Lao Fang and Lao Ma discussed for a few days, and they both thought that the three towns of Xuanda were not a place to stay for a long time, there were too many acquaintances here, and sooner or later they would be caught, and they had to fly away, so the two decided to flee south. At this time, Sun Shoubei, who had been secretly ventilating the old party, came to see the old boss, and inadvertently said that Li Yuzi, who was the superintendent, stepped on two boats outside the customs and was mixing with the wind, and the border of Datong Town became his territory, Fang Zhikun suddenly changed his mind, since Li Yuzi was outside the gate, why should I go to the south to go far away, he discussed with Lao Ma, Lao Ma immediately agreed, he still has a lot of goods in Datong, Yanghe and the area, and he may have a chance to make a comeback if he escapes to Guanwai.

So the two slipped out of the pass under the cover of Sun Shoubei, and found the Grand Commander's Mansion under the sign of Li Yu's brothers, Li Yu listened to the story of the two people, and said with a smile: "The two elder brothers can vote for me, that is, they can afford the younger brother, so let's stay in the Grand Commander's Mansion first, and talk about the future later." ”

Li Yu pondered in his heart, it is better to keep them safe under his nose, Wu Langha definitely has no intention of avenging her ex-husband, but there are still many Chahar people in Fengzhou, in case one of them can't figure it out and cut Fang Zhikun with a knife, then I will be sorry for my friend, the old man did not understand this, shook his head and said: "Yuzi, don't think that my brother is here for a leisurely meal, I have discussed with Lao Ma all the way, I want to do a big job here for you and contribute to you." ”

"My lord, no, Brother Li," Ma Qi saw Li Yu's displeasure and immediately changed his name and continued to speak, "You must be short of food, cloth, and pig iron here, I can get all of these, and I can also discount the price, as long as you let me do your business." ”

Li Yu hesitated for a while and said, "Brother Ma is willing to do our business, of course I can't ask for it, but I really can't afford to buy your goods." ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't have money, I saw a lot of cows, horses, and sheep on the way here, you give me the livestock, and I will transport it into the customs for you to sell, and the price is absolutely fair."

Li Yu's eyes lit up, during this time Fengzhou trade ambassador Bi Lige and the Ming Taifu Temple Datong Branch had a quarrel, the Ming State Horse Market on cattle, horses, camels, donkeys and other cattle used for farming, conquest and other livestock is extremely strict, can only be purchased by the border town of the Taifu Temple Division, and the Datong Taifu Temple Division hated the people of the Barbarian Mountain, Li Huai was in charge of the Victory Fort, instigated his subordinates to work with the officers and soldiers guarding the fort to loot the Ming property of the Victory Fort, the rich Taifu Temple Division is the hardest hit area, almost even the wall has to be demolished - Li Yu himself also felt that it was too much, When he evacuated Fort Victory, he saw with his own eyes that Wu Dayou's people even moved the night pot and toilet bowl of the General's Mansion to the car, and the original owner of the tables, chairs and furniture now used in his Commander's Mansion was also a general of Fort Victory. With this layer of festivals, the people of Taifu Temple will naturally not let go of the people of Fengzhou, the grade and price of cattle, horses, camels and donkeys sent to the horse market for trading have been greatly suppressed, and a high-grade war horse worth more than 20 taels of silver on the market Taifu Temple only gives seven or eight taels of silver, and a cow can not be exchanged for two stones of rice, and the officials of the horse market also prohibit silver from leaving the customs, and the money obtained from selling livestock can only be used to buy goods in the horse market, Li Yu was angry and banned the sale of cattle, horses, camels and donkeys to the Ming Kingdom, but this is not a long-term solution, and the last compromise can only be Fengzhou, If Ma Qi can find a way to sell Fengzhou's livestock directly into the Guannai, Fengzhou will not be afraid of Taifu Temple in the future, which will help a lot.

"If Brother Ma can help us sell our livestock to Guannei, it will be a great thing for Fengzhou, and I will not have a lot of money for you to earn, I just want justice."

"Brother Li is polite, I want to play some checkpoints along the way, and the commission will naturally be raised, but I will never let the villagers in Fengzhou suffer." Ma Qi patted his chest and said, he and Fang Zhikun have summed it up, if you cross the link of the horse market, directly communicate with the traders on both sides of the customs and outside the customs, the profits from buying and selling goods and livestock are very considerable, Ma Qi is now full of confidence, as long as he holds Fengzhou's thighs, he can not only pay off the past debts, but also make a profit.

