Whether it was tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver or officers, Li Meng was not surprised, but this was obviously somewhat similar to the strong-gun girl, which really made him dumbfounded.

"Although these two women were born in the midst of fireworks, they are still innocent and cannot be a wife. However, it is still good to stay in the back house to serve them. The master bought the person and handed it over to the young master."

Liu Qian's words were not very fluent. After all, you can't say anything like "please accept it with a smile". Li Meng couldn't help but look back at the official ship. He thought that the ship was something other people wanted to use, but who would have thought it was for himself to use it and pretend to be a beautiful female family member. He couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Seeing him like this, Liu Qian thought it was difficult, and the old butler made a rare joke:

"Young Master, you are also a wealthy person. Although these two women are expensive, it's better to raise them easily!"

Li Meng shook his head, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, thinking in his mind that this was not a bad thing, why did he refuse? Even if he watched it every day, it would be very pleasing to the eye.

Money, subordinates, beauties, weapons, I really gained a lot from coming to Nanjing this time. Li Meng felt that this was too much. He was about to say thank you again, but he heard Liu Qian say:

"There is another thing. The master wants the villain to pass it to the young master. The master has sent someone to the capital yesterday. After the New Year, a general will not be able to escape."

OK, there is another position of general here, and with the energy of the old eunuch, I guess it would not be a title, but a real position. Li Meng sighed in his heart that he had no intention of saving people for good, and did not expect that there would be such a reward today. After Liu Qian finished speaking this, it seemed that there was no important matter to explain it, but he bowed and said:

"The little man wishes the young master a good journey, so I'll say goodbye."

Li Meng, who had always wanted to say thank you and say goodbye, didn't know what to say at this time, so he could only bow and hold his fists, bow to the butler, and turn to the boat.

This is the Zheng family's fleet. The leader was the one who had a drink together in Meilou that day. He stood at the bow of the boat and shouted, raised the long pole with a small flag in his hand and shook it. The fleet set sail and slowly left the ferry. Li Meng stood at the bow of the boat and waved at the person who was seeing off the boat standing on the shore.

After calculating the time, Laba in the ninth year of Chongzhen should have been on the boat. In the past few days, Liu Qian arranged for people to collect Li Meng. There was no other news on it, and the world was gradually becoming more peaceful. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong seemed to be wandering everywhere, still as usual and not new.

However, when Li Meng was in Nanjing, the country of the Ming Dynasty, which had been a vassal state for hundreds of years, was attacked by the East Seizure Jurchens and was approaching the brink of destruction. Huang Taiji, who had already claimed to be emperor, led his army to fight in person. The useless Korean army retreated step by step. There was no way except to let the envoys desperately seek help from the Ming court.

The Ming Dynasty court now knows nothing about what happened in North Korea.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Li Meng was on a sea boat docked at the pier near Lingshan Salt Field. This time he came back to everyone in Jiaozhou Camp, and his a little restless mood finally calmed down.

The ship took more than ten days to sea, but the speed of fast horses in Nanjing and the capital was much faster. The governor had sent an envoy to say hello, asking Li Meng to prepare to welcome the imperial envoy who was sent to the imperial envoy. Li Meng was promoted from a Dusi to a general in the Laizhou division, from the third rank.

Such eunuchs who were sent to the imperial edict were very easy to send, and they gave some money. What the people in Jiaozhou Camp were worried about was that the eunuchs who were sent to the imperial eunuchs, but they couldn't see Li Meng, which was difficult to explain.

When Li Meng returned to Jiaozhou, the happiest thing was Mu Yunyao. The Zhu family's princess was sensitive. Although the princess in Henan Province had already announced that he had died of illness in an emergency, he had to be careful. After Li Meng left, Mu Yunyao was strictly restricted to the house where she lived and was not allowed to go out.

After being bored for so long, it was a torture for this girl. When Li Meng came back, the order to ban her was naturally invalid. But when he was happy to greet Li Meng, he saw the two girls who were given as "parting gifts". Seeing that the two women who were not inferior to her and whose charm was even more than her, Mu Yunyao's emotions instantly turned cloudy. Seeing the two girls' dresses and jewelry maids, they were all of them.

But I read the newspapers, Tang newspapers, analyzed the news and provided consultations in Jiaozhou every day. It was so hard that the women who served me were the wives from military households. Although they got along well, after comparison, I felt very unbalanced.

The girl's temper was somewhat restrained, but the essential things did not change. She went to Li Meng to get angry. The reason was very simple. She didn't bring any gifts to her when she went to such a prosperous place in Nanjing.

