For this special operation, Su Yonglin arranged for Zhao Zuoliang's "old friend" Zhou Shaoning to lead his action team to cooperate with Zhao Zuoliang.
At the same time, two platoons of soldiers from the Huben Battalion were arranged as guards to protect Zhao Zuoliang's safety. They were all equipped with horses and emergency dried meat as food.
Anyway, no matter what, it is necessary to ensure Zhao Zuoliang's safety first. On top of this, Su Yonglin's strategic goal can be achieved.
Because Zhao Zuoliang had held a position in the Liberation Army, had some old deployments in the army, and had led troops to win battles, the task of winning over the forces in the Liberation Army who were willing to follow him and oppose Zhao Xiang was completed by Zhao Zuoliang himself.
As for the task of persuading the actual power holders of various state governments and counties in Zhao Kaishan's cabinet to defect to Zhao Kaishan's cabinet, Su Yonglin personally sent people to handle it.
After all, the ruler who needs their recognition is Su Yonglin himself, so Su Yonglin naturally handles this matter personally.
He will send reliable personnel to visit these people with his sincerity, persuade them to follow him, turn against him, do not help Zhao Xiang, and directly change the flag.
Su Yonglin will organize them into independent battalions based on the examples in Hebei, become independent combat organizations, and integrate them into the battle order of the Liberation Army.
They will be trained, organized, and cared for by Su Yonglin himself.
Su Yonglin will not ask for their interests, everything will remain as usual, as long as they obey the orders and fight together.
That way, they will have a bright future.
Su Yonglin originally thought that this might require some twists and turns, and he would need to bargain with these people and make certain compromises before he could achieve his goal, so he was ready to compromise.
But it turned out that Su Yonglin was naive.
It may be that Su Yonglin did not stay in Zhao Kaishan's ruling area in person, and it was difficult to directly understand the true emotions of the landlords and gentry who supported Zhao Kaishan's uprising by relying only on literal reports from intelligence personnel.
Su Yonglin could not truly feel how regretful and desperate the landlords and gentry were when faced with Zhao Kaishan's failure and willfulness.
When everything was going smoothly in the beginning, everyone felt that Zhao Kaishan was a good leader who could lead everyone to the top, so one or two people followed him and invested in him before it was too late.
After defeating the main force of the Shandong Jin Army and occupying Shandong, they felt that Zhao Kaishan was very promising and had a very promising future, and the chance of victory would be very high.
They seemed to have seen the dawn of success.
But soon, the departure of Su Yonglin and Sun Ziyi made them feel a little bad. The actual split of the Liberation Army came earlier than imagined.
In particular, Su Yonglin, who has always been good at fighting, also acted separately from Zhao Kaishan, which made some people have doubts.
As expected, what happened next was that after they separated from Su Yonglin, Su Yonglin was thriving in Hebei, while Zhao Kaishan was struggling in the south.
Those who invested in Zhao Kaishan suffered heavy losses. Not only did they not recover their investment costs, they also lost a large sum of money. What's more, their families were destroyed and they lost all their money.
Afterwards, although Zhao Kaishan was careful about taking the blame and promised to compensate the injured, people could not be resurrected after death. Many people were quite disappointed with Zhao Kaishan and further doubted his ability to lead the Liberation Army further.
Then at this time, news came that Su Yonglin had successfully occupied Hebei.
Comparing the two, everyone understood.
Zhao Kaishan was able to achieve such great results before. Apart from his personal ability and luck, it was most likely that Su Yonglin's contribution was attributed to Zhao Kaishan.
The one who can really fight and advance is Su Yonglin, not Zhao Kaishan.
Zhao Kaishan is just a banner, it looks good, nothing more. The one who can really make things happen is Su Yonglin.
Then, Zhao Kaishan died.
After Zhao Kaishan died, his son Zhao Yucheng did not take over, and the leadership of the Liberation Army fell into the hands of the Zhao clan headed by the new leader Zhao Xiang. The Zhao clan headed by Zhao Xiang controlled the main force of the Liberation Army.
And what can this group of people bring to them and the Liberation Army?
chaos.
and extortion.
What the Zhao family did after taking power really repeatedly set the lower limit of power in these places.
They originally thought that what Zhao Kaishan had done before was the limit of what this group of people could do, but they didn't expect that it was just the beginning.
Since Zhao Kaishan died of illness and Zhao Xiang seized power, the powerful Zhao clan has extorted local forces more than ten times.
The reasons are different, the amounts are different, and the blackmail targets are different, but they are all aimed at making money.
It is said that once the power is in hand, the order will be carried out. These people seem to think that they have the power and they must use it in time, otherwise there will be no shop in this village.
The specific method of operation is to tightly cover the money that Zhao Kaishan was supposed to compensate the severely damaged local forces in various places, and use this money to make a fuss.
After the Jin Army cavalry marched in the rear of the Liberation Army, the landlords and gentry who suffered losses put pressure on Zhao Kaishan to compensate him. Zhao Kaishan could not bear the huge political pressure and could only agree to compensate.
Zhao Kaishan originally wanted to distribute the money according to the amount of losses of each family, but when it fell into the hands of Zhao Xiang and others, the distribution method of the money would be different.
