Zhang Chuanjie's dejected look made Li Yu very helpless, he saw and heard more after he arrived in Yanghe, and he was very clear about the current situation of the Ming army, this army couldn't fight at all, but he came to mess around, and the quality of the Ming army had nothing to do with him, so he let Zhang Chuanjie complain.

Zhang Chuanjie's wife's knife-cut noodles can arouse Li Yu's interest, Zhang Chuanjie added a big spoonful of vinegar to him, it tasted good, watching Li Yu gobble up, Zhang Chuanjie couldn't help but scold: "Why are you reincarnated like a starving ghost, is it easy for Lao Tzu to save some white noodles?" ”

"It's delicious, it's delicious, in addition to sorghum in the barracks, it's millet, and if you eat too much, you will get on fire, and it's the first time I've eaten wheat noodles here." Li Yu ate two large bowls before giving up.

When he finished eating, Song Tongyin's family came and asked Zhang Chuanjie to go to the deputy envoy's yamen immediately, and when he saw that Li Yu was also here, he said again, Mr. Li is just here, there is no need to look for you again, Lord Song asked you to go too.

Song Tongyin's deputy envoy Yamen is very lively today, Shunyi Wang Bu lost the rabbit took the initiative to pay tribute to Daming, and for the first time handed over hundreds of tribute horses to Datong, this is not a thing that has happened for many years, Bu Lost Rabbit has always reached out to Daming to ask for a city reward at the beginning of spring, and the matter of tribute is not mentioned, if the court does not force him to be anxious, he is not even willing to give a donkey. At the beginning of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, he encountered this kind of good thing, the civil and military dignitaries of the three towns felt that this was the result of their own hard work for the imperial court, and they were busy writing a folded table for the imperial court.

These literati tasted tea and recited poems, talked about the past and the present, and greatly praised the Governor of Xuanda and his Song Tongyin, saying that Song Tongyin was also full of ambition, and after eating a banquet at noon, the literati continued to chant poems. Song Tongyin overheard the scribe in the yamen talking about the people who supervised the bid and the Tatars who had come over to perform on the Baideng River in the morning, and it was said that the supervisor had lost quite badly. Song Tongyin then remembered that Zhang Chuanjie, who supervised the standard, had told him about this yesterday, and wanted to invite him to watch the exercise, but he thought about today's poetry meeting and shirked this matter, Song Tongyin felt that he should still care about this matter, so he sent his family to find Li Yu and Zhang Chuanjie for questioning.

Li Yu and Zhang Chuanjie came to the deputy envoy's yamen, Zhang Chuanjie hung his head and told Song Tongyin about the drill, Li Yu said good things to Zhang Chuanjie on the side, it was not Zhang Qianzong's fault, nor was it that the soldiers who supervised the standard were not good, the main thing was that the horses of the superintendent were not strong, and if he let his people ride the horses of the superintendent, he would also lose. Song Tongyin listened absentmindedly, he didn't blame Zhang Chuanjie at all, he knew in his heart what his soldiers were like, Zhang Chuanjie was already a very good young officer in Yanghe, he could still take the team out to exercise, other officers had already been messing around, and some of them couldn't even find a shadow of a person except for a moment when they were paid.

Song Tongyin said very kindly that he was very satisfied with the two young talents in the Datong Army who were diligent in military training, and now it is an eventful autumn, and only by training soldiers can we fight a good battle, and only by fighting a good war can we have military merits. Zhang Chuanjie saw that Lord Song was in a good mood, and took the opportunity to help Li Yu complain and ask for something, Song Tongyin readily agreed, isn't it just a few pieces of cloth and a little cotton, these things are not given, and people can't say that Daming is too black-hearted.

When Li Yu and Zhang Chuanjie were about to say goodbye, Song Tongyin suddenly remembered something and said to Li Yu: "Mr. Li, this official remembers that you said that you have read some books, do you know poetry?" It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you two come with me. Song Tongyin took the two of them to the front hall, of course he knew that these two martial artists were rough goods, but Li Yu defected from Tatar, he hoped that Li Yu would know the news of Bu Lost Rabbit Nagong, and feel the vigor of the Ming Dynasty, elegant and luxurious.

