"Uhh

"Hurry up!"

A terrible scream came from the swing of the whip, but the sound made a man sitting in the courtyard tremble.

After a while, an old slave with a shaved rattail came in and saluted the man:

"General, Manggul Taibel ordered us to hand over six hundred men......"

"Bang-"

When the old slave's words came out, the man immediately slammed his fist on the stone table and scolded angrily:

"In the past, the Han people who were promised to return to Dajin should be treated kindly, but now there is not one in the 300,000 Han people, and I have to hand over my soldiers!"

"General, be careful that the wall has ears!" The old slave was taken aback by the man's words, and hurriedly spoke to dissuade him, but the man said:

"I regret that I shouldn't have betrayed Ming and lowered my gold in the first place!"

When his words were heard by the old slave, the old slave couldn't help but sigh, and his identity was the number three among the Han generals in the Jin Kingdom, Liu Aita, and his Han name was Liu Xingzuo.

Unlike Tong Yangxing and Li Yongfang, who have great careers and take refuge in Nurhachi, Liu Xingzuo was originally a flat-headed commoner.

Although the three brothers in the family have all read, they haven't read too much, and they are in the middle of the road because of the Gaohuai chaos.

Therefore, he, like most Liaodong people before the second year of the Apocalypse, hated the Ming Dynasty government from the bottom of his heart.

Later, he was whipped by the Kaiyuan soldiers for not entering the Weixue but wearing Confucian scarves and Confucian clothes without authorization, and in order to avoid punishment, he fled to the then Jianzhou Wei.

Because of his literacy, he was also appreciated by Nurhachi, who was still the commander of the Jianzhou Guard of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and was awarded the position of preparing for the emperor, and gave him a Jurchen name "Aita".

From the 33rd year of Wanli to the 39th year of Wanli, Liu Xingzuo was responsible for appeasing the Han people who fled north under the Zhenghong flag of Dai Shan, and also took charge of civil affairs and pacified the Han people who fled north, so the people of Liaodong trusted him very much at that time, and often communicated with him by letter before fleeing north.

At the same time, unlike other Han generals who only knew how to exploit the Han people who fled north, he would use his special position to protect the Han people under his control.

After some Han people were bullied by the Jurchens, Liu Xingzuo would also scold each other and punish them.

What he did was simply eating inside and out for Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai, so Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai often grabbed his fields and livestock.

However, Liu Xingzuo didn't care about this, because Nurhachi lacked the talents to govern at that time, and often after the incident, Nurhachi would reprimand Daishan and Mang Gurtai.

In this case, even after Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and captured Tieling, Kaiyuan, Fushun and other places, there was still no change, and Liu Xingzuo still used his power to protect the Han people.

It's just that this situation has completely ended since the Battle of Fuliao.

When Nurhachi, who fled north beyond the Great Wall with hundreds of thousands of people, faced the situation of insufficient food to eat, he immediately tore off the mask he had once disguised, even if Liu Xingzuo dissuaded him, it was useless.

Of the more than 300,000 Han people in northern Liaoning, in less than five years, less than one-third remained.

At present, only Huang Taiji is the only one who supports Liu Xingzuo's kindness to Hanmin.

However, even Huang Taiji treats Hermes-Epitek as a "slightly precious consumable".

Seeing the Han people who once shouted "General Liu" being forcibly worked to death, Liu Xingzuo fell into a mood of self-internal friction.

Is he going to rebel? What did he take to rebel?

Although there were more than 15,000 Han soldiers in the Jin Kingdom, these five battalions were respectively commanded by Fan Wenhuan, Fan Wencheng, Tong Yangxing, Li Yongfang and Liu Xingzuo.

He Liu Xingzuo only has a battalion of more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, if he dares to rebel, I am afraid that the soldiers and horses have not yet left the boundary of Xingjing City, they will be surrounded and suppressed by the other four battalions of Han battalion soldiers, and they don't need to do anything about the Eight Banners of Jianzhou.

Therefore, in such a situation, it is not difficult to understand that he fell into the mood of self-internal friction.

"The general, the savage girl and the real fierce tiger sent someone to give you a gift."

Just as Liu Xingzuo was complaining, a Han boy ran into the backyard again, and Liu Xingzuo frowned when he heard this: "Specially sent it to me?" ”

"No, it is said that all the generals in the city and Lord Belle have them." The little guy replied, and Liu Xingzuo waved his hand and said, "Let people come in." ”

"Yes......"

