After Zhou Linzhi finished speaking, Chen Gai was stunned when he heard this. Then he was silent for a while, then found a chair and sat down, sighed and rubbed his temples.

A headache, really a headache.

The current situation in Sichuan and Shu really made him feel extremely embarrassed, and this matter was even more important than the economic devour of Ming Dynasty.

If the situation in Sichuan and Shu continues like this, Chen Zhao will even suspect that the people of Sichuan and Shu will support a son of the Zhao Song clan to be the emperor and set up a new court to fight against them in the Sichuan and Shu area.

This is a very deadly thing for them.

This is the thing.

Because the land of Sichuan and Shu was far away from Lin'an, the political core of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was not so easy to control. The Southern Song government won the hearts of the people of Sichuan and Shu through the policy of empowering the imperial examination resources, so that the hearts of Sichuan and Shu were not at risk of overturning for the time being.

After the demise of the Jin Kingdom, around the First Ming and Song War, Wang Gangzhong, the former Sichuan governor who had a high reputation, unfortunately passed away. His successor did not have much ability to suppress the arrogant Sichuan army, so he was dismissed by the court on the eve of the Second Ming and Song War.

Zhao Xing, who was in power at that time, planned to appoint Fan Chengda, an official of the Privy Council recommended by Yu Yunwen, as the Sichuan General and the governor of Chengdu to fill the vacancy, but was shelved because of the re-ruption of the Ming and Song War.

During the Second Ming and Song War, the Song army was defeated and the army collapsed one after another, and the entire army was wiped out. Even the most elite Sichuan and Shu army was seriously damaged. The troops of 80,000 to 90,000 people were lost to two-thirds. Only more than 30,000 troops under Wu Lin were still guarding northern Sichuan, and the rest of the troops were all lost on the battlefield outside Sichuan.

This twists and turns not only caused heavy losses to the most elite Sichuan-Shu Legion of the Southern Song Dynasty to suffer heavy losses, but also allowed the Sichuan-Shu land to quickly adopt a strategy of external closure in order to protect itself.

Because the court did not appoint Sichuan envoy in time, after Yao Zhong's army was defeated in Zigui, the whole Sichuan army was shocked and the people were shocked. They all thought that the Ming army would enter Sichuan and Sichuan and occupy Sichuan, and there would be great turmoil in Sichuan and Sichuan, and the people were shocked and messed up everywhere.

At that time, officials from all over the country were without leaders and could not effectively suppress the turmoil in various places. Under such a crisis, they had to find Wu Lin, the only Sichuan Xuanfu envoy who was prestigious and had reasonable and well-founded in his position at that time, and asked him to preside over the major events.

Because in name, Wu Lin is the highest-ranking military and political official in Sichuan.

In terms of qualifications and reputation, the position of the commander is generally lower than that of the Xuanfu Envoy. The commander needs people with deep qualifications and contributions to take office, and the commander has no rigid requirements.

Therefore, even if the Sichuan Commander was in charge of military affairs, Wu Lin, the Sichuan Propaganda Envoy who was mainly responsible for guarding northern Sichuan, would not be afraid of him.

But Wu Lin was a military general. Although he was the highest official in Sichuan in name, it was impossible for the court to hand over the administrative power to Wu Lin. Then wouldn’t Wu Lin be the local emperor of Sichuan?

Therefore, the court generally arranged civil officials as the Sichuan general or the Sichuan general. In terms of actual power, civil officials could suppress the military generals, just like Wang Gangzhong at the time.

However, at that time, people in Sichuan thought that the imperial court was in crisis and it was impossible to send a new civil servant to the city. The Ming army was close at hand, so they could only rely on the military general Wu Lin.

It is true that Wu Lin was a military general, but he has been in charge of Sichuan for decades and has made many military achievements. He has a great reputation in Sichuan and Sichuan. At this moment, the Ming army is facing Sichuan and Sichuan. The enemy is facing the enemy. Military generals are more convincing than civil officials and can make everyone feel more at ease.

So officials from all over the country sent people to find Wu Lin, hoping that he could come to preside over the major events.

Wu Lin was also shocked when he learned that Yao Zhong's army was defeated by Zigui.

