Wu Sangui's camp had already set up a banquet, Wu Sangui and several guerrillas and thousands of households accompanied Jiang Beiming to sit in the big tent, and the cavalry company was arranged elsewhere. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"General Chiang, please." Wu Sangui picked up the wine bowl, "General Jiang has been working a saddle horse all the way, today we will temporarily rest here, and tomorrow we will ask the general to go to Ningyuan City." ”

"Thank you, General Wu." Jiang Beiming responded, "The general is really thoughtful for us. ”

"General Chiang is polite." Wu Sangui finished drinking the wine, and lit the bottom of the bowl towards Jiang Beiming, "General, please." ”

"Please." Jiang Beiming also took a sip of the wine in the bowl, put down the wine bowl and asked, "Now that it is close to the end of the year, I wonder how the sales of those things we sent over General Wu are?" ”

"Sales are very good." Wu Sangui saw Jiang Beiming ask about this, and he didn't feel a little excited, "Your cotton cloth and cigarettes are selling very well, and you basically sell as much as you send." We didn't sell much of our firearms, so we kept them for ourselves. Next year, our demand will increase, and I hope that General Chiang can help more. ”

"Yes, I hope General Jiang will help a lot." The rest of the generals also gave up their hands.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Ben will do his best." Jiang Beiming said with a smile.

"Still." Wu Sangui suddenly said with some hesitation, and then stopped talking.

Jiang Beiming guessed what Wu Sangui wanted to say, and smiled: "General Wu, the matter agreed between us will not become, only General Wu's family will be sold north of the Yellow River, and our Yulin Army has always been true to its word." ”

"Thank you, General Chiang." Wu Sangui picked up the wine bowl again, "This general will salute the general again." ”

Jiang Beiming said casually after drinking: "Before Ben came to the general's place, the prince told the general. ”

"I wonder what the prince said?" Wu Sangui's eyes widened.

"The prince asked the general to tell General Wu." Jiang Beiming smiled slightly, "The Guanning defense line is the gateway of the imperial court, and it is related to the safety of my Ming and Long live." Banzai also attaches great importance to the Guanning defense line in his heart, so he also asks General Wu to pay more attention to Lord Wu and watch this portal for Banzai. ”

"Long live the hard work." Wu Sangui arched his hand to the sky, "My Wu family father and son will do their best to relieve their worries for Long Life." ”

Jiang Beiming took the cavalry company and followed Wu Sangui for a few more days the next day and came to Ningyuan City. Jiang Beiming looked at this ancient city with a height of three zhang and a circumference of six miles carefully built by Yuan Chonghuan with emotion.

Jiang Beiming stood under this majestic city, thinking of Yuan Chonghuan's life experience and the final fate, he suddenly had a sense of historical heaviness and vicissitudes, and Chen Ziang's poem came out of his heart: "I don't see the ancients before, and I don't see the comers after." Thinking of the world and the world, I was alone and wept. "I don't know if my future will be in tears.

Wu Sangui didn't know what Jiang Beiming was thinking: "General Jiang, please follow me into the city, my father is waiting for the general in the city." ”

"There is Mr. Lao." Jiang Beiming replied, "General Wu, please." ”

Jiang Beiming lived in Ningyuan City for a few days, Wu Sangui accompanied him around, and Jiang Beiming also had a general understanding of the entire Ningyuan defense line. The two sides also discussed next year's trade situation, and finally set a rough estimate of next year's trade volume.

After Jiang Beiming arranged these things, he prepared to go directly to Tianjin from Ningyuan. When he was packing his bags, a sergeant came in and reported: "Sir, General Wu and Wu Shen are coming, and they have asked to see the sir." ”

"How did Wu Xiang come?" Jiang Beiming's heart was a little suspicious, "I only saw Wu Xiang on the first day I came to Ningyuan, and everything after that was done by Wu Sangui." I will leave tomorrow, and everything that should be talked about has been discussed, why did Wu Xiang and his son visit in the middle of the night. ”

"Please." Jiang Beiming decided to listen to what Wu Xiang's father and son had to say first.

Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui walked into Jiang Beiming's room together.

"General Jiang is going to leave my Ningyuan City tomorrow, and Sangui and his father are here to see the general off." Because Jiang Beiming made some concessions in business affairs, Wu Sangui became more and more polite to Jiang Beiming's words.

"There are General Lao and General Wu, and the subordinate can't afford it." Facing Wu Xiang, Jiang Beiming claimed to be a subordinate again.

The two sides sat down, and Wu Xiang asked with a smile: "General Jiang is quite comfortable living in my Ningyuan City these days?" ”

"Your Excellency is grateful for the kindness of the Chief Soldier, thank you."

The three of them chatted, Jiang Beiming saw that the father and son of the Wu family seemed to have something to say, and beckoned the soldiers outside the door to come in: "You go out and close the door, don't let anyone disturb you, I have something important to discuss with General Wu." ”

"Yes, sir." The soldier went out and closed the door.

Wu Sangui arched his hand at Jiang Beiming: "General Jiang, Sangui visited the general's barracks at night last time, and he felt a lot. Now that the general's sideguard is really the elite of the elite, Sangui wants to ask the general for advice on how to lead the troops. ”

"It's actually nothing to say that it's a way to lead soldiers." Jiang Beiming knew that the Wu family's father and son were not here, "Xia Guan told the general that day that an elite division was smashed out of silver. If you have money, you will have equipment, you will have firearms, and you will be able to train diligently. It is precisely because our Yulin Army not only trains soldiers, but also takes into account commerce and trade, that it will train more. ”

"Then I don't know what the general thinks of my Daming's situation now?" Wu Xiang asked suddenly.

Jiang Beiming did not answer immediately, but paused. Jiang Beiming came to Ningyuan this time, in addition to inspecting Ningyuan's defense and commerce, Wang Chengen really had to give Jiang Beiming an extra task, pay attention to the movements of the Wu family and the ancestral family, especially the current relationship between the two families. Therefore, Jiang Beiming mentioned the prince from time to time in his dealings with Wu Sangui.

And Wu Xiang is also quite difficult now. Jiang Beiming gave the Wu family a lot of benefits, which made Wu Xiang have a lot of good feelings towards Yulin Bay, but Zu Dashou had a lot of opinions on this matter. Wu Xiang knew that Zu Dashou's son Zu Kefa had been on Huang Taiji's side, and Huang Taiji had been writing letters to Zu Dashou again. Since the last time he was in Yulin Fort, Wang Chengen revealed that Chongzhen now has a very good opinion of Zu Dashou. As for how to deal with the relationship with the imperial court and the ancestral family, Wu Xiang has never made up his mind.

But Wu Xiang understands one thing, Yulin Jun is now a red man in the eyes of the emperor. Although Wu Xiang also thinks that Chongzhen cannot trust the Yulin Army 100%, but looking at the situation, at least Chongzhen still has to reuse the Yulin Army now. But how close he should be to Jiang Beiming is the most appropriate distance, and Wu Xiang has no idea. If he gets too close to them, one day in the future, Chongzhen will turn his face, will he be implicated.