Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 217 Promoted to the Innate Grandmaster
"Let the North Korean business houses buy as much grain as possible."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao said: "Also let the leader of the caravan and the steward of the chamber of commerce enter the palace."

He attaches great importance to power and money. Coming from the era of information explosion in later generations, under the scouring of countless information, he is very clear that the main reason for any party to lose control is the combination of power and money, whether it is the economy owning military power, or The military power has the economy, and the combination of the two will make the power grow rapidly and then get out of control.

This was the case with the feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty, and so was the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty. The civil servants ruled the world, and it could be said that they controlled the economy.

The same is true for military generals. Generals have their own sources of income, which means that they can pay soldiers, collect food and grass, and afford military armor. In this way, why do generals need the emperor?Find yourself a father for nothing?

So no matter whether it is Tang Xiangjin and his generals, or Liao Qing's Black Ice Platform, he has no intention of letting them touch the source of the economy. Regret is stronger when things happen.

"The minister obeys the order!"

Liao Qing clapped his hands in response.

"By the way, what's the situation on the grassland?"

At this time, Su Hao suddenly thought of the unlucky boy Lin Danhan on the grassland. Since he was beaten up by Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai and the Monan Mongolian tribes half a year ago, he has not heard of this unlucky boy for a long time. News of the child.

To be honest, he didn't expect that Lin Danhan, an unlucky child, would be beaten back by Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai after the Jurchens were severely injured in the pass and suppressed by Yuan Chonghuan.

"Returning to Your Majesty, since Naiman was defeated by Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai, Lin Dan Khan has not made much movement, and even allocated some troops to invade the Xitao area. It seems that he intends to develop his power to the west and abandon Monan."

After thinking for a while, Liao Qing clapped his hands and replied.

West?
After listening to Liao Qing's words, Su Hao's brows were furrowed. To be honest, he was not very satisfied with the result. Without Lin Danhan's restraint, the Jurchens could put all their energy on Liaodong.

At that time, not only will the Ming army be under great pressure, but the pressure on his side will definitely not be small. Once the Jurchens can spare time to deal with him, after all, after occupying Phoenix City, the Jurchens will no longer be able to get more from North Korea. Enshrined, this is tantamount to making matters worse for the Jurchens who are already struggling.

"What about the Jurchens' losses now?"

After thinking for a while, Su Hao asked again.

Liao Qing clasped his hands and said, "Return to Your Majesty. According to the reports from the spies, the Jurchens probably lost more than [-] people, and the Han Niulu and Mongolian Niulu also lost more than [-] people. The exact number is not clear."

"Keep watching."

Hearing this, Su Hao shook his head lightly. Although the Jurchens are not good at defending the city, they have enough slaves. After conquering Liaodong, many of the hundreds of thousands of Liaodong people in Liaodong were turned into by the Jurchens. slaves.

Today, those guarding the city at Haizhou Acropolis are basically the Liaodong people. Under the threat of the Jurchens' swords, those Liaodong people can only pick up weapons to defend the city, which is why the Jurchens have suffered little loss.

...

After Liao Qing retreated, Su Hao entered into practice again. Five pills were refined from the thousand-year-old demon pill, and one was given to Fang Haichuan. In the past six months, he refined one by himself, and another One is refining.

Now the internal force in his dantian has been filled up to nearly [-]%, one elixir has increased his internal force by more than [-]%, maybe only three elixir can fill up the internal force in his dantian, reaching the level of innate shock threshold.

.........

On the other side, the prison of the Black Ice Terrace.

The prison is extremely gloomy, and the dark corridors are like evil spirits who want to choose people and devour them. Anyone who steps into it seems to be swallowed up at any time, including the bones.

In the execution room, the dark green fire was burning, and there were crackling sounds from time to time. Various instruments of torture were hung on the walls around the room.

Gu Santai was tied to a wooden frame, and his body was impaled with bone nails. At this time, Gu Santai's face was twisted and his teeth were clenched, as if he was enduring some great pain.

At this time, an old man wearing the official uniform of Heibingtai hundreds of households walked slowly to Gu Santai's side, then took out a small incense burner from his sleeve and put it on Gu Santai's nose. A foot-long indigo centipede emerged from Gu Santai's nose and entered the small incense burner.

"Dog man, you kind of kill me!"

Feeling the pain in his body disappear, Gu Santai opened his eyes and roared in a low voice.

"That won't do."

Buren said quietly: "I'm only counting on you to get promoted and get rich. The commander entrusted you to me. If I don't get anything good, the commander will be angry."

"What exactly do you want to know?"

Hearing this, Gu Santai almost collapsed, he didn't understand, the other party just asked him to explain, and didn't ask specific questions, only asked him to pick the important ones.