Although he was the main body of the Three Generals of Sichuan and Shu, Yao Zhong and Wang Yan were also indispensable and important assistants. The two took two-thirds of the Sichuan and Shu army out of Sichuan to fight, but were wiped out by the Ming army. This could not let him go anyway.

On the one hand, he realized that the Ming army was strong, and with the current military strength of Sichuan and Shu, he could not resist the Ming army's attack from the east. Even in the north, facing the threat of 100,000 Ming troops, he had to rely on the terrain of northern Sichuan, and the army needed to perfectly implement his predetermined tactics to resist the Ming army's invasion.

At the moment, the Sichuan and Shu army was in short supply. He was determined to save the situation, but he felt that he could not support himself.

After thinking about it over and over again, he found Wu Gong and ordered Wu Gong to take his position temporarily, command 20,000 troops to guard the important roads in northern Sichuan to prevent the Ming army from invading, and warned Wu Gong carefully that he must implement his established strategy and not make any changes.

"If there is any mistake in North Sichuan, we will die and have no place to bury us. So do you, be careful and never make any mistakes again."

Wu Lin warned Wu Gong carefully.

After being defeated in the Beijing-Shanghai battlefield, Wu Gong returned to Wu Lin and listened to him, bowing and saying that he had already known everything and would definitely follow Wu Lin's arrangements.

Wu Lin nodded, and then rushed to rush to 10,000 soldiers and followed him south.

When passing by dangerous checkpoints on the road, some soldiers were left to assist in the guarding. When encountering dangerous terrain, the army should be left to guard to prevent the Ming army from invading and Wu Gong was defeated. These arrangements could at least gain some time for him and delay the Ming army's attack.

While heading south, Wu Lin ordered the governments in Sichuan and Shu to select strong soldiers to gather in Chengdu in the name of Sichuan Xuanfu Envoy. He will also lead elite soldiers to Chengdu. After gathering in Chengdu, he will be able to concentrate his main force to defend the land of Sichuan and Shu.

In the face of the great enemy, officials from all over the country dare not slacken and sent local elite soldiers to Chengdu. If the number of people is not enough, they will use their strength to catch the strong soldiers to Chengdu. In short, they will use as much effort as they can.

No one wants to be killed by the Ming army, right?

When Wu Lin arrived in Chengdu, the number of strong men sent from various places had exceeded 20,000. After more than ten days, the number of strong men had exceeded 30,000.

A large amount of money and grain and other military supplies came with the strong men, which was of great help to Wu Lin's training troops.

Wu Lin broke up these strong men and reorganized them, and asked his capable officers to lead them in emergency training, and then sent people to the east to find out the news outside the Ming army and Sichuan and Sichuan, and understand the general trend of the world.

Later, Wu Lin and officials in the Sichuan and Shu area received good news and not so good news.

The good news is that after the Ming army defeated Yao Zhong, it seemed that there was no plan to further march into Sichuan and Shu. It was just that the troops were stationed in the Zigui area and stopped moving forward. There was no danger in Sichuan and Shu for the time being.

This is of course a good thing.

But immediately afterwards they learned that the Ming army was coming to Lin'an and surrounded Lin'an. After that, a court coup occurred in the Lin'an court. The coup team led by the Right Prime Minister of the Shangshu Shen Hu successfully launched a coup, dismissed Emperor Zhao Sheng, and established the new emperor Zhao Dun.

Later, the Lin'an court signed a peace treaty with the Ming Dynasty, giving up the national title, giving up the status of emperor, giving up the reign title, giving up the independence and independence, and officially becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor became the king of the country, and Zhao Dun changed from the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to the king of the Jiangnan Kingdom, whose status was comparable to that of Li Yu, the late emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

There were also a series of treaties that were humiliating and humiliating, such as cede land and compensation. Anyway, the Song Dynasty was gone, and the one who was still alive was the Jiangnan Kingdom dominated by Shen Nai, not the Song Dynasty.

This special situation caught Wu Lin and the main officials in the Sichuan and Shu area off guard and were stunned. They didn't come back to their senses for a while and could not accept it at all.
Chapter completed!