Chapter 008: Liaodong Li Clan

Liaodong Li, the Tang Dynasty to avoid trouble, the early Ming Dynasty returned to Liaodong, the development has been more than 200 years, since the beginning of Li Chengliang, Li Jiawei shook Liaodong, the title to Ning Yuanbo; After the death of Li Chengliang and his eldest son Li Rusong, the patriarch of the Li clan fell on the second son Li Rubai.

In the hall of the Li family, it was full of Li clansmen at the moment, and Li Rubai sat on the main seat, watching the disciples and nephews in the hall arguing, and his heart was extremely irritable.

The main content of this meeting is to 'return to Beijing to report on work'.

Li Rubai's younger brothers are about the same age as him, the youngest is only twenty-seven or eight, among them except Li Ruzhen, the rest belong to the brave and unscrupulous, Li Rumei died early, and Li Chengliang's nine sons are now only seven.

"Second uncle, if you go to the capital, you won't be able to come back," Li Rubai's nephew Li Shaokuan said in a deep voice: "Then Li Qizhen connected to the eight songs, saying that the second uncle was arrogant and reckless, and if he didn't meet it, he would collapse, etc., and he would go to the capital here, I'm afraid..."

Stopped, Li Shaokuan didn't continue, he is the son of Li Rumei, who died early, Li Rumei is a fierce general among the Li brothers, Li Shaokuan also inherited his father's bravery, but in terms of strategy, he is better than his third uncle Li Ruzhen.

"Li Rubai is also afraid of death..."Chen Cao stood in the courtyard and looked at the falling snowflakes, then turned his head to look at Zhao Xin beside him and said: "Zhao Xin, our official is too small, and he will always be bullied." ”

It was the first time for Zhao Xin to see Chen Cao talking to him in such a tone, so he arched his hand and said: "The adults act unusually, he will definitely be able to become an official and a knight one day." ”

Chen Cao squinted at Zhao Xin, his eyebrows trembling: "Are you sarcastic that I will only do some shady things?" ”

Zhao Xin immediately reacted and sneered: "Don't dare, how dare your subordinates sarcastically mock the adult, the adult misunderstood?" ”

"The scenery in the north is good, but it's too cold," Chen Cao sighed, and then mocked: "Liu Lei's guy is extremely treacherous, he knows that the Li family in Liaodong is not easy to provoke, and when he arrives, he will be bleeding, and he wants to rest, this dog thief, he is obviously going to kill me..."

Zhao Xin had already tasted the taste, so he arched his hand and said: "My lord, the Li family has been operating in Liaodong for so many years, if it betrays..."

Don't talk about it, if you are in a hurry, the court may suffer a big loss.

However, Zhao Xin did not expect another level, although Salhu was defeated, but the military strength of the Ming Dynasty added up to more than 1.5 million, whether the emperor or the minister of civil and military affairs, the emperor was very disdainful of Jiannu, but this kind of thinking was maintained until the eighth year of Chongzhen.

"They don't dare to rebel, and they can't rebel at this stage," Chen Cao's words are not unfounded, what was lost in the first battle of Salhu was only the elite of the Ming army in Liaodong, and there were no less than 800,000 elite soldiers guarding the nine-border military town of the Ming Dynasty, even if Li Rubai wanted to rebel, he had to weigh his strength.

"My lord, what should we do now?"

Chen Cao turned his head to look at Zhao Xin and said, "Drinking, chatting, and playing with women." ”

“...”

Li Rubai invited Chen Cao to drink, to put it bluntly, this is the real Hongmen banquet, and the Li family will propose to kill Chen Cao at the banquet to prevent future troubles, but Li Rubai vetoed it.

Entering the gate, bypassing the wall, Chen Cao looked around with great interest, and suddenly a sharp long sword crossed Chen Cao's neck, and the blade of the sword was only a dozen centimeters away from his neck.

"A good man spares his life..."

The woman in front of her is no more than sixteen years old, about the same age as Chen Qing, but she looks better than an ordinary woman, almost one meter seven, and her height is at most one head worse than Chen Cao, and she looked at Chen Cao with an angry face: "You dog official can see clearly whether this girl is a man or a woman, hmph, this girl didn't go to the post station to trouble you, I didn't think you would send it to the door, so bold, the dog official accepted the order." ”

it...

This is Chen Cao's inner monologue, he looked at the long sword leaving his neck with a confused face, and then slashed down at himself at a forty-five degree angle, although his own skills are not weak, but the postmodern problem of not being able to hit women and being kidnapped by the sudden appearance made him just stand in place in a daze, and there was no reaction at all.

