In mid-August of the second year of Chongzhen, after Li Tianyang received a fast horse message from Jingshi, the whole person was stunned.

The letter is not a few words, but it contains a shocking piece of information: "On July 24 of the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, designed to lure Mao Wenlong, the chief officer and soldier of Dongjiang Town, to the camp to watch the training of soldiers. ”

Li Tianyang was stunned, this Mao Wenlong was also a first-class military attache in the Tang and Tang dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, and he existed like a feudal official, but he was beheaded in the camp by a second-grade civil official without being questioned by the court, what does this mean, it is chilling to think about.

Subsequently, several urgent information was sent, and the matter of Yuan Chonghuan's assassination of Mao Wenlong's governor in the court was finally reprimanded with an edict, but Yuan Chonghuan, who made such a disrespectful act, did not have the slightest substantial loss, which made Li Tianyang's heart cold.

I thought that I was already a third-grade official in the Ming Dynasty, and no one should be able to let myself be arrested, but when I saw General Mao Wenlong, who was once complacent and commanding Liaodong, finally ended up in such a miserable situation, how could Li Tianyang not let the alarm bell ring in his heart, and reflect on whether it was really right for him to take the initiative to join the Ming Dynasty!

At the same time, the death of Mao Wenlong, the chief officer and soldier of Dongjiang Town, means that Dongjiang Town, a nail planted in the back of Liaodong's abdomen, has been pulled out by his own people, although Dongjiang Town still exists, but tens of thousands of henchmen under Mao Wenlong's command, I am afraid that everyone is panicked, and even there are those who are loyal to Mao Wenlong, I am afraid that they will not be upset for Mao Shuai who died unjustly, and want to avenge him.

Li Tianyang was sad in his heart, but at the same time he couldn't figure out the thing, how to say that this Yuan Chonghuan Supervisor is also a few civilian officials in the entire Ming Dynasty who are good at military affairs, and he was able to achieve a great victory in Ningyuan at the beginning, and now he has been resisting the Houjin elite soldiers outside Liaodong for several years, so that he cannot go straight south and invade the Guannei, but why did he suddenly remember to kill this powerful helper around him!

Out of familiarity with Mr. Jin Yong's "Blue Blood Sword", Li Tianyang knew that there was such a hero as Yuan Chonghuan, who was famous in history, and later he also learned a lot about the deeds of this hero at the end of the Ming Dynasty in many forums.

But now it seems that under the fame, it is actually difficult to pay.

Hongmen's current foreign guard intelligence system is mostly still deployed in the Jiangnan area, as well as overseas Ryukyu and Wa countries are also arranged, and most places on the ground in the north are still blank areas for foreign guards, so many things, only when Li Tianyang happens, can they inquire about something in a targeted manner, such as this incident.

used to deal with Mao Wenlong, for Mao Shuai, a general who was already a great minister, although Li Tianyang and them had a lot of investigations, but due to the limitations of the investigators, Li Tianyang and they couldn't get too much about this big man, let alone what opponents he had.

Yuan Chonghuan, although Li Tianyang knew that the other party was a famous man in history, but every time he sent someone to make friends and build relationships with this adult, he was always rejected by the other party, and until now Hongmen has not had much friendship with this supervisor.

However, it did not prevent Li Tianyang from understanding the personality of this superintendent and understanding the preferences of the other party.

Thinking about it now, it seems that it is not without warning that these two important ministers of Liaodong have come to this point.

Yuan Chonghuan and his person, born in a professional class, climbed step by step from the bottom to his current position, if he is incapable, it must be false, but in the temper and temperament of the other party that Li Tianyang understands, the intelligence officer emphasized several major shortcomings of the other party: self-esteem, self-righteousness, irritable temperament, and great joy.

They went to visit Yuan Chonghuan in the name of Li Tianyang, the commander of the Fujian Navy Division, but in exchange for only one sentence: "The officials and subordinates of the north and the south are different, and the civil and military are different, so let's go!" ”

Of course, there may be subjective opinions of foreign guards here, but the point of self-righteousness is well known to everyone in the court.

Originally, when Yuan Chonghuan was in the position of governor of Liaodong, he forcibly asked the imperial court to transfer the general Mangui from Liaodong only because of political disagreement, and finally a member of the Ming Dynasty, Dahaohu, would be recalled to Beijing.

At that time, the ministers of the king of Jinglu were also very wise, knowing the ability and role of Man Gui, and asked the imperial court to keep him in Liaodong, so he was hostile to Yuan Chonghuan, and the two sides were no longer in agreement, forcing the court to order the two to be separated, one to guard the pass, and the other to manage the outside.

From this matter, it is not difficult to see that his stubborn character does not tolerate disobedience.

As for Yuan Chonghuan's other shortcomings, they were provided by Li Tianyang's help in the court, and Lord Nanjuyi, the head of the household department.

Compared with his own shallow intelligence sources, Lord Nanjuyi, who has been in the officialdom for many years and has seen people and things very profoundly, knows better than Li Tianyang the personality of this extremely popular supervisor.

As for Mao Wenlong, Li Tianyang, although it is difficult for them to find out too much about his preferences and daily life, it is still not difficult to judge from his daily life that he is actually a person who is stubborn and self-serving, and he is so happy.

You and Mao Wenlong, who was born at the bottom, also has a great shortcoming, that is, greed for money.

In fact, Mao Wenlong was greedy, and most of them wronged him, because for Mao Wenlong, who was deep in the hinterland of Houjin, it was not a simple matter to feed the city of more than 100,000 people on Dongjiang Island.

The financial difficulties of the imperial court have not been a day or two, and in the past few years, almost no full salary has been paid to the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, and even the grain will be stopped in many cases, forcing Mao Wenlong to raise his own food and salary.

Therefore, in Dongjiang's own territory, Mao Wenlong's merchants from the inland of the Ming Dynasty came to Dongjiang Island to trade, and he bought and sold whatever he made money, Korean ginseng, horse skins, animal skin cloth, etc., in the eyes of civil officials like Yuan Chonghuan, he naturally couldn't please him.

At the same time, in the hinterland of Houjin in the depths of Dongjiang Town, it can be said that he does not listen to the orders issued by Yuan Chonghuan, and every ship will make Yuan Chonghuan feel that it is better to have him than not to have his thoughts, so as to strengthen his control of Liaodong.

In contrast, the strong conflict between the personalities of these two people finally made Yuan Chonghuan embark on the road of killing the general by violent means, and also made history once again write the story of Li Tianyang's later life that made people controversial and discussed.