Liu Heng reached out and pulled the teapot in front of him, held it up and blew the hot air inside, and said: "The prerequisite for accepting the recruitment is the absolute status of the Tiger Flag in Xuanda University, otherwise there is no need to accept the recruitment."
"I just want to think about it again. If we can have an interview, it might be easier for the court to accept our conditions." Zhao Yutu said what he was thinking.
Liu Hengdao: "If the imperial court agrees to our conditions, even if you don't go to see them, they will still agree. If you don't want to agree, even if you meet the chief minister of the cabinet, it will still be useless. If the imperial court intervenes in military and government affairs in exchange for A good name for recruitment is totally worth the loss."
"My subordinates also know that people from the imperial court cannot interfere with the people's livelihood and military affairs of our Tiger-Character Banner against Datong. With just the title of Mingchen, our Tiger-Character Banner can develop steadily for a few years and accumulate more strength." Zhao Yutu said.
Suck!
Liu Heng took a sip of hot tea and said with a breath of heat: "The imperial court came to recruit us because they can't defeat us. At worst, we and the imperial court have been dragging it out for the past two years. The longer we delay, the better it will be for us. Wait. After digesting Xuanda and taking over one or two mansions, as long as the court doesn't break up with each other, we don't have to worry."
"I don't know if Counselor Liao can convince the court to agree to our conditions when he returns." Zhao Yutu pursed his lips.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "I hope they don't agree. This will waste more money."
"General, the Foreign Intelligence Agency has sent an official letter."
An attendant from the escort team walked into the signing room, quickly came to Liu Heng, and placed the official letter in his hand on the table.
Liu Heng reached out and picked up the official letter and looked through it.
After reading it, he picked up a pen on the table, made a mark, and then handed it to the attendant in front of him. He said: "It will be decided by the local government. If the money and food are not confiscated, all the money and food will be confiscated. All the people involved and the principal culprits will be beheaded." , the accomplices were sent to the grassland for labor education.”
The attendant took the approved official letter and turned to leave.
Zhao Yutu noticed that the official letter was sent from Yanqing Prefecture, but he did not see the content.
"In Xuanda under our rule, there is another rebellion by the squires. This time it is Yanqing Prefecture, and the governor of Xuanda in Juyongguan is behind it." Liu Heng did not hide it, but directly told Zhao Yutu what was just mentioned in the official letter. content.
After the Tiger Character Banner occupied Xuanda and other places, it quickly implemented a land distribution policy in various places, which won the support of the people and naturally made some people whose interests were harmed resentful.
In the past half year or so, there have been several cases where large local households have colluded to oppose the Hu Zi Banner’s land allocation policy.
The scholar rebellion failed for ten years, and it was equally difficult for these powerful gentry families to overthrow the rule of the Tiger Flag in Xuanda.
Many times, the wealthy squires are in tandem with each other at the front, only to be betrayed at the back.
After all, many of the clansmen in these large squire families had similar hard times in the past. The division of their fields was a good thing for them. Now that some clan members want to join forces to fight against the Tiger Flag, they naturally become the opposite of the beneficiaries.
Often, before a series breaks out, local officials who get the news first send troops to suppress it.
Datong has stabilized, and there are very few forces that are fighting against the Tiger Character Banner in series, at least on the surface, it is no longer visible. On the contrary, the Tiger Character Banner army later captured Xuanfu and other places. This kind of thing often happens.
"We were too kind to these big households. We only divided their land among them. We should have confiscated their other property as well." Zhao Yutu said bitterly.
Coming from a poor family, few people have a good impression of wealthy gentry families.
Although he had studied for several years, his family was also poor, and he had no good impression of these rich and wealthy country squires.
Liu Heng smiled and said: "Not all wealthy squire families are like this. There are still many people who support the Tiger Flag, and those wealthy families who do not support us can just be honest and not make trouble and just treat them as ordinary people. As for those who secretly have certain thoughts, as long as they jump out, they will still be confiscated, and they will give us enough legitimate reasons."
As for the wealthy gentry, he understood that it was impossible to attack the wealthy gentry all at once. If he really wanted to do this, he would not give these people a way to survive, and the tiger-character flag would have too many enemies.
Therefore, for the large gentry households in Xuanda, only the fields of each family were divided, and other things were left unchanged. This made it easier for these large gentry households to accept the rule of the Tiger-Character Banner over Xuanda.
For those wealthy country gentry who are always against the Tiger Flag and want to help the court drive away the Tiger Flag, the Tiger Flag also has thunderbolt tactics.
"You need to vigorously promote business here. Not only do you want local businessmen from Xuanda to come to the grassland to do business, but you also find ways to attract businessmen from other places to come to Xuanda. This matter is very important. You should pay more attention to it." Liu Heng explained.
Zhao Yutu nodded.
After the Tiger Character Banner took control of the Tumote tribe, they used Qingcheng to attract merchants from all over to do business. Now that they occupy the two mansions of Xuan and Da, it is naturally impossible to give up the income from business.
Just relying on the taxes from farming is simply not enough to support as many troops as the Tiger Flag.
Liu Heng added: "You have to be prepared for food and grass. If nothing happens after the new year, we will take over all of Shanxi."
"The walls of the capital city are strong and the army cannot easily capture it. The capital city was never captured back then. How does Mr. Zhao feel that he is ahead of others?" Liao Wenguang asked in return.
The two of them started to argue.
At this time, Liu Heng coughed and said: "I admire Councilor Liao for his loyalty to the emperor and the country. However, even if the Tiger-Charactered Banner cannot win the capital, there is still no problem in capturing Taiyuan Prefecture. Once our Tiger-Charactered Banner army once After breaking the Juyong Pass, does Counselor Liao think the slave thieves in Liaodong will miss this opportunity?"
"Could General Liu be colluding with slave thieves?" Liao Wenguang's face turned pale.
Once Liu's army makes a big noise in the northwest, the slave thieves in Liaodong will not miss the opportunity. With the current imperial court, he finds it difficult to support a two-front war.
Liu Heng shook his head slightly and said: "If he colludes with the slave thieves, Counselor Liao will not be able to see me when he comes to Datong."
Upon hearing this, Counselor Liao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Liu Heng saw that it was almost done and said: "Well, let me give in. The imperial court can appoint officials to announce the appointment of the university, but they can only be civilian officials. All the military equipment of the academy can only be soldiers and horses with the Tiger Flag. Of course, the court cannot Any money or food needs to be paid on Xuanda Armed Forces."
"General Liu wants to declare military power over the two palaces?" Liao Wenguang frowned.
Liu Heng did not deny it, nodded and said: "Senior Liao should understand that it is impossible for me to hand over the military power in my hands, otherwise I will become a piece of cake on the chopping board. Even if I don't think about myself, I still have to think about the people around me. .”
"Since the imperial court has decided to recruit troops, it will naturally not go back on its word. In fact, General Liu does not need to worry about anything." Liao Wenguang did not want Liu Heng to have the military power of one man.
