Li Laiheng was first stunned when asked by Li Zhaoji: "Interested, why am I interested in him?" ”

Li Zhaoji smiled: "Aren't you interested in heavy artillery, let me tell you, in today's East, among the people who can speak Chinese, those who can play the red-coated cannon can understand it, except for me Li Zhaoji, they can count the army under their Han domain."

Of course, in the Three Han Domains, Kong Youde has been truly inherited, but over the years, the Three Han Domains have been mixed together and naturally learned a lot from each other. If you are willing to accept it, then Dashun can get a person who really understands firearms.

If done correctly, he may be able to appease Kong Youde's firearms army in the pass for you. ”

Li Laiheng nodded slightly, since he saw the strength of the Eastern Brigade, whether it was the Manchu Qing, Dashun or Daming, they all realized that the development of firearms troops was inevitable. It is especially important in Dashun, the Ming army has been playing with firearms for a hundred years, there is no shortage of talents, even if it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the army under the domain is also a firearms-based army, and the Han army flag is a pure firearms army, only Dashun, although it also uses firearms, but it is neither professional nor has a scale.

If we can really get a firearms army, it is very important for the development of the firearms army in Dashun in the future.

But why did he surrender Dashun? Just to keep those farmland assets in his Haicheng? This can't be said, and now we don't have the ability to keep Haicheng. Li Laiheng said.

Li Zhaoji laughed and said, "You don't care about this, just say, do you want to be happy in Dashun." ”

"Of course!" Li Laiheng said.

Li Zhaoji nodded: "So, you can contact your emperor and monk Kexi on behalf of you." The emperor of your family is just a little stingy, don't follow him now. You can confidently open the river, what kind of king, reward and so on, all promise him, first deceive people to the Guannai. ”

Li Laiheng nodded, except for the title that can't be too much, there is nothing else that can't be agreed.

"But I still don't know why Shang Kexi wants to vote for Dashun." Li Laiheng said.

Li Zhaoji laughed: "You will know in the future, brother, I advise you, you had better not ask now, if you ask, the possibility of him surrendering Dashun will be much reduced." ”

Why did Shang Kexi surrender Dashun, it was because for him, surrendering was a big profit, and not surrendering was a bad debt.

When Li Zhaoji hit Haicheng, Shang Kexi took the initiative to make peace in order to keep his domain property, and was finally known by Dolgon and others, and finally there was a Manchu Qing in the name of the Han Dynasty to contribute 500,000 taels in exchange for the Eastern Brigade not to go north, so that Li Zhaoji would not go north for a few months.

Because of this, Shang Kexi knew that he had already recorded a black account on the side of the Qing court, and he was not sure whether he would be counterattacked in the future. And in order to make up the 500,000 taels, Shang Kexi borrowed money everywhere and owed a lot of debts.

But because the family is small, the field house is in Liaodong, and the soldiers and horses under his command are in the pass, Shang Kexi can't make up his mind. However, the surrender of Shanhaiguan directly led to its choice.

The peace of 500,000 yuan has now been broken, and Li Zhaoji's army directly hit Shengjing City, which means that the 500,000 taels of the Qing court were spent in vain, and someone will definitely be responsible for this in the future, and Shang Kexi must be one of them.

So, this guy simply stopped fantasizing about the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but chose to surrender, even if Dashun didn't accept him, he would surrender to Li Zhaoji.

Moreover, Shang Kexi is a very smart person, because of his identity, Duoduo told him at the beginning that he was going to use troops on the Liaodong Oriental Brigade, and he knew that there would be a war before Li Zhaoji, but he didn't want to tell Li Zhaoji that after he decided to surrender, he returned to Shengjing City and borrowed money from those Manchu lords in Shengjing, not too much, not too little, no matter how high the interest is, according to Ban Zhifu, Shang Kexi borrowed at least 300,000 taels of silver, obviously, this guy wanted to surrender with silver.

As for Li Zhaoji, he was willing to accept him in the face of the silver, and he originally thought that he would show a broad-minded appearance first, as long as Shang Kexi and his silver arrived on the ship, he would kill people and seize treasures, kill traitors, and seize his assets, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds.

But now that Dashun is willing to be a pick-up man, Shang Kexi naturally has a place to go, go to Dashun, where firearms are relatively weak, to shine, and contribute some of his strength to Li Zhaoji's 'mainland balance' strategy, as for his 300,000 taels of silver, Li Zhaoji must laugh at it.

At this moment, there was a sudden tsunami-like shout outside, as if countless soldiers were cheering something, and then there was the sound of a crash. Everyone went out to see, in the distance, the southern wall of Shengjing collapsed at least forty meters wide, and the collapsed masonry and soil filled in a small half of the moat, and formed a ramp up and down, and the entire gap was only less than two meters wide.

"Well, Zhou rate is fighting well, the effectiveness is very high, let the artillery move fifty meters to the east, and fight again, and expand the gap a little." Li Zhaoji looked at the gap in the city wall from afar, nodded in satisfaction, and as he spoke, he wrote an order to be passed to Zhou Sui, who was in charge of artillery affairs.

"The width of more than ten zhang is already quite good." Li Laiheng said.

