Because Yan Mei'er and Li Muhua, who was released from the cold palace, set off back to Hue to deal with many affairs related to the palace move, the inner house in Guangzhou was presided over by Aurlei Yilan.

Li Peiting and this seventh lady are naturally acquaintances, if he hadn't gone to Heilongjiang to carry out trade activities, Aore Yilan's family would still be desperately shooting wild beasts in the mountains and forests for an iron pot at this moment. How can there be today's scenery and wealth?

However, at this time and at that time, it is not easy to mention the things of the past now, after all, everyone's identities are there now. One is a favorite concubine who gave birth to a strong son for the lord, and the other is a minister, Li Peiting is still very clear about the proportions.

"I've seen the Seventh Lady!"

The two brothers strictly and politely gave Aolin a big salute in accordance with the rules.

"The two brothers, I saw it in a hurry. I'm here to greet you. If it weren't for you, my parents would still be holding it in the hands of the thief Dorgon! ”

When Li Huayu negotiated peace with Huang Taiji, the first thing he proposed was to ask him to release all the Saurons he had captured in the Heilongjiang Valley, including Aurlei Yilan's father Hilqiyin, mother Andakin, and several siblings.

These thousands of Sauron people were of no use in the hands of Huang Taiji, and they could only consume money and food in vain, so they were happy to do a favor and sent these thousands of people to the lion's mouth and transferred them to Dengzhou.

Among them, there are members of the Aura Yilan family.

When the eldest prince Li learned that there were still his own in-laws among this group of Saurons, he naturally would not slack off, and immediately ordered someone to send Ao Lei Yilan's parents and brothers to Guangzhou by clipper to reunite with the seventh aunt. Of the remaining thousands of Saurons, he naturally would not be polite, and picked out Ding Zhuang among them. According to the composition of Hala and Mokun, they were organized into their own cavalry team.

The so-called Hala and Mokun are the unique social organization of the Sauronians. Until the beginning of the 20th century, remnants of clan organization remained among the Daur people. They are divided into Aolei, Onen, Menden, Guobel, Nadi, Voge, Wu Ran, Ulis, Dedule, Sodor, Kinchiri, Sudur, Ardan, Huerras, He Yin, Biliyang, Tao Mu, Hosir, Ort, and Buketu, a total of 20 halas. Aolei ranked first. Each Hala was divided into a number of Mokun, and the Mokun had a common genealogy. Every few years, the adult men of all Mokun gather to repair the family tree. They elected a senior and respected person named Mokunda, who was to manage the affairs of Mokun, and major internal matters were to be resolved by the Mokun Council. Mokun has public land such as forest-raising mountains, wicker forests, and pastures. Every spring and autumn, the people gather to worship Aobao, pray for good weather, good harvest, prosperous livestock, and hold sports activities such as horse racing, archery, wrestling, and hockey.

These more than 1,000 Sauron Ding Zhuang are naturally heroes who gallop back and forth in the mountains and forests, shooting wild beasts, and Li Huayu certainly can't let it go. In accordance with their habits. After equipping them with armor, swords, and guns according to the weapon system of the Liao thieves, these people immediately became an elite cavalry in Li Huayu's hands.

As for Ao Lei Yilan's parents and brothers, they are naturally treated like guests here by Li Shouhan. enjoys the treatment of heaven, but the climate in Guangzhou makes Li Shouhan's cheap father-in-law and mother-in-law not very adaptable, and they want to go back to the north, at least to return to Shandong to be with the clansmen.

It's understandable to think about it, you let a pair of old people who are used to living in the mountains and forests of Heilongjiang go to live in Guangzhou. It is difficult to adapt to modern conditions in a short period of time, let alone in the Chongzhen period more than 300 years ago?

But these things. are all trivial matters in Li Shouhan's inner house, but for the two Li Peilin brothers, it is not good to interfere too much. The purpose of their visit today is not just to hold a full moon for the two newly-born children.

"Big brother, do you remember the scene when we first arrived in Ha Jing?"

After ordering people to serve tobacco, tea, fruits, and snacks, he confessed his sin and got up to leave. Although she and Li Peiting are also acquaintances. But now she is also aware of each other's identities, and the boundaries between them are invisible and tangible, but they exist like chasms.

