Li Yu smashed Meng Ke to the ground with a punch, Meng Ke also got up and pounced on Li Yu, the two scuffled together, Meng Ke's size and strength were still a little close, and after a while, he was thrown to the ground by Li Yu, Li Yu kicked and kicked Meng Ke, and scolded angrily: "You are a bad person, you want to teach bad Zhushen and Aha, I don't want you anymore, you get out of me!" ”

Meng Ke howled, "Can I be blamed for this? Those Qiding and Aha are not good people, I will learn bad if I don't teach them, I just want to earn their money, and their money is not clean anyway. ”

"Didn't I leave you food? Why should you harm others when you have food to eat? ”

"Is your little food enough for us? Watching you eat at the Bunkan, do I feel good? We can't always have a hard time, I just want to help you. ”

Li Yu stopped fighting, sat on the ground next to Meng Ke, sighed and said: "You can live anywhere with your skills, I am too poor to support you, you can take money and food and go, this place is not suitable for you, the people of Zhushen are simple, they will not tolerate you, if you continue to mix like this, a reserve or guerrilla can kill you." ”

"I'm not going anywhere, you're my brother, it's my home," replied Monk at once, "you only know that I've been a horse thief, but you don't know my origins, and I'll tell you now." ”

Meng Ke was born in a Khalkha tribe outside Quang Ninh, he didn't know who his father was, he grew up with his mother - a poor slave girl, when he was seven years old, a plague struck, took his mother's life, Meng Ke wandered around with the tribe, he was just a little slave, no one cared about his life and death, fortunately, Meng Ke was hard, survived to the age of ten in cold and hunger, a strange man claimed to be his own father, took him from the tribe, and he was with this man, and this man was a famous local horse thief. Meng Ke's father is not bad, he taught him all the skills of his body, and took him to rob everywhere, Meng Ke has lived a good life since then, and when he grabbed the property, he followed his father to find a place to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and went out to rob when he had no money, but the good days also came to an end, three years ago a group of more powerful horse thieves rushed into their territory, the two sides fought, Meng Ke's cheap father was slaughtered, Meng Ke and the living horse thieves had to surrender and follow this gang of people, the leader of this group of horse thieves is Iron Eagle, and the rest of the matter is simple, Tie Ying's cronyism and uneven distribution of dirt caused the dissatisfaction of Meng Ke, the backbone members of the gang of horse thieves, Meng Ke killed Tie Ying's two brothers, and fled to Liaoxi in one go

Meng Ke grabbed Li Yu's hand: "I don't want to live the old days anymore, when the horse thief is beautiful on the surface, everyone is afraid of wherever he goes, and he has property in his hand, but in fact, he is so worried that he doesn't dare to close his eyes when he sleeps, and no one knows when his head will be gone." The big head is a good person, I have already seen it, to Beitunzi day to see the villagers and you so close, I want to cry, in my life except for my dead mother, no one has treated me well, my father is not my father I don't know now, so I have the cheekiness to lie in you, follow you bitter I also admitted, at least now I fall asleep, besides, you have the ability, hard life will always end. ”

Meng Ke said to this point, Li Yu nodded helplessly: "You stay, don't teach people to learn badly in the future, no matter how hard our days are, we can't harm others, if you commit public anger, I can't save you, it's not troublesome to kill someone here." Seeing that Meng Ke honestly agreed, Li Yu said again: "If you don't call me a big boss in the future, it's okay, I'm not a den of thieves here." ”

Meng Ke said with a bitter face: "I'm used to it, I can't change it if I want to." ”

As soon as March arrived, Li Yu was notified to be on duty in the Great Khan Palace in Beicheng, and the monthly ration was also increased to one stone of rice per month, when the four Baylors put forward this suggestion, the Baylors had no opinion, and a trivial matter like this should not be decided by the Baylors, but Li Yu's situation is too special, and I don't know what the Great Khan thinks. Azig had nothing to say, he had already been ready for Li Yu to beg him, and even pondered how much grain he should lend Li Yu enough to build a house and marry a wife, and then he would do it with him with all his heart, but this guy didn't open his mouth to him, and now he couldn't watch Li Yu who was following the yellow flag and couldn't afford to eat. Erbel Amin even thinks that one stone of rice is too little, only enough for Erlu to eat his stomach, and don't even think about other things about starting a family.

