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Mongolia Chapter 69 Commercial Espionage

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    In the middle of the Guards barracks in the western suburbs of the capital, there is a three-story building. This building is jokingly called the Marshal's Mansion by the Guards officers. As the name suggests, this building is reserved for Li Dong to handle military affairs. Even so,  But Li Dong seldom visits here, so it is usually idle.

    But on the night of June 18th, the place was brightly lit and there were many sentries. It was obvious that Long Live Lord was convening his trusted generals to discuss matters, but the Guards generals below were puzzled. Today was not the day when the leader of the Guards attended the meeting.  Will it be Wang Ping¡¯s wedding day?  Why did you choose this time? Is there an emergency military situation?

    What surprised everyone even more was that there were many Jin Yiwei with embroidered spring knives on their waists around the Marshal's Mansion. Those people looked around with vigilant eyes, and everyone they saw hurriedly walked away. Although both sides were affiliated with  Between the two systems, there was no question of who was afraid of whom, but for some reason, being stared at by those people for a while made me feel uncomfortable all over.

    After Li Xiang¡¯s drastic rectification, the Jinyiwei swept away its previous decadent appearance, especially in the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty that had completed training. The Jinyiwei almost appeared in the eyes of the world with a completely new look.  Compared with before, they are less domineering, but more somber and capable.  Now everyone has a consensus, that is, Jin Yiwei is more terrifying than before, and dogs that don't bark bite people more ferociously.

    Sun Xiaoliu, captain of Li Dong's current personal guard, ran to the supply camp and informed the cooks there, "Several adults just drank wine, please make more sobering soup."

    Sun Xiaoliu brought the prepared hangover soup into the Marshal's Mansion. In his current status, he was carefully checked three times. Even the Jin Yiwei randomly took away a bowl of hangover soup to test for poison.  We can't blame these people for being too cautious. The identities of the people in the room are really too important. As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Li Dong's safety is of course very important. All the senior officers of the Guards, except Wang Pingzhi who is getting married today,  Everyone outside was present, including Li Xiang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, and Wang Shouren, the only think tank around Li Dong. This means that there are Li Dong's closest confidants and most direct relatives in this room. I don't know how many people outside want to control this room.  Everyone was killed quickly. If they were killed all together with a few bowls of hangover soup, it would be a joke for the ages.

    Li Dong drank up the hangover soup handed over by Sun Xiaoliu in one breath. He shook his head, which was still a little dizzy, and took a breath of alcohol. Looking at everyone drinking the hangover soup, he frowned and looked at Li Xiang.  He said, "Everyone is almost sober now. What on earth can't you wait until tomorrow?"

    Li Xiang touched the dripping soup at the corner of his mouth, and nodded slightly to Li Dong with a smile on his face, "Commander, I just received the news that Yanda Khan is going to invade!"

    Hearing the news, Li Dong had a look of astonishment on his face at first. He couldn't believe it. Then he controlled the emotion on his face and rubbed his fingers back and forth on the edge of the bowl. Anyone who knows him knows that this is what he is thinking.

    Normally, this news should make him happy, because he has long been looking forward to a decisive battle with the Mongols to pacify the northern Xinjiang.  But Li Dongzai is no longer the young man who only knew how to rush and fight a year ago. He now has more things to consider.

    Although Li Dong once made a bold statement when he came to the throne, he said that he would clear the grassland within ten years, but after serving as the Ming emperor for a while, he realized that this matter was much more difficult to accomplish than he imagined, not to mention the Ming court's  The finances are stretched thin, and the internal strife among the people has already made him miserable.

    The last time King Anhua rebelled, the Mongols secretly intervened, which shocked Li Dong. At that time, why did Li Dong let Qian Xing lead all the main cavalry to wipe out the Otok tribe? He just wanted to show his strength in this way.  To the Mongols, let the Mongols know that he is a strong emperor who must not be insulted lightly. Another purpose is to make the Mongols retreat in the face of difficulties and not dare to trouble him in the short term, because he knows that in order to resist foreign aggression, he must first calm down at home.  , and although it seems calm inside the Ming Dynasty, there is actually an undercurrent surging.

    With the constraints of civil servants inside, the unstable minds of the border generals in several important towns outside, and the addition of a few princes who are ready to make a move, the Ming Dynasty will fall apart if it fails to deal with it. At that time, the Mongols will not let go of this golden opportunity and march south.  , when the Ming Dynasty is faced with internal and external troubles, it will be the reincarnation of Zhu Yuanzhang, a first-class civil and martial arts expert. It is probably a fool's dream to clean up the mess, not to mention Li Dong, a young boy who has just been involved in national affairs.

