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Chapter 442 Zuo Liangyu Came to Congratulate

"Ahem, there are a lot of people here, can I take a step to speak."

Hong Chengchou looked around and reminded in a low voice, Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Okay, Guzi, find a quiet room."

Gu Zi nodded when he heard the words, and directly led the two of them into the study room. The study room is an important place. No matter how noisy and lively outside, no one would dare to enter Li Chaosheng's study room without Li Chaosheng's consent. After all, who knows if there are any county officials here Official documents, Lantian's secrets, etc., if they are breached, it may be a catastrophe.

Moreover, there are two guards guarding the door of Li Chaosheng's study. No matter who comes, both of them are: the study is an important place, and idlers are not allowed to enter.

Li Chaosheng and Hong Chengchou went into the study, Guzi poured a cup of tea for them and retreated, closing the door.

Hong Chengchou took a sip of tea and spoke first: "I have a batch of luggage in my hand, including a large number of mules and horses, steel, military supplies, as well as some gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, and I want to sell them to you."

"Mule horses, steel, antique calligraphy and painting?"

Li Chaosheng frowned slightly, Hong Chengchou nodded.

"Captured from Li Zicheng?"

Li Chaosheng asked, Hong Chengchou drank his saliva and said noncommittally: "Most of them were seized from Gao Yingxiang."

"You didn't report it to the court?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou smiled and said, "Part of it has been reported."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng understood that Hong Chengchou led his troops to defeat Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, but he hid part of the captured spoils, and now he was going to find himself to sell the spoils.

In fact, this kind of thing was not a rare thing in the late Ming Dynasty. Who wouldn't want to make a fortune in war?If everything is handed over, the imperial court will not know where it has been embezzled. At that time, the soldiers will not be able to pay their military salaries, so why not mutiny?
So it was a joke at the end of Ming Dynasty that everything captured should be returned to the public.

Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou also looked at Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng said: "What price?"

Hong Chengchou was also upright, looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "I am in a hurry to make a move, and it can be lower than [-]% of the market price."

Li Chaosheng took a sip of his tea: "There are fixed prices for mules, horses, steel, and military supplies. Gold, silver, and jewelry are easy to talk about. I don't understand these antique calligraphy and paintings, and the water inside is very deep. I don't know how to take them over? Let's talk about the world." It’s messed up, and this antique calligraphy and painting is worthless.”

Li Chaosheng said, Hong Chengchou heard Li Chaosheng's implication, antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times, unchanging truth, antique calligraphy and paintings in this era are not worth much at all, and most of the antique calligraphy and paintings seized by Hong Chengchou are thieves They found it from the landlord's old rich family, and the thieves didn't know what was valuable.

Some thought the bottle was good and could hold water, so they accepted it; some saw a picture of a beautiful lady hanging in the landlord's old rich family, so they accepted it.

In this way, these antiques were preserved, Hong Chengchou defeated these people, and these things became trophies, and Hong Chengchou also looked at them. There are no high-quality goods in them, they are all old objects. After all, what good things can a group of landlords and old money have? .

Of course, there are still a few high-quality pieces out of the box, but they were all put away by Hong Chengchou and prepared to be given as gifts, so the remaining batch of antiques are all sold out.

Hong Chengchou thought about it: "Antiques are really difficult to estimate. In this way, you can find a pawnshop shopkeeper who understands antiques, and sell everything at the lowest price."

Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou like this and said, "Are you in a hurry?"

Hong Chengchou said: "The things are currently in the camp of our northern Shaanxi army. I will rush to Liaodong soon. If I don't take action soon, this thing will not be under my control."

"Well, fine, then do as you said, I accept this batch of things, do you want cash or..."

Before Li Chaosheng finished speaking, Hong Chengchou said: "I don't want cash. If I want to exchange cash, this batch of things can be handled easily. I don't need to ask the county lord for help. I want to exchange these things for cash." Make military supplies, food and grass, and then you are helping me transport them to Liaodong, I want to use these things to do a big job in Liaodong."

Li Chaosheng was startled when he heard this. He thought that Hong Chengchou was planning to fill his own pockets, but he didn't expect that Hong Chengchou was planning to make a big transfer of money and goods, and exchange these things for supplies to Liaodong.

"This matter is not difficult for the county lord. After all, Guihua City is now in the hands of the county lord. The county lord can use Guihua City to transport the goods along the nine sides of the grassland. After I arrive, I will also send people to pick it up. For this batch of goods, I don’t know if the county lord can help Hong Mou with this, as for the consumption during the transportation, it will all be counted on Hong Mou.”

