Dolgon took the letter and looked at it, the content on it was that most of the materials they had prepared for the Qing Dynasty had been looted by thieves and suffered heavy losses, and they hoped that Fan Wencheng would help them explain the situation to Huang Taiji.

The first is to ask for a favor, because many Manchu orders have not been delivered on time, This is a big sin, and you need to ask Huang Taiji for forgiveness, otherwise their consequences will be very serious.

Secondly, they hoped that the Manchus could send some soldiers and horses to help escort supplies near Zhangjiajie, so as to reduce the attack of thieves.

In the end, they explained the robberies, and they said that some of the robbers spoke with a Guanzhong accent, and they were probably bandits and thieves who ran to the grassland from Shaanxi, and there were also a group of people who had the costumes of Lu Xiangsheng's Xuanfu border army, and they suspected that this was probably a conspiracy by Lu Xiangsheng behind his back.

Dolgon went through the letter, looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "Sir, you mean, there is Lu Xiangsheng's participation in this?" ”

Fan Wencheng said: "Lu Xiangsheng is extremely intelligent, he is not a stupid person, we don't know his methods, and we have to guard against it." ”

Dorgon nodded, "I see, I see. ”

After saying this, Dorgon said, "What is the gentleman's plan for this?" ”

Fan Wencheng shook his head and said: "There is no clever plan, all of this has to wait for the scout to pass the news over, so we can prepare, but Lord Wang, something must have happened in Naturalization City, it is best for Lord Wang to ask His Majesty for the right to transfer troops, this army will set off sooner or later, it is nothing more than whether to appease and suppress, or simply exterminate." ”

Dorgon nodded, "Reasonable. ”

……

Outside the Naturalization City, a team of cavalry stopped on the grassland, looked at the majestic city in front of them, and a scout said, "My lord, this is the Naturalization City." ”

Lu Xianglin sighed at this time: "What a Xiongcheng is stuffed, it is even taller than Xuanfu, such a Xiongcheng, it is not easy to occupy it, if it is attacked, it must be ten times the troops." ”

When the captain of the scout heard this, he said, "Your Excellency, and there are cannons in this city, if there are enough cannonballs, they can stop the invading enemy with cannons." ”

Lu Xianglin couldn't help but write a poem when he heard this: "There is a Xiongcheng on the plug, garrison Han Jialang, talk and laugh to destroy the Tartars, and the cannons bombard the jackals!" ”

"Good poetry, good poetry!"

The scout captain listened to Lu Xianglin's poems and praised them again and again, but Lu Xianglin smiled and said: "Okay, don't pat me on the back, hurry up and call the door, I will meet Li Chaosheng, the magistrate of Lantian County." ”

"Yes."

The scout captain clenched his fists and rode his horse to the naturalization city, and the scout captain came to the city and shouted, "Open the door." ”

At this moment, a head emerged from the city wall and said, "Who are you?" It's not time to open the city. ”

Hearing this, the scout captain said: "Go and tell your county honor, and say that the younger brother of Lord Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, commanded Lu Xianglin to ask for a meeting." ”

When the soldier heard this, he said, "Lu Xianglin? Okay, got it, you wait. ”

After speaking, the soldier turned around and went back to tell someone to inform the county honor, saying that Lu Xianglin was coming.

When the soldier heard this, he immediately straightened up, and then rode his horse into the city, and when he arrived at the city lord's mansion, he told the matter of the matter.

"Huh, Lu Xianglin?"

At this time, Li Chaosheng was eating breakfast, which was quite rich, millet porridge, white flour steamed buns, a plate of small pickles, and dried bacon.

Li Chaosheng took a sip of the porridge and drank it into his stomach and said, "Let them in." ”

"Yes."

The soldier immediately ran down, and then Li Chaosheng said, "Guzi." ”

"Here."

Gu Zi saluted, Li Chaosheng took a mouthful of pickles, ate a mouthful of white flour steamed buns and said, "Inform Master Li Chaohu to meet guests with the City Lord's Mansion." ”

"Ah, Commander, you don't see him?"

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Lu Xiangsheng sent his younger brother to come, and I sent my brother to greet him, this is the same thing, wouldn't I lose my identity if I met him in person?" ”

Gu Zi nodded and said: "That's what I said, he Lu Xianglin has never heard of it, why do you see the army commander, I'll go to Commander Li Chaohu." ”

Gu Zi left, while Li Chaosheng was eating steamed buns, and said with a smile on pickles: "It seems that Lu Xiangsheng is very interested in Naturalization City, since he is in my court, it doesn't matter if he sees it or not." ”

Li Chaosheng was eating, and soon Li Chaohu ran in with a sigh and said, "Commander, commander." ”

Li Chaosheng glanced at Li Chaohu and said, "Sit, have you eaten?" ”

"As soon as I ate it, Guzi said let me go to meet Lu Xianglin?"

