Chapter 423: A Mediocre World, I know the details

Before Li Meng's Hejian Mansion won a great victory and became famous all over the world, because all the battles and actions were as low-key as possible, there were not many people in the world who knew that Li Meng from Shandong.

However, not knowing much does not mean that he has no reputation. Before this great victory, before the canal transportation received the Lijin, Li Meng was scolded by literati from all over the world, thinking that he was a shameless person.

This reason is not complicated. Li Meng's two wives, Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi, are the reasons. These literati may not have any means to govern the country and benefit the people, but they are very keen on Qinhuai. According to their ideas, these famous women and talented women should marry talented people and scholars.

In fact, this idea is not difficult to analyze. It is just that I think that a talented literati can marry, and I am also a literati, and I can also bring it into it. It feels like I have married.

Of course, this is one of the reasons why the novels of talented men and beautiful women are so popular. But Li Meng from Shandong, who clinged to the eunuch party and relied on the eunuch Liu Fulai to occupy two weak women, was really angered and despised by scholars from all over the world.

But they didn't understand that since ancient times, this beauty had to marry a powerful and rich person to be happy for life. Otherwise, she would marry a talented and poor person and her beauty was coveted by others. She wouldn't know what kind of tragedy would happen at that time. Moreover, no matter how glorious the people were, when they were old and weak, they might not be able to achieve food and clothing.

To put it bluntly, it is really only when marrying these powerful and powerful people to make them rich for a lifetime and safe. This is not romance, this is reality.

Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi understood this very clearly. Although those who were encircled in Li Meng's inner house were much boring than the Qinhuai River that welcoming and sent to him back then, they felt safe here and did not have to make a laugh for life. Beside Li Meng, they were regarded as real people, not commodities.

Although literati outside wrote articles to scold Li Mengniu for chewing peonies, not understanding the charm and ruining such wonderful people, some people lamented that Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi's fate was desolate and their famous flowers were withering. However, Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi, who were the parties involved, lived a stable and happy life.

Most of the famous women on the Qinhuai River can be described as desolate in the evening scene, and even those who marry into wealthy families will not end up well.

In history without Li Meng, the country was overthrown and the world in the end of the world, and those wealthy families were destroyed, let alone the women who depended on them.

Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi were by Li Meng's side. Only with Li Meng's protection and support did they achieve true happiness in their lives.

The person involved didn't know what the thoughts were, but the people in the world had this impression. Li Meng was vulgar and fierce. He was extremely brave, but he also had the usual shortcomings of the generals, and he was greedy for money and lust.

Needless to say, greedy for money, started his business by trafficking in private salt. There are also business businesses and farms, and the business is as big as gold and silver. This lustful reputation is naturally to force the women to occupy the people and use the power of the eunuch party to forcibly plunder the two women of Qinhuai to return to Shandong. This is not lustful, what is it.

Since he is lustful, it is necessary to please this hot general and give his preferences. If you want to give him gold, silver and treasures, you may not be able to show off in front of the other side. The only thing that can touch the itch is probably this beautiful color.

In the world today, famous beauties are there. Of course, they are in the south of the Yangtze River. However, it is really difficult to find beautiful beauties that are not inferior to Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi.

Wu Muhuan said with a strange look that he wanted to give gifts. What he wanted was a beauty. Apart from this beauty, the other gifts might not look so weird and smiled. He insisted on using this place to send a beauty to meet Li Meng, but the chief clerk Yuan Wenhong would not let him do what he wanted.

After careful interrogation, he finally found the answer. He was also a little ridiculous for a while. He first placed the envoy sent by the Wu family and then went to ask for Li Meng.

On February 26th, the deputy general of the Dengzhou Army, currently the commander of the troops stationed in Hejian Prefecture, Wang Tao, left after saying goodbye to Li Meng. The village guard team and armed Yanding were adapted into a regular army very quickly, and it did not take much time. Moreover, the Jinan Prefecture's weapons and equipment were sufficiently stored, so it could be replenished soon, so we could set off.

For the current Jiaozhou Camp, the Jiangbei area in southern Zhili was almost controlled by him. The eunuch Lu Jiude, the governor of Nanjing, led his army to evacuate the battlefield in Shouzhou and returned to Nanjing by boat at Chaohu.

The Jiangbei part of Southern Zhili, except for Fengyang City, which is still in the hands of Ma Shiying, the rest are almost all Li Meng's troops. The next move is to surrender the Fifth Battalion of the Glea Zuo to achieve complete control. Although these matters have not been clarified, if the Fifth Battalion of the Glea Zuo does not surrender, the fate will be completely annihilated.

