"Okay, what do I want from Hong Shenzheng's head?" Liu Heng, holding a tea cup in his hand, said with a smile, "I just want to tell Hong Shenzheng a fact. You can't go back to the court unless Hong Shenzheng is willing. I will end my official career."
"Even if I am no longer an official in the future, I can still return to my hometown to teach the children of the clan. If Liu Dongzhu wants to threaten me with this, I am afraid he will disappoint Dongzhu Liu." Hong Chengchou said calmly.
And his fingers on his legs were trembling slightly, not as calm as they seemed on the surface.
"Zhao Wu!" Liu Heng called Zhao Wu and said immediately, "Prepare a carriage and a team to escort Hong Shenzheng back to Shaanxi. Remember, it must be done with great fanfare."
"Yes." Zhao Wu agreed, turned and left the room.
Sitting on the bench, Hong Chengchou's expression changed several times. Finally, he stared at Liu Heng with a red face and said in a suppressed voice: "What exactly do you want to do?"
In his prime, how could he be willing to ruin his career like this?
"I told Hong Shenzheng a long time ago that you can't go back to the court." Liu Heng looked at him with a smile.
"You want me to become a thief?"
Hong Chengchou's expression suddenly changed.
Liu Heng wrinkled his nose and waved his hands gently, saying: "As the saying goes, good birds choose wood to rest. This big ship of the Ming Dynasty is about to sink. Is it possible that Hong Shengzheng is going to sink with this broken ship of the Ming Dynasty?"
Hong Chengchou said nothing.
"Hong Shenzheng might as well think about it carefully." Liu Heng continued, "There are slave thieves in the east of Liaodong, and there is a tiger-character flag in the northwest, and the tiger-character flag will take over the remaining state capitals in Shaanxi in the next step. By then, the imperial court will be in the north There are not many state capitals left, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty has already been full of wars, and there are endless rioters."
Hong Chengchou stared at Liu Heng and said: "So Dongzhu Liu is determined to win the Ming Dynasty, but don't forget that there is fake gold in Liaodong, and the strength of the imperial court is not weak. I am afraid that Dongzhu Liu will not be able to achieve his wish so easily."
"Hong Chengzheng has been in Shanxi for a while. What do you think of Shanxi?" Liu Heng did not argue with Hong Chengchou about the ownership of the world. Instead, he asked him how he felt about Shanxi.
"Shanxi!" Hong Chengchou frowned slightly and said thoughtfully, "There are many mountains and little land here, but there is more coal. And to the north is the grassland. Once there is a natural disaster on the grassland, the northern barbarians on the grassland will go south to plunder. , if you commit banditry, Dongzhu Liu will never have to deal with the Northerners in the future."
Liu Heng laughed when he heard this and said: "If the northern captives mentioned by Hong Shenzheng are the Tumote tribe, then there is no need for Hong Shenzheng to worry about it, because the Tiger Character Banner was conquered a few years ago. Tumut Department.”
"The Tumut tribe is just one of the many tribes on the grassland. It is impossible for Liu Dongzhu to conquer the entire grassland?" Hong Chengchou said.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "Don't worry about Hong Shengzheng. Except for the Tumote tribe, the tens of thousands of tribes in right-wing Mongolia have surrendered to the Tiger Banner, and the several tens of thousands of tribes in left-wing Mongolia, even if they don't fight with the tiger, Even though Zi Qi is a good friend, they don’t dare to touch Tiger Zi Qi’s tiger beard easily.”
"Dr. Liu has such a profound plan." Hong Chengchou was shocked by Liu Heng's words.
He had heard a thing or two about the affairs between the Tiger Character Banner and the Tumut tribe, but he never expected that the Tiger Character Banner's influence on the grassland was so deeply hidden.
The entire Hetao is probably within the possession of the Tiger Flag.