Li Chaosheng said: "Yes, people come from afar and need a heavyweight to receive them, you are my cousin, he is Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother, you are equal." ”

Li Chaohu said: "But what did you say when you saw me?" ”

Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "You can say whatever you want, the final core is that the Tartars are here, he sent troops with us to eliminate the Tartars, and when the time comes, the Tartars' materials will belong to us, and the Tartars' heads will belong to them, and then they need to help us bear the reputation of exterminating the Tartars, so let's say that this war is led by Lu Xiangsheng." ”

Li Chaohu blinked after hearing this, and Li Chaosheng said: "It's a simple answer, we don't want fame, we want to be affordable." ”

Li Chaohu said: "Commander, this war is fought, it must be our contribution the most, why do we have to give the surname Lu in the end, you must know that the reputation of killing Tartars spreads, our Lantian will definitely become famous, and then we can attract more people to join our Lantian, this is a good thing!" ”

Li Chaosheng shook his head when he heard this: "We don't need to use this method to attract the people, the people join our Lantian to live a good life, not because our Lantian is militarily strong, although our reputation of killing Tartars is good for our Lantian, but the disadvantage is even greater, the gun shoots the first bird, once the reputation of our Naturalization City spreads, His Majesty in our capital will target us, when the time comes, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong's generation have become the second-level target, although we are not afraid of the imperial court, But let's face up to the imperial court, Gao Yingxiang and these thieves can sit back and reap the profits, but we have become their shields, which is not what I want, and it is not conducive to our development. ”

"So cousin, we still have to show weakness to the enemy now, let the enemy know that we still have some scruples, so that we can paralyze the other party and strengthen ourselves, this is the same as the strategy that Liu Bowen gave to our Ming Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang three hundred years ago, to accumulate grain and slowly become king."

Hearing this, Li Chaohu nodded as if he didn't understand, Li Chaosheng didn't expect him to understand everything, Li Chaohu is a soldier, and a soldier knows how to go into battle to kill the enemy, as for how to fight with people, that is a politician's business, and it has little to do with Li Chaohu.

Li Chaosheng instructed Li Chaohu, although Li Chaohu didn't understand it very well, but as long as he did what Li Chaosheng did, there should not be too much mistake, Li Chaosheng told again: "Cousin, you just need to remember what I said, our two families only fight together, when the time comes, we will drag the Tartars head-on, they will attack the Tartars in the back, after the matter is completed, the seized materials will return to us, they can use the Tartars' heads to exchange the merits to the imperial court, and at the same time let the imperial court allocate funds, understand?" ”

Li Chaohu nodded when he heard this: "Understood!" ”

Li Chaosheng smiled: "Go ahead." ”

"Yes."

Li Chaohu saluted, then turned around and went to the front hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Li Chaosheng stretched his waist at this time and said to Gu Zi: "Make me a pot of tea, I'll go and see what our cousin does." ”

"Yes."

Soon Gu Zi went to pour a cup of tea, and Li Chaosheng took a purple sand handle pot to the back of the main hall of the city lord's mansion, separated by a jade screen, Li Chaosheng sat in the back and drank tea.

Li Chaohu was sitting in front at this time, waiting for Lu Xianglin's arrival.

At this time, Lu Xianglin and his entourage were put into the naturalization city, this time into the naturalization city, Lu Xianglin's eyes widened, this naturalization city is too prosperous, the streets are lined with shops, all kinds of small commodities are everywhere, called to buy and sell, dazzling, its prosperity even exceeds Xuanfu, Datong.

You must know that Xuanfu Datong is an important town, and there are no longer a few merchants in it, and its commercial prosperity is far beyond other places, but compared with here, it is a little insufficient, and the prosperity here is even about to catch up with Zhangjiakou, and Zhangjiakou is prosperous because Zhangjiakou has eight Jin merchants.

The prosperity of the Naturalization City is because the policy here is crazy to pull domestic demand, and at the same time, Ma Tengfei's caravan also plays a very important role, and it is precisely because the caravan has played an exemplary role that the business of the Naturalization City has gradually prospered, and in order to encourage the business atmosphere here, Li Chaosheng has also carried out some commercial tax reduction policies, such as the tax exemption policy for small commodities.

Because of this, more people here have begun to do business, of course, this is also related to the fact that Lu Xianglin took the main road of Naturalized City, the most prosperous street, and other streets are not so prosperous, and other streets are more agriculture and farmers.

Lu Xianglin looked all the way and quickly arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord's Mansion is located in the center of the Naturalization City, flat and stable, sitting in the north and facing south, quite imposing, this was originally a mansion for Dolgon Xiu, so Zhao Shouquan put his mind into it.

