At the end of September, Fengzhou reached an agreement with Li Jianji, Sun Tingyao, and Shen Shoulian, three Ming giants, and the two sides agreed to immediately start handling the reorganization of the banknote bureau, and must start issuing silver banknotes and silver coins in the first month of next year, and Shen Shoulian and Wang Zheng continued to stay in Fengzhou as their representatives. On the same day, the Grand Commander's Office announced that Li Fugui was the same governor of the Great Commander's Mansion and led the affairs of the branch bureau, Shen Shoulian was promoted to participate in politics and lead the affairs of the Silver Banknote Bureau, Ma Qi was promoted to participate in politics and lead the affairs of the chief envoy of the Department of Industry and Commerce, and Wang was re-appointed as the senator and deputy envoy of the Department of Industry and Commerce, and then Li Jianji and Sun Tingyao returned to Guannai to raise silver and attract industry and commerce, and Na Mu'er also left Fengzhou with them - the water mill was a complete failure, Han Lin planned to build another water wheel, and he and Gao Yizhi were ready to leave Fengzhou before the snow.

At this time, Fengzhou has entered the climax of reclaiming wasteland and building water conservancy, and 50,000 old Fengzhou people and 150,000 new immigrants endure cold and hunger and work hard everywhere - in order to eat more food next year, they must pay the price this year, this is the truth that everyone understands, except for those who stayed on duty, all the others went down to various guard posts, and Li Yu also went to various places accompanied by Wang Ziyong and Yun Rong to inspect the situation of relief for immigrants through work. At the beginning of October, when Li Yu inspected Dongshengwei, he suddenly received a report from the Great Commander's Mansion that Tuntian Dao Jin Sheng had arrived at Manhan Mountain, and that he had important matters to discuss, and asked him to return to the Great Commander's Mansion immediately.

"Li Shuai, do you remember our family?" An old man with a wrinkled face was chatting with Tuntian Dao Jin Sheng and the guard on duty with Ertai, and as soon as he saw Li Yu enter the door, he greeted him with a sharp voice.

"Grandpa Liu, why are you here, I really didn't expect to see your old man again." Li Yu shouted excitedly and greeted him, and the person who came turned out to be Liu Wenzhong, the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace.

"Our family can't imagine seeing Li Shuai again, Li Shuai seems to have lost a little weight, but it is more powerful, our family has now been transferred to Datong Town, and we can often meet Li Shuai in the future." Liu Wenzhong replied excitedly, and explained to Li Yu that the emperor issued an edict in September, and the ministers Zhang Yixian and the Ministry of Industry and Grain were the two ministries of money and grain, Wang Yingchao and Deng Xizhao monitored the money and grain of Guan, Ning, and Ji, Wang Kun monitored the money and grain of Xuanfu Town, and Liu Yunzhong monitored the money and grain of Shanxi Town, and he was also ordered to monitor the money and grain of Datong Town.

"The emperor is sage, the foreign ministers can't do anything but still steal the emperor's money, how can it be more intimate than the slaves around him!" Liu Wenzhong sighed with emotion, and suddenly thought that there was a golden voice beside him, and immediately said, "Don't worry about Lord Jin, you are Li Shuai's master, Li Shuai is a kind person, and the master must be a good person." ”

Jin Sheng's face twitched a few times, and he smiled awkwardly, this was the first time he met Li Yu after arriving in Datong - life outside the customs is too hard, he can't eat or sleep well, and it's not easy to even drink a cup of tea, he is used to being pampered, and he really doesn't want to go out of the customs to find guilt, but this time he doesn't want to come, Li Yu and Datong Governor Zhang Tinggong pinched up.

Li Yu received a letter from the Ministry of War asking him to send troops to Dalinghe, and immediately reached out to Datong to ask for money and grain, of course Zhang Tinggong did not give it, sending troops to Dalinghe belongs to Liao, Datong Town does not have this cost, and Fengzhou has organized the Tuntian Guard, I should ask you for Tuntian grains, not you ask me for food, you go to the imperial court to ask for Liao. Li Yu was angry, and immediately replied, you are the governor who is also in charge of food and salary, and you should also ask for Liao's salary, I am still busy farming here, maybe there will be grain after next autumn, you can go find someone else to send troops. A martial artist is also a northern captive, and he actually dares to contradict the official, this is worth it! So the governor of Datong and the general army of Tuntian exchanged letters constantly, and the two sides quarreled, Zhang Ting was angry, and by the way, he also complained to the imperial court and the governor of Xuanda about Li Yu. Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, was very disapproving of Zhang Tinggong, knowing that the other party was a northern captive, what kind of strength did you have to appease a party with him, this kind of fool had to be coaxed slowly - Zhang Zongheng was born in the North Bang Jinshi, and belonged to the Northern Party in the faction, and he was still more vigilant against Zhang Tinggong, this person was a native of Fujian, belonged to the first auxiliary Zhou Yanru line, and was a hardcore Southern Party, compared to the old subordinate Li Yu was more reliable, he threw Zhang Tinggong aside and ignored it, and entrusted Tuntian Dao Jin Sheng to deal with the matter with full authority, just when Datong monitored the eunuch Liu Wenzhong arrived, also wanted to meet Li Yu, so the two went to Manhan Mountain together.

