Return to Tianchengwei to command the Yamen.
Liu Qingzhou found some soldiers with unfamiliar faces outside the door.
"Yingzheng, you are back. Deputy Division Chief Gao has arrived." A staff officer from the Third War Barracks was guarding the yamen gate. When he saw Liu Qingzhou coming back, he hurriedly greeted him.
Liu Qingzhou handed the horse to the soldiers beside him, and followed the staff here into the Yamen.
As soon as he entered the yamen, there were obviously nearly twice as many soldiers patrolling inside than when he left.
The two guards standing outside the back Yamen were also replaced by people from the First Battle Barracks.
"Assistant Master."
When Liu Qingzhou walked into the back office, he saw Gao Zhongyun who was standing in front of the wall looking at the map above. He was the first to say hello.
Gao Zhongyun turned his attention away from the map, turned around, saw Liu Qingzhou approaching, and said with a smile: "You guys fought well this battle. In such a short time, you not only broke into Tiancheng Guard, but also achieved it very quickly. To calm the chaos in the city.”
"The main reason is that the Ming army was too incompetent, otherwise my subordinates would not have gone so smoothly. It is a pity that Wang Bao escaped." Liu Qingzhou sighed.
He failed to catch Wang Bao in Ciyun Temple. Although he said he didn't care in front of his subordinates, he still cared about it in his heart.
Gao Zhongyun smiled when he heard this and said: "Ji Kui has already told me about your trip to Ciyun Temple. As for Wang Bao, he ran away. We can defeat him once, twice, or three times." Four times, maybe more.”
"My subordinates just feel it's a pity that we almost caught him. I didn't expect that there was a secret passage in Ciyun Temple, allowing him to escape from the secret passage first," Liu Qingzhou said.
Gao Zhongyun picked up the teapot on the table, passed it forward, and said, "My mouth is dry, let's drink some water first."
From the siege to the present, Liu Qingzhou didn't drink a sip of water. He was really thirsty, so he took the teapot directly to his mouth and drank several gulps in succession.
"Before I came to Tianchengwei, I heard that Ciyun Temple was very wealthy. This time they let Wang Bao go, giving us a good reason to take action." Gao Zhongyun said.
Liu Qingzhou put down the teapot and said: "My subordinates have asked people to collect the account books and land deeds of Ciyun Temple. It is a temple. Just chant sutras and recite Buddhism honestly."
"Well, you did the right thing." Gao Zhongyun walked to the seat aside and sat down, and continued, "Before coming, Shi Zheng specifically told us that Tianchengwei's land should be in our hands as much as possible, and we will It was distributed to the military households in the guards, rather than to the officials and gentry of Tiancheng Guard, including the monks of Ciyun Temple, who would continue to use the land to exploit the ordinary military households."
The land on the grassland of the Tiger Flag is publicly owned and can be used by private individuals, but buying and selling is not allowed. Part of the harvest produced by the fields needs to be handed over to the Tiger Flag for tax purposes.
Now that the Tiger Flag has been implemented on the grassland, it cannot be changed overnight when it comes to Datong.
And the important point is that giving these lands to military households who have no land for cultivation means that these military households are renting the land for planting the Tiger Flag, which reduces the heavy taxes on these military households and can help the Tiger Flag harvest. The hearts of people who go to military households.
After all, the rich are only a minority, and the poor are the majority.
"Haha, Deputy Master, my subordinate caught two big fish in one net this time."
As the words fell, Tan Zaiwang strode into the back office.
"Tan Yingzheng has brought us good news. Quick, get Tan Yingzheng a glass of water." Gao Zhongyun smiled and ordered his guards to do their work.
Liu Qingzhou turned around, looked at Tan Zaiwang who entered the room, and said, "You couldn't have caught both Wang Bao and Tiancheng Guard Commander!"
Although he was the first to lead an army to attack Tiancheng Guard, Zhou Tong, the commander of Tiancheng Guard, and Wang Bao, the commander-in-chief of Xuan Mansion, all escaped, and he did not capture any of them.
"Hehe!" Tan Zaiwang chuckled, and immediately shouted outside, "Bring everyone here to me."
After the words fell, several cavalrymen wearing breastplates came in escorting two disheveled people.
"Deputy Commander, these two guys, one is Wang Bao, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, and the other is Zhou Tong, the commander of Tiancheng Guard." Tan Zaiwang pointed at the two people escorted in and said, "This Zhou Tong is a subordinate outside the city. When I was caught, I happened to see another guy sneaking out of the city when I was entering the city. After I was arrested and interrogated, I found out that he was Wang Bao."
"Bah! You gangsters will never end well in the future." Wang Bao suddenly raised his head and spat at Tan Zaiwang who was speaking.
"Fuck, be honest."
The cavalryman who was escorting Wang Bao hit him on the back with his elbow, knocking him to the ground.
The cavalryman who hit him and another man lifted him up from the ground.
"You seem very unconvinced?" Gao Zhongyun looked at Wang Bao and said.
Wang Bao cursed: "When the imperial army arrives, when you bandits are destroyed, don't think that just because you have won one or two battles, you really think you are powerful. Bandits will always be bandits, and everyone will get it." Punish him."
"Yes, in your eyes, we people are indeed bandits, but so what, you and Yang Guozhu attacked Xinping Fort with an army of 100,000 people, no, to be precise, less than 60,000 people, but in the end you and Yang Guozhu became We are prisoners of the bandits." Gao Zhongyun said contemptuously.
Wang Bao was stunned when he heard that Yang Guozhu had also been arrested.
Immediately he shouted as if he lost control: "Impossible, how could General Yang be caught by you? Don't lie to me here, I don't believe it."
"It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, because you can see him soon." Gao Zhongyun snorted.
At this time, Wang Bao felt mixed emotions.
The fact that the other party dared to say this meant that Yang Guozhu had really fallen into the hands of the other party.
Thinking that both himself and Yang Guozhu had become prisoners of the Tiger Flag, I felt worried about Xuanda's future.
Don't look at what he said before that the imperial court would send a large army to annihilate the tiger-character banner group of bandits, but he knew in his heart that it would be difficult for the imperial court to send a large army to Xuan Da in a short period of time, otherwise it would not mobilize border troops from Xuan Mansion. Malay Datong.
"Your Tiger Character Banner is also a business name of the Ming Dynasty, and your boss Liu Heng was once a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Do you really want to rebel against the imperial court? Do something like this to annihilate the nine tribes?" Wang Bao said, staring at Gao Zhongyun.
He could feel that the other party was the leader of the gangsters in the house.
"Mr. Wang didn't take any less money from our Tiger Flag before, right?" Gao Zhongyun suddenly asked.
Wang Bao was stunned for a moment and then said: "What do you mean? I don't quite understand."
"If I, Tiger Character Banner, hadn't used money to feed you, Mr. Wang, Tiger Character Banner's business in Xuan Mansion wouldn't have been so easy!" Gao Zhongyun continued.
Wang Bao's face sank and he said: "Wherever you Tiger Flag do business, you always use money to do business. Could it be that Liu Heng, who has been doing business for so many years, doesn't even know this rule?"
"Haha." Gao Zhongyun burst out laughing, then his face turned cold and he said, "Bullshit rules are not an excuse for you officials to make money."
