In February, the city of Shenyang was still a white castle covered with snow and ice, and there were no handymen responsible for clearing snow on the streets of Shenyang, so it became a muddy quagmire after people stepped on horses.

Although the New Year has just passed, there is no sound of celebration in Shenyang. The news that Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, and Mang Gurtai led the army to the Ming Kingdom, but was repelled by the Ming army, has been transmitted back to Shenyang.

It is reported that the state also captured several Jurchens from Niulu, and the emperor of the Ming State also sent envoys to Shenyang, demanding that the remaining Amin Belle and the Sun Degong clan and Liu Aita family exchange the captured Jurchens.

Although the news of the arrival of the Ming envoy has been well concealed by Amin Belle, the place in Shenyang is not large, and the Houjin has not been established for a long time, and the domestic system is still very rude. The people of the Eight Banners stationed in the city had their own channels of understanding what was happening in the court, so soon the news about the envoys of the Ming Kingdom had spread throughout the city of Shenyang.

Originally, there were still many girls who didn't believe the rumors, but when someone went to Sanguanmiao to visit the envoys of the Ming Kingdom, they saw several generals who were supposed to follow the Great Khan appear there, and after talking to them, they finally confirmed the authenticity of the captives.

The two white flags, which had the largest number of captives, immediately had the captives' families looking for a relationship and pleading with Erbel Amin, hoping that he would be able to meet the requirements of the Akito and exchange his relatives back.

Amin has always been hesitant about this matter, and it is not difficult for him to send Liu Aita's family and some Ming soldiers who were captured and refused to surrender back to Daming. Although Liu Aita's family is under the care of the two yellow flags, he has the final say in Shenyang now.

After letting these people go, it was nothing more than that Huang Taiji was dissatisfied with him after he came back. But exchanging these people for the Eight Banners will make him gain the favor of the Eight Banners, and Huang Taiji can't trouble him even if he is dissatisfied.

Only the arrest of Sun Degong's family and sending them to the Ming Kingdom made him unable to make a decision. Although Sun Degong made great contributions to Houjin, Nurhachi did not reuse him, so he soon became ill and lived in seclusion in Yizhou. It was only after Huang Taiji ascended the throne that he reinstated his guerrilla position.

Although Amin despised the combat effectiveness of the surrendered Ming army, he also knew that in today's post-Jin country, the Han people, especially those who surrendered to the Ming army, have become a force to be reckoned with.

He arrested Sun Degong and his family and sent them to the Ming Kingdom, although he could get the gratitude of the relatives of those captured Jurchen soldiers, but it was also tantamount to offending the entire Han group in the Later Jin country.

Therefore, although many generals of the two white flags came out to intercede with Amin, they never made Amin make a final decision. On this day, after Song Xiance left the mansion of Erbeile Amin, he took an inconspicuous two-wheeled carriage and went to the Zuixian Building, which was three or five streets away from Amin's mansion.

After leaving Beijing and coming to Shenyang, Song Xiance, who was recommended to Amin by the steward of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, soon won the trust of Amin and his son with his profound attainments in the theology of the Latitude.

Although the Jurchens in Liaodong were deeply sinicized, they even changed their fishing and hunting life to a settled farming, fishing and hunting life. But in terms of spiritual beliefs, most of them still respect shamanism.

Since Huang Taiji ascended the throne, in order to win over and control the Mongolian tribes, Huang Taiji began to convert the Jurchen relatives and nobles to believe in Tantric Buddhism, which is the most widely spread among the Mongolian people. However, among the ordinary Jurchens, there are still the majority of shamans who believe in animism.

Even a Jurchen nobleman like Amin, although he ostensibly believed in Tantric Buddhism, when he encountered a major event, he still needed to ask Satsuma to come to his home to pray for divination in order to determine the great event.

And the theology of the Zoweed, which seemed more mysterious than that of Satsuma, convinced these Jurchen nobles even more. Therefore, soon after Song Xiance arrived in Shenyang, he became Amin's most trusted master, giving him advice and tidying up the study. And Song Xiance's reputation spread among the upper nobles of the Jurchens, and he was regarded by some Jurchen nobles as a person who could communicate with the gods.

Because of these reputations, Song Xiance lived very well in Erbeile Mansion and Shenyang City, and every one to two days, he would go to Shenyang's more famous Drunken Immortal Tower to have a dozen tooth sacrifices.

Song Xiance shook the cloak on his body outside the door of the store and wanted to enter the store, and immediately a sharp-eyed restaurant guy reported to the shopkeeper on the first floor.

The shopkeeper Zhao, who was dipping in ink to settle accounts, because the ink was frozen in the cold weather, put it in his mouth from time to time to take a breath of hot air, and then pursed his lips and combed the hair on the tip of the brush. But apparently his arithmetic is not very strong, and he has not counted a few accounts, and his mouth is dyed black and black.

