In order to feed these regular troops, the Tiger Character Banner spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and often had financial deficits. It demolished the east wall to pay for the west wall, and things happened from time to time.
Liu Heng is also counting on winning Henan to bring back a wave of blood.
Without him, in addition to being the granary of the Ming Dynasty, Henan also has many vassal princes' palaces. Each of these vassal princes has accumulated wealth for several generations. Even the youngest Prince Fu's Mansion has occupied a lot of land because it is favored by Shenzong. Less benefits.
If the Tiger Character Banner can win Henan, these vassal palaces alone will be able to make a fortune and greatly ease the financial pressure.
"Let's talk about military expansion later." Liu Heng gave an ambiguous answer.
Whether the army can be expanded depends on whether Henan can do enough.
Then Liu Heng said again: "This time the army captured Fu Fan and Tang Fan and got a lot of antiques, calligraphy and paintings. These things are useless to us. I am going to hand them over to your Foreign Intelligence Agency and find a way to sell them to Go to Suzhou and Hangzhou, the literati there like these things, and more importantly, they have no shortage of money and can afford the price."
After the Tiger Character Banner captured these Shanxi merchants headed by the Fan family, it became very rich. However, the Tiger Character Banner could not eat up all these Shanxi merchants. After all, the Tiger Character Banner was not a bandit internally, and it still needed Shanxi merchants. The market under active rule relies on commerce to bring a steady stream of income to the Tiger Flag.
There are even more rich people in the south.
There are salt merchants, local large households, and big capitalists. Moreover, since the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, the south has been engaged in maritime trade for so many years, and the wealth earned is no worse than that of Shanxi merchants.
Not to mention the Suzhou and Hangzhou areas, Henan's neighbor Shandong alone has a thousand-year-old family.
The flowing dynasty of Qufu is built with iron. If you think about the accumulation of more than a thousand years, you will know how terrible it is. Spend your money to buy some antiques, calligraphy and paintings, pearls, agates, jade and jade, just like water.
There is definitely no shortage of buyers for these things that were not confiscated from the feudal prince's palace and sold to the south.
Others are afraid of the power of the vassal king, but those people in the south are not even afraid of the imperial power, and the vassal king is even more bullshit, no one will take it seriously.
"I'll make arrangements when I get back." Yang Yuan nodded, and then said, "However, if there are too many things, we can only sell them slowly, otherwise we won't be able to sell them at a high price."
Liu Heng said: "You look at the arrangement, but if you can take action early, take action early. It doesn't matter if you lose a little. Anyway, if you go around outside, sooner or later it will be back in our hands."
There were people who opposed the Tiger-Character Banner in Juntian, a sparsely populated place like the North that has been hit by disasters for many years. When one day the Tiger-Character Flag moved to Juntian in the South, he believed that the resistance in the South would only become more intense, and in the end people would be killed. After all, it's not always easy to take things out of people's pockets.
Ordinary commoners and ordinary small landowners would definitely not be able to afford the things that came out of the feudal prince's palace.
The only people who could afford it were the local gentry, the big capitalists, the salt merchants and the nobles in Nanjing.
The policy of equalizing land under the Tiger Character Banner offended the interests of this type of people.
Since the conflict cannot be resolved, we can only speak with the handle of a knife.
The swords of the Eight Banners soldiers can kill people, and the fire guns of the Tiger Flag soldiers can also kill people.
"My subordinate has taken note of it." Yang Yuan nodded.
Liu Heng turned to Zhao Wu and said, "Go find Mr. Hong and ask him how to deal with Daming. He is better than us. Let him study the next plan."
Zhao Wu turned around and went out to arrange for someone to invite Hong Chengchou.
Yang Yuan had nothing to do here, so he took the initiative to go back and arrange for people to solve the problem of the antique calligraphy and paintings that were confiscated from the feudal prince's palace.
This is not the first time the Foreign Intelligence Agency has done such an errand.
After all, both Shanxi and Shaanxi have vassal palaces, and all the belongings there have become the trophies of the Tiger Flag.
Therefore, in order to monetize impractical items such as antiques, calligraphy, paintings, pearls and agate, the Foreign Intelligence Agency opened a shop in Nanjing and Suzhou and Hangzhou to sell these items to dignitaries and prominent wealthy businessmen.
Not long after Yang Yuan left, Hong Chengchou quickly came to Liu Heng's signing room.
"My lord, are you looking for me?" Hong Chengchou came to Liu Heng.
Now he is in Tiger Flag, and he doesn't even have a serious position. The consultant said it nicely, but in fact he is no different from a staff member, but he doesn't have the power of a staff member.
It looks like a high status, but in fact it means nothing.
"Mr. Hong, sit down." Liu Heng raised his hand and pointed to the seat in front of him and said with a smile, "I invite Mr. Hong here. I have just received news that troops from Sichuan and Huguang have moved and are on their way to Henan."
Hong Chengchou, who had just sat down, had a happy face and said: "This is a good thing. It just allows Chen Shizheng to deal with the soldiers and horses in these two provinces, paving the way for the next step of the Tiger Character Banner."
"Mr. Hong thinks the same as me, and I also think this is a good thing for Tiger Flag." Liu Heng said with a smile.
Hong Chengchou thought for a moment and then said: "Although it is a good thing, the governor Yang He sent to Henan by the imperial court is not a fool. He does not know the power of the Tiger Flag Army, so I think he might come up with something." Find a way."
"Mr. Hong is familiar with this Yang He?" Liu Heng asked.
But he thought that if the tiger-character flag had not appeared, Hong Chengchou would have worked under Yang He in a year or two, and at the same time, Hong Chengchou would have started a gorgeous life.
It is a pity that all this disappeared with the occupation of Shaanxi and Shanxi by the Tiger Character Banner.
Yang He also went to Henan, and Hong Chengchou became a consultant of the Tiger Banner from Shaanxi Chief Envoy to the coup, specializing in studying how to deal with Yang He.
Fate is really wonderful.
"Although he was not able to serve as an official with Yang He, his subordinates knew him personally." Hong Chengchou said, "After Yang Hao's four-pronged army was defeated, Yang He wrote a letter to analyze the reasons for the defeat, and recommended Xiong Tingbi. They accepted the Liaodong matter, but unfortunately they were not liked by some people in the court and had to leave the court while Ding You was there. However, they did not expect that he would be valued by Zhu Youjian and sent to Henan as governor."
Liu Heng, who was holding a teapot in his hand, said: "If you have the ability, it will be a matter of time before you get up. Especially Yang He has nothing to do with Wei Zhongxian. The current emperor likes courtiers who have nothing to do with Wei Zhongxian the most."
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
"My lord is right, but what Zhu Youjian did will only make the court more turbulent, and there will be no other benefits. After all, the officials of the eunuch party are also officials of the court. Although they are with Wei Zhongxian, they are nothing more than It's for power, which is no different from the Donglin Party and other officials." Hong Chengchou said.
Liu Heng who heard this said with a smile: "Mr. Hong is right, but it's a pity that today's people don't understand this truth, and they think that they have killed Wei Zhongxian and the gang of eunuchs, and the evil spirits in the court have been completely wiped out. He But they don’t know that after one group left, the next group will also be full of monsters and monsters, which is a pity.”
