"Even if you detain me in Datong, I will not join the bandits. Just give up." Li Guangyi said coldly, once again showing his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.
After hearing this, Liu Heng smiled and said, "Don't worry, Li Xunfu. With the relationship between the tiger-character flag and Deputy General Li, we will not force Li Xunfu to do anything he doesn't want to do."
"Hmph!" Li Guangyi snorted with a nasal tone and said, "I regret not being able to stop Kaiyang from having contact with your Tiger-Character Banner. If not, I would not have allowed your Tiger-Character Banner to act recklessly after I took office."
"Li Xunfu's so-called indulgence could be that he was accepting money from my tiger-character flag while cooperating with the court to suppress my tiger-character flag." Yang Yuan sarcastically said.
Li Guangyi glanced at Yang Yuan.
He knew that Yang Yuan was a leader of the Tiger Flag, and that he was caught by the other party's men and escorted back to Datong City.
"Send Li Xun to the Mansion and hold him in solitary confinement." Liu Heng told the two soldiers escorting Li Guangyi, "Don't be short of food and drink."
Li Guangyi stood up from his seat, looked at Liu Heng and said, "Dr. Liu, I would like to give you my final advice. Surrender is the best way out. Otherwise, as soon as the imperial army arrives, the Tiger Flag will be destroyed."
"Is Li Xunfu talking about reinforcements from Taiyuan?" Liu Heng asked with a smile.
Li Guangyi said: "The reinforcements from Taiyuan are just one of them. The imperial court has made up its mind to destroy the Tiger Flag. In the future, more and more imperial troops will come to Datong."
"A large army from our Tiger Flag has already taken the initiative to intercept the soldiers and horses coming from Taiyuan. I believe there will be news coming back in a few days. There is also a large army from Yulin. The leader is Deputy General Li of Yulin Town, who is exactly Li Xunfu is your nephew." Liu Heng said to Li Guangyi.
Li Guangyi said with a gloomy face: "My nephew is a minister of the Ming Dynasty and will never collude with you."
"Take him down." The two soldiers in Liu Heng's room waved their hands, indicating that they should be taken away.
Two soldiers stepped forward and escorted Li Guangyi out of the custody room.
"We are keeping Li Guangyi. Could it be that the proprietor wants to use him to deal with Li Kaiyang?" Yang Yuan asked curiously.
Liu Heng said: "There is no need to bother to fight against the soldiers and horses from Yulin Town. We can just pull a team to deal with them. The reason why Li Guangyi is left here is because we don't need to kill the governor to stimulate the Ming court. Officials will kill them." If there are too many, it will only make everyone in the DPRK feel in danger and focus all their attention on the Tiger Flag."
"Proprietor, do you want to send a signal to Mingting that you can recruit people, so as to buy us more time?" Yang Yuan suddenly realized.
Liu Heng nodded and said: "Time is mine. Every time we delay for a while, the strength of our Tiger Flag will become stronger, and the corresponding strength of Mingting will only weaken."
"Will the imperial court give us a chance to become stronger?" Yang Yuan said worriedly.
Liu Heng smiled and said: "You are the director of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau. You must have read all the news about the Korean Bureau in the capital, right?"
"Now the Foreign Intelligence Bureau is focusing on the situation in the capital. If there are any changes, the news will be sent back as soon as possible. Every time news about the capital is sent, the subordinates will personally review it." Yang Yuan said.
Liu Heng asked: "What did you see from these messages?"
Yang Yuan thought for a while and said: "Ye Xianggao, the first assistant in the court, stepped down, and Han Xu, the second assistant, stepped in. On the surface, it seemed that there was not much loss to the Donglin Party. In fact, Han Xu may not be able to do as well as Ye Xianggao did. The cabinet suppressed Gu Bingqian and did not give the eunuch party a chance to increase its strength in the cabinet."
"Are you thinking about what will happen after Mingting loses the battle against our Tiger Flag?" Liu Heng said.
Yang Yuan said directly: "Once the Ming Dynasty fails to destroy our Tiger Flag, someone must be responsible for it. Wei Wei will definitely take this opportunity to find a way to oust Han Xu from the position of chief minister. By then, the Donglin Party There is only one Zhu Guozhen left in the cabinet, and no matter whether he can become the chief minister or not, he cannot continue to suppress Wei Eun's people in the cabinet."
"The analysis is correct." Liu Heng nodded in agreement.
Yang Yuan continued: "Wei Eunuch has taken control of the cabinet. The next step should be to cleanse the Donglin Party forces in the DPRK in order to completely control the DPRK. By then, the DPRK will have no energy to target our Tiger Flag."
"Who do you think will win the battle between Wei Gong and the Donglin Party?" Liu Heng asked.
Yang Yuan hesitated for a moment and said: "The emperor has the final say who is the chief minister of the cabinet. Without the emperor's permission, it is difficult for Wei Wei to push one of his own people to the position of chief minister. But once Wei Wei's person becomes the chief minister, , it means that the emperor already hates the Donglin Party, and it is difficult for Wei Jian not to win, but it is a pity that Gu Bingqian is a little junior, otherwise he can take over the position of chief minister as soon as Han Xu steps down."
"If the emperor doesn't like the first assistant, he can't sit for long even if he becomes the first assistant." Liu Heng chuckled.
The previous chief ministers needed the emperor's nod to take office. Otherwise, even if they took the position of chief minister, they would be resisted by the emperor in many ways until they fell off the position of chief minister.
After Wei Gong takes control of the cabinet, he will become a very popular minister and become a big figure in the court who is less than one person and more than ten thousand people. The Donglin Party who opposes him will be purged.
As the party struggle intensifies, the government will surely fall into chaos, and Tiger Character Banner will have time to secretly increase its strength.
Yang Yuan said worriedly: "Given the conflict between Tiger Character Banner and Wei Gong, once Wei Gong takes control of power, I am afraid he will deal with our Tiger Character Banner immediately."
"The Donglin Party has controlled the government for so many years, and Wei Wei was not able to clean up the Donglin Party members in the government so quickly." Liu Heng said nonchalantly, and then asked, "Is there any news from Shaanxi?"
"There has been no news from Shaanxi recently." Yang Yuan shook his head and said immediately, "But now Shaanxi has become a powder keg and may explode at any time."
Liu Heng said: "Fire is cooking oil, and I don't know who lit the fire first."
Both generations of King Chuang were from Shaanxi. He had always paid attention to this place, wanting to see when a civil uprising would start in Shaanxi.
He couldn't remember the exact time of the civil uprising, but he knew it should be within the past few years.
"Shaanxi has suffered from successive disasters, and people are selling their sons and daughters. Just like this, various official and miscellaneous taxes have only increased but not decreased. I can't imagine how the people there live." Yang Yuan said with emotion.
With the Tiger Flag in Datong, the people's lives would be much easier, but in Shaanxi there is no big business like the Tiger Flag that provides jobs for many people.
Some are just squires who exploit the people and swallow up their fields.
If there is no natural disaster, it will be fine and we can barely survive. But if there is a disaster, the people's lives will only get worse and worse, and the longer they live, the less likely they are to survive.
Liu Heng said: "Shaanxi is keeping a close watch. Once there is a large-scale people's uprising, the news must be sent back as soon as possible."
"I understand." Yang Yuan nodded.
The Tiger Character Banner has already rebelled in Datong. If there is a bandit in Shaanxi, it can share the pressure on the Tiger Character Banner. The advantages to the Tiger Character Banner outweigh the disadvantages.
