The people below the steps are quietly observing Zhu Pingjin, and Zhu Pingjin is also observing the people under the steps.

With his hands behind his back, he stood firmly on the three steps outside the Buddhist hall, making his demeanor look more solemn and his posture more erect.

His political face always has a vague smile, but his sharp eyes reveal the edge of his heart. His gaze was like a searchlight in the darkness, looking downwards and glancing, starting from the middle of the queue, one left and one right, as if to wrap the people under the stairs with dazzling lights, through their eyes, ears, mouths and noses, penetrating into the depths of their hearts, illuminating those dark corners that were not visible.

In the middle of the first row is Liu Zhenfan, the commander of the Northern Sichuan Military Region and the commander of the 11th Regiment of the Northern Sichuan Adjutant General's Office.

This person is very good at encompassing the generals of various departments, respectfully obeying orders to his superiors, and inevitably losing leniency to his subordinates. In the sound of the northern Sichuan generals going north to Hanzhong, he restrained his subordinates with difficulty and maintained consistency with Zhu Pingjin with difficulty.

After the 11th Regiment was transferred south to Meizhou City, Liu Zhenfan succeeded Song Zhensi as the commander-in-chief of the siege troops. Since January, he has adhered to the will of besiege and not attack, and quietly suppressed the enthusiastic cries of a drum.

Liu Zhenfan showed military ability in the battle of northern Sichuan, and showed political foresight from northern Sichuan to Meizhou. This is a compound talent who is politically mature, militarily sophisticated, economically methodical, and has prestige in qualifications and connections. As Liao Daheng said, in the direction of northern Sichuan, where it is extremely important to break into the nest, such talents are indeed rare.

However, Liu Zhenfan's strengths are also his weaknesses.

Liu Zhenfan's political maturity made him not have a clear intention to choose sides other than respect and obedience;

Liu Zhenfan's prestige in terms of qualifications and connections and his huge influence on the generals in northern Sichuan made Zhu Pingjin feel very jealous.

The reason why Zhu Pingjin wanted to transfer Liu Zhenfan and his 11th regiment from northern Sichuan to Meizhou, and why he wanted to insert the fourth and fifth regiments of Lu Yinchang and He Qiukou into northern Sichuan Town to stir up the situation, and sacrifice his eldest son Yang? The new and consistently obedient Yang Zhan's 15th Regiment was on the front line in the face of the Qin thieves, which was precisely for this reason.

Liu Zhenfan's left is Tu Long, deputy general of Tongjiang, brigade-level treatment, deputy commander of the Boryeong Military Region and commander of the Tongjiang garrison battalion.

Tu Long has no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, trapped in a lonely city, and has been stubbornly defending for more than a year under the desperate situation of all the news, and the officials and people of the province have taken Tu Long as a true hero.

Even Zhu Pingjin had to face up to this trend of public opinion, not only designating Tu Long, who only had more than 200 soldiers in the battalion, as the main brigade, but also wrote an inscription in the Fuxing Newspaper praising it: Tang has Suiyang and Ming has Tongjiang! The difference is also, Suiyang is finally lost and the river still exists; Zhang Xun was martyred and Tu Long had to be returned!

But under the fame, it is actually difficult to deserve, and there is a big contrast as much as there is a height.

Heroes in reality are far from imaginary heroes.

The imaginary hero should have an angular face, resolute eyes, and strong muscles, but the real hero is a short and fat man with a round face, a prominent belly, and flexible eyes.

The contrast in the image is only the surface, and the greater contrast comes from the truth of the battle of the defense of the Tongjiang River.

After the siege of Tongjiang was lifted, the Military Intelligence Bureau was ordered to secretly send people to Tongjiang to inspect and visit, and the results were shocking.

In the battle to defend Tongjiang, Li Cunxing, the magistrate of Tongjiang County, was the core of leadership, and his core team members were mainly gentry and scholars in Tongjiang County.

In order to defend the county seat, Li Cunxing brought the gentry and scholars into the shogunate, organized the private soldiers into the army, and directly participated in the defense of the city. As for Tu Long and more than 100 battalions of soldiers under him, they said that they played soy sauce too much, and said that they were too marginalized and pretended. To be precise, they are a group of bodyguards wearing official uniforms and collars to protect the courtyard.

