"Yes, sir!" Hao Shaoqi puffed up his chest: "As long as there is still a breath of humiliation, I will not let the adults get hurt!" ”

"Well, it's not too early!" Liu Cheng looked at the sky: "Wave the flag, you pick twenty people to go with me to Jin to see the superintendent, and bring the Jurchen named Actun with you, and this time, pick the Mongols." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Yes, sir!"

Liu Cheng's cavalry marched through the city gates with smoke and dust, and various firearms could be seen everywhere on the towering city walls, and the faces of the soldiers were full of tension, and the air was filled with the peculiar bitter taste of war. No wonder Chongzhen believes in this person so much, Yang Sichang can at least let his subordinates temporarily get rid of that state of Wen Tian and martial arts, creating a tense atmosphere, compared to many Han doctors who can only talk about righteousness and are not practical. If he is Chongzhen, I am afraid that he will also regard him as a national soldier. But it's also a good thing for himself, the more capable he is, the more he wants to make a career, and the more he can't refuse his proposal.

"Ningxia General Soldier Liu Cheng begs to see the Supervisor!" Hao Shaoqi said loudly, a flag official walked in quickly, and after a while, the official came out again, followed by a praise painting in a robe, and said to Liu Cheng with a smile: "Lord Commander, please come with me, Lord Inspector is waiting for you in the back hall!" ”

Liu Cheng followed Nazanhua into the mansion gate from the side door, passed through the two courtyards, and came to the gate of a courtyard, Nazanhua turned around and smiled: "Lord Liu, my lord is inside, I won't go in, you can do it yourself!" ”

Liu Cheng bowed his hand and said: "Mr. Lao, wave the flag!" Hao Shaoqi, who got the hint, hurriedly stepped forward and took out a small leather bag from his arms, Liu Cheng took the leather bag and handed it over, and said with a smile: "A little heart, not respect, please accept it!" ”

"How can this be!" Nazan was about to resign, but Liu Cheng grabbed his hand and stuffed the skin bag in his hand: "Liu will rely on Mr. in the future, there are still many places to rely on Mr., please give Mr. Liu a face, take it!" ”

Seeing Liu Cheng's earnest expression, Nazan slid the leather bag into his sleeve as soon as he turned over his hand, and said with a smile: "Lord Liu's hospitality is disrespectful." He looked around at no one, and lowered his voice and said, "So that your Excellency will know that the Inspector just wrote to the imperial court a few days ago, requesting that Yansui and Ningxia two towns also be included in the scope." ”

"Oh?" Liu Cheng's color did not change, and he immediately smiled: "Thank you, sir, when this is over, Liu Cheng should thank you again." Then he said to Hao Shaoqi and Actun: "You two will wait outside here, and do what I command!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

Yang Sichang stood on the steps, and when he saw Liu Cheng dressed in iron armor, with a bow bag hanging from his waist, and saw him with a bow, a satisfied smile appeared on his face: "General Liu is exempt, exempt, come to the house to talk!" ”

The room where Yang Sichang met Liu Cheng was not the festival hall where he usually met his subordinates, but the study where he lived on weekdays, and there was only the old servant Yang Qing in the room. When the two of them entered the house, Yang Sichang smiled and said, "Come, show General Liu a seat!" ”

"Don't dare, how can there be a seat for the last general in front of the Inspector!" Liu Cheng humbly bowed his head and refused to take a seat. Yang Sichang waved his hand: "It's not in the lobby today, you and I are also old acquaintances, so there is no need to be polite, sit down quickly!" After repeated humility, Liu Chengcai respectfully made a long bow to Yang Sichang, and then sat down sideways. After Yang Qing brought the tea, the two took a sip. Yang Sichang pondered for a moment and asked, "General Liu, you are originally the chief soldier of Ningxia, why did you come so suddenly?" ”

"Tell the Overseer, the last general is here to pursue the East Captives!" Liu Cheng put down the teacup and replied according to the prepared draft.