Seeing this, Zhao Xin, who was following behind, hurriedly drew his knife and rushed forward, ready to block the sword for Chen Cao, and then a spear came with the wind, Zhao Xin's embroidered spring knife did not block the sword, but the silver-white spear blocked the long sword.

The woman's tiger mouth was numb from the shock, and the long sword fell with the sound: "Fifth brother, why are you blocking me." ”

The visitor didn't speak, and Li Rubai, who was not far away, shouted angrily: "You bastard, Chen Zongqi is the envoy from the capital, and you can do anything wrong?" ”

Li Rubai walked quickly in front of Chen Cao, and said apologetically: "The little girl doesn't know the identity of the envoy, and I hope that Chen Zongqi will not blame." ”

The person who took out the gun to block the sword for Chen Cao was Li Shaokuan, he handed the spear to the general behind him, and then hugged his fists and apologized: "My sister is still young, Chen Zongqi must not be like her, Li Shaokuan is here to compensate Chen Zongqi for her." ”

Chen Cao came back from the ghost gate, still a little confused, just nodded mechanically, and then walked towards the lobby under the leadership of Li Rubai.

The banquet in the lobby reached its climax after Chen Cao drank a few glasses, but Chen Cao was smart this time, he knew where he was, and he didn't dare to get drunk, his face was slightly red, and Li Ruzhen, who was sitting opposite him, asked with a smile: "Chen Zongqi came to Liaodong this time, do you know what His Majesty means over there?" Or, is there any protocol on the Cabinet's side? ”

Chen Cao is like a mirror in his heart, Li Rubai is also a big man in the late Ming Dynasty, in the past, the forum always said, "Saying that Li Rubai doesn't know the soldiers, and insulting the limelight of the Li family, saying that he knows the soldiers, but it's also a joke", and Li Ruzhen's guy is obviously just talking to Chen Cao here, so as to deal with it calmly.

And Li Rubai finally killed himself, in Chen Cao's previous words, 'This old guy is afraid of being questioned and insulting the reputation of the Li family', so he cut himself to thank the world.

So at this moment, Chen Cao was quite convinced, and said in a straight voice: "What does Your Majesty mean, I don't know, the meaning of the cabinet, that is also held hostage by Li Qizhen's group of people, even if General Li is responsible for the battle of Sarhu, but in the face of the deceased two Ning Yuanbo, he will not give General Li anything." Chen Cao said and looked at Li Rubai, ready to tell a historical lie: "General Li and rest assured, Your Majesty and the cabinet have no intention of killing General Li Bing, but the losses in this battle are too great and the impact is very wide, and the Yanguan can't get by, so he has to be confined for a while, but it is safe after all." ”

The important purpose of Chen Cao's trip is to take Li Rubai back to Beijing for trial, of course, there are many elements of deception, Liu Lei's small abacus is also the hands of the Li family to get rid of Chen Cao, so what Chen Cao has to do is to ensure his own safety, even if he deceives Li Rubai to the capital, it is also the business of the above, he will return to Nanjing after his affairs are over, and the Li family has not yet had the strength to rectify himself in Nanjing.

Thinking of this, Chen Cao was even more bold, looked around at the table, and said with a smile: "Commanders, generals, Chen Cao is really not hiding here, my hundred households don't dare to come in Baitapu, they are afraid that you will be angry and retaliate on our Jinyi guard, so they gave me the holy oracle This general flag, if you kill me, he will run back to Shanhaiguan and say that your Li family rebelled, if Li Zongbing and I return to Beijing, then everyone will be happy." ”

The people at the table, one counts as one, including the generals behind him, all of them blushed, not drunk, but Chen Cao told them through their thoughts, Chen Cao saw it in his eyes, and then restrained his smile and said: "Please rest assured, this time I came to listen to the news of Weizhong's brothers in the capital, His Majesty is not willing to recall Li Zongbing, it's just that Li Qizhen's gang wants to find a sense of existence during the period when the new emperor ascends the throne, so that they can be added to the knighthood, so Li Zongbing is regarded as a target, and the cabinet adults are forced to do so, So I asked the emperor, and this is why I came to Shenyang to invite Li Zongbing to report on his work in the capital. ”

Oh...

