It only takes an edict to get rid of Li Yu, but what to do with the exiles who are appeased, the emperor is silent, and the courtiers are never willing to pay. At this time, Song Tongyin and Hong Chengchou's recital came again, but the two seemed to have gotten along, this time they did not quarrel, but solemnly proposed to the imperial court "immigration Shibian", advocating that the appeased displaced people be moved to Fengzhou outside the customs to implement Tuntian self-sufficiency, the two also unanimously recommended Li Yu as the general soldier of Tuntian, and praised this as a feat of the Ming Dynasty.

Song Tongyin and Hong Chengchou's recital immediately caused a shock in the court, this time the courtiers themselves quarreled - immigration is a new thing to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty implements planting the people in the soil, always guarding their own business, and strictly prohibiting the movement of the people, as for the customs and border expansion is a delusion, Jiajing Dynasty Shoufu Xia Yan proposed a strategy to recover the Hetao, and was finally abandoned and beheaded, this is a lesson from the past, the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty are never willing to have nothing to do, Shoufu Zhou Yanru first couldn't sit still, he can't take this risk.

"Your Majesty, this is a lie, I am facing the north of the great drought, thieves are in turmoil, and there are unsettled liao affairs, the cost is huge, the immigration is really easy to say, where does the money and food come from? Besides, outside the border is a barbarian land, the people are rough and uneducated, and most of the displaced people are rebels. This will be self-inflicted, and the court should immediately reject this proposal. Zhou Yanru said firmly.

"Zhou Ge Lao said this badly, it is precisely because the Liao affairs are undecided and the thieves are in chaos, so it is necessary to put the appeased homeless people outside the pass, and the anti-thieves are difficult to suppress because they are thieves, and it is easier to trap them in a domain, the side wall can be both razed and thieves, if you don't drive the homeless people outside the pass, do you want to keep them in the pass and continue to make trouble?" Wen Tiren still has to go against Zhou Yanru, this year is the year of the examination, Zhou Yanru is the chief examiner, the first selected court exam is his in-law Chen Yutai, and the first exam is his friend Wu Weiye, Wen Tiren saw the cattiness, and instructed the henchmen to participate in Zhou Yanru's book, although the emperor gave Zhou Yanru face and did not delve into the matter, but Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren completely turned their faces.

"**** miscountry! Since he was in charge of the Shanxi General Army, he has resold military funds and disrupted the localities, and some of the Tongzheng Yuan have sued him, and this person is unable to have no vision and no court, and handing over the rebellious homeless people to him is tantamount to raising tigers and causing trouble, don't you understand this truth? Zhou Yanru said disdainfully.

"Of course I understand, but it is more dangerous to leave the displaced people in the pass and not be appeased, the governor of Yansui and the governor of Shanxi have come up with this strategy, presumably they have already thought about it, the court only needs to push the boat down the river, and of course their ideas must be taken care of by them," Wen Tiren smiled and said slowly to the emperor, "Actually, Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much, the bitter cold land outside the gate is not suitable for raising the people, a large number of displaced people are pouring in, there is a difference between Hu and Han inside, and there is a tiger eye from the Han outside, I am afraid that the future of the deputy general Jingyu will not be easy, even if he is given a Tuntian general soldier, what can he do?" Maybe it won't be long before the tiger will become a cat, so how can it be a problem to raise a tiger? ”

The emperor smiled slightly and then said with a straight face: "Deputy General Jingyu is a fierce general of this dynasty, and he has made great contributions to the imperial court, and it is natural to be promoted to the general army, and outside the Tuntian Pass is also to open up territory for the imperial court. ”

The policy of immigrating to the real side is undecided, the courtiers are discussing, and Liu Zhilun, the young Zhan Shi of Zhan Shifu, stepped forward and resolutely supported Li Yuguan Tuntian - Liu Zhilun's official position has changed again, he is too annoying, no party and no faction also likes to impeach others, everyone has to avoid this Liu Shengren, the right side of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court is not suitable for him, the emperor conformed to the will of the people, kicked him to the Zhan Shifu to do idle work, this time he jumped out and praised his disciple Li Yu greatly, and said that opening up the territory is a feat of this dynasty, Dongshengwei, Xinghewei was originally the land of the Ming Dynasty, Why don't you take it back, if the court agrees, he is willing to go out of the customs and guard the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty with his disciples, but Liu Zhilun's popularity is not good, no one takes him seriously, and only Shandong Daoyu Shi Jinsheng supports him.

