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Chapter 587 King Fu refused to give it to me, so I personally sent someone to take it
The envoy from Lantian was politely sent out by King Fu. After leaving the palace, the envoy from Lantian's face turned black. The old bastard had so many belongings that he was reluctant to spend a little money to buy a firearm from Lantian. Okay, don’t buy it now, and if you want to buy it in the future, I beg you, Lantian, will not sell it to you again.

The envoy felt ruthless in his heart, and when the guard saw the envoy, he asked, "My lord, what should we do next?"

After hearing this, the envoy said: "It's okay, just tell the county lord the truth."

After hearing this, the guards looked back at Fu Wang's mansion and said: "That fat man is really snobbish. He saw Li Zicheng's ferocity at first, so he contacted us in a different way. Now that the emperor sent him a rescue, he turned his face and refused to recognize anyone." Yes, sooner or later he will regret it."

After hearing this, the envoy thought for a while and said: "Okay, it's not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's go out of Luoyang first and then talk about it."

"Yes."

The group rode out of Luoyang City without stopping.

Inside Fu Wang's mansion.

"The group of people in Lantian left?"

Fu Wang looked at the old housekeeper and asked, the old housekeeper heard this and said: "Let's go, our people said that when we left the palace, we left Luoyang City directly, without stopping at all."

King Fu nodded and said, "That's good."

The old housekeeper looked at King Fu and said, "My lord, I don't know something about this old servant."

"Say."

King Fu looked at the old butler, and the old butler said, "My lord, Lantian's musket is really powerful. If we buy equipment for the guards of the palace, even if thieves attack Luoyang, we will have the power to protect ourselves. Why don't you buy it, 50 Wanliang is not a lot."

Hearing this, Fu Wang's eyes widened: "You know what a fart, although 50 taels is not much, it was deducted by Lao Tzu one by one from Luoyang Muduizi. How can it be cheaper for nothing? Lantian Li Chaosheng, besides, Suppressing rebels and bandits was originally a matter for the imperial court, and it was nothing to do with our Prince Fu's mansion. Now that the emperor has sent Yang Sichang and Sun Chuanting to quell the chaos, it is enough. What else do we need to do? What can we do with the 50 yuan saved? Well, you, you are getting worse and worse."

King Fu scolded the butler for a while, and the butler quickly bowed and said, "Yes, this old slave has been taught."

King Fu smiled and said, "Okay, I'm tired today, take me to Eighteen, um, Madam Seventeen to rest."

"Yes."

The old butler responded, and helped King Fu to rest, thinking to himself that his prince really gave up his life and money, and besides, didn't the Ming Dynasty belong to your Zhu family?Why are you not willing to spend a penny?Don't you understand the truth of a cold lips and teeth?
The old housekeeper really guessed it right, King Fu really didn't understand what it means to have cold lips and teeth.

It is recorded in history that when the Ming Dynasty was suffering from internal and external troubles, someone suggested that King Fu should donate some money to the court. As a result, King Fu insisted on nothing. Does he have no money?
No, he is too rich, he is willing to spend 30 taels for a birthday banquet, but if he spends a penny for the Ming royal family, he feels that he is losing money, so what do you think?

It wasn't until Li Zicheng captured Luoyang and searched out the tens of millions of Fu Wang's family property, which made Li Zicheng cheaper in vain.

There is no way that Fu Wang is a master who sacrifices his life and money.

Lantian County Government.

Li Chaosheng is correcting the report. As the honorary of Lantian County, what he faces most every day is endless document reports. There is no way. If you want to wear the crown, you must bear the burden. The 500 million people in Lantian County need food, development, and life. , Li Chaosheng is the first responsible person.

Therefore, there are countless things in Lantian that Li Chaosheng needs to worry about every day. Whether it is farming, construction of water conservancy, improvement of people's livelihood, military construction, business planning, all walks of life need Li Chaosheng to take the helm. There is no way to go. Although Li Chaosheng's civil servants and generals are capable, they don't know what the blueprint Li Chaosheng wants to look like. Therefore, they can only be the implementers of Li Chaosheng's plan, not the helm.

The reason why Li Chaosheng can become the helm is because the great Chinese nation has traveled this road in the future. He has a lot of materials and ready-made examples for reference. He knows what the future he wants to look like, so he can be the leader. At the helm of Lantian.

And it is the number one helm that no one doubts.

