Chapter 524: The Small Side Hall Makes a Decision

For the world, the next step is how the world is distributed, what will be the trend, for Shandong, the next step is to take over Beizhili and Henan as soon as possible, digest these territories and populations, and prepare for the next battle, for Jinan, the current first priority is the funeral of the old eunuch Liu Fulai.

During the Spring Festival, the Qi State Mansion didn't want this funeral to disturb everyone's interest, but there was still no trace of the festive atmosphere in the city.

Even if you want to celebrate the New Year, you will go to your own manor outside the city or the relatives of other provinces to have a good time, and the Duke of Qi in the city is doing a funeral, who dares to celebrate the New Year with joy.

The housekeeper Luo Xi took the lead, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, and Liu Qingsong, the political envoy of the cloth, were in charge of the operation, and even the people in charge of etiquette from the Confucian Mansion came to help hold this funeral together, and the old eunuch Liu Fulai was nominally Li Meng's uncle, and Li Meng's status at this time was already unspeakably noble.

If it is really according to what kind of etiquette and the like, this funeral will be very grand and beautiful, but Li Meng has a strict requirement that it should be completed within three days, and it is not allowed to be too public.

wanted to make this ceremony not lose face in Shandong, and not waste too much time, it really made these people rack their brains, but Sun Chuanting came out, saying that it was the position of Qi Guogong now, and some things are for the world to see, and the scene has to be passable.

With this sentence, the money bureau immediately allocated the silver over, and the scene was finally passable, but it shortened the time.

From the first day of the first month to the seventh day of the first lunar month, it was originally the day of the New Year's reunion at home, Zheng Zhibao and Fang Yingren, who had a high status in their own families, stayed in Jinan and did not go back.

Needless to say, the Zheng family on the sea and the Fang family in Lianghuai are all rich people who are famous in the world, and the money naturally doesn't care.

In fact, although this is a funeral, the representatives of the Zheng family and the Fang family are quite excited, and now this scene is difficult to find an opportunity to send money, Qi Guogong is a very well-behaved person, usually giving money and gifts may have the opposite effect, today I finally have this opportunity, take the opportunity to step forward and pull close, wouldn't it be great.

Zheng Zhibao and Fang Yingren are a big man on the sea, and the other is a wealthy businessman in Yangzhou Mansion, who doesn't care about any identity and face, and is busy in the Qi Mansion all day long, as if they are relatives and children, in order to set almost.

It's a pity that Qi Guogong already has a plan, and the funeral will only be held for three days, otherwise it will take a long time, which can bring the relationship closer and make Qi Guogong feel good.

Li Meng knew that what kind of weddings and funerals were going to be done at home now, and there would definitely be a large number of unrelated people flocking to give gifts and sell them, but now is the critical time for the northern raiders, and it is too unwise to involve his energy in his own private affairs.

But he still underestimated the degree of drilling camp of these people around him, and after the funeral on the third day of the first lunar month, the old eunuch Liu Fulai was buried by Li Meng on the mountain next to Jinan City.

The crowd that can send gifts and greetings did not settle down until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the wealthy families of the six provinces of Shandong, the gentry and the gentry needless to say, Henan, Beizhili, and Lianghuai all the Haoqiang and businessmen who can have a little relationship with Shandong have also sent their own envoys.

Then there are the officials and nobles of the Beijing Division, these people's gifts and posts are sent overtly, and the nobles and officials in Nanjing City also send gifts and posts, but they are all sent secretly.

According to this calculation, I am afraid that the guests will continue to come to the door after the first month, but Li Meng is too lazy to receive, after the fourth day of the first month, only the housekeeper Luo Xi and the pro-soldier commander Huang Ping are responsible for receiving the guests.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, after having a reunion dinner with his family, Li Meng began to discuss the next matters with Sun Chuanting.

In the side hall of the inner study, Sun Chuanting is still with an iron mask, his whole family was taken captive to Shandong, he just has a wife and eldest son by his side in Shandong, and the second son has already served in the pro-soldier brigade.

The two sides met in the side hall early in the morning, Li Meng's face was gloomy, Sun Chuanting got up and said hello, and then began to get to the point, Shandong's paperwork is very efficient. At the beginning, Sun Chuanting was very unaccustomed to this kind of all-out way of working, a Ming official, he was very attentive to things, how could he be as diligent as a businessman.

But after a long time, Sun Chuanting became quite accustomed to such a system, and changed it to make it more suitable for the system of the Jiaozhou battalion.

In the side hall, there was a large bookcase, Li Meng was sitting with his back to the north, Sun Chuanting and several guards came to the door together, several guards walked in with a rattan box, put it down in turn in front of the bookcase, saluted Li Meng and retreated.