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng eagerly, and Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "I can help with this matter, and the price will be calculated according to the price of normal goods. You are border guard supplies. Although Li is very greedy , but this kind of money, Li is not far away."

Hearing the words, Hong Chengchou cupped his hands and said: "Then I would like to thank the county lord. Today the county lord is very happy. When talking about this matter, Hong is a bit disappointed. I won't say much. Hong is waiting for the banquet. Today, I must pay more respect to the county." Honor a cup."

Li Chaosheng said with a smile after hearing the words: "Master Hong, don't leave, Mr. Li is going to have wedding candles today. By the way, Mr. Hong, you are leaving. Who will guard Shaanxi?"

After hearing this, Hong Chengchou said: "Oh, the imperial court has issued an order to transfer Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier from Shandong, to live in Tongguan."

"Zuo Liangyu."

Li Chaosheng murmured, "It's really a narrow road to Yuanjia. Li Chaosheng thought that Hong Chengchou was about to reach the door at this time. Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou's back and said: "Hey, old Hong."

Hong Chengchou turned his head in a daze, Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said: "In the bitter cold land of Liaodong, the Tartars are like tigers and wolves, so be careful in everything."

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng arched his hands and said nothing, Li Chaosheng wanted to say something more when he saw this, and finally sighed.

Li Chaosheng called Gu Zi for a long time, and Gu Zi came in from the outside, Li Chaosheng said: "Speak to Bai Shoumin, raise Hong Chengchou's investigation level, and send dead soldiers to lurk beside Hong Chengchou, if he is found to be suspected of collaborating with the enemy and treason, Immediately kill."

Gu Zi was taken aback when he heard this, looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Master, you mean that Hong Chengchou will rebel?"

Li Chaosheng didn't speak, Guzi frowned and said, "I can't. Although he's greedy for money and is very bureaucratic, he will rebel, I can't believe it."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng sighed and said, "People will change, especially after a person's belief collapses, he will change faster."

After Li Chaosheng said this, he looked at Gu Zi and said, "Hurry up and inform Bai Shoumin."

"Yes."

Hong Chengchou's rebellion was definitely a huge blow to the Ming Dynasty. When the Tatars invaded the Central Plains and conquered the Southwest, Li Dingguo lost two famous kings and became famous. At that time, the Tatars even thought of withdrawing their troops, but the one who refused to do so was Hong Chengchou and other Han officials, Hong Chengchou organized the surrender of the Ming army in the rear, and finally defeated Li Dingguo in the way of Han people fighting Han people.

To put it bluntly, the logic behind the fact that the Qing Dynasty was able to take over the Central Plains and finally become the master of the Central Plains was to rely on picking up leaks.

In fact, looking at the history of the late Ming and early Qing from another perspective, it can actually be understood as the obliteration of emerging forces that might trigger changes by the conservative feudal forces of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the final counterattack of the entire feudal force.

After constant fighting, the conservative forces of Ming finally won, and chose a more barbaric civilization to support them, and finally kept the vested interests of their conservative forces.

And one of the important promoters of this is Hong Chengchou. His contribution to the Tartars is self-evident. Without him, it is doubtful whether the Tartars can occupy the entire Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, such a scourge Li Chaosheng did not want to leave him to the Tartars, so Li Chaosheng decided to raise Hong Chengchou's danger level from the previous B-level investigation level to A-level.

Li Zicheng is the only Han Chinese currently occupying the first-class investigation level, and the rest are not qualified to enter this level at all.

Li Chaosheng rubbed his brows in thought, it seems that after getting married, his honeymoon will not be over, the world is about to change again.

Li Chaosheng thought about going out, and stood outside to greet the guests, but the ones Li Chaosheng could welcome were all powerful officials in the frontier.

"Master Zuo Liangyu, the commander-in-chief, sent an envoy to congratulate and send a pair of Hetian Yubi."

Zuo Liangyu.

Hearing this name, everyone who was talking around was stunned. Everyone knew the relationship between Zuo Liangyu and Li Chaosheng. Zuo Liangyu, Yang Sichang, and Zhou Yanru conspired in Lantian County, but the plot failed. On the contrary, he took the lives of his own family, young and old, and everyone has heard about it. "

At this time, Zuo Liangyu can still come to congratulate Li Chaosheng on his wedding, so there is something worth reminiscing about.

