Chapter 314: Striking the Grass and Startling the Snake
Xue Guoguan was stunned for a moment, then laughed, stood up and walked a few steps in the hall before he said: "To tell the truth, Li Fengxiang is loyal and reliable, and he has been trembling and trembling in the past few years, and he has won the sacred heart. ”
Hearing Xue Guoguan's answer, Guo Heng's face was expressionless, but a trace of undisguised disappointment welled up on the face of Xue Guoguan's brother, but he heard Xue Guoguan say again: "It's not easy to transfer Li Fengxiang, but if you stuff someone in, it's as easy as a hand." ”
"Li Fengxiang doesn't go and stuff himself in, what can he do? Big brother don't want to perfunctory brothers. ”
Xue Guoguan didn't care about his brother's reproachful tone, but explained with a smile: "You, you, when can your quick temper change, it's not too late to listen to the person who wants to stuff it into your brother before making an assertion!" ”
"Who is it?" The two men spoke in unison.
"Hong Chengchou!"
It turned out to be him, Guo Heng's heart moved, and he immediately got up and praised: "Xue Xiang is so strategic, the villain admires it!" ”
Xue Guoguan waved his hand as if it was not worth mentioning, "As long as this person goes, this prime minister will ensure that your business routes are worry-free!" Speaking of this, he slapped his forehead again, "This is not enough, this minister will specially approve your writing, and the goods held in Juyong Pass can leave immediately......"
Guo Heng immediately showed a look of extreme surprise.
"Xue Xiang thought thoughtfully, and he was very ashamed to teach the villain!"
Xue Guoguan laughed heartily, "You are ashamed, you should have suffered from you, and you should have tried your best to deal with you, you don't have to be like this." ”
When Guo Heng heard this, he immediately slammed Xue Guoguan to the ground, and said with gratitude: "Xue Xiang is high-minded, the villain is flattered, if it is useful to the villain in the future, Xue Xiang only relies on a few words, and the villain will do his best!" ”
Xue Guoguan was no longer polite, and after receiving Guo Heng's worship, he was in a good mood for a while, thinking that he had received a lot of help from the people, and he was really happy in his heart.
Zhangjiakou Fort, a temporary camp for a caravan, the atmosphere is far different from that of the Han caravan. The makeshift Mongolian tent, which can accommodate more than a dozen people, is clearly engaged in a heated argument with voices that are sometimes hurried and sometimes undulating.
But if you listen closely, the people arguing in the tent are in the language of chatter, not Chinese. If there is an old deacon who has been running business outside the mouth all the year round, he will be surprised that the person who is arguing inside is actually speaking the language of the Manchu Dynasty. The fortress at the border of the Ming Dynasty is full of people, which is definitely not a normal phenomenon.
Akzia threw the pottery bowl in his hand on the ground and smashed it, and scolded again and again: "Fan Yongdou old fox, Ben will transport the silver, so he will turn his face and deny people, you go and call him, Ben will personally confront him!" ”
The other party was the deacon of the caravan, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Zhang Jing is angry, Zhang Jing is angry, this place is not as good as Shengjing, there are spies from the Ming Court everywhere, and the family owner's every move is attention-grabbing, if he comes here to expose Zhang Jing and affect the Great Khan, oh no, it affects the emperor's great plan, Zhang Jing and the head of the family are intoxicated!" ”
What the other party said is not unreasonable, Akzia just holds a grudge against Fan Yongdou, and the old fox will always have an attitude of staying out of the matter.
"Ming Ting recently intended to let Hong Chengchou return to the post of Governor of Xuanda, but the head of the contemptuous family just sent a villain to remind Zhang Jing that things have changed again, and the plan is better postponed!"
Akzia sneered, Fan Yongdou's fox tail finally leaked out, although this person swore to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty and the emperor, in fact, he was only loyal to himself in his bones, if it was really delayed, the emperor's plan would be stranded. After all, he is not the arrogant Akzia when he was in Gaoyang, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his chest, and his mouth was confronted with the Han deacon, and he was thinking about how to force Fan Yongdou to show up, so as to eliminate his half-hearted thoughts.
He knew that the deacon in front of him was only a messenger at best, and his anger would not help him in the situation, and the reason why he was so loud before was to test Fan Yongdou's attitude, and sure enough, the deacon's reaction had already missed Fan Yongdou's bottom line.
This guy is good at calculation, if it weren't for the fact that he still has use value, Akzia really wanted to kill Fan Yongdou and kill him on the spot, so as to show the evil anger in his heart.
"Ben will know, you go back, if there is any change, Ben will find Fan Yongdou again!"
The deacon said no more, bowed, and withdrew.
I just started the liver fire, and the old wound in my abdomen was faintly painful, this was a gunshot wound that fell when Prince Suirui attacked Gaoyang last year, and the lead bullet was in the stomach and couldn't be taken out, so I had to let him stay in it. In the past six months or so, he has not known how many medical saints he has found, and anyone who has seen his wound that is still bubbling with pus and blood from time to time shakes his head and said that he can only resign himself to fate.
If there is no danger of life, you can only endure the pain that occurs from time to time, and it is not that no one has done such things as cutting open the abdomen and taking out the projectile, but there is only one case that has survived so far, and those who are still half-dead have long lost their ability to take care of themselves.
