Zhan Shibang kept shaking his head and said: "Being an official, hehe, I'm not interested, it's just that you get what you pay for, since you want my things, how can it be possible without paying the price, as for those empty so-called official titles or something, don't take them out to be funny, don't say anything else, now do you dare to run over to other places in the south of the Yangtze River, the past is death, and the soldiers in Nanjing, I feel that they really can't be moved." ”

Not only can it not be moved, these days, whether it is mobilizing the people in the city, or coercing and luring those soldiers to fight hard, the effect is very poor, although the common people are a group of stupid humans who need to be educated in the eyes of these readers, and they have not been educated well for hundreds of years, and they still need to be high-ranking people for tens of thousands of years, so there is a little possibility of success.

The long-term suppression has turned these ordinary people into a group of cowards and cowards who are afraid of death, because those who dare to be tough with the scholars and officials have either fallen into the grass, or have been taken into house slaves, or become thieves, otherwise, who will endure such a day?

If it weren't for the instructors who taught those family members to use grenades to tie them up and then carry out large-scale explosions according to the drill rules and prior instructions, if it was a normal engagement with the enemy, perhaps a veteran brought by Li Dingguo from Sichuan would have been enough to kill a group of so-called GIs in Nanjing.

It is only relying on this firearm, but the situation is already quite critical, and the fundamental difference lies in the initiative of both sides.

Li Dingguo is worthy of crawling out of the pile of corpses in the turmoil in Shaanxi, even if it is only a few days, for the displaced people who have been collected under the city of Anqing, they have also selected people who have suffered enough and are desperate for life, and it doesn't matter whether they are fighting or not.

If it is an old brother who has come from the Shaanxi period, and needs several taels of silver a month to satisfy, they only need to give a chance to plunder at will, as well as enough dry food, and dare to work hard, and Li Dingguo's side is getting stronger and stronger, the real reason is also very simple, there are countless ships on the Yangtze River, and there are many warehouses and houses made by merchants who are greedy for convenience on the riverside, as a means of accumulating wealth, Nanjing is indeed rich enough.

Just those dozens of boats of rice are enough to recover the cost of this dispatch, and there is even a surplus!

This is almost completely different in the morale of the two sides, on the one hand, "the brothers rushed with me, grabbed money, food, robbed the girls, and grabbed things and everyone shared them equally," on the other hand, "you cheap animals give me the money, and the silver that has been robbed and rewarded will be taken away, leaving only some scum for you." ”

As for the looting of the officials and soldiers, I'm sorry, it may be possible to play like this against the poor mountain villages that have no backing, but if there are gentry everywhere here, maybe the beggars in a certain neighborhood may be a certain main person as a backer, and a slightly larger shop, the participation and support of the gentry behind it may be several.

There is no way, in a system where there is no law and Confucian scholars can rely on their privileges to exploit others at will, those who work hard and accumulate money are bastards, and sooner or later the family will be ruined by others.

So the rest are all backstaged, which is naturally to provide the benefits of the big head, so it creates a monopoly and high cost, which is why Li Xiangqian found that there are no officials in Jiangnan who dare to resist their unhealthy behavior! Because such an official has already been killed in the corruption of my Ming officialdom.

"Actually, it's not impossible to help you defend Nanjing, but what about the benefits, the one million taels of silver you promised hasn't arrived yet."

"Seeing that millions of people in this city are about to be slaughtered, you still only think about benefits, it is really ......"

"Hey, hey, we are low-class businessmen in your eyes, aren't we only scholars who have noble morals, since you refuse to ask for my help, you can go home, kill all the offspring and concubines, and then wear beautiful clothes, write hoarse articles, and then commit suicide, asking the lowly ordinary people in your eyes to protect you, but we are businessmen, by the way, what do you Confucians like to say every day? By the way, repay grievances with virtue, others slaughter and rape you, not only can you not resist, but you have to send your granddaughter over, that is the true nature of Confucianism! ”

Zhan Shibang kept talking, and at the same time took out some photos: "These, the soldiers brought by Xiao Zuo and Xiao Li are poor men who are about to die of poverty in Hubei and Sichuan, and they can't see rich and noble people, you see, what people like is to nail the girl to the door panel, and then dozens of big men take turns to serve, hi ......"