Seeing that Ao Lei Yilan was gone, Li Peiting was quite touched, looked at the surrounding environment, and suddenly asked Li Peilin such a question.

How can this be forgotten?! That is an important juncture for the two brothers of the Li family to be reincarnated as human beings!

But. What was the state of Li Shouhan back then? What is the state of affairs today?

It can be said that the two brothers' painstaking and painstaking assistance have now begun to take shape.

"At that time, the lord's base was only thousands of miles, and he ruled only hundreds of thousands of people, so he already had the idea of the four seas. Nowadays, with thousands of miles of land, soldiers at home and abroad, the people under the rule of abundant food and clothing, the treasury is full, and the armor is excellent. ”

There are also many factions in the Nanyue army, and there are many mountains. There are many factions such as the so-called Conglong faction, the barbarian faction, the inland faction and so on. The Li brothers are the representatives of the mainland faction. However, there is no doubt that these factions hope that Li Shouhan can gain more power and have more space. In this respect, Li Peiting is the best representative of persuasion that all factions secretly admit. They all hope that Li Shouhan can get to that position as soon as possible!

What distinguishes between the factions is the question of where the Nanyue Army will put its main forces and where to place the focus of power and most of its resources after Li Shouhan ascends to the throne!

A group of people headed by Li Huayu, the eldest son of Li, advocated basing themselves on Nanzhong, expanding the land to ten prefectures, Fusang and other places, and as for the Central Plains, that is a source of labor and a market for various products. In the opinion of this group of people, it is best for the mainland to continue fighting like this, and to fight him for several decades, so that the Nanyue Army has enough time to turn Shizhou, Nanzhong, Fusang, and other places into their own backyards, and then solve the problems of the Central Plains.

However, the two Li brothers and the mainland faction behind them don't see it that way. They believe that they should go north to the Central Plains as soon as possible and determine the name of righteousness as soon as possible, so that Li Shouhan can no longer command the Quartet as a rather embarrassing courtier of the Ming Dynasty!

Moreover, after the pacification of the Central Plains, a large number of people, the resumption of production and recuperation everywhere, will also find a good place for all kinds of production in the south of the country, with such a huge population base, why worry about things can't be sold?

"If the Central Plains is really like the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it will inevitably be sparsely populated, as Cao Mengde said in his poem. The white bones are exposed in the wilderness, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. This is also a sight that the lord does not want to see. ”

Before coming, Li Peilin and his good brother Li Peiting analyzed Li Shouhan's inner thoughts together, and prepared to find a reason to persuade him to go north as soon as possible from Li Shouhan's point of view.

There is a way that arrows are not good, and arrows are broken. Although the Southern Yue Army is strong, well-armed, and well-fed, but. If you can't get the approval of Li Shouhan, the head of the family, then any kind of view or attitude towards the mainland can only be a flower in the mirror.

However, Rao is Li Peilin is familiar with people's hearts and government affairs, understands the filth of officialdom, and the hearts of the people, and Li Peiting is no longer the gentleman he was back then, but the two brothers still can't figure out the thoughts of Li Shouhan, who has been together for more than 20 years, for the Ming court.

If it is said that Li Shouhan is not a loyal minister of the Ming court. I'm afraid that even the Donglin party in the court, which has the heaviest hatred for Li Shouhan, will not believe it. They can only use words like treachery to explain many of Li Shouhan's behaviors.

Several times in the imperial court when the court was in danger, he prepared his own food and paid the king Qin, and each time he gave the court that was beaten by Jiannu with a blue nose and swollen face and embarrassed, and the court that seriously lost points politically had a good record, so that the Ming court could save some face.

For the sake of the Ming court, not only did Li Shouhan send troops and money himself, but also tried every means to plan military salaries for the imperial court, repay military rations, and open up sources of salaries. Several cabinet bigwigs have also sighed in their spare time. If the generals of the imperial court are like Marshal Li, why worry that the Ming Dynasty can't prosper?

Since Chongzhen nine years ago. Li Shouhan served the inner court with hundreds of thousands of grains every year, and handed over to the imperial court the customs duties of Guangzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, Shanghai, Tianjin and other places, so that the Chongzhen Emperor, who was worried about the increasingly difficult and finances, had a lot more money on his waist. He is also very concerned about Zhu Youzhen's daily life, diet and life. At present, almost half of the daily expenses for food and clothing in the inner court are borne by the Liang Guogong Mansion!