Kuertang of the Wenguan is very unhappy, although Li Yu has not been studying well recently, but where to find such an obedient and good person, Dahai doesn't care, Li Yu learned to read and read with them, and in the future, with the hand of understanding Zhushen, Mongolian, and Chinese, sooner or later he can also get the title of Bakeshi, and the two of them can still go out and blow Li Yu is what they taught.

Kur called Li Yu and said coldly: "Congratulations, there are many opportunities to soar to the side of the Great Khan, don't forget us in the future." Without waiting for Li Yu to speak, he continued: "Sakhalian Belle has come back from Liaoyang, and asked us to get together, and specifically mentioned that you should go together, you can prepare it, and we will go to his house together." Then he waved his hand to let Li Yu retreat.

Li Yu was very happy in his heart, he liked Sakhalian, the Wenguan was located in the courtyard of the Great Yamen, every time Sakhalian met him in the Great Yamen, he greeted him warmly, but the two of them did not have the opportunity to talk in detail, Li Yuli came back from Ningyuan and had a lot of things that he couldn't figure out and wanted to talk to Sakhalian, in his heart, Sibeile and Kurtang and Dahai were very good to him, but they were strict elders, he didn't dare to say something to them, Turai, Haoge, and Aobai were his good friends, but these people were confused, and they couldn't think about the problem better than him, Sony is knowledgeable, but his temperament is a bit yin and unreal, Ao Bai called him "little white face", only Sakhalian is learned and kind, Li Yu feels that the knot in his heart can only be solved by Sakhalian.

Li Yu called Meng Ke, and accompanied Kurtang and Dahai out of the Wenguan and went straight to Saharan's mansion in the north of the city, and Meng Ke followed behind with a few pieces of venison brought by the Bayanhatto people two days ago. Meng Ke was very honest during this time, except for helping Bayanha's business run errands, most of the rest of the time stayed on the construction site of the New Khan Palace, the work was found by Li Yu for him, and several supervisors and craftsmen there were already familiar with Li Yu, and it happened to be the beginning of spring when there was a shortage of manpower to work, so he agreed to come down, and he was not tired of the work for Meng Ke, just watching Aha and Nikan work, and giving two liters of miscellaneous grain a day.

Kurtang, Dahai and Sakhalian are very familiar with each other, and Ahha, who is the gatekeeper of Sakhalian's mansion, saw that it was them, and let them enter the mansion without a word. When they arrived in the lobby, Sakha was talking to two people that Li Yu didn't know, and Kuhl came in and said, "Aita, Inge, you two came first." After speaking, he pulled Li Yu, who was about to salute Sakhalian, and sat down.

Li Yu felt that the air in the room was a little nervous, Sakhalian sat with a grim face, and smiled at them reluctantly to say hello, the other two people were also a little red-faced, and they just nodded when they saw them come in, Kul smiled at Sakhalian and said, "Did you quarrel with Aita again?" It's okay if you two don't meet, and if you meet, you're going to quarrel again, so let's listen to what you're arguing about today. ”

Sakhalian said angrily: "Ku Dazui, you and Dahai commented on the comment, Aita made an accident during the Fuzhou Change, from the deputy general in charge of Jin, Fu, Hai, and Gai Prefectures to the general, and he was idle at home for almost three years, I and Sibeile were kind enough to help him intercede, and the Great Khan finally gave him a favor and let him be reinstated as an official, and helped Tong Yangxing to take charge of the affairs of the Han people, this is a great thing, he made a stubborn fight with me, what do you say is this!" ”

Kurtang's head shook and said: "Aita, this is your fault, Sakhalian has done such a big favor, it's too late to thank you, what kind of stinky shelf are you putting up, besides, since the old man of the Yingge family has been idle, Lao Tong has taken over the affairs of Hanmin, but does he have the ability?" He is timid and afraid of things, and he can't do big things, so you don't come out to help at this time, and you still watch Lao Tong mess up the errand? ”