When Song Tongyin returned to the front hall, the poetry meeting was reaching its climax, the literati drank at noon, one by one, some people chanted poems loudly, some people splashed ink, Song Tongyin was surrounded by the literati as soon as he arrived, and asked him to appreciate the poetry and calligraphy. Song Tongyin, who was born in Jinshi, has a demeanor of everyone, and makes a little bit of poetry on the long case, which causes a round of applause from time to time, Zhang Chuanjie consciously hides in the corner, he is just a martial artist who knows a few words, he shouldn't come to this place at all, Li Yu doesn't know the rules at all, he really wants to come up to see how much difference there is between the words written by the Ming scholars and the words he remembers, Li Yu squeezed forward, and the others immediately covered their noses to make way for him. Song Tongyin was talking happily, and when he looked up, he suddenly found that Li Yu had actually come to the front of the case, and was reading the words seriously, Song Tongyin was very dissatisfied, in his opinion, Li Yu was promoted to come here, he should follow Zhang Chuanjie's example and shrink in the corner and wait honestly.

"Why, does Li always have a poem to dedicate?" Song Tongyin suppressed the fire and asked coldly, Li Yu quickly shook his head, the literati saw the embarrassment of this big guy in a dirty and shabby costume who was at a loss, and burst into laughter, Song Tongyin couldn't help laughing, beckoned to Zhang Chuanjie, and asked him to take Li Yu to retreat, Zhang Chuanjie pulled Li Yu away as if he had been amnestied, but Li Yu was angered by everyone's ridicule, and while walking out, he turned around and shouted: "Don't laugh at me, I also remember two lines of poetry 'Suddenly report and call Han to pay, people's hearts are not separated from Huayi'." These were the two lines of poetry he had heard from Sakhalian and that he had rarely remembered.

The hall was quiet all of a sudden, and everyone was stunned, this poor boy and this vulgar martial artist from Tatar could actually compose poems, and these two poems seemed to suppress their masterpieces of the day, and even Song Tongyin couldn't help but be taken aback.

"This poem comes from the late Liaodong Governor Li Chengxun's "Kaiyuan Suburb Trip", the first two lines I remember are 'Ze Xiao Xue Hong Chu Ji, the curtain moves the breeze swallow unknown.' Ordinary people don't know this poem, but for a person like Song Tongyin, who was born as a scholar and has been in officialdom for most of his life, he can immediately think of where it comes from, he smiled bitterly and said, "We wrote a hundred poems today, but none of them are as harmonious as the two sentences of Master Li, and they were shouted out by such a kid from Tatar, ashamed!" Ashamed! ”

When the poetry meeting dispersed, Song Tongyin found a scribe and instructed: "You immediately draft an official document, supervise the general Li Yu to train the troops well, be diligent in military affairs, and promote the governor to the general of Qian." If you go to do business with the guerrillas, you just have to stamp it with the seal he left behind. Also, find a tailor to make two sets of clothes for that boy, and never let him wear any more clothes. ”

Song Tongyin figured it out, Li Yu must be a Han undoubtedly, maybe he was born in a family of official eunuchs in Liaodong, otherwise it would be impossible to know these two poems, but this guy is a bit nonsense, if he is well educated, it is still possible to become a useful talent in the Ming Dynasty, Song Tongyin has expectations for Li Yu, but he didn't expect this guy to cause trouble for him in a few days.

On this day, Li Yu was holding a copy of the "Book of Songs" lying on the table to take a nap - this is his old habit, the camp clerk Han Dagong and Shi Chang Bagen crawled into the house with a roll, and Bagen shouted when he entered the door: "Brother Yuzi, our horse was snatched away, and the **** beat us." ”

Li Yu was woken up suddenly, looked up and saw that the two of them were standing in front of them with blue noses and swollen faces, and hurriedly asked what was going on, Bagen even said with a gesture, Li Yu listened to the clouds, waved his hand to let Bagen stay away, and pointed to Han Dagong who was covering his face on the side: "You tell me clearly, what is going on." ”

Han Dagong and Bagen are both people who rose out of the board, Han Dagong's father is a blacksmith, craftsmen can make money, Han Dagong has studied for a few years, can write and become a clerk in the camp, as soon as he opens his mouth, things will be clear, he and Bagen After lunch, he took a few people to walk their horses by the Baideng River, and it happened that a team of Ming troops passed by, and saw a few Yi people wandering by the river with a few good horses, and immediately had a bad idea, first to buy their horses, and if they didn't agree, they started to rob, Han Dagong, Bagen and they suffered a big loss, and the other party beat them up, and he threw down ten taels of silver, and took with them five horses.

