In the east of the sea, Liao is the first frontier, the world is peaceful, and Si must defend it.

With the words of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding Hongwu Emperor, the defense of Liaodong has always been the top priority, and this post road from Guangning to Liaoyang is part of the post road from Liaodong to Shanhaiguan, and it is also a critical place for the march of the army, which is no worse than the smooth official roads in the Central Plains. Now that the time has long passed, even Liaodong, which accounts for more than half a year in winter, has now reached the most suitable season for going out. On both sides of the official road, you can sometimes see many farmers plowing in the fields.

With Li Rusong, the son of the chief soldier of Liaodong, leading the way, the post station along the way naturally opened the door of convenience. But I don't know if it's because of Wang Fulin's peers, or the Li family already knows that today's first assistant Zhang Juzheng is planning to renovate the post station, so even if he stays in the post city and the order is in order, Li Rusong never meets the post city, so that the three post men of Panshan Station, Gaoping Station, and Shaling Station are all photographed on the horse's feet.

In Wang Fulin's view, there is a big difference between these post cities in Liaodong and those official road post stations in the Central Plains, because these cities are often cities with a side length of 400 paces, and there are many soldiers stationed in the city, which fully reflects the characteristics of Liaodong under military control.

When he arrived at the penultimate post station Niuzhuang Station in front of Liaoyang, Wang Fulin looked at Xiaobei's map from Mrs. Su, and decided to go to the port of Niuzhuang Post City to take a look. However, at a time when the river is thawing, there are only a few soldiers in the harbor and only a few boats. Thinking that Liaodong relied on shipping in the early Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many ships sailed from Nanzhili and Taicang and sent to Liaodong by sea. Then pass through the Sancha River and send it to this cattle village station. Then it was supplied to all parts of Liaodong. He couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

"At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was sea transportation, and later Liaodong Tuntian was self-sufficient, and shipping had long been stopped. In the early years of Jiajing, the number of acres of fields in Liaodong was already considerable, but later there were more wars, and the rents to be paid by the military camps were heavy, and there were more deserters, and countless acres of fields were abandoned. At that time, Liaodong was short of military resources, and some people mentioned the reactivation of sea transportation, but where was it so easy. When Li Rusong said this, he was quite a bit of a general, but at the end he added, "Thanks to Zhang Buyuan's arrival in Liaodong, he has done more good governance, and his father has repeatedly defeated the Mongols and Jurchens, and the people of Liaodong are not as precarious as before." ”

Wang Fulin knew that Li Rusong had no problems in the first half of the front, but the words that praised Zhang Xueyan in the back seemed to be deliberately said to him. So he only snorted.

Compared with the enthusiasm of the Europeans for the great voyages before and after, the current Ming court can really be called conservative. Because Longqing opens the sea. Merchant ships were finally able to go to the sea openly, go to the South and Western Seas, and even secretly go to the Japanese and even North Korea for sea trade, but the former treasure shipyard of the government has long been abandoned, and even the seaborne grain has been completely stopped because of the last capsizing.

In the Niuzhuang Post City within a radius of 1,500 steps, everyone only stayed for one night, and then rested in the Haizhou Acropolis, and then passed through the Anshan Post for a day and a half, which is Liaoyang, where the Liaodong Capital Division is located. It used to be the highest authority in the whole Liaodong in the early years of Hongwu, but with the Liaodong General Army and the Liaodong Governor set up in Guangning, although Liaoyang is still a first-class important town, and it is the most prosperous place in the entire Liaodong, but in the past, Liaodong was once located in the highest sequence of the commanders, most of them became the titles of military generals, and now Liaodong hangs the generals of the post of commander, and even more than one, and Cao Gui, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaoyang, is one of them.

In just four or five years, Cao Gui was promoted to the rank of deputy general soldier from garrison, guerrilla, and general to deputy commander-in-chief, which was already a height that ordinary officers could not reach in their lifetime. He was Li Chengliang's old subordinate, and he was also praised by Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong. When he fought Gule Village before, as a general, he was ordered by Li Chengliang to lure the enemy into the depths of one fell swoop, Wang Gao fled from Gule Village and made a comeback, and he was ready to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, so although this deputy general soldier was promoted for less than a few months, it can be said that he sat firmly.

But on this day, he actually went out of the city to greet Li Rusong in person, and when he saw people, he didn't say anything about it, but he kept saying that he was a big son, like a family general.

Li Rusong found that Wang Fulin had already hid behind, and after being stunned for a while, he didn't call anyone up. Because of the happy conversation along the way, he thought that he had almost thoroughly touched Wang Fulin's temperament and so on, thinking that as long as he sent Wang Fulin out of Liaodong and gave a generous gift, this Wang Xiaoguan, who was very good at things, would definitely not have much trouble. At the moment, he didn't care about Cao Gui's groveling behavior, but he had to remind people that he was accompanied by a top three who was admitted to the department last year, and he paid more attention to what he said and did.

And this Deputy Chief Officer Cao agreed, but he didn't think so. Although the imperial court has the power of life and death, but it is thousands of miles away in Beijing, in this Liaodong Town, Li Chengliang is most of the emperor of the soil, even Zhang Xueyan has to rely on Li Chengliang to command the soldiers to fight, what can a new jinshi have? Even if there is, all the civil officials up and down Liaodong will definitely be the same enemy and press down the matter.

Otherwise, when a war starts, even civilian officials are in danger, and they are always worried about being implicated, how can they be as comfortable as they are now?

