100,000 catties of gunpowder, this is indeed a bit out of reach for Li Zicheng now, after all, as a peasant army now, they are poor and white, not to mention the arsenal, everything is robbed, the ten artillery pieces in his hand are all robbed, as for gunpowder, it is also robbed of the Xuzhou armory, Ruyang armory, Dengfeng armory, as for the gunpowder in their hands now, no more than 10,000 catties.

Li Zicheng thought for a while with a heavy face at this time, looked up at Liu Zongmin and said, "How much gunpowder does your forward battalion have." ”

Liu Zongmin's face changed when he heard this: "King Chuang, the gunpowder in our forward battalion is kept for pressing the bottom of the box, don't you think?" ”

"How many!"

Li Zicheng asked impatiently, and after hearing this, Liu Zongmin lowered his head and said, "It's about two thousand catties." ”

Two thousand pounds?

After listening to Liu Zongmin's report, the generals looked at each other, good guys, worthy of being a big tyrant, there are two thousand catties of gunpowder, and it is also said that the forward battalion is the richest in the camp of the king, and the reason is very simple, the vanguard of each battle, although the casualties are the largest, but they are also the first to enter the city to grab things, and the good things are in their hands, thinking that everyone casts envious eyes.

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Li Guo, where are you?" ”

Li Guo heard this and said, "It's almost two thousand catties." ”

"What about Brother Jianxiu?"

Tian Jianxiu heard this: "Less than a thousand catties." ”

"Hao Shaoqi, what about you?"

"Eight hundred pounds."

……

Li Zicheng asked one by one and nodded: "Well, in this way, our whole army only has more than 9,000 catties of gunpowder, which is still a big gap from 100,000 catties, two military advisors, do you think these 9,000 catties can blow up the Luoyang city wall." ”

Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance glanced at each other, then shook their heads and said: "The gap is too big, the thickness of this Luoyang city wall is only ten meters, and the foundation is also deep, if you want to blow it up, this bit of gunpowder is far from enough." ”

Hearing this, Li Zicheng sat in his position and said worriedly: "This method is available, but there is no gunpowder, it's really a headache, where to find this gunpowder?" ”

Hearing this, all the generals also fell into deep thought, Liu Zongmin thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, let's attack the surrounding towns, and we will be able to find some gunpowder." ”

Niu Jinxing shook his head and said: "In the whole of Henan, there can be 100,000 catties of gunpowder, that is, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Kaifeng was flooded, the armory was washed away by the flood, and all the gunpowder was washed away, and the remaining 100,000 catties are probably the Luoyang Mansion in front of you." ”

"As for other state capitals, there may also be a small amount of gunpowder stored, but that amount of 1,000 catties is a drop in the bucket for us, and it is not useful."

Liu Zongmin heard this: "What else is it about, I want to use gunpowder to explode, but there is no gunpowder, I think I have to rely on human life to fill it!" ”

Hearing this, Niu Jinxing shook his head and said, "Don't worry, think of a way." ”

Li Guo said at this time: "Why don't we make some ourselves?" ”

Hearing this, everyone looked at Li Aidao like fools: "Will you make it?" ”

Song Xiance said: "It's definitely too late to build, this gunpowder manufacturing needs charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur, but where can we do these things in a short time?" ”

"Oh, this doesn't work, that doesn't work, I'm really worried about me, King Chuang can't be like Brother Liu said, let's fill it with human lives, I am willing to be a pioneer in charge of the flag camp, and when we are in charge of the flag camp and die, you go up again, I don't believe that I can't take this little Luoyang City."

Hao Shaoqi stood up at this time, his face was full of anger, and Li Zicheng glared when he heard this: "What kind of temper are you playing, sit down." ”

Hao Shaoqi sat down without saying a word, in Li Zicheng's place, Hao Shaoqi didn't dare to play any temper, after sitting down, Li Zicheng said: "Okay, eat, and then think of a way after eating." ”

"Okay, eat."

Everyone ate Haisai at a meal, turned their sorrow into appetite, and began to eat frantically, anyway, they all licked blood on the knife edge, that is the wine today and the drunk today, what does it matter how it will be in the future?

The meal was full of wine and food, but the method was not expected, and the 100,000 catties of gunpowder did not come from anywhere, just when everyone was about to go back to their respective camps, suddenly a soldier ran in.

"Report!"

The messenger soldiers rushed into the camp of the king and knelt on the ground to salute, Li Zicheng and the generals were stunned, looked at the messengers and said, "What's the matter?" ”

At this time, the messenger knelt on the ground and said, "King Qiyu, there is a person outside the door who asks to see you." ”

"Oh, who?"

