(Recommended reading: The reason why Yang Lian couldn't see Li Hongyu's mind was naturally because Li Hongyu did it deliberately, and he came to see Yang Lian this time just to comply with etiquette.

In fact, Li Hongyu does not have the slightest prejudice against Yang Lian, history proves that among the many Donglin parties in the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, Yang Lian is the most honest and upright one, who was once so poor that he couldn't even afford to support his family, and he can be described as a utopian figure who "fights" for ideals.

Of course, this also means that Yang Lian is very stubborn, and once he recognizes something, he will move forward bravely, so he naturally became a member of the Donglin Party in front of the battle.

Speaking of which, Li Hongyu is also very sympathetic to Yang Lian, if he knew that a large number of Donglin Party members in the imperial court surrendered after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the capital, then he would definitely vomit blood in the tomb.

In the blink of an eye, ushered in the Spring Festival of the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the whole capital was shrouded in a festive atmosphere, for people who have worked hard for a year, this time is the family to celebrate, enjoy the family reunion day.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Hongyu did not stay in the Li Mansion to keep the year with Qin Yue, as the leader of Huguang's juzi, he naturally went to the Huguang guild hall and drank and laughed with those Huguang juzi in the restaurant of the guild hall.

Not only him, but Zhao Xin and Yang Renxiao and other people who lived outside all came to the Huguang Hall, after all, now is an excellent time to take the opportunity to build a relationship.

In this way, Qin Yue and Rou'er could only spend a Spring Festival in Li's house, which was not a reunion, and their mood was more or less lost.

In fact, Qin Yue knows very well that once Li Hongyu steps into the official career, then the two will definitely get together less and leave more, with Li Hongyu's "tossing" in the officialdom, she will definitely go around, although she wants to stay by Li Hongyu's side, but the reality does not allow it, otherwise it will definitely drag Li Hongyu back.

"Happy New Year, brothers. In the following, I wish you all the best in the exam, and the title of the gold list! ”

When the bell of the alternation of the old and the new year on the bell tower of the capital on Chinese New Year's Eve sounded dullly, on the wine table in the center of the hall on the first floor of the Huguang Guild House Restaurant, Li Hongyu stood up and smiled and raised his wine glass and said loudly to everyone in the hall on the first floor of the scene.

"Cheng Li Xie Yuan Ji Yan!" Hearing this, everyone sitting in the hall on the first floor stood up one after another, raised their wine glasses and saluted Li Hongyu in unison, pushing the joyful atmosphere of the scene to the top.

"Brother Li, who should we send a New Year's greeting to tomorrow?" After drinking, everyone sat down one after another, and Shen Bocheng, who was sitting at the same table with Li Hongyu, remembered something and asked quietly.

Hearing this, the hall on the first floor suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Li Hongyu in unison, Li Hongyu's decision will have a subtle impact on everyone.

The reason why I say this is naturally because of the Donglin Party and the Chu Party in the court, and it stands to reason that from the perspective of the relationship between the township party above the court, Huguang's sons naturally gave priority to meeting the three leaders of the Chu Party.

However, although the Donglin Party is a party dominated by Jiangnan literati, it has also absorbed some officials from other regions, the most important of which is naturally Yang Lian, who was born in Huguang.

In this way, if the students of Huguang want to take refuge, they have two choices, one is the Chu Party, and the other is the Donglin Party.

Although the power of the Chu Party is not as strong as that of the Donglin Party, it has the Zhejiang Party and the Qi Party as allies, so it will not fall behind in the contest with the Donglin Party.

Therefore, among these moves of Huguang, not all of them want to join the Chu Party, and a considerable number of people want to join the Donglin Party.

"It's better to look like this, and everyone will give priority to meeting the adults closest to Beijing and their hometowns according to their origins." Li Hongyu had already thought of this problem, and when he heard this, he glanced around at the scene and said with a smile.

"That's a great move!" Hearing this, Fang Yun immediately bowed slightly, and immediately expressed his approval.

