"Brother Fang, since the war in Liaodong is not yet clear, I can't tell Brother Fang too much below."

Li Hongyu saw that Fang Yun and Zhao Xin were both looking at him with stunned expressions, so he pondered for a while and asked, "I don't know what Brother Fang needs to do if he wins?" ”

"Brother Li, I bet that the official army succeeded in countering the rebellion, if I win by luck, I hope you can tell me why I joined Donglin."

Fang Yun came back to his senses when he heard this, smiled slightly and said, as far as he knew, Li Hongyu had nothing to do with the Donglin Party, and he had not visited the Donglin Party members when he came to Beijing this time, so he was quite curious about Li Hongyu's bet.

"Okay, it's a deal!" Li Hongyu also laughed, and then stretched out his hand and "snapped" and swore to Fang Yun, at this moment, Fang Yun would never know that he was actually losing.

Obviously, the reason why Li Hongyu wanted Fang Yun to throw himself into the arms of the Donglin Party was naturally to let him be an undercover agent, and with Fang Yun's ability, he would definitely be able to mix well in the Donglin Party, and then he would be able to obtain information about the Donglin Party through Fang Yun.

The reason why Li Hongyu chose Fang Yun to go undercover was because he had dealt with Fang Yun in Wuchang City because of the bloody case in Mingyue Pavilion.

In addition to Fang Yun's smart and alert, long-sleeved and good dancing, more importantly, he has a similar personality to Li Hongyu, and he is full of ambition to break through in the officialdom, so he is a very good ally.

A puzzled look appeared on Zhao Xin's face, she didn't understand why Li Hongyu thought that the official army would fail in Liaodong, but there must be some reason for it.

Now think about it when she was in Qingyuan County, Li Hongyu was very concerned about the border trade between the Jin merchants and the Guanwai, she just thought that Li Hongyu cared about business matters at first, but now it seems that she was wrong, Li Hongyu was concerned about the situation in Liaodong, otherwise he would not think that the Ming army would be defeated in Liaodong.

In fact, Zhao Xin didn't know that after she and Li Hongyu left Qingyuan County, Zhao Deyi had already separated from Fuxiang with those Fuxiang subordinates who followed him, established the "Hongtong Firm", and began to set up their own doors to do business with the Jurchens outside the Guan.

The Hongtong number is naturally Li Hongyu's name, he accounts for fifty percent of the shares in it, and Zhao Deyi accounts for four into nine, anyway, Zhao Deyi only has one daughter, Zhao Xin, and the Hongtong number will definitely be Zhao Xin's, in other words, the Hongtong number is still all surnamed "Li" in the end.

Zhao Deyi was naturally familiar with the trade with the Guanwai, and with the support of the Fuxiang and Dexiang, Hongtong quickly gained a firm foothold among the Jin merchants.

Especially Shen Shaoqiang, the young owner of the Dexiang, is closely related to Hongtong, after the murder of Miss Zhang, he is very grateful to Li Hongyu, and washes away his grievances in one fell swoop, so that Miss Zhang can feel at ease under Jiuquan.

Shen Shaoqiang admired the character of Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, did not fall into the well because of the grievances between the Fuxiang and the Dexiang, and remembered the first meeting with Li Hongyu vividly, so he naturally became friends with Li Hongyu.

It is worth mentioning that Shen Shaoqiang is an infatuated person, although Miss Zhang is dead, but in order to avoid becoming a lonely ghost without an owner in the underworld, he resolutely decided to marry Miss Zhang and give Miss Zhang a name, so a grand wedding ceremony was held, which caused a huge sensation in Qingyuan County and even Taiyuan Mansion.

Shen Yunshan knew that Shen Shaoqiang had deep feelings for Miss Zhang's family, and if he didn't agree to him, it would become a piece of Shen Shaoqiang's heart, so after careful consideration, he agreed to Shen Shaoqiang to do so.

