Liu Xuehua came to Pingyang at the beginning of the sixth year of Chongzhen.

As a student who was deeply influenced by Western studies, at a time when Tangxi East recruited a large number of people like him.

Liu Xuehua defected to Shanxi as soon as possible.

He is a native of the Jingshi Realm.

After staying in Shanxi for half a year, Liu Xuehua, a teacher at a school, began to enter the administrative circle of Tangxidong.

Today, he works in the Ministry of Industry.

He was in charge of the preparation for the establishment of the textile factory.

However, Liu Xuehua still has an identity, that is, Jinyiwei's secret agent.

Why should a person who has money, a house and a family in Beijing choose a poor place where natural disasters are continuous?

There is only one way to say it, and that is that he has a purpose.

For half a year, lurking beside Tang Xidong in Shanxi, Liu Xuehua gradually won Tang Xidong's trust.

In half a year, Liu Xuehua did not contact the secret envoy of Jinyiwei in Shanxi.

Everything is done with great care.

While constantly recording everything he saw, saw and heard in Shanxi.

On the one hand, Liu Xuehua is also absorbing Shanxi's more advanced administrative concepts.

For example, the construction of schools, for example, the rational division of employment among the people, for example, the emphasis on and encouragement of industry and commerce, such as the collection of commercial taxes, for example, the encouragement of craftsmen to improve industrial technology and reward, and so on.

Half a year down.

Liu Xuehua witnessed a poor and backward Shanxi begin to become the richest and most peaceful province in the north.

In the process of continuous observation and analysis, Liu Xuehua gradually began to change his opinion of Tang Xidong.

All of this person's actions seem to be reflected: people-oriented, people-first thinking.

This is a real talent, a real talent who can save the world.

However, at the same time, the more he understood, Liu Xuehua became more and more worried about the Ming court.

Because at this moment, the Ming Dynasty and the Shaanxi rebels are constantly consuming energy, time, financial resources, and troops entangled.

Tang Xidong was given plenty of time to strengthen himself.

He already has 300,000 elites in his hands, with sufficient food, heavy soldiers, perfect combat preparations, and sharp firearms.

Such a Shanxi has far exceeded the power of the Ming Jingshi.

It is not even much stronger than the Ming Dynasty in the entire north.

If this continues, if one day, when this lurking male lion wants to open his mouth to bite its prey, will Da Ming really be able to withstand his strength?

Liu Xuehua has a lot of worries in his heart, he is the Son of Heaven and the army.

Responsibilities are important.

The longer Liu Xuehua stayed in Shanxi, the more he felt that he was wrapped in the sea, and a strong sense of suffocation oppressed his spirit and body.

End of August.

Inadvertently, Liu Xuehua got a piece of information that shocked him to the point of trembling in his heart.

It turned out that Tang Xi went northeast to aid the Mongolian Han Department in order to seek the legendary jade seal that had been lost for a long time.

The jade seal of the country was obtained by Tang Xidong?

Liu Xuehua realized the importance of the matter.

He is an ancient, and the concept of the jade seal of the country is too deep-rooted: he is ordered by heaven and lives forever.

The jade seal of the country may not be the world, but the person who gets the jade seal of the country will inevitably be tempted to compete for the ambition of the lord of the world.

Liu Xuehua couldn't sit still.

He needs to contact the secret envoy of the Jinyi Guard, convey important information to the imperial court, and reach the Holy Hearing.

First, let the imperial court prepare early.

Liu Xuehua knew that compared with the anti-army, Tang Xidong's threat to the Ming Dynasty was far greater than that of the anti-army.

It's even bigger than Houjin.

A powerful overlord also got the jade seal of the country that everyone in the world knows and believes, just like a lion with wings.

August.

Zhang Xiahai led the army back to Shanxi.

At the same time, there were also 40,000 Han people, young and old.

At the same time, there was a steady stream of other small Mongol tribes who would from time to time request to move to Shanxi.

