According to Sima Qiudao and He Huchen, Xu Liang and Huang Dao Zhou Yi had been ill for several days. And the date of onset happened to be when Hong Chengchou left Yutian for Tongzhou.

Therefore, when Xu Liang and Huang Daozhou appeared in the Yutian County Ya with a tired face, facing Xu Liang who yawned from time to time, Ma Shilong, the general of Liaodong, sneered again and again, "It seems that Lord Xu and Lord Huang are really sick, and they can even fall asleep when they are standing." ”

Xu Liang couldn't help but slander, if you change to Ma Shilong, and chase and kill the Houjin cavalry for three days and three nights in a row, even if you are an iron man, you will be tired.

paid Ma Shilong hastily, and Xu Liang took the opportunity to confess to Hong Chengchou and went back to his residence to make up for sleep. As for Ma Shilong's reaction, Xu Liang didn't have time to study it.

Liaodong Iron Cavalry is fierce, but what does this have to do with Xu Liang? After finishing this round of soy sauce with peace of mind, Xu Liang should lead the Liang army to return to Pingliang.

As for the Liaodong Iron Horse? Hehe, it's too far away from Xu Liang's participation in politics in Shaanxi, Xu Liang has limited energy and is not interested in mixing.

Ma Shilong thought that he was not respected as he should in Yutian City, and he couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart. That night, he led a thousand Liaodong iron cavalry out of the city, saying that he wanted to level the Houjin cavalry near Yutian City in one fell swoop.

Xu Liang was not interested in Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and even Hong Chengchou found out. The next day, Hong Chengchou picked a time and specially visited Xu Liang, half explaining, half explaining: "Guozhong, Liaodong General Ma Shilong, you may not know much, that is also a fierce general of the Liaodong Department." A while ago, Zu Dashou led the Liaodong Iron Cavalry back to Ningyuan without authorization, and the person responsible for recovering Zu Dashou was General Ma. This time, the official reported to Lord Sun Chengzong about the Houjin Cavalry. Master Sun sympathized with the hard work of our Shaanxi soldiers, and specially sent General Ma to lead a thousand Liaodong iron cavalry into Yutian to assist in the defense. Those few Houjin cavalry wandering around Yutian. Soon it will be broken by the horse ginseng. I am a soldier in Shaanxi, and I will never have to worry about it. ”

The meaning of the words. It is to ask Xu Liang not to look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, and to give the world-famous Liaodong Iron Rider a little face. In this regard, Xu Liang said that he answered politely on the surface, but he did not think so in his heart. Xu Liang privately inquired about the maintenance cost of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry belonged to the latter category of heavy cavalry, war horses, armor, and three-eyed eyes, this whole set of equipment came down. The maintenance cost of a Liaodong iron rider is about 100 taels of silver a year. Its cost is about ten times that of a regular step. In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Iron Cavalry, the court invests about 500,000 taels of silver every year.

It is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry in the entire Ming Dynasty is recognized as the first, and over the years, it is basically this army that can barely fight with the Houjin Cavalry. But at the same time, the high military expenses for maintaining this army also made the military department miserable.

The salary is high. The horizon is also high. After so many years, the generals of the Liaodong Department have developed a kind of virtue that no one has in their eyes, and among the civil officials, except for one Sun Chengzong. Except for Yuan Chonghuan, other civil officials, even cabinet ministers. In the eyes of the Liaodong generals, they are not even a fart.

What's more, Xu Liang came out of a small county town in Shaanxi?

Yes. Ma Shilong was not surprised by Xu Liang's contempt. Hypocritically dealt with Hong Chengchou, and after sending Hong Chengchou back, Xu Liang didn't treat Ma Shilong and the 1,000 Liaodong Iron Cavalry he brought as a dish at all.

After not going out for four or five days in a row, Xu Liang finally recuperated a little better. At the end of the first month, Xu Liang received a letter from Feng Suqin in Shaanxi.

For Xu Liang's hasty promotion of Beijing, the civil and military generals of Xu Liang's department lacked sufficient preparations. But fortunately, with Dai Feng, Lu Yifa, Lu Chengyuan and others in the northwest, the forces of Xu Liang and his family were finally able to stabilize their positions. There are Feng Suqin, Luo Baiguan, Wu Side and others in business, and there is a Jingzhou Liang family outside as Liang Ji's strong support, Liang Ji's soap cream, well salt and honeycomb coal business has developed rapidly.

The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, which was established by Liang Kee, has more than 40 members, including almost all major merchant families in Northwest China. Of course, Feng Suqin made it very clear in the letter that most of the businessmen joined the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, aiming at the discount rate of the internal members of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.