Hou Sui believes that Fengzhou Beiyu and the thieves are the troubles of the Ming Dynasty, and must not be tolerated to raise traitors, although it is troublesome to drive out of the pass, but a large number of northern captives and displaced people gather outside the pass, the court still has to waste money and food to appease, the best way is to transfer heavy troops into Shanxi in the name of suppressing thieves, and take advantage of their unpreparedness to wipe out the northern captives and thieves. And Liaodong withdrew from the guest army Sichuan General Soldier Deng Yu Department and Shi Yan Soldier Qin Yiming Department can also be transferred to the west, his subordinate Zuo Liangyu at the same time with the Changping Army to help the war, tens of thousands of troops suddenly entered Shanxi, in one fell swoop annihilated the elite and chaotic people of Fengzhou stranded in Shanxi, so as to solve the problem once and for all, Hou Sui's idea got the attention of the imperial court, and the cabinet ordered the Ministry of War to immediately plan this matter, but Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, did not buy the account of the cabinet, he is now an ant on the hot pot - the cabinet has always looked down on him as a scholar who climbed up from the place, Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren both intended to help their own people to the position of the secretary of the Ministry of War, with the instructions of the cabinet, the imperial historians who wanted to add some material for the emperor's anti-corruption and clean government casually exposed Liang Tingdong's bribery and betrayal of the old bottom, Liang Tingdong was going to be unlucky, pulled out the radish and brought out the mud, and the military department caused ** annoyance, and for a while people were panicked, Liang Tingdong also gritted his teeth for the cabinet, and if the emperor didn't speak, he wouldn't do anything. Liang Tingdong didn't listen to the greetings, and his reputation was also very bad - plus three cents of Liao was his bad idea, and he was soon dismissed in a sound of impeachment, Xiong Mingyu was selected to take over as the secretary of the Ministry of War, but this old man is still in the Nanjing Criminal Department, and there is still a period of time before he takes office in Beijing, so Hou Xian's clever plan to worry about the country and the people is over.

Liang Tingdong's luck is good, the emperor has a good impression of him, he did not arrest him and send him to prison, and allowed him to stay idle in Beijing, Liang Tingdong was overjoyed, this is a hint that he still has a chance to return to the court, Liang Tingdong will also disgust the cabinet before leaving, and easily forward Li Yu's letter to the court.

Li Yu complained in the letter that he had been staying in Guannei for a year and a half since he set out from December of the previous year, and had been loyal to the imperial court, so it was naturally a good thing to let him go home, and it didn't matter if he didn't give a reward, but the imperial court should at least allocate the arrears of military salaries and take over the displaced people in Baode as soon as possible, and 100,000 people gathered in Baode, and he couldn't take off his hands and really couldn't afford to raise them, and he also suggested that the imperial court set aside land in Baode and Hequ to set up officials and tuntian to support the displaced people, so that the people could not only have a way to live, but also reduce the burden of relief. If the imperial court was worried that the displaced people would change, he could still leave part of the troops to maintain the place, Li Yu warned the military department not to attack the idea of Fengzhou, 50,000 Fengzhou people could not accept 100,000 displaced people in the Guannei, that would only ruin Fengzhou.

What the Beiyu opposed, is what we insisted, Zhou Yanru's mind quickly turned, and the black hand of the Beiyu must not be allowed to be inserted into the pass, and the people of Fengzhou must be driven out of the pass, whether they are dead or alive, you can figure out your own way, the cabinet quickly unified its opinion, promoted Li Yu to the general army of Tuntian, still hung the title of governor, controlled by the governor of Datong, and brought the displaced people out of Tuntian before the end of August, and the money and grain required were handled by Datong, Shanxi, Yansui and the four towns of Shaanxi as appropriate, Zhou Yanru still felt uneasy, and proposed to set up Tuntian Road in Fengzhou, the candidate, Originally, Liu Zhilun was quite suitable, this guy was too annoying in Beijing, but Wen Tiren thought that Liu Zhilun was a four-grade Shaozhan thing, according to the convention, the Beijing official should be over-promoted, and he should be awarded the local governor, at least the deputy envoy, this convention is still not broken, so the second candidate Jin Sheng was born, this person is Liu Zhilun's hardcore close friend, he hates it when he looks at him, and this unlucky errand belongs to him.

The drafted edict was transferred to the inner court, and the celebrant felt that it was too much, even if the deputy general Jingyu was a Yi person, he should not be bullied like this, the emperor wanted to uphold justice, and gritted his teeth and gave it to Li Yu with one hundred taels of silver, and in addition, Li Yu's son was hereditary brocade and guarded a hundred households, and then approved the red-haired edict.

