After sending Duolong Ao and others out of the city, Li Xian returned to the state office, invited Zhizhou Fan Jin out, and talked about the negotiation with the Tartars. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"What? Tartar for a million taels of silver, a thousand pigs, five hundred cattle, and a thousand sheep as compensation for the withdrawal of the troops? Fan Jin asked in surprise.

Seeing Fan Jin's surprised look, Li Xian described the negotiation process.

Fan Jin really didn't want to send so much silver to Tartar in vain, but what Li Xian said also made sense, the defenders of Zhuozhou were only more than 3,000 people, and even Zhao Guohua's volunteers added up to less than 10,000 people.

After pondering for a while, Fan Jin frowned and asked, "Having said that, but this is too much, pigs, cattle and sheep are still easy to handle, what about one million taels of silver?" Where did you find such a large sum of silver? ”。

"This ...... This" Li Xian was asked, his mouth wide open, unable to answer.

At that time, he was in a hurry to negotiate and did not carefully consider where the money would be raised, but now when Fan Jin asked, he couldn't say it.

After being silent for a while, Li Xian said: "If you really can't do it, you can only collect five years of taxes in advance." ”

"It's absolutely not going to work." Zhao Guohua objected loudly.

Fan Jin lowered his head and didn't speak, looking thoughtful, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Looking at Zhao Guohua, Li Xian said: "Brother Zhao, we can't do anything either, in order to protect Zhuozhou." That's all it takes, it's better to have a life than not to have a life. ”

Zhao Guohua said: "You are right, life is better than no life, but how can you be sure that the Tartars will withdraw their troops after receiving the money?" What will you do if the Tartars take a million taels of silver and do not withdraw their troops? ”

"Oh? This...... No......" Li Xian hesitated.

This possibility is not impossible, if the Tartar really did not withdraw from the army after receiving the money, but continued to ask for money, then he Li Xian would have no face to live, and there was only one way to hang his neck.

Zhao Guohua said: "The Tartars are greedy and discredited, they invaded the Ming Dynasty, in order to rob the population and wealth of the Ming Dynasty to enhance their strength, if you hand over a million taels of silver, they will think that Zhuozhou is very rich, and it will strengthen their greed to seize Zhuozhou, but will not easily let go of Zhuozhou." ”

Hearing this, Fan Jin nodded and said, "This makes sense, it's true,"

"Then what is the best way for Captain Zhao?" Li Xian asked

After walking around the house a few times, Zhao Guohua stopped and said word by word. "My opinion is to wait for change."

Hearing this, the two of them were confused, and Li Xian looked at Zhao Guohua understandingly

Fan Jin hurriedly arched his hand and asked, "Captain Zhao, can you explain it clearly, the old man really doesn't understand." ”

Zhao Guohua smiled slightly and said: "The so-called delay is to delay the payment of money, you can't not pay it, but you can't pay more, so that the Tartar will be angry but won't be angry, and you will wait for change." In addition, Lord Fan pretended to be seriously ill and unconscious, no one in the state government presided over official business, and Li Shoubei had no right to collect tax money, so he could only slowly make up his mind. ”

"Will this work?" Fan Jin asked suspiciously.

Zhao Guohua said: "There are not many troops outside the Tartar City, they dare not attack again, in order to seize Zhuozhou, we must move troops to support, as long as we show an obedient attitude, he will definitely not move reinforcements to attack." The Tartars will not stay in Daming for too long, and they will withdraw their troops after a period of burning, killing and looting, as long as they are dragged until they withdraw their troops, it will be our victory. ”

"How can you show obedience?" Li Xian asked.

Zhao Guohua said: "Didn't we capture a group of Tartar soldiers and 220 followers, tomorrow the Tartar comes, Li Garrison can tell him, in order to show our sincerity, we can release their captured people in batches, as for the matter of silver, it will be delayed, and if it can't be delayed, we will pay 5,000 or 10,000 yuan, the silver for the down payment, from the silver donated by those merchants and squires some time ago, if it is not enough, we will talk about it then." ”

"Good. Just do what Captain Zhao said. Fan Jin said happily.

After discussing for a while how to receive the Tartar messenger tomorrow, the three of them parted ways.

At noon the next day, Duolong Ao and a few retinues came haughtily, and Li Xian welcomed him in.

After entering the state office and sitting down, he looked at Li Xian triumphantly, and Duolong Ao said: "Li Shoubei, through my efforts, the lord finally agreed to your conditions." As soon as we get the one million taels of silver you have compensated us, a thousand pigs, five hundred cattle, and a thousand sheep, we will withdraw our troops at once. ”

"Xiaguan Xie too general." Li Xian said, arching his hand.

Looking at him with disdain, Duolong Ao said: "Li Shoubei, we agreed to your conditions, do you also want to show some sincerity?" ”

"I don't know what sincerity you want?" Zhao Guohua asked coldly.

