Jinyi Night Walk

In December, King Zhu Di of Yan reorganized his troops in Beiping, led the Northern Army to march south again, and stationed in Linqing, Guantao, Daming, Wenshang, and Jining in Shandong.Sheng Yong confronted each other and led the southern army to deploy a defense line in Dongchang (Liaocheng). The two sides had offense and defense, and entered a long confrontation stage.

At the same time, in addition to the frontal battlefield, the two sides also launched a series of spy wars, intelligence wars, and diplomatic wars.Feilong Secret Spy's activities in the capital are becoming more and more frequent, constantly building momentum for King Yan (Baidu Jinyi Yexing debut).The King of Yan also publicly sent envoys to write to the court, reiterating that as long as the court punishes Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and other treacherous leaders, the King of Yan will give up the Southern Expedition and return to Beiping. , killing him with one bite is "Jing Nan".

Zhu Yunfen, of course, sternly refused, and at the same time mobilized his troops, preparing to completely annihilate King Yan's forces.What the southern army lacks most now is war horses. There are plenty of horses on the Mongolian grasslands. However, although the Northern Yuan court has now split into two countries, namely Tatar and Wacha, these two countries are in a state of hostility to the Ming court. It was impossible to sell war horses to Daming, so Daming took the idea to North Korea.

Tamna Island (Jeju Island) in North Korea was originally a pasture of the Yuan Dynasty government, and was managed by special officials. After the Yuan Dynasty fled back to the grassland, North Korea quickly asked Daming to take over the island.Places like Shuangyu Island, because they are isolated overseas and are not conducive to the rule of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang voluntarily gave up and moved the people back to land. He really didn't take Tamna Island seriously, so he agreed Yes, but since then, fifty war horses have been included in the year-old tribute of North Korea.

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These fifty war horses are year-old tributes. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang often purchased horses from North Korea and delivered them to the capital of Liaodong.North Korea is just a mountainous island country, in fact, it is not suitable for raising horses. At the beginning, it could afford it, but after Ming Dynasty conscripted tens of thousands of horses, all the good horses in North Korea were confiscated, and there were some bad horses left, some of which were worse than horses. The donkey is not much bigger, so that the officials and literati in North Korea can only ride on old and sick horses.

This time Zhu Yunhui sent envoys to North Korea and asked to buy war horses from North Korea. The king of North Korea, Li Fangyuan, agreed. He actually usurped the throne and stood on his own. Therefore, it is very necessary to be recognized by the Ming government to consolidate his rule. Naturally, the will of the Ming court Not only did he follow through, he not only immediately ordered the recruitment of horses across the country, but also publicly announced that he would support the Ming Emperor's just battle against King Yan.

After a lot of tossing, no matter whether it was a small horse or a bad horse, they all wanted it. In the end, they did not make up enough for Zhu Yun's grave. In desperation, Li Fangyuan, who had already praised Haikou, gritted his teeth and reluctantly took out the cattle. Filled up.Cows cannot be used as mounts, at least they can be used to transport luggage.North Korea is a mountainous country, and there are few cattle and horses in the first place. This time, they were almost plundered.

The cattle and horses were gone, and what was exchanged was the silk, silk, and cloth that Daming used to pay for the horses.The mountainous piles of silk and satin cloth are beautiful but cannot be eaten. On the contrary, some officials and businessmen in North Korea are pursuing luxury and profit.At this time, Japan has not yet received the permission of Ming Dynasty to formally start the tribute trade, and the upper class in the country can only buy luxury goods through smuggling. Now that North Korea has offered to trade, Japan naturally wants it.

Thus, there was a strange incident where Daming's side played happily, which actually promoted the economic and trade between North Korea and Japan.

After getting the order from Zhu Yunfen, Luo Kedi used the power of Jin Yiwei to catch some leaflets and secret agents spreading rumors, but these people were just the outermost shrimps, and they couldn't grasp the secret agents of Feilong at all. For core secrets, Jin Yiwei's punishment is so powerful that it is useless to those who don't know the secrets at all.

On Xia Xun's side, using Li Jinglong as a breakthrough point, he kept looking for targets from officials who opposed the vassal reduction or sympathized with King Yan, and carried out wooing, corruption, and infiltration. Gradually, an extremely tight and huge intelligence network had been formed.

As for the imperial court, the current internal struggle, like the front-line war, has become increasingly serious, and various forces are intricate.

The Feudal Reduction Sect has now split into two groups, one is the Master Sect headed by Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, and Qi Tai, and the other is the Young Strong Sect headed by Jing Qing, Zhuo Jing, Lian Zining and others.Jing Qing, Zhuo Jing, Lian Zining and other up-and-comers who cut down feudal vassals are also firmly loyal to Emperor Jianfu, but they also hate the incompetence of people like Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng.

Externally, they advocated severely cracking down on Zhu Di, king of Yan, without compromise.Internally, they hope to bring down the incompetent people like Fang Huang, because in their view, it is by no means a blessing for the country that these incompetent people control the government. Unfortunately, Zhu Yunfen still trusts the most Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng, their actions have not yielded any results, they only further weakened the influence of Fang Huang and his like.

Just when the vassal-cutting faction was unable to argue with each other, another voice that was originally extremely weak sounded.The representative of this voice is Li Jinglong.Li Jinglong didn't know what medicine he had taken wrongly, so he jumped out suddenly and lashed out at Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng and others for bewitching the holy will and alienating the royal family. They are the chief culprits of the royal civil war. peace talks.

