The main hall of the Grand Commander's Mansion was solemn, and the officials of Ortai, Li Fugui, Li Huai, and other important officials, together with Jin Sheng, sat precariously and watched Li Yu watch the edict - this edict arrived in Fengzhou a month ago, and the proclamator could not find Li Yu who was running around, so he hastily read it out, and stuffed the edict into Jin Sheng's hand and went back.

"The court is still playing false, and you will call me back from the old capital city for this matter?" After reading the edict, Li Yu showed a sneer on his face - the imperial court announced in the edict that the naturalization of the town, and at the same time set up the naturalization mansion, awarded Liu Zhilun as the governor of naturalization, and added the title of imperial history of the right capital, awarded Li Yu as the naturalized general soldier, added the title of governor of the right capital, awarded Jin Sheng as the naturalized prefect, awarded Li Huai as naturalized participation in politics, awarded Du Hongtai as the Tongzhi of Dongshengwei, and gave ten deputy generals, staff generals and silver medals of 200 as rewards for meritorious soldiers, and other benefits at all, in addition to Li Huai and Du Hongtai, who have made meritorious contributions, got official positions. Others are still black.

"Han Min can't talk nonsense, the imperial court also has difficulties, it's okay, I'm not in good health and I want to resign and go home, it's better for you to find someone to do it in the naturalized prefect." Jin Shengban said with a face, the imperial court really wants to figure out that naturalization is now a ruin, how can Fengzhou have the financial resources to rebuild the naturalization city, how can this prefect be it?

"Zhengxi must stay, we can trust you, the naturalized prefect or you will do it, and the Grand Commander's Mansion will fully support it." Ortai waved his hand and said - Jin Sheng is generous and does not care about fame and fortune, and is willing to do things in a down-to-earth manner, and gradually won everyone's trust in him, Fengzhou has opened his mind to him, but Jin Sheng himself is still hesitating.

"The area of the Barbarian Mountain is narrow, it is okay to raise troops to hide, but it is not conducive to development, Kuku and Tun are close to the Heihe, the water and grass are abundant and the land is fertile, and it is convenient to connect the four directions, move the camp of the Barbarian Mountain over, and if there is no city on the grassland, you can also build a mansion," Li Huai stood up after pondering for a while, spread out the map and said to everyone, "The Prime Minister's Office believes that it is imperative for the Grand Commander's Mansion to be moved to Kuku and Tun, and the imperial court decreed the establishment of the Naturalization Mansion is just an opportunity, and the Barbarian Mountain is left to the battalion soldiers and the Ordnance Division, We merged the Manhan Mountain Camp with the Fengzhou Wei to form the Naturalization Prefecture, and then set up the Wuchuan Shouyu Thousand Households Office in the north, the Guanshan Shou Thousand Households Office in the east, and the Bao Ketu Thousand Households in the west, so that we could completely control the land of Fengzhou. In addition, it is suggested that Xinghewei should also expand to the east, try to control the hometown of Kaipingwei, and rely on Duolunor, the old capital and Dushikou to carry out the defense of the Jin State, while Dongshengwei should control the west of the Yellow River, 'the Yellow River is harmful, only one is rich', since there is no one in the set, then we will take it down, Meng Qing has taken two thousand households across the river, if we stand still, we will move Dongshengwei to the west of the river. ”

Li Yu opened his mouth and looked at Li Huai, and after a while, he shook his head vigorously and said: "This is not good, we don't need to expand our territory, we have the land and pasture of Fengzhou, it is enough to feed 200,000 people, and the territory is too big to support death." ”

"If we don't grab the land, we will starve to death, so many people died in this battle, our population has not decreased but increased, the Great Khan has lost more than 20,000 Chahar people, and more than 10,000 poor people north of the Heihe River, Yushan to Datong and brought back nearly 10,000 people to join the Ming army and their families, plus scattered into Fengzhou, our population is almost 250,000, the customs are becoming more and more chaotic, the people can't survive, there will definitely be people who will continue to defect, but Fengzhou is barren, at most 300,000 people, maybe it won't take a few years to face collapse in Fengzhou, What do you do then? Go south to enter the customs like the Golden Country? Ortai looked at Li Yu with a sneer.

Li Yu jumped up in fright, waved his hand again and again and said, "I don't enter the customs, I don't fight with the Ming Kingdom!" ”

"It's up to you, I'm afraid I can't tell who to fight with when the time comes," Li Fugui held Li Yu down, and said with a long sigh, "We have actually fallen into a dead end, we must develop to survive, and development means an increase in population, so we have to expand, there is no way out to the north, and we can't solve the fundamental problem to the east and west, the only way out is to the south, but the Ming Kingdom is also a mess, and it has shown the appearance of defeat, what is our way out?" ”

"I'm going back to sleep for a while." Jin Sheng stood up with a pale face and staggered out, and the others also hung their heads in frustration.

