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Historically, several Dong'an counties have appeared on the map of China at the same time. Dong'an County in Hunan, Dong'an County in Fujian, and Dong'an County in Shandong. It is said here that it is Dong'an County of Beizhili, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the place name is sorted out, and now the map belongs to Anci District, Langfang City.

When Luo Hu's thousands of horses appeared in the west of the city, the city was still in chaos. Gao Yigong and Wu Ruyi shouted and scolded several surrendered generals and deputy generals in the county office.

On the streets, the frightened defeated brigade staggered against the street with crooked armor, and some people stared at a pair of eyes, slamming doors everywhere to find something to satisfy their hunger.

Swords, guns, flags, horses, were thrown everywhere in a mess.

When the soldiers at the head of the city noticed that a large group of cavalry was rushing from west to east, there was also a slight commotion on the head of the city.

"There is a large group of people rushing towards the county seat outside the city!?"

Gao Yigong got the latest military information for the first time. His first reaction was, **** Southern Barbarian! Really fast! Lao Tzu entered Dong'an County with his front foot, and he didn't even have time to drink hot water, so you followed with his back foot!

"How many are there and where are they?"

He calmed down a little, tried to calm his mood and tone, and then asked the little colonel who reported the news.

"There are probably a few thousand people, and they are about to reach the West Gate."

"Huh? Simon? Coming from the west? Wu Ruyi's eyes couldn't help but light up, the troops coming from the west, it should be his own people!

When he saw Luo Hu's flag being held high, Wu Ruyi couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

Knowing that there were still Nanyue soldiers and horses slowly pressing behind from the direction of Guangyang, Luo Hu immediately led his troops and horses to bypass Dong'an County, which had become as noisy and chaotic as a beehive, and went to the east of the city to open a formation, preparing to block the westward advance of Nanyue soldiers and horses with thousands of horses. At the same time, the infantry and artillery teams led by Wang Si were ordered to speed up the march. He knew very well that the tactics of the Nanyue Army had always been artillery fire, firearms, horse teams and bayonets. At present, he only has a team of thousands of horses at hand, and although there is no shortage of firearms, there is no artillery.

However, what Luo Hu didn't expect was that the thousands of soldiers and horses that were slowly pressing over at the normal marching speed in the east did not carry a single artillery! The reason is simple, this armed force was mobilized by the security guards who prevailed in Yilong and the men of the various firms. It's already a great thing to be fully equipped with swords, guns and armor, how can there be artillery?

In the middle of the march, a group of hundreds of cavalry quickly swept past the queue, and these cavalry, judging from the armor banner, were the remnants of the new army of Beijing who had a deep hatred for the Dashun army.

They overtook the marching brigade and slowed down in the forward position, acting as scouts and flank guards for the entire team.

However, when the city wall of Dong'an County could already be seen, Luo Hu's thousands of men and horses also crashed into the field of vision of the forward rangers.

The battalion officer led by saw the banner of the Zhenshan Battalion, Luo Hu's recognition of the flag, and sizzled as if he had a toothache, "When did this group of brothers arrive?" When they get here, it's not going to be easy! ”

The evaluation made in their hearts, the prevailing security guards and the combat effectiveness of those mobilized soldiers, and they were generally in the middle of the same thing. The naval division and land battalion are naturally much stronger, but unfortunately, all of them are infantry, there are few men and horses, and there is no heavy artillery.

With such a composition of men and horses, firepower and weapons, it is certainly not a problem to deal with the ordinary Dashun army, but against the Zhenshan battalion, which knows each other well, this battle will not be easy to fight.

"Whew! Let's fight a high school, Li Zicheng sent out the Zhenshan camp? Hearing that the striker did not dare to slack off and ordered someone to report the latest military information quickly, Li Peiting, who was in the ranks of the Chinese army, couldn't help but laugh. It seems that it is also necessary to take such a tough attitude. It is necessary to make Li Zicheng and the Dashun court pay attention to the Nanyue army before they can take the next step.