This time, Tu Longfeng was transferred to Meizhou, and there were only more than ten people accompanying him, which was all his capital. Li Cunxing, as the governor of Tongjiang County and the supervisor of the Tongjiang garrison battalion, justifiably took on the two posts of civil and military.

But Tu Long would not have expected that as soon as he left on his front foot, Li Cunxing on his back foot would receive the will to meet and accept the reward with the meritorious personnel guarding the city, and hand over Tongjiang City to Yang Zhan's Bashan garrison regiment to take over.

In this way, Tongjiang County, an important military base in the depths of Bashan, will easily fall into Zhu Pingjin's pocket, and Li Cunxing and those gentry and scholars who accept the reward will still be grateful to Zhu Pingjin for his meritorious service!

There is no meritorious service, and there is no strength in the job. Tu Long's ability is mediocre and of little use. However, the cowhide has been blown out, and it is not used at this time, isn't it a slap in the face?

Liu Zhenfan's right is the first contributor to the victory in northern Sichuan, the general of the middle battalion in northern Sichuan, the brigade-level treatment, and Wang Xiang, deputy commander of the Boryeong Military Region.

After Lu Nianyu reported Wang Xiang with his real name, in line with the risk control principle of not being afraid of 10,000, but afraid of what happens, Wang Xiang led the 13th Regiment Headquarters and the 49th Battalion of the main force to be transferred to Meizhou City, under the command of Liu Zhenfan, and Lu Nianyu was transferred to Chongqing Mansion with 50 battalions.

A few days ago, the Neijiang King and the governor Liu Zhibo of Chongqing Prefecture have confirmed that Wang Xiang is indeed a slave of the former cabinet minister Wang Yingxiong. However, there is no evidence of whether Wang Yingxiong knew about the rebellion in advance. If there is no evidence, it does not mean that he was involved or that he was not involved.

In risk control, the practice is "there is no doubt about the guilt". Therefore, Zhu Pingjin decided to carry out the previously deployed preventive measures to the end.

After arriving in Chongqing, Lü Nianyu was promoted to the deputy commander of the First Regiment for his contribution to Bazhou, and acted as the executor for He Zengshan, who governed the army strictly. His 50th battalion was transferred to Hunan and placed under He Youyi. Wang Xiang was dismissed from the post of head of the 13th Regiment and served as Liu Zhenfan's deputy.

The commander of the 13th Regiment was changed to Liu Lianpeng, the commander of the 2nd Regiment, and Tao Xiansheng, the head of the Yuxi Garrison Regiment and the supervisor of the army, and Diao Huashen, the former supervisor of the Yongchuan Order, were respectively transferred to the commander of the 2nd Regiment and the supervisor of the army. One battalion of the Second Regiment and the first and second battalions of the Supplementary Corps were also incorporated into the Thirteenth Regiment.

In this way, Wang Xiang's basic strength was completely disrupted and torn apart, and there was no danger of chaos.

Zhu Ping, who temporarily served as the supervisor of the military under Meizhou City?? In the report, Wang Xiang clearly realized the reason, and his mood was extremely depressed. Recently, I have been drinking alcohol in the camp several times, so that I am so drunk that I am unconscious!

Wang Xiang has the ability and military exploits.

It can be seen from his lone attack on Bazhou and the competition for the first merit that his fame is very important;

Judging from his violent reaction to occasional setbacks, it can be seen that he is not politically sophisticated.

Perhaps Wang Yingxiong once helped him with promotion, but it is very unlikely that he will follow the dead tiger Wang Yingxiong to oppose Zhu Pingjian. However, the political flaw is a fatal wound for a leading general. Trying to eliminate flaws requires patient communication, but also time and opportunity to test.

Appeasement is cheap, and contemptible people can give; This is a rare opportunity, I hope you can grasp it! Zhu Pingjin looked at Wang Xiang and thought to himself.

Zhu Pingjin's gaze continued to move.

On the left and right sides of the first row, on the left is a middle-aged general with a tall body and a pair of bronze bells and big eyes with a fierce atmosphere. The one on the right is slightly older, with a tall yellow beard.

Zhu Pingjin silently read the order of the audience list and checked the identities of these two people: on the left, Feng Chaozong, the general of the main barracks of Gan Liangchen, who had a chance to fight a war; The one on the right is impossible to see, Tan Hong, the general of the Taiping Battalion.

The generals in the main barracks are often the henchmen of the main generals, and Feng Chaozong is no exception.

