Dorgon took the letter and took a look. The content was that most of the supplies they prepared for the Qing Dynasty were recently robbed by bandits and suffered heavy losses. They hoped that Fan Wencheng would help them explain the situation to Huang Taiji.

The first thing I asked for was that because they did not deliver many orders from the Qing Dynasty as scheduled. This is a great sin and I need to ask Huang Taiji for forgiveness, otherwise their consequences would be very serious.

Secondly, they hoped that the Qing Dynasty could send some troops and horses to help escort supplies near Zhangjiajie, so as to reduce the attacks of bandits.

Finally, they explained the robbers who were robbed these times. They said that some of the bandits who robbed them had a Guanzhong accent. It was probably the bandits who ran to the grasslands in Shaanxi. There were also a group of people who had Lu Xiangsheng's costumes from the Xuanfu border army. They suspected that this might be Lu Xiangsheng's conspiracy behind the scenes.

Dorgon browsed the letters and looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "Sir, are there Lu Xiangsheng's participation?"

Fan Wencheng said: "Lu Xiangsheng is extremely intelligent and is not a stupid person. We don't know his methods and we have to be careful of them."

Dorgon nodded and said, "So that's it, I understand."

After saying this, Dorgon said, "What's the clever plan for this matter?"

Fan Wencheng shook his head and said, "There is no clever plan. We have to wait for the scout to spread the news. We will be ready. However, Prince, there must be something wrong with Guihua City. The prince would be able to ask His Majesty for the right to dispatch troops. Sooner or later, this army will set out. It is nothing more than to appease and suppress it, or simply wipe out."

Dorgon nodded and said, "It's reasonable."

...

Outside Guihua City, a team of cavalry docked on the grassland and looked at the majestic city in front of him. A scout said, "Sir, this is Guihua City."

Lu Xianglin sighed at this time: "What a great city on the frontier, it is taller than Xuanfu. It is not easy to occupy such a city. If it attacks, it must have ten times the strength of the troops."

After hearing this, the captain of the scout said, "Sir, you are right, and there are cannons in this city. If there are enough shells, you can use cannons to block the invading enemy."

When Lu Xianglin heard this, he couldn't help writing a poem: "There is a heroic city on the frontier, guarding the Han family, talking and destroying the Tartars, and bombarding the jackals with cannons!"

"Good poems, good poems!"

The captain of the scouts praised Lu Xianglin's poem repeatedly, and Lu Xianglin smiled and said, "Okay, don't flatter me, hurry up and call the door. I want to meet Li Chaosheng, the magistrate of Lantian."

"yes."

The captain of the scout clasped his fists and followed him to the city of Guihua. The captain of the scout came to the city and shouted: "Open the door."

At this time, a head appeared from the city wall and said, "Who are you? It's not time to open the city now."

After hearing this, the scout captain said, "Go to report to your county magistrate, and then the younger brother of the Governor Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the commander Lu Xianglin, asked for a meeting."

After hearing this, the soldier said, "Lu Xianglin? OK, I understand, you can wait first."

After saying that, the soldier turned around and told the county magistrate to notify the county magistrate, saying that it was Lu Xianglin who was here.

After hearing this, the soldier immediately stood at attention, followed him and ran to the city, arrived at the city lord's mansion, and reported the matter.

"Well, Lu Xianglin?"

At this time, Li Chaosheng was having breakfast, and the breakfast was quite rich, including millet porridge, white flour steamed buns, a plate of pickles, and jerky bacon.

Li Chaosheng sucked a mouthful of porridge and drank it into his stomach and said, "Let them in."

"yes."

The soldier ran down immediately, and then Li Chaosheng said, "Mulzi."

"arrive."

Guzi saluted, Li Chaosheng picked up a bite of pickled vegetables, ate a white flour bun and said, "Notify Commander Li Chaohu to meet with the city lord's mansion."

"Ah, Commander, don't you see him?"

Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard this: "Lu Xiangsheng sent his younger brother to come, and I sent my older brother to welcome him. This is the same. Wouldn't I lose my identity when I meet him in person?"

Guzi nodded and said, "That's right. Lu Xianglin has never heard of it. Why should I meet the army commander? I'll go find Commander Li Chaohu."

When Guzi left, Li Chaosheng ate steamed buns and smiled at pickles, "It seems that Lu Xiangsheng is very interested in Guihua City. Since he has been in my place, it doesn't matter whether he doesn't see him."

Li Chaosheng was having a meal, and soon Li Chaohu ran in with panting and said, "Captain, Commander."

Li Chaosheng glanced at Li Chaohu and said, "Sit down, have you eaten?"

"As soon as I ate, Guzi said he wanted me to meet Lu Xianglin?"

