Chapter 115: Please Surrender

"What?"

"Ahh

"How can you surrender!"

The hall of Tang Wang's Mansion exploded all of a sudden, and even Guan Shengyun, who had always been calm, widened his eyes in disbelief, unable to believe his ears at all. Then he suddenly realized and tentatively said: "What the military advisor said is a fraudulent surrender, right?" ”

Luo Yonghao shook his head and did not answer directly, but waited for a moment, pressed down with both hands, and signaled everyone to be quiet. The generals glared at Luo Yonghao one by one, waiting to hear the next words of the military advisor.

"We're either surrendering by fraud or asking for surrender. Everyone, rest easy, listen to Luo's words. As soon as the words came out, seeing that the generals were talking to each other again, Luo Yonghao hurriedly said.

"However, it's not really a fall. We swept away half of the Ming Dynasty, and now, even the vassal king has been killed, and there is no turning back. If it really falls, even if the imperial court can't help us for the time being, and accept it on the surface, it won't be long before it will kill us all to set an example. Luo Yonghao's words made everyone feel a little relieved.

"That'...... It's neither a fraudulent surrender nor a real surrender, what are you talking about, Master Soldier? You Futian asked puzzled.

"Listen to the tune, not the announcement." The goblin Luo Shifan was the first to react.

"Almost, but not quite." Luo Yonghao replied with a smile, "We don't listen to the tune or the announcement." ”

"What do you mean by 'listening to the tune but not listening to the announcement'?" Gu Baihua asked Luo Shifan in a low voice.

Gong Derun replied quickly: "I just obey the transfer of the dog court, but even the emperor doesn't want to summon us, and no one will go to the court to see the driver." To mobilize means to go together with the whole army and maintain independence. Don't talk yet, listen to the military master. ”

Luo Yonghao nodded at Gong Derun and continued: "The so-called please surrender, let's just talk about it, and give the court a step down." ”

"Why, isn't it good to fight all the way?" Gao Tengdou continued, "No matter how powerful Xiangyang Mansion is, it is not as dangerous as Hangu Pass, right?" Our morale is high now, and I don't believe we can't beat it! ”

"General Gao, if you fight hard, Xiangyang is really not easy to fight in the past. With the strength of Mengyuan at its peak, it took six years to fight from the three years of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty to the ninth year of Xianchun, and it took six years. Luo Yonghao said, "But at this time and that time, according to Luo Mou's guess, it should not be very difficult for our army to break through Xiangyang, at most ten days and half a month, and it can even be obtained without blood...... But, that's not the point. ”

"The focus is on what we should do next after taking Xiangyang. Our army is like a bamboo, thousands of miles of divisions, invincible, the court will not sit idly by, and the adults who are vegetarian in the corpse will be able to pull the skin again, and sooner or later they will have to deploy troops from all sides to encircle and suppress it. Although our army is good at fighting, it is by no means capable of fighting day after day, and the imperial court can use the strength of the whole country to fight us, but our soldier replenishment and even food and grass materials are big problems, and they will eventually be exhausted. So Luo Mou has been thinking these days, we can first stabilize the court in the name of asking for surrender. After a year and a half of slowing down to gain a firm foothold, at that time, the host and guest were transposed, and it was not so easy to eat us again. ”

Guan Shengyun asked with concern: "Strategist, you just said 'neither listen to the tune nor listen to the announcement', can't the imperial court see that our army is a fake surrender?" ”

Luo Yonghao smiled: "Of course you can see it." However, it doesn't matter, no one will take the trouble to pierce this layer of window paper. Even if there is, someone will clean it up for us! ”

"Who? Could it be ......" Guan Shengyun asked puzzledly, and then thought that Luo Yonghao had a backer in the past in the court, but it had fallen, and he thought, did the military advisor get some news, and what was the resurgence of the old mountain?

"Luo doesn't know." Luo Yonghao seemed to see Guan Shengyun's doubts, and immediately replied, "Luo doesn't know who will speak for us, but he knows that someone will definitely do this, and there is definitely more than one!" ”

"Why is that?"

"The imperial court has clearly decreed that local officials have the responsibility to guard the land, and if they lose the land, they will die. With the current military might of our army, it is absolutely difficult for Xiangyang Mansion to resist...... By the way, Xiaoguo, you immediately arrange for someone to pile all the corpses on the bank of the Shushui River, and wait for my order to push them all into the river. Halfway through the words, Luo Yonghao suddenly remembered and hurriedly explained to Guo Qinglin.

Guo Qinglin replied, "Get the order." He ran out of the lobby quickly, and then back then—he didn't want to miss the words of the Captain.

