Su Zhengyuan thought that Zhao was really coming, and he was so frightened that he retreated again and again, "City Lord Zhao, if you have something to discuss, even if you have something to say, this kind of joke can't be made." ”

Zhao Lanjiang stopped at this time, picked up a chicken leg on the table, and said while eating, "General Su, do you know why I am looking for you?"

"Although we have known each other for a long time, the relationship is not very good, and you have nothing to do in the Three Treasures Palace, you should not come to me because you miss me. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Lanjiang almost squirted, "I've been thinking about you lately." ”

Su Zhengyuan said, ?" City Lord Zhao, we don't have any deep hatred, I can't afford you to worry about it day and night. ”

Zhao Lanjiang decided not to talk nonsense anymore and got straight to the point, "I want to ask you to borrow troops." ”

Su Zhengyuan said in his heart, as I expected, this kid didn't have any good intentions. It's just that as soon as Zhao Lanjiang said the right thing, he made a difficulty. He didn't want to. Su Zhengyuan didn't want to or dared to offend him, so he had to find a suitable reason to refuse him tactfully and not make him angry. Especially at this juncture, Zhao Lanjiang's old nest was taken to someone's end, and he must not be allowed to seize the handle and take the opportunity to make trouble.

Thinking of this, Su Zhengyuan snorted, "It turned out to be a borrowed soldier." Although I have a lot of soldiers and horses in this gourd, it is now the busy season for farming, and I have to plant seedlings, plough the land, and build canals. I don't know how much to borrow?"

Zhao Lanjiang stretched out three fingers.

Su Zhengyuan smiled, "It turns out that there are only three people!" he patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, no matter how hard it is, three or five people, we can still squeeze it out." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said, "Thirty thousand people!"

Su Zhengyuan jumped up, the Hulukou garrison was less than 100,000 people, and this kid borrowed nearly half of it as soon as he opened his mouth.

He smiled, "City Lord Zhao is really joking. ”

Zhao Baojiang said, "You made a joke first." ”

Zhao Lanjiang has less than 30,000 people, and he knows Su Zhengyuan very well, so as soon as he came up, the lion opened his mouth, sat on the ground and raised the price, and then waited for Su Zhengyuan to slowly bargain, this strategy, just as Su Zhengyuan came up and said that he wanted to borrow three or five people. Three people and 30,000 people, the difference in the middle is a bit big, both of them are experienced old fritters, seeing each other like this, haha, laughed, immediately sat down at the stone table, and began a long bargain.

"City Lord Zhao, you also know what happened in the capital, recently the King of Shu and the King of Yu have also sent people to talk about cooperation, and they are full of sincerity. ”

The meaning of Su Zhengyuan's words is that I am a hot sweetheart, so there is no need to choose to cooperate with you Zhao Lanjiang.

"General Su, I am also full of sincerity, you see that we have been chatting for so long, we are all pleasant, and there is something to discuss, I have said a word to threaten you?"

Zhao Lanjiang is also very direct, I didn't say anything to threaten you, but if you don't cooperate, then it's not as simple as threatening you, no way, who made me have high martial arts.

"With the martial arts of the city lord of Zhao and the prestige in the Hidden Yang City, it is easy to recapture the Hidden Yang City and kill the traitors, why bother to attack my idea of three points of land per acre?"

"A good man has three gangs, everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, and Han Xin has more soldiers, the better. ”

Su Zhengyuan said, "It's better than this, on the basis of the number just now, how about I increase it for you tenfold and give you thirty people?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "What I wanted just now for 30,000 people is indeed a bit much, so it's better to reduce it by half for you, ask for 15,000, and let you earn back 15,000 people at once!"

Su Zhengyuan slandered in his heart, what do you mean for me to earn back 15,000, these people are originally my good.

"You subtract a little more. ”

"You're adding points. ”

"It's better like this, let's add two to five, I'll make you a whole number, and give you a hundred soldiers and horses!"

"I think we can add up our proposals and divide them by two, how about you give me seven thousand five hundred and fifty?"

Su Zhengyuan said, "There are still bits and pieces, let's get rid of those five hundred and fifty people first." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said that seven thousand is not a lot, and his expectation is three thousand, so he readily agreed, "Okay, seven thousand is seven thousand!"

Su Zhengyuan instructed Master Yu a few words, and after a while, the meal came up and was placed on the stone table, "Come, conduct the second round." ”

Zhao Lanjiang was stunned, "Still talking?"

"Of course, I just went out to three hundred, and you went out to seven thousand, and we have to negotiate a result that is satisfactory to both parties. ”

"Seven thousand, I'm already satisfied. ”

"I'm not satisfied. Su Zhengyuan said, "So, let's continue to talk." ”

The two talked from morning to noon, from noon to sunset, and finally Zhao Lanjiang insisted that five thousand people could not be reduced, and the limit that Su Zhengyuan could give was one thousand people.

