Cao Wenzhao smiled: "Actually, whether they accept our food or not, I don't think it matters, it's not me who is starving, what am I afraid of?" It's just that looking at them one by one hungry and weak, my heart is a little soft, since you, the future Tusi of the Tujia family, don't care, then I don't care. ”

Ma Xianglin's face changed slightly, indeed, it is a good thing that the white pole soldiers do not accept the bribes of thieves, but it is not necessarily a good thing to be hungry.

Cao Wenzhao added: "These five thousand white pole soldiers really don't know how to lift, and they have been following our Zhu Jun's ass like a fart, which is annoying." I was kind enough to give them food, and they also put on a picture of not waiting to see me, hehe, it's just looking for death. A few days ago, we didn't bother to pay attention to them, but now that the main force of our army has arrived, there are more than 20,000 troops, and the vicinity of Mianyang is full of plains, and the mountain warfare advantage of the white pole soldiers no longer exists, and it is really not difficult to eat these 5,000 people. ”

Ma Xianglin's face changed greatly, he knew that Cao Wenzhao was not talking nonsense, although the white pole soldiers were powerful, but once they came to the plain, their advantage in mountain warfare would be gone, and what they could be proud of was only the spirit of fighting to the death and not being afraid of sacrifice, and Zhu Jun was not afraid of death, not necessarily losing to the white pole soldiers.

In the case of equal momentum, the Zhu army has a large number of people, and it relies on the plain, and it has just replenished grain and grass, and the soldiers are well fed, in this case, they can simply bully the five thousand white-pole soldiers casually. The white pole soldier is still following Zhu Jun's ass now, that is really an act of looking for death, and he should flee immediately. It's a pity that Ma Xianglin became a prisoner of the Zhu army, and those Tujia soldiers who respected Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin as heavenly men refused to leave no matter what.

This truth is like Yue Fei's Yue family army back then, if he saw Yue Fei in danger, would Yue family army be willing to leave? Cut them with an axe, and they will not be able to go. Not to mention the Yue family's army, even Zhang Ling's two hundred family soldiers, after Zhang Ling was injured, refused to abandon the main general and flee for their lives. Ma Xianglin also knew that the 5,000 white-pole soldiers under his command would not give up walking by themselves. In fact, these white pole soldiers are not fools. I saw that the main force of the thief army was coming. They must have sensed the danger as well, but they still hung behind Zhu Jun's ass and refused to leave, and they were indeed loyal to the Lord.

Cao Wenzhao said that he would kill him, and he did not frown. But he said that he would eat the five thousand white-pole soldiers. Ma Xianglin suddenly became nervous.

The Tujia are not a very large ethnic minority. Although the white pole soldiers are famous all over the world, the total population of the Tujia family is only about 100,000, for such a small nation. The loss of 5,000 young men is not a trivial matter. Seventeen years ago, in the battle of the Hunhe River, the white pole soldiers lost thousands of people, which greatly reduced the number of young and middle-aged people in the Shizhu Tujia general village, and the Tujia social structure at that time was still an ancient agricultural structure, and the loss of young and middle-aged people meant the loss of a large number of laborers, and in the following years, the Tujia economy suffered a huge blow. Many fertile fields were barren, and countless orphans and widows struggled to survive, and it was not until a few years later, when a new group of young adults grew up, that the Tujia family finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Ma Xianglin may not be very capable in governing politics, it does not mean that he does not understand this truth, he knows very well how many years it will take to lose this 5,000 young and strong Tujia family. He hurriedly shouted, "Don't ...... Don't do anything to my soldiers! ”

Cao Wenzhao looked at Ma Xianglin with a hint of teasing in his eyes: "Why don't we do it?" We are thieves, you are soldiers, you run to stand in my way, and hang behind our ass like little tails, and we are kind enough to send food to make friends with you, but you have to be abused...... Who makes sense of this? ”

Ma Xianglin was speechless.

At this moment, the door of the small compartment where the three people were drinking was pushed open, and a scholar hurriedly walked in. ”

Li Yan didn't look at Ma Xianglin and Zhang Ling, but just hugged his fists at Cao Wenzhao and said: "Leader of the grass, Brother Zhu told you to stop inking here, hurry up and go to the whole army, and prepare to besiege and kill the white pole soldiers......"

