Liu Jingyao, the supervisor of Yongping Town, is a stern person, unsmiling, and his surname is upright. In his early years, he studied in Songyang Academy, which was famous for the Song Dynasty Ercheng (Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi), and Yang Shi, who was in Chengmen Lixue at that time, returned to Wu'Xi to lecture after completing his studies, and the place where he was located was later Donglin Academy. Therefore, strictly speaking, Yang Shi is the real founder of Donglin Academy, and later Gu Xiancheng, Gao Panlong, etc., rebuilt the academy in his hometown to teach the "Four Books", which is the Donglin party.

Since the second year of the Apocalypse as the magistrate of Dacheng County, Liu Jingyao has been circling around in the vicinity of Beizhili, and after Chongzhen was promoted to Yongping Bingbeidao in six years, he has dealt with Dongyu Jiannu. Since taking office, he has reorganized his armaments, repeatedly fought with Jiannu, made good use of firearms, and once retreated several times his own enemies with 3,000 people in Qijialing.

Liu Jingyao was very angry that Jianyu entered the customs, and the armies on the left and right of the Beijing division did not dare to fight with them. Yongping Town has few troops, and he does not dare to leave the country without authorization, so as not to open the door and let more Jianyu take the opportunity to enter the customs, otherwise he will definitely raise troops to enter Beijing.

Therefore, when he learned that a curtain man named "Zhang Chi" asked to see him, his first thought was not to see him.

When is it, and are you still in the mood to deal with these people who hit the autumn wind!

"Bingdao still meet him, this person is the staff of Shi Kefa, the governor of Anlu, and the students heard that Shi Kefa can defend Anlu this year, and they rely on him a lot. At this time, Jianyu entered the customs, and he suddenly ran to the north, perhaps there was something else to hide. ”

Zhang Chi didn't know Liu Jingyao, but he was able to get in touch with one of Liu Jingyao's staff, so he first asked someone to send a letter to the staff. For the sake of secrecy, Zhang Chi did not fully explain his intentions, but only said that he was ordered to ask for a meeting. The staff also knew that Zhang Chi was by Shi Kefa's side, so he said it painlessly.

"Let him in." Liu Jingyao ordered.

After a while, a man in his thirties walked in and saluted him respectfully. Liu Jingyao looked at this man, he was not tall, he was a little thin, and his mental state was not very good. He didn't know that this was because he was riding horses day and night, and because of this reason, he was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Chi, so he said: "Now that it is an eventful season, this official needs to supervise a town of soldiers and horses, and the military affairs are busy, what is Mr. Zhang doing when he comes to my office?" ”

The words were very polite, and there was not even the slightest cold noise. Zhang Chi arched his hand and said: "I am here for this matter, please retreat from the soldiers." ”

Liu Jingyao was shocked when he heard this, and looked around, those servants knew what he meant, and they all retreated, only a few personal soldiers and curtain guests were still there.

Zhang Chi arched his hand again, then squatted down, took out a dagger and cut the soles of his boots: "I was ordered to deliver a letter for someone, and I asked Liu Gong to read it." ”

A soldier took the letter and handed it to Liu Jingyao, and the letter was stained with the smell of feet, which made Liu Jingyao even more displeased. He snorted: "I heard that Shi Daolin is a square person, how can he do this sneaky thing, you take this letter back, I won't look at it!" ”

Although Zhang Chi has been in the curtain for many years, he is not good at words, and Yu Guozhen really has no available person in his hands, so he can only send him. If you send a guard casually, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even see Liu Jingyao. Hearing his words, Zhang Chi knew that he was cautious, and immediately said: "The student has resigned from Shi Gong's staff, and now he is traveling to Beijing, and the person who sent the student to deliver the letter is Yu Guozhen Yu Gongzi." ”

"Yu Guozhen? Who is that...... Hey, could it be Yu Guozhen who captured Gao Yingxiang? ”

Although Yu Guozhen himself does not want to be famous, but with such a great credit as capturing Gao Yingxiang, he wants to cover it up again. Therefore, Liu Jingyao, who is familiar with military affairs, has also heard of his name, because in the recent newspaper, Yu Guozhen has appeared a lot.