"Chasing the Eastern? Did the Eastern Soldiers go to Ningxia? Yang Sichang couldn't help but be taken aback, and the teacup in his hand was slammed into a few cases: "Damn, why didn't you see it in the Tang newspaper?" ”

"Master Overseer, this is going to start a few months ago!" Liu Cheng coughed lowly, and then sent people to assassinate himself a few months ago, and he sent troops to cross the Hanhai Sea and defeat Tushetu Khan with Chechen Taiji, Huang Taiji surrounded Guihua City, and sent his son Haoge to lead troops to pursue the old and weak of Chahar and Tumut, but he was defeated by his wife, and he was also captured. Finally, he smiled and said: "After the last general relieved the siege of Guihua City, he learned that the captive chieftain was building a city with Lingle for a long time, and he wanted to attack, but he was afraid that the strength would be weak, but he was defeated by the Dongyu, so he went south along the Yellow River, entered the border wall at the side pass, and threw himself all the way east to the command of the lord, waiting for the dispatch. This time, there were 3,000 cavalry with the last general, and the infantry and baggage entered the second side and detoured a long way, and it should be more than ten days before they arrived. ”

"You, what you said is true?"

Liu Cheng's earth-shattering words made Yang Sichang stunned, and he instinctively wanted to reprimand Liu Cheng for lying about his military exploits and deceiving his boss at first, but when the words came to his lips and swallowed back. The reason is very simple, no Ming army general will tell a lie that is so easy to be debunked in order to risk his military exploits, the captive is not the same as beheading, it is a mouth that can speak, especially the high-level captive like Haoge, the eldest son of Huang Taiji, is even more different, whether it is a fugitive Han Min or an envoy of the Korean State, there are many people who have seen it with their own eyes, if Liu Cheng wants to find a captive to pretend to be Haoge, it is easy to be exposed. As for the latter, not to mention, although Mobei is thousands of miles away from the Ming Kingdom, it is impossible to make up such a major event as sending troops to defeat Tushetu Khan, and it can be verified by merchants and Mongolian herdsmen after half a year at most.

"Of course it's true, I'm in a hurry to march, and I haven't had time to bring Hauge from my wife, but there are quite a few scattered Jurchens who have been captured, so I'll bring one today, and you can call in and ask."

"Okay, pass him in!"

Liu Cheng responded, and after a while, Hao Shaoqi led Acton in, and when he saw the strong man with two money rat tails in front of him, Yang Sichang's eyes couldn't help but widen, he asked Acton a few questions, and Acton answered them one by one. After a while, Yang Sichang fell silent, at least he hadn't found any flaws so far, at least he could be sure that this person should be a real Tartar, his heart began to gradually tend to believe Liu Cheng's words, there was no need for the other party to lie - as long as he confronted the main lord Hagra and the North Korean envoy, the truth would be revealed.

"All of you go down!" After Hao Shaoqi and Acton retreated, Yang Sichang asked in a low voice: "General Liu, there is no mention of this in the Tang newspaper, it should be you who made a ghost, right?" ”

"Yes, it is the ban order issued by the last general, and the matter of capturing Haoge alive is forbidden to be spread, and even General Du Ruhu doesn't know about it."

"Why are you doing that?" Yang Sichang's eyes narrowed dangerously: "Do you know that with this matter, I can cure you for the crime of delaying the military plane!" ”

"Because it's more advantageous to do so!" Liu Cheng's expression was calm, as if he hadn't heard Yang Sichang's threat at all: "If I write it in the Tang Daily, it will soon leak out, and Huang Taiji will also know that his son has fallen into our hands." ”

"Humph!" Yang Sichang sneered: "Joke, Huang Taiji is not a fool, there are always a few defeated soldiers who have gone back for so long, how could he not know that his son has fallen into your hands?" ”

"That battle was fought at night, and the form was very chaotic, before the battle, the Dongyu was already sleepy and tired, and there were very few people who could escape back, Huang Taiji should not be sure whether Haoge was dead or fell into our hands, the difference between this is great."

Yang Sichang was silent, he understood what Liu Cheng didn't say, for Da Ming, a living Haoge is much more useful than a dead Haoge.

"General Liu, you send Haoge to Datong immediately, and I will personally ask the Holy Lord for credit for you!" Yang Sichang's voice was not loud, but it was very firm: "Don't worry, you have made such a great achievement, Your Majesty will definitely reward you heavily!" ”

"Lord Yang, I think it's better for you to think about this matter carefully!"

"Thoughtful? What do you mean? ”

"I mean, it's best to keep this secret between you and me!" When Liu Cheng said this, he turned his head and smiled at Yang Qing on the side: "Husband Yang, I believe you won't talk too much!" ”

"General Liu, don't worry!" Yang Qing's face suddenly turned red, and he looked humiliated because he was suspicious: "Don't worry, even if I die, I won't betray the young master." ”

"Uncle Qing, you go to the door and watch, don't let other people come over and interfere with me and General Liu!" Yang Sichang took the old servant out, and only he and Liu Cheng were left in the room at this time, and he lowered his voice and asked, "What do you mean even the saint is hidden?" ”

"Especially hide it from the Holy One!" Liu Cheng said with a smile.

