The Yahu Pass was originally one of the most important checkpoints on the southeastern line among the Liaodong side walls. It echoed the newly built Kuandian Six Forts in the southeast, so there was no Ma City, and the garrison power was not inferior to Fushun Pass... Moreover, because he received a message from Li Rusong early, Cao Gui, the deputy general of Liaoyang, dispatched some troops from the nearby Qinghe Fort, and the Weining Camp successively sent some troops to reinforce. Zhang Chongzheng, originally guarding the Liaohai Dongning Road, has always been here. Now, Liaodong Governor Zhang Xueyan has suddenly arrived, and the place is even more rigorously deployed, which is not an exaggeration to say that it is solid.

Whether it is Li Rusong, Wang Fulin and Shen Maoxue, or even Yuanma Temple Minister Hong Jiyuan who threw a lot of time in Fushun Ma City on his way to take office, they all saw Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong again after a long time. They were in a different mood.

Li Chengliang has been famous in Liaodong over the years. The only civil servants who can truly suppress him is Zhang Xueyan, who is equally prestigious and prohibited. The two have always been consistent in their general military and political policies, at least to outsiders. As for the person involved’s own thoughts, only he knows it. But Li Rusong is Li Chengliang’s eldest son after all, and knows a lot about the inside story. Therefore, after entering the Aohu Pass, he saw Feng Shoubei personally greeting him and immediately asked: “Where is the Zhang Ministry’s Court now?”

"In the garrison house...oh, my eldest son, I haven't finished speaking yet!"

Before Feng Shoujie finished speaking, he saw Li Rusong galloping away alone. He couldn't stop him. He saw a middle-aged man whom he didn't know was also galloping away on his horse. He could only be so anxious that he could ask someone to chase him. Then he looked at the remaining people. Because Zhang Xueyan had already given instructions, he noticed Wang Fulin and Shen Maoxue, who were dressed completely differently from others. He immediately asked tentatively: "Do you dare to ask if it's Mr. Wang and Mr. Shen?"

After receiving a positive answer, Feng Shoubei remembered what happened a few days ago. He never expected that it was the planner of the two scholars. He was muttering in his heart, but his face became more pleasant: "Because Shen Yourong brought back more than 600 people, in order to prevent the chaos, Zhang Zhan specially ordered the people to be dispersed and placed in various military camps to guard them separately. Mr. Shen was placed in the garrison palace, and the others who followed him out of Fushun Pass were placed in the large barracks west of the Acropolis. Zhang Zhan was only half a day earlier than everyone. Zhang Zhan accompanied him to the garrison palace to meet Mr. Shen, but looking at the time, they should have gone to the large barracks west of the Acropolis. How dare you ask where Mr. Wang and Mr. Shen plan to go first?"

Although he was very worried about Shen Yourong's situation, Shen Maoxue knew that meeting Zhang Xueyan first was the key, so he immediately said without waiting for Wang Fulin to answer: "Then let's go to Zhang's Office first!"

I don’t know if Li Rusong’s mount is too good, so the people who are chasing him can’t catch up; or Hong Jiyuan caught up with Li Rusong and the two of them got mad at halfway; or Li Rusong ran to the garrison palace to learn that Shen Yourong was placed here, so he simply went to start a military conspiracy first; anyway, when Wang Fulin and Shen Maoxue came to the large barracks west of the Acropolis, they found that they were the ones who arrived first.

Although Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, was the same surname as Zhang Chongzheng, who was in charge of Dongning Road in Liaohai, did not get along with each other, and even looked in a different way. Zhang Xueyan always had a rigid face, looking serious and harsh. His speech and eyes were a little cold, but Zhang Chongzheng smiled, his eyebrows and eyes often narrowed into slits, adding a bit of kindness to him. But Wang Fulin had already passed the stage of judging people by appearance. When he greeted each other, he was full of energy and prepared to be questioned. But what he didn't expect was that before Zhang Xueyan spoke, Zhang Chongzheng snatched the first.

"A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. I always thought that this was exaggerated. This time I finally saw it with my own eyes. Under the wall of the Crow Falcon Pass, there were only hundreds of slaves who were short of food and clothing, and their weapons and equipment were very limited, but they were led, and they were trapped and fought desperately, forcing them to retreat to the Jurchen army that was chasing!" Zhang Chongzheng said, and he smacked his lips with some regret. "It's a pity that Chen Yourong and they are not from Liaodong, otherwise the merits of this beheading will be enough for them to rise a few levels. The governor said before that he was proud of his courage and the martial arts strategy was even more commendable."

Chen Maoxue heard people praise his nephew and felt that his face was quite brilliant, and he unknowingly put down some of his burdens. But Wang Fulin did not dare to take it lightly, because Zhang Xueyan's face was tightly tight, in the best words, he could not tell the joy or anger, and he was not as full of praise as Zhang Chongzheng said. Sure enough, the next moment, a storm immediately hit him.

"You are so brave! What I told you was to recruit Jurchens to surrender, but you just let you release news through Fushun Ma City to recruit people to surrender, but see what you did! He actually lost a captive Jurchen teenager and let Chen Yourong and others shave their hair and change their clothes and go deep into the Jurchen hinterland! This is their great fortune and he returned by chance. If they can't come back, they will be left with their lives in Jianzhou Jurchens outside Fushun Pass. How do you plan to explain to the court and to their families? Well? If the border guards stayed behind closed doors, they even thought they were Jurchens and beheaded to be military meritorious?"

