Lantian is the eternal thorn in Chongzhen's heart, it is pierced into the flesh, it can't be pulled out, and it can't be pressed in, it is really like a fish in the throat, like a thorn in the back, so that Chongzhen Every time he thinks about Lantian, he has a feeling of throwing a mouse.

It's like this Lu Xiangsheng, he admires it very much, and Lu Xiangsheng can also be said to be promoted step by step, Chongzhen was also cited as the minister of the humerus back then, but since the last time he was mixed with Lantian in Naturalization City, Chongzhen has been estranged from Lu Xiangsheng.

Therefore, this is also the reason why Chongzhen hesitated when Xue Guoguan proposed to seize Lu Xiangsheng.

However, at this time, Yang Sichang broke this matter, and the balance in Chongzhen's heart tilted again, and he sighed and said: "That's it, send someone to send a letter to Sun Chengzong, who is idle in Gaoyang's hometown, and ask him to come to the capital immediately to take over military affairs." ”

"Yes, in accordance with His Majesty's decree."

Yang Sichang heard this and hurriedly knelt down to receive the order, Xue Guoguan was very helpless when he saw this, Hong Chengchou didn't do it for anyone, in fact, he can't be blamed for this matter, who let Lu Xiangsheng and Lantian get mixed up, Lantian is definitely a huge threat to Chongzhen.

Chongzhen issued an order to enable Sun Chengzong, but I am afraid that it will take some twists and turns to send this holy decree out of the capital, after all, it is a tartar outside, so the angel wants to go out of the city to send the holy decree out, and it still needs some luck.

The news that the Tartars entered the Kou, the troops entered Tongzhou, and approached the capital was soon transmitted.

The world shook for a while, and the first to know the news was Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng not only knew that the Tartar soldiers were besieging the capital, but even the discussion of the ministers in the court was clear.

At this time, Bai Shoumin put the latest information brought from the capital in front of Li Chaosheng.

After Li Chaosheng saw it, he smiled slightly and said: "The imperial court is really afraid of our Lantian like a tiger and a leopard, and urgently recruits officers and soldiers from all over the world to enter the king of Jingqin, but only does not summon Zuo Liangyu outside Tongguan, this is afraid that we will take the opportunity to go out of Tongguan." ”

Hearing this, Bai Shoumin said: "Our Lantian is powerful, and it is understandable that the imperial court is guarding against us, but they don't use Lu Xiangsheng, but instead use Sun Chengzong, who has already raised the elderly, this is a bit reluctant to seek the near and far, although General Sun Lao is very capable of military divisions, but he is better at layout, and now this kind of battle to break the siege, I think it is not as reliable as Lu Xiangsheng, who fought step by step from the battlefield, at least Lu Xiangsheng's ability to lead troops should be above General Sun. ”

"Hey~ General Sun's military talent is still there, if he is in the prime of life, I am afraid that Lu Xiangsheng and him should be between the two, who is strong and who is weak is not yet known, but the old general is seventy and five this year, and seven years ago he was impeached by a traitor, resigned and returned home, seven years is enough to make an elite veteran lose his sensitivity to war, this is very fatal, and Lu Xiangsheng is only worried about the month, and now it is the best choice to enable Lu Xiangsheng."

Li Chaosheng said on the side at this time, and after hearing this, Gu Zi said: "But the emperor thinks that he has already given birth to a reverse image when he is mixed with our Lantian, and it would be good if he didn't put him in prison, I said, this emperor should be really cautious, and he can't use good generals, so how can he be invincible?" ”

Li Chaosheng stopped talking when he heard this, in fact, if he really used Sun Chengzong and didn't use Lu Xiangsheng this time, it would not be a bad thing, if history is not mistaken, this time, Lu Xiangsheng was alone because of the filth between Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, which caused Lu Xiangsheng to be alone, and finally fought to the death with the Tartars and died on the battlefield.

Lu Xiangsheng is still very fond of this person, Li Chaosheng is also an official, understands military affairs, and is also very proficient in government affairs, such a talent, although it belongs to the old literati sequence, but it also has the value of training, and such a person is cultivated well, which is definitely a major harvest for Lantian.

