According to Chongzhen's inner thoughts, it may not be a good thing for the imperial court for the Li family and his son to come forward to negotiate peace with the Liao thieves.

With the soldiers, horses, money, and grain in the hands of the Li family's father and son, the coastal trade routes along the river that they actually controlled, and the strong strength of the vast territories in Liangguang, Fujian, Shandong, and Laochao Nanzhong, they were afraid that the Chinese officials of the DPRK and the generals leading troops everywhere did not dare to comment much on this peace discussion.

What's more, in Chongzhen's view, Huang Taiji did not talk to him, the Ming Emperor, about peace, but instead proposed peace to Li Shouhan, willing to act as a vassal under the Li family. This can also show his supremacy as the Son of Heaven from a certain point of view! You don't deserve to negotiate peace with me, you can only be a vassal under my former courtiers!

This matter, as long as the pens in the Hanlin Academy and other places after the fact, the pen of the Hanlin Academy and other places will write a wonderful pen, and later historians will comment, can it not be said that Emperor Chongzhen is wise and martial? As for whether it will make the Li family sit big again in this peace discussion, he automatically ignored this. In the eyes of him, Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen, the two great eunuchs, Grandpa Li's father and son are much more interested in paying taxes in the business of money, grain, soldiers, horses and horses than the hard chair on the Jinluan Palace now!

"Big companion, I have already issued an order to the Ministry of Rites, ordering them to quickly draw up a beautiful name for Li Aiqing, why has there been no movement for many days? Do you want the government and the opposition to talk about it, saying that I am not rewarded for my merits!? Doesn't it chill the heroes and the officers and men of all armies?! ”

Zhu Youzhen remembered the title of Rongguo Gong who was rejected by Li Shouhan, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the group of corpse vegetarian guys in the Ministry of Rites.

"Slaves and maids, go and urge them strictly!" In recent years, the arrogance of the eunuchs has also risen, although they still do not have the strength of the nine-thousand-year-old Duke Wei when he was there, but the Chinese officials of the dynasty did not dare to underestimate this group of emperor's domestic slaves. Let alone. Now this group of house slaves is under the help of Li Shouhan, and there are vague signs of joining forces with the nobles of the court. The two groups have partnered to do a special business, and every day the silver dollars come in like flowing water.

With the increase of economic strength, Wang Dehua and other eunuchs naturally despised the civil officials who made a serious and upright gentleman with a straight face all day long, but after the next dynasty, they eagerly sang a song of joy and sorrow with the scholars and maids in their own study.

"Don't rely on the Ministry of Rites alone! Those people in Hanlin Temple. Every day, I always claim to be a well-educated person, but I want to see that this group of guys who are full of poetry and books can't come up with a good name for my courtiers, and what shame do they have to claim to be a well-educated person! ”

After some pretentiousness, Chongzhen told his two eldest companions the true purpose of his heart.

"How is the military salary plan for Liaodong now?"

"Back to the emperor's words, the military salaries for February and March this year, which were originally scheduled to be allocated to the soldiers and horses in various towns in Liaodong in May, totaled 1.48 million silver dollars, and the household department had already raised almost all of them. The day before yesterday came the message. If you want to borrow 200,000 yuan from the inner government, you can deduct it from the commercial tax of Denglai Customs. ”

"Humph! This group of guys is a good plan. Tell them that it's okay to advance money, this military salary, I want to be used by other factions, and ask the Liaodong military horses to be wronged for the time being! They won't starve to death anyway! ”

Since it was agreed to open customs offices in Denglai, Tianjin and other places to collect customs duties, Chongzhen's inner government has been filled with a lot. Several customs offices are openly and covertly supported by the Nanyue Army. All in the hands of the eunuchs. However, the military salary of more than a million silver. In Chongzhen's opinion, it is also a lot of money.

"Does the emperor mean that he intends to divert this military salary for other purposes?" Wang Chengen's eyes shone slightly. With his understanding of the emperor, this money will not be given to Liaodong. I'm afraid that the emperor will use it to allocate it to the new army in Beijing, so that they can speed up the training of new soldiers. The three battalions of the new army are now completely in the hands of the eunuchs and nobles, and the seeds of success in stealing from the hands of the prince of Shandong and Li are now passing on their experience and experience to the children of good families recruited from all over Gyeonggi.

