Li Rusong then said: "Father, I still think it would be better to kill them."
Li Chengliang glared at him: "Can you say one more thing?"
"Father, please forgive me!"
Li Rusong hurriedly handed over his hands, and then said: "Being half-hearted is not the way to be cautious as a minister!"
"How dare you contradict me!"
Li Chengliang couldn't help but raise his hand again.
Li Rusong did not dodge.
However, Li Chengliang did not fight in the end and only withdrew his hand: "That's it, I have the same temperament as your mother!"
Li Chengliang couldn't help but say more: "But you have to remember, I asked famous people from Jiangnan to teach you the sages' principles, not really asking you to do things according to the sages' principles!"
As he spoke, Li Chengliang handed over a roster to Li Rusong: "Since you love killing people so much, kill them all and leave no one behind."
"Mr. Lanyang, Mr. Qinghe..."
"Father, these are the celebrities from Jiangnan whom you have treated with courtesy!"
"Kill them all?"
Li Rusong asked after taking a look at the list.
Li Chengliang glared at Li Rusong: "You have cut off the Li family's escape route. Why are you still keeping these wealthy families in the Guan Dynasty who intend to help Jianzhou grow through our Li family? Let them take advantage of the Li family's information. Are you here to blackmail my Li family into directly opposing the imperial court?!"
"Kill them all!"
"Leave no one behind!"
"Including the slave craftsmen here who were bribed by Li Rushu, they may also be the workmen of the big families in the pass! Since the nobles of Jianzhou Zuowei were killed by you, there is no need for them to exist!"
Li Chengliang said with a ruthless look in his eyes.
Li Rusong looked excited and said, "Yes! It turns out that my father has long known that Li Ruzhen and the others are secretly recruiting forces."
Li Chengliang sneered.
Immediately, Li Chengliang just sighed and walked to Li Rushe's body: "Rushe, it's your bad luck to meet such an uncle! Originally, I really planned to let you do it after you become a citizen. The new Jianzhou Left Guard Commander!"
The Li Ruzhen clan previously defected to Jianzhou right guard Wang Gao to oppose the Ming court. However, because Li Chengliang was captured when Wang Gao was annihilated in the second year of Wanli, he became a slave of Li Chengliang's family.
Therefore, Li Chengliang called Li Rusong uncle in front of his body at this time, because Li Rusong was indeed Li Rushe's eldest young master, the so-called uncle.
As he said this, Li Chengliang suddenly remembered what Li Rusong said about killing Li Rushe to show his loyalty to the court. He couldn't help but frown, and hurriedly shouted to Li Rusong who had not gone far: "Come back!"
Li Rusong came back and said, "Father, do you have any other instructions?"
Li Chengliang said: "You are not allowed to be a pioneer anymore! You can only sit in the rear!"
"ah?!"
Li Rusong was quite surprised and frowned slightly.
Li Chengliang then told Yang Huan: "From now on, the amount of personal protection for the servants will be doubled! The monthly payment will also be doubled! And every meal must have a poison tester, and before and after the march, there must be confidants who can block hidden arrows and fire blunderbuss."
Yang Huan raised his hand and said yes.
Li Chengliang looked at Li Rusong: "I will write to Duke Ji and ask him to let you worship under his sect and learn troop formation from him. Now you have the tactics taught by Xu Wenchang, but how to command the infantry and cavalry to attack from the rear?" , it’s still a little short of heat.”
"My father asked me to study, but the child dared not say anything."
"If you don't let me do vanguard slashing, wouldn't it mean that all my riding and shooting training is in vain?"
Li Rusong asked reluctantly.
"It's nothing!"
"Don't you want the Li family to be loyal ministers? Then you can't let yourself be killed easily!"
After speaking, Li Chengliang gave another order to Yang Huan: "Instruct the clerk in the government to write a memorial in my name, asking the court to rectify the trade in Liaodong, such as Datong Town, open border trade to barbarians, and set up customs to collect taxes to increase it." Commercial taxes are used to make up for the lack of military supplies in Liao."
"In addition, tell the imperial court the profit status of my Li family's business in Liaodong."
"Your Majesty must know that the money of my Li family is his money. He can take as much as he wants, and the rest will be rewarded to us. Let the court know that in terms of restructuring for the country and the people, we Li Home is also supportive and proactive.”
Li Rusong was stunned for a moment, then bowed deeply to his father, and then said to the officials around him: "Let's go, follow me and kill people!"
It didn't take long.
The literati who were taken in by Li Chengliang and the domestic servants and craftsmen who were secretly bribed by Li Rushe but who had been known to Li Chengliang for a long time were also all killed.
"Marquis Ningyuan, aren't you afraid that the southern nobles will retaliate against you in the future?!"
