The situation is confusing again, didn't it say that the Great Qing Kingdom was going to be destroyed? Why is the Qing army going to Shanhaiguan again? And compared to the Dongjiang River that suddenly appeared, it was still the impression left by these Changbai Mountain savages on the Ming Empire's ministers who left a more tragic impression, just like Chen Xinjia was at the time, Zhang Guowei was not in the military department, and the news was directly sent to the Tang newspaper, and it could not be concealed.

The Ming Dynasty is really like a broken ship on the verge of sinking, it has just calmed down, and it has ushered in a storm.

That night, Honglu Temple, State Guesthouse.

The mission of this human flesh microphone is over, there are more than 100 brocade guards outside, Ma Shaoyu is left to eat and wait for death, his fate is not in his own hands, it all depends on how the two bigwigs of the Dongjiang River and the imperial court play with each other, his little loach is just waiting for the stew soup or release, fortunately, this Honglu Temple is well entertained, and the big night is the head card of the big front door to find, and it is good wine and good meat, and in the middle of the night, you can still hear the prodigal voice of this obscene scholar.

"Come on, girl, give me another drink!"

Bang bang bang......

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Ma Shaoyu, who was half-drunk, shouted impatiently: "Master is not free, I have something to give a gift and come back tomorrow!"

Bang, the door was kicked open directly, what is the front and back? Seeing that the two brocade-clothed guards came in murderously and let go of the two top cards, the horse man knelt on the ground in fright.

"A few masters, can you bring an excerpt to the emperor, Xia Guan is really not the messenger of the Dongjiang thief, Xia Guan is a person of the court in life, and he is a ghost of the court in death!"

"Humph!"

Jinyiwei got out of the way, and with a cold snort, Li Jiantai, a scholar of Wuyingdian University with a majestic face, walked in gloomily, and glanced at Ma Shaoyu who was lying on the ground, and he said disdainfully.

"It's not time to lose your head yet, I'm really waiting for the emperor to give Bai Aya, and it's not too late to cry and mourn!"

To say that this Li Jiantai is indeed a faction, he swept away the wine and food plates on the table, and went there with full aura, and then asked in an official tone.

"The old man asked you, Dongjiang really defeated the Eastern Capture and recovered Kaiyuan Tieling?"

"Back to the university, I really recovered Kaitie, the lower official personally experienced, when he hit Tieling, the lower official was also charged to the front of the army to fight cannon fodder, and now he still has an arrow eye on his body!"

Crawling back with a roll, Ma Shaoyu also lifted his clothes, but where did Li Jiantai take care of him, and asked with a gloomy face.

"Then what you said about the great victory in Jilin City is also true?"

"It's true! The officials at that station also participated, but this time they didn't become cannon fodder, that day, the Dongjiang 10,000 cannons fired in unison, directly destroying the camp of Jiannu! Then the GI rushed up with a bayonet, that kills, the sea!"

"Are there really that many? The emperor wants to send someone to check the first merit! If there weren't so many, the position of King Liao that your Mao Dongjiang was asking for would be hanging!"

"Inspection? It's a bit hanging, Jiannu sieged the city for a month, and the army has been infected with its plague, in order to resist the plague, the head was buried after the inspection. ”

"However, all the eight main flags of the Eight Banners of the Eastern Capture were captured by the Dongjiang River, as well as Huang Taiji's full guard of honor, three false seals, and more than 500 large and small military flags, all of which can be inspected, if you really have to inspect the head, then dig up the dead man's pit, the flesh is rotten, the hair can't rot, and there are definitely a lot of more than 100,000 braids!"

The old face was flushed, patting his chest, Ma Shaoyu shouted and swore an oath, but Li Jiantai couldn't help but mutter.

"Then how can this group of captives still ......?"

"Scholar, what a captivity! As long as the head level is inspected, will the Liao throne of my family superintendent be stable? ”

Just now, he was a minister of the Ming Dynasty in life, and he was a ghost of the Ming Dynasty in death, and he became the supervisor of my family again, and this Ming Wenchen's shameless strength is enough, but Li Jiantai didn't pay attention to it, nodded dullly, and then turned around and stood up, and actually walked straight outside.

"What do you mean? Does it work or doesn't it work? ”

Seeing that Jin Yiwei and the neurotic scholar waved their sleeves and didn't take away a cloud, Ma Shaoyu was stunned and stunned at the closed door, and after a while, the cargo snorted in annoyance.

"Forget it, it's a matter of Guan Ye's birds, it's true to have fun in time, wahahaha, beauty, Ye is here again!"

With his arms outstretched like an old hen, this thing is a standard villain in a movie, and he pounced obscenely on a few famous prostitutes.

…………

Honglu Temple went around, Li Jiantai actually returned to the palace again, and the palace was early when the night ban was locked, Chongzhen also opened a green channel for him alone, got a big earthen basket containing pigs from the imperial dining room, and transferred a university scholar up, platform, a few old guys were still waiting for him, Chongzhen's red eyes were also staring at his face for the first time.

"How?"