"Exactly! I plan to hand over this military salary to Sun Chuanting, who is currently in Shaanxi! Let him be sure to go out of Tongguan during the wheat harvest season to fight a decisive battle with Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's subordinates who are entrenched in Henan. Don't let the land of Henan stay in the hands of thieves for too long! ”

But it turned out to be a graft. The east wall was demolished and the west wall was replaced. Taking advantage of the current break in the war in the eastern Liaodong direction, Wu Sangui was busy reorganizing the camp and digesting the fruits of victory after annexing the miscellaneous troops, and Huang Taiji expressed his sincerity in order to negotiate peace. At the same time, he was also unable to launch a new offensive against the Ming army in the temporary calm stage, Chongzhen was ready to take advantage of this extremely precious gap period to use this military salary to order Sun Chuanting, who had been training in Shaanxi for several months, to quickly go out of Tongguan to deal with Li Zicheng!

This year's climate in Henan is very angry to the officials of the Ming court, since Li Zicheng entrenched in Henan, Henan actually snows in winter, rains in spring, and locusts do not appear much. Those thieves who are entrenched in various states and counties, what kind of thieves do you say you don't kill people and set fires? He actually urged the people everywhere and the displaced and hungry people who moved with the army to plant wheat and sorghum as soon as possible.

It seems that the wheat harvest season is approaching. In the hinterland of Henan, a grain producing area that stretches for thousands of miles, as long as one season of wheat can be harvested, then Li Zicheng's strength will still be gained? I'm afraid that Huguang in the south, Shaanxi in the west, Fengyang in the southeast and other places will all be occupied by him!

"The slave maid and the maid will go to the household department and ask them to allocate this money to Lord Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi."

"No!" Chongzhen stopped Wang Dehua's words, he also understood the nature of the group of money rats in the household department, if they allocated this 15.6 million silver dollars, they were afraid that they would be eroded by layers of exploitation, and finally when it came to Sun Deaf's hands, it would be good to have half of them.

"Daban'er, the day before yesterday, you said that there are trading shops opened by Shanxi merchants in the capital that operate foreign exchange? If you deposit money in the capital, you can withdraw it from the shops that have a joint number with them? Just need to pay some money? ”

The fan of the Dongchang incident will collect, sort out and report the major and minor events that happened in the capital every day, and then summarize and report them to the eunuch of the Dongchang Governor, commonly known as the eunuch of the factory. Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen will choose the opportunity to tell him according to Chongzhen's mood.

As for the news that happens in the market, it can be reported to Chongzhen at any time as something new, so that he can freshen up and relieve his boredom.

But Wang Dehua and others didn't expect that Chongzhen had always kept this matter in mind and threw it out at this time today.

"Leave it to Shanxi to the merchant to remit! Give Sun Chuanting a will. When the military salary arrives, you must go out of Tongguan to fight against the thieves and Cao thieves! ”

After a moment of silence, Chongzhen whispered to Wang Chengen, "I can pretend that I don't know about the peace between Li Guogong and his son and Jiannu. But I don't want them to think that I don't know anything! ”

For Chongzhen's thoughts. The two princes naturally understood it. Then they prostrated and left, and went their own way.

That night, Wang Chengen returned to his mansion, and after freshening up in the study, the little eunuch who was waiting with him served fragrant tea, he drank two sips, and tilted his head back very comfortably to close his eyes and recuperate.

"Ancestor, the Titang official in Grandpa Li's mansion has arrived."

"Get those notebooks ready."

Listening to the report of the eunuch with him, Wang Chengen snorted. Tell your men to get ready.

According to Chongzhen's intentions, Wang Chengen ordered Dongchang and several henchmen and eunuchs to find several imperial histories of the Imperial History Terrace, and ordered them to use the power in their hands to impeach Li Shouhan and Li Huayu, father and son, and accuse them of negotiating peace with Dongyu without permission. Although everyone knows that this charge is pure nonsense, don't say that they negotiated peace with Dongyu but were bumped into by Huang Taiji, who ran over on the way out of the emperor. Even if they were the same as Yuan Chonghuan's supervisor back then, they went back and forth with the Dongnu messenger. Discuss the matter of peace. And what can you do with their father and son?

