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At this time, it is the season of spring flowers, the gentle breeze blows people very comfortably, all kinds of trees are like newborn babies stretching out their tender green branches, and the flowers and plants in the courtyard are also straightened and open their arms, ready to welcome the baptism of breeze and drizzle.

Sun Yueling, the owner of the East Hall of the Care Hall, stood in the courtyard, feeling the breath of early spring blowing in this courtyard, and felt that even the wind was floating with a fragrant breath.

The haze of Quang Ninh's defeat seems to have been washed away by this belated spring, allowing people to take a long breath of depression.

To the great disappointment of all the ministers of the Ming court, Zhang Heming, the secretary of the Ming military department, was forced to go to Liaodong in person, and actually walked on the road for 17 days before he arrived, and after arriving at Shanhaiguan, "there was nothing to plan, and he ordered to arrest spies, and he was thick to eat Mongolian fried flowers and slaughter all the departments", and it didn't take long for him to claim to be seriously ill and "beg to return sick". Subsequently, Tianqi had to send the former left squire of the military department again to replace Zhang Minghe.

Sun Yueling couldn't help but sigh at everything that had happened since he came to this dynasty. God is really cruel, after all, he did not change the established trajectory because of his arrival, what should have happened still happened, even if he assassinated Sun Degong, it did not affect the trend of history in the slightest.

Originally, the loss of Guangning could have been avoided, although Wang Huazhen lightly attacked the enemy, and the guerrilla Sun Degong defected, which directly led to the rout of the Ming army and the death of the general soldiers Liu Qu, Qi Bingzhong and others, but the entire Guangning City was still Ming and did not fall into the hands of the Houjin. At this time, Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, was defeated, and did not send people to understand the situation of the entire battle in time, but abandoned the city and fled, resulting in Guangning City falling into the hands of Sun Degong, the spy of the Later Jin.

What shocked the entire imperial court even more was that Xiong Tingbi, the Liaodong Jinglu, not only did not collect the defeated army at this time in an attempt to recover Guangning, but instead ordered the soldiers and people to burn and discard all their baggage, hoard grain, and weapons, and retreat to Shanhaiguan. Originally, if Xiong Tingbi collected these remnants of the defeated generals, it was not impossible to recover them under the emptiness of Guangning City, but Xiong Tingbi's move was to completely cut off Guangning City, so that Nurhachi drove in and went down without a fight, and the Ming Dynasty lost the entire territory of Liaodong since then, as if the left arm of the guard was cut off, and the connection with the Mongolian tribes was completely cut off by the Later Jin.

After Nurhachi easily obtained Guangning, he then waved his troops south, Liankeyizhou, Jinzhou, Xiaolinghe, Youtun, Daxing, Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan and many other forts, seized countless grains, grasses, baggage, armor and weapons left by the Ming army and civilians, and even captured tens of thousands of people and drove them to Hedong.

After the Battle of Guangning, the Later Jin's power in Liaodong was further consolidated, and its influence extended to Liaoxi and the entire Mongol tribe, as if it had become a separatist force that could not be ignored, and was no longer just a barbarian border bandit who only knew how to loot and slaughter as before.

At this time, the Ming court sent Wang Zaijin, who succeeded Zhang Minghe, to serve as the Liaodong Economic Strategy, and under the recommendation of the Donglin Party, Sun Chengzong, who was known as a virtuous and talented general in the Donglin Party, was appointed as the secretary of the military department and a scholar of Dongge University. At this time, most of the central institutions of the Ming Dynasty, such as the entire cabinet, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, and the Supervision Yuan, fell into the hands of the Donglin Party.

And the entire care hall, also with the support of the Donglin party, has a force all over the five cities of the Beijing Division, except for some small gangs such as the Thirty-six Dao in the north and the Citigroup Society in the east city, almost all the forces in the Beijing division, and no one dares to provoke.

Since Sun Yueling became the master of the Dongtang, he quickly promoted several young and middle-aged talents such as Han Qiaoshui and Feng Yifei who had always been suppressed by Liu Zixiao as the deputy hall masters, and led everyone to clean up several secret strongholds of the Smelling Fragrance Society in Dongcheng, and opened several restaurants, teahouses, pawnshops, grain stores, etc. in Dongcheng, greatly expanding the power of Dongtang, from Chongwenmen in the south to Andingmen in the north, all of which were included in the business scope of Dongtang.

But his move provoked the Citi Society, which has always begged for a living in the Dongcheng area, and the Citi Club also relied on the people in the court, managing such livelihoods as Cao Yun and wood, and seeing that the Dongtang of the Care Hall was powerful, he let out the wind and said that he would destroy all the restaurants and shops run by the Dongtang, and even threatened to cripple Sun Yueling and drive him out of the Dongcheng.

"Hall Master!" Han Wanshui's shout pulled him back from his thoughts, "Fang Yichen, the master of the South Hall, has returned to Beijing, and Elder Li has sent someone to pass the word and let you go back to the main hall to discuss matters." ”

Sun Yueling nodded, indicating that he knew about it. This Han Xiaoshui has always been calm and calm, and the radical and high-spirited Feng Yifei are completely different people, the two of them are one literate and one martial, one cold and one hot, and the match is very suitable, becoming his most reassuring left arm and right arm.

Thinking that he was about to see Fang Yichen, he also felt a burst of emotion in his heart. In Ningyuan City that day, he was still a small citizen of the mountain city who followed Qi Liao, and now, as the Guozi Supervisor and the master of the East Hall, he can already be on an equal footing with Fang Yichen in terms of identity, but what he lacks is just qualifications and popularity in the hall.