Xu Liang didn't care much about this. The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce was originally a chamber of commerce established by Xu Liang in order to protect the interests of Liang Kee. No matter what the purpose of the members joined, as long as they can expand the sphere of influence of the Chinese Entrepreneur Association, Xu Liang will welcome it.

Of course, in the letter, there is also a lot of information about the trilateral governor Yang He. Governor Yang stopped for a while, and just after the New Year of Chongzhen's third year, Governor Yang suddenly proposed to build a Pingliang Salt Transportation Department in Pingliang, Shaanxi, on the surface to standardize Pingliang's well salt business, but in fact, it was to share a little profit in the well salt business of Liang Ji and the Liang family in Jingzhou.

Xu Liang's understanding is that Yang He, the governor of the three sides, is in a hurry! According to the news transmitted by Tsing Yiwei, after Xu Liang left Pingliang with Hong Chengchou's army, Governor Yang's appeasement did not go particularly smoothly. At least the leaders of the people's army, such as Shangtianlong and Fourth Miss Li Ting, did not buy Governor Yang's account, and so far, the two sides have not reached an agreement.

Governor Yang's appeasement strategy, Xu Liang also generally knows some, it is nothing more than a matter of money and food, and now that the appeasement in the northwest has been going on for more than half a year, Governor Yang waved the available silver taels It is estimated that there is not much, and it is not enough to support the future appeasement cause.

Faced with a huge shortage of money and food, Governor Yang was anxious.

All these things, Xu Liang is far away in Yutian County, Shuntian Mansion, and he can't do anything about Pingliang, except for Xu Liang in the reply letter to Feng Suqin and other civil and military officials, deal with it carefully, and don't get bored, Xu Liang also has no good instructions.

Hong Chengchou treats the Liaodong general Ma Shilong really well, since Ma Shilong came to Yutian City, Hong Chengchou almost every night banquet Ma Shilong, for Ma Shilong to bring a thousand Liaodong iron horsemen, Hong Chengchou also ordered special care, live in the best tent, eat the best food, feed the best horse feed.

This move is extremely unfair to generals like Sima Qiudao and He Huchen.

His grandmother's. Yutian City is our Shaanxi soldiers holding on day and night, and your Liaodong Iron Cavalry is famous. But it has been seven or eight days since I came to Yutian City, but I haven't even fished a single hair of the Houjin cavalry. But he swaggered every day, like an uncle, showing off his might in Yutian City, commanding his command!

This kind of idleness, how can Sima Qiudao and He Huchen stand it?!

At a recent dinner, the conflict finally intensified.

It is impossible to verify who provoked whom, in short, He Huchen and Ma Shilong, the two tiger generals, quarreled so much in front of Hong Chengchou.

"He Huchen. This general is the Liaodong general of Qinfeng, how dare you be presumptuous in front of this general, you are a small dismissed general soldier! Ma Shilong raised his eyebrows and screamed.

What He Huchen hated the most in his life was that others poked him the only stain in his life, that is, he was dismissed by Yang Du, the governor of the three sides.

The reason why He Huchen followed Hong Chengchou into Beijing so happily this time was precisely to earn some military merits and reinstate a good official.

However, Ma Shilong, the general of Liaodong, did not open any pot and mentioned which pot, and actually exposed He Huchen's shortcomings in public.

How can He Huchen, who has always been arrogant, stand it? !

You have to get up. He Huchen roared at Ma Shilong with a red face and a thick neck: "You can't be humiliated if you can't kill you!" Ma Lao thief, are you great at riding in Liaodong? Hmph, I don't know who led a thousand cavalry around Yutian City for seven or eight days, but he didn't even pick up a single hair and a half hair on the Houjin cavalry! Dignified Liaodong Iron Ride. Under the fame, it is nothing more than that! ”

This is Ma Shilong's sore foot again. It is also aggrieved to say, Ma Shilong was ordered by Sun Chengzong. With Hong Chengchou stationed in Yutian, the Houjin cavalry squad was cleared.

However, I don't know how. Ma Shilong led a thousand Liaodong iron horsemen, surrounding Yutian City within a hundred miles. The inner three floors and the outer three floors all brought over the entire surrounding area of Yutian City. However, the Houjin cavalry seemed to suddenly disappear from the sky, and Ma Shiyou really didn't see the real Houjin cavalry.

Ma Shilong screamed, panting heavily, glaring at He Huchen, and the tiger roared: "Oh, the vertical son dares to humiliate General Ben like this, come on, General Ben wants to duel with you!" ”

He Huchen shook the wine glass in his hand, got up suddenly, glared back at Ma Shilong, and roared: "The Liaodong soldiers are amazing!" Duel with General Ben? Who's afraid of whom! See that General Ben doesn't beat you all over the ground looking for teeth! After that, He Huchen ignored the generals who sat in the hall, walked to the middle of the voice, took a steady step, hooked his hand towards Ma Shiyou, and said, "Come on, let's practice!" ”

Most of the surrounding generals were from the Liang army's camp, and when they saw this scene, they followed suit.