Thinking about it, the fact that the imperial court sent someone to confer King Ermbu Hongshunyi on the throne was probably a joke in the eyes of Tiger Flag.
Liu Heng looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "What else does Hong Shengzheng want to know? Just ask."
Hong Chengchou was valued more by him than Sun Chuanting.
Wen Neng wrote to bring peace to the world, and Wu Neng immediately settled the world. Hong Chengchou was such a talent.
As for Hong Chengchou's defection to the slave thieves in the future, it has not happened yet after all. Moreover, the Tiger Character Banner is not a corrupt and incompetent Ming Dynasty, and Hong Chengchou is not a prisoner of the slave thieves. It may not happen again.
Tiger Character Banner has also cultivated many talents over the years, but talented people like Hong Chengchou are still too scarce for Tiger Character Banner.
"With Liu Dongzhu's ability, if he can surrender to the imperial court, there is no need to worry about the Ming Dynasty failing to prosper if the slave traitors are not eliminated." The more he understood the power of the tiger-character flag, the more Hong Chengchou hoped that Liu Heng could be used by the imperial court.
With a force like the Tiger Flag and the cooperation of the Ming army in Liaodong, he believed that the slave thieves causing trouble in Liaodong would be completely eliminated, and the Ming Dynasty would regain its former stability.
Liu Heng asked: "How does Hong Shenzheng think the people of Shanxi are doing?"
"Although some of the people I have come into contact with in Shanxi still have a good appearance, their spirits are much stronger than those in Shaanxi. In addition, Shanxi vigorously promotes high-yielding crops such as corn, wheat and sweet potatoes. Not to mention, Compared with Jiangnan, it is difficult for people in the north to live a better life than the people here in Shanxi."
Liu Heng said: "The Tiger Flag built water conservancy projects in Shanxi, dug ditches, built water trucks, ensured irrigation of people's farmland, and vigorously promoted high-yielding grains. This is how Shanxi prospered a little bit."
"If Shanxi continues on this path, I believe it will become even more prosperous in a few years." Hong Chengchou had to admit that Shanxi has become better in the hands of Tiger Flag.
Liu Heng added: "The imperial court and local officials can do these things that the Tiger Flag has done. I'm afraid sweet potatoes have appeared in Fujian for some years. Don't the local officials know this? But why are there other people in Fujian? In addition, there are not many planted in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the north, where they are even rarer and rarer. Why does Hong Shenzheng think that the tiger-character flag has surrendered to the imperial court and the Ming Dynasty has revived again?"
"This!" Hong Chengchou choked.
It is an indisputable fact that Shanxi has become more prosperous in the hands of the tiger-character flag than in the hands of the imperial court. It is precisely because of this that he feels the tiger-character flag is more and more terrifying.
If the tiger-character flag was like an ordinary rogue bandit, grabbing wherever it went and causing harm, the threat would not be that great. As long as the court sent troops to pursue it, it would be solved sooner or later.
But like the Tiger Flag, if you occupy a place and focus on development, the more prosperous the place under your rule is, the greater the damage will be to the Ming Dynasty. It can be said to be digging into the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Heng said: "It's better for Hong Shenzheng to stay and look around. If you want to go to Qingcheng, you can go to Qingcheng. I will arrange for someone to accompany Hong Shenzheng until Hong Shenzheng figures it out."
"Mr. Liu, why bother forcing me?" Hong Chengchou said with a wry smile.
Although he did have the idea of traveling around under the rule of the Tiger Flag, he knew that if he really wanted to do so, he would not be able to hide it from the eyes of the court, and it was even more impossible to return to the court.
Liu Heng looked at Hong Chengchou and said: "I don't want to see talents like Mr. Hong drowned in the quagmire of Ming Dynasty, and I believe that the Tiger Character Flag can better allow Mr. Hong to display his talents."
Hong Shenzheng has become Mr. Hong in his mouth.
The intention to win over has been made clear.
Chapter 1967 Recruitment