Cao Wei was a little surprised to learn that Li Rusong only stayed in Liaoyang for one day, but he was relieved to think that he would definitely pass through Liaoyang when he returned in the future. After ordering the soldiers to settle everyone down one by one and send them to the guest room to rest, when only he and Li Rusong were left alone, he immediately said: "The eldest prince came just in time, and the news just sent from Fushun said that Wang Gao's eldest son Atai revealed his whereabouts, and he was recruiting his father's old department. ”

"Let's take a look for the time being, there are so many guards on the left and right sides of Jianzhou who are older than him, and there are people who have horses and knives and guns, just watching him mess around? Wang Gao is gone, and it is time to replace him, let them go to the nest to fight by themselves. You don't know your father's temper, the battle has to be fought little by little, and the bones have to be gnawed little by little, which is what it tastes like. After fighting a lifetime of battles all at once, what are you doing for the rest of your life, lying on the bed and sleeping with your daughter-in-law in your arms? Or do you plan to make some more meritorious contributions and become a general soldier in another place? ”

Cao Wei immediately came to his senses. Don't be in a hurry to show your heart. Li Rusong just said it casually. Asked Ming Jianzhou, many chiefs of the left and right guards are haunting Fushun Ma City. There were even people who took the initiative to betray the news of Atai, and he smiled heavily: "Look, people can't wait for us to help them get rid of Atai, so even if Wang Gao's line is completely uprooted, then what's the trouble?" A seedling that has not yet grown up, if he can hold up the tigers and wolves around him, he will be eligible to be uprooted after two years. Father's soldiers. It's those real thorns, everyone has to fight, so how can they be beaten? Raise a stubble, cut a stubble, this is like rice, if you don't grow up and cut it, where will you get a harvest? Put it in the mouth of the Chinese official of the DPRK, and it will become a knife for us to kill chickens. ”

"The handsome and wise, the eldest son is wise." Cao Wei hurriedly flattered a few words, and then had to say a little more about the situation on Tielingwei's side. As the birthplace of the Li family. Although nowadays, only Mrs. Su goes back once a year to pay homage to the ancestral grave. Clean the ancestral hall and appease the clansmen, but all the generals under their command will pay more attention to that side, after all, the ancestor of the Li family is there, and they can't afford to afford to lose anything. When he sent Li Rusong out of the house, he suddenly only heard the eldest son ask a word.

"What have you ordered recently?"

Didn't Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, return to Guangning recently? Why do you still ask me?

Cao Wei only felt full of doubts, but Zhang Xueyan and Li Chengliang, the top scholars and martial arts in Liaodong, could not be offended at all, and he had to rack his brains to think about what the governor had done recently about the various official offices in Liaoyang. After a long while, he barely caught two, and said in an uncertain tone at the moment: "It seems that Zhang Buyuan reprimanded Zhao Deming, the garrison of Fushun Pass?" It's not a big deal...... By the way, Zhang Buyuan asked about the situation of the Mongols who surrendered in Liaoyangli, and I heard that when the barbarians sent people to exchange markets, they asked for surrenders. ”

The imperial court sealed the right-wing Altan Khan, but the left-wing Chahaner tribe of the barbarian Khan has been ignored, this strategy of the east and the west, so that since Longqing, Liaodong has to deal with the Jurchens, but also to face the captivity, it can be said that the whole world has the most soldiers, so Zhang Xueyan has already agreed with Li Chengliang, reported to the imperial court to open the market, although there is no explicit reply, but this tacit approval of the market has been quietly opened in the border for many years. It's just that since the Ming Dynasty and the Chahan'er Ministry did not have a peace agreement as a basis, the Tuman's command often entered the army while trading with each other, but even so, the pressure on Liaodong was still more than half lower than before.

But when he rewarded Altan Khan, he was on the condition of refusing to accept the Mongols of Chakhan, which was also a helpless thing.

It doesn't seem to have much to do with what Zhang Xueyan asked Wang Fulin to do? Li Rusong pondered so much in his heart, so he didn't pay attention to it. But when he returned to the room, he learned from the soldiers outside the door that Wang Fulin had taken his wife out for a walk, accompanied by a few entourages, as well as Shuerhaqi holding a tiger cub. Knowing that there were more than a dozen family members on his side who also followed out very knowingly, he had to sigh that this guy was really idle, how could he stay in officialdom in the future, but when he raised his foot and was about to enter the house, he heard a voice behind him.

"The eldest son, my younger brother is young and ignorant, and he speaks and does everything by temperament, can the eldest prince ask for a favor and ask for someone back?"

Well?

Li Rusong turned his head to look and found that it was Nurhachi standing with his hands down, with a worried expression on his face. He remembered that he deliberately sold a few empty stalls in the middle of the trip to give people a chance to escape, but the other party not only did not run, but reminded the family of the negligence of defense, obviously he knew the pros and cons very well at a young age, and couldn't help frowning: "What, I'm afraid that people will abuse your brother?" ”

It's already been abused, so what's there to be afraid of?

Thinking of seeing Shulhachi's red and swollen cheeks the last time, and then seeing him limping, his eyes were no longer like a lone wolf and beast as before, but clearly a little more afraid, Nurhachi finally couldn't help it. This brother who dares to fight is his only arm at the moment, and he did not fold in the big gamble in the prisoner of war camp, but if he folded in the hands of a Han man who does not know the roots, wouldn't it be a pity? What's more, he was really worried about what would happen to Shulhazy, who had nothing to do.

In contrast, the design and gamble in the POW camp didn't matter, but if Shulhaqi revealed a little bit of the geographical city defense that they had secretly memorized when they came from Gul Village to Quang Ninh, it would be a disaster! (To be continued.) )