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Chapter 468 Cao Huachun Can't Sit Still

Lantian is the eternal thorn in Chongzhen's heart. It pierces into the flesh, and it can't be pulled out, and it can't be pushed in. It's really like a thorn in the throat, like a thorn in the back. Every time Chongzhen thinks about Lantian, he has a kind of fear Feel.

Just like this Lu Xiangsheng, he admires him very much, and it can be said that he promoted Lu Xiangsheng step by step. Chongzhen was also cited as a minister of the shoulders, but since the last time he got mixed up with Lantian in Guihua City, Chongzhen There was a gap between Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Xiangsheng.

Therefore, this is also the reason why Chongzhen hesitated when Xue Guoguan suggested seizing Lu Xiangsheng.

But at this time Yang Sichang broke the matter, Chongzhen's heart tilted again, sighed and said: "Forget it, send someone to write a letter to Sun Chengzong who is idle in Gaoyang's hometown, asking him to come to the capital immediately to take over military affairs."

"Yes, I respect His Majesty's decree."

After hearing this, Yang Sichang knelt down to accept the order. Xue Guoguan was very helpless when he saw this. Hong Chengchou didn't get it done. In fact, he can't be blamed for this matter. Who made Lu Xiangsheng and Lan Tian get mixed up? For Chongzhen, it is definitely a huge threat.

Chongzhen issued a decree to activate Sun Chengzong, but it may take some twists and turns to send the imperial decree to the capital. After all, there are Tartars outside, so the angels need some luck to go out of the city to send the imperial decree.

The news that the Tartars invaded Tongzhou and approached the capital quickly spread.

The whole world was shaken for a while, and Li Chaosheng was the first to know the news. Not only did Li Chaosheng know that the Tartar soldiers had surrounded the capital, he even knew clearly about the discussions among the ministers in the court.

At this time, Bai Shoumin clearly placed the latest information brought from the capital in front of Li Chaosheng.

After Li Chaosheng looked at it, he smiled slightly and said, "The imperial court is really afraid that our blue fields are like tigers and leopards. They rushed to recruit officers and soldiers from all over the country to King Qin, but they only didn't call Zuo Liangyu from outside Tongguan. This is because they are afraid that we will take the opportunity to send troops out of Tongguan."

After hearing this, Bai Shoumin said: "Our Lantian is powerful, and it is understandable for the court to take precautions against us, but they did not use Lu Xiangsheng, but instead used Sun Chengzong, who has retired to support Sun Chengzong. This is a bit far-fetched. He is very strong, but he is better at planning. I think Lu Xiangsheng is not as reliable as Lu Xiangsheng who has fought step by step on the battlefield. At least Lu Xiangsheng's ability to lead troops should be higher than that of General Sun."

"Hey~ Old General Sun still has some military talents. If he is in his prime, I am afraid that Lu Xiangsheng and his brother should be brothers. It is still unknown who is stronger and who is weaker. However, the old general is already seventy-five years old this year, and seven years ago he was killed by a treacherous minister. Impeachment, resignation and returning home, seven years is enough to make an elite old soldier lose his sensitivity to war, which is very fatal, and Lu Xiangsheng has only been worried for a month, so it is the best choice to use Lu Xiangsheng now."

Li Chaosheng said at the side at this time, and after hearing this, Guzi said: "But the emperor thinks that he has mixed up with us in Lantian, and it will be good if he is not imprisoned. Let me tell you, this emperor is really cautious. , there is a good general but can't use it, so how can there be no reason for invincibility?"

Li Chaosheng stopped talking when he heard the words. In fact, if Sun Chengzong was really used this time instead of Lu Xiangsheng, it might not be a bad thing. , causing Lu Xiangsheng to miss the chance to be alone, and finally fought to the death with the Tartars, and died in the battle.

Lu Xiangsheng is a man Li Chaosheng likes very much. He is an official at the right time. He knows military affairs and is also very proficient in government affairs. Although such a talent belongs to the old literati sequence, it is also worth cultivating. It is a major harvest for Lantian.

Li Chaosheng thought about it, closed the intelligence, looked at Bai Shoumin and said, "Okay, we just need to pay close attention to the affairs of the capital. The emperor is guarding against us, so let's not deploy troops blindly. The emperor of the province dare not use all his strength to fight against the Tartars." Doesn't that mean helping the Tartars indirectly?"

After hearing this, Gu Zi said: "The emperor is indeed true. The Tartars are almost attacking the capital, and they are still guarding against us. If we want to rebel, do we still need to join the Tartars? If we really want to rebel, Daming It may not be able to beat us."

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "Okay, don't complain, by the way, what is Cao Huachun doing in our Lantian recently?"

After hearing this, Bai Shoumin said, "Will you bring Jin Yiwei Qianhu Jiang Changge to count the carts on our Lantian official road?"

"Ok?"

Li Chaosheng was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. As expected of an old eunuch, he actually knew the details of groping for Lantian from the bottom. However, he won't be able to survive for a few days. The Tartars invaded, and he probably will come to see him soon.

Li Chaosheng took a sip of tea after thinking about it, and then began to look up the documents of various ministries, about this year's water conservancy construction, about the winter grain storage plan, about the funding of the academy, and about Lantian's business plan for this year, all kinds of things, And so on.

Although the major projects in Lantian are managed by various departments, the final documents need to be handed over to Li Chaosheng for review. Just looking at the processing results of these things, Li Chaosheng will have to sit for a whole day.

Of course, Li Chaosheng is also delegating power appropriately. At the very least, he must ensure that his daily workload does not exceed eight hours, and Li Chaosheng is still very free during the rest of the time.

Therefore, none of the plans that can be submitted to Li Chaosheng are trivial matters. Unless the total appropriation amount is less than [-] silver dollars, Li Chaosheng will not bother with all matters related to business and engineering projects that are related to money. If it exceeds [-] silver dollars and does not exceed [-] silver dollars, Li Chaosheng will intervene but will not participate. In the end, for large-scale grants exceeding [-] silver dollars, Li Chaosheng needs to participate and play a decisive role.

Of course, as Lantian's power increases, Li Chaosheng will continue to further decentralize power.

Decentralization is not terrible, as long as the military, judiciary, supervision and other violent departments are firmly in his hands, Li Chaosheng does not need to hold all the powers of other departments, as long as he learns how to employ people, he will save a lot of money.

Moreover, whoever dares to be greedy for ink, whoever dares to dereliction of duty, can be punished according to the law. As for the person who handles the affairs is killed, new officials will be appointed soon. Lantian Academy is the cradle of training officials of the Lantian system.

It is precisely because of the continuous supply of blood from Lantian Academy that Lantian has inexhaustible talents, and it is precisely because of this that the rotten Confucians of Ming Dynasty hate Lantian deeply, because Lantian broke Confucianism. Having monopolized the officialdom for thousands of years, now the officials appointed by Lantian have bypassed Confucianism.

How can you make Confucianists feel at ease? Of course, Lantian is regarded as a scourge, like a country of demons, because Confucianism here is just a dispensable elective course. If you want to learn, of course there are the best Confucian professors in Lantian.

It doesn't matter if you don't want to learn, because there are all kinds of practical learning here, and these are the basis for the selection of officials in Lantian.

Here, as long as you plant the land well, you can let the land produce more grain. Even if you don’t understand Confucian classics at all, you can be appointed an agricultural officer without any problem, and go to counties and towns to guide the people to cultivate and produce grain.

If you don’t grow the land well, but you raise pigs well and are fatter than anyone else, you can increase the meat production in Lantian. That’s okay, you can be appointed as a pig raising instructor in the post of animal husbandry, Sent to the chiefs in various places to lead the whole village to become rich.

It can be said that as long as you have a skill in Lantian, you will be given room to develop it. Some people say that I can only read books, but I can't do other things well. What should I do?

No problem, there are still a lot of elementary schools in Lantian that need teachers. You can act as Chinese teachers for these students and let them learn to read characters from you. Isn’t this a good solution?
Others said, I can't grow land well, I can't raise pigs well, and I can't read. What should I do? No problem. There are various factories in Lantian. You can't enter state-owned factories in Lantian, but some private The factory also recruits people, and the wages are not low, enough for one person to live in Lantian.

This is actually the reason why Lantian is prosperous and strong. Every person with a skill, no, it should be every hardworking person will find a job in Lantian and will not starve to death.

Lantian broke the monopoly of the Ming gentry, which is why the Daming gentry group was very resistant to Lantian. They used to be masters, but now they have become ordinary people. This gap makes it difficult for the Ming gentry to accept.

Therefore, if Lantian wants to take over the world, it is difficult to use a peaceful method. However, Li Chaosheng is a dog, and he doesn't want to let his own people die too much, so he trained two gold medalists, one named Li Zicheng, One is called Zhang Xianzhong.

They will clean up for Li Chaosheng all the landlords on this land who are against Lantian.

