Chapter 17: The Failed Laba Feast

Liu Hongchao and Liu Erye, didn't know that he had such a major mission, and directly decided Zhang Xuan's battle strategy against Liu Hongchao. He came from Xiping in a beautiful way.

He was dressed in fresh clothes and angry horses, and he had many followers. On the day of Laba, Shi Shiran entered the city from the north gate of Runing City.

didn't stay at all, so he went straight to the yamen of the Jiedu envoy.

Liu Hongchao came to the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy, looking at the golden splendor of the old Chongwang Mansion, and his heart was full of envy. There is a feeling of wanting to be my own.

Entering the venue, the leaders of the local villages in Runing saw Liu Hongchao and got up one after another, and said, "Second master." ”

For a while, Liu Hongchao looked forward to the brilliance, and nodded one after another, with a feeling of dominating the guests, as if he Liu Erye was the protagonist of this banquet.

Zhang Xuan looked down from the corner of the second floor and saw that everyone was rushing in and greeted Liu Hongchao. Seeing this situation, Zhang Xuan realized that the prestige of the Liu family was in the Runing area.

Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart: "A mere salt dealer, do you think you are Zhang Shicheng?" ”

After a while, people arrived one after another.

Liu Hongchao, as Liu Hongchao's representative, sat at the first table, but with him was Shen Wandeng, and several village owners.

"Yo, this isn't Brother Shen, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you lately?" Liu Hongchao's tone was yin and yang, and he didn't mean to say hello at all.

"Byr and others." Shen Wandeng said: "It's a good life. ”

"That's good, that's good." Liu Hongchao's voice was lowered suddenly, and in a voice that only Shen Wandeng could hear, he said, "Cherish your current life." You're running out of time. ”

"Each other." Shen Wandeng said. But there was some apprehension in his heart. Shen Wandeng himself knew that his strength was not as good as Liu's, and he saw Liu Hongchao so confident at this moment. There was also a trace of doubt in his heart, and he said secretly: "Is it that my conditions are too high?" ”

"Zhang Xuan, the envoy of Guoyi and General Guoyi under the command of the general of Fengtian and the civil and military generals, arrived at the ------" A long chorus dragged the sound of all the voices were suppressed.

With a "brush", all of Zhang Xuan's subordinates around him stood up. Immediately, the little leaders who no one dared to offend also stood up one after another.

After Zhang Xuan came out, the most striking thing was that Liu Hongchao stood up casually.

Of all, the most conspicuous is the one.

"Zhang was ordered by the king to guard Runing, more than a month, I have not seen the virtuous people in Runing, today I saw it, Runing Mansion is really an outstanding person, Zhang did it first for respect." As soon as Zhang Xuan stretched out his hand, Zhang Yuanhaijiang handed over a bowl of wine. Zhang Xuan drank it all, turned over the wine bowl, and sure enough, there was no trickle left.

The people below raised their wine bowls one after another and drank them one by one

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Zhang Xuan saw a few kind words, stopped talking, and handed over the matter to Zhang Qian. I sat down at the first table,

"How is General Liu?" Zhang Xuan and Liu Hongchao greeted each other.

Liu Hongchao said respectfully: "Brother is fine." Although Liu Hongchao is arrogant, he is also a smart person, although he looks down on Zhang Xuan in his heart, but he does not mean not to give Zhang Xuan face in person.

At this time, Zhang Zhen also began to speak, and said: "Now that Runing Mansion has just been built, there is a shortage of officials, so General Zhang asked for the order of King Chuang and decided to recruit a group of officials from Runing to fill the vacancy. Today's meeting is for this purpose. ”

In fact, Zhang Xuancai did not ask Li Zicheng for instructions, but just borrowed Li Zicheng's name.

For a while, some people were a little moved.

Many people, such as Yuan Shizhong and Shen Wandeng, think far-reaching when they place bets, and what should they do when they think of the future? And more people, in fact, are just a mouse's eye, and they can't hold it when they hear about being an official. They were all excited, and for a while, some people began to ask Zhang Zhen for specific details.

There was a cacophony of voices at the banquet.

Zhang Xuan asked Liu Hongchao and said, "Does Brother Ling have any intention of becoming a leader?" ”

Liu Hongchao said: "My brother is already a garrison in Xiping under the command of King Chuang, why don't you have the intention of being a leader?" ”

This is called smart people talking nonsense.

