Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua bowed to Li Laoer at the same time: "Congratulations to General Li for his happy expression!"

Li Laoer bowed and returned the tribute, and continued to ask Sun Chengzong: "Supervisor, but Fan Yongdou colluded with Jiannu, so those officials of the court dared to support Fan Yongdou?"

Sun Chengzong said sadly and angrily: "If the Jinyiwei hadn't failed, then the Later Jin Xizuo was escorted to Zhao Prison. After the interrogation, the Ming Dynasty would have caught all the worms! What a pity!"

Li Laoer also knew about the failure of the Jinyiwei, but he was very related to Luo Yangxing. When that guy was the commander of the Jinyiwei, he could be said to be very incompetent. Li Zicheng attacked the capital, and Luo Yangxing first surrendered to Li Zicheng. Later, the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, and Luo Yangxing surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and handed over all the files of the Jinyiwei spies to the Qing Dynasty. In the end, the Jinyiwei did not play any role in the Southern Ming Dynasty's resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

So Li Laoer asked, "When Luo Yang is seriously dereliction of duty, can His Majesty be punished?"

Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly and said, "How to punish? What else can I do if I have a salary of one year? After all, it was him who helped Your Majesty eliminate the eunuch party and made great contributions. The ministers in the court protected him more, so Your Majesty could not do anything to him."

"Hmph! I'm afraid that those borers are afraid that Luo Yang's nature will be out of luck if they change their individuals to come up!" Li Lao Er snorted coldly. Luo Yang's nature is a simple person, mediocre and incompetent, but such civil servants like him the most. People like Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun are the most afraid of civil servants.

Li Laoer felt very pleased about Xu Xianchun killing Wang Wenyan. Wang Wenyan was a think tank of the Donglin Party. The vicious plan to frame Xiong Tingbi was designed by Wang Wenyan.

However, this time the Jisi change was a huge blow to the Donglin Party. Because the incident of Ye Xianggao's disciple Liu Ce gave up Da'ankou, Emperor Chongzhen had already begun to hate the Donglin Party. Later, he first replaced the cabinet chief of the Donglin Party with Zhou Yanru as the cabinet chief. However, it was discovered that Zhou Yanru had a close relationship with the Donglin Party, and Chongzhen intended to promote Wen Tiren, who was disliked by the Donglin Party. Later, Wen Tiren expelled Zhou Yanru.

After Wen Tiren came to power, he began to vigorously attack the Donglin Party, but Wen Tiren did not have the ability of Wei Zhongxian. He only knew how to attack the Donglin Party and eliminate dissidents, but did not make any contribution to the court.

Later, Li Laoer and Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and others returned to the issue of casting artillery and improving ammunition.

"If you want to cast cannons on a large scale, I'm afraid the Ming Dynasty will be short of silver." Xu Guangqi said sighing.

Li Laoer said: "You can report to Your Majesty to send a mining supervisor to mine iron ore by yourself, which can save a lot of money a year."

"If the mining supervisor is sent again, I am afraid that the ministers in the court will have many opinions. During the Wanli period, the mining supervisors were rampant and domineering, and they will harm the people. How many people have been ruined by them! If they have to send a mining supervisor, I am afraid that the ministers in the court will tear me apart." Xu Guangqi said.

During the Wanli period, the mining supervision did do some things that harmed the people, but the commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty was too unreasonable, so there were only 30 taxes. The Donglin Party was still thinking about reducing taxes, but Wanli had no choice but to send the mining supervision supervisor. Although the mining supervision also did bad things and fed his own pockets, the country's tax revenue was raised. Without the mining supervision and tax system, the Ming Dynasty could not even bear it during the Tianqi period. Where could there be money to support the three major taxes in Wanli?

But Li Laoer couldn't say these words, so he took out the map of Tumote tribe and pointed to a grassland in the northwest direction of the naturalized northwest on the map and said: "In fact, among the Tumote Mongols, there are rich iron ore and copper ore underground! Especially copper ore, copper cannons are cast with copper cannons, which can be thinner than the barrel wall of the iron cannon, and cannons can be made lighter and heat dissipated faster. If the red cannon cannon is cast with iron core and copper shells, the weight can be reduced to two thousand kilograms, and the launch of shells can be launched ten more and then cooled down, and the cooling time can be shortened from half an hour to a quarter of an hour."

