"Uncle! You've come just in time, give me an idea! ”

Li Peiting, who had been ordered by Li Shouhan to go north to Beijing to prepare contingency measures, had just arrived in Jinan, and he didn't care to look at the red leaves on the mountains and Yanyin Mountain around Jinan, and he was taken into the former Dewang Mansion and the current Governor's Yamen.

In his own signing room, Li Huayu pointed to a pile of official documents on the table with a sad face, "There is the Ministry of War, there is a decree sent by the imperial cabinet, and there is a special decree written by Chongzhen Lao'er, as for the distress document of Shanxi Governor Cai Maode, needless to say." They all wanted me to send troops quickly and flank Li Zicheng's army with elite soldiers to relieve the danger in Shanxi. ”

Li Peiting picked up the special decree written by Emperor Chongzhen himself with two fingers, the look on his face was quite intriguing, but the moment he turned his head, a trace of murder appeared in his eyes, and he silently recited in his heart: "Your Zhu family also has today!" ”

"Huayu, what are you planning in your own heart? Speak up and listen. If the uncle can help, he must know everything and say everything. ”

"Uncle, please take a seat."

While arranging for Li Peiting to sit down, Li Huayu ordered someone to send refreshments and fruits.

"Let these rites be dispensed with! You tell me about the military situation everywhere. ”

"It's okay, please ask my uncle to know the details." Li Huayu instructed people to fetch the palace newspapers and emergency documents from all over the place, and at the same time quietly signaled Liang Kuan to withdraw the soldiers waiting outside the door to the outside of the courtyard, leaving Liang Kuan to stay in the courtyard.

"Uncle, you are from Guangzhou, what does your father mean?" Li Huayu closed the doors and windows, lowered his voice and asked the uncle.

"What do you mean? It is not explicitly stated, but the matter of Southeast Mutual Insurance is to be implemented to the end. Other than that. My errand here also has a clear meaning. ”

When Li Peiting said he, he was referring to the Longsheng system he had managed before. Before setting off for Guangzhou, Li Shouhan had already made his attitude clear, and before the war in the Central Plains became clear, he would temporarily suspend the bulk commodity trade with the Liaodong rebels. The so-called commodities in this year are not oil or iron ore, but real grain!

The export of grain to Liaodong was eliminated. It is tantamount to restraining the throats of the anti-thieves in Liaodong.

"Can't export grain and rice to Liaodong?" Li Peiting relayed Li Shouhan's instructions, which really scared Li Huayu. "Father, this is, this is going to be ......!"

He took out a letter from the tightly closed wooden cabinet beside him, "Uncle, please see, this is a letter from my nephew from Liaodong, in which he begs me to sell him half a year's ration for 200,000 people. He could pay for his grain with horses, horses, oxen, and Mongolian herdsmen. ”

"Half a year's ration for 200,000 people?" Even Li Peiting has always been bold and reckless, but Wu Sangui's request for the purchase of half a year's rations for 200,000 people has also been taken a big beat. "What does he want so much grain for? Could it be that you plan to resell it for profit? It is reported. He is cultivating in Liaodong, and this year's harvest is also good, at least he has a year's worth of grain and forage for his Liaodong military horses. ”

"Uncle, you only know one thing but you don't know the other, and now the court has reached the point where it has disregarded its head and disregarded its head and demolished the east wall to make up the west wall." Li Huayu's face showed a look of contempt.

"Tear down the east wall and make up the west wall? Could it be? ”

"Exactly! The imperial court has already issued an order, officially ordered to abandon Ningyuan, and ordered Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, and Wu Sangui, the general of Ningyuan, to lead the troops into the Weijing Division. At the same time, he transferred the general soldier of Jizhen Town, Tang Tong and other subordinates. ”

In this way, Wu Sangui wanted to reconsider the issue of the supply of military rations for his soldiers and horses. Everyone knows, by the court. It's tantamount to seeking skin with a tiger. You have to figure it out yourself.

"My nephew replied to the court on the grounds that he was alone and time-consuming and laborious to pack up his people and settle his family, and at the same time wrote to me and asked me to buy grain and grass. Uncle. You see, how do I do that. ”

"Write back to him. As long as he guards Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, don't say half a year's food, I'll give him a year! ”

Li Peiting's words. Slow and logical, but thunderous.

"Uncle, this is not a joke!" Even Li Huayu is now a feudal official who is in charge of the life and death of millions of people, but he is also a little frightened by Li Peiting's decision.

"Huayu, uncle asks you, you have to tell the truth."