What Zhang Xuan asked, it was clear whether the Liu family had the intention of taking refuge in him, but Liu Hongchao used King Chuang to oppress people, but unfortunately Zhang Xuan never took the official title of Li Zicheng in his eyes.

He understands too well that these foreign officials named by Li Zicheng are simply how much strength you have, so you can seal any official, I'm afraid Li Zicheng doesn't even have a file on his side.

Liu Hong got up and had the official position of Xiping inspection, and sent people to welcome Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng naturally wanted to seal a Xiping garrison. Opposite to the previous Xiping inspection.

Li Zicheng doesn't know how many such officials he has sealed, and he has long forgotten them.

Shen Wandeng sneered and didn't say anything, just drinking.

Zhang Xuan talked to Liu Hongchao for a few more words, and after a few words, Zhang Xuan completely discovered that this Liu Hongchao was really here to eat and drink.

If you ask anything, you have to go back and ask my brother, or rather, I can't be the master, and so on.

Zhang Xuan also knew that it was impossible to get any information from Liu Hongchao today. He didn't have the heart to drink with them here.

Zhang Xuan saw that Zhang Zhen was done, so he excused himself to go to the toilet and came to the back. Asked Zhang Qian: "How is the situation?" ”

"Dozens of stockades have decided to defect to us." Zhang Zhen said: "But I saw that they were all near Runing." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Without this banquet, they would have defected." ”

This is determined by geographical factors. If they don't defect to Zhang Xuan, they will be eliminated by Zhang Xuan sooner or later, so Zhang Xuan didn't take them seriously at all.

"This Laba banquet didn't make any sense." Zhang Xuan announced the failure of this banquet.

"No, General, at least we have confirmed Liu Hongqi's thoughts." Zhang Zhen said.

"What thoughts?" Zhang Xuan said: "Liu Hongchao didn't say anything at all, as if he was just coming here for a drink. ”

"No," Zhang said, "the refusal to communicate is also an idea." Since there is no need to talk, I have to communicate in another way. The general can decide. ”

Zhang Xuan's heart moved, and he said secretly: "There is still a little benefit." ”

Regarding the attack on Liu Hongqi, there are also a little disagreements within Runing. It is a rush attack, and a disagreement with a heavy weight. The most urgent thing is Luo Dai, in Luo Dai's words, it is to discuss something, just go to Xiping City overnight, raid the Xiping City Gate, and take Liu Hongqi down.

However, Zhang Xuan thought that Luo Dai's opinion was too rough and directly rejected it.

Cao Zongyu and Wang Jincai felt that since the opinion decided on the attack, they should proceed as soon as possible. And Zhang Zhen felt that the major affairs of the country of soldiers should be more serious, at least communicate with Liu Hongqi, if you can not use the army, do not use the army, if Liu Hongqi can agree to their conditions and support some grain, grass, salt and iron, then it is okay to sell it with money.

Zhang Zhen is sure of one thing, and that is that the longer the time. The strength of Zhang Xuan's department is also stronger, and every day passes, Zhang Xuan's strength becomes a point greater, so why rush to fight for the short and long of the moment.

At this moment, Liu Hongchao's attitude made Zhang Zhen also consider using force to solve Liu Hongqi as soon as possible.

"In that case, without further ado." Zhang Xuan said to Zhang Yuanhai: "You immediately go and talk about General Cao, General Wang, General Luo, and call them over." ”

"Yes." Zhang Yuanhai said.

The three of them were already at the banquet, but in a matter of moments, they had already arrived.

Zhang Xuan chose a compartment around him, and here, the sound of the banquet outside was faint and almost inaudible.

Zhang Xuan explained the situation and said, "How to attack Liu Hongqi now must be decided. Let's talk about it. What to do? ”

"What should I do?" "Now there's a ready-made solution. That is to detain this second master Liu and let Liu Hong get up to lead people. ”

"Nope." Zhang Zhen first said: "In this way, who will dare to send an envoy in the future?" Absolutely not. ”

"You can't help but think of Liu Hongqi too brotherly." Wang Jincai said: "I think Liu Hongqi probably doesn't want this younger brother's life, after all, his brother's life, how can it be compared to his own life." ”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, how can you let Liu Hongqi come out by himself?" Luo Dai said.

A crisp sound of "pop" came from outside, even in the compartment, it was clearly heard, and then the woman's cry came.

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