When Lan Tian accepts them again, not only will they not resist, but they will even worship and thank them.

This is actually not difficult to understand, just like a multi-millionaire, if you ask him to donate 900 million and keep 100 million for no reason, he will definitely be very resistant and even fight with you.

But at this time a group of robbers rushed in and robbed him. At this time, if you give him 10 yuan, he must be grateful to you and think that you are the best person in the world.

This is the reason for Lantian. Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and of course Daming himself are in the front to make troubles, while Lantian is behind to clean up the mess and stabilize the place. Notorious gangsters and corrupt officials have taken over, and Lantian only has support and praise.

In autumn, the autumn harvest in Lantian is over, and this is the time when Lantian’s business is at its most prosperous. Lantian’s caravans will sell the materials produced in Lantian this year, and exchange them for the materials or money that Lantian needs, and then come back.

This is already a practice in Lantian. Lantian has a time when business is most prosperous—after autumn harvest and before spring sowing, because this period is also called slack.

Ordinarily, people in Lantian start cat winter after the autumn harvest, but there is no cat winter in Lantian. The purpose of Lantian is to keep life and work.

During this period of time, the farmers who are idle after the autumn harvest in Lantian can go out to do business with the caravan, or help the public repair water conservancy. Even some factories will recruit some temporary workers at this time. Anyway, as long as you are not lazy, you can work in this period. Time to earn some money, so that I can buy some candy and new clothes for my family during the Chinese New Year.

Among them, many young and strong young farmers like to go out to do business with caravans, and the reason is very simple, earning more.

Caravans usually have a lot of people, there can be dozens of people, some of them are buddies, and some of them are the Lantian militiamen that the caravan spends a lot of money on. The Lantian militiamen have several escort missions every year. For elites, when they go out, Lan Tian will also equip them with muskets and guard them.

But now there are bandits everywhere in the world, and there are countless bandits, so businessmen must hire guards or swordsmen when they go out, and militiamen can be hired directly in Lantian.

Generally, militiamen are hired out according to the number of ten people in a squad. Ten people are a combat squad, equipped with knives, guns, and refined muskets. Even if ten people face bandits with five or sixty people, they will not be defeated.

It can be said that the Lantian militiamen should be the most elite commercial guards in Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the price of militia hired by the caravan is also very high, so the militia that can be selected will have a very good income after this trip. Of course, the merchant must directly hand over the money to the militia management department in Lantian, and then the militia management department Then the tasks are delegated, and then each township militia unit selects excellent militiamen to send out. Finally, the employment fee is directly transferred from the militia management department to the bank passbook of the corresponding militia.

At that time, the militiamen can take their passbooks and go to the special office of the bank to get the money out.

This should be the prototype of Lantian's earliest armed escort.

Caravans, with their own buddies and militia guards, began to leave Lantian City one after another after some preparations. Their teams were large and small, with only a dozen or so people in the small ones, but there were as many as the big ones. Hundreds of people.

The size of the team is determined mainly by the distance of the place to go and the degree of danger. If it is closer and safer, less militia guards can be hired.

If the road is farther away and the road is more dangerous, you can hire more guards. However, the Lantian caravan usually employs more than a hundred guards. If it reaches the level of a company, ordinary bandits dare not make a move.

The last time I passed by Luliang, Shanxi Province, Shunfenger, a well-known local bandit, took a fancy to a large caravan transporting grain at that time, and led more than 500 men to attack, and encountered a company of militiamen sent by Chang'an County at that time.

These militiamen calmly set up a mandarin duck formation, then took out their flintlock guns, and with a burst of random shooting, they wiped out this group of miscellaneous bandits. More than 500 people, including the leader Shunfeng Er, were all killed.

The battle of the Lantian militia is considered to have begun. You must know that the Lantian militia is known as the militia, but their training volume is not as good as that of the elites of the Ming Dynasty. The armed escort, and the militiamen in Lantian are all equipped with flintlock guns eliminated by the army. Except for the lack of cannons, they are almost equivalent to a small army. Who can worry about such an armed escort.

And the loyalty is absolutely assured. After all, the militiamen and their families are all in Lantian, and the current Lantian is simply a fairyland. That militiaman will rebel if he is crazy.

Therefore, the militia in Lantian is well-known.

And just as the caravans from Lantian were leaving Lantian, Cao Huachun and Jiang Changge were sitting in a roadside tea shed drinking tea, looking calm and breezy, but their clenched fists exposed him Restless heart.

"Chang Ge, which caravan is this leaving?"

Cao Huachun asked.

(End of this chapter)