"Dongzhu Liu, are you sure you want to ignore my good intentions, Dai Jin? Do you really think that you can handle the Ming army just because you have won a few battles? Tell you, if you don't cooperate with me, Dai Jin, you will be like a tiger." Sooner or later, the flag will be suppressed by the Ming army. By then, it will be too late if you want to cooperate with me, Daijin." Li Yongquan looked at Liu Heng with wide eyes.
Liu Heng waved his hand impatiently and said: "Okay, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you. For the sake of you being a Han, I will spare your life. Zhao Wu, cut off one of his ears and blast him out."
Zhao Wu drew out his knife and walked up.
"What do you mean?" Li Yongquan subconsciously stepped back.
A soldier on the side stepped forward and held Li Yongquan down. Zhao Wu raised his sword and chopped off one of Li Yongquan's ears.
There was a flash of cold light, and there was an ear covered in blood on the ground.
Li Yongquan screamed, held his ears with his hands, pointed at Liu Heng, and cursed: "You dare to hurt me, I am the envoy of Dai Jin, and Tianming Khan will not let you go."
"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll cut off your tongue." Zhao Wu said coldly.
Li Yongquan was so frightened that he immediately stopped talking.
"Send him out and see if there are any real Jurchens among the people he brings. If there are any, kill them all. If not, cut off one ear of each person as a warning." Liu Heng said to Zhao Wu.
Zhao Wu led people to escort Li Yongquan out.
Liu Heng picked up the official documents on the table again and looked through them.
Since the Tiger-Character Banner took over Xuanda and other places, the number of things that need to be dealt with has increased. Even if the team of attendants shares some of the tasks, he, the proprietor, still has to deal with a lot of official documents every day.
As for the threats Li Yongquan said, he didn't care at all.
The slave thieves were in Liaodong. It was impossible for the army to cross the line between Jinzhou and Guanning and come to Xuanda to cause trouble for him. It was even more impossible to imagine that they would go around the grassland and appear in Xuanda as they did later.
The Tumut tribe has become a place with the Tiger Flag, while the Chahar tribe is still between Horqin and Tumut. It is impossible to let the army of slave thieves pass through the grassland.
Even if Lin Dan Khan is willing to let the army of slave thieves pass through various ministries and reach the Mongolian grassland on the right wing, the slave thieves themselves are not at ease and worry about whether their retreat will be cut off by the Mongols.
Given the relationship between the Chahar Ministry and the fake gold, Lin Dan Khan might really be able to cut off the retreat.
Therefore, before the slave thieves took over the grassland, they would not dare to bypass the grassland to come to the Ming Dynasty, let alone come directly to the Tumote tribe, unless the slave thieves conquered all the grassland tribes.
However, Lao Nu will definitely not do such a big national policy.
From the news collected by Tiger Character Banner in Shengjing, it can be seen that Lao Nu no longer has many ambitions. Now that he has become the lord of Liaodong, he is almost satisfied. At most, he wants to win the Guanning line in Jinzhou and find a pass for himself. , blocking the Ming army in the pass.
As for a major event like conquering the grassland, without great talent and strategy, there is no courage to do such a thing. If it fails, it is simply unaffordable with a pseudo-gold body.
Not long after, Zhao Wu returned to the signing room from outside.
"Is everything resolved?" Liu Heng asked without raising his head, still processing the recently delivered official documents.
Zhao Wu said: "It has been solved. There are no Jurchens. They are all Han. Each of them cut off one ear and threw it outside. We can see if they can return to Liaodong alive to see the fate of these people."
"The slave thieves have learned a lesson. They know that we can't let go of the Jurchens sent here, so they let these Han people convey the news." Liu Heng closed the official document in his hand and raised his head.
Zhao Wu said: "These Han people who turned into slaves are the most abominable. Without them, so many cities in Liaodong would not have been captured, and the slave thieves were given an advantage in vain."
"They are hateful, but the most important thing is the court's incompetence." Liu Heng picked up the teapot on the table and said, "As long as the court spends more energy on government affairs and less internal fighting, slaves and thieves will not be like this Capture Liaodong in a short period of time."
Zhao Wu nodded and said: "There is no need to protect such a court at all. The entire dynasty is either corrupt or officials who only know how to fight among themselves. People who are really willing to do things are often not taken seriously, or they are excluded because of infighting and cannot be allowed to do so. Don’t get involved in infighting.”
"This is just the beginning. Starting from this year, the court will be lively. From now on, you will sing and we will take the stage. In short, there will be fewer and fewer officials who work seriously." Liu Heng said with emotion.
He knew that Ming Dynasty was already in danger.
The fifth year of the Apocalypse was the year when the Eunuch Party won a complete victory and the Donglin Party completely withdrew from the court. In the following years, such a scene would be staged again until the capital of the Ming Dynasty was breached.
"Please go in and report. Dajin's envoy will be here." The guard stopped outside a room door and said to the soldiers guarding the door.
The soldier glanced at the middle-aged man, then went in to report.
Soon, he walked out of the room, pointed at the middle-aged man and said, "Go in!"
"Thank you." The middle-aged man clasped his fists, then walked to the door of the house, opened the curtain and walked in.
The guard who brought the middle-aged man here saw that someone had arrived, so he returned alone to the door of the main town office to continue his guard duty.
As soon as the middle-aged man entered the house, he immediately felt a wave of heat hitting his face.
Then he looked around the room and finally landed on the man sitting behind the table.
"Li Yongquan, the envoy of the Jin Dynasty, has met Dongzhu Liu." The middle-aged man saluted Liu Heng with Jurchen etiquette.
Liu Heng leaned back slightly on his chair, looked at Li Yongquan, who claimed to be the envoy of Daikin, and asked: "Are you Han? How did you become the envoy of Daikin?"
Hearing this, the corners of Li Yongquan's mouth twitched slightly, knowing that Liu Heng asked this deliberately.
Although he felt uncomfortable in his heart, he still explained: "Although I am a Han, I am also an official of Daijin. There are many Han officials working in Daijin, and Tianming Khan is also willing to use us Han people to govern Daijin."
"No, I heard that the old slave disliked Han people very much and killed many Han people in Liaodong. I don't know if you are telling lies or if the news I heard is wrong." Liu Heng shook his head and sighed.
The corners of Li Yongquan's mouth twitched unnaturally again.
What is good at the top will be bad at the bottom.
In the past two years, because the old slaves were on guard against the Han people, the Jurchens were extremely hostile to the Han people and Han officials. Even the wives of Han officials were snatched into the mansion by the Jurchens.
As for ordinary Han people, their lives were even more miserable. Many innocent people were killed, and their bodies piled up in mountains. There were countless dead people.
Liu Heng smiled contemptuously and said: "It seems that I was right. You Han people are not living a very good life in Liaodong. That's right. People who are not my race must have different hearts. How can I trust you to use you?" these people."
"Dongzhu Liu was joking. Tianming Khan treated us Han officials in Dajin extremely favorably, and even married Gege to Han officials." Li Yongquan defended.
Liu Heng sneered and said: "What's so exciting about marrying a foreign woman? It seems that you Han officials have been slaves for so long that you can't straighten your waist. It's a pity."
As he spoke, he shook his head and sighed.