But when he said it, he was dissatisfied with it, and then tortured him, and asked him to confess after the torture, time and time again, all for the purpose of torturing him.

"Didn't the officer say that?"

Buren said indifferently: "As long as you can confess enough valuable things, I will not punish you, but you always refuse to cooperate and cause trouble for me. What can I do?"

To be honest, Liao Qing didn't ask him to ask any specific things, but just asked him to tell all the things Gu Santai knew, so he didn't know what to ask.

"What do you want to know, just ask, I will never hide anything."

Gu Santai broke down and shouted, although he has practiced for decades and his will is considered strong, but the evil punishment inflicted by this evil spirit in front of him is something he has never seen or heard, let alone experienced it himself.

"You pick the important ones."

Buren said quietly: "But if you talk about irrelevant things, then don't blame me for being cruel."

"I've already said everything I know, what else do you want me to say!"

Hearing this, Gu Santai's eyes were tearing apart instantly, and he broke down and roared.

At this time, Liao Qing suddenly appeared at the gate of the execution room.

"How's the trial going?"

Looking at Gu Santai who collapsed and roared, Liao Qing frowned and said, Su Hao handed Gu Santai to him, but until now, he didn't ask any useful information, only some Jurchen's practice skills and army intelligence.

But these things are not of great use to Daqi, Daqi has no shortage of skills, and military intelligence is useless at all. After all, the Jurchens are all soldiers, and the strong are all on the bright side. It is impossible How many hidden masters there are.

"Commander, I can't ask."

Buren smiled wryly and said: "The lower officials have used most of the methods. The other tortures hurt the foundation and may kill him."

"Then arrange it."

Hearing Buren's words, Liao Qing said calmly: "If you can't ask anything, it's useless to keep it."

"The officer understands."

Hearing this, Bu Ren nodded and said: "The officer will make him spit out everything he knows."

After Liao Qing left the torture room, Bu Ren came to Gu Santai's side, a ferocious smile appeared on his old face, then he went to a wooden frame and took down a simple and simple wooden box.

"That's good stuff."

Buren took out a small bronze bottle from the wooden box, came to Gu Santai's side, and said in a low voice: "This is a bone-eating ant refined by a Miao Gu master, and its favorite thing is the bones of the strong. "

While speaking, Bu Ren opened the bottle, and then slammed it on Gu Santai's body: "This bone-eating ant will bite through flesh and blood, drill into the bones of the strong, and then lay eggs in the bones. die, and the eggs it lays will grow in the bones, and your bones will be the food for them to grow."

At this time, Gu Santai no longer cared about what Bu Ren was saying, but twisted his body crazily, as if he wanted to squeeze the bone-eating ant to death. He could feel that the bone-eating ant had already entered It was a pity that he was tied to the torture rack, no matter how much he twisted it, it was useless, he could only watch the bone-eating ants burrow into his bones.

At this time, Bu Ren's voice came again faintly: "The strength of the bone-eating ants has a great relationship with the hosts that cultivate them. You are a top-notch fighter, so you should be able to cultivate very powerful bone-eating ants. "

"you!"

Gu Santai just wanted to speak, but Bu Renyi pinched the Ya acupoint, even though he opened his mouth wide, he couldn't make any sound.

"Do not worry."

Buren said lightly: "I won't let you die. After they hatch, I will draw them all out, and I won't let them eat all your bones. After all, a strong man like you It's hard to find, and I'm not willing to do the killing of chickens and eggs."

After speaking, Bu Ren turned around and walked out of the execution room, leaving Gu Santai struggling on the torture rack.

As time passed, Buren did not continue to interrogate, but came to the torture room every few days, took out the hatched small bone-eating ants from Gu Santai's body, put in new bone-eating ants to lay eggs again, and finally Gu Santai was fed a lot of tonics, even precious medicines to maintain his life.

But Gu Santai fell into endless pain and despair, because every little bone-eating ants hatched would eat his bones, bringing him the pain of a hundred ants eating bones.

...

"I thought of one thing, very important thing, absolutely very important!"

Seeing Buren walk in, Gu Santai hurriedly shouted: "I want to see your emperor of Daqi!"

"Just tell me anything."

Hearing Gu Santai's words, Bu Ren frowned.

"If I haven't seen your Daqi emperor, I will never say it."

Gu Santai resolutely said: "This matter is extremely important, if you delay it, not only you, but even your commanders will not be able to protect themselves!"

"You wait!"

Hearing Gu Santai's words, Bu Ren's face was extremely ugly, but he didn't dare to delay, after all, Gu Santai said it so seriously, if there is a major delay, his life will be lost, even though he is not young Small, but he doesn't want to die yet.

.........

Not long after, Gu Santai came to Zichen Palace under the leadership of Liao Qing.

"What do you want to see me for?"

