"Brother, brother."

Xuanfu, Lu Xianglin ran into Lu Xiangsheng's house quickly, shouted at the top of his voice, Lu Xiangsheng was looking through the documents there, and when he saw that his younger brother, who had always been calm, was so anxious, he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Lu Xianglin looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Brother, I just got the Lantian line report, Jiannu and Shuorui Prince Dolgon, personally commanding two white flags and 30,000 horses, set off from Shengjing, and arrived in Guihua City after eighteen days. ”

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned when he heard this: "This news was notified by Lantian?" ”

Lu Xianglin said: "Yes, Lantian cavalry, I just entered the city early this morning. ”

That's right, Li Chaosheng informed Lu Xiangsheng that he was using cavalry, and the cavalry came to report, which was supposed to be twenty days, and the cavalry ran for two days, so there were eighteen days left, so the cavalry notified it as eighteen days.

Lu Xiangsheng listened to Lu Xianglin's words and said: "Lantian's fine work has infiltrated Shengjing? ”

Lu Xianglin was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "It should be." ”

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng looked at Lu Xianglin and said, "What about our meticulous work?" ”

Lu Xianglin smiled bitterly: "I haven't even come out of Shanhaiguan, and it's not a critical location." ”

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng sighed: "How big the gap is." ”

Lu Xianglin also sighed, but immediately recovered and looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Brother, let's?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "On the hour, prepare the military horses, prepare the baggage, this time the Tartars come to the Naturalization City, we can't watch, although Li Chaosheng said the credit, I don't care very much, but at this time when the mountains and rivers are in danger, whoever attacks the Tartars, we will help whom, this is the great righteousness." ”

"Yes."

Lu Xianglin nodded in response, and Lu Xiangsheng said: "Select elite 10,000 people from the Tianxiong army, and I will personally command and fight with the Tartars." ”

After Lu Xiangsheng finished saying this, he put down the brush in his hand, looked at the armor and sword on the shelf on the side, and the eldest husband should be holding a three-foot sword to guard the border for the country and open peace for the people, which is Lu's lifelong wish.

Lu Xianglin turned around and left, preparing to count the men and horses, and by the way, preparing heavy gunpowder, especially gunpowder, they wanted to see how much was left to support a war, after all, the gunpowder in Xuanfu Datong needed to be reviewed by the eunuch Gao Qiqian sent by the imperial court.

And although this Gao Qiqian is Lu Xiangsheng's overseer, he is cowardly and afraid of war, and has many quarrels with Lu Xiangsheng, in a fit of anger, Gao Qiqian ran to Xi'an Mansion to enjoy happiness on the grounds of preparing for the army, but he pinched Lu Xiangsheng's military lifeline, especially gunpowder, and he was even more unwilling to give Lu Xiangsheng more.

Lu Xiangsheng had no choice, even if he wrote a book, because Gao Qiqian was His Majesty's most trusted eunuch, he couldn't move Gao Qiqian, and he might even anger Gao Qiqian, after all, now Gao Qiqian still provided Lu Xiangsheng with some gunpowder, and the 35,000-strong troops, he at least provided about 15,000 people with a full amount of gunpowder, so that the 35,000 people could shoot one or two shots each.

Lu Xiangsheng has no way to do this, although Wei Zhongxian was eliminated, it seems that His Majesty no longer reuses the eunuchs, but in recent years, with the blows of Liaodong and Shaanxi to His Majesty, His Majesty has become more and more distrustful of the Wenchen Group, so he began to use eunuchs again, and the big eunuchs Cao Huachun, Wang Dehua, and Gao Qiqian are all checks and balances used by Chongzhen.

Except for the Wang Chengen in the court, who is clean and self-conscious, not very concerned with government affairs, of course, only relatively speaking, Wang Chengen still has rights, and his status is noble, and he is a person close to Chongzhen, but Chongzhen is determined to be a Ming monarch, the lord of Zhongxing, with Wei Zhongxian's experience, Chongzhen is still very strict with the big eunuchs around him, so Wang Chengen does not have much interference in politics.

However, the political environment of the Ming Dynasty is that the civil officials are desperately suppressing the eunuchs, as long as the eunuchs are suppressed, the civil official group will inflate itself and begin to do some things, at this time the emperor will notice the signs, and he will send the eunuchs down, and the eunuchs are actually a tentacle stretched out by the imperial power to balance the civil official group.

But he is not a selfless eunuch, they go down to make benefits and money, so they bring disaster to the place again.

Throughout the period of Chongzhen's commotion at the end of the Ming Dynasty, one of them is obviously to change the ruling unit back and forth, for a while, all the eunuchs were reprimanded, or the court was withdrawn, and after a while, the civil official group was more jumpy, and the eunuchs were sent out to manage the civil official group again.

