A month later, in Youzhou City, Hong Zaixing was furious in the palace.

"What, Zuo Houde raised troops and captured more than ten cities in the southeast!" Hong Zaixing looked at his prime minister and said, these days have been defeated first, and today I heard the news of the rebellion, Hong Zaixing couldn't help but be angry for a while.

The prime minister clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, Zuo Houde took advantage of General Huang's defeat and divided his troops into routes, attacked ten cities in a row, and captured a place in the southeast. Shall we raise troops to encircle and suppress them? ”

Hearing the Prime Minister's words, Hong Zaixing was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked, "Where are the soldiers and horses from Zuo Houde?" ”

The prime minister replied: "I think it's Zuo Houde's own private army. ”

Hong Zaixing said with a hint of anger: "Raise a private army!" Sure enough, he is a rebellious minister and thief, and he has long had the idea of rebellion, let me ask you how many people Zuo Houde has in his hands now? ”

The prime minister lowered his head and pondered, and then said: "Judging from the soldiers and horses sent by Zuo Houde to attack the southeast, Zuo Houde has about 100,000 private troops, plus the 50,000 troops in Dingcheng and the defenders of the ten cities, Zuo Houde now has at least 200,000 troops!" ”

Hong Zaixing listened to the prime minister's words, couldn't help but ponder, and muttered in his mouth: "200,000 troops!" No wonder you dare to lead troops to rebel! ”

At this time, Hong Zaixing really didn't dare to send troops to crusade, after all, Dayan had just been defeated, and more than half of the 200,000 army had lost, so he raised troops to encircle and suppress this option, Hong Zaixing just moved his mind, and immediately put it down.

Hong Zaixing slowly put away his anger, began to think, and then said: "Zuo Houde's family is still in the city? ”

The prime minister opened his mouth and said: "Emperor Qi, Zuo Houde's family members have been taken away, but Zuo Houde's clan and father-in-law's family are still in the city. ”

Hong Zaixing waved his hand and said, "There's no need to embarrass them, just send someone to watch!" Passing on my order, Pingdong General Zuo Houde, meritorious service in suppressing bandits, promoted to general of Zhengdong. ”

After Hong Zaixing finished speaking, he thought of something again, and then ordered: "Immediately let the guards of each border pass immediately change the guard of Youzhou City, and the border guard will be changed every three years in the future!" ”

When everyone retreated, Hong Zaixing was the only one left in the hall, and Hong Zaixing was a little angry, and directly swept the pen on the desk to the ground.

After a while, Hong Zaixing sighed again, he really had no way to do Zuo Houde at this time, after all, there was Nan Ming outside eyeing him, compared to it, Zuo Houde could only be regarded as a small trouble.

Of course, what Hong Zaixing was most afraid of was that he forced Zuo Houde too quickly, and directly let Zuo Houde take refuge in Nanming, so that the entire Dayan could be completely exposed to the hooves of Daming, so Zuo Houde could only be appeased!

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Gangneung, Daming Imperial Palace.

When Han Tingzhi received the information, he couldn't help but laugh: "If you are empty, you see, this Hong Zaixing's backyard is on fire!" ”

Jiang Ruoxu took the secret report in Han Tingzhi's hand, read it, and after a long time, he also laughed out loud: "Your Majesty, this Zuo Houde doesn't seem to be a virtuous person!" He was able to conquer ten cities in a row, and it was clear that he had raised a private army in captivity. ”

Han Tingzhi gradually put away his smile and said lightly: "In recent years, a large number of iron weapons and ordnance have been smuggled by Dingcheng, and this Zuo Houde is the guard of Dingcheng, you say this can be a kind person?" ”

Jiang Ruoxu then asked: "Your Majesty, what do you say Hong Zaixing will do to this Zuo Houde?" ”

Han Tingzhi frowned at first, and said slowly: "Hong Zaixing is afraid that he can only appease this Zuo Houde, after all, although this Pingdong general of Dayan has divided one side, he has not played an anti-flag, and at the same time, Hong Zaixing has just been defeated, and there is my Daming outside, but for a while, he is helpless against this Pingdong general." ”

Jiang Ruoxu saluted slightly and said: "Since this Pingdong general has already rebelled against Hong Zaixing, he also knows Hong Zaixing's character, now he can only take refuge in us, it is better to send Pei Ju to win him over, if it can be done, we can start from Mobei and go straight to the hinterland of Dayan." ”

Han Tingzhi pondered slightly and said, "According to what you said, send Pei Ju to lobby!" ”

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More than ten days later, Dingcheng.

An angel came from Youzhou, but he wanted to give Zuo Houde a message.

Zuo Houde sat on the chair and looked at the messenger in front of him, the envoy didn't dare to say much when he saw it, he was also a person in the palace, and he knew that what this Pingdong general was doing was like a rebellion, so he didn't dare to take out his angel shelf.

The angel showed a smile and said to Zuo Houde with a smile: "General Pingdong takes the order!" ”

After speaking, the angel unfolded the holy decree in his hand and read: "General Pingdong Zuo Houde has meritorious service in suppressing thieves and has been promoted to General Zhengdong!" ”

After speaking, he immediately handed the holy decree to Zuo Houde.

Zuo Houde looked at the holy decree and ordered the angels to be sent left and right.

Zuo Houde has long known that Hong Zaixing will only appease himself, first, he is afraid of his own strength, and secondly, he is afraid that he will vote for Han Tingzhi, so after receiving this holy decree, Zuo Houde is not very strange.

Hearing that he was promoted to the general of Zhengdong, Zuo Houde was also a little stunned, and couldn't help but ask himself, if Hong Zaixing did not suppress his own merits a few years ago and directly promoted himself to the general of Zhengdong, would he still be on the other side?

Zuo Houde thought about it carefully, and still thought it would, after all, a few years ago, Zuo Houde really didn't think that Dayan would have a greater winning rate than Daming, and the development of the past few years has gradually proved Zuo Houde's opinion.

Therefore, a few years ago, no matter whether Zuo Houde was suppressed or not, Zuo Houde would choose to grasp the military and political power, and only then could he sit and watch the situation in the future, and then once he grasped the military and political power, ambition would naturally breed.

Of course, there is another result, which is just an assumption, if Dayan was really invincible back then, Zuo Houde would naturally not have undue ambitions, even if he boiled his qualifications, Zuo Houde would eventually have the opportunity to grasp power.

At that time, Zuo Houde's network resources are incomparable to ordinary people, and Zuo Houde only needs to learn Sima Yi at that time, after all, Zuo Houde's biggest advantage is his long life!

Of course, the above are all assumptions, because Zuo Houde is not optimistic about the ship Dayan, so he has already disembarked from the ship, and has his own foundation between the two countries.

Now what Zuo Houde needs to do is to develop this foundation, and at the same time sit back and wait for the opportunity, but when the time comes, Zuo Houde will naturally have the day when the dragon will ascend to heaven.

Of course, the biggest advantage of the southeast is that it is geographically convenient, connecting the north and the south, and Zuo Houde's "smuggling" business can be doubled.

Of course, this time the division of interests has to be changed, Zuo Houde is already a small prince sitting in the southeast, Zuo Houde naturally will not give up his interests, Zuo Houde needs to spend money to raise the army, but also to expand the army, the more money is naturally the better.

At the same time, Zuo Houde also wants to take this opportunity to unify the chamber of commerce under his rule and stabilize his rear, so that Zuo Houde can develop with peace of mind.