Hundreds of households in Liaodong, covering the light with one hand

Chapter 33

Guangning City, Louxie Bieyuan.

This house was originally owned by Sun Degong. Since the Battle of Siping, Sun Degong was beheaded by Wang Qi as a traitor. Now, Wang Qi is temporarily living in this villa.

These days, taking advantage of the personnel gap in the army and the adjustment of general officers after the war, Wang Qi has integrated all the battalions in Guangning City. There are more than 36,400 people in Guangning City. Wang Qi controls half of them, and other generals, such as Luo Yiguan, Liu Qu and others, control the remaining half.

As a newly promoted Liaodong nobleman, he has arranged twenty-seven generals of his family into each of his subordinate battalions, three of which are on guard. Qin Erbao is on guard in Wang Qi's guard camp, ranking first in the garrison, and the other two are on guard. There are seven thousand chiefs, all of whom are quick-minded and courageous in taking on tasks. The rest are all officials of hundreds of households, up and down, more than 17,000 people, all under Wang Qi's name.

Now even if Xiong Tingbi, the Liaodong manager, comes in person and wants to mobilize Wang Qi's troops in Guangning City, he must first ask this Baihu official.

Back hall, study room.

"Sir, there's a letter from the capital." Qin Erbao knocked on the door and entered the house, handing a letter to Wang Qi: "The master sent someone to deliver it urgently. You need to sign it personally."

After receiving the letter, Wang Qi skillfully opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, and read it carefully.

Ever since Wang Huazhen entered the customs and went to Beijing, no news has been sent back. Although Wang Huazhen had told Wang Qi that nothing major would happen to him before leaving, as a nephew, he was still a little worried about his safety.

After all, the capital city is full of chaos, and the court is turbulent. If you don't pay attention, you will be plunged into an abyss.
  After reading the letter for a long time, Wang Qi's expression became a little strange.

"Sir, what's wrong with you?" Qin Erbao stood three steps away and wanted to know Wang Huazhen's situation. He was even more curious when he saw Wang Qi's strange expression.

"My uncle has nothing to do. He has been transferred from the governorship of Liaodong to the governor's office of Shandong." After saying this, Wang Qi unfolded the letter and spread it on the table, with a solemn expression on his face.

"It's fine, sir. Erbao, please retire!" Qin Erbao was the best at tea talk and knew that Wang Huazhen's letter must have said more than just this. Wang Qi now needed to think about something, so he resigned knowingly. .

With a creak, the study door was closed.

"The Liaodong Dusi commanded the Qianshi, controlled Guangning, and leveled all the defense posts; the Jinyiwei commanded the Qianshi and had the power to do things conveniently." Wang Qi's fingers tapped on the table in a very rhythmic manner.

Uncle Wang Huazhen's letter already informed the court of the final rewards and arrangements for Wang Qi and others, and also analyzed the pros and cons.

Looking at these official positions and rewards, Wang Qiye understood that behind this was the most balanced result of the imperial court after a series of internal party struggles. But there was one thing that surprised him and gave his uncle Wang Huazhen a headache.

That was Zhu Youxiao's decree to marry Wang Qi and marry Princess Ningde three years later!
  Wang Qi had no interest in Princess Ningde, whom he had never met before, but was deeply surprised by Zhu Youxiao's arrangement.

Because this arrangement can only show that the power and voice of the Donglin Party in the court have posed an extremely serious threat to the emperor Zhu Youxiao, making him feel powerless. He only supported the Chief of Ceremonies to fight against him. It is not enough. Cultivating relatives and having military power can give them some peace of mind.

"Ha," Wang Qi chuckled: "Zhu Youxiao, who was forced by the Donglin Party, wants to rely on his relatives to balance the court. I wonder what the group of Confucian saints thought when they heard the news?" reached out and took away the candle on the table. He held out the letter paper on the table under the fire lampshade. Looking at the letter paper that gradually turned into ashes, Wang Qi let go and threw the paper into the copper incense box.

At this moment, the maid's greeting came from outside the study door: "Sir, dinner is ready. Do you want to bring it here or go to the hall?"

Since living in Bieyuan, Wang Qi sent away all the pretty maids that Sun Degong used to enjoy here, and found a few more rough maids to clean the house and cook on weekdays.

Wang Qi still maintains the habit of his previous life, eating three meals a day, a good breakfast, a full lunch, and a light dinner.

But in the past few days, Wang Qi often stayed up late into the night studying Hou Jin's battles in Sarhu and Liaoyang, so his dinner became more sumptuous.

"Bring it here, I'll eat it in the study." When he first started his business in his previous life, Wang Qi worked all night long. In this life, he still can't escape...

Bang bang bang, the sound of the clock is heard intermittently from a distance...

The time soon came to midnight. Wang Qi put down the warm meat porridge in his hand and picked up the "Jurchens' Notes on Liaodong and Jianzhou Jurchen" again.

This was done by Li Shiying, a scholar from Shenyang. It recorded in detail the land expansion process of Jianzhou Jurchens from the time when they raised troops in Hetuala, to the Battle of Sarhu, and until they occupied a large territory east of the Liao River in the Ming Dynasty. It also analyzed its system of all-people troops and the use of troops. The characteristics can be said to be extremely detailed.

This book was written two years ago. At that time, Shenyang fell. Li Shiying did not want to surrender as a slave, so he faced south and died. Only the handwritten copy survives.

"Horse trade... marriage with Mongolia," the candlelight dimmed. Wang Qi narrowed his eyes slightly. He saw the records in the book about the horse trade between Jianzhou and Mongolia. At that time, after Nurhachi occupied Fushun Kaiyuan and other places, although people and land were lost, A large number of supplies were replenished, but almost half of the logistics supplies, especially the war horses, were lost, and the cavalry was an important force in the plundering of the state-building war. Therefore, at that time, Nurhaci sent Huang Taiji to Mongolia to contact the Horqin tribe, hoping to marry a Mongolian aristocratic women to promote cooperation, but at that time Haogu was afraid of the Ming court's reaction and refused the marriage. He only secretly started trading horses and weapons.

Seeing this, a pretty figure suddenly appeared in Wang Qi's mind.

Hailanzhu.

Wang Qi's lips moved, and a smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth: Isn't that the "Chen Concubine" that Huang Taiji finally married in his previous life?
  Although his uncle Wang Huazhen's tripartite cooperation plan to jointly establish the state was proven to be a failure in Wang Qi's previous life, Wang Qi believed that the important reason for the failure was that the cooperation between Zi Mingting and Mongolia only existed at the level of the Liaodong governor, or in other words It's Liaodong and Hexi, and it can't put enough pressure on Mengji to make him fall to his side...

In the previous life, the most important factor for Jianzhou to be able to marry Mongolia was because Huang Taiji had strong soldiers and horses, which put too much pressure on the Mongolian royal court.

So now, can this woman named Hai Lanzhu become a pawn in her strategy to conquer Mongolia?

"Why not give it a try as a casual chess move?" Wang Qi closed the book on the table with deep eyes.

Wang Qi doesn't stick to trivial matters when it comes to big things, but he doesn't have a kindhearted heart.

(End of this chapter)