Li Shouhan's actions fully meet the standards of a foolish and loyal person!

on this. The two brothers of the Li family could only shake their heads and sigh secretly. However, the Donglin Party members used a different tone to evaluate Li Shouhan's loyalty and respectfulness: "Duke Zhou was afraid of rumors, when Wang Mang was a corporal. If he died first at that time, who knows about the traitors through the ages? "Use this method of poisoning the well and preemptively convicting Li Shouhan of original sin to evaluate his actions.

And no wonder. From another point of view, Li Shouhan's words are completely different.

In order to get two wide. He did not hesitate to collude with the local officials in Liangguang and Guangzhou, and imported a large number of cheap grain, rice, sugar, and iron utensils, which caused the families of those farmers and those who relied on sugar and iron smelting to make a living in Liangguang went bankrupt one after another. In order to survive, he had to leave his hometown and take risks, turning Liangguang into a turbulent place.

In this way, Nanzhong, which was originally short of labor, suddenly gained a continuous source of labor! It is also taking advantage of the time when the two Guangxi are quelled in the north to put down the chaos, and the two Guangxi are included in their own system!

As for the exchange of people, property, antiques, calligraphy, paintings, books, armor, knives, guns, food, and cloth between various bandits and thieves who wandered around the Central Plains in private, it is not surprising. Because of this kind of business, the Nanyue Army is not only doing it with the thieves, but also with the officials and soldiers in various places.

On the one hand, it is the crumbling pillars of the building of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, it is constantly waving a shovel and pickaxe to desperately dig the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. This is the rather contradictory image of Li Shouhan in the eyes of the two Li Peilin brothers!

"Maybe, our lord wants to be Li Yuan, right? It's just that the time is not ripe at the moment, and I dare not make my banner public. ”

The two brothers were half relieved in their hearts, and they were half relieved and half ridiculed themselves.

Aurlei Yilan arranged a very rich full moon wine for the two children of Dawa Yangzong and Yangjin Zhuoma, which can be described as a mixture of water and land, a list of delicacies, and an abbot before eating. However, the brothers Li Shouhan and Li Peilin both have something in their hearts, and Rao is peach with the queen mother in front of him and the liver and gallbladder of the third prince of the East China Sea, which also tastes like chewing wax.

After eating this full moon wine easily, Li Shouhan invited the two sect brothers to the flower hall of the water pavilion to have a good talk. Hearing this, Brother Li Peilin was immediately refreshed!

They all knew very well that the flower hall in the water pavilion was a pavilion built in the water, and the removal of a few wooden planks from the promenade was to isolate it from the land, and there was a dark river passing under the flower hall. The water is deep and rapid, what is said in the flower hall, you can't hear anything even if you hold the boat under the flower hall! It's the perfect place to talk about big things!

"Brother Zong, I saw that the two of you were unpleasant to eat at the banquet, and I thought that there must be something in my heart, and there are only three of you and me here today. What are the words. Just like when I was in Hejing, I spoke freely! ”

Several relatives set up seats for the three of them, boiled water with a small red clay stove, and listed some new melons and fruit snacks, and were sent away by Li Shouhan with a wave of his hand.

The play meat is coming! The two brothers exchanged glances with each other, and they were both pleased that Li Shouhan had such a straightforward attitude, which shows that in the minds of our lord, we are still the same as when we were in Hajing!

"My lord. I wonder what you think of the current situation in the Central Plains? Li Peilin threw out his own question.

"The situation in the Central Plains?" Li Shouhan smiled bitterly, he worked hard to manage and aid at any cost, and even personally raised troops to the north to fight Liaodong. But what do you get in exchange? Except for the fact that the Sauron people who were supported by Li Peiting in front of him shot and wounded the Qing emperor in response to Huang Taiji's crusade, which finally led to his violent death, it was almost lackluster.

Liaodong is like this, and the Central Plains is even more erosive.