The prestige of pretending to be forced just now disappeared, and Li Jiantai also fluttered and knelt on the ground all of a sudden, kowtowing and replying.

"Your Majesty, this Ma Shaoyu is also a small character, and he doesn't know the news that is too important, but listening to his tone, Dongjiang has indeed won at least two battles, and there is no way to fake the recovery of Kaiyuan Tieling, so it is estimated that the Eight Banners of Dongqi gathered in the area of Shanhaiguan are a group of defeated generals."

"Maybe it's a defeated soldier who was forced by the Dongjiang thieves to get a loss in my Ming land!"

This is really an opportunity for the Ming Dynasty, if the opportunity is taken out of the customs, not to mention the annihilation of the Qing army, defeat them, and take Jinzhou back, not only strategically, but also the diplomatic pattern of the Dongjiang River has to be changed.

But then, a more practical question was thrown in front of him, and his face was also a little excited, and the emperor looked eagerly at his "ministers of humerus" and asked hurriedly.

"Who's going to oversee the captivity?"

Once again, the lively atmosphere of the platform turned into an embarrassing dead silence again, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Zheng Chongjian, and even Yang Sichang, who went out to supervise the army before, did not end well, and for Zhang Guowei of the Ministry of War, his predecessor Zhang Fengyi was a living example, so desperate that he died of serving rhubarb.

Moreover, the Qing army was defeated, the Ming army was not, the first line of defense of the Beijing Division, Jizhen, had been smashed by the Eastern Invasion, and the Wu Sangui soldiers of Shanhaiguan who could fight a war were also defeated in the Songjin War, and no one had the confidence to defeat the Qing Army Eight Banners even if it was a defeated army.

With this kneeling silence, Chongzhen's face became gloomy again, and with anger, his shoulders began to tremble violently.

"Your Majesty, it's a big trouble, it's about the national fortune of my Ming Dynasty, and it can't be decided in a hurry, I think it's better to wait for tomorrow's court meeting and the ministers to make a decision!"

In the end, it was the first assistant of the cabinet, and the ability of the mud, before Chongzhen was angry, Chen Yan kowtowed heavily.

"What Shousuke-sama said is very true, so it's better to prepare for it tonight."

For fear of being pushed out to supervise the army, this Zhang Guowei also kept kowtowing.

Of the six cabinet departments, none of them could stand up and carry things, and Chongzhen was finally disappointed, exhausted and disheartened, and turned around like a fly behind him.

"Let's all go down!"

"The ministers obey."

…………

He came out in a big earthen basket containing pigs, and several sedan chairs were also faithfully waiting there, and several big men looked at each other speechlessly, hugged each other's fists, and then scattered away.

At this time, it was already late at night, and it was almost what time it was in the morning, but Li Jiantai still hadn't returned home, unlike Chen Yan and Wei Zaode, who were either from Jiangnan and Sichuan or Zhili, Li Jiantai was born in Shanxi, a big landlord in Quwo, and his family was half a Jin merchant in the hometown of Shanxi Jin merchants.

In Jingshi, there is a shop opened by his brother Li Jianyun.

Out of the palace, he went straight to Li Jianyun's shop.

In the middle of the night, even the hard-working Jin merchants had already closed, and the servants knocked on the door for a long time, and then there was a job to rub their blurred eyes and impatiently get out.

"Who? I don't sleep in the middle of the night, the store has already closed, what do you want to buy, ...... tomorrow, hey, why are you here! Quickly open the door, pour the tea, pour the tea! Little Liuzi, don't call the owner up soon!"

Silent, Li Jiantai hurriedly flashed into the door.

Shanxi businessmen seem to be carved out of a mold, wearing a homespun robe that is not much more expensive, and the most expensive thing on the whole body is the piece of emerald in front of the melon skin hat on the top of the head.

In this era, it is the official standard, even if it is a clan brother, he has to tremble when he sees Li Jiantai, a big official, and he slapped himself hard, tossing away the confused sleepiness, and Li Jianyun greeted him with a smile.

"Brother Fuyu, what kind of wind blew you to Brother Wei?"

As always, the bachelor is magnificent, cherishing words like gold, sitting down in the small flower pavilion that has just been lit, still with a straight face, Li Jiantai asked gloomily: "Brother Yunzhong, your business seems to have done Dongjiang!" ”

"A small half of the cloth in our shop entered the Dongjiang River, what's wrong, could it be that the Dongjiang Road has committed some taboos recently, and the court is going to close the road, or what?"

As soon as this was mentioned, Li Jianyun's slender old face like fritters suddenly became nervous, now the high-end cloth looks at Jiangnan, and most of the low-end cloth market is monopolized by Dongjiang's cheap woven fabrics.

"What do you think of Dongjiang?"

Or is it a pretending to be like gold, or is it gloomy to see it, Li Jiantai then asked. The appetite was hung up, but there was no answer, Li Jianyun's old fritter was as uncomfortable as the pickled dried radish, but he didn't dare not answer, so he could only nod his head.