After such repeated operations, Emperor Chongzhen thought that he was manipulating slightly, thinking that he had a full grasp of the court situation, but he was a fool, and it was precisely because of his such a desperate toss that it led to the accelerated collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

A place, first a civil official to govern, civil officials in office, will definitely formulate some relatively good policies, followed by start to make money, and when the money is almost done, not so hungry and thirsty, start to slowly govern the place, after all, the place is too poor, poor ghosts, you just crush the bone marrow, how much can you suck, you still have to find a way to make them rich, it's okay.

But what did Emperor Chongzhen see at this time, what he saw was that when the civil officials arrived at the place, they began to collect money, and they began to fish the people, this is a bastard, the civil officials are really not credible, or send the eunuchs down, these diligent guys who have been watching themselves should be more reliable than these civil officials.

So it is the eunuch to supervise the place, the same way, the first thing the eunuch did when he took office must be to take out the policies formulated by the original civil officials and denigrate them, but these policies are actually good, but His Majesty sent himself down, it must be that these dog things are not doing well, so the eunuchs take out the good policies and bad policies, and take them out as negative examples, criticize them, and then formulate new policies in a daze.

Then began to make money, but this place has just recuperated and is ready to cut a stubble of leeks, but the leeks did not grow, and the eunuchs came to cut them, so the local people were more severely exploited, and the eunuchs saw that the exploitation was almost over, and they should recuperate and prepare to grow up and cut a stubble.

At this time, someone will tell the emperor what the eunuch did, the emperor Longyan was furious, the dog is over, and the dog eunuch is not obedient, sure enough, the eunuch is not reliable, like Wei Zhongxian, thinking that the emperor began to reuse the civil official group again, and began to let the civil officials re-govern the place.

When the civil officials took office, they were still the same as the old three, overturning the previous policy, making money, formulating new policies, and then they were reported again, and the eunuchs came to power!

So repeatedly, how thick the family foundation of the people of the Ming Dynasty is enough to toss so much, resulting in the people being poor, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is declining rapidly, the court is in a hurry to pay taxes, and the court has no money.

The court has no money, but the border army doesn't care, we are desperate, don't give us money, you are a bastard, if you don't pay us, we won't do it.

The border army made trouble, and the emperor could only pity Baba and ask the household department for money, and the household department said, we have no money, and our financial budget this year is tight, or Your Majesty will come out of the treasury, so the emperor can take money from his own private treasury to fill this big hole.

But how much money can be enough for a country to toss, so he pushed the poor emperor into a desperate situation step by step, and in the end, he couldn't even get the salary of King Qin's army of one million taels.

Ran to the court crying and shouting for donations from hundreds of officials, these ministers who have beautiful wives and concubines at home, and are richer than the emperor, you are one hundred taels, I am twenty taels, and they all say that they are poor.

Even the emperor's father-in-law, Zhou Guozhang has an old man who has nothing to look at, nothing, don't look at the old man, and then Queen Zhou looks at her father really doesn't like it, at this time she doesn't play a leading role in the role, when to take the lead and play an exemplary role, so Queen Zhou gave her own money of 10,000 taels of silver to Zhou Guozhang.

And said clearly, tomorrow when His Majesty calls for donations, you take the initiative and take the lead, so that the ministers can follow suit, Zhou Guozhang agreed on the surface, but the next day the court only donated 5,000 taels of silver.

This money also made Zhou Guozhang eat a kickback himself, and the angry Queen Zhou was about to break off the father-daughter relationship with Zhou Guozhang at that time.

As for the hundred officials, they continue to cry poor, they have no money, Your Majesty, you see that the old minister's clothes are patched, and he has no money to change them.

After such a toss, Li Zicheng entered the city, and the head of the city changed the king's flag, and then the civil and military officials knelt at the gate of the city to greet him, welcome, welcome, warmly welcome.

Li Zicheng is also very happy, okay, they are all good courtiers, since this is the case, who will report the military expenses of the army.

No money!

This time, the civil and military officials are still using the same tricks to deal with Chongzhen, I have no money, what can you do with me? What can you do with me?

But this time they miscalculated, Li Zicheng is not Chongzhen, he is a thief and bandit, if you play a scoundrel with him, then he will let you know who is the father.

Lao Liu, you go!

Under an order, Liu Zongmin took a stick to raid the house door to door, Lao Tzu is playing with his life, you still want to fool the past so simply, you don't treat me Liu Zongmin as a person.

