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Chapter 672

"The world is a big deal, and I want to talk to you about it."

Li Zicheng pointed at Wanli Jiangshan in front of him and said, Li Chaosheng laughed: "Jiangshan, do you think you are qualified to talk about Jiangshan with me?"

Li Zicheng also smiled: "Of course it is necessary. You name the picture, and I seek profit. You don't want people in the world to call you a usurper. Help you get rid of Chongzhen, but you can't use Lao Tzu for nothing, the landlord's family will pay back the wages, is it appropriate for you in Lantian to not pay the wages?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Zicheng and said, "What salary do you want?"

Li Zicheng smiled and said: "Hehehe, I need your Lantian weapons support, I need your Lantian firearms, including the flintlock guns you use, and the artillery you are equipped with."

Li Zicheng pointed to the place where the artillery was fired just now in the distance. He wanted that kind of artillery.

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng glanced at Li Zicheng, then smiled and said, "Li Zicheng, are you thinking too much? Do you think I will give my most powerful weapon to my enemy?"

Li Zicheng laughed and said, "You need me, don't you?"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "You don't have to."

Li Zicheng's expression changed when he heard that, "I can buy it with money!"

Li Chaosheng smiled: "Do you think I'm short of money?"

Li Zicheng said: "I know you are not short of money, but who would dislike having too much money? My conditions are very loose. If you can sell the flintlock gun to Sun Chuanting, you can sell it to me. I will pay double the price." .”

Li Chaosheng continued to shake his head, Li Zicheng sighed and said: "There is also the land I own, as long as you sell me the gun, I can cede the land in Henan to you Lantian, and in the future, I will occupy a province. , you Lantian can enter the army, occupy the land we once occupied, and turn it into your Lantian land, how good is that?"

Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard this, looked at Li Zicheng and said, "Li Zicheng, do you think I'm stupid? Do you think we're stupid to exchange the land you can't occupy for our powerful firearms in Lantian?"

Li Zicheng said: "How do you know that I can't hold it?"

Li Chaosheng sneered when he heard the words: "Ming people don't talk dark words, and you have occupied Luoyang for half a year. To be honest, I can see that you really want to make Luoyang a good place and use it as a base, but you must I also discovered that if you can't do it well, the grass bandits under you will not be willing to farm the land honestly, and the court will not let you farm here honestly, so the result is that you are in Luoyang Can't wait any longer."

"Otherwise, you can't see me in such a hurry. Do you want to listen to my promise that I will not intervene when you attack other soldiers in Henan?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng felt a chill in his heart. He didn't expect that Li Chaosheng would see through this step in advance, so Li Zicheng fell silent.

He didn't say anything, and Li Chaosheng didn't say anything. Li Chaosheng held Li Zicheng firmly, so he wasn't in a hurry. He could slowly wear him down until Li Zicheng let go.

For a while, both sides fell into silence. People from both sides stared wide-eyed, waiting for someone to break the deadlock. After a long time, it was Li Zicheng who spoke.

"How can you support our firearms?"

Li Zicheng really realized the power of Lantian firearms. If he wanted to defeat magic, he had to master magic in his own hands. Li Zicheng desperately wanted the same firearms as Lantian, so that he could have the confidence to fight against Lantian.

Otherwise, relying on people alone, Li Zicheng felt that he could not defeat Li Chaosheng, especially after seeing the terrible power of Lantian's artillery.

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Zicheng with a fox-like smile in his eyes and said, "It's not impossible to want our firearms from Lantian. There are a few conditions. First, the price will be doubled."

Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and said, "Yes."

"Okay, second, as long as your army withdraws, we Lantian people have the right to occupy the land you abandoned. You can't make trouble after the fact. If trouble happens after the fact, our army has the right to kill your soldiers who caused trouble. Or other measures, you can't intervene."

"also may."

Li Zicheng continued to agree, and Li Chaosheng nodded and said: "Okay, then it is the third point. In the future, when you attack the Daming City, you must not kill the rich and powerful. Going too far, after our army accepts a city, you must at least ensure that the city still has more than [-]% of the population, can you do it?"