Hearing the man's reminder, Shopkeeper Zhao hurriedly ran to the door of the restaurant to greet the regular customers, but Song Xiance was taken aback by the shopkeeper's new look and said, "Shopkeeper Zhao stole ink today?" How did you make such a mess. ”

After being reminded by Song Xiance, Shopkeeper Zhao hurriedly took the hot towel from the small second-hand and wiped it indiscriminately, and then said to him with a smile on his face: "At this point, I will estimate, Mr. Song, you should also come, is it still business as usual today, the Yunyan Pavilion on the second floor has been prepared for you, and it has already given you a warm house a quarter of an hour ago." ”

Song Xiance nodded and said: "It's still Zhao's shopkeeper, you know it, everything is as usual, first warm two or two lotus flowers to warm up your body, this ghost weather is about to freeze to death..."

The guys on one side hurriedly led Song Xiance to the second floor, and none of the diners in the lobby paid attention to the small episode that happened here. The Cloud Smoke Pavilion is a private room on the northwest corner of the second floor, which is very secluded because it is at the end of the passage. The passage outside the Cloud Smoke Pavilion was tightly blocked by a staircase to the east, so only one passage to the south was viable.

Of course, there was not no room on the east side of Yunyan Pavilion, but that room needed to be taken up another staircase, so when Song Xiance entered the room and closed the door, no one could know what he was doing inside.

There are two rooms in the Yunyan Pavilion, one inside and one outside, the outer room is equipped with a tea and charcoal stove, and the inner room is a place for formal dining. Since the room is located in the northwest corner, there is a verandah and window on the west and north sides so that guests can enjoy the view from the window.

Because Shenyang has always been an important military town, the buildings in the city are very low, standing on the second floor of the drunken immortal building and looking out, you can see the layers of roofs. If you have a good view in summer, you can still see the family and women in the back garden of the distant house, and you can feast your eyes.

But at this time of year, there is basically nothing to see except for the snow. Of course, as a restaurant opened by Sihai Commercial Bank, the doors and windows here are replaced with clean and transparent glass, so the indoor light is very good, and the warmth is much better than cotton paper.

But after Song Xiance entered the room, he didn't have time to look at the street scene of Shenyang City, but walked directly to the wooden wall on the east side of the inner room and knocked lightly three times.

Soon a small opening two fingers wide was pulled open, and a man dressed as a coachman in his 30s stood in front of the small opening. Song Xiance was not surprised by this, but said simply and quietly: "I have persuaded Amin, Liu Aita's family and the Ming army that was captured but did not surrender, that they will be gathered this afternoon and handed over to the ambassador early tomorrow morning."

As for the Sun Degong family, it was too much to arrest the family by Amin's order, so I said that a few Niu Lu who moved the two white flags would send someone to escort the ambassador to Jinzhou, and when they passed through Yizhou, they would find an opportunity to arrest Sun Degong's family, and as for the other clansmen, I am afraid that they will be let go for the time being.

However, Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, and Mang Gurtai have already led the army back, less than three days away from Shenyang. So tomorrow, after the handover of personnel, you should ask the ambassador to resign to Amin as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

Then I will persuade the prince to escort you out of the city, so that you can make your trip as soon as possible. In addition, the setback of Huang Taiji's expedition to our country this time may not be able to vent his anger on the heads of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, and I hope that some personnel with special status in the commercial bank will also temporarily evacuate Shenyang, so as not to encounter unwarranted disasters. ”

After the coachman on the opposite side carefully recorded what Song Xiance said, he arched his hand at him and said, "I understand, I will personally explain the information sent back by Mr. to the ambassador." We will have a lot of people follow the team back to Jinzhou first, and then return to Shenyang after the limelight.

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After the coachman in the opposite room finished speaking, he closed the little opening. Song Xiance returned to the table and sat down, and after a while, some guys began to come in and serve tea and wine, as if nothing had happened in this room before.

On the second day, Song Xiance left Shenyang with the convoy of Aierli to send the Ming envoys. In order to make Amin know the news of the Ming convoy later, he persuaded Alli to go to the North Mountain to hunt a deer and sacrifice it to Amin in order to win Amin's favor.

Irli did not doubt that he had him, and then went to Beishan with his retinue to hunt, and returned to Shenyang on the third day with a full load of prey. However, when Song Xiance and Erli returned to Baylor Mansion and presented a majestic and beautiful male deer to Amin, they found that Amin was enthusiastically serving a banquet for his cronies.

When Amin was slightly drunk, when he saw his son and Song Xiance, he immediately got up and happily greeted Song Xiance and said: "It turns out that Mr. Song is back, come up, come up, drink a bowl of wine to warm up, Erli, you asked someone to dispose of the prey, make it into meat and send it up, let everyone taste it." ”

Alli agreed, and beckoned the coat from the house to come up and carry the stag away at his feet. And after walking to the edge of Amin's seat and being forced to pour a large bowl of rice wine by Amin, Song Xiance, who coughed for a while, had time to say to Amin: "What happy event did Baylor encounter today, he was so happy, the students don't know how to congratulate Baylor?" ”