Li Yu was overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to pass on the money and grain of the Great Commander's Mansion Li Fugui to come to talk in detail, while waiting for Li Fugui, Li Yu suddenly asked Ma Qi if he knew Fan Erxi, Ma Qi thought about it and said that this name seemed to have been heard, but this person was not familiar, Li Yu asked him if he knew Fan Yongdou, and Ma Qi immediately said that he knew this person.

"Lao Fan seems to be a native of Shanxi Jiexiu, he is bold and righteous, and his business is also big, and he is a bit famous in the border business, he mainly does the business of Xuanfu Zhangjiakou Horse Market, I have dealt with him a few times, why, Brother Li also knows Lao Fan?"

"I don't know, when I was in Jin Guo, I had a good relationship with his buddy Fan Erxi, when Brother Erxi left Jin Guo, he asked me to have a chance to find him, but unfortunately I couldn't get out of it, and I didn't have a chance to see Brother Erxi again."

Ma Qi and Fang Zhikun glanced at each other, both of them were glad to have come early, otherwise the business might have fallen into the hands of others - the Han Han controlled the border of Xuanfu, the Zhangjiakou Horse Market had been closed, and that old Fan must be sharpening his head to find business opportunities.

Li Fugui came, Li Yu briefly said the situation, Li Fugui immediately affectionately pulled Ma Qi and Fang Zhikun to his official room, Li Yu returned to his bookcase, pondering about Zhang Xiao's affairs, although this Xuanda Governor is a bit of a wreck, and he has calculated himself, but he has also helped him, he can rise from a small general manager all the way to a guerrilla in less than a year, Zhang Xiao has also contributed, I heard that after he was dismissed, Li Yu also specially sent someone to take two sheep to see him, but people didn't let his people enter the door at all, and the two sheep sent to him were not accepted, After Li Fugui heard about it, he also gave him a sentence "self-inflicted", these officials of the Ming Kingdom are really strange, and they will not fall even if they fall down.

Just thinking about it, Mo Rige came in to say that Yanghe's messenger sent a letter from Lord Song, Li Yu hurriedly opened it to read, Song Tongyin's letter said that Wang Xiangqian, the new governor of Xuanda of the imperial court, had arrived at Yanghe, named him to see him, and ordered him to rush to Yanghe immediately.

Li Yu immediately ordered Mo Rige to inform Chen Erzhu and Liu Shi to prepare for their packing, and the four of them rushed to Yanghe overnight.

Wang Xiangqian, Longqing five years of Jinshi, from the famous Shandong Huantai New City Wang family, from his grandfather Guizhou right Senator Wang Chongguang, the new city Wang family that entered the imperial examination period, the children of the Wang family to Jinshi as an official countless, Wang Xiangqian's father Wang Zhiyuan once served as the governor of Huguang, the household waiter, uncles, brothers also have many important positions in the court, Wang Xiangqian himself is also recognized by the courtiers as a famous minister in the border town, known as the "nine sides of the earthquake", his life is like extinguishing the fire for the Ming Dynasty, where he was sent to where the accident happened, Banzhou Miao Yi turned to him, Sichuan Jianchangyi turned to him, Liaodong's Jiannu also had to find him, the old man worked until the third year of the Apocalypse and couldn't do it anymore, before he retired from the post of governor of Jiliao, and returned to his hometown for a few years, and the court remembered him again when there was an accident outside the border of Xuanda - in July this year, the emperor summoned the new Jiliao governor Yuan Chonghuan on the platform, Yuan Chonghuan proposed that if you want to calm the Liao, you must appease Xuanda and Hudun Tuhan outside the Jiliao border, and the most suitable person to appease Hudun Tuhan is his old boss, Wang Xiangqian, the former governor of JiliaoSo Wang Xiangqian, who was already 83 years old, was summoned to Beijing.

The emperor summoned the old king on the platform, and briefly asked a few words about the situation outside the Xuanda border, and praised him for being familiar with the side affairs, in fact, the old king can think of most of the old things when he was in charge of the north of the mouth thirty or forty years ago with the right senator of the Xuanfu, and his brain was a little confused, and many things were also said casually, but he was confused, and the emperor and the courtiers were even more confused, and decided to appoint him as the governor of Xuanda on the spot, presiding over the pacification of Hudun Tuhan, and ordered him to go to Shanhaiguan first to meet the new Jiliao Governor Yuan Chonghuan, and then transfer to Yanghe.