Li Chaosheng said: "Yes, people come from afar and need a heavyweight to meet you. You are my cousin, and he is Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother. You are equal."

Li Chaohu said, "But what did you say when you see me?"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Say whatever you want. The final core is that when the Tartars are here, he and we will send troops to eliminate the Tartars. At that time, the Tartars' supplies will belong to us and the Tartars will belong to them. Then they need to help us bear the reputation of extermination of the Tartars. Let's say that this war was led by Lu Xiangsheng."

After hearing this, Li Chaohu blinked and Li Chaosheng said, "It's very simple. We don't want reputation, we want benefits."

Li Chaohu said: "Commander, when this war is fought, we must have done the most. Why do we have to be named Lu in the end? You must know that if the reputation of killing the Tartars is spread, our Lantian will surely become famous. At that time, we can attract more people to join our Lantian. This is a good thing!"

Li Chaosheng shook his head after hearing this, and said, "We don't need to use this method to attract the people. The people join our Lantian to live a good life, not because our Lantian's military is strong. Although our reputation for killing the Tartars is good for our Lantian, it is even more harmful. If the gun is used to shoot the first bird, we will seize the reputation of the Guihua City on the side, and the reputation of our capital will be on our targets. At that time, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong will become second-level targets. Although we are not afraid of the court, we will face the court, and the bandits like Gao Yingxiang can reap profits. We have become their shield. This is not what I want, and it is also very unfavorable for our development."

"So cousin, we still have to show the enemy as weak and let the enemy know that we still have some concerns, so that we can paralyze the other party and strengthen ourselves. This is the same strategy that Liu Bowen gave to our Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, three hundred years ago, to accumulate grain and slowly become king."

After hearing this, Li Chaohu nodded as if he understood it or not. Li Chaosheng didn't expect him to understand it all. Li Chaohu is a soldier, and it's enough for a soldier to know how to fight against others. As for how to fight with others, it's a matter of a politician and has little to do with Li Chaohu.

Li Chaosheng told Li Chaohu that although Li Chaohu didn't understand very much, as long as he did according to Li Chaosheng's instructions, there should be no big mistakes. Li Chaosheng once again reminded: "Cousin, just remember what I said. Our two families will only fight together. At that time, we will hold the Tartars head on the front, and they will attack the Tartars in the back. After the matter is completed, the materials will be seized and we will be given to us. They can use the Tartars' head to exchange for credit from the court and let the court allocate funds. Do you understand?"

Li Chaohu nodded after hearing this, "I understand!"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Go."

"yes."

Li Chaohu saluted and then turned to the front hall of the city lord's mansion. Li Chaosheng stretched his waist and said to Guzi: "Make a pot of tea for me, I'll see how our cousin acts."

"yes."

Soon Guzi went to pour a cup of tea. Li Chaosheng took a purple clay pot and came to the back of the main hall of the city lord's mansion. Through a jade screen, Li Chaosheng sat behind and drank tea.

Li Chaohu was sitting in front of him waiting for Lu Xianglin's arrival.

At this time, Lu Xianglin and a group of hundreds of cavalry were put into Guihua City. When they entered Guihua City, Lu Xianglin's eyes widened. This Guihua City was too prosperous. There were shops on the streets and various small commodities were everywhere. The ones were called to buy and sell, which was dazzling. Its prosperity was even greater than that of Xuanfu and Datong.

You should know that Xuanfu Datong is a major city, and there are no fewer merchants in it, and its business prosperity is far higher than other places. However, compared with this place, it is a bit invisible. The prosperity here is even close to Zhangjiakou. Zhangjiakou is prosperous because there are eight great masters of Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou.

The prosperity of Guihua City is because the policies here are crazy about domestic demand. At the same time, Ma Tengfei's caravan also plays a very important role. It is precisely because the caravan plays an exemplary role that the business in Guihua City has gradually become prosperous. In order to encourage the commercial atmosphere here, Li Chaosheng also carried out some commercial tax exemption policies, such as the tax exemption policy for bulk commodities.

It is precisely because of this that more people started to do business here. Of course, this is related to Lu Xianglin walking on the Guihua City Lord Road, the most prosperous streets, and other streets are not so prosperous, while other streets are more agricultural and farmers.

Lu Xianglin quickly reached the city lord's mansion, which was located in the center of Guihua City. It was steadily and steadily facing north and south. It was quite imposing. This was originally a mansion for Dorgon to be built, so Zhao Shouquan put his thoughts into it.

Lu Xianglin came to the gate of the city lord's mansion. At this time, the city lord's mansion came out to escort and help Lu Xianglin move the horse away. At the same time, he came up to escort and let Lu Xianglin remove his sword.

