Lu Xiangsheng stared at Li Yu with his eyes, but this guy was very unlucky, he lowered his head without saying a word, he was a little impatient, frowned and said: "If today's disasters and man-made disasters and the people are not happy, we must calm down the internal and external troubles as soon as possible, so as to save the people from fire and water. ”

"The naturalized land is poor and the people are poor, and they are still living on debt, and the ethnic groups are complex, and it will take time for the integration of various ethnic groups, and reckless action will inevitably lead to civil strife," Li Yu shook his head and said to Lu Xiangsheng, "The adults hold the land of the three towns, there are many people, and the land is rich in products, as long as the maladministration is eliminated and the government is cleaned, it will definitely make a great difference, so why care about a poor little naturalization." ”

"Absurd, the country is in trouble, the subjects are all doing their best, naturalizing has food and soldiers but stays out of the matter, what is the intention? How to govern has its own civil servants, you only need to listen to the words of the official and hand over the naturalization, and there is no need to say anything else. Lu Xiangsheng retorted sharply.

Li Yu originally planned to bargain and fool around, but this governor was too powerful, and he was going to serve his old nest as soon as he came up, and he was also a little annoyed in his heart, so he immediately opened the old account and Lu Xiangsheng's theory - how much money was spent on immigration, how much money was spent on raising soldiers, how much money was spent on sending troops to fight, and how much money was spent on compensating the dead and wounded, he owed a lot ......of debts for naturalization, and the court wanted to naturalize, so he paid back the money for him first, and the court had to discuss with the council how to govern naturalization in the future, and it would definitely not work if he violated the "Naturalization Oath", The common people did not agree in the first place.

Lu Xiang was angry, he was still staring at the money in the naturalized silver treasury, but this guy stretched out his hand first, a wave of anger became more and more intense, and he lowered his voice and said coldly: "This official will not give you a tael of silver, you have been entrenched in naturalization for many years, and the money you make is still less?" The official knows that you have colluded with the Dongyu, but don't be fearless, how can the Yidi beasts be able to defeat my Heavenly Empire, although it will succeed for a while, but it will eventually be wiped out, the official will very much want to enter Liaodong to hunt, you must see the trend of victory and defeat, do not make mistakes again and again. ”

Li Yu understood that the two sides couldn't talk anymore, so he simply replied nonchalantly: "The last general can't see it, at least twenty years the Ming Dynasty is definitely not the opponent of the Qing State, and it is difficult to say after twenty years, please forgive the last general for bluntly saying that the thieves are just a rabble, and the Qing army is very different, although the adults are proficient in Wentao and martial arts, and the thieves are also quite successful, but the Qing soldiers will fight in the sea of corpses and blood since childhood, and the combat power is extremely strong. Cultivating and recuperating with the people is the right way, fighting and killing can't solve the problem, and I have lived well after I naturalized and negotiated peace with the Qing Dynasty. ”

"If you speak wildly and have ill intentions, this official must impeach you," Lu Xiangsheng felt insulted, so he stood up angrily and slapped the table and angrily reprimanded Li Yu, "The three-foot sword of the Ming Dynasty is still there, this official is the governor of Xuanda Sizhen under the edict of the Son of Heaven, you want to divide one side of lawlessness, don't be delusional!" With the land of your naturalization projectile, there is only one way to die against the Celestial Empire, obeying Wang Hua is the right way, hand over naturalization to the imperial court, and wait for the guilt yourself. ”

"Naturalization is not mine, but all naturalized people, they have the right to decide the ownership of naturalization, adults can say to naturalized people, if the naturalized people agree to obey Wang Hua, the end will have no other words," Li Yu replied coldly, stood up and shook his head and said softly, "Fengzhou is too weak to help the Ming Dynasty, and hard work will only cause civil strife, so let's do it, the end will withdraw from the pass, and the people and land of Datong Tuntian will be handed over to the adults, but the naturalized Tuntian has a debt of 200,000 taels, and the adults must also repay this debt." ”

"Shameless man, this official will not give you a son, you still have to hand over all the naturalized deposit silver to the Governor's Palace," Lu Xiangsheng pointed at Li Yu and roared, and casually took out a handful of silver coins and silver bills and threw them on the table, "You actually used these to defraud the people's money, it is extremely shameless, and you will die if you kill you, go back immediately and stop issuing these fake money, if you don't comply, this official will definitely punish you." ”