"In addition to the Zhenshan Battalion, can the rest of the Dashun Army move? Yuan Zongdi, Liu Zongmin, and Liu Fangliang, can there be signs of movement? ”

"The big shopkeeper, there is no change! According to the report, Liu Fangliang is still in Baoding, and Liu Zongmin is in the capital. ”

"That's good! Come! ”

Li Peiting made up his mind and began to give orders.

Accompanied by Ma Harrier Li Jinbao, one of Li Peiting's henchmen handed Luo Hu the conditions set by the Nanyue Army on how to solve the sabotage acts such as smashing, burning, and looting against the property of Nanzhong merchants and Nanyue Army in the capital.

"We entered Beijing this time, not to meet anyone, but to seek justice."

After coming to meet Luo Hu, he explained to Luo Hu the purpose of entering Beijing. Luo Hu also agrees with this in his heart. Originally! The Dashun army gathered in Beijing, although it was not a million people, tens of thousands of people went into battle at the same time. This team of 10,000 improvised people is covered in iron, and how many nails can they hit? The purpose of the so-called entry into Beijing is just to ask for an explanation from the Dashun court and ask for some benefits.

"Benjue and your army and Guibao also have some incense roots. Naturally, they are willing to help. I don't know how you plan to ask me to deal with this matter? ”

As Luo Hu expected, the conditions for undertaking the murderer, compensating for property losses, and ensuring the personal safety of Nanzhong businessmen and related personnel were listed one by one. "But that's it!" Luo Hu pouted in his heart.

However, the conditions that followed the proposal made Luo Hu frown.

"Track down the mastermind behind the scenes, and hand it over to us to deal with."

That's a bit harder! Although the reason for what happened in the capital is not very clear, Luo Hu has also heard about it, and this matter has something to do with Zhou Zhong, who is now very valued in front of the emperor. In front of him, the Nanyue Army asked to hand over the mastermind behind the scenes, if Zhou Zhong and his gang insisted on it, it was only because of the suggestion to go down to the south of the Yangtze River that caused the jealousy of the Nanyue Army, and they called for hitting the sky and bending to come, and it would be difficult for the emperor to do it. What's more, there is some truth in what they say, right now Liang Guogong is in Nanjing, and Li Dagongzi is in Jinan. In any case, Xia Jiangnan will violate their interests.

Moreover, Zhou Zhong is currently a disciple of Niu Jinxing. Although Luo Hu also despises this guy who has no credit in his heart, he is a rat trap. He still has room to speak in front of the emperor, and many demoted officials are running under him, and the power in front of him should not be underestimated.

"What other conditions?"

Luo Hu tried to find a breakthrough first to open a channel for subsequent negotiation activities.

"In order to continue the friendly relations and commercial exchanges between Dashun and our Nanyue Army and Nanzhong over the years, we put forward a few suggestions, please transfer Yongchang Tianzi and agree."

"The negotiation envoy sent by His Majesty, Gao Yigong, is in Dong'an County behind Benjue at this time, what conditions do you have, Benjue will naturally tell him immediately."

"Good! First, in order to avoid the recurrence of vicious incidents against Nanzhong merchants in the capital in the future, our side proposed that Dongjiang Mixiang and Chaoyangmen be designated as Nanzhong Business and Trade Zone in Beijing. The Nanzhong Police are stationed in the Nanzhong Police and are responsible for maintaining law and order. All affairs in the trade zone shall not be interfered with by Dashun. Second, in order to meet the business needs of both sides, the Tianjin Business Zone will be expanded. The Tianjin Acropolis merged with the current Tianjin Trade Zone, and our Southern Guangdong Army stationed troops and horses in Tianjin. Of course, no more than one brigade of soldiers and horses. And there can be no more than 12-pound heavy guns. At the same time, Tongzhou and other places transported warehouses, half of which was set aside for the use of merchants in Nanzhong. Third, unify tax standards. The goods imported into the jurisdiction of Dashun, all kinds of commodities, and all kinds of goods purchased by Nanzhong will only be levied once at the time of customs declaration, and then Dashun Yousi shall not levy taxes again. The customs duties in the trade zone are collected and managed by the Nanyue Army on behalf of the Nanyue Army, and they are paid once a quarter. Fourth.... ”