Li Meng initially planned to let Chen Liu be responsible for the Fengyang Prefecture and Luzhou Prefecture, while Ma Gang was responsible for the Huai'an Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture. Although the garrison was divided according to the proposed Southern Zhili, Chen Liu and Ma Gang's tasks were not only in the Southern Zhili Jiangbei area, but Chen Liu was actually responsible for the direction of Henan and Huguang, while Ma Gang was responsible for the direction of Jiangnan.

The tasks given to Zhao Nengdi are Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou, and Li Meng directly manages the four prefectures of Jinan, Yanzhou, Guide and Hejian Prefecture. The only difficult thing at present is whether to continue to expand the army and what scale it should be expanded.

Although he is at home every day, Li Meng doesn't spend much time with his family, and he spends more time with consultants, staff and civil and military officials in the Jiaozhou Camp system.

Everyone is quite cautious about whether the army is expanded. With the training and combat methods of Jiaozhou Camp, if the newly expanded troops are not trained in accordance with the Jiaozhou Camp, it will be of little use and it will be difficult to integrate into this system. However, if the training is based on the standards of Jiaozhou Camp, it will cost amazingly, but the current situation will squeeze the young and strong labor force in Shandong's production and manufacturing, which is very troublesome.

Li Meng transferred several accounting rooms from Lingshan Trading Bank. Every day, he discussed a plan with his consultant staff and handed it over to these accounting rooms to calculate the cost and see if Shandong's finance can supply it to meet this plan.

I just discussed it with Sun Chuanting and Liu Fu came to discuss it in the morning, and Yuan Wenhong asked for a meeting in the afternoon. It was less than a day. It seemed that Yuan Wenhong and Wu Sangui's relative had already discussed what the result was, but the speed was really fast.

The chief clerk Yuan Wenhong was actually quite embarrassed. The thing about sending a beautiful woman over sounded quite elegant and interesting, but the people who did it may not think so.

As the chief clerk of Jiaozhou Camp, Yuan Wenhong, of course, understood the significance of the inner account and knew how powerful and role this institution had in Shandong. Moreover, the one in charge of the inner account was the wife of the Grand Marshal. He helped to arrange such matters by himself. Don’t be treated as being in charge of the operation of it. If you are hated by the ladies, you will be too lucky and you will be in trouble.

But if the incident is hidden, since the Grand Marshal has taken Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi, he may be really sick. If the incident he has concealed and unreported is known by the Grand Marshal, he might also blame him. He will also be unable to take advantage of the situation and weigh the pros and cons, Yuan Wenhong finally made up his mind. It is better to tell the Grand Marshal about this matter. As for what will happen, please ask the Grand Marshal to decide by himself.

Seeing Yuan Wenhong's expression on his face, Li Meng was quite puzzled. Seeing Yuan Wenhong, who had always dared to speak out, hesitated. This made him very impatient and couldn't help but speak:

"Mr. Yuan, we don't talk about sinners in Jiaozhou camp. You just want to say that. What are you afraid of?"

Hearing Li Meng said this, Yuan Wenhong felt quite embarrassed and said:

"The envoy sent by the Wu family said that he had prepared generous gifts for the Grand Marshal. The ginseng, marten and pearls outside the pass were all of the best goods. I asked the people from Lingshan Trading Company to see them. They said that these are the best treasures that cannot be seen in the pass. Great good things."

Li Meng waved his hand boredly and said:

"These rare things are nothing more than to make people eat better and wear more comfortable, and they are of no use for military and national affairs. It is just that Manager Luo accepted them... These things are all controlled by the Qing Dynasty Tartars. There are such things in the area of ​​Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan. I am afraid that Wu Sangui has done business with the Tartars a lot!!"

Halfway through speaking, Li Meng thought of this secret. mink ginseng. It must be in the deep mountains and old forests to have the best quality, but Ningyuan goes to Shanhaiguan. What are the deep mountains and old forests? These territories outside the pass are all controlled by the Tatars. How could Wu Sangui find such good products?

I guess it was because of some inexplicable collusion with the Tartars that I could get these luxury materials that seem usually precious but are actually contraband.

Of course, although Wu Sangui overestimated his ability to launch an attack on Daxing Fort with 5,000 people and defeated him, it did not affect some courageous merchants, even the Wu family's own merchants and the Tartars doing business, and exchanged their own business. After all, Shengjing now has a huge demand for luxury goods and various daily necessities.

