Chapter 477 Confusion, Break the deadlock, Confidence

"Share the world equally..."

When Li Meng was in modern times, this sentence was only seen in film and television dramas and novels. After coming to this era, Li Meng did not dare to think about this sentence five years ago.

But now, a governor of the Ming Dynasty stood beside him and reported respectfully with the attitude of a subordinate civil servant, which is really touching.

Of course, Li Meng's first reaction when he heard this sentence was to laugh. Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, could also expect Li Meng to have this reaction, and laughed at him.

"The King of Chuang was so angry. He didn't know that this man was here for him?"

Li Meng joked calmly that the governor Li Xianfeng, who was beside him, had a deal with him when Li Meng rescued Kaifeng. He didn't know what kind of temper and personality this master had. He heard all the rumors. However, Li Xianfeng also had a rough judgment that this Duke of Qi was so talented and wise, he would not be as harsh as Emperor Chongzhen.

After laughing a few times, Li Meng sat on the chair and remained silent. This performance made Li Xianfeng, who was standing aside, feel quite nervous.

"Mr. Li, you have managed the civil affairs in Kaifeng and the surrounding areas in an orderly manner. I know what I know and will definitely be of great use in the future."

After Li Meng was silent for a while, he smiled and said these words of praise. Kaifeng City is known as the third largest city in the world, with a large population. This place can even catch up with half of the provinces in remote places such as Yunnan and Guizhou. Although Li Xianfeng can only manage Kaifeng City, as well as the surrounding three counties and Guide Prefecture, he has indeed made everything very well and the local area is running in an orderly manner.

Compared to Yan Jizu, who studies imperial science every day, this is more clever. The local area requires such talents, but there are fewer such talents in Shandong.

Originally, the atmosphere in the room was not high, but Li Meng's sudden comment seemed to give Li Xianfeng a strong medicine. He suddenly became excited. What does his master's praise mean? Li Xianfeng knew what it means, but now he was ecstatic, but he couldn't show it to the color. He was really uncomfortable.

"The policy of Kaifeng is rare to be combined with the military farms. There is no good way for Lord Li to handle it everywhere in Shandong. In the future, in addition to Shandong, such policies will also be promoted to other places. Officials who are familiar with this law should be trained and then spread throughout the place."

The outstanding feature of the military farms around Kaifeng City is that it not only gathers refugees and stabilizes the local area to provide troops and food and wages to the army, but also establishes a supply and demand relationship with Kaifeng City. The population base of Kaifeng City is huge, and the various demands generated are also huge.

The production of the military farmlands, the consumption of Kaifeng City and several county towns, and the military farmlands then put the gold and silver earned into production, and it has been repeated over and over again. A virtuous cycle has been formed.

On the same day, Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, saw that the residents in the city had to obtain food and supplies from the fleet transport on the Yellow River, while the production surplus of the military farm was stored in the warehouse. The local garrison could not consume so much material at all, so it was better to communicate with each other.

The regulations on the camp in Jiaozhou are extremely strict. These villages in the military farms dare not be self-dedicated. Some people even said to Yuan Shizhong, who was guarding Kaifeng City, "This Li Xianfeng has ulterior motives and wants to use military posture. Generals should keep a close eye on it...", Henan Governor Li Xianfeng really wanted to act like this, so he wrote a letter to Duke Qi Li Meng to discuss these matters. As a result, several Shandong officials in charge of civil affairs and economy discussed the proposal. He thought this method was feasible, and this was the promotion.

After this incident, Li Xianfeng's status in Li Meng's heart has also improved a lot, and today's rewards are not without reasons.

In addition to the local military farm officials in Shandong, there are many wealthy and prosperous cities in the provinces south of Shandong. The methods of officials in these cities are naturally different from those in the farm. This is the most suitable place for Kaifeng City Natural Stone.

Henan Governor Li Xianfeng was naturally overjoyed about this arrangement. Since he was joining the Duke of Qi, he would do the major matter of the new and old reforms, if the matter was accomplished, it would be a Henan Governor, but the training of officials spread everywhere is equivalent to the disciples and old friends all over the world. What is the future of this?

After saying a few brief words, Li Meng opened his mouth and ordered:

"I will have to discuss some military affairs in the future. Lord Li will go back first. I will also ask Lord Li to handle the matters of providing military funds and pacifying the people's hearts. Besides, please keep it confidential when I come to Kaifeng!"

Hearing Li Meng's polite words, Li Xianfeng also understood that he had issued an order to expel the guest, and hurriedly bowed and said dismissal.

When Li Meng came to Kaifeng this time, he disguised himself as a wealthy businessman from Shandong when he entered the city. After entering the city, he found a large family to live in.