"Uncle, please tell me." Although Li Huayu and Li Peiting's brothers are not related by blood, they respect these two uncles very much. When I was young, it was because of my feelings, and when I was a little older, I admired their talents and abilities, and after I presided over the military and political affairs of one party, I thought about more things, and I began to value the strength behind them.

"I'll just ask you, do you plan to let Chongzhen, the emperor, continue to do it?"

Li Peiting's words were calm, but murderous.

Such a straightforward and straight to the point question, Rao is Li Huayu has also thought about it countless times when he dreamed back at midnight, but he has never talked about it with others, but the uncle in front of him is so straightforward.

"Don't you want your lord to be the lord of the world?" Li Peiting's tone became like the snake in the Garden of Eden that tempted Adam and Eve to eat apples, and more like the tone of a telecom fraudster on an island who pretended to be a public prosecutor.

"This is natural." Li Huayu faced Li Peiting's question, and could only answer vaguely.

"Good! On our side, we have put an end to the grain trade with the Liao thieves, so these Liao thieves will either starve to death or enter the customs to plunder. In this way, Wu Sangui had a reasonable and legal excuse not to leave the front line of Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan. Do you think that relying on Tang Tong's gang, King Qin can have a bird? I want to tear down the east wall, but I only have two rotten bricks in my hands, and there are more bad things than success? Don't even think about it! ”

Hearing Li Peiting's judgment, Li Huayu didn't speak, just took out a secret report from the Beijing Mansion from the briefcase on the wall and handed it to Li Peiting, "Uncle, you see, the temper of rotten bricks is not small. ”

The rotten bricks in the mouths of Li Huayu and Li Peiting are Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town. He led 8,000 soldiers from his Jizhen Zheng Barracks to Beijing and camped outside Qihuamen (that is, Chaoyang Gate). When His Majesty saw him, Zhu Youzhen gave a banquet and was very comforted. Tang Tong also said, "I am willing to sacrifice my body to repay the service, so that the culprit will be annihilated quickly." Zhu Youzhen was very happy. Tang Tong himself was rewarded with 40 silver dollars, and the soldiers were 5 yuan each. In order to strengthen his control over this army, he sent the eunuch Du Zhizhi to serve as the supervisor of the army. This practice infuriated Tang Tong. He threw the things given by the court to the ground, and said with a grumbling stomach: "The emperor is a teacher, and I am uncle; and the internal ruler is against me, and I am not a slave. Then he excused himself by saying that the number of soldiers he led was "outnumbered by thieves." Invincible, especially invincible. When you go to Juyongguan, set up a risk. "After going up, don't wait for the court, pull up the team and leave.

"Why, our emperor actually rewarded a general soldier with forty silver dollars? Five cents of silver per soldier? How to divide it? Chisel a silver dollar in half? Li Peiting's tone was full of mockery.

"Now the imperial court is short of salaries, and in order to raise salaries, there are constant farces in the capital." Because of the proximity to the Beijing Division, Li Huayu is interested in the movements in the capital. In particular, some details of the changes were much clearer than Li Shouhan, who was far away in Guangzhou.

"Oh? What's the new drama going on? Li Peiting asked very viciously.

Li Huayu looked contemptuous, "Uncle, the national abbot Zhou Kui, are you familiar with this person?" ”

"Hey, hey! Is there any reason to be unfamiliar? When this man saw silver, he was like a fly seeing blood. When I was in Beijing, whenever I wanted to see him, I only needed to put a name in his house. No matter what time it is, he must be in a hurry to arrive. I'm afraid that his emperor's son-in-law is not as good as me. ”

"Uncle is really arrogant. The new drama I'm talking about is what this person is in. ”

Li Huayu had a mocking smile on his face. told Li Peiting about the beginning and end of this farce. But it turned out that Chongzhen made a donation in mid-February, instructing his relatives, eunuchs and hundreds of officials to repay the silver money, and to pay 30,000 silver dollars as the best.

However, in the eyes of the hundred officials and nobles, the emperor has money in his own treasury. But let us pay for it? But he completely forgot that the tens of thousands of new troops in the capital Nanyuan were training. Seeing that the dignitaries and nobles looked at each other without moving. Zhu Youzhen sent Xu Gao, an internal official, to secretly inform Zhou Hou's father, Jiading Bo Zhoukui, and asked him to pay 120,000 silver dollars to set an example for other ministers. Zhou Kui refused to agree, saying that "Lao Chen An has a lot of gold?" "I insisted that I could only donate 10,000 silver dollars. Zhu Youzhen thinks it's too little. Ask him to come up with at least 20,000 silver dollars. Zhou Kui sent someone to ask his daughter Zhou Hou for help, and Zhou Hou secretly sent someone to send five thousand silver dollars. Zhou Kui not only did not add a single copper for himself, but deducted 2,000 silver dollars from the silver dollars sent by Zhou Hou, and only used 3,000 silver dollars to cope with the errand.

