Seeing the smile on Zhang Hong's lips, Hu Mingyi suddenly felt the pressure on his body lightened, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the bandit general in front of him was extraordinary.
He has seen so many generals, but there are not many who can put such pressure on him like the other party.
"What? Is it possible that you came here just to meet me?" Zhang Hong asked again when he saw Hu Mingyi standing there without saying a word.
Hu Mingyi came back to his senses and said hurriedly: "I came here this time in the hope that Tiger Character Banner can accept the imperial court's recruitment, and as long as the general agrees, Li Xunfu will report to the imperial court and seek an official position for the general."
As he spoke, he secretly looked at Zhang Hong sitting behind the table.
"So Mr. Hu is here to recruit Li Guangyi?" Zhang Hong looked at Hu Mingyi and said.
Hu Mingyi said: "Tiger Character Banner is a business of the Ming Dynasty, and your proprietor used to be a minister of the Ming Dynasty. If you say you are recruiting people, it is just becoming a minister of the Ming Dynasty again."
"No need." Zhang Hong waved his hand and said immediately, "I, Tiger Character Banner, will not accept the Ming Dynasty's recruitment. If Mr. Hu came here for this matter, he can go back now."
"This," Hu Mingyi didn't expect the other party to refuse so quickly, and said again unwilling to give up, "Isn't it a good thing to be a minister of the Ming Dynasty? Is it possible that the general will have to bear the name of rebellion for his whole life?"
Zhang Hong smiled softly when he heard this and said, "It's hard to say whether he is rebellious or not. Maybe one day he won't be."
"It seems that the general also agrees with my statement." Hu Mingyi laughed.
He thought that the other party was deliberately recruited. As for the other possibility, he had never thought about it. Even if he had thought about it, he would not think that it would happen one day.
Zhang Hong knew that Hu Mingyi had misunderstood him, but he had no intention of explaining, so he said: "Okay, I have something else to do, so I won't keep you here. I'm going to see the guests off."
The last two words of farewell were said to his escort.
Hu Mingyi was stunned for a moment, not understanding that what he had said just now was about to see off the guests in the blink of an eye.
Afraid of any misunderstanding, he hurriedly said: "General, if you have any requests, please feel free to ask. I will tell the governor and report to the court together. As long as it is not excessive, I believe the court will not object."
"No need, Tiger Character Banner will not accept recruitment, and I will not accept recruitment. You go back and tell Li Guangyi and let him wait in Datong Fucheng with peace of mind. Our Tiger Character Banner army will regain Datong Fucheng soon," Zhang Hong said directly. .
He never intended to accept the Ming Dynasty's recruitment, let alone give up his identity in the Tiger Banner and become a minister of a dynasty that was about to perish.
Hu Mingyi frowned slightly, not expecting the other party to refuse so firmly.
But when he thought of Datong's current dilemma of insufficient troops, he had no choice but to continue to persuade: "General, don't be too busy to refuse. You might as well tell Dongzhu Liu of your company that the imperial court intends to recruit Tiger Flag. Maybe Liu Dongzhu has a different suggestion. .”
"Li Guangyi sent you here to recruit people, presumably because Datong has no troops to mobilize. Otherwise, he would not have sent you here to recruit people, but would have sent another large army to continue suppressing the bandits." Zhang Hong looked at Hu Mingyi and said.
Tiger Banner has a foreign intelligence bureau specializing in collecting intelligence.
Now the Tiger Character Banner is using troops against Datong, and the Foreign Intelligence Bureau has collected information on Datong's troop deployment and other information as soon as possible and sent it to Xinpingbao.
It can be said that every move of the imperial court in Datong was difficult to hide from the eyes of the Foreign Intelligence Agency spies, and Zhang Hong knew all the information that only the Foreign Intelligence Agency could collect.
Hu Mingyi's expression changed.
He didn't expect that the bandit leader in front of him already knew about Li Xun's embarrassing situation in Datong.
It's not that Datong doesn't have soldiers, but it does have soldiers and horses that can fight. Otherwise, if you add up the soldiers and horses at the garrison, the soldiers and horses at the forts, and the soldiers and horses guarding the camp, you can easily make up a few troops. An army of ten thousand people.
But no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, they can't compare with the elite frontier army commanded by Yang Guozhu, let alone the tiger-character banner army that defeated the elite frontier army.
"Send off guests." Zhang Hong said to the guard guarding the house.
The guard stepped forward, stretched out his hand towards the door and made an invitation gesture, and said: "You two, please!"
"Liu Dongzhu of your company is a minister of the Ming Dynasty. I believe that he will be willing to serve the court again. You and I might as well make a temporary truce and wait for Liu Dongzhu's reply." Hu Mingyi said to Zhang Hong again.
He didn't want to go back like this.
If he could not get the Tiger Banner army to stop attacking Datong's prefectures and counties, he was worried that Datong would have fallen into the hands of bandits before Datong could get reinforcements from the court.
Unfortunately, Zhang Hong didn't even look at him this time.
The guard in the room naturally knew what he meant, and immediately his face sank and said: "You two, please get out, don't force me to use force on you."
"General, you might as well think about it again. Recruitment is a good thing for the court and the Tiger Flag." Hu Mingyi stared at Zhang Hong and said.
Seeing that Hu Mingyi was so ignorant, the guard shouted directly to the door: "A few people are coming in."
The door of the house was opened, and several soldiers guarding the door rushed in.
"Take them both out." The guard pointed at Hu Mingyi and the others.
Several soldiers stepped forward to drive the two men away, even pushing them with their hands.
Hu Mingyi was just a weak scholar with no ability to resist, so he was pushed out of the house forcefully.
Lieutenant General Li on the side walked out.
Zhang Hong's guards walked to the door of the custody room and said to the soldiers in the yard: "Drive all these people from the imperial court out of Xinping Fort."
Hu Mingyi and Lieutenant General Li were driven out of the general mansion in Xinpingbao.
Then, under the supervision of the tiger-character flag soldiers, they left Xinpingbao with their people.
Zhang Hong's guards returned to the signing room and said angrily: "The people in the imperial court have very good ideas. Seeing that they can't defeat us, they want to recruit people. If they had known that this would happen, what would they have done?"
"Because in their hearts, it is a gift they give us to give us the opportunity to be the ministers of the Ming Dynasty." Zhang Hong picked up the teapot and took a sip of water.
"Bah! If anyone is willing to be a minister of their Ming Dynasty, then our proprietor is not so short-sighted!" the guard said disdainfully.
Zhang Hong said with a smile: "You are right, the proprietor will not accept the recruitment, nor will he accept the black gauze hat given by the Ming court. What our proprietor wants, the Ming Dynasty cannot give."
"Unless the emperor lets our proprietor do the throne under his butt," the guard said.
Zhang Hong smiled when he heard this.
Hu Mingyi, who was driven out of Xinpingbao, had a livid face.
He thought that this trip to Xinpingbao would not go well, but he did not expect that he would be kicked out.
"Sir, should we go back to Datong directly?" Vice General Li asked Hu Mingyi who was riding in the carriage.
Hu Mingyi in the carriage said in a bad tone: "When we were in Xinpingbao just now, why didn't you help me persuade the bandit leader to accept the imperial court's offer?"
"Now that the rebels have won a series of victories, they are in great momentum, and you have seen their attitude, sir. Even if the generals try to persuade them together, it will not have much effect. It is better to wait for them to suffer a few defeats before recruiting them. It will be much easier." Vice General Li said.
Hu Mingyi snorted and said: "You said they are in great momentum, how can they be defeated so easily."
"General, I think they are not too far away from defeat." Vice General Li chuckled outside the carriage.