Li Chaosheng looked at each document carefully, because the documents that could be sent to him were almost all matters that could determine the vital interests of hundreds of thousands of people, or even millions of people. It's dealt with, it can't be delivered to Li Chaosheng.

Li Chaosheng looked at the documents, when there was a knock on the door, followed by Guzi walking in with a stack of information in his hand, Guzi's main job was to receive intelligence from various places and report to Li Chaosheng, and arrange for some county officials to live and work related matters.

Soon Gu Zi came to the county lord: "The county lord."

Li Chaosheng put down the document in his hand and looked up at Gu Zi, Gu Zi said at this moment: "I have some information to report to you."

"Oh, tell me."

Li Chaosheng put down the document and looked at Gu Zi intently. Gu Zi heard the words and reported his feelings: "This is the first piece of information from Hubei. Zhang Xianzhong has expanded his army to 20 people after a month of crazy expansion. Now he has gradually assembled. The strength of the troops, it seems that the troops will enter Shu in a few days."

"Intel also came from central Shu that Mrs. Qin had already mobilized the chieftain and gathered [-] white-armed troops, preparing to fight Zhang Xianzhong to the death. Just yesterday, her son Ma Xianglin brought [-] The White Pole Army set off, Chen Bing Shu Road, ready to fight Zhang Xianzhong to the death."

"Ma Xianglin?"

Li Chaosheng muttered, his gaze gradually became sharper. Ma Xianglin is the son of Qin Liangyu and his late husband Ma Qiancheng, currently the second commander of the White Pole Army. There isn't much left to mirror, but the man's attitude is interesting.

Staying in Shuzhong, he can push back some orders from the imperial court. The excuse is to serve his mother at home, but who knows what he really thinks, especially at the end of Ming Dynasty, when Ma Xianglin is still in the land of abundance that Zhang Xianzhong dreamed of. If he didn't have some ideas of his own, he might not believe it himself.

To put it bluntly, this guy wants to be his local emperor in Sichuan.

Back then when I sent a caravan to sell salt in Sichuan, it was not Qin Liangyu who was the first to react, but this Ma Xianglin. It can be said that this man is ambitious and not easy to get along with.

But right now, he, Ma Xianglin, is ambitious, and Zhang Xianzhong is also a greedy person. If two ambitious guys fight in Shuzhong, it will definitely muddy the calm lake in Shuzhong, and only muddy water can fish.

Li Chaosheng thought about it and said, "The caravans that have entered Shuzhong have all stopped recently, and another army will be dispatched to Hanzhong to keep an eye on the situation in Shuzhong."

"Yes."

Gu Zi responded, then looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Master, which soldier should we send?"

Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said: "Shi Dalei's department."

After hearing this, Gu Zi said: "If Shi Dalei's troops enter Shuzhong, we will have no mobile troops in our hands. If there is an emergency response, what should we do?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said, "Well, the world has undergone tremendous changes. It seems that the regular army in hand is not enough. It seems that it is time to expand the army."

After hearing this, Gu Zi said, "Expand the army?"

Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said, "Notify the military department for a meeting tomorrow to study military expansion. In addition, notify the finance and other departments to prepare relevant budgets, and hold a plenary meeting the day after tomorrow."

"Yes."

Gu Zi replied, feeling a little excited in his heart. It is time for Lantian to expand its army. Currently there are only four regular divisions in Lantian, with a total of [-] regular troops. Although these troops are enough for Lantian to guarantee its own interests, if you want to leave Lantian, occupy The world, these people are still a little stretched.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng decided to expand the army, and Li Chaosheng had this idea for a long time. Li Chaosheng decided to expand the four divisions into four armies, so that the number of soldiers and horses could be expanded from the original 4 to 12. The war can basically be done.

At the same time, in addition to the four main forces, Li Chaosheng also plans to expand two more divisions. One is that a brigade of Li Dingguo of the Northwest Army can be expanded into a division.

One of them is the cavalry division. Wang Guixiang has devoted himself to the grassland all these years, and he should be promoted to a position.

In addition to these two divisions, Li Chaosheng plans to expand a guard division. This division is composed of two parts, one is the personal guards directly under Li Chaosheng, and the other is the military investigation department to which Shi Xiaolei belongs. These two departments will be merged to form The guards directly led by him have duties similar to those of Ming Dynasty's Jin Yiwei.