This large household is the secret stronghold arranged by the Shandong Salt Gang in Kaifeng City. Even the branch of Lingshan Trading Company and the person in charge of the Shandong Salt Gang are not aware of this stronghold. It was completely used for emergency situations. This time it is also used as the place where Li Mengdi is stationed.

It looks like this rich family outside, and the house is just like three-entry entrances. There are many residential houses around it, but in fact, this area was bought by people from Shandong using various means and connected to each other. Otherwise, they would not be able to tolerate so many people from Duke Qi.

In order to show his respect and politeness, Li Meng was forced to send him to the door, so please tell him to be a polite official.

After returning to the house, Li Meng, who had always been decisive, did not send his personal soldiers to summon generals to discuss military affairs. Li Meng dismissed all the people in the house and sat alone in the house.

Li Meng adjusted his sitting position a little, sighed a long time, looked up at the ceiling. For some reason, he couldn't feel any excitement now, just tired.

Li Meng also felt that this mentality was wrong. He was only in his thirties and the war was about to come. How could he have such an old man mentality? It is really incomprehensible. If he had just come to this era, he would definitely not have summoned everyone to sell private salt and go to the inspector's house at night to kill people, and there would not have been any troops who would pursue the Tartars alone later. But why are they tired now?

Li Meng still remembers the battle when he was in office in Jiaozhou City, and was intercepted by bandits halfway. Seeing the arrows flying towards him quickly, Li Meng will never forget that moment. He vaguely remembered that he was first like falling into an ice cellar, and then his blood was boiling.

That kind of state of burning and fighting spirit. Li Meng was immersed in it, but as time progressed, such a state could never be found again. In every battle, he would sit upright on the horse, stand under the flag of commanding the various departments, and even in his own Duke's mansion in Jinan. He issued orders based on the information sent from various places.

It seems that this is the case with more than 100,000 soldiers, millions of people, and the world's most eye-catching figures. If you are on the battlefield in person, fighting with the enemy with swords, that will make people laugh.

But, this state is too boring. Li Meng's previous life is less than 30 years old, and it has only been more than ten years since he came to this era. He is just a middle-aged man in his forties. However, Li Meng felt that his mentality seemed to be an elderly person over fifty years old. His current battles in the world seem to have clear goals and vague goals. I don't know why he did it, whether it was for his children.

When Li Meng set off, his itinerary was kept confidential, but he would not hide it from his wives and concubines. The girls must also know how to keep it confidential.

The Jiaozhou Camp's attack on Henan this time was aware of the significance of the secret counselors, but they also knew that the main force of the Shun Army and the Ming Army gathered in Henan, and the military affairs were dangerous. His husband was the commander of the First Army. It was really worrying that even Mu Yunyao and Yan Ruoran were both strong people. But they couldn't help but shed tears before leaving.

The situation of the war is ever-changing, but Li Meng does not think that he will have any danger. He is a little impatient with his wives and concubines, but it will not be reflected in his expression.

But there was something that Li Meng remembered very clearly. The backyard was full of his relatives, but Li Hong and Li Wu couldn't feel any sad atmosphere of parting. The children didn't know the importance of it, and the adults also hid the news that Li Meng was going to Henan. Li Hong liked this younger brother very much and teased Li Wu to run around in the yard. The two of them laughed heartlessly, which diluted the sorrow of separation a lot.

When Li Meng saw the children, the impatient feeling in his heart was wiped out. He stepped forward, gently hugged Yan Ruoran and Mu Yunyao in his arms, and whispered:

"It's just that I go back, why are I so sad?"

Yan Ruoran did not speak in Li Meng's arms, but Mu Yunyao said with a sob:

"My husband is away all year round and finally reunited during this period. I'm going out again, it's really..."

Li Meng gently stroked Mu Yunyao's back and comforted him:

"Shandong may not be a place to stay for a long time. This time I went out for a long time to get together in the future."

Having said that, just click here, there is no need to say in detail. Whether it is Yan Ruoran, Mu Yunyao, or Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi standing behind him, they were shocked by the brilliant structure mentioned by Li Meng. For a moment, they suddenly realized that they were so close to this real dream, almost within reach.

Comforting the women, Li Meng let go of his hand, turned around and squatted down, and greeted the two children running over there. The so-called blessed and kind mother, whether Li Hong or Li Wu, was a little afraid of his mighty father. At this greeting, the two of them smiled and walked over timidly.

Li Meng was also a little amused and laughed at the children's attitude. He reached out and twisted Li Hong's cheeks, touched Li Wu's head again, and said with a smile:

"I'm back this time, do you want to bring you something for your father?"