The middle-aged man named Aita ignored Kur's entanglement, but stared at Li Yu, who was still a little restrained beside him: "Ku Dazui, this young man is the disciple named Erlu from you and Dahai, right?" ”

Kuer said proudly: "Yes, this is my disciple Erlu, and he also has a man named Li Yu, look at this body, this posture, you are envious to death, right?" Then he introduced Li Yu: "This is Liu Aita, a third-class deputy general, there is also a Han name Liu Xingzuo, that is Yingge, a few years older than you, and now he is a third-class guerrilla, his Han name is Li Yangeng, and his old man is Li Yongfang, a third-class general soldier of Fushun, who is a good person." ”

Li Yu hurriedly got up and saluted: "Lord Adjutant General-", Aita immediately stopped him: "We don't play here, we don't need to be so polite, it's okay for you to call your master Ku Dazui here, you can call me Brother Liu or Brother Aita." Yingge also waved his hand and said, just call him Brother Li, anyway, he doesn't want to be that guerrilla.

Liu Xingzuo patted Li Yu on the shoulder: "I heard that you beat Wu Nag on Juehua Island, it's not bad, it's good to kill that bastard!" ”

Liu Xingzuo turned to Sakhalian again and said, "Why am I putting up a fight for you, I really can't do the errand given by the Great Khan, is there still Hanmin affairs in Liaodong now?" Since the beginning of the year, the Great Khan has been constantly killing Nikan, first killing the fleeing Han people, then killing the Wugu Han people, and then killing the spies and killing Xiucai, the entire Han people in Liaodong are bleeding like rivers and people's heads, and the living ones either fled to North Korea to join Mao Wenlong, or were arrested in Tuokesodang Aha, how many Han people are still in Liaodong to manage, don't you see Tong Yangxing frowning all day long? If you look at the price of grain in Shenyang, it is almost fifteen taels of silver and one stone of rice, and if it continues to rise like this, the Han people in the city will starve to death, and I still care about a fart! Anyway, first starve the Han people, then starve the Mongols, and finally Zhushen and Dajin Kingdom were finished. ”

Dahai had already run to the door to watch, and when he heard Liu Xingzuo's last few words, he couldn't help lowering his voice and shouting: "Can you be quiet, I don't want to be tied to a pillar and frozen overnight, count me unlucky, how can I get mixed up with you guys." He beckoned to Li Yu: "What are you doing stupidly there, you and Yingge are both here and watch the door with me." ”

A few years ago, Da Hai had a disaster, this guy was so bold that he actually hooked up with the maid of the Khan Palace, and was reported by the old Khan's nosy little Fu Jin Deyin - this little Fu Jin seems to have very sharp eyes, and the eldest concubine Abahai and the big Belle Dai are also reported by her, the old Khan has always been very concerned about the little things between men and women, and he will naturally not let go of such a serious event as adultery, and he killed the little maid with confidence, and Da Hai was also tied to the pillar outside the palace and blew the cold wind all night, almost killing him, Since then, Dahai's courage has been small, and this matter has become a laughing stock for everyone.

But at this time, no one had the intention to laugh at Dahai, everyone was silent, Liu Xingzuo's words were like a boulder pressing on everyone's hearts, the surface scenery of Dajin Country was actually full of crises, Shenyang City was good, people who couldn't survive still had a way to sell themselves as slaves, and there were already people in remote areas who ate people, so if you go on, you don't have to wait for the Ming army to fight, Dajin Kingdom may collapse by itself.

Liu Xingzuo began to say again, but this time his voice was a little quieter: "The Great Khan was wrong, at the beginning, his old man was able to create today's situation with dozens of people and thirteen pairs of armor, relying on the help of the Liao people, and how many people are in the Liao people, more of them are those poor Han people, the Ming court has no way, poisoning the people, when I escaped from Kaiyuan, Liaodong was already a piece of erosion, Liao people like me who can't survive, how many Liao people who escaped from the border wall of the Ming Kingdom to serve the Khan King, without these populations, how can we defeat Ye He, Ulla unifies Zhushen? How can you defeat the mighty Ming army in Sarhu? Xifu and Dahai are not after the exile of Han people. Think about how we occupied Liaodong, in fact, there is no city that we really beat down, Shenyang was deliberately blocked by the Liao people to let us in, Liaoyang was the Liao people from the city to put ropes to pull us into the city, Guangning was Sun Degong to contact the Liao soldiers to sacrifice, the Liao people helped us drive away the Ming Kingdom, we wanted to live a peaceful life, but how did we treat the Liao people, we robbed their food, killed their people, forced them to be desperate and forced to flee, what did we do! ”

