Han ride

Chapter 12 The situation in Liaodong

"Brother Ren Zhi was murdered by a traitor, the universe is boiling, and countless people with lofty ideals have written letters to the emperor. It's a pity, hey!" Qiu Hejia took Li Xin's hand, walked towards the inner hall, and sighed softly: "However, Nephew, don’t worry, you are in Jinzhou, you can live here with peace of mind, and study with peace of mind. Once the imperial court grants amnesty to the world, you can rely on your own knowledge, and you must be able to win a Jinshi. It is not in vain for your father to teach you. field."

"This? My lord? You and my late father?" Li Xin lowered his head and asked quickly.

"Haha, nephew, why didn't Ren Zhi tell you about the relationship between the old man and him?" Qiu Hejia was stunned, and glanced at Li Xin, with complicated expressions in his eyes.

"Returning to your lord, my young master got seriously ill on the way to Liaodong, and he has forgotten everything before." Gao Meng, who was waiting on the side, quickly explained.

"Oh!" Qiu Hejia nodded, and said, "I also met Ren Zhixian by chance, but I consider myself a confidant. Although I was a Jinshi before Wanli, your father was a Jinshi in Tianqi. It's just that the old man and you Your father is different, your father is an upright official and courageous, but this old man is not. So it is considered that this old man is a competent official to the Governor of Liaodong."

"The resurrection that the lord said?" Li Xin asked softly again.He didn't believe Qiu Hejia's words, or he didn't believe them all.In this world, he cannot and will not trust anyone easily.

"It seems that you have really forgotten all the things in the past." Qiu Hejia's eyes flashed with regret, and he said softly: "You must know about Fusheng. Fusheng's surname is Dong, and his first name is Jin. It is Suzhou Man, although he is a merchant, he has a heroic spirit. The letter from Resurrection said last time that he has made an appointment with your father and betrothed his daughter to you. Speaking of which, is he still your father-in-law Taishan?"

"This? Betrothed to me?" Li Xin asked in surprise. What he didn't understand was that he had an extra wife inexplicably, and he had never met her, and he didn't know her appearance. The important thing in his life was like this It's settled.

"Yes, Miss Dong's boudoir name is white. Although she is young, she is born with bright eyes and bright teeth. She is a full-fledged beauty! Nephew, the resurrection will not treat you badly." Qiu Hejia said with a smile .

"Dong Bai?" Li Xin asked curiously: "Your Excellency just said that Miss Dong's family is young, how old is she now?" He had to be careful. According to this body, she must be at least seventeen or eighteen years old. !And how old is Dong Bai?
"Probably ten years old!" Qiu Hejia thought for a while, and finally came up with a rough number.But Li Xin opened his mouth in shock.

"A ten-year-old girl?" Li Xin suddenly felt that he was a beast, but he didn't know that in ancient times, there were many people who got married at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Being able to call yourself an old man is just like that. In ancient times, people's lifespans were very short. How could Li Xin understand the reason for this?

"When His Majesty pardons the world, I will naturally discuss your marriage with Fusheng. I think Fusheng is also a person of integrity, and will not regret the marriage just because of letting him die. Your parents are no longer, so I will take care of you." Qiu Hejia said without even thinking about it: "Nephew can rest assured to study again."

"Well, my nephew just obey." Li Xin didn't expect that he was still thinking about how to get close to Qiu Hejia?Now it's all right, it's so smooth and so easy.My cheap father actually has such a relationship with Qiu Hejia.

"I heard that how many tiger and wolf generals are there under your command?" After waiting for a while, Qiu Hejia asked hesitantly.

"Uncle also knows?" Li's confidence moved.

"Don't underestimate this old man. Although this Jinzhou City is guarded by General Nazu, this old man is also the governor of Liaodong, and Liaodong is still the Liaodong of Ming Dynasty." Qiu Hejia said slightly dissatisfied.

Li Xin nodded. From Qiu Hejia's words, he already felt that Liaodong's civil and military relatives, this Qiu Hejia may have been extremely dissatisfied with Zu Dashou long ago.But it is a civil servant, and no one can use it.This time Li Xin came here, maybe it gave him a chance.On the one hand, Li Xin has an old relationship with him, but more importantly, Li Xin has someone in his hands.Otherwise, even if Li Xin was the son of an old friend, Qiu Hejia would not treat him so favorably.Thinking of this, the gratitude to Qiu Hejia became much less.