Everyone at the table breathed a sigh of relief, including Li Rubai, Li Chengliang and Li Rusong died, Li Rubai and other living brothers all indulged in pleasure, some family heirlooms have long been abandoned, one of them includes blood, Li Rubai is particularly afraid of death, otherwise he would not have been defeated in Yahu Pass.

Chen Cao also breathed a sigh of relief, in order to make his words more convincing, so he continued: "So this time, General Li entered Beijing, at most, he was ordered by His Majesty to apply for punishment, and then he was locked up for a while, so he naturally exposed this matter, and the official would not hold on tightly, and he would not dare to really deal with General Li Bing." He looked at the people at the table mysteriously: "After all, Ning Yuanbo's prestige in Liaodong has not diminished, and Liaodong is still inseparable from the Li family..."

Well... Reasonable...

Everyone at the table nodded, Li Rubai was sure in his heart, Chen Cao was telling the truth, Liaodong still needs their Li family to help guard it, without the Li family, the people of Jianzhou will only get bigger and bigger.

"Mr. Chen's words made the old man pause," Li Rubai smiled and nodded: "Come, everyone, let's toast Mr. Chen with a drink..."

After a little drinking, Li Rubai breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Isn't it just going to the capital, go, as soon as the year passes, we will set off." ”

Chen Cao raised his glass and said with a smile: "Mr. Li is righteous, I salute you here." ”

Li Rubai and the Li family were happy and drunk, and Chen Cao was also drunk because his safety was guaranteed, but he was left in the Li Mansion for the night.

Li Mansion is located in the center of Shenyang City, after Li Rubai Town Shenyang, he expanded the residential area of the Li family, and his mansion alone is 300 acres large, so big that Chen Cao got up in the middle of the night to go to the thatched house and actually got lost.

After drinking a little too much, Chen Cao's head was a little drowsy, and he knew when he came, but after turning around and vomiting, he didn't know which way back he looked back.

'Damn, what should I do now?' Chen Cao thought bitterly in his heart, but although the Li family is large, the residential area on the east side is specially reserved for guests, and it is also equipped with a large bath with Korean characteristics----

What Chen Cao didn't know was that he walked along the road in a drowsy manner and walked to the range of the bath, the door was not closed, and there were lights inside, indicating that someone was bathing inside.

As the so-called wine is strong and intimidating, Chen Cao kicked open the bamboo door of a bath, under the bright light, the fog was thick, and among the rising white smoke, a wonderful carcass was facing Chen Cao, and the two of them looked at each other with wide eyes, and then the woman's face was flushed, her hands covered her chest, and she looked at Chen Cao angrily and said: "You are a thief, I will kill you..."

"I..."

Chen Cao's words are too big, bigger than Li Xiang and Li Fengchun's, and white, although he has not really touched it, but from the skin color, he can still distinguish it with the eyesight of the old driver in his previous life.

"Whore, you still see..."

The woman is Li Rubai's only daughter, named 'Li Wan'er', she has practiced martial arts since she was a child, even if she can't be described as strong, she is also powerful.

"Miss Li, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean it, your house is too big, I got lost after going out of the door and going to the thatched house, so I broke in by mistake, and I asked Miss Li to forgive me and retreat in the next place."

Chen Cao's drunkenness disappeared without a trace just now, and during the day, he was almost hacked to death by Li Wan'er with a sword in front of him.

Chen Cao fled in the angry scolding that kept coming from behind him, and happened to bump into Zhao Xin, who also came out of the thatched house, and the two hurried back.

Chen Cao's official is bigger than Zhao Xin, and he is Qincha, naturally he lives in a room alone, Zhao Xin's place of residence is away from the west chamber of Chen Cao's courtyard, after entering the house, Chen Cao picked up the teacup and poured a glass of water, before he calmed down, the door was kicked open, Li Wan'er held a sword in her right hand, pointed at Chen Cao with a sword in her left hand, and shouted angrily: "Adulter, I won't kill you today, this girl swears not to be a person, look at the sword..."

As he spoke, he pulled a sword flower and stabbed at Chen Cao.

Anyone's survival instinct at a critical moment is strong, not to mention Chen Cao, Chen Cao in Li Wan'er's heart is just a dumb brocade guard, this kind of person is a typical dog fighting human power, taking people is relying on the identity of Jinyi Wei and the number of people, if you really want to fight, you must not be your opponent.