To put it simply, there is a sequence.
Some people get it first, some people get it later, some people get it more, and some people get it less.
Those who meet their needs get it first and get more; those who cannot meet their needs get less, and they may not get it even late.
They use this method to raise prices, turning disaster relief compensation into a large-scale auction with high prices. From planned allocation to market competition, the highest bidder wins.
Zhao Yi, the commander of the right army, took a fancy to the manor where the fertile land was located in the home of Qian, a local tycoon in Yizhou, so he gave various hints to the other party to give this manor to him.
Otherwise, the money applied for by the Qian family would be less damaged than another rich family, the Wang family, and the Wang family would get the money first.
According to gossip, Qian learned that Wang had given gifts to Zhao Yi. Originally, the damage to their family was not too serious, but because of this, they were put on the list of the first families to receive compensation.
Another example is the local tycoon Chen in Tengzhou, whose family assets were severely damaged and urgently needed money to restore construction. Otherwise, many households would have no houses to live in and would cause trouble.
However, Zhao Yiyuan, the later military supervisor, said that if Chen did not give him a manor, he would not grant him the money and asked him to wait.
Chen also learned through the grapevine that the Qi family, a wealthy family in the same county with which they had always had disputes, sent treasures to Zhao Yiyuan and asked Zhao Yiyuan to transfer the money that originally belonged to the Chen family to his own name, hoping to drag Chen to death. Bleed Chen's blood and take the opportunity to bite off the flesh from Chen's body and eat it.
The Lee family and the Oh family in Jeju were also seriously damaged. Both parties needed a sum of money to make ends meet. As a result, Zhao Jinghuan, the supervisor of the selection of the vanguard army, said that there was not enough money to allocate at the same time, so it would depend on their respective performances.
Whoever performs better will get the money first.
In the end, Mrs. Wu gave her beautiful daughter to Zhao Jinghuan as a concubine and paid a dowry. With that money, she was able to survive. However, Mrs. Li was angry and helpless and was forced to sell her land at a low price to survive the difficulties. .
These incidents are just a microcosm of some of the incidents that occurred during this period.
In order to win over everyone to support him, Zhao Xiang divided the power among everyone. Everyone who got the power could cash in, let himself have a big meal, and satisfy his various desires.
It’s just that no one thought of how to arrange the next phase of the Liberation Army’s mission.
When facing Zhao Yucheng, they would still talk about "people's hearts" categorically, but when it came to their own hands, "people's hearts" were just a piece of shit. How could land and property be so fragrant?
In just over half a month, the area occupied by Zhao Kaishan has been turned into a mess by this group of people.
No one would have thought that someone could do something stupider and more speechless than Zhao Kaishan. Compared with them, Zhao Kaishan was simply a wise man.
At least Zhao Kaishan will take the initiative to launch an attack on the Kingdom of Jin. He is not timid and can achieve some results, giving people more or less hope.
However, this group of people did not attack or do any recovery work. They just wanted to make money everywhere. It was as if they did not pay attention to the Liberation Army at all, and they were not worried about whether the Jin people would attack.
As the new leader, Zhao Xiang did not do much serious work.
After receiving Su Yonglin's guarantee of non-interference, he breathed a sigh of relief. The external environment was already safe, and all that was left was to sort out the internal environment.
He first purged a wave of Zhao Yucheng's pitifully small forces in the army, and then burned the files he had worked overtime to compile, destroyed some original account books, and destroyed all evidence of their corruption and perversion of the law. .
Then, he arranged for civil servants to compile brand new account books based on the current status of the Zhao family's property, which directly confirmed the Zhao family's misappropriation of the uprising dividends and turned the uprising dividends into the Zhao family's ancient possessions.
He became the leader, but what he cared about most was the land, like a miser.
While he was doing "official business" here, he was eager to "compile" the family tree there, working overtime to bring his own branch into the main lineage of the Zhao family, and changing Zhao Kaishan's branch into a small sect, which was insignificant. The last stream.
So Zhao Xiang naturally became the leader and patriarch of the Zhao clan.
With the power of leadership and the power of the family patriarch in his hands, Zhao Xiang suddenly felt like he was back on the battlefield.
Zhao Xiang, who was reloaded into battle, began his unscrupulous and domineering life.
Headed by Zhao Xiang, the puppet second-generation leadership group of the Liberation Army began a life of endless joy.
However, just when their joy was boundless, the negotiation teams sent by Su Yonglin to various places in Zhao Xiang's control area had already begun the first round of negotiations.
The first person to negotiate was the Yizhou Qian family, who had been cheated by the Zhao family before.
The negotiation went surprisingly smoothly. Almost as soon as the negotiating representative expressed his intention to come, Qian held his hand tightly and expressed his feelings to him, saying that they were extremely willing to accept Su Yonglin's leadership.
And further stated——
As long as Su Yonglin gave the order, they immediately organized an army to go to Linyi to chop off Zhao Xiang's head and present it to Su Yonglin.
Without Su Yonglin doing it himself, they could unite and chop off Zhao Xiang's head.