"Brother Nian Feng is alarmist, let's solve the matter in front of me first," Li Huai smiled reluctantly, handed the two official documents to Li Yu, shook his head and said: "The regulations for reforming the military system and the official system have come out, but they can't be implemented. Especially the Chamber of Commerce, which is quite a bit of a forced palace. ”

Yun Rong added: "Brother Yushan brought back 150,000 taels of silver from Datong, and we wanted to exchange it for silver coins and silver banknotes. ”

"Not only that, the merchants of Qin and Jin Dynasty and Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku, these border businessmen, hid in the Chamber of Commerce all day long, and they didn't know what they were thinking, Wang Fang had close contacts with Zhang Mengcun, Hui Dengxiang and others during this time, and it seemed that they were secretly in tandem, and the people who came from the gate were also uncertain." Buyantu said to Li Yu.

Li Yu frowned and paced in the room, but Ortai said calmly: "Fengzhou is crisscrossed by various forces, we already know it, Nian Feng said that checks and balances are the policy of Fengzhou's governance, Mongolia has the old system of the Kuritai Conference to discuss state affairs, just as the autumn harvest is about to end, we will convene people from all walks of life, and also hold a Kuritai Conference." ”

Li Yu nodded and said: "Those who should come will always come, then everyone will talk on the table together, and the Great Commander's Office will immediately issue a notice to convene a public meeting on the first day of September." ”

Fengzhou Chamber of Commerce, more than 100 businessmen crowded into the lobby, it was rare that there was no loud noise, but honestly listened to Li Jianji talk eloquently - this guy is bold, others are not willing to be the first bird, he will be the governor as soon as he comes, and he must be the first governor, with the strong support of the Jin merchants, he was naturally successfully elected, and Sun Tingyao had to take a back seat.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are pigs raised by the imperial court in the Guan, and we are humiliated and slaughtered by the government, but we must be masters outside the Guan, and we must not let the Yi people and thieves also lie on their heads, doesn't Fengzhou talk about freedom, equality, and benevolence, then we will set a few rules for Fengzhou, if they don't agree, we will leave immediately, see how many days they can live, Li Hanmin is back, the time has come, and he must be forced to block the power of the court from Fengzhou." Li Jianji shouted violently.

"Whether your future net worth can be safe or not, it is all in one move, you must make the momentum bigger, force the Grand Commander's Mansion to obey, the governor of the imperial court is in office, and he must be helpless." Sun Tingyao was also shouting.

"My old Xu also went out to do it with you, you don't know, Shandong is so miserable! Jingshi Jinyiwei suddenly attacked, more than a dozen businessmen were arrested, their homes were raided, and the family wealth accumulated by several generations or even more than ten generations was all over overnight, fortunately, I expected that there would be this day, and there would have been no one in my hometown for a long time, otherwise I would not have seen you. Xu Hengchen, a big grain merchant in Shandong, said with red eyes, this guy just fled from Shandong with his family.

"Lao Xu, don't be sad, it's good if people can save it," Fan Yongdou comforted Xu Hengchen sympathetically, and casually said nonsense, "The Great Commander's Mansion is too dark this time, and it is also very hard for businessmen to earn some money, so they can't die in peace!" Seeing the fate of those unlucky businessmen, I felt sad. ”

Ma Qi was immediately unhappy: "Lao Fan, you can't talk nonsense, you are the one who gave the Jinyi Weitong thief and businessmen, and you are the one who shouts and kills the most, why blame the Great Commander's Mansion!" ”

"Okay, I said that Jin Yiwei knew so clearly, it turned out that you were ventilating the news," Xu Hengchen jumped up and threw Fan Yongdou to the ground.

"Lao Xu, I didn't put your name on the list."

"Bullshit, if someone else is caught, they can't confess me and kill you bastard!"

Xu Hengchen and Fan Yongdou scuffled together, and several Lu businessmen who fled to Fengzhou with Xu Hengchen also swung their fists at Fan Yongdou and his gang, and the businessmen present immediately divided into two factions and quarreled, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

"Ji Ming, quickly ask Buck outside to bring someone to pull them away." Sun Tingyao shouted in a hurry, and a tall middle-aged man agreed to run out, and after a while, Buck came in with a group of merchant troops, and forcibly separated the two groups of people by beating and scolding.

"Everyone is a businessman, don't hurt the harmony, this matter is to blame the Ming court, if the governor of the court comes, the next step is very likely to implement the "Ming Law", everyone must form a group, and the court must not be allowed to gain a foothold in Fengzhou." Li Jian shouted hoarsely.