Akzia did not want to live or die like that, and would rather endure this suffering than do something great. After the snow disaster of last year, coupled with the inexplicable blockade of the Ming Court, the supplies have been scarce to the extreme.
The time of spring ploughing is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and if the Qing Dynasty iron cavalry breaks through the southern invasion at this time, the supply of military food is the first problem. Their custom was that the army would eat in the plundered land, and now that the people of the court were running out of food, the gains outweighed the losses. If you want to break through the customs again, I am afraid that you will have to wait until the autumn at the earliest, and the people of the Southern Dynasty will make good food.
Huang Taiji's plan was to borrow strength from many parties to inflict heavy losses on the Ming Dynasty under the premise that the Qing Dynasty would send a minimum number of troops, so that the resistance to breaking through the grass valley next time would be greatly reduced.
The Mongols were vassals of the Qing Dynasty, and needless to say, the suzerains had no reason to refuse their warriors, and most of them had already gathered in the vast and vast sea, and they could come out of the nest as long as they received his secret orders.
The difficulty now is that Hong Chengchou is about to be reinstated as the governor of Xuanda, compared to Li Fengxiang, this person has some ability, if he comes, it will inevitably increase the difficulty of implementing the plan, and it will even be difficult to carry it out. Therefore, he had to act before the news of Hong Chengchou's reinstatement as governor of Xuanda was confirmed. However, this is not difficult at all, Akzia, the previous layout has long been completed, and the reason why they haven't started it yet, one is to wait for the grain that was seized by Zhang Sizhi's old horseman outside Juyong Pass, and the other is that Fan Yongdou left Xuanfu according to the plan to avoid suspicion!
As for the Ming Court's side, Li Fengxiang is a fool, although Li Xin's family has some skills and has sent people to interfere, but Xuanfu is not his territory after all, and it is not easy to meddle, and he can't see any reason why this plan is not successful.
The corners of Akzia's mouth hooked up a sneer, Fan Yongdou, Fan Yongdou, don't you want to be comfortable between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Court? This time, cut off the tail you use to swim.
So he immediately summoned his henchmen, whispered a few words to him, and then sent someone to deliver a letter to Fan Yongdou.
That night, a horse galloped north and went straight to Xuanfu.
Early the next morning, Fan Yongdou took the deacon's entourage to take the first step, seemingly in a hurry, and the silver cart disguised as grain set off later. As soon as Qiē was proceeding step by step, Akzia couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and joy when he saw Fan Yongdou walking into the pit he had dug for him step by step.
The merchants of the Zhili families who were stranded in the Xuanfu dredging relationship suddenly discovered a strange thing that made them very excited early in the morning, a salt and iron convoy with the banner of Guo Zishang entered the city. This made them very encouraged and excited, Fan Yongdou colluded with Li Fengxiang to monopolize the trade outside the Xuanfu, and other merchants wore out their mouths, and all kinds of lure tricks were used, but Li Fengxiang just didn't let go, and the Fan family still dominated the trade routes of Xuanfu.
Due to the passage of time, the cost of goods blocked in Juyong Pass has increased day by day, and the various families in Zhili have planned to submit to Fan Yongdou's offer and sell the goods to him. Although it is a loss, it is at least much better than losing money.
Just as their negotiations were coming to an end, the arrival of this caravan suddenly lifted people's spirits. The merchants, who were in a hurry to sell their goods, were not in a hurry, and they all sat down and quietly watched the situation develop.
The merchants in Xuanfu Town inquired about the origin of this caravan, and the people who could break through the Juyong Pass and ignore the military orders of the military affairs director of Xuanfu must not be simple characters.
As a result, they were secretly happy, these people were holding a customs clearance diploma specially approved by the cabinet, and with this convoy arrived, there was also the news that Hong Chengchou was about to return to the post of governor of Xuanda.
All of a sudden, the merchants of Xuanfu Town were almost boiling, once Hong Butang came to Xuanfu, Li Fengxiang, who had no handle below, could not cover the sky with one hand and do whatever he wanted, and the situation of Fan Yongdou's family dominance should also end naturally.
Once this kind of affection was brewing, it spread uncontrollably, and Gu Shishi, who was hidden in Xuanfu Town, was insightful about it, "Brother Huang has made a good trick!" The merchants of the city are like puppets drawn by you! At the same time, he turned around and smiled and asked, "Isn't it?" Brother Guo! ”
"It's called Huang Sheng in Shanxi, and it's Guo Heng in Zhili, Brother Gu don't call the wrong one again!"
Gu Shishi smiled, and then a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, "Hong Chengchou is here, Fan Yongdou and the black hand behind him will definitely be prepared, are we counting this as a startling snake?" ”
Huang Sheng got up and came to the window, pushed open the window, let the fresh air in, and said with a smile: "Not only will you not startle the snake, but you will also get twice the result with half the effort, the general's plan should be wonderful." ”
"How so?"
"Hong Chengchou is coming back, people with ulterior motives will inevitably mess up first, and it is also a wake-up call to Li Fengxiang, the director of military affairs, everyone's eyes will be attracted to him, so we can arrange calmly without knowing it!"