Chapter 34 First Meeting Wu Sangui

"On June 20th, the garrison official silver was one tael and four cents, and the female wall was on the wall to see the heroic spirit outside the pass. The wall was only eight feet high and the number of soldiers was only fifty. At that time, the mountain wind was strong, and the continuous mountains in the distance were surrounded by mist, like the waves of the Bohai Sea in a typhoon..."

"On June 24, from the throne office, I learned that until now, I will get pine nuts, hazel mushrooms, animal skins and other mountain goods outside the pass. I will pay six cents of silver every time I trade it. This is the silver that comes after the regular tax. The throne official named Liu Jian, who is vulgar and lustful.

On July 9th, the people who came out of seclusion came back. I counted very clearly. One hundred and twenty-seven people went out and two hundred and eighty-nine people came back. I decided to meet those who did not leave the city but returned to the city…”

On July 10, I met Wang Xiong and used 400 people to talk to him about the fur business outside the pass with him. Wang Xiong was drunk and said, "The best skin is in the hands of Jiannu. If you want to get these goods, you need to get a relationship with the Wu family manager."

On July 11, he was given a message to Wu Xiao, the manager of Wu's family, and there was no news.

On July 14th, I presented another greeting letter to Wu Xiao with two golden leaves, and I had to respond, "Wait!"

On July 15, Wu Xiao was captured at the prostitute in Beichunlou and returned to the safe house for interrogation for seven days. He found all the news of the contact between the generals of Shanhaiguan and Jiannu. He wrote another record and did not make any further comments.

On the second day of August, the Sihai Business Company issued 67 taels of silver and obtained the order of detention... to test contact with Jiannu!

Han Lingshan stayed in the back house for three days. After coming out, he said to Wen Yushan: "Those things are too dangerous for you, I have all destroyed them."

Wen Yushan chuckled and said, "I have already remembered it in my head."

Han Lingshan sighed and said, "I'm sorry for you."

Wen Yushan put his hands in his sleeves and smiled: "I'm waiting for the moment when Lantian army arrives at Shanhaiguan."

Han Lingshan said: "Shanhaiguan is not important, what is important is the people here. You must understand that any strong city is just a pile of bricks to my Lantian army, and the people here are even more important...

Great Wall, Great Wall, as long as you see this thing, it makes people feel mixed feelings."

Wen Yushan said: "The document of leaving the customs has been completed. Lao Han, you are not a person who likes to take risks. Why do you have to go out of the customs this time? I don't think there is anything to discuss with Jiannu.

The only way we can talk to Jiannu is to swords and cannons.”

Han Lingshan did not explain to Wen Yushan, not that he could not believe him, but that Wen Yushan should not think so at all.

Seeing that Han Lingshan's face was gloomy, Wen Yushan sighed and stopped asking. During the next ten days of waiting to leave the customs, Han Lingshan saw the entire pass under the name of the Nanjing Imperial College Supervisor.

Shanhaiguan is actually a military fortress with the Great Wall as the main body, Shanhaiguan City as the core, and Dongluo City, Xiluo City, left-wing city and right-wing city as the surrounding military fortress.

At the Great Wall line, which starts from Laolongtou in the south and ends at Jiumenkou in the north, there are 129 castles, passes, enemy platforms, city platforms, beacon towers and pier platforms, forming a complete Great Wall defense system.

The entire city pass lies across the narrow passage between Yanshan Mountain and the sea. From the perspective of architectural layout, it is really worthy of his name as the "No. 1 level in the world".

On this line of defense, the court needs to spend 4 million taels of national treasury every year... After leaving this city gate, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Dalinghe and other cities outside were not so much the cities of the Ming Dynasty, but rather the cities of the Liaodong generals.

Han Lingshan stood on the Great Wall facing the sea breeze, touching the rough Duotan and muttered to himself: "Compared with these people, the county magistrate is really kind."

Through Wenyu Mountain's records, Han Lingshan made a clear judgment that the current military troops on the defense line outside the pass do not belong to the court, but to the border generals, named family soldiers, and almost all the farmers outside the city are tenants of the border generals, and each border general is a person with countless wealth.

On the one hand, they looked down on Jiannu and thought they were savages, and on the other hand, they looked down on the court, believing that the court was weak and incompetent, and that keeping the current situation unchanged is the most in line with their interests.

If Jiannu was not that powerful and the Ming Dynasty did not spend money here so desperately, they would have been the king of their own.

Han Lingshan didn't know how long the current situation could last, but it was not Shanhaiguan itself that determined the fate of Shanhaiguan, but the court, the Qing Dynasty, and even Lantian County.

There was a murmuring sound of boots coming from behind, and a group of soldiers came to the Great Wall from the female wall. Han Lingshan humbly gave way and bowed.

"Who are you?"

A clear voice came. Han Lingshan looked in front of him and saw a young general wearing phoenix wings and forehead helmet, wearing mountain-patterned fish scale armor and a short beard standing with bright eyes.

"The student Han Lingshan is a student of the Imperial College in Nanjing."

"What's the matter when you come to Shanhaiguan?"