Everyone quieted down, Sun Tingyao stared at Ma Qi and asked: "Old Ma, you are an industrial and commercial envoy, I am the most worried about you, you tell the truth, do you want to do it with us?" ”

March pondered for a while before he said, "I am loyal to the Grand Commander, and I am loyal to the Grand Commander's Office, I can do it, but you must assure me that after this matter, the authority of the Grand Commander and the Grand Commander's Mansion must not be compromised in any way. ”

"You can rest assured that we still have to rely on the Grand Commander and the Grand Commander's Mansion to make money, this matter is only for the Ming Imperial Court, and if necessary, we can also compensate the Grand Commander and the Great Commander's Mansion." Li Jianji replied without hesitation, and March nodded in agreement.

Li Jianji was very happy in his heart, glanced at the tall middle-aged man again, and asked coldly, "Shen Jiming, when can Uncle Ling come?" ”

"Uncle Jia is busy with affairs, and he will come to Fengzhou in the spring of next year, but I can also call the shots about our Shen family's business in Fengzhou." The middle-aged man replied - this person Shen Tingyang, the word Ji Ming, Shen Shoulian's nephew, is actually no more than two years younger than Shen Shoulian, but he is born in Zhusheng and likes to get together with literati, but the Shen family's business is less managed, Shen Shoulian has not stayed enough in his hometown, and he doesn't care if he likes it or not, kicking him from Suzhou to Fengzhou.

"I don't know who Uncle Ling is, so I can't bear Jiangnan Gentle Township, right? I heard that the deposed official who came with you also brought a beautiful concubine, you Jiangnan people really know how to have fun, whose son is he? Li Jianji said with a sneer.

Shen Tingyang's face flushed, and he replied in a low voice: "This person Mao Yuanyi, a person from Zhejiang's Anmao family, originally sent Zhangpu to Zhangpu, and his brain was feverish and he wrote to the imperial court to request to serve in the border town, so he was sentenced to Fengzhou, this person is a person in the officialdom, don't pay attention to him." ”

Li Jianji sneered after hearing this, and stopped talking to Shen Tingyang, and the businessmen discussed their important affairs again.

At the southern foot of Matou Mountain, the door of the official office of the Xuandewei Command Department was closed, and there were guards at the door, and the acting commander Zhang Mengcun, the deputy garrison Li Wanqing, the chief envoy of the Taxation Department, Bi Lige, and the director of the Propaganda Department, Wang Fang, were sitting together, talking in a low voice.

Wang Fang said with a serious expression: "Lao Zhang, you guard the road from Datong to Manhan Mountain, and you must not let the governor sent by the imperial court pass, if he brings troops to come, you must also send troops to intercept him." ”

"The Ming army doesn't matter, I'm afraid that the commander will come to greet him in person, so it's not easy to start." Li Wanqing was a little hesitant.

"Then the military admonishment, the commander is kind-hearted, and the governor of the Ming Kingdom is his master, he will definitely come forward to greet him, but we can't take care of him, the power of the imperial court has entered Fengzhou, do we people still have a way to live?" Wang Fang replied categorically, looked at the other people in the room, clenched his fists and said, "Gu Keli of Fengzhou Wei, Hui Dengxiang of Xinghewei, Tuoyangkun of Dongshengwei, and Zhang Liwei of the Manhan Mountain Camp all agreed to do it, and the Mongols and Zhushen also made it clear that they only support the Grand Commander and the Grand Commander's Mansion, and resolutely oppose the imperial governor's entry into Fengzhou, and the Grand Commander may have to make concessions this time." ”

"Wang Dengku quietly told me that the Chamber of Commerce also has to do it, as long as the imperial court governor enters Fengzhou, they will withdraw immediately." Bilig also said excitedly.

"I'm not afraid, it's a big deal that we support the general as the emperor together, and oppose him to the Ming court, Xu Jinxian's gang just escaped from the Ming army, and they were stationed in Xuandewei, and they were counting on the distribution of land and livestock, these deserters are more afraid of the court than anyone else, and if others don't do it, they will do it first." Zhang Mengcun waved his hand nonchalantly.

Wang Fang nodded and said: "Zhang Guoji contacted Xu Jinxian, and he agreed to do it together, Bi Lige mentioned the Chamber of Commerce, I was thinking if I could start a peasant association?" We can't let those profiteers ride on our heads! ”

"Okay, we have a lot of people, we have grain and soldiers in our hands, profiteers have a chamber of commerce, we should have a peasant association, and the farmers must also discuss political decisions." Zhang Mengcun's case applauded.

