Looking at this guy's cruel and scrutinizing gaze, Li Dan was not in a hurry, did not dodge in the slightest, but put the silver cup on the table, and asked, "Why do I have to kill you?"

Lou Shiming was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the problem to come back to his side, he looked at Zhao Jingzi and Dou San'er behind Li Dan with some surprise, and spread his hands:

"Li Sanlang, you are the inspector of the imperial court. Isn't it natural for officers and soldiers to catch robbers? How can there be a reason to open the wine table and drink with robbers in the blue sky and daylight? I don't make sense, what kind of medicine is sold in your gourd?"

"Officers and soldiers want to catch robbers, but things must be prioritized." Li Dan spoke unhurriedly, making the other party forget his age.

"My patrol is the inspection of the north of Guangxin Prefecture, and my duty is to protect the smooth official road of the northern line of Shangrao, and escort the supply baggage to Shangrao in a complete and timely manner."

"I seem to understand." A light flashed in Lou Shiming's eyes: "You mean, you came here to send supplies, not to fight, so you want to negotiate peace and take what you need?"

"The second general is a man who understands!"

"But do you think I'm going to let you in?"

"What if you don't let it go, your father can still transfer thousands of people to fight?"

Lou Shiming's eyes showed anger, but he clenched his fists and stared at the young man in front of him without speaking.

Li Dan continued: "The words may be ugly, but the second general should know that Li is telling the truth.

The current strength in and out of Shangrao City is almost the same, of course, this is not counting the Yintuo group, even if your father and son transfer troops, it is only one or two thousand.

This kind of fueling tactics is useless, and can only make Yintuo stand behind and laugh. Isn't that so?"

After taking a deep breath, the Second Heavenly King said, "I didn't expect you to know even about Yintuo."

"I'm a North Road Inspector, and the prefect can't appoint someone who eats and doesn't work, right?" Li Dan grinned, beckoned him to come closer, and said softly:

"Actually, your father also knows that he can't take Shangrao, but he doesn't give up, and he's afraid of losing face, and he's afraid that all walks of life won't listen to him in the future, right?"

"***!" Lou Shiming was unhappy.

Li Dan didn't care, waved his hand and continued: "Second general, don't scold people first, listen to me give you a detailed explanation.

Assuming that your father and son now have the ability to suddenly pull out a team of 30,000 or 50,000 people, I think it is better to give it a try, otherwise it will be a slogan and have no practical meaning.

Besides, you can't just fight Rao, but also score Guangxin? Fighting on two fronts will definitely require more troops than fighting a city!

But on the other hand, even if there are so many soldiers and horses, where can they find food and grass to support?

Judging from the seizures in the camp of your third brother and Guangxin Chow Tai Fook, the grain and grass of your army will definitely not be able to support half a month!

Even if I can't send these things in, Shangrao will have no problem supporting himself for a month. It consumes you so much that you will collapse without a fight!

Anyway, sooner or later, the army will have to retreat, should it be retreated when the grain and grass will be exhausted, or will it be retreated now? Thy father and thy son should make a decision early.

To be honest, after fighting for a long time, the surrounding people should have run and could run, and the food that should have been hidden and could be hidden, had already run and hidden.

Even if the troops are swept around, it is only a drop in the bucket. And you still have to feed that insatiable Yintuo, what should I do?"

"Inspector Li means to persuade my father and son to withdraw from the army?"

"Hehe, either retreat now, or retreat when the urine is about to spill on the pants, just two choices. Which one is better, you don't need me to help the second general choose, you should have a difference in your own heart, right?"

Li Dan's words made Lou Shiming speechless for a while. He realized that the "little thief" in front of him not only had a good understanding of their internal affairs, but also judged the situation far higher than that of the officials in Shangrao City.

"If it weren't for Yintuo, our father and son would have taken down Shangrao a long time ago!" After he finished snorting angrily, he looked at Li Dan again:

"I still can't let you in, Shangrao has been saved by grain and grass, but it's difficult for our father and son to do it. As you said, how else can my father command the world?"

"Emperor Taizu also surrounded Hefei three times, and your father and son wanted to take Shangrao with 10,000 people, but they were too ancient in their eyes

Someone!" Li Dan sighed:

"Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, so why care about the gains and losses of one city and one place? Besides, my grain and grass are not specifically for the defenders in the city, but for the salvation of 100,000 people in Shangrao and Guangxin."