"You return the bodies of our soldiers and officers who died in battle to us for disposal, and return our captured soldiers and officers to us. ”

Hearing this, Li Xianxin said: "Dead Tartars, think about it, those corpses have been cut off, those heads are Lao Tzu's military merits, Lao Tzu is not so stupid to throw away the military merits in vain." ”

Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "The bodies of your soldiers have been burned and cannot be returned." ”

"What? Go up in flames? Duolong Ao raised his eyebrows, his eyes widened and he asked in disbelief.

Nodding, Li Xian said: "Yes, the weather is hot, and I am afraid of causing a plague, so I was burned by the volunteers during the day that day." ”

Unable to bring the bones of the soldiers killed in the war back to Liaodong, Duolong Ao felt sorry, stared at Li Xian in a daze for a while, and saw that he didn't seem to be a fake, so he said: "What about those armors, they should always return to us......

Li Xian said: "I'm really sorry, those armors were also taken away by the militia. ”

Duo Long Ao slapped the table, angrily pointed at Li Xian and provoked: "You are a formal garrison, how can you still be pressed by a small militia leader, you are really incompetent, if it were me, I would have ...... it a long time ago" Speaking of this, he compared a beheading action.

"No way, it's not that I don't want to, I really don't dare, who called other people's subordinates more than me." Li Xian pretended to be scared and said.

Looking at the weak and incompetent Ming army garrison in front of him, Duolong Ao shook his head and asked again: "How many soldiers of our army have been captured by you." ”

"Eighty people were captured, of whom three were Niu Lu Zhangjing, two Niu Lu Mel, and three were divided into Paishku." Li Xiandao.

Hearing this number, Duolong Ao was secretly taken aback, he didn't expect that so many soldiers would be captured, and he asked eagerly, "Where are those captured Qing soldiers and officers now?" ”

"These people are now being held by Zhao Guohua." Li Xian's humble way.

Duolong Ao said: "You go to him and let him release him immediately." ”

"Okay. I'll go find him. Li Xian said and trotted out.

When he arrived at the barracks and saw Zhao Guohua, Li Xian told him about Duolong Ao's request, and after the two discussed countermeasures, Li Xian sat and drank tea for a long time, and then slowly went back to see Duolong Ao.

The tea was changed several times, Duolong Ao drank a stomach of tea, he was already impatient, and when he saw Li Xian walking in with a bitter face, he hurriedly asked, "Why are you only here now?" How's it going? ”

"His guards said that Zhao Guohua was resting and didn't let people in, I waited until now, and he didn't wake up, in order not to make General Duo wait in a hurry, I came back first and talked to the general, I think I won't be able to see him today." Li Xian pretended to be helpless and said.

Looking at him angrily, Duolong Ao got up angrily and left.

After going back, Duolong Ao reported the matter to Yanguli, and Yanguli heard the case and scolded: "This Zhao barbarian is so rude, when I have no one in the Qing Dynasty?" ”

"The prince is angry, for the sake of the million taels of silver, you bear this breath first, and then worry about him when you get the money." Dolon Ao persuaded.

Glancing at him, Yanguli said, "Okay, Benjue will bear with it first." As he spoke, he waved his hand outward.

"Subordinate farewell." With that, Duolong Ao saluted, turned around and went out.

In order to see Zhao Guohua, as soon as the morning dawned, Duolong Ao took people into Zhuozhou and clearly wanted to see Zhao Guohua.

After deliberately grinding for a while, Zhao Guohua and Li Xian came to the state office.

Seeing Duolong Ao, Zhao Guohua said: "I heard that you want to see me, I don't know what is the matter?" Wouldn't it be if you wanted to invite me to a bar? ”

Looking at him with a straight face, Duolong Ao suppressed his anger and asked, "Zhao Manzi, I heard that the captured soldiers of our army are all imprisoned by you, aren't they?" ”

"Yes, there is such a thing." Zhao Guohua nodded in acknowledgement.

"Now I ask you to return our captured soldiers to us. ”

"I'm a Ming person, why should I listen to you? Besides, I'm not so stupid, there are three Niu Lu Zhangjing, two Niu Lu Mele, and three of them are worth the allocation of Shiku, especially Niu Lu Zhangjing and Niu Lu Meler, which are middle-level officers, and I still have to rely on these captives to get promoted and make a fortune, these people are handed over, maybe I can get a garrison to do it. With that, he smirked.

When did the Qing general be so despised Looking at Zhao Guohua's proud appearance, Duolong Ao's eyes flashed with fierce light, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, he really wanted to rush over and punch this Zhao Manzi a few times to relieve his hatred.

In his impression, it seems that few of the Ming generals dare to humiliate the Qing Dynasty in such a face.

"You're not afraid, I'll call in the Qing Dynasty?" Dolon Ao threatened.

Zhao Guohua said indifferently, "What are you afraid of, it's a big deal to break the net, besides, my volunteer brigade is not easy to mess with, and it is not impossible to kill one or two hundred thousand of you again." ”

"Do you have the skills to do this?" Duolong Ao sneered.