Cao Wenzhao hurriedly said: "Hey...... It's not convenient to say this here......"

Li Yan laughed and said, "Aren't Zhang Ling and Ma Xianglin here?" Why not let them hear? Two orders of prisoners only. ”

His arrogant attitude immediately attracted the anger of Ma Xianglin and Zhang Ling, but both of them were wearing shackles on their hands and feet, and there was nothing they could do with this scholar, except for staring.

Li Yan smiled arrogantly: "Eighth Brother Zhu himself led an army in the middle, the generalissimo led an army on the left, and Second Brother Wang led an army on the right. Since they can't be our friends, we can't let them go back to help Qin Liangyu. ”

Cao Wenzhao said "oh" and said, "Okay, I'll go and prepare immediately." After saying that, he really left the wine table, intending to go outside.

Ma Xianglin was really anxious now, he didn't care about the shackles on his hands and feet, he jumped up on the ground, stretched out his hand and grabbed Cao Wenzhao's sleeve, and said loudly: "Wait!" ”

Cao Wenzhao said: "What are you going to do?" ”

Ma Xianglin said: "Don't do anything to the white pole soldiers!" ”

Cao Wenzhao snorted coldly: "You told us not to do it, we won't do it?" Are you Brother Zhu? ”

Ma Xianglin didn't care about so much, and shouted hurriedly: "Take me to see Zhu Ba...... Checkmate. "He originally just wanted to say that he would take me to see Zhu Ba, but then he thought about it, the situation was stronger than people, so he had to endure the sense of humiliation, and added the word general after Zhu Ba.

After a while, Li Yan and Cao Wenzhao brought Ma Xianglin to Zhu Yuanzhang, Ma Xianglin saw Zhu Yuanzhang for the first time, and saw a man younger than himself sitting there, sitting flat and stable, like a mountain. Ma Xianglin is a person who has crawled in the sea of corpses and blood, and his momentum is naturally extraordinary, but in front of this man, he also faintly feels a trace of coercion, as if his murderous aura is heavier than himself.

He couldn't help but shudder in his heart, feeling that the man in front of him was more imposing than any thief leader he had ever seen before, and even better than the big grass leader with his face covered.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang knew why Ma Xianglin came to see him. But he still asked in a deep voice, "What are you looking for me?" ”

Ma Xianglin said: "Don't do anything to my white pole soldiers. ”

As soon as he said this, Xu Renjie, Ma Xiaotian, Red Lady and others who were watching in the hall all laughed, as if they had heard something very funny. Xu Renjie said in a weird manner: "What qualifications do you have to say this to us?" Prisoners under the stairs ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't smile, he sat firmly on the first seat, but frowned slightly and said: "If I don't move them, you have to show some sincerity." ”

Ma Xianglin's face was ugly: "Let me go to see Pemba, and I will order them to return to the stone pillar." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sneered: "After returning to the stone pillar, eat and drink enough, and then kill me again?" Do you think I'm a fool? My army didn't arrive the other day, and they didn't leave. Now my army is coming. You want them to go, and it's not that easy. Besides, will they listen to your commands? Even if you order them to go, as long as you are in my hands. They may not be willing to go back to the pillar. They're going to come against me. ”

Ma Xianglin thought for a moment. This is also true, I can't help but change my face greatly, and I can't find anything to say for a while. He is just a fierce general, not a columnist, and he doesn't understand anything about civilian negotiations. At such a time, it would be strange that he could think of a response.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally figured out that people were deliberately tossing him, wanting to get something out of him, after thinking of this, Ma Xianglin had no choice but to say helplessly: "You say, what conditions do you want to propose......"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't speak, but just looked at Xu Renjie next to him.

