Dorgon took a look at the letter and found that the materials they had prepared for the Qing Dynasty had recently been looted by bandits and suffered heavy losses. They hoped that Fan Wencheng would help them explain the situation to Huang Taiji.

The first thing I want to ask for is a favor, because many orders from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were not delivered as scheduled. This is a big sin, and they need to ask Huang Taiji for forgiveness, otherwise the consequences will be very serious.

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

Finally, they explained how they had been robbed several times. They said that some of the bandits who robbed them spoke with Guanzhong accents and were probably bandits who came to the grasslands in Shaanxi. There was also a group of people who wore the uniforms of Lu Xiangsheng and Xuanfu border troops. They

I suspect that this may be Lu Xiangsheng’s conspiracy behind the scenes.

Dorgon glanced through the letter, looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "Sir, are you saying that Lu Xiangsheng is also involved in this?"

Fan Wencheng said: "Lu Xiangsheng is extremely intelligent and not stupid. We don't know his methods and we have to guard against him."

Dorgon nodded and said: "That's it, I understand."

After saying this, Dorgon said: "Then sir, what's your clever plan for this matter?"

Fan Wencheng shook his head and said: "There is no clever plan. We have to wait for the scouts to pass on the news before we can make preparations. However, Your Majesty, something must have happened in Guihua City. It would be best for Your Majesty to request the deployment of troops."

These soldiers will set out sooner or later, whether to appease and exterminate, or simply to exterminate."

Dorgon nodded and said, "That makes sense."

…

Outside Guihua City, a group of cavalry stopped on the grassland. Looking at the majestic city in front of them, a scout said: "Sir, this is Guihua City."

Lu Xianglin sighed with emotion at this time: "What a fortified city, it is even taller than the Xuanfu. It is not easy to capture such a majestic city. If we attack, we must have ten times the force."

After hearing this, the scout captain said: "Your Excellency is right, and there are cannons in this city. If there are enough cannonballs, the cannons can stop the invading enemy."

When Lu Xianglin heard this, he couldn't help but write a poem: "There is a majestic city on the fortress, and the Han family is stationed there. They kill the Tartars with laughter and laughter, and the cannons blast the wolves!"

"Good poem, good poem!"

The scout captain praised Lu Xianglin's poem repeatedly after hearing it. Lu Xianglin smiled and said: "Okay, stop flattering me and call the door. I want to meet Li Chaosheng, the magistrate of Lantian County."

"yes."

The scout captain hugged his fists and then galloped towards Guihua City. The scout captain came to the city and shouted: "Open the door."

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

After hearing this, the scout captain said: "Go and report to your county magistrate, and tell Commander Lu Xianglin, the younger brother of the Governor of Xuanda, Lord Lu Xiangsheng, to ask for an audience."

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

After saying this, the soldier turned around and went back to tell someone to inform the county official that Lu Xianglin was here.

After hearing this, the soldier immediately stood up and rode his horse to the city. He arrived at the city lord's palace and reported the matter.

"Well, Lu Xianglin?"

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

Li Chaosheng took a sip of the porridge and said, "Let them in."

"yes."

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

"arrive."

Guzi saluted, Li Chaosheng took a bite of pickles, ate a white flour steamed bun and said: "Inform Master 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, and I sent my elder brother to greet him. This is equality. If I greet him in person, won't I lose my identity?"

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

Guzi left, and Li Chaosheng was eating steamed buns and pickles and said with a smile: "It seems that Lu Xiangsheng is very interested in Guihua City. Since he is in my trap, it doesn't matter whether he meets or not."

Li Chaosheng was eating, and soon Li Chaohu ran in panting and said: "Commander, commander."

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

"Just after eating, Guzi asked me to meet Lu Xianglin?"

Li Chaosheng said: "Yes, I have come from afar and need an important person to meet me. You are my cousin and he is Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother. You two should be equal."

Li Chaohu said: "But what will you say when you see me?"

Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "You can say whatever you want. The final core is that when the Tatars come, they will send troops with us to destroy the Tatars. At that time, the Tatar supplies will belong to us, and the Tatar heads will belong to them. Then

They need to help us bear the reputation of destroying the Tatars, so they say that this war was led by Lu Xiangsheng."

Li Chaohu blinked after hearing this, and Li Chaosheng said: "The answer is very simple, we don't want fame, we want benefits."

Li Chaohu said: "Commander, when this war breaks out, we will definitely contribute the most. Why should the last reputation be given to the man named Lu? You must know that if the reputation of killing Tatars spreads, our Lantian will definitely become famous. When the time comes,

It can attract more people to join us in Lantian, which is a good thing!"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng shook his head and said: "We don't need to use this method to attract people. People join our Lantian to live a good life, not because our Lantian military is strong. Although our reputation for killing Tatars spreads, it will not

We have advantages in Lantian, but the disadvantages are even greater. If we shoot first, once our reputation for seizing the Guihua City on the fortress spreads, our Majesty in the capital will target us. By then, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong will be targeted.