The unlucky Jin Sheng was angry, he was born in the family of Huizhou merchants, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the children of merchants are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, the imperial court has relaxed the ban during the Wanli period, and only then did he have the opportunity to pass the first year of Chongzhen Jinshi and was simply promoted to the Hanlin Academy, but the courtiers looked down on people like him, and he was only associated with Liu Zhilun in the same year who was also unpopular, Jin Sheng sat on the cold bench for a long time, and was disheartened and lazy about the government, if it were not for Liu Zhilun's repeated persuasion, he would have resigned and returned to his hometown, and now the court sent him out of Tuntian, which is obviously to drive him away, Jin Sheng immediately made a fuss to go back to his hometown to recuperate, Min Hongxue, the secretary of the ministry, was Wen Tiren's person, and conveyed Wen Tiren's words to him, Tuntian outside the gate is nothing more than a farce, just let the general soldiers of Tuntian toss, sending him out of the customs is also the idea of Shoufu, **** still cares about him, since he is not in good health, stay in Datong, there is something important to go out of the customs to see, nothing is right in Datong to recuperate, Liu Zhilun also persuaded him to take up his post in Datong, Li Yu is their disciple, no matter what, he should go to help him, Na Mu'er has stayed in Beijing for a while, I also want to go home to see, just let him accompany you to the post, Jin Sheng had no choice but to take the edict, simply packed up and went on the road with Namu'er, and only Liu Zhilun saw them off.

Baode, Li Yu is actually already making preparations for the closure, and the affairs above the court can be concealed from Li Yu, but they can't be hidden from the local governor, and someone has already reported to them. Since the immigration was a foregone conclusion, Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, immediately sent a letter to Li Yu, denouncing him for being short-sighted, Baode and Hequ were already poor, where could he afford to raise 100,000 displaced people, he must obey the will of the imperial court, honestly go out to farm and graze, and Shanxi naturally can't forget to help him after the autumn grain harvest; Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Datong, wrote a letter and scolded him, Datong has no time to take care of his own money and food, you still cause me this ** annoyance, you can find a way to live by yourself, Datong Town can't help you; The letter of the governor of Yansui, Hong Chengchou, almost scared Li Yu to death, Hong Chengchou praised Li Yu as a pillar of the Ming Dynasty and a good general in Zhongxing, and he was the only one to solve the crisis in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and he discussed it with Liu Guangsheng, the governor of Shaanxi, and decided to hand over the 30,000 displaced people they had appeased to him out of Tuntian, and the people were already on the way, and the new Shaanxi Governor Wu Xian and Yansui deputy general Cao Wenzhao accompanied him to handle the handover.

"What are we going to do? First out of the customs 20,000, now there are 130,000, 150,000, can we afford to raise it? Are the people of Toyosu willing to accept them? Li Yu asked in frustration, and the generals of Fengzhou in the big tent and the leaders of the exiles looked at each other.

"This is all the fault of our soft-heartedness, we are cocooning ourselves." Du Hongtai had the heart to cry, he and Li Huai listened to Du Wenhuan's words, and secretly recruited people from the northwest to go out of the customs to strengthen their strength, thinking that it would be a big deal if there were 350,000 people, but 150,000 came all of a sudden, which almost killed them.

"Da Ming is so rich, but he doesn't pull out a dime, and he actually started the idea of a poor bastard like me," Li Yu finished complaining, turned his face and asked Wang Ziyong, Bai Yuzhu and other homeless leaders, "Do you still want to run?" Let them run, the more people who run, the better. ”

"No one wants to run away, there is a famine everywhere in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and the officers and soldiers have to kill people, everyone has already figured it out, and there is still food to eat with you, and everyone will follow you wherever you go, and you can go out of the customs!" Or someone else will just kill us. Wang Ziyong replied casually, he and the leader of the exiles had already discussed, following Li Yu is the only way out, even if the court promised to set up officials in Baode and Hequ, it could not agree, the court said that if you change your face, you will change your face, as soon as Li Yu leads the Fengzhou army out of the customs, the government may play a black hand on them, and only by holding Li Yu's thigh can they live.

"It's easy to say, you're out of the customs, where do you get the seeds, farm tools, and winter rations? I really want to kill you all, and the court must not ask for it, and after killing you, by the way, you will put on the hat of murder and tyranny to us, Fengzhou will immediately become the public enemy of the whole world, and you will kill us. Du Hongtai shouted.

"Why should we listen to the imperial court, Baode and Hequ are small and the people are poor, even if they are here in Tuntian, there is no way out, the adults will lead us to rebel together, we have 100,000 people, and Fengzhou as the backing, we should be sure to take Shanxi." Bai Yuzhu interjected.