"There are more than 30 people in the Ming army, all of them are on foot and cavalry, under the banner of the general of Xinpingbao, maybe the general of Xinpingbao is also inside, and we will go west if we are beaten," Han Dagong was beaten very lightly, his face was bruised, and he gritted his teeth and said: "They bullied us, saying that we Tatars brought horses into the customs to sell horses, who to sell to is not to sell, if we don't sell, we will beat us, Brother Yuzi, you have to avenge us!" ”

Li Yu was furious, and without saying a word, he took off the bow and arrow hanging on the wall and rushed out, shouting as he ran: "The **** bullying has hit our heads, the whole team of Wuhai is gathered, one person and two horses bring weapons to chase after me and those bastards, and the whole team of Buck stays on guard." ”

More than 50 cavalrymen rode out of the barracks at a gallop, chasing all the way to the west, and after chasing for a long time, they saw a group of Ming troops in front of them walking forward unhurriedly, Han Dagong shouted at Li Yu: "It's those guys, I recognize the flag of the generals of Xinpingbao." ”

"Surround them, and don't let them run away." Li Yu shouted, and led the Fengzhou cavalry to surround this group of Ming troops, and the Ming army saw that they were suddenly surrounded by a group of sabre-rattling Tatars, and immediately nervously formed a small circle formation, raised their swords and spears in their hands, and looked at the cavalry circling around them in horror.

Li Yu immediately stopped in front of the Ming army, pointed at them and said, "Whoever is your leader, get out of here and answer immediately." ”

After a while, a middle-aged officer came out of the Ming army array, this person looked very kind, and said to Li Yu gently: "This official is Fang Zhikun, the general of Xinpingbao, if I guess correctly, you are the general Li Qian, the superintendent, don't be so reckless, you superintendent guerrilla and I are very familiar, everyone is their own people, you don't need to dance knives and guns, you have to get off the horse and salute when you see Shangguan, and this official will talk to you well." ”

Fang Zhikun is a senior general of Datong Zhenyang and Dao, as soon as he saw this group of Tatar cavalry wearing patched torn cotton robes without a banner, he immediately guessed their origin, today it was his family and personal soldiers who grabbed the horses and beat people, Fang Zhikun also felt that his subordinates had done too much, reprimanded them, and threw down ten taels of silver, but he was still very happy to get five good horses, but he didn't expect that these Tatars were too strong, and they didn't learn to swallow their anger at all, they were surrounded after only walking more than ten miles, Fang Zhikun knew that he was wronged, I plan to appease the other party with a few kind words, and forget about the matter.

"I don't care what kind of general you are, I haven't seen the guerrilla superintendent, I want you to return the horse you robbed, and you have to hand over the people you beat up, and the rest don't need to talk nonsense." Li Yu replied coldly, not giving the general face at all.

"Hou Sheng, I have given the silver to buy a horse, I will punish if I beat people, this official has been mixed in Datong for more than ten years, and there is a place to help you in the future, if you come nonsense, this official also has a way to clean you up, if you are interested, let me go." Fang Zhikun was angry.

"General, horses are our brothers, and we Fengzhou people never sell our brothers." Li Yu sneered, and casually threw the ten taels of silver in front of Fang Zhikun's horse, with a wave of his hand, Wu Hai and his subordinates raised their bows to point at this group of Ming troops, the Ming army was in chaos, and they all shrank back, Fang Zhikun was so angry that he yelled: "You thief who has not changed your nature, do you want to rebel?" ”

"What are you doing in a daze, why don't you go and bring the horse back, and go by the way to see which one has beaten you, and you will fight back as it is." Li Yu ignored him, pointed to the Ming army and shouted at Han Dagong and Ba Gen, who had been beaten, Ba Gen and Han Dagong and their group shouted, holding leather whips and sticks and rushed towards the Ming army, Li Yu turned his face to the Ming army and shouted: "Whoever has done bad things will bear it, irrelevantly get out of the way, and those who dare to resist with weapons will be shot on the spot!" ”

Seeing that the momentum was not right, the Ming army honestly put down his weapons and let Bagen and Han Dagong take the horses away, and several family members and personal soldiers who started beating people were beaten with leather whips and sticks and howled wolves, Fang Zhikun's face turned purple, and he pointed at Li Yu and couldn't speak.

The horses came back, the people also fought, Li Yu waved his hand and led the Fengzhou cavalry away, Fang Zhikun looked at Li Yu's back and their distant backs, gritted his teeth and scolded: "These thousands of slashed northern captives, in my Ming land, still dare to do evil, we will go back immediately to gather men and horses, we must destroy them." ”

Xuanda Governor Zhang Xiao has been in poor health recently, and the Governor's Mansion has gone less, Song Tongyin was still lying on the bed when he came, Song Tongyin saluted and greeted a few words, and then said in a low voice: "Lord Yue Hesheng, the governor of Yansui, sent someone to visit the boss, does the boss want to meet?" ”

Zhang Xiao nodded: "The old man's body is fine, I still have to meet Erlu when he sends someone." Saying that, he got up and put on his official uniform, Yue Hesheng and Zhang Xiao used to be officials in Beizhili, and their friendship was quite deep, and they were both involved with Wei Gonggong, Zhang Xiao just provoked the matter of building a shrine for Wei Gonggong, Yue Hesheng fell deeper, when Wei Gonggong engaged in "Donglin Point General Record", Yue Hesheng, who was a member of the Zhejiang Party, also drew up a blacklist to dedicate to Wei Gonggong, and now Wei Gonggong is not in danger, as a former fellow party, it is necessary to communicate with each other and raise funds early.

The person who came was a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, tall and thin and very capable, with bright eyes, wearing a green cloth scholar's shirt, wearing a headscarf, but a sword hanging from his waist, seeing Zhang Xiao hurriedly bowing down to give a disciple salute, Song Tongyin introduced to Zhang Xiao: "This is the military clerk Li Huai, the word Yushan, and the Yulin juzi in the mansion of Lord Yue. ”

Li Huai presented Yue Hesheng's letter to Zhang Xiao, and said softly: "The late student is going to Beijing to prepare for next year's examination, and Lord Yue specially instructed that he must go to Yanghe to visit the old man and present a letter to the old man. ”

Zhang Xiao opened the letter and read it quickly, then looked at Li Huai and asked, "Do you Lord Yue have something to say to the old man?" ”

Li Huai smiled slightly: "Lord Yue asked me to bring a message to the old man before leaving in his later life, 'internal changes are invincible to external changes'." ”

"Erlu is attentive," Zhang Xiao nodded, looked Li Huai up and down again, and said, "You adults called you a Yulin talent in the letter, and you can tell me what impact the Han invasion of the West has on the situation of the dynasty." ”

"The danger of the invasion of the Han Dynasty to my Ming Dynasty is far from what the princes of the court and the central government have seen, although the Khan is weak but the strength is still there, as long as we give him a little help, with him outside the eastern border of Liao, Jiannu will not dare to go south easily, and Lord Wang Zhichen took the initiative to abandon the Daling River and Jinzhou in August this year, and gathered heavy troops in Ningyuan, my Ming Dynasty shortened the battle line by two hundred miles, and Jiannu had to go on an expedition to plunder Liaoxi, but with a tired division must meet on my Ningyuan, Shanhai two strong defense lines to break the bloodstream, so that Jiannu West has a Han invasion, In the south, there is an iron wall of my Ming Dynasty to block it, which is protracted, and their national strength must be overwhelming. But inserting Han West to go, the situation has completely changed, inserting Han West invasion will fight to the death with 30,000 households on the right wing of the Tatars, and when they are both defeated, the iron cavalry of Jiannu must also come to the west, and my Ming Wanli border wall is fortified everywhere, but it is empty everywhere, it is difficult to prevent the iron cavalry of Jiannu, at that time, I Ming Jizhen line, and the old man's Xuanda line can be in danger! If the side wall is not in order, the Jingshi will suffer from it, and what is the use of spending more money in Liaoxi to build a castle? It's a pity that the princes in the court are busy with the struggle for power, and how many people can think of this, so I thought that the invasion of the Han Dynasty and the west would make my Ming Dynasty more troublesome, but it had no impact on the situation of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhang Xiao secretly praised in his heart, this Li Huai is not a nerd who can only read, but a man from the northwest town, which is different from the Jiangnan scholars, Zhang Xiao asked again: "Such a crisis, can Yushan have a solution?" ”

"My Ming Dynasty to deal with the north of the biggest mistake is to abandon the attack for the defense, the Ming Dynasty to repair the border wall for thousands of miles, and now in the west of Liaoning to build a border fort, but in addition to the labor and money, when the real solution to the border trouble, now the best way is to take the initiative to send troops, first suppress the tiger dun rabbit Han so that it does not dare to act rashly, and then give grace, let it return to the eastern Liaodong border, the second year of the Apocalypse, the king of Liaodong Jinglu in the Jin Dynasty had sent an envoy to the Han Dynasty to swear an oath, with an annual 40,000 taels of silver coins about the Han to attack the Jiannu, this business is doing well, and it will continue to do it in the future, The right wing of the Tatars should be fought and pulled together, and take advantage of the chaos to regain control of the three guards of Dongsheng, Xinghe, and Kaiping, which originally belonged to my Ming Dynasty, so that the side wall is not in danger," Li Huai said this, and couldn't help laughing at himself, "Let the two adults laugh, this is all arrogant talk of the late life, in fact, the late life also knows that my Ming Dynasty has neither the heart nor the power now, and can only take one step at a time." ”