"Okay, let's do it." The rest of the people also nodded, thinking that Li Hongyu's method was good.

In this way, everyone not loses their courtesy, but also avoids offending the Donglin Party and the Chu Party of Huguang, and if they join the government in the future, they will have a good relationship with each other in the officialdom.

In fact, the Huguang officials who wanted to meet were none other than Yang Lian of the Donglin Party and the three leaders of the Chu Party, but when everyone had not yet decided whether to join the Chu Party or the Donglin Party, it was naturally inconvenient to expose their goals prematurely, so Li Hongyu's measures were undoubtedly the safest, so that everyone had a basis for advancing and retreating.

In this way, the officials of the major ministries and institutes in the capital, Yamen Huguang, and Guang became the objects of everyone's visit.

Of course, due to the different positions held by officials from Huguang in the capital, Li Hongyu and others will naturally distinguish priorities according to their different positions.

First of all, they naturally had to visit the Huguang officials of the Hanlin Academy and Kedao and the six ministries, which can be said to be the most important institutions in the central ministries of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Dali Temple and the General Political Envoy, and then the Huguang officials of the Yamen such as Taichang Temple and Guozijian, so as not to mess up the priority of respect and inferiority.

It is worth mentioning that according to Li Hongyu's proposal, most of the people in Huguang naturally wanted to visit the three leaders of the Chu Party first, because the three leaders of the Chu Party were either from Wuchang Mansion or very close to Wuchang Mansion, which made Wuchang Mansion and Changsha Mansion and other places take the lead in visiting them.

Yang Lian was born in Huguang Ying Mountain, which is close to Xiangyang Mansion, so Li Hongyu and other people in the north of Huguang should be the first to visit Yang Lian.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, as soon as the gate of the inner city of the capital was opened, groups of people gathered outside the city gate in the cold wind and waited to enter the city.

As an important member of the Donglin Party, Yang Lian's mansion naturally came to visit the New Year, including Huguang's sons and officials in the capital, and some wealthy businessmen also sent people, so Yang's mansion was full of money.

Yang Lian is not at home, he naturally has people who need to pay New Year's greetings, so the people who came to Yang's Mansion to pay New Year's greetings left after leaving the greetings and gifts, after all, they are not the only ones who pay New Year's greetings to Yang Lian.

When Li Hongyu led the lifters of Xiangyang Mansion to the door, Mrs. Yang unexpectedly met them, if you look at the region, these movers of Xiangyang Mansion are closer to Yang Lian.

Especially Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, who Yang Lian admires, are both from Xiangyang Mansion, Mrs. Yang naturally has to take care of the two, if Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin can help Yang Lian in the officialdom in the future, then Yang Lian will be much easier.

Li Hongyu naturally knew what Mrs. Yang meant, and he could only keep in mind the kindness of Yang Lian and Mrs. Yang.

After leaving the Yang family, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin led the sons of Xiangyang Mansion to pay New Year's greetings to Wu Liangsi and other three leaders of the Chu Party, but they still failed to see Wu Liangsi and the three.

However, Li Hongyu was courteous to Wu Liangsi's family members in the homes of the three Wu Liangsi, and it was obvious that not only Yang Lian was optimistic about Li Hongyu, but Wu Liangsi was also optimistic about him.

This is enough to show that Li Hongyu is excellent, and if he leaves it to other people, he would have thought that the Ming army might be defeated by the Jurchens, I am afraid that they don't even know who the chief of the Jurchens is.

Wu Liangsi's wife revealed to Li Hongyu that the Wanli Emperor had a very good impression of him, otherwise Li Hongyu's pessimistic belief that the Ming army would be defeated in Liaodong would be enough to make him suffer.