The relocation of the Han Department is something that Tang Xidong can imagine.

Because Houjin has already regarded them as enemies.

The steppe is no longer suitable for their survival.

There is a group of vicious wolves peeping around at any time, and moving west of the grassland will touch the interests of other tribes, and wars between tribes will break out.

If the Han tribe does not want to be exterminated, it can only go south to Shanxi.

Compared with the jade seal of the country, Tang Xidong attaches more importance to it, and inserts the Han Department into the Mongolian tribe.

This is a lot of human resources, or the tens of thousands of elite cavalry that they are about to get their hands on.

While resettling these Mongolian nomads, Tang Xidong began to think about how to solve the livelihood problems of the Mongols.

Leaving the grassland and heading south to Shanxi heralded that they would completely abandon the nomadic life they had insisted on for thousands of years and begin to move towards an agricultural life.

Obviously, this is to change them from the roots.

Tang Xidong thought that he had no good way for the time being.

So after thinking about it, he made a decision.

Do not change the way of life of the Mongols, help them to protect them by force, and let them continue their former nomadic life.

Therefore, Tang Xidong divided the area around the meanders of the river near the Hetao area for them to live in.

Give them two options.

One is to give up nomadism and help them start farming, and the other is to open up border crossings and let them enter and leave the grasslands at will.

After that, after counting the willingness of the Han Department, Tang Xidong began to make the next deployment.

One-third of the people in the Han tribe chose to stay in the Hequ area and engage in farming.

Most of these people are old and weak, unwilling and unfit to move constantly, and need a stable place to spend their old age.

Others just don't want to give up their legacy.

Chose to continue the nomadism.

At the same time, Tang Xidong gave them certificates of entry and exit at the border passes, and on the pretext of protecting them from attack, he also recruited a large number of Mongolian cavalry, and ordered them to be inserted in various garrison camps in the north, and then the detachments in batches were led by platoon commanders in the army, constantly parading through the grasslands to prevent war and disturbance.

In this way, it provided armed protection for the Han tribe, and at the same time could collect a large number of Mongol cavalry for their own use.

Killing two birds with one stone.

In fact, deep down, it was in their best interest for the Mongols to continue their nomadic activities.

He also needed to rely on the nomadic cattle and sheep of the Mongols to support his trade, and on the other hand, although the Mongols had not yet submitted to him nominally, they were bound by trade and protected by his armed forces.

The Han Department has actually been effectively controlled by him.

After settling the matter with the Mongols.

Tang Xidong only had time to seriously consider the hot potato in front of him: the heirloom jade seal!

Is the heirloom jade seal a good thing?

For many people, yes, because he is a monster who controls the hearts of the people in the world.

But for Tang Xidong.

The heirloom jade seal in front of you is not only not a good thing, but also an old antique that buries the scourge.

He didn't want to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, because he needed to secretly expand his strength, and at the same time, because he didn't want to see the Ming Dynasty constantly consuming the last national strength in his own battles, and the final result was beneficial to the Later Jin, which accelerated the pace of the Ming Dynasty's defeat, and also pushed the Later Jin to the throne of history.

The jade seal of the country was obtained by himself.

Tang Xidong knew such a thing, and no matter how secret he did, he would be known.

Because it is not only himself and a few people who know about this, but also the Han Department and Houjin.

So such a thing can't be hidden, and Tang Xidong is not prepared to hide it.

After thinking about it for a long time.

Tang Xidong has made a decision.

He looked to the east, hoping that this thing would be helpful to Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen was a smart man and believed that he would understand what he meant.

Tang Xidong doesn't want to be a person who is guilty of history, he just hopes that one more person can live a better life in history by him.

Therefore, the jade seal of the country was not attracted to him.

He is a later generation, and the attraction of being an emperor really does not seem to be that great.

On the contrary, it is more tempting to hope that you can prove your worth and contribution in history.

A person's dream of living and reflecting his own value needs to fall on more others, and he needs to change in others to embody!