Chapter three hundred and eighty five.
Although he still didn't talk much, Mao Jue had long lost the indifference he had when he was holding people away from him. After carefully giving him a careful advice to be careful, Chen Jiao went out. Seeing a happy look on Mao Jue's face, Chen Zanzhong's old face twitched subconsciously. He began to expect that the next conversation would probably not be so friendly.
However, the beginning was still friendly. A coffee table for meeting guests was placed beside the huge floor-to-ceiling window. She sat in front of the large desk without any business. Chen Zanzhong was invited by Mao Jue, and two goblets were placed. Mao Jue also opened a bottle of wine himself.
Specialties from Changbai Mountain are knocked out from the imperial tributes in Shengjing.
This is also the first time since Mao Jue welcomes the bride, the grandfather and grandson have drunk this wine face to face. Although the wine is very sweet, it seems particularly bitter when drinking it in Chen Zanzhong's mouth.
"I won't say much nonsense. I believe Your Majesty is already very angry when you part with Ning Yuan! What are the conditions for you to visit your relatives this time?"
You boy knows that you have made the emperor angry!
He had no intention of drinking at all. He threw the exquisite cup on the table, his old face was exhausted, and Chen Zanzhong made a hoarse and gloomy sound in his messy beard.
"General Zhenbei, the left governor of the Central Army Governor's Office is the commander of Liaodong! Congratulations, Chief Mao!"
"Ha, Liaodong Governor? Jinzhou General Zu Dashou, Ningyuan General Wu Sangui, Qiantun Guard General Ma Ke, these Liao Town troops are under my command?
Since the Dongjiang incident, I have been worried and the accumulated fear has erupted in Mao Jue's mocking eyes and casual questions. His breathing has become a little rapid. With a bang, the craftsmanship has been quite exquisite. The thin goblet with blood-red wine was smashed to the ground by Chen Zanzhong. With the crisp sound of the ping-ling, the old guy stood up suddenly.
"Mao Jue, you're enough!"
"Heaven, earth, king and relatives! The king is the leader of the minister! Loyal ministers do not serve the two masters! From ancient times to the present, there is no such person as you, who has no king or father, who has received the salary of the court, is unfaithful and unrighteous, and even threatens the master with the little profit of the barbarians! Your Majesty thinks you are a talent and will not care about you! You are not satisfied. You are picky here, how different are you from animals!"
After venting his anger together, Chen Zanzhong actually softened again. He knocked his fingers on his chest in great sadness and said hoarsely.
"Yes, my Chen family was sorry for you before, but since my granddaughter married into your Mao family, I have been conscientious about you in Dongjiang, right? If there is something, I will be the first to help you in Dongjiang. There is a turmoil in the capital. Didn't you try your best to tell you? Are you doing well? If you want to rebel, I will be the one who will kill the nine clans, and I will be the whole family!"
Chen Zanzhong vented hysterically, and his old beard flew up, but Mao Jue's expression remained unchanged, and he even tasted the wine leisurely. It was not until Chen Zanzhong said he was tired that Mao Jue played the cup at the age of old.
"One minister does not serve the second master? Grandpa, you remember correctly. You are a senior Jinshi in the 33rd year of Wanli! You have experienced the three dynasties of Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen?"
"When Emperor Wanli died, why didn't you die with him?"
"I'm! I'm..."
Chen Zanzhong was almost choked by Mao Jue's words and was so breathless that he was breathless. His old face turned red and his beard shook trembling constantly.
But Mao Jue's voice also became sharp and high, and the wine glass in his hand also threw it at the table. Mao Jue glanced at his face with a sarcastic look and said with a sneer.
"There is also the great emperor's grace! Is there really great emperor's grace? In the second year of Chongzhen, half of the salary in Dongjiang, and in the third year of Chongzhen, the food and wages were intermittent. I was the deputy general of Tieyi for seven years. After receiving five months of salary, I still had to spend 36 taels of silver!"
"I won't talk about the money! Liaodong is our land, farming here! Fighting here! Die here! It is also the fate of the Liao people! Even if there is no money, it is the duty of the Liao people to fight for the Liao people. But in recent years, let's see what the imperial court has done?"
Regardless of whether it was a relative or not, Mao Jue pointed his finger directly at Chen Zanzhong's nose.
"You regard Liaodong as a arena for your fame and fortune! The flesh and blood of the Liao people dyed your official robes red, and filled your silver boxes. When the Liao affairs are good, bees come and pupae are defeated. They are all gone one after another. Not to mention that in this battle of Dongjiang, Dongjiang did not see reinforcements from the court from the court. The 12,000 garrison troops from Shandong are still supported for many years. The boy, the other father-in-law, Governor Yu, took the lead in sending troops without waiting for the Ministry of War, and it is better than nothing!"
