Hong Chengchou always felt that it was unbelievable that the artisan battalion of tens of thousands of people followed the thieves like this, and there must be something wrong with this. The www.biquge.info especially the Chinese officer Cao Qian, who was in charge of the artisan battalion, was even more suspicious, at least he was derelict in this matter, not only failed to stop it, but not even the slightest news came out.

Hong Chengchou ordered to investigate the details of Cao Qian. This check really found out that there was a problem. Cao Qian's family had moved out a few days earlier.

Hong Chengchou was furious when he heard the news, and the anger that had been suppressed for many days finally broke out. Cao Qian is his more trusted cronies, and such a person is a thief for the whole family, and Hong Chengchou can't accept it no matter what. But the facts are there, there is no cooperation between the inside and the outside, how could the craftsmen follow the people of the security army so smoothly, and why did the family of Cao Qian, who did not surrender to the thief, disappear.

Under Hong Chengchou's strict order, he searched carefully, and according to the clues that came up, Cao Qian's family may have all rushed to Zhongyang. Hong Chengchou had to face the reality, the craftsmen who had come from the emperor were gone, so he had to give the emperor an explanation, Hong Chengchou could only write a note to the emperor to explain the situation. The Chinese officer Cao Qian colluded with the thieves to abduct all the craftsmen stationed outside Taiyuan City, and Cao Wenzhao failed to chase the craftsmen back despite his efforts.

The craftsman didn't dare to ask for it anymore, as long as the emperor wasn't angry, it would be good. Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be angry when he received Hong Chengchou's recital, as the master of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen felt that everything was not going well, and his ministers were more stupid than the other, and he couldn't do anything. Hong Chengchou is still able to do things among these ministers, but the craftsmen under his nose can't look at it, and the big living people can still be abducted. However, the loss of 1,800 craftsmen is not a big deal. Emperor Chongzhen just ordered Hong Chengchou to be reprimanded, and ordered him to arrest the traitor Cao Qian, and he must be severely punished after being caught.

The ministers in the capital were very happy to see Hong Chengchou's joke, but no one was in the mood to fall into the ground, and some people even secretly speculated whether Hong Chengchou deliberately did not stop them from joining the thieves in order to get rid of the burden of the old and weak craftsmen, and this matter passed like this.

The generals under Hong Chengchou also got the content of the holy decree soon after, and everyone was a little chilled, and the governor obviously used Cao Qian as a scapegoat, and put all the responsibility on Cao Qian. Some discussions reached Hong Chengchou's ears, but Hong Chengchou couldn't explain that this time he was really not looking for a scapegoat, Cao Qian did defect to the area occupied by the thieves with his family.

Soon after, Cao Qian, who was in Zhongyang, saw the court's decision to track him down as a traitor. Cao Qian was very cooperative with the orders of the security forces, and was released after arriving in Zhongyang, and he also met his family members who were deceived by the security forces to Zhongyang. Cao Qian secretly complained in his heart, it was better to kill him, and if he died for the country, his family would not be affected. Now it's okay, even the family members are wanted by the court. But this is just thinking about it, no one will do anything that really loses their heads, and it is better to live than to die.

Cao Qian had to ask to see Zhang Chu after wandering in Zhongyang for a few days, leaving Zhongyang and returning to Taiyuan must be a dead end, and Cao Qian knew better than anyone how to find scapegoats in the official army. But it is not easy to live in Zhongyang, Zhang Chu has been pursuing a policy of not letting anyone eat for nothing over the years, and if you want to have food, you have to work. Cao Qian walked around the street and didn't find a job that suited him.

Cao Qian found that he was used to doing things in the army, and once he left the army, he couldn't adapt to anything. After thinking about it for a long time, Cao Qian was ruthless, since it was impossible to turn back at such a point, it would be good to go all the way to the dark. So he came to see Zhang Chu and asked to join the security army.

Of course, Zhang Chu would not refuse if someone wanted to work for him, and Zhang Chu met with Cao Qian in Zhongyang's yamen.

"I also hate corrupt officials and corrupt officials, sympathize with the suffering of the people, and hope to join the security army." Cao Qian has some understanding of the security army in the past few days, so he picked up what Zhang Chu loved to listen to.

"Corrupt officials and corrupt officials are hated by everyone, and the hardships of the people's lives are obvious to all. But that's not why you should join the Security Army. Zhang Chu didn't want to be deceived by a few pretty words, he wanted to hear Cao Qian's true thoughts.

Cao Qian couldn't help but blush when he was exposed to the lie, and said: "Actually, now I have nowhere to go, I just want to find a place to live." The main thing is that I have seen the strength of the security army, and now the security army has occupied the territory of several counties in Shanxi and Shaanxi, especially in the battle between the cavalry of the security army and Cao Wenzhao's Guanning army, which I have seen with my own eyes, showing the strong combat effectiveness of the security army, I heard that there are tens of thousands of cavalry like the security army, if that is the case, it will not be easy for the official army to defeat the security army. That's why I decided to join the security forces, you don't think I'm a villain who came to speculate. “

"You're not a villain, it's human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, if we can't protect ourselves, you should leave us far away." Zhang Chu is not afraid that someone will come to him to speculate, and some people will come to speculate, which means that the security army is strong enough to create opportunities.

"I don't think you're just going to be the commander of these provinces, right? Will you accept the court's appeasement? Cao Qian asked the two questions he was most concerned about. If Zhang Chu is satisfied with occupying the land of several provinces for a while, it will not last long after all. If they are appeased by the court, these officials who have been officials in the court and have defected to the security army will definitely not end well.

"I have taken this group of poor brothers to this day, there is no turning back, the provinces are untenable, and it is impossible to be appeased, after being appeased, we have become the corrupt officials of the court that we hated before, and people still have to have some pursuits in life." These days, Zhang Chu is also thinking about where he will go, from not being starved to death at the earliest to today, he has no possibility of retreating, let alone joining the court and being with those corrupt officials.

"What will you do to the rich people?" Cao Qian's ability to be a mid-level officer in the official army also has the support of his family, although his family is not rich and rich, he can also be included in the list of the rich, and the righteous army basically kills the rich and robs them all, which makes Cao Qian's heart very entangled, he always feels that those rich people are in his group, let him kill all the rich people in his heart and can't pass this threshold.

"The rich are not all bad people, and how to treat the rich mainly depends on the attitude of the rich people towards the security forces. If a rich person wants to collude with the official army, I will not be soft when I kill people. If the wealthy support the security forces, they can also be used as objects of solidarity. Of course, now we have to concentrate our efforts on building up a strong armed force and providing relief to the victims, which will certainly harm the interests of some wealthy people. But in the future, they will get better development opportunities. Zhang Chu knows that there must be very few rich people who support the security army now, and as the security army continues to grow stronger, there will be more rich people on the side of the security army. The world is very realistic.

"I'm relieved. Otherwise, I don't know how to deal with my people. Cao Qian's heart was a little lighter, it seemed that Zhang Chu was indeed different from those thieves who were full of hatred for the rich.

"Don't you want to join the security army and do some work, I think you are very suitable for the work of dealing with the relationship between the security army and the rich." Zhang Chu suddenly thought that the security army had become stronger now, and how to deal with the relationship with the rich had to be put on the agenda. (To be continued.) )