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The residence of General Xishen Wei Songhuajiang.

The Gaomen compound is heavily guarded, and there is a dead wind lamp on the wall every one zhang away, which illuminates the entire wall and is bright, if there is any ghostly spirit, it will definitely not be invisible.

And in the backyard, some lights flickered and were hazy.

The backyard study, here is the most important place in the entire Xishenwei, and the defense is also the most strict, there are guards standing under the front door of the corridor, and in the hidden places around, I don't know how many people are lurking.

A lamp is like a bean, faintly peeking out of the window.

There are only two people in the study, one sitting and one standing.

The charcoal stove has long been stopped in the house, although it is already March of the lunar calendar, the temperature is rising, and it is gradually about to bloom in spring, but it is the evening morning, there is still some spring cold, faintly cool.

Lian Zining was dressed in a black coat, combed his hair into a lazy bun, leaned on the back of the chair, and carefully looked at the letter paper in his hand by the light.

"After the Jurchen entered the first battle, the Weizhong brothers all withered, the news in the north was not clear, and the commander made the adults very worried. On the orders of Lord Shi, his subordinates led the elite guards to infiltrate the Northland, and more than 100 brothers scattered in Kemuwei, Qileniwei, Yaoqi Station, Mangita City, Kaolang Wuwei and other places to collect news, and it has been three months so far. By February of the 52nd year of Zhengde, it had begun to take shape, with more than 1,000 informants and information circulation. ”

"The subordinate share is mainly for two points, one is the rebellious Santo of Kemuwei's daughter, and the other is Lian Zining, the general of Wuyi Bosong Huajiang. Now I will tell you one by one and know it with adults. ”

"There is no need to repeat the matter on the ground of Kemu Mountain, Santo, who is a wolf with ambition and is bent on being the enemy of my Ming Dynasty, is now forming a large army on the ground of Kemu Mountain, and recruiting and bribing Han people, intending to cooperate. He also sent a large army into the deep mountains and dense forests to capture the wild Jurchen, who was a barbarian, all of whom were uncivilized Jurchen old clans, skilled in salvo shooting, and invincible in combat effectiveness, superior to the three Jurchens. In time, it would be a big problem for Santo to capture a considerable number of people and build an army. I don't dare to speak presumptuously, but I hope that you will pay more attention to it and solve it as soon as possible. ”

"The key point of the subordinates is to know with the adults, it is Wu Yibo Lian Zining. The government and the opposition are all young, loyal and unparalleled, and he is a genius who has not been seen in a hundred years. However, it is a big fallacy to look at the subordinates! Lian Zining, whose wolf ambition and madness, is far beyond Santo! It's just that this person is very good at disguise, and he is famous all over the world, and he is married to the military department, and the officials of the world are very happy, don't be the enemy of it, so he has a very good reputation, but if this person is carefully checked, it is really shocking, and the country is in a big trouble! ”

"There are four major sins."

"First, buy people's hearts. The salary of Wu Yi's soldiers is 50% higher than that of the imperial court's inland guard posts and 30% higher than that of the border army, and according to the understanding of his subordinates, Wu Yijun's military salary is allocated according to the regulations of the inland guard station. Every year, the imperial court allocated a salary of silver, the decision is insufficient, and his subordinates make people know that Wu Yibo's family business is strong and powerful, and he often takes out his own silver taels to nourish the military. He also established a pension system in the Wuyi Army, but all the soldiers who died and were seriously injured in the battle had extremely generous pensions, and established a Invalids Farm in Jingnan to adopt the widows of the soldiers who died in the war. It is in the Wuyi army, from the commander to the thousands of households, down to the ordinary soldiers, all of whom are grateful to Dade. In all fairness, this is good governance, but Wu Yibo is only a military general, not the imperial court, and has never played the imperial court, so what qualifications do you have to do this great thing? This kind of buying people's hearts is really a great rebellion, so why did it come? ”…,

"Second, colluding with foreign races to raise private soldiers. According to the subordinates, Wu Yibo collected a wild Jurchen department, called the Ilgen Jueluo Department, and its department was a large tribe of the wild Jurchens, with more than 1,000 strong people, and Wu Yibo issued him musket and horse armor, and did not enter the Wu Yi army, as his private soldiers. This is a suspicion of misdeeds. ”

"Third, secretly hiding rebellion. Qileni Wei rebelled against Zhang 13, Mangjita City rebelled against Hong Chaojiao, these traitors should be sent to the capital Lingchi Yu City, in order to set an example, but Wu Yibo took it in privately and entrusted him with a heavy task? This sincerity defies the laws of the imperial court! ”

"Fourth, private officials. Wu Yibo is a border general, and he only has the right to participate in the political affairs of the Songhua River, and he is not qualified to have full jurisdiction. Wu Yibo privately set up the general office yamen, and demoted the general Hong Chaojiao as the general office, with full authority to manage the internal affairs of the territory under his jurisdiction and usurp the authority of the imperial court. ”

