Iron blood Suiming

If these words were said by the living Emperor Chongzhen, he would be scared out of pissing on state affairs.But for Emperor Hongguang, Lian Guo did not even frown, and said calmly: "I just discuss the matter, and I have no intention of threatening the emperor."

It's not good for Sun Chuanting to see that the situation is too bad, if it is spread that they deceive the emperor with their ministers, then their reputation in Qingliu will be ruined.Sun Chuanting said: "Don't be angry, your majesty. Training governors is worried about state affairs, so you don't choose what to say. Dare to ask the emperor, how much money can you allocate?"

Seeing that Sun Chuanting had become a peacemaker, Emperor Hongguang gave Lian Guoshi a few hard glances.He could only stare and ask him to punish Lian Guoshi, he didn't have the guts, Lian Guoshi had [-] elite soldiers in his hands.

Emperor Hongguang hesitated for a moment, and said: "I only have 100 million taels here, that's all, you can figure it out." After speaking, he was afraid that the seven governors would force him again, so he said quickly: "That's it, I will dial 100 taels tomorrow. In case you arrive at the Ministry of Households, you can pick it up by yourself, and leave the court." He called out and wanted to leave, the harem has recruited a few new concubines and he hasn't started yet, so this time he just went to have fun.

The seven governors didn't expect that Emperor Hongguang would come here as a scoundrel, and before they could salute, Emperor Hongguang disappeared, Lu Xiangsheng sighed, and said: "Let's squeeze a million taels, and it will be enough. "

Yuan Mo was furious and said, "No way, 100 million taels, 50 people share, one talent is two taels, not even enough for the start-up fee, how can we make the soldiers work for us? The emperor won't give it, let's find a salt merchant."

Yuan Mo's words awakened the seven governors. That's right, if the emperor doesn't give it, who else can he look for if he doesn't ask the salt merchant?In the land of Huainan in the south of the Yangtze River, the salt merchants are the most wealthy in the world, and everyone in the world knows it.A mere 400 million taels.Even a small salt merchant can afford this amount of money.

Just when the seven governors were about to scrape money from the salt merchant, Li Jianguo brought Wei Chuping and a guard, and the three of them had already entered Nanjing City.Wei Chuping looked at the ten-foot-high city wall of Taiping Gate, frowned and said to Li Kaiguo, "Master Li, the city wall here is so thick, if we attack from this gate, I'm afraid..."

Li Jianguo was dressed in Confucian clothing, but he had a burly figure. He didn't look like a scholar, but a wealthy businessman.Li Kaiguo shook his head and said, "This Taiping Gate is the only one without a moat. If the Han army wants to attack the city, they can only choose this section."

Wei Chuping felt a little ashamed. He only thought of the height of the city, but he didn't think that the walls of other places would not be lower than Taiping Gate.And there are waterways to protect each other, if you want to attack the city.You can only fill the waterway first.Coming out of the Taiping Gate is the Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Justice, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple Prison, all located in Guanchengfang.Usually few people go.However, pedestrians and merchants who lived nearby still entered and exited through this, so Li Kaiguo, Wei Chuping, and the guards took the guide and entered Nanjing without any suspicion from the Ming army.

When passing through the city gate, Li Jianguo inspected it carefully, preparing for the attack on the city in the near future.He came to Nanjing with only two people, obviously to check the terrain of Nanjing himself.Nanjing gathered more than [-] troops.It is almost the last main force of the Ming army. As long as this Ming army is defeated, the Ming army will no longer have a decent resistance.

After turning a few streets, you will see the palace built by Zhu Yuanzhang.I saw that it is similar to the North Forbidden City, but the scale is much smaller.Li Kaiguo has no interest in the imperial palace at all, and said with a smile: "I am not here just to investigate the city defenses. The most important thing is that I want to lure all the forces of the Ming army to Nanjing City, and then defeat them with one blow. Cross the river." At that time, you also saw how dangerous the great river is. If there were no boats, many people would have to die if they wanted to cross the river under the defense of the Ming army. My Han army is all elite, how could they be willing to be hurt?"

What he said was the truth. With his current supernatural ability, as long as he came to the north bank of the river, he could see all the city defenses in Nanjing and the movements of the Ming army. It was nothing more than wasting more energy on the Han army.The only reason why he left the army and came to Nanjing alone was to realize a plan.

Wei Chuping wondered: "Your Majesty, the Ming army has gathered 90 troops in Nanjing, which is almost the full strength. Where are the Ming troops?"