The Zhang family naturally has no objection to this, anyway, the people in the entire Taiyuan Mansion know that Miss Zhang and Shen Shaoqiang are a pair of hard-working mandarin ducks because of the murder of Miss Zhang, and if Shen Shaoqiang can give Miss Zhang a name, the people of the Zhang family can rest assured.

"Li Jieyuan, Lord Wu Lianghe, the capital of the military department, please go and talk about it." The next morning, when Li Hongyu was drinking tea and chatting with Zhao Xin, Fang Yun and others in the teahouse, a subordinate from the hall bowed to Li Hongyu after entering the door and said.

"Guys, one step ahead." Hearing this, a subtle smile flashed on the corner of Li Hongyu's mouth, and he got up to say hello to Zhao Xin, Fang Yun and the others, and then followed an errand waiting under the teahouse to the imperial city to see Wu Liangsi.

The office space in the six departments is in the corresponding six yamen, so the yamen that Li Hongyu wants to go to is naturally the military department.

The Yamen of the major ministries of the Ming Dynasty is located in the southernmost part of the palace on the east and west sides of the Daming Gate, according to the pattern of the East and the West Martial Arts, the east is the civil official yamen such as the Six Ministries and the Hanlin Academy, and the west is the military attache yamen such as the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Jinyi Guard.

It is worth mentioning that although the Metropolitan Procuratorate is a civil official yamen, because of its special nature, it has the power to supervise civil and military officials, so it is on the west side of the Daming Gate, together with the five military governors' mansions and other yamen.

Knowing that Li Hongyu was here to see Wu Liangsi, the doorman guarding the door naturally would not stop him, which made Li Hongyu enter the military department unhindered under the leadership of the errand officer.

It is said that 80,000 officers and troops were transferred to support the Ming army in Liaodong, and the troops of North Korea and Jurchen Yehe also had tens of thousands, so many people had to worry about eating, drinking, and sleeping.

Today, Nurhachi has unified most of the Jurchens in Liaodong, and the remaining Jurchens who are attached to the Ming Dynasty are the Yehebu of Haixi, and the Jianzhou Jurchens of Nurhachi are both enemies and in-laws, and the relationship is very complicated.

"Li Jieyuan, Lord Wu is discussing with the people from the Ministry of War, you wait here for a while." The attendant led Li Hongyu into an elegant courtyard, into a side room, and after the people brought tea, he bowed to him and left.

Li Hongyu knew that Wu Liangsi must be busy with the war in Liaodong now, so he sat there quietly sipping tea, if he guessed correctly, this courtyard was the place where the military department gave the people in the matter.

The palm seal chief of the six sections, "all to the matter", is an official position of the seventh grade, and there are "left to the matter" and "right to the matter" from the seventh grade, as well as a number of "to the matter" from the seventh grade.

Although the number of people in the six departments is not large, it can be said that it is the smallest yamen of the major ministries and institutes in the capital, so that it has to work in the six departments.

However, the power of the six branches is indeed very large, with the power of "refutation", "branch participation" and "cancellation", and can also participate in the appointment of important official positions in the imperial court "court council" and "court push", and the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is called "Kedao", which is the main force of the Ming Yanguan.

The so-called "refutation" refers to assisting the emperor in handling the chapters, the "section staff" is to inspect the affairs of the six departments, and the "cancellation" means that the holy decrees and the chapters are attached to the section every day, and are sent to the cabinet for the record every five days.

Until noon, when Li Hongyu was bored waiting, a middle-aged man wearing a seventh-grade official robe walked into the room quickly.

"Lord Wu." Seeing this, Li Hongyu hurriedly got up, and bowed respectfully to the visitor, although he had not seen Wu Liangsi, but it was obvious that only Wu Liangsi was an official of the seventh grade in the military department.

"Li Jieyuan is really a young hero." Wu Liangsi didn't expect Li Hongyu to be so young, the beard at the corner of his mouth didn't grow, and he bowed his head slightly and motioned for him to sit down.