When Ma Shilong saw this, he suddenly had a feeling that it was difficult to ride a tiger. He Huchen and He Renlong are called the Northwest Twin Heroes, He Renlong is called He Maniac, he doesn't want to die in a fight, He Renlong can be as famous as him, tall and strong in martial arts, how can it be easy to match his generation.

On the other hand, Ma Shilong, although he was born in the Liaodong department, is small, and He Huchen, who is tall and tall, is not on the same level at all.

Ma Shilong was embarrassed, sitting on the seat like a pins and needles, his face was red and white for a while.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou was afraid that the relationship between the Shaanxi soldiers and the Liaodong soldiers would be stiff, so he stood up and said angrily to He Huchen, who was tied into a horse step: "General He, what are you doing? In the cold weather, it's rare for the big guys to get together together, and don't put the things that are half ruthless on tonight's table! ”

Since it was Hong Chengchou who opened his mouth, He Huchen had no temper.

Unexpectedly, Xu Liang had already seen that Ma Shilong, a Liaodong general with eyes above the top, was not pleasing to the eye, and when he heard this, he sneered, looked at Hong Chengchou, and said, "What did Lord Zhongcheng say?" Liaodong Iron Cavalry is our Ming Dynasty's famous cavalry army, as the commander of the Liaole Iron Cavalry, presumably the general of the horse training is also experienced, General Fang He stood up to ask General Ma for advice, speaking of which is also an opportunity for the latter to learn advanced and learn from each other. Saying that, Xu Liang glanced at Ma Shilong, who had a gloomy face, and said with encouraging eyes: "General Ma, you must not let this official down." ”

Ma Shilong's forbearance limit finally reached the peak of the outbreak, got up, stomped his foot heavily towards Hong Chengchou, and shouted: "Lord Hong, your own military training has been extremely good over the years. There is no need for the deterrence of our Liaodong Iron Cavalry. Lord Hong, no merit will not be punished, high resignation! With that, Ma Shilong drank heavily and walked out with his own soldiers.

"Huh? Ma Shen General? Hong Chengchou shouted in disbelief behind him. Seeing that Ma Shilongtou strode out without looking back, Hong Chengchou stomped his feet and looked at Xu Liang and He Huchen, and said, "Huchen, Guozhong, you, why do you bother?" ”

He Huchen was silent, but Xu Liang chuckled disdainfully: "Ma Shilong stayed in the camp for seven or eight days, we ate and drank well every day, and offered him like an ancestor, but he didn't even catch a single hair of the Houjin soldiers!" With such a waste, staying in our Yutian City can only trample on the grain. ”

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly, pointed at Xu Liang and said: "Alas, Guozhong, you don't know, Ma Shenjiang will be a special general specially ordered by Lord Sun Chengzong, and now that Ma Shilong is angry, how can we give an account to Lord Sun?" ”

Xu Liang said indifferently: "General Ma is going by himself, what does it have to do with us!" ”

The famous Ma Shilong entered Yutian City proudly, and eight days later, he went out of the city and returned to Tongzhou. Ma Shilong's departure made Hong Chengchou nervous for a while, but until Sun Chengzong's order to prepare for war was issued, the civil and military officials in Yutian City did not seem to find anything special in it.

The day when the court regained Luancheng, Yongping, Kaiping, and Zunhua in a big way has been set to the tenth day of February in the third year of Chongzhen, and today is the end of the first month, leaving fewer and fewer opportunities for Shaanxi soldiers to train! Since the day the exact date was received, the entire Shaanxi military camp has been plunged into intense intensive training. Xu Liang walked to the gate of the camp and heard the sound of the soldiers in the camp practicing and shouting slogans.

The herald soldiers passing by the gate of Yutian City also ran more and more frequently, sometimes one or two, sometimes three or four, and there were also more than a dozen. When those people passed by the Yutian City Gate, they looked at the defenders on the city tower with extremely despicable eyes!

With that kind of momentum in his eyes, Xu Liang couldn't wait to shoot those people off the horse with an arrow!

On that day, Xu Liang was at his residence, asking Yahuan Rouer to write a letter to the officials in Shaanxi. Sima Qiudao ran in in a hurry, his face flushed with excitement, and he was dancing in front of Xu Liang.

"My lord, the court has sent troops! Troops out! ”

Xu Liang motioned to Rou'er to stop his pen and ink, stared at Sima Qiudao, and asked, "How many soldiers are sent by the court, and who is the commander?" ”

Sima Qiudao hurriedly said, "Sun Chengzong, a cabinet scholar and secretary of the military department, personally led 50,000 troops to kill Luanzhou City!" (To be continued......)