Li Zhaoji said: "Come to Heng, if you are willing to lead the Shun army to rush in, just rush, I will not stop you, but ask the infantry to cooperate with you." ”

"Then let's widen the gap again." Li Laiheng didn't want the old battalion soldiers under his command to suffer too much, speaking of which, he was just temporarily in charge of this team, and the army was all Yuan Zongdi's people, if he lost too much, it would not be difficult to talk to him in the future, but he was a high-level of Dashun, although he had repeatedly made military exploits, but in front of others, it was nothing.

"Well, okay, I have people arrange your camp and lodging, Changshui, you can bring Heng and them to rest.

Lai Heng, you remember, your cavalry should not move for the time being, maybe the Qing army will take the initiative to fight, and take advantage of their ignorance of your arrival, we may be able to catch them off guard. Li Zhaoji patted Li Laiheng on the shoulder and said.

Li Laiheng nodded: "Okay, I'll do everything you ask." ”

"Tang Mu, where does Changshui arrange for Li Laiheng to live?" Li Zhaoji asked.

Tang Mu pointed to a plane tree in the distance and said, "The big shopkeeper is that yard." ”

"Grandma, wouldn't the soldiers guarding the door be able to see people coming in and out of our yard at a glance. This Zhao Changshui is really not stable enough to do things. Li Zhaoji said unhappily.

Tang Mu spread out his hand: "There are not many houses here, and the field hospital, baggage warehouse, etc. account for ........ ”

Lee said: "Open the back door of the vault and put a bed inside. ”

"You're not going to sleep with silver, are you?" Tang Mu said with a smile.

There were the soldiers' salaries and the second payment given by the Han clan in the treasury, but they didn't have time to send it to Lushun, so they had to take it with them. Li Zhaoji said: "I'm waiting for someone to send us money." ”

"Send money? Who! Tang Mu was puzzled and asked.

Li Zhaoji spread his hands and said, "Of course, it is the little Manchurian emperor of Shengjing City and his mother Xiaozhuang...... No, it's the Queen Mother. ”

As soon as he thought that a large sum of money would be put into his account, Li Zhaoji was happy, and as soon as he was happy, he almost said all the nicknames of others, which was really a sin.

"Will you, big shopkeeper?"

"You remove it, definitely. Who are we, it is the Oriental Trading Company, I am Li Zhaoji Li Da shopkeeper, in the eyes of others, we are a group of goods with milk and mothers, we received 500,000 taels at the beginning, we will go to Haicheng and not go north for a few months. Now that we are in Shengjing City, they will definitely be willing to pay for our retirement. Li Zhaoji said with a smile.

Tang Mu said: "Why bother so much, let Zhou rate fight for two more days, expand the gap, I will lead the troops to rush in, and the money in the city is not all ours." ”

"Wrong, it's us and the Shun army, Li Laiheng brought more than 3,000 cavalry, is it difficult for people to watch you rob?

No, people will definitely go in and rob it, Tang Mu, can you rob others? Li Zhaoji asked.

Tang Mu thought about it and shook his head.

The Shun army was born as a thief, and when it comes to robbery, people are professional, on the contrary, the Eastern Brigade is not professional, because Li Zhaoji restricts military discipline and does not allow indiscriminate killing, so the Shun army does not have this constraint, and people naturally rob with high efficiency. What's more, there are Qing cavalry around, and there are baggage, engineers, and artillery in the army to take care of.

"Then we can make an appointment with Shunjun, half of one person." Tang Mu said.

Li Zhaoji laughed: "Yes, that's why we have to ask for it in advance."

Suppose that there are 10 million taels of silver in Shengjing, and we and the Shunjun family are half, that is 5 million taels. And if we cheated two million taels in advance, wouldn't we get six million in the end, and Shunjun got four million?

Why, do you have a grudge against money, or do you mean that you are so righteous and unwilling to take advantage of Dashun? ”

Tang Mu smiled and said, "No, I understand, what you said, making money, don't chill." ”

If at the beginning, Zilharang still had the confidence to defend Shengjing City, when a big gap was made in the wall of Shengjing City, all the confidence was destroyed by the noble family members in the Eight Banners, and the group of Manchurian old ladies did not give face at all, and directly scratched Jierharang's face and spit on him.

"Prince Zheng, are you okay?" In the Yongfu Palace, Fu Lin walked up to Zilharang and handed him a handkerchief.

Jierharang shook his head slightly, wiped the saliva on his face, and said: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, the artillery fire of the Eastern thieves is terrible, and in just two days, they have smashed the city wall of more than ten zhang. And continue to fire, if the Dongfan thieves don't want to attack, Sheng Jing is afraid that he will not be able to hold it. ”

Bumu Butai hugged Fu Lin and said, "Prince Zheng, don't say anything about leaving. My son is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Shengjing was left by the first emperor, and our mother and daughter died in Shengjing, and we will not leave a step. ”

Zilharang nodded slightly, he admired Bumu Butai's fierceness and courage, and Zilharang said: "At this time, there is no other way. I can only get in touch with the Dongfan thieves, I spent 500,000 yuan to buy them a truce, and they did stop, if it weren't for Prince Yu's change of hexagram, maybe it would be fine.

Now I can only spend money again, while the cavalry of the thieves has not yet arrived, I may buy off the thieves, if the thief cavalry arrives, maybe they will have to fight, when it comes to looting, they are better than the gentry of the Eight Banners. ”

Bu Mu Butai sighed, although the thieves are also quite able to rob, they can rob everyone is Da Ming, no one would have thought that it would be robbed on Da Qing's head, she nodded slightly: "This is also a way that can't be done." ”

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