Although the Jianzhou Jurchens established a state, the system of the Later Jin State was not completely established. The Jurchens may still be wary of the Mongols and Han Chinese, and will not spread the internal affairs of the Eight Banners. But the Jurchens have not yet developed the habit of saying what to say and what not to say to the Jurchens themselves.

Although the Wenguan is located in the palace of the Khan King, even if there is something in Huang Taiji's harem, some Eight Banners relatives and nobles will inadvertently spread it when they are chatting, so the news about Ning Wan and me being whipped has already reached the ears of several Baylors in the evening.

In the evening of the same day, after hearing the news of Ning Wan's whipping from Amin's eldest son, Erli, Song Xiance hurried to meet Amin. Hearing Song Xiance talk about Ning Wan's matter, Amin replied in a very happy mood: "Yes, Sibeile did order someone to whip that Han minion, if you want me to say that the punishment is lighter, it is actually in Sibeile to reluctantly discuss the abolition of the co-governance of the four Baylors, and this slave should really be beaten to death." ”

Song Xiance hurriedly replied to Amin: "Lord Belle, are you too optimistic?" The students always feel that the taste is wrong, and the Khan King's punishment of Ning Wan me is so light, isn't it tantamount to encouraging others to continue studying? ”

Because I heard the news that Huang Taiji scolded me after Ning finished punishing me, Amin, who had drunk a few more glasses in the evening, had not completely dissipated the wine, and when he heard Song Xiance's words, he suddenly replied with some unhappiness: "Mr. Song, you are good at everything, but you are too small."

We Jurchens are different from you Han people, and we don't have so many crooked thoughts in our stomachs. Although Huang Taiji often plays some tricks, he has never broken his promise when he says it in public.

Since he punished Ning Wan me in public, it shows that he has no intention of canceling the co-governance of the four Baylors. Since he has no such intentions, he will not make a move on me for the time being. Even if Dai Shan still listens to him, the three Belles will not approve, two votes against two votes, how can he cure my crimes? ”

Looking at Amin's confident appearance, Song Xiance was suddenly a little confused, although he had been in Shenyang for more than a year, but it was only half a year to really gain Amin's trust and enter the decision-making circle by Amin's side. As for the balance relationship within the Eight Banners, it is still being learned.

Like Amin did before, he turned away the king of a country, and wanted to blame the actions of the three major beylers, if it was in the Ming Kingdom, Amin would not immediately raise an army to rebel, but wait for Huang Taiji to liquidate him after returning to the city.

However, what surprised him was that Amin's move to admit defeat and surrender was actually accepted by Huang Taiji, which made him, who was worried about being implicated, worry about it for so long in vain. Although the Jurchens have been founded but lack a system, Song Xiance, who is accustomed to the Ming bureaucracy, is a little uncertain.

However, out of the responsibility of a strategist, Song Xiance still tried his best to persuade Amin: "Lord Belle, maybe the Great Khan was indeed a good man who did what he said before he ascended the throne, but now that he has ascended the throne of the Khan, he may not be as good as he was in the past.

The words of those who are said to be lonely are credible but not all of them. It's been almost a month since King Khan returned to the city, and although he didn't ask Lord Belle about the responsibility for being rejected from the city before, he didn't publicly say that he wouldn't pursue this matter?

Moreover, a few days ago, there were several rumors circulating in the city that were unfavorable to Lord Belle, and the recent incident of Ning Wan and my advice to the King of Khan, the students thought, could it be that someone is building momentum? I want to find an excuse to suppress you, Lord Belle. ”

Amin replied disappreciatively: "What are the rumors? It's just a group of pedantic scholars who have just been petty officials for a few days chewing their tongues. When the four beyles went out on the expedition, I sat in the south of the main hall and listened to the reports of the officials, like a khan.

Isn't that nonsense? My four Baylors govern the government together, and when they go to the palace, they sit in the same direction, not in rank, which is the rule set by the four Baylors on the day they ascended the throne. Even if the three of them are in Shenyang, the four of us are all sitting in the south, listening to the reports of the Baylor and Manchu and Han officials, why can't I sit at home alone?

Mr. Song doesn't have to worry too much, my Houjin Kingdom still counts the size of the banners, and this kind of sour Xiucai, who has just escaped from the status of a minion, no matter how powerful he shouts, he can't damage a cold hair on my body.

Today I drank too much and my head was a little dizzy, so I went back to the house to rest. Sir, let's go back and rest early, if there's anything, we'll talk about it tomorrow..."

Looking at Amin who turned around and walked towards the back house after speaking, Song Xiance could only watch him leave helplessly. When he came down from the front of the hall, he saw Erli waiting at the gate of the courtyard, and he couldn't help but think about it.

Song Xiance walked to the door, and without waiting for Ai Erli to say anything to him, he hurriedly said to him: "Shizi, Lord Belle is unwilling to listen to my advice, are you willing to listen to me?" ”

Erli paused slightly, and then replied: "Although I have not been under the teacher's door for a long time, I also know what it means to respect the teacher, and if the teacher has any instructions, please say it directly." ”

Song Xiance looked left and right, and then said to him cautiously: "I have been working hard for the past two days, and I always feel that this Shenyang city is full of dangers, and I am afraid it is not a place to stay for a long time. I asked the prince to go out by himself, how about taking me out to avoid the limelight first? ”

Elli suddenly hesitated, he thought for a while and said: "It's not that the student doesn't want to listen to the teacher, but the student asked his father and the Khan to go out according to the teacher's advice, and the father is noncommittal.

