Even Zhou Xian admitted that Huang Taiji was an old enemy worthy of attention.

Because after Lu Delin's victory in the past few days, Zhou Xian has been telling Hong Chengchou to prevent greater military friction from breaking out on the Liaoyang front.

In fact, Zhou Xian's worries were unnecessary.

Huang Taiji did not give the order to attack Liaoyang City.

Even the idea of a small force attacking the area around Liaoyang City was rejected.

Jiannu unexpectedly couldn't do it, and suffered a big loss by default.

But Huang Taiji felt that in his strategic game with Zhou Xian, there was still a killer feature that he had not used.

That's right! Huang Taiji's self-imposed hole card is the occupation of the Mongolian side.

As long as Dorgon supported the coup d'état of Hazir in southern Mongolia to overthrow the Mongol Great Khan Gegemu.

The last place in the entire territory of Mongolia that posed a threat to Jiannu was completely wiped out.

If the north is all attached to Huang Taiji, then his next southward strategy will become more smooth.

At least the north of the Ming Dynasty had one more powerful opponent as a pincer.

The probability of Jiannu here entering the customs is even greater.

Zhou Xian also knew this, so keeping Gegemu's northern power meant keeping a buffer point near the Xuanfu of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty did not need to blindly guard against the border with Mongolia.

You only need to concentrate on resisting the Jiannu of Liaodong.

At the same time, it can also relieve the external pressure of the Ming Dynasty and draw out some of its strength to suppress the invading army in Henan.

Therefore, Lu Delin attacked at night.

Ge Yan's loss of soldiers has already been settled.

However, both sides tacitly agreed not to theorize, but to shift the focus of the core competition from Liaoyang to the Mongolian Gegemu tribe north of Xuanfu.

But for the omniscient Zhou Xian, the victory ultimately belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

Early the next morning.

Zhou Xian took Hou Lianhui and took a car to the prison of Fusi in Beizhen.

"Meet Lord Banner."

"Meet Lord Banner."

The hundreds and thousands of households of Jinyiwei bowed down one after another.

Zhou Xian asked Xu Xianchun to follow Yu Jinshan to take the prisoner he wanted to see to a relatively dry and clean room.

Soon, Wu Mengqian, the prefect of Tianjin, and Fang Wenzhao, the Tianjin Coastal Defense Envoy under Wu Mengqian, were brought in by Jinyiwei.

These two people, in the court of twists and turns, both have serious charges of dereliction of duty.

Especially Fang Wenzhao, who manages Tianjin Wei, turns a deaf ear to those merchant ships that smuggle capital enemies, and turns a blind eye, which is a real hammer who knows the law and violates the law.

As for Wu Mengqian, Zhou Xian felt that this guy was a stunned young man who stood on the wrong side and complained wrongly.

And yesterday, Chen Donghua mentioned the master Wu Mengxi with good writing.

is still this Wu Mengqian's younger brother.

This thing!

In fact, there is nothing wrong with the two brothers.

is because of culture, one was carried by Qian Longxi.

One was deducted by Chen Donghua from the black pot.

If the two brothers knew the truth, their scalps would inevitably tingle.

Wu Mengqian was recommended to Tianjin Wei to preside over the overall situation when Qian Longxi entered the cabinet that year.

Tianjin Wei is the hub of the integration of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, and it is a transit point for the development of land power to sea power.

In the south of the Ming Dynasty, it is the most prosperous customs city.

Wu Mengqian wore shackles and shackles on his hands and neck.

After entering the room, Yu Jin removed the shackles from him.

Wu Mengqian looked up at the person, was stunned for a moment, and then knelt on the ground with weak knees: "The sinner greets the Chitose Lord!" ”

And Fang Wenzhao next to him also looked up, he didn't know Zhou Xian.

With a territorial official like him, there was no chance of attacking the audience at all.

So he himself actually hadn't even seen Emperor Chongzhen's face.

I don't even know what the horse looks like.

But Wu Mengqian has seen it.

When he heard Wu Mengqian call the person in front of him a thousand years old.

The body trembled violently.

A creepy feeling came to my heart.

Oh my God, this young person is the Shura Tai Sui of the current dynasty in the mouth of the hundred officials, the concubine of the prison country?

In the next second, Fang Wenzhao hurriedly prostrated on the ground, and said tremblingly: "The criminal minister Fang Wenzhao sees the Chitose Master!" ”

Yu Jinshan brought Zhou Xian a Taishi chair and a clean Nanmu table.

Then he personally poured tea and water for Zhou Xian on the side.

Zhou Xian sat on the Taishi's chair and looked around.

Immediately, his eyes fell on Wu Mengqian's body.

"Wu Mengqian?"

"The sinner is here!"

Zhou Xian said lightly: "You, the prefect of Tianjin, how much money do you receive from the imperial court in a year?" ”

"If you go back to the Chitose Lord, the criminal will pay one hundred and twenty taels a year, two hundred stones of grain, and five hundred horses of silk."

"Isn't that enough for you to spend? Or is the court too good to you? ”

Zhou Xian was a little angry.

What is Wu Mengqian's annual salary?

150,000 yuan a year, I also managed to eat and drink, and went out with a car.

Five hundred horses of silk are worth a hundred thousand.

You must know that he alone has enough money to feed ten thousand people.

"The Chitose Lord is angry, and the sinners are grateful for the kindness of the court."

Zhou Xian no longer paid attention to Wu Mengqian, turned his head and said, "What about you, Fang Wenzhao, do you think the imperial court is sorry for you?" ”

"Back to the Chitose Lord, the criminal ministers are afraid, and the court has the grace of knowing the criminal ministers."

"Hmph, in that case, why are you guarding Tianjin Wei, but you connived at the Shi Min family and Zhao Yanpei to send me to the sea for salt and iron grain to fund Jiannu?"

"Tell me about it."

Zhou Xian took a sip of tea and stared coldly at the two kneeling on the ground.

"Chitose Lord, the sinner is wronged!"

Zhou Xian said in a deep voice: "Are you wronged? Are you saying that I am not effective in handling Jinyiwei and investigating the case secretly? ”

Wu Mengqian and Fang Wenzhao glanced at Yu Jinshan, who was standing next to him.

At this moment, Yu Jinshan's face was gloomy and cold, like an angry King Kong.

The two of them were immediately silent, how dare they throw the pot on Jinyiwei's head?

So he had to nod and beg like garlic: "Chitose Lord forgive your sins!" Chitose forgiveness! ”

"If you want to live, tell me honestly, but if there is any omission or any discrepancy with the investigation of the Suppression Division, I will take your dog's life."

"Chitose is angry, and the lower officials must know everything."

"Let's talk about it, who are those people who transferred to Tianjin's defense enemy?"

Zhou Xian was by no means deliberately bluffing.

Instead, in the list of cases given to Zhou Xian by the Zhenfu Division before, there were fifty-one officials and businessmen involved.

Among them, the Shi Min family accounts for more than half of the list.

They took the salt and iron mines, which were in short supply in the Ming Dynasty, to exchange mink skins with Jiannu.

It's just that the number of times and the volume that have been found to be traceable are worth a total of 30 million taels of silver.

In addition, the Shi Min family expropriated in the Lianghuai region and gathered two million stone grains.

Their family's food alone could supply an army of 200,000 for three months.

However, Zhou Xian didn't believe that there were only fifty-one people at all.

The end of the Ming Dynasty, the end of the dynasty.

The Donglin Party covers the sky with one hand.