Walking home from Jincheng West Road, Li Dan was thinking about how to get a few more paintings from Shen Zhou, and he had to build a collection of paintings in the garden. Suddenly, the horse's hooves behind him were obtained, and someone asked in a loud voice, "Is there a carriage from the Li Mansion in front?"

"Huh?" Li Dan stretched out his hand and pulled down the bell, and the carriage stopped. Soon the knight jumped off his horse and ran forward, panting and crossing his hands, "My lord, I have been ordered to deliver documents to my lordship."

After speaking, he presented a briefcase with both hands: "I went to the adult's house, I didn't want to say it, and I chased it to the palace gate ....... Alas, in short, the lowly horses are almost no longer able to run!"

Li Dan smiled and looked at the junior official in his twenties: "You have a good life, but because I made you spend time on this bluestone road, I really can't help it!"

"My lord said that it was my laughing, but it was also the duty of my humble duty to say it." Gao Fei's eyes were blazing: "Of course, if one day you can kill the enemy on the battlefield like your ancestors, you can fly as much as you want!"

"Oh? Who is the ancestor of the high monarch?"

"Fei is the king of Bohai County in Tang, and Hou Gaoshi of Bohai County is my uncle."

"It turned out to be a famous family, and I was sluggish!" Li Dan gave up his hand: "This time, there are also attachés from the military department to Liao, haven't you applied?"

"This time, Your Majesty is very determined, and the public sale of war bonds since the day before yesterday has been sold out, which shows everyone's concern for this battle and their belief in victory. With such a clear opportunity to make meritorious contributions, who doesn't want to be the first?"

Gao Fei smiled bitterly: "The lowly people are soft-spoken, and they have no way to rely on, so they can't earn that glory!"

"So, how did Jun get into the military department?" Li Dan was curious, looking at this young man's figure, posture and confidence in speaking, he must be a martial artist, but he was wearing the costume of an eight-grade civil servant.

"The humble position is to take the path of the imperial examination, because of the meritorious name was recommended as a daimyo government official, and later the soldier Cao was recommended to the top because of his martial skills.

Later, he followed Fujun to Beijing to take up his post and recommended me to go to the military department to be a meritorious examiner. I don't want him to die the following year, so I have been in the military department to this day."

"I see." Li Dan nodded: "If you have the chance, are you willing to go with me?"

"Aren't you joking?"

"Eh, I'm the chief commander of the Overseer, and I can still do it with Lord Gu to ask for a military officer." Li Dan smiled.

Gao Fei was overjoyed, he saw the hope and immediately decided to seize it, and hurriedly bowed his hands: "It would be great if I could go with the adults! But I don't know if there is such a blessing in lowly office."

Li Dan laughed: "You go back and prepare, come to the Raozhou Hall tomorrow to report, and set off with me the day after tomorrow!"

As soon as they entered the house, Wu Mao and several others had already greeted them, they had already known the news of the military department, and they all rushed to wait for Li Dan. "The documents of authorization and appointment are in place, and we are ready to go." Li Dan said:

"Inform all the entourage to start ordering early tomorrow morning, supplies and vehicles will leave Beijing first, and the whole team will meet at the north gate of Yucheng in the morning after tomorrow, and then go to Xuzhou." The crowd responded.

After waiting for so long, it was finally time to go, and everyone was excited and excited.

Most of them were children from Jiangxi and Fujian, and it was the first time they had even arrived in Shang Kyoto, let alone the distant Liaodi. But the crowd was eager to take on the Kerr.

After everyone dispersed, Zhu Qing and Wu Mao stayed. Zhu Qingxian reported on the affairs of the trading company: "Eighty percent of the war bonds have been subscribed, and the total amount of silver and banknotes received has reached 670,000 taels.

Now the main force of subscription is our Jiangxi Chamber of Commerce, as well as Hui businessmen who are encouraged and influenced by Qian Lao.

However, there is good news today, the chambers of commerce in Shanxi, Datong and Xuanfu have joined forces to subscribe for the Yicheng bonds, and they have sent someone to talk to me about the details, which seems to be serious. The Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce and the Jinling Chamber of Commerce also invited me to make contact.

In terms of trends, I don't think there is much of a problem with all the bonds being sold." Zhu Qing admired Li Dan's idea of war bonds, and was very optimistic about it. In three or five days, the trading company can make tens of thousands of taels, which is really a good deal.

However, Li Dan immediately poured cold water on him: "Don't be too optimistic, we must not only think that we can win the battle, but also be mentally prepared to defeat the battle!"