Li Jianguo smiled slightly, and said: "I'm afraid you have forgotten, there is no land, but there are seas." Wei Chuping immediately understood, and whispered: "Is it Zheng Zhilong's navy?"

Li Jianguo said calmly, "Exactly. According to the information obtained by Ma Ying, it is said that Ma Shiying is facing our army this time. It is very likely that the seventh governor will follow behind to take advantage of it. I have thought about it again and again, I am afraid that this matter may not be true It's groundless. Although Ma Shiying is a local snake in the south of the Yangtze River, no matter which one of the Seven Governors is a raptor, he can't beat seven raptors with a local snake, so he should be calculated."

Li Jianguo didn't know that when he entered Nanjing, the seventh governor had just confessed his long-planned strategy for the first time in front of Emperor Hongguang.If he knew this, he would be even more impressed with Ma Ying's ability to detect intelligence.Even Emperor Hongguang knew about it a few days later than him. It is conceivable how powerful Ma Ying is after taking over the intelligence network of Yuandongchang and Jinyiwei.

Wei Chuping nodded and said: "What the emperor said is that although Zheng Zhilong respects Zhu Changxun as emperor on the surface, he must neither listen to the tune nor listen to the announcement. How can we force him to bring the fleet to Nanjing? "

Li Jianguo smiled and said: "Zheng Zhilong has a grudge against us, and if he gets some wealth and power that he has to be tempted, I'm not afraid that he won't come. It's just that Zhu Changxun's cooperation is too difficult, so I come here in person. .”

Hearing this, Wei Chuping couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, is this something that the Emperor should do in person? Just leave it to the ministers."

Li Jianguo sneered and gave him a sideways look, and said, "If you are really useful, should I worry about it?"

Wei Chuping was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "It's useless for me to wait, please punish the emperor." Li Kaiguo hummed and said: "If you enter the city, you don't need to call the emperor, so you don't have to say yes I will call you Lord Li. From now on, don't ask or talk too much, just look and think more with your eyes."

Wei Chuping broke out in a cold sweat, but he knew all too well that as long as Li Jianguo became murderous, no matter how long he followed him, his head would not be prevented from falling.Compared with the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Jianguo's hands will only be more ruthless.This time, he knew that the sentence just now had made Li Jianguo unhappy. If it were someone else, he would have been sentenced to the eighteenth floor of hell by the Lord Hades in the underworld at this time.

Wei Chuping answered 'yes' in a low voice, and dared not speak any more.Li Jianguo turned around and stared to the west.He smiled and said: "Go and call for two sedan chairs, let's go to Milou for dinner." The guard answered yes, and immediately went to call for two sedan chairs.

Although Wei Chuping wondered how the emperor knew that there was a restaurant called Milou in Nanjing City, but he was very curious just before reprimanding him, so he didn't dare to ask again, he knew very well that if he upset Li Jianguo again, He must die.

The name Milou is very meaningful.But in fact, it is just a brothel on the bank of the Qinhuai River.The sedan chair walked for a long time, and finally came to a courtyard originally built by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, which is now called Meilou—also known as Milou.In the language of the people at that time, the "Milou" has deep twists and turns, and the attics are scattered.The Xuan curtain hides and connects with each other.Such as fairy tour' so it is called Milou.

But because there lives a stunning woman who can overwhelm the country and the city.So some people call Milou the Meilou.It was already noon when we came to Milou.Brothel is of course not a good place to eat, most of the people who come here are fascinated by sex, not food.

But Milou's food and wine are really good, worthy of its great reputation.Use cars like running water and horses like dragons to describe the prosperity in front of Milou.Obviously it was very appropriate. When Li Jianguo led Wei Chuping into the lost building, the lost building was already overcrowded. Almost all the noble sons and famous scholars in Nanjing gathered here.

Mr. Gui at the door took a look at Li Jianguo's attire.With his decades of eyesight, he could see who is the master at a glance, and immediately stepped forward with a smile, saluted Li Jianguo, and said, "Master, is this your first time here? Do you have a lover? If not, The younger ones can help you recommend some gentle and beautiful sisters."

Li Jianguo smiled slightly. It was already the beginning of August. He was holding a folding fan in his hand. It was a fine folding fan painted by Tang Yin after his fifties. .Li Jianguo opened and closed the folding fan, Gui Gong's eyes were very vicious, he immediately concluded that this folding fan alone might be worth hundreds of gold, and Li Jianguo took out a silver ingot weighing five taels and threw it at him. In his hand, Gui Gong smiled more like a dog's tail flower, wishing to grow a dog's tail to shake it.

