"Counsel Liao agreed?" Sun Chuanting frowned.
Liao Wenguang shook his head with a wry smile and said, "How am I qualified to agree? Even Futai will not agree to such an outrageous condition."
"Who dares to agree to such outrageous conditions? I'm afraid they will be impeached as soon as they agree." Sun Chuanting snorted.
Liao Wenguang leaned back against the inner wall of the carriage and said feebly: "Why am I so unlucky to be stuck in such a errand?"
After hearing this, Sun Chuanting looked at him sympathetically.
Based on the current conditions proposed by Liu Thief, regardless of whether the court agrees or not, Liao Wenguang has become the best person to take the blame. When the Datong incident comes to an end, having Xianfu at home will be the best outcome for him.
"I can see clearly that Thief Liu doesn't really want to accept the recruitment." Liao Wenguang said bitterly.
He came to Datong town twice to see Liu Heng but failed to get the desired result. He could not see that Liu Heng had any intention of accepting recruitment.
Sun Chuanting chuckled lightly and said: "This is a good thing. Thief Liu was unwilling to accept the recruitment. The imperial court just sent troops to eliminate him. Otherwise, if he continues to be kept, he will sooner or later become a scourge in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty."
"It's not a good thing for me." Liao Wenguang said angrily.
As the first envoy to recruit Liu Tie, he not only failed to recruit him, but also attracted Liu Tie's army to attack Taiyuan Prefecture. He knew that it would be difficult to stay in the court in the future.
Even if the imperial court accepts Liu Tie's conditions and recruits Liu Tie, his end will not be too good.
Once the recruitment was successful, the conditions proposed by Liu Thief were so harsh that the court had to send someone to take the blame, and he was the best candidate. Even the Futai behind him might not be able to be completely wiped out.
At this time, Sun Chuanting said seriously: "Counsellor Liao, if you listen to the next sentence of persuasion, immediately explain the situation in Datong to the court after returning, and inform the court that Liu Thief is a big thief who has shaken the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and ask the court to send a large army to eliminate it. That's it." , maybe you can save yourself.”
"Brother Boya, does he know why the imperial court sent me to recruit the Liu thief?" Liao Wenguang asked in turn.
Sun Chuanting thought for a while and said: "The imperial court has sent large armies to Datong several times to suppress the rebels but failed. It already knew that the troops sent to Datong to encircle and suppress the rebels were useless, and it was unable to mobilize too many troops for the time being, so it used the method of recruiting troops. The method is to hold off the Liu thief and wait for the opportunity to eradicate the Liu thief."
"The imperial court has spent all its money and food in Liaodong. It cannot spend too much money for two-front operations for the time being. Recruiting Liu thieves is also a last resort." Liao Wenguang said with a sigh.
Sun Chuanting said: "Then please ask the imperial court to mobilize soldiers and horses from Liaodong to Datong to eliminate the thieves. In short, this traitor Liu must not stay, otherwise he will definitely be a serious problem for the imperial court in the future."
"It is not so easy to send soldiers and horses from Liaodong to Datong." Liao Wenguang said, "The generals from Liaodong may not be willing to bring troops to Datong. The court also needs someone to resist the slave thieves in Liaodong."
Hearing this, Sun Chuanting shook his head and said: "The slave thieves can be let go first, but Liu thieves must not stay. What this person did in Datong was completely digging into the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Once he is given the opportunity to grow, , the imperial court is in danger."
"Brother Boya thinks too highly of them." Liao Wenguang didn't understand why Sun Chuanting was so resistant to the Tiger Flag, but he still said, "Although Thief Liu looks different from ordinary bandits, he is definitely not as serious as Brother Boya said. , let alone the slave thieves in Liaodong, that is the big problem for the imperial court right now."
From Saarhu to now, the Ming army has been retreating steadily, and the important towns in Liaodong have fallen into the hands of thieves. Now the Ming Dynasty only has the Jinzhou Guanning line in Liaodong, and the slave thieves have also become a serious problem for the Ming Dynasty from scabies.
The Liu thieves only occupied the two mansions of Xuanfu and Datong. Although they defeated several Ming armies, they were still unable to compare with the threat posed by the slave thieves to the Ming Dynasty.
Seeing Liao Wenguang's confused look, Sun Chuanting had no choice but to patiently explain: "Did Councilor Liao notice that Thief Liu divided the land in Datong?"
"Brother Boya thinks Liu Thief will win the hearts and minds of Datong people by dividing the land?" Liao Wenguang asked rhetorically.
Sun Chuanting said: "After dividing the fields, the people benefited, and Liu Thief naturally won the hearts and minds of the people."
"On the contrary." Liao Wenguang said, "I think that Liu's division of land was a bad move to exclude himself from the ranks of scholars and make it difficult for him to become a great leader."
"Can't Senator Liao see that the people have received tangible benefits? How could there be such a bumper grain harvest as Datong in other places?" Sun Chuanting said.
Liao Wenguang said in a relaxed tone: "The thief Liu offended the local gentry when he announced the division of land. Once the news of the division of land is publicized, everyone in other gentry households in other places will be in danger. As long as they don't want their land to be divided, everyone will be in danger." , can only stand on the side of the imperial court, so dividing the land among Liu thieves is not good governance, but digging his own grave."
"Counsellor Liao, is this what you think?" Sun Chuanting frowned.
Liao Wenguang said: "The Liu bandit in Xuan Da is just a scabies disease, and there is nothing to worry about. When the court quells the rebellion of the slave bandits in Liaodong, or there is enough food and grass, the army can come to Datong at any time to get rid of the Liu bandit."
"The Liu thief won the hearts of the people when he divided the land in Datong. What he did was no ordinary bandit. Could it be that Counselor Liao really didn't notice it at all? Or was he pretending not to know?" Sun Chuanting said, staring at Liao Wenguang's face.
Liao Wenguang's face darkened and he said, "Brother Boya, what do you mean by this? Could it be that I colluded with Thief Liu and deliberately concealed something?"
"Isn't it?" Sun Chuanting asked back.
Liao Wenguang said with a hint of anger: "Everything I saw and heard in Datong was reported to Futai. There was never a word to arrange or cover it up. However, Brother Boya said that I had colluded with the Liu thieves. I will definitely report it to the court." Play to you."
In anger, he began to call himself his official in front of Sun Chuanting.
"I will also report to the imperial court and explain to the imperial court the harm done to the Ming Dynasty by what Liu Thief did in Datong." Sun Chuanting said bluntly.
Seeing with his own eyes what Liu Thief did in Datong, he was extremely frightened. He knew that Liu Thief was far more harmful than slave thieves, so he wanted to let the princes in the court see Liu Thief's face clearly.
"snort!"
Liao Wenguang snorted.
After a dispute, the two broke up unhappy.
Headquarters.
Liu Heng returned to the office room and asked Zhao Wu to make a cup of hot tea for him.
"General, are we really not going to Yanmen Pass to meet that Futai?" Zhao Yutu, who followed Liu Heng back to the custody room, asked as soon as he entered the room.
Liu Heng sat back behind his desk, pulled out an account book from the side of the table, and said, "Do you really want to go to Yanmen Pass?"
"If I can be recruited, I don't mind taking a risk." Zhao Yutu said.
At this time, Zhao Wu came over with a steaming tea vat in his hand and carefully placed it on the table.