"You bastards of the Li family! If you renounce yourself in Shilin, you will die badly!"
For a while.
All the literati in the Li family screamed and cursed.
Li Chengliang had no choice but to give up the idea of letting Li Ruzhen lead the captured Jianzhou right guard of more than 2,000 Yiding, and let his other military general Zha Da, who was a member of the clan, take over the two thousand Yiding and was ordered to go to Yunnan to conquer Burma.
Zha Damou was naturally willing, because it meant that he had the opportunity to make meritorious deeds with the help of these two thousand Jurchen Yiding.
A few days later, Jinyiwei came to Liaodong and announced his intention to arrest Li Rubin, and thus learned that Li Rubin had committed suicide in fear of crime.
…
Zhu Yijun already knew all this through Li Rusong's secret order, and even knew about Li Rushe's murder.
"Nurhaci?"
However, in Li Rusong's secret memorial, he had revealed Li Rushe's true identity. Therefore, Zhu Yijun, who was not clear about Nurhachi's situation before he rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, finally met "Nurhaci" for the first time in Li Rusong's secret memorial. Hachi" name.
At the same time, Zhu Yijun also learned from Li Rusong's secret report that the Li Rushe clan, whose real name was Nurhachi, had been bloodbathed by Li Rusong.
This made Zhu Yijun couldn't help but laugh: "What a Li Rusong, I really like him more and more!"
"According to Ningyuan Hou's report, it turned out that Li Ruzhen, the left guard of the founding of the state in the ninth year of Wanli, deliberately betrayed the dynasty, and therefore attracted the border generals and craftsmen. If Yin heard that the tea merchant Fang Bencheng was Zhusheng, and he was a craftsman. , good at making fire guns, he chased the tea merchant for three stations to bribe him, introduced him as a tea supplier to Ningyuan Hou Mansion, and asked him to make thirty fire guns privately. Therefore, after Ning Yuan Hou discovered that Li Rushe had strange ambitions, he Deal with his clan decisively."
"In addition, Marquis Ningyuan said that Li Rubin committed suicide out of fear of crime. Please ask the court to investigate him for lax supervision."
"Marquis Ningyuan asked to open border trade in Liaodong, set up customs and collect taxes, and presented his family's business situation in Liaodong."
Shortly after.
Zhu Yijun also received Li Chengliang's secret memorial about the execution of Li Ruzhen and other Jianzhou Zuowei nobles and Li Rubin. He also received a chapter memorial asking to open border trade in Liaodong and set up customs in Liaodong to collect taxes. It also listed the Li family's business situation in Liaodong.
This made Zhu Yijun even more happy.
Because this means that Li Chengliang took the responsibility for killing Li Ruzhen and other Jianzhou Zuowei nobles on his own, and was still showing his loyalty to him as the emperor. He was so loyal that he was willing to give up the entire commercial interests of Liaodong for the sake of the national interest.
Zhu Yijun has long known that Liaodong business has always been controlled by the Li family.
It's just that Zhu Yijun has been working with Zhang Juzheng on internal affairs reforms since he came to the throne, and now after Zhang Juzheng's death, he is trying his best to prevent internal conservatives from counterattacking Zhang Juzheng, so Zhu Yijun has not devoted his energy to reforming Liaodong controlled by Li Chengliang.
What's more, Zhu Yijun also knew that Li Chengliang was able to control Liaodong's trade not only because Li Chengliang was in charge of the military in Liaodong, but also because there were many powerful officials and gentry behind Li Chengliang cooperating with him, so no one impeached Li Chengliang for using sergeants to transport business for him. In order to obtain profits from the goods, there is no need to open border trade in Liaodong to collect commercial taxes.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun planned to carry out local reforms in internal and military affairs after the central court was stabilized, so he was not in a hurry to carry out reforms in Liaodong.
In addition, Li Chengliang himself did have good military capabilities, and used military means to ensure the basic peace of Liaodong.
Zhu Yijun was even less anxious to make a fuss in Liaodong.
but now.
Li Chengliang, the largest military landlord in Liaodong, took the initiative to request restructuring, and even told Zhu Yijun without reservation about his business profits in Liaodong, expressing his willingness to make concessions that would benefit the country.
This naturally made Zhu Yijun very happy.
This means that there will be a lot less resistance to Liaodong's reforms.
"Li Chengliang is also a reformist?"
After Deputy Privy Councilor Liang Menglong played what Li Chengliang had played in front of him, Zhu Yijun even couldn't help but think about it secretly.
But when he thought about Li Rusong's secret report mentioning that he killed Li Rushe and others, he felt that Li Chengliang should have been forced to become a reformist by his son.
After Zhu Yijun thought this, he also asked Shen Shixing and Fang Fengshi: "How did you draft the piece played by Marquis Ningyuan?"
