Chapter 254 Shadow of Death "Sir" Li Hanqing couldn't agree with Tuotuo's arrangement at all, and instinctively wanted to stop it.
However, seeing Tuotuo's angry eyes, the words that had reached his lips were swallowed back into his stomach.
As the saying goes, if there is no closeness, Tamerlane should come first and then be useless.
He is also Tuotuo's direct brother.
If you don't hand over your back to him, who else can Tuotuo trust?
In addition, although Timur was not good at using troops, he lost an army of 300,000 in one breath.
But his personal bravery will definitely rank among the top three in the entire metropolis.
When it really shows its power, a dozen or so warriors can't even get close to it.
Enough to lead a small group of private soldiers directly into anyone's home.
"Actually, it's best to keep you here."
Not wanting Li Hanqing to be too sad, Dayuan Youcheng Tuotuo thought for a while and added solemnly, "However, the emperor has already ordered your general, and I cannot openly disobey the order." .
Secondly, although you are capable, you are of lower origin and you are a Han.
The Mongolian warriors in my family may not be willing to obey your control.
It's better to stay with me and use all our skills to help me deal with the red scarf thief.
If our brothers kill Butcher Zhu sooner, we can return to the capital city sooner to solve other troubles.
It will be enough to compensate for Tamerlane's crime of losing his master and humiliating the country.
By then, no one will be able to hold our family back."
"Yes, sir" Li Hanqing sighed and responded sadly.
To be honest, he didn't agree with Tuotuo's idea at all.
With the great achievement of eliminating Butcher Zhu, he can regain the emperor's trust and those political opponents in the court will not dare to fight wantonly.
How is this possible?
If he had great merit and could avoid being murdered, Yue Wumu would not have died in the Fengbo Pavilion back then.
What do the words "Mo Xu You" mean?
It's not that it may or may not exist, but it doesn't need to exist at all.
Just the four words "Gong Gaozhen Zhu" is enough to kill any minister.
"I can handle the military training myself.
You don't have to take care of the food, grass and baggage for the time being."
Seeing that Li Hanqing was still not in a good mood, You Cheng Tuotuo thought for a while and began to put a burden on his shoulders, "While I'm leaving, Spring is still a while away, You can recruit a group of good people from home and ask me about the situation at Butcher Zhu.
Except for me and Tuohuan Timur, you can call on everyone else in Youcheng's house.
Only by knowing the situation can we know ourselves and the enemy.”
"I humble my duty and obey my orders."
Li Hanqing thought for a moment, then stood solemnly and held his hands.
Unable to persuade Tuotuo to deal with his political enemies first and then go on an expedition, he could only do the next best thing and assist Tuotuo to eliminate external enemies as quickly as possible.
Then he returned to the capital city as quickly as possible, shocking Hama, Sang Ge, Yue Kuo Chaer and others.
If the timing is correct, maybe the final result will not be as bad as he imagined.
Li Hanqing is a straightforward person.
Once he decides to do something, he will never be sloppy.
In the evening of that day, he led a hundred close friends and braved the wind and snow to leave the capital city.
Along the frozen canal all the way south, the team was broken into pieces as they walked, and the dead soldiers were disguised as traders, refugees, beggars and walking monks, and penetrated south of the Yellow River from all directions.
Then he bought a courtyard in Pizhou, which is only across the river from Xuzhou, as a contact point.
Soon, a steady stream of information about the Huai'an Army was collected back.
However, after the intelligence was compiled, Li Hanqing was stunned.
I have seen something out of place, but I have never seen anything so out of place.
Just as he and his master were getting ready to go south at any time, Zhu Bayi, the most difficult enemy in their eyes, turned out to be the boss.
He handed over all military and government affairs to Xu Da, Hu Dahai, Liu Ziyun, Mr.
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Su, Lu Zeng, etc., while he plunged into the Hundred Workshops and tinkered with things for women.