We have become a secondary target. Although we are not afraid of the imperial court, if we confront the imperial court, thieves like Gao Yingxiang can reap the benefits. Instead, we have become their shield. This is not what I want, and it is not good for us.

develop."

"So cousin, we still have to show weakness to the enemy and let the enemy know that we still have concerns. Only in this way can we paralyze the opponent and strengthen ourselves. This is the same strategy Liu Bowen gave to our Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang three hundred years ago.

, accumulate food widely, and slowly become king."

After hearing this, Li Chaohu nodded as if he didn't understand. Li Chaosheng didn't expect him to understand everything. Li Chaohu is a soldier. Soldiers only need to know how to go into battle to kill the enemy. As for how to fight with others, that is a matter for politicians, not for Li Chaohu.

It doesn't matter much.

Li Chaosheng told Li Chaohu that although Li Chaohu didn't understand very well, as long as he followed Li Chaosheng's instructions, there shouldn't be any big mistakes. Li Chaosheng warned again: "Cousin, just remember what I said.

Our two families will only fight together. When the time comes, we will hold the Tatars in front, and they will sneak attack on the Tatars from behind. After the incident is completed, the seized materials will belong to us. They can use the Tatar heads to exchange credit with the court, and at the same time, let the court allocate funds.

Understand?"

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

Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Go."

"yes."

Li Chaohu saluted, then turned around and went to the front hall of the City Lord's Mansion. Li Chaosheng stretched himself and said to Gu Zi, "Make me a pot of tea, and I'll go see what our cousin is doing."

"yes."

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

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

At this time, Lu Xianglin and his entourage of hundreds of cavalry entered Guihua City. As soon as they entered Guihua City, Lu Xianglin's eyes widened. This Guihua City was so prosperous. There were many shops on the streets, and all kinds of small commodities were everywhere.

The people buying and selling are dazzling, and its prosperity even exceeds that of Xuanfu and Datong.

You must know that Datong in Xuanfu is an important town. There are not only a few merchants in it, but its commercial prosperity is far higher than other places. But compared with here, it is a bit unsatisfactory. The prosperity here is even close to catching up with Zhangjiakou. Zhangjiakou

The reason why Zhangjiakou is prosperous is that there are eight major Shanxi merchants.

The prosperity of Guihua City is because the policies here are crazy to boost 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 Guihua City's business gradually becomes prosperous.

, and in order to encourage the business atmosphere here, Li Chaosheng also implemented some business tax reduction and exemption policies, such as the tax exemption policy for small commodities.

Because of this, more people started doing business here. Of course, this is also related to the fact that Lu Xianglin took the main road of Guihua City, the most prosperous street. Other streets are not so prosperous, and other streets are more agricultural and farmers.

Lu Xianglin watched all the way and quickly arrived at the City Lord's Mansion. The City Lord's Mansion is located in the center of Guihua City. It is stable, facing north and south, and quite impressive. This was originally a mansion built for Dorgon, so Zhao Shouquan put all his thought into it.

Lu Xianglin came to the gate of the city lord's palace. At this time, guards came out of the city lord's palace to help Lu Xianglin move the horse away. At the same time, the guards came up to ask Lu Xianglin to take off his saber.

Lu Xianglin handed over his weapons and walked up the steps to the City Lord's Mansion. When he arrived at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, the door of the City Lord's Mansion opened and there were guards guarding him on the left and right, forming a guard of honor.

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

After Lu Xianglin heard this shouting, he stepped into the house. At this time, Li Chaohu stood up, took two steps forward, clasped his fists and said, "Li Chaohu from Lantian County has met Mr. 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 cannot see Mr. Lu, so I, my cousin, will receive Mr. Lu.

Lu Xianglin heard this and said, "You? I am the Commander-in-Chief of Xuanda. I am a military attaché of the third rank, much more senior than your sixth-rank military officer in the county. Now that Shangguan is visiting, he won't come to see you?"

Li Chaohu's face turned cold after hearing this. Who is this guy giving authority to? Thinking of Li Chaohu, he said: "A third-grade commander, haha, Mr. Lu has such great official authority."

Lu Xianglin didn't say anything, and Li Chaohu said, "May I ask, sir, how many troops do you have in charge of one commander?"

Lu Xianglin said: "Why do you ask this?"

Li Chaohu said: "If I remember correctly, ten people will be a small flag, with a small flag officer, fifty people will be a general flag officer, one hundred people will be one hundred households, one thousand people will be one thousand households, and five thousand households will be one guard."

, set up one commander and two commanders, so Mr. Lu is a third-grade commander in charge of five thousand people. And a certain family currently has no official position, but it has more than ten thousand people in charge. In terms of people and horses, I am twice as good as you.

, I have enough time to welcome you, and I didn’t let my brigade commander pick you up, which is enough to give you face!"

Li Chaohu doesn't care about this. You are commanding multiple hammers at the third level. I am a division commander in charge of tens of thousands of people, and you are in charge of five to six thousand people. You are still picky. This is called shameless.

Li Chaosheng listened to Li Chaohu's words from behind and almost choked on a sip of tea. His cousin was too strong, couldn't he be more tactful?
To be continued...