The little servant saluted and retired, and then went to the front yard to pass the gift, and after a cup of tea, the sound of footsteps came from a distance, and Liu Xingzuo also picked up the wine glass and began to drink.

After taking a sip of wine, he took a deep breath and said, "The taste of this sweet potato wine is still not as good as the rice wine in Liaodong." ”

Sweet potato wine, the word appeared in Liu Xingzuo's mouth.

Sweet potatoes have been planted in the Jin Kingdom, and the origin of sweet potatoes comes from the sweet potatoes obtained by Mang Gurtai in the second battle of the Ming army to sweep the north.

They captured some people from among the Liao captives, and after learning about the yield of sweet potatoes, they began to return north with sweet potatoes.

However, the promotion of crops did not happen overnight, Zhu Youzhen used millions of acres of land to cultivate sweet potatoes, and it took six years to ensure more than 40 million acres of sweet potato fields.

The sweet potatoes that Mang Gurtai looted and returned from Daning Mansion were only a few thousand stones, and even if Nurhachi tried his best to promote them, they were only more than 40,000 mu at the moment.

In addition, in the north of Xingjing City, the cultivated land is not intensively cultivated, so the yield of sweet potatoes can only reach one mu and five stones.

But even so, sweet potatoes have become the main food of the country since last year.

What's more, the existence of sweet potatoes offsets the war horse's dependence on soybeans, which allows Jin Guo to free up a lot of fields to grow rice.

Starting this year, Jin will be able to achieve self-sufficiency of 420,000 people, and this so-called self-sufficiency is based on the corpses of more than 200,000 Han people.

When the grain is richer, it is natural that a small amount of grain can be used to make wine.

However, for wine, the internal control of Jin Guo is still very strict.

Niu Lu Ezhen only has one pound of sweet potato wine a year, Jiala Ezhen and the Han camp and Mongolian camp staff will have ten catties of sweet potato wine a year, Gushan Ezhen can enjoy ten catties of rice wine, Belle is thirty catties, and Nurhachi himself is fifty catties.

After careful calculation, it did not consume much food, and the reason why drinking alcohol was opened was also a policy that the high-level of the Jin State had to implement.

Since rushing to the Guanwai, more than four years of repression have made many people resentful, and appropriate open drinking can soothe the emotions of middle and lower-class generals, which is a good means.

Liu Xingzuo drank wine, and Guo Sangdai's naturalized Jurchen also walked into the backyard and said to Liu Xingzuo:

"Beishan Jurchen Gaotai, see General Liu, this is a gift from our head to the great shaman."

After that, Gao Tai also handed out a gift list with both hands, and the person next to him took it and handed it over to Liu Xingzuo.

Liu Xingzuo didn't pay attention to it, but when he opened it, his expression changed instantly.

This is not that Guo Sandai and Gao Tai blatantly wrote a letter of persuasion, but the content of this gift list.

In this list, there are a large number of specialties of Kaiyuan and Tieling, and these specialties are difficult to obtain even in the Jin Kingdom, because the Ming army has cut off almost all smuggling.

So the question is, what the Jin Kingdom near Liaodong can't obtain, how did the Beishan Nu who is far away in Nuergancheng really get it?

"The same is true of your gifts to the other generals and to Baylor?"

Liu Xingzuo quickly closed the gift list, and Gao Tai said with a smile on his face:

"That's right, ten taels of gold, three hundred taels of silver, and some furs and ores from Beishan."

What Gao Tai said was 108,000 miles away from the things on the gift list, Liu Xingzuo's eyes were cloudy, and then he said:

"If there are more similar things, let's send them again next time I pay tribute."

"Please rest assured, the general will still have a tributary contingent coming in the first month of next year." Gao Tai said, and also hugged his chest and bowed:

"The gift has been delivered, so I won't bother the general."

"Hmm......" Liu Xingzuo waved his hand to signal him to retreat, but the gift list in his hand was not handed over to the old slave next to him, but walked directly into his study.

He opened the gift list again, and a slave entered the study with two baskets of gifts.

Liu Xingzuo asked people to put their things down, and then drove them away.

When everyone had left, he stepped forward and opened some of the wooden boxes wrapped in fur.

Among these wooden boxes, many things related to Kaiyuan appeared, and after the last wooden box was opened, a box full of hair appeared.

When he saw these hairs, Liu Xingzuo subconsciously touched the top of his head, but only touched the ugly money rat tail.

