"Ahem, there are a lot of people here, can you take a step to speak."

Hong Chengchou looked left and right, and reminded in a low voice, Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Okay, Guzi, find a quiet room." ”

Gu Zi nodded when he heard this, and directly led the two into the study, the study is heavy, no matter how noisy it is outside, no matter how lively it is, no one dares to enter Li Chaosheng's study without Li Chaosheng's consent, after all, who knows if there are any official documents of the county honor, the secrets of Lantian and the like, if it is broken, I am afraid it will be a catastrophe.

Moreover, Li Chaosheng's study is guarded by two guards at the door, no matter who comes, both of them are: the study is heavy, and idlers are not allowed to enter.

Li Chaosheng and Hong Chengchou entered the study, Gu Zi poured a cup of tea for the two and retreated, closing the door.

Hong Chengchou took a sip of tea and took the lead in speaking: "I have a batch of baggage in my hand, including a large number of mules and horses, steel, military supplies, as well as some gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, I want to sell them to you." ”

"Mules and horses, steel, antique calligraphy and paintings?"

Li Chaosheng frowned slightly, and Hong Chengchou nodded.

"Seized from Li Zicheng?"

Li Chaosheng asked, Hong Chengchou drank his saliva and said noncommittally: "Most of them were seized from Gao Yingxiang." ”

"You didn't report to the court?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou, and Hong Chengchou smiled: "Part of it has been reported." ”

Li Chaosheng understood when he heard this, Hong Chengchou led his troops to defeat Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, but part of the captured loot was hidden, and now he is preparing to find himself to sell the stolen goods.

In fact, this kind of thing is not uncommon in the late Ming Dynasty, and who doesn't want to make a fortune in a war? It's all handed over, and the court doesn't know where to embezzle it, and when the time comes, the soldiers' salaries won't be opened, so won't they mutiny?

Therefore, it was a joke that all seizures should be returned to the public at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou also looked at Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng said: "What price?" ”

Hong Chengchou was also upright, looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "I'm in a hurry to make a move, and it can be lower than the market price." ”

Li Chaosheng took a sip of tea: "There is a fixed price for mules and horses, steel, and military supplies, and gold, silver and jewelry, but I don't understand this antique calligraphy and painting, and the water in it is very deep, I don't know how to take it?" Besides, the world is in chaos, and this antique calligraphy and painting is worthless. ”

Li Chaosheng said, Hong Chengchou heard Li Chaosheng's extra-string meaning, prosperous antiques, troubled gold, unchanging truth, antique calligraphy and painting in this era are not worth anything at all, and most of the antique calligraphy and paintings seized by Hong Chengchou are searched by thieves from the landlord's old rich family, and the thieves don't know what is valuable.

Some people thought that this bottle was good and could hold water, so they accepted it, and some saw that the landlord and the old rich man hung a picture of a lady, and the woman in the painting looked good, so they accepted it.

In this way, these antiques were preserved, Hong Chengchou defeated these people, these things have become trophies, and Hong Chengchou has also seen it, there are no fine products in it, they are all some old objects, after all, a group of landlords and old wealth can have any good things.

Of course, there are still a few fine ones, but they are all put away by Hong Chengchou and ready to give gifts, so the rest of these antiques are all gone.

Hong Chengchou thought and said: "Antiques are really not easy to value, so if you find a pawnshop shopkeeper who knows antiques, you can sell everything at the lowest price." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou like this and said, "Are you in a hurry? ”

Hong Chengchou said: "Things are currently in the middle camp of my Northern Shaanxi Army, and I am about to rush to Liaodong lightly, if I don't make a move earlier, this thing will not be under my control." ”

"Well, okay, then do as you say, I accepted this batch of things, do you want cash or ......"

Before Li Chaosheng finished speaking, Hong Chengchou said: "I don't want cash, if I want to exchange it for cash, this batch of things will be easy to deal with, and I don't have to ask the county for help, I want to exchange this batch of things for military supplies, grain and grass, and then you are helping me transport it to Liaodong, I want to use this batch of things to do a big job in Liaodong." ”

Li Chaosheng was stunned when he heard this, he thought that Hong Chengchou was going to fill his pockets, but he didn't expect Hong Chengchou to prepare for a big transfer of money and goods, and exchange these things for materials and send them to Liaodong.

"This matter is not difficult for the county zun, after all, the naturalization city is now in the hands of the county zun, the county zun can use the naturalization city to transport this batch of goods along the nine sides of the grassland, and after I take office, I will also send someone to pick up this batch of goods, I don't know if the county zun can help Hong with this, as for the consumption during transportation, it is all counted on Hong."