Su Zhengyuan called for wine and said, "Come, General Zhao, I heard that you drink as much as a sea, it's better to do this, on the basis of a thousand people, this jar of wine, you drink a bowl, I will add a hundred people to you." If you don't drink, you don't give me face. ”

Zhao said, "I quit drinking. ”

Su Zhengyuan sighed, "I'll give you a chance, if you can't grasp it, then there's no way." ”

Zhao Lanjiang untied the golden knife and put it on the table, Su Zhengyuan was startled, "What do you want to do?"

Zhao Lanjiang smiled, "This thing is too heavy to hang on my waist, I'll put it here, don't think about it." ”

Su Zhengyuan said in his heart, can I not think about it too much, you are the master of killing people without blinking. Zhao Lanjiang said again, "I have a proposal, five thousand people, for every bowl of wine you drink, I will reduce one hundred people for you, how about it?"

When Su Zhengyuan heard it, "Is this true?"

"Walk the talk!"

Su Zhengyuan said to Master Yu, "Bring me my toilet!"

Zhao Lanjiang poured wine, and Su Zhengyuan drank.

One bowl, two bowls.

Nine bowls, ten bowls. Su Zhengyuan drank ten bowls of wine in one go, his face was already drunk, and Zhao Yanjiang said, "Okay, four thousand is four thousand, the body is important." As soon as the night breeze blew, Su Zhengyuan's wine came up, full of urine, but fortunately, his fat body sat on the special custom toilet, and even saved the effort of getting up and relieving his hands, and said to Zhao Yanjiang, "Pour wine again!"

Eleven bowls, twelve bowls.

Nineteen bowls, twenty bowls.

Su Zhengyuan's face was flushed, his eyes were blurred, and he was already drunk, but since Zhao Lanjiang spoke, he was ready to sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, and he would cook fifty bowls in a row, so that he would not receive any grains, thinking of this, he said to Master Yu, "Let's plate peanuts!"

and five bowls of wine in a row.

Su Zhengyuan slurred his words and said, "Two thousand five hundred?"

Zhao Lanjiang nodded, "Two thousand five hundred." ”

"Pour the wine!"

Before Zhao Lanjiang could pour the wine, Su Zhengyuan lay on the stone table.

This meal of wine was drunk, so that Su Zhengyuan slept until noon the next day, 500 people less than 3,000 people, Zhao Lanjiang was also relatively satisfied, after noon, the two returned to the stone table, Zhao Lanjiang gave a thumbs up, "General Su, good amount of wine!"

Su Zhengyuan's head was buzzing, he drank two large bowls of vinegar, and said, "Two thousand five hundred, it's decided." ”

"It's settled. ”

Su Zhengyuan said again, "People, I'll lend you." But you can't borrow it for nothing, what benefit do you give me?"

Zhao Lanjiang said: "I thought that with the friendship between the two of us, it would hurt my feelings to talk about the benefits." ”

Su Zhengyuan asked, "Do we have a relationship?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "No." ”

"Business is business, I'll hear your offer. ”

Zhao Lanjiang thought for a moment and said, "I'll give you thirty percent of Stone City's dry shares!"

Su Zhengyuan didn't have a good breath and said, "You Stone Town are now borrowing tens of millions of debts, what's the use of asking you to do stocks?"

Zhao Lanjiang smiled, "You have to think so, there are 100,000 garrisons in Hulukou, and these 100,000 people are 100,000 mouths to eat. Now Stone Town is now building a lot of construction, in a few years, it will become the largest border trade base in Western Xinjiang, I also built a base in Xiangjian County, when the time comes, we will join forces, there is Xiangjian County in the east, Hulukou in the west, the trade road is open, the financial resources are rolling, and now the Central Plains is in chaos, isn't it a great opportunity for our brothers to make a fortune?"

Su Zhengyuan thought for a long time, this deal was very cost-effective, and he patted his thigh, "Deal." But there is one condition. ”

"Please. ”

"As soon as the situation stabilizes, I want to lay off the 50,000 border troops, and arrange a place for them to live and earn a living in Hulukou at that time. ”

Zhao Lanjiang was secretly happy in his heart, the most important thing in Stone Town was land, and the Central Plains was in chaos, and many people who had invested money in Stone Town could not come back, so they just took the opportunity to use it again, and said: "It must be possible! At that time, General Su was really the rightful Lord of Stone City!"

After Zhao Lanjiang left, Su Zhengyuan asked Master Yu, "What do you think of this deal?"

Master Yu said, "General, how do I think that the matter of borrowing troops is fake, he only came out of a piece of ruined wasteland, and you sold it to Zhao Lanjiang?

Su Zhengyuan thought about it, and it was such a truth.