The old king went on the road in a daze, and he couldn't move when he arrived at Yanghe, his brain was not good at this age, and his legs and feet couldn't walk, and he couldn't stand the emperor's toss - as soon as he thought of the young and ignorant emperor, the old king was unhappy, and when the emperor summoned him on the platform, he actually ordered him to go to Shanhaiguan to ask Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, for advice on pacifying strategies, and with Wang Xiangqian's age and identity, the emperor should have let his favorite minister Yuan Chonghuan go to Beijing to ask his old man for advice - when he was in Liaodong, Wang Xiangqian served as the governor of Jiliao, Yuan Chonghuan is just a soldier to prepare for the road, Wang Xiangqian thinks that the military situation and the people's situation in Liaodong are complicated, and it is appropriate to pacify and not suppress, and compete with Sun Chengzong, the emperor of the main battle, and Yuan Chonghuan takes the line of Sun Chengzong, the two of them shouted the loudest, spent the most money, and fought no less than one defeat - Wang Xiangqian, who is familiar with Liaodong, never thought that Yuan Chonghuan's two times of holding Jinzhou and Ningyuan could be called victorious, since it was not the right way, Wang Xiangqian's influence on Yuan Chonghuan was very bad, let alone communication.

This time, the emperor waved his hand to let the old king head who had always been the main brother go to Yuan Chonghuan, who had always been the main battle, to ask for advice and pacify the strategy, the old king had to go from Beijing to Shanhaiguan, and then from Shanhaiguan to Yanghe, this big circle turned down, the old king had to lie on his stomach and panting, at this time the emperor was very considerate under the edict, by the Datong governor Zhang Zongheng temporarily took care of the affairs of the governor's office, the deputy envoy Song Tongyin handled the peace and the act of the paperwork, the old minister Wang Xiangqian was not in good health and stayed in Yanghe temporarily, Wang Xiangqian in addition to the addiction of the governor of Xuanda, was fooled by the emperor in vain.

Wang Xiangqian sat in Yang and began to preside over the pacification plan in a daze, but the situation was completely different from what he thought, the right-wing Mongolian departments outside the Xuanda border in his image could not be found, and when the old king and the emperor played against each other on the platform, they thought that although Bu Lost Rabbit had run away, there were still Yongshao Bu people available, and suggested that Yongshao Bu people be assisted to fight against the Han in order to achieve a favorable outcome of the peace talks - he was confused, thinking that the Yongshao Bu people could make up a population of 300,000, and as long as they helped a little, they could force the Han to bow down, in fact, the right-wing Yongshao Bu, The population of Tumut has plummeted, adding up to only a hundred thousand people, and the leaders have been driven west of the Yellow River, which is very different from when he was the right senator of Xuanfu to lead the north a few decades ago, and Wang Xiangqian's mind began to be confused.

Zhang Zongheng and Song Tongyin were all in Yanghe to accompany this fellow villager, Zhang Zongheng cautiously said to Wang Xiangqian: "At present, the main force of the Han Dynasty is advancing westward, according to the information we received a few days ago, the retreat to the west of the Yellow River, Yongshaobu, Tumut and other departments have also advanced eastward to reach the Ebuha River, this should be the right-wing departments are desperate to fight a decisive battle with the Han, we want to aid the Mongolian right wing It is too late, now it depends on whether the right-wing departments can work together to defeat the Han, if the Han wins, Hudun Tuhan's appetite will be big." ”

"Li's guerrilla letter said that the right-wing troops will be defeated, I believe that Li's judgment is correct, my lord, we must consider how to deal with the victorious division of the Han Dynasty," Song Tongyin saw that Wang Xiangqian's eyes were about to close again, and he took a step closer and whispered, "The Xuanda Governor's Mansion has sent a member of the Jinglu guerrillas to contain about 40,000 remnants of the rabbit outside the border, and the combat strength is strong, and they have just grabbed the land outside the border of Datong from the hands of the Han Dynasty. ”

Wang Xiangqian suddenly opened his eyes: "Xianzheng said that there are Yongshao Bu people outside the Xuanda border, and the old man's strategy to the emperor is not wrong, you say it carefully." ”

Song Tongyin nodded, Tumut and Yongshao Bu people have the same ancestry, in the eyes of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, he told Li Yu and the situation of the Barbarian Mountain in detail, the old Wang Tou did not doze off this time, he listened carefully from beginning to end, Song Tongyin finished the introduction and said: "Boss, we have given benefits to these people, and their leader is also our Jinglu guerrilla, it is time to use them." ”

"Of course you have to use them, the old man told the emperor in Beijing, Yong Shaobu, Tumut and other departments are sworn enemies with the Han Dynasty, they and I Daming are the same heart, I think the old man was good to them when he was in Koubei Dao, they must still remember the old man, Xianzheng, you said that their leader is still your Jinglu guerrilla, so what are you waiting for, teach him to Yanghe and see me." Wang Xiangqian's spiritual head is here.