After thinking about this joint, Li Meng became more disgusted with the Wu family and felt a little confused. This was just some ordinary goods. Why did Yuan Wenhong so hesitate and even made a special appointment to report.

After laying the groundwork, I have to say this sooner or later. Yuan Wenhong swallowed and said with difficulty:

"Report to the Grand Marshal, the Wu family has a special gift. I dare not make a decision on this gift without authorization, so I came to report to the Grand Marshal's decision!?"

Hearing this, Li Meng's curiosity increased a little. He nodded, and then Yuan Wenhong said slowly:

"Master, the Wu family sent a woman, saying that she was serving a pillow for the Master, that..."

This was really beyond Li Meng's expectations. He was stunned for a moment. Li Meng had heard of this behavior of treating women as gifts, but it really happened to him, but it was really unacceptable. Although he had something similar to that day, the eunuch Liu Fulai of Nanjing governor gave Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi to Li Meng after redeeming Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi. This behavior is quite awkward to think about it.

Although Li Meng couldn't accept it, this matter was common in this era. He smiled and calmed down, and asked again:

"The Wu family is so cute. Who is the one who sent it?"

Seeing Li Meng smiling, Yuan Wenhong felt relieved. He calmed down his voice and his face turned up. He tried not to make Li Meng feel any joking expression and said solemnly:

"The woman sent by the Wu family is Miss Chen Yuanyuan from Suzhou."

Yuan Wenhong said while carefully observing Li Meng's expression. As Chen Yuanyuan said these three words, it was obvious that Li Meng's expression changed. Yuan Wenhong thought to himself, it seemed that the "gift" given by the Wu family was really good for the coach's thoughts and was wonderful!

Of course, he didn't know the late Ming woman who came from modern times through books and films. Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi didn't know about it at the beginning, but Chen Yuanyuan was really famous.

He was angry with the beauty, and those official history, unofficial history, etc. If anyone does not mention Chen Yuanyuan, he cannot say that he is describing the late Ming Dynasty.

Generally speaking, women who are related to politicians can always get a name. Chen Yuanyuan was also celebrating for a long time because of his entanglement with Wu Sangui, the one who led the Qing army into the pass. But in this era, Chen Yuanyuan was just a so-called famous prostitute with both sexes and arts, a young girl with infinite reputation in the hearts of scholars in Jiangnan.

Before Yuan Wenhong could say anything, Li Meng suddenly burst into laughter. The personal soldiers guarding in the room, as well as Yuan Wenhong standing aside, were surprised, but he didn't dare to say too much.

Li Meng smiled happily, and stopped after a while. He calmed down and asked with a smile:

"Mr. Yuan, have you heard of Chen Yuanyuan's name?"

Yuan Wenhong really hesitated for a moment. He didn't know what his commander meant when he asked this, but he still answered solemnly:

"Report to the Grand Marshal. When the student was in Jining, he also talked about the love and love with others. Miss Chen is a famous girl from Jiangnan, and she occasionally talks about it. This is inevitable."

"Do you know why Chen Yuanyuan was sent by the Wu family?"

When Yuan Wenhong heard Li Meng's inquiry, he calmed down and looked at his coach's inquiry. It seemed that there was no special meaning. The laughter just now didn't seem to be a proud or sarcastic smile. He was vaguely sad, angry and desolate. He should have nothing to do with him.

Yuan Wenhong felt relieved, thought for a while and recalled it. Then he spoke:

"The Grand Marshal, the two capitals and Jiangnan, have many boring scholars. It is natural that the affairs of the government and the country are recorded, and it is difficult to avoid them. The students read a lot of books. This is why they came into contact with the Grand Marshal. "

Li Meng raised the tea bowl beside him and nodded. He took a sip. Yuan Wenhong said that Chen Yuanyuan was originally a famous prostitute in Suzhou. Emperor Chongzhen was worried about national affairs every day, and was frowning. As a result, the nobles of the foreign relatives and nobles in the capital thought about searching for beautiful women to present them to relieve the emperor's sorrow.

Tian Guiyuan, the elder brother of Concubine Tian, ​​came out to search for the beautiful women, and Chen Yuanyuan brought it to the capital. According to the notes, Tian Wan herself was fascinated by Chen Yuanyuan, so she left Chen Yuanyuan in her mansion and did not give it to the emperor.

