Today is a very happy day for Xiao Niangpi. The gift she received is a Patek Philippe watch worth more than three million yuan.
Yang Fan specifically asked Yao Guang to add it to the new batch of teleportation materials.
Despite the distance of more than 600 years, there is no difference in girls' love for watches. They even refuse to take off their little girl's skin when sleeping.
"Obey, you can't sleep with this thing on. Be good and take it off."
Yang Fan had to talk hard before taking it off her wrist. Xiao Niangpi carefully put the watch into a velvet-lined box and placed it next to her pillow. She would be satisfied with it even if she slept by her side.
Lin Yueru looked at it with a look of resentment on his face.
Xiao Niangpi lay next to Yang Fan, blowing like a orchid, "Sir, do you think His Majesty will agree to your request for patrolling the border?"
Yang Fan said indifferently: "What difference does it make if you agree or not? If you agree, I will take my 3,600 soldiers guarding Qianhu Station out and let them experience actual combat training. If you don't agree, I will take them with you."
I will go out with my own servants and troops."
Lin Yueru said: "Master, don't worry, someone in the DPRK will impeach you for provoking provocations."
"Then it depends on the outcome of this battle. If I win, the Mongols outside Ji Town will no longer be able to go south, and there will be no such thing as provocation."
"What if we lose the fight?" Lin Yueru asked, looking at Yang Fan with watery eyes.
"With our strength, at best both sides will suffer losses, and Duoyan and Haraqin will not be easy off either. There are Chahar people to the north of them. Now we have arranged for Lin Danhan and gathered tens of thousands of Han people on the grassland into Jingangbai City
"Growing land for Lin Danhan has enhanced his strength. When the time comes, the north and the south will be restrained, and we won't be afraid of losing this battle and causing serious consequences."
After hearing that Yang Fan had made all the arrangements, Lin Yueru and Xiao Niangpi fell asleep with peace of mind.
Listening to the two couples snoring, they fell into a sweet sleep.
Yang Fan sighed in his heart.
He didn't want to make them worry, so he didn't say much. I was afraid that after this battle, Yang Fan's strength would be greatly exposed, and the relationship with the emperor would be difficult to deal with in the future.
However, Yang Fan has developed to the point where he is now, and he can only move forward.
The next morning, Chongzhen’s study room in Xinuange, Qianqing Palace.
Chongzhen was sitting on a chair. On the bookcase in front of him were some secret reports that had just been submitted by spies outside Jinyiwei Pass.
Li Biao, the first assistant, second assistant, Qian Longxi, the great scholar, Wang Yongguang, the official official secretary, Bi Ziyan, the household official secretary, Wang Qia, the military official secretary, Cao Yuqia, the imperial censor of Zuodu, and others stood at the emperor's left hand with their hands down.
Wang Chengen was waiting behind Chongzhen.
Jinyiwei commanded the Qianshi, led Jinyiwei Luo Yangxing, and Tushan Yong, a thousand households in the East Factory, stood at the door.
The real leader of the Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty was the Jinyiwei commander, who led the Jinyiwei. He was not the Jinyiwei commander who presided over the daily work.
This is a tradition that started from the Yongle Dynasty Annals.
Of course, if the Jinyiwei Commander is followed by the words "Jinyiweishi", then the Jinyiwei Commander is the real leader.
The Jinyiwei command officer is only of the fourth rank. The Dongchang Qianhu is one of the fourteen thousand households of the Jinyiwei. His official rank is only the fifth rank. Although these two people have great power and are feared by everyone, their actual official positions are not the same.
not tall.
The Grand Scholars opposite were all first-grade, and from the first grade, the six ministers were all second-grade. They really couldn't do anything, so they could only stand at the door, and they had no qualifications to stand opposite the civil servants.
Fortunately, the room is not big, less than twenty square meters. You can hear everything you say clearly.
"My dear friends, today we will have another discussion with Governor Yuan, and we sincerely request you to continue to reward the Duoyan tribes in order to alleviate the famine."