It is said that he has to squat in the workshop for at least four or five days every time.
Unless there is an extremely urgent matter, no one can see him.
"What the hell is this guy doing?"
Li Hanqing opened the secret reports from different channels and placed them side by side on the table.
He rubbed his temples with his fingers and pondered.
According to common sense, if the opponent is bored with things, he should be happy.
However, Li Hanqing, who was known as a genius, was not happy at all.
On the contrary, he always felt cool on his back, as if there was a dark wind blowing constantly.
Even when sleeping, I can't close my eyes safely.
Zhu Bayi can be called the best in the world when it comes to making weapons.
In order to escape safely, he just took a useless copper gun and gave it to the other party as a gift.
However, he never expected that in just two or three months, the copper gun would be completely transformed by Butcher Zhu.
It turned into a bronze cannon that made everyone laugh.
In the Battle of Shahe shortly afterwards, the artillery smuggled from Huai'an suddenly exploded, causing Timur and his men to lose their armor first.
Ninety-nine percent of the 300,000-strong army was destroyed by Liu Futong.
In the end, only a few thousand people escaped from Shengtian.
And everyone's expression changed when they heard the sound of cannons, and they no longer dared to mention the word "go south" Now, Butcher Zhu is diving into the workshop again.
Who knows what kind of killer weapon he will come up with again.
All kinds of utensils he usually saw, including the scissors used by women, were magnified ten times in his mind.
The genius Li Hanqing couldn't guess what it was that was worthy of Zhu Butcher's so much effort.
Is there anything better than artillery?
And the fire gun is sharper A weapon?
And it has to be on a woman's personal belongings.
How sharp does it have to be?
What did the butcher named Zhu get from the Buddha of Three Lives?
Every step he took was so precise and accurate.
So scary Note 1 No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't directly guess what magic weapon Zhu Ba11 was making.
Li Hanqing could only look for clues from piles of secret reports.
The secret report on the table was very complex, covering almost everything that might be related to Zhu Ba11 in Huai'an, Gaoyou and Yangzhou in the past month.
Including the Huai'an army exchanging weapons for friendly forces for food, using land to win over Sesame Li and Zhao Jun as two allies, and vigorously supporting Wang Kerou, Zhang Shicheng, and Zhu Chongba, allowing them to establish their own territories on the north and south sides of the Yangtze River.
Putting Dong Tuanxiao into a dilemma, etc., for fear of not being complete or detailed.
The "idiot" famous dead man probably really couldn't understand Zhu Bayi's behavior of giving away the territory he had worked so hard to conquer and the powerful weapon to control the country to others, so he commented angrily at the end of the secret report.
"Bah, if this Butcher Zhu is a fool, there won't be a smart person in the world."
Li Hanqing grabbed this frivolous thing from the secret report, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it at his feet. in the brazier.
Since the first contact between the two parties, he has never underestimated Zhu Bayi.
Including the use of troops and political strategies, in his eyes, the latter's various actions are remarkable.
He appears to be honest on the outside but scheming on the inside.
This is what he and Tuotuo agreed on after repeated studies on Zhu Bayi.
Although many people, including Tuotuo's younger brother Timur, disagree with this evaluation.
But so far, no one has seen Butcher Zhu really suffer a loss.
On the contrary, those who thought Butcher Zhu was stupid have either turned into a pile of bones or been dragged into the pirate ship by Butcher Zhu, and no one has really gained any advantage.
The other secret reports placed on the desk all verified the judgments of him and Tuotuo.
Every portion looks normal on the surface.
But the closer you look at it, the more shocking it becomes.
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"On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the unruly man Wei played drums in Yangzhou Prefecture to protest his injustice.
He sued Wu Tianliang, a wealthy businessman in Yangzhou, for murder and property seizure.
The head of the Criminal Bureau, Luo Ben, the prefect of Yangzhou, tried the case in person.
There were 13 people in the jury, six of them.