Li Chaosheng thought about it, closed the information, looked at Bai Shoumin and said: "Okay, let's just pay close attention to the affairs of the capital, the emperor guards against us, let's not blindly transfer troops, the emperor of the province does not dare to use all his strength to fight the Tartars, isn't this equivalent to indirectly helping the Tartars?" ”

Hearing this, Gu Zi said: "The emperor is really, the Tartars are about to hit the capital, and now they are still guarding against us, if we want to make an accident, do we still need to be with the Tartars?" If we really want to rebel, Da Ming may not be able to beat us. ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said, "Okay, don't complain, by the way, what has Cao Huachun been doing in our Lantian recently?" ”

Hearing this, Bai Shoumin said: "With Jinyi Wei Qianhu Jiang Changge, how about counting the big cars on our Lantian official road?" ”

"Huh?"

Li Chaosheng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, worthy of being an old eunuch, he actually knew how to explore the details of Lantian from the bottom, but he couldn't live in peace for a few days, and he estimated that he would come to see him soon.

Li Chaosheng thought about it and took a sip of tea, and began to consult various documents again, including about this year's water conservancy construction, about the winter grain storage plan, about the academy's appropriation, and about Lantian's business plan this year.

Although the major projects in Lantian are managed by various departments, the final documents need to be handed over to Li Chaosheng for review, and just looking at the results of these things, Li Chaosheng will have to sit all day.

Of course, Li Chaosheng is also delegating power appropriately, at least to ensure that his daily workload cannot exceed eight hours, and Li Chaosheng is still very idle the rest of the time.

Therefore, none of the plans that can be submitted to Li Chaosheng are trivial, all about business, engineering projects, and these about money, unless there is special significance, if the total amount of appropriation is less than 50,000 silver dollars, Li Chaosheng will not ask about it, and if it exceeds 50,000 and does not exceed 100,000 silver dollars, Li Chaosheng will ask about it and will not participate, and finally the large-scale appropriation of more than 100,000 silver dollars, Li Chaosheng needs to participate and play a decisive role.

Of course, as Lantian's power increases, Li Chaosheng will continue to further decentralize power.

Delegating power is not terrible, as long as the military, judicial, supervision and other violent departments are firmly grasped in his hands, Li Chaosheng does not need to grasp all the rights of the rest of the departments, as long as he learns to employ people, he will save a lot.

And whoever dares to be greedy for ink, who dares to derelict his duties, can be punished, as for the person who does the work is killed, there will soon be a new official appointment, Lantian Academy is the cradle of the cultivation of officials in the Lantian system.

It is precisely because of the continuous blood replenishment of Lantian Academy that Lantian can make Lantian have an inexhaustible supply of talents, and it is precisely because of this that the corrupt Confucians of the Ming Dynasty will hate Lantian deeply, because Lantian has broken the officialdom of Confucianism that has monopolized for thousands of years, and now Lantian has bypassed Confucianism in appointing officials.

How can you make Confucian people feel at ease, of course, they regard Lantian as a flood beast, like a country of demons, because Confucianism here is just a dispensable elective course, you are willing to learn, of course, there are the best Confucian professors in Lantian.

It doesn't matter if you don't want to learn, because there are all kinds of practical learning, which is the basis for Lantian to elect officials.

Here, as long as you plant the land well, you can make the land grow more grain, even if you don't understand the Confucian classics at all, no problem can already give you an agricultural official, go to the counties and towns to guide the people to farm, produce grain.

If you don't grow the land well, but you raise pigs, raise them well, and raise them fatter than anyone else, you can increase the yield of meat in Lantian, and you can also give you a pig raising instructor in the post of animal husbandry, and send it to the local governors to lead the whole village to get rich.

It can be said that as long as you have a skill in Lantian, it will give you room to play, some people say that I can only read, and I can't do anything else, what can I do.

No problem, Lantian still has a bunch of primary schools that need teachers, you can go to these students to act as Chinese teachers, let them follow you to learn to read and write, isn't this a good plan?

There are also people who say, I can't grow the land well, I can't raise pigs, I can't read, what can I do, no problem, there are all kinds of factories in Lantian, you can't enter the state-owned factories in Lantian, but some private factories are also recruiting, and the wages are not low, enough for a person to live in Lantian.

This is actually the reason why Lantian is rich and strong, everyone who has a skill, no, it should be that every hard-working person will find a job in Lantian and will not starve to death.

Lantian broke the monopoly of the Ming gentry, which is the reason why the Ming gentry group is very resistant to Lantian, they used to be people, but now they have become ordinary people, this gap makes it difficult for the Ming gentry to accept.

Therefore, if Lantian wants to take over the world, it is difficult to use a peaceful way, but Li Chaosheng is a very dog, and he doesn't want his people to die too much, so he trained two gold medal fighters, one is called Li Zicheng and the other is Zhang Xianzhong.

They will clean up all the landlord class that resists Lantian on this land for Li Chaosheng.

