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Chapter 398 The Anxious Lu Xiangsheng

Gu Zi obeyed Li Chaosheng's command and immediately conveyed the order, followed by the giant machine of Lantian to start running.

Hong Chengchou in northern Shaanxi urgently sent Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng to find his Chinese army account.

They also heard the news from the court that Chongzhen was bewitched by Yang Sichang to use Lantian to test Li Chaosheng's loyalty.

"Stupid, stupid."

Lu Xiangsheng was very angry, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were silent and watched Lu Xiangsheng vent his temper. In fact, they also thought this idea was stupid. Using Lantian to test Li Chaosheng's loyalty, the person who came up with this idea was either stupid or bad.

Yang Sichang must be the bad one, and Chongzhen should be the stupid one.

What is Lan Tian to Li Chaosheng?
That is the foundation, the foundation of one's life, the foundation of an emperor, with Lantian's current strength, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Hong Chengchou don't know what restrained Lantian's hands and feet, making Lantian's expansion seem very gentle, even like Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others Compared to appearing indecisive, it seems that the aggressiveness is not strong.

In fact, only the three people who have actually dealt with Lantian and know Lantian know that the reason why Lantian is not in a hurry to expand its territory is because Lantian wants to build a solid foundation.

Unlike Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, who are rogue-like, who change places with one shot, Li Chaosheng's idea of ​​governing the world is to fight steadily, step by step.

Now, although Li Chaosheng seems to only have half the territory of Shaanxi, but in reality, Li Chaosheng's strength is terrifying.

Let’s talk about national power first. Although Lantian has a population of only 780 million or less, a small part of them are strong and strong, and the proportion of old and strong is large, because Lantian receives a small number of refugees, and refugees can withstand long journeys. They were dead, and a small number of them were strong, or elderly women.

Some old people who are too young are often the first to die in the process of fleeing. The first to survive, and those who retreat to Lantian are all able-bodied laborers. Therefore, Lantian has a population of 780 million, of which the young and strong account for a small part. Those who are old, strong and young are all selected by natural selection in the process of fleeing.

Therefore, although Lantian has a population of only 780 million, there are nearly 170 million strong laborers. Those people planted new grains cultivated in Lantian, corn, sweet potatoes, and new low-yield barley varieties cultivated in Lantian, so that the grain in Lantian is very sufficient. It is enough for the people of Lantian to eat, and there is even a small amount left that can be returned for sale.

There is a shortage of food, and in terms of economy, Lantian has developed to a terrible level. Lantian's business has now reached almost every province of Xiaoming, and because of the prosperity of Lantian's business, Lantian is crazily grabbing Xiaoming's wealth. It can be said that Lantian is absorbing all of Xiaoming's wealth. The wealth to support myself, my economy is even comparable to half a Xiaoming.

No food, no money, Lantian has almost no shortcomings in terms of national strength.

Secondly, in terms of military equipment, weapons and equipment in Lantian can be said to be the best among Xiaoming. The Lantian Arsenal can be said to be Xiaoming's No. [-] arsenal. Besides, it can produce hundreds of new-style muskets, dozens of small cannons, and [-]-jin guns every day. With gunpowder and thousands of grenades, it can be said that the Lantian Arsenal can arm an elite army in just a few days.

Compared with Lantian's weapons, Xiao Ming's weapons are fire sticks, fire guns that need to be ignited, have a short range, and cannons that fire solid bullets. The power is enough gunpowder, and even a small part of Xiao Ming's army is equipped with knives and spears. , with bows and arrows as the main means of attack.

Compared with Lantian's army, it is on the same level. Lantian's firearms are obviously ahead of the Xiaoming firearms by an era. The eight people behind that point are really inexperienced, especially Zhang Xianzhong, I am naturalized Chengcheng had seen the Lantian Army's full firepower before, and the two white flags of the elite Tartars collapsed into it even when the Lantian Army's weapons were fully fired.

What's more, the will to fight, the weapons and equipment, and the fighting power are far from the Xiaoming army of the Tartars?
The ratio of national power is low, and the ratio of weapons is low. Can this number be compared?

In fact, it is even worse, Xiao Ming has only a few main forces who can fight now, and the eight in front of him almost account for one-eighth of Xiao Ming's combat power.

The Liaodong army occupied less than one-eighth, and the rest, such as Shandong Youliangyu and Qichuan Qin Liangyu, took out the remaining one-eighth.

As for the rest of the troops guarding the place, those troops are almost better than none, and they have been corrupted to the root. It is still difficult to guard the place, let alone the main force of the retreating offensive. Therefore, those troops can be ignored, and their combat effectiveness is still like rogues. .

Looking at Lantian again, the main force in Lantian is only the Seventh Division, Li Chaolong, Li Chaohu, Shi Xiaolei, Li Dezhen, the seven main divisions, the number of them is about [-], and the total number is [-].

But is Lantian really that complicated?
Yes, those are just Lantian's trump cards, the regular army with strong combat effectiveness, not the militia that counts as the main force.

The militiamen are counted as the main force, and some of them are completely out of production, but those militiamen have to spend eight days a day for professional military training, and they never stop for a moment.

Eight days a day was spared for special training, so the so-called elites in Sun Chuanting's hands were short of that amount of training, Zhang Xianzhong could be weaker, but there was no limit.

Those militiamen were called militiamen in Lantian, but according to Zhang Xianzhong and the others, as long as they were equipped with equipment, those militiamen could become elite overnight.

Moreover, with the manufacturing capacity of the Lantian Arsenal, we can be fully armed in the shortest possible time, a terrifying force stronger than any of Xiao Ming's main forces.

And there are not many such people in Lantian?

According to calculations by Lu Xiangsheng, the number is more than 87.

That is the small number of Lantian militiamen, 87 militiamen, this is the 87 elite main force. Without that army, Kang Shijuan can run amok in the sky.

And there are not many people out of our eight hands, Lu Xiangsheng has the most, with 8 people, and [-] old Qin troops who may rebel at any time, and Kang Shijuan's Tianxiong army has [-] people.

Kang Shijuan does not have 7 people, even if Lu Xiangsheng's army is a mutiny, the comparison between our army and Kang Shijuan's army is horribly 70 to [-].

Why 70, because there is no main force close to [-].

If Lu Xiangsheng's operation is good and the troops mutiny, it is very likely to become a terrifying ratio of 77 to [-].

And it is also a terrifying ratio of weapons and equipment crushing one's own side.

Thinking of the other eight people is very desperate.

In terms of national strength, Lantian has enough food to support the army to fight a protracted war but worry about enough food. As for money, Lantian's ability to absorb money is comparable to that of Xiao Ming who collects commercial taxes.

It can be said that although Lantian is big, its national power is terrifyingly strong, and it is basically afraid of war.

Immediately afterwards, the weapons and equipment were in a state of crushing Xiao Ming, and the weapons and equipment were ahead of Xiao Ming by an era.

The number of the Eighth Army is also frighteningly small. Unless the whole country's army is mobilized to encircle and suppress, the troops are basically superior, but mobilizing the whole country to encircle and suppress Lantian is a reality. For example, the Liaodong Army is active. As soon as the Liaodong army withdrew from the line of defense, the Tartars on the other side could approach the city of BJ.

It is said that as soon as the Liaodong Army arrived in Shaanxi, the Tartars had already invaded the capital.

The Liaodong Army is joining, and Mrs. Qichuan Qin can also join. After all, Mrs. Qin has been in Qichuan for a long time. If I move, the other thing is that Kang Shijuan is very unlikely to take the opportunity to invade Qichuan and fulfill my dream of becoming the king of Shu.

Mrs. Qin is right to move, but You Liangyu can move, but that guy's strength is only like this, there are only [-] people in his hands, and the fighting power of those [-] people is a little weaker than that of the rogues. What a small use.

As for uniting with Li Chaosheng and those rogues to eliminate Yang Sichang, this is even more about seeking skin from a tiger, and the plotter is still a poisonous dragon.

Therefore, Lantian's power has been established, and it is almost possible to plot. At that time, the best choice is to anger Lantian, continue to eat Lantian's taxes, and work hard to grow himself secretly.

Strive to stabilize all factors of stability in the country first, and then concentrate firepower to fight Lantian to the death.

At this time, Xiao Ming, relying on his vast land, said with all his heart that he would definitely be able to defeat Lan Tian, ​​but it is definitely time to force Yang Sichang to rebel against him at a time of internal and external troubles.

The eight people were all sad, they were all helpless for Chongzhen's stupidity, and resented Hong Chengchou's short-lived time. If there was any one of the Manchu court ministers who expressed his approval, the eight people were very angry. They were all greedy and wise dog officials.

The eight members of Zhang Xianzhong doubted whether there were any stupid people who could see that they could persecute Lantian at that time, otherwise they would suffer backlash from Lantian, but no one spoke, except for some people who wanted to fish in troubled waters to gain some benefits, even less He is willing to participate in right and wrong, and he clearly sees that the emperor is wrong, but he is willing to persuade him.

