A ball of fire swayed in the dense forest. Fortunately, Yuan Chonghuan kicked two of them while digging potatoes in the afternoon, hooked them out of the hot fire with branches. Before the cold was cool, Chiyoji was quickly grabbed in his hand. His little hand was turned to the left and right, and then he couldn't stand it and then he couldn't help but tear the potato skin open and swallowed it voraciously.

Judging from her appearance, I don’t know how long I’ve been hungry!

Covering the flames, he looked out vigilantly, and suddenly turned around. The girl was still choking and slapped her trembling chest and rolled her eyes. Old Yuan had no choice but to take off the bamboo tube he had dug in the ground and handed it to her. He rushed down suddenly. Chiyohime finally rubbed her chest comfortably.

"What the hell is going on?"

His brows were extremely tight, and Old Yuan asked with great headache.

Then he chewed the roasted potatoes, his mouth was vague, and Chiyohime muttered angrily.

"I just said that stinky robber had no good intentions! He took us into the city and wanted to marry me! Or marry an old man from the Kuroda family! That old man is over 60 years old!"

"Fortunately, Kuromaru had a little conscience and took me out in the name of hunting. He pretended to have fallen and I could escape while the chaos!"

"Sir, you are a great scholar and have a lot of knowledge. You took me out of Dongjiang, to Liaodong, and to Central Plains. OK? I, I don't want to get married casually!"

His eyes were shiny, and he put down all the potatoes. Chiyohime looked at him with great pity.

The most difficult thing to get the kindness of the beauty! The old Yuan couldn't see the affection in her eyes, but he immediately put aside Chiyohime's eyes.

He didn't know about Mao Jue's plan. There was a huge gap in the identities of the two people, and it didn't seem like there was a possibility of getting together again.

And even if he knew Mao Jue’s real marriage plan, he would not agree. Who is Yuan Chonghuan? The former Liaodong Supervisor is! He once won all the trust of the emperor and the people who are supporting the entire Ming Dynasty are not only a huge halo, but also a huge responsibility!

When he was first sent to Dongjiang, Yuan Chonghuan was full of resentment, unwillingness, and cynicality. He could still do unfair things to beat tobacco all over the ground, but over time, in the quiet life, the resentment in his heart calmed down again.

Those in the authorities were confused, while those onlookers were clear! Looking at what Mao Jue of Dongjiang did, Yuan Chonghuan also began to reflect on his five-year plan to pacify Liaodong, comparing where he lost? But the more he thought, the more fear began to rise in his heart.

Can the seemingly perfect plan be implemented? Can the Ming Dynasty, which is full of natural disasters and man-made disasters, support the huge expenses of the Liao army? In fact, he himself knew that it was a huge cowhide in the five years of pacification of Liao, but the Liao affairs were like a huge bottomless pit, absorbing endless nutrients from the Ming Empire. In the past few years, six refugees have moved in from Shangshou Village, and three of them went bankrupt because of Liao’s silver funds.

Unwilling to be gradually replaced by self-blame. If his plan continues, perhaps the one that will be dragged down first will be the Ming Dynasty.

In this case, could Yuan Chonghuan marry the princess of the Toyotomi family for fame and fortune to satisfy his own fame and fortune?

However, people are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless? I have lived together for three years, and even watched Chiyo Hime grow from a little girl to a big girl. The relationship between them is not only Chiyo Hime's hazy and ambiguous feeling, but also Yuan Chonghuan looks at her, but more like a father looks at her daughter. Although she dare not look at her eyes, she really doesn't want to face her lost eyes. After hesitating for a minute or two, Yuan Chonghuan finally raised her head with difficulty.

"So that's it! I'll talk to Mao Jue. He should be able to listen to my words. I told him not to marry you to the Kuroda family."

He showed obvious disappointment, his lips were bitten tightly in his mouth, and he stared at him blankly for a few seconds. Chiyohime finally nodded.

"Listen to sir!"

Although the ending was not what the two of them wanted, and after solving the problem, both of them breathed a sigh of relief. However, the potatoes in the fire were still fragrant, and Chiyohime lost the mood to eat them again.

The flames were shaking, and time seemed to become conflicted. It was short and long. No one spoke, sitting blankly at the fire, not knowing that as the night became darker, Old Yuan finally spoke with difficulty.

"It's getting late, don't spend the night in the mountains, go down the mountain!"

"Let's go."

The dust covered the fire, and the darkness wiped out the red faces. Today, they were exhausted all day. The two of them stood up and covered the ashes on their bodies. They walked out exhausted. However, as soon as they walked down the hill, they couldn't help but stayed silent again. Under the hill, a row of torches shone brightly the valley below as day. Under the torches, Luo Zhigo's face looked like iron squids, looking at the two people with their heads exposed in anger.