He pointed to Zhao Jingzi: "Taizu surrounded Hefei, and once ordered the soldiers and people in the city to go out to collect wood so as not to be harmed, so that today's descendants have the glory of hanging yellow." If your father and son really have the will to save the people, they will not watch the people starve, right?"

Lou Shiming was silent, as if he was thinking, and his fingers tapped lightly on the table. He knew that what Li Dan said was indeed the truth, even if he retreated to the other side today, I am afraid that the result would be to persuade his father to withdraw from the army.

There was no geographical advantage, no superiority in troops, and no abundant grain and grass, and a blitzkrieg against Shangrao was tepid. Now you can't enter or retreat, how can you be good?

The meaning of Li Dan's words is very clear: I'm not afraid of you, I will fight again! But think about it, you always lose so much, which is more appropriate than a decent retreat?

Lou Shiming remembered the sound of the general's gun and the bird's gun in the morning, and he seemed to smell gunpowder smoke in his nostrils again.

"Do you want to just say these two sentences and let our father and son run away with their tails between their legs?" He sneered and said:

"Little one, if you want to do business, you have to show some sincerity, right? Having said so much, you have all the credit and hard work, but I haven't seen any benefit from the Lou family!

It's nice if it's as simple as patting your ass and leaving, but how can I convince my father? You've got to give me something, right?"

"It seems that the second general doesn't just fight and kill." Li Dan laughed: "So, what kind of second general can I see here? Please feel free to speak."

"Can you give it if I mentioned it?" Don't you have to go back and talk to that grandman?"

"And you say, if I can agree, I'll call the shots now, and if I can't, I'll go back and ask!"

"Okay, let's talk about the living ones first. My third brother and my first brother are in your hands?"

"The third general is very good, he reassures you. This is his letter." Li Dan took out a letter and pushed it over on the table, and continued:

"As long as the supplies are safely delivered to Shangrao, the three generals can go home immediately. As for the gold...... It's a bit of a hassle."

"What's the trouble?" Lou Shiming asked with a glare.

"I went down to her and asked her for advice, and she seemed to ...... I don't want to go back to your father." Li Dan made an innocent expression:

"I didn't stop it, I didn't persecute it, she took a fancy to a camp surnamed Zhou here, so she refused to go back."

"It's ......." Lou Shiming's face turned red and scolded in a low voice: "This lowly goods, I said a long time ago that she is a willow flower who thinks differently, so don't go back!"

He poured a glass of wine and drank it dry, wiping his mouth: "I've heard that the mountain leopard was also caught by you?"

"He has been seriously wounded, and he has been beheaded in public." Li Dan replied without changing his face.

"Where's Chow Tai Fook?"

"Same."

"Damn!" Lou Shiming slammed his fist on the table: "It's a shame that he sent someone last night, I rushed over early in the morning with someone, and I sent you a bunch of heads!"

"Of the two people sent last night, one of them came back to deliver a message to Chow Tai Fook, and that person was Sheng Qianhu's subordinate."

Lou Shiming scolded angrily, closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, and smiled bitterly for a long time: "Then you can't give me much."

"I can give you back this morning's captives, as well as Chow Tai Fook's men who were caught." After Li Dan finished speaking, he raised a hand: "But wait until all your troops have crossed the river, and then send a ferry to receive it."

"That's grateful!" Lou Shiming said and clenched his fists, and then said, "Let me let you enter Shangrao, I need to ask my father before I can tell you, and I can't promise you anything about retiring from the army now."

"Of course, after all, you can't say anything about this family. Oh, by the way, and your big brother!"

"You don't talk nonsense, it's useless for our brothers to provoke!" Lou Shiming slapped the table, then glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, and said slowly: "Since you don't have many chips, then I'll make the offer." This wine ......."

"Not for sale!" Li Dan lifted Erlang's legs: "The third general said, it's all your second general

He caught the man I had sent to the winery. So, the winery cooperation is not negotiable, I don't want to risk it anymore!"

"Tsk, you're quite vindictive!"