"Because Liaodong is the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty."

Wang Fulin answered simply and saw Zhang Xueyan being stunned. He continued: "In addition to the Suerhaci lent me by Master Li, I also wanted another Jurchen teenager. His former name was Aha, and he translated as a slave and a slave. His mother was a Han Chinese, but his father didn't know who he was. He was once a relative of Wang Gao, and he was a lowly slave since he landed on the ground. If he was not satisfied, he would be beaten or even executed. It was him who told me that Aha, who had Han ancestry like him, had many in the Jurchens."

"Just because the border was either worried about the treaty with the Jurchens, they always stayed in seclusion and did not accept Liaodong soldiers and civilians who fled back from the enemy, or they took in people but did not let them go back to their hometowns, but instead used their heads to drive them, or they cut off their heads to pretend to be military achievements during the war. Therefore, such Aha did not dare to escape, and he and his descendants could only serve as slaves to the Jurchen chiefs and nobles. In recent years, Liaodong has been victorious, but there were very few Han slaves who could escape from the enemy. In other words, many people could only listen to others mentioning their country's victory, but they would continue to suffer, as if the Ming Dynasty had agreed that they had become Jurchens. Since this is the case, Zhangbuyuan asked me to recruit Jurchens to surrender, and I also knew that those real Jurchens were full of hatred for the Ming Dynasty, and they could only put their ideas on these Ahas."

Speaking of this, Wang Fulin simply did not dodge or avoid looking directly at Zhang Xueyan's eyes, and said straightforwardly: "As for what you asked, I can say clearly that everyone volunteered, and even shaved their hair and changed their clothes first and then reported, but I couldn't stop them. Therefore, I could only do my best to clean up the aftermath for them and try every means to ensure that they would not be massacred at the end of the way back, and to take responsibility."

Seeing that Zhang Xueyan's face was still motionless, he smiled indifferently: "Zhao Shoujie and Li Qianhu, they just stubbornly plagued me, and I promised that the person would only search nearby and immediately replied. I didn't expect that I had other plans, so the matter had nothing to do with them. The credit for this matter was tolerate the labor of each of them. If you want to talk about the guilt, it has nothing to do with them. It is my only person who can talk to me. I wrote this in the memorial that I had sent back to the capital a long time ago."

Zhang Chongzheng had received a secret order from Zhang Xueyan before. He learned that Wang Fulin was in front of him and could take the opportunity to secretly accept the Jurchen surrender at Yaguguan. Because Zhang Xueyan had sent people to recruit Jurchens to surrender through various channels in Kuandian Horse Market, and promised various good treatments for resettlement. He originally put his ideas on Wang Wutang, who was suppressing dissidents in Dong'e's style. But who would have thought that the plan could not keep up with the changes. Wang Fulin, a new Jinshi who had just arrived in Liaodong, had touched such a big storm with his hand! When he witnessed the battle that was crazily blocked on the city wall, he could not believe his eyes.

Those Han slaves who have been enslaved in the Jurchen for a long time can still have such blood and combat power!

When Chen Maoxue saw that Wang Fulin took the initiative to take all the responsibilities alone, even though he was a teenager, he was no longer impulsive. He couldn't help but follow him and said: "This matter was discussed by Shiqing and I. He was still hesitant at first. It was me who persuaded him to recruit Han slaves from the Jurchens. If you want to take responsibility, I should naturally bear it as an older juren. Although he is a Jinshi, he is still young and has not experienced the world, so he will be easily convinced by me! If the court blames him, I will naturally bear it alone."

Wang Fulin immediately smiled bitterly: "Brother Chen, don't make trouble. It was me who pulled you into the water. What are you doing in front of you?"

Seeing that the two of them were scrambling to take responsibility, Zhang Xueyan was silent for a moment and suddenly sneered: "This series of events is based on the possibility that Suerhaci would escape. Otherwise, you might not be able to say that the two chief and deputy guards of Fushun Pass would not be able to gamble such a big thing on a small chance matter. I believe you will not be so unwise. In this case, the so-called Suerhaci escape was designed by you, right? If so, wouldn't it be the subsequent impact of this incident? If this is included, can you bear such a responsibility?"

Wang Fulin knew that his plan was absolutely not perfect. After all, the matter was hasty, and he could use limited resources. He was unfamiliar with Liaodong. If he studied it carefully, he would gradually dig out all kinds of clues. What's more, if Fan Dou and Mei, the miserable mandarin duck, were almost dead and still alive, and Fan Che's death later, there would be a lot of flaws. After all, his biggest purpose before was to ensure that the Nurhaci brothers died, and that his own people could get out of seclusion smoothly, and the others would have to lean back!

Just as Wang Fulin was hesitating about how to answer, and the two sides were in a stalemate, there was a riot outside. Then, Li Rusong came over angrily, followed by the panting Hong Jiyuan. As soon as he met, he didn't even salute or greet Zhang Xueyan, but stared at Wang Fulin directly.

After a while, he said, "Chen Yourong is young, but he is a strong man. Before, I only saw him as having great martial arts, but he was impulsive and reckless. He underestimated him. Wang Fulin, you are lucky. Such a person actually hit you! Zhang's Ministry of Justice decided to do this, and I was just a commander. Zhang's Ministry of Justice will return to Guangning immediately!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!