Liu Heng looked at the map in front of him.

This map covers the grassland, Dayuan Island, and Jeju Island, which is more detailed than the map presented to Mazi by Zhou Peigong. The place where the tiger flag is located only occupies a small part of the map.

"Mr. Hong knows how meaningful it is to take down Huguang?" Liu Heng said, looking at the map in front of him.

Every time he saw the location of Huguang from the map, he wanted to immediately take Huguang into his arms. Shaanxi and Shanxi were too short of food.

"I can understand it," said Hong Chengchou. "If we take Huguang, Huguang will become a grain silhouette with the tiger flag. If the Ming Dynasty lacks this grain silhouette in Huguang, it will accelerate its demise."

Liu Heng walked back to the table, reached out to pick up the tea jar on the table, and said, "The situation in Shaanxi is not optimistic. Even if the tiger flag has tried its best to transport grain, the situation in Shaanxi has not been able to slow down in two or three years. This is still better. If the weather is still as unpredictable as in recent years, the situation in Shaanxi will only get worse and worse. Shanxi has many mountains and forests and limited grain production. In addition, due to the influence of the weather, the tiger flag needs a granary like Huguang."

After saying this, I picked up the teapot and took a sip of water.

"The lord has not arranged to promote high-yield grain in various places." Hong Chengchou frowned slightly.

Liu Heng waved his hand and said, "It's far from enough."

"On the grassland? In recent years, the tiger flag has opened up a lot of fields on the grassland. In the past two years, it is the time to harvest. With the support of the grassland, isn't it enough?" Hong Chengchou saw a lot of fertile fields on the grassland.

All the wastelands reclaimed after the Tiger Flag defeated the Tumot coalition forces. After years of careful care, all the wastelands that used to be turned into fertile fields.

Liu Heng walked back to the back of the table and sat down, raised his hand and said, "You can sit too."

"It's impossible that the weather will be bad all the time. It has been so hard for so long. I think it will improve in the past or two years." Hong Chengchou walked to the bench opposite the table and sat down.

Liu Heng said: "We can't count on the weather all, we must also make the worst preparations ourselves. Moreover, although a lot of wasteland has been cultivated on the grassland, the grain seeds planted on the grassland are only ripe every year, at most two ripe. It is only a barely enough to support one Shaanxi. If we add another Henan, life will only be even worse."

"The situation in Henan is much better, and it can be regarded as a granary. In the past two years, life has not been easy because of the bad weather, but it is much better than Shaanxi. If you want to be self-sufficient, there should be no big problem. After the Tiger Banner occupied Henan, it will promote the high-yield grain here. Maybe Henan can become another pillar of the Tiger Banner." Hong Chengchou analyzed the benefits of occupying Henan for Liu Heng.

Liu Heng tapped his fingers gently on the table, showing contemplation on his face.

The tiger flag has taken over some areas of Shanxi and Northern Zhili. Once it attacks Henan, as long as the Ming Dynasty is not stupid, it will definitely choose to fight back to the death.

Otherwise, after the tiger flag is taken down by Henan, and then several prefectures in the east and north of Shandong, the northern Zhili will become a place of death.

"Lord, Huguang cannot be fought." Seeing that Liu Heng did not speak, Hong Chengchou continued to persuade, "I believe that with the strength of our Tiger Banner, it will be no problem to win Huguang. But after taking it, it will be enemies on all sides, and it is not that easy to gain a foothold. But Henan is different. After taking Henan, the Tiger Banner will be connected together and it will be a hundred times easier to defend."

Liu Heng let out a long sigh and said, "Henan is not that easy to get."

"It is much easier to fight Henan than Huguang," said Hong Chengchou.

Liu Heng looked reluctantly from the place where the map was on Huguang, and said, "Let's do this, let the servants analyze the two plans, and see if it's better to fight Huguang or to take Henan first."

"Lord is wise." Hong Chengchou stood up and bowed to Liu Heng.

He is most afraid that Liu Heng will do his own thing and stick to his own opinions.

Now that Liu Heng took the initiative to take a step back and handed over the matter to the attendants team for analysis, it was equivalent to actively giving up the plan to attack Huguang. With the ability of the attendants team, the final decision would definitely choose to attack Henan.

The news of Chahar's defeat was circulated between the tribes on the grassland and was soon transmitted to the pseudo-jin through Korqin.

This war also established the strong position of the tiger-like flag on the grassland, which was no longer a shock to the Chahar tribe. This made more and more tribes living on the grassland begin to shake and choose to get close to the tiger-like flag.

Admiring the strong is the most straightforward expression on the grassland.

