They launched a joint operation to encircle and suppress Zhao Shuaizhen's troops in the Taihang Mountains.
After issuing the order, Li Qin then looked at the draft plans for naval construction and the conquest of the Huai River region prepared by the military affairs office next to him.
Li Qin looked at all the money and grain consumed, as well as the manpower and resources that needed to be mobilized.
He knew that having just finished the Shanxi campaign, he needed a period of time to recover and recuperate.
Just after Li Qin put down the two plans in his hand.
I was just about to take a look at the other government documents.
Outside, a servant placed a memorial in front of Li Qin.
Li Qin looked at the urgent report that was sent by an official from Huaiqing.
I opened it and took a look.
After reading the report, Li Qin frowned.
Officials in Huaiqing reported that they had received a letter from a group of bandits who had occupied Luoyang.
It is said that their leader, Li Hongji, led his brothers and occupied Luoyang.
Now he wants to submit to the imperial court and requests that the court grant him amnesty and appoint him to an official position.
He should lead the imperial court to conquer various parts of Henan and pacify the province.
The letter also emphasized that Li Hongji had hundreds of thousands of rebel soldiers under his command.
After reading the letter, Li Qin pondered for a moment.
We were just about to try to recruit them and establish a presence in Henan when they came to surrender on their own initiative?
He took out a blank imperial edict, and with a flourish of his pen, accepted Li Hongji's request for amnesty.
He was appointed General-in-Chief of Henan and Governor of Henan, in charge of all the land south of the Yellow River in Henan.
Of course, he had to find the government south of the Yellow River to raise his own military pay; the government wouldn't pay him, and he had to figure it out himself.
After Li Qin finished writing the imperial edict, he glanced at it several times.
Then the emperor's seal was affixed.
By handing over the land south of the Yellow River, a region teeming with disaster victims, to him, I was essentially making an empty promise.
Because that area was never under his control.
If he wanted to fight, he could easily do so with his hundreds of thousands of troops.
The problem is that we've finally managed to break even and take control of the areas south of the Yellow River, which are now filled with disaster victims.
This would directly cause his finances to collapse.
That's a place where you lose money.
Aren't you south of the Yellow River?
I'm giving you the whole place now; how much you can take depends on your ability.
Even if you fail to take it and get killed by someone else, I won't lose anything.
If you are capable enough to take it over, then I will have hundreds of thousands of troops at my disposal, and we can discuss the distribution of taxes in this area.
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