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Chapter 303 Lord Lu is such a powerful official

Dorgon took a look at the letter. It said that most of the materials they had prepared for the Qing Dynasty had recently been looted by bandits and suffered heavy losses. They hoped that Fan Wencheng would help them explain the situation to Huang Taiji.

The first is to ask for mercy, because they did not deliver many orders from the Manchu Qing Dynasty as scheduled. This is a great sin, and they need to ask Huang Taiji for forgiveness, otherwise their consequences will be very serious.

Secondly, they hope that the Manchu Qing can send some soldiers and horses to help escort supplies near Zhangjiajie, so as to reduce the attacks of bandits.

Finally, they explained how they were robbed several times. They said that some of the thieves who robbed them spoke with a Guanzhong accent, and they were probably bandits who ran to the grasslands in Shaanxi. It is suspected that this may be Lu Xiangsheng's conspiracy behind the scenes.

Dorgon browsed through the letter, looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "You mean, Mr. Lu Xiangsheng is involved in this?"

Fan Wencheng said: "Lu Xiangsheng is extremely intelligent, not a stupid person. We don't know his methods, so we have to guard against them."

Dorgon nodded and said: "I see, I understand."

After saying this, Dorgon said: "Then what is the master's plan for this matter?"

Fan Wencheng shook his head and said: "There is no clever plan. We have to wait for the news from the scouts before we can make preparations. However, my lord, there must be an accident in Guihua City. It is best for my lord to ask His Majesty to transfer troops." Sooner or later, this soldier will go out, no matter whether it is to appease and suppress, or simply exterminate."

Dorgon nodded and said, "That makes sense."

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Outside Guihua City, a team of cavalry was parked on the grassland, looking at the majestic city in front of them, a scout said: "My lord, this is Guihua City."

At this time, Lu Xianglin said with emotion: "What a fortified city, it is even taller than Xuanfu. It is not easy to occupy such a powerful city. If it is attacked, it will require ten times as many troops."

The scout captain heard this and said: "Your Excellency is right, and there are cannons in this city. If there are enough shells, the cannons can stop the invading enemy."

Lu Xianglin couldn't help writing a poem when he heard the words: "There is a strong city on the frontier, guarding Han Jialang, talking and laughing to destroy the Tartars, and bombarding wolves with cannons!"

"Good poetry, good poetry!"

The captain of the scout praised Lu Xianglin's poem again and again, but Lu Xianglin smiled and said: "Okay, stop flattering me, go and call the door quickly, I will meet Li Chaosheng, the magistrate of Lantian County."

"Yes."

The scout captain clasped his fists and followed the horse and galloped towards Guihua City. The scout captain came to the city and shouted: "Open the door."

At this time, a head emerged from the city wall and said, "Who are you? It's not time to open the city yet."

After hearing this, the captain of the scout said: "Go and report to your county lord, and say that Lu Xianglin, the younger brother of Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng, commanded the envoy to see him."

After hearing this, the soldier said, "Lu Xianglin? All right, I got it. Just wait."

After speaking, the soldier turned and went back to tell someone to inform the county magistrate that it was Lu Xianglin who had come.

Hearing this, the soldier immediately stood at attention, followed by riding his horse into the city, and when he arrived at the city lord's mansion, he reported the matter.

"Well, Lu Xianglin?"

At this time Li Chaosheng was eating breakfast, which was quite rich, with millet porridge, white flour steamed buns, a plate of small pickles, and dried bacon.

Li Chaosheng took a sip and drank the porridge, "Let them in."

"Yes."

The soldiers ran down immediately, when Li Chaosheng said: "Gu Zi."

"arrive."

Gu Zi saluted, Li Chaosheng took a mouthful of pickled vegetables, ate a mouthful of white flour steamed buns and said, "Notify Master Li Chaohu to meet with the City Lord's Mansion."

"Ah, Commander, haven't you seen him?"

Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard the words: "Lu Xiangsheng sent his younger brother, and I sent my older brother to meet him. This is the same. Wouldn't it be self-defeating for me to meet in person?"

Gu Zi nodded and said: "That's right, he, Lu Xianglin, has never heard of it, so why should he meet the army commander? I'll go find Master Li Chaohu."

Guzi left, while Li Chaosheng was eating steamed buns, and said with a smile on the pickles: "It seems that Lu Xiangsheng is very interested in Guihua City. Since he is in my pocket, it doesn't matter whether he sees it or not."

Li Chaosheng was eating, and soon Li Chaohu ran in panting and said: "Commander, Commander."

Li Chaosheng glanced at Li Chaohu and said, "Sit down, have you eaten?"