Lu Xianglin came to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, and at this time, the guards came out of the City Lord's Mansion to help Lu Xianglin move the horse away, and at the same time came up to escort Lu Xianglin to untie his saber.

Lu Xianglin handed over his weapon, went up the steps to the City Lord's Mansion, and when he arrived at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, the gate of the City Lord's Mansion was opened, and there were guards to guard the left and right, forming the form of an honor guard.

When Lu Xianglin arrived at the door of the main hall, a soldier shouted: "Lu Xianglin, Master Lu has arrived." ”

Lu Xianglin heard this shout and stepped into the house, at this time Li Chaohu got up and took two steps to greet him, hugged his fists and said, "Li Chaohu of Lantian County has seen Master Lu. ”

Lu Xianglin frowned and looked at Li Chaohu and said, "You are not Li Chaosheng. ”

Li Chaohu said: "My county lord is busy with official business today, and I can't see Lord Lu, so my cousin will receive Lord Lu."

Lu Xianglin heard this: "You? I am the commander of Xuanda, the military attache of the third grade, much older than the official of the sixth grade of your county, and now the official is visiting, and he will not come to see him? ”

Li Chaohu's face turned cold when he heard this, who is this kid going to do? Thinking about Li Chaohu, he said: "Zheng Sanpin commander, hehe, Lord Lu is so powerful." ”

Lu Xianglin didn't speak, and Li Chaohu said: "Dare to ask your lord, how many people do you manage as a commander?" ”

Lu Xianglin said: "What is this for?" ”

Li Chaohu said: "If I remember correctly, ten people are a small flag, set up a small flag officer, fifty people set up a general flag officer, a hundred people set up a hundred households, a thousand people set up a thousand households, five thousand households are a guard, set up a commander, and two commanders are in charge of two people, so Lord Lu is a three-grade commander and envoy in charge of more than 5,000 people, and a certain family, now there is no official position, but there are more than 10,000 people in charge below, I am twice as many people as you, I greet you more than enough, I didn't let my subordinate brigade commander pick you up, it is enough to give you face!" ”

Li Chaohu doesn't care about these, you are commanding multiple hammers in Sanpin, and Lao Tzu, a division commander in charge of tens of thousands of people, takes over your command of five or six thousand people, so that you can still pick and choose, which is called shamelessness.

Li Chaosheng listened to Li Chaohu's words in the back at this time, and almost choked on a sip of tea, his cousin is too rigid, won't he be tactful?

But think about it, these soldiers and horses under his command have made themselves arrogant and fierce, and Li Chaohu really didn't look at these armies in the imperial court, so he was so arrogant.

Lu Xianglin was choked with anger, but looking at Li Chaohu's glaring eyes, there was a feeling that he had met a soldier and couldn't explain it reasonably, this was obviously a bastard, although he was born as a scholar and was proficient in military affairs, but he couldn't argue with this kind of unreasonable talk.

But now if you don't reply, you're losing the upper hand, this is the first negotiation, momentum is very important, whoever has the momentum, who has the initiative, this is the weight of the negotiation.

Lu Xianglin thought about it and said with a dark face: "This Li, Master Li, Lu is reasoning with you, why do you say that soldiers and horses are you?" Besides, you have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Lantian District? Why do you have so many soldiers and horses? Is it a rebellion? ”

Li Chaohu snorted coldly when he heard this: "There are many bandits in Shaanxi, there are many thieves, if you want to live, you can't do it without some people, these are all our Lantian group exercises, how can you become a rebel thief in the mouth of Lord Lu, could it be that Lord Lu wants the officials to force the people to rebel?" ”

Lu Xianglin snorted coldly when he heard this: "Lu doesn't dare, but you Lantian group training can't stay in Lantian well, why do you run to the plug?" ”

Li Chaohu laughed when he heard this: "The Ming border army is useless, watching the Tartars build a naturalized city on the plug and don't even dare to let go of a fart, our county respects the country and the people, and is afraid that this military important place will fall into the hands of the Tartars. ”

Lu Xianglin heard this and said: "Hehe, so Lantian County is to win the naturalization city for the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"That's right."

Li Chaohu tilted his head and said, Lao Tzu is for the Ming Dynasty to capture the Naturalization City, hearing this, Lu Xianglin looked at Li Chaohu and said: "Oh, in that case, are our border troops also qualified to garrison the Naturalization City, after all, we are also soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and it is reasonable to garrison the city of the Ming Dynasty, right?" ”

"This!"

Li Chaohu frowned, this is not good, you can't let this group of stinky fish of the border army damage the Naturalization City, but Li Chaohu didn't know how to refute it for a while, just when Li Chaohu didn't know how to say it, he heard someone behind him: "Lord Lu has such a clever mouth!" ”

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