Li Yu, who was guarding the door, looked at Dahai in surprise: "Master, are you Han?" ”

Dahai glanced at him: "What's so strange about this, the Tulai family who is often with you is also Han, and there are more Liao people who fled to Zhushen when they can't survive in the Ming Kingdom, and the Great Khan has already said that the Han people in Feiala's time are regarded as Zhushen, and Xifu and I are both Zhushen, what are you fussing about." ”

Dahai didn't bother to participate in the quarrel between Sakhalian and Liu Xingzuo, and chatted with Li Yu, Dahai told Li Yu: There are three main types of Liaodong people, the 200,000 people who surrendered to the Ming State in Liaodong at the end of the Yuan Dynasty - of which the Han people accounted for more than half, the Ming army in Guannei and their families in Liaodong and their families 200,000 people, in addition to the sinners in Guannei who sent the soldiers, these three types of people were compiled as military households by the Ming court, and also constituted the main body of the Liaodong people, but these people were mixed with Han and Yi and were either soldiers or sinners, so their status in the Ming State was very low, In addition, Liaodong is a bitter cold place, Liaodong people are generally poor, there are few people who can afford to read, the Ming Dynasty has not produced a few Jinshi who can be officials for more than two hundred years, the Han people in Guannei therefore look down on Liaodong people, call them Hanyi, most of the officials in Liaodong are also from Guannei, these officials are really ruthless to the Liaodong people, the Liao military households were taken away from the land, the civilians were extorted from their property, and the Liao people who could not survive had to leave their hometowns and go to Zhushen to find a way to live, several generations later, they all became Zhushen.

In particular, at the end of Wanli, the Ming State withdrew Kuandian, Changdian, Yongdian, Dadian, Xindian and Gushan Six Forts - the six forts were proposed by Li Chengliang in the early years of Wanli, and when he served as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong for the second time in the 34th year of Wanli, he proposed to recruit the Han people to return to their homeland, and sent troops to forcibly relocate more than 60,000 households of the people of the six forts to Fushun and Qinghe Pass, but the people were reluctant to cultivate the land for decades, and returned to the pass to live without a settlement, so regardless of the killing of the Ming army, a large number of people were thrown into the banner of the Great Khan, and there were too many people who came, and the Great Khan had to build a special plan for them. Barbarian City' to settle. Of course, Zhu Shen will also defect to the Ming Kingdom, such as our Tong Yang Xing and Shi Tingzhu here, these people are because their ancestors followed the Ming army to fight and made meritorious contributions to become officials, so they have the opportunity to follow the Ming State in Liaodong, these people are Zhu Shen ancestors but have already been sinicized, and it is only after we enter Liao Shen that we come to Shun, we instead regard them as Han people, but there are very few of these people, Ming people look down on Zhu Shen, and Zhu Shen, who has no power and no money, has no chance to follow the Ming people.

Liu Xingzuo, who was in the middle of the room, suddenly became excited, and he said with tears in his eyes: "Why did the Ming Kingdom lose Liaodong? It's because they don't treat the Liaodong people as people, Li Chengliang, the general soldier of the Ming State, and Gao Huai, the mine supervisor sent by the emperor, colluded together to wantonly mutilate the people and bully the Liao soldiers. The Liao people have no marrow, Gao Huai sucks it, and it becomes the sucking of Liang Gouging', the military households were robbed of land, the merchants were extorted from property, the people were hungry and cold, the Liao people couldn't survive, and they were willing to help us drive away the dog officials of the Ming Kingdom, and when the Great Khan raised the army, he also promised to expel the Ming court, raise Nikan, and help the Liao people live a good life, and now he forgot it all, but he cut the knife at the Liao people, how many Liao people have to die is enough? He couldn't help but raise his fists and shouted: "Heavens, open your eyes and tell me, do the Liao people still have a way to live?" ”