In fact, the really bad military discipline is the so-called officers and soldiers under Zuo Mengeng, as well as those homeless people, and no one will break this point.

"Repay grievances with virtue."

"Doing business is about integrity," Li Xiangqian said lazily to the separated Shaanxi man: "I did say that I don't want to conflict with you, but the premise is that you don't become an obstacle to peace, and you want to become a team with construction strength, but what about you, don't cook, don't seed oil, and have no universal value." ”

"This gentleman, now our brother is being killed by the firearms you sold!"

"Ahem, the export products of our northern heavy industry are in line with the export law, and all the business carried out in Jiangnan is purely civilian, please don't listen to the wind or rain, for the rumors, the group will investigate its legal responsibility! Those grenades are actually used to blow up fish and extinguish fires, so you can't ruin our reputation with false rumors! ”

The man looked at the lazy Li Xiangqian, before he went ashore, he was searched all over his body and could not hold a weapon, but if he was given a chance, he would dare to go over and kidnap this villain.

Not to mention anything else, several of his brothers who had lived and died together for many years had died on the firearms provided by the other party.

However, he covered his eyes well and said: "What conditions do you want, how much money and wealth, you can open a house at will, this is Nanjing City." ”

"Of course I know it's Nanjing City, but, your way of looting, there are one million taels, and it's already the limit to get 100,000, it's too wasteful, if you really have to scrape the bottom, then you can't kill chickens and take eggs, but take your time, you have to publicize more, marry a man who spoils you as a daughter, see if he loves you or not, just see how much money he spends on you, you don't buy me lipstick, you don't love me."

The man was a little confused, but Li Xiangqian ignored him and said: "My conditions are very simple, leave Zuo Mengeng behind, you go and occupy a place by yourself, as long as you don't slaughter or rob, and slowly get rich after the occupation, I have no interest in helping Nanming's wastes to administer justice, however, Zuo Menggeng's kid has killed too many people in Wuchang, and he has recruited too many thieves, I know that Li Dingguo is quite clean at present, so it is still acceptable to keep one." ”

"Are my people treacherous?"

"Come on, you just bring the words to me, let me think about it, Yangzhou and Jiangyin, as long as he promises not to slaughter the city, although he will occupy it."

"Are we going to give up this Nanjing?"

"You Daxi, it's just that the zero-sum game every day makes the brain ossified, obviously I told Li Dingguo, overseas has ten times the wealth of China, you don't take it, you have to mess around in a place like Jiangnan, so let's do it, two benefits, he can choose at will, or, after the fight, he can be officially recognized by us and become a political entity of the Jiangnan warlords, and he can buy arms from us, or, you can give up the territory in Jiangnan, I can lead the way and provide grain and grass, you go to Zhancheng to fight a piece of the worldIf nothing else, I can give you a big stake. ”

Li Xiangqian threw a map, at this time, on that map of Southeast Asia, on the mark of Quang Nam Province, there were already many places that were under the direct or indirect rule of the elders, but it was almost impossible to carry out in other directions, and the cost of official promotion was too high, and the elders still felt that it was good to push them overseas.

Since Li Dingguo is out of Sichuan, he should not go back, as for how to go, it still depends on their own choice.

"You mean, you can give us those firearms?"

"It's for sale, it's not my business."

Li Xiangqian calculated from the bottom of his heart that as long as the price code was raised, then he didn't care about the diffusion problem, and the extent to which the power and shelf life of the export version of the weapon would be reduced was also a question.

There was a hint of joy in the man's eyes, but he immediately switched back, it was not something he could decide.

"First of all, let me introduce, although I don't have many people here, but it's really not something you can deal with, your ship is too fragile, you also saw how that small boat was blown up, didn't you say, let Li Dingguo hang on his own boat...... Okay, go downstream by yourself, as for Yangzhou or Jiangyin, it depends on his choice. ”

Li Xiangqian calculated the reactions of all parties in Nanjing, wiped his sweat, although the hottest summer has passed, the weather is still very, very hot, and this scorching heat is also very uncomfortable.