However, the king of Khan said that I am not young now, and that I should come out to serve the country, and that it is not appropriate to leave Shenyang now, so let me stay in the city with peace of mind and wait for the arrangement of the imperial court. I'm afraid I won't be able to speak again and ask to go out now. ”

Song Xiance frowned, thought for a while, and then said: "Isn't this a difficult thing, isn't there a good opportunity to serve the country right now?"

Previously, Lord Belle sent Liu Aita's family and Sun Degong's family to the Ming Kingdom in exchange for the captured children of the Eight Banners. Ever since the return of the Khan, there has been a great deal of discussion in the city, believing that Lord Belle was arbitrary and acted too hastily. If the Ming Kingdom accepted the people sent there, but refused to return the captured Eight Banners, wouldn't the gains outweigh the losses.

The prince could use the excuse of going to Jinzhou to urge the Ming State to release the children of the Eight Banners, and asked the Khan to go out again. The prince is going to Jinzhou for the safety of the children of the Eight Banners, and the King of Khan naturally has no way to stop you, and the Beile relatives and nobles of the two white flags will also support the request of the prince for the safety of their own children.

The risk of going to Mingguo is unknown, and others will not compete with Shizi for this task, so we can leave Shenyang safely. When the trade with the Ming Kingdom officially opens this year, the prince can also go to Yingkou by reroute, as long as the prince and the Lord Belle are not together, the king of Khan wants to do something, and he will have some scruples. ”

Erli was silent for a long time before he asked Song Xiance with luck: "Teacher thinks, is there no room for turning around between my family and the Khan King?" Unlike my father, I didn't really have any idea about the position of the Khan. ”

Song Xiance looked at him and said solemnly: "I have also told you a lot of allusions to the founding monarch of the Central Plains Dynasty before, but how can any hero who created the foundation of a country tolerate sharing power with others." The old Khan could not even tolerate his eldest son, Guanglu Bel, that day, how could the king of Khan tolerate the three great beylers to rule the country with him?

When the Khan ascended the throne, he established the rule of the four beyls, not because of his generosity and mercy, but because of his lack of strength. Now that the Khan King is gradually gaining wings, even if Belle wants to back down, will the Khan King not be guilty of the past?

Shizi, think about it, even the eldest grandson of the old Khan, Dudu Belle, couldn't stand the humiliation and went to the Ming Kingdom. Amin Bel and Mang Gul Taibel have argued with the Khan King many times in the past, is the Khan really a saint who does not hold grudges? ”

Elli's originally unstable mood suddenly calmed down completely, and his mood seemed a little depressed, but his tone became firm and said: "The teacher is right, hunting in the mountains and forests, if you hurt a fierce beast, you can only go forward and fight to the death, there is still a chance." If you turn around and flee, you will only die faster.

If it weren't for the teacher's teaching, I would have almost been confused. Please rest assured, teacher, I will go back and prepare, and I will ask the Khan King to go out tomorrow morning..."

When the tide was surging in Shenyang, the city of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was ushering in, and the city's first ever water pipeline was opened.

After more than a year of hard work, more than 70 miles of canals were built from the Shahe River in the north, and the clear Shahe water was diverted to the water plant built outside Xizhimen, and after a series of treatments, it was introduced into Beijing through ceramic and cast iron pipes. It leads from Xizhimen Street to Xi'an Gate of the Imperial Palace, providing tap water for nearly 50,000 people in Liufang.

Although the tap water at the moment can only remove sediment and visible suspended solids due to the lack of treatment methods, and bleaching* has not yet been able to be produced on a large scale, so it cannot be used as a conventional disinfection method. It doesn't seem to be really safe and reliable tap water, but compared to the bitter well water in the city, this tap water can be considered sweet.

In the alleys of the neighborhoods where the tap water passes, a water room has been built, and a brass faucet has been erected in the water room, which is guarded by a special person to release water, and a large bucket of water can be connected to it for a penny.

In order to take a look at the strangeness, many citizens outside the neighborhood deliberately brought their families all the way to buy water and watch how the water flowed out of the iron pipes. So a few days before the tap water was opened, there were a lot of people in the large and small alleys in several neighborhoods in the northwest of Xicheng, all of them with smiles on their faces, as if they were rushing to a temple fair.

In the West Garden, Zhu Youzhen was also leading a group of officials to look at the water output of this faucet, looking at the faucet that flowed intermittently, Liu Chongqing suddenly suggested to Chongzhen with some uneasiness: "Your Majesty, now the scale of the water plant outside Xizhimen is still a little smaller, and the minister didn't think it through, and he didn't expect so many people to come to buy water." The minister thought that it would be better to suspend the water supply of one or two neighborhoods first, and wait until the second phase of the water plant was completed, and then open it to them for use. ”

Wang Siren, who was standing next to him, immediately retorted dissatisfiedly: "How can you do this? The water in the palace can still be replenished by the waterwheel from Yuquan Mountain, but the people outside only have this tap water available, otherwise they will have to drink bitter water. The minister thought that His Majesty raised funds to build tap water that day in order to solve the drinking water problem of the people in the capital, and that he should keep his promise today and let the people drink sweet water first..."

Liu Chongqing glanced at Wang Siren and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Chongzhen. Chongzhen, who was full of interest, didn't seem to listen to the dispute between the two, and after carefully observing the situation of tap water for a while, he asked: "How many cubic meters of tap water can the water plant provide a day..."