"Back to uncle, my nephew has several heroes under his command." However, Li Xin was still very respectful in his words, pointing at Gao Meng and said: "This is Gao Meng, the guard chosen by my father for my nephew. , has the courage that is undeserved, this is Yang Xiong, who is bold by nature, and can tear tigers and leopards apart, this is Jiang Yi who is good at bows and arrows, and is even better at running an army. No matter why Qiu Hejia treats Li Xin like this, but his purpose is the same.

"He really is a warrior of tigers and wolves." Qiu Hejia glanced at the three of them, his eyes shone with light, nodded, and said to the three of them, "The three strong men are heroic and brave men, and they are like guards in the yamen. It’s really a shame. The old man wants to rectify the government soldiers, but I don’t know if the three may lead the army for the old man to protect Jinzhou?”

"Don't you dare to serve your lord." The three looked at each other and said loudly without thinking.

"I don't know what nephew thinks?" Qiu Hejia seemed to think of Li Xinlai at this moment, turned around and asked with a smile.Little did he know that this appearance made Li Xinzhong extremely despised.The gratitude to Qiu Hejia faded even more.

"It's good for uncle to think highly of them. My nephew has nothing to say." Although Li Xinxin was extremely dissatisfied, he still said with a smile: "Although Gao Meng is my nephew's servant, since he is an official post, this Naturally, there is no need for a contract document, and my nephew will just ask someone to prepare a document later."

"This?" Qiu Hejia didn't expect Li Xin to be so straightforward, and there was a trace of remorse in his heart, his old face flushed slightly, as if he felt ashamed for plotting against Li Xin.Immediately he laughed and said: "The old man has already prepared a banquet for my nephew in the back hall to clean up the dust. The three strong men can take the old man's documents and go to Jinzhou City to recruit troops. Jiang Yi, you are the general manager, Yang Xiong, Gao Meng, you The two of you can be sentinel officers and belong to Jiang Yi's commander, and you can go to the government office to find Sun Er, a personal soldier, and let him arrange everything for you." Then he took out a document from his arms and handed it to Jiang Yi .

The three of Jiang Yi quickly glanced at Li Xin who was behind Qiu Hejia, but seeing Li Xin nod, he quickly took it over, cupped his hands at Qiu Hejia, and retreated.

"Okay, okay, nephew, let's go, let's go to the back house." Seeing that the matter had been settled, Qiu Hejia immediately showed a smile on his face, and pulled Li Xin towards the back house. Li Xin showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth when he saw this, This Qiu Hejia may really have a little friendship with Li Gu, but it is definitely not the kind of life-and-death friendship he said, otherwise, he would not even snatch it from his subordinates. Seeing that his paperwork has been prepared, it can be seen from this , his thoughts probably started to calculate when he entered Jinzhou City.The so-called establishment of Fubing is probably also unwilling to allow Zu Dashou to control Jinzhou City.As for the nephew of his own family, he naturally left it behind.From this point of view, the Qiu Hejia in front of him is also unreliable.Once something happens, I'm afraid even he will abandon it.

"Nephew! Jinzhou is a place of the frontier, and the conditions are difficult. I have prepared some thin wine. Don't blame my nephew!" The two entered the flower hall of the back house, and saw a mahogany table in the flower hall, surrounded by several people. The beautiful maid, eight hot dishes and eight cold dishes are placed on the mahogany table at the moment, among which there are two dishes of rare delicacies such as pheasant and sparrow tongue.There are also some seasonal fruits and so on.Li Xin, who was watching, shook his head again and again.At this moment, the country is facing a crisis. It is rumored that Emperor Chongzhen has no money. In order to raise military expenses, he borrowed money from his courtiers. There are delicacies from mountains and seas, which one is not gorgeous silk and satin.Li Xin could tell that the brocade silk worn by the maid beside Qiu Hejia was worth at least two taels of silver, and the banquet at this table was at least a few dozen taels or even a hundred taels.The 200 years of supporting scholars in the Ming Dynasty did not make the Ming Dynasty last forever. In the end, it could only fatten up these scholars, and suffer the people of the world. In the end, even the country was lost.