"Just after eating, Gu Zi asked me to meet Lu Xianglin?"

Li Chaosheng said: "That's right, he came from afar and needs to be received by an important person. You are my cousin, and he is Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother. You are equal."

Li Chaohu said: "But what did you say when you saw me?"

Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "You can say whatever you want. The final core is that when the Tartars came, he sent troops with us to eliminate the Tartars. When the time comes, the supplies of the Tartars will be ours, and the heads of the Tartars will be theirs. Then They need to help us bear the reputation of exterminating the Tartars, so they say that this war was led by Lu Xiangsheng."

Li Chaohu blinked his eyes after hearing this, and Li Chaosheng said: "The answer is very simple, we don't want fame, we want benefits."

Li Chaohu said: "Commander, we must have contributed the most in this war. Why should the surname Lu be named in the end? You must know that the reputation of killing Tartars will spread, and our Lantian will definitely become famous. It can attract more people to join us in Lantian, which is a good thing!"

Li Chaosheng shook his head when he heard this and said: "We don't need to use this method to attract the people. The people join us in Lantian to live a good life, not because our military is strong in Lantian. We in Lantian have advantages, but the disadvantages are even greater. If we shoot the first birds, once the reputation of us seizing Guihua City in the Fortress spreads, our Majesty in the capital will stare at us. When the time comes, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and the like It has become a secondary target. Although we are not afraid of the imperial court, if we confront the imperial court, the thieves like Gao Yingxiang can take advantage of it. Instead, we have become their shield. This is not what I want, and it is not good for us. develop."

"So cousin, we still have to show our weakness to the enemy and let the enemy know that we still have scruples, so that we can paralyze the other party and strengthen ourselves. This is the same strategy that Liu Bowen gave us the Ming Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 300 years ago. Accumulate grain widely and become king slowly."

After hearing this, Li Chaohu nodded as if he didn't understand. Li Chaosheng didn't expect him to understand everything. Li Chaohu was a soldier, and it was enough for a soldier to know how to fight the enemy. It doesn't matter.

Li Chaosheng told Li Chaohu that although Li Chaohu didn't understand it very well, as long as he followed Li Chaosheng's instructions, there shouldn't be too many mistakes. Li Chaosheng urged again: "Cousin, you just need to remember what I said, Our two families only fight together. When the time comes, we will drag the Tartars from the front, and they will sneak up on the Tartars from behind. After the event is completed, the captured supplies will belong to us. They can use the heads of the Tartars to exchange credit with the court, and at the same time let the court allocate money. Understand?"

Li Chaohu nodded after hearing this, "Understood!"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Go."

"Yes."

Li Chaohu saluted, then turned around and went to the front hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Li Chaosheng stretched his waist and said to Gu Zi: "Make me a pot of tea, I'll go and see what our cousin is doing."

"Yes."

Soon Gu Zi went to pour a cup of tea, and Li Chaosheng came to the back of the main hall of the city lord's mansion with a purple sand handle pot, sitting behind a jade screen and drinking tea.

Li Chaohu was sitting in front of him at this moment, waiting for Lu Xianglin's arrival.

At this time, Lu Xianglin and a group of hundreds of horses were released into Guihua City. Once entering Guihua City, Lu Xianglin's eyes widened. This Guihua City is too prosperous. There are many shops on the streets, and all kinds of small commodities are everywhere. Buying and selling are dazzling, and its prosperity even surpasses Xuanfu, the land of Datong.

You must know that Xuanfu Datong is an important town, and there are no fewer merchants in it, and its commercial prosperity is far higher than other places, but compared with this place, it is not enough. The prosperity here is even catching up with Zhangjiakou. Zhangjiakou It is prosperous because Zhangjiakou has eight Shanxi merchants.

The prosperity of Guihua City is because the policies here are crazily attracting domestic demand. At the same time, Ma Tengfei's caravan has also played a very important role. It is precisely because the caravan has played a leading role that the business of Guihua City has gradually become prosperous. , and in order to encourage the business atmosphere here, Li Chaosheng also carried out some commercial tax reduction policies, such as the tax exemption policy for small commodities.

Because of this, more people started to do business here. Of course, this is also related to the fact that Lu Xianglin walked the main road of Guihua City, the most prosperous street. Other streets are not so prosperous, and other streets are more agricultural and farmers.

Lu Xianglin looked all the way and soon arrived at the City Lord's Mansion. The City Lord's Mansion is located in the very center of Guihua City.

Lu Xianglin came to the gate of the city lord's mansion. At this time, guards came out from the city lord's mansion to help Lu Xianglin move the horse away. At the same time, the guards came up to let Lu Xianglin take off his saber.