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng quite eagerly, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou when he heard the words and said: "I can help with this matter, the price is calculated according to the price of normal goods, you are considered a border material, although Li is very greedy, but this kind of money, Li is still not far away." ”

Hong Chengchou arched his hand when he heard this: "Then thank you to the county, the county is happy today, when it comes to this matter, Hong is a little disappointed, not to say more, Hong is waiting for the banquet, today I will pay more respect to the county." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Don't Lord Hong, Li still wants to spend candles in the cave room today, by the way, Lord Hong, if you go, who will guard here in Shaanxi?" ”

Hong Chengchou heard this and said: "Oh, the imperial court has issued an order to transfer Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Shandong, to live in Tongguan. ”

"Zuo Liangyu."

Li Chaosheng muttered, it is really a narrow road, Li Chaosheng thought that Hong Chengchou was about to walk to the door at this time, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou's back and said, "Hey, Lao Hong." ”

Hong Chengchou was stunned and turned his head, Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said: "In the bitter cold land of Liaodong, the Tartars are even more tigers and wolves, so be careful in everything." ”

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng and arched his hand and didn't say anything, Li Chaosheng wanted to say something more when he saw this, and finally sighed.

For a long time, Li Chaosheng shouted Gu Zi, Gu Zi came in from the outside at this time, Li Chaosheng said: "Tell Bai Shoumin, increase Hong Chengchou's investigation level, and send dead soldiers to lurk around Hong Chengchou, once he is found to be suspected of collaborating with the enemy and treason, he will be killed immediately." ”

Gu Zi was stunned when he heard this, looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "County Zun, do you mean that Hong Chengchou will rebel?" ”

Li Chaosheng didn't speak, Gu Zi frowned and said: "No, although he is greedy for money and slippery, and he is very bureaucratic, but he will rebel, I can't believe it." ”

Li Chaosheng sighed when he heard this: "People will change, especially after a person's faith collapses, it will become faster. ”

After Li Chaosheng said this, he looked at Gu Zi and said, "Hurry up and inform Bai Shoumin." ”

"Yes."

Hong Chengchou's rebellion was definitely a huge blow to the Ming Dynasty, when the Tartars entered the Central Plains and conquered the southwest, Li Dingguo became a famous king twice, and his reputation was very dry, and the Tartars even had the idea of retiring at that time, but it was Hong Chengchou and other Han ministers who refused to retreat, and Hong Chengchou organized the surrender of the Ming army in the rear to fight the Han people in the way, and finally defeated Li Dingguo.

To put it bluntly, the Qing Dynasty was able to enter the Central Plains and finally become the master of the Central Plains, and the logic of its fundamental success was to pick up leaks.

In fact, looking at the history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties from another perspective, it can actually be understood as the erasure of the old feudal forces of the Ming Dynasty against the emerging forces that may lead to change, and it is also the last counterattack of the entire feudal force.

After continuous fighting, in the end, the conservative forces of the Ming Dynasty won, and chose a more barbaric civilization to support, and finally guarded the vested interests of their conservative forces.

And one of the important promoters of this is Hong Chengchou, his contribution to the Tartars is self-evident, if there is no him, it is doubtful whether the Tartars can occupy the entire Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, such a scourge Li Chaosheng didn't want to leave him to the Tartars, so Li Chaosheng decided to raise Hong Chengchou's danger level, from the previous second-class investigation level to first-class.

At present, Li Zicheng is the only Han who occupies the first-class reconnaissance level, and the rest are not qualified to enter this level at all.

Li Chaosheng rubbed his eyebrows thinking about it, it seems that he can't spend his honeymoon after getting married, and the world is about to change again.

Li Chaosheng thought about walking out and stood outside to greet the guests, but the people who could greet Li Chaosheng were all feudal officials with real power.

"The chief soldier Zuo Liangyu sent an envoy to congratulate and send a pair of Hetian Yubi."

Zuo Liangyu.

Hearing this name, the people who were talking around were stunned, the relationship between Zuo Liangyu and Li Chaosheng, the big guys all knew it, Zuo Liangyu and Yang Sichang, Zhou Yanru conspired with Lantian County, but the plot did not succeed, but put the lives of their own family into it, everyone heard about it. “

At this time, Zuo Liangyu can still come to congratulate Li Chaosheng on his wedding, and there is something worth recalling.

