These days, Ren Tang and Mu Tan have a heavy workload. They are responsible for transporting tens of thousands of people, and Deng Ming is also very urging. Unlike in the past, these people did not voluntarily follow the Ming army. In addition to transportation, they also had to monitor the Qing army and coordinate the work of civil servants. The two who complained a few days ago had already asked Deng Ming to raise their wages so that they could hire staff members. Whether it was Ming, Qing civil officials or military generals, they would have to get their own pockets. Under normal circumstances, the funds were obtained by embezzlement and empty salary. After the Ming army in western Sichuan adopted the standing army and recruitment model, Ren Tang and Mu Tan could not get empty salary, so they asked Deng Ming: first increase their salary by more than ten times, and if it was not enough, they would have to add more. Before getting the salary, these two people could only do the work of several people alone, and they had to "pull men" from the officers' regiment and ask them to help with things.

He was very busy at first, but Ren Tang was afraid that something would go wrong with Wang Mingde, so the Qing army envoy immediately received him as soon as he asked for a visit.

After hearing the Qing army envoy's words, Ren Tang's face darkened: "There is absolutely nothing!"

Before the Qing army envoy could tell the difference, Ren Tang reached out to the Qing army and pointed at it: "Take it down, beat twenty sticks hard, and throw it out of the camp!"

The guards around him rushed forward and arrested Wang Mingde's envoy, dragged him to the outside world for execution without saying a word.

"Don't beat him to death. If you break your legs, take him away on a stretcher." Ren Tang whispered to a guard. After this man received his order, Ren Tang explained to another subordinate: "Go and ask if someone is really inciting Wang Mingde and his soldiers to escape."

"Affect the order."

...

During the lunch break, Mutan ran to Ren Tang's tent to have lunch with him.

"When will the admiral be given an additional salary?" Mu Tan shouted to the sky after entering the door: "I'm really exhausted!"

"The army is the most greedy person. You don't have the money to hire a staff member yet. Who would believe it if you say it?" Ren Tang joked. He and Mu Tan have a good relationship. Both of them were from the Southeast Alliance. If they were in the past, they might not look down on each other. But now that they are in Sichuan, they feel that their relationship is different, symbolizing the traditional friendship between Zhang Juren and Zheng Jiansheng.

"I'm unjust. Ninety-nine percent of the gifts I received were taken away by the Admiral's tax collection. If the Admiral did not charge taxes and allowed me to eat an empty salary, of course I wouldn't ask for money anymore." Mutan shouted for justice and sat down to have a meal. The two of them also had to discuss work during the prescribed lunch break.

Ren Tang casually talked about the incident when Wang Mingde's envoy came to cause trouble this morning, and asked Mutan if he sent someone to incite the Qing army to defect. Mutan said that he had never done such a thing: "Do you think I still have this free time? I will have to work more if I defect."

"Well, I think so. I have sent someone to find out what's going on. I should be able to figure it out at night." Mu Tan's answer was not unexpected to Ren Tang. The two busy two people could not have such boring leisure.

"You might even break one leg of Wang Mingde's messenger?"

"Of course, we are the Imperial Team." Ren Tang replied with confidence. His explanation of the Empire was approved by most officers, including Mutan. Only Deng Ming still refused to admit that "Imperial" and "robbers" were synonyms: "Only our Imperial Officer warn others not to tear the treaty. When will it be the turn of others to warn the Imperial Officer?"

"It's right." Mutan nodded in praise: "Wang Mingde and the others are shameless. The admiral is just for the next step of war, so he doesn't destroy him casually. He thought we were afraid of him; especially now, if we speak kindly, they might really think we are afraid of them, and maybe they will have some restless thoughts."

That night, Ren Tang received a brief report and figured out the whole story. The defected Qing soldiers were all thinking about farming in Chengdu, so they came to the Ming army. After learning that the Ming army did not recruit soldiers, these defectors were disappointed, but they did not dare to go back. They heard that the prisoners were transported to Xuzhou and Chengdu would become free people in the future, so they expressed their willingness to be transported away as prisoners.

"So that's it." Ren Tang thought about it. The Ming army officer in charge of the acceptance had already carried out the screening work, and the way these combat soldiers would be handled was the same as the armored soldiers of the Shanxi Green Camp who were captured before. Ren Tang was satisfied with this and said that he had nothing to add.

At noon the next day, while Mu Tan and Ren Tang were having lunch, the guards reported that General Wang had arrived in person.

"I guess it's because of that matter, so I really don't let you have a good meal." Ren Tang stood up and wanted to go out to receive him, but then he thought about it and sat down and continued to eat: "Let Wang Mingde wait and tell him I'm having a meal."

After finally waiting for Ren Tang and Mu Tan to finish their meal, Wang Mingde said with a smile on his face: "General Ren, General Mu, that dog didn't know how to speak yesterday. General Ms. beat him hard again, which really caused trouble for the two generals."

When the envoy returned yesterday, Wang Mingde asked, guessing that the envoy's words were too intense and annoyed the generals of the Ming army. Because Deng Ming's attitude was always very kind, the Qing army's temper was spoiled. Now Ren Tang suddenly changed his face, and the Qing army was still a little uncomfortable. After suffering a loss, he remembered that Deng Ming was no longer here.

"Yesterday I said 'Nothing', I was wrong." Ren Tang said carelessly, with no shame on his face: "Well, some people came over, you didn't lie, well, you should pay attention to it yourself, I don't have time to worry about this leisure for you."