Sent Jinyi Banner School to take Li Shouhan, who is in Guangzhou at the moment, and Li Huayu, who is in Jinan, into Beijing to ask for guilt? It's just nonsense, I'm afraid that this will has not yet left Chaoyangmen, and the capital is already soaring in grain prices, and the canal transportation has been cut off!

Instead of putting yourself in passivity, it is better to use these street discussions to seek some tangible benefits for yourself.

Wang Chengen is to implement Chongzhen's will. used these public opinions, which were created by himself, to get some money, food and equipment for the new army of Beijing Camp who was currently training in the Nanyuan Barracks.

Like the town generals, governors, and governors, Li Shouhan also had mansions in the capital, responsible for delivering Korean Chinese books. Make friends with officials and nobles, and at the same time, deal with some miscellaneous affairs. It can be regarded as one of his Beijing offices.

This Titang official can also be regarded as Li Shouhan's henchman, one of the celebrities in the capital.

"Master Lei, those documents on the table, please take a look." Wang Chengen was naturally too lazy to talk nonsense with this Titang official surnamed Lei, and the two were familiar with each other and couldn't get acquainted with each other. This Lord Lei can directly enter the hall on Wang Chengen's mansion, and the big and small deacons will not stop him.

After a few hasty glances at the documents that impeached the Li family's father and son for being lawless, how they were disobedient, and how they negotiated peace with the Liao thieves without authorization, Lei Titang sneered at the corner of his mouth, but he didn't say anything, just put the documents down.

"My father-in-law also believes in these groundless discussions? My father-in-law has always been loyal to the country, others don't know, but my father-in-law always knows. ”

"Our family naturally knows about the painstaking efforts of the grandfather of the country, so the celebrant ordered the people to suppress all these impeachment texts, and never let the emperor know. You also know that the military situation is now very unfavorable everywhere, and the emperor is very angry. If he knows about it, he is afraid that it will be unfavorable to Grandpa Guo. ”

"I'm afraid of you with a hammer!" Lei Titang Guan scolded disdainfully in his heart, "If you have the ability, you dare to move a finger against the lord and the eldest young marshal to try it?!" He cursed in his heart, but his face was still full of smiles, "My father-in-law is so wrong to love, and my Nanyue Army is naturally full of affection." ”

"Take these documents back and show them to your father-in-law. Tell the grandfather of the capital about the capital, lest he be a little flustered when he is asked to understand the reciprocal when he is asked. ”

"Also." Wang Chengen felt that his overtures were enough, and it was time to negotiate the price.

"Now the new army in Beijing is being organized and trained, and there is no shortage of food and equipment. You ask your father-in-law, if there is more than enough, you may as well temporarily transfer one or two to the Beijing Division to solve the urgent need. ”

"I'll fuck you! I've been busy for a long time, or to ask for something! ”

Walking out of Wang Chengen's mansion, Lei Titang official scolded secretly on the horse.

After bargaining with Wang Chengen, he finally used the swords, guns, and military uniforms of 5,000 people who served the court with the Nanyue army, 1,000 pairs of armor, 1,000 guns and 50 rounds of medicine, as well as 150,000 yuan of military salaries and 10,000 stone grains and rice as the conditions for military rations. It can be regarded as thanking the imperial court for its magnanimity to the Nanyue army.

"Don't go back to the mansion, go directly to Chaoyangmen Wharf, see if there is a boat to Tianjin tonight, send these documents to the lord, and go to Jinan to meet the young marshal by the way, and tell him about the group of silverfish in the capital who plan to knock our bamboo poles. Please decide! ”

In retaliation, Lei Datitang official planned to go to Wu Liangfu overnight tonight and take away thousands of volumes of Yongle Dadian in one go!