Hearing this, Li Zicheng thought in his mind. In fact, they had no choice but to rob the poor. The main reason was that there were too many rebels and they needed too much food. If they didn't rob some people, they wouldn't have enough to eat.

However, the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, it leads to complaints within the rebel army, the morale of the army is extremely unstable, and small-scale riots will occur every now and then. Change, but he has not made up his mind.

Now that Li Chaosheng proposed such a condition to him, it can be regarded as indirectly firming Li Zicheng's heart for a strategic change.

In fact, Liu Zongmin, Li Guo and other generals mentioned this issue to Li Zicheng. It is not feasible to rely solely on absorbing peasants as the main force of the army. The main force of the army should be mainly to absorb the Ming army prisoners of war. With rich combat experience, 80.00% of Liu Zongmin's cavalry are prisoners of war.

The advantages brought are also extremely obvious, that is, Liu Zongmin's army is the undisputed number one army in the entire rebel army, and its combat effectiveness is the strongest.

Therefore, Li Zicheng's next plan is to abandon the military body dominated by refugees and change to a military body dominated by prisoners of war, so as to build a strong army that has always been invincible.

The next time we meet, we must make Li Chaosheng not dare to contempt himself. Who do you think is the mob?Who do you think is a group of things that can't be on the stage? Next time we meet, I must let Li Chaosheng know what a rebel army is. If you dare to underestimate the rebel army, you must pay the price!
Li Zicheng narrowed his eyes and said: "Okay, I can guarantee that every time the city you accept can have more than [-]% of the population, but you have to promise me that I not only want your muskets, but also your artillery. The kind that just launched."

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Zicheng and said, "No, that cannon is our secret weapon in Lantian. How can such a heavy weapon be bought and sold easily? It's impossible."

Li Zicheng heard the words and said: "You can't just say you're dead when doing business, otherwise we won't have room to bargain."

Zhu Qi said with a smile: "Commander Li, some things can be sold, and some things can't be sold. In this way, I will set out the conditions. As long as you agree to my conditions, every time you release us a county, then I can follow the agreement just now. For the price, I will sell you one hundred of our latest flintlock guns, and as for the artillery, you can give me a province, and I will give you one, how about it."

"One door?!"

Li Zicheng frowned slightly, Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "This is my bottom line, whether you love me or not, if we can't agree, we don't need to talk."

Hearing this, Li Zicheng frowned, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!"

Man is a sword and I am a fish. Even if he knows it is an unequal treaty, Li Zicheng has to grit his teeth and accept it. He has no choice.

After the deal was concluded, Li Zicheng said: "Master Li, you'd better prepare five hundred muskets first. I'm going to march south tomorrow to attack all the soldiers. At that time, Luoyang, Kaifeng and the surrounding counties and cities will all deliver them. I'll give you Lantian, don't deny it when the time comes."

Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "Five hundred, that's fine, but gunpowder is an extra charge!"

Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!"

After finishing speaking, Li Zicheng cupped his hands and said: "So Li will leave. Next time we meet, I hope we won't meet each other on the battlefield."

Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "Don't worry, I'm a timid person, and I won't leave Lantian easily. If you really meet each other on the battlefield, you should meet my generals. When the time comes, Commander Li will ask you Be careful, don't be careless for a moment, and become their dead soul under the knife, your head can at least help them upgrade two levels in a row!"

"Hmph, Li's head is not a rare thing. If a brother likes it and has the ability, he can take it at will. A certain family congratulates you on being promoted and making a fortune in Jiuquan, but if you have no ability, it's no wonder that my head is taken by a certain family." .”

"Besides, you have to be careful, county lord. If there is a day when the soldiers meet, whoever can bring your head to see me will be rewarded ten thousand taels, and ten thousand households will be granted!"

"Hahaha, Commander Li is magnificent."

Li Chaosheng laughed out loud and didn't take it seriously at all. When you hunt the world, people in the world will also take you as prey, but Li Chaosheng is not worried. His basic foundation in Lantian is as solid as gold. Some of the important positions are his relatives. In this era, if the relatives betray, the price is too high, unlike Li Zicheng who is surrounded by distrustful people.

