After Li Dingliang left, Xu Dingchen still had a pale face, stood in place, and didn't say a word.

Some of the others also looked sluggish, some looked solemn, and some scolded Li Dingliang and the others at their backs.

After a long time, seeing that more and more people were gathering on the street, Xu Dingchen hurriedly said to the side, "Quickly transport the head and the prisoner back to the Yamen of the Political Secretary", and then he summoned a sedan chair, sat on the sedan chair with an ugly face, and went back first.

Before leaving, he didn't say a word to anyone.

Du Yingtang's face was solemn, he looked left and right, and also asked his own soldiers to bring the horses, and rode on the horses to look at the Yamen of the Political Secretary.

The envoy and the envoy also hurriedly followed.

As soon as these people left, the big officials present "buzzed" about it.

Some of them called the retinue and whispered a few words, and the retinue quickly left.

Not long after, a few fast horses came out of the north gate of Yangqu and rushed to the capital overnight under the light of the bright moon of the Lantern Festival.

Back at the Yamen of the Political Secretary, Xu Dingchen asked his entourage to hold the lamp in the study, and then drove them out, sitting alone in the study and waiting quietly.

Not long after, an entourage outside said, "My lord, I have commanded Lord Du to ask to see me." ”

"Let him in."

"Yes."

Soon, Du Yingtang walked into the study, bowed respectfully, and said, "Meet Lord Futai." ”

Xu Dingchen didn't return the salute, but asked coldly: "Lord Du, in your opinion, should those heads and the twenty-seven Eastern captives be presented to the Jingshi?" ”

Du Yingtang seemed to have expected him to ask such a question, smiled bitterly, and said, "Lord Futai, you and I are officials of the imperial court, how can there be any reason for the captive head not to be sent to the Beijing Division?" It's just ......"

"The twenty-seven Eastern captives, I'm afraid they won't be able to get to the Beijing Division, and someone will kill them on the way, and after those heads arrive at the Beijing Division, I'm afraid that the officialdom of Shanxi, Xuanfu and Datong will ...... It's going to be turned upside down. ”

Xu Dingchen didn't answer, only snorted angrily, and then looked at him coldly.

Du Yingtang smiled bitterly again, lowered his voice and said: "Lord Futai misunderstood, the lower officials are just commanders, far away in Shanxi, no matter how long the hand is, it can't reach Zhangjiakou Fort, not to mention, even if it is so far, it doesn't have the ability to get a piece of the pie." ”

"In the same way, the big officials in Shanxi have more or less some family businesses in their families, and they are more or less involved in the businessmen and gentlemen in this territory, but they are just some insignificant branches and leaves on the big tree of Jinxuan Dasanzhen."

"Even the governors, governors, and envoys of the two places of Xuanda, as well as those general soldiers, town guard generals, etc., these people are just branches and leaves that can be cut off at any time."

Xu Dingchen frowned: "According to what you mean, the trunk of this big tree, is it the Fan family, the Jin family?" ”

"Definitely." Du Yingtang shook his head, "Many of these companies are actually not theirs. ”

When Xu Dingchen heard this, his brows furrowed even deeper.

He knew that the water in Xuanda and Da was very deep, but he didn't expect it to be unfathomable.

Du Yingtang took a few steps closer and said in a voice so low that only two of them could hear it: "Lord Futai, do you still remember Shen Di, the former governor of Xuanfu who was beheaded in July last year?" And Master Ma Shiyingma, who was assigned to Rongbian in October? ”

Xu Dingchen was stunned for a moment, and then his face changed.

"Shen Di did not die from negotiating peace with Dongyu without authorization, and Master Ma took over as governor of Xuanfu in July, and was assigned to Rongbian in October, and there is ...... here."

At this point, Du Yingtang stopped, closed his mouth and said no more.

Xu Dingchen's face was solemn, he leaned on the back of the chair weakly, and was silent for a long time.

After a long time, Xu Dingchen suddenly asked: "In your opinion, what about those Eastern captives and captives?" ”

"This ......"