"Li Jieyuan, do you know why this official came to you?" It wasn't until Wu Liangsi sat down that Li Hongyu sat down, and Wu Liangsi looked at him and asked quietly.

"Adults, but you read the 'Ping Liao Ce' written by the students?" Li Hongyu naturally knew why Wu Liangsi called him to the military department, and asked quietly when he heard the words.

It turned out that when Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin visited the three leaders of the Chu Party yesterday, Li Hongyu left Wu Liangsi a "pacification strategy", expressing his views on the rebellion of the Jurchens in Liaodong and the method of pacification.

In Li Hongyu's "Pingliao Policy", the relationship between the Ming army and the Jurchens in Liaodong is listed in detail The Jurchens' allies in Liaodong were the Mongolian Horqin Department in the southern part of the Great Xing'an Mountains and the Mongolian Khalkha Department north of the Daling River, and often cooperated with the Jurchens to attack and harass Liaodong.

Among the local forces in Liaodong, the one who was most attached to the Ming Dynasty was the woman Yehebu in Kaiyuan, who was in order to avoid being swallowed by Nurhachi and took the head of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the Jurchen Yehe Department is the Kingdom of Korea, the Kingdom of Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, so it is natural to obey the orders of the Ming Dynasty.

It is worth mentioning that the Mongol Chahar tribe, which was active between Guihua City and Chengde, was in a hostile relationship with the Jurchens, but unfortunately the relationship with the Ming Dynasty was also good and bad.

In addition, although the Jurchen population is not large, the number is less than a million, but the Jurchen men are all soldiers, and if they enter the peasants, they will be soldiers, and once the Jurchen chieftain Nurhachi concentrates all the forces of the Jurchens to attack the Ming army, the Ming army will not have an advantage in numbers.

Moreover, Nurhachi has fought in Liaodong for many years, conquered many tribes in Liaodong, rarely defeated, knows the terrain of Liaodong well, and there are local barbarians secretly tipping off the news, so it can be said that Liaodong has the right time, place, and people.

In Li Hongyu's view, Nurhachi is a shrewd chieftain, and he must know that the Jurchens are far from the Ming Dynasty, so he will definitely avoid the Ming army and look for opportunities to eliminate the Ming army that has broken away from the main force, which will undoubtedly make the war stalemate and unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Hongyu believed that the plan now was to concentrate his forces to recapture the Jurchens to capture Fushun City, drive it back to Jianzhou, and then send troops to defend Fushun City to block the Jurchens' westward advance.

Then, he vigorously supported the Jurchen Yehebu, causing the Yehebu and the Korean kingdom to attack Nurhachi and gradually encroach on Nurhachi's territory.

Once Nurhachi raised his troops to attack Yehebu and the Korean Kingdom, the Ming army gathered in Fushun City took advantage of the situation to attack Houjin, so that Nurhachi could not take care of each other.

According to Li Hongyu's estimate, as long as 30,000 troops remain in Fushun, it is enough to hold the pace of Houjin's westward advance, and then make Houjin trapped in Jianzhou, so as not to touch the entire Liaodong.

Not only that, Li Hongyu also advised that if the generals of the Ming army in Liaodong wanted to capture the Houjin Laolai, they must remember not to divide their troops to attack, and to arrange a large number of spies to investigate the movements of the Houjin army, and plan before moving, otherwise the Ming army will be defeated.

Obviously, Wu Liangsi looked at Li Hongyu's "Pingliao Policy", although he felt that Li Hongyu was a little unfounded and exaggerated, how could the Ming army not even be able to deal with the little Liaodong barbarians?

However, he still has a lot of interest in Li Hongyu, you must know not to mention Li Hongyu such a foreign person, even the officials in the capital did not take this matter to heart, Daming is a **** country, with millions of soldiers, and with the power of the three major victories, what big waves can the Liaodong Jurchens make.

But Li Hongyu, the Xie Yuan of Huguang, was extremely concerned about the war in Liaodong and knew the situation in Liaodong very well, which had to make Wu Liangsi curious.