Wei Zaode gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, no matter how troubled the bandits make, they cannot shake the country of the Ming Dynasty; but the two left thieves, Li and others can endanger the country of the Ming Dynasty! Your Majesty should not forget Cao Cao, Sima Yi and other thieves."

The ministers submitted a memorial to ask Your Majesty to think twice.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen heard the rumors and did not believe it, but he also had doubts. Looking at the performance of the ministers in the morning today, he finally chose to surrender: "I will issue an edict to order Zuo Liangyu to send troops to Wuchang. I will issue another edict to Wuweibo, ordering him to withdraw from Wuchang and specialize in Jingzhou and Yuezhou. Wuweibo occupies a very large area, and he should also divide it into others."

After saying this, Chongzhen felt a little uncomfortable. Li Guodong occupied a little larger territory and should have some for others, but he felt very uncomfortable when he gave it to Zuo Liangyu.

Chen Yan also replied: "Your Majesty also asks you to seize the throne of Wuwei."

Chongzhen said angrily: "There is no need. Zuo Liangyu, the general who suppressed the thief, also has the intention of being unjust! If he seized the title of Count of Wuwei, this person would inevitably be suspicious. If he was angry and joined forces with Zuo Liangyu and colluded with the thieves, would he be able to wipe out the thieves?"

The ministers in the court were speechless. Anyway, Emperor Chongzhen had issued an edict to let Zuo Liangyu deal with Li Guodong. The edict was determined by the cabinet and passed 100%. There was no problem at all. At that time, just watch Li Guodong and Zuo Liangyu kill each other. Although Zuo Liangyu could not defeat Li Guodong face to face, Zuo Liangyu would not be unable to defend the city.

Wei Zaode also replied: "Your Majesty, the Huai Army of the Huai'an Prince's Dushi are actually also from Wuweibo. I also asked Your Majesty to issue an edict to take away Wang Quandu's position and order him to hand him over to the navy."

Chongzhen nodded slightly: "This, I can issue an edict."

Chen Yan also replied: "Your Majesty, this thief has countless farmlands, both Shanxi and Shandong, and there are also farmlands in the two Huai Rivers. Now they are farmlands in the wealthy Huguang. In the long run, the food in the imperial court will be controlled by this person. I hope Your Majesty will issue an edict to regain too much farmland for this person."

"I promised him the farming farm, and all his farming farming was paid. If the farming farming farming was taken back, who could he give it to? Chen Aiqing, let's not mention this matter." Chongzhen replied. He knew in his heart that Li Guodong's farming farming had increased his income from land and taxes. If he deprived of these farming farming, it might be possible that these farming farming farming fell into the hands of those gentry who did not pay taxes.

The imperial edict from the court was quickly sent out. Zuo Liangyu was closer to the capital, and he received the imperial edict before Li Guodong.

"Hahaha!" Zuo Liangyu laughed at the imperial edict, "Now our army is ordered to fight the thief! Our army set out to Wuchang immediately! If Li Ergou goes to war with us, he will truly become a thief army!"

The next day, before dawn, Zuo Liangyu's 300,000 army set out from Huangzhou, drove westward, and headed towards Wuchang.

Shortly after Zuo Liangyu received the imperial edict of the court, Wang Quan, who was stationed in Wuchang under the order of Li Guodong, also received the imperial edict of the court. The imperial edict was announced, and Wang Quandu was removed from his position as commander of Jizhou and appointed him as general of Jizhou. He went to the capital to report that after the Ministry of War handed over the official seal documents, he rushed to Jizhou to take office. At the same time, he was asked to hand over the navy and handed over to the governor of the grain transportation yamen.

"Lord, the court is advancing openly and secretly. The court knows that we are also people of Wuweibo. Wuweibo is now suppressing thieves in Changsha and urgently needs the assistance of our navy, but he wants to transfer you away. This is obviously someone in the court is making things difficult for us. What should we do now?" Zhang Shiwen said.

Wang Quan naturally knew what was going on. After all, Li Guodong's personal guards agent agency was founded by him. Wang Quanneng learned about the information sent back by the agents as soon as possible.

