Upon seeing the intelligence report from the capital, Li Qin angrily threw it to the ground.
These guys took advantage of the fact that I had led my army away from the capital.
Taking advantage of the capital's vulnerability, he staged a coup d'état for himself.
Then Li Qin picked up the intelligence report from the ground.
I continued reading and found that later it said that the Shuntian Prefecture Governor Bowen Gu had mobilized troops to block them.
They then mobilized scattered troops from the surrounding area, gradually converging on the enemy.
They blocked the army that was trying to seize the gate.
And they wanted to encircle and annihilate them.
However, seeing that the situation was not good, they decisively retreated.
Judging from the fact that this unit came from the Yanshan Mountains in the north, they should be the same unit that Zhao Shuaizhen led.
Moreover, they must have made contact with the officials in the capital, otherwise they couldn't have cooperated so well.
I must return to the capital as soon as possible to take charge.
If there's a problem anywhere, the capital city must not be allowed to have a problem either.
You must understand that the capital city is where the imperial court is located.
Although they only had one or two thousand remnants, it was absolutely impossible for them to capture the capital.
Moreover, the capital is not on the frontier; it is now in the heart of his controlled territory.
They would be courting death if they dared to try to take the capital.
But if they succeed in their surprise attack on the capital this time, storm into the Forbidden City, and take away Emperor Zhu Qizhen...
That would be a very bad situation.
Although Zhu Qizhen was merely a puppet emperor imprisoned within the Forbidden City.
But he absolutely cannot lose this emperor.
With this emperor, he could divide the court into the Northern and Southern Dynasties with Zhu Jianshen of Jinling.
But once the emperor who has ruled for decades is lost, even if he installs another one...
Their value in the eyes of the feudal lords was quite different.
At that time, those neutral lords might actually submit to the banner of Zhu Jianshen of Jinling.
This will definitely make it extremely difficult for him to conquer the Central Plains and the south in the future.
It might even delay his unification of the world by several years, or even more than a decade.
Therefore, the imperial court in the capital must not be allowed to have any problems.
Upon receiving this news, Li Qin immediately put aside the matters of Xuanfu.
He handed them over to Wang Taihe and Dugu Yu, and then led his army on a journey back to the capital.
Before leaving, Li Qin issued an edict appointing his nephew Li Xuanshang as Governor-General of Shanxi.
He was based in Taiyuan, controlling Shanxi, overlooking the Central Plains to the south, pressing down on Shaanxi to the west, and dominating Datong to the north, while also providing mutual assistance to the east.
At the same time, he appointed veteran general Liu Chenghui as his adjutant to assist him.
Meanwhile, during the Shaanxi Rebellion, he had written several imperial edicts to the other three towns in Shaanxi.
They will submit to me, and I will do my best to protect them once they submit.
Except for the town in Gansu, which is far away and has not received a reply.
The governors of Ningxia and Yulin Town both replied to his letter.
They all submitted petitions to pledge their allegiance, saying they would serve him with utmost loyalty.
After receiving their letter, Li Qin immediately issued an imperial edict to Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi.
Tell him not to touch Ningxia and Yulin towns.
If he doesn't listen, he has just taken over Shanxi, and in the south, Henan is in complete chaos. The Huai River basin is also suffering from disaster relief due to the Yellow River breaching its banks.
There are no constraints on him anymore.
Taking Shanxi didn't involve much cost.
Not only did they suffer minimal losses, but they also recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and seized large quantities of grain and fodder from various prefectures and counties in Shanxi.
He could now muster his troops, lead hundreds of thousands of soldiers across the Yellow River to Shaanxi, and confront him.
Nanjing.
News of Li Qin's capture of Shanxi reached Nanjing.
This immediately caused a huge uproar in the imperial court in Jinling.
"How could Shanxi have been captured so quickly? It's impossible."
"It's been less than a month since that traitor Li launched his attack."
In less than a month, Li Zicheng had captured all the major prefectures and counties in Shanxi.
Were there no officials in Shanxi who resisted?
"Shanxi has fallen to Li Zicheng, so what's his next move...?"
At this moment, in the imperial court in Jinling, countless officials were shocked and discussing how Li Qin had taken over Shanxi in less than a month.
Zhu Jianshen sat on the throne, watching the ministers below continue their discussion.
He gripped his simple dragon robe tightly with both hands.
Li Qin pacified various parts of Shanxi in less than a month, which truly shocked him.
He truly hadn't expected that Li Ze's military might had become so formidable.
At the same time, he was also angry at the officials in Shanxi who had surrendered.
They are currently in Nanjing and don't know much about what happened in Shanxi.
After all, their Jinling court has only been established for a few months.
Everything was in its initial stages.
They never took over the nationwide Jinyiwei intelligence system.
Even if they wanted to rebuild their intelligence system, their intelligence system has only just been established in places like Jiangnan.
As for other places, they don't have many sources of intelligence either.
Especially in the north, with Li Qin taking control of the north, coupled with the chaos in the central region caused by the Yellow River breaching its banks, large-scale exchanges between the north and south were cut off.
It became even more difficult for them to obtain intelligence about the north.
Moreover, the intelligence coming from the north was not only scarce but also difficult to compare.
It also contains a lot of misinformation that has been passed around and distorted, to the point that it's almost like fake information.
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