Xu Renjie smiled and walked out. He is a businessman, and he is good at bargaining and opening conditions, and today's play is here, so naturally it has been arranged for him to come out a long time ago. Meaning, this is to let him come out and preside over the negotiations. He no longer circled with him, and said coldly: "Write a letter to you Qin Liangyu, just say it...... If you still want your son's life, quit Chengdu. ”

Ma Xianglin snorted coldly and said: "My mother will not be threatened by this kind, even if you send my head, my mother will never compromise with the thief." ”

In fact, Xu Renjie also knew that it should be useless to threaten Qin Liangyu with this method, he just made a random offer first, waited for the other party's counteroffer and then slowly added conditions, and then said: "If you don't have enough heads, what if you add these five thousand white pole soldiers?" ”

Ma Xianglin's face changed slightly, but after the change, he quickly returned to normal: "In the battle of the Hunhe River, thousands of my white pole soldiers fought alone, although they died in battle, none of them gave in, you think that using these five thousand white pole soldiers as a threat can make my mother abandon Chengdu, it is too naïve." If you only mention such conditions, don't say anything about the rest of the people, just kill. ”

Xu Renjie nodded secretly, when discussing how to make conditions to the white pole soldiers in advance, Zhu Bugs asserted that the white pole soldiers did not give in so easily, and it was absolutely impossible to use the withdrawal of Chengdu as a threat, at that time, Xu Renjie and Bai Zhuzhu and others were not very convinced, and this was indeed the case...... He couldn't help but secretly praise Bugling Zhu's vision was very accurate.

Since the tentative conditions cannot be negotiated, then we can only come up with the real conditions set by Zhu Bugs.

Xu Renjie snorted and said: "Actually, Chengdu is a small broken city, my Zhu Jun can take it at will, and I will spare you and the five thousand white-pole soldiers on this condition, if you don't do it, we won't do it......" He said this, hung a long voice, and then hummed: "If we want to have some practical benefits, we will let you and the five thousand white-pole soldiers go." ”

Ma Xianglin hurriedly said: "What benefits?" ”

Xu Renjie said: "Five million catties of grain!" ”

"Silk!" When Ma Xianglin heard this, he immediately gasped, and after a few breaths, he said angrily: "You are really uneasy and kind to arrest me...... It was ...... for the lion to open his mouth and ask for so much food It's shameless. ”

You must know that Shizhu County, where the Tujia family is located, is a very barren place, just like Guangyuan, the soil layer is extremely thin, the hills are continuous, and it is not easy to grow crops. The Tujia people can only harvest about 120 catties of grain per acre of land, and a small village with 100 acres of land can only harvest 12,000 catties of grain a year.

The total population of the Tujia people is less than 100,000, distributed in three or four hundred villages, that is to say, even if all the Tujia people work hard for a year, they may not be able to harvest 500 catties of grain. They still have to make ends meet. They also have to exchange grain for cloth, salt, iron and other daily necessities, that is to say, it will take at least five or six years for all the Tujia people to tighten their belts and gather 5 million catties of grain.

As soon as Zhu Jun opened his mouth, he wanted the accumulation of five or six years of the Tujia family, and whoever this was put on would also scold him for being despicable and shameless.

Xu Renjie smiled: "If you don't want to ransom you with food, then let the Tujia family prepare to collect the corpses, five thousand corpses are enough." ”

Ma Xianglin's face was very ugly, he knew the people of the Tujia family very well, if it was really a condition for Qin Liangyu to lead the white pole soldiers to withdraw from Chengdu. Even if you kill the five thousand of them. Qin Liangyu would not agree, but if he asked for five million catties of grain in exchange for Ma Xianglin and five thousand white pole soldiers, Qin Liangyu might really nod.

The key to this is that the withdrawal from Chengdu City is obviously a betrayal of the imperial court. Qin Liangyu is loyal and patriotic. This kind of thing will never be allowed. However, there is no question of betraying the country in exchange for grain. At best, it can only be said that it is a big loss. As long as the big principles are not wrong, they can endure some losses.

Ma Xianglin knew it, but he wanted to ask for some back. I had to say bitterly: "Five million grains is really too much, let's reduce it a little." ”

"Hmph, no less!" How could Xu Renjie be bargained so easily?

