please make me king

Chapter 1695 The Lobbyist
"Shuai Li, I've been waiting for a long time!" Outside Yangzhou City, Hong Chengchou greeted him with a salute.

"Marshal Hong!" Li Zicheng quickly saluted and asked, looking at the rolling river, "How's the situation?"

"It's okay, it's okay!" The "Commander Hong" Hong Chengchou explained with lingering fear, "A few days ago, King Shun defeated Zheng Zhilong's navy and recruited Denglai's navy into the guard. Now the river is much more peaceful than before."

It turned out that Zhang Shun's road was like a broken bamboo, and he took Xuzhou, Fengyang and other places successively. However, the resistance forces in Shandong, Nanzhi and other places have not yet been eliminated. The Ming army in the Runing area and the Huguang Ming army are entangled. Therefore, Zhang Shun appointed Li Zicheng and Hong Chengchou to be in charge of these two places respectively, and went deep into the tiger's den by himself and moved to Nanjing.

Now that the land of Shandong has almost been pacified, Zhang Shun left Li Zicheng's deputy Fumin in Shandong, and transferred Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Dang Shousu, Zhang Rukui, Luo Shangwen and other cadres to go south.

Of course, Li Zicheng has Li Zicheng's mission, so Hong Chengchou can't be idle either.

Zhang Shun transferred Li Xin's men and horses to the south, and they still belonged to Hong Chengchou together with Cao Bianjiao's men, preparing to deal with the enemies in the direction of Runing and completely solve the military problems in Jiangbei.

Not to mention how Zhang Shun cares, let's say that Li Zicheng has always been clumsy, after a few polite words with Hong Chengchou, he suddenly had nothing to say.

Seeing that Hong Chengchou didn't speak anymore, he babbled for a long time, and finally choked out a sentence: "This... Yangzhou is much more prosperous than Xi'an..."

"Ah? That's right." Hong Chengchou broke out in a cold sweat when he heard Li Zicheng's words.

Do you know why?

It turns out that Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu and others have been notorious for torturing big families.

The moment he said this was inappropriate, Hong Chengchou also said that this guy has his eye on the big family in Yangzhou again.

He hastily opened his mouth to stop him and said: "This time is different from the past. Now His Highness is living in a dangerous place, waiting eagerly. I would like to ask Li Shuai to cross the river as soon as possible!"

"Oh, that's true!" Li Zicheng thought about the truth, and couldn't help asking, "If that's the case, when will we be able to cross the river?"

In terms of galloping immediately, Hong Chengchou is no match for Li Zicheng.

But when it comes to matters on the water, Li Zicheng, a landlubber, can't compare with Zhang Shun, the "white strip in the waves", let alone Hong Chengchou, who was born in the south.

"Oh, I have some tank boats in my hand, which can help Li Shuai!" Hong Chengchou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

It's not that he is opposed to "torture" big households, it's just that the rebel army has just occupied the Jianghuai area, and the Ru Ning Ming army is eyeing it, so it's not appropriate to make extra troubles.

The two were determined, and on the same day Li Zicheng and others were escorted by Liu Zeqing across the Yangtze River from Guazhou Ferry to Zhenjiang.

Zhao Guangyuan, the general guarding Zhenjiang, greeted him quickly and gave him a good reception.

Everyone was full of wine and food, so they went back to their rooms to rest.

However, just as Li Zicheng was falling asleep, the door suddenly rang.

"Who is it?" Li Zicheng asked unhappily.

"It's me, Tian Jianxiu!" A familiar voice sounded.

"Oh, so it's sir, please come in, please come in!" Anyway, this Tian Jianxiu is also his confidant, of course Li Zicheng dare not neglect.

However, when he opened the door of the room, he saw a scholar standing beside Tian Jianxiu, who was only 34 or [-] years old, dressed in Confucian clothing, and had an extraordinary bearing.

"Sir, this is" Li Zicheng couldn't help but glanced at Tian Jianxiu and said.

"General, I am Zhang Pu!" The scribe saluted Li Zicheng and replied neither humble nor overbearing.

"Zhang Pu? A relative of His Highness?" Li Zicheng looked bewildered.

"Cough, cough, cough" Li Zicheng said this, and Tian Jianxiu coughed desperately.

"Uh..." Zhang Pu was also a little dumbfounded, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Mr. Zhang is a well-known scholar in Jiangdong, and he is also known as 'Loudong Erzhang'!" Tian Jianxiu quickly explained, "He is the courage of the world and the leader of Fushe."