"A slowdown plan, drag them first, and say that our army is assisting Bo Ye in the execution of the great cause of suppressing the thieves. The navy is transporting food. How long can it take to be? If it can't be delayed, it will resist the order! At worst, it will rebel. The court will not be our opponent!" Wang Quan said decisively.

"Lord, to be honest, we don't want to work hard for the court anymore. As long as you say something, lord, we will immediately raise the flag and rebel!" Wu Biao and others agreed.

Wang Quan shook his head: "It's not time yet, it's urgent. Contact Master first to see what he means. If Master wants to rebel, we will immediately rebel!"

"I am willing to go to my uncle to deliver a letter." Zhang Shiwen stood up and asked for his order.

"Okay, then you go quickly. It's important. Let uncle know as soon as possible that the court has already suspicious of us!" Wang Quan picked up a pen and wrote a letter and handed it to Zhang Shiwen.

Zhang Shiwen took the letter, "No" bowed, and turned around and left.

Li Guodong had already received an imperial edict from the court. The imperial edict asked him to give up Wuchang, Hanyang, Jiangxia and other places, so that he could concentrate on managing Yuezhou and Jingzhou, and to suppress the thieves with all his strength. When he was about to wipe out the Xian thieves, he immediately sent troops north to wipe out the thieves.

The agents of the personal guards had already sent information from Fei Ge's letters. Of course, Li Guodong understood what was going on. He knew in his heart that it was Zhang Xianzhong who spread rumors and used counter-espionage schemes, and Zuo Liangyu also helped Zhang Xianzhong spread the rumors to the capital.

While receiving the imperial edict, Li Guodong had other plans in his mind.

After the angel who sent the order left, Li Guodong immediately gathered all his generals and announced to them: "Brothers, the court has already suspicious of us. Now he believes in slander and wants us to give up Wuchang and other places to the thief general. Moreover, Li also received the news that the thief general had sent troops to Wuchang."

Han Dashan, who had a hot personality, jumped up first: "Brother, since the court is suspicious of us, it's better to do it all the time and raise the banner of clearing the emperor's side!"

"Dashan, no! We are all loyal and righteous people, how can we raise an army to rebel?" Li Guodong stopped Han Dashan. After all, the reputation of rebelling with flags was not good, not to mention that Li Zicheng would enter the capital in just over half a year. Wouldn't it be better to gain a reputation for protecting the emperor? Rebellion at this time is not a rational choice, not that he could not defeat the court, but once he rebelled, the current rebellion army includes Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. If he joins, he will have three rebellious troops. Zuo Liangyu might have rebelled. It would be no problem to destroy the Ming Dynasty, but what about after destroying the Ming Dynasty? That is the civil war between the Han people, which will make the Qing Dynasty outside the pass free of charge.

What's more, once you rebel with a flag, your industry in Jiangnan will suffer heavy losses. If you rebel with a flag, it is hard to say which side Zheng Zhilong will stand on.

The price of rebellion is too high, so let Li Zicheng be the bad guy and play the role of a loyal minister himself.

"Brother, it is obvious that the emperor is deceived by the traitorous ministers. If he is not clear about the king, would he just watch Zuo Liangyu come to steal our territory?" Han Dashan said dissatisfied.

"Of course it won't be cheaper for the left thief! If he really wants to come, our Wuchang City can be given to him in the end, but the military fort outside the city cannot be lost! Now that Changsha cannot go, we have to meet in Wuchang and help our military households to block the left thief first." Li Guodong said.

Not long after, Zhang Shiwen also came and told Li Guodong about Wang Quan's receipt of the imperial edict.

"Yes, my fourth brother did a good job. We can delay the military strategy first for the imperial court! The primary enemy we have to face now is the left thief! Throw Wuchang to the left thief, but we must control the farmland outside the city! This is the countryside surrounding the city." Li Guodong said with a smile.

"The countryside surrounds the city?" Zhang Shiwen was stunned.

"Yes, without rural food, what do the people in the city eat? We have occupied all the villages outside Wuchang City. So what if we give up Wuchang City to the left thief? Under our siege, wouldn't this thief be honestly out of here?"

Li Guodong withdrew his troops from outside Changsha City, took his 10,000 cavalry and returned to Wuchang by boat.
Chapter completed!