Wu Sangui once went to the capital two years ago. Because he was a real military general from other places, the honors in the capital were all competing to make friends. As a result, Wu Sangui saw Chen Yuanyuan, a place where she sang and danced at the banquet in Tianfu. When he saw it, he was shocked and immediately asked for it.

I originally wanted to take it out of the pass and take it to Ningyuan, but Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang advised Wu Sangui not to act rashly. Chen Yuanyuan is different from ordinary women and is too eye-catching. If she is with her, she will inevitably be criticized for participating in the report. As a result, Chen Yuanyuan stayed at the General Administration of the Central Army.

This time, I must have sent it from the capital. There were literati from the Ming Dynasty who asked about the rumors and spread gossip. Even the emperor's gossip could be arranged. Not to mention generals from border towns such as Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, Chen Yuanyuan was a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, which was even more eye-catching.

Various article notes spread a lot, and people with a little intention can find out that Yuan Wenhong is a famous scholar after all, and occasionally he has to make friends with Shandong scholars on behalf of Li Meng, so he naturally heard these gossip news.

But he didn't know that Li Meng's laugh just now was not for Chen Yuanyuan to come to the door, but for this generation, the late Ming Dynasty, it was indeed the weather of the end of the world.

There are no people who spread famous officials and harsh women at all. Not to mention spreading, there are not even people who deserve to be spread. And those who are famous all over the world are either evil villains or famous prostitutes. There are no heroes in this end of the world. This era may be as much as what Gong Zizhen sighed in the late Qing Dynasty, "In today's era, there are no outstanding figures among the bandits, and the world is mediocre."

In such an era and such decline without its own variable, I can't imagine what it would become!

The room was quiet for a while, and Li Meng said in a deep voice:

"A girl was sent as a commodity. It's really pitiful to think about it. Mr. Yuan, please take it away."

Yuan Wenhong stood up and bowed to accept the order. He felt relieved. He thought that this difficult task had finally come to an end. Just as he was about to take a leave, he heard Li Meng say:

"Ask her what plans she has in the future. Let the inner account help her handle it."

Yuan Wenhong could guess this order and was about to take the order. As soon as he turned around and took a step, Li Meng stopped him and ordered in a deep voice:

"Mr. Yuan, now I will inform Zhao Neng, Zhou Yang, Ning Qiangui, and Huang Ping to come to my general's side. If there is something to discuss in Liaodong, you have to leave the envoy of the Wu family for a few days and ask him to bring a reply back."

That night, Yuan Wenhong went to the inn to say Li Meng's reply. Wu Muhuan's expression was full of a perfect expression, but after Chen Yuanyuan was invited out, Yuan Wenhong conveyed Li Meng's meaning to the girl through the screen. Chen Yuanyuan behind the screen was quiet for a while, and after a while, he heard a soft sob there.

Although Wu Muhuan was confused, he had already sent it out. He was not qualified to say anything, so he had to listen to it. When the soft sob stopped, he heard Chen Yuanyuan say quietly behind the screen:

"Thank you for your great kindness and virtue. The little concubine has no intention of loving the world and is willing to become a monk and nun. Please do it."

When he heard this, Wu Muhuan's face suddenly changed color. He finally chose a gift that could please the other party, but this "gift" was to become a monk and a nun. What's the point? Wu Muhuan was about to scold him immediately, but he heard Yuan Wenhong over there saying politely:

"Since the girl has requested this, please wait in the inn for a few days. Shandong will make arrangements, so don't be impatient."

After saying that, before Wu Muhuan opened his mouth, there was a maid brought by Yuan Wenhong and the woman who walked in and brought Chen Yuanyuan to the place arranged by Jiaozhou Camp.

Unlike Gu Hengbo and Liu Ru, who have always been favored and have a high net worth, Chen Yuanyuan's fate in recent years has been ups and downs, and she was sent as a product. Wu Sangui's young general was in his prime. He thought this was his final destination, but he did not expect that this peaceful life was given to Shandong after less than two years. This really made her feel ashamed.

Who would have thought that Shandong was reasonable and asked her to choose a way out. Any intelligent person could understand something from Li Meng's words and arrangements.

He didn't want to join the inner palace, but he felt sorry for his life and situation, so he simply took it in. What way can a woman with a dead heart have? Can she continue to sell and laugh? Apart from becoming a monk, there is nothing to choose.

The inner account room responded very quickly to this matter. Yuan Wenhong conveyed Li Meng's opinion, and both silver workers were allocated during the day.
To be continued...