"Thank you, General Ren." Wang Mingde had already found that Ren Tang and Deng Ming's attitude towards others was completely different: "Then can you take the people away?"

"Take it away? It's so troublesome. My subordinates have already identified it. You can't work hard in vain, right? This time I was in a misunderstanding. If you didn't lie, I won't bother with you. You can go back and take care of your camp in the future, and you don't have to apologize in person." Ren Tang shook his head and told Wang Mingde that people would not return it. If someone else came over in the future, the Ming army would still not return it.

Wang Mingde's eyebrows stood up and began to argue, first pointing out that the Ming army's collection of fugitives was similar to the stolen house, which was an infringement on the private property of the Qing army generals; then Wang Mingde took a step back and expressed his willingness to exchange things for exchange - according to Wang Mingde's impression, Deng Ming's Western Sichuan Army led by Deng Ming was jealous of money.

"Are you going to buy someone back?" Mu Tan asked next to him.

"That's right." Wang Mingde nodded quickly.

"No, the admiral said that we do not do population transactions. We can sell anything in western Sichuan, but we are not allowed to sell people as slaves." Mu Tan said shamelessly, as if he had completely forgotten that Deng Ming had replaced the prisoners and Jianchang, but that was the case before. Deng Ming's sales of people a year ago did not affect his announcement that he could not do population transactions half a year ago.

"But didn't Admiral Deng just do business with Mo Jiang?" Wang Mingde was extremely surprised and couldn't help but retort: ​​"Five people are fighting for a cow..."

"That's what we buy the slaves in your hands, but we won't sell people." Mu Tan interrupted Wang Mingde's words bluntly: "If you think your soldiers are valuable, just look at them yourself. When we come to our side, we will be ours. We won't pay them back. General Wang doesn't have to waste his words."

Deng Ming has always been very polite to the Qing army generals. Mu Tan and Ren Tang both knew that this was to get benefits from the Qing army generals. The two discussed it just now and felt that if the fugitive was returned, the Qing army would not dare to defect, which was unacceptable in any case. Although Deng Ming and the Qing army generals were polite, Mu Tan and Ren Tang both believed that Deng Ming would never agree to return the person who asked him for asylum to the Qing army for punishment. One step back, even if Deng Ming was willing, it would not be impossible to repay him in the future, but Mu Tan and Ren Tang would never take the initiative to damage Deng Ming's reputation.

Wang Mingde was still arguing endlessly. Ren Tang was too lazy to talk nonsense. He slapped the table heavily and shouted: "Wang Mingde! You and I are the enemy. Admiral Deng are polite to you. That's because Admiral Deng is a good person. I'm not a good person. If you talk too much, I will destroy you."

This shocked Wang Mingde. After thinking for a moment, he sneered: "Admiral Deng and I have an agreement."

"Yes, it's okay if you stay honestly, but the Admiral has told me that if you are not honest, you will destroy you and prevent you from causing trouble for us." Ren Tang also sneered at his opponent: "I count to three. If you don't get out of my tent, I will tell the Admiral that you are here to spy on military information today and want to sneak attack me, so I have to send troops to destroy you."

Wang Mingde stared at Ren Tang's face and carefully observed his expression, trying his best to distinguish the authenticity of the other party's words.

"One!" Ren Tang shouted sternly when he saw that Wang Mingde had not left.

"Okay, I'll say goodbye." Faced with the threat of being naked, Wang Mingde immediately made a wise choice. While retreating to the tent, he was still protesting the final protest: "In the future, I will ask Admiral Deng to judge."

Upon hearing this, Mu Tan laughed and smiled at Wang Mingde who was about to leave the tent, "You defeated generals, the admiral can crush you with just one finger, but he just talks to you well, not beats or scolds you. Do you think the admiral will yell at us for you? Do you really have such an idea?"

"I paid the coupon!" Wang Mingde shouted aggrievedly: "Those who escaped have also paid the coupon..."

"Two!" Ren Tang saw that Wang Mingde stopped and began to distinguish again, and shouted again.

Seeing Wang Mingde stumble and ran away with his guards, Ren Tang commented contemptuously: "Bullying the weak and afraid of the strong."

Ren Tang turned to look at Mu Tan: "Have the Admiral yelled at you?"

"No." Mutan replied without hesitation, and asked back again: "Have you ever shouted at you?"

"Well, you're furious." Ren Tang nodded: "Actually, you came a little late that time. You can also try it yourself in the future. Just eat the admiral's supper and you will see it."

Recalling Deng Ming's style of work, Ren Tang called a guard and asked him to send a batch of release coupons to the Qing army's camp. Anyway, it was just paper: "Aren't he wronged? Return the coupon to him."

After returning to the camp, Wang Mingde immediately called everyone to discuss the matter. After hearing what happened today, the generals in the camp all turned pale and complained to each other. Didn’t they just lose a few soldiers? Why did they provoke powerful enemies who could kill themselves? The most important thing is that Deng Ming is not here now.

The Qing army immediately reached an agreement and immediately transferred the early warning troops sent to investigate the movements of the Ming army. Although Deng Ming claimed that he was fair, if he annoyed Ren Tang and Mu Tan, where should he cry? After the envoy who sent the coupons for Ren Tang arrived, the Qing army general took out good wine and meat to entertain the envoy and had a good meal. Then Wang Mingde, Hu Wenke and others smiled and sent the envoy to the door, watching him leave-
Chapter completed!