Joy of Life: I am a Han Dynasty succubus, and I rebel from the beginning

Chapter 248: Emperor Qing's plan is accelerating, Liu Hong's Wuzhou Camp

Li Hongcheng knelt on the ground, his whole body cold.

He knew that he had disappointed His Majesty in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Unwilling to protect myself anymore.

Emperor Qing looked at this nephew who had only a nominal title, his eyes unable to conceal his disappointment.

"This time you should just go back to Prince Jing's mansion and don't come out unless necessary."

Li Hongcheng's face turned pale, his lips trembled, he said nothing, and buried his head deeply in the ground.

Emperor Qing cared about his reputation and said nothing.
But Li Hongcheng understood that this was undoubtedly putting himself under house arrest.

The better thing about the rebellious prince is that all members of the royal family know that he is innocent.

If Li Hongcheng behaves himself, he can become a leisurely prince in the future.

Emperor Qing waved his hand, signaling his nephew to leave, and his eyes turned to the east.

That is the direction of Jiangbei Road.

After a long while, Emperor Qing muttered to himself.

"Liu Hong, it seems that you are very quick! If I don't hurry up, I'm afraid that in a few years, the three routes of Anton will really not be under my control."

Eunuch Hou silently presented Liu Hong's memorial requesting imperial decree.

As King Wubei is planning a rebellion this time, meritorious officials must be rewarded. Even though Emperor Qing is extremely angry, he cannot but agree with Liu Hong's memorial.

As the Emperor of Qing, you can certainly not reward meritorious service. The worst that can happen is that you will only discourage the meritorious officials.

Then Liu Hong, the Grand Commander of Andong, could naturally arbitrarily appoint titles to his subordinate officials when the relationship between the two sides fell out.

Decades later, Emperor Qing finally felt the consequences of not following the rules.

"Chang Kun, the admiral of Jiaozhou Navy, has made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion. Please promote him to the rank of first-rank admiral of the navy and reorganize the three major navies of Jiaozhou, Quanzhou, and Shazhou."

When Emperor Qing heard this, his face trembled.

He spent several years trying to split up the navy left behind by Ye Qingmei, and now Liu Hong has to reintegrate the navy.

Eunuch Hou seemed unaware of Emperor Qing's expression and continued to speak.

"Commander Gou of the Grand Commander's Guard has led by example. Please appoint him as the general of the Wuzhou Camp in Jiangbei Road and promote him to a higher rank."

"This time, Yingzhou Governor Chen Hong has made great contributions in restoring order. Please appoint him as Jiangbei Civil Affairs Commissioner, a promotion of three ranks. Ningzhou Governor He Mingli is appointed as Finance Commissioner, a promotion of three ranks."

This memorial did not seem to be harsh. After all, military generals were only promoted one level, while civil officials were promoted three levels.

I don't even ask for a reward of silver, please give me a title.

It seems that Liu Hong is making concessions, but in fact he is forcing Emperor Qing.

My requirements are so low. If you still don't agree, then I will use the authority of the Grand Commander of Andong to directly appoint me as an official under the commander-in-chief and take control of Jiangbei Road.

After Li Hongcheng returned to Kyoto in disgrace.

Liu Hong made another concession, at least maintaining nominal respect for Emperor Qing.

Emperor Qing waved his hands irritably.

"give him!"

"Summon the eunuch Hong Sixiang, the seal holder of the Western Factory. I have something to tell him."

Eunuch Hou nodded tactfully and left the imperial study.

He knew that because of his good relationship with Liu Hong, he basically lost the emperor's trust.

Even the East Factory was handed over directly to Hong Zhu by Emperor Qing.

If Emperor Qing had not wanted to keep him around and pass on messages to Liu Hong from time to time, this personal eunuch would probably have become a corpse.

Emperor Qing's expression was cold, but his face regained its composure.

After we deal with those grand masters, Liu Hong, just wait for me!

In Wuzhou, Jiangbei Road, Versace kept calculating the silver he had obtained from the confiscation of property and the extermination of the clan, and he was completely stunned.

The generals and officials of Jiangbei Road, as well as the rebellious aristocratic families, had a total of more than 30 million taels of silver in cash.