Looking at Gu Santai who was kneeling on the ground, Su Hao said curiously, "Now we can talk."

Gu Santai humbly said: "Your Majesty Qi Huang, if the news I said is valuable, I wonder if His Majesty Qi Huang can let me live and enjoy my old age in peace?"

"Don't worry, as long as what you say is valuable, I can guarantee that you can enjoy your old age in Daqi."

Hearing this, Su Hao said indifferently, he doesn't have much hatred towards Gu Santai, if Gu Santai can provide enough valuable information, he doesn't mind keeping Gu Santai alive.

"Your Majesty Qi Huang, Huang Taiji and the others sent 600 people to Changbai Mountain to become horse disciples last year. Now they have probably successfully cultivated and are about to leave the mountain. Once these 600 people leave the mountain, there will be [-] more masters in the Eight Banners."

Gu Santai said humbly, he actually didn't want to talk about this matter, but in the past half a month, most of his bones have been eaten by bone-eating ants, although the bones can grow again as long as they are not all eaten up, But he didn't want to be the food of bone-eating ants for the rest of his life.

And this matter is still worth a little bit now, once those disciples come out of the mountain, this news will be worthless, and he will be completely worthless at that time, and he will only be food for the bone-eating ants for the rest of his life.

"Six hundred in-stream masters!"

Hearing Gu Santai's words, Su Hao's face suddenly changed. So many masters are not Chinese cabbage. If these people suddenly appear in a big battle, they can completely decide the battle situation. After all, not many troops will leave so many masters as a reserve.

"Is what you said true?"

After calming down, Su Hao looked at Gu Santai again, and said solemnly.

"No lie at all."

Seeing Su Hao's expression, Gu Santai said quickly.

"Go on, I will ask someone to confirm."

Su Hao said indifferently: "If the matter is true, then I will never break my promise."

After Gu Santai was taken away, Su Hao turned to Liao Qing and said, "Send someone to tell Tang Xiangjin immediately, and ask him to take precautions."

"The minister obeys the order."

Liao Qing cupped his hands and said, he also knew what this meant. If this was true, then the strength of the Jurchens would not only be restored to the original level, but even a few points better than before. burnt.

"In addition, tell Sun Chengzong the news and let him grasp it himself."

After a pause, Su Hao continued, now the main enemy of the Jurchens is Daming. Although Da Qi took the opportunity to occupy a lot of Jurchens' territory, it did not threaten the foundation of the Jurchens, so with so many masters, They will definitely deal with the Ming army in Liaodong first, instead of dealing with Daqi, and expose their strength for nothing.

But now Da Ming cannot be defeated, because once Da Ming is defeated, he will have to bear the pressure of the Jurchens alone, or else he will have to give up those lands that have just been opened up in Liaodong.

"I understand."

Liao Qing bowed and saluted, then retreated.

.........

Dongchang Fort.

At this time, Dongchang Fort has been expanded several times, and its size is comparable to an acropolis.

In the lobby, Sun Chengzong, Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhao Shujiao, and Guo Qin all had solemn expressions.

"Everyone, do you think what Da Qi said is true or not?"

Sun Chengzong tapped the table with his fingers. After taking over Liaodong, he did not change Yuan Chonghuan's tactics. He still relied on the fortress to ensure logistics and attacked Haizhou Acropolis.

However, the information sent by Daqi's spies today is too astonishing. If one is not careful, the 20 army in Liaodong will repeat the mistakes of Yang Gao and be buried in Liaodong.

"Jinglue, I don't think this matter may be fake, we have to guard against it."

He Kegang said solemnly: "After all, even if they cheated us, we have nothing to lose."

Hearing He Kegang's words, Zu Dashou and others also nodded. This kind of thing has no other effect except to make them more vigilant.

"Then pass down the order and let people be more vigilant."

Sun Chengzong nodded and said, "I will ask Jin Yiwei to conduct a detailed investigation."

.........

Time flies like water, time flies, four months passed slowly.

Zichen Palace.

In the training room, Su Hao's expression was solemn. The effect of the pill was better than he imagined. The third pill was only half refined, and his dantian was filled up, reaching the threshold of hitting the innate realm.

However, he is very troubled now, that is which kind of artistic conception and internal force should be integrated into Gang Qi. Now he has two artistic concepts, pure yang artistic conception and paper knife intention. The former is good at defending, and the latter is good at attacking. Both, then the two kinds of qi will affect each other and become nothing.

After pondering for a while, Su Hao still decided to choose Chunyang Conception. With the paper man secret technique, his combat power is not lacking, but his defensive ability is a bit weaker. Moreover, Chunyang Conception also has the effect of nourishing health, allowing him to sharpen mana Afterwards, the body recovers faster.

After making a decision, Su Hao used his internal energy again, adjusted his body condition, and made final preparations.

(End of this chapter)