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Now the Luan River has frozen, and even horse hooves have even stepped on the thick ice surface, at most, only a white mark is left. Wang Fulin even tried to decide whether he could use a dog to pull a sled or a snowboard. However, there were more than 200 people in their group, including two veterans with great experience in observing clouds. It was precisely because they confirmed that the weather has been clear in the past two days, and the group has just set off. Of course, it is not convenient for him, a newcomer, to point out, after all, he is not familiar with the geographical weather. As expected, when he got on the road, the less than 80 miles away, he suffered a lot.

The others were well-trained and used to the way to travel in the north. Even after learning to ride a horse, he almost often used this as a means of transportation. However, his whole body was wrapped tightly and almost exposed his eyes. He rode his horse in the cold wind for several hours, which was incomparable to any other time before. At the most thrilling moment, he even felt that his frozen feet could hardly hold the stirrups and talk to him on the road. That was even more unlikely. He even had the illusion that his words were frozen in the air.

Finally, Qi Jiguang took care of him. He stopped to rest twice on the road. When he stopped to rest for the second time, Qi Jiguang still rarely said a few more things about the past.

"When I arrived in Jizhen, I transferred 5,000 Zhejiang troops to train together, but those elite soldiers and generals who had never called hard and tired when fighting Japanese pirates, even after arriving in Jizhen, even if the military discipline is still solid, their spirit is not as good as before. Even if I dare not say it in front of me, some people still complained privately that they can freeze into popsicles when peeing in this winter, and if they are not careful, their hands can be frozen with steel knives, and where are people living."

"However, Ji Town has become colder and colder in the past two years." Qi Jiguang sighed unintentionally, then glanced at Xiaobei, who was also wrapped in a ball around Wang Fulin, but his eyes were still sweeping around alertly. After a moment of excavation, he explained a few more words. "The side walls of Ji Town have been repairing intermittently since I took office. Among them, the Xifengkou area is completely completed because the tribute road is about to rush, so I also have the intention of patrolling this trip. After all, when Daning was still there, the location of Xifengkou was not that important. According to this, Songting Pass, dozens of miles away, was a steep pass. Xifengkou was on the Great Wall, and the three guards of Urian Hadoyan were able to pay tribute from now on. Except for the two sides of the pass, they often opened the tribute city. It became lively."

Xiaobei was seeing the soldiers passing on strong wine, and each one was drinking very comfortably, but she was afraid and could only jump a few times to move her body. As for Qi Jiguang's explanation, she had learned about it carefully before coming, and she was not too unfamiliar. But when she heard Wang Fulin's statement, she seemed to care about Qi Jiguang's words, and she was whispering to ask what the situation in Gong City was usually and whether there would be merchants smuggling, she couldn't help but move her heart and gestured to Bizhu and the four followers on her side. Several of them scattered aside and were vaguely alert, for fear that outsiders would hear Wang Fulin's problem.

Qi Jiguang obviously had no doubt that Wang Fulin was here to spy on the military secrets, and just smiled at this issue: "There is no side of the nine sides that can truly disappear. Instead of relying on the goods inside the pass and horses outside the pass, they can get their needs. With the money allocated by the imperial court, nothing they want to do. From generals to soldiers, they have to tighten their trousers and live. As long as they are not too much, most people turn a blind eye. However, after all, the three guards of Urian Hadogyan were nominally surrendered, and the Gong market at Xifengkou is often open, which is much looser than the other sides. In the past two years, Dong Huli and his group were too restless, so the Gong market naturally stopped."

"But the more restless you are, the longer the Gong City will stop."

"No," Qi Jiguang nodded, but patiently explained, "But the tribute city is different from the mutual market. Every time Wurianha pays tribute, he only has part of the merchants who aim to tribute the tribute city, and more are tribal leaders and nobles who want to get a large reward from the court. Therefore, the so-called tribute city, the people who accompany the tribute city come with the tribute mission. Since the number of times the tribute missions enter Beijing is limited, they certainly cannot come as soon as they want. Therefore, the leaders and nobles cannot get the reward they want, and those who want to make a fortune cannot make a fortune through the tribute city. Only the Urianha people will raise troops to invade the territory again and again, hoping to force the court to resign and increase the frequency of the tribute city, which is actually the frequency of tribute."

Wang Fulin once again deeply determined that this relationship was not as simple as the diplomatic relations between the two countries in later generations. When he got on the horse again, he rode his horse while distracted and thought about whether there was any hidden meaning in Qi Jiguang's words, and finally he was vaguely sure. He said he was going to Liaodong, but Qi Jiguang also guessed it. Although he wanted to go to see it himself, Qi Jiguang would think that he was not running over there as Zhang Juzheng's eyes, but Wang Daokun's instructions, and probably hoped that he would bring back the words he heard now and reopen the Gong City at the appropriate time.

Of course, he just thought about it in his mind that this is a problem that senior officials need to grasp. Now he can only be responsible for passing messages and has no ability to affect this.

He set out early in the morning and rushed all the way, but because of the snow on the road, he had to control the speed of the horse to avoid slipping and various accidents. Therefore, when the group arrived at Xifengkou, it was already evening. Because he received a messenger report two hours ago, Xifengkoukou general Shen Duan was waiting outside with a general. There was no war at this time, and it was cold again. He, the general, was not wearing armor. At this moment, he knelt down on one knee and bowed to see him, and saw Qi Jiguang directly pulled him up with one hand. He felt the attention of him and quickly took two steps and followed the commander.