Li Chaosheng was also taken aback when he heard the welcoming words, and he didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to send someone. At this moment, Li Chaosheng watched a middle-aged scribe enter the compound, and saw Li Chaosheng hurriedly bowed: "General Zuo Liangyu Ma Jincheng, the master under his command, has seen the county lord."

Li Chaosheng looked at the owner of the horse and said: "The owner is right, the owner is here on behalf of General Zuo."

Master Ma heard this and said: "Yes, this subordinate is here for my general."

Li Chaosheng narrowed his eyes when he heard this and said, "Why doesn't your general come here in person?"

Master Ma's mouth twitched when he heard the words, and he thought he would come in person, he would dare, you don't know, since my general was stabbed blind in one eye last time, his whole body has been insane, and now he sleeps wearing armor , the sword never leaves his hand, and he usually looks at everyone with vigilant eyes.

A group of subordinates often saw their general looking at them with a sword, which made these subordinates a little nervous. They were afraid that their general would think that they had different intentions and cut themselves off.

Especially recently, Chongzhen ordered him to be transferred to Tongguan to guard against Lantian, which made him even more restless. He was too afraid of Li Chaosheng's methods. I'm afraid I can't keep it, let alone my eyes, maybe I can't even keep my own son.

Therefore, Zuo Liangyu actively asked himself to be transferred to Hubei to supervise Zhang Xianzhong, but the court refuted his idea. Zuo Liangyu was very annoyed by this. In fact, Zuo Liangyu was ambitious, and even planned to take advantage of the chaos in the world. Make some plans, but it definitely does not include making enemies with Li Chaosheng and Lantian.

Therefore, when he arrived in Tongguan, according to the imperial decree, Zuo Liangyu should enter Lantian and be stationed in Shaanxi, but Zuo Liangyu abruptly ran outside Tongguan to defend, and the station became Henan.

This time, upon hearing that Li Chaosheng was going to get married, Zuo Liangyu's counselors immediately suggested that they could take the opportunity to make friends with Lan Tian, ​​at least to liven up the atmosphere, so that they wouldn't be so lifeless and worried all day long.

So after a group of people's research, finally decided to send someone to give a gift, and the gift is very particular, the gift should not be too heavy, nor too light, too heavy, don't let Lan Tian look down on himself, too light, but not enough Express your heart.

In the end, I decided to choose this pair of high-quality Hetian jade biscuits. In addition, the gift giver is also very particular, Zuo Liangyu, he must not dare to come, for fear that it will become a grand feast.

His son Zuo Menggeng could show his sincerity, but Zuo Menggeng didn't do it. He felt that if he came to Lantian to live, he would be held as a proton. The second status is also very high, not to despise Lan Tian.

It can be said that Zuo Liangyu fears Lantian like a tiger.

Li Chaosheng looked at Master Ma, and Master Ma said at this moment: "Your Majesty, my general has been suffering from frequent eye diseases since the magistrate accidentally injured his eyes, and the pain is so painful that it should be our general himself this time. I came here, but unfortunately my eye disease broke out again, so I can only do it for you."

Li Chaosheng nodded when he heard the words, and said: "Well, let's sit in the seat, Mr. Ma. From now on, you and I will be neighbors, and we should take care of each other."

"Yes Yes."

Master Ma said, and he entered the table under the guidance of Lantian people. Li Chaosheng looked at Master Ma, and the corner of his mouth slightly curled up: "Zuo Liangyu is showing his favor to him, and now he is caught between himself and the court." , uncomfortable, ha ha."

Li Chaosheng thought, now there are more guests outside.

"Governor Lu Xiangsheng of Xuanda came to congratulate him and gave him a set of calligraphy and painting."

Speaking of Lu Xiangsheng also came, at this time the three giants in Shaanxi were gathered together, Lu Xiangsheng grew very tall, and after entering the door, he walked like a tiger.

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng also came, everyone's eyes became playful. The three giants of Shaanxi have all arrived. The imperial court wanted to use them to wipe out Lantian. .

Thinking that everyone looked at Lu Xiangsheng together, Lu Xiangsheng greeted Li Chaosheng and prepared to take a seat. Li Chaosheng looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "I thought you wouldn't come."

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said: "Ming Zhe protects himself, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou are not afraid, you and I have a meeting anyway, how can I be absent?"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Sun Chuanting can't help himself, Hong Chengchou also has his own plan, only you really want to come."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "How do you know that I don't have any pictures?"

Li Chaosheng said: "Do you want to buy firearms again?"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "The Tartars are restless, I'm afraid there will be a tough battle in the near future, please ask the county lord for help."

(End of this chapter)