Lu Xianglin handed over the weapons and went up the city lord's mansion along the steps. When he arrived at the gate of the city lord's mansion, the gate of the city lord's mansion opened, with guards on both sides, forming a guard of honor.

Lu Xianglin arrived at the entrance of the main hall, and a soldier shouted: "Lu Xianglin, Lord Lu is here."

After hearing this shout, Lu Xianglin stepped into the room. At this time, Li Chaohu stood up and greeted him, holding his fists and said, "Li Chaohu from Lantian County has met Lord Lu."

Lu Xianglin frowned and looked at Li Chaohu and said, "You are not Li Chaosheng."

Li Chaohu said: "My county magistrate is busy with official duties today and I can't stand Lord Lu, so my cousin comes to receive Lord Lu.

When Lu Xianglin heard this, he said, "You? I am the commander of Xuanda, a third-rank military officer, much older than the sixth-rank official in your county. Now that Shangguan is visiting, he won't come to see him?"

Li Chaohu's face turned cold after hearing this. Who would this kid give him a warning? Thinking of Li Chaohu, "The third-rank commander, haha, Lord Lu has such a great official power."

Lu Xianglin didn't say anything, Li Chaohu said, "I dare to ask, how many people do you have in charge of a commander?"

Lu Xianglin said: "What do you want to do?"

Li Chaohu said: "If I remember correctly, ten people are a small flag, and a small flag officer is set up. Fifty people are the chief flag officer, one hundred people are set up, one thousand people are set up, and five thousand people are set up, and one commander is set up, and two commanders are commanders. Therefore, Lord Lu is the third-rank commander who is in charge of five thousand people. However, a certain family has no official position now, but there are more than 10,000 people under him. In terms of personnel, I am twice as many as you. I have more than I welcome you. I have not let my brigade commander pick you up, and I have enough face to give you!"

Li Chaohu doesn't care about these things. You are a third-rank commander. I am a teacher who is in charge of tens of thousands of people and you are still picky about the command of five or six thousand people. This is called shameless.

Li Chaosheng heard Li Chaohu's words from behind and almost choked with a mouthful of tea. His cousin was too tough, wouldn't he be more tactful?

But thinking about it, the soldiers and horses under his command have made him become arrogant soldiers and generals. Li Chaohu really didn't see these troops in the court, so he was so arrogant.

Lu Xianglin was so angry that he looked like Li Chaohu staring at his eyes, he felt like a scholar was inexplicably in reasoning when he met a soldier. This was obviously a good guy. Although he was a Jinshi and had military skills, he could not argue with such unreasonable words.

But now I am at a disadvantage if I don’t reply. This is the momentum of this first negotiation. Whoever grasps the momentum will have the initiative. This is the heavyweight of negotiations.

Lu Xianglin thought with a dark face and said, "This Li, Lord Li, Lu, why do you think the soldiers are? Besides, you have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Lantian? Why do you raise so many soldiers and horses? Could it be that you want to rebel?"

Li Chaohu snorted coldly after hearing this: "There are many bandits in Shaanxi and many rioters. If you want to survive, it is not enough to have no troops. These are all practices in our Lantian delegation. Why did Lord Lu become a rebellious bandit in his mouth? Could it be that Lord Lu wants officials to force the people to rebel?"

After hearing this, Lu Xianglin snorted coldly: "Mr. Lu doesn't dare, but if you can't practice well in Lantian, what's the point of running to the block?"

Li Chaohu laughed at the ears of this: "The Ming Dynasty border army is useless. Seeing the Tartars building the Guihua City on the frontier, we dare not even let go of a fart. Our county respects the country and the people, fearing that the military will fall into the hands of the Tartars. From then on, the people of the Ming Dynasty will suffer endless robbery from the Tartars for fish and meat, so we took our Lantian delegation to seize the Guihua City. If it is used by your border army, why should we go far away?"

After hearing this, Lu Xianglin said, "Haha, in this way, Lantian County Zun won the Guihua City for the Ming Dynasty?"

"That's right."

Li Chaohu raised his head and said, "I just captured Guihua City for the Ming Dynasty. After hearing this, Lu Xianglin looked at Li Chaohu and said, "Oh, since that's the case, are our border troops also qualified to station Guihua City? After all, we are also soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Isn't it reasonable to station the city of Daming?"

"this!"

Li Chaohu frowned. This is not OK. We can't let the stinky fishes in the border army destroy Guihua City. However, Li Chaohu didn't know how to refute it for a while. Just when Li Chaohu didn't know how to say it, someone behind him said, "Mr. Lu is such a clever mouth!"
Chapter completed!