Chapter 188: Loyalty is Required

After Dorgon left, Huang Taiji remained silent.

Although Jiannu failed to enter the customs this time, it was not much of a loss for Huang Taiji, and he even took the opportunity to bring the Zhenglan Banner under his control.

In this way, in addition to controlling the yellow flag and the yellow flag, he has one more flag.

Therefore, Huang Taiji's power in Jiannu is also greater.

However, Huang Taiji thought of Lu Yuan, who had repeatedly defeated the Jiannu soldiers, he still couldn't help but pay attention to it, and instructed Li Yongfang: "I hope you get rid of him, otherwise, this person may be my fierce opponent in the future!" ”

"Minions understand!"

Li Yongfang replied.

Li Yongfang returned to his room and called his most proud son, Li Shutai, who later became a scholar of the Manchu Hongwen Academy: "This time, you personally enter the customs, inquire about a Ming court general named Lu Yuan, and then get rid of him!" This is the meaning of the master, long live the master. ”

"My son is ready to enter the customs, please rest assured that my father."

Li Shutai nodded.

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Qiu County.

It is not far from Linqing and Qingshui Town Fort.

However, Lu Yuan had no intention of continuing south to return to Qingshui Town Fort.

Because, at this time, he had already received the news that Jiannu had returned north and exited the customs.

And Liu Yuliang has ordered him to immediately recover the city that was captured by Jiannu and go to Tianjin to meet him.

Lu Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief, after all, this time Jiannu finally did not enter Shandong to plunder.

The next time Jiannu entered the customs and plundered, Lu Yuan remembered that it was in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and now it is the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and there are still more than three years to go.

Lu Yuan knew that he had to seize the time of more than three years to strengthen himself, because after three years, there would be no Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army to block Jiannu for him.

Linqing was also slaughtered when the Qing army entered the customs three years later.

Moreover, if according to the development of history, the Battle of Songjin three years later will make the Ming retreat to Shanhaiguan, and the elite division of the eight general soldiers will be lost, leaving only one Qin soldier of Sun Chuanting.

And in another year, Sun Chuanting's troops will die in Tongguan, and all the elites of the Ming court will be lost.

At that time, he will have to face not only Jiannu, but also big thieves.

Time is running out, Lu Yuan doesn't know if he can quickly grow bigger in the past three or four years and stop the speed at which Jiannu will seize the world.

"The second and third bureaus except for the bureau himself, the rest are temporarily under the unified command of Uncle Fei, Uncle Fei is temporarily promoted to the first thousand headquarters thousand general, and temporarily leads the second and third bureaus to escort the baggage team and medical guards back to Qingshui Town Fort, the first bureau and the guards company and the bureaus are entering Beijing with their own officials, and the group is the second thousand headquarters, Shen Guangzu was promoted to the second thousand headquarters thousand general."

Lu Yuan gave such an order to his mighty army, he knew that because Jiannu entered the customs this time and eliminated Lu Xiangsheng's department, the thieves would resurrect again, and even after that, these thieves would be out of control, and eventually become bigger and destroy the Zhu Ming Dynasty.

However, the mighty army has just experienced several major battles, and the casualties have already been very large, and it is urgent to rest and expand the army.

Therefore, Lu Yuan didn't want the imperial court to still worry about his own army, and then he didn't let his mighty army rest, so he transferred his mighty army to exterminate the thieves.

Therefore, Lu Yuan was ready to bring only part of the mighty army into Beijing, and then used the excuse that his mighty army had been greatly damaged due to heavy casualties in several battles with Jiannu, so as to avoid the imperial court from requisitioning himself again.

Uncle Fei naturally has no opinion on this, he is Lu Yuan's domestic slave, and his daughter is Lu Yuan's maid, so he is naturally not interested in this kind of glory and boasting of going to the capital to see the emperor and be rewarded.

And Shen Guangzu heard that he was going to bring his first game to Beijing, and he also promoted himself to the head of Qian, so he was naturally very happy and naturally busy.

Tang Xin was a little disappointed, seeing that Shen Guangzu, who was born as a canal-side helper coolie like Ben and himself, had now been promoted to the head of Qian, and he regretted more and more at this time that he should have directly agreed to become Lu Guanye's family member in the first place, instead of worrying about Master Yun's face and refusing to join Lu Guanye's family team at the beginning, and now it has also caused him to become a thousand president one step late.

Zhang Jiajun didn't have an opinion, he even guessed the reason why Lu Yuan only brought a part of the mighty army into Beijing.

However, Zhang Jiajun also had some other worries, but he didn't say it, after all, this worry is only suitable for Lu Yuan alone.

After these officers left, Zhang Jiajun directly found Lu Yuan: "Official, I think that this time I entered Beijing, I should not only worry about the imperial court requisitioning our mighty army, but also guard against the imperial court directly requisitioning or co-opting our people." ”

After hearing this, Lu Yuan was like an initiation, he admitted that Zhang Jiajun was right, his current power is not too big, and his own officers began to become famous in the court with him, once the high-ranking officials of the court Houlu wooed his own officers, his own officers seemed to be unable to refuse, after all, now these officers are no longer ordinary people, and giving them an income to satisfy food and clothing will definitely not satisfy their desires, after all, people's desires are getting bigger and bigger.

"You think of this matter in front of the official, you first take advantage of the fact that everyone has not noticed this aspect of the mind, immediately select reliable people to form the internal security department, you are also the general of the department, in the future, the internal security department will know what is wrong with us, at least the official will know who they met with and who they said to in the future!"

After Lu Yuan said this, he clenched his fists, and looked at the white snow outside Qiu County, he knew that his current power was still very small, just like a weak cypress tree on this vast snowfield, since he was reminded by Zhang Jiajun now, he had to immediately strengthen internal control, although he knew that it was difficult or even impossible to ask people to be a loyal person, but now as a manager, he still needs people's loyalty, at least he must know who is more loyal and who is more reliable.

Lu Yuan had to admit that he despised Confucianism in every way, but Confucianism was indeed very much in line with the needs of rulers, and he actually cared about the loyalty of others.

It smells so good!

But Lu Yuan is not a dogmatic person, he knows that he needs the loyalty of his subordinates, and he will not be afraid not to investigate the loyalty of his subordinates.

As for whether the spy system will increase the internal sense of mutual distrust, Lu Yuan also considers, but he has no other way now, and he believes that as long as the people who are willing to follow him will understand their hard work, and let them get enough benefits in the future, they will still accept it.

"Yes! The little one didn't dare to hide it from the official, the little one had talked to the old people of our Lu family in private these days, and there were many people who still only admitted that they were the Lu family, and felt that we shouldn't work for the court! To put it mildly, we all felt that if the Lu family hadn't taken us in back then, even if we starved to death, the court wouldn't care about us! Therefore, now if you want to sell your life, you can only give your life to the Lu family, not to the court, even if the court gives us an official job, it should be like this, people can't forget their roots! ”

Zhang Jiajun replied.

Lu Yuan didn't answer after hearing this, he only glanced at Zhang Jiajun, he found that Zhang Jiajun was a talent, and he was suitable for internal affairs in the future, and said: "In the future, you and your people from the Internal Security Department will still call this official a son." ”

"Understood!"

After Zhang Jiajun finished speaking, he left Lu Yuan's place.