It is a multi-functional department that integrates guards, ceremonial guards, investigations, intelligence spying and many other responsibilities.

In this way, Lantian has five armies at once, and there are hundreds of thousands of militias among the people. Lantian's military strength is still very sufficient, but the only thing worth considering now is that there will be an extra [-] regular troops at once. It's a big burden, and the bastards in the Ministry of Finance are probably going to cry poor again.

Li Chaosheng rubbed his eyebrows. The finance officials he trained were really stingy to the core. Even if he wanted to spend money, he would cry poorly when he went to them. Money, it's like making a big mistake, it's a headache.

Now that you want to expand the army with so many people at once, I am afraid that the Ministry of Finance will jump and cry poorly. Li Chaomeng said well that the people in the Ministry of Finance seem to string money on their ribs. Every time they use it, they use fire. The pliers were pushed down, so every time it was bloody, the painful person screamed.

Money, I have to find a way to get more money. Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng looked at Guzi and said, "By the way, how is Luoyang King Fu?"

After hearing this, Guzi's face darkened immediately, and he took out a piece of information to report: "Xianzun, the information from King Fu, the grandson of King Fu has repented, and the 50 taels of silver are not going to be released."

Li Chaosheng frowned and said, "Let me see."

Guzi handed the Lantian envoy's information to Li Chaosheng. Li Chaosheng took the information and read it. He saw that the content was very simple, that is, King Fu repented and didn't want to pay. He thought that Yang Sichang and Sun Chuanting were enough to protect him, and he didn't need the help of Lantian's firearms. up.

Li Chaosheng looked at it and suddenly let out a sneer and said, "Oh, what a blessing king, he really treats my Lantian as a soft persimmon, that's all right, don't admit it, then don't blame me for being cruel."

After Li Chaosheng finished speaking, he looked at Guzi and said, "Guzi, do three things. The first thing is to send someone to Li Zicheng and ask him if he needs gunpowder. We can sell him [-] catties of gunpowder. With this gunpowder, he can Explode Luoyang City, what's the price? It should be twice the market price."

"Ah, Xian Zun, you want to sell gunpowder to Li Zicheng?"

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng in shock when he heard that, Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Yes."

"But……"

"But what, if we can sell gunpowder to Zhang Xianzhong, we can naturally sell it to Li Zicheng. Now that Li Zicheng has swept through the Kaifeng mansion and all the way to Dengfeng City, he has collected a lot of gold and silver along the way. It is just right to waste the money on him. Give it to us in Lantian, with this money, at least it can relieve our financial pressure, and then our military expansion will be smoother."

After hearing this, Gu Zi said, "Master Xian, isn't it a bit shameless for us to sell weapons everywhere to make money?"

Li Chaosheng listened to Guzi's words and said with a smile: "Hahaha... It's shameless, but it's really cool. Let me tell you a story. There used to be a country called Citigroup. It was not developed at first, but he discovered that selling Weapons were very profitable, so he started..."

"This, Citigroup, is really wicked and smoking."

Guzi sighed after hearing this, but Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard it: "There is often no morality in the game between countries, it is just mutual use. Today you use me, and tomorrow I will use you. If you use morality When evaluating a country, the country with the best morals often dies badly."

"I don't understand, but what the county lord said must make sense."

Li Chaosheng heard the words and said: "Okay, don't worry about these things, you just need to remember that it is in our interest to do so."

Gu Zi nodded and said, "Yes, I understand. I will send someone to Dengfeng City to talk business with Li Zicheng soon."

Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Okay, the second thing is to immediately notify our own people in Sun Chuanting's old Qin camp. When rescuing Luoyang City, we must pay attention to safety, don't charge too hard, and be careful of Li Zicheng's gunpowder. Let's sell it back." , don’t hurt yourself.”

"Understood the county magistrate."

Gu Zi nodded lightly, expressing his understanding that selling the gunpowder to Li Zicheng would not allow his own people to be shot. He told the old Qin Ying that these old Qin soldiers were all good men, and they must know how to avoid danger.

Li Chaosheng nodded and said: "The third point is also the most important point. You immediately let Shi Xiaolei and Li Chaomeng lead the team to Luoyang. Copy the mansion of Prince Fu to me first, isn’t King Fu unwilling to pay for it, I sent someone to fetch it in person.”

"Yes, magistrate."

(End of this chapter)