"You have to be more careful recently." Li Huaixin said, "The Xu family has nothing to do with Deputy Commander Datong. There must be someone else behind it. This time Commander Ma didn't send troops to Lingqiu because he couldn't deal with Deputy Commander Li. You can’t tell just once.”
Liu Heng frowned.
The general soldier of a town is not someone he can provoke now. If the other party really wants to send troops to suppress it, it is still possible to win a battle with the current strength of Hutou Village, but in this case, it will be like poking a hornet's nest, which will only attract more enemies. More Ming troops encircled and suppressed.
With the strength of Hutou Village, there is no way to compete with the Ming Dynasty's army for a long time. Lingqiu's foundation will inevitably be lost, and they can only escape to the border and go to the Beilu territory.
Li Huaixin hesitated for a moment and said: "If you are willing to hand over part of the iron field to General Ma, you will be safe in Lingqiu from now on. Even if the governor wants to deal with you, you will have to think twice."
"General Ma!" Liu Heng frowned and thought for a moment.
It wasn't that he was reluctant to part with his share of the iron farm, but that he couldn't give away the money even if he didn't have access to the General Military Mansion.
After pondering for a moment, he said: "I'm afraid General Ma won't see me as a commoner."
Li Huaixin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Liu Heng had no objection.
He made this suggestion after careful consideration, fearing that Liu Heng would not agree.
Now he and Liu Heng are tied by a rope. If something happens to Liu Heng, it will not do him any good, and the financial path of Dongshan Iron Farm will also be cut off in the future.
"I can think of a way at the General Military Mansion." Li Huaixin said: "A staff member of the General Military Mansion is familiar with me. Most of the 10,000 taels of silver you gave me before were sent to General Ma through this staff. inside."
At this time, he no longer called himself an official, and began to call himself me. It would be of great benefit to him if Liu Heng could really establish a relationship with General Ma of the General Military Mansion.
"Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Li." Liu Heng raised his hand to Li Huaixin.
If he could really get through Li Huaixin's relationship with the commander-in-chief, he would be willing to give it all to the commander-in-chief, not to mention a small share of the iron field.
Using some money in exchange for the long-term and stable development of Hutou Village is a worthwhile deal no matter how you calculate it.
Li Huaixin said with a smile: "It's not a bother. In fact, it's also good for me. I can really build a relationship with General Ma. In the future, I, as a general, can be considered half of General Ma. I may not be promoted to the rank of general in the future." one liter."
In border towns, generals and above are basically monopolized by the generals. If he can be favored by the Ma family and promoted by the Ma family, he may not be able to become the deputy general of the town. After a few generations, he, Li, may not be able to be like Liaodong. Like Li, he became a general for generations.
Liu Heng smiled, clasped his fists, and said, "The common people are here to congratulate you in advance."
"Haha." Li Huaixin laughed and said immediately, "After Liu Dongzhu returns to Lingqiu, he must find out who is secretly colluding with the deputy commander. This person has evil intentions, and Dongzhu Liu must be on guard."
Liu Heng nodded.
In fact, he already had some guesses about this person. Although he had offended many people in Lingqiu, there were not many people related to the deputy commander.
The convoy did not stay long, leaving a four-wheeled cart to Li Huaixin, and Liu Heng returned to Lingqiu with the other carts.
In the past half month, people from Panjiazhai were arranged to Xujiazhuang, Zhaojiayu and Tiechang.
The people who arranged to go to the iron yard were all people who had participated in the robbery of the Tiger Flag convoy. These people were not allowed to go down the mountain for a year, and they were not even allowed to leave the iron yard.
And they are different from ordinary miners. They are detained separately and are not together with ordinary miners in the iron field. Even the mines are separate.
On this day, Liu Heng summoned all the leaders to the Xujiazhuang Assembly Hall to discuss matters.
There are a few new faces among the leaders who are qualified to sit at the chief's table in the council chamber.