"Not only did he order people to donate money, he was worried that the military towns everywhere would not listen to the greetings, and sent a group of cronies and eunuchs to various places to take charge of supervision and prevention, and sent Lu Weining to supervise and prevent the Tong, De, Lin, Jin, Fangzhenghua directors Zhending and Baoding, Du Xun director Xuanfu, Wang Mengbi to monitor Shunde and Zhangde, Yan Siyin to monitor Daimyo, Guangping, Niu Wenbing to monitor Wei Hui and Huaiqing, Yang Maolin to monitor Datong, Li Zongxian to monitor Jizhen Zhongxi, Zhang **** to monitor Jizhen Xixi, and so on." When Li Huayu said this, a trace of murder appeared in the corner of his eyes, "Forget about other places." Wang Mengbi and Niu Wenbing, two eggless eunuchs, dare to come to our Zhangde Mansion, Weihui Mansion, and Huaiqing Mansion? ”

"Humph! Back then, as soon as this kid ascended the throne, he killed Wei Zhongxian, and for a while, the group of dog thieves in Donglin sang praises one after another. But what about now? Didn't he still have to rely on eunuchs? Li Peiting sarcastically said that Zhu Youzhen knew that he had to do it today, why bother in the first place. So, what did you do with these two eunuchs? He raised his right hand very elegantly, slashed downward, and used this action to ask Li Huayu if he had dealt with the two eunuchs in this way.

"Not really. Where do these two eunuchs have the courage of Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen? Can you fight the Tartars with us? Honestly, if any of them come, uncle, I will go out thirty miles of camp to meet them. These two guys, huh! They don't have that face! ”

The two eunuchs of the prison army Wang and Niu also knew in their hearts that they were afraid that they would not be able to get any benefits from Li Huayu, so under the guidance of Wu Liangfu, they claimed that they were sick and could not go, and the matter ended without a problem. As for the move of sending eunuchs to the rest of the towns, it was also because the Ministry of War believed that such a multi-disciplinary government could not unify the powers, and would only increase local difficulties, and requested that the order be withdrawn.

"Uncle, now in Shanghai, Songjiang, and Hangzhou, is the price of land rising wildly? The proportion of silver ingots, ingots, and official treasures exchanging silver dollars everywhere is also declining, right? Speaking of this, Li Huayu smiled with a childlike naughty smile.

"But so. Nowadays, the housing prices in the Shanghai business district are rising head-on, and they are all people from the capital, as long as there are ready-made Shikumen houses, no matter how much, they will buy them. The construction factories everywhere were very busy, and the carpenters and masons were paid once a day in the morning and once in the evening. It's not good. Tomorrow, people will not be allowed to come to your construction site. ”

"Uncle, do you know why?"

"Something to do with the situation in Shanxi?"

"Not bad. After Liu Zongmin crossed the river, the ministers and workers in the capital saw that the situation was not good, so they began to flee one after another. Our grain ship is at the Nigu Wharf in Tianjin. Transporting a refugee starts at fifty silver dollars, and one piece of cage luggage is counted as one person, and the food and drink on board are counted separately. ”

Many of the grain ships are under the jurisdiction of Li Peiting's Long Shengxing, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but feel quite strange and a little embarrassed by the robbery behavior of his subordinates.

"Uncle, it's nothing! Take our sea boat to the south, once you get on the sea boat, you will be safe, if they take the canal boat. Not only did it cost more, the delay was longer, and the road was not so peaceful. ”

As for Emperor Chongzhen's special purpose, he urged Li Huayu to quickly send troops to Jinggi and defend the Beijing division. In this regard, Li Huayu has policies and countermeasures. Didn't you ask me to send troops? Easy to do!

In his capacity as the acting governor of Shandong, Denglai, and other military affairs, Li Huayu ordered Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, who was under his control, to lead his troops out of Shandong and into Beizhili, and go north along the route of Handan, Xingtai, Zhending, and Baoding.