He is indeed not a qualified father, one is five years old and one is over one year old. He has never had two children from Jinan. He can know what Henan specialties are not good, and of course there will be no answers. Li Meng did not ask, but just stood up and laughed loudly:

"I'll bring you the world back!"

...When thinking of his family and children, he was always much more happy. When the personal soldiers outside the door informed him that Mr. Yuan had arrived, Li Meng shook his head, and his thoughts were also interrupted, but the feeling of fatigue and powerlessness still did not disappear.

The struggle for something is exciting and exciting, but when the goal is close, I don’t know what to do in the future, which is quite boring. The chief clerk Yuan Wenhong is the busiest at this time and arranges it everywhere. The contact of the situation must be carried out through him, the liaison officer, and Li Meng responded loudly.

The personal soldiers opened the door for Yuan Wenhong. As soon as Yuan Wenhong walked in, he saw Li Meng sitting there in a very loose posture. When he saw himself entering the door, he straightened his body and returned to his usual military style. Yuan Wenhong also saw that Li Meng's expression was a little desolate.

It is rare to see the general like this. Yuan Wenhong was surprised, but he didn't dare to have any questions. He just lowered his head, bowed and walked in, holding the copywriting in his arms, and spoke in a solemn voice:

"Master, the reply letters from all over the place have arrived, and Yanshi has already passed there and is ready to go ashore."

Li Meng let out a sigh. He patted his forehead with his hand to correct his thoughts, and then asked:

"There have been arrangements here for a long time. You remind your personal military camp to ensure fast horses and horses everywhere. Don't delay the news. Then today I will send a letter to the Hebei Army and ask Zhang Jiang to pass it to Gao Di."

Yuan Wenhong nodded and agreed, quickly took out the paper and pen and walked to the side to spread the book case. Li Meng pondered for a moment, then said:

"Gaodi, I don't want to kill more Han people. You either take a general to the grassland to fight the Tartars, or go to death. If you reply to the letter, you will die if you don't reply!"

Yuan Wenhong recorded the letter without expression and sent it to Li Meng to read and confirm. He took Li Meng's bronze seal and then sealed it with a hot paint on his face. Li Meng took it out and turned it on the hot paint. Yuan Wenhong took it and put it in a wooden box. This was the urgent process. After that, someone from the personal military camp came to receive the letter and rode his horse to the north.

Although the war is approaching, Li Meng's dispatching has already arranged a lot of things. It is now starting to operate. He should not pay too much attention to it. Yuan Wenhong simply determined a few things. He was ready to say goodbye and leave. From the time he came in, he saw that the coach was in a heavy mood, so it would be better not to bother him.

"Mr. Yuan, do you know how outsiders evaluate our Shandong?"

Yuan Wenhong was stunned, but he vaguely guessed Li Meng’s thoughts. After a little consideration, he spoke:

"Shandong soldiers and horses rose up in time, and it was the birth of heroes. They saved the people from water and fire. Naturally, the people admired and looked back to the people."

It is not easy to let a famous Shandong scholar speak such a misunderstanding word, but Li Meng also knew that at present, all forces are fighting each other, and the people who suffer. It is not guaranteed that the people under the control of the Shun Army will hate the Ming army. Jiaozhou Camp also came to be an enemy of the Shun Army, so naturally there would be no good impression.

Li Meng also learned from the information that the Inquiry Department has inquired from everywhere that even the villages of military farms often complain, believing that the farms of military farms are like cattle and horses.

Having said this, Li Meng fell silent again. Yuan Wenhong, who was on the side, lowered his head and kept silent. He felt a chill all over. He didn't know what the state of the commander in today, but he knew that if he was not careful in dealing with it for a while, he would be a disaster for himself. He looked up and saw that Li Meng sitting there was still looking down and contemplating. Yuan Wenhong was also a little anxious. The battle was approaching, but the commander of the first army was thinking about it here.

Li Meng now represents not only him, but the entire Shandong Wenwu Group. He wants to lead the group to continue to advance and seize the entire world. If he is confused as the leader of the entire group, then what everyone should do is likely to be a result of being crushed and killed and exterminated.

"Master, it's not too late to think about this sad and elegant thing after the world is stable. Although it is about to achieve great success, it's not done after all. The Master is in this way. Don't forget the thousands of troops and billions of people under his command."

Yuan Wenhong, who had always been respectful, suddenly stepped forward and shouted loudly. Li Meng was stunned. He looked up at Yuan Wenhong who was standing in front of him. The chief clerk who had always been gentle and elegant was flushed at this moment. He stared at himself. Li Meng was confused but dispersed. Yuan Wenhong shouted anxiously again:

"As a master, one should have a world-renowned mind, and not think about the survival of every grass and a tree. The subordinates dared to speculate. The general was tired of this mountain of corpses and blood, but he felt that too many people died under the knife. The general, our Shandong soldiers and horses killed countless people, but because of our killing, more people survived."

