"No, he can't."
After Li Shuheng heard the candidate recommended by Yang Yuan, he immediately stopped him.
After hearing this, Yang Yuan turned to face Li Shuheng and said: "Hong Hengjiu's high status can reassure the people of the Ming Dynasty and believe that we are sincerely allied with them. Moreover, Hong Hengjiu is familiar with the Donglin Party. He can still use his power after going to Nanjing." Personal connections are good for forming an alliance with Ming Dynasty. No matter from every aspect, he is a suitable candidate."
"It's precisely because his status is too high that he is inappropriate." Li Shuheng said, "He went to Nanjing as a governor. What will happen to Shandong? Although the Kong family in Qufu has been dealt with by us again, there are still many people in Shandong who secretly The Tiger Character Banner is dissatisfied, and Shandong needs a strong governor like Hong Hengjiu to take charge and stabilize the situation there."
The Tiger Character Banner does not have the kind of preferential treatment for scholars that the Ming Dynasty did.
Things that touch interests are often not so easy to calm down. Why is reform always so difficult, because reform means a river of blood.
The saying that the officials and the gentry should pay the grain together would result in a lot of killings. Otherwise, how could it be carried out smoothly?
The Tiger Character Banner relies on strong force to break down one barrier after another, but many scholars still miss the old Ming Dynasty. This has nothing to do with the strength of force, but human nature.
Yang Yuan did not argue with Li Shuheng, but looked at Liu Heng.
Only Liu Heng can decide whether Hong Hengjiu is suitable to be sent to Nanjing for peace talks.
Liu Heng withdrew his eyes from the map and said: "Let Hong Hengjiu go. The affairs of Shandong can be left to the people below him to keep an eye on. If only one governor can suppress Shandong, then even if not all the officials in Shandong can If you are not qualified, most people are also unqualified.”
"My subordinates are also afraid that something will happen to Hong Hengjiu if he goes to Nanjing. After he joined us, he offended many officials of the Ming Dynasty. Especially at the beginning, people in the Ming Dynasty thought he was dead. Later they found out that he had defected. We made many Ming Dynasty courts a joke." Li Shuheng explained.
Hearing this, Liu Heng nodded and said: "Brother Shu Heng, you are worried about not being suitable. It makes no sense, but I believe that Hong Chengchou is a smart man. He knows what to do after going to Nanjing, and he has the Tiger Flag to back him up. , Those people in the Ming Dynasty do not dare to mess around, and the people from the Foreign Intelligence Agency will protect him, and will protect him when he comes back when he is in danger."
"My lord has made all the arrangements, my subordinates have no objections." Li Shuheng no longer objected.
Liu Hengdao: "In this matter, I ordered him to go to Nanjing for peace talks in the name of the Secretary of Military Affairs. At the same time, he sent an order to the Navy, ordering the Navy to enter the inland from the entrance to the Songjiang Prefecture to give the Ming Dynasty a little shock. "
"Go down and make arrangements." Li Shuheng took the order.
As the deputy director of the Military and Political Department, the orders of the Military and Political Department will naturally not be hidden from him, and many orders will be issued through his subordinates.
Two orders were sent out from the capital.
The order sent to Shandong reached Hong Chengchou faster, but the order sent to the navy was slightly later. At the same time, the navy had to be mobilized to Songjiang Mansion. It took time in the middle, so it was naturally slower.
When Hong Chengchou received the order from the Military and Political Department, he was also shocked.
He did not expect that Tiger Character Banner would suddenly have peace talks with the Ming Dynasty, and the person who was the envoy for the peace talks would still be him, a former traitor of the Ming Dynasty.
However, orders were orders and he had to obey them.
Fortunately, the order did not require him to go to Nanjing immediately, but ordered him to wait for the envoy team departing from the capital, and wait until the envoy met him before heading to Nanjing together.
Taking advantage of the gap before the envoy team arrived, Hong Chengchou began to arrange various matters in Shandong.
As a surrendered minister who had taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty, he was very satisfied with being able to surpass many old people from the Tiger Banner and become the governor of Shandong.
But he also knew that his becoming the governor was more of a coincidence. It was entirely because there were not many high-level personnel in the Tiger Flag who could take charge of their own affairs, which was why he took advantage.
However, although he is very satisfied with his position as governor, it does not mean that he will only achieve the rank of governor throughout his life. If given the opportunity, he still wants to go one step further and become a higher official in the Tiger Flag.
Shandong is the foundation for him to have the opportunity to enter the center in the future, so he does not want his time in Nanjing to cause any problems in Shandong, which will affect his future official career.
More than half a month later, the team of envoys sent to the Ming Dynasty finally arrived at Jinan Mansion.
The reason why we arrived so late was not because we were delayed for more than half a month on the road, but because we had to wait for the navy, so it was relatively late when we set off from the capital, and it was naturally even later when we arrived in Shandong.
The envoy's team arrived in Jinan, and Hong Chengchou needed to set off with the envoy's team.
Before leaving, he informed various matters to the state officials in Shandong, and then he set out with peace of mind.
Even so, every time he passed through a certain state capital in Shandong, he would give the local chief official a few words again.
Shandong was already bordering Jiangnan. At this time, Jiangnan had not yet been divided into several provinces, so the area occupied by Jiangnan was still very large.
The team carrying the Tiger Character Banner as envoy to the Ming Dynasty entered Jiangnan from Xuzhou.
Unlike the Manchus who came to Nanjing from Liaodong secretly, the envoy team led by Hong Chengchou swaggered through the city from the beginning and did not hide their whereabouts at all.
Therefore, as soon as they entered Xuzhou territory, they were immediately discovered by the local government and sent people to stop Hong Chengchou's team.
Xuzhou borders Shandong, and Mianqian can be regarded as an enemy border area.
Most of the Ming Dynasty officials who came to Xuzhou to serve as officials were out of power.
After all, Xuzhou is such an important location. Once the Tiger Flag army moves south, it is very likely that they will choose to attack Xuzhou, so no officials from the Ming Dynasty are willing to come to Xuzhou to serve as officials.
Even some officials who were originally serving as officials in Xuzhou, as long as they have a backing, will find ways to arrange for them to serve as officials elsewhere, and they are willing to spend more money for this.
Because of the strong military strength of the Tiger Character Banner, Xuzhou officials did not dare to do anything to Hong Chengchou and his entourage. Instead, they received them cautiously and at the same time sent people to deliver messages to Nanjing.
Before the reply from Nanjing came back, Hong Chengchou and his party were invited to Xuzhou Fucheng.
In Xuzhou Mansion, Hong Chengchou and his party were not restricted in their freedom. No one stopped them from going anywhere, but they had to be followed when they went out.
Xuzhou is located on the thoroughfare of several provinces. It is not only a battleground for military strategists, but also a prosperous place.
There are so many merchants coming and going here, almost as much as those in the border areas.
After Hong Chengchou came to Xuzhou, he only rested in the post house for one day, and then he took his people out to the streets of Xuzhou and began to appreciate the customs and customs of Xuzhou.
(End of chapter)