"The copper cannon is just too expensive! Originally, copper was used to cast copper coins, but you used it to cast guns." Sun Yuanhua shook his head with a laugh and cry.

Li Laoer said to Sun Chengzong again: "The commander, I will find a way to win over the Tumotes and let the Tumotes mine minerals. We can trade the ore they produce. As long as we use grain, tea and salt, we can exchange them for a steady stream of cattle, sheep, war horses, and iron ore copper ore."

Sun Chengzong nodded: "Okay, Guodong, let go of this matter."

In May of the third year of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong took Sun Yuanhua to Shanhaiguan to take office. The ministers in the court also issued an order to expel Li Laoer, ordering him to leave the Ming Dynasty within one month.

The cabinet in the court also brought Li Laoer a letter to Lin Dankhan and Tumot Khan, and ordered him to go out of seclusion to Chahar tribe and Tumot tribe in the name of recruiting envoys and handed the letter to the Mongols.

This trick sounds like a civil servant, but in fact they are all military officials, and they are all military officials in the fourth rank. Chongzhen gave Li Laoer a third rank general and also served as a recruit. It sounds like he was a civil servant in the court system, but in fact he was a temporary worker outside the post. Even Li Laoer had to find a way to pay for military pay.

Now Li Lao Er has the word "biao" and is called Li Guodong. In fact, although the original name is very rustic, he does not dislike the original name. Li Lao Er, the second son of the Li family, is the Tian Khan. The elite black armored iron cavalry made the nomadic people on the grassland tremble. The black armored iron cavalry using horse spears is the most exquisite heavy cavalry. Li Shimin relies on this cavalry to sweep the world. The black armored cavalry holding horse spears, with the advantage of the length of the horse spear, can be crushed by the spearmen in the formation, which shows how powerful it is.

Li Guodong took 629 brothers and prepared to leave Tongzhou. This time, 171 of the eight hundred brothers he brought into the pass were sacrificed and remained in the Ming Dynasty forever.

The craftsmen in the Blacksmith House came reluctantly to see Li Guodong farewell. After all, he has been in Tongzhou for half a year, treating the craftsmen as brothers. In the last two months, Li Laoer lived in the Blacksmith House and ate and drank with the craftsmen. Li Laoer also took out money from time to time to improve the lives of the craftsmen.

"General Li treats us like confidants! I don't know when General Li will come back when he leaves!" The craftsmen all burst into tears, and the entire blacksmith's house cried.

After saying goodbye to the craftsmen, Li Guodong went outside the city to say goodbye to the 300 people he temporarily recruited and the more than 100,000 people he rescued.

The three hundred Minzhuang brought back from Gu'an had already stood in an orderly line and stood on an empty ground. Li Laoer walked on a high platform built from a wooden box and opened his voice: "Brothers, I am a crime. The Ming Dynasty cannot tolerate me. I need to go back outside the pass to make meritorious service. You cannot follow Li to go outside the pass, so stay in the Ming Dynasty to live and work in peace and contentment! Li will face the pursuit of the Mongolian Tatars and Jiannu, and have no place to live. If you are careless, you will lose your life. Even if you survive by chance, you may be captured by the Mongolian Tatars and become a shepherd slave! You should go home."

"General, our lives are saved by the general! We are willing to follow the general to the death! Even if we suffer outside the pass, even if we lose our lives, even if we are herd slaves for the Mongolian Tartars, we are willing to follow the general!" The people and the powerful shouted one after another.

Li Guodong glanced at the head of the Minzhuang. The man was named Wu Biao, a trustworthy person. So Li Guodong pulled him aside and explained: "You stay in the pass. I have my own caravan, and the shopkeeper is named Wang Quan. He will come to you when the time comes. You follow him and do things for me."
Chapter completed!