Where is this to borrow soldiers, this is to deceive surrender. However, since he has agreed, he can only take one step at a time, he said, "Okay, don't care about these things for now, you go and count them, and allocate to Zhao Lanjiang those who are old, weak, sick and disabled, who have a lot of food and don't work, and who are cheating and playing tricks in the barracks." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Su Zhengyuan and Zhao Lanjiang came to the barracks to select soldiers and horses, looking at the officers and soldiers in the barracks, Su Zhengyuan remembered yesterday's wine, and only felt that his stomach was turning over the river and the sea, and everyone looked like wine. In addition to those old and weak soldiers, because Zhao Lanjiang's prestige in the army is very high, many people are also willing to follow him, which makes Su Zhengyuan very annoyed, the more he thinks about it, the more angry he becomes, he shirks something, and goes back to the general's mansion to sleep.

The next day, Zhao Lanjiang came to look for him again.

Su Zhengyuan asked, "How are the soldiers and horses selected?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "Thanks to the general, I made up two thousand five, but I couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the Western Army, and five hundred people came to vote at night, I thought about agreeing to General Su, I didn't want to accept them, but they forced each other to die, I reluctantly made my subordinates come to General Su today to ask for guilt." ”

Su Zhengyuan rolled his eyes, and he didn't want to argue with him, three thousand is three thousand, and quickly sent it away.

Zhao Lanjiang said again, "There is one more thing today. ”

"What?"

"Borrow food!"

Su Zhengyuan was so angry that he jumped like thunder, "The landlord's family has no surplus grain." ”

Zhao Lanjiang spread his hands, "The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, you also know my current situation, the situation is like this, if you don't give food and grass, these 3,000 soldiers and horses can only starve to death, and then General Su's sin will be great." Of course, it's not for nothing, when I recapture Hidden Yang City, I will return it three times, if you don't give it, these three thousand soldiers and horses may be like a sick cat in your hands, but in my hands, you may be able to do something. ”

Threat!

Naked threat!

Villain!

Despicable villain!

Su Zhengyuan was so angry that he scolded his mother, but force was not good, even if he was under his own roof, he had to bow his head to the other party. He waved his hand weakly, "Okay, okay, just do what you say!"

On the third day, Zhao Lanjiang came to look for him again.

Su Zhengyuan said: "People have also given it, and grain and grass have also been given, why do you still come?"

"There's one more thing down there!"

Su Zhengyuan couldn't hold back any longer, after three times and twice, the mud bodhisattva still had three points of anger, and he said: "It's endless, do you think this is your family's land and money?"

Zhao Lanjiang was stunned, "I'm here to say goodbye to General Su." ”

Su Zhengyuan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and said happily, "It's only been a few days, and I haven't been able to drink and talk, so I left in such a hurry, to be honest, I'm still a little reluctant to do it." Zhao Lanjiang said, "Why don't I stay for two more days?"

"Don't!" Su Zhengyuan said, "It's important to get down to business, now that the people of Yinyang are still living in dire straits, waiting for you to go back and rescue them, I won't delay you." "But I thought in my heart, hurry up and send this Bodhisattva away, and as soon as you leave, Lao Tzu will lead the soldiers and horses to move away from this ghost place.

With 3,000 soldiers, horses, grain and grass in hand, Zhao Lanjiang led them to leave Hulukou.

Two days later, they arrived at the foot of Yinyang City, set up camp, and set up a siege posture.

At the same time, Ye Erlang and Li Bufan led the people of the White Horse Post and some of the incorporated White Horse Yicong to join Zhao Lanjiang and gathered nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses.

The army pressed the border, and the leader was Zhao Lanjiang.

The situation in Hidden Yang City suddenly became turbulent.

Of course, Zhao Lanjiang will not really attack the city, whether it is the Western Army or the Yinyang Yicong, they are all robes that he has fought side by side, and nearly 100,000 people in Yinyang City are also his citizens. He made this gesture with only one purpose, that is, to put pressure on Li Changzheng and force Li Changzheng to come out to fight.

Every day, Zhao Lanjiang came to the front of Yinyang City, immediately crossed the knife, carried enough internal strength, and shouted, "The traitor Li Changzheng, dare to go out of the city and fight with someone Zhao?"

The sound spread to every corner of Hidden Sun City.

After that, swagger back to the camp for tea.

Then, Li Bufan took a few scolding experts selected from the army to the downstairs of Yinyang City to provoke and scolded Li Changzheng to the point of blood, but Li Changzheng was determined to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and he never refused to go out of the city gate to face the battle, and for several days, he had no will to fight.

It's not that he refuses to fight, but that Li Changzheng can't move people.