Second Assistant Qian Longxi stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I will impeach the left governor Mao Wenlong for collaborating with the enemy."
As soon as Qian Longxi said this, everyone was stunned.
I don’t know why Qian Longxi didn’t talk about subsidizing Mongolia, but instead attacked Mao Wenlong. He didn’t react for a while.
Wang Chengen looked out of the corner of his eye and saw that Chongzhen had no expression on his face.
But the fingers hanging under the table were trembling slightly. Based on Wang Chengen's many years of experience in serving Chongzhen, His Majesty was a little unhappy.
"Second Assistant, do you have any evidence?" Wang Yongguang, the official secretary, asked immediately.
Wang Yongguang is one of the rare neutral ministers who is not on the same side as Dong Lin.
He is in charge of the Ministry of Revenue and is responsible for the evaluation of officials across the country. As part of his responsibilities, he must intervene in this matter.
Mao Wenlong holds the title of Zuo Governor, belongs to the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army, and his official rank is the Zuo Army (the Liaodong area where Mao Wenlong operates is called "Zuo", so it is called the Zuo Army). He is the Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army.
When the second minister of the dynasty impeached military attaché Zheng Yipin, this was no small matter.
"In order to win over Taiji from Duoyan and Haraqin tribes, Huang Taiji Abahai (Huang Taiji), the chief of the Jiannu slaves, is selling rice grains to them," Qian Longxi said.
After research, Huang Taiji's real name was Abahai, which means "Cang Wolf"
The original meaning of Nurhachi in Manchu is "wild boar skin", Shuerhaqi is "little wild boar skin", Yarhaqi is "leopard skin", and Dorgon is "badger", so Huang Taiji is named "Canglang"
"Very reasonable.
The word Taiji is the Chinese word for prince. It was borrowed by the Mongols and called Taiji.
When studying the Mongolian social system, Russian historian Vladimir Zov said: "The top layer of the feudal class, that is, the kings of the Genghis Khan family who owned the land, they were no longer called Kebwen in the Yuan Dynasty, but were called
Borrowed from the Chinese taiji (太吉)."
After the middle and late Ming Dynasty, all Mongolian nobles could be legitimately called Taiji, which became a common title or name for Mongolian nobles. In front of the ordinary Taiji titles, add "Huang, Hui, Hong, Hong".
Words like these indicate that one’s identity is different.
Therefore, Huang Taiji is the highest level of Taiji. It is a very noble title.
Wang Yongguang retorted: "Jiannu's territory suffered from drought for three consecutive years, and crops failed in large areas. The excess rice they got was sold to various Mongolian tribes."
Qian Longxi snorted coldly and said: "Jiannu didn't even have enough food to eat, so naturally there was no surplus food. However, some people secretly collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country. They secretly contacted Mao Wenlong, the left governor of Pidao and the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town. Mao Wenlong imported it from North Korea.
The rice was then sold privately to the slaves."
Wang Yongguang said: "Is there any concrete evidence?"
Qian Longxi took out a secret report and said: "This is the information I found among business people in North Korea, and I intercepted some letters between Jiannu, which involves secret transactions between Dongjiang Town and Jiannu."
Then he handed over the relevant letters.
Chongzhen did not speak, but picked up the letter and observed it carefully.
They are all letters between officials of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty who were stationed near the Yalu River. The letters are wrinkled, stained, and stained with blood. Judging from the appearance of the envelope and letter paper, it is indeed Liao paper made in Liaodong, and it does not look like a forgery. The letters say
road:
Our country's food supply is enough to feed our own people. However, the Mongol bele tribes continue to come with their troops and support them, so there is not enough rice and millet.
On the third day of April in the second year of Tiancong, Du Leng, the son-in-law of the Aohan tribe (Mongolian tribe), was given the title of Jinong. First, Du Leng of the Aohan tribe, because Chahar Khan killed his brothers unethically and failed to support the people, he started
Tiancong Khan of the Manchukuo Kingdom loved to support his people and came back with his followers. Therefore, he was given the title of Jinong.