"That's a good place! It used to be a wild place, but in recent years the development has been too fast, the city of Iron Mountain has spread from Iron Mountain to the harbor, its prosperity is no less than the south of the Yangtze River, the business of the Mao Dongjiang River is very large, there are thirty or forty Western boats docked every year, bringing a lot of Western gadgets, as well as the Silla maid of Lee's Joseon, the Japanese geisha from the Japanese country, and the hot spring hotel in the area of White Horse City is a must. ”

There were peach blossoms on his cheeks, and the old fritters' face was full of spring light, as if he remembered something lewd, and his old face was happy with a flower.

"Especially in Dongjiang, things are cheap, the market price of liquor and cigarettes is less than 30%, cloth and ironware are even cheaper, our old clothes have to be worn by children, their clothes are old and thrown directly, I heard that they have tamed a kind of giant beast there, the mouth spews black smoke, the power is infinite, smelting and textile are giant beasts to do, how many times faster than our people push the spinning wheel, there are also a few pawn shops in Dongjiang to sell old clothes in the customs, and they have also made a lot of money."

"Not only our family, Ying Tianbao Guogong, Chengguo Gong, Jingshi's Wang Gonggong, Chen Gonggong, and Lord Liu are all making a fortune on this road!"

Li Jianyun's words, Li Jiantai only listened to half of them, even if it was his own family, he also understood the profit-seeking nature of businessmen, especially the last words, Li Jianyun was simply making it clear that this trade route was too deep, so that the court should not use its brains.

From one side, it also reflects the strength of the Dongjiang River.

The prime minister's grandeur just now was full of momentum, and suddenly weakened a lot in an instant, Li Jiantai's voice was lowered a little, and he asked in a low voice.

"Brother Yunzhong, do you think this Dongjiang can succeed?"

"......, success?"

This is too taboo, Li Jianyun is just a businessman, where did he think about this big thing of losing his head and rebelling, and he almost bit his tongue all of a sudden.

"Brother Fuyu, you, what are you going to do?"

"That Dongjiang Mao Jue is ambitious, not satisfied with being a warlord again, he wants to establish a country in Liaodong, and a few days ago he has sent someone to the court to ask for the position of King of Liao! But what kind of temperament does the emperor have, how can he easily agree? ”

"But yesterday, there was an emergency military situation at the border again, and the Jianguan was assembled at Shanhaiguan, and the posture could be broken at any time, such as today's general situation is confusing, the Central Plains has fallen, in Shaanxi, there is only one pair of belongings left in the imperial court to contain the millions of troops, I don't know if I can hold it, Huguang Zuo Liangyu is still alive there, and Sichuan has made Zhang Thief make trouble, and our Li family has to think about the future!"

Zhou Yanru's prediction was really good, after showing his strength and muscles in Dongjiang, indeed some Ming bureaucrats began to be tempted, at least Li Jiantai was one of them, in the horrified eyes of his brother, the voice of Li Daxue became more and more muffled, and more and more heart-wrenching.

"He Mao Jue wants the King of Liao, His Majesty is still indecisive, he can take this risk for his brother to help him promote, but this favor can't be in vain, brother, you run the Dongjiang River for a long time, is there anyone who can talk in the Dongjiang River? I have to let them inherit this kindness!"

If others say that the Ming Dynasty is no longer good, it is estimated that Li Jianyun will not only scoff at him, but also have to pull him to see the official, which is a fallacy to confuse the public to rebel! But the younger brother in front of him is a scholar of Wuyingdian, a bureaucrat in the Ming Dynasty, he is not optimistic about the Ming Dynasty, this ship is indeed broken and about to sink, and his heart is like being struck by lightning.

After being stunned for a long time, Li Jianyun scratched his head with difficulty.

"Let me think about it."

…………

If it was in the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's Jinyiwei and Li Jianyun would have lost a few heads, but at the beginning of Zhu Youzhen's coming to power, in order to deal with Wei Zhongxian, he slashed the Jinyiwei forces fiercely, coupled with the expansion of the rights of the civilian group, in fact, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, these spy agencies have long lost the prestige and ability of the Jinyi Weidong Factory at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and have become a game between the powerful ministers and eunuchs. Jin Yiwei became a lackey of the eunuch again, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jin Yiwei was even more dim.

When the Jingshi fell, the miraculous Jinyi Wei almost did not show up, Chongzhen even finally could only entrust the prince and Yongwang to his father-in-law Tian Hongyu, this old man sold his grandson to Li Zicheng, but fortunately, in this shop for a secret conversation in the middle of the night, Li Jiantai, who went out in a hurry, was not noticed at all, the carriage turned around at the mouth of the rice market, ate a little breakfast, and Li Jiantai, who stayed up all night, went straight to the Forbidden City to the Forbidden City.

Moreover, among the people in the court today, there seemed to be many people who were thinking with him, and in the midst of the panic and worry of most of the ministers, these expressions were particularly different.

In the midst of a whispering discussion, the eunuch's slender voice dragged the elder again.

"The time has come, open the palace door, and the ministers will go to court!"

Just like the fighter in the rooster, following the sad Chen playing Wei Zaode, Li Jiantai is full of spirit and hugged the wat, as if he wanted to make a great contribution to the country......

(End of chapter)