"Mr. Yuan, Miss Toyotomi, have you hidden enough? Can you go back with Luo?"

"Sorry, Lord Luo, Yuan is willing to go back with you. Please take Yuan to see General Mao. Yuan has something to do to advise."

"Hmph, do you think my general meets you as soon as you want? Call you Mr. Yuan to praise you, don't forget your identity, you will be imprisoned! Take it away by someone!”

Mao Jue came to invite him in person, and returned home with anger. As the local supervisor, Luo Zhige didn't know if he could be hated by the general! He also took Yuan Chonghuan to see Mao Jue? It was so exciting! He was full of anger. Luo Zhige waved his hand and wanted someone to take Yuan Chonghuan down and take him back.

Who knew that at this time, Chiyohime suddenly stood in front of Lao Yuan again.

"If you want to see that smelly robber, you have to go with Mr. Yuan!"

"Miss Toyotomi, stop making trouble. The general on Tieshan is already angry..."

"Or you just carry a body back and see how his surname Mao married!"

I really didn't expect that this little girl was so strong that she was so fierce that she was more powerful than her neck than her hairpin, and her pointed tip even pierced into her. Even Yuan Chonghuan was shocked and wanted to reach out to stop her, but Chiyohime was avoided.

Luo Zhige was almost choked to death. The blue veins on his forehead were leaping, and his fingers were trembling at her. He didn't say a word for a long time. After holding it in for a few seconds, he suddenly shook his sleeves and got into the team sadly. After following the black knights behind the team, he discussed it quickly for a long time, and then he walked back helplessly.

"Come, bring two horses!"

Listening to Luo Zhige finally compromised, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief again, but this time Luo Zhige was not polite anymore. Four personal soldiers carried them down the hillside and stuffed them into the horses like sacks. A group of cavalry held them in and ran towards the iron mountain overnight.

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Taking advantage of the convenience of Dongjiang Avenue, the cavalry team arrived at Tieshan before dawn. At this early morning, it was already busy outside Tieshan City. They were shouting trumpets, and the brigade of soldiers and horses carrying firearms weighing a few kilograms and saluting more than twenty kilograms. They were fully armed and shouting trumpets, strodes and morning exercises, and the four-person team pulled out several miles long.

The avenues that were usually occupied by merchants now belong to the legion. The new ships and guns pulled out of the Galao Mountain artillery workshop were transported into the city in rows. There was no head in front, no tail behind, and there was also the reserve troops next to them. The reserve troops gathered from the camp and garrison one after another, and the cold bayonets gathered into the woods.

With such a large-scale mobilization of troops, the old cannons were replaced with new cannons, and the arms were renewed. In about a month, it would be the most critical victory and defeat in the entire late Ming history, and the seventh year of Chongzhen! Mao Jue also tried his best and put all his treasures on this war.

It was the black knight who took out the pass specially approved by the Dongjiang headquarters, and the cavalry team then entered the city. At this time, the city was full of armor and uniforms, and a large number of commanders and bees were coming in and out from one place like that, and they were so busy.

Not to mention, it has been three years since he was escorted to Tieshan. This is the second time Yuan Chonghuan has come here again. It is so good that he is the emperor and the city walls have been rebuilt. The low and dilapidated wooden buildings in the city have almost been demolished and replaced by one or two-story brick and cement houses. But against the east of the city, a very Japanese Heavenly Shou Pavilion smells like a little smaller, completely built of brick and stone cement, and a fortress-like building with five floors suddenly caught his eye.

Even when Yuan Chonghuan presided over Liaodong, it was rare. He often owed wages and wore shabby equipment and was listless every day. He almost became a normal practice for the Ming army. When he first arrived at the gate of the Tieshan Governor's Office, the huge five-story building, the sound of footsteps suddenly came. Wen Meng, the general who had seen once or twice, was both hung his hair, and Zhang Fei ran in front and shouted loudly.

"God of the Lord has orders, let those bastards see it! Go all your best and run forward!"

"drink!"

The troops with almost four whistles shouted suddenly and ran forward. What surprised Yuan Chonghuan was that so many people were in the same pace, and the formation of the running squad was not even a trace of chaos. Even he couldn't help but pull the reins of the horse and slowed down, and looked sideways over his head.

Coincidentally, Luo Zhige also turned his head and looked around with envy. Until Wen Meng's army had run away, he woke up in a daze and shouted in front of him with some annoyance.

"It's not certain if you don't see you! Why are you rushing! Hurry up!"

It just so happened that the gate of the mansion was left empty as the troops left, and the group hurriedly entered the governor's mansion, which was as busy as a beehive.

"Sister Chiyo, are you back?"