Mr. Gui laughed and said, "My lord, what do you want, just tell the little one, and the little one will definitely do it for you."

Li Jianguo narrowed his eyes, and said calmly: "I heard that the little prince Zhu Yousong is celebrating Gu Hengbo's birthday with all the talents in the eyebrow courtyard. I want to go in. Do you have any ideas?"

The tortoise was taken aback, and just about to shake his hand to say no, another five taels of gold ingot appeared in Li Jianguo's hand.Mr. Gui opened his mouth wide. Silver is common, but gold is really rare.Silver is mostly used in daily life, and the common people hardly see gold.He is a tortoise, where has he seen five taels of gold official ingots?Immediately, he was fascinated by the money, and without two words, he immediately changed it to: "No problem, may I ask you your name?"

Li Jianguo smiled and said, "My surname is Li." Mr. Gui watched his words and knew that Li Jianguo didn't want to say more, so he immediately laughed and said, "Master Li, you come with the younger one, and the younger one will lead you to Meiyuan." The Milou is really big, turning around a few curved corridors, there are flowers, plants, flowing water and rockeries everywhere, plus the fragrance of women and sweet laughter and voices everywhere, it is a good place for a man to have fun.

When I came to a courtyard, before I opened the door, I heard the booing inside, a man shouted: "Good dance, good dance, really worthy of the title of 'Yingying Qiushui, Gu Pan Hengbo', my lord, this time You can take it, and you will be punished with a glass of wine."

Gui Gong quietly pushed open the courtyard door, and said to Li Kaiguo, "Master Li, please do what you want." Li Jianguo nodded, and led Wei Chuping and the guards into the eyebrow courtyard.

There was a huge courtyard with more than a dozen tables of banquets, and there were more than a hundred prostitutes, cheering and shouting at several women on a stage in the courtyard, it was a lively scene.

Zhu Yousong was being run over by someone at this time, saying that he would be punished with alcohol.Zhu Yousong was furious immediately, his father is Zhu Changxun, the emperor, he is the eldest son, he is supposed to be the crown prince, although he has not been canonized yet, but he thinks it will be a matter of time.There are still people who dare to punish him for drinking, so what if he made a mistake?Who is so courageous?

Zhu Yousong stood up, looked at the scholar who was yelling just now, and was about to shout angrily, when Gu Hengbo on the stage saw that Zhu Yousong was about to get angry, he was anxious, and quickly stretched out his hand to lightly touch the strings in the hands of his sisters. Dial, the sound of clear springs and flowing water immediately attracted everyone.

Gu Hengbo blinked his big eyes that were full of autumn water, and stretched out his sleeves to cover the corners of his mouth. Although he couldn't see his mouth, there was clearly a charming smile between his eyebrows and eyes.In an instant, all the men were overwhelmed.

Gu Hengbo said softly: "Ah, it's the concubine's fault. The prince made a wrong guess, so the concubine drank a glass of wine instead of the prince. Will the prince pass the punishment?"

With her coquettish attitude, coupled with her tantalizing soft voice, all the men were softened by her, even Zhu Yousong couldn't get angry, the anger just now had already flown to the sky.

Zhu Yousong was about to step forward and say some bold words to win the beauty's favor.Suddenly someone shouted: "I've already eaten this dish, how can I entertain guests? Change it quickly, the master wants to eat."

These words immediately destroyed the intoxicating atmosphere just now, more than a hundred men woke up from the dream, all furious.He turned his head to see who it was.Stir this great atmosphere.

There were only two scholars and a guard standing behind him.Sitting at the last table.Li Jianguo sat swaggeringly, ignoring the angry gazes of more than a hundred men, and with a sweep of the folding fan in his hand, all the dishes and dishes on the table fell to the ground, smashing dozens of tableware.

A man who looked like a son of a rich family was furious, walked over and pointed at Li Jianguo and shouted: "What are you..." The word "person" has not yet been spoken.The guard behind Li Jianguo had already drawn out his long knife, and chopped off his arm pointing at Li Jianguo with one blow.

"Ah, it's murder." Just as blood splattered and the broken arm fell to the ground.More than a hundred men, as well as the court full of prostitutes, all screamed.This was too cruel, but with one finger, Mr. Qian's arm disappeared.