"It is Yu Gongzi, His Majesty summoned him for the merit of capturing Gao Yingxiang, so he is also in Beijing. coincided with the rebellion of the Jianju, he was not angry in his heart, and led his family Ding to fight with the Gyeonggi Yiyong and the captives. ”

Although the Jingshi was shaken, Jianyu did not besiege the city, so the internal and external news was still very smooth, and Liu Jingyao certainly knew about Chao Pichang. Hearing this, he was slightly moved: "It is rare to be a righteous man, loyal to the monarch and patriotic, this letter allows me to take a look." ”

Seeing that he began to read the letter, Zhang Chi was slightly relieved in his heart, and finally he was not driven away as soon as they met. However, thinking of Liu Jingyao's saying that Yu Guozhen was "loyal to the monarch and patriotic", Zhang Chi felt a little funny in his heart. Yu Guozhen's actions do give people a view of loyalty and patriotism, but Zhang Chi has been observing him for a long time, and in recent months, he has followed him, and gradually feels that under the appearance of Yu Guozhen's loyalty and patriotism, there seems to be something else hidden.

This thing may be related to patriotism, because all of Yu Guozhen's choices are for the sake of the people. But it has absolutely nothing to do with Zhongjun, whether it is fighting with the rogues and Tatars at home, or expanding the territory abroad, Yu Guozhen's direct purpose is always to strengthen his own strength. Making Chongzhen feel that he is loyal is only a side effect of this purpose.

Yu Guozhen's letter was very short, only stating that he had limited troops and could not have an impact on the overall situation, so he had to attack the enemy. The prisoner's confession said that Jianjiao was received outside the Great Wall and asked Liu Jingyao for help.

After reading it, Liu Jingyao put down the letter with a wry smile.

"I already understand what Yu Gongzi said, but without the order of the imperial court, I can't send a large army out of the Great Wall." He sighed, "This matter ......"

"Yu Gongzi knew that Liu Gong was in trouble, he only asked Liu Gong to do two things, one was to use Liu Gong's scout to spy on the traces of the captivity, and the other was to ask Liu Gong to discuss with the cold mouth guard, and quietly arranged for Yu Gongzi's troops to go out of the Great Wall after learning about the traces." Zhang Chi said: "It has something to do with it, and I also ask Liu Gong to help." ”

Yu Guozhen actually has Cao Huachun's letter in his hand, and if necessary, he can also get the warrant from Gao Qiqian, the great eunuch who is now in charge of the Zhujun, through Cao Huachun, but Zhang Chi inquired, this Liu Jingyao is extremely disgusted with the eunuch, and he is afraid that it will backfire with Cao Huachun's letter and Gao Qiqian's warrant.

Liu Jingyao is still hesitating, at this time, it is a big war, and it is necessary to take responsibility for releasing people out of the customs. Although he is sure to persuade the cold-mouthed guard Cui Bingde to cooperate, it is necessary to think carefully about whether this matter is right or wrong.

Zhang Chi is not a person who can speak well, so he can only state the matter to Liu Jingyao, seeing that he is still hesitating, Zhang Chi said again: "Liu Gong does not need to worry, Mrs. Yu Guozhen, the niece of Zhang Bingwen, the wife and niece of Zhang Bingwen, the political envoy of Dongbu in the mountains, and the niece of Fang Kongzhi, the governor of Huguang, if there is anything, these two governors will take care of it." ”

The reason why Zhang Bingwen was put in front was because Liu Jingyao's position at this time was not only the supervision of Yongning Town, but also the deputy envoy of the Shandong Inspection Department. Although Zhang Bingwen is not his direct boss, he is also among his superiors. Moreover, taking out the relationship between Yu Guozhen and Donglin and Fushe is also a more convincing thing for Liu Jingyao, who was born in a literati.