Not long after walking, he put his hair on his head. Guomatsumaru, wearing Yuanfu, suddenly emerged from the garden next to him. Then, more than a dozen maids dressed in kimono rushed out in the corridor, dragging Chiyohime off the horse, and pulled her and Kuromatsumaru to the villa on the right side of the mansion, hurriedly shouted a few times. While being pulled, Chiyohime turned around and looked at Yuan Chonghuan tightly until he was pulled over the corner and disappeared completely.

My heart became even heavier, and it was not until her figure disappeared that Yuan Chonghuan turned around again and looked at the huge brick building in front of him with heavy eyes.

When he arrived at the second floor yard, Luo Zhige was not qualified and then left. He and the knights of the White Horse Guard had no choice but to turn around here and return to the base. The six black-clad knights who had been hiding at the end of the team pushed Yuan Chonghuan to dismount and entered this huge building that looked more like a honeycomb.

The Tieshan Governor's Office was also a busy image. The fat Su Changmei was like a queen, running one office after another with an account book. She could vaguely hear him shouting how many stones and canned boxes were immediately transported out of a warehouse. She staggered the side of these busy logistics personnel, and bypassed the second floor staff and the freshmen who had just come out of Dongjiang Academy and shouted at the map. Only after reaching the third floor were the third floor, it was quieter.

But when I followed the stairs to the fifth floor, Lao Yuan's eyes could not be moved away once.

Although glass is one of the specialties of Dongjiang, it is still a luxury product. If a family has a room with a small piece of glass embedded in the wooden frame, it is a very worthy of showing off. However, the smallest layer of the fifth layer is good, all of which are a whole piece of light red glass. From here, the radius of Tieshan is completely reflected in the eyes.

Looking down from here, more than 70 meters, the iron-right sailboat like a giant beast filled the spacious port. The war beast had been here for so long that Yuan Chonghuan had never seen it before. He couldn't help but lie by the window and looked down. At a height of more than ten meters in five floors, people below were small like ants. The giant ship seemed to have transformed into an ant nest. The cannons that just looked huge were small at this time, like match sticks, were moved up and down. No wonder since ancient times, the powerful people were willing to live in high places. Looking down here, they did have a tall feeling of looking down at all the mountains.

Everything feels too new for even Yuan Chonghuan, the Liaodong Supervisor.

Just when he was in a daze, a crisp sound of footsteps suddenly came from behind, interrupting his contemplation. He turned around and saw Adrena's style of professional secretary several times. He walked out of the big room wearing high heels, holding a pile of thick documents, and looked at Yuan Chonghuan coldly.

"Mr. Yuan, Mr. Jiang is very busy now, I only give you three minutes!"

It was more than three minutes long, and Yuan Chonghuan had no idea. The Ming Dynasty was still scheduled these days, but Mao Jue agreed to see him, and he understood it. At this time, he nodded as a hermit. He hurriedly nodded and followed Adrena. He hurriedly walked into the big room.

This place is even more spectacular than outside. It is hard to imagine how Mao Jue made a whole huge glass wall in the backward craftsmanship of this era. Looking from here, most of the Tie Mountain and the opposite island can be seen vaguely. This place belongs to Mao Wenlong in name, but now it is this young man who is giving orders here.

"Tell those guys from the Shandong Army that they can give them old cannons eliminated by the fleet, but I don't have the capacity to transport these junks to Japan, telling them that they either carry the sea himself or throw them here and get them back! If you dare to prick them again, let Wen Meng "talk a good talk!" and go down!"

Several messengers didn't even talk nonsense, turned around and left, following Adrena put the documents on the table. Mao Jue didn't see him coming, and started searching for them as if no one else was there. The tension that Yuan Chonghuan could not feel when he saw Chongzhen back then made him sweat slightly.

However, he is worthy of being the supervisor, and he ignored him. With a rigid face, he went straight to the front of the table and knocked on the table and started talking quickly.

"General Mao, you want to marry Chiyohime to the head of the Kuroda family!"

"Yuan's opinion, this is definitely a mistake! Now the Toyotomi family is only Kyomatsumaru and Chiyohime. No matter how important the Kuroda family is, once they marry Chiyohime is, it is equivalent to giving them justice and excuses. Moreover, the Kuroda family is a Japanese and the general is a Ming. With the convenience of this marriage, the Kuroda family will be better intervened in Toyotomi family affairs, which is very dangerous to undermine Dongjiang!"

"According to Yuan's opinion, if the general wants to obtain the best interests, he must marry Chiyohime himself! Last time he mentioned that being Guomatsumaru's adoptive father is absolutely not advisable! The truth in the world is that only father passes to son, but no son passes to father!"

There were a lot of big truths, just like when he was in the Yuan family hut in Shangshou Village, Yuan Chonghuan talked about it again. Who knew that Mao Jue, who obeyed him twice in a row, was extremely cold this time. Until Adrena pressed the hourglass on the table and the quicksand was about to end, he raised his head coldly and asked indifferently.
Chapter completed!