After pressing Li Ming to his seat, Zhang Ru said straight to the point: "The purpose of going out of Beijing this time, Mr. Li may not know, but Mr. Zhang has no intention of hiding it from Mr. Li. The next conversation between you and me, out of my mouth and into your ears, must not be known to the third person. ”

Li Ming nodded stunned, and secretly wondered in his heart: What is this kid going to do?

Zhang Ru condensed and said: "Your Majesty's dragon body is not in harmony, and it has been a long time, and after the death of the noble concubine Wan Zhen'er, the condition has a tendency to worsen. Now Daming looks peaceful, but in fact it is stormy, and this trip is to test what the general of the nine sides thinks in their hearts. ”

Li Ming was shocked, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, he ......"

Zhang Ru stretched out his hand and pressed Li Ming back to his seat: "General Li Bing, don't be impatient, just listen to me." Your Majesty didn't tell me anything about it, but Ben General knew some inside information.

Although the crown prince is young, he has a gentlemanly demeanor, which His Majesty is not worried about, but His Majesty is worried that people in a certain family who do not want the prince to inherit the throne will make trouble after his death.

If the total soldiers of the nine sides do not support Your Majesty, then the prince will be able to ascend to the throne in the future, and this position will not be stable. Liaodong Guiqian's attitude is unclear, with a neutral attitude, for this old general, whoever is the emperor is the emperor, he will not care so much, he just needs to ensure that Liaodong is not invaded by Hulu.

Datong Yang Rong is now a typical royalist, and there will be no problems on his side.

Zhang An, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, is the most difficult to deal with among the nine general soldiers, fortunately, in the previous Datong battle, this old general and Zhang also fought side by side, even if he does not stand on the prince's side, he will not want to help.

Now that I have come to Jizhen, the inspection is an excuse, and Zhang's real purpose is to understand your thoughts as the chief soldier of Jizhen. ”

Hearing Zhang Ru tell the purpose, Li Ming lost those worries in his heart, and said with a smile: "Li is His Majesty's courtier, whatever His Majesty says, the Commander's move is a bit redundant." ”

"No!" Zhang Ru waved his hand and said: "It's not redundant at all, there are 80,000 elite soldiers in Jizhen, and the combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the two towns of Datong in Liaodong, and the distance from the capital is close. Ben is going to talk to you about this because this time has been a good time for you. ”

Li Ming looked at Zhang Ru with a smile: "The understanding of a person is not something that can be known by asking a few people casually. The commander said that he knew about Li, but Li was a little confused. ”

"The chief soldier once killed his own brother for loyalty, it should be very uncomfortable!" Zhang Ru squinted his eyes and smiled.

Li Ming straightened his body suddenly, and then immediately relaxed, making a calm and breezy appearance: "It seems that the commander took out a lot of things from the mouths of those rabbit cubs. ”

Zhang Ru cocked Erlang's legs: "That is, the brilliant achievements of the chief soldier, I don't need to ask the soldiers below to know that these things have long been rotten into scum in the archives of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town." But no one knows about this matter, and even Jinyiwei, who claims to be omniscient, does not have such a dossier. ”

Li Ming felt a faint pain in his heart, and he didn't speak for a long time.

A large part of the responsibility for the death of his own brother is on himself.

The so-called greed for military salaries at the beginning was actually not what Zhang Ru knew, and only Li Ming knew the secret so far.

The other person who knew was now dead, and even the corpse had turned into dry bones.

Seeing that Li Ming didn't speak, Zhang Ru said again: "Every year on the March Cold Food Festival, Lord Li will go to worship a person, and after each worship, he will silently lock himself in the room for three days and not come out. Come to think of it, this incident has always haunted Master Li's heart, and it is a nightmare that lingers for a long time. When he came back, Zhang was thinking, what kind of person are you Li Ming? In this world, is there really a beast who kills his own brother for the sake of so-called loyalty? ”

"Shut up!" Li Ming stood up, his eyes were like knives, staring at Zhang Ru angrily.

Zhang Ru didn't mean to shut up at all, and continued to take care of himself: "Later, I thought, Lord Li's personality seems to have been recognized by many people, and those who recognize Lord Li seem to don't know this inside story." After letting people investigate Jinyiwei's file in detail, he just received a message from Feiying, and it seems that in the file of Jinyiwei's North Town Fusi, the evaluation of Master Li is also extremely high.

I'm wondering, how did you manage to kill your own brother and still get so many people's approval? ”

His face became extremely serious at this moment, and it was like a conversation between friends before, but at this moment, it suddenly became tense.

Li Ming took a deep breath: "Zhang Ru, what are you going to do?" ”

Zhang Ru said coldly: "My purpose, I have already told Lord Li, now, what is Lord Li's attitude, Zhang Ru wants to know." ”

"You have to know?" Li Ming said coldly.