"Hanmin, I don't listen to your reasons, the Governor has ordered to raise two thousand stone of grain for you, and sent a letter to Sun Chengzong, the Governor of Jiliao, to help you with your food, let me ask you, when can you send troops?" Jin Sheng asked Li Yu bluntly.

"I am the chief soldier of Tuntian, just farm honestly, I want to feed 200,000 people, 2,000 stone of grain is enough for me to eat for a few days, who wants to go to war if I can't support my family as a soldier? I don't dare to expect Liao, in the eyes of those people in Liaoxi, I am afraid that people will not even let me enter the gate, whoever wants to go, I will not go anyway. Li Yu shook his head vigorously.

"Bastard, you dare not obey the edict of the imperial court, you know how tense the situation is now, the elite of the Guanning army is trapped in the Daling River, Song Wei and Wu Xiang, the two general soldiers failed to rescue three times in August, less than ten days ago, the supervising army of your Dao Zhang Chun went to the Daling River with an army of 40,000, and the whole army was wiped out on the way, and the whereabouts of Lord Zhang are unknown, and the imperial court has no more rescuers to send!" Jin Sheng's eyes were on fire, and he grabbed Li Yu's collar and said in a low voice, "State affairs are so difficult, as a major general of the Ming Dynasty, you don't want to serve the imperial court and make meritorious contributions, but you are here to stand by and watch, what is your intention?" ”

"Master, it's not that I don't want to send troops, it's that I really can't do anything, what the 100,000 troops in western Liaoning can't do with six million liao salaries a year, I can't do it!" Li Yu broke free of Jin Sheng's hand, helped him sit down and said, "Don't worry, leave me here to relax, I have already sent someone to clean up the guest room, there will definitely be no rats again, I know that you love tea, and the few bags of good tea that the guests in the customs gave me are all for you." ”

Jin Sheng stood up and slapped Li Yu on the head, and then the Buddha sleeves left, Ortai shook his head and smiled bitterly, and chased Jin Sheng out. Liu Wenzhong stood up with a smile at this time, took Li Yu's hand and said: "These Wenchen are self-righteous, not real at all, or we are rough and kind, Li Fengxiang's father-in-law of the ceremonial supervisor still remembers you, and he has said good things for you in front of the emperor, and when our family came this time, he also told him to say hello to Li Shuai." ”

"Gonggong Li is a loyal and good man, and the last general also thinks about him, does his old man still care about the loyal and brave camp?" Li Yu replied gratefully.

"Gonggong Li is old, and he should go home to retire after waiting for the emperor for another two years, and the Zhongyong Battalion is now handed over to the imperial horse supervision," Liu Wenzhong looked at Li Yu and said very sincerely, "Li Shuai, we are all from a hard background, and it is right to help each other, but those ministers look down on us, and they have said a lot of bad things about you." ”

Liu Wenzhong talked about the gossip of the Beijing Division, Li Yu's reputation among the courtiers is very stinky, the so-called stinky does not mean that there are many people who impeach him, the imperial historians have formed a consensus - Li Yu is a northern captive, it is normal for him to do bad things, impeaching him is a waste of pen and ink, and it is not unjust to arrest him and kill him one day, everyone likes to talk about Li Yu's life style, he is a court official, but he married a woman who is more than ten years older than himself, and this woman just died and the man fought with her husband's family, she must not abide by women's morals, Li Yu, this kind of woman, dares to marry home, in the end, she is a barbarian and doesn't care about bad morals. Wu Lang Hasheng's son was detained by Hudun Tuhan The news made the courtiers think about it, Li Yu entered the customs with the front foot, the woman took the child to find his brother on the back foot, and stayed for more than half a year, Li Yu went out of the customs to ask for someone, but as long as he returned to his wife or not to return to his son, it is said that Hudun Tuhan regarded the child as a parent, which is a serious problem, maybe the child was born of Hudun Tuhan's brother and sister's fornication, barbarian, nothing can be done, but the general soldier of Tuntian suffered a dumb loss, and he couldn't say what he suffered.