"What did the court do? A liar was sent, and the general Huang Long was the general of Pidao! He did not do any benefit for Dongjiang! He interfered with the general's command system, and finally sent 300,000 taels of silver and tens of thousands of stones of food and salary, and ran away!"
"This is the good thing your court did!"
This was the first time Chen Zanzhong had heard of this. Seeing Mao Jue swaying his sleeves angrily, he stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, facing the lights of the Baimachuan ten thousand houses outside the window. Although he still wanted to preach a few words about Confucian principles, Chen Zanzhong seemed to feel lack of confidence.
The dead silence lasted for more than half a minute, and only the sound of wine ticking on the pieces of the wine glass was left. After a long time, Chen Zanzhong asked with a little fear and a complex expression.
"So, you're going to be in the opposite direction?"
"Haha, it's against it? I don't have that great strength now and I don't have that ambition at the moment. Our Mao family has more than 200 people died in Liaoyang, and there are very few left now. Dongjiang is the last home of me. I just don't want the court to treat Dongjiang as a victim of their power arena! Mao Jue just wants to protect this Dongjiang."
Becoming lazy again, Mao Jue slowly sat back on the chair next to the window, reached out and helped the goblet up again, held the wine bottle and filled himself with a glass, and held it high at Chen Zanzhong.
"But thank you grandpa, for coming all the way! You can repay Your Majesty when you go back. Mao Jue doesn't want to rebel, nor does His Majesty need to work hard on military pay and food. Dongjiang is used to it, and as long as Mao Jue is in one day, the Li family's North Korean wing will not work hard on Your Majesty."
"There are still some scenery in Dongjiang. Let Jiaojiao take you to visit these days!"
It is a customary ceremony in the officialdom. Although Mao Jue serves wine rather than tea, Chen Zanzhong cannot understand it after being immersed in the officialdom for many years. However, just when Mao Jue seemed to have won a great victory in this confrontation, he covered his head. Chen Yushi suddenly covered his forehead and laughed nervously. When he turned around, he sat opposite Mao Jue. In Mao Jue's shocked expression, Chen Zanzhong directly took Mao Jue's wine bottle, raised his head and fucked him hard.
His face turned red with the wine, but with the old fox's smile, he put down the wine bottle. Chen Zanzhong asked with a cunning feeling.
"Mao Jue, what you said, you have no ambitions and just want to protect one party's safety, right?"
The heart twitched suddenly, Mao Jue frowned and asked gloomyly.
"What does Censor Chen explain?"
"Your Majesty was appointed as the governor of Dongjiang, and the general Mao Wenlong Mao, the decapitation general, was appointed as the Marquis of Ningxi, and rewarded 200,000 taels of silver. A mansion of Ningxi, and granted my granddaughter a first-rank Hao Decree. Mrs. Shu, went to the palace to worship the ribbon, and went to the capital to receive the title."
His face was gloomy and his expression changed for more than a dozen times. In just a few minutes, Mao Jue picked up the wine glass, toasted Chen Zanzhong, and poured all the full glass of wine.
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The warriors and literati were really humiliated by themselves. In the end, Chen Zanzhong had plotted against him. His scolding, his big truths and complaints were all for the purpose of induced his later words, and that Mao Jue himself fell into his own condom.
Aren’t you going to protect the country and the people? Then you should pay this small price, right?
It must be said that Emperor Chongzhen was rarely generous this time. He gave him a full 200,000 taels of reward and was a title of marquis, which was much better than the last time. You should know that the titles of the Ming Dynasty were quite valuable. Except for Taizu and Chengzu, the titles he had given were all of them, but their essence was to be hostages, which controlled Mao Jue.
Let your father and wife be hostages? How can Mao Jue accept it?
Although it is a place to have fun, as time goes by, the sun sets and the long corridors become gloomy. Just like in many horror movies, the dull leather boots echo in a hollow and deadly manner, and two pale faces flashed in the darkness.
"master!"
"You will hold a joint officer meeting right away! Also, that old man, send him back to Tieshan now and throw him on the boat that will leave Tieshan as soon as possible! I don't want to see him again!"
"But Master, if you want to move Liao Town or the inner city, maybe you will really force the emperor to get angry this time. You don't know the character of the capital. Once that person is indecisive and uses the power of the Ming Dynasty to fight against Dongjiang, Dongjiang will be passive!"
"Then let him bring the old man and Gillian back to the capital?"
A roar of rage, but then Mao Jue stopped abruptly again. He looked upstairs with fear and lowered his voice again. Mao Jue said hurriedly.
"Absolutely! Absolutely! Don't let the old man know!"
"Master..., I know!"
As hurry as he came, the four-wheeled carriage rushed out of the calm valley again with a gloomy face. Mao Jue also pulled out a black horse from the horse shed, and ran over like a nearby White Horse Mountain City. He followed closely behind him. Adrena's fiery red ponytail floated up fiercely, but watching the riding team leave, under the largest flower tree in the calm manor, a pale face was also revealed, and two leaves hung on the back of the black head of the Li Dynasty official.
