Yongding County is located in Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian, and is adjacent to the People's Army's ruling area. It has been six days since the People's Army occupied Yongding County.

The People's Army occupied Yongding County with no effort. As soon as they approached Yongding County, the Ming army stationed in Yongding County followed Zheng Yuewen's order and began to retreat. By the time the People's Army occupied the entire Yongding County, there were no Ming court officials, Ming soldiers, and even the gentry and merchants in Yongding County.

As soon as the People's Army occupied Yongding County, the next day, the officials of the People's Army came to Yongding County. In just two days, the People's Military Government of Yongding County had been established and started to operate normally.

As the work began, the officials of the People's Military Government were very surprised. The people in Yongding County did not have much rejection of the People's Army, but instead cooperated with the People's Army to carry out their work. The people outside the city cooperated more with the People's Army than the people inside the city, and could not wait to share the fields of the People's Army.

Officials of the People's Military Government quickly figured out why this situation occurred. Yongding County is adjacent to the People's Army-ruled Area. Some situations in the People's Army-ruled Area spread to Yongding County, and even the MIIS agents would spread the situation in the People's Army everywhere.

It is closer to the People's Army-ruled area, and it is easier to determine the authenticity of the matter. Most of the people at the bottom of Yongding County do not have their own fields. They all yearn for life in the People's Army-ruled area and even want to take their families to the People's Army-ruled area to start a new life.

However, there were Ming troops stationed in Yongding County, and the people could not go to the People's Army-ruled areas. Some people even often prayed to God, hoping that the People's Army would come over as soon as possible.

It can be said that the closer it is to the People's Army ruling area, the more the people in the place understand the People's Army and the more we welcome the People's Army. However, when they move to a very far away from the People's Army ruling area, the people there may regard the People's Army as a demon and ghost who eats people under the propaganda of the government and the landlords.

It is also because of the support of the people of Yongding County that the People's Army originally left 1,000 troops in Yongding County, but now it has been reduced to 500. If Yongding County has remained stable, the People's Army garrison in Yongding County will eventually retain more than 300 people.

The Second Army of the People's Army has not fought with the Ming army in Fujian. According to the information obtained by the MIIS agents, it is almost possible to meet the People's Army and the Ming army in the Fujian area to determine the ownership of Fujian. If the People's Army does not occupy a county, it will be divided. If the People's Army continues to divide the troops, the People's Army will eventually gather less troops.

The People's Army is strong, but it is not so arrogant that it is one to ten. On the premise of maintaining order in various places, it will transfer its troops to the front line as much as possible.

Time passed day by day, and the news of Li Chengliang's army's defeat had spread from Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang and Guangxi to a further place, and chaos spread rapidly. The powerful, gentry and merchants even thought that the south was not safe and were preparing to run further north. They were still looking forward to the Ming court reorganizing the army and destroying the People's Army.

But many people also feel that the Ming Dynasty's country was about to change hands, and it was useless to run to the ends of the world. They came to three holes, some stayed, some went to the north, and some found ways to join the People's Army.

Finally, the battle report of Li Chengliang's army was defeated was sent to the capital.

"Li Chengliang was defeated? Impossible, I don't believe it!"

In the imperial study, Zhu Yijun was furious. He could not believe that Li Chengliang was defeated like this. It was a million-strong army. The fifty men and horses commanded by Li Chengliang were the main force of the million-strong army. The defeat of Li Chengliang's army was equivalent to the defeat of a million-strong army. The plan to encircle and suppress the People's Army was completely failed.

Not only is it a problem of the failure of the plan to encircle and suppress the People's Army, but one million troops are more than two-thirds of the total military force of the Ming Dynasty. All one million troops are defeated. How should the Ming Dynasty resist the People's Army?

Before this, Zhu Yijun thought that Li Chengliang and the People's Army had fought each other and died, and finally killed the damaged tiger. The hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty were gone, which was definitely a perfect plan.

Now this perfect plan is so simple that it is abolished. Li Chengliang's army was defeated very badly. He was defeated by the People's Army in one battle, and the number of casualties in the People's Army was still very small.

Zhu Yijun was unwilling to believe that Li Chengliang had failed, and he could not accept the result.

After a long time, Zhu Yijun sat down, and the battle report clearly stated, and Zhu Yijun had to believe it even if he didn't believe it. Since Li Chengliang's army was defeated, Zhu Yijun now had to find a way to resist the People's Army. If he could not stop the People's Army, the Ming Dynasty was about to perish. Zhu Yijun did not want the Ming Dynasty to perish in his own hands.

It was already night. Half an hour later, the important officials of the Ming court hurriedly gathered in the palace. They didn't know why the emperor was in a hurry to summon them. Many ministers had a little feeling in their hearts, maybe because of the suppression of the thieves.

Zhu Yijun sat on the dragon throne with expressionless expression. A eunuch read to the ministers the war report sent back from the front line not long ago. Listening to the eunuch's words, soon the ministers' faces were pale.

Li Chengliang was defeated!

Zhu Yijun understood the consequences of the defeat of Li Chengliang's army, and the ministers also understood the consequences of the defeat of Li Chengliang's army. Even Li Chengliang's army was defeated. There was still an army in the Ming court that could resist the People's Army? It could not stop the People's Army. Isn't the Ming Dynasty going to perish?

After the eunuch finished the battle report, Zhu Yijun finally spoke.

"My dear friends, do you have a plan to destroy the thieves?"

Zhu Yijun's words were very cold. The ministers in the cold hall did not dare to speak. Even the Li Chengliang army was defeated. How could these civil officials defeat the People's Army and kill the enemy with words?

"There is no strategy to destroy the thief, can there be a strategy to stop the thief?"

Zhu Yijun asked again, and after asking, there was no sound in the hall for a long time.

It was midnight, and the important officials of the Ming court were all old and couldn't hold on. Zhu Yijun did not ask anyone to show the ministers. Just when the ministers were about to be unable to hold on, a minister finally spoke:

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty and the thieves ceased to fight two years ago, and now it's OK."

Hearing his minister's advice, Zhu Yijun's face became more angry. It was a shame to sign a ceasefire agreement with the People's Army two years ago. If the People's Army had been destroyed, there would be no such thing as it is today.

Anger comes and goes quickly. That's what happened two years ago. Today's People's Army poses greater threat to the Ming Dynasty. If Zhu Yijun can sign a ceasefire agreement like he did two years ago, he would have accepted it.

When the ministers saw Zhu Yijun's face change, they immediately understood that Zhu Yijun had some ideas about this method and stood up to express their agreement to negotiate with the People's Army.

The ministers' words made Zhu Yijun look much better. As the emperor, Zhu Yijun could not take the initiative to say this. Since the ministers all expressed their approval of peace, Zhu Yijun could speak out.

"Then let's negotiate with the thief." Zhu Yijun said powerlessly.
Chapter completed!