"Besides, it's not certain where this winery will open in the future, maybe in Geyang, or I'll talk about it when I return to Yugan after I finish my errand!"

Li Dan snorted deliberately: "Didn't you say that I was an official of the imperial court, and it would be impossible for me to deal with the thief."

"Eh, it's all a small thing." Lou Shiming knew that this was an opportunity to take the winery business from the third child to his side, after all, in the future, it would take money to raise an army and build weapons and armor, and it was a lot of money.

Lou Shifan is a stupid man, the business is in his hands, this kid will hand over the money to his father to make him happy.

Rather than this, it is better to take this opportunity to quietly take over the plate, so that you can make your strength bigger and more solid in the future.

"I was afraid that you would use the winery to spy on the military, or do something to disturb the morale of the military. Since you can't directly communicate with my family, I don't think it's better to do this, let's find a brother to be the middle, and it will be okay if they trade again?"

"Well, the proposal of the three generals seems to make sense, it would be a fool not to make money if you don't make it.

I offer you a reasonable price, and I have nothing to do with you on top of that. But it must be paid on delivery, and no credit is owed!"

Li Dan thought to himself, didn't he just want to get a white glove. However, he had to use the "cash on delivery" clause to push forward and test whether his intention was really to make a deal or if he had other plans.

"Deal, but I want the right to sell the whole of Jiangxi!"

"This can't work, because someone has already taken the right to sell in Jiangxi. However, if the second general really has such ambitions, I can give you the right to sell and go to sea in Fujian."

Lou Shiming raised his eyebrows, thinking that this was better, because most of Jiangxi was not the world of his Lou family, and they were too familiar with Fujian.

Not to mention anything else, eighty percent of those yamen have an inexplicable relationship with this side, and this Fujian business should be easy to do! "You're talking about the right to sell and the right to go to sea?" He asked.

Li Dan didn't expect him to understand this, and replied in surprise: "The right to sell must be exclusive, and the right to go to sea doesn't dare to promise you exclusivity, after all, there are too many sea routes, and it is impossible for your Lou family to monopolize it."

"Monopoly? Eh, that's a good word!" Lou Shiming felt fresh, nodded and said, "Okay, then do it. Let them talk about specific things, and we just need to make up our minds about big things."

"Second general, businessmen call this 'grasping the big and letting go of the small.'"

"Oh? Haha, interesting! You kid knows a lot, I like it! Hahaha......!"

Sent Lou Shifan away, turned around and returned to the thick shade. Lou Shiming had already taken away the pot of wine just now, Dou San'er handed over his water hyacinth to Li Dan to quench his thirst, and then asked a little worriedly, "Inspection, do we really want to do business with the thief?"

"Yes, of course. If they don't, where will there be a channel to learn about their movements and news, and how can they have the opportunity to rebel against those leaders among them who want to be recruited?" Li Dan replied with a smile.

"Oh!" Dou San'er immediately gave a thumbs up.

"I guess there's another meaning to the inspection, right?" Zhao Jingzi pursed his lips and smiled, and gestured with his chin:

"Originally, this business belonged to Lou Shifan and his father, but now Lou Shiming *** came to copy it and put it in his arms. What would happen if Lou Thief's father and son knew?

A lot of money just fell into the second child's pocket, can Lou Thief, the eldest and the third child have no pimple about this?"

Li Dan laughed: "Those who know me, offer Fu! But it's good that you know, don't publicize it, otherwise it won't work. And it's a long line, and it's not clear whether it's useful or not."

"I heard that Lou Zishi was greedy for money and ungenerous, I don't think he may be able to bear it." Zhao Jingzi shook his head.

"Even if he can bear it, no one else can't."

"Patrol is ...... Lou Shiyong?"

"Shhhh......hhh

"Haha, understood, understood!"

Lou Zishi

Looking at the two sons, I don't know what to say. He couldn't understand why his 5,000-strong army was still defeated, and even the troops surrounding Guangxin were wiped out, if it weren't for the second er's alertness, even his 2,000 men would have almost gotten in (Li Dan released the 300 captured prisoners under Lou Shiming on the day of the talks, which was considered to save face for him).

After listening to Lou Shiming's report, he paced back and forth twice with his hands behind his back, then stopped, turned around and asked, "What does Mr. Lin Quan think of the outcome of the Red Whisker talks?" They want to exchange the third child for food, do we agree or disagree?"