Li Chaosheng was also stunned when he heard the words of welcome, he didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to send someone over, at this time Li Chaosheng watched a middle-aged scribe walk into the compound, and saw Li Chaosheng hurriedly said: "General Zuo Liangyu's chief bookkeeper Ma Jincheng has seen the county honor. ”

Li Chaosheng looked at the horse master and said, "The master book is reasonable, the master book is here on behalf of General Zuo." ”

When Master Ma heard this, he said, "Yes, my subordinates are here for my general." ”

Li Chaosheng narrowed his eyes when he heard this, and said, "Why didn't your general come in person." ”

The corners of Ma Zhuji's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he wanted to come in person, he also dared, don't you know, since my general was blinded in one eye last time, the whole person is nervous, and now he sleeps wearing armor, and the sword does not leave his hand, and he usually looks at anyone with vigilant eyes.

A group of subordinates often saw their generals looking at themselves with swords, and made these subordinates a little nervous, for fear that their own general would think that they had different intentions and cut themselves.

Especially recently, Chongzhen ordered him to be transferred to Tongguan to guard against Lantian, which made him even more uncomfortable, he was too afraid of Li Chaosheng's methods, he felt that if he really blocked Li Chaosheng's way, he might not be able to save his other eye, not to mention that his eyes might not even be able to save his son.

Therefore, Zuo Liangyu actively asked that he wanted to be transferred to Hubei and supervise Zhang Xianzhong, but the court refuted his idea, Zuo Liangyu was very annoyed by this, in fact, Zuo Liangyu was ambitious, and even prepared to take advantage of the chaos in the world to make some plans by himself, but it definitely did not include Li Chaosheng and Lantian as enemies.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived at Tongguan, according to the holy decree of the imperial court, Zuo Liangyu should enter Lantian and be stationed in Shaanxi, but Zuo Liangyu ran to defend outside Tongguan, and the garrison became Henan.

As soon as he heard that Li Chaosheng was going to get married this time, Zuo Liangyu's advisers immediately suggested that they could take the opportunity to make friends with Lantian, at least to liven up the atmosphere a little, so that they would not be so lifeless and worried all day long.

So after a lot of research, I finally decided to send someone to give a gift, and the gift is also very particular, the gift given can not be too heavy, not too light, too heavy, don't let Lantian look down on himself, too light, and not enough to express his heart.

In the end, it was decided to choose this pair of high-quality Hetian Yubi, and the gift giver was also very particular, Zuo Liangyu, he definitely didn't dare to come, he was afraid of becoming a Hongmen banquet.

His son Zuo Mengeng can show sincerity, but Zuo Mengeng doesn't do it, he feels that he will be detained as a proton if he doesn't die in Lantian, so he doesn't agree, and finally decided to send the horse master book, the first is a confidant, and the second status is also very high, so he doesn't despise Lantian.

It can be said that Zuo Liangyu is afraid of Lantian like a tiger.

Li Chaosheng looked at the master of the horse, and the master of the horse said at this time: "The county lord is good, since the general of my family was accidentally injured in the eye by the county honor, the eye disease has often attacked, and the attack is painful. ”

Li Chaosheng nodded when he heard this: "Well, then the master of the horse will be seated, you and I will be neighbors in the future, and we should take care of each other." ”

"Yes, yes."

Master Ma said, under the guidance of the Lantian people, Li Chaosheng looked at Master Ma, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly: "Zuo Liangyu is showing favor to himself, and now he is sandwiched between himself and the court, and he is uncomfortable, hehe." ”

Li Chaosheng thought that there were more guests outside at this time.

"Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, came to congratulate and sent a pair of calligraphy and paintings."

Saying that Lu Xiangsheng also came, at this time the three giants of Shaanxi were all together, Lu Xiangsheng grew very tall, and after entering the door, he had a tiger and dragon walking.

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng was also here, everyone's eyes became playful, the three giants of Shaanxi, all arrived, the imperial court still wanted to use them to exterminate Lantian at the beginning, it was simply wishful thinking, it seems that Lantian has become a power, and the imperial court is also lacking in skills.

Thinking that everyone looked at Lu Xiangsheng together, Lu Xiangsheng said hello to Li Chaosheng and was ready to sit down, Li Chaosheng looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "I thought you wouldn't come." ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled when he heard this: "Mingzhe protects himself, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou are not afraid, you and I have a good relationship, how can I be absent." ”

Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "Sun Chuanting can't help himself, Hong Chengchou also has his own plans, only you really want to come." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "How do you know that I don't have a plan? ”

Li Chaosheng said: "Do you want to buy firearms again?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "The Tartar is restless, I'm afraid there will be a tough battle in the near future, and I ask the county to help." ”