Li Zicheng was not surprised when he heard this, since his incident, there has been an endless stream of benevolent and righteous people from all over the world who have taken refuge in him, not to mention anything else, Li Xin, Song Xiance, aren't these all coming to vote one after another?

However, Li Zicheng also looks at people to put down dishes, if it is an ordinary bandit and strong, send Li over to take a look, and subdue it by the way, if he brings more people and horses, such as the Red Lady, bring 30,000 horses at once, Li Zicheng will be treated according to the level of commander, greet him personally, and do not snub others.

Because of this, when Li Zicheng heard that someone was coming to vote, his first reaction was not to be surprised or how, but to smile and ask who it was, if it was a famous local scholar, Da Confucian, he would personally go to meet him, if not, then wait, he would come to meet again when he was free.

If you don't have time, send someone to meet you for a while.

At this time, the messenger arched his hand and said: "King Qiyu Chuang is dressed as a scholar, and he calls himself Wei Feng, a student of Lantian!" ”

"Wei full, I haven't heard of it, Li Xin...... Wait, which student? ”

Hearing this, the messenger said, "Lantian student." ”

"Lantian!"

Li Zicheng's eyes widened, and then he said in disbelief: "A Lantian man came to join our righteous army? ”

Li Zicheng was a little excited, there were many people who had taken refuge in the rebels over the years, but except for the old brother who followed him at the beginning, it had been a long time since there had been a fellow villager from Shaanxi who had taken refuge in him, and Li Zicheng still had mixed feelings when he thought of this.

"King Chuang, that man said that he didn't come to join our rebels, but wanted to make a deal with you, King Chuang."

Seeing that King Chuang was so moved, the messenger interrupted Li Zicheng's imagination very blindly, Li Zicheng was stunned, looked at the messenger and frowned and said, "Trading? ”

Li Zicheng frowned, his face was puzzled, he had a hammer deal to discuss with Lantian? Aren't they opponents of each other? It's good not to stumble on each other, and you can still do business?

Thinking about Li Zicheng, he waved his hand and said: "I don't have any business to discuss with Lantian, drive away, drive away." ”

"King Chuang."

As soon as Li Zicheng said this, Niu Jinxing on the side spoke: "King Chuang, don't worry, since Lantian has the heart to do business with us, we should also give Lantian a chance, at least listen to what Lantian has to say." ”

"Huh?"

Li Zicheng looked at Niu Jinxing, Niu Jinxing explained: "I heard that Lantian also has a deal with Zhang Xianzhong in private, Zhang Xianzhong has been able to support Hubei all these years, and it is indispensable to communicate with Lantian, since Zhang Xianzhong can get benefits from Lantian, we can, and listen to what Lantian wants to sell to us, let's make plans." ”

Li Zicheng glanced at Niu Jinxing when he heard this, and said, "Can the people of Lantian sell us the things we need according to their good intentions?" ”

The corners of Niu Jinxing's mouth turned up and said: "King, no matter whether they have good intentions or bad intentions, anyway, they just meet, even if they don't like it, they don't say that this business must be successful." ”

Li Zicheng frowned slightly when he heard this, and looked at Song Xiance on the side, Song Xiance smiled and nodded, it can be seen.

"Then please."

Under the clapping of the two military advisors, Li Zicheng made up his mind to meet this Lantian student Wei Feng.

The messenger got the order and quickly went out and brought a guy dressed as a scholar into the barracks, and at this time, everyone in the camp did not speak, and they all glared angrily, a little bit wanting to give Wei Feng a posture.

As soon as Wei Feng entered the door, he knew the thoughts of Li Zicheng and others, Wei Feng was an old lobbyist for many years, when he was a bandit, he liked to jump repeatedly between the cottages, and afterwards, he traveled all over the Ming Dynasty, and finally even went to Liaodong Xi Da Circle, after this circle, Wei Feng was more knowledgeable, and he was more mature, after returning to Lantian, Li Chaosheng entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and was ready to promote him to Lantian as the head of foreign affairs.

Unexpectedly, this guy was very proud in his heart, and said that he did not make an inch of credit to Lantian, and the foreign teacher supervisor was at a loss, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to use 100,000 catties of gunpowder as a bargaining chip to make some credit for Lantian and then serve as the foreign teacher supervisor.

Li Chaosheng couldn't screw this guy, so this guy went directly out of Tongguan and came to Henan as quickly as possible, but after he came, he was not in a hurry to see Li Zicheng, but found an inn built in Lantian in Henan to live, delicious and delicious, until today, Lantian spies reported that Li Zicheng came to Luoyang City, and the army was defeated and retreated.

Wei Feng immediately happily freshened up and said, "The eldest husband will get rich today, and then he rode his little donkey to Li Zicheng's military camp.