There are 10,000 white horses in the city, but Li Chenglong and Li Xunbao refuse to surrender, they are loyal to Zhao Lanjiang, they can't kill and kill, and they don't dare to let go, so they can only sulk in the city lord's mansion. Sometimes, he really wanted to rush out and fight him to the death, but reason told him that he would consume the other party, lure Zhao Lanjiang into the city, and use the Hidden Sun Great Array to eliminate him in one fell swoop.

Shopkeeper Xu used his subordinates to start a public opinion war in the city, and for a while, Li Changzheng's status as the city lord was questioned by the people.

Compared with the beloved Zhao Lanjiang, Li Changzheng's various perverse actions have been revealed, causing the people to complain and lose their hearts. Once, when Li Changzheng went out, he was even thrown eggs by someone hiding in the shadows, which made him very annoyed. But I thought in my heart, if this continues, I'm afraid I don't have to wait for Zhao Lanjiang to break through, and the internal chaos will start first.

Something has to be done.

Later, Chai Gongwang gave him a wake-up call, and on a dark and windy night, Li Changzheng wrote several letters, sent someone to secretly send them to Kangju City, and promised him that if he could help solve the siege, Stone Town and other four cities would be assigned to Kangju City.

Kangju City gave a reply letter that night, and the Kangju City Lord said that Zhao Lanjiang had acted perversely and full of evil when he was the city lord, and expressed extreme dissatisfaction and strong condemnation of Zhao Lanjiang's siege of Yinyang City, and was willing to resolve the conflict through peaceful dialogue to avoid heavy losses in Yinyang City.

This letter made Li Changzheng almost vomit blood, so he wrote another letter and gave it to Stone Town.

Chu Xiang, the lord of Stone City, the former prince of Western Chu, was captured alive by Zhao Lanjiang and suffered humiliation, and later Zhao Lanjiang placed him in Stone City, and handed over 30,000 captives of Western Chu to him to manage, and now Zhao Lanjiang is stationed outside Yinyang City, which is a great opportunity for Chu Xiang to take revenge. He promised Chu Xiang that he would come to drag Zhao Lanjiang, and as long as Shicheng was willing to send troops and destroy Zhao Lanjiang's team, he would give Chu Xiang Kangju and other four cities, and try his best to help him return to Xijing and help him restore the country.

Chu Xiang replied, saying that his hatred of Zhao Lanjiang was like hatred of two places in one day, hatred of three rivers and four seas, and he was very unwilling to eat him alive day and night, but he was only shocked by Zhao Lanjiang's obscenity, and did not dare to act rashly, and now that the city lord Li has given this opportunity, Stone City is willing to cooperate with the city lord Li, because of the importance of the matter, he sincerely invites Li Changzheng to go to Stone City to discuss countermeasures.

Li Changzheng asked Chai Gongwang, "What do you think?"

"The lord of the city must not go. ”

"Why?"

Chai Gongwang dissuaded, "The city lord sits in Yinyang, Zhao Lanjiang does not dare to enter, if he really goes, I am afraid that Zhao Lanjiang will attack the city." ”

"I'll go secretly, and I'll be back and forth overnight. This opportunity cannot be missed. ”

"In fact, there is no need to worry about Zhao Lanjiang, as long as they are consumed, it will not take three months, and they will naturally retreat. ”

Li Changzheng said angrily, "Three months! Can't you hear their words? I don't want to listen to them for a day, you let me endure it for another three months, and my ancestral grave will be scolded by him to the point of smoking." He added, "Let me ask you, if the soldiers and horses in the city are handed over to you and Li Lingcai, if the other party comes to attack, can you resist all night?"

Chai Gongwang said: "If I come to dispatch, it will be no problem to block it for three days." But with Mr. Li, I'm afraid it's ......."

Li Changzheng said, "I will take Li Lingcai with me, here I will let the two hundred masters of the Ghost Fan Tower to assist you in defending the city, no matter what, I must persuade Chu Xiang to join us tonight." ”

Chai Gongwang patted his chest and said, "Although the city lord can go with confidence, the city lord's whereabouts, I will keep them secret and never leak them, even if the other party gets the news, I am confident that I will drag them until the city lord returns." ”

Li Changzheng said, "After the matter is completed, when I become the emperor and the country, you will be my Dazai." ”

Chai Gongwang bowed, "Thank you, Lord Longen!"

After nightfall, Li Changzheng and Li Lingcai changed into two sets of civilian clothes, went out of the city in the dark, and headed for Stone Town.

Half an hour later.

Chai Gongwang came to the gate of the city to inspect, all the officers and soldiers knew him, although he was dissatisfied with this chief of staff, but he dared not speak angrily, he pointed to a guard at the gate, and asked: "What is your name?"

The officer guarding the gate said, "My name is Chang Sheng!"

Chai Gong looked at him and said, "Chang Sheng, tonight, you will make history!"

He pulled a rattling arrow from his bosom.

Sou!

A red light shot up into the sky.

Chai Gong said, "Chang Sheng, open the city gate!"

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