Li Chengliang was originally going to Liaoyang to visit Gao Pragmatic, but coincidentally, when he sent someone to Liaoyang to report the itinerary, Gao Pragmatic had already left Liaoyang and was on the boat and took the waterway, so he didn't receive any news at all.

And Li Chengliang himself obviously would not go faster than the messenger, he took five hundred families by land, and arrived at the Niuzhuang Horse Post this afternoon, and then learned that Gao Shishi was stationed at Dongchang Fort twenty miles northwest - Gao Shishi was a boat under the dock of the Sancha River, which was very close to Dongchang Fort.

Li Chengliang was surprised at first, because he didn't know that Gao Shishi was asked by Zhu Yijun to return to Beijing to report on his work.

After the post man of Niuzhuang Mayi took out the official document of Gao Futai ordering Li Chengliang to take full control of military affairs in western Liaoning, Li Chengliang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said secretly: Fortunately, I didn't miss it, if I missed it, I wouldn't see him for at least a month or two, and it would be a delay.

Then after thinking about it, I suddenly remembered a big question: Didn't Gao Pragmatic just take up his new post, why was he immediately recalled to Beijing to report on his work? He has only been in office for two or three months, what is there to describe? Could it be that the imperial court didn't understand anything about Gao Shishi's last "city circle plan", and he had to explain it himself?

But that's not right! Ye He is just a Jurchen one, the soldiers are less than 10,000, and he can't be ranked at all in the eyes of the imperial court, even if he kills the two chiefs of Ye He, it's not a big deal, Gao Pragmatic can increase the right attendant of the military department this time because of the "city circle plan", it is only because the beheadings are more than 2,000...... Therefore, the imperial court should not recall Gao Pragmatic back to Beijing for this matter.

Li Chengliang touched his beard and thought about it, always feeling that this thing was strange, and after a while, he expanded the scope of his thinking from Liaodong, and said secretly: Could it be because of the war in Yunnan?

But Gao Pragmatic has little to do with the war in Yunnan, he has done Guangxi patrol, and he has pacified Annan, but although Yunnan and Guangxi are provinces, the situation is very different, even if the emperor trusts this classmate and wants to ask for advice, this is also asking for blindness!

The similarity between Yunnan and Guangxi is that they both have a lot of toast, but relatively speaking, Guangxi is still "simpler" than Yunnan, because Guangxi toast is all internal, and there are two giants of Cen and Huang, as long as they can hold Cen and Huang, Guangxi's toast can be mastered.

Yunnan is different, and the situation is even more complicated. First of all, the Tusi of Yunnan is divided into internal and external, and the triangular relationship between the internal subordinate, the external attachment and the imperial court is intricate, and the Luchuan Tusi was the most troublesome in the early Ming Dynasty.

Secondly, the imperial court institutions in Yunnan are also relatively special, and the main special point is the existence of Mu Wangfu. "Mu Wangfu" is a folk common name, the official saying of the imperial court is called Qianguo Gongfu, because the Mu town of Yunnan for a long time, the authority is very heavy, "respect for the intended prince", so Yunnan folk to Mu Wangfu commensurate.

The Mu clan guards Yunnan, and the official position is only to guard the general military officer of Yunnan, and it stands to reason that the army under its jurisdiction is nothing more than a local guard and a local Tusi. However, the imperial court has a charter, and it is a privilege of the ancestral system, which allows the Mu clan to transfer garrisons from neighboring provinces in case of emergency.

And even if the provincial garrison is not transferred for the reason of "emergency", the fact that the Mu clan can mobilize the Tusi is also very powerful, because the Mu clan is in Yunnan, and the relationship with the Tusi is obviously a hundred times closer than that of the governor and others of the imperial court, so those Tusi who obey the dispatch of the imperial court are actually obeying the dispatch of the Mu clan at all.

In other words, it is more heart-wrenching, that is, "I only recognize Prince Mu, but I don't know Emperor Zhu". In this situation, the situation in Yunnan is even more complicated, and the governor of Yunnan may also be the governor with the worst ability to suppress the general army of the province among all the governors of the Ming Dynasty, which is worse than that of Liaodong.

So Li Chengliang doesn't think that the emperor's recall of Gao Pragmatic back to Beijing has anything to do with the situation in Yunnan - Gao Pragmatic is already a governor, even if he is the governor of Yunnan, it is obviously impossible, because he Gao Pragmatic with his unique background and the prestige of Annan and Dingbei, now even I, Li Chengliang, can't bear it, can I still endure the real soil emperor Yunnan Mufu?

If Gao Shishi really went to Yunnan, I am afraid that it will not be too late to unite with the Mu Mansion, and he will have to start a big war between a strong dragon and a local snake, which the imperial court absolutely does not want to see at this moment.

But if it wasn't because of the plan of the city circle or the battle of Yunnan, then why did the emperor let him go back to Beijing? I can't say that I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and the emperor has thrown aside all the rules of the court because he misses his classmate too much!

If that's the case, don't think about negotiating with Gao Shishi, just kowtow and beg for mercy without saying a word when I go to see him tonight.