Mr. Qian broke his arm and immediately passed out from the pain.The other hundreds of men were as frightened as little chickens, they wanted to run away immediately, more than a hundred men scrambled to rush out of the courtyard, yelling and yelling at each other to get out of the courtyard first.Those prostitutes also want to escape, but how can weak women squeeze men?He could only hide and shiver.

Zhu Yousong didn't escape, not because he didn't want to escape, but because he had the confidence, because he had four guards with him, and they were already standing in front of him, protecting him.

Zhu Yousong shouted: "How bold, how dare..." This time, like Mr. Qian, he didn't finish his sentence. The four guards in front of him had already been stabbed four times by the guards. Big feet and arms, one limb is cut off with one knife, and it is not partial.The four guards were struggling just now, but they were seriously injured in an instant, and could only roll around on the ground screaming.

Li Jianguo frowned, and said, "Tell them not to bark." The guard was startled, and immediately swung four knives, cut off the necks of all four guards, turned around, put the knives back into their sheaths, knelt down on the ground, and said: I am not doing my job well, please punish me."

Li Kaiguo said lightly: "Go back and get the ten boards yourself."

The guard was overjoyed, kowtowed quickly, and then stood up with a happy smile.Only playing ten boards is too cheap for him.

Seeing such a formidable bodyguard, Zhu Yousong actually respected Li Jianguo so much, he was even more frightened and wanted to run away, but his legs didn't work and he couldn't move.Seeing this, Gu Hengbo hurried forward to support Zhu Yousong, and wanted to take him away.It's a pity that she herself is only 14 years old, and she is a weak girl. How can she support Zhu Yousong by herself?She was so anxious that she quickly shouted: "Come and help me." But who responded?The courtyard had already escaped, leaving only Li Jianguo and three people, and she and Zhu Yousong, and there was a comatose Mr. Qian on the ground.

At this time, the guards in the brothel had been alarmed, and they were rushing to come yelling. The guards behind Li Jianguo didn't wait for orders, and immediately pulled out their long swords again, went out of the yard, and closed the door.After a few breaths, they heard continuous screams and the sound of weapons clashing. It was obvious that there was already a fight outside.

Li Jianguo glanced lightly at Gu Hengbo who was struggling to support Zhu Yousong. Although he felt that the prostitute was unexpectedly charming, he just thought it out of his heart and said to Zhu Yousong: "Zhu Yousong Song, you are in great trouble, and you are still drinking flower wine here?"

Zhu Yousong was startled. The person in front of him actually dared to call him by his name. He was obviously not an ordinary person. He managed to touch a stool and sat down. Gu Hengbo stopped, and just for a while, he took her away. Tired and sweaty.Seeing her charming and pitiful, Wei Chuping wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to open his mouth.

Zhu Yousong sat down, and immediately said angrily: "My father is the emperor, and I am also the prince. Where is the disaster? Don't talk nonsense."

Li Jianguo suddenly shot a murderous look in his eyes, staring straight into Zhu Yousong's heart, so frightened that Zhu Yousong immediately became like a mouse seeing a cat, turned half of his head, and dared not look directly at Li Jianguo again.

Li Jianguo snorted, and said to Gu Hengbo: "Go and serve a table of wine and food, I want to have a good talk with him today." At this time, the fighting outside the courtyard had stopped, Gu Hengbo went to open the courtyard door, and saw all the guards Everyone in the hospital died on the spot, and they trembled with fright.Seeing Gu Hengbo open the door, the guard shouted, "Would you like to go there?"

Gu Hengbo pointed at Li Kaiguo, and said in a low voice: "Your master wants slaves to call for a banquet." Then the guard said: "Go and come back quickly, if you dare to play tricks, I will kill all of you."

In the courtyard, seeing that Zhu Yousong didn't dare to look at him, Li Kaiguo said coldly, "Although your father is the emperor, you are not the crown prince. Have you thought about why?"

How could Zhu Yousong not think about this question?He couldn't sleep all night, isn't it because his father didn't make him the prince?At this time, Li Jianguo raised this question and immediately attracted his attention.

Zhu Yousong said anxiously: "Do you know?"

Li Jianguo smiled and said, "Of course I know, I don't know why I came here to see you?"

Zhu Yousong said: "Why is that? Tell me quickly?"

Li Jianguo unfolded his folding fan, fanned it slightly, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, the food and drink haven't been served yet." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone shout: "Nanjing's garrison is here, who dares to show it in broad daylight?" Murder?" (To be continued...)