"General Han, you are well-informed. How much should we do to satisfy the emperor this time?"

In the Ming army camp at the foot of Tianshan Mountain, Long Liguo asked with a worried look on his face.

Although Richard only proclaimed himself king and did not officially ascend the throne to emperor, since Richard unified the Western Regions, settled the local landlord and gentry class in the Western Regions, and deepened the centralization to the township level, Richard's prestige became no different from that of the emperor.

Therefore, the officials and generals in private habitually called Richard the emperor. After Richard found out, he did not order corrections, which made this trend popular in the Ming Dynasty officialdom.

Richard was actually building momentum. Although he was not in a hurry to ascend the throne, he would not refuse the sentiment of the people below. The more people below persuaded the people, the more legitimate they would appear to be when they ascend the throne in the future.

In fact, after Richard invaded the Northwest, he became a front-line force comparable to An Lushan. Even the orthodox Tang Dynasty was a bit in front of the Ming Dynasty.

Who said that the orthodox Tang Dynasty was beaten up by An Lushan before, and now An Lushan is blindly giving in to Richard?

Although there are factors such as millions of green skins going south, the common people do not have so many information channels and political vision.

Most ordinary people only saw An Lushan's Dayan defeating the orthodox Tang Dynasty, while Dayan faced the Ming Dynasty and lost cities and land one after another, giving up the entire Northwest to the King of Ming...

Comparing the two in one, it is clear which one is stronger and which one is weaker!

Of course, this superficial view of the people cannot affect the current situation. The real bureaucrats and ruling classes all understand what happened. Therefore, the Ming court did not form a situation that swept the world, and at most it would be a serious blow to An Lushan's prestige.

If An Lushan had not been dragged down by millions of green skins, he would not have given up such a large area of ​​territory...

Although An Lushan's military strength did not suffer much loss, the loss of the Northwest was a major blow to An Lushan's political prestige.

Although the people's hearts cannot determine the historical direction of this era, they are still of some use in the end.

Even many people's down-and-out literati also wrote their writing and praised the Ming Dynasty's equal land debt exemption system and criticized the chaotic and corrupt court today.

Of course, what the literati and poets who only had one pen left in the family said was reasonable. No officialdom in this era was clean, but it was because of which family was more greedy and the internal bureaucrats were even more rigid.

Among them, the orthodox dynasty of the Tang Dynasty that was established for the longest time was the most serious. An Lushan's military group was established for a short time, just like Richard's Ming military group, the bureaucratic class was not serious.

Throughout history, new regimes have been more or less better than old regimes, especially when the ruling class of new regimes is determined by the world, it is even more impossible to let their own internal internal organs enter the old stage early.

No wonder Long Liguo was uneasy. He had already received news that Tao Anbang was dead and had even seen the frozen meat of the "corpse" transported down the mountain as soon as possible...

If the transporter didn't call the minced meat from Tao Anbang, Long Liguo would have thought it was some pigs...

It's really miserable!

Long Liguo is now the commander of the Second Field Army and is also one of the core senior leaders of the Ming Dynasty Military Group. He naturally knows some secret news.

For example, why did Tao Anbang suddenly become the "commander" of the Tianshan faction...

Obviously, this is Richard's dissatisfaction with Tao Anbang and killing people with a knife!

As for why Richard was dissatisfied with Tao Anbang, there were rumors that Tao Anbang intended to win over the officers and soldiers of the Third Corps to form a unity, which aroused Richard's vigilance. Of course, Long Liguo did not understand the specific situation, and it was all unreliable "good news".

It was precisely because of his little understanding that Long Liguo was worried that Richard would cleanse up the generals who held heavy troops. You should know that Han Li and Long Liguo, who have now become the commanders of the First and Second Field Army, have no choice but to be promoted.

In terms of position, they held an entire field army in their hands, and it was impossible for them to have more...

In his official title, as a hero from Long in the early days of the founding of the country, he had been promoted to a first-rank official, and further up there was a king of different surnames who had a different surname!

Of course, Richard could also add a bunch of empty titles to them, but now Long Liguo and Han Li are on the front line to lead troops, and there are many opportunities to make contributions. Just relying on empty titles is not enough to be promoted...

So now Long Liguo is very worried that Richard will follow the founding king in history - killing heroes!

There will be no threat to civil officials and heroes, but they are not very happy to be led by generals who have been leading troops for a long time...

However, compared to Long Liguo, Han Li has a higher personal prestige in the army, and a group of loyal military officers have even followed Han Li.

After all, since Han Li followed Richard, he has always led the army chief from beginning to end.

Therefore, Long Liguo directly regarded Han Li as the same existence as him. Even if he wanted to clean up the heroes, he would be a taller Han Li to be stabbed. Long Liguo said that he could still live with him...

Long Liguo suspected that this operation was Richard's weakening of himself. Although Richard had already spoken, the Third Legion will be dispersed after Tao Anbang's death and will be incorporated into the First and Second Field Legion, as long as they complete this mission beautifully...

However, no matter how Long Liguo saw this, the beauty is not far from death. Once the Third Field Legion was disbanded and entered the First and Second Field Legion, the two major legions were all filled in due to the Great Northwest War of Rebellion, and the supplementary veterans of the Third Field Legion, and they could form combat power with a little running-in!

At that time, will the first and second field legion be stronger?

Long Liguo did not have the ambition to become king, mainly because he did not have the ability to teach the fields under the military merit system...

So what Long Liguo is eager for now is that Richard will carry him high to the central capital and give him a high position with no real power. In this way, he will have wealth and prosperity for himself and his descendants. He will not have to worry about being cleansed all day long...

Relatively speaking, Han Li was very calm. Compared to Long Liguo, Han Li was more like a pure soldier!

This is different from the experience and growth environment of both sides. Han Li was born in the patrol camp in the remote Dashi Town and was still the top leader there. There was no intrigue in the small place.

Long Liguo is different. Originally, the county town was divided into two factions to fight to the death. Long Liguo was able to climb to a high position as a civilian and had long been accustomed to the fine tradition of stomping people in the officialdom...

In addition, after Han Li joined Richard's power, he has been serving as the top leader in the army, without any restraint.

Long Liguo first took the civil service path and often made arrangements back and forth. He saw many people in various departments...
Chapter completed!