That being said, Li Chengliang still doesn't think the relationship between the two classmates can be so good.

After all, there is a difference between monarchs and ministers, and the emperor is in power for the first time, and it doesn't seem to be the kind of out-of-the-box character that Wuzong had back then, so it shouldn't be so unreasonable.

This doubt suddenly became another thorn in Li Chengliang's heart, thinking about it, he actually thought suspiciously: Could it be that Kaiyuan's side was really found out by Gao Shishi, so under the guise of returning to Beijing to report on his work, he actually went to sue the emperor in person, right?

This thought frightened Li Chengliang himself, Ning Yuanbo, who had been calm and calm in the face of tens of thousands of Mongolian iron horsemen for ten years, was fluttering and fluttering in his heart at this time, and said secretly: Could it be that this guy wants to design to frame me?

Li Chengliang knew in his heart that he must have a piece of shit in Kaiyuan, and even stopped at Kaiyuan? Tieling, Kaiyuan, Guangning, Liaoyang, Kuandian, Ningyuan, these are just the key points, in fact, in the entire Liaodong, where is there no industry of his Li family? Gao Pragmatism is the owner of the giant beast Jinghua, can the business still hide from Jinghua? As long as Gao Pragmatic is willing to investigate, there is no reason why he can't find out.

However, it stands to reason that which of the generals in the world does not make money? Generals who don't make money are already fucking dead - if you don't have money, you won't have a family, and if you don't have a family, you will die if you go to the battlefield, no matter how powerful you are, it's in vain.

Qi Jiguang didn't have a few family members in the early war that year, but if he hadn't relied on his own magic shot and killed the leader of the Japanese Kou with an arrow, this handsome man who had been famous for decades would have been defeated in the first battle.

The current famous generals or so-called generals, who is not trying to make money? As for whether to support the family or squander it after making money, it is only a different disposal, and there is no difference in the matter of making money.

Of course, making money is the same as fighting a war, there is a gap in the level, and there is also a gap in the cost. A person like Liu Xian, although he has a lot of ability, his background is low, and the object of the battle is "worthless", so it is naturally not good to make money.

Ma Fang's conditions are actually better than Liu Xian's, although his background is also low, but his position is good, he is the key point of Xuanda's border town near Gyeonggi, and he is also in charge of cavalry, which was originally a good place to make money, but in Li Chengliang's view, this time the veteran is not very bright, and the money he makes only raises so little cavalry, not to mention, the remaining little money is always smashed on the Jianhui Temple, which is a waste.

When Li Chengliang was still the deputy chief soldier in his early years, he thought that if he was replaced by Ma Fang, the cavalry under his command would be at least 10,000 when Gengshu changed.

And now Li Chengliang is most worried about the fact that so far he still can't figure out the reason why Gao Pragmatic has always targeted him, and the last time the family discussed this matter, they didn't discuss a result.

Now that Gao Pragmatic suddenly wants to return to Beijing, this worry is even more serious: since all the generals in the world are making money, and although I am making a little more, but looking at the military merits in the past and the strength at hand, the emperor should not destroy the Great Wall for this reason, so if Gao Pragmatic wants to bring me down, it is unlikely that he will only start to find evidence from making money......

Don't...... He's going to slander me for plotting against me?

Li Chengliang suddenly shuddered.

In all fairness, he Li Chengliang really doesn't have this kind of intention. If nothing else, let's just say one thing: Liaodong alone can't support his 40,000 family members at all, and he will not be stupid and "plotting against him".

Liaodong is poor or poor, in fact, it is still possible to feed 40,000 cavalry, but there is a premise, that is, Li Chengliang must post the money himself - now he also sticks money, but the sticking method is different.

Now this Li Jiajun, the imperial court is paying military salaries, but Li Jiajun does not only rely on military salaries to eat, because the standard of military salaries is obviously not high enough, in fact, it only accounts for about forty percent of the normal expenses.

Li Jiajun also has three major sources of wealth: first, the court's military exploits; second, looting in war; The third is the "subsidy" given by Li Chengliang.

The ratio of these three major sources of wealth is not fixed, generally speaking, the highest is the imperial court's military exploit reward, and this money is relatively stable.

The most unstable is looting, when fighting Mongolia, you can generally only grab some horses, cattle and sheep, cattle and sheep are basically directly used as a reward, and the internal digestion, and most of the horses will be used to supplement the war damage or expand the stable stock, and it is difficult to "export" for money;

On the contrary, when fighting the Jurchens, it is more profitable to loot this piece, because the Jurchens are not nomatric, but fishing and hunting, and there are even many people who have begun farming, and these tribes have stockpiles, and there are more or less stocks in the stockpiles, such as furs, ginseng, deer antlers, Dongzhu, etc., which can be exchanged for money.

However, there is a difference between the Jurchens and the Mongols, the Mongols can be said to fight, but the Jurchens cannot, most of them are obedient to the imperial court, and they can't beat people indiscriminately, which limits Li Jiajun's income......