Wei Feng entered the barracks, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes swept over the faces of many generals of Li Zicheng, and finally looked at Liu Zongmin and smiled: "Hahaha, Commander Liu, don't come unharmed?" ”

Wei Feng and Liu Zongmin knew each other, there were six thieves in Lantian back then, Liu Yidao, the owner of Tangyu in the Middle East, and Liu Zongmin were a family, Wei Feng once sent an envoy to Tangyu in the East, and drank wine with Liu Zongmin, at this time Wei Feng came to Liu Zongmin with a smile and said: "Brother Liu, do you remember me?" ”

Liu Zongmin took the steamed bun and took a bite and said, "I don't know." ”

"Hey, Brother Liu is really a noble person who forgets things, I'm Wei Satie, we met in Donggouyu back then, when you were still with your eldest brother Liu Yidao, we gnawed on pig's trotters, drank wine, drank too much, and you told me how beautiful your sister-in-law is, if you don't serve Liu Yidao's foolish ...... for the sake of your sister-in-law's beauty."

Syllable!

Liu Zongmin was furious when he heard this: "Nonsense, you dare to slander a certain family for having an affair with your sister-in-law!" ”

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, I don't know anything about you and your sister-in-law, I just said that your sister-in-law is beautiful, what are you anxious about? Could it be? Whoop ......"

Wei Feng had an expression that I understood, and the people around him looked at Liu Zongmin strangely at this time, but they didn't expect Liu Zongmin, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, to have such a dirty mind back then, and everyone looked at Liu Zongmin with a smile on their faces for a while, hehe, you turned out to be such a person!

Liu Zongmin was so angry that he picked up the rice bowl on the table and was about to smash it, although Wei Feng was dressed as a scholar, he had also been trained under Li Chaomeng, and he had traveled to Liaodong, and in that land, he had fought with Tartars, rogues, bandits, and even Liaodong soldiers, and his strength was quite good.

Liu Zongmin smashed a rice bowl over, Wei Feng directly caught it, and arched his hand at Li Zicheng and said: "Lantian student Wei Feng has seen Commander Li. ”

Li Zicheng looked at Wei Feng at this time, and then looked at Liu Zongmin, who was red-faced and red-eared, and the people who were already smiling and not afraid of things, and took a deep look at Wei Feng, this person is not simple, just a few words, he dissolved his own disadvantage against him, so that he could not take advantage of the situation to suppress people, this is a master.

Lantian is really talented, and a random person who is not famous is so talented, what a big gap between himself and Lantian is, they are also from a reckless background, why can he Li Chaosheng gather so many talents, it is really more popular than people.

Li Zicheng thought about it and looked at Wei Feng and said, "You are the Lantian envoy?" ”

Wei Feng arched his hand again: "No, I'm a student of Lantian?" ”

"What's the difference?"

"The so-called messenger is sent by the Lantian government, and he came for official business, this is the messenger, I am not sent by the Lantian government, everything I do is out of selfishness, personal matters, I am a student of Lantian College, and I am naturally a student of Lantian College."

Li Zicheng narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this, and said, "Are you saying this to clear up your relationship with Li Chaosheng?" ”

Wei Man grinned and said, "Yes." ”

"Why?"

Li Zicheng asked Wei Feng with a dark face, Wei Feng smiled when he heard this: "Because what I want to do next is too appalling, if it spreads, it will not be good for Lantian's reputation." ”

Li Zicheng narrowed his eyes and said, "What do you want to do?" ”

Wei said: "Wei is a good gambler by nature, recently owed a large amount of debt to the gambling house, really unable to pay off, the gambling house said that if I can't pay off within a month, I will cut off Wei's hands, pull out Wei's tongue, Wei is really afraid of being poisoned, so he secretly contacted his brother-in-law, my brother-in-law is working in the Lantian gunpowder factory, I heard that I was deeply sympathetic, but said that he didn't have so much money in his hands, borrowing money can't help me, but he can use his power to get me a batch of gunpowder, I just need to sell this gunpowder." After we went back, we divided the account in four or six, I repaid the gambling debt, and he also dropped a sum of money, and by the way, he dotted up and down, plugged the hole, and did not know the ghost. ”

So I went out to find a way to sell this batch of gunpowder, so where was the demand for gunpowder the greatest? It's nothing more than a battlefield, and now the biggest battlefield in the world is in Luoyang, so I want to sell this batch of gunpowder to those who need it, how about it, do you still understand what I said? ”

Wei Man looked at Li Zicheng with a smile, Li Zicheng frowned when he heard this, and looked Wei Man up and down, Wei Man smiled and waited, looking harmless to humans and animals.

After a long time, Li Zicheng said: "Is this true? ”

Wei Feng looked up at Li Zicheng in surprise: "You won't really believe it, will you?" ”