"If you lose the support of the people, even if you gain power for a while, it will be gone sooner or later." Liao Wenguang said, stroking his beard.
The scholar at the next table nodded in agreement and said, "What you said is true. Liu Thief's behavior will not last long. It's a pity that the court is full of mediocre people. Otherwise, with just one heavenly army, many places in Datong would rise up. Restore the orthodoxy of the imperial court.”
"No way!" Liao Wenguang said, pretending to be puzzled, "Datong is not about a good harvest, and the people should support it. How could they choose to go against it?"
Hearing this, the scholar curled his lips and said: "The good harvest of food is also a benefit for the untouchables. The people who lost their land don't think so. If the fields are dry, the people who have lost their land will feel better. However, it was a good year just after they lost their land." , who of you, who can put it on anyone, can bear this tone?"
He looked indignant.
"It's really too much." Liao Wenguang agreed.
The scholar looked at the two people and said with envy: "Fortunately, you two are not from Datong, otherwise your family would also be damaged this time."
There is no ordinary person who can come to eat at the Prince's Mansion.
Although the scholar in front of him didn't know Liao Wenguang and Sun Chuanting, he could still tell that these two people were unusual. They both ate from the royal chef in the Prince Dai's Mansion, so their families naturally had a lot of property, including land and houses.
"It's a blessing to say that. If General Liu sent troops to Taiyuan Prefecture, I'm afraid my family would suffer a lot like my brother." Liao Wenguang pretended to be lucky.
The scholar picked up the wine cup on the table and held it in front of his eyes. He sighed and said, "I only hope that the imperial court will save people like me from being in dire straits."
"Yes, I believe the court will not ignore us." Liao Wenguang comforted him.
"hope so!"
With that said, the scholar picked up the wine cup and drank it all in one gulp.
While eating and drinking, the scholars would complain from time to time.
Liao Wenguang, who was not thinking about eating, intentionally or unintentionally got some words out of the scholar's mouth that he wanted to know. Finally, seeing that the scholar was a little drunk, he left the Prince Dai's Mansion with Sun Chuanting.
The carriage has been waiting at the Nine Dragon Wall opposite Prince Dai's Mansion.
The servants who came with him and the soldiers from Fubiao Battalion were always guarding the carriage.
Naturally, they are not qualified to eat in Prince Dai's Mansion, but because Prince Dai's Mansion has become a popular place for people to visit, there are many food and drink stalls on the street.
You can eat well without spending much.
The people guarding the carriage took turns to eat at these stalls. By the time Liao Wenguang and Sun Chuanting came out of Dai Wang's Mansion, they had almost eaten.
Liao Wenguang and Sun Chuanting boarded the carriage one after another.
"Go to the main town office!" Liao Wenguang told the driver.
Soon, the team left from under the Nine Dragon Wall and walked along the street to the street where the main town office is located.
"Have you seen that these rebel bandits are acting perversely in Datong and have completely lost the support of the people? I believe that as soon as the army arrives, those families who have lost their land will definitely stand up and work with the army to deal with the rebel bandits." Liao Wenguang said with excitement.
The last time he came to Datong, he found that everything the Tiger Character Banner did was harmful to the people. This time, even local scholars said so. He felt that Liu Thief was like a raging fire cooking oil in Datong. It has long been full of holes.
"Counsel Liao, you think too simply." Sun Chuanting, who was sitting in the same car, shook his head slightly.
Hearing this, Liao Wenguang frowned and asked, "Brother Boya, do you think I made a mistake?"
"The hearts of the people are not only those squire families in Datong, but also ordinary people. Although you see that the big squire families are eager to get rid of Liu thief, you don't know that the people who have obtained the land are completely devoted to Liu thief." Sun Chuanting said thoughtfully said.
As a member of the Zhenwu Guard, he had seen too many cases where thousands of households in the guardhouse were oppressing ordinary military households. The oppressed military households had long accepted the situation, and even if one or two families resisted, they could not unite.
But once ordinary military households become a tightrope, they cannot be bullied by a few thousand households or hundreds of households.
It would be in Datong instead.
The lower-class people and tenant households in Datong were the military households who were oppressed, and the large gentry households in Datong were the thousands of households that oppressed the military households.
But a Liu thief came out of Datong, and used the hemp thread of land to twist the lower class people of Datong and the rebel bandits into one rope. It was no longer possible for the wealthy squires of Datong to bully the people as before.
At this point, he figured it all out.
The farmers that Liu Thief established in various villages in Datong were tools for twisting hemp threads into hemp ropes. It seemed that Liu Thief had lost the support of the local gentry, but in fact he gained more support from the common people.
Liao Wenguang Lanxu Daodao said: "Brother Boya is overly worried. Even if Liu thief has the support of those untouchables, it will be of no use. At most, it will only look powerful. It is of no use for rogue bandits to coerce the people."
"No, this Liu thief is a great thief who has brought disaster to the country. Not only can the court not recruit him, but it must eradicate him as soon as possible." Sun Chuanting said solemnly.
From just these things he had inferred, he realized that Liu Thief was in deep trouble.
Liao Wenguang said disapprovingly: "Brother Boya thinks highly of him. Is it possible that he is comparable to the old slaves in Liaodong? In my opinion, he is at most like the Xu thieves."
"Consultant Liao, have you ever thought about who the common people who have obtained the land will support? Should they support the imperial court in wiping out the Liu thieves and taking away the land they just obtained, or should they support the Liu thieves and protect their own land." Sun Chuanting stared at Liao Wenguang and asked.
Liao Wenguang laughed and said: "Brother Boya turned out to be worried about this matter. Don't worry, once Thief Liu is solved, the people will naturally support the court."
"What if we can't deal with Thief Liu?" Sun Chuanting continued to ask.
Liao Wenguang said with a smile: "There is nothing that cannot be solved. Liu Thief is just a merchant. He is short-sighted, otherwise he would not just occupy the Xuanda and Dafus and do nothing. When the court calms down the rebellion of slaves and thieves, he will be eradicated." time."
Liu Heng's identity as a merchant was known throughout the court.
On the contrary, few people know that Liu Heng was born in Liaodong. After all, Liu Heng was in Datong when he made his fortune. Some officials in the court subconsciously thought that he was from Datong.
"How to deal with the slave thieves? Since the time of Shenzong, the slave thieves have rebelled, and they have experienced the Taichang and Tianqi dynasties. Now the court not only failed to solve the slave thieves rebellion, but also lost most of the land in Liaodong, leaving only the court that spent a lot of money and food on construction. Guan Ning's first line of defense." Sun Chuanting said with a frown.
Liao Wenguang said with a smile: "Brother Boya is too worried. Previously, Governor Sun defeated an army of 100,000 slaves in Jinzhou. This is well known to everyone in the court. It can be seen that the situation between the enemy and us has changed. I believe it will not be used." In a few years, the imperial court will be able to regain the lost territory in Liaodong."
The great victory in Jinzhou really made many officials optimistic about the Ming Dynasty's situation in Liaodong.