"The New Year is coming soon. Although it is important to complete the border wall at Xifengkou, the Grand Marshal came to inspect it specially, and he was really diligent. When the first group of messengers came to send a message from Santun Camp, Bei Zhi was a little unbelievable, but the soldiers below were all excited, especially the snow had been on and off these two days. Many people were very upset. Unexpectedly, the Grand Marshal came."

Qi Jiguang listened to these compliments without comment, and knew very well that he had been transferred from outside after all, and Jizhen was not as obedient as he appeared. He was highly valued by Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng in the court, while Tan Lun, Liu Yingjie, Yang Zhao, the three governors of Ji Liao, all let him, the general of Jizhen, trained troops, and therefore all the thorns among the high-level generals had long been removed, but many people at the middle and small officers at the bottom had various opinions about him, an outsider. After all, his Qi family army had only a few thousand people. Although he promoted hundreds of officers from it, it was impossible for each to be promoted.

Moreover, when fighting Japanese pirates, he could use the most severe military rule to build an iron army at the fastest speed. However, when training troops in Jizhen, the military law of beheading and cutting the ears would be slightly reduced. After all, even if there were people above him, the censors of the Censorate were always eyeing him, and there would be impeachment such as torture soldiers at any time. Therefore, among the original soldiers in Jizhen, only 30,000 people he trained initially was the backbone. It was precisely with such a team that he could beat Dong Hulu at that time, allowing the Urianha people, who thought he was invincible to suffer the biggest defeat in the past decade.

As for the 30,000 people, the troops guarding at the walls and gates of Ji Town were not completely like arm-wielding commands, whether they were officers or soldiers. Some of them had to recognize his military achievements, some did not accept him, and some hated his harsh style.

The general of Ji Town was under the jurisdiction of three deputy generals of the garrison, seven were divided into garrison generals, and there were sixteen guerrilla generals of various colors. Therefore, the general of Xifengkou Shen Duan had already entered the circle of high-level military generals with one foot. However, after Xuande, the civil and military despicable military officials had already become a deep-rooted tradition. Although he had already entered the third rank in terms of rank, he had to kneel in various places when he went out of Xifengkou and Santun Camp, his ranking had already reached the top five. So, after Qi Jiguang said a few briefly, he stepped away from the general generals of Xifengkou, and finally left Wang Fulin and introduced him a few words. He immediately smiled.

The nephew of the Minister of War, this is worthy of currying favor, not to mention that the Minister of War, Wang Daokun, is also a close friend of Qi Jiguang, the general of Ji Town. The former Governor is currently the old subordinate of Tan Lun, the Minister of War. Wang Fulin himself is also a Jinshi. Compared to his proud origin in a middle-aged family, there are several hereditary military positions in the direct and side branches. They are called children from the family of eunuchs. As expected, Jin Gui

Wang Fulin found that Chen Duan's eyes were hot, and he almost suspected that the other party had any bad habits in the army for many years, and his scalp was numb. Fortunately, Qi Jiguang had something to say to Shen Duan, and found an excuse to send him out first, so he was so happy that he ran away quickly.

When he left the house, the personal soldier who had previously advised him to enter the festival came over to lead the way to take him to his residence. Although the house was not as good as the General Mansion of Jizhen, fortunately it was warm enough and ventilated. The most important thing is that Xiaobei had already set up a box on the table, which was prepared in the morning, but the braised products were so cold that they could not eat along the way.

In the warm room, the originally frozen braised pork and braised duck had melted. Wang Fulin tore up two duck wings and drank it with a cup of strong hot tea poured by Xiaobei. Even though the taste of the brick tea did not match his taste, all he needed was hot water to warm his belly and no other requirements. Thinking about the scene of Laiyuanlou who had just seen a shadow in the twilight, the scene of the Xiongkuo that could accommodate tens of thousands of people entering the pass, he couldn't help but burp, and then looked at Xiaobei and asked: "The Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 200 years, and it has been almost intermittently with Mongolia for more than 200 years. How long do you think this kind of war will last?"

"How long does it take to fight?" Xiaobei never thought about such a long question, and he didn't expect why Wang Fulin suddenly asked this, and his eyebrows were tied into a knot. "The old masters of the court don't know, how could I know, but when the Liao and Song confronted each other, no one expected that the huge Liao Kingdom would actually perish before Song. If they thought so, Mongolia would definitely destroy the country first."

Wang Fulin didn't expect Xiaobei to say that he didn't know first, and then he used the old story of Liao and Song dynasties as an example. He couldn't help laughing. After laughing, he gave Xiaobei a thumbs up: "From this to that, the association is wonderful. You are right. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, two heroes compete for hegemony, but in the end, they were taken advantage of by other countries to rise. There are too many situations. You know why I put forward the conditions for my uncle. It was very simple to go to Liaodong after coming to Jizhen. The Jin Kingdom of the Jurchens was destroyed by Mongolia. In 20 years, Hedong and 20 years, Hexi, who can say that in the near future, this situation will not be reversed."

Of course, in history, the Manchus in Liaodong did not destroy Mongolia, but directly tied a large number of Mongolians to chariots to conquer the world. He was so slight that he could not start from the court in a short time. So could he go to Liaodong to see with his own eyes and then choose another angle to start. This is why he immediately decided to go to Liaodong to take a walk when he heard that he came to Jizhen.

Xiaobei didn't quite understand why Wang Fulin praised herself. When she heard that Wang Fulin actually thought that the Jurchens in Liaodong would be better than Mongolia in the future, she widened her eyes. This military trend somewhat surpassed her understanding, so she had no contact, but just looked at Wang Fulin's side face thoughtfully, and suddenly a thought arose in her mind.
Chapter completed!