"Hey! The old man came to Liaodong, and he was ordered in the face of danger. There is no one around him. My nephew has the talents of generals by his side, but it is useless to keep them by my side. You don't need to give them to the old man. These warriors can only be used to charge forward. My nephew should feel at ease studying now. That's right." After the two sat down, a maid came forward to pour the wine.Only Qiu Hejia sighed and said: "I think this old man came to Liaodong, originally he wanted to guard the side for the emperor, but unfortunately, this is Liaodong!"

"Uncle, isn't this Liaodong also my land?" Li Xin said pretending not to understand.

"This is Jinzhou, and it is also Liaodong, but here is not what the court decides." Qiu Hejia sighed, "When a martial artist is a country, how can Liaodong not be chaotic. The ancestor Dashou relied on the military power in his hand, so he did not let the court order at all. In his hands, Zu Dashou's Zu Dale, Zu Dabi, sons Zu Zerun, Zu Zepu, Zu Zehong, etc. are his minions. In this Liaodong, only the elder Sun Chengzong can check and balance, and the rest of the civil and military officials, How could his ancestor's birthday be taken into account."

"Wouldn't it be great as long as someone checks and balances?" Li Xin said curiously.

"Although the boss can check and balance Zu Dashou, but more importantly, he also relies on Zu Dashou. If it weren't for Zu Dashou, why would Sun Jinglue plan to build Dalinghe City again?" Qiu Hejia said dissatisfied.

"Isn't it possible to advance our Daming Liaodong defense line by tens of miles?" Li Xin asked pretendingly curious, "Then one step at a time, and finally the city of Shenyang, wouldn't it be great?"

"Nephew Xian is joking. If this approach was good in the past, but it is different now. Not to mention whether Donglu will let you complete the construction of Dalinghe City, even according to this calculation, How much money would it take to cultivate all the way to Shenyang! Is there still so much money in the current state treasury? From the old man’s point of view, the ancestor Dashou did this to leave Jinzhou City and go to his Dalinghe City. There, there will be no factory guards, even if I want to restrain this person, but the other party is far away in Dalinghe City, how can I restrain him?" Qiu Hejia couldn't help but sighed deeply when he said this.

Li Xin also nodded on the side.Although this Qiu Hejia made Li Xin a little ashamed, but I have to say that this idea is still commendable.Dalinghe City is an inextricable knot between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty. Once the Ming Dynasty was built, the Later Jin Dynasty came to destroy it. In this land, it is unknown how many soldiers died here.

It is strange to say that this Dalinghe City not only did not help the Ming Dynasty gain an advantage in Liaodong, but made the Houjin stronger and stronger, while the Ming Dynasty was getting weaker and weaker, and the Dalinghe City that consumed all the energy of the Ming Dynasty In the end it was not built.The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty didn't know what they thought. Every time the Dalinghe City was built, the Houjin army would come to attack, but the Ming Dynasty never learned the lesson and still went to build the Dalinghe City. The cost is enough to train a powerful army, enough to put down the bandits in the Central Plains several times.It is enough for those disaster victims to have enough food. If any of the above points are achieved, the Ming Dynasty may not perish in a short time.What's even more funny is that the Ming Dynasty dominated the construction of Dalinghe City in the past, using money for space and time, constantly building cities, and constantly squeezing Houjin's living space, but now Houjin has become more and more Getting stronger and stronger, this kind of strategy is outdated, but in the Ming Dynasty, people still firmly believe that this is the only way to eliminate Houjin. I have to say that it is already a ridiculous thing in this era.It seems that Huang Taiji allowed you to continue to build cities in the Ming Dynasty and squeeze their living space.It can be said that the military failure of the Ming Dynasty was not only a failure in battle, but also a failure in strategy.

There may be people who can see this situation, but what can be done? At the end of the Ming Dynasty, internal and external troubles have reached the most critical time, but what can be done. , it made the Ming Dynasty worse. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty at this time is already hopeless.

"Uncle is right." Li Xin nodded, he wouldn't care about these things, the first thing he had to do was how to save his life in these war-torn years.Immediately he said again: "Then what are you going to do, uncle?"

"Keep Jinzhou." Without even thinking about it, Qiu Hejia said, "To build Dalinghe City, Zu Dashou will definitely lead his army there. Jinzhou is empty and needs an army to guard this place. Hey, I can only do my best."

(End of this chapter)