Luo Hu couldn't help but be angry when he heard the envoy tell the terms proposed by the Nanyue Army one by one. If Gao Yigong and others come, it's fine. Maybe he will be fooled by Li Peiting and others. However, Luo Hu is different, he is also a person who has been mixed in Shandong for a period of time, and under the influence of his ears and eyes, he knows the power of the Nanyue Army's methods. Set up a trade zone in the capital, send police to maintain law and order, garrison troops in Tianjin, expand the trade zone, occupy warehouses and other facilities, and control import and export taxes in the jurisdiction of Dashun. I'm afraid that it won't be long before Dashun will be undefeated and defeated.

At present, the Dashun army has already relied on materials in Nanzhong, if these shackles are put on again, even if Li Shouhan and his son claim to Li Zicheng, I am afraid that the life of this Dashun Yongchang Emperor will not be easy!

With such conditions, I am afraid that when the civil and military high-level leaders of Dashun learn that the sugar coating of the Nanyue Army is not wrapped in sugar pills, but cannonballs, no one will dare to agree to such conditions!

Sure enough, when Luo Hu entered the city to meet Gao Yigong and reported to him the conditions put forward by the Nanzhong businessmen one by one, the Chinese army commander immediately kicked the table away!

"Mother sells! If Lao Tzu agrees to such conditions, it is better to send someone to Nanjing to invite Li Shouhan to Beijing, let him sit in this Jinluan Palace, and Lao Tzu will accompany the emperor back to Shaanxi! ”

"Uncle," Luo Hu affectionately addressed Gao Yigong with the relationship between his family, "I will temporarily let these thousands of people from the Li family settle in Guangyang County." Stabilize them, let's discuss a safe way. ”

"What's the use of the three of us discussing? It's better to let Ziyi work hard and explain what happened here to the emperor. Tell the emperor the terms proposed by the southern barbarians one by one, and ask the emperor to make a decision! ”

"General Gao, if the emperor asks me, what do we mean, how should I answer? Is it to fight, or to talk? Wu Ruyi was sad.

Gao Yigong set his sights on Luo Hu. "Huzi, tell me about it, are we fighting or not?"

"Uncle Yigong! If it were me, it would be based on fighting, and then we would talk after fighting! ”

"Huzi! If they are annoyed and cut off the trade routes with us, how should we raise this military and civilian food, gunpowder and equipment? Gao Yigong was really scared of Luo Hu's bold proposal.

"Uncle! When we didn't get grain and rice equipment from the merchants of Nanzhong, wasn't it the same as the north and south? How did we get to today, we have all taken down Beijing City, but we are looking ahead and backward? Is it really barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes? Now that we are in the camp, we are also wearing shoes, are we afraid of wolves and tigers? ”

"I don't know anything else, uncle. We are the buyers, and we take the silver dollars of the white flowers and pay them. As far as I know, all parts of Nanzhong have had bumper harvests year after year, and their grain is not sold to us, so can't it be piled up at home to grow insects? Also, they encouraged us to grow cotton, do you know why? ”

Regarding the internal affairs of the Nanyue Army, Gao Yigong naturally did not know as clearly as Luo Hu. Although every sentence Luo Hu said sounded unbelievable to him, every sentence sounded quite reasonable. He couldn't help but ask, "Why?" ”

"The number of people in their country who live by spinning and weaving cloth is hundreds of thousands. However, Nanzhong does not produce cotton! Otherwise, the eldest young master of the Li family would not have planted a large amount of cotton in Shandong for consumption. If they tear their faces with us, we will simply stop selling our cotton to him again! It's a big deal, let's just wear coarse cloth! Then they waved their troops south and burned down their cotton fields in Shandong to see which one suffered more losses! ”

"Good! Good! Good! Hearing Luo Hu's words, I couldn't help but shout three times in a row!