Zhang Zongheng quietly reminded: "Boss, the lower officials think it's better to be cautious, their leader is our Jinglu guerrilla, but he has recently been appointed as the commander of the Han Dynasty, and he is also married to Hudun Tuhan's sister, this person is stepping on two boats, and the lower officials are worried that he will become another one of our courts?" Yes! ”

Wang Xiangqian pondered for a while and said: "The various tribes of Mongolia outside the border wall are mixed and have different orders, and the leaders of each department are paying homage to the Mongolian Great Khan with the title given by the Mongolian Great Khan, and on the other hand, they accept the official award from our court to show their submission. ”

"The Han is powerful, and we are powerless to help him, Jinglu guerrilla was frightened by Hudun Tuhan, and he married Hudun Tuhan's widowed sister," Song Tongyin smiled and replied slightly exaggeratedly, "Jinglu guerrilla suffers, that widow is more than ten years older than our Jinglu guerrilla, and she is a half-old!" And it is extremely fierce, I heard that I killed my mother-in-law's family just after being widowed. ”

Wang Xiangqian opened his mouth for a long time before he uttered a sentence: "It's not easy to fight guerrillas!" ”

Wang Xiangqian then couldn't help laughing, Zhang Zongheng remembered that Li Yu pitifully asked him for a wife, and he laughed along with his stomach, and the officials in the hall immediately burst into laughter.

Two days later, Li Yu arrived in Yanghe, he did not go directly to the governor's palace, but first went to the deputy envoy Yamen to ask to see Song Tongyin, Song Tongyin had just gotten up and freshened up, and when he saw Li Yu, he was very dissatisfied and said: "You, a Han people, don't pick a time every time you come, how can you come to the door early in the morning." ”

"My lord, I have nowhere to go to Yanghe, I can only disturb my lord." Li Yu scratched his head and replied embarrassedly.

"You don't have a place to eat breakfast, since you're here, then eat whatever you want at my place, Lord Governor is old, you need to sleep a little longer, let's go see him later."

When the two were having breakfast, Song Tongyin asked Li Yu how he was doing after he got married, and Li Yu was embarrassed to say that since he had a family, his heart was indeed much more down-to-earth, and although the two ladies were not very virtuous, they were still considerate and caring for him.

"They didn't bully you, did they?" Song Tongyin asked suspiciously.

"They are my wives, why are they bullying me?" Li Yu was stunned for a moment, why was the old man asking so strangely, Ulan was originally gentle, although Wu Langha was a little arrogant, but she herself knew that this lady was not coming in the right way, and when she saw Ulan, she was weak-hearted, and now her temper is much better.

"That's good! That's good! Song Tongyin also regretted that he was too talkative, he said hello to the servant, and after a while, the servant sent two brocade boxes, Song Tongyin smiled and said: "Han people are married, I should always be a little bit of an elder as an elder, I bought two mirrors and gave them to your two wives." ”

Li Yu took it gratefully, among the Ming officials who had dealt with him, only Song Tongyin cared about him like an elder, although he knew that Song Tongyin was actually calculating him, but he was always full of reverence for this elder.

Song Tongyin then said: "I prepared a few pieces of cloth for you, and some cotton, you go back to make a few cotton clothes for your family, the weather is starting to get cold, and the winter outside the gate is not good." ”

Li Yu nodded, he hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice: "My lord, I want to ask you to paint a picture for me, I don't know if your adult can agree?" If adults aren't available, forget it. ”

"You want a painting, okay, tell me what you want me to paint?"

"My lord, we now have a guard battalion and twelve thousand households, and the brothers in the guard camp said that everyone has the same banner and it is difficult to distinguish them, and we want a flag of our own guard battalion, we thought about it, the guard battalion is all cavalry, and all of them are tiger warriors, we want a flying tiger flag."

Song Tongyin happily agreed, he was always happy that some people liked his paintings, after breakfast, Song Tongyin took Li Yu into the study, splashed ink to paint, a meal of effort, a painting was completed, Song Tongyin said proudly: "Red flag, black tiger, ribs with wings, non-tiger Ben division should not be this flag, Han Min, this is your handsome flag." ”

Li Yu liked it very much, and carefully put it away, and after a while, Song Tongyin's family came to report that the Governor was already in the lobby of the Governor's Palace, and asked them to go over immediately, Song Tongyin waved his hand: "Han Min, let's go see the Governor." ”

When Song Tongyin took Li Yu to the lobby of the Governor's Palace, Wang Xiangqian was sitting behind the desk in the lobby and chatting with Zhang Zongheng who was sitting next to him without saying a word, and two other people in military general's uniforms stood aside.