The two pulled their skins for a while, Ma Xianglin faced Xu Renjie, a veteran of shopping malls and an old oil merchant who often bargained with others, he had no means, and he was dizzy after a while, and the harsh conditions of five million grains were also verbally agreed, of course, he didn't use it, and Qin Liangyu had to accept it. But he also knew that as long as the principles were okay, his mother would not object to what he should inherit. Because Ma Xianglin is the orthodox heir of the Shizhu Tu family after all, Qin Liangyu became the Tusi because Ma Xianglin was still young when Ma Qiancheng died, although because of the difference in ability, her position has not been given to Ma Xianglin, but in recent years, Qin Liangyu has been getting older, and it is not appropriate to occupy the position of Tusi anymore, and she also began to slowly transfer the power to Ma Xianglin.

Ma Xianglin agreed to this condition not for himself, but for the sake of five thousand white pole soldiers, the moment he undertook this matter, his heart couldn't help but drip blood, in the next five or six years, the people of the Tujia family were afraid that they would be busy in vain, and all the income had to be handed over to Zhu Ba......

At this time, Xu Renjie suddenly said again: "Ma Xianglin, although you promised to ransom you with five million catties of grain, but the grain output of your Tujia family, we are afraid that we will have to wait a lot of time to get the five million taels of grain, right?" ”

Ma Xianglin didn't hide it, and hummed: "It's going to take about five years, or six years." ”

When Xu Renjie heard this, he was immediately dissatisfied: "Oh, it will take five or six years?" How could we wait so long? Besides, we will raise you for the next five or six years, whose food and drink will you have? ”

It's okay if he doesn't say this, but as soon as he says this, Ma Xianglin suddenly thought of a question, according to this, it will take five or six years for Zhu Ba to put me back? I have been imprisoned by the thieves for five or six years, and this day is not a life of humiliation?

Xu Renjie shouted: "You can't get five million catties of grain as soon as possible?" ”

Ma Xianglin said indifferently: "Do you think that five million catties of grain are five million catties of stones?" Just get it out...... If you want a stone, it's convenient, I'll find a hill and have someone dig it for you......"

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been sitting upright, finally spoke, and he said in a deep voice: "We don't have time to wait for five or six years, let's not talk about this condition, Wang Er, Generalissimo, Dacao, you lead the troops out and kill the 5,000 people for me." ”

"Yes!" Several leaders responded at the same time.

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's murderous words, Ma Xianglin suddenly became anxious again.

At this time, Xu Renjie, Wang Er, and Cao Wenzhao all walked out, and Ma Xianglin knew that they were going to transfer troops to kill the white pole soldiers, and he panicked, but he didn't know what to do. Suddenly, Li Yangongzi, a scholar standing next to him, spoke, and he said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu...... I have a way for them to get five million catties of grain to give to us within a year. ”

"Oh? Within a year? Zhu Yuanzhang's face still maintained a murderous aura, and he hummed: "If it's only one year, I can barely wait." ”

Ma Xianglin was also surprised, even if the Tujia people don't eat or drink, they can't get five million catties of grain a year? What does this man mean?

I only heard Li Yangongzi say: "The yield of grain planted by the Tujia people now is about 120 catties per mu, and the yield of corn used by our Zhu Jun is exactly five or six times that of theirs...... If the Tujia people were allowed to grow corn, wouldn't they be able to grow five or six times as much grain a year? So what does it look like...... The grain that they can hand over in five or six years can be handed over in a year as long as they switch to corn. ”

"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face stretched slightly: "This plan is okay...... But well...... The Tujia people don't know how to grow corn at all, so you can only think about it, and you can't realize it. ”

Before Li Yan could speak, Ma Xianglin hurriedly shouted: "Reality! Totally realistic! Let's just plant corn instead...... You send a few people to teach us how to plant corn, and our Tujia family immediately changes to corn planting, and we will hand over five million taels of grain a year, and you don't kill my people......"

Hearing him roar like this, Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Yan couldn't help but glance at each other, both of them saw a smile in each other's eyes that was not easy to detect, and both of them were thinking in their hearts: Ma Xianglin is indeed a bear child who is very easy to deceive, such an obvious strategy, he will also be fooled.

The impregnable barrier of the Tujia family has finally been torn a little bit here, and with this beginning, if you exert a little more force in the future, you can dig this hole bigger and bigger. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )