The situation has developed better than expected.

After the uprising of the Third Army led by Zhong Xiang Wang Daji and Gu Si, it caused a domino-like effect within the Xinghan Army, and in just more than ten days, there were more than ten shares of the Xinghan Army that came to vote anyway, more than 1,000 and hundreds of less.

Two state cities and thirteen county towns did not use a single soldier of the Qing army to declare that they were anyway.

These show the weakness and weakness of the rule of the Xinghan regime, and also directly prove that Jia Liu's money offensive was more effective than the military offensive.

However, in Ji Yun's view, in fact, the Xinghan army itself did not train the bureaucratic team, and the core strength was too small, so most of the local officials used were demoted, as well as local gentry with a slight reputation.

For example, Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang appointed by the Xinghan Army, and Wang Ang, the governor of Hubei, were demoted.

Provincial-level officials are all demoted, and the composition of officials in the following prefectures and counties can be imagined.

And these officials are basically clear-minded, that is, the "opportunists" and "waveringers" that the prince often talks about.

The reason why he served in the Xinghan military regime was nothing more than that he was under the roof and had to bow his head.

Therefore, Ji Yun suggested intensifying the "united front" of these local officials appointed by the Xinghan Army, as long as the imperial court did not investigate their crimes of surrendering to thieves, even if they were dismissed from office after surrendering, these people would flock to them.

Feng Sheng, the general of Dingxi who was martyred in the previous time, did not realize this, and once the officials who surrendered the thieves were caught, they were punished, resulting in many officials who surrendered the thieves were obviously unwilling to be enemies of the Qing soldiers at all, but had to work for the Xinghan army for their own lives, and as a result, the military operations of the Qing army were repeatedly frustrated.

The most typical is that when Feng Sheng's forehead was there, he mobilized more than 10,000 men and horses to besiege Jingmen Prefecture, and the Jingmen Zhizhou appointed by the Xinghan Army was originally Song Kui of Dangyang Zhixian County, who was captured, and the defenders in the city were mostly local garrison battalions and townsmen in Jingmen.

Therefore, as long as Feng Shengyi can pardon the crimes of Song Kui and others, Jingmen Prefecture City can easily go down.

The partial abundance should take Jingmen as a typical example, intending to kill a cadre of thieves and officials with heavy troops, so as to deter those who did things for the Xinghan army.

As a result, the Qing army besieged for more than three months, but did not take Jingmen Prefecture, which only about 3,000 people refused to defend, but lost thousands of men and horses.

Now Prince Rui has changed his past policy and replaced the previous harsh punishment with Huairou appeasement, which is undoubtedly a great progress in history, and it has also greatly shortened the distance between the prince and the throne.

I have to say that the wisdom of the prince is tall and hard.

However, in order to prevent the prince from saying that he was like him, Ji Yun never revealed this psychological statement.

But for Chen Huizu, Wang Ang, and Bayan, Ji Yun thinks that he can't be gentle.

According to his recent understanding, these former members of the imperial court really helped the Xinghan army a lot after they surrendered, such as Chen Huizu who single-handedly helped Wuchang to establish the rule of Huguang grass-roots government.

Although it is weak and the foundation is unstable, after all, it has really built a governance system and continuously provided money and food for the Xinghan army.

Therefore, these demoted officials who played a big role in the development of the Xinghan army should still be arrested and killed.

Therefore, Ji Yun suggested whether the prince could form a "hoe team", that is, to infiltrate the thief-occupied area through a capable team, and weaken the control ability of the thief army by assassinating the demoted officials who helped the development of the thief army.

"Huh?"

Ji Yun's proposal made Jia Liu's eyes light up, because he felt very familiar.

Ji Yun saw that the prince was interested, so he became even more energetic, and then added: "If it is possible, it is best to get rid of Gu Shidao, the commander of the thief army, and others, and capture the thief first." ”

I didn't want the prince to be furious when he heard it: "Bastard! You are trying to trap this king for disloyalty and unfilial piety! This king doesn't want to end up with Temujin! ”

"What?"

Ji Yun was confused, how could this matter have anything to do with Genghis Khan, why was he disloyal and unfilial?

"Lao Ji, you don't understand politics."

Deputy Director Ding patted Director Ji on the shoulder with a little sympathy, "Quietly tell you a secret, that Gu Shidao is the father-in-law of the prince, and the daughter of the family gave birth to a son to the prince, and he may be the successor of the prince in the future, you and my lord.... You asked the prince to send someone to assassinate his father-in-law, didn't you deliberately make the prince's house restless? ”

“......”

Ji Yun's face turned blue and red for a while, and he muttered half-loudly: "It's good that there is a prince in the Qing Dynasty." ”

The question is, since it's a family, why do you have to fight life and death, just talk about it directly.

If the Xinghan Army is really another family business of the prince, belonging to one unit with two signs, then it will be completely merged, and then the white clothes and white armor will wave the Northern Expedition to avenge Emperor Chongzhen.

"Lao Ji, say you don't understand politics, you really don't understand,"

Deputy Director Ding shook his head, "This matter is very complicated, very complicated, and it will be difficult to explain it to you for a while." ”

"What's so hard to explain?"

Jia Liu snorted, "Isn't it that this king raised Kou for self-respect, and as a result, he raised Kou to be fatter than this king." ”

This explanation is more vivid, and Ji Yun took half a pillar of incense to understand the twists and turns.

It's nothing more than a big team, and people's hearts are not easy to bring.

"Relatives to relatives, state affairs to state affairs, one yard to one yard, to fight, to talk, there is nothing to think about."

Although Jia Liu did not completely close the door to peace talks, he also knew that there would inevitably be an ultimate showdown between himself and his father-in-law.

Because, it is determined by faith.

His father-in-law and his son-in-law are not all the way, although the purpose of the two is the same, but one is to the left and the other is to the right, and it is difficult to come together.

"Since ancient times, the thieves have been the most harmful, but if you can do the work, you still have to do the work."

Jia Liu agreed with Ji Yun's analysis, he didn't know much about Bayansan and that Wang Ang, but Chen Huizu was a little familiar.

The reason is that this family slave surnamed II not only served as the governor of the Qing Dynasty both father and son, but also was a member of the mutual aid association.

Of course, he has been removed from the list of the former leading old man.

The problem is, it seems that the current general chairman of the Mutual Aid Association is he Aixinjue Luo Shikai.

Therefore, the predecessor's decision can be completely overturned.

It is to rehabilitate Lao Chen and restore his reputation and status in the association.

After thinking about it, Jia Liuti wrote a letter to Chen Huizu, not in the capacity of Prince Daqing and Shuorui, but in the capacity of the current chief host of the Mutual Aid Association.

The content of the letter is also very simple, just two sentences.

The first sentence was: "Lao Chen, the dragon head stick and the account book are here." ”

The second sentence was: "I will buy you a villa in Beijing, and give you another 100,000 taels, can you help do the work?" ”

After writing it, he didn't avoid Ji Yun, and asked him to seal the envelope and send it to Chen Huizu through special channels.

Ji Yun took it and looked at it, frowned and said, "Lord Wang, how is it a big vernacular?" ”

"Nonsense, what kind of literary crepe words can I write at my level?"

As soon as Jia Liu picked up the teacup, Zheng Da, the governor of Hubei, came in.

Lao Zheng came angrily, the reason was that all parts of the country complained bitterly, saying that the surrendered Xinghan army had extremely poor military discipline, and they robbed homes everywhere, seriously ruining the reputation of the Qing soldiers.