"****, I'm full of nonsense, I'll marry a wife and it's their business." Li Yu was said by Liu Wenzhong, and he was so angry that he screamed.

"Who says it's not, those Wenchen just don't do serious things, the emperor hates them, and it is us honest people who trust," Liu Wenzhong sat a little closer to Li Yu, and said in a low voice, "The emperor said in private, even if Li Shuai is a barbarian, he is ten times more reliable than Wenchen, this time let you send troops to rescue Da Linghe, those courtiers did not pull out a dime, and finally the emperor was angry, and forced them to deduct five thousand taels of silver from the liao salary, and specially asked our family to bring it to Li Shuai, and the emperor also took out one hundred taels of silver from the internal treasury to subsidize your family, Li Shuai." , The emperor is not thin on you, when our family left, the emperor also instructed that if Li Shuai has anything to say in the future, he will write a letter and forward it directly to the emperor by our family, without going through the local governor. ”

Li Yu lowered his head and stopped talking, Liu Wenzhong said earnestly: "Li Shuai, the emperor is also difficult, the courtiers are fighting and not doing anything, and the old man Sun in Liaoxi is not useful, the emperor is worried, people in their early twenties will grow a lot of gray hair, and the money is even tighter, I can't wait to break the money in half, Li Shuai, the emperor is counting on you now." ”

Li Yu was silent for a while and replied: "Gonggong Liu, we are our own people, let me tell you the truth, the food here in Fengzhou is not enough for the winter, and the soldiers have been reduced to about 4,000 people. ”

"Dead horses should be live horse doctors, the emperor said, it's up to you to decide how to send troops this time, and it doesn't matter if you can't save Da Linghe, just fight for some face for the court and come back." Liu Wenzhong pondered for a moment and said.

Li Yu nodded, and asked Liu Wenzhong to stay with Jin Sheng in Manhan Mountain for a few more days, he had to discuss it with the generals again, and after sending Liu Wenzhong to rest, Ortai and Ma Guangyuan and Terrige, who were on duty at the Zanhua Military Affairs Office, came together, and the four of them immediately discussed the matter of sending troops.

"Marshal, I'm afraid we have to send troops, the soldiers don't get much military salary, but follow you with your heart, but there are no complaints, but they are not willing to farm and herd sheep, I also think that if this continues, our soldiers will be wasted, it is better to take them out and move." Ma Guangyuan said.

"Great Commander, go out to fight and give the Ming Kingdom food, and you can more or less grab some loot and go home, the brothers are willing to fight, and they don't want to be poor at home." Terige also said.

Li Yu glared at Terrig, set his eyes on Ortai, and said with a wry smile: "Chahar Khan has sent a letter and asked us to send troops to the Xilamulun River together, this guy is going to collect enough coins for this year, and he is more active than us." I don't want to fight, but my family is too thin to support soldiers, so I am worried about a little food, so the Ming Kingdom will give money and food, and they will raise soldiers for us. ”

After Li Yu thought about it, he ordered the officials of the Great Commander's Office, the officers of each battalion and battalion, and the commanders and garrisons of each guard to rush to Manhan Mountain within three days to discuss the matter, and then instructed Terig and Ma Guangyuan to immediately start preparing for the dispatch of troops.

"Dashuai, I'll accompany you to the army this time, everyone else has gone out, I can't stay at home all the time, it's really shameless!" Ma Guangyuan breathed a sigh of relief, and pleaded with Li Yu with a smiling face, "I plan to take Ding Qiming and Jin Guoding's cannon sentry out to practice this time, and figure out how to use firearms on the grassland, and my clairvoyance can also be lent to you." ”

Terrig also interjected: "Grand Commander, you transfer me out of the praise and painting office, I haven't read a few books, I can't speak Chinese well, and I can't write simple documents, staying here is simply a crime, I'll still lead the troops to fight." ”

"Terrig, you stay here honestly, read more books if you read less, how complicated this place is in Fengzhou, do you know how Han people will think of the praise and painting place?" Li Yu straightened his face and dismissed Terig, and said to Ma Guangyuan, "If you want to go out to practice your hands, you don't need to bring artillery, that guy is too heavy to transport, and he can't keep up with our march." ”

After Li Yu's order was passed down, officials scattered in various places rushed to Manhan Mountain one after another, and Liu Xingzuo and Haishan, who were the farthest away, also arrived from Xinghewei two days later, and Fan Yongdou was followed behind their butts - this guy finally came back from Jinguo, and he was aggrieved when he entered the Great Commander's Mansion.