Du Yingtang lowered his head and thought about it, and then said: "It's better to transport this hot potato to Xuanfu in the name of cooperating with friendly forces to investigate the spies, and let the new Xuanfu Governor Jiao and the prison army Liu Gonggong torture the prisoners, and ask who let them into the border wall and who sent them to Loufu." ”

Xu Dingchen's eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh suddenly: "Okay, just do it." ”

"Yes."

……

Gu Ding, Wu Qizheng, Zhang Shijing and others were annoyed, and they mobilized the people to join forces to approach Jingyou, just waiting for a hiccup surnamed Qin, and then they went into Lou Nu Mengjiazhuang to divide the money and grain.

I didn't expect that the surname Qin didn't die.

According to the guy who was hit by eight arrows and seventeen knives, he was in a coma for three or two nights, and finally survived?

It's unbelievable.

Shocked, everyone began to suffer.

This soldier and horse are all in the city, should they fight, or should they retreat?

If it is fought, the Guan Emperor army will definitely be in high morale because of the backbone of the main body, and Jingyou has placed two artillery pieces, and more than 2,000 people may not be able to fight it, not to mention that there is a Lou Fu behind.

If you don't fight, you won't run in vain this time, and you have to laugh and be generous to the dog thief surnamed Qin.

When everyone was in trouble, Feng Yilong of Chijianling took the lead in expressing his position: his Feng family withdrew.

Then, Feng Yilong, who had always done his own thing, took his men and horses away.

If there is a neighbor, there will be a second, and soon a few more families will say a few words, and then they will withdraw their troops with their own people.

In desperation, Gu Ding and the others had no choice but to withdraw their troops, go back to their respective homes, and find their own mothers.

Hongyaling, after repeatedly confirming that the surname Qin was still alive, Ren Liang said no words and immediately returned to Donghuluchuan with his men.

Wang Gangbao and the five of them stomped their feet, and after scolding a few times unwillingly, they also took their men and horses back to the three cliffs.

A farce ended in a hurry.

……

On the twentieth day of the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, 27 Jiannu prisoners who were escorted to Xuanfu died violently in Dashikou as soon as they entered the territory of Datong Mansion.

After investigation, it was found that the cause was that the officers and soldiers who escorted the prisoners mistakenly used the water containing the plague to feed the prisoners, and as a result, none of the 27 prisoners were spared, and the plague broke out and died.

The three generals in charge of the escort were soon assigned to Rongbian, and the rest of the hot canes ranged from ten to fifty.

As soon as the incident came out, the officialdom of the three towns of Xuanda Shanxi was in turmoil, and everyone was in danger.

After Xu Dingchen was nervous for several times, he suddenly ushered in a good news: the reward of the imperial court had arrived.

The emperor promoted him to the imperial history of Zuo Yandu, awarded the doctor Zhongshun, and still patrolled Shanxi.

Du Yingtang was not promoted to the real duty, and still served as the commander of Shanxi, but he was awarded the general of Dingguo, the central protector was sealed, and a flying fish suit was given.

Other officials who are on the good news also have their own rewards.

And Qinchuan, one hundred households in Ninghua, was promoted to one thousand households, awarded General Wude, took over Dong Liang, who was demoted to the border, and stationed in Ninghua to guard the thousand households.

Xu Dingchen knew that with the character of the current emperor, against Qin Chuan, who had made such a great achievement, the reward was by no means just a thousand households.

It is very likely that this Ninghua Thousand Households was wanted by Qin Chuan and Liu Wenzhong, the Datong Prison Army.

When the emperor wanted to give Qin Chuan a higher reward, Liu Wenzhong helped suppress it, and finally went to Ninghua to work for thousands of households.

Xu Dingchen has a hunch that Shanxi, Datong, and Xuanfu are about to set off a bloody storm.

……

Qin Chuan lay down for seven years, and it wasn't until the eighth that Lao Huang, the long-winded dead old man, was finally willing to help him get off the ground.

Down-to-earth feeling, really good.

With the support of Lao Huang and Huang Liuxi, he slowly came to a wall and carefully stared at a map hanging on the wall.

This was brought back by Li Dingliang from Yangqu at a high price, and it is still very simple and rough, but it is much better than the previous impressionist paintings.