"These four major crimes have been ascertained by subordinates, and it is by no means false to dare to guarantee them with their heads. Nowadays, the area under the jurisdiction of Wu Yibo has become an independent kingdom, in which the people, the military and the people, only know Wu Yibo, but do not know the imperial court. In the long run, his subordinates dare to assert that Wu Yibo is determined to be a big tail, and his ambitions cannot be speculated, and what the prospects are are also worrying. ”

"What the subordinates said, I hope that the lord will taste it carefully, but Wu Yibo has tens of thousands of soldiers, the situation in the northern Xinjiang, the imperial court is very dependent, and its power in the court is also intertwined, and this matter needs to be discussed in the long run. Subordinate Jinyi pro-army Beizhen Fusi Qianhu Fang Shou Year, March 25, 52nd year of Zhengde, Xi Shenwei. ”

The words are very delicate, and they are very regular signs, although they are very small, they are very clear.

Lian Zining read it carefully three times before putting down the letter and letting out a long breath.

This letter is the letter of Jinyiwei intercepted by Wang Posan and others, after they properly handled the scene that day, and then they hurried back to Xishenwei like crazy, on the night of the first day of the fourth month, the bamboo tube with complete fire paint has been placed on Lian Zining's desk. Lian Zining had already fallen asleep, and after hearing the guard's report, he immediately got up and came to the study.

This letter, no doubt, was written by a Jinyi Wei Qianhu who had been ordered to lurk in Xishenwei to his immediate superior, a certain Jinyi Wei's servant, and judging from his tone and other aspects, it was not so much an official document as a letter between old friends.

"Have you read this letter?" Lian Zining asked.

"My subordinates have not."

"Let's see!" Lian Zining handed the letter over, Li Tie took it, read it carefully, and then put it on the table.

"What does it feel?" Lian Zining leaned back in his chair and asked with a tlistering eyelid.

Li Tie's face was still as condensed as iron, as if such a major event could not cause his mood swings, his lips moved, and said, "What nonsense!" ”

"No, it's not nonsense." Lian Zining showed a smile at the corner of his eyes, and said: "You are a member of the Wu Yi army, from my point of view, when you see the words that are unfavorable to me, you naturally feel that it is nonsense, if you stand from the perspective of the imperial court, his words are all loyal!" ”

Lian Zining knocked on the letter, with a look of approval on his face: "I know this Fang Shounian, and I heard of it when I was in the capital, and it is a famous thousand households in Jinyi Wei. There are still some peculiarities in this person's background, Jinyi Tiqi, either from a brocade family, or a warrior selected from other guards, but Fang Shounian is different. He was originally a civil official, Zhengde thirty years of second-class jinshi background, in the year was quite famous, and later tired to the prefect of Zhengwupin, and later because of the uprightness and anger of the powerful, was about to be demoted, Jiang Binjiang took a fancy to him, transferred him to the Jinyi Wei to serve as a post of experience, is one of the few civil positions in the Jinyi Wei. Later, it became the thousand households of the Fusi of Beizhen. …,

This person is different from the ordinary Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei is notorious, but he is different, this person is good at solving problems with brains, and has a good reputation in Beijing, rarely kills innocents indiscriminately, but is a few cadres in the Jinyiwei. ”

"This lord should be Zhang Jiang, the secretary of Jinyi Wei, Jiang Bin's confidant. Hehe, a brocade cloth, a famous brocade family, it's really an honor to deal with us Xi Shenwei together! Li Tie, you say, is this the court suspicious of me? ”

Li Tie said in a deep voice: "My lord, judging from the mark, this should not be aimed at you, Jinyiwei has the power to investigate the world, this should be just a prevention." In the eyes of their subordinates, they may even be dealing with the rebels on the ground of Kemu Mountain, but they just brought us on the way. ”

Lian Zining nodded, and smiled: "Buying people's hearts, colluding with foreign races, secretly hiding rebellion, and privately setting up officials, these crimes are true, and none of them wronged me!" If this letter reaches Jingshi, then I really have no place to bury. ”

Li Tie said lightly: "These brocade guards can no longer pass on news to the capital. ”

Lian Zining smiled slightly: "Thank you very much." ”

Li Tie hurriedly said: "I don't dare to take credit for the mark, if it weren't for the adult, I wouldn't dare to believe that these eagle dogs have infiltrated us." They are used to acting arrogantly and domineeringly, doing things unscrupulously, and their whereabouts are not difficult to grasp, and now they have mastered all the positions of their seventeen strongholds in five cities, my lord, it is always a disaster for these eagle dogs to stay, do you want to mark them down? ”

Lian Zining frowned: "How many troops do you need to eradicate them, and how long?" ”