"Let's recall, we were in Yulin Mansion at the beginning, so what did Xiao Changhua do? Later, in Yan'an Mansion, we received direct help from the Third Division of Shaanxi Province! Why are they like this, because they are afraid of losing their land, and then they will be held accountable by the court! Why can they do this? Because they have someone in the court! To tell the truth, at the earliest in Shenmu, if it weren't for the fact that all thoughts had already been lost, and if he had fought to the death, he could still find a way out for the little dog, and Luo would not have sat with the generals today. Speaking of this, Luo Yonghao smiled bitterly, "As the saying goes, being an official for thousands of miles is only for money, who wants to put their lives into it without knowing it?" If we take Xiangyang, who dares to say that we will not go to Jingzhou Mansion, Wuchang Mansion, Yuezhou Mansion, and Changde Mansion in the next step? No matter where they are, as long as they are beaten down by us, the magistrate's head will fall to the ground: either they will be killed by us, or they will be killed by the imperial court! The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has long been intertwined, even a poor place like Shaanxi Province has to have a way in Beijing, Huguang is the land of fish and rice, and the magistrate who can preside over one side here, no matter which one, will have a very hard backer in the court! Seeing that our lives are at stake, we just need to give these people an excuse, and they, and those behind them, will definitely speak for us desperately - because this is a chance for themselves to survive and collect money! Those people can't beat us, but they have a great ability to get along with their own people! knows that it is nonsense, but whoever dares to tell the truth will be bitten to death by everyone, Luo firmly believes in this. ”

"Good!" Guan Shengyun slapped the armrest of King Tang's gold-wrapped chair and praised loudly from the bottom of his heart, "Great wisdom of the military advisor!" ”

Luo Yonghao smiled at Guan Shengyun: "The handsome award is ridiculous." Luo felt that Nanyang was broken, and Xinye was already in my pocket. After speaking, he turned to Gong Derun and Gu Baihua, "The prestige of our army must have spread all over the place now, and the two battalions of Ah Hua and General Gong, plus some auxiliaries, should be able to take it." Tomorrow morning, you will set out. When we take Xinye, we will almost have a rest, and Xiaoguo will push all the corpses into the river, or it will not be long before they will flow to Xiangyang. When the people saw this, they would have run for their lives...... At that time, it would be easy to talk to the desperate officials of Xiangyang Prefecture about 'appeasement'. Besides, we are not uncommon to the lives of a few officials, but Huguang is an important source of grain and silver, and the local officials have already had a very mature and complete system for collecting money and grain. ”

"Hahaha, black eats black! I like it. "It's Takato who speaks.

Guan Shengyun asked knowingly, "That...... Who's going to talk about it? ”

Luo Yonghao looked at his son: "Let Fan'er go, he should still do such things." ”

Knowing that only Luo Shifan was the best candidate, Guan Shengyun was still a little uneasy: "In case those dog officials are not good for the nephew......

Luo Shifan smiled and arched his hand: "Handsome, no." 'Appeasement' is a 'great merit', whether it is meritorious service or loss of life, I believe it will not be difficult for them to choose. Moreover, the little nephew has a killer ......"

When Luo Shifan finished speaking, Luo Yonghao was also a little surprised: "Fan'er, you can come up with such an idea." However, it worked. ”

Luo Shifan lowered his head and said: "The child has been reading the "Biography" of Leshan Jushi (Wang Yangming) recently, and there is a sentence in it that has benefited the child a lot, 'The righteous person does evil and the law is also right', the more I think about it, the more I feel that it makes sense." Sometimes, it may not be true that what the saints say......"

Luo Yonghao deliberately reprimanded with a straight face: "Nonsense! How could the words of the saints be wrong? ”

Of course, Luo Shifan knew that his father was pretending to be an attitude, and replied with a smile: "'The son is too much to steal the spring, and he is thirsty and does not drink, and his reputation is also bad'." But if you really die of thirst, how can there be any saints today? ”

Luo Yonghao couldn't hold back, burst out laughing, and scolded with a smile: "You are poor!" ”

Guan Shengyun stared at Luo Shifan for a while, then looked at Luo Yonghao, and sighed again: "The military teacher is so good!" ”

Luo Shifan sat in the second hall of the Xiangyang Mansion in a proper manner, talking with Mo Qiushui and others: "You adults also know in your hearts that our army is like this, because it can't survive. Ants are still greedy for life, let alone big living people? However, it is not a long-term solution to go on like this, so the commander of our army sent students to ask for surrender to all the adults. ”

When the officials who still felt that they were completely lifeless heard that the thief really wanted to surrender, they immediately regained the sense of the prestige of the Han officials in the past. Mo Qiushui slapped the startled wood vividly: "Duh! You have already committed a heinous crime, do you know that you will not escape the curse of God at this time? Since you have come to ask for surrender, how dare you speak to this official like this! Just as he was about to shout, "Come on, take it down with the official" and put Luo Shifan on his knees on the ground to get off the horse, and saw in his eyes that except for the squad leader Wu Youde, the other officials had already fled, so he had to bluff and "hum" heavily, and swallowed the following words back into his stomach.