"Liu Zeqing was beaten by Abataina and lost all his soldiers and horses. In recent years, scattered soldiers have been collected on the border between Zhili and Shandong to exterminate swordsmen and horse thieves. Gradually, there were thousands more. He ate my grain from Shandong, received my salary from Shandong, and if he didn't listen to the greeting at this time, I immediately killed him! Even if he has ten thousand unwillingness in his heart, he has to take the order and set off! ”

Emperor Chongzhen's will is like this, as for the various urgent documents and letters sent by Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, to Li Huayu. It is not taken seriously by Li Huayu.

After Li Zicheng's army crossed the Yellow River, the offensive momentum of the Dashun army was divided into two routes, one was led by Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, and after occupying Pingyang, they went north to attack Taiyuan, preparing to capture Taiyuan. Along the Ningwu, Datong, Yanghe line to the north, it is necessary to insert the banner of Dashun all the way to the mouth of the Great Wall in the land of nine sides, and cut off the right arm of Shanxi, Beijing. The other way is the left battalion of the Dashun army led by Cihou Liu Fangliang, after crossing the Yellow River into Shanxi, marching along the north bank of the Yellow River, occupying Huaiqing Mansion in Henan (now Qinyang area), and then occupying Lu'an Mansion in Shanxi (now Changzhi area), if the Nanyue Army in this area has no action, then it will go east to collect Henan Weihui, Zhangde Erfu (now Ji County, Anyang area), Beizhi Daimyofu, divide troops to collect nearby prefectures and counties, and then pass through Handan, Xingtai, and Hejian to the east, cut off the canal, so that the grain and army in the south can not go north to reinforce, In this way, the main force of the Dashun army can calmly capture the two towns of Shanxi and Datong.

"Now, I have dispatched 3,000 horses, four garrison brigades of infantry, and 30 artillery pieces to confront Liu Fangliang in the area of Weihui and Huaiqing. He does not go east, I do not go west. That's how everyone consumes. However, I don't care if he goes north. ”

"When I first entered the city, I heard rumors that Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin had arrived at the foot of Taiyuan City. Don't send an army led by generals Ren Jirong and Ma Chongxi to the east out of Guguan and come in the direction of Yangquan and Jingcheng. Is there such a thing? ”

"Yes is yes. Hengzhi is under the jurisdiction of Li Jiantai, a bachelor who went on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and it has nothing to do with me. I also sent a document to Master Cai Maode, telling him that Shanxi is his jurisdiction. Without the emperor's will, my Shandong soldiers and horses would not dare to cross the border without authorization to suppress thieves. Moreover, now that our department has received the will of King Qin, the division of the north, the army has been dispatched, and the direction of the march has been temporarily adjusted, lest the army be exhausted. ”

Seeing that Li Peiting was a little confused about these many place names, Li Huayu took the map and outlined the mutual situation of the Ming army and the Shun army for Li Peiting on the map. This marked map couldn't help but make the uncle and nephew both startled.

Faintly, a huge encirclement has appeared on the land of North China. From Henan in the east to the Yellow River in the west, the two roads of the Dashun army are like two open arms, holding the entire land of North China in their arms.

"If I am Li Zicheng, after taking Datong, I will inevitably enter Xuanfu and Juyongguan in the east, and at the same time make Liu Fangliang and others appear under Baoding City at all costs, completely cutting off the land connection between Beijing and the outside world. Then, Shun Shun took the city of Beijing, and at that time, I was afraid that the four conveniences would be a definite situation. ”

Listening to Li Peiting's prospect analysis for himself, Li Huayu's eyebrows suddenly jumped up a few times, although he didn't speak, his expression already said everything.

"Uncle, are you here to persuade me to send troops to the capital quickly?" Li Huayu has also cultivated in the past few years, and he is not confused when he encounters trouble, and his joy and anger are invisible. He took advantage of drinking tea, stabilized his mind a little, and slowly asked Li Peiting's purpose.

"Hurry? Why hurry? Do you know why the Lord sent me north? Arrange a contingency plan! In the final analysis, it was the one who took Zhu Youzhen's family to flee! If I'm in a hurry, why did I come to your Jinan Mansion to talk to you about this? Li Peiting's face looked extremely hideous.

"If his old Zhu's Beijing city is not lost, how can Kyushu be separated from Li Jizhu?"

"But, how should my father explain it? If after Cai Maode lost Taiyuan, my father ordered me to rush to the rescue, how should I deal with it? ”

"How to deal with it? Don't you see how I do it today? Hua Yu, Uncle taught you the six-character mantra, which you can use to deal with the orders of the court and the lord urging you to send troops. ”

"Please teach me uncle."

"Walk slowly, wait and see!" (To be continued.) )

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