Obviously, Li Wan'er suffered her own loss, she thought that Chen Cao was very good at night, and at night it was just like that, after being seen out of her body, the killing intent was even worse, too, Chen Cao came to take Li Rubai, Li Wan'er wanted to kill him, this is even more terrible, the concept of chastity of women in the Ming Dynasty is more profound than that of all dynasties, according to the customs of this era, Li Wan'er, who was looked down by Chen Cao, can only marry Chen Cao, and others can't, even if the family hides it, but Li Wan'er won't, thinking that it is impossible for her to marry this Jinyiwei at will, Then the only way is to let him die.

Chen Cao's family is a hereditary general of the Wei State Mansion, and his family has a martial arts background, even if he is a traverser, but the martial arts of this body itself are still there, seeing that he is in danger, his body instinctively made a defensive move, the long sword attacked, Chen Cao threw out the teacup on the table with his right hand, and swung it over with his left hand to lift the stool under his buttocks.

How did Li Wan'er know that Chen Cao's movements were so smooth, and he could still use his sword to break through the teacup when it flew in, but when the stool attacked, he only instinctively took the long sword to slash.

The furniture made of Liaodong big mahogany is durable, and so is the stool, no matter how sharp the long sword is, it is hit by such a thick stool at close range, even if the sword body continues, it also flies out of Li Wan'er's hand.

Before the frightened Li Wan'er came back to her senses, Chen Cao quickly pulled out the embroidered spring knife from the table, stepped forward with a big stride, and put the embroidered spring knife on Li Wan'er's neck.

'At that time, the knife was only 0.01 cm away from her neck, and I believe that in the next second, something wonderful will happen..."

Chen Cao looked at Li Wan'er, the previous murderous aura was gone, because Li Wan'er's tears had already dripped down his cheeks and fell on his blade.

Chen Cao is most afraid of women crying, no matter in the past life or this life, Li Wan'er's previous killing intent has all turned into grievances, tears are like a flood, crying pear blossoms bring rain, and the aggrieved eyes make Chen Cao's heart melt.

The atmosphere froze for at least ten seconds, Chen Cao threw the knife, knelt down in front of Li Wan'er, and cried bitterly: "Miss Li, it's Chen Cao's fault, Chen Cao shouldn't drink, drinking is wrong..."

Chen Cao's howl attracted Zhao Xin, who had just fallen asleep, and when Zhao Xin arrived with a knife, he saw Chen Cao kneeling in front of Li Wan'er, and Li Wan'er turned his back to him as if he was crying, plus Chen Cao's words, he seemed to understand something instantly, and left with a lewd smile, standing at the gate of the courtyard---- wind...

Li Wan'er was blindfolded by Chen Cao's sudden move, and thought carefully that she was the victim, and it was she who was crying sadly, why did it become him, so she cried and cried: "What do you mean..."

Chen Cao himself was also aggrieved, and he was teased here and cried three times this time, crying more than his own mother when he died, it is normal for women to cry, but it is a big man crying, what is it.

Chen Cao didn't care, for his own safety, what was crying, and what about kneeling for her, so he cried even harder: "Miss Li, Chen Cao regrets not drinking with your father at the beginning, and regrets that he shouldn't have lived in your house... So much so that I got lost and bumped into Miss, but I didn't mean to..."

The tears actually soaked the floor tiles, it can be seen how sad Chen Cao is crying, the protagonist who was supposed to cry has now become a supporting role, Li Wan'er can't say what she feels, she stopped crying, stopped crying, and then said: "You big husband stands up to the sky, how can you kneel to me as a woman." As he spoke, he reached out to help Chen Cao up.

However, Chen Cao didn't get up, and then cried: "Salhu battle, in the next father died in Fushun Pass, the bones were not collected, and in Liaodong to avenge her husband can not find a way, and ask the girl to stay Chen Cao's cheap life, to wait for Chen Cao's revenge on his father, whether to kill or chop, but ask Miss Li to be the master." ”

The most important thing in this era is filial piety, no one will make fun of other people's parents, but they are sympathetic and supportive of this situation, Li Wan'er is just like this, hearing Chen Cao's words, she suddenly felt pity, but thinking that her body was seen by the person in front of her, that kind of hatred swept over again, making her left and right.

