In June of the third year of the Apocalypse, the Houjin began to fully withdraw its troops, and only deployed heavy troops in key areas.

Liu Xingzuo led his soldiers to garrison Gaizhou to prevent Yang Chengying from going north.

The Great Belle Daishan garrisoned Quang Ninh to secure the outpost for the next attack on the Ming Dynasty.

Fourth, Beile Huangtaiji organized the migration of the people of western Liaoning to Haizhou and Liaoyang and other regions.

The area from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou became a borderless land, and Duoyanwei and Ao Hanbu went in and out of this area to pick up the materials left behind by the fleeing Ming army.

For example, Su Budi, the leader of Wulianghai, picked up a large number of materials and took out some of them and sent them to Jizhen in the Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, Wang Xiangqian, the governor of Jiliao, also specially took out 14,666 taels of silver from the reward and gave it to Subudi.

The Later Jin forcibly relocated the people, and the Ming army hid in the Shanhai Pass and did not come out, which led to a large number of people stranded in western Liaoxi having to organize themselves to defend against the Mongols and the Later Jin.

Among them, the rebel army organized by a chivalrous man named Yang San was the most powerful.

They occupied the Thirteen Mountains and other places, and struggled to resist the attack of Daishan and others.

The dignified Belle Daishan also had nothing to do with them, so he had to take two red flags to encircle and suppress the Thirteen Mountains Righteous Army and set fire to the mountains.

However, little has been achieved.

This news reached the ears of Yuan Chonghuan, who was in the front guard to appease the refugees, through the refugees.

After Yuan Chonghuan confirmed the authenticity of the information through multiple means, he returned to Shanhaiguan to ask to see the king of Jiliao Jinglu in Jin.

"Wang Jingluo, the opportunity is rare now! Jianyu gave up Jinzhou, and Yizhou was restrained by the righteous army led by Yang San.

The Mongols took advantage of the chaos to loot Liaoxi, but they did not have the idea of waiting for a long time, and only needed to send troops to easily expel them.

Now that the entire western part of Liaoning has become a borderless land, it is a good time for our army to march in. ”

After listening to Yuan Chonghuan, Wang Zaijin said in his heart, you can pull it down, it would be good to be able to hold Shanhaiguan. The Ming army had just experienced a crushing defeat in the Battle of Quang Ninh, and it had long been unwilling to fight, and it had no ability to enter the army at all.

But you can't say that on the surface, unless you don't want to live anymore.

He played an official tone: "Lord Yuan, you just have to stay in the front guard to appease the fleeing people, military affairs are not something you can participate in." ”

"The world is discussing, how can I not participate as a supervisor of Shanhaiguan."

Yuan Chonghuan said, arching his hand and saying: "Wang Jingluo, the 100,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty are stationed in Shanhaiguan all day long, doing nothing, and consuming money and food.

If you can't repay the king's kindness, you can't appease the people of Liaoxi, aren't you ashamed! ”

Wang Zaijin glared and said: "Is it child's play to have military affairs, you just came to Liaodong, you still don't know much about Liaodong, you still need a lot of experience, don't say some useless words." ”

Yuan Chonghuan still wanted to speak, but Wang Zaijin raised his hand and signaled him to go out.

Seeing Wang Jingluo's attitude, Yuan Chonghuan sighed silently, arched his hand, and withdrew.

When he came out, he happened to meet Yan Mingtai.

Yan Mingtai was a jinshi in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, and served as the supervisor of Shanhaiguan in the second year of the Apocalypse, and was later promoted to deputy envoy.

He has been in Liaodong for a long time and is extremely familiar with the situation in Liaodong. He also has a pretty good relationship with Yuan Chonghuan, and the two are called brothers in private.

Seeing his friend, Yan Mingtai took the initiative to greet him: "Brother Yuan, I haven't seen you for many days, why is there a lot of worry on your face." ”

"Brother Yan, I have something I want to ask you."

"This is not the place to talk about it, come to my house and talk about it."

"Okay."

Yuan Chonghuan followed Yan Mingtai to his mansion and walked into the main hall.

Yan Mingtai asked the maid to watch the tea.

The two of them drank tea slowly.