The Zalut tribe (Mongolian tribe), Seben, Mani, and Wen Tiancong Khan were good at raising people and returned with their troops.
You and Mao Wenlong have been paying food and wages for seven years. How can I ask for it for no reason like him? But this year, after buying food for a year, you should give me food. When I am in embarrassment, you can help me, so that we can see the harmonious friendship.
Ping'an, the two Yellow Sea roads, are actually broken, but the overall situation is not damaged, and the other six roads are still the same. If you want to help each other with grain, you can transport it by the Yalu River, or by sea.
In February of the first year of Chongzhen (the first year of Chongzhen), North Korea implemented this policy and mined 3,000 shi of rice, donated 2,000 shi to the Kingdom of Jin, and used 1,000 shi as merchandise, which was traded in Zhongjiang on the middle continent of the Yalu River. This was the beginning of Zhongjiang trade.
Qian Yongxi said: "According to Yizhou's report, the trade volume in the letter was more than 84,000 taels of silver."
"There are many secret reports from North Korea. Mao Wenlong opened a market in Phi Island and collected taxes. "Captain Mao was on the island, picking up merchants, and collecting taxes in a year, which amounted to tens of thousands of dollars... In our country, businessmen from outside the capital gathered.
On Baidao (North Korea’s name for Phi Island), there are countless people who exchange silver ginseng for trade goods.” So North Korea said that “if the horse market on the island does not stop, the translators and merchants will continue to trade.”
This is a very serious accusation. The problem is not that Mao Wenlong was smuggling privately, but that he was a collaborator with the enemy and smuggled extremely scarce food and other materials to the slaves.
Pi Island is called Lidao in Korean historical materials. Because it is located to the east of the Yalu River, it was called Dongjiang Town in the Ming Dynasty.
"Mao Wenlong was in Pidao, recruiting merchants, selling forbidden goods, and was famous for helping Korea. He actually went out of the fortress. If nothing happened, he would sell ginseng and sell cloth as a business. If something happened, he would rarely use it."
"According to the investigation by the minister, Pidao plays an important role as a trade intermediary. North Korean merchants transport ginseng, silver, grain, rice, etc. to Pidao, and exchange them from Pidao merchants for daily necessities such as silk, green cloth, paper, etc. from the mainland of the Central Plains.
Mao Wenlong instructed the Shandong merchants he recruited to resell them to Houjin merchants who were in urgent need of these items, and then exchanged them for ginseng, silver and mink skins from the Houjin merchants."
"Mao Wenlong took advantage of the trade profits between the three countries but did not want to end it all. He has betrayed the great trust of the imperial court and should be punished."
After Qian Longxi finished speaking, he returned to his seat and waited for Chongzhen's decision.
Everyone was a little silent for a while. The commander-in-chief of the border town had been doing business with the Tartars secretly, and he had been doing so repeatedly since the Hongwu period. In the end, it was all caused by the huge profits.
During the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, whoever did not do business would not have had such a clean Bian Shuai.
Of course, Mao Wenlong, because he was alone overseas, thought that the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, so he went too far. However, it is not easy to use this to punish Mao Wenlong.
Mao Wenlong is not a fool, he is just attracting investment. As for the transactions, on the surface they are all between slaves and merchants from North Korea and Shandong. He is just collecting taxes. What does it have to do with him? If you say he is a collaborator, you can find out
Evidence?
At most, he did not strictly inspect the merchants who came to build slaves. There could be serious crimes there.
However, Donglin suddenly attacked Dongjiang Town, which made everyone sneer in their hearts. There is not a fool standing here, who doesn't know who it is.
You people have taken over the foreign trade along the southeastern coast and are not satisfied yet. This is because you saw that the trade between the three countries on Pi Island is so prosperous and you want to get involved.