"You... It turns out that there is such a thing," Li Wan'er sighed, Chen Cao's father died in battle, he wanted to take revenge, and he couldn't kill him: "I, Li Wan'er, have never been out of Shenyang, and I don't know how to provoke you, a plague god." Saying that, he stretched out his hand to help Chen Cao: "Don't cry, you are a big man, what kind of body do you have to cry when you kneel in front of me, you don't know what I think I have done to you." ”

Chen Cao got off the donkey, wiped his tears, and then hugged his fists and said: "Miss Li, Chen Cao is not unintentional, but the matter has happened, as long as the girl is willing, Chen Cao is willing to marry the girl." ”

"Splash thief, you still want to get cheap..."Li Wan'er's eyes widened.

Chen Cao waved his hand again and again and said: "The girl misunderstood, although Chen Cao saw what he shouldn't have seen, but he also knew that etiquette and religion were guarded, if the girl was unwilling, Chen Cao would naturally keep his mouth shut." ”

"Remember what you say. In the middle of the night...", he picked up his sword and left, and scolded Zhao Xin who was guarding the gate of the courtyard a few words.

Zhao Xin saw Li Wan'er leaving, walked into Chen Cao's house with a smile, and arched his hand: "My lord is really amazing, the five bodies that my subordinates admire are throwing themselves to the ground." ”

Chen Cao was wiping his tears with Zhao Xin behind his back, and then asked, "Why don't you sleep and come to me?" ”

"The subordinates of the adult soaking the woman really want to ask for a question or two, this Miss Li shouts and kills the adult during the day, and the adult puts her on the bed in the middle of the night, this..."

"Get out..."Chen Cao didn't say a word, and he raised his leg and kicked.

...

At the same time, on the night of the murderous night in the dark moon and high wind, in the Acropolis of Tieling, Liaodong, a group of Manchurians with money rat tails were talking to a Han Chinese, the Tatars spoke Manchu, and the Han people also spoke Manchu.

"As long as Baylor sends troops to ransack the White Tower Shop, our side will definitely not send troops to stop it, on the contrary, all that Baylor has on the side of the White Tower Shop, Baylor can take it."

In the center, a man is old, but full of energy, but he looks extremely rough, and the beard surrounds the entire chin: "It's that simple? ”

Han said: "It's that simple. ”

A man next to him looked at the leader: "Lord Belle, the Han people are cunning, and Li Rubai is not good at stubble, so you must be more careful." ”

When the Han people heard this, they were anxious: "Baylor doesn't need to worry, now the Dajin soldiers are strong, and the general soldiers of my family are unwilling to fight with Baylor and others since the Yahu Pass, and they will not send troops by decision, and it is not a secret, my army in Shenyang City is only 30,000 people now, and now it is snowing heavily in Liaodong, and there are not many cavalry in our army, and it is impossible to go out of the city to fight with your army." ”

"You Han people are listening to what they say, so let's go back, and our army will go south in the near future."

After the Han people left, the Manchu who had been admonishing earlier became anxious and hurriedly stopped: "Lord Belle, the Han dog is extremely cunning, don't be gullible, wasn't Jianzhou betrayed by Li Chengliang like this?" ”

"Amma, what that person said, my son thought about it carefully, they should be afraid of the high-ranking officials of the Ming Court over there in Baitapu."

The bearded man looked at his son curiously and said, "How do you know?" ”

"Grandfather came with news, indicating that the court removed Xue Guoyong, enabled Xiong Tingbi, and wanted to pursue the responsibility for the defeat of Salhu, that Li Rubai was frightened into a frightened bird by dozens of sentries of my Dajin in Yahu Pass, and trampled to death more than 1,000 people, which is really a laughing stock, and now they sent people to persuade each other, and also told Ama about the layout in Shenyang City, presumably the same as what my grandfather said, Li Rubai was reprimanded by the Ming Court, and he was afraid of death, so he let us send troops to ransack the White Tower Shop, and I can also get a bargain."

The bearded man nodded: "It makes sense, in this way, the order will go down, point to the three members of Niu Lu under my Blue Banner, Ben Beile personally leads the army, let's go to Shenyang City to fight the grass valley, remember, not a single person in armor, as long as I am a Jurchen warrior." ”

"Lord Belle must not be careless," said the man who had come out again, "if it is clear that the dog is cheating, how can Baylor be in danger?" ”

The bearded man laughed and shook his head and said: "Abucai, you don't need to say it, after my big golden character Salhu, it is already in the sky, when have my Jurchen been afraid of those Ming dogs, most of them are foot soldiers, how can they compare with my Jurchen Iron Horse?" Besides, if there are really high-ranking officials of the Ming Court in Baitapu, after being captured, even if it can't be used by my Dajin, it can also deter those self-righteous Ming dogs. ”