Luo Shifan smiled slightly, and returned without humility or arrogance: "My lord, I am angry." The students are just here to talk, and it is still a matter of whether to descend or not. If you don't talk about it, then you won't fall. Don't say whether you kneel or not, killing is also at the disposal of adults, if you talk about it, adults change their minds, maybe they are open to students, and it is not known. ”

Luo Shifan's light words "If you don't talk about it, you won't fall" were like thunder, instantly shattering the fantasies that the officials had just come out of, and pulling everyone back to reality.

Because the official position is too small, Dou Zhili, the magistrate of Xiangyang County, has been accompanying the last seat since he was called by Mo Qiushui, and he didn't have his turn to say a word from beginning to end. ”

All the officials are experts in playing word games, and when they heard the title of "military envoy" in Dou Zhi County, they all immediately breathed a sigh of relief - a young thief, sitting in the prefect's yamen with the imperial court officials and making nonsense, not to mention that they can't get up and down their faces, and they can't be tolerated by the imperial court, but the "messenger" is different, there is a saying that "the two countries do not cut down the army"!

Mo Qiushui knew Dou Zhili very well and knew that this subordinate had a very active brain. Two years ago, there was a simple but tricky small case, and Dou Zhili handled it very beautifully. There is a pair of brothers surnamed Zhang in Nanyang Mansion, the elder brother Dazhang went out to do business, and the business was very successful, and he often sent large sums of money back to his hometown. The younger brother Xiao Zhang bought a lot of good land, and also got married to Qian Yuchuan, and also got himself a reputation for being a talent. Da Zhang was about to go home to care for the elderly, but he didn't expect Xiao Zhang to turn his face and deny it and kick his brother out of the house. During his business years, he met Mo Qiushui's long-term followers, so he came to find them. Mo Qiushui would not have to make any ties with the prefect of a neighboring province because of the affairs of his subordinates, but Dou Zhili knew about it. So Dou Zhixian quietly gave Xiao Zhang a trick: one day he "captured" a thief, and the thief "confessed" that Xiao Zhang was responsible for selling all the stolen goods! justifiably locked people to Xiangyang, of course Xiao Zhang didn't admit it, Dou Zhixian was "furious": "It's not the sale of stolen goods, where did you get the huge amount of property?" When he knew that he was being "dirty" by a thief, he immediately took the initiative to take out a large number of letters and lists of money and goods, together with the voucher for buying a house and land, to prove his innocence. Dou Zhili sent Xiao Zhang's confession and letter voucher back to Nanyang Mansion for "verification", and the evidence was ironclad, and Qian Yuchuan over there naturally would not have to get along with officials from neighboring provinces for the sake of a small rich man, so Dazhang naturally sought justice......

Mo Qiushui nodded approvingly to Dou Zhili, changed his face again, and pretended to be concerned about Luo Shifan: "Well, then I will ask Envoy Luo to come and listen." Although the imperial court said that it was lenient, it was better to descend late than early. If it's too late, in case the Jingshi issues a strict decree during this period and mobilizes all kinds of strong forces to fight in all directions, even if the official intends to protect him, he may not be able to help. ”

Luo Shifan also replied with a smile: "The student first thanked the adults for the kindness of my family." The marshal of my family said that he had long been willing to return to the imperial court, and as long as the adults agreed to the following points, our army could be attached immediately. ”

"Give Gucheng to our army as a garrison. Our army guarantees the safety of the lives and property of the officials of Gucheng, and at the same time is responsible for maintaining law and order in the whole government of Xiangyang. ”

"Our army does not accept any form of orders, transfers, or any adaptations."

