"Yes, go to Shandong." Li Shuheng nodded.
Hong Chengchou said hesitantly: "It's not that I don't want to go to Shandong, but what should I do if I go to Shandong and Henan?"
"Henan is on the right track. Once the army takes Shandong, someone needs to take charge of the overall situation in Shandong. The army cannot even handle government affairs. Therefore, someone who is proficient in government affairs needs to go to Shandong to take charge and ensure the situation in Shandong. Stable until successfully accepted by Tiger Flag," Li Shuheng said.
After hearing these words, Hong Chengchou showed hesitation.
Going to Shandong has pros and cons for him.
If he goes to Shandong, he can take charge of his own affairs. Maybe the first governor of Shandong with the tiger-character flag will fall on him, but Shandong is different from other places.
Shandong is the hometown of saints. Once the current set of things like the Tiger Flag are implemented in Shandong, they will inevitably be unable to avoid the Shandong Kong family.
Thinking of this, he looked at Li Shuheng and asked, "What should we do with Kong? Do we want to be kind to him?"
"Just do whatever you want to do. There is nothing special under the rule of the Tiger Character Banner, and no one can be special." Li Shuheng glanced back at Hong Chengchou.
He understood what Hong Chengchou was worried about.
Therefore, he gave Hong Chengchou a choice and let him decide whether to go to Shandong or not.
But once Hong Chengchou refused to go to Shandong and chose not to face the Kong family, Hong Chengchou would no longer have a position in the top management of Tiger Flag Banner.
Hong Chengchou hesitated and said: "The mistress is also from the Kong family?"
"It is up to the lord to resolve the matter of the mistress, but the policy of the Tiger Character Banner will not change because of one person. Do you want to go to Shandong? This is a good opportunity for you." Li Shuheng said.
Hong Chengchou was silent for a while.
As a scholar, he is very aware of Kong's position in the minds of scholars. Once he attacks Kong in Shandong, he will offend scholars all over the world.
Even if the Kong family is Kong and the saints are saints, what scholars like most is to make far-fetched assumptions and throw dirty water on others to show off their own justice and gain their own reputation in the minds of the world's scholars.
Li Shuheng did not press him and allowed Hong Chengchou to consider whether to take over Shandong affairs.
"I'm going to Shandong." After some thought, Hong Chengchou decided to go to Shandong.
In the future, he will be a ruthless person who betrayed the Ming Dynasty and became a slave of a foreign race. Now, he has offended a Kong family.
Even the more severe the offense, the more beneficial it will be to his official reputation within the Tiger Character Banner.
He believed that even if he offended the Kong family and the scholars of the world, the Tiger Character Banner would definitely compensate him, and it was impossible for him to suffer injustice in vain.
Therefore, he is willing to take a gamble and win a future for himself.
Li Shuheng smiled and said: "I knew you would go to Shandong. Do a good job on this trip to Shandong. Once you are done, I will strongly recommend you to the lord as the governor of Shandong."
"Thank you Futai. I will definitely handle the affairs of Shandong well." Hong Chengchou bowed slightly towards Li Shuheng.
Now that he has decided to go to Shandong to face the Kong family, he will no longer regret it.
Li Shuheng said: "Get ready, and then go to Kaifeng to meet up with Chen Shizheng to do the logistics work for the army."
"Yes." Hong Chengchou responded.
The Tiger Banner army in Henan began to prepare for the next war.
In order to ensure that Henan would not be unstable due to the departure of the army, some farmers and soldiers from various places were mobilized to form a heavy supply of troops and enter the state capital city.
Just as Henan was preparing for war, several tiger-character banner armies from Xuanda also began to prepare for war.
If there is only one combat division in the Tiger Banner in Henan, then Xuanda has stationed troops and horses from three combat divisions in the Tiger Banner, one combat division, one cavalry division, and one dragoon division.
Unlike the First Battle Division in Henan, Xuanda had to face the Ming army stationed along the Inner Great Wall, and also needed to face the army of slaves and thieves invading the Ming Dynasty.
Unlike Henan which had just been occupied by the Tiger Character Banner, Xuanda had been in the hands of the Tiger Character Banner for several years.
Xuanda is not only an important town on the nine sides, but also an important location for the horse market, especially Zhangjiakou, which can be said to be the pearl of the Ming Dynasty in the north. There is no shortage of businessmen coming here to do business.
Many Shanxi merchants started their business in Zhangjiakou.
However, as the Tiger Character Banner occupied the Tumote tribe, Qingcheng, the pearl of the prairie, was transformed into a trading city between Mongols and Han people on the prairie. The status of Zhangjiakou, which originally relied on mutual trade, was not as good as before.
Xuanda's Tiger Banner army immediately launched an attack on Bohai.
In less than a day, we climbed over the Inner Great Wall and entered Huairou.
Huairou's Ming army huddled in the city, and the slave bandits invaded, allowing the slave bandits to wreak havoc. When the Tiger-character Banner army arrived, they allowed the Tiger-character Banner army to pass outside the city.
No matter who it was, the Ming officials and soldiers in Huairou maintained the same attitude.
I couldn't afford to offend him, so I avoided him.
A small group of slaves and thieves who looted in Huairou were immediately wiped out by the tiger-character banner army that appeared in Huairou, which could be regarded as helping the officials in Huairou relieve the siege.
When the Tiger Banner army entered the Inner Great Wall, Huang Taiji had already led an army of slave thieves to surround Chongzhen and his capital.
Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, also rushed to the rescue immediately.
The army of slave thieves led by Huang Taiji fought against several troops from Liaodong, but did not take much advantage. Even the attack on the capital failed to achieve any results.
Huang Taiji couldn't help the high walls and fortified city of the capital, and he wanted to retreat. Coupled with the continuous flow of Ming army reinforcements to the capital, he was unwilling to continue to waste time under the capital.
When Huang Taiji received news that a large army of the Tiger Character Banner had appeared in Huairou, he immediately made up his mind to evacuate and no longer stayed in the capital to waste time.
Even though he didn't want to admit it on the face, he knew in his heart that once Dajin's army was entangled by the Tiger Flag army, it would be difficult to withdraw from Ming Dynasty without losing a piece of flesh.
Having already lost two red flags, Daikin can no longer withstand too much loss.
Moreover, Da Jin had already plundered enough people and property in Ming Dynasty this time. Even if he returns to Liaodong now, it will be difficult for others to shake his throne.
Huang Taiji retreated decisively, and the army evacuated all the way east, preparing to leave the customs and return to Liaodong.
As soon as the army of slaves and thieves withdrew from outside the capital, the officials in the city began to celebrate their victory.
Because they guarded the capital, Huang Taiji and the army of slave thieves were not allowed to enter the city.
However, although the capital was defended, many places in Beizhili suffered disaster.
When Huang Taiji attacked the capital, he often looted the northern Zhili area.
Most of the land in Beizhili belonged to Xungui and Huangzhuang, and it was all good farmland. This time, it was all cheap for the slaves and thieves who came here to plunder it.
Not only were all kinds of property stolen from Xungui's Zhuangzi and Huangzhuang, but also the tenants who farmed for Xungui and Huangzhuang were also robbed.
Any place that has been visited by slaves and thieves is basically in a mess, and the appearance after looting is cleaner than that of bandits.