What Yuan Wenhong said was exactly what Li Meng thought. Although he gradually integrated into this era, Li Meng never killed or even hurt anyone in his previous life, whether as a soldier or a financial escort. After coming to this era, those who died directly and indirectly at his hands can be calculated using 100,000 yuan.

On weekdays, he focuses on construction, training, overall arrangement, and all matters of unity and alliance without distraction, so he doesn't think about these things. But today, the lower forces split and merged, probably determined several sides. Li Meng has done all kinds of responses again, and the situation has become simpler.

The situation is simple. I have to think more about things. I didn’t expect that the Tartars died at his hands. But I thought that several wars of more than 100,000 people were carried out in the pass, and the deaths and injuries were all the Han families. Li Meng often thought that when he had the idea of ​​the world, it was to make the world peaceful. The people of China did not have to suffer the pain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. He did not have to endure those hundreds of years of dark age in the next few hundred years.

But there are too many dead people. The people I killed on the battlefield may be farmers in the fields, small vendors, or even literati. They are all people in China...

Just now, Yuan Wenhong's direct advice and dominance really unraveled Li Meng's knot. Shandong soldiers and horses killed countless people, but it was precisely because of this killing countless people.                                                                                                        

Kill more people, but saved more people because of this murder. Li Meng vaguely remembers an impression left by reading newspapers in modern times. It was about the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and robbed five times. The most violent place was in Shandong. Peasant uprisings. The government army fought with the rebels, and the bodies were eaten up by the hungry people around him. This is a living hell on earth.

When the Qing Dynasty ruled Shandong, the population of Shandong was only one-fifth of the land in the early years of Chongzhen.

However, this disaster was terminated after Li Meng became a sergeant general who was in charge of the four prefectures. The military farm collected a large number of landless hungry refugees. The force of the Jiaozhou camp protected Shandong from the invasion of refugees and Tartars.

Currently, Shandong's population has increased by nearly 50% compared with the early years of Chongzhen, which does not include refugees recruited and migrated from other places.

Li Meng could only think of this. In fact, what he did was much more than he thought. The Tartars entered the pass, the fourth and fifth times both caused nearly one million people to Shandong. There were Linqing's massacre and various cruel killings, but they did not happen because of his appearance.

Originally, Henan was in chaos, but Li Meng saved the safety of Kaifeng Banfu and Guide north of the Yellow River. If it weren't for him, someone would have dug up the Yellow River and flooded Kaifeng when he surrounded Kaifeng for the third time. This tragedy was done by refugees or by Hou Xun's troops on the other side. It has not been explained clearly yet, but the result was abnormal. Except for the Zhou Palace, the governor, the prefect and other hundreds of people who ran to the city to survive, hundreds of thousands of people in the city were drowned.

In the south, if Zhang Xianzhong and the Fifth Camp of Ge Zuo were not in Nanzhili, the scope of the infringement would have been further expanded.

Not to mention that because of the existence of Li Meng, the areas around Shandong are in a certain degree of peace, the areas around Shandong are generally calm, and all the areas directly ruled by Shandong are in an orderly and upward environment, and the people live in it, and they may not be rich, but they can survive. This directly and indirectly saves many people, but it is hard to say.

"Master, the emperor said a rudely way, from the time the general gathered people on Xuejia Island to the situation today, when he was in such a situation, everyone in the world was stunned by this step. From a military solitary son who had become the hope of the world for more than ten years, this is the destiny, the destiny of the general, the destiny of heaven, and the destiny of heaven should follow the heaven!"

Li Meng took a long breath, and the hesitation and confusion had disappeared, and followed by a confident smile:

"If there is a destiny, Li Meng would not have come to this era. Since I have come, I will change all this. I am the heaven."

Yuan Wenhong did not speak anymore, but bowed deeply and stepped back. Yuan Wenhong did not tell anyone about the conversation on this day. When the powerful and powerful people were used to writing notes and anecdotes, no one saw the conversation on this day. Until two hundred years later, some secrets were found in the ancestral hall of Yuan Wenhong's former house, but the official had never recognized its authenticity.

It was drizzling lightly, and a large group of cavalry were moving south on the official road between Luoyang City and Ruzhou, and the speed was not fast. This was obviously saving horsepower for a long-distance marching.

"Sir Tang, we are still twenty miles away from Ruzhou!!"
Chapter completed!