They believed that Wu Tianliang's crime should not be pardoned, and the seven people insisted that Wei had falsely accused Wu Tianliang and was acquitted."
"On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Ye Dexin joined the army to conduct a thorough inspection of the fields on Yangzhou Road.
Wang Shouren, a great Confucian in Taizhou, gathered his neighbors to stop him.
Ye Dexin could not bear to kill innocent people and retreated with hatred.
On the thirty night of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Liangzu led his troops to defeat Wang's village and killed Wang Shouren's family on the second day of the lunar month.
Wu Liangmou, the governor of Taizhou, led troops to rescue him, but Zhu Liangzu was defeated and took the boat and fled into the Yangtze River."
"On the fourth day of the first lunar month, a wealthy gentry with millions of dollars was killed by a defeated army on his way to a banquet.
His two sons and more than 30 servants who accompanied him all died unexpectedly."
"On the fourth day of the first lunar month, a porcelain kiln named Xuanzi exploded outside the city.
The owner of the kiln, Zhou De, was affected by the flames and died on the spot."
"On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Luo Ben, who joined the army, registered all the porcelain kilns outside Yangzhou City.
Seventy-three unowned kilns were found and all were taken over by the government."
"On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Shi Su Mingzhe, the head of the Huaiyang General Administration Office, issued a tax order.
All goods entering and leaving Huai'an, Gaoyou and Yangzhou will be taxed 10%.
All areas under the jurisdiction of the Huai'an army will be taxed.
Anyone who has evaded more than 10 yuan of tax will have their goods confiscated and the owner will not be allowed to enter Huaiyang again in this lifetime."
"On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Thie imitated the imperial system and set up eight bureaus of officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, industry, schools, and commerce.
With Lu Luzeng, Su Mingzhe, Chen Ji, Xu Da, Luo Ben, Huang Zheng, Lu Kun and Yu Changlin are in charge.”
"On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Wu Tianliang, a wealthy businessman, feared crime and fled with his family to escape disaster.
The boat was sunk by the navy's heavy artillery on the Yangtze River, and 62 people, old and young, were buried in the belly of the fish.
The navy commander Zhu Qiang copied out of Yangzhou on Wu Tianliang's body.
The gentry's autographed letter to Dong Tuanxiao was signed by more than 40 people, but Zhu Butcher laughed and burned it."
"On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Xu Shizhong, the grandson of the great scholar Xu Heng, sold his property at a low price and took his whole family to visit friends in the south of the Yangtze River."
"On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, squire Yang Quan moved his family to Bianliang" "When did this guy become so cruel?"
Li Hanqing patted himself hard and forced himself to stay awake.
He couldn't see clearly without summarizing.
The more he summed up the recent events, the creepier he felt.
During the month when Butcher Zhu hid himself in Baigongfang, nearly 30% of the prominent people on Yangzhou Road died.
There are still 20% who are afraid of being harmed by the fish in the pond, abandoned their land and workshops, and moved their families to the south of the Yangtze River.
The result of all this was that the gentry who were reluctant to leave knelt down one after another and no longer dared to cause any trouble to Butcher Zhu.
"On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Zheng Yuan, a Jinshi, donated more than 100,000 kilograms of grain stored in his home to the government to provide relief to the victims.
Lu Lu personally welcomed him and chose one of his sons to join the shogunate."
"On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Jinshi Zhang Zhenglin, Hu Run and others jointly submitted a letter requesting the Huaiyang General Manager's Office to open the imperial examination again to give the civil servants a chance to advance to the next level."
On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the unruly Liu family sued the Xu family, a cloth merchant, for occupying land and committing murder.
The jurors unanimously agreed that Xu Xiaoxian, the eldest son of the Xu family, was guilty.
In addition to being hanged, a fine of one hundred guan will be used as a pension for the Liu family."
Note 1: Maitreya Buddha, in folklore, is the Three Lives Buddha.
Can see the past, present, and future
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