"Although I live in the countryside, I can still control the imperial court remotely; I am idle, but I can still rule the world. I am so lazy!"

"Oh?" Li Zicheng couldn't help being startled when he heard Tian Jianxiu's words, he hurriedly welcomed Zhang Pu into the room respectfully, asked him to take a seat, and then he himself waited on him, and then he asked.

"Mr. is a great talent. If you come to see me today, you will definitely have a good opinion. Please tell me everything you can say, sir!"

"This..." Zhang Pu never expected Li Zicheng to be so "impatient" and couldn't help but said happily, "Since the general has a heart, please let me analyze the affairs of the world for the general!"

"Oh?" Li Zicheng gave Tian Jianxiu a strange look, not knowing why, so he had to keep silent.

Seeing that Zhang Pu was emphasizing Li Zicheng's "mind", he became more excited and continued to preach: "Since the rebellion of the old slave in Jianzhou, all the heroes in the world have risen together."

"King Shun's power is not as powerful as the imperial court and Houjin, but he was able to conquer him. It was not only the timing, but also the conspiracy of man. Does the general think so?"

"Of course!" Although Li Zicheng admired Zhang Shun's respective "mandate of destiny", what made him admire even more was Zhang Shun's ability.

"Today, King Shun has millions of people, and he is coercing the emperor to command the princes. This sincerity cannot compete with him!" Encouraged by Zhang Pu, he couldn't help preaching eloquently.

"Governor of Huguang, Xiong Wencan supported the king of Tang, and joined forces with the king of Lu, Zheng Zhilong, in the east. With the remaining prestige of the remnant power, the hearts of the people are allied to him. This is for help but not for us!"

Wait, what do you mean by that?Hearing this, Li Zicheng didn't feel right.

"The land of today's Jiangdong is connected to the sea in the east, Huguang in the west, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the south, and Jianghuai in the north. This is the foundation of the Eastern Wu in the past and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. It cannot be guarded by its owner." Sure enough, I heard that Zhang Pu shouted again.

"It's because of the sky that he is a general, does the general have any intentions?"

"Are you alienating me?" Li Zicheng couldn't understand what was going on when he heard this, and couldn't help but blushed, and shouted loudly, "Li is loyal, and the sun and the moon can learn from each other!"

"You jumping beam clowns, destruction is imminent, how dare you do that?"

"Come here, drag this guy out and chop him up!"

"General, general!" Zhang Pu couldn't help being shocked when he heard Li Zicheng's words, and couldn't help shouting, "I thought the general was a hero, but unexpectedly he is a bear!"

"I heard that the general's wife was also taken by the 'Shun thief'. As the saying goes: the hatred of killing the father, the hatred of taking the wife. It is tolerable, which is unbearable, the general has no resentment in his heart!"

"In the past, Lu Fengxian still knew that 'a man born between heaven and earth, how can he be depressed', but he could kill Dong Zhuo for a Diaochan, the general is not as good as Lu Fengxian!"

"Lü Fengxian's three surnames are slaves, so why not me!" Li Zicheng became furious when he heard this.

So, without waiting for the soldiers to come, he drew out his waist knife, and was about to step forward and kill this guy with a knife.

"General, don't do it!" Unexpectedly, at this time, Tian Jianxiu hurriedly stopped him and said, "Everyone knows that this guy has already drunk, so I ask the general to tie him up quickly and send him to Nanjing, so that His Highness won't let you down. suspect!"

"This..." Li Zicheng was taken aback when he heard the words, he couldn't help but put down the knife, nodded and said a word, "Okay!"

"." That Zhang Pu never expected to reach this point, Li Zicheng suddenly changed his mind, and couldn't help shouting, "You dog thief, kill me quickly, otherwise the evil plot today will surely make a scene known all over the world!"

It turned out that the people in Jiangnan saw the strength of the rebel army and the unstoppable "abolition of slaves", so they couldn't help but have different thoughts.

I don't know where they found out that Li Zicheng and Zhang Shun had never been on good terms, so they tried to persuade Li Zicheng to "stand on their own feet" so as to ease the pressure of the rebel army on Jiangnan and the remnant forces.

But how could they have imagined how much effort Zhang Shun had put in to regain Li Zicheng, how could they be able to convince them with a few words?
Originally, Zhang Pu's idea of ​​"killing oneself to become benevolent" was what Zhang Pu wanted. It would be best if Li Zicheng could be persuaded.

If he says he won't move, he will make a fuss and let Li Zicheng's yellow mud fall into his crotch. It's either shit or shit!

(End of this chapter)