Time passed, and the capital city...
Li Qin looked at the latest intelligence report sent back by Zhou Wentong, who was in charge of monitoring the grassland.
The text above says that the Tatars on the grasslands are making unusual movements.
They learned of the dramatic changes south of the Great Wall and wanted to venture south to test the waters.
Let's see if we can make a quick buck amidst the chaos.
They are currently gathering tribes from various regions.
He has already transferred a batch of troops from the capital to Zhou Wentong in Jizhou, instructing him to strengthen the defenses of various passes along the Great Wall.
At the same time, 10,000 Liaodong cavalrymen and 10,000 Jurchen cavalrymen were gathered for him from various places.
If he were a Tatar, he could seize the opportunity to go out and fight.
After all, those guys will only behave if they're beaten hard enough.
We don't need a big victory, just a few small victories to take down some of them and let them know that we're not to be trifled with.
They will naturally choose to negotiate with themselves.
Li Qin was quite familiar with the Tatars.
They were different from the Jurchens established by Wanyan Jian.
Although they also had a Khan, his Khan was nowhere near as powerful as Wanyan Jian.
Wanyan Jian established the Meng'an Mouke system within the Jurchen people.
Every Jurchen was mobilized.
However, the Great Khan of the Tatars never established this organizational system.
They are now a loose tribal alliance.
The Great Khan had his own tribe and commanded many tribes on the grassland.
However, this kind of command is extremely loose.
It's like the older brother in your school, and every tribe is his younger brother.
He sent a message today calling on people to go and grab some gold, silver, jewels, and beautiful women in the south.
Upon hearing the order, the tribes on the grasslands began to gather around him.
He counted the number of people and felt it was about right.
We set off. If the wind is favorable and there are no obstacles, that's fine.
But if it's someone on the other side, wielding two watermelon knives, they could easily kill two people.
They immediately chickened out and none of them dared to go up, so they started to conserve their strength.
The Khan, as the eldest brother, saw that none of the tribes dared to attack, and at the same time, he feared that his own tribe would be decimated, making him unable to intimidate the other tribes and causing him to lose his position as the eldest brother.
Those who rush towards a tough opponent are extremely rare.
So when they encountered a tough opponent, they immediately sent people to take the initiative to negotiate.
It can be said that the Tatars fought just like they fought in schools and villages.
Completely lacking in organization, extremely disorganized.
Although there seem to be many people, their tolerance for casualties is extremely low.
After transferring part of the army to the north and placing it under the command of Zhou Wentong, the commander of the Jizhou garrison.
Li Qin turned his attention to Henan, south of the Yellow River.
According to intelligence from the Embroidered Uniform Guard, there are basically no major movements taking place anywhere in the country right now.
The governors and generals in various places all held troops, observing the development of the situation externally and strengthening their own rule internally.
There was some activity only in Henan, south of the Yellow River.
According to the report from the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Li Hongji is in Luoyang, Henan.
He actually relied on the official position he himself had bestowed upon him to go around making empty promises and offering official positions to other rebel leaders in Henan.
At the same time, they should lead them to attack Dong Zhonglou in Nanyang to avenge the dead people of Henan.
In reality, Li Qin knew that they had simply observed that Nanyang was wealthy and had not been damaged.
Li Qin neither acknowledged nor objected to Li Hongji's promises of official positions throughout Henan.
There was virtually no reaction, which was tantamount to tacit agreement.
Of course, if we ever fall out in the future, we can bring these things up and talk about them.
Li Qin chose to continue observing Li Hongji's actions.
Let's see just how far he can go.
Li Qin saw in his actions a hint of restoring order to Henan.
If he really has the ability to restore order in Henan, that would be an unexpected bonus for him.
Once the chaos in Henan ends and basic order is restored, it will be of great help to his future campaigns in the Huai River region.
Moreover, as long as Henan is stable.
Unlike today, there are no longer refugees and displaced people everywhere.
It is no longer a huge financial burden.
Even if Li Hongji falls out with him in the future, he is not worried.
The flat plains of Henan were the perfect place for his cavalry to roam.
Moreover, as long as he takes control of Lianghuai and Shaanxi submits to Hong Chengchou, he will be able to achieve his goals.
Henan was now completely surrounded by his power on three sides.
Moreover, the terrain is flat and there are no natural defenses.
Dealing with him shouldn't be too difficult.
Then Li Qin produced the memorial submitted to him by Li Hongji, who was a second-rank general.
The document stated that his troops were poorly equipped and requested the imperial court to allocate a batch of weapons to him.
At the same time, he wanted to attack Nanyang and eliminate the treacherous official Dong Zhonglou who was entrenched there.
He requested that the imperial court allocate some people to assist him.
Those reinforcements only need to support him from behind; once he takes Nanyang and eliminates the treacherous officials, that will suffice.
If they conquer Nanyang, half of Nanyang's treasures will belong to them, and the other half to the imperial court.
Li Qin looked at the memorial that Li Hongji had submitted to him.
After thinking for a moment, I decided to increase my investment in Li Hongji.
He then issued an order to take some of the defective weapons that Yu Gan had initially distributed to the people of the capital, weapons that they no longer wanted, from the armory and allocate them to Li Hongji.
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