"If you have even concealed the Holy One, will you not lose a great fortune? You must know that the eldest son of the captive chieftain may be able to be crowned a marquis! ”

"So what? Huang Taiji doesn't have only one son, let this go, there are other people, Liu has not passed thirty years in a certain year, and it is too early to be a marquis! ”

Hearing Liu Cheng's words that can be said to be extremely arrogant, Yang Sichang wanted to say something, but in the end there was no exit, he thought for a while and asked: "What's wrong with handing Haoge into the hands of the imperial court to make you insist on opposing it like this?" ”

"Because there is no one in charge of the court now, there are groups of bad things!"

"Nonsense!" Yang Sichang shouted angrily: "Today is a rare British master, how can there be no person in charge?" ”

"Master Overseer, I'm not talking about the Son of Heaven, I'm talking about Zaifu!" Liu Cheng sneered: "Master Inspector, you are a smart person, if you hand over this Haoge, will it be used as a bargaining chip for peace with Dongyu, or continue to fight, I'm afraid the court will have to quarrel with itself first, right?" ”

Yang Sichang snorted coldly and didn't speak, although he didn't say it, he knew in his heart that Liu Cheng was right. In order to suppress the power of the minister, starting from Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, he increased the power of the imperial history platform, that is, the supervision officer. Officials can impeach the ruling minister on hearsay, or even some ridiculous grounds, without any responsibility. Traditionally, whether these attacks are true or not, the impeached minister must temporarily suspend the exercise of power and return to his home to think about it behind closed doors until the Son of Heaven makes a ruling. If in the hands of a Son of Heaven with rich political experience, the counselor will be a very effective tool, and he can remind, weaken, attack, or even dismiss or even reduce the punishment to the ruling minister according to the situation. But if the person in the supreme position does not have enough experience and ability, then the counselor will become a tool of party struggle. The power of an auxiliary minister depends not only on his own official position and the degree of trust placed in him by the Son of Heaven, but also to a large extent on the number of times he has served as chief examiner and the number of protégés, because the counselors are usually selected from among the outstanding among the newly promoted scholars, and the more protégés a certain person has, the less likely he is to be impeached. And at present, the auxiliary ministers in the court can't control those imperial histories at all, and Chongzhen himself lacks the experience and skills to use the officials, so no matter whether they choose to fight or peace, they will be defeated because of the stormy impeachment of the imperial historians.

"It's okay, let's put this matter aside for the time being!" Yang Sichang sighed: "Now that you know about the building of the city with Lingel, how do you plan to deal with it?" ”

"Naturally, we have to take it down as soon as possible!" Liu Cheng replied without hesitation: "How can others be allowed to sleep soundly next to the couch?" Helinger is only a few days away from Datong, if it succeeds in building the city, I am afraid that there will be no peace in the second town! ”

"What General Liu said is very true!" Seeing Liu Cheng's cheerful statement, the stone hanging in Yang Sichang's heart finally fell to the ground, and he couldn't help but think in his heart: "Although this person acts aggressively, he is still reliable in the joints, and it is also thanks to his father that he has a great favor to him, otherwise he may not be able to use it for himself!" Since this is the case, you have to give him some sweetness to taste, otherwise it is not a long-term solution, thinking of this, Yang Sichang smiled and said: "This siege and Lingel, you will command the soldiers and horses of each town." If this city is breached, I will start the Holy Lord, and go to Liaodong to supervise the division, and then you will command the soldiers and horses of each town! ”

"Forgive me!"

Yang Sichang almost couldn't believe his ears, he looked at Liu Cheng and asked, "General Liu, what did you just say?" ”

"Forgive me! There are no problems with the reconquest and Lingel. As for going to Liaodong with adults, please forgive Liu for not being able to obey his fate? “

Yang Sichang's face suddenly became gloomy, if he changed to someone else, he was afraid that he would have already drunk the order to pull the other party down, and he would talk about it first, but Liu Cheng's strength and the great achievements he had just made Yang Sichang hesitate.

"Why?"

"I'm not going to fight a battle that I'm sure to lose."

"Sure to lose? Why? Didn't you just defeat Donglu and capture Haoge alive, although Donglu is a soldier, you are not inferior, right? ”

"That's another story!" Liu Cheng sneered: "The two countries are in a confrontation, and the decisive victory is not so much on the battlefield, but on the court, right?" (To be continued.) )