"Study travel!"

The young general beat him up and said, "What an excuse." Then he scolded left and right and left, "This is a confidential military site, how can we easily release people?"

When Han Lingshan saw that he lowered his head and did not speak, he said angrily: "Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles is the power of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty. If I have any intention, with the Imperial College in my arms, even General Wu's White Tiger Festival Hall can walk, so how can I not climb to the Great Wall and reminisce about the past?"

The young general glanced at Han Lingshan and said, "You may not be able to enter General Wu's White Tiger Festival Hall."

After despising Han Lingshan, he said to the left-handed general: "This is your negligence, I will take a thirty rod."

The general looked at Han Lingshan with resentment, knelt on one knee and clasped his fists and said, "The last general will take the order!"

Han Lingshan looked at the young general and said, "General, you should hit me with these thirty rods."

The young general was surprised for a moment and said, "You are a student of the Imperial College and cannot be beaten."

Han Lingshan said: "The student was once beaten by thirty boards in Lantian County, and then beaten by thirty boards in Shanhaiguan is just around the corner, and it makes each other interesting."

The young general said with an oh, "You provoked Yun Zhao in Lantian County?"

Han Lingshan said: "I accidentally peeked at his Fenghuang Mountain military camp. It didn't matter at all, but the student was born brave, so he sneaked into the military camp and prepared to look carefully. After entering, he was caught alive. If it weren't for the lure in his arms, he would be unable to protect his head!"

The young general waved his hand and spared the general once. He looked at Han Lingshan with interest and said, "Since you have seen the power of Yun Zhao's army, then, how do you think the Lantian County military formation is comparable to my Liaodong athlete?"

Han Lingshan sighed deeply, turned around and looked at the undulating Wang Yang and whispered: "You are all strong, and Your Majesty is weak."

The young general came to Hanling Mountain and said, "I have only a hundred generals and only a thousand soldiers. How can I call it a powerful one?"

Han Lingshan did not answer the words of the young general, but instead changed the topic: "I want to go to Jianzhou to have a look!"

The young general said, "What are you looking at? Are you going to join Jiannu?"

Han Lingshan shook his head and said, "My parents, wife and children are in the Central Plains. I just want to go to the tiger and wolf land to see what the group of savages can harm my Ming Dynasty so miserably."

The young general smiled and said, "Jiannu recently established the Hongwen Academy. Do you want to go there to try your luck?"

Han Lingshan said: "Han thought he was not as shameless as that."

The young general smiled and said, "That's because you have never fought with Jiannu. You may not think so when you meet Jiannu. You are always respectful to yourself and think that your ambitions are noble and you can't get any dust. Unfortunately, as long as the knife is held on your neck, your knees will be bent faster than anyone else."

Han Lingshan looked at the long knife that appeared on his neck at some point and smiled: "My legs are not bent."

The young general laughed and said, "But, you're sweating on your forehead."

Han Lingshan said angrily: "My legs are not bent!"

A personal soldier raised his leg and kicked Hanlingshan’s knees, and then he knelt on the ground with a thud. However, he still raised his head and said, “My legs are not bent.”

The young general looked down at Han Lingshan and said, "You really want to go to Jianzhou to have a look?"

Han Lingshan gritted his teeth and said, "My family master said that the master slave's skills are used to control slaves!"

The young general frowned and said, "According to your opinion, you have seen Lantian County and come to my Liaodong again. So, have you been to Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong?"

Han Lingshan said: "I saw the prosperity in Lantian County beyond all regions of the Ming Dynasty. In Li Hongji, I saw countless blind followers building siege ladders with their bodies, and biting the Ming Dynasty desperately. I saw countless people riding horses in Zhang Bingzhong. They turned themselves into devils, and blood flowed into rivers wherever they went. In Liaodong, I saw a dead silence. Everyone was alive only for today, regardless of tomorrow's affairs.

If I could go to Jianzhou in person, I would know the real reason for this world so chaotic.”

The young general lowered his head and thought for a while, stood in front of the female wall with his hands behind his back and looked at the turbulent sea for a long time, and finally sighed: "I can send someone to send you to Liaodong, but if you come back, I mean, if you can come back, tell me what you saw in Jianzhou."

Han Lingshan struggled to stand up and said firmly: "One word is certain!"

The young general threw a waist sign to Han Lingshan and said, "With this thing, you can cross my Ming defense line to Jianzhou. I don't know if Jiannu will kill you. It depends on your luck."

Han Lingshan looked at the word "Wu" wrapped in cloud patterns on the waist sign and clasped his fists: "I wonder which general of Wu?"

The young general said: "A certain family, Wu Sangui, whose courtesy name is Changbo."

Han Lingshan's eyes stopped on Wu Sangui's face for a long time, and after a long time he bowed: "The young hero who bravely saved his father is disrespectful, disrespectful."

Wu Sangui smiled and said, "Go to see Jiannu for me. I also want to know why Jiannu can achieve such a great cause with the thirteen pairs of armor!"

After saying that, he took his subordinates along the Great Wall to Jiumenkou.
Chapter completed!