An important frontier town like Dingcheng is always a fight for military and political power, which is why Zuo Houde dared to blatantly smuggle in Dingcheng at that time.

Of course, such a grasp of military and political power is only suitable for the military towns of the border fortress, because there is no need for too much internal affairs. But for the current Zuo Houde, it is not suitable.

Zuo Houde doesn't want to just keep the status quo under his rule, Zuo Houde needs to reform internal affairs and deal with internal affairs if he wants to develop, of course, Zuo Houde's most troublesome thing now is that he has no internal affairs talents under his hands.

At present, Zuo Houde has more than 10 cities under his rule, 200,000 soldiers, and millions of people in the southeast.

After thinking about it, Zuo Houde still didn't think of a good way to deal with this problem.

In the end, Zuo Houde drew on the memories of his previous life and came up with a solution-military control.

It is a special form of coercive management and control exercised by the armed forces over government power over the whole country or part of the country, certain industries, and individual departments. It is usually practiced in war, riots, severe natural disasters and other extraordinary circumstances.

Military control does not require too many internal affairs talents, and at the same time, Zuo Houde's current situation is more in line with such conditions.

Military control can not only enable Zuo Houde to solve the problem of internal affairs, but more importantly, the implementation of military control can also enable Zuo Houde to raise his control over his subordinate army to a new height, and at the same time, the officers and men under Zuo Houde will be more cohesive.

……

At night, Zuo Houde invited twelve chambers of commerce in the city to come to Fuzhong for a banquet.

After the representatives of these twelve chambers of commerce arrived one after another, Zuo Houde looked at everyone, lifted a wine glass, and said: "Zuo would like to thank you for your support to Zuo over the years!" ”

After speaking, Zuo Houde lifted the wine glass and drank it all.

The rest of the people, under the representative of Zhao Pingde, stood up and raised their glasses, and drank them all, and at the same time said: "Don't dare, don't dare!" However, we would like to thank General Zhengdong for his cooperation over the years. ”

For a while, everyone was a happy expression, these years, Zuo Houde and their cooperation is very pleasant, Zuo Houde's own harvest is not to mention, these twelve families earn millions of taels of silver every year, and at the same time, after Zuo Houde "rebelled", he did not have to worry about the guilt of the imperial court.

After three rounds of drinking, Zuo Houde finally saw the dagger and said: "Since General Ben occupies this southeast place, the scale of this merchant can also be expanded several times. ”

When everyone heard this, they were all happy, Zuo Houde opened his mouth again, and said meaningfully: "Of course, the distribution of this benefit must also change!" ”

At this time, everyone's faces suddenly changed color, and Zhao Pingde stood up and said, "I don't know how the general wants to change!" ”

Zuo Houde's fingers tapped lightly on the table, and then said, "I want your twelve firms to merge with the firms we established together before, and establish a new firm, which will be called Tongtian Firm." With 12 companies joining forces to form a monopoly, this benefit cannot be compared with before! ”

At this time, everyone talked about it, discussing the good and bad, and then Zhao Pingde asked on behalf of everyone: "General, I don't know how to divide it this time?" ”

Zuo Houde stretched out three fingers and said, "I'll only leave you thirty percent!" ”

When Zhao Pingde heard this, he immediately stood up and said, "General, there will be no interest in me waiting!" ”

Zuo Houde tapped his fingers on the table, and said slowly: "Over the years, you have used my name to use your own business house to smuggle privately, and I can only leave you thirty percent, you have to think clearly about this matter!" ”

As soon as Zuo Houde's words came out, everyone was not good-looking, and under the signal of the crowd, Zhao Pingde had to stand up and said stubbornly: "General, I will forgive my fate!" ”

Zuo Houde looked at him lightly, and said unhurriedly: "At this time, I didn't sit on the ground and bargain with you, I informed you!" You have no choice but to say yes! I'll give you three days, think about it! ”

After Zuo Houde finished speaking, he left the banquet.

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"General Zhengdong is really too deceitful, do we really want to agree?"

Zhao Pingde looked at the person who spoke, it was really Li Yuanwai - Li Yu's uncle, Zhao Pingde suddenly thought of something for a while, a fine light flashed in his eyes, and he said: "I don't agree, but General Zhengdong is holding a large army after all, how can it be good?" ”

"No need to worry! We have waited for 12 companies to operate in Dingcheng for a hundred years, and there are also manpower in the army. ”

"Okay, there is still a captain in my clan in the army, and I will wait for the twelve families to join forces, but naturally we can be more virtuous than Zuo Houde!"

For a while, everyone present opened their mouths and talked about their manpower in the army.

……

A day later, Zuo Houde sat in the lobby, and there were three people sitting next to him, three of the twelve families, Zhao Pingde of the Zhao family, Li Yu's uncle of the Li family, and Zhang Luo of the Zhang family.

Zuo Houde looked at the three of them lightly, and said, "You mean that the remaining nine families want to rebel." ”

The three of them looked at each other, their eyes full of deep meaning, and then said in unison: "Yes, General! ”

Zuo Houde nodded after hearing this, and shouted, "Yao Ping! ”

At this time, Yao Ping walked out of the back hall, saluted and said, "Meet the master of the house!" ”

Zuo Houde looked at Yao Ping and asked, "How is it, are there any of these three?" As he spoke, Zuo Houde pointed to the three people beside him.

Yao Ping saw the three of them and said, "The head of the family, there are no three. ”

Zuo Houde looked at these three people, nodded with satisfaction, and said secretly in his heart: These three families are not on both sides of the wall.

Zuo Houde thought about it, so he decided to give them some confidence, so he said: "Yao Ping, what are the other nine families doing?" ”

Yao Ping looked at Zuo Houde and said respectfully: "The head of the family, the members of the Wang family are contacting their nephews and several clansmen in their army, the elders of the Gao family, they are contacting General Gao Ming, and General Gao has already told me that the Bai family is ......."

The three people next to Zuo Houde were glad for a while when they heard what Yao Ping said, but fortunately they didn't get involved!

Zuo Houde snorted coldly: "Yao Ping, write down the people who are involved with them among the generals, and I will clean it up this time!" ”

Zuo Houde understands that these twelve families have taken root in the city for a hundred years, and it is inevitable that there are clansmen in the army, of course, Zuo Houde is also confident, these years, Zuo Houde has continued to dig out the undesirable people among the generals, recruited them as personal guards, and sent them to the army after subduing, it can be said that most of the basic officers in the army are personally excavated by Zuo Houde.

Even a few of these people are also related to these twelve families, Zuo Houde also believes that they will not rebel, just like Gao Ming, he is a side of the Gao family, and he has always been taken seriously, between the Gao family and Zuo Houde, he chose Zuo Houde without the slightest hesitation.

Of course, Zuo Houde does not fully believe in human nature, after all, this thing can not stand the test, over the years Zuo Houde has recruited a lot of three religions and nine streams in the city, and at the same time secretly cultivated his own "brocade guard" in the army, in the city, in the army, Zuo Houde can be said to know everything about it!