"What, will there be a defeat?" Zhu Qing was taken aback, and unconsciously turned his face to look at Wu Mao, and saw that he also had a surprised expression.

"I've heard today that many people in the military department are very optimistic about this campaign, and I'm afraid it's not a good thing." Li Dan said, "You have also experienced wars, is this something that the emperor can be blindly optimistic about with his support? What is the basis for such optimism?

So I think it's likely to be a tough game in the early stages. Besides, we still don't know what the combat strength of the Liao army is, and if it is said that 80,000 troops are transferred over, is it a strong general or a rabble? We'll have to be there to find out."

"What then?" Zhu Qing's face was a little unsightly: "I don't want to say anything about my old face, the reputation of the court and His Majesty is pressed on this!"

"Then there is only one way," Wu Mao whispered to the two of them, "first to test, and then to fight." Otherwise, if you attack like this, if you get a disadvantage, the consequences will be unpredictable!"

"The problem boy is not the boss, he is just the chief commander!" Zhu Qing also lowered his voice: "It doesn't matter what he said, how can he listen to General Shi!"

"Stop arguing." Li Dan waved his hand: "We haven't seen the actual situation, it's all speculation sitting here. You can only take one step at a time.

But if it drags on for a long time, Mr. Zhu, you have to be mentally prepared that there may be a second bond issuance, and then Your Majesty will ask the household department to contact you." Speaking of the household, Li Dan paused slightly.

Although Zheng Shou was obviously suspected of fornicating with outside the side wall, he did not hold it down on the spot, and there was no evidence. The only human certificate has been returned to the grassland, so it is not an overnight matter to pull out this nail, and now you have to endure him for the time being.

Besides, to dig up this poisonous insect, the emperor and the three law divisions must work together, Li Dan knew that it was not enough at the moment, so he had to greet Cai Langzhong first, and at the same time ordered Jie to secretly collect more evidence.

Shi Hao arrived in Shangjing three days ago, and Li Dan had already visited him. He doesn't have much of a fight, but he has gone up and down several times over the years, and he has cultivated a good political sense.

Therefore, when he saw Li Dan, he was very enthusiastic, and said that he would definitely cooperate with the work of the pacification envoy, as for his views on Liao affairs and the understanding of the Liao army, Wang Gu talked about him left and right. This is also one of the reasons why Li Dan feels bottomless and worried.

"General Shi is enthusiastic on the surface, but he should regard Gongzi as a fortunate minister, so he doesn't want to make friends so quickly." Wu Mao said:

"The news from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, Marquis Li (Li Gengsan) and the Right Governor (Hou Xie) have talked to him, but no one thinks that this Shi Shuai is a person with a deep city.

I guess one of them thinks that Gongzi is a prison army and needs to keep his distance, and the other is disgusted that the prison army asks too much about the military."

Li Dan remembered the books he had read about the system of supervising the army in the late Ming Dynasty, nodded slightly and replied, "No one likes to supervise the army, and if I lead the army, I'm afraid it will be the same." I really didn't expect that the first task assigned by His Majesty was to ask me to do this role!"

He thought to himself, surnamed Shi, you burn high incense, it's good if I didn't send you a eunuch to be a prisoner!

As soon as I thought of the word "eunuch", I saw Lu Jiu probing his brain. "What's the matter?" Li Dan asked.

"Childe, there are two things, which one do you listen to first?" Lu Jiu's big face was full of embarrassment.

Li Dan was angry: "I don't even know what's going on, how do you tell me to choose?"

Wu Mao reacted quickly and immediately asked, "Is it a matter of the family, or is it a matter of the imperial court?"

"One piece."

"Let's talk about the court first!" Li Dan said immediately.

"Eunuch Liu came, sat in a small donkey cart silently, and put on a Taoist robe."

Li Dan was stunned: "What about family matters?"

"My aunt arrived with Mrs. Ru (referring to the Wu family, she has a high status, and Lu Jiu doesn't dare to take her as a concubine)!"

"Why are they here?" Li Dan was shocked, turned his head to look at Wu Mao and Zhu Qing, these two were also stunned, and said in unison, "We don't know."

There was no way, Li Dan had no choice but to ask Wu Mao to come forward and invite Eunuch Liu to sit in Yangyuexuan, and he ran with Lu Jiu to pick up Xiao Qian's family.

"Auntie, why are you here? Didn't you tell me beforehand?" Li Dan said, glaring

Han Si glanced at him.

"Childe, I'm doing what I'm told." Han Jinguo hurriedly defended, took out an envelope from his jacket and handed it over.