Li Yu was also angry, pointed at Lu Xiangsheng and shouted: "The miscellaneous silver and copper coins of the imperial court are fake money that harm the people, you can't control the naturalization matter, if you have a kind, come to arrest me, Lao Tzu is not afraid of you." ”

Both of them are stubborn, no one will be soft, after looking at each other angrily for a while, Lu Xiangsheng suppressed the fire and waved his hand and said: "Some people in the court say that you are a lawless northern captive, and some people say that you are a traitor who recognizes a thief as your father, and this official thinks that you will be the first traitor of the Ming Dynasty sooner or later, you should take the looted money back to your hometown, so as not to die in the future." ”

"I admit it to Beiyu, I don't recognize the traitor, I still have a name called Wulana Laelu, don't you know," Li Yu sneered and turned his head to leave, walked a few steps and turned back to mock, "Where is the adult's sword and axe hand?" Don't you Wenchen like to play this hand? ”

"Rebel, take it for me immediately." Lu Xiangsheng couldn't hold back any longer, and the teacup in his hand slammed to the ground - this person must be a disaster after the Ming Dynasty, even more dangerous than Bibai, and it will not work if he doesn't get rid of it.

Lu Xiangsheng was promoted just in case, and more than 100 family members were secretly lurking outside the door, all of whom were brave men who had been fighting for many years, and they killed together when they heard the signal, but Mo Zhige and Gao Heizi reacted faster, leading more than a dozen guards to draw their knives without hesitation, and Rabudu immediately shot three arrows, and the courtyard of the governor's palace was immediately chaotic, and the family Ding couldn't imagine that the other party not only resisted arrest, but also dared to kill, and he was a little flustered for a while. Li Yu had already walked to the door with a knife at this time, Lu Xiangsheng scolded "thieves can be killed", the two officers next to him jumped out, raised their knives and threw themselves at Li Yu's back, Li Yu turned around suddenly, raised his foot and kicked the two officers out one by one, raised his knife and pointed at Lu Xiangsheng and shouted: "This marshal is the prince Shaobao, the governor of Zuodu, the first-class general of the imperial court, you are just a second-grade servant, if you dare to commit a petty crime and act boldly, Yuan Chonghuan will be your end." ”

A burst of fire suddenly sounded, and Hadari led a large group of Fengzhou soldiers into the inner courtyard, and after a short fight, surrounded the family members of Lufu. Lu Xiangsheng was pointed at by dozens of horses, and a cold sweat broke out on his back, he couldn't understand how his governor's palace was heavily guarded, how could so many Fengzhou soldiers suddenly appear? Fortunately, he didn't go to the gate to look, otherwise he would have been angry to death - the guards of the Governor's Mansion had already dispersed, and the guards of the gate had become Fengzhou soldiers, and there was also a team of Datong People's Army who set up two cannons, and the muzzles of the cannons were pointed directly at the gate of the Governor's Palace.

"Disarm them, and those who disobey will be killed!" Li Yu glanced at the pale face of the Lu Mansion family, waved his hand to Hadari, and the family members looked at the black mouth and threw down the sword in their hands in fear.

Li Yu swaggered out of the Governor's Palace, waved to Li Xuan and Zhang Guoji, and led the Flying Tiger to ride on his horse and gallop towards the north gate.

Within 500 steps around the north gate, there were heavily guarded, full of heavily armed soldiers, including the Ming army defending the city, as well as the Fengzhou soldiers and the Datong people's army, Jiang Xuan, the general soldier of Yanghe, and Guo Xiu, the deputy garrison of Xuandewei, were chatting on the side with cigarettes, and saw Li Yu and his party galloping over, and hurriedly greeted them.

"Brother Li, are you in trouble again?" Jiang Xuan asked with a smile, this is also a disciple of Yulin Jiangmen, and his relationship with Fengzhou has always been very good.

"It's a big disaster, the Governor wants to kill me, but I don't know him as well, Brother Jiang, please give my Commander-in-Chief Seal to the Governor, just say that Lao Tzu is gone, he likes to do whatever he wants." Li Yu replied with a smile, stuffed a silk cloth bag to Jiang Xuan, and then led his men out of the city with a wave of his hand.

has a temper, people dare to treat Wenchen as a monkey, just by virtue of this, the boss of Yulin in the future must be him-Jiang Xuan looked at Li Yu's back and sighed with emotion, and then turned his face and shouted at his subordinates: "Everyone doesn't know anything about today's affairs, I don't know, anyway, if I don't admit it, who dares to kill him with a lot of mouth." ”

Li Yu went out of Yanghekou and breathed a sigh of relief, and then sent someone to pass the order - Zhao Ji went to Manhan Mountain to take charge of the battalion dispatch, Terrig took the Khalkha cavalry battalion and Wuxuan Academy to Baoketu, and the cavalry right association and the artillery left association recruited and mobilized the reserves to go to Wuyuan, and at the same time the garrisons along the border wall and the garrison in the pass entered the guard. After giving the order, Li Yu set off again, and when he was about to be naturalized, he instructed Li Xuan again, sent him back, and made a detour to Baoketu by himself.