Zhang Ru touched his chin, which had grown a little fluff: "I really want to." ”

Li Ming said: "Okay, since you want to know, I'll tell you." My own brother did not die at my hands, and His Majesty knew what happened back then. It's not my brother who is greedy for the salary of the Mo army, he bears the infamy of a lifetime, but just to fulfill me as a brother.

I am the one who is greedy for military salaries and eats empty salaries.

I, Li Ming, am not the incorruptible Jizhou general soldier in the eyes of others, not a good brother, and not His Majesty's most loyal courtier. I'm just a border town general who has lost his nature for the sake of money, and I'm a brute who drinks the blood of soldiers. ”

The resentment that had accumulated in his heart was completely vented at this moment, Li Ming's eyes were red, his hands were clenched into fists, and his face was as hideous as a beast of hell.

It's not because he thinks Zhang Ru is a trustworthy person to express the resentment in his heart, and it's not because Zhang Ru found something to talk to him, but if he wants to be on the same boat with Zhang Ru, then he must have a name.

His secret becomes the secret of two people, and this is his name.

The big sturdy hand patted Li Ming's shoulder, which was not broad but very hard: "Sit down and say." ”

Panting for a while, Li Ming calmed down and turned over an old case in 1510.

Back then, he and his younger brother Li Gantong were palace guards, and both of them were unswervingly on the side of the prince.

The two who formed a deep friendship with the prince naturally rose after Zhu Jianshen became the emperor, and became the general of Liaodong Town at the age of less than thirty.

In the first battle against Jianyu, Jizhen transferred 30,000 troops to aid Liaodong, and the two of them were the main generals of the 30,000 recruits in Jizhen.

After the First World War, the recruits suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining recruits were only thirty percent, but the battle was won, and the lord would be his own people, and Emperor Zhu Jianshen naturally wanted to praise him.

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were sent to Jizhen like this, and Li Ming, who had never seen so much silver in his life, was a little dazzled at that time, and his expression did not escape the eyes of his younger brother Li Gan.

In order to persuade his brother not to do stupid things, Li Gan specially talked to Li Ming late at night.

But people's greed is endless, even the saints say that they think about food and clothing, not to mention that Li Ming is a rough man who has not read many books.

He didn't take his brother's advice to heart at all, and after embezzling the thousands of nameless soldiers' pensions, he swaggered and squandered them.

Yuan Bin, who was the commander of the Jinyi Guard at the time, was also a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and what he said was much more important than what Li Ming said.

The Jinyi Guard's people took Li Ming's handle, and the Jinyi Guards rode five hundred miles overnight to take Li Ming. At this time, as long as Li Ming handed over the ink-greedy silver, it would be fine, and Zhu Jianshen took care of the old friendship, and maybe he would open up.

But Li Ming was blinded by lard, and he actually detained the people of Jinyiwei.

This time it can stab the hornet's nest, although Yuan Bin is still kind, but his way of doing things is not harmonious at all.

On the Jinluan Palace, in front of the civil and military officials, Yuan Bin asked to take Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si 3,000 Ti to ride north to Jizhen to arrest people, and Emperor Zhu Jianshen was not easy to refute.

After all, such a major event as greed for military salaries, if it is really big, it will mislead the country.

The General Military Mansion was besieged, and Li Ming realized how big the mistake he had made.

At this time, it was his younger brother Li Gan who stood up and took all the responsibility on himself, and then took advantage of Li Ming's inattention to kill himself.

The knife was left on his brother's neck, but it slashed at Li Ming's heart.

He wanted to turn himself in, but the blood book that fell out of his younger brother was his brother's heartfelt words, and his younger brother didn't want him to die, so he would rather die himself.

So, there was a scene where Li Ming took Li Gan's head to ask for forgiveness in front of the noon gate, and then, Emperor Zhu Jianshen couldn't bear to see his former men die one by one, and pretended not to know and fooled the past. After that shocking change, Li Ming changed his ways, and now none of the 80,000 soldiers in Jizhen feel that there are people above who are greedy for military salaries.

After listening to this story that is not tortuous but quite poignant, Zhang Ru sighed.

The relationship between brothers is thicker than water, and they can give up their lives for each other, but it is ridiculous that there are too many people in this world who can't see through this emotion of blood thicker than water, and even their own brothers have to be persecuted for some petty profits.

Li Ming's nomination was very heavy, so heavy that he transferred part of what he was carrying to Zhang Ru.

"Your Majesty's Holy Body is violated, I don't know how long I can hold out, please Lord Li be ready, once the crown prince ascends the throne, someone will obstruct him, and the 80,000 elite soldiers of Jizhen will appear under Beiping City within three days." Zhang Ru sighed, and then said solemnly.

Li Ming surrendered his hand and responded: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

Zhang Ru nodded: "Tomorrow I will leave for Taiyuan Town, here you should prepare well, especially in terms of grain and grass and siege equipment, you must be well prepared." ”

Li Ming also knew the seriousness of the matter, and nodded in agreement with a solemn face.

After the two formulated a simple battle strategy, they chatted for a while before leaving the heavily guarded White Tiger Festival Hall.