Li Dan opened it and saw that it was Han An's handwriting, with an order written on it, asking Han Jinguo to take two personal guards to escort him secretly, and not to reveal his name, whereabouts, etc. on the way.

There is also a letter from Han An below, explaining that Xiao Qian's family proposed to move to the capital, and he considered that this would be beneficial to Li Dan's career, so he agreed and arranged escorts.

"Alas, if my aunt wants to come and greet the child, I will send someone to pick it up, and there is no need to be so mysterious. If I don't even know what happened on the road, then I won't regret it!" Li Dan first gave his aunt a salute, and then said.

"I'm with me, what can happen?"

Only then did Li Dan find out that Su Siniang was also there, and said in surprise: "My wife is also here, so isn't Master Han alone?"

"She accompanied me and said that she was afraid that I would be lonely on the road, but I didn't expect you to be a standard-bearer." Xiao Qian smiled and stopped Li Dan, who was about to look at his daughter-in-law, "Your aunt is behind."

"Huh?" Li Dan looked back, and sure enough, Shu's family and his cousin Luo'er were all there, and they came up to greet each other. Li Dan suddenly remembered Li Qinlai, and hurriedly asked Lu Jiu to invite the fourth brother. Crying and laughing, he asked, "Auntie, are you here because of Xiao Si'er?"

"It's for him, and it's for your big brother." Shu Shi sighed: "The two brothers are in Jingshi, and we can't sit still at home all day in Jiangxi, so in the end, the whole family discussed and simply moved over.

San Lang, don't be angry with me, they are all because of my words to hook the mind of relocation. Your uncle is behind, and he will be there in a few days.

When I entered the Beijing Division, I asked Lu Ning'er (Li's little servant) to go to his master to report the news, and when your eldest brother arrives, our whole family will stay with him."

"Uh......, I'm afraid I can't do that." Li Dan shook his head: "The eldest brother is now one of the most useful people for His Majesty, he only rented two huts in the capital to live in, and he often stayed in the Hanlin Courtyard to wait for His Majesty to summon him, so sometimes he can't go back to his home.

The men from the clan hall visited every two days and brought some meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits, etc., to his sister-in-law and children, but he didn't care about it himself.

You family can fill the small courtyard even if you come to visit, where is it possible to go to live with him? Why don't you stay in the guild hall temporarily, and I'll send someone for you to quickly find a courtyard to rent, how about it?"

"It's ......." The Shu family and the Cui family didn't seem to know how restrained Li Shu was in Jingshi, and they thought how majestic he was when he entered the Hanlin Academy, but they didn't know what to do when they heard Li Dan say this.

"I think I'll do what San Lang said, and you guys will stay first." Xiao Qian saw that they were embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "I am very tired from all the way over, so settle down and make a claim slowly."

Seeing this, Shu Shi and Cui's had to come down first, just when Li Qin came, he gave the two mothers a salute in fear, and Shu Shi didn't say much in front of everyone, so he only warned two words.

Liu En heard the movement and rushed over, and asked the guy to take Shiro's family to settle down first, and then ask Li Dan for instructions.

Li Dan told his mother that he had booked a garden and was ready to take the whole family to live, but it was still a little simple there. Xiao Qian smiled and said that where can it be humble in this Jingshi City?

It's better to stay here first, go and see tomorrow, and if it's suitable, move there first to save everyone from being crowded together.

Li Dan was right to think about it, but there are two into five or six thatched houses over there, and there are also three or four painting studios, flower rooms, and water pavilions in the back garden. So he agreed.

At this time, Tao Niang also came. Li Dan stubbornly asked her to come over to salute her mother and the two housewives, and suddenly saw the trance that was shrinking behind and staring at her resentfully, and her heart trembled slightly.

Hurriedly turned his head to find Liu En, and ordered to arrange a place for Xiao Qian's family, Tao Niang must move to the wing room, and vacate the main room and study room for Ah Ying and Wu Ning'er to live in respectively.

Then tell the mother that the angel is coming, and ask them to go with Liu En to settle first, and then come to greet after receiving them themselves.

Xiao Qian originally saw that Tao Niang wanted to take her son to teach a lesson, but when she heard that the angel was waiting, she was startled, and hurriedly said, "Go, go!" And they let him go.

Li Dan hurriedly came to Yangyue Xuan, and Eunuch Liu asked what was the matter

In such a loud noise, Li Dan told him that he was a family member from Jiangxi who came to Beijing. Eunuch Liu misunderstood, thinking that it was Li Dan who called his family to Jingshi before leaving, and gave a thumbs up: "Loyal minister Li Sanlang, his name is well deserved!"