In financial terms, the amount of looting income and Li Chengliang's subsidy is "negatively correlated": the more you rob, the less you need to subsidize; The less you grab, the more you need to subsidize.

If Li Chengliang really plotted against Liaodong and planned to divide Liaodong, first of all, there would be no hope for the imperial court's military salaries and rewards, and these two sums of money were originally the big heads. Secondly, it is impossible to loot at will, relying on a corner of Liaodong, without the support of the imperial court, if you can hold the local area, you have to burn high incense, and you also take the initiative to go out to loot, that is because you are not happy enough to die.

But if there is no salary and reward from the imperial court, and there is no way to go out and loot, how can the army of more than 40,000 people who are fed with a lot of silver be raised? can only be fully pasted by Li Chengliang himself, but in that case, the Li family's family will all be put in, and how can Liaodong alone gain a firm foothold is also something that cannot be ignored.

Therefore, there is really no "conspiracy", Li Chengliang was only poor and afraid back then, and he deeply understood the importance of status and money, so he will continue to expand his strength to improve his status in the imperial court and in Liaodong, and continue to accumulate wealth to ensure that this wealth can last for a long time.

It wasn't until Gao Pragmatic began to "target everywhere" that he became vigilant and began to constantly ponder Gao Pragmatic's motives, so that now he is suspicious and suspicious, and he is about to have a nervous breakdown.

Fortunately, he had decided that he must find out the reason tonight.

Li Chengliang came to visit Gao Pragmatic when he was very regular, far from the usual travel of good pomp, he only brought 500 family guards to Liaoyang, and even only brought more than 20 personal guards when he came to Dongchangbao from Niuzhuang Horse Station.

Standing in Dongchang Fort, surrounded by the seemingly polite surroundings of Zhang Wanbang's family, Li Chengliang tried his best to maintain his demeanor as a handsome man in Liaodong, majestic but not arrogant, outstanding but not domineering, standing with his hands in his hands, closing his eyes and recuperating.

Until Zhang Wanbang hurriedly ran back, he said politely: "Dashuai, Futai is invited." ”

Although Zhang Wanbang is a highly pragmatic descendant, after all, Li Chengliang is the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, so according to the system, Zhang Wanbang is his subordinate general, and it is completely reasonable to call him a commander.

However, Li Chengliang always felt that Zhang Wanbang's "big handsome" was very insincere, although it seemed polite, it obviously revealed a kind of alienation, which was far less natural than the local generals in Liaodong.

But Li Chengliang didn't care about Zhang Wanbang's thoughts now, he just opened his eyes and glanced at him, bowed slightly, and then started to untie the cloak.

Although Li Pinghu behind him was withdrawn and arrogant in the face of others, he took the initiative to step forward and take Li Chengliang's cloak at this time, and asked, "Dashuai, ...... subordinates?"

"Wait." Li Chengliang was not polite, and directly asked them to wait here. Li Pinghu was not dissatisfied, and after receiving the order, he took two steps back and stood motionless.

Li Chengliang himself said to Zhang Wanbang: "Sanxi, there is labor to guide the way." ”

Although Zhang Wanbang didn't have much respect for Li Chengliang, after all, as a subordinate, at least the rules of face must be there, and he hurriedly said: "The handsome man is polite, please come with the humble position." ”

So Zhang Wanbang led Li Chengliang to the courtyard where Gao Pragmatic temporarily lived, at this time, the courtyard was guarded by Gao Pragmatic's personal soldiers, not to mention the three layers inside and three layers outside, but also three steps and one sentry, one step and one post, and it was extremely tight.

When Li Chengliang saw it, he was a little surprised, and couldn't help but ask Zhang Wanbang: "Recently, the public security near Dongchangbao has not been quiet?" Why is it like facing a great enemy? ”

In fact, what Li Chengliang was worried about was that Gao Shishi's suspicion of him had reached this point, and he had to deliberately strengthen the garrison even when he met? If that were the case, the problem would not be as serious as it would normally be.

However, Zhang Wanbang grinned and said, "The marshal said that he was laughing, what can Dongchang Fort be incapable of?" Although there are a few strands of silk in Liaodong, no matter how horizontal the silk is, it is always impossible to cross the tartars, how can it be possible to come to Dongchangbao to make trouble? ”

After a slight pause, he said: "As for Futai's side, according to the humble understanding, it has always been so tightly defended, after all, you also know that Jinghua ......"

Li Chengliang looked abrupt at this time, didn't ask any more questions, bowed slightly to Zhang Wanbang, and went straight forward, but at the same time reached out and took off his black gauze hat and held it on his chest with one hand.

When you enter the courtyard, there are naturally Fubiao's personal soldiers to lead the way. Li Chengliang originally thought that Gao Pragmatic, as the youngest Futai, might take a shelf at this time and sit in the hall waiting for him to meet.

Unexpectedly, the two Fubiao guards led him to the side of the flower hall, and as soon as he turned into the side courtyard, he found Gao Shishi wearing a royal blue robe, standing outside the flower hall, smiling at him.

"Brother Ruqi, don't come to harm?"

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