In December, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, reorganized his team in Beiping and led the northern army to march south again, stationed in Linqing, Guantao, Daming, Wenshang, and Jining in Shandong. Sheng Yong fought-for-tat, leading the southern army to deploy a defensive line in the area of Dongchang (Liaocheng), and the two sides attacked and defended, entering a long stage of confrontation.

At the same time, in addition to the frontal battlefield, the two sides also launched a series of espionage warfare, intelligence warfare and diplomatic warfare. The activities of the Flying Dragon Secret Spy in the capital are becoming more and more frequent, constantly building momentum for Yanwang (the first launch of Baidu Jinyi Night Bar). King Yan also openly sent an envoy to the imperial court, reiterating that as long as the imperial court eliminated Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and other traitors, King Yan would give up the southern expedition and return to Beiping, still obeying the emperor's edicts, in order to justify his southern expedition, and it was "Jingjing" to kill him in one bite.

Of course, Zhu Yunfen sternly refused, and at the same time, he was ready to completely annihilate the forces of King Yan. What the southern army lacks most now is war horses, and there are horses on the Mongolian steppe, but although the Northern Yuan court has now split into two countries, namely Tatar and Wattle, these two countries are in a state of hostility with the Ming court, and it is impossible to sell war horses to the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty hit the idea to Korea.

Joseon's Tamna Island (Jeju Island) was originally the pasture of the Yuan Dynasty government, and there were special officials to manage it, and after the Yuan Dynasty fled back to the grassland, the Joseon Dynasty quickly asked the Ming Dynasty to take over the island. Places like Shuangyu Island, because they are isolated overseas, which is not conducive to the rule of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to give up and moved the people back to the land.

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These fifty war horses are Sui Gong, in addition, Zhu Yuanzhang often requisitioned horses from North Korea and delivered them to the Liaodong Metropolitan Division. North Korea is just a mountainous island country, in fact, it is not suitable for raising horses, at first it can afford to supply, but after the Ming Dynasty recruited tens of thousands of horses, North Korea's good horses have been requisitioned, leaving some bad horses, some of which are not much bigger than donkeys, so that North Korean officials and doctors can only ride old and sick horses.

This time Zhu Yunhui sent an envoy to North Korea, asking for the purchase of war horses from North Korea, and the king of North Korea, Li Fangyuan, agreed, he was actually usurping the throne and standing on his own, so it was very necessary to be recognized by the Ming government to consolidate his rule, and the will of the Ming court was naturally pursued, he not only immediately ordered the recruitment of horses throughout the country, but also publicly announced that he supported the Ming Emperor's just war against the Yan King.

After a toss, regardless of the pony or the bad horse, in the end, it was not enough to make up the amount that Zhu Yunfen needed, and in desperation, Li Fangyuan, who had already praised Haikou, gritted his teeth and took out the ploughing cattle to make up for the number. Oxen can't be used as mounts, but at least they can carry baggage. North Korea is a mountainous country, and there are few cattle and horses, so it has almost been looted.

The cattle and horses were gone, in exchange for the silk, silk and cloth that the Ming Dynasty used to pay for the purchase of horses. Although the mountains of silk and satin cloth were beautiful, they could not be eaten, but they aroused the atmosphere of some Korean officials and businessmen to pursue luxury and profit, which caused Li Fangyuan to have a headache, so he had to resell these silk cloths to the Japanese and the Ryukyuan. At this time, Japan had not yet obtained the permission of the Ming Dynasty to officially start tributary trade, and the domestic upper class could only buy luxury goods through smuggling.

As a result, there was a strange thing that the Ming side fought happily, but it promoted the economic trade between Korea and Japan.

After Luo Kedi received Zhu Yunfen's order, he used the power of Jinyiwei to catch some Flying Dragon secret spies who issued leaflets and spread rumors, but these personnel were just the outermost small shrimps, and they couldn't grasp the core secrets of the Flying Dragon secret spy at all.

On Xia Xun's side, with Li Jinglong as a breakthrough, he constantly looked for targets from officials who opposed the cutting of the feudal domain or sympathized with King Yan, and carried out co-optation, corrosion, and infiltration, and gradually, an extremely tight and huge intelligence network had been formed.

As for the imperial court, the current internal struggle, like the war at the front, has become increasingly serious, and various forces are intricately intertwined.

The faction is now split into two groups, one is the Confucius faction headed by Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, and Qi Tai, and the other is the Shaozhuang faction headed by Jing Qing, Zhuo Jing, Lian Zining and others. Jing Qing, Zhuo Jing, Lian Zining and other rising stars of the feudal domain were also firmly loyal to Emperor Jianfu, but they also hated the incompetence of Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng.

Externally, they advocated severely cracking down on Zhu Di, the king of Yan, without compromise. Internally, they hope to pull down the incompetent people like Fang Huang and others, because in their opinion, it is not a blessing for the country to be controlled by these incompetent people, but unfortunately, Zhu Yunfen still trusts Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng the most, and their actions have not achieved much effect, but only further weakened the influence of Fang Huang and others.

Just when the internal struggle of the feudal faction was unbearable, another voice that was originally extremely weak sounded. The representative of this voice is Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, so he suddenly jumped out and lashed out at Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng for bewitching the holy will and dividing the royal family, which was the culprit of the royal war, and they should be brought to justice and negotiate peace with King Yan.