In the western Xingtai camp, Batu was stunned when he saw Li Yu suddenly breaking into the big tent, and before he could ask, Li Yu waved his hand and said: "The governor of Ming Guoxuan wants to kill me, so I have to run to you to hide for a while." ”

"You should have beheaded a long time ago, I wonder, how did you survive until now?" Batupi replied with a smile, then pulled Li Yu to sit down, and said with a straight face, "Since the situation has changed, you should sit in the town and naturalize, what are you running around?" ”

"I'm going to change things with you, you will be in charge of the Grand Commander's Mansion, and the western stage will be handed over to me." Li Yu said with a smile.

"Nonsense, you still want to harm me, I won't be fooled by you again," Batu immediately turned his face, he was coaxed by Li Yu to become the deputy commander, and since then he has become the target of public criticism, he is the youngest son of the former lord of the Tumut steppe, Shunyi King Bo Shuo Ketu Khan, once may inherit the throne, Li Yu also regarded him as the successor in the future, but the expected heir of Fengzhou is Xiao Li Jin - his own nephew, this identity is too sensitive, everyone is staring at him, so scared that he does not dare to ask about the center, and honestly stays in the west to do hard work, Batu was annoyed when he thought of this, and said a little angrily, "I don't believe that the governor of the Ming Kingdom can scare you, to be honest, what do you have in mind?" ”

"How are the preparations for the westward march?" Li Yu didn't answer, but opened the map on the table and asked.

Batu glanced at Li Yu, and said in front of the map - 10,000 people have been assembled in the Wuyuan Guard, most of them are young and strong men equipped with war horses and weapons, and Zhang Ding, the assistant military affairs officer, was appointed to preside over the training, and Xiao Sigui, Bao Rongge, and Su Hai were transferred to assist, and a temporary cavalry association has been formed to step up training; Armament raising began last year, and the Gohara Guardian Thousand Households Thousand Households reported that the arsenal had 20,000 stone of grain, 20,000 horses, camels, livestock, 20 leather cannons, 2,000 horses, and countless ordnance such as gunpowder, knives, spears, and arrows.

"According to the plan, it is expected that 30,000 people will be dispatched to the west this time, and at least two months of supplies and ordnance will be prepared, this reserve is not enough, and the troops have not begun to be mobilized, and the troops may be dispatched after spring ploughing, why are you in a hurry now?" Batu stared at Li Yu and asked.

"Itak sent a letter from Khalkha that Zasaktu Khan Subati planned to send troops to attack Western Mongolia in late February, but he only got 20,000 men, and his heart was a little weak, and he encouraged me to send troops to support him, and I wanted to take this opportunity to solve the problem of Western Mongolia." Li Yu nodded and said unhurriedly.

Western Mongolia is also known as Warat or Oirat, the ancestor was the Gang Yirati, originally nomadic in the bitter cold land of the northwest, because of the marriage relationship with the golden family, regarded as one of the Mongolian kings. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial power weakened, Western Mongolia took advantage of the situation, blatantly dug the corner of the Great Yuan to expand its strength, and the Eastern Mongolia representing the orthodoxy of the Yuan Dynasty almost became an enemy, friction and fighting, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, often took advantage of the contradictions between the East and Western Mongolia, pulled one to fight another, after the two sides beat each other several times, the hatred also accumulated deeper and deeper. The orthodox dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, Eastern Mongolia was tormented by long-term division and war to the dying, the leader of Western Mongolia Tuhuan, also the first father and son in the Ming State with the support of the Ming State to take advantage of the fire to rob, once the Mongolian Khan under the feet, controlled almost the entire Mongolian steppe, if it were not for the Mongols to only recognize the bloodline, the golden family even the Mongolian Khan can not keep the throne. After the rise of Dayan Khan, he led his people to fight hard with Western Mongolia for many years, reunified the Eastern Mongolian tribes, and the Western Mongols were defeated all the way back to their hometown in the northwest, and split into four tribes: Dzungaria, Heshute, Dulbert and Turgot, which seemed to be unable to collapse and disappear. At the end of last year, with Tulu Baihu, the leader of the Heshute tribe, and Batur, the head of the Dzungar tribe, helped the two tribes to enter the West Sea one after another and wage war with the Khalkha Tyuktutaiji entrenched there, on the grounds that the Tyuktutaiji supported the Red Religion and was essentially fighting for the pastures of the West Sea.