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Baima Mountain City, Military Government Office.
According to Mao Jue's order, all officers' leave will be cancelled. Except for Luo Zhige, who returned to Kuye Town to enter the Heilongjiang River Basin, and Li Jiucheng, who returned to Jeju Island Town to stabilize the situation, the remaining Tieyi officers gathered at the strategic point of Baima Mountain City. With the call of Mao Jue's personal soldiers, in less than half an hour, more than a dozen important officers arrived.
"Master General!"
With a rush, the officers stood up together around the round table, and the whale-skin or leather boots were leaning together and making neatly flapping sounds. As Mao Jue's personal corps became more and more modern, this army, including its command system, became more and more like the modern troops in the TV series that Mao Jue remembered.
"sit!"
Now that I am not in the mood to be proud of my troops, I take the lead in sitting under my big sketch image, waiting for my subordinates to sit down neatly. Mao Jue said with an extremely gloomy face.
"Pangdahai! Order the fleet to stop transporting to Kuye Town and recall Pi Island. Kong Youde Geng Zhongming, your infantry also headed towards Tieshan! Send people to Jeju Island to recall Liu Xingzuo's cavalry regiment! On September 13, I will see fifty warships, three cavalry regiments, and ten infantry regiments in Tieshan!"
"Jiang Ye! There are not a few months left before advancing into Heilongjiang, and the troops are still preparing for renovation. At this time, the troops are summoned. Could it be that there has been any change in Japan or somewhere?"
The sudden order was equivalent to directly interrupting all previous plans. The Dongjiang butler, the chief of the staff, Fan Wenju, suddenly stood up and asked in surprise.
But Mao Jue's face became even more ruthless and hummed gloomy.
"It's not Japan! But the plan has indeed changed. This time, I spend every New Year's Day outside. Thank you for your hard work. This time I want to take you to make some money! Target, Tianjin Wei!"
"God..., Tianjin Wei!"
"Have you any questions?"
Almost bit off his tongue, Shen Rong and others shouted incrediblely, but immediately, Mao Jue's eyes swept over in a cold and cold manner, and they couldn't help but shiver.
A series of victories have made Mao Jue's prestige increasingly high, especially after the end of the World War in Dongjiang, in terms of military strength, Dongjiang can already be compared with the overlord of Northeast Asia, the Qing Dynasty, and forced the Qing people to cut off such a large piece of territory. Even if Liaodong was not recovered, it would make these displaced Liao people who were driven out of their homes and were displaced.
As the conditioned reflex was like that, he hammered his fist hard on his chest, and Shen Rong quickly lowered his head.
"No problem! Mr. Jiang!"
"That's good, all the troops set off immediately! Su Changmei's vast sea, and the material logistics of the reserve guards' troops will also follow immediately! No mistakes are allowed!"
Mao Jue smashed his fists hard on the oak table. With his gloomy call, the order was decided. However, this time, his Dongjiang officer responded a little hesitant than before.
Mao Jue was given a clean and neat order without explanation before, but this time, the target was the Ming Empire, and it was directly aimed at the capital of the empire. Even after experiencing the last time Huanglong replaced, all the generals expressed their loyalty, but this still made even a rash man like Kong Youde feel a little scared.
What's more, Mao Jue didn't even explain this time.
To be honest, watching his subordinates go out and sitting on a big chair, Mao Jue's own breathing could not help but be a little quick. He has now committed a military taboo, just like Napoleon's conquest of Russia. Before the war broke out, he did not mobilize the troops thoroughly. Some French infantry divisions even set out from Paris for more than a week, but they still don't know where their target was. Such troops have weak combat power and are prone to chaos.
Fortunately, Mao Jue's prestige in Dongjiang was similar to that in France when Emperor Napoleon was in France. Otherwise, the troops would have to burst out without setting off.
But Mao Jue cannot mobilize this mobilization. To be honest, if Mao Jue becomes the Liaodong Governor, except for the Liaodong battle situation outside the Guanning Jinzhou defense line, his generals would definitely raise their hands to agree. As for Mao Wenlong and Chen Jiao to go to the capital as hostages, Mao Wenlong's era has passed anyway, and Mao Jue is the backbone of Dongjiang, and they are not unacceptable.
The only thing that cannot be accepted is Mao Jue himself.
Instead of spending a lot of verbal convincing the generals, they would rather send troops reluctantly, and act recklessly, so that they had to accept reality on the road to war. After being a warlord in Dongjiang for so many years, Mao Jue has long been black-hearted.
But just as he looked at the table with gloomy eyes, the conference rooms were suddenly ringing again, and Sakura, who was left in the Hot Spring Valley of Baima Mountain, actually rushed in.
"Master Jiang, the old man asks you to go back quickly!"
Chapter completed!