This compliment made Li Dan not know how to answer well, so he had to accept the mistake by mistake, and then asked him, "Why did my father-in-law come to find Li Dan this night?"

"Your Majesty remembers something, let our family ask."

"Oh? Please!" Li Dan hurriedly crossed his hands respectfully and said.

"What if the war is unfavorable?"

Li Dan looked out of the door and asked in a low voice, "Ask my father-in-law, how did Your Majesty think of this problem?"

Liu Kan shook his head: "How can the heart of heaven be measured? But just ask Childe to tell the truth, is it possible?"

"Yes!" Li Dan said a few points that he had just talked about with his staff, and he heard that the whole army department was very optimistic. "Unfounded, blind optimism is never a good thing."

Li Dan said: "I am mentally prepared that maybe we will lose in the early stage, and maybe Bihan will be more cunning than we think. But in any case, this argument that this time is safe must be stopped immediately, and it must not be allowed to spread and harm the whole army!"

"Hmm!" Liu Kan nodded: "Since Childe knows this, what if ......?"

Li Dan paced a few steps, turned around and said, "If there is that kind of case, then the Kels may directly enter Liaoxi, or endanger Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan." He took out a pen and paper and drew a rough map of Liaodi and the main cities, pointed and said:

"Father-in-law, please see, if our army cannot cut off the enemy's siblings west of Kulen, the Kels will drive straight in. Then the two biggest possibilities:

Or he will lead his army north to sweep the Luyan tribe and absorb or annex them; Or he went south to the Liaohetao.

If it is the latter, although it faces a counterattack by the imperial army, it may benefit the most.

The Liao defenders, who had been cut off, were left alone, and in the event of a total rout, the Kaers would have a chance to take all of Liao, so I think he would probably choose the latter, which is risky but lucrative.

And our army has to do two things: set up a second line of defense in Yizhou and drag his feet; In addition, prepare for a decisive battle with the enemy between the Daling River and Niuzhuang!"

"So Master Li suggested assembling elites as reserves in the Gai and Hai areas?" Eunuch Liu asked, pointing to the location on the map.

"Yes." Li Dan nodded: "We can organize 50,000 front-line troops in a hurry, if they can't resist, we have to hand over the 30,000 reserves on the second line of defense."

"The question is, can they stop it?"

"Not necessarily." Li Dan shook his head: "But it's worth a try. At present, the Shenwu Army is being ordered to assemble in Cangzhou for training and redressing, and they will wait for the arrival of the Shenji Battalion to study new tactics and practice the use of new equipment, and then board a ship from Dagu to Haizhou.

If they learn well, they will be able to hold off twice as many enemy forces as they are!"

"Twice?" Eunuch Liu frowned and thought about it, and said faintly, "How sure can you be?"

Li Dan's heart jumped, he saw something. "If you give me the command, you will be able to grasp it at sixty percent." He said.

"Can you improve it a little more?" Eunuch Liu shook his head slightly: "Sixty percent is too little, Your Majesty probably can't use this to face the monarchs of the imperial court."

"What if...... If His Majesty could allow, the minister suggested that the veterans who had retired from the Raozhou regiment for three years should be recruited to form a battalion, and the battalion should be sent to Wusongkou by boat, and then changed to a sea ship to go north.

If this battalion joins, the minister can say that I have an eighty percent chance of winning!" Li Dan said in a low voice.

Eunuch Liu tilted his head and thought, "Well, that's a good suggestion. But the road is far away, how many people are willing to participate, and the imperial court has to spend a lot of military expenses, more than 3,000 people!"

"Father-in-law, you don't need to spend anything." Li Dan grinned: "The minister only needs two conditions: after the battle in which the battalion participates, forty percent of the spoils will be at the disposal of the battalion; There is also a five-year exclusive right to purchase furs and livestock produced in Liaodi."

Eunuch Liu nodded: "This is not a difficult matter, our family will go back and tell Your Majesty." But you have to pay for the equipment and travel expenses yourself, can you?"

"It's all small

money." Li Dan waved his hand very angrily:

"Father-in-law, if the imperial court agrees to give the concession of the tax-free operation of the three industries of coal, iron ore, and timber in Liaodi, as well as the monopoly of carriages, wine, glass, and cement, to the minister's trading company for a period of seven years, the minister can also finance the construction of the three prefectures and two counties recovered by the imperial court."