In this way, a storm about the negotiation of peace became silent as the eunuchs of all sizes carried boxes of Yongle ceremonies from the imperial history from the imperial history to the small boats in the tube river under the cover of night. After several rounds, these Yongle ceremonies appeared on the sea ships of Tianjin Nigu, and sailed south.

Although Guangzhou in early summer is not as full of flowers as in spring, it is also full of greenery, and from time to time you can see flowers and plants in full bloom as far as the eye can see, and from Yuexiu Tower to the bottom of the mountain, it is even more full of flowers. If you use a telescope to look into the distance. The rice fields on both sides of the Pearl River are also blooming and spitting ears, and the green and fat rice makes the farmers who are busy in the rice fields laugh happily on their dark faces from time to time.

Occasionally, there are naughty children, holding up fish and crabs touched in the muddy water of the rice fields, shouting happily beside their parents, causing adults to scold and resent. However, with a bumper harvest in sight and a good time just around the corner, who would be as familiar as a few naughty children?

However, this boundless beauty does not seem to bring Li Shouhan a good mood. At this time, he was sitting in front of the railing that was originally looking out over the scenery. While caressing a woman's hair, he whispered comfortingly: "Okay, don't cry, I'll scold what I should scold, and I'll prepare what I should prepare, you can rest assured." ”

At this time. This woman snuggled in Li Shouhan's arms, her face was full of tears, like a little girl coquettish with her parents, and she couldn't tell at all that this was a former heroine among women. The proud poplar of the Daur people - Ao Lei Yilan. Ao Lei Yilan, who added a son to Li Shouhan, has a plump figure, and the charm of a young woman has become much stronger. It's a pity that the tears on her face made her look a little haggard.

Although there was no radio from afar, the news of the defeat of the Solun people in Heilongjiang was delivered to Guangzhou at an alarming speed. Li Shouhan, who received the report, kicked over the table angrily, but before he could let out this breath, Ao Lei Yilan fainted when he heard the news, and Li Shouhan had to go to visit Ao Lei Yilan first. When Ao Lei Yilan woke up, it was even more troublesome, and this hot-tempered Oroqen woman simply ordered the bride-in-law next to her to start packing up, saying that she wanted to go back to Heilongjiang to clean up the remnants of the defeated army and find Huang Taiji desperately, which made Li Shouhan cry and laugh.

There was no way, Li Shouhan had to patiently tell Ao Lei Yilan a little common sense: first, Huang Taiji usually hides in Shenyang, and you go to Heilongjiang to find him far away; Second, Li Huayu is in Shandong, and it is more convenient to take revenge and find him to mobilize some troops and horses to cross the sea and march eastward. Ao Lei Yilan nodded after listening, and then opened a pair of big eyes and said that she was going to Shandong to participate in Li Huayu's crusade.

Li Shouhan was suddenly covered with sweat, and said in his heart that I finally believe it now, if people are dizzy, pigs' IQs are higher than people. However, this can't be said directly, and Li Shouhan doesn't care whether Ao Lei Yilan can listen to it or not, it's just a big reason to persuade him, in a word, now our Nanyue Army has just calmed down the internal and external troubles in its rear, and it is really impossible to separate, but as long as he is free, Huang Taiji will not be able to escape.

While comforting Ao Lei Yilan, Li Shouhan explained himself in his heart: "You deserve it!" Who made you marry such a brutal girlfriend? Or a little girlfriend younger than your daughter! What can you do if you don't coax!? ”

To put it mildly, I finally dispelled the idea of Ao Lei Yilan going north. However, Ao Lei Yilan still did not give up, she decided that Li Peiting and Long Shengxing were definitely the culprits in this defeat, if they did their best, how could this happen? I have to say that sometimes a woman's intuition is more than that of the prophet, although it is just a blind guess, but it actually hits the truth directly. It's just that this kind of thing obviously can't convince Li Shouhan, of course, Li Shouhan just can't convict Li Peiting for this, but it's still okay to scold.

So, a letter full of Li Shouhan's various grievances and angers was carried by a clipper from Nanzhong and delivered to Temple Street at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River at the fastest speed.

