However, no matter how Hong Chengchou told others, no one believed it because others suspected it. This was an excuse for him to be unable to recover Fengyang, and it was just an excuse for shirking responsibility.

If you don’t regain Fengyang yourself, if others regain your case, you will still rely on others to ruin your affairs. This is a typical excuse. What Hong Chengchou said is that he has already made arrangements with his subordinates, which is a very bad excuse. Which general is fighting, they don’t have more than a dozen plans? Who can only prepare one plan, and no preparation is just empty talk.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou's statement was destined to be ridiculed by the local people and made them look down upon.

What's even more detrimental is that when Liu Bu's troops entered Fengyang, they were disciplined and did not violate any crime. They took the initiative to order soldiers to go out to stand guard and maintain military discipline very well. However, after Hong Chengchou's troops entered the city, they could not help but have some thieves and bullying the people. In fact, these things are normal in ordinary troops. Hong Chengchou still restricted military discipline and restrained the troops well. If it were other people, they would probably not be thieves or stealing, but directly killed people, robbed people, rapes and robberies.

Hong Chengchou's troops are better than other troops, and their military discipline is relatively strict, but he is far from Liu Bu's Liu family army. After comparison, the people naturally have a good reputation in their hearts. They look down on Hong Chengchou's troops even more and look down on Hong Chengshou's character even more.

This is Fengyang, but Zhongdu Fengyang is the emperor's hometown, and everyone is the emperor's fellow villagers. Many people can get in touch with the royal family. For example, in terms of superficial connections and relationships, in fact, each of them has a backer and can get in touch with each other. I am not afraid of him as an official.

Hong Chengchou's military discipline was even more unhappy to the local people. Hong Chengchou discovered this problem at the first time, which made him even more curious about Liu Bu. A young and unqualified person actually fought such a big battle and achieved such brilliant results. At the same time, he was able to have such strict military discipline and so strict, which made him curious.

How good would it be if such an army belonged to him and obeyed his command? But Liu Bu's attitude was already very clear, that is, he would not surrender to him or obey his orders. Liu Bu would rather surrender to a eunuch's tent than obey his orders under his command.

He still wanted to set up his own business and stand on his own. He was not a person, and he was destined to be unable to get along. Hong Chengchou sighed secretly. Lu Jiude was simply forgetting his righteousness when he saw money. Didn’t he know the court’s attitude towards these warlords? That was to use them to fight and use them as consumables to consume them.

If they don’t consume them, they will be backfiring the court. Isn’t it still a problem to fight the warlords in the late Tang Dynasty? The power of military generals is untrustworthy, and they must suppress them vigorously.

Seeing that he wanted to control the main force of the Liu family army and use them to eliminate bandits as consumables, who knew that Lu Jiude actually took over this hot potato and stood up for them.

Don’t he know what the danger is about doing this? It is extremely dangerous.

Especially for the Liu family army, he has power in the local area and has military power. If the two are combined, they will become a local bully and will definitely become a big deal.

As a famous minister of the emperor, Hong Chengchou had to consider many issues, but the key consideration was that he had to quell the bandits for the emperor and eliminated its internal hidden dangers one by one. These rising family forces and warlord forces are also within their defense. If the court does not eradicate these forces, it is difficult to say what consequences they will face?

Lu Jiude called himself a famous minister, but did such a stupid thing, which was sure that Hong Chengchou was very distressed. If he could not use the Liu family army to force him to fight the bandits and force him to fight the bandits in a decisive battle with the bandits, they would definitely become stronger and would be out of control in the future.

So Hong Chengchou put down his identity and took the initiative to visit Lu Jiude's mansion, hoping to persuade Lu Jiude to hand over Liu Bu's army to him and ask him to find the extermination of the bandits, and hint on this possibility.

What kind of person is Lu Jiude? A corrupt official is afraid of death and extremely greedy for money. If Hong Chengchou took a large sum of money and food to talk to him, he might consider it. Hong Chengchou is now asking him for money empty-handedly, how is this possible?

Lu Jiude had the Liu family army in his hands, but he had brought him a lot of money.

However, if the Liu family army is handed over, there will probably be no investment again. You should know that the Liu family army is a wealthy army, and other troops are asking for money and people from the superiors. For example, the Liu family army, there are very few who can bribe money and food from the superiors.

If you don't take it into your own hands, use some other army and you may have to pour money and food into the army, and you still expect them to send money to you. This is impossible.