When he touched the braids, he seemed to lose his strength, fell backwards, and sat limply on the ground, not coming back to his senses for a long time.

It took a quarter of an hour for him to react, and then put away all these things related to Kaiyuan, including two jars of Kaiyuan rice wine, which he carefully stored under the bed.

After finishing this, he threw the gift list into the incense burner in the house, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it be lit and finally burned to ashes......

"How?"

"He didn't expose me, maybe he is trustworthy as His Highness said."

At the same time that Liu Xingzuo solved the hidden danger, Gaotai also returned to the post house and chatted with Guo Sangdai about Liu Xingzuo's attitude.

They didn't just send things about Daming to Liu Xingzuo alone, but sent things about Daming to Tong Yangxing, Li Yongfang, Fan Wencheng, Fan Wenhuan and others.

However, in terms of the things given to these people, Guo Sandai selected some gifts given by the Ming Dynasty to the commanders, thousands of households, and hundreds of households in the Beishan Jurchen guards in the past.

Therefore, once Fan Wencheng and the others saw these gifts, they would suddenly stand up and ask where the gifts came from with gloomy faces, and Gao Tai would also use this as a pretext that this was a gift from Emperor Wanli back then.

Although such a move would raise suspicions, how can there be no danger in spying on intelligence? Besides, they all wear out the gifts, and anyone who sees them knows that they are left over from many years ago.

So in the face of these gifts, although Fan Wencheng and others were taken aback, they didn't doubt it too much afterwards.

The reason is very simple, it is more dangerous to go to Nu'er by sea from Mirror City, after all, this sea area is not as safe as it seems.

Fan Wencheng and the others also did not believe that the emerging forces of the Beishan Jurchen were supported by the Ming Dynasty, because they did not understand that the current projection capacity of the Ming Dynasty was several times, or even more than ten times that of the Wanli period.

Therefore, Fan Wencheng and the others were fooled, but their attitude was clearly seen by Gaotai.

Even Li Yongfang can't be very calm when facing the gift list, but Liu Xingzuo is very calm.

From this point alone, Liu Xingzuo is an object that can be contacted.

"Continue to tempt until he himself is willing to surrender."

Guo Sandai, who was sitting in the room, hesitated and chose Liu Xingzuo, and Gao Tai also responded.

"To avoid long nights and dreams, tomorrow we will withdraw to the slave and tell His Highness by the way, about Jianyu's acquisition of sweet potatoes."

Guo Sandai narrowed his eyes, and Gao Tai also frowned:

"Sweet potatoes should have been plundered by Mang Gurtai from Daning Mansion, looking at the scale outside the city, after the end of this year, I am afraid they will be able to cultivate more than 100,000 acres of sweet potatoes."

"If they solve the food problem, they may seek to relocate, or invade the south."

"Well, you go down......" Guo Sangdai was a little uneasy, and finally arranged for Gaotai to prepare to pack up his itinerary, and he went to Mang Gurtai's mansion to prepare to leave.

However, just as he thought, Mang Gurtai didn't bother to see him, so he asked the Jiala'er Zhen of the mansion to tell him to leave if he wanted, and gave him a clearance card.

Although he was snubbed, Guo Sandai was very satisfied with this result.

So early the next morning, in order to avoid Liu Xingzuo from betraying them, Guo Sandai, Gao Tai and others left Xingjing City early in the morning.

They went north to Shangjing, but they were clever enough to use the excuse of the grain trade to lure Huang Taiji away.

After Zilharang came forward, he did not agree to the so-called grain trade issue, but casually found an excuse and sent them away.

Escaping Huang Taiji's scrutiny, they sailed down the Songhua River in the southern part of Shangjing, converging into the Heilongjiang River, and then flowing all the way to the north.

By the time they arrived at Nuergan, it was already the 25th of August.

There was no time to rest, Guo Sandai immediately sent someone to the south by boat and sent the news to Mirror City.

However, when their news was sent to Mirror City, the Forbidden City of Beijing held a regular court as usual.

"He-"

"Hooray...... Banzai...... Hooray......"

"Muddy...... Syllable! ”

The congratulatory gift and the sound of the whip sounded in the square of the Huangji Hall at the same time, and Zhu Youxiao, who had not seen the hundred officials for a month, also appeared in front of the hundred officials again on the first day of the ninth month.

It seems that at the beginning of King Qi's reorganization of the dynasty, Zhu Youxiao's whole person became more and more lazy.