    Wang Shouren sat next to Li Dong, stroking his beard, and was pleased to see Li Dong meditating there. The emperor had finally grown up and no longer acted impulsively, but his heart was still a little soft, and he had not yet understood the true meaning of the emperor.  , that is, the son of God, who enjoys the worship of all people in the world on behalf of Heaven, and is the Lord of the world. He is called a lonely person, which means that there is only one person in the world. No one can compare with him, and no one can get close to him. This is the Son of Heaven.  Perhaps after waiting for some time, after experiencing some strife in the court,, Li Dong will truly become a capable and arbitrary emperor. What great achievements will he create by then?  Wang Shouren thought so.

    Unlike Wang Shouren, after hearing the news, the senior officers of the Guards were delighted when they heard about the battle. A good man should carry a three-foot sword and make extraordinary achievements. How could he miss such a good opportunity.  They all looked at Li Dong excitedly.

    Li Dong thought for a while and looked up at Li Xiang, "Is the news confirmed?"

    "Commander, I'm at least 60% sure!" Li Xiang didn't say it to death, because military intelligence is still a new topic for Jinyiwei. In the past, Jinyiwei's main function was internal, but now it is not only internal, but also  To the outside world, this is also the first time that Li Xiang has judged the news that Yanda Khan is about to invade the border through the symptoms shown before the war is about to break out.

    "Tell me, how did you know the news?" Li Dong turned to Sun Xiaoliu and said, "Go and make a pot of strong tea!"

    "Yes, Commander!" Sun Xiaoliu saluted with a military salute and left.

    Li Xiang stood up confidently, "Commander, according to your instructions, our intelligence officers disguised themselves as merchants and conducted business with the nobles of the Mongolian tribes. Two months ago, Yanda Khan held a golden tent meeting to discuss the matter.  The content is unknown, but we found that there were obvious changes in the orders placed by the nobles before and after the discussion." Li Xiang paused for a while, took out several business orders from his arms and put them on the desk.

    "Commander, please look! After the Golden Tent meeting, those Mongolian nobles ordered large quantities of luxury goods, while basic daily necessities such as salt and tea, which are important to Mongolians, were massively reduced. So we, the Jin Yiwei, have reason to believe  , the Mongols are coming!¡±

    After listening to Li Xiang's analysis, Zhao Dongxu showed confusion on his face. He frowned and looked at several Guards officers around him. They had basically the same expression as Zhao Dongxu's face. They didn't understand Li Xiang's words. Zhao Dongxu now stood for  Wang Ping was in charge of the military affairs of the Guards, so he had to make things clear. He was the first to speak, "Li Xiang, I don't understand. It's just a difference in the commercial order. How did you know that the Mongols were coming?"

    Li Xiang smiled at Zhao Dongxu, "Our Jinyiwei intelligence officers have collected the orders placed by the Mongolian nobles before the Mongols invaded the border in large quantities, and found that this was the case almost every time. This is how we analyzed it. The Mongols invaded the border in large numbers.  Later, a large number of supplies such as salt and tea would be plundered from the mainland, so they did not need to spend money to buy them. In order to retaliate against this behavior of the Mongols, the court would usually block the borders and temporarily stop all trade, so porcelain like porcelain  Such luxury goods will become extremely difficult to buy after Kou Bian."

    After hearing Li Xiang's words, Zhao Dongxu and others suddenly showed surprise. These officers had been reading various ancient military books and strategies, but those military books had never recorded that there was such a way to predict the enemy's plan. Commander.  He was truly a god, and they all looked at Li Dong with admiration.

    Li Dong's face was slightly red, and he was smiling bitterly in his heart. This was not a method he had come up with. This was a method he plagiarized from later generations of the CIA. A comrade of his father's who was a military commander told him that there was a riot in Taiwan's election.  It was very fierce. All the missiles in the Fujian area were aimed at the Taiwan Strait, and the troops were at the first level of combat readiness, ready to fight at any time. The Taiwanese were scared to death, but the Americans secretly told the Taiwanese not to be afraid, the mainland was bluffing, they  They won¡¯t really fight. The Taiwanese people say, just fool around. Anyway, it won¡¯t be you who will be bombed. The Americans say, really, don¡¯t fool around. Our CIA found out that the children of those high-ranking officials in Beijing are in Nasdaq.  If you want to buy a large amount of stocks, if the mainland really wants to attack you, stocks all over the world will fall. How can they engage in loss-making trading?

    Li Dong nodded in approval towards Li Xiang and said, "You Jin Yiwei have done a good job in this matter, and your analysis is very reasonable, but I want to know the time, location, and number of people!"

    "Commander, we can only know the time, location, and the number of people has yet to be determined!"