Lu Xianglin handed over his weapon and walked up the steps to the city lord's mansion. When he reached the gate of the city lord's mansion, the gate of the city lord's mansion opened, surrounded by guards, forming a guard of honor.

When Lu Xianglin arrived at the entrance of the main hall, a soldier shouted: "Lu Xianglin, Master Lu is here."

Lu Xianglin heard the call and stepped into the room. At this time, Li Chaohu stood up and greeted him with fists, "Li Chaohu from Lantian County has seen Mr. Lu."

Lu Xianglin frowned and looked at Li Chaohu and said, "You are not Li Chaosheng."

Li Chaohu said: "My county lord is busy with business today, so I don't see Mr. Lu, so my cousin is here to receive Mr. Lu.

Lu Xianglin heard the words and said: "You? I am the commander of Xuanda, a third-rank military officer, much older than your county's sixth-rank official. Now the Shangguan is visiting, won't he come to see?"

Li Chaohu's face turned cold when he heard this, who will this kid give to?Thinking of Li Chaohu, he said: "Commander of the third rank, hehe, Mr. Lu has such great authority."

Lu Xianglin didn't speak, Li Chaohu said: "Dare to ask my lord, how many troops do you have as a commander?"

Lu Xianglin said, "Why do you ask this?"

Li Chaohu said: "If I remember correctly, ten people make up a small banner, set up a small banner officer, 50 people set up a general banner officer, 100 people set up a hundred households, a thousand people set up a thousand households, and five thousand households set up a guard. There is one commander and two commanders, so Mr. Lu is in charge of 1 people as a third-rank commander, and a certain family has no official position now, but they are in charge of more than [-] people. I am twice as big as you in terms of people. It's more than enough to welcome you, I didn't let the brigade commander pick you up, it's enough to give you face!"

Li Chaohu doesn't care about these things, you are commanding multiple hammers at the third rank, and I have a teacher in charge of tens of thousands of people, and you have a commander in charge of five or 6000 people, so you still pick and choose, which is called shameless.

At this time, Li Chaosheng listened to Li Chaohu's words from behind, and almost choked on a sip of tea. His cousin is too rigid, won't he be more tactful?
But when you think about it, these soldiers and horses under him have made him become an arrogant soldier. Li Chaohu really didn't pay attention to the troops of the imperial court, so he was so arrogant.

Lu Xianglin was so angry, but looking at Li Chaohu's staring eyes, there was a feeling that a scholar met a soldier, and he couldn't explain why. But with such unreasonable talk, there is no way to refute it.

But now if you don't answer, you will be at a disadvantage. In this first negotiation, momentum is very important. Whoever controls the momentum will have the initiative. This is the most important thing in the negotiation.

Lu Xianglin thought with a dark face and said: "This Li, Mr. Li, Lu is reasoning with you. Why do you say soldiers and horses? Besides, you have more than [-] soldiers and horses in a single county in Lantian? You have so many soldiers and horses. Why? Could it be that they want to rebel?"

Li Chaohu snorted coldly after hearing this: "There are many bandits and bandits in Shaanxi. If you want to survive, you can't do without troops. These are all trained by our Lantian regiment. How come they become rebellious bandits in the mouth of Mr. Lu?" , Could it be that Lord Lu wants the government to force the people to rebel?"

After hearing this, Lu Xianglin snorted coldly and said, "I don't dare, but your Lantian regiment can't practice well and stay in Lantian, why go to the fortress?"

Li Chaohu laughed loudly when he heard this: "The frontier army of the Ming Dynasty is useless. Seeing that the Tartars are building Guihua City on the Fortress, they don't even dare to let go. Our county is concerned about the country and the people, and we are afraid that this will happen to the Fortress The important military land fell into the hands of the Tartars. From now on, the people of Ming Dynasty will suffer endless plunder from the Tartars. Therefore, we led our Lantian regiment to take Guihua City. If it is used by your frontier army, why should we go far away? .”

After hearing this, Lu Xianglin said: "Hehe, so the Lantian County Lord won Guihua City for Daming?"

"Yes."

Li Chaohu raised his head and said, Lao Tzu won Guihua City for Daming. After hearing this, Lu Xianglin looked at Li Chaohu and said, "Oh, if that's the case, are our frontier troops also qualified to garrison Guihua City? After all, we are also soldiers of Daming , is it reasonable to garrison Daming's city?"

"This!"

Li Chaohu frowned, this is impossible, we can't let the group of stinky fish from the frontier army destroy Guihua City, but Li Chaohu didn't know how to refute for a while, just when Li Chaohu didn't know what to say, he heard someone behind him say: "Master Lu has such a clever mouth!"

(End of this chapter)