The Battle of Princes Worldwide Online

Chapter 208 Zhang Xianzhong's Predicament
Faced with such a huge reward, Li Minglin felt his heart beat a little faster. Before that, Li Minglin was just a small official in the Resource Department, not even a pawn, let alone a command official.

How can we not be excited about the windfall this time? Oil sand is the easiest oil to mine. Although the refined oil is heavy oil, it is no problem to make fierce oil. This difficulty and There is no difference in sending points!

After coming out of the lord's mansion, Li Minglin only felt refreshed. After thinking about it, he went straight to the winery!

As for the wine produced in the winery, Li Minglin only drank it twice. The first time was when the Resource Department became independent from the Intelligence Department. .

The second time was a month ago, when General Leng took office for the first time, and it was also a banquet.

After drinking twice in just two months, Li Minglin was completely fascinated by this feeling.

Now that the Supervision Department is strictly checking, petty officials like them have no chance to be greedy for ink, and their monthly salary is only five copper coins or five taels of silver.

Li Minglin received all copper coins before, and he only saved [-] coins in one year. He never spent his salary at all, and usually lived frugally. He didn't even dare to go to places like Chengnanhe.

If it weren't for his wife working in a garment workshop, life would have become a problem.

And the reason for this is because of his own son.

His son fell in love with a girl from the Ming Dynasty, and now the two have gone through the stages of asking for names and making an alliance, and the next step is the highlight of the appointment (Naicai, Nabi).

This time it was difficult for Li Minglin, the dowry that the other party asked for was actually not much, and they all followed the procedure, but there were dozens of things, and the money spent was not small.

Others are easy to say, such as flatbread, rock sugar, noodles, incense, and clothes (dresses for brides). It is very easy to prepare.

But the key is the bracelet, the gold ring, and the betrothal money. The betrothal money that the other party wants is five silver coins, which is fifty copper coins, which is equivalent to Li Minglin's ten-month salary. The cost will only be higher.

But it is impossible to reduce it.

After coming to the winery at this time, Li Minglin directly spent all of this month's salary and bought a full ten catties of wine.

After arriving at the residence with the wine, Li Minglin walked in with a bright mood.

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What happened to Li Minglin is now happening in Wuyang City every day. Since the entire Qianwei County has been unified, more and more people are coming here. The convenience is much better than other places.

This situation had already appeared when Lucheng unified the land of the four counties, and then reached its peak when Song Jiang was defeated.

The population ushered in an explosive increase. In just two months, a total of 3 people came, and the total population of Wuyang City also exceeded 15 for the first time, reaching 16.

This situation was effectively curbed only after Lucheng came forward to stop it, but Wuyang City couldn't get in, and there were a lot of open spaces around it.

Villages and family fortresses began to be established close to Wuyang City. In the entire Dawuyang District, the registered population was as high as 40. This phenomenon was unimaginable a year ago.

The vigorous development of Wuyang City has hurt many people, such as Zhang Xianzhong of Shu County, Shunzhi of Guanghan County, Wu Sangui of Qianwei County, Meng Zhixiang of Cang County, and Wang Jian of Yuelu County.

Even Liu Zhang from Shu County, Duan Zhengchun from Yizhou County, Chen Baxian from Yongchang County, Xiao Yan from Guanghan Dependency, Zhang Lu from Hanzhong County, and even Liu Bei from Berkshire were a little worried.

You must know that half of the forces here are not unified in one county. In terms of superficial strength, many of them are not as good as Lucheng.

Especially Zhang Xianzhong, who occupied the vassal state of Shu County, the emperor of the Great Western Dynasty, had trouble sleeping and eating.

Now Zhang Xianzhong is quite in a dilemma. To the north is the aggressive Liu Zhang, to the south is Wang Jian who is entrenched in Yuexie County, and to the west is Lucheng.

Surrounded by enemies on three sides, and no one is easy to provoke, let alone Liu Zhang has made it clear that he wants to attack him.

Faced with this predicament, the only way to go is to unite.

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At this time, Tu County.

Zhang Xianzhong was discussing with the generals under him. Zhang Xianzhong was in his forties, an upright man, and there were more than [-] civil servants and generals under him.

But Zhang Xianzhong trusted the generals who followed him the most, such as General Sun Kewang of Pingdong, General Li Dingguo of Anxi, General Liu Wenxiu of Funan, and General Ai Nengqi of Dingbei.

As well as Wang Shangli of the middle army, Wang Dingguo of the former army, Feng Shuangli of the rear army, Ma Yuanli of the left army, and Zhang Hualong of the right army.

These nine people basically formed the military structure of the entire organization. As for the other summoned generals, most of them acted as deputy generals under the hands of these nine people.

After recruiting the nine people to the lord's mansion, Zhang Xianzhong said to the subordinates: "Now that Liu Zhang has unified the Shu County, his strength has greatly increased. If it is not bad, he will definitely attack next. Shu County has many soldiers and generals, coupled with the large population, consumption alone can consume us to death, and the only solution for the present is to unite.

Shu County is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and there are more than one family that want to deal with him. As far as I know, the Tartars in the west and Lucheng in the south all have ideas about Shu County, and they will definitely not just watch Liu Zhang grow bigger. If they are persuaded to send troops, the situation can be resolved.

Do you have any good suggestions? "

Hearing what Zhang Xianzhong said, several people showed contemplative expressions on their faces. This kind of idea is indeed good, but it is extremely difficult to actually operate it. Every faction has its own development strategy, and it is impossible to make it happen with just a few words. shake.

Especially Lucheng in the west, which had just occupied Qianwei County at this time, the possibility of sending troops again was very small, and Liu Zhang was not attacking him, so there was no need to take this risk at all.

Put yourself in the shoes of others, if you are in this position in Lucheng, you are unlikely to agree to this plan. One is that the benefits are not easy to distribute, and the other is that there is no trust between each other.

What's more, the other party can procrastinate and watch. Wouldn't it be better to wait until there is a stalemate between himself and Liu Zhang, and then choose the opportunity?

At that time, there will be more opportunities to choose from. In other words, the initiative is completely in the hands of the opponent.

These people are all good people, and they can be understood after a little analysis of the situation, so they didn't rush to express their views on Zhang Xianzhong's proposal.

Seeing this situation, it was Li Dingguo who said: "The final general is willing to go to Wuyang City to act as a lobbyist, and I hope my lord will be kind!"

"Ning Yu? That's fine, Ning Yu is a stable person, and he is quite eloquent, so he can take up this position."

Seeing Li Dingguo open his mouth, Zhang Xianzhong agreed without even thinking about it. This was already the only life-saving straw. Whether he could succeed or not was related to his own wealth and life, so there was no reason to disagree.

At this time, looking at Li Dingguo with a serious face, Zhang Xianzhong ordered him to rush to Wuyang City immediately after a few instructions.

After thinking about it, Zhang Xianzhong felt that it was not safe, so Zhang Xianzhong then ordered the rest of the people to go to the counties to recruit soldiers.

Obviously, Zhang Xianzhong intends to turn all the people into soldiers!
(End of this chapter)