Originally, officials like Ru Chang, Yu Xin, and Gao Wei held this view, but they lacked a strong leader, and their voices in the court were very weak.Although Li Jinglong's reputation is notorious, as the Li family who once hoped to replace the Zhongshan Palace as the head of the military officials, they also have quite a large network of contacts and relationships.

This interest group attached to Cao Guogong's mansion needs a chance to stand up again, even if this chance is speculation and desperation.

So, with their firm support, the Li Jinglongs who were too ashamed to go out because of the two major defeats rose up, and suddenly they changed from a valiant warrior to a rising star in the political arena.

Every day the court discusses matters, and he never claims that he can't get out of illness. His Excellency Cao Guogong is more active than anyone else in the court. As long as he catches the opportunity, he will boast to others in the court. Misleading the people, we should punish traitors and reconcile with the king of Yan." The fanatical energy of the theory is comparable to Wang Jingwei's advocacy of "the theory of national subjugation in three days."

Ru Chang, Yu Xin, Gao Wei, who were originally the weakest voices of the peace party, were delighted to discover Li Jinglong's bosom friend, and soon, they defected to Li Jinglong's sect, and at the beginning they had the absolute right to speak about the rise of the peace party The Fanghuang faction and Zhuo Jing faction didn't care about it, and even to a certain extent, they deliberately condoned the existence of this faction.

Because the Fanghuang faction hopes that the emergence of the peace faction will prompt the Jing Zhuo faction to feel a sense of crisis and reunite with themselves, while the Jing Zhuo faction hopes that the peace faction will drag the Fang Huang faction back and prompt them to step down. Unexpectedly, the peace faction With both literature and martial arts, they have grown up vigorously, and soon gained momentum, and they can actually stand up to Fanghuang faction and Zhuo Jing faction.

No matter what the real purpose of these three factions is, they all have a high-sounding reason: for the emperor, for Ming!

Zhu Yunfen was originally a soft-hearted master who might not be able to make up his mind. He was subjected to theories of these three schools every day. The theories made his brain ache. Chao cheered up and began to "live mud".He began to feel that the most lovable person now is the fence-sitter.You see, the Fencers stand there, dumb, never looking for trouble.

The deadlock needs an opportunity to break.

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Whether it is the confrontation between the northern and southern armies in the Shandong and Hebei areas, or the three-legged state in the court, it needs to be broken.

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, the sky is dry and things are dry, so be careful with fire and candles.

In Cao Guogong's mansion, Li Jinglong didn't leave the study until very late.

I don't know when Li Jinglong got the habit of taking notes.

He wrote down every detail of the military affairs of the Shan Office and the disputes in the court, and analyzed and evaluated them one by one. In the hands of Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng, even if they have different political opinions, they must be moved by Cao Guogong's noble sentiments and great feelings.

Li Jinglong thought that the servant who cleaned the study room was said to be sloppy and was not liked by Mr. Cao Guogong. Now he has appointed a special person to clean the study. House

He has only been here for less than half a year. He is very clever and discerning, and he works hard, so he is favored by Li Jinglong and becomes a servant who cleans the inside and outside of the study.

Seeing Lord Cao Guo got up and went to the back house, Xu Jiang went into the study.

The lamp on the table is still on, which is Cao Guogong's habit. If the lamp is on on the table, it needs to be "cleaned" immediately.

Xu Jiang closed the door, put down the broom, went to the lamp and opened Li Jinglong's note, flipped through it hastily, and sighed: "So many Yu today..."

Complaints belong to complaints, he quickly picked up the pen, spread out a piece of paper, and hurriedly memorized it.

Xu Jiang is proficient in literary and ink, and every once in a while, he will copy a few large articles from here and quietly send them to the place designated by Boss Xia, but he has never seen the things he copied have any effect, and he still thinks so today Yes, but he didn't know that what he was transcribing under the lamp at the moment was the key information that broke the rigidity and completely changed the confrontation between the two armies.

That night, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Chen Di were discussing matters at Fang Xiaoru's residence.

Facing the constraints of Jingqing Zhuojing's young and strong faction and the criticism of Li Jinglongru's Changyi peace faction, they were helpless.After pondering for a long time, Chen Di, Shangshu of Lishan, suddenly said: "Mr. Xiaozhi, there is no one who supports Li Jinglong except Ru Chang.

What a great father, he is so arrogant because he has quite a lot of supporters in the army, we need someone to suppress him.The three-legged situation between the DPRK and China also requires the introduction of an external force to fight

Therefore...,

Fang Xiaoru was moved and said, "What is Mr. Jing Dao's clever plan?"

Chen Di said decisively: "Xu Huizu, only Xu Huizu has the qualifications to suppress Li Jinglong."

Fang Xiaoru hesitated and said: "This..., at the Mo Chou Poetry Meeting that day, a certain Fang walked away in anger, embarrassing Wei Guogong, and now I want to get back to the old relationship, is it okay?"

Chen Di laughed and said: "What's the difficulty? In the Mo Chou Poetry Club, Xu Huizu deliberately used his younger sister's marriage as a bridge to marry Mr. Xiaozhi. I heard that Mr. has four sons, and the second son Zhong Xian is suitable for marriage Age, if you use your second son to marry the Xu family, it will be enough to prove your sincerity, and I believe that Wei Guogong will ignore the past and return to the old good."

Fang Xiaoru thought for a moment, stood up and cupped his hands and said, "So, let Mr. Lao be a matchmaker!"