"No, the Great Commander's Office has repeatedly emphasized the integration of all ethnic groups, if the peasant association is launched, we Mongolians will also engage in the pastoral association, and there will definitely be a lot of quarrels in the future, and conflicts between the two sides will inevitably occur, and the Great Commander's Office may not support you." Bilig was a little worried.

"Then we will engage in agricultural and animal husbandry associations, and the Han, Mongolian, and Zhushen will join forces to be more powerful, see who dares to bully us?" Wang Fang waved his hand and said.

Fengzhou Academy is going to have a distinguished guest today, Song Tongyin was busy early in the morning, the disciples cleaned up a few thatched houses, everyone changed into the cleanest clothes, and waited on the side to prepare to wait for the guests. Li Yu and Li Huai were also called - Song Tongyin thought that he had taught the two brothers, and they were also his disciples, so the two had to stand behind Song Tongyin.

Jin Sheng, Na Mu Er and Han Lin accompanied the guests, Song Tongyin waved his hand and ordered Li Yu and Li Huai to come forward to greet them, and he proudly introduced two unscrupulous disciples to the guests, Li Yu and Li Huai were honest and obedient, but Na Mu Er and Han Lin turned their backs and laughed breathlessly.

"This is Lu Shanji, a famous scholar of science in Zhili, a member of Dingxing, Mr. Qianyue, who once deducted gold and silver to help Liaodong in the head of the household department in Wanli years, and was admired by the world."

"This is also a famous scholar of science in Zhili, Sun Qifeng, Zhong Yuan, Rongcheng people, who once led hundreds of villagers and disciples into the mountains to resist bandits, and was the most chivalrous and courageous."

"This is the former Liaohai Supervisor Dao Wang Zheng, a native of Jingyang, proficient in Western studies, and Xu Guangqi, a university scholar, known as the 'King of Southern Xu and North', coincided with the chaos of Confucius Youde in Shandong, and was framed by traitors and sent to Fengzhou."

"This is Mao Yuanyi, the former deputy general of Guanning, who returned to Anren in Zhejiang, and was famous all over the world for compiling the "Military Preparation Chronicles", and was wronged and sent to Zhangpu because of the South China Sea Mutiny on Phi Island, and served the country and changed his heart to Fengzhou."

"The old man doesn't need to be introduced, Hermes-Epitek and Yushan are all old acquaintances." Gao Yizhi stopped Song Tongyin's introduction with a smile.

Song Tongyin was happy, wrote a letter and blew a few words to educate Fengzhou, and recruited Lu Shanji and Sun Qifeng, two masters of science, although Wang Zheng was sent here, but he was also a famous figure, Mao Yuanyi, this person has some fame but no fame, and he sent Fengzhou with his concubine, it can be seen that the behavior is frivolous, but his grandfather Mao Kun is a celebrity, and his father Mao Guojin is a minister to the Ministry of Works, and he should also be polite to him.

Everyone sat down with a smile, Song Tongyin was a jinshi in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, Lu Shanji was a jinshi in the forty-first year of Wanli, the two were qualified to be the chief sitting, Wang Zheng was a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, Jin Sheng was a jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, Sun Qifeng and Gao Yizhi were celebrities, Han Lin and Li Huai were lifters, Mao Yuanyi was a guest, and they all had places to sit, Li Yu and Na Mu'er had to stand.

After Sun Chengzong was dismissed, Lu Shanji also returned to his hometown in Dingxing, but he couldn't bear the loneliness, and received a letter invitation from Song Tongyin, who had a friend, and immediately moved his mind - he is also a Mongolian, but the three generations of ancestors and grandchildren have been completely sinicized, and it is still very attractive to him to educate the same clan to belong to China.

"Li Shuai can also sit down," Lu Shanji talked with everyone, and suddenly found that Li Yu was still standing behind Song Tongyin, greeted him with a smile and said: "We came to Fengzhou to see for a few days, the situation is much better than imagined, and Li Shuai has also made a great contribution to the imperial court." ”

"I don't dare to take credit in my later life, thanks to the people of Fengzhou who have shared weal and woe," Li Yu replied with his hand, just now it was not his turn to interject when these people spoke, and then he recklessly said, "It is an honor for you gentlemen to come to Fengzhou, but we are too poor to be afraid that we cannot afford to pay for it." ”

Lu Shanji smiled so much that he spit out the tea, waved his hand and said, "Li Shuai, don't worry, we have said that we will only teach disciples in the academy, just take care of food and housing, and we will not cause you trouble." ”

"However, if the academy wants to accept a wide range of disciples in the future, these few thatched huts will not work." Sun Qifeng said with a smile.

"Later students understood that after naturalization, a large academy should be built, all of which are brick houses." Li Yu hurriedly replied.