Hearing his name, He Zhang hesitated slightly.

He is very aware of the fierce competition between the three brothers, and in front of Lou Shiyong and Lou Shiming, which words should be said and which should not be said, it is really a little difficult to grasp.

After weighing left and right, he crossed his hands and saluted upward, and said, "Lord, my subordinates think that this is not the question of whether to change the three generals, but whether to withdraw the army and how to withdraw with dignity?"

"Oh?" Lou stroked his beard, narrowed his eyes and asked, "How do you say this?"

"What Sir means is that after losing the battle, the current strength, food, grass, and morale of our army are not enough to conquer Shangrao, so it is better to take a step back and make plans. But is that the truth?" Lou Shi asked with an interface.

"The eldest prince has a point." He Zhang solemnly clenched his fists and replied, "My lord, the way of a soldier is to win. As long as you can win, temporary forbearance, concessions, and retreats are irrelevant.

Even the Taizu of this dynasty also has the experience of three dozen Shucheng and Hefei, and it is impossible to raise troops overnight, so we should consider it in the long term and plan it slowly!"

"I understand the reason." Lou Zishi sighed and slammed his fist on the table: "But this word came out of the mouth of the thief in Tsing Yi, which made me really unacceptable!"

"It's ......." He Zhang knew that he was annoyed by the matter of weighing gold. Also, even if people have long thought it is boring, it is still embarrassing to be taken over by other men, what is the difference between being a cuckold?

Even if he is Li Dan's subordinate, as his master, it is impossible not to bear Lou Zishi's hatred and anger.

"Lord, those who accomplish great things must have the grace to tolerate people and things." He Zhang thought about the wording, carefully looked at the other party's face and said:

"But a woman, the lord is determined to be in the world, please don't worry too much about this matter." After that, he secretly glanced at Lou Shiyong.

Lou Shiyong was quite disappreciative of his father, but he couldn't poke his heart directly. Seeing Mr. Lin Quan's gaze, he had to bow down and say, "Father, now is not the time to seek revenge on him.

The advance and retreat of the army are waiting for your order, Mr. Lin Quan's words hope that my father will focus on the overall situation, think twice!

And ......, the last time the child mentioned the matter of Feng Yintuo as the king, what did the father think about?

The child thought that he might as well encourage Yintuo to attack Guangxin and Fengqi Pass to the west, or even take Geyang directly.

Now that Marshal Yang He is making a lot of trouble in Fuzhou, it is time to take Ge Yang to respond to his actions, making it difficult for the officials and troops to resist.

Let's temporarily retreat and recuperate, obtain the grain after the autumn, reorganize the soldiers and horses, and recruit strong men to attack again, then Shangrao will definitely not defend.

My father was only a few months late when he became king, so what did it matter? The general trend is in me, and the people are in the heart.

It is a wise move to temporarily retreat, which is not only good for me to eat, but also to paralyze the Shangrao defenders, but there is a lot to be gained!"

"My plan!" Lou Zishi's eyes flashed, and he keenly grasped the benefits of the move of "mobilizing Yintuo to the west", consuming his opponent, shrinking and preserving himself.

Well, the boss is just a good brain! He smiled, thought, and nodded, "Good, good! Just do what the boss says. Mr. Lin Quan, how about I take a trip to Yintuo Village?"

"Father, Mr. Lin Quan is a counselor by your side, and you can't leave for a while. Besides, that Yintuo is ruthless and arrogant, and Mr. is afraid that he will not be able to suppress him. It's better to be a child, at least he has to give his father a face."

Lou Zishi thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, then you go, be more careful!"

"My son saved." Lou Shi was taught with his forked hands, and he was very happy that he was better than the second child.

But Lou Shiming will not be idle, he stood up and said:

"Father, if the eldest brother can persuade Yintuo to go west, then we can say that this is his own opinion, and it has nothing to do with my Lou family's father and son.

However, it is better to hurry up and discuss with Tsing Yi Saburo, and strive to replace the third brother as soon as possible.

Otherwise, as soon as Yintuo moves, the child is worried that they will be angry, and will use this as a reason to refuse the conditions previously discussed, and even endanger the life of the third brother."