He looked at it for a while, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, Zhao Wu appeared at the door, first respectfully clasped his fists and saluted Qin Chuan, shouted "I have seen my lord", and after seeing Qin Chuan nodding, he stepped into the house.

Qin Chuan took a breath and tasted in a faint voice: "You have been in Xuanfu for so many years, you should be very familiar with the officialdom in that place, look, which officials are in cahoots with those merchants in Zhangjiakou Fort." ”

Zhao Wu pondered for a moment and said: "My lord, in fact, almost the entire Xuanda officialdom is implicated with those businessmen, but the reason why the Fan family and others can be so unscrupulous is not because of those generals of Xuanda. ”

"Oh?"

"Your Excellency should know that after Huang Taijixi conquered the Har Department last year and expelled Lin Dan Khan from Hexi, he asked the Xuanfu for a reward for the property of the Chahar Ministry."

"I know this, those wretches in Xuanfu obediently gave more than 10,000 skins and countless silk satins to others."

Zhao Wu shook his head: "My lord, in fact, Shen Di, the governor of Xuanfu, gave not only leather and cloth, but also thousands of stone of grain, and even a lot of fried pasta. ”

Qin Chuan frowned: "Oh? Governor, isn't this fornication with foreign enemies? ”

"That's true, most of the generals in the entire Xuanda and Da are secretly supporting the enemy, Shen Di's thousands of stone of grain are what Lao Liao and I have seen with our own eyes, and the pasta is still found after we slaughtered a Jiannu."

"At that time, Huang Taiji chased Lin Dan Khan for hundreds of miles, and had already exhausted the military rations, and most of the cattle, sheep and horses in the area of Guihua City were driven across the river by Lin Dan Khan.

"In this matter, Wang Kun, the superintendent of the Xuanfu Army, also had a share, not long after the incident, Shen Di was beheaded, and he did not expose the matter of the enemy at that time, the emperor just beheaded Shen Kun on the charge of negotiating peace without authorization, but Wang Kun was not implicated."

"This matter may be very involved, coupled with what I have seen and heard before, it can be concluded that it is not those businessmen who are the enemies, behind Fan Yongdou and the others, it is likely that there are senior members of the DPRK and China, and there is more than one person."

Hearing this, Qin Chuan's brows were already deeply furrowed.

He originally thought that the eight imperial merchants were just bribing the officials of Xuanda and Shanxi to make it convenient for them, if it was really as Zhao Wu did, then the scholar class of the Ming Dynasty was even worse than he imagined.

The dignified governor secretly collaborated with the enemy, sent food to Houjin under the banner of peace, and cooked pasta to send it to others.

This is simply a traitor.

Zhao Wu said: "Your Excellency should know the origin of the Zhangjiakou Fort Horse Market, since the Ming Dynasty and the Chahar Department communicated, the emperor ordered the border wall to open the market, and the Chahar Department exchanged trades, in exchange for the other party's good horses, and the Zhangjiakou Fort horse market has prospered." ”

"Since then, Zhangjiakou Fort has built countless shops in just a few months, many of which are the properties of Beijing officials, and some are even the relatives of the emperor."

"At first, it was indeed the Chahar Department or other Mongolian ministries that came to Zhangjiakou Fort to buy and sell, and Jiannu also had Liaoxi merchants to supply grain and iron, but later the imperial court sealed the Liaoxi Trade Road, and Jiannu did not have the support of grain and iron, so they found the Jin merchants of Xuanfu, and the two sides hit it off, and Jiannu changed into clothes and pretended to be a Mongolian from the Chahar Department to enter Zhangjiakou Fort."

"Since then, Fan Yongdou and others have colluded with Jiannu, sometimes Jiannu came in to trade, and sometimes those Jin merchants shipped the goods out."

"The frequent bulk grain trading will definitely not be able to hide the garrison of Zhangjiakou Fort, nor can it be concealed from the Beijing officials such as the supervising army and the supervising imperial history of Xuanda.

After listening to Zhao Wu's words, Qin Chuan slowly exhaled.

It seems that behind Fan Yongdou and others, the waterhole is unfathomable.

No matter how deep it is, just stab it down and turn it upside down.