The reply was also delivered as quickly as possible. After reading Li Peiting's reply, Li Shouhan was silent. Because according to Li Peiting's account, although it cannot be said that Long is not at fault, the main responsibility is definitely the people of Sauron.

In the letter, Li Peiting vented his bitterness, saying that the environment he was in was extremely dangerous, first of all, the caravan was weakly armed, and there was a lack of strong enough fortresses, and the existing fortresses were all made of pine wood to make simple fireproof construction, which could only defend against the attacks of ordinary barbarian tribes, so he really did not have the strength to fight Jiannu. And the great enemy of the caravan is not Jiannu, but the Rakshasas.

Although the Rakshasas do not have a well-equipped army like Jiannu, they are as fierce and greedy as Jiannu, and with the help of artillery, the threat is greater than that of Jiannu! Although the Rakshasa people have been very quiet recently, the reconnaissance cavalry has not been broken, and the so-called harmful heart is indispensable, and the heart of defense is indispensable, so the main force of the caravan armed force is used to guard against the Rakshasa people who continue to invade from the west, and there is really no spare strength to deal with the Jiannu in the south.

Secondly, Li Peiting told that Long Shengxing was in an embarrassing position. Although Long Shengxing has a very good relationship with various tribes in Heilongjiang, most of them also give Long Shengxing's men and shopkeepers the treatment of leaders. However, Li Peiting and the others are not their leaders after all. Therefore, when it comes to major events, Long prevails only has the right to suggest, not the right to decide. said that he was strongly opposed to the battle against the thieves in Liaodong this time, but the big leaders of the people didn't listen, and they had to fight, and they really had no choice. Therefore, he also has to carry out another order of the lord, that is, to fully respect the leaders of these tribes, and not to pretend to be the top boss of others.

As for the specific combat process, Li Peiting gave a detailed account of it. According to Li Peiting's account, combined with Li Shouhan's own understanding, in the end, Li Shouhan can only believe that this is called manpower and sometimes poor. It should be said that with the ability of the Sauronians, it is not bad to be able to do this. In the early days, they were able to retreat in a planned way to lure the enemy, and then changed to a large-scale ambush, until Ocuador fought a beautiful ambush battle, these barbarians got carried away, which already had a bit of a feudal army, and even compared to the Ming army. As for the final stage, it is expected. To say that it was still better than expected, first of all, Bomu Bogol and several other big leaders ran out, and secondly, Ecuador also injured Huang Taiji, and finally the caravan's armed performance was also good, timely intervention in the pursuit, blocking the Qing army's pursuit force on the bank of the Heilongjiang River, and provoking the Qing army to carry out artillery bombardment, but also along the river to chase the Qing army artillery bombardment, and even recaptured a large number of horses and equipment materials. It should be said that the performance is still okay. However, this scene reminded Li Shouhan of a scene in old China, where a certain P5 warship ran rampant on the Yangtze River, sinking fishing boats, crashing into cargo ships, and engaging in artillery battles with the troops on the north bank, which almost caused another armed intervention. Uh, is this a delusion? Well, it must be an illusion.

Finally getting rid of the entanglement of a scene in his mind, Li Shouhan continued to look down. Later in the story, Li Peiting mentions that he will work with the Sauronians to develop gold mines in order to get them back to life as soon as possible. At the same time, it is planned to expand the armament of the caravan, in addition to defending against the possible attack of the Liaodong anti-thieves, and more importantly, to deter the Rakshasas. According to Li Peiting's report, since the Sancha River Estuary incident, the Rakshasa people have obviously increased the frequency of reconnaissance, and even tried to scratch their tongues, but fortunately, the caravan had already taken precautions, so the Rakshasa people not only did not make a profit, but also killed several people and captured one by our side. However, the so-called "no thousand days to prevent thieves", instead of letting thieves harass every day, it is better for our side to expand our armaments, and then engage in a military exercise, if the Rakshasa people are honest, forget it, if they are not honest, they will be killed directly. However, this matter is very important, and Li Shouhan must decide it himself. Therefore, Li Peiting finally emphasized that how to deal with it should be decided as soon as possible. (To be continued......)