When the pseudo-jin showed strength, some tribes living in Korqin and around chose to form an alliance with the pseudo-jin to resist the pressure brought by the Chahar tribe.

Now another tiger-shaped flag has emerged to the west, which also shows strong strength. In order to resist the annexation of the Chahar tribe, it began to seek protection from the tiger-shaped flag.

"This Chahar is really a waste. The 80,000 cavalry was defeated by an army of only 10,000 in total." Huang Taiji cursed the Chahar tribe.

Fan Wencheng, who was standing at the bottom, said: "Hutuktu Khan can still take out 80,000 iron cavalry to deal with the tiger-shaped flag that occupied Qingcheng. It seems that the Chahar tribes have taken a lot of advantage from the five Khalkha tribes at the beginning."

"It is only known as 80,000 Iron Cavalry, but in fact it is only more than 20,000." Huang Taiji said.

There is no secret on the grassland. How many soldiers and horses Chahar sent out could not hide it from the Korqin tribe who had been paying attention to him.

With the alliance between the Korqin tribe and the pseudo-jin, any news about the Chahar tribe will be sent to Shengjing by the Korqin tribe, which was once the Shenyang.

Fan Wencheng frowned and said, "There are not many more than 20,000 iron cavalry. The Tiger Flag can defeat the more than 20,000 iron cavalry of the Chahar tribe head-on on the grassland, which shows that the Tiger Flag's strength is very strong and is a potential opponent for our Dajin to enter the Central Plains."

"Ben Khan has always underestimated this tiger-shaped flag. He didn't expect that a mere businessman could have such a big foundation. Unfortunately, this person cannot be used by Ben Khan." Huang Taiji sighed.

Not many people can become Dajin's opponents. In his mind, Liu Heng is one, and he is ranked ahead of Lindan Batuer of the Chahar tribe.

The tiger flag occupied the Tumote Grassland in the south of the desert, and the Dajin was also determined to take over Mongolia in the south of the desert. The grassland had become a battle of interests between him and Liu Heng.

Fan Wencheng agreed with the light brow and said: "In history, there are only a handful of merchants like Liu Heng. If this person is not eliminated, he will become the footstone of my great gold and the world."

"What good way does Mr. Fan teach me?" Huang Taiji asked Fan Wencheng.

After a little thought, Fan Wencheng said: "There are three strategies for dealing with this person, middle and lower."

He stretched out three fingers and gestured in front of Huang Taiji.

"What three strategies?" Huang Taiji knew that scholars all had this problem, so he always made a tip or came up with a few ideas for someone to choose.

Only if it is beneficial to Daejin, he doesn't mind these minor problems of scholars at all, and is willing to cooperate with the other party.

Fan Wencheng said: "The best strategy is that my Dajin can use the help of the Ming Dynasty to find a way to solve the tiger flag. In this way, my Dajin can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight and get the benefits of the fisherman."

"What about Zhongce?" Huang Taiji stroked his beard and asked Zhongce again.

Fan Wencheng continued: "I heard that Liu Heng has not been married yet and has no descendants left. Therefore, the slave's Zhongst is to send someone to Datong to assassinate Liu Heng. As long as this person is killed, the tiger flag will be in chaos."

"The tiger flag is in conflict, and it is no longer a threat to me, Dajin." Huang Taiji nodded in agreement, and then asked again, "So what is the worst?"

Fan Wencheng twisted his beard with his hands and said, "The worst thing is that I, Dajin, take the lead, defeated the tiger flag from the front, and broke the crest of the tiger flag so that he did not dare to be enemies with Dajin."

After Sance finished speaking, he looked at Huang Taiji in the seat.

In his opinion, these three strategies can solve the tiger flag.

Huang Taiji pondered for a moment and said, "In Ben Khan's view, there is a fourth option, which can also solve the tiger flag and win over the power of the tiger flag."

"The Khan also has a plan? I wonder what the Khan's plan is? I can actually get the tiger-shaped flag." Fan Wencheng looked surprised.

He didn't expect that Huang Taiji had a better way to deal with the tiger flag.

Seeing Fan Wencheng being defeated, Huang Taiji laughed proudly and said, "Mr. Fan only wanted to solve the problem of removing the tiger flag or Liu Heng, but he never thought of winning over Liu Heng, so he didn't think of this plan as normal."

"But Dajin has won over this person many times, but in the end they all ended in failure." Fan Wencheng said in confusion.

Huang Taiji smiled and said, "The failure was because Dajin gave the other party not enough. If Ben Khan married a princess to Liu Heng and was willing to share the Ming Dynasty with him, would you think he would agree?"