Sun Yueling didn't know why he always compared himself with Fang Yichen in his heart, it seemed that faintly, Fang Yichen would be a stumbling block on his way forward, after all, now he cares about the hall, except for Li Ruobing, the only one who can suppress him in martial arts is this Fang Yichen - Huang Tianlai, the hall master of the North Hall, has just turned from the acting hall master, and it seems that his martial arts are not particularly powerful, otherwise he will not be chased by Ding Mengyao and have no power to fight back.

Now that he has practiced the third gravity method of "Ziwei Doujue", and the "Liaoyuan Hundred Kills" has also made the melons ripe, and a strong self-confidence has surged in his heart, although Fang Yichen is known as the "Swordsman" in Jingshi, he feels that even if he can't defeat him, at least the strength of a fight is absolutely there.

He took a few brothers and rode fast horses to Xicheng, straight into the main hall of care on Shijuma Street.

After entering the hall, Li Ruobing, who had been waiting for a long time, laughed and pointed to several people in the hall to introduce him in turn.

I saw an old man who was more than old sitting under the first seat of Li Ruobing in the hall, with a wide forehead and a square face, although his face was full of wrinkles, but his face was full of red light, wearing a set of dark gray right Confucian clothes, a red wide-sleeved robe on the outside, and a black black hat on his head, which was very majestic. When he saw him enter the hall, he did not get up to greet him, but a pair of deep-set old eyes under his deep eyebrows glanced at him, and then turned away to look at him no more.

The old man sat down with him, Fang Yichen, the master of the Nantang Hall who had made a few moves in Ningyuan City that day. Sitting on the other side were the military advisor Wang Wenyan and the hall master Huang Tianlai. The few people sitting below were the chief steward Lao He who cared about the hall and several other people who were important in the hall.

Seeing him coming, except for the old man and Fang Yichen, the rest of the people stood up and greeted him. Fang Yichen looked at him with a pair of handsome eyes, just as he also glanced at Fang Yichen at this time, the four eyes intersected, Sun Yueling felt that Fang Yichen's gaze seemed to contain electric light and fire, which made his eyes suddenly feel hot.

Such a piercing gaze, like a sharp sword, pierced deep into his eyes.

Before the two of them could speak, it was as if they had already made a move, and each other's hearts were shocked.

Li Ruobing pulled him to the old man, and said with a smile: "This is the imperial envoy of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Lord Zhao Nanxing Zhao of the three elders of the Donglin Party, you hurry up and pay respects!" ”

Sun Yueling was taken aback, the person in front of him was actually one of the three elders of the Donglin Party, Zhao Nanxing, the actual leader of the Donglin Party.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, he actually came to the Care Hall with Fang Yichen.

The three elders of the Donglin Party are the late spiritual leader Gu Xiancheng, Zou Yuanbiao, the secretary of Dali Temple who founded the Shoushan Academy, and Zhao Nanxing, who is now sitting in the hall. Among the three, because Gu Xiancheng is dead, and Zou Yuanbiao is dedicated to lecturing on politics and governance, the real leader of the Donglin Party is Zhao Nanxing in front of him who is strategizing and making arrangements in the entire Donglin. Zhao Nanxing is jealous of evil and hatred, advocating righteousness and eliminating evil, and people in Donglin such as Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others all take him as the head of the horse.

But now, what is he coming to the Caring Hall for?

Sun Yueling didn't dare to be sloppy, so he hurriedly knelt down on his knees, and said in his mouth: "Guozi is supervising Xuezheng, caring about Sun Yueling, the master of the East Hall of the Hall, and has seen Lord Zhao of the Imperial History of the Left Capital!" ”

Zhao Nanxing, who was dressed in civilian clothes, did not support him to bow down like Sun Yueling did when he first saw Ye Xianggao, but calmly accepted his bow, and then said: "You are the new junior of the care hall, Sun Yueling, the apprentice of Sanshi?" He did not mention Sun Yueling's official status and position, but only called him a junior of the Caring Hall, obviously deliberately suppressing Sun Yueling in his words to highlight his lofty position in front of the Caring Hall.

Sun Yueling hurriedly responded: "The kid is Sun Yueling, the apprentice of Elder Li, please teach me more!" ”

Hearing him say this, Zhao Nanxing nodded with satisfaction, showed a hint of a smile, and said: "Since you care about the master of the East Hall, you should serve the hall loyally and bravely, forge ahead for my Donglin Party, and solve problems for the saint!" Don't let down the hard work of Sanshi and the courtiers! ”

When they met for the first time, he actually said it to such a height, Sun Yueling's heart was a little shocked, but he kept saying: "When you make up your mind, you should carefully follow the teachings of Lord Yushi of Zuodu, keep it in mind, and dare not forget it in the evening!" ”

Seeing that he was so "obedient", Zhao Nanxing immediately smiled on his face, and said to Li Ruobing: "Sanshi, your apprentice has received a good harvest, when you can pass on your mantle, you must cultivate it well." ”

Li Ruobing said with a smile: "Let Meng Baigong laugh, how can Li be virtuous, it depends on you to mention him more." ”

Zhao Nanxing laughed, waved his hand, and said: "By the grace of the saint, my Donglin party members are now in important positions in the court, and most of the key points in the court such as the Liubu Jian Temple have been presided over by the people in our party. ”

Everyone nodded their heads under his bold words.