Beijing, Yang Sichang's mansion.

Yang Xiong would only meet Emperor Chongzhen in the morning court tomorrow. After all, he was Yang Sichang's confidant. After returning to Beijing, he ran to Yang Sichang that night to tell Yang Sichang about his mission to Mongolia in Mobei: "Duxian, the subordinates fulfilled their mission and successfully convinced the three Khalkha tribes to join forces with the Tumote tribes to deal with Jiannu."

"Okay! If we can unite the three Khalkha Mongolian tribes, plus the Tumote tribes, four tribes will join forces to fight against Jiannu, which can destroy Jiannu's attempt to unify Mongolia." Yang Sichang said with a smile.

"Master Du Xian, the officials need to report to you another thing. This time, when they were on the northern Mongolian mission in Mobei, they were attacked by Jiannu on their way back. Fortunately, General Li from the Great Wall came to rescue him in time, otherwise the officials would not be able to come back." After all, Li Guodong saved Yang Xiong's life, and he had to help Li Guodong with a few good words in front of Yang Sichang.

Yang Sichang said in surprise: "The Jiannu head brought back by envoy Yang is the Jiannu who came to attack the envoy?"

"That's right!" Yang Xiong next talked about his followers to Mobei. He went all the way, but when he came back, he was attacked by nearly 3,000 Jin troops. The caravan guards fought to the death, but they were no match. When they were about to be unable to hold on, Li Guodong's cavalry rushed in time to save everyone.

When he heard the bloody battle between the two sides, Yang Sichang narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded slightly. When he heard the Jin army breaking through the chariot formation and attacking into the formation, Yang Sichang opened his eyes and raised his ears so nervously. Finally, Li Guodong led his army to come, Yang Sichang breathed a long sigh and relaxed.

Yang Xiong continued: "Master Du Xian, then Li Guodong said that he could not only win over the three Mongolian tribes in the northern desert, but also find Lin Danhan's old subordinates, which would allow the five Mongolian tribes to attack Jiannu together!"

"Tomorrow, you and I will go to court together. Let me say a few words to Li Guodong before His Majesty, and see what official position His Majesty can give him. After the New Year, you will go to Li Guodong's city outside the Great Wall. Anyway, he is the Ming Dynasty recruiting envoy. If you get the edict from His Majesty to Mobei, you can ask him to accompany you to Khalkha Mongolia." Yang Sichang nodded with his beard and twisted.

The next morning, the censors who had been talking nonsense besides praising Yang Sichang's contributions, no one impeached Yang Sichang again to join forces with the Mongolian Tartars to deal with the Jiannu. After all, joining the Mongolian and the Jin Dynasty can become a topic of attack by many censors. There are more than 2,600 heads there, and the censors have nothing to say.

"Your Majesty, you should entrust General Li Guodong as the important task of uniting the Mongolians to fight against the Jin Dynasty, and give him full authority to negotiate with the Mongols on behalf of our Ming Dynasty. He can give him a gold belt and issue an imperial edict to take charge of the land from the west entrance to the naturalized land, and he can reject Jiannu." Yang Sichang reported.

Although Yang Sichang's contribution was there, the censors did not dare to say anything about him, when it comes to Li Guodong, the censors attacked him, especially Chen Yan, the chief of the Hanlin Academy, who spoke fiercely: "This is to transform into a wilderness, rob merchants, collude with Mongolian Tartars, and do everything evil. Your Majesty does not issue an order to eradicate this person, which is a court grace. How can you entrust such an important task!"

This will lead to the leakage of confidential matters. Such major matters must not be discussed in the court, and Yang Duxian should be summoned to discuss them secretly."

Another comment was made by Zhang Sizhi, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites: "These people outside the border are originally people without a king or a father! If they are entrusted with important tasks, they will definitely become a disaster to the Ming Dynasty in the future!"

"Wen Aiqing, what do you think?" Emperor Chongzhen looked at the chief assistant Wen Tiren and said.

Wen Tiren hurriedly stood up: "Your Majesty, I think that my colleagues are right! This person used the excuse of going to Jiangnan to go to the south of the country and then made friends with Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai and others. This is to form a clique for personal gain. Therefore, I think that he can reward his money, cloth, but he must not be entrusted with important tasks!"

In fact, Wen Tiren secretly hated Li Guodong for having contact with Fushe. Wen Tiren had long wanted to be dissatisfied with Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai and others, so he naturally had to stumbling against Li Guodong.

The good mood that a great victory brought to Emperor Chongzhen was disturbed by these civil servants. Chongzhen was furious, stood up, shook his sleeves, and walked backwards.

"I have a copy and I will leave the court for nothing!" Wang Chengen shouted.

When Emperor Chongzhen returned to his imperial study, Wang Chengen stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the people in the court just now have been talking too much, and it is inconvenient to talk about things. This time, envoy Yang was attacked, how could Jiannu learn about this confidential news? I must have been absent from the court.

In fact, Wang Chengen got Li Guodong's many benefits from Wang Kun. Li Guodong also asked Wang Kun to remind Wang Chengen that there were officials in the court, but although they did not understand Jiannu, they were not strict and had contact with some profiteers. Those profiteers secretly communicated with Jiannu, so some things were discussed in the court and Jiannu would learn about them.