Outside with the door, Sun Chuanting bent down, took out the documents in the rattan box and put them on the table, Li Meng has been recalling Liu Fulai's words and actions in his mind these days, after coming to this era, this is still the first person close to him to die, which reminds Li Meng that now is also a real world, and the people around him are also born, old, sick and die, and they will leave.

The old eunuch Liu Fulai helped himself so much, seeing that he was about to become rich and rich, but suddenly left like this, Li Meng felt uncomfortable.

The bookcase was quickly covered with the scroll by Sun Chuanting's half, Sun Chuanting took the ink and grinded it on the inkstone a few times, picked up the brush, and was just about to start today's schedule.

Li Meng groaned and said:

"Mr. Sun, take off the iron mask of the Rausch on your face, I've been stuffy for so long, I don't need to bring it in the future."

Hearing Li Meng's words, Sun Chuanting's body stiffened, and then he bowed down and clenched his fists with very slow movements and said:

"Thank you for your grace."

According to Sun Chuanting's thoughts, he has a secret background, although he can be a confidential counselor for Li Meng and be a prime minister-like figure, but I am afraid that he will not be able to see people with his true face in this life, after all, he was brought out of the edict by Li Meng by shady means.

Unexpectedly, he was told by Li Meng today that he could see people with his true face, and there were really a few people in Jinan who had seen Sun Chuanting, such as Governor Yan Jizu, Sun Chuanting's mask had just been taken off, but he hesitated and asked:

"Lord Guogong, Lord Governor Yan has met with the lower officials, will there be any inconvenience in this?"

"It's okay, it's okay, you have done so many things for your father, what if you show your true face, people in the world will only envy your luck, how can they say more about you."

Sun Chuanting shook his head, smiled bitterly, and put the iron mask on the table, because of the reason for wearing this iron mask for a long time, Sun Chuanting's face became paler, and his sideburns and hairline were also white, of course, this was not because of the lack of light, Sun Chuanting directly picked up the most rightmost scroll, and after opening it, he asked:

"Nanjing City should not know the news until about the eighth day of the first month, and the lower officials speculate that the first thing the officials in Nanjing should do is to push the crown prince Zhu Cihong to the throne, Chongzhen should have had similar plans back then, after all, Liu Zongzhou has already gone to take up the post of secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Ma Shiying has gone to take up the post of secretary of the Ministry of War, and the shelves are almost complete."

Li Meng lowered his head and groaned, and said:

"I must let Ma Shiying go to the position of the secretary of the Ministry of War, tell the Yangzhou Fang family, don't be afraid to spend money, activate those relationships....... and release the news, Chongzhen's wife and children I am not interested, and I don't want to do anything to them, An An divided, I may have the position of a marquis, be a Taiping rich man, and I can still give it to him."

Sun Chuanting smiled, the things in Nanjing and Jiangnan are not a problem at all, but they are just done step by step, he annotated a few strokes on the scroll, and then picked up another one, and continued:

"The military report of General Ma of Pingnan said that the fleet of the army going to Kaifeng that year, plus the ships of the two Huai merchants, was enough to cross the river, and after February 15 this year, it could cross the river and attack at any time."

"Arrange for Hou Shan to go to Jining Prefecture and Lianghuai to supervise this matter, the fleet back then was his hand, and he is familiar with it this time."

Sun Chuanting finished annotating this one again, and when he picked up the third one, he thought about it and asked:

"Lord Guogong, at present, Beizhili is all under the control of my Shandong, and the capital is the best place in the world, so it is better for Lord Guogong to go to the town as soon as possible."

Li Meng took the third volume, and when he heard this, he shook his head and said:

"It's still early, I don't want to enclose myself in that imperial city now, people will become stupid if they stay inside, there are still so many things to do, the Yanding and Huzhuang teams of Beizhili should be expanded as soon as possible, and the order was sent to Zhang Jiang, the general army of Hebei, for those who plagued the place, they should be killed, and they don't have to be soft."

Over there, Sun Chuanting had already begun to record with a blank scroll, and Li Meng continued the topic and said:

"Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, estimates that after knowing the news, it is time to think about surrendering, there is only one condition on my side, become a civilian, and one of his soldiers will give him a tael of silver, and the original family property will not move, if you don't agree, just let the Hebei army kill it, Wu Sangui's side will do it accordingly, and my father's side has no heart to play with them."

Sun Chuanting finished writing quickly, but thought of such a question:

"Lord Guogong, as soon as Chongzhen died, what year should be used now, with our current situation, it is no longer appropriate to use the era name of the Ming Court, why don't we take this opportunity to set the future of our Jiaozhou camp ......"

“…… A.D. is not possible...... For thousands of years in China, let's use this 'Hua' as the name! ”