As for the fields and grain, they are countless.

The officials in Jiangbei Road are still crying poor, saying that they are unable to provide relief to the more than 100,000 disaster victims in Jiangbei.

The result is that each one is more ruthless than the other!

Liu Hong was also shocked by this astronomical figure.

With Ye Qingmei's support, Qing State is still quite rich! The combined deposits of Jiangbei Road alone for decades exceeded 30 million taels. In order to offset the 20 million taels in the inner treasury, Fan Xian even issued more national debts, using tomorrow's money to make up for today's deficit.
Zhang Liang couldn't help laughing.

"Sir, you really have to thank Li Hongcheng!"

"That's true. If it weren't for Li Hongcheng, I would have been unable to move forward due to financial pressure."

Liu Hong also laughed.

Thanks to Li Hongcheng!
If he hadn't gathered all the opposition forces together, Liu Hong wouldn't have been able to wipe them out so easily.

If the property of each family is confiscated and divided one by one, the aristocratic families, officials and generals in the entire Jiangbei Road will probably be in a panic.

The slightest carelessness could lead to a mutiny.

Unlike this, these people were at most just frightened by the ruthlessness of Liu Hong's methods, rather than worried about suffering unexpected disasters.

This is the advantage of having a good reputation!

Er Gouzi, the general of Wuzhou camp, was wearing a brand new general's uniform. After hearing about so much money, he was eager to try and his eyes lit up.

"Brother! So, isn't it time to train our troops and wipe out the bandits in Jiangbei?"

"We have to train the troops. Wait for my next order from the Grand Commander. Except for the 20,000 troops retained in Dongshan Road and Jiangnan Road to protect the country and the people, all other troops will be sent to the Wuzhou camp."

Liu Hong nodded and avoided talking about Ergouzi’s banditry problem.

Suppress bandits? Where are the bandits?

Now he has a large amount of land and silver in his hands, enough to appease more than 100,000 disaster victims in Jiangbei and 20,000 bandits.

After several years of fighting with government soldiers, more than 20,000 bandits became wild after seeing the blood.

They definitely cannot be placed in local areas, they must be recruited as soldiers, otherwise it will easily cause trouble.

After seeing Liu Hong's expression, Ji Xin understood Liu Hong's thoughts and bowed.

"Sir, I am willing to go to the Bailang tribe to recruit as a soldier."

Liu Hong nodded. Ji Xin was an eighth-grade warrior with 500 personal guards, fully equipped with armor and excellent bows and crossbows.

With just Bai Lang's motley crowd of two or three thousand men and some scrap metal, they were not able to stop Ji Xin at all.

"In that case, go ahead."

Ji Xin took the order, called out five hundred personal guards, and headed towards the bandits.

The large number of people and low-level military generals brought by Liu Hong easily seized power after a bloody massacre in Jiangbei Road.

These young officials are ambitious and may still be corrupt, but they want to get things done.

It's much better than those guys who take money but do nothing.

While exempting the victims from taxes and labor service, the land seized from their homes was given to them, and they also received silver subsidies.

Liu Hong did his best for these disaster victims.

After all, his situation as the Grand Commander of Anton is only slightly better.

He was competing with Emperor Qing, and there were also the open and covert struggles among the three officials of Andong, plus the planning of the Dadongshan incident.

Liu Hong was almost exhausted and had no time to spare.

Even though Zhang Liang was extremely tired, he refused to accept any further arrangements.

This was the case when Liu Hong directly handed over the administrative power to Chen Hong, He Ming, and Xiao He.

Liu Hong was quite worried. No wonder there were so many corrupt officials.

There are so many things to do in the three roads of Anton alone, let alone the whole world.

Unless a more perfect system is established, incompetent rulers and treacherous ministers will emerge after a few generations.

Er Gouzi was still speaking with great interest.

"Brother, how many people should we recruit for the Wuzhou camp?"

"One hundred thousand!"

Liu Hong answered quite straightforwardly that 100,000 people was already the limit of his ability.

He has a good idea of ​​his abilities.

Not everyone can command a large army into battle. So far, only Han Xin under Liu Hong has this ability.

If you insist on micromanaging, you might end up becoming the second bald principal.

(End of this chapter)