The two sides uttered harsh words, and then retreated. The tent that the two sides supervised and built yesterday was useless from beginning to end, and it only became the background board of today's meeting.

Li Chaosheng stepped back, while Gu Zi frowned and said, "Master, this Li Zicheng's wolfish ambition, if it gets bigger, I'm afraid it will be difficult to control."

Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "He is a fierce tiger, he would rather die than become a dog that obeys us, and I also need his bravery. The stronger he is, the more he can overcome obstacles and clear obstacles for me."

"Your majesty, are you not afraid of raising tigers?"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "If he is a tiger, I will be a beast tamer. He is worthy of raising a tiger. Don't worry, I'm just painting a cake for him. With his political system, military system, governance ability, and The corruption within them is doomed to make him unable to succeed. You can’t believe it when you say it. Our spies in Li Zicheng’s army reported that the generals under him who came out of mud legs were extremely greedy and sucked blood from soldiers. , sucked to the bone, the army is full of complaints, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and now they are inferior to the Ming army."

If the Ming army is worse, they will win, and if they are worse, the Ming army will win. History has proved that as long as the army is corrupt and has no fighting spirit, even if you give them the best weapons, it will be in vain. Modern history has given us a good proof.

Li Chaosheng said, Li Chaolong who was beside him said: "But the county lord, you promised to sell them muskets, why now?"

Li Chaosheng sighed and said: "You have to give people hope. Li Zicheng's self-esteem today and his confidence in his own strength have been destroyed by us. If we don't give him a better hope, how can he have any thoughts?" Fighting with Daming, so I used the musket as an incentive to make him think that he can get closer to us, but in fact the distance will only get bigger and bigger."

There were many reasons why Li Chaosheng sold the musket to Li Zicheng. One was to give him hope, and the other was to destroy the internal hematopoietic mechanism of Li Zicheng's rebel army.

The flintlock gun is not a high-end gadget. During this period, a man named Bi Maokang once drew a self-generating musket. Everyone basically understands the principle, and through unremitting efforts, Lan Tian blocked the technology of the flintlock gun for six years. It's been an incredible thing for seven years.

Moreover, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. The samples of this flintlock gun have been circulated for a long time. Presumably in a year, or even half a year, Li Zicheng could imitate the flintlock gun, so that Li Zicheng would have his own hematopoietic ability, which is not what Li Chaosheng would like to see.

So it’s still the same as the beautiful country. If you want it, I’ll give it to you. Don’t bother making it. When I want to hit you one day, I can clearly know your firepower equipment, and even your gun is broken. They all have to be repaired by us, and the number of firearms manufactured by any factory here in one day can catch up with your entire inventory. How do you compare with us?
Military fans should know that the war is actually a country's manufacturing industry. If you blow up my five hundred planes today, I will build another thousand tomorrow. How do you compare with me?Is this the truth?

Therefore, Li Chaosheng can't afford to pay for this deal, and Li Chaosheng's quotation to Li Zicheng is also for the same reason. For the price of one musket in Lantian, Lantian can use this money to make five flintlock guns of the same model, but if Li Zicheng relies on His craftsmen rubbed it by hand, and it is estimated that one can only be made at twice the price, so it is quite uncomfortable to force Li Zicheng to buy only Lantian muskets, and to give him a limited number.

Even the new artillery is the same. Li Chaosheng drew a big cake for Li Zicheng and told him, if you give me a province, I will give you the latest artillery in Lantian. Li Zicheng must know what a artillery is not good for. Ah, so he will find a way to develop it, but he doesn't have a mature industry like Lantian at all, and he can't cast the artillery in one piece, so the new artillery is like a castle in the air to him, and he will soon collapse and find that there is no way to imitate it.

And the worst thing is that the most powerful thing about the new artillery is the reform of the shells, but Li Chaosheng only promised to give them the artillery, but did not promise to distribute the shells to them. At that time, they will be surprised to find that the artillery is good, but its power is not enough. Not that strong!

And Li Chaosheng didn't say anything about this matter. The muskets given to Li Zicheng might be returned to him in the end. Li Zicheng was just using his money to support his troops.

(End of this chapter)