Liu Jingyao pondered for another moment, and then nodded: "Okay, this matter will be left to me...... Just got the news, how to spread it to Yu Guozhen? ”

"Students should do their job." Zhang Chi said.

After the capture of Dingxing, Jianyu immediately captured Fangshan, and fought with the Ming army in Zhuozhou, but he did not fight to the death, left after a small setback, and moved to other places, capturing Gu'an, Kewen'an, and trapping Yongqing.

The news from the front came one by one, and there was hardly any good one, but Yu Guozhen only said that he was just playing Jiawei, especially training riding. On the 10th of August, the news finally came, and outside the cold mouth, the whereabouts of a small number of Jianyu were discovered!

Originally, it was normal for Jian Yu to peep at the side, but if it weren't for Yu Guozhen's reminder, Liu Jingyao would not have paid special attention to this matter. After finding out, he asked the eunuch of the prison army to ask for an order, asking for clearance, which was also a little selfish on his part, thinking that this was originally a matter of the imperial court, and should not be completed by Yu Guozhen's Qinwang Yiyong.

"The result?" Hearing Zhang Chi relay the news, Yu Guozhen asked.

"As a result, he was reprimanded by Gao Qiqian, and the eunuch party misled the country!" Zhang Chi said angrily: "At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he summoned the eunuchs to supervise the army, but within a few years, these eunuchs interfered in military affairs again. Eunuchs have no seeds, how can they lead the army! ”

In this regard, Yu Guozhen laughed it off. Eunuchs have no species, so are civil officials very kind? Others don't say, Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the current military department, was not properly dispatched last time to make the ancestral tomb of Zhongdu burned by the Liukou, this time it was a wrong strategy, so that Jianyu entered Gyeonggi as if he was in a no-man's land, he had no choice but to ask the superintendent to take prisoners, but after the results came out, the army did not dare to fight, but every time he took rhubarb in order to die quickly!

With him in general, there is also the former military department of Shangshu, now the right of the military department and the right capital of the imperial history Liang Tingdong, Yuan Chonghuan was not careful to guard Liaodong, resulting in the Houjin Cheng gap into the pass to disturb the Beijing Division, he had worked with Yuan Chonghuan in Liaodong, and he advocated killing Yuan Chonghuan, but there was a "plan against the slaves, and the hearts of the Liao people are also peaceful", but in the eighth year of Chongzhen, he declared great military affairs on behalf of Yang Sichang, and as a result, Chongzhen built a slave from his rule in the ninth year of the Beijing Division. He didn't think about how to wash away the shame, he obviously had a fierce general like Wang Pu in his hands, but he was just drinking medicine like Zhang Fengyi!

When Yu Guozhen learned of this situation, he was really surprised in his heart, since he was not afraid of death, why did he not dare to fight?

However, this is what Chongzhen should worry about, and what Yu Guozhen has to take care of now is to understand Jiannu in the battle, win the hearts of the people with victory, and lay a good foundation for future actions.

"Did Liu Jingyao say when he would send us out of customs?" He asked Zhang Chi.

"Liu Gong said, as long as it is in the evening of these two days, you can go out of the customs at night, he has already said to Cui Bingde, the general of the cold mouth, in addition, if Yu Gongzi is in trouble outside the pass, it is okay to return to the cold mouth quickly, although General Cui Bingde can't go out of the battle because of the order of high diving and submersion, but it is still okay to answer Yu Gongzi!"

This promise is already better than Yu Guozhen's bottom line, and after hearing this, he got up and said: "That is the case, without further ado, we will leave here!" ”

In the ninth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the first year of Chongde in the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, on the night of August 11, Yu Guozhen went out of the fortress for the first time in his life. He did not have many men with him, only one hundred and seventy horsemen, and his target was a valley less than forty miles from Lengkou, where the receiving troops and horses left by Azig were located.

(To be continued)