"The day before yesterday, I received an urgent report from Huayu's order, and Sun Baigu had 100,000 people. It actually collapsed and disappeared in the mountains of western Henan. The mountains of baggage armor were all cheaper, and Li Zicheng was cheaper. Those Shaanxi soldiers and horses that he painstakingly recruited and trained were also under Li Chuang's command! It's like adding wings to a tiger! ”

"Exactly! Sun Lao'er also bought a lot of weapons and armor on credit from my dragon that day! If it weren't for the lord's desire to expand the army in Nanzhong, the number of large and small artillery pieces would not be enough, and I am afraid that hundreds of artillery pieces would have to be purchased on credit! Now I think about it, it's a fluke! If it was given to him that day, it would be cheap for nothing today! ”

"Sun Chuanting's defeat was not a defeat to the rogue. Instead, he was defeated by the gentry, by the court, and by the emperor! Li Shouhan put the teacup in his hand heavily on the coffee table, and a few drops of water in the teacup splashed on the marble table with rosewood inlay.

He himself wrote to the court several times, asking for a postponement of leaving Tongguan. The reason is that the soldiers and horses have not been trained. But what about the imperial court? From the emperor to the cabinet bosses, to the officials and gentry in Shaanxi, they all asked him to send troops to rescue Chengtian quickly! Damn! Zuo Liangyu's nine and nine didn't come, and he turned a blind eye if he didn't listen to them. Sun Chuanting is loyal to the country, and begged hard not to rush out of the customs for the time being in order to protect this pair of belongings of the Ming Dynasty, but how do you look at this group of goods? It's really bullying honest people! ”

Li Shouhan was also full of anger and suppressed it for a long time, and he was still muttering angry scolding. Li Peilin's performance of him has long been expected. Li Peiting had already been instructed by Li Shouhan to explain the prevailing system in the capital, and he must be up and down to ensure that Sun Chuanting could not be wronged in the prison. Therefore, almost all of the cell bosses in those prisons enjoyed the night visits of the people of Longsheng Merchant and placed a lot of money and sharp knives in front of them. "Take these silver dollars, so that you can serve Inspector Sun, otherwise, this desperate knife will kill your family!"

Who of those cell bosses would dare to take such a risk? If you don't take a lot of money, but take the lives of the whole family to gamble, will it be true that the powerful Long Shengxing will play really? When Sun Chuanting was escorted to Beijing and sent to prison, these people served Sun Chuanting more carefully and carefully than their father, not only did they not dare to ask for any usual rewards, but they were also quite afraid of their words and expressions. lest he have made a mistake between his words and annoyed this Lord Sun and brought disaster to himself.

"The defeat of Sun Baigu was defeated on the foundation, and the so-called foundation was not firmly shaken. He forcibly implemented the new policy in Shaanxi, and he had already offended those officials and gentry and generals, and these people wished that he would get out of the customs sooner and be defeated one day earlier! In this way, they have a good reason to attack the New Deal! ”

"What the lord said is very true! However, "Li Peiting suddenly remembered something, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead when he landed!"

"What's the matter?" Li Shouhan and Li Peilin both noticed that Li Peiting's expression had changed, and they immediately asked with concern.

"My lord, just now you talked about Sun Baigu's actions in Shaanxi, and gave a comment that the foundation is not firm. The subordinates remembered Huayu's practices in Shandong and other places, and all kinds of things in the meantime have a lot of similarities with Sun Chuanting now. ”

According to the traditional practice of the Nanyue Army, after occupying a new area, a large number of work teams went to the countryside, and then the policy of reducing rents and interest rates was implemented, and a unified and progressive tax system was promulgated for the collection of money and grain, followed by the appointment of village and town heads. After such a combination of punches, the county seat is still the magistrate appointed by the imperial court, but it is already difficult to get out of the city by decree!

However, Li Huayu is in Shandong, but he is keen to establish a large farm. A large number of uncultivated and abandoned land were purchased in one go, and then displaced people were recruited for cultivation and planted wheat, cotton, and other things. In the past few years, although the wheat has been piled up in the warehouses and the cotton has been shipped to Nanzhong one by one, there have been few grassroots officials and village and town government building.

The Confucian and Mencian families who were in the same Shandong Province as him, as well as the officials and gentry and clans in various places, gritted their teeth and endured the policies he put forward of reducing rent and interest, returning fire consumption to the public, and paying grain as an errand for the gentry.

"Lord, the eldest prince's way of doing this, I'm afraid that something will happen in the future!" After Li Peilin listened to his younger brother's speech, his brows were also tightly locked. (To be continued.) )