After listening to Zhu Daolin's order, Wu Jicheng and Jiang Yulong, who were full of blood, stood up and said loudly: "Obey!" ”

"It's finally time for this day!"

Zhang Yizhen, the steady deputy general of the Dongjiang New Army, was inexplicably overjoyed.

Zhu Daolin raised his voice and solemnly admonished: "Everyone, from now on, you must take back your heart, you must not slack off at all, after you go back, all departments must immediately start recruiting troops, increase the number of troops exponentially, train hard day and night, don't expect the armies fighting in the south to go north to help in the war, the responsibility on their shoulders is not lighter than yours, they have to recruit recruits in Yingzhou immigrants to train hard, and at the same time, they have to attack everywhere to fight a few tough battles." ”

"Before the autumn of this year, the armies in the south of the Yangtze River will move north, advance into Huaibei and the Central Plains, and even go west to Jingxiang and Nanyang, completely quell the riots in various places, and leave more vitality for the people of the Ming Dynasty, who are full of holes and starvation."

Three days later, the important meeting that decided the future situation in the north and the fate of the group quietly ended, and the generals and colonels of each ministry hurriedly returned to the headquarters with the secret plan and a series of detailed implementation rules, while Guo Zhongjun, Zhu Daolin's most trusted confidant, led a 50-member army team and 500 personal guards to the north with the ship, and personally sat in the most important town of Uiju on the banks of the Yalu River, to monitor and supervise the North Korean side and the Dongjiang New Army in an all-round way.

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At the beginning of the heavy snowfall, the Qingdao Military Port under the morning sun was hunting with battle flags, and the officers and soldiers were standing solemnly.

Two brand-new 800-ton warships, under the command of two young captains of the East China Sea Fleet, were loaded in an orderly manner, and boxes of tribute were carefully carried to the ship, wearing black steel helmets, black bulletproof vests, and guards equipped with single-shot rifles and revolvers, standing solemnly on the ship and around the docks. Be vigilant about your surroundings.

Li Yiliang, the veteran who approved the sable coat, was uncontrollable in his excitement for several days, he never dreamed that the day of recovering Liaodong would be just around the corner, and the little doubt about Zhu Daolin had long since disappeared, his face was full of rare smiles, and his waist was straight. The whole person is like ten years younger, and I feel that I can't finish it.

After sending Zhu Daolin, who was about to enter the Beijing Saint, to the dock early in the morning, Li Yiliang kept holding Zhu Daolin's hand, and there seemed to be a thousand words in his heart, but he didn't know how to express it.

"Lao Li, don't be too excited, take it easy, pay attention to your body, the burden on your body is heavier than anyone else's. Not only should we train two divisions of recruits for us within half a year, but we should also shoulder the heavy responsibility of storing, transporting, and transporting weapons, equipment, and materials for the armies in the north. ”

"If you can't bear it, just hand over all the fortress troops and the military academy to your assistant Colonel Calis and the Spanish instructor team, maybe after the counterinsurgency war is launched, you will need to lead the troops to the battle......"

"Take this opportunity to slowly share the burden with Calis, he is my Ming people like the 65 instructors at the Qingdao base, and his excellent performance in the past two years is also worthy of our trust."

Zhu Daolin comforted in a low voice.

Li Yiliang nodded frequently: "I understand, understand!" To be honest, the entire base includes batches of recruit recruitment and training. Most of the work was handled by Calis and the instructor team, and I just yelled at this old face. I'm relieved to hand it over to them! ”

"It's just...... Now that the DPRK and China are not very stable, do you have to enter Beijing? When will I be able to come back from this trip? I don't know the bottom of my heart! ”

Zhu Daolin sighed lightly: "This time I entered Beijing by order, and the emperor has issued an order to summon me to Beijing three times in the past few months, and I can't refuse, otherwise our young emperor doesn't know what he will think." ”

"Now that the siege of Jinzhou has been lifted, the threat from the north has been lifted for the time being. But the riots in the northwest region are intensifying, not only Jingxiang is in shambles, Bashu is also in danger, nearly half of my Ming troops are involved, and the imperial court spends no less than 100,000 taels of silver on grain and grass every day. ”

"If only this time. If I don't go to Beijing to report to the emperor and help him, maybe our huge strategic plan to recover Liaodong will not be implemented, and it will be possible for a holy decree to arrest me, the leader of the anti-thieves! ”

Li Yiliang completely put aside his concerns, took a deep breath, and said word by word: "Dashuai, I couldn't understand you before, and I didn't dare to ponder your thoughts, but now I understand, I can't say beautiful words, only say a word in my heart: Dashuai, even if you become a thief, my old calendar will follow you in this life and this life!" ”

Zhu Daolin was greatly moved, and hugged Li Yiliang, whose eyes were flushed, and hugged him tightly: "Brother, I am content to get your words today!" Content! ”

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Zhu Daolin's trip to the capital was very smooth, but after entering Chaoyangmen, the five hundred guards under the crotch of the Korean horses, strange all-black outfits and unprecedented weapons and equipment on their bodies caused a sensation among the military and civilians in the capital.

In the afternoon, more than a dozen noble sons and shareholders of the Four Seas Commercial Bank gathered together to hold a banquet for Zhu Daolin.

Who knew that as soon as Zhu Daolin finished washing and changing, Zhao Huaizhong, the eunuch of the inner court, hurriedly arrived, and took Zhu Daolin and the five major carts of tribute sent this time away without saying anything.

The Forbidden City on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year was solemn.

The first court meeting after the year had dispersed as early as noon, Zhu Daolin, under the guidance of Zhao Huaizhong, had just entered the Xihua Gate, and Cao Huachun and Zhang Yixian, who had been waiting for a long time, strode up to greet him, and after a few greetings, Zhu Daolin was directly led to the Qianqing Palace, which he had never entered.

Zhu Daolin was quite apprehensive in his heart, and it was not easy to ask carefully in a hurry, and it didn't take long for a group of big eunuchs to pass through the right back door of Chonglou, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the young emperor and a woman in a white fur coat standing side by side on the white jade platform in front of the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

Coming to the bottom of the steps five meters away from the emperor, Zhu Daolin immediately prostrate on the ground, long live the mountain, but he never expected that Emperor Chongzhen would walk down the high platform quickly, personally helped him up, and took a "Aiqing", which moved Zhu Daolin, and knelt down again after being led by the emperor to the white jade platform, and made a big salute to the beautiful queen he had never seen.

What happened after that was even more unexpected than anyone expected.

Not long after Zhu Daolin was led into the Qianqing Palace by the emperor and empress, all the eunuchs were quickly dispatched, and Cao Huachun, who looked stern, and Zhang Yixian, who was in charge of the emperor's guards, immediately commanded hundreds of brocade-clothed pro-army and guard eunuchs to set up a triple cordon outside the Qianqing Palace, and they did not remove until the morning sun rose the next morning. (To be continued.) )