In the first year of Taichang, he made a daily pilgrimage, and in the first year of the Apocalypse, he began to change to a three-day dynasty and a seven-day dynasty.

At the beginning of the second year of the Apocalypse, it will be ten days, and the third year of the Apocalypse will begin to change to a fifteen-day day.

At the beginning of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao began to dislike even the fifteenth day, and directly once a month, and this rule has been established for almost three years.

In the past, the Chang Dynasty was actually very plain, but the atmosphere of today's Chang Dynasty is a little strange.

With the unfolding of the Four Divisions, a large number of officials were arrested, and Yanshan officials also began to occupy many official positions above the temple.

Due to Enke's background, most of them are between the ninth and seventh grades, and among them, the inspection of the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as well as the affairs of the six departments, as well as tens of thousands of officials in more than 1,600 counties in the world have become their stage.

The place is easy to say, but above the temple in the city of Beijing, some things inevitably begin to ferment.

"Hooray! The Ministers Section gave Kim Hyun to the middle of the matter, and impeached Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, for wantonly planting cronies in the Ministry of Officials! ”

"Nonsense!"

In the early morning, the court was full of gunpowder with the impeachment of Yanshan official Kim Xuan, and the eunuch party officials directly replied to the other party.

"Hooray! There are more than 23,000 ministers in the world, and more than 2,000 people were killed by Jingcha at once, isn't it enough to show that there is a problem in the selection of officials? ”

Jin Xuan stepped forward and spoke sincerely, while Liu Tingyuan, the left attendant of the eunuch party, stood up and ridiculed:

"The officials are just promoting officials based on their local merits, does Li think that these officials who have been knocked out are ineffective?"

"Naturally!" After all, Kim Hyun is a newborn calf and does not understand the horror of words above the temple.

He admitted here, and Liu Tingyuan said to Zhu Youxiao on the high platform:

"Long live, the head of the Ministry of Officials is selected, and Jingcha has not presided over it for six years, and during the six years, official corruption has always relied on the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Sections, Jinyi Wei to picket."

"At present, Li's words in the matter also show that those officials who were picketed this time are corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they are ministers who do not do things."

"However, the ministers are the best at deceiving their superiors and subordinates, so when the officials select officials, they are the best at falsifying merits, and this should be the thing that the six departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Jinyi Guard should picket."

"It's obvious that they didn't picket in time, how can they blame the officials who don't have the right to picket?"

"Long live, please long live the right to picket to be transferred to the ministry!"

"Minister, long live the transfer of the right of picketing to the ministry......"

Liu Tingyuan's aggressiveness made Kim Xuan speechless, and the eunuch Wu Yangyang's echoing kneeling behavior made the Qi Wang Party and the Donglin Party a headache.

Gu Bingqian, the leader of the Qi Wang Party, and Bi Ziyan, the second person, both went with Zhu Youzhen to inspect Weibei, and they are still in Yan'an Mansion, and after Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan left, the third person in the Qi Wang Party was Li Changgeng of the left servant of the household department.

Seeing that the Yanshan officials were falling behind, Li Changgeng could only sigh in his heart, and then stood up and said:

"Long live, the minister thinks that the corruption of the officials is already obvious, and the bribery ...... for so many years"

"Hooray! The selection and employment of ministers are based on merit, not the placement of cronies in some people's mouths! ”

When Cui Chengxiu saw Li Changgeng coming out, he couldn't sit still immediately, and hurriedly interrupted Li Changgeng's words, saluted, and expressed his loyalty.

"No cronies?" Kim Hyun snorted coldly and said:

"Liu Zhixuan in the Ministry of Officials, Liang Menghuan in the Qing Officials, Ni Wenhuan in the Jixun Qing Officials, Nakata Ji in the Examination of the Qing Officials, and ......"

Although Kim Hyun can't say that he is a eunuch, but in the matter of evidence search, he is the best among the officials in Yanshan, how can he not figure out how Choi Chengxiu operates?

He said more than 30 names in a row, and at the end, he mocked Cui Chengxiu:

"Cui Shangshu, do you still want to insert the old dog you guard into the ministry and eat a piece of imperial food?"

"Humph!" Choi Chengxiu snorted coldly, not thinking that Kim Hyun could make any moves to bring him down.

To put it bluntly, as long as Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao don't end up, no one can defeat him.

Therefore, he just looked at Zhu Youxiao and said, "The minister thinks he is handling the case impartially!" ”

Well, Choi Chengxiu had a direct showdown, which brought the quarrel at the court meeting to an end, and everyone's eyes were focused on the emperor.