Li Tie said without hesitation: "It is enough to dispatch three hundred people in the first game and three hundred in the second game of MI6." When everything is ready and then launched, it only takes an hour! ”

Lian Zining pondered for a moment and said: "The news from here to the capital, it will take a month and a half to speed up, plus the time to react, the time for the news to come back, it is three or four months to go back and forth, Fang Shounian can't even dream of it, we dare to intercept and kill Jinyiwei, and when he reacts, it will already be the middle of summer, and at that time, the situation will be very different." Strangled them all, if we track them down, I'm afraid we won't be able to get out of it. In this way, you send someone to keep an eye on them first, and we won't be in a hurry to clean him up first. Without them, the court is blind and deaf in the Northeast, and they can only believe what we say. ”

"Yes, sir! Got it. ”

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The annual ring of history quietly entered April of the fifty-second year of Zhengde.

Tatar and Warat have come to Daming to fight the autumn wind again.

The north is bitter cold, now it has just started spring, the grass on the grassland is just a tip, and it can not be grazing on a large scale, and it has to wait until May to the future, it is a piece of green that catches the sky, and the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.

And the materials plundered by the Tatars and Warat last time were not enough to support them until then, so they came to cut the meat on the fat pig of Daming again.

But this time Daming is already ready and ready.

Wu Lianghe, the former general soldier of Datong Town, has been executed by Ling Chi at the entrance of the vegetable market, and the three tribes of Yi have ended up miserable. The imperial court even sent Dai Zhangpu, a squire of the military department, with the rank of imperial envoy of the left deputy capital, to supervise the military affairs of Datong, Xuanfu and other towns together with the governor of Xuanda.

More than 100,000 troops of Tatar and Warat entered the city from Suzhou Wei and Xuanfu Town respectively, and the officers and soldiers of all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty gathered together, and the Tatar Warat fought several battles solidly, and the two sides won and lost each other. Generally speaking, due to the long-term erosion of the border army, although the Ming Dynasty still won fewer victories and lost more, it also caused some casualties to the Tatars and Warats. In the end, the Tatar Warat robbed a lot of goods and the people left, and the Ming Dynasty also gained face, and the imperial court issued the world's palace newspaper at least to write a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, in a certain place The Ming soldiers killed a number of enemies, raised the prestige of our country, and deterred the barbarians. …,

However, hidden behind these glamour is a large number of casualties of the border army of the Ming Dynasty.

After several major battles, and because of the imperial court's policy of having to regain some face, they gave up the defense of the city that they were good at and had an advantage in, and had to fight field battles with the enemy's superior cavalry clusters, and suffered heavy casualties. Datong Xuanfu and the three towns of Gansu have a total of more than 80,000 casualties, and there is already a large shortage of troops in each town, and there are not a few people who are paid empty salaries, and the original quota of 100,000 people per town is not enough at all. Coupled with the casualties of the two major wars, the total number of soldiers in the three towns is now only 100,000, which can be said to be very weak.

The soldiers who were supposed to be replenished did not keep up, and of course these things will only spread among a small number of people.

The biggest beneficiary is Dai Zhangpu, he commands and dispatches, and he is very disciplined, and the emperor is praised in the court, and there are already faint rumors in the palace that the emperor wants Lord Dai to move to the military department, and it is said that he will enter the cabinet!

Of course, these have nothing to do with Xi Shenwei who is far away.

On April 15, Nurhachi and Yang Husheng finally came out of the vast jungle, and returned with them thirty-six tribes and 28,000 wild Jurchens, among which there were more than 11,000 strong men who could enlist!

Lian Zining entertained the leaders of the thirty-six tribes, and then settled them around the cities of Xishenwei, Mangjita, Yaoqizhan, Qileniwei and Kaolangwuwei, and a large amount of fertile land was divided near each city, and several tribes were settled, and each tribe was quite far away from each other, that is, around each Jurchen tribe, there were Han tribes. This is naturally to prevent them from colluding with each other and colluding, after all, these Jurchens are really quite strong.

In fact, Lian Zining's worries are superfluous, the wild Jurchens are quite envious of the stable and rich farming life of the Han people, and now there are Wu Yijun who distribute farm tools to them, give them grain seeds, and teach them various farming skills, they are very content, and Lian Zining's prestige has also risen.

On the second day of the feast for the Jurchen chieftains, they went to their respective settlements, where the magistrates had already prepared food, farmland, and even houses for them.

Of course, a total of 10,000 strong men in each department were retained, and Lian Zining specially divided the military camp for them to live and train.

From now on, they became a member of the Wu Yi Army.

Paid silver, uniforms, and officers under strict discipline, these wild Jurchens, who had been hunters and fishermen a few months ago, had now slowly transformed into qualified warriors.

In the past few days, Lian Zining has been busy in the dark, and dealing with the affairs of the Wild Jurchen Tribe is enough to make him anxious.

