After arriving at the main hall, he sat down on the chair in the center. Wang Hongrui stood beside him with his hands down. On the left side of the hall are more than 40 servants brought by Liu Haojia, and on the right side are the Jinyi guards from Tianjin Baihu Institute.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but Liu Haojia's heart is filled with confusion! His servants are all wearing brand new brocade robes. They hold their waists with their left hand, press the handle of the knife with their right hand, and spread their legs. When they stand there, they look like a green pine! Dozens of people standing together are like an airtight forest!
Looking at the Jin Yiwei opposite, not to mention the shabby clothes and armor, but they can't even stand straight, they are in various postures, it's simply hard to watch!
Seeing this situation, even Wang Hongrui blushed and lowered his head without speaking. Sure enough, I heard Liu Haojia say angrily: "Wang Hongrui, I can forgive you for not having money to recruit troops! But you can't even train people well, so what you're doing is too bad!"
Those Tianjin Jinyi guards saw the people on the opposite side standing so neatly and upright, and they tried their best to stand like the other side, but in the end they still stood twisted. Now hearing Liu Haojia's roar, the guards in uniform tried harder to straighten their bodies, but there was still no big effect!
Wang Hongrui was so frightened that he knelt down and said, "My lord, please forgive me! I am willing to be punished!"
Fortunately, Wang Hongrui was still a bit smart and didn't dare to quibble. He knelt down and admitted his mistake. Otherwise Liu Haojia would dare to capture him on the spot! But considering that he was a local snake in Tianjin, Liu Haojia decided to give him one last chance.
So he didn't let him get up. Liu Haojia directly ordered: "I want to tell you a few things. Remember it!"
Wang Hongrui knelt there and nodded in agreement, and said loudly: "Be sure to remember this when going to Xiaguan!"
Liu Haojia said: "From now on, the food and salary officer of your Baihu Office will make up for you, and even the money for repairing the Yamen will be given to you! But you have to hand over all these people and the newly recruited people to me. My servants, including you, will practice a lot, and you will definitely give me a good performance!"
After Wang Hongrui agreed, he continued: "There is a second thing. After recruiting all the people, we will release them. I want to know the trends of everything in Tianjin. Can you do it?"
Wang Hongrui heard this and said loudly: "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely do it!"
Liu Haojia sat on the chair, stared at the back of his head and said coldly: "This is the last chance for you! If you can't do it, just be a small flag! If you can't even make a small flag, Just be a strongman!”
Wang Hongrui trembled all over after hearing this, kowtowed repeatedly and said: "Don't worry, sir! I will definitely do it!"
Seeing that he was really scared, Liu Haojia said calmly: "Get up."
Wang Hongrui wiped his cold sweat, stood up and said, "Thank you, sir!"
Liu Haojia said: "I want to ask you, how many soldiers and horses are there in Tianjin now?"
Wang Hongrui became energetic after hearing this and said: "There is a guard station here in Tianjin with a rated number of more than 1,100 soldiers and nearly 2,000 remaining soldiers. There is also a recruiting force controlled by Cui Junyong, with a rated number of 2,000 soldiers. The actual number is 2,000. That's about 1,400 people, and the equipment is not complete. It's because the peace has been peaceful for a long time! There are also 1,000 militiamen, which is actually only about 600 people, and they have never been trained. There are also police officers. , help more than a hundred people, and..."
Wang Hongrui talked about a lot in bits and pieces, but he explained it in great detail. This also made Liu Haojia feel a little satisfied with him! It seems that he has a clear grasp of local affairs in Tianjin.
After listening, Liu Haojia nodded with satisfaction and said: "Not bad, at least I have a clear grasp of the most basic information."
Wang Hongrui said with a smile: "It's not worthy of praise from adults, it's all what subordinates should do!"
Liu Haojia said at this time: "Now let me give you a task. Find out all the information about General Cui and him, but keep it secret and don't alert him!"
Wang Hongrui is not stupid either. He certainly knows that Liu Haojia was robbed and killed on the way here. Although he didn't know the specific details of this matter, it had already spread throughout Tianjin! Now that Liu Haojia said this, he couldn't help but wonder if Cui Junyong really did this?
But he no longer had to worry about the retaliation after Cui Junyong was discovered, and immediately nodded and agreed. However, Liu Haojia did not talk about this matter again. Instead, he said: "Wang Baihu, do you know if there is any land suitable for building military camps in Tianjin, preferably close to the official fiefdom?"
Wang Hongrui said cautiously: "Sir, I wonder how many troops need to be stationed?"
Liu Haojia said: "Let's arrange it as a thousand people first. However, the military camp needs to be built larger, and it will definitely be expanded in the future."
Wang Hongrui said with a look of embarrassment on his face when he heard this: "Sir, if there are about a thousand subordinates, they can indeed find a place to settle. But if there is expansion in the future, there will be no suitable place! It is too close to the capital, and the land is a little flat. It’s almost taken over by others!”
Liu Haojia felt a little worried after hearing this! In his plan, he plans to establish an army of about 15,000 people, which requires a large military camp area! So he thought for a while and said: "Think again, as long as the place is big enough but the terrain is not ideal, it doesn't matter if you can spend money to repair it! I dare not say anything else, but I have plenty of money!"
Wang Hongrui's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said: "If so, I know a place! I know a piece of land, which is in the southeast of the city! There is a large reed pond there. If you are not afraid of spending money, just send it Just fill in the reed pond! And the vacant land my subordinate just mentioned is right next to the reed pond!"
Liu Haojia was overjoyed when he heard this! A reed pond is nothing, just fill it up with some earth and rocks! Labor is very cheap these days, earth and stone are free, and filling the reed pond doesn’t cost much at all! So he immediately said: "Lead the way, go and have a look!"
Not long after everyone rode their horses outside the city, they saw a reed pond! It seems to Liu Haojia that this reed pond can no longer be saved, because the water has almost dried up, and most of it is mud! If it takes a few more years, I'm afraid it will dry up completely! At that time, it is impossible to say that someone will name it! Now that he has not been bought by anyone, he is probably being remembered by others, but now he is first come, first served!
He led people around the reed pond and found that it was indeed a vast area. Moreover, there are two or three small hills in several open spaces around the area, which can just be leveled and used to fill in the reed ponds!