"Great Commander, why did you exempt me from the official position of the tax envoy, I have been doing business in Jinguo for a long time, but I am not only doing my own business, I also make money for the government, the more than 2,000 taels of silver and two carts of ginseng and furs are all from the government, I have made a great contribution."

"Lao Fan, I count you as meritorious, but what about your positive difference? The Taxation Department has only collected more than 1,000 taels of commercial tax for most of the year, and you plan to let me eat the northwest wind! Li Yu unceremoniously reprimanded Fan Yongdou, "You think about whether to be an official or do business, and if you want to be an official, go to Li Xiangli." ”

"I, I still want to be an official." Fan Yongdou replied with his head down.

Ma Qi quietly leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Old Fan, don't be half-hearted, go to Li Xiangli to admit your mistake, brother will give you a letter, the branch is short of people, if you are at ease on an errand, eighty percent will be promoted." ”

Fan Yongdou stared at Ma Qi fiercely, and when he saw Ma Qi's honest face, he turned around and ran to find Li Fugui.

"Yuzi, look who I brought here." After Liu Xingzuo hugged Li Yu, he smiled and beckoned back.

A tall and thin but sturdy young man stood in front of Li Yu, the two looked at each other for a moment, Li Yu exclaimed and hugged the young man: "Tu Lichen, my good brother, I'm not dreaming." ”

"Brother Erlu, I have found you, Erbeile was killed by that family, I want revenge, I want revenge!" Jin Guoer Baylor's personal Ahaturichen cried as soon as he snorted.

"I heard the news that Erbeile was imprisoned, you say slowly, what the hell is going on?" Li Yu pulled Tu Lichen to sit down.

Amin took it upon himself to withdraw his troops from the four cities of Yongping, and was very worried that Tiancong Khan would do something to him, so he stopped outside the city of Shenyang, and sent people to the city to find Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai to find out the news, these two Baylors patted their chests and said that it was all right, and urged Amin to hurry into the city, the old eight became more and more disagreeable, and they were almost going to and pee on their heads, and their three Baylors must discuss countermeasures as soon as possible, and they must cure the arrogance of the old eight. Amin believed in Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai, swaggered into Shenyang, and when he arrived at the Great Yamen, something happened, and the guards of the two yellow flags directly disarmed Tu Lichen and others, and put Amin under house arrest.

Lao Ba sat on the throne alone and said nothing, Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai led the children and grandchildren of the old Khan, plus a group of flag officials and prison ministers of various banners, and dug deep and criticized Amin, abandoning the four cities, indiscriminately killing and demoting officials, and fornicating with the enemy country (this must refer to Li Yu) This is the crime that was just committed, and the previous - with his father trying to stand on his own, using himself as a khan to bully other Baylors, disobeying orders, hiding property, and encroaching on land, the new accounts and old accounts were turned over together, Amin was so angry that he roared and screamed, and he was accused of being unruly and unrepentant, The Beylers and the ministers listed 16 charges against Amin, and unanimously agreed that Amin's crimes were unforgivable and should be executed, and in the end, the old eight were kind, believing that Amin was a nobleman of the clan and had made previous achievements, and should be treated leniently, and the death penalty was changed to a lifetime solitary confinement of the title and official position, and the owner of the blue flag was succeeded by his brother Zilharang, and Amin finally ended up with the same fate as his father Shulhaqi.

Tiancong Khan trampled on Amin and wanted to clean the remnants of Amin with the blue flag, but Zilharang was smart, and knelt on the ground with Shulhaqi's descendants and the minister of the blue flag, and swore to follow the Great Khan and never betray, so Tiancong Khan let go of the blue flag, and Amin's family property and Aha also fell into the hands of Zilharang. Tu Lichen survived, but he hated the Nurhachi family in his heart, it was impossible to rescue the master, but according to what the master said, it was still possible to cause chaos to the family, taking advantage of this time to send troops to the Daling River, he and more than a dozen of Amin's dead friends escaped from the Jin army camp, all the way to the territory of the Mongols in the Xilamulun River, and happened to meet the Fan Yongdou caravan that was rushing back, mixed in it as a bodyguard to avoid the investigation of the Chahar people, and finally found his own people in Weining Haizi - Liu Xingzuo, Man Dahai and others who also fled from the Jin country.

"The people of the Nurhachi family are more ruthless than poisonous snakes, the old master was killed by them, and now they are harming the little master, Erlu, beat them! Avenge the masters. Turichen shouted hoarsely with tears in his eyes.

Li Yu and Liu Xingzuo glanced at each other - Amin is finished, it's time for the next one, but the Derge class is far less smart and sophisticated than Ji'er Harang, can Zhenglanqi escape this catastrophe?