After a while, Yan Mingtai asked, "Brother Yuan, what do you want to ask me?" There are no outsiders in this way, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

"Brother Yan, my brother recently encountered a strange incident, and he was puzzled, and he wanted to ask Brother Yan for a long time."

Yuan Chonghuan put down the teacup and said in a deep voice: "Wang Jingluo gave Mongolian Lin Dan Khan 61818 taels of 4 coins, 6 cents and 6 cents as a reward, and also gave Subudi silver.

Why did Xiao Gangqing and Subudi still loot Liaoxi, especially Xiao Gangqing, who actually robbed the team sent by Lin Dan Khan to receive the reward. ”

Yan Mingtai didn't know how to answer this question.

The relationship between Xiao Xiaoqing and Lin Dan Khan is actually equivalent to the relationship between Yuan Shao and Emperor Xian of Han during the Three Kingdoms.

In other words, Xiao Qingqing made meritorious contributions, but gave Lin Dan Khan a reward, which was like eating mutton soup and paying the bill to a pork shop.

Pure stupidity.

But how can this be said to Yuan Chonghuan.

That was jointly decided by Governor Wang and Wang Jingluo, if you point it out, you don't want to mix in the officialdom.

Yan Mingtai had no choice but to pretend to be confused: "I don't know much about this matter. It was probably a temporary move by the little gangsters who saw the wealth. ”

With such an obviously perfunctory answer, Yuan Chonghuan naturally didn't believe it.

However, he did not delve into it, but brought up another big thing.

Wang Jingluo insisted on garrisoning Shanhaiguan and surrendered a large area of western Liaoning to the Mongols and Houjin.

It's really inappropriate. I have persuaded many times, but Wang Jingluo just didn't listen, I plan to go to the court and ask the court to cut it. ”

Yan Mingtai's eyes lit up, this kind of offending Shangguan was indeed something that only the honest Yuan Chonghuan could do.

In fact, he did not approve of this approach either. If Houjin is allowed to expand his power beyond Shanhaiguan, if Jizhen is lost again.

Shanhaiguan is attacked on its back, so the capital is in front of you.

"Brother Yuan, I can't help you with this matter, but I absolutely support you."

Yan Mingtai rarely showed his heart: "Outside Shanhaiguan, there is a lot to be done, we should take advantage of this time to push it out." ”

"That's good!"

Yuan Chonghuan got up, "I'll go back and write the notebook, bypass Wang Jingluo, and send it directly to Lord Ye, the first assistant of the cabinet." ”

Yan Mingtai also got up, a little hesitant: "Is it appropriate for you to do this, Wang Jingluo appreciates you after all." ”

bypassed the officials who appreciated him and directly sued the cabinet, which seemed to people at the time to be ignorant.

In the future, many people will also be wary of Yuan Chonghuan, thinking that this person even dares to betray his benefactor and is not worthy of deep friendship.

Yuan Chonghuan's eyes were firm: "Abandon the edge of the blade, and your life is safe?" Parents don't care, how can they say a son and a wife? The name of the strong man is not allowed to take care of his own interests. Sacrifice your life to go to the country, and see death as if you were going home. ”

He used poetry to explain his thoughts to Yan Mingtai.

Yan Mingtai heard this and nodded appreciatively.

That night, Yuan Chonghuan wrote a notebook explaining the disadvantages of only being stationed at Shanhaiguan and the situation in western Liaoning.

In the article, Yuan Chonghuan hoped that Shoufu could put pressure on Wang Jingluo and lead his army into Ningyuan, and then observe the situation in Jinzhou.

The recovery of Jinzhou is equivalent to holding the gateway of the Western Liaoning Corridor. Form a strategic buffer zone for Shanhaiguan.

In this way, a large number of Liao people can also be resettled, and the conflict between the host and the guest between the Liao and the indigenous people can be avoided.

When the book went up to the imperial court, it really alarmed the first auxiliary Ye Xianggao.

But Ye Xianggao was miserable by Wang Huazhen before, and he didn't dare to believe the front-line report, so he decided to find a heavyweight to discuss the matter.

Who is this man?

It is the new secretary of the military department - Sun Chengzong.