"Okay, now wait for how Li Dingguo chooses, I will go to block the Yangtze River tonight, anyone who dares to run upstream, drive them away, Lao Zhan, what about you, don't be afraid to scare them, these literati, you imagine their discipline, courage, and ability to be lower than your lowest level, in a word, as long as you protect their official positions, you can let them continue to exploit the common people, what Confucianism, what three outlines and five constants, all are bullshit."

"They are obviously colluding with Li Dingguo's side, oh no, it should be communication, but it is still difficult for the two sides to negotiate, with my support, the idea of these literati is to let Li Dingguo be their servant, and then learn from Song Jiang's good example, it is estimated that he and we will fight to the death, but Li Dingguo still wants to take Nanjing."

"He, the idea is good, but in Nanjing, once it is defeated, the entire Nanming will not only be leaderless, but it will definitely not be in our interests if it is destined for civil war, not to mention anything else, business will not be done."

Zhan Shibang said slowly: "The worst result should be the collusion between Nanming and Li Dingguo, and our chance to start is almost gone." ”

Li Xiangqian said: "It's very difficult, it's almost impossible for Confucianism to give up the idea of treating lower-class people as animals, for a big Western army like Li Dingguo, even if it is exhausted, it is also twisted and pinched to divide some official positions, at this time Zhang Xianzhong is not dead, it is almost impossible for Li Dingguo to surrender so easily, of course, I don't care if he surrenders, now, there are three parties in the chess game, we, Li Dingguo's side, and Nanjing's side, among which Li Dingguo has Zuo Menggeng's clamp inside, and Nanjing's internal mountains are numerous, and it's not so easy to unite. ”

Zhan Shibang said: "However, it is best to increase the number of people in Nanjing as soon as possible, it is best to increase the number of people in Nanjing, those family members have lost a lot of personnel, grenades will explode, and there are many cases of hurting their own people, and Li Dingguo's side had better weaken the offensive a little, otherwise it will soon be unable to withstand it." ”

"It's a waste of wood."

Li Xiangqian understands that under a system like the Ming Dynasty, there is really no one in ten thousand who is willing to die for such a system, in fact, the main force that really goes south is often the Han army, and in the later period, the Eight Banners are mainly used to supervise the war and grab credit, and the real war is still the traitor army, and some people deliberately urge the traitor army to pile up the corpses with corpses.

In this case, how can there be a war if you don't have enough to eat?

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were indeed some people who hoped to reform politics, whether it was those Confucians who refused to pay taxes or the vassal kings who occupied the fields, to reduce some of their own plundering and give the common people a way to live.

But the landlord's family also had no surplus grain.

You are not hungry and weak, you almost starve to death, how can you let the masters of Confucianism, morality and people are too addicted? People stand in front of you, bring you the leftovers stained with his saliva, just waiting for you to kneel on the ground, thank Master Xiucai for his great kindness, and then return to the study, excitedly record his accumulation of virtue and good deeds, and then continue to find ways to occupy other people's property with peace of mind.

This is the issue of everyone's interests, impassionedly shouting that environmental protection is not good, and it is difficult to protect a small life, but the temperature of the air conditioner is lowered for a while, and it is uncomfortable.

After coordinating for a long time, through the intelligence of the Zhan Shi Gang in the city, as well as Li Xiangqian's drone taking pictures, the battle table at this time was compared, and Li Dingguo currently took the initiative, and after gradually moving the cannon to the city, combined with the captured gunpowder, bombarded the city, although the killing effect was suspicious, but the blow to morale could be said to be fatal.

Under the bad ideas of the high-ranking staff from the Zhan Shi gang, many roads followed the good example of Paris, blocking the barricades, having enough grenade tubes, and the two sides were in a stalemate, but no matter how time you looked, it was not on the side of Nanjing.

But Li Dingguo's pressure suddenly increased.

In the past two days, Zuo Mengeng has almost not been there, in the end, after taking the initiative, he urged his soldiers to loot, and by the way, Zuo Mengeng lived the days of the wine pond meat forest, which Zuo Mengeng is better than the captain of the transportation brigade.

(End of chapter)