So, under a stick clamp, crying dad and shouting mother, a capital copied out 70 million taels of silver, which was the financial revenue of the late Ming Dynasty for three years, you must know that the Ming Dynasty could collect 20 million taels of taxes a year, 70 million taels, three and a half years of taxes.

Seventy million taels of silver were hidden in the homes of these ministers, but Chongzhen was short of one million taels to let Wu Sangui return to King Jingqin, and at that time, the Ming Kingdom would definitely continue, and then, one million taels of silver forced an emperor to death, which is really sad.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen is useless, if he is smarter, he can take these ministers first, get the money first, and the rest is much easier, but unfortunately, Emperor Chongzhen's ability is limited, and he has no power to return to the sky.

Lu Xianglin counted the gunpowder in the army, and found that the amount of gunpowder was seriously insufficient, only enough to prepare 5,000 people to shoot three times, as for the artillery, the Xiongjun only had 50 red-coated cannons throughout the day, and this time he definitely couldn't bring all of them, Lu Xiangsheng was going to take half of them, and 25 guns, and in addition, each cannon could only be allocated two shells, and they were all solid shells.

The lethality of solid bullets is very limited, and they are mainly used for siege and bombardment of city walls.

After counting the number, Lu Xianglin went back and told Lu Xiangsheng about the situation, Lu Xiangsheng said: "It can only be like this, tell the generals to prepare, ten days later, you take them to the grassland to ambush first, we will definitely inflict heavy losses on the enemy in cooperation with Lantian this time." ”

Xuanfu Datong once again made a noise.

At this time, the Naturalization City was also preparing, and at this time, Li Chaosheng of the Naturalization City was inspecting the army's baggage, and Li Chaosheng would come to the army to inspect this work before the war.

However, the army is so big that Li Chaosheng can't inspect them one by one, so Li Chaosheng will generally randomly inspect three troops, and no one knows which three troops will be randomly inspected in advance, and what is prevented is fraud.

Today, Li Chaosheng inspected the independent regiment under the command of Li Chaohu, under the command of Qian Twelve, Qian Twelve, Qian Twelve, at this time, carefully accompanied Li Chaosheng, don't look at Qian Twelve's brave and brave mess, but when he saw Li Chaosheng, it was a mouse and a cat, and he was very honest.

Li Chaosheng walked in front of the energetic soldier at this time, touched the soldier's ammunition bag, and then said to the soldier: "Take the gun down, I'll take a look." ”

When the soldier heard this, he handed the Lantian 1633 in his hand to Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng skillfully operated it, and then opened the ammunition bag that the soldier carried, the ammunition bag was made of cowhide, not big, put it on the waist, and when he opened it, it was a well-packaged oil paper bag, and the oil paper bag was a certain amount of gunpowder.

Li Chaosheng poured out all the gunpowder and said to Gu Zi: "Count it." ”

Gu Zi immediately came to count, and after the counting, Gu Zi said: "Report to the army commander, a total of fifty packs." ”

Li Chaosheng nodded, this is Li Chaosheng's regulations, each soldier is equipped with fifty packs of gunpowder in wartime, which means that a soldier can fire fifty shots if he is not killed.

Why fifty shots, because in a battle, a soldier can't shoot so many guns, and it is already a lot to be able to shoot twenty or thirty shots, after all, this also requires tedious reloading of bullets, which is obviously not enough if it is a shuttle of dozens of bullets like AK47.

But this kind of shot, change a bullet, and it is a front-loading musket, which is even more cumbersome, but Lantian human life is more important than materials, and if the materials are gone, Li Chaosheng can make them, but if the people are gone, then Li Chaosheng will have no choice.

So each soldier carries twice as many bullets, enough to support two or three wars.

"Well, put a shot on me, I'll try."

"Yes."

Li Chaosheng instructed Gu Zi to do it, but Li Chaosheng said to the soldiers: "You come." ”

"Yes."

The soldier saluted, followed by skillfully opening the oiled paper bag, then erected the gun, poured the mixture of gunpowder and projectiles in the oilpaper bag, and then took out an iron skewer and stabbed it into the barrel to tamp it.

After doing everything, Li Chaosheng took the gun and took aim, followed by a snap shot, which happened to hit a target in the distance, but not in the center, but in the fifth and sixth rings.

"Okay."

Bang Bang Bang!

Li Chaosheng shot a shot, and the next moment Qian Twelve took the lead in applauding, followed by all the soldiers applauding and applauding, the scene was very spectacular, Qian Twelve said on the side at this time: "The commander is good marksmanship." ”

Li Chaosheng flew up and kicked on Qian Twelve, but he didn't use any force, and scolded with a smile: "Get out of the way and mock Lao Tzu?" ”

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