The Khalkha tribes come from the Eastern Mongolian Dayan Khan lineage, which Zasaktu Khan borders with the Heshute Department of Western Mongolia, the two sides have clashed for the grassland, although they once talked about peace, but Zasaktu Khan has been unconvinced by the Heshuo Special Department to occupy a large grassland, and now the main force of the Heshuot Department went to the West Sea, and the Khalkha got Fengzhou this powerful ally, the strength of the other, Zasaktu Khan and Tushetu Khan, Chechen Khan discussed, this is a good opportunity to fight the feud Western Mongolia, decided to pull Li Yu into the gang, Under the banner of aiding the Khalkha brothers who were displaced in the West Sea, they sent troops to Western Mongolia, and by the way, they regained the lost pasture, and forgot the past when the three of them were squeezed out of Khalkha. Zasaktu Khan also revealed to Li Yu that Tulu Baihu had tried to send someone to Shengjing to meet the Qing emperor early last year, but was blocked by the Khalkha on the way, and if he succeeded, the Qing would stick a knife in the back of Fengzhou, and this rebellion was too dangerous not to get rid of.

"If Fengzhou wants to open up a trade route to the west, it must use the Oirats, but the premise is to beat them and subdue them, and then form an alliance with them, I can't find an excuse to knock the Oirat, now the name is justified, and the Khalkha people can take the initiative to send troops to save me a lot of money." Li Yu finally said.

"I'm afraid it's not easy, we and Western Mongolia can't eat anyone, and we have repeatedly fought for hundreds of years and have become mortal enemies, there are too many bad debts in the middle, just a West Sea is not easy to solve, first they occupy the West Sea pasture, Altan Khan took the Yongshao Bu people, the Ordos people to rob, and then the Ming Kingdom was involved again, we finally stood on our feet, but we were forced to withdraw by the Chahar Khan's western invasion, and the Khalkha Qiuketu only went in for two or three years, and Western Mongolia is going to make a comeback, how do you talk to them?" Batu shook his head.

"The Liberal Party has a slogan 'The Liberal Party leads everyone to get rich together', and I also have a slogan 'Fengzhou leads all Mongolian departments to get rich together', fighting a war can't solve the problem, the key is to share the benefits, not only do I not want their population, livestock and pasture, but also give them real benefits, I don't believe they don't follow me." Li Yu replied confidently.

Batu couldn't help laughing: "Yuzi, I found that you don't read, but you understand more and more." ”

"Forced out, if I fight with others everywhere with this bit of strength, isn't that looking for death?" Li Yu was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "Actually, we Zhushen also have an old saying, 'If you can't eat your opponent, be friends with him', Sibeile understands this truth best, and this is the relationship between Qingguo and Fengzhou." ”

"Okay, I understand, this time I will lead the troops to the battle, you, stay at home and settle all the shit of the governor of the Ming Kingdom, don't expect me to wipe your ass for you." Batule said.

"No, westward expansion is not as simple as fighting, where to fight, how to fight, and how to talk about it after the war? These are all problems, you need to improvise, or is it more appropriate for me to go," Li Yu shook his head, pondered for a while and then said, "We are inextricably linked with the Ming Kingdom, but we are taking diametrically opposite paths, the conflict between the two sides will happen sooner or later, it is better to have a showdown now than to have an accident in the future, but our internal factions are complex, each has its own interests, and it is difficult to have a solution that takes into account all parties." I don't want to decide the fate of the people of Toyozhou, so I just don't care, and give the various forces the opportunity to perform, and the people of Toyosu make their own choice. You just stay in Baoketu and sit in the Great Commander's Mansion to stabilize the situation in Fengzhou, no matter what choice the people of Fengzhou make, you don't care, I can accept it. ”

Batu gasped, shook his head and said, "It's too risky, what if Toyosu gets out of control?" ”

"I have ordered that not a single soldier of the battalion is allowed to enter naturalization, and in the same way, not a single soldier of the Ming army can be allowed to enter Fengzhou, as long as the army does not intervene, it will not get out of control, and if anyone dares to make trouble, there will be no mercy." Li Yu gritted his teeth and said.