    "tell me the story!"

    "Based on the time when the Mongolian nobles proposed the last deal, they will attack our Ming Dynasty in October, and the location should be near Datong, because the leader of the Hochit tribe, Schinbuch, once kindly reminded Haina Trading Company that in  Don't appear in the Yanghewei area around October." Li Xiang paused, "We still need to make a final count of how many tribes will participate in the war, but we believe that the number of Mongolians coming this time will not exceed 100,000, because  After the severe cold last winter, the supplies left by the Mongolian tribes were no longer enough for 100,000 troops."

    Hearing that 100,000 Mongolians were coming, Li Dong fell into deep thought again.

    At this time, Sun Xiaoliu came in with a teapot and poured a cup for Li Dong. Li Dong was silent while drinking tea.

    "Big?, fight!  "Zhao Dongxu took the lead and stood up to ask for a fight.

    "Commander, you don't need anyone else, we, the Guards, will finish this battle!" Dewey's violent voice echoed in the room.

    "Commander, I have fought with the Mongols, but that's all. Our firearms are sharp, they are no match for us!" Qian Xing said with a smile.

    "Commander, no matter what you say this time, you can't leave me in the capital!" Liu Mingzhou glared at Qian Xing. Every time he saw the silver star on Qian Xing's chest, he was so angry that his teeth itched.  Every time Qian Xing saw him, he looked so proud that his chin almost reached the sky.

    Li Dong looked at his subordinates who were full of fighting spirit, and then tilted his head to look at Wang Shouren. Wang Shouren's face was solemn. He was also looking at Li Dong. It was obvious that the two of them were thinking about the same thing at this time. That thing Li Dong  I have discussed with Wang Shouren more than once, but have never found a reasonable solution.

    "Sir, you should talk to them!" Li Dong stood up slowly, walked to the window, and looked at the dark night outside with a dull expression.

    Wang Shouren coughed lightly and slapped the table, "Being so impatient and underestimating the enemy, are these the qualities you generals should have?! Have you forgotten what the emperor once taught you? More counts as victory, less counts as less.  Are you too optimistic?! You have considered the problem so poorly, how can the emperor trust you to lead the army alone in the future!"

    Everyone here is Wang Shouren's student. The ancients valued the etiquette between teachers and students. Once a teacher is always a father, when Wang Shouren got angry, everyone including Li Xiang stood up and bowed to Wang Shouren to apologize. "Sir, what you taught is that students know  wrong!"

    "Everyone, please sit down. What the Emperor is worried about is not the combat effectiveness of the Guards, but whether you will be able to come back alive once the war breaks out!"

    After hearing this contradictory statement, Dewey couldn't help but laugh out loud. What are these words? Since he knew that the Guards had such terrifying strength, why did he still worry about the safety of the Guards?

    Wang Shouren did not blame his disciple for his rudeness, but said quietly, "The battlefield is in Datong. Do you really think it is fighting in your own country? When King Anhua rebelled, the general soldiers of several border provinces secretly communicated with him.  Now they are dormant. Who knows if they will surrender to the enemy and betray their country when the Mongols come? When the war begins, you will not only have to be on guard against the enemy, but you must also be very focused on guarding against your own people. Think about it, a big war  The friendly troops who were originally protecting your flank suddenly withdrew from the battlefield. The food route was safe, but the army was inexplicably starved of food. Can you prevent it with various methods?"

    After hearing Wang Shouren's words, Zhao Dongxu and others suddenly felt as if they had a basin of snow poured over their heads, and their faces turned pale.

    At this time, Li Dong turned around and said, "My husband and I have discussed this matter in private several times, but we have never found a good solution. I originally thought of boiling the frog in warm water and taking my time, but Hey, Mongolia  He came at the wrong time!"

    "Your Majesty, fortunately there are still a few months left. We will try our best to raise funds and we will be able to overcome this difficulty!"

    "I hope so!" Li Dong rubbed his slightly swollen head.

    "Your Majesty, it's late at night, and this is not something that can be solved in a hurry. Your Majesty, please go back to the palace to rest first." Wang Shouren advised.

    Li Dong nodded.

    "That's it for today, Zhao Dongxu. You guys should think carefully about how to fight this battle and give me a detailed battle report!"

    "Yes, Commander!" Zhao Dongxu and others stood up solemnly, snapping their boots and standing together.

    Li Dong rode on his horse and walked back to the palace, sighing in his heart. Since he became the emperor, troubles have never stopped, one after another, without even giving him a chance to breathe. He hopes that he can find it this time.  To solve the problem, Li Dong looked up at the sky. A bright moon hung high in the sky.
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