Kur wrapped his arms around Liu Xingzuo: "Aita, you must not be like this, your heart is uncomfortable, everyone knows that there will be a way, and the Liao people will definitely be able to live." ”

Dahai pointed at Yingge on the side and said: "Aita, if you can't figure it out, beat him up first, he is a member of the Li family in Tieling, and Li Chengliang's bastard is his grandfather's." ”

Yingge was anxious: "What's the matter with our family, there are many people surnamed Li, so the old thief won't pay attention to our family, Dahai, you want to pull our family and the old thief together, let's go out and fight." ”

Kurtang hurriedly waved his hand to signal Dahai and Inge not to make trouble.

Li Yu also smiled when he saw them like this, he had heard of Li Chengliang, this guy was a two-term Liaodong commander-in-chief, and he was in charge of the Liaodong Ming Army for decades, and he was very good at fighting, and his heart was black and ruthless enough, and he especially liked to cheat, and he didn't blink when he killed people, Zhushen and the Mongols had suffered his big losses, and he often invited the leaders and people of Mongolia and Zhushen to the side wall to exchange markets with good words, and as soon as they arrived, they immediately turned their faces, closed the door and killed them all, and the Mongolian speed and Hai, Yehe's Qing Jianu and Yang Jinu were killed in this way, Find the door to fight more ruthlessly, Jianzhou Zhushen leader Wang Gao made a rebellion, invading Liaodong, Li Chengliang three times to break through Wang Gao's old nest Gule Village, each time is to kill countless people, Wang Gao father and son died in his hands, the third time to break through the Gule Village, even helped the Ming army to persuade the old Khan of Gule Village to surrender the grandfather Jue Chang'an, Daddy Takshi together with the men, women and children in the village slaughtered.

Li Chengliang fought a great war, and he did even worse things in Liaodong, and his military discipline was corrupt, and he could openly rob the property of merchants and people, plunder women into the camp, and kill the good people and go with their heads every time they went to war. Li Chengliang himself is even more insatiable, military funds, horse prices, salt classes, and city rewards are embezzled at will, turning Liaodong into his own Li family world, and those who do not agree with the superintendent and supervision officials do not want to work in Liaodong, the Ming Emperor sent the mine supervisor Gao Huai to Liaodong, and the two immediately hit it off, colluding together to dig three feet of land in Liaodong, looting the people's wealth, and the profits of the whole Liao businessmen and people belong to them, the rich families were all taken captive, and the middle families were also bankrupt, and the two of them made the people of Liaodong destitute, and they started to deduct the Ming army's food and salary, horse food, The idea of ordnance turned out to be that ordinary soldiers could not eat enough and could not support their families, the war horses were so hungry that they could not run, and mutinies occurred in Qiantun, Jinzhou, Songshan and other places.

Li Chengliang got countless money, lived a luxurious life, he built the Li family's house in Tieling's hometown according to the city for more than ten miles, the household Linci, the color of the trees barrier the sky, no city, and raised prostitutes to 2,000 people are gorgeously dressed, hanging incense sachets, dozens of steps away is the fragrance of the face. He also raised thousands of people to protect his Li family, and his son Li Rusong was ordered to go to North Korea to fight the Japanese soldiers, and he could call 3,000 private soldiers at a time, and correspondingly, the 100,000 Liaodong Ming army under the name of the Ming Army Department has existed in name only, except for the private soldiers of the Li family, Liaodong has no Ming army that can fight, and during the battle of Salhu, the Ming court can only transfer troops from the Guannei.