Finally, on April 17, all the wild Jurchens had already hit the road, and Lian Zining just wanted to take a breath, when he suddenly heard the news from the troops guarding the border defense on the south bank of the Songhua River.

It turned out that at noon today, from the north bank of the Songhua River, a big ship came, and the soldiers guarding the border were always on guard against the Jurchen boating.

But I didn't expect that the big ship was very honest, and immediately raised the white flag and drove this way little by little. Seeing this, the border guards stopped firing and sent two fishing boats -- Wu Yijun's sailors were better than nothing, but just a few fishing boats, cruising on the Songhua River and fishing on weekdays -- to inquire.

When the big boat landed, a few blonde and blue-eyed ghosts came down from above, and they didn't say who they were, but just asked to see Uncle Wu Yi. …,

They did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent someone to report the news.

When Lian Zining heard the news, he trembled, and an unbelievable thought came to his heart

Could it be them?

"Prepare the horses! Inform Shi Dazhu and ask him to gather all the dragoons and wait outside the palace gate! Lian Zining ordered him to go back and change into the official uniform of General Zheng Erpin, and when he went out, Shi Dazhu had already led people to wait. Three hundred dragon lancers surrounded Lian Zining out of the north gate and went straight to the Songhua River.

When he went out of the north gate, Yang Husheng had already gotten the news early and was waiting beside him.

Lian Zining frowned and asked, "Where did these people come from?" Your ranger has been patrolling within a hundred miles of Jiangbei, but you haven't found any traces? ”

Regarding the invasion of the Jurchens, Lian Zining never relaxed his vigilance for a moment, and sent many cavalry units early to go hundreds of miles away from the north bank of the Songhua River, always reconnoitering the movements of the Jurchens.

Yang Husheng was also a little puzzled, and then said: "The cavalry patrolling did not send any news back, I think there are few of these ghosts." I don't know where they came from, but I didn't find them. ”

Lian Zining nodded and said, "You go, gather all the cavalry of the third guard, put on armor, put on big weapons neatly, carry guns on your back, how to be mighty in a word!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Yang Husheng hesitated for a moment: "What about those ghosts? ”

Lian Zining smiled slightly: "Let's hang them, these ghosts, eat this set the most, if you treat them like guests, they won't take you seriously." ”

The Xishen Acropolis was in the northeast corner of the newly built Dacheng, and the military camp was in the middle of the Dacheng, not far away, and after half an hour, Yang Husheng had already gathered the 5,600 cavalry of the entire Third Guard—the slightest damage had been made up in the process of subduing the wild Jurchen.

Thousands of cavalry rushed by, stirring up smoke and dust in the sky, and the momentum was extremely terrifying.

Soon, Lian Zining saw the big ship and those ghosts.

There were about twenty or thirty of those ghosts, all of whom stood respectfully on the high ground on the shore beside them, and there were many Wu Yi soldiers who supervised them.

These goofsters are typical European faces, but on closer inspection, their skin is rougher, and their complexions are uglier and more vicious.

"Woo ・・・・・・" Lian Zining pulled the reins of the horse, and the red horse under his crotch hurriedly stopped, his front hooves raised high, and let out a hissing sound from Herod.

Behind him, thousands of cavalry reined in together, showing extremely high horseback control skills, and the momentum of thousands of cavalry swept in, making some of those Caucasian people change color with it.

"Mark, see Uncle!" The border guards fell to their knees on one knee and shouted in unison.

"Get up!"

Lian Zining waved his hand and looked these Caucasian people up and down a few times, their clothes were very ragged, but their waists were trying to be straight, which looked a little funny. They had respectful smiles on their faces and humility in their eyes.

Lian Zining asked, "Who are you?" ”

A particularly tall, bearded Caucasian man in the lead took a step forward, knelt on his knees, and said loudly in strange Chinese: "My name is Zakhrev, and I am an envoy sent to the East by the great Ivan the Terrible, and on behalf of the great Ivan the Terrible, I have met the great General of the Ming Kingdom!" ”

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Zakhrev was a typical Slav.

His hometown is a small village in the countryside near Moscow, with a population of about 200 people, which is very small.

There are many villages like this in the vast Eastern European plains. Compared with later generations, Europe in this era has just come out of the shadow of the dark and ignorant rule of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance is in full swing, and the feudal wars are in the ascendant.

In fact, it was at this time that the gap between China and Western Europe was slowly widened.

At this time, the population of Europe is actually quite dense, of course, it is not as good as the Ming Dynasty in any case. This can also be seen from the data, Europe is only more than 10 million square kilometers of area, the population has exceeded 100 million, and the Ming Dynasty household scale yellow book shows that the population data of the Ming Dynasty Zhengde in the 40 years is 98 million, and the actual number has exceeded 200 million.