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The situation is better than expected.

After Zhongxiang Wang Daji and Gu Sitong led the Third Army to revolt, it caused a domino-like effect within the Xinghan Army. In just over ten days, the Xinghan Army successively came to invest more than ten shares, as many as a thousand, and as few as then hundreds.

Two prefectural cities and thirteen county towns announced that they were going anyway without a single soldier from the Qing army.

These show the weakness and weakness of the Xinghan regime, and also directly prove that Jia Liu's money offensive is more effective than military offensive.

But in Ji Yun's view, the fact is that the Xinghan Army itself has not trained a bureaucratic team, and the core force is too small, so most of the local officials used are demoted and local gentry with a slight reputation.

For example, Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang appointed by the Xinghan Army, and Wang Ang, the governor of Hubei, were demoted.

Provincial officials are all demoted to serve, and the composition of officials in the prefectures and counties below is even more conceivable.

And these officials basically have a clear heart, that is, "opportunists" and "wavering elements" that the prince often talks about.

The reason why he served in the Xinghan military regime was that he was under the eaves and had to bow his head.

Therefore, Ji Yun suggested to increase the "united front" of these local officials appointed by the Xinghan Army. As long as the court does not investigate their crimes of surrendering thieves, even if they are dismissed after voting, these people will flock to them.

The former Dingxi General Fengsheng who died for the country did not realize this point. Once the officials who surrendered to the bandits were captured, they would be severely punished. As a result, many officials who surrendered to the bandits were obviously unwilling to be enemies with the Qing soldiers at all, but for their own lives. As a last resort, he had to work hard for the Xinghan army, but the military operations of the Qing army were frustrated repeatedly.

The most typical example is that when Feng Sheng was there, he mobilized more than [-] troops to besiege the city of Jingmen, and the magistrate of Jingmen appointed by the Xinghan Army was originally Song Kui, the magistrate of Dangyang County, who was captured, and most of the defenders in the city were formerly from Jingmen. The garrison battalion and the township brave.

Therefore, as long as Feng Sheng can pardon Song Kui and others for their crimes, Jingmen Prefecture City can easily fall.

Pianfeng's promotion should take Jingmen as a model, intending to destroy and kill a group of officials who surrendered thieves, so as to deter those officials who worked for the Xinghan Army.

As a result, the Qing army besieged for more than three months, but they did not take Jingmen Prefecture, which was resisted by only [-] people, but lost thousands of troops themselves.

Now that Prince Rui has changed the previous policy and replaced the previous severe punishment with gentleness and appeasement, this is undoubtedly a great progress in history, and it has also greatly shortened the distance between the prince and the throne.

I have to say that the prince's wisdom is tall and tough.

However, in order to prevent the prince from saying that he was like him, Ji Yun never revealed this mentality.

But for the three generations of Chen Huizu, Wang Ang, and Bayan, Ji Yun thinks that they cannot be gentle.

According to his recent knowledge, these senior members of the original imperial court really helped the Xinghan Army a lot after they voted in. For example, Chen Huizu helped Wuchang establish a grassroots regime in Huguang.

Although it is weak and its foundation is unstable, it has actually established a governance system after all, and has continuously provided money and food to the Xinghan Army.

Therefore, these demoted officials who played a major role in the development of the Xinghan Army should be arrested and killed immediately.

Therefore, Ji Yun pointedly suggested whether the prince can form an "anti-rape team", that is, to sneak into the bandit-occupied area through a capable squad, and weaken the control ability of the bandit army by assassinating the demoted officials who helped the bandit army develop.

"Ok?"

Ji Yun's proposal made Jia Liu's eyes shine, because it sounded very familiar.

Seeing that the lord was interested, Ji Yun became even more excited, and then added: "If possible, it is best to get rid of the bandit army commander Gu Shidao and others. Capture the bandit first and capture the king."

I don't want the prince to be furious after hearing this: "Bastard! You are trying to trap this king for being unfaithful and unfilial! This king doesn't want Temujin to end up!"

"what?"

Ji Yun was at a loss, why did this matter have something to do with Genghis Khan, and why was he unfaithful and unfilial?

"Old Ji, you don't understand politics."

Deputy Director Ding patted Director Ji's shoulder sympathetically, "I will tell you a secret quietly, that Gu Shidao is the father-in-law of the prince, and his daughter gave birth to a son for the prince, who may be the successor of the prince in the future, you My lord, you asked the prince to send someone to assassinate the father-in-law, didn't you intend to make the prince's house restless?"

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Ji Yun's face turned blue and then red, and he muttered for a while: "It's great to have a prince in the Qing Dynasty."

Here comes the question, since we are a family, why do we have to beat them to death, just talk directly.

If the Xinghan army is really another family property of the prince, and it belongs to one unit with two signs, then it will be completely merged, and then the white-clothed and white-armored troops will lead the Northern Expedition to avenge Emperor Chongzhen.

"Old Ji, say you don't understand politics, but you really don't understand,"

Deputy Director Ding shook his head, "This matter is very complicated, very complicated, and it will be difficult to explain it to you for a while."

"What is inexplicable?"

Jia Liu groaned, "Isn't this king raising Kou to be self-respecting, and ended up raising Kou to be fatter than this king?"

This explanation is more vivid, and it took Ji Yun half a stick of incense time to understand the twists and turns.

It's nothing more than a big team, and people's hearts are not easy to lead.

"Kindlings belong to relatives, state affairs belong to state affairs, one yard belongs to one yard, if you want to fight, you should fight, if you want to talk, you should talk, there is nothing to think about."

Although Jia Liu did not completely close the door to peace talks, he also knew that there would be an ultimate confrontation between himself and his father-in-law.

Because this is determined by faith.

His father-in-law and his son-in-law are essentially different people. Although their goals are the same, one is going to the left and the other is going to the right. It is difficult to get together.

"Since ancient times, the most serious danger has been the surrender of thieves by high officials, but if you can do work, you still have to do work."

Jia Liu agrees with Ji Yun's analysis. He doesn't know Bayan San and Wang Ang very well, but Chen Huizu is somewhat familiar with him.

The reason is that this family slave with the second surname not only served as the governor of the Qing Dynasty, but also a member of the Mutual Aid Association.

Of course, he has been removed from the list by the former leader, Lao Fu.

The problem is, it seems that the current chief host of the Mutual Aid Association is Aixinjue Luo Shikai.

Therefore, the predecessor's decision can be completely overturned.

It is to rehabilitate Old Chen and restore his reputation and status in the meeting.

After thinking about it, Jia Liu wrote a letter to Chen Huizu, not as Prince He Shuorui of the Qing Dynasty, but as the current chairman of the Mutual Aid Association.

The content of the letter is also very simple, just two sentences.

The first sentence is: "Old Chen, the leading stick and account book are with me."

The second sentence is: "I will buy you a villa in Beijing, and I will give you another 10 taels. Can you help with the work?"

After finishing writing, he didn't avoid Ji Yun and asked him to seal the envelope and send it to Chen Huizu through a special channel.

Ji Yun took it over and looked at it, then frowned and said, "My lord, why are you talking in the vernacular?"

"Nonsense, what literary words can I write at my level?"

As soon as Jia Liu picked up his teacup, Hubei governor Zheng Da came in.

Old Zheng came here angrily, because there were complaints from all over the country, saying that the surrendered Xinghan army had extremely poor military discipline, and they robbed homes and homes everywhere, seriously damaging the reputation of the Qing soldiers.