When Lantian went to accept them again, not only would they not resist, but they would even bow down and thank them.

This is actually not difficult to understand, just like a multimillionaire, if you ask him to donate 9 million and keep 1 million for no reason, he will definitely be very resistant, and even play with you.

But at this time, a gang of robbers rushed in and robbed him, and if you give him 100,000 yuan, he must be grateful to you and think that you are the best person in the world.

Lantian is this truth, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, of course, including Daming himself in front of the disaster, and Lantian in the back to clean up the mess, stabilize the place, infamous and corrupt officials occupy, and Lantian only has support and praise.

In autumn, the autumn harvest of Lantian is over, and this is the time when Lantian commerce is at its most prosperous, and Lantian's caravans will sell the materials produced by Lantian this year and exchange them for the materials that Lantian needs, or silver money, and then come back.

This is already a common practice in Lantian, which has a period of the most prosperous time for trade - after the autumn harvest and before spring sowing, because this period is also known as agricultural sow.

Usually the people of Lantian start cat winter after the autumn harvest, but Lantian does not have such a cat winter, Lantian aims to live more than life, work non-stop.

During this time, the farmers who are idle after the autumn harvest in Lantian can go out to do business with the caravan, or they can help the public to repair water conservancy, and even some factories will recruit some temporary workers at this time, anyway, as long as you are not lazy, you can earn some money during this time, and when the Chinese New Year comes, you can buy some sugar for your family and buy some new clothes to wear.

And many of these young and strong young farmers like to go out with caravans to do business, for the simple reason that they earn more.

There are a lot of caravans in general, there can be dozens of people, some of them are guys, and there is a department where the caravan spends a lot of money to take care of the Lantian militia, and the Lantian militia will have several escort missions every year, these militias are the elite of the militia, and when they go out, Lantian will also equip them with muskets to escort.

And now the world is full of bandits, and there are countless bandits, so merchants must hire guards or swordsmen when they go out, and they can directly hire militia in Lantian.

The general militia is hired according to the number of ten people in a squad, and ten people are a combat squad, equipped with knives and guns, and refined muskets, even if ten people face bandits and rogues of fifty or sixty people, they will not fall behind.

It can be said that the Lantian militia should be the most elite commercial guard of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the price of the caravan to hire militia is also very high, so the militia who can be selected, this trip, there will be a very good income, of course, this money businessman has to be directly handed over to the militia management department in Lantian, and then the militia management department will delegate the task, and then the township militia units will select their own excellent militia to send, and finally, the employment fee is also directly from the militia management department to the corresponding militia's bank salary passbook.

When the militia is concerned, they can take their passbooks and go to the special office of the bank to withdraw the money.

This should be the prototype of the earliest armed escort in Lantian.

One by one, the caravans, with their own men, the militia guards, after some preparations, began to leave Lantian City one after another, their ranks were large and small, the small ones were only about two dozen people, and the large ones were hundreds of people.

The main thing to determine the size of the team is to see the distance of the place and the degree of danger, and if it is closer and safer, you can hire fewer militia guards.

If you are far away and the road is more dangerous, you can hire a little more guards, and the Lantian caravan generally hires more than 100 guards, reaching this level, and the general bandits dare not make up their minds.

The last time I passed by Luliang, Shanxi, a famous local bandit fell in love with a large caravan transporting grain at that time, and as a result, he attacked with more than 500 men and met a company of militia sent by Chang'an County at that time.

These militiamen calmly set up a mandarin duck formation, followed by taking out flintlock pistols, and after a burst of indiscriminate shooting, they wiped out this group of miscellaneous bandits, and more than 500 people, including the leader Shunfeng'er, were all killed.

This battle of the Lantian militia is started, you must know that the Lantian militia is known as the militia, but their training amount, even the elite of the Ming Dynasty is inferior, so the combat effectiveness of these militias in the Ming Dynasty is comparable to the first-class army, so they carry out armed escorts, plus Lantian These militias are equipped with flintlock pistols eliminated by the army, except that there is no artillery, it is almost equivalent to a small army, who is not at ease with such an armed escort force.

And loyalty is absolutely assured, after all, the militia family is in Lantian, and the current Lantian is simply a fairyland, and that militia will rebel if he is crazy.

So the militia in Lantian has a good reputation.

And on the way to leave Lantian one by one, Cao Huachun and Jiang Changge sat in a roadside tea shed drinking tea, looking at the clouds and the wind was light, but the clenched fists were tantamount to exposing his uncalm heart.

"Changge, how many caravans have left?"

Cao Huachun asked.

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