However, Zhu Youxiao, who is the emperor, is looking at a note in his hand at the moment, and he doesn't know what he is thinking.

The eunuch standing next to him was Wang An, and he was happy to see Cui Chengxiu fall, but he also knew that it was not the time.

Therefore, he reminded Zhu Youxiao: "Long live ......"

"Hmm...... I'm listening. Zhu Youxiao was not in a daze, but thinking about things.

However, after being reminded by Wang An, he couldn't say anything anymore, so in the face of the battle between the eunuch party and the Qi Wang party, he looked directly at Cui Chengxiu and said:

"The rules of the official examination really need to be changed, and the previous selection is also a matter of rules, and it has nothing to do with you......

"Hooray!" Seeing this, Jin Xuan was unwilling, and took a step forward to continue to go up, but was pulled out by Li Changgeng with his hand.

Seeing Li Changgeng holding him, Jin Xuan could only grit his teeth and retreat, while Zhu Youxiao glanced at him and continued:

"But Jingcha also needs to change it, it's really too long to check every three years, so let's change it to a two-year check for the time being."

Zhu Youxiao's hand can be regarded as temporarily suppressing the anger of the two parties, but he also knows that this is only a temporary suppression of the conflict between the two sides, because with the passage of time, Yanshan officials occupy the temple one after another, and the eunuch party and the Qi Wang party will still clash again.

However, the affairs of the court, to put it bluntly, is to beat the drum and pass the flowers, if you can suppress it, you can't suppress it, and then you will change the means.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao also got up and said, "Let's disperse......

With that, he turned and left, and Wang An followed.

The officials were stunned, but they didn't expect that the court meeting had just started and it was announced that the dynasty would be dispersed, and Cui Chengxiu glanced at Jin Xuan after being stunned, and with a cold snort, he withdrew from the Imperial Palace with the eunuch officials.

Seeing this, the officials of the Qi Wang Party also withdrew one after another, while Li Changgeng grabbed Jin Xuan.

Jin Xuan is a native of Daxing County, Beizhili, born in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, and now he is only eighteen years old, and he only embarked on his career through Enke this year, and Li Changgeng was born in the sixth year of Longqing, and he is thirty-eight years older than Jin Xuan.

Facing the young Jin Xuan, Li Changgeng sighed and said: "The old man has been an official for more than two years, and he has been an official for a longer time than you, today I will tell you some ways to be an official, and you should remember ......"

"Please give me advice...... Jin Xuan was very respectful to Li Changgeng, and Li Changgeng also sighed:

"This officialdom must be cautious, and every step needs to be like walking on thin ice......"

"Don't be too clear about doing things, remember that you don't get confused about small things, and you need to be confused about big things."

"What Cui Chengxiu and the others did, do you think His Highness doesn't know?"

"Your Highness knows, that's why Xingjingcha and arrest corrupt officials!" Kim Hyun was righteous and awe-inspiring, obviously thinking that Zhu Youzhen's rejuvenation of Jingcha was a declaration of war against the eunuchs.

"Confused...... Li Changgeng shook his head and said:

"There are too many eunuch affairs involved, more or less involved in the palace, so many people in the court know about it, who has ever taken the initiative to say a word?"

"His Royal Highness's Xingjingcha is not a declaration of war, but to catch a group of rats to ensure that the treasury is sufficient and reduce the burden on the people.

"You mean...... Those corrupt officials are rats, and the palace is a weapon? Kim Hyun made it easy to understand, but he was puzzled:

"But the rats below have been caught, how can the device not move?"

"No...... Li Changgeng shook his head and explained:

"If the rat is caught, it can be cultivated again, and ...... can be found again"

"If you get angry and angry because the rat is caught, then it is not a ......"

"The truth is there, you should take a good look at it, and next time you go to Changchao, don't check these things again."

After that, Li Changgeng shook his head and left, while Jin Xuan looked at his back and stopped talking.

Since he was a child, he couldn't get used to corrupt officials and corrupt officials, so as a native of Daxing County, he didn't study official studies, but went to Yanshan.

After more than five years of hard work, he finally succeeded in his studies, passed the Enke exam, and embarked on a career in office, but now Li Changgeng told him that there are some things that can't be checked?

"If I can't check it, then what's the use of my work as a clerk......

muttered a few words, Jin Xuan also sighed and left the Imperial Palace......

This afternoon's update is estimated at five o'clock

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