After Gan Liangchen was removed from his post due to Wang Chaoyang's mutiny, Feng Chaozong's Zhongying men and horses were incorporated into the Lizhou garrison. So Feng Chaozong abandoned his official position and planned to return to his hometown in Linshui with Gan Liangchen.

What are you going to do when you go back to the neighboring waters? In addition to pension, I am afraid that there is also a desire to regroup.

Liao Daheng saw this danger and suggested that Gan Liangchen be recruited to Zhu Pingjin's side to join the army. Zhu Pingjin led the troops to conquer the Cangbei Iron Triangle, and Gan Liangchen was ordered to follow him. In the bloody battle of Bolt Mountain, Feng Chaozong and other private soldiers of the Gan family fought bloodily in the phalanx, and made a meritorious conquest.

Feng Chaozong is a person who attaches great importance to love and righteousness, but has neither official body nor righteousness, and has a brutal and murderous personality.

This is a raging horse, and it must be tied to the dragon's head. Otherwise, the ruthless military discipline will make him self-destructive!

Tan Hong, the general of the Taiping camp, a native of eastern Sichuan, a hereditary general, and the strongest person in Kuizhou Santan. Tan Hong's two sons, Tan Tianmi and Tan Tianlun, are both young generals who can fight well. In October last year, Mo Chongwen left the town to aid Chu, and Huang Harrier Zijing Keqin took advantage of the situation and seized Dazhou. Tan Hong's lone army trapped Dongxiang (now Xuanhan County) and its outlying strongholds, preventing the situation in the Dazhou area from completely collapsing.

Tan Hong's two clan brothers are both veteran generals of the official army who have recently reorganized and joined the protection **, the clan brother Tan Wen commands the Yunyang garrison camp, and the clan brother Tan Yi (yi) commands the Wanxian garrison camp.

Wanxian County is the only way for millions of Jingchu refugees to enter Sichuan, and it is the intersection of the two land roads in the south and north of the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River in the middle, and the geographical location is particularly important. Tan Yi took advantage of the geographical advantage and colluded with the local gentry to intercept people and encircle the fields, and dug the corner of the wall to Zhu Pingjian's feet. So Zhu Pingjin transferred He Zengshan's first regiment from Yuxi to Zhong and Wan, which was not only to cover the passage into Sichuan for the displaced people, but also to clearly warn Tan Yi and the gentry of Wanxian County.

However, Tan Yili was dizzy and still didn't stop.

Is He Zengzhi the one who sits and waits for orders?

A few days ago, He Zeng made an urgent report: Tan Yi was bold and reckless, recruiting troops and buying horses without authorization, and was suspected of rebellion. So he led his troops straight into Wanxian, attacked Tiansheng City at night, captured Tan Yi alive, and disarmed the Wanxian garrison battalion. The local lawless gentry took the opportunity to take them all together and imprisoned them in the county government.

He Zengshan's request for a decree, how to deal with it. Zhu Pingjin sent Jiang Dingzhen, whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chongqing gentry, and asked him to "re-establish the law of the country and deal with it as appropriate."

Of course, Jiangding Town's visit to Wanxian County was not simply to solve Tan Yi and the local gentry.

Given the growing importance of Kuizhou's strategic position, Wei Chen's ability and qualifications were no longer sufficient to cope with the complex situation in the region. Therefore, Zhu Pingjin decided to send Jiang Ding Town to Kuizhou, and under the cover of Zhu Da Maniac, who was the prefect of Kuizhou, he fully implemented the new policy of Shu and was responsible for dealing with the old lady Qin.

After Ding Xianjue and Feng Ruhu recovered Dazhou, the military role of Tan Hong's subordinates who remained in Dongxiang County was greatly reduced, and their political role and economic influence gradually tended to be negative.

Liao Daheng adhered to Zhu Pingjian's intentions, and transferred more than 1,000 people from his battalion in the name of the needs of the Meizhou war situation, and put them under the command of Liu Zhenfan, taking the opportunity to completely reorganize.

Tan Yi of Santan capsized in Wanxian, how will Tan Wen of Yunyang and Tan Hong here react?

The Tan clan is a big clan and a prominent clan in Kuizhou, and its power is deep-rooted;

And Kuizhou is the connection point between Sichuan and Huguang, and it is okay to mess around, but you must not lose control of it!