Wang Chengen was reminded and thought about it carefully, and felt it was very reasonable. So he used the incident of the envoy's attack to persuade Chongzhen. Such matters could only be discussed secretly and not publicly.

In the afternoon, Chongzhen summoned Yang Sichang at the Xihunting Pavilion.

"Your Majesty, the Shanxi merchants that Li Guodong eliminated were actually promiscuous merchants! Although there was no conclusive evidence, your Majesty, think about it carefully, why did Jiannu frequently do well in the deployment of our army? Someone must be tying the enemy and traitoring the country! Therefore, this person is innocent and meritorious!" Yang Sichang said.

"Since that's the case, I will ask the king's partner to go to Xuanda in person to investigate the matter thoroughly!" Chongzhen said angrily.

"Your Majesty must not be! This matter is very involved. I am afraid that the prince will be drowned by the court officials! Moreover, the Jinyiwei has been targeting them for more than two years. They have already destroyed the evidence and transferred assets. It is probably impossible to find out. The civil and military officials at the border are all involved in this matter. If there is no evidence, they will be panic and unstable. Your Majesty is the most urgent task. You should reward Li Guodong highly and let him serve our court! If you can get the help of the five Mongolian tribes and cooperate with Li Guodong's elite cavalry, you will be able to re-create slaves and stabilize the border. Your Majesty can free up your hands to deal with the bandits!"

"Yang Aiqing's intention is not to take advantage of the opportunity of the five Mongolian alliances to destroy Jiannu?"

"No, Jiannu has become a climate and it is difficult to wipe out overnight. Only by using the Mongols to restrain Jiannu, so that they will not invade like in Jisi. Although our Ming Dynasty had a Ningjin defense line, it was full of holes from Jizhou to Xuanda. If Jiannu pacified Mongolia, it would invade more frequently in the future! How can our army calmly suppress the bandits? Li Guodong, by joining the Mongols outside the border to deal with Jiannu, can stop Jiannu from invading, and our army can calmly suppress the bandits."

After Yang Sichang's analysis, Chongzhen decided to reward Li Guodong with full authority and ordered him to deal with the alliance with Mongolia. However, Chongzhen was worried that his imperial edict would be rejected by the cabinet. If the imperial edict was not drafted by the cabinet, it would be the imperial edict. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial edict actually had no legal effect.

Yang Sichang said: "Your Majesty, you can issue an order for this matter. Then Li Guodong does not use the court's monies and grains, and it depends entirely on his own money. Since there is no need for the court's money and grain, why do you need a cabinet ticket? As for the rewards of money, cloth, the officials in the court do not object. They can issue an order and hand it over to the cabinet tickets."

Only Yang Sichang offered a plan to suppress the thieves: the bandits surrendered and rebelled again, all because the court lacked silver and grain and could not appease the refugees. Treating the thieves and refugees in the bandit army and recruiting refugees to start mining can not only solve the livelihood problems of refugees, but also increase the court's fiscal revenue, and resolutely eliminate the old thieves among the bandits.

Emperor Chongzhen was very happy and called Yang Sichang a genius. Then he issued two imperial edicts, one was to reward Li Guodong with 10,000 taels of silver and handed it to the cabinet to draft it, which was a formal imperial edict; the other was to promote Li Guodong to General Zhaowu, and ordered him to form an alliance with the Mongolian representative of the Ming Dynasty and lead his army to fight against Jiannu together. Anyway, he did not need to give him a piece of copper plate, nor did he give him any real official position. This imperial edict did not require cabinet to draft it at all, and he would just hand it over to Yang Sichang and ask him to find someone to send it. As for General Zhaowu, it was just a name for a false position, and he was a third-rank rank like General Guan, but General Guan had real power. Li Guodong was originally a general, and adding a general Zhaowu's name on the basis of the general was also considered to be a win-win person.

In the blink of an eye, the seventh year of Chongzhen was entered. In January, the 10,000 taels of silver rewarded by the court were sent to the west entrance, and Yang Xiong also sent a portion of Chongzhen's middle finger to Shabeigou City.

Seeing the imperial edict sent, Li Guodong smiled bitterly: The Chongzhen court controlled the government affairs for a group of civil officials, and the Ming Dynasty was deceived and destroyed by such a group of people. Such imperial edicts were almost the same as a piece of waste paper. One did not give him an official position, and the other did not have a silver reward. It was just to let himself win over the Mongols and deal with the Later Jin Dynasty. That was nonsense. When the imperial edict was actually sent to Mongolians in Mobei, the imperial officials would still be sent to the Khalkha Mongolia.

Li Guodong took people to the west entrance to receive rewards from the court, visited Wang Kun, gave him a gift, and also brought a gift to Wang Chengen. After finishing the matter, Li Guodong returned to the city outside the gate. He learned from Wang Kun, Yang Xiong and others that Wen Tiren was dissatisfied with him, so there was no need to stay in the suburbs for a long time. If the battles within the Ming court could be avoided, there was no need to get involved.
Chapter completed!