized something very terrible.
Shen Yicheng also recognized this person as his nephew, Shen Ding.
"Shen Ding? Why are you here?! "
Shen Yicheng hurriedly took a few steps forward, his heart full of shock and confusion.
"Uncle! Uncle, ah! Our whole family, our whole family, have all been captured by the traitors!!! "
Shen Ding directly hugged Shen Yicheng's thigh and cried out.
Liu Huangchang looked at Daheng Xiao, and Daheng also looked at Liu Huangchang at the same time.
Oh no …
They looked at Shen Yicheng again, only to see Shen Yicheng lowered his head, opened his mouth, and his eyes were full of shock.
"What … what did you say?"
"Uncle, one month ago, one month ago, a group of bandits suddenly attacked Yin County. After they took over the county, they came looking for us and captured our entire family. Not a single one escaped. Then, they took away all of our property and distributed our houses and fields to the tenant farmers. My second and third brothers couldn't stand it and argued with them for a bit. Then, they were executed by the bandits!"
Shen Yicheng's body shook a few times.
Liu Huangchang and Daheng Xiao rushed forward to support Shen Yicheng. Shen Yicheng stretched out his hand and stabilized his body.
However, it seemed that Shen Yicheng was trembling slightly.
"Where did the thieves come from?"
Shen Ding cried and said, "It's Thief Xiao! It's Thief Xiao! It's his Myanmar soldiers! They tied us up and took us to a big ship to be locked up. The sea was full of big ships and a large number of thieves! The thief himself said that they were specially ordered by Thief Xiao to capture us! Uncle, isn't Thief Xiao dead? Thief Xiao is clearly dead, isn't he? "
Liu Huangchang's heart was pounding. Daheng Xiao looked at Shen Yicheng in fear, afraid that Shen Yicheng couldn't take the blow.
"Why are you here?"
Shen Yicheng's voice was a little low.
"More than ten days ago, the thief took me out of the ship and asked me to come to the capital to … to report to Uncle. He said that Thief Xiao has already broken through the two provinces of Yunnan and that his army will soon move north to Huguang and Fujian. He asked Uncle … to ask Uncle …"
"What did he ask me to do?"
Shen Yicheng's face began to turn red, and he didn't look right.
"Ask Uncle … to … to stretch out his neck to be killed! Uncle, Uncle! Ningbo prefecture is finished, it's all been captured by Thief Xiao's troops! I also heard, I also heard that they have already captured Zhenjiang prefecture and Nanjing! Uncle, when are you going to send troops to save your people!!! "
Liu Huangchang's mind suddenly went blank.
Daheng Xiao's eyes became a little dull.
Shen Yicheng's face became redder and redder. After a while, he straightened up and took a deep breath.
"Thief Xiao … Thief Xiao … Thief Xiao!!!!"
Shen Yicheng's face was ferocious, and he shouted loudly for a while. Suddenly, his face froze, and his face turned red. He lowered his head, and a mouthful of blood gushed out from his mouth onto the ground. His whole body swayed twice, and he fell forward.
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