The imperial court rewarded Li Laoer with 20,000 taels of silver, except for 20,000 taels of silver. The so-called garrison position was actually a false position. Li Laoer still returned to the gate to garrison, and neither provided a piece of copper coins of food nor allowed him to enter the gate to garrison. This was not much different from when he was a horse thief outside the gate. It was just given to a Ming officer and soldier.

When Li Laoer heard the imperial edict, his heart, which was already hot, suddenly became cold: "Why don't the court allow me to return to the Ming Dynasty? I, Li, was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and didn't even have the chance to serve the country?"

The soldiers behind Li Laoer were also dissatisfied. They were originally full of their desire to serve the country. They regarded the Ming Dynasty as their home and wanted to go home to serve the country, but the court ruthlessly rejected their desire to serve the country.

After Gao Qiqian announced the imperial edict, Li Laoer still followed the procedures and stuffed Gao Qiqian fifty taels of silver, and then stuffed five taels of silver to several young eunuchs who came with Gao Qiqian.

When he heard that the eunuch who proclaimed the imperial eunuch was Gao, Li Laoer knew that it was Gao Qiqian, and he always felt a knot in his heart, but he still dared not offend Gao Qiqian at present.

Gao Qiqian took the silver, weighed the weight in his hand, and patted Li Laoer on the shoulder with a smile: "Shi Zhuangshi Li, you will be a decree of the court in the future. Please serve the Ming Dynasty!"

Afterwards, Gao Qiqian walked around Tongzhou City and checked Sun Chengzong's defense. Seeing the various elite officers and soldiers who were waiting for the battle, Gao Qiqian praised Sun Chengzong.

Gao Qiqian saw that the soldiers beside Li Laoer were all wearing exquisite armor, and everyone showed a murderous aura of a yummy army on their faces. When they saw that there were tall horses tied in the stable, Gao Qiqian smiled and said to Li Laoer: "Li Shou Ge, you have trained good soldiers! They are indeed elite! Such elites, even on the grassland, they are probably not inferior to Jiannu!"

"Eunuch Gao is too rewarded!" Li Laoer clasped his fists and bowed deeply.

Gao Qiqian inspected the city of Tongzhou for a while and then took people back to the capital.

Sun Chengzong said: "Jiannu has approached the capital of the capital, and Eunuch Gao is paying attention to safety on his way back to Beijing."

"Thank you, General Sun, for your reminder." Gao Qiqian bowed to Sun Chengzong.

But Li Laoer said in his heart: I really hope that Gao Qiqian, a castrated man, was slashed by Jiannu on the road!

After Gao Qiqian and others left the city, Li Laoer took his brothers to the top of the city and defended the city with the Ming officers and soldiers from Tongzhou. Watching Gao Qiqian and his group, Li Laoer was depressed about his rejection when he returned to Ming Dynasty.

Seeing Li Lao Er’s unhappy look, Sun Chengzong walked forward, patted his shoulder and said, “Sir Li, if you are willing to serve the country, you will serve the country as well if you go outside the pass. If you have anything to do, just speak up, as long as I can do it, it will satisfy you.”

Li Laoer smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Thank you, Supervisor Sun, Jiannu has invaded, and his subordinates are determined to be the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, they will do their best to help the Supervisor expel Jiannu and let the Supervisor be dispatched! When Jiannu comes out of the pass, the Supervisor goes out of the Frontier and still serves the Ming Dynasty! However, the Supervisor lacks food and manpower. He also asks the Supervisor to help the Supervisor a favor, exchange the silver rewarded by the court for food, and then recruit some refugees from Shaanxi and Shanxi to come out of the pass."

Because the court gave Li Laoer a false position to defend, he changed his words and called himself a subordinate. In fact, Li Laoer also knew very well that the reason why he was rejected by the court was that he had eliminated the Shanxi merchant caravan and cut off the wealth of many people. Fortunately, the contribution he made this time was too great. Even if some civil officials in the court wanted their lives, those civil officials did not dare to speak at this time. The soldiers on the front line fought to the death, but the civil officials in the court killed people just by opening their mouths. Thinking of this, Li Laoer felt sad for the civil and military despicableness of the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Chengzong replied: "If I want to exchange silver for food, I can do it. I can help Shoubei Li get cheap food from Jiangnan. If I want to recruit refugees from the customs, this is beyond my ability."

"Thank you, the supervisor!" Although Sun Chengzong refused to agree to help some refugees out of seclusion, Li Laoer bowed deeply and thanked Sun Chengzong solemnly. After all, Sun Chengzong still has the ability to get some food that is cheaper than the market price. With the food, as for the manpower problem, it is better to solve it yourself.

If nothing unexpected happens, this time, Geng Ruqi, the Shanxi Prefecture, brought 5,000 people to Beijing to serve the king. The Ministry of War had no money to pay them a salary, so he moved them to three places in three days: from Tongzhou to Liangxiang, and then from Liangxiang to Changping, deliberately using continuous defense exchange to avoid paying the military.

Because the military order at that time stipulated that the troops would receive wages the next day after they arrived at the station, the Ministry of War asked them to station in any place for no more than one day, so they deceived themselves and thought that they would not have to pay wages. The key was that they did this. The soldiers changed their defenses continuously and ran for a long distance on the road, but could not get food and salary, so they had to rob them along the way.

After the Later Jin army retreated, Geng Ruqi was executed by the court, and five thousand hungry soldiers had no way to survive and also surrendered to the bandit army.

Li Laoer vaguely remembered that the Minister of War who did this was Shen Yongmao. But if the Jiannu head he sent could play a role, Wang Zaijin would not step down. If Wang Zaijin was still the Minister of War, this might have been avoided. However, Emperor Chongzhen was probably so poor that the inner treasury could run away from the rats. It can be seen from the rewards of the court that during the Wanli Dynasty, a Jiannu head was worth fifty taels of silver, and when the Tianqi Dynasty, a Jiannu head was worth forty taels of silver; but in the Chongzhen Dynasty, a Jiannu head was worth thirty taels of silver at the beginning, but now the price was reduced, leaving only twenty taels of silver. Why are the rewards getting fewer and fewer? That is, Emperor Chongzhen was poor.

Sun Chengzong asked again: "Li Shoubin, you are a Han Chinese who grew up on the grassland. Do you know what the relationship between the Mongols and Jiannu is now? Originally, the local Motes had formed an alliance with our Ming Dynasty, so why did they join Jiannu again?"

"It's because of the enemy's chief Yue Tuo!" Li Laoer replied, "Yue Tuo gave food to the Tumote people and bought some of the nobles in the Tumote tribe. The Tumote Khan's Omubu is a fence-bearing grass, and the wind blows on both sides. Now the Tumote people have defected to Jiannu, and Lin Danhan is in danger! If Lin Danhan is defeated, Jiannu's next goal is to concentrate on dealing with my Ming Dynasty."

"Did Jiannu still want to learn from the Yuan Dynasty, want to destroy our Ming Dynasty, and invade the Central Plains?" asked Sun Chengzong.

"Yes!" Li Laoer nodded, "Huang Taiji is a hero of a generation. He is very ambitious. He is invading Mongolia and Korea in the east to prepare for entering the Central Plains! My Ming Dynasty and Lin Danhan are dependent on each other. Once Lin Danhan is defeated, Huang Taiji can invade and robbery again and again. This is only the first time, and there will be a second and third time in the future!"

"The ministers in the court all thought that Jiannu was not as tinea or scabies. In this way, what did Li Shoubei say, is this Jiannu a big problem with my Ming Dynasty?"
Chapter completed!