So Lu Jiude refused Hong Chengchou's proposal without hesitation. He said: "Our family has received the emperor's will, that is, we must personally escort Zhang Xianzhong to Beijing. This matter is of great importance and there is no mistake at all. Our family has decided to send the most elite Liu family army to escort him to Beijing and accept the emperor's inspection."

Hong Chengchou said, "Dadfather-in-law, you can escort Zhang Zhe into Beijing, only a few hundred people, why do you need to work an elite army?"

He didn't like to listen to this, and he said, "A few hundred people? What should I do if something happens on the way? Do you take this responsibility? If you and Mr. Hong are willing to write a military order to ensure that there will be no accident on the way. If you are responsible for anything, this supervisor will obey you."

Hong Chengchou is also an old man in the officialdom. How could he dare to take such responsibility? Because this responsibility can kill people, but it will kill people, so he dare not agree.

The most feared thing is that after he agrees, someone will deliberately make trouble and deliberately make trouble, and then the responsibility he will have to bear will be great.

Hong Chengchou was angry. He was responsible for the emperor's order to supervise the elites of the five provinces, and he was trying to annihilate the bandits in one fell swoop. This was under great pressure and the emperor's expectations. Since he took office, he has been diligent and ready to plan at any time, and wanted to relieve the emperor's great trouble.

But today's bandits have become a climate and have become a major concern. This can no longer be easily wiped out or settled easily, so it is very worried, and even he will think that he may have what the emperor wants.

Hong Chengchou knew that this matter was of great importance, so he always asked the emperor to give him greater rights and give him more elite soldiers, money and food, so as to hit him with one blow and wipe out all the enemies.

Therefore, his troops stationed in Xuzhou were not blindly greedy for life and fear of death, but prepared enough strength and troops, and waited for the time to ripe, and then gave the bandits a fatal blow.

Moreover, he was not exactly sitting there in Xuzhou, he was still practicing troops.

Hong Chengchou had been leading troops for many years, so of course he knew the problem of the Ming Dynasty. The main problem of the Ming Dynasty is that these troops are weak, and many of them are garbage soldiers, with hundreds of thousands of troops in name. In fact, his combat effectiveness is not as good as that of Liu Bu's thousands of elite soldiers.

Therefore, the generals from all over the country were forced to train their servants. This was actually a forced method of conflict. In fact, at least they could maintain the combat effectiveness of the army when the number of people was small.

Hong Chengchou had the same idea, that is, he was preparing to train a family army of nearly 5,000. These family soldiers were selected from his respective troops, and they had to use a lot of money and food to feed them. He was training them like the heads of the major military towns. He was preparing to train for three or five months. After he became elite soldiers, he had 5,000 elite soldiers in his hands, so he dared to directly attack the bandits and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

The Liu family army should be at the level of family soldiers, which is exactly what Hong Chengchou wanted. If he could take this family soldier in his own hands, he could have thousands of elite troops. With these thousands of elite troops, he could completely annihilate bandits in one fell swoop.

Who knew that this army was beyond his expectations. They easily defeated Zhang Xianzhong's army under Anqing City and captured Zhang Xianzhong alive. What's even more awesome is that they directly recovered Fengyang, Zhongdu.

Now something even more nonsense has happened, that is, Hong Chengchou hopes to take over this army as his core strike force, and then attack the bandits with all his might. Maybe the bandits that have plagued the Ming Dynasty for decades by the end of this year can be solved in one fell swoop.

Who knew that at this moment, just when he was fighting against bandits, the eunuch Lu Jiude actually transferred the main force he had booked and used such an elite force to escort him to Beijing.

Liu Bu is full of bad water. This man is very cunning and cunning. He sees something good and comes over. Seeing that he has gained benefits, he immediately stops when he sees it. He refuses to contribute to the court at all.

Hong Chengchou was sure of one thing, that is, Liu Bu had such an errand. Even if the emperor was stingy, he would reward him with the title of general Liu Bu as a general.

But that's probably all. The emperor's reward for him must have hoped that Liu Bu would continue to serve the court and work for the royal family. However, Liu Bu knew very well that the emperor's reward was just that, so he had no interest in continuing to serve the royal family.

When Liu Bu thought of this, Hong Chengchou thought of this too, so he wanted to detain Liu Bu here and let his Liu family army go out to fight for their court, and it would be better to let him die with the bandits, which is in line with the meaning of the court.
Chapter completed!