Originally, officials like Ru Chang, Yu Xin, and Gao Wei advocated this kind of idea, but they lacked a strong leader, and their voices in the court were very weak. Although Li Jinglong's reputation is intimidating, as a Li Zi family that once had the hope of replacing the Zhongshan Wangfu as the head of the military ministers, he also has quite a large number of contacts and connections.

This interest group, which is attached to the Cao Guogong Mansion, needs a chance to stand up again, even if this opportunity is speculative and reckless.

So, with their firm support, Li Jinglong, who was originally embarrassed to come out of the door because of the two defeats, suddenly changed from a martial artist to a new star in the political arena.

As long as he seized the opportunity, he would sell his theory to others in the court that "King Yan is invincible, cut the feudal domain, mislead the country and mislead the people, and should be punished and reconciled with King Yan".

Ru Chang, Yu Xin, and Gao Wei, who were originally the weakest voices of the peace party, were delighted to discover Li Jinglong's bosom friend, and soon, they all defected to Li Jinglong's door, and the rise of the peace faction, the Fanghuang faction and the Zhuo Jing faction, who had the absolute right to speak at the beginning, did not care, and even to a certain extent, they deliberately connived at the existence of this faction.

Because the Fang Huang faction hoped that through the emergence of the Yihe faction, the Jingzhuo faction would have a sense of crisis and reunite with themselves, while the Jingzhuo faction hoped that the Yiping faction would pull the back legs of the Fang Huang faction and urge them to step down.

No matter what the real purpose of these three major factions is, they all have a high-sounding reason: for the emperor, for the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Yunfen was originally a soft-eared and uncertain master, and he was theorized by these three schools of theory every day, and the theory made his brain ache, and even the "Zhou Li" that he couldn't put down was temporarily put down, and he cheered up every day as soon as he went to court and began to "live in the mud". He began to feel that the cutest thing now was the wall-riding faction. You see, the wall-riding faction is standing there, dumbfounded, never looking for trouble.

The impasse needs an opportunity to break it.

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Whether it is the state of confrontation between the north and south armies in Shandong and Hebei, or the three-legged state in the court, it needs to be broken.

Spring is blooming, the weather is dry, be careful of the candles.

In the Cao Guo Mansion, Li Jinglong did not leave the study until very late.

I don't know when Li Jinglong got into the habit of taking notes.

If this notebook falls into the hands of the emperor or Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng, even if the political views are different, they must also be moved by the noble sentiments and great feelings of Lord Cao Guogong.

Li Jinglong suspected that the servant who cleaned the study was said to be very unpopular with Lord Cao Guogong, and now he has appointed a special person to clean the entrance of the study, this person is called Xu Jiang, and he is the cousin of the fifth room of Lord Guogong, who loves concubine Yiyun, and brought him to the house

I came, I have only been here for less than half a year, and I am a very clever and discerning person, and I am also diligent in my work, so I was favored by Li Jinglong and became a subordinate who specializes in sprinkling and sweeping inside and outside the study.

Seeing that Lord Cao Guogong got up and went to the back house, Xu Jiang entered the study.

The light on the table is still on, this is Cao Guogong's habit, and if the light is on the table, it needs to be "cleaned" immediately.

Xu Jiang closed the door, put down the broom, walked under the lamp and opened Li Jinglong's notes, hurriedly flipped through them, and sighed: "There are so many Yu ...... today." ”

Complaining to complaining, he still quickly picked up the pen, spread out a piece of paper, and hurriedly remembered.

Xu Jiang is coarse and well-versed in writing and ink, and every once in a while, he will copy a few large things from here and quietly send them to the place designated by Boss Xia, but he has never seen what he copied to have any effect, and he still thinks so today, but he doesn't know that what he is copying under the lamp at the moment is the key information to break the stalemate and completely change the confrontation between the two armies.

This night, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Chen Di were discussing matters at Fang Xiaoru's mansion.

In the face of Jing Qing Zhuo Jing's restraint of the Shaozhuang faction and Li Jinglongru's criticism of the Changyi faction, they were at a loss. After pondering for a long time, Chen Di, the Shangshu of Lishan, suddenly said: "Mr. Xiaozhi, there is no one who supports Li Jinglong, except for one Ru Chang."

What a great father, he is so arrogant because he has quite a lot of supporters in the army, and we need someone to suppress him. The three-legged situation between the DPRK and China also needs to introduce an external force to fight

Old......

Fang Xiaoru said movingly: "What is Mr. Jingdao's plan? ”

Chen Di said categorically: "Xu Huizu, only Xu Huizu has the qualifications to suppress Li Jinglong." ”

Fang Xiaoru hesitated: "This ......, that day of the Mochou Poetry Meeting, Fang Mou brushed his sleeves away in anger, which embarrassed Wei Guogong very much, and now he wants to regain his old goodness, is it okay?" ”

Chen Di said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this, a few times ago, Mo Chou Poetry Club, Xu Huizu had the intention of using his young sister's marriage as a bridge to marry Mr. Xiaozhi." I Wen Mr. has four sons, the second son Zhongxian is of marriageable age, if Mr. with the second son and the Xu family to conclude a marriage, it is enough to prove Mr. sincerity, I believe that Wei Guogong will also ignore the past suspicions, and regain the old good. ”

Fang Xiaoru thought for a moment, got up and arched his hand: "In this way, Mr. Lao will be a matchmaker!" ”