However, the resentment soon disappeared, and the reason for the dissipation was very simple. Although Li Meng was a little embarrassed, he still explained the origin of these two women in detail. Of course, this explanation would not satisfy Mu Yunyao. The reason for the respite was Li Meng's reaction. He only knew that one woman was Gu Hengbo, but he still didn't know what the other beautiful woman's name was and what the origin was.

Looking at what Liu Qian said about the "land of fireworks and romance", I think it was a girl of similar origin to Gu Hengbo. I think this girl is really pitiful. When Liu Qian gave her a gift, they did not mention their names. Li Meng didn't even care about what her surname was.

Seeing Li Meng's indifferent appearance, all Mu Yunyao's temper turned into nothing and became happy again. The threat she felt naturally disappeared.

This place doesn't take it seriously at all, but they don't know that Nanjing City has been blown up. No, the entire Jiangnan literary world has already exploded.

"Shameless and obscene acts, until the fragrant grass withered..."

The above is the judgment given to Li Meng by the Shilin of Jiangnan. The Qinhuai River, where fireworks are sold for money, is not only a place where women talk about emotions, but also a place where scholars and literati gather. Most of the Donglin Qing people who currently control the civil service system come from the three prefectures of Su Songchang in Shilin of Jiangnan and Nanzhili.

In the eyes of these scholars, Gu Hengbo is really a god-like figure. He is the best in Nanqu. His various names make them feel that Gu Hengbo can only treat Gu Hengbo’s reputation as a talented man in the Donglin Party without any bad treatment.

As for some ideas, Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingzi and other famous scholars who had long been planning to do so, they criticized them, saying that they were morally corrupt, and the eunuch party was rampant, and there was a hidden image of the Tianqinian. Fortunately, Zhang Pugang from Fushe took a large sum of silver from the eunuch Liu Fulai, and it was difficult to open his mouth to take money from others, otherwise the momentum of denunciation of the eunuch party would be even more powerful.

The attacks of these Donglin literati are quite particular. If they write things like jealousy, they would be ridiculous. Therefore, they talk about the harm of eunuchs in power and the harm of powerful officials who depended on eunuchs at that time, and pointed the finger at Li, the nephew of the eunuchs.

When Li Meng was still on the boat, the title of "eunuch party" was confirmed. Fortunately, this kind of news is not a major military and national event, but is only circulated among scholars and has not been spread to Shandong for the time being.

Now the eunuch party is no better than that of Wei Zhongxian in power. If it was an eunuch party at that time, it could be rampant in the court and the country. If it was an eunuch party at this time, it would be unlucky to do anything. The current Emperor Chongzhen still attaches great importance to the so-called "scholars in the world".

Even the great eunuchs such as Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun who hold great power should avoid suspicion and act as if they do not form cliques and are close to scholars, mainly to the Donglin Party members among scholars.

If the eunuch Liu Fu, the governor of Nanjing, came to compile a letter to Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the Silijian, and asked the other party to ask Li Meng to have a general in Shandong for the sake of the favor of taking the initiative to give up the position of the Silijian, he would be sure that the title of the eunuch and evil villain would be confirmed.

The eunuch who sent the order received two thousand taels of silver and happily left Jiaozhou. This was a three-level promotion, and he jumped from the original Dusi to the general who was in charge of Laizhou Prefecture.

However, this time, no one came to check the troops, and only paid 7,000 people a year of salary according to the rules - naturally, they were deducted layer by layer.

Now, whether it is a soldier or a salt lie, it is considered a soldier of Li Meng, the general of Laizhou, and Jiaozhou Camp has naturally been upgraded to Laizhou Camp.

The current plan to move to Huguang is not mentioned below, but the news that the land is being distributed instead of military pay has spread, and everyone feels full of energy.

Moreover, after Li Meng went out for two months, he was already a real general when he came back. This leap in his position is really amazing. Li Meng is well developed, and officials at all levels in the past must have risen with the current situation. The former general manager and general manager Qian, this time, had to go to the position of the garrison and Dusi.

These people will definitely have to be vacant for another group of positions to be promoted. There are countless opportunities for promotion and wealth. The people below are getting more and more motivated. They all want to perform well in front of the new general Li Meng and lay a foundation for their official position and wealth.

The powerful people at the junction of Qingzhou Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture, as well as the Zhuangzi near Xiajin County, Dongchang Prefecture, and the villages were nervously paying attention to the movements of Liu Zeqing in Caozhou and Li Meng in Jiaozhou. If the two sides fought each other, the unlucky people were the local tyrants who were nearby but were unable to resist.

On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the new general Li Mengxingwen, the governor of Laizhou, was appointed as the general officer. The left governor Liu Zeqing plundered the local area, and committed illegal acts, colluded with bandits.
Chapter completed!