"Our rebellion will only die faster, Fengzhou doesn't have the strength to turn his face to Daming at all, as for you, what else will you do except eat mixed rice?" Du Hongtai shouted.

As soon as Du Hongtai's words came out, Zhang Ding and Ma Jinzhong quit and immediately quarreled with him, and then Zhang Chuanjie, Sun Shoufa and other Ming army officers and Hui Dengxiang, Zhao Sheng and other leaders of the displaced people also spoke badly to each other, and the two sides were almost about to move, Li Yu was angry, and kicked the table away, which stopped everyone's noise.

"I thought about it for a long time, maybe this is not a bad thing, Fengzhou is poor and weak, the reason is that the number of people is scarce, Jiannu knows to plunder the population when he fights, the Ming Dynasty gave us the population, why don't we want it," Li Huai has been silent, and then slowly spoke, "150,000 people immigrating to Fengzhou have a dangerous future, but we have been surviving in adversity, every step we take is full of dangers, when there is a way out, in this case, what are we afraid of, gritting our teeth and pushing through, maybe the development of Fengzhou is smooth." ”

"But can we get through it? I think we're dying, and the Archlordship won't agree. Li Yu shook his head.

"We originally came out of a desperate situation, and now we still have nothing, there is nothing we can't let go, I will go back to Manhan Mountain tomorrow and persuade the Grand Commander's Office to agree to immigrate, but you are the Grand Commander, there should always be an explanation." Li Huai replied with a sigh.

"Government affairs are still decided by the Grand Commander's Office, I'm just the guardian dog of Fengzhou." Li Yu replied slowly.

Fengzhou, this is the first year of the restructuring of the Great Commander's Office, the military tickets issued by the Silver Banknote Bureau began to circulate at the beginning of the year, and the farmers and herdsmen have also been allocated land and livestock from their respective guards to operate on their own, but the results have not yet appeared but have encountered a more serious drought, this year from the beginning of spring to June almost no rain, the rivers have been cut off, the land has dried up, and it is also difficult for people and livestock to drink water, and the protection of crops and livestock has become the top priority of Fengzhou, and the restructuring has become secondary.

Fengzhou has experienced many droughts and floods, the Commander's Office has to organize manpower to build water conservancy every year, canals have been built where there is arable land, and the water cellars used to collect snow water and rainwater have also been built bigger and bigger, and the super-large water cellars have been called reservoirs by the people of Toyozhou, these water conservancy facilities certainly help to alleviate the drought, but this year's drought is not the same as before, the momentum is too fierce and almost catches people off guard, the Commander's Office has to announce the emergency mobilization of Fengzhou, and put the main manpower, material and financial resources into the drought fight, and even the craftsman camp has stopped other work, All night long to catch up with the water wheel, to build farm tools, the officials of the Great Commander's Mansion is not easy, except for the officials on duty, other officials have gone down to the thousands of households to supervise the drought fighting, Yun Rong was surprised to find that among the new immigrants to Fengzhou, there are actually people who can dig wells, and immediately organized more than a dozen well drilling teams to dig wells everywhere, during that time he was like a clay man all day long. In June, it began to rain, the drought was finally alleviated, but Li Fugui was disappointed, this year from the Guannai came 20,000 immigrants, taking advantage of the abundant labor in his hands, he expanded the cultivated area to 100,000 mu, and planted a large number of potatoes, maize, intending to reduce the grain pressure in Fengzhou, but the sky did not fulfill people's wishes! Li Fugui made up his mind that after the autumn harvest, he must drive the people to dig more canals and reservoirs, and also dig more wells, so that he will continue to work until it snows, and next year he will not plant wheat and millet at all, and will plant sorghum, potatoes, and maize all the time, which is not tasty and better than starving.

When Li Huai rushed back day and night, it was just when the Great Commander's Mansion convened the officials of the thousands of households to discuss the replanting of crops and the construction of water conservancy.

"It's a big thing, and it's not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing, you continue to deliberate, and everyone stays when it's over." Li Huai waved his hand to everyone, and then pulled Ortai and Li Fugui to the side room, and the people who stayed in the main hall had no intention of discussing things, and they speculated wildly.

"Brother Du Xing, Brother Nian Feng, the Ming Imperial Court plans to immigrate to Fengzhou, and the edict will soon go down to Baode," Li Huai pulled Ortai and Li Fugui to sit down in the side room, and after explaining the situation of Baode in detail, he stared at the two of them with his eyes and said in an aggravated tone, "This time it's not 20,000, but 130,000!" ”