That was a harbinger of the destruction of a dynasty. Wen died to remonstrate, Wu died to be loyal. When civil servants clearly saw the emperor's accuracy and corrected them, that dynasty had already slipped into the abyss.

And what caused that result, apart from the reasons of the ministers themselves, was not related to Chongzhen's usual self-willed and less suspicious temperament. People will definitely be accused of adultery with Lantian, and it will be a very sad thing to lose your life for a reason.

"Stupid, stupid."

Kang Shijuan roared angrily. At that time, Sun Chuanting said: "Brother Jiandou, please be safe and don't be impatient. Even if he scolds Potian outside there, he can still cause any harm to those greedy people in the court. We should think of a way to do it now." Minimize the danger of that matter."

After hearing that, Kang Shijuan said: "That's unreasonable, the matter has come to this point, we have to do something, otherwise Xiaoming Guozuo will really be destroyed by Kang Shijuan and other short-sighted and self-interested people."

Sun Chuanting nodded and said: "There is a mistake, but first of all you have to unify your ideas. You think the imperial court can definitely go to war with Lantian. What do you think?"

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said: "You refuse, Lantian is a rogue and can be wiped out easily. If the imperial court fights with Lantian, Xiao Ming may stop Lantian's steel troops at all."

Zhang Xianzhong said: "It is true that now it is absolutely possible to turn against Lantian. The gangsters have just been eliminated. What Xiao Ming needs is to recuperate, but to launch another even more terrifying war. Let alone win the war, even if he advances [-] steps, he will win the war." Now, at this time, Xiaoming's national strength will definitely be extremely healthy. At this time, the bandits will definitely resurgence, and the Jiannu in Liaodong will definitely take the opportunity to go south. At this time, Xiaoming will really be in trouble."

Sun Chuanting said: "What the seven said was wrong, now our concept has been confirmed, this is to make Lantian and the imperial court fight, so we should consider how to avoid that war.

Hearing Lu Xiangsheng's words, Zhang Xianzhong looked at each other, Zhang Xianzhong said: "The imperial court ordered you to send someone to escort Gao Yingxiang out of Beijing, so if you take this opportunity, you go back to the capital in person to meet His Majesty, Speaking of which is dangerous, how about asking His Majesty to take it back?"

Hearing that, Sun Chuanting shook his head and said: "Yes, brother Jiandou's proposal is successful. They should know what kind of character your majesty is. If he backs off directly, your majesty will definitely think that you have cheated on Lantian. Kang Shijuan hadn't made friends in Guihua City yet, and His Majesty had already had a suspicion of him regarding the ownership of Guihua City. If he backed down from His Majesty at that time, I'm afraid it was true that he had secretly communicated with Yang Sichang about the song. Don’t settle the matter at this time, and then take yourself back.”

Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, Lu Xiangsheng said: "Jiandou, this statement is unreasonable. Although His Majesty has no ambition to make great efforts to govern, he is too stubborn. There are no things that can be cleared. He will push himself back. If he retreats, The first generation of Xuan Xiao's line of defense has entered it, and the Tatars are closed again, as if walking on flat ground, and the people along the road will be hurt."

Hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong frowned and said, "What should I do?"

Lu Xiangsheng also frowned slightly at that time and said: "Your Majesty's persuasion is to move. Let's persuade Yang Sichang. Yang Sichang is an upright person and speaks better. I think I will take care of the small situation."

Sun Chuanting heard the words with a wry smile and said: "Sun Xiaoren, he took it for granted. Yang Sichang was the first person you knew, and you also knew me as a young man. You know my personality. I am a master who is always willing to suffer. I manage young people in Lantian. The country is strong. There are enough soldiers and horses, and the weapons are retreated first. Such a force is willing to be trapped in Lantian, but to send troops to seize the sky. What binds me is probably a little incense with Xiao Ming. The chain of incense is strong, but now the emperor You actually wanted to blatantly break the chain, and the chain was broken. This is when Kang Shijuan showed a fierce look. At that time, he thought that your words, whether serious or not, can persuade Yang Sichang, who is not bound by chains?"

Lu Xiangsheng sighed when he heard the words, I think that if I want to replace me with Kang Shijuan, I will definitely do it, obviously I have no plan to seize the capital of the sky, but I desperately suppress myself, I want to let myself do it first, but now the court is desperate If he strikes first, the possibility of Yang Sichang fighting back is almost zero.

"Then what can we do?"

Wanting to understand that, the eight of them lamented in unison, that game of chess seems to have become a dead game, how to break it now?
And just when the eight people were frowning, the messenger ran back and said: "Eight villains, the messenger from Lantian asks to see you."

(End of this chapter)