"Except for the fields in Gucheng, Huguang is responsible for providing our army with food and materials in accordance with the standards of the Beijing camp, which must be delivered in full and on time, without any drifting or delay. Otherwise, our army retains the right to levy on its own in the entire territory of Huguang. This is what our soldiers need; As for the auxiliaries, it is calculated according to 50 acres of land per person and a cow. Of course, where to divide the land can be discussed, it is really not enough, and it can be converted into money and rice. ”

"Our army should set up a guard post in a suitable place, and the personnel and materials will be provided with the assistance of Xiangyang Prefecture. After the establishment of the guard posts, there must be no form of obstruction in the transmission of military information by our army. ”

"Our army should set up a contact point in Xiangyang Mansion to maintain close communication with all adults at any time to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings."

"In the whole province of Huguang, especially in Xiangyang Prefecture, any troop movement must be notified to our army three days in advance, and our army has the right to send personnel to supervise. Well, also to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings......"

"This, this is also called 'please surrender'?" Zhang Kexin was the first to shout.

"It's called secession!" Gan Zhihai continued, "No, it's not a separation! The division is to support yourself and you, and you are letting the whole lake support you! ”

snapped and shook the wood, feeling that he had been humiliated in his life, Mo Qiushui, who was angry, shouted: "What nonsense! Could it be that you are here to play this house? Do you really think that a messenger title can protect your life! Aren't you afraid that this official will cut you with a thousand knives? ”

"Of course, the students know that the title of messenger cannot be counted on, but it is really possible for someone to keep the students." As he spoke, Luo Shifan turned his face and smiled at Gan Zhihai, "Look at the official uniform, this adult should be the Changshi in the Xiangyang Palace, right?" ”

All the officials were stunned, and they didn't understand the meaning of Luo Shifan's words for a while, so they only listened to him continue to explain: "My marshal said that if the students do not return to the camp in the evening, our army will announce to the world when they march south tomorrow: it is because you are greedy for merit, so you categorically rejected our army's 'sincere request to surrender', but put King Xiang, King Chu and other clans in danger!" Every province in Huguang has a prince and a county king! Everywhere our army went, it was inevitable that jade would be burned. No matter how great the merits of such a great crime may be, I am afraid that it will also affect the family. The student's life, no one should be willing to exchange thousands of lives of the ancestors and several families, right? ”

When the officials heard this, they couldn't help but gasp - this big hat is buttoned down, and no one can afford it! Gan Zhihai was the first to say urgently: "Don't misunderstand!" We are indeed very sincere! However, the conditions of your army are too harsh, and many of the requirements are not agreed to by Xiangyang Mansion alone, so I really can't help it......

Luo Shifan nodded: "This student knows." My marshal said that if you should talk to the three divisions of Huguang, you will talk to them when you go back, and you have to rely on Xiangwang Chitose and your lords to mediate, but there are some things that you can decide with your own words, such as Gucheng temporarily living and Xiangyang setting up a contact point. Our army is invincible for thousands of miles. If your mansion surrenders without spending a single soldier in the imperial court...... Such great achievements are all in the minds of all of you, and I hope you will think twice. In addition, you adults also need to show our army sincerity, this is a list," he said, reaching out and taking out a few pages from his bosom, "The silver salary, grain and grass, and materials are all on it, please prepare it." ”

Wu Youde, who was completely stupid, looked at Mo Qiushui, and hurriedly trotted a few steps to take it and present it. Without waiting for the latter to start a perusal reading, Luo Shifan got up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, such a major matter must be carefully considered. It's not too early, if you don't force the adults to stay, the students will leave first, so as not to misunderstand my handsome. Tomorrow morning, students will come back to pick up their responses. ”

Although he was half angry with this kid, of course no one dared to come forward to forcibly detain him, so he had to say a few polite words and wave his hand to signal him to leave. Unexpectedly, when he walked to the door, Luo Shifan suddenly remembered something and turned around and said: "By the way, the students almost forgot, my marshal said that in order to ensure the sincerity of your adults, our army has set up some ranger light and dark sentinels in the east, west, and south directions. If King Xiang's Chitose is going out to meet friends and hunt or something these days, it is best to wait until we have negotiated the reduction of our army before leaving. Otherwise, our army will think that you have no intention of surrendering, and will immediately attack, and you will be responsible for all the consequences caused by this, including the shock of the Chitose king. ”

Hearing this, Gan Zhihai didn't care about what kind of shelf he was putting up, so he hurriedly stood up: "Luo Jun's envoy will go slowly, and the next official will send Luo Junshi off." ”

Outside the palace, Luo Shifan Chong, who had been chattering "expressing sincerity", smiled again: "Thank you Lord Gan for your kindness." But the student is telling the truth, King Xiang Chitose must take care, the Tang King of Nanyang Mansion...... But he was careless, and he fell from Wangfu Mountain and fell to his death! ”