Nowadays, there are three iron yard guard brigades in Dongshan Iron Field, with a total of more than 1,000 people. The captain Jia Liu holds the title of captain and can take charge of the three iron yard guard brigades. Naturally, he is qualified to sit on the long table in the conference hall.
Ma Yunjiu and Zheng Chao, the two newly appointed captains of the cavalry team and artillery team, also took their seats at the long table.
As soon as Liu Heng entered the meeting hall, everyone sitting around the long table stood up.
"Everyone sit down." Liu Hengxu pressed his hands.
After everyone was seated, he said to the clerk on the side: "Distribute the military regulations to everyone."
The clerk came out from behind the desk on the side, holding a stack of notebooks cut from white paper, and gave one to everyone sitting around the long table.
Before the document was distributed, Liu Heng said: "This is the newly revised military regulations. It has more content than before. Take a look at it and put forward any opinions. If not, this will be followed in the future. Execution, I don’t want to see anything like Wang Yuncheng happen again.”
Everyone around the long table was sitting upright, and those with notebooks began to read the contents on them.
In fact, many people here already know the regulations in this book in advance, and many of the regulations were studied and formulated together by them.
After a while, when no one spoke, Liu Heng continued: "Since no one has any objections, this will be implemented in the future. Now I will talk about the reconstruction of each brigade."
Everyone around the long table pricked up their ears.
Liu Heng said: "First of all, Hutou Village will be changed to the tiger-character flag in the future. Secondly, there are now three brigades of the iron field guard team, and there are also three brigades in Hutou Village. Each brigade has 350 people, a total of 2,100 There are 127 people in the cavalry and 70 in the artillery team. This is the total number of our soldiers."
After a pause, he picked up the teapot at hand and took a sip of water, and continued: "The three iron field guard brigades established the iron field guard thousand-man team, Jia Liu was appointed as the captain, and the three brigades of Hutou Village established the thousand-man force. team, Chen Xunping was appointed captain, Zhao Yutu took over as the director of the Logistics Bureau, the weapons field was changed to the Ordnance Bureau, the director of the department was taken over by Huang Zhong, and the cavalry and artillery teams remained as they were."
Zhao Yutu glanced at Li Shuheng, who was sitting in his first seat.
When he took over as the director of the Logistics Bureau, Li Shuheng was left with the position of captain, and he was still under Chen Xunping, the captain of the thousand-man team.
It can be said that they directly changed from the superior to the subordinate of the two people.
"I have decided," Liu Heng said, "to establish the Military and Political Department, with Liu Heng as the director, and deputy director Li Shuheng. All the soldiers in Hutou Village, the weapons bureau, the logistics bureau, the mule and horse shop, the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce, and the fields and villages outside the city are all here. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Military and Political Department.”
Upon hearing this appointment, Zhao Yutu suddenly realized that the deputy director of the Military and Political Department was probably half a level higher than the captain of the Thousand-Man Team.
Liu Heng added: "The intelligence team will be changed to the Intelligence Department, which will have jurisdiction over the Internal Intelligence Bureau and the Foreign Intelligence Bureau. Liu Heng will be appointed as the director, Yang Yuan will be the director of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, and Chen Daqing will be the director of the Internal Intelligence Bureau."
"In the future, the Internal Intelligence Agency will mainly focus on our internal problems. It has the power to arrest personnel below the squadron leader on its own, including those with positions above the squadron leader. Arrests can only be made with the order of the Director of the Intelligence Department, while the Foreign Intelligence Agency will mainly target external forces."
Everyone present felt their hearts tremble when they heard about the responsibilities of the Internal Intelligence Agency.
It was known before that the intelligence team had personnel deployed into each brigade, but no one said it clearly. Now it is a formal notification, clearly telling everyone that there are people monitoring them.
Everyone knows that this intelligence department has similar responsibilities to the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei, not only internally, but also externally.