In addition, Mrs. Wu also mentioned to Li Hongyu why Wu Liangsi didn't tell him what he told him about "Pingliao Ce" in advance, firstly, she didn't want to worry about it, and secondly, she also wanted to see how Li Hongyu's on-the-spot decision was, in fact, even if he told Li Hongyu in advance, it would not help Li Hongyu, the key is to see Li Hongyu's own strength, whether he can satisfy Emperor Wanli.

I have to say that Wu Liangsi and the three of them not only gave Li Hongyu a test, but also put a heavy bet on Li Hongyu, hoping that Li Hongyu can soar through this matter, so Li Hongyu will definitely not go to the Donglin Party, otherwise it will be ungrateful.

It turned out that Wu Liangsi and the three of them were worried that the young and vigorous Li Hongyu would not be able to hold it back, and when the time came, they would go to find the "Pingliao Policy" of the Donglin Party, so they took advantage of Yang Lian's return to Beijing after weighing left and right, and finally decided that Wu Liangsi, the military department, would hand over the Pingliao Policy to Emperor Wanli in the matter.

Judging from the results, Emperor Wanli was very satisfied with Li Hongyu's response, otherwise he would not have let Li Hongyu stay in Wenyuan Pavilion for one night, and afterwards summoned Wu Liangsi into the palace to inquire about Li Hongyu's affairs, and learned that Li Hongyu helped the yamen of Wuchang Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion to crack two bloody cases in a short period of time, and couldn't help but bow slightly, which made Wu Liangsi feel relieved.

In fact, Wu Liangsi and the other three leaders of the Chu Party did not believe that the official army would be defeated in Liaodong, but Li Hongyu looked confident, so the three of them had to choose to believe, so now the three of them are paying close attention to the situation in Liaodong and want to know whether the situation in Liaodong will really be as Li Hongyu said.

Although Li Hongyu is not clear, Wu Liangsi, as a military officer, knows very well that the Ming army has concentrated the elite of the whole country in order to quell the rebellion of the Jurchens, and it is imperative to win this battle of Liaodong.

In order to support the Ming army in eastern Liaodong, the imperial court transferred about 30,000 elite cavalry from the three towns of Xuanfu, Datong and Shanxi, 25,000 main forces from Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, Gansu Town, and Guyuan Town, about 20,000 troops from Sichuan, Guangdong, Shandong, Shaanxi, North Zhili and South Zhili, 4,000 elite infantry from Zhejiang, and about 7,000 Tusi soldiers from Yongshun, Baojing, and Shizhou, as well as native soldiers from Hedong and Hexi.

In this way, the total number of Ming troops who reinforced Liaodong was about 86,000, all of which were the main forces transferred from various places by the imperial court.

In addition, the Jurchen Haixi Yehe Department sent 10,000 troops, and the Korean Kingdom sent 13,000 troops.

With a total of nearly 110,000 reinforcements from all over the country, plus tens of thousands of troops from the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, the Ming army claimed to have 470,000 troops in Liaodong, and had an absolute advantage over the Jurchens in terms of strength and equipment alone.

Due to the limited information on the Jurchens, the military department does not know how many troops the Jurchens have, but only that Nurhachi established the Eight Banners military system with military, administrative, and production functions in the process of unifying the Jurchen ministries.

Eight Banners soldiers out of the soldiers, into the people, at the beginning only divided into yellow, white, red, blue four color flags, Wanli forty-two years and added inlaid yellow, inlaid white, inlaid red, inlaid blue four flags, a total of eight flags.

According to the Jurchen custom, among the eight Jurchen banners, each banner can send 7,500 troops, with a total of more than 60,000 troops.

Therefore, the strength of the Ming army was twice that of the Jurchens, not only was the main force of the Ming army but also had superior equipment, no matter how you look at it, it would not be defeated by the Jurchens.

However, there are no absolutes in the world, Wu Liangsi thinks that Li Hongyu's analysis of the battle situation in Liaodong is reasonable, perhaps the imperial court really underestimated the strength of the Jurchens, and the so-called arrogant soldiers will be defeated, so that the Ming army may really lose in Liaodong.

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