"You must not be a great khan!" Fan Wencheng immediately knelt down and said, "The tiger flag occupies both Shanxi and Shaanxi, and also occupies the Tumote Grassland. He has long been the power to be king, but he has always called himself a general. It can be seen that this man is ambitious and wants to learn the trick of accumulating grain and slowing his reputation as the Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty."

Huang Taiji, who heard this, shook his head slightly and said, "How can I not understand what Mr. Fan said? However, Ming is our biggest enemy and the biggest enemy of his tiger flag. When one day he overthrew Ming, Ben Khan would not mind fighting with him for the world. See if he was Liu Heng on the Dragon Court or Ben Khan on the Dragon Chair."

"This!" Fan Wencheng wanted to persuade him again.

However, when thinking of Huang Taiji's personality, no one could persuade him to do what he decided to do. Unless the banner masters such as Daishan came forward to stop him, he was just a slave to learn from Wei Zheng during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, and that would not be far from being alienated by Huang Taiji.

Finally, he chose to keep his mouth shut.

Huang Taiji, who was sitting in the main seat, said with a smile: "Mr. Fan, get up, Ben Khan knows your kindness. If the marriage fails, it will not be too late to deal with the tiger flag according to Mr. Fan's three strategies."

"I wonder which princess Khan is going to marry Liu Heng, who is the tiger flag." Fan Wencheng, who stood up, asked along Huang Taiji's words.

Moreover, he knew that although Huang Taiji had two princesses, they were too young and only a few years old, so they were not suitable for marriage.

Hong Chengchou hesitated for a moment and said, "If the slave thief wants to use troops against the Chahar tribe, Hutuktuhan will probably move his tribe after he knows that he is not the opponent of the slave thief."

"That's right, and the Chahar tribe is most likely to choose to move westward, and will directly face the tiger flag at that time." Liu Heng said, looking at the map.

Historically, the Chahar tribe moved westward under the threat of slave thieves. He believed that Hutuktu Khan would definitely choose to move westward, otherwise the Chahar tribe would have to stay in Baicheng alone to deal with the invading slave thieves.

The Chahar tribe, sandwiched between the tiger flag and the slave thief, could only choose one of them as the opponent.

Hong Chengchou looked up at Liu Heng and said, "Since the lord predicted the possibility of Chahar's troops moving westward, he must have been prepared to deal with it?"

"The Chahar tribe may have a way to live when he goes to Mobei. If he dares to come to Qingcheng, he will be covered in bags." Liu Heng smiled at Hong Chengchou.

As early as a few years ago, the tiger flag had already received news that the Chahar tribe was intending to move westward, so why didn't he prepare in advance?

Hong Chengchou secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

I have decided to surrender to the tiger flag, so I naturally don’t want something to happen to the tiger flag.

"The slave thieves took down Nekharkha and drove the Chahar tribe away from Baicheng. The slave thieves could bypass Shanhaiguan and enter the Ming Dynasty to loot." Liu Heng said, "The Ming army in Shanhaiguan is already the elite of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army in other places may be difficult to resist the attack of the slave thieves."

He knew he was talking about what had happened in history.

The elite troops of the Ming Dynasty gathered in Liaodong. The remaining old, weak and remnants of other towns could not stop the army of slave thieves. Facing the slave thieves' army of plunders everywhere, there was no way to deal with it.

Cold sweat broke out on Hong Chengchou's forehead.

He himself is a man who understands military affairs, and he also understands internal affairs. He deeply knows that once the slave thieves crosses Shanhaiguan, the Ming Dynasty's defense line will become a false object in front of the slave thieves.

More importantly, after the slave thieves plundered and destroyed within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the originally weak Ming Dynasty became even weaker.

"It seems that Mr. Hong can also guess what the Ming Dynasty will face next?" Liu Heng looked at Hong Chengchou's sweaty forehead, believing that the other party had already believed that the slave thief would enter the Ming Dynasty by bypassing Shanhaiguan.

Hong Chengchou raised his right arm, gently wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and said in his mouth: "Slave thieves are a group of robbers. Once they are allowed to enter the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty wherever they go will probably be empty and corpses everywhere."

"The Ming Dynasty itself is incompetent, and the people will naturally be affected." Liu Heng sighed lightly.

As a country becomes weak, the people at home will naturally fall into war and be bullied by foreign races. This has been the case since ancient times.

"Can the slave thieves be stopped from entering the territory of the Ming Dynasty? The Zhu family dynasty can perish, but the people are innocent." Hong Chengchou stared at Liu Heng with bright eyes.

He has not yet become a traitor, but he still has a conscience towards the Han people in his heart and does not want to see Han people being bullied by foreign races.
Chapter completed!