Li Chengliang and Gao Huai made a fortune, and the soldiers and civilians of Liaodong were brutally poisoned, and the originally rich and prosperous Kaiyuan, Tieling, Guangning, Liaoyang and other places were in a depression, and the people of Liaodong were hungry and cold, and were displaced, and the people of Liaodong were disappointed in the Ming State, and they would rather vote for Hu than drive away the dog officials of the Ming State. As soon as Li Chengliang died, the old Khan raised troops, and at the same time vigorously appeased the Liao people and Han officials, and the Jin army was like a god with the support of the Liao people, invincible, and when they captured Tieling, Zhu Shen and the Liao people, who hated Li Chengliang, burned down the Li family's house.

Li Yu was thinking about it, and Sakhalian spoke again: "Brother Aita, everyone is a good brother who has nothing to say, and Erlu is also his own person. I'll tell you the truth, my grandfather Khan is wrong, this point Baylor has counted, but his old man doesn't want to be so tyrannical as you think, after entering Liaodong, he also wants to govern Liaodong, so that the people can have a good life, for example, his strategy of granting land is to distribute the land to the poor, but it backfired, we have to fight with the Ming State, the people of Yizhou, Guangning, and Jinzhou had to move to Liaoyang and Shenyang east of the Liao River, and Zhushen was too bitter outside the Fushun and Qinghe rivers, and they also had to move to the border. But we have no food in our hands, so Lao Khan solved this problem according to the method of the Han people who fled to the border and lived and ate with Zhushen in the past, which caused a big mistake, and since then it has been out of control, and the cohabitation and food have intensified the contradiction between Zhushen and Hanmin, and the Han people and Zhushen have to fight for land and food, and the result is that both sides are defeated - you did not resist this method when you were in Jin, Fu, Hai, and Gaizhou, and Lao Khan was desperate and came up with a method of setting up a tuokesuo farm, forcing Nikan to be Aha and working for Zhushen to farm, this method will definitely not work. Treat people as slaves, and ghosts will work honestly. ”

Sakhalian suddenly approached Liu Xingzuo and said in a low voice: "No matter how wrong Old Khan is, he is also our Great Khan, but he is already sixty-eight!" Aita, you can't be patient, do you really want the Ming Kingdom to come back, they are even more ruthless than us, the Han people in Liaodong are no different from us in their eyes, we are Jiannu, you are Hanyi, think about how Li Chengliang and Gao Huai dealt with the Liao. Don't think that Old Khan doesn't know what you and Inge are doing in Fuzhou, Fuzhou prepares the report of Wang Bing, is it okay if you bite to death and don't admit it? Lao Khan treats you as his junior, and he is reluctant to kill you, if this kind of thing happens in the Ming Kingdom, your family is all over, just by virtue of this, I am a hundred times better than the Ming Kingdom. ”

Liu Xingzuo sneered; "The Great Khan spared my life, but killed my brother Xingren and 20,000 people of Fuzhou, I have to be ashamed of the people of Fuzhou in my life, it is better to kill me."

Sakhalian patted Liu Xingzuo on the shoulder: "Brother Aita, take a long-term view, you know in my heart what kind of person I Sakhalian is, I advocate the sinicization of Zhushen, oppose shaving, and hate killing, when I am outside the border, Zhushen and Hanmin can become brothers, and they should also become brothers in Liaodong, just like you and me, but I will never accept a court like Mingguo, I would rather die in battle than let them come back, we must fight until they negotiate peace with us on an equal footing - of course, they will not be willing to negotiate with us, In their eyes, we are all lowly slaves, they can negotiate peace with the Mongolian Altan Khan, but they can't wait to kill us, just like they did before, Brother Aita, don't be confused anymore, the Ming Kingdom is unreliable, and the people of Liaodong can only rely on ourselves if they want to live a good life. ”

Yingge, who was listening by the window, spoke: "Lord Belle is right, the Ming Kingdom is not trustworthy at all, the change in Fuzhou, I was sent to Liaoyang with Brother Aita, saying that we protect the lives of the Liao people, we admit it, but we have never fornicated with the Ming Kingdom, my father is in charge of the use of spies against the Ming Kingdom, my brother-in-law Wu Changchun, who was executed by the Ming State Government Ling Chi, was in the Jingshi of the Ming State and Shandong to spy on the military situation when he was alive, you know, how bad the Ming court is, I know that Brother Aita also knows that we will never betray Dajin." ”

Sakhalian smiled coldly.