"Ziyi, you hurry back to the capital and report to the emperor about the matter here. Then explain Luo Hu's proposition to the emperor. Please give an order to General Liu Fangliang in Baoding to make a posture that once the negotiations break down, he will immediately wave his troops south! Let's fight the wolf with a hemp stick now, see who is scared first! ”

Gao Yigong had confidence in his heart, and immediately sent people out of the city to contact the soldiers and horses of Nanyue to arrange negotiations.

The negotiations took place at Langfa Temple, thirty miles from the county seat of Dong'an.

Because Li Peiting arrived first, the entire venue in the courtyard of the temple was arranged by the Nanyue army. When Gao Yigong and Luo Hu arrived, they found that Li Peiting was already sitting proudly.

It's worth it! Gao Yigong was even a little angry. Now it is no longer the situation when the two families were in Henan and Shangluoshan. Li Zicheng has officially founded the country and ascended the throne as emperor. As his Qincha, he naturally represents the Son of Heaven of Dashun Yongchang, and of course he should be on the throne, facing the south and facing the north. However, this position, which was the same as that of the Buddha, was obtained by Li Peiting first. There is no sign of humility.

After some verbal arguments, the two sides arranged their seats according to the direction of their own armies, and the Dashun army came from the west and sat west to east. The Nanyue Army came from the direction of Tianjin, sitting in the east and facing west.

However, just after arranging the seats, Luo Hu was very angry and found that the chair on his side seemed to be a little shorter, which happened to be a little lower than the line of sight of Li Peiting, Lin Wenbing and others, and he needed to look up. Is this worth it? Luo Hudang even had a seizure, "Even if you demolish this temple, you have to find out the suitable chair for Benjue!" On the surface, he was reprimanding his subordinates, but he was referring to Sang scolding Huai to Li Peiting and others.

Change seats, change seats, change tall and majestic guards. After a series of small details and small methods arranged by Li Peiting were cracked one by one, both sides already had some anger brewing in their chests.

As soon as the two sides opened their mouths, they were full of gunpowder.

The two leaders of the negotiation are both national uncles in their respective camp groups, and they are both high-ranking and powerful people.

Li Peiting: "The main reason why our army entered Beijing this time is that since you entered Beijing, the young people have disrupted the security of the capital and harmed the safety of the lives and property of our businessmen. I wonder if you can maintain law and order in the capital? If it can't be done, our army will be stationed in the capital, and the one responsible for the security of the capital will be! ”

Gao Yigong: "I heard that there are robbers in Guangzhou, Jinan and other places, if it can't be solved, Benjue doesn't mind settling down." ”

Li Peiting: "Saying all this is useless. If you fail to agree to our conditions, without the permission of our own officials, not a single grain ship will think of Tianjin, and without grain supplies from the south, Beijing will become a dead city. ”

Luo Hu: "Joke! What if there is no food to Beijing? Mr. Li has probably forgotten my original origin of Dashun, right? We have been scolded as thieves by the Ming court for many years! Flow, eat, that's the old business of this army! Before Beijing becomes a dead city, General Ben will definitely kill where there is food, including Tianjin, you said! Moreover, I don't think that the Liang Kingdom Guild agrees with such a thing. ”

"Are you going to go to Tianjin to seize food supplies?" After listening to Luo Hu's words, Li Peiting laughed instead of anger, as if he had heard the best joke told by a child. "General Luo is really a young hero, full of pride. But this official has to remind you that in front of you, there are 4,000 elite soldiers and the naval division Lu Battalion who have fought in Tashan, do you think you can fight better than the Liaodong rebels? ”

"Liao thief?" Luo Hu looked up to the sky and laughed, "Hahaha! Master Li is really old. But you don't know that Benjue was also in Shandong and fought dozens of battles against Liao thieves! Benjue doesn't know how powerful your so-called elite troops are, but I know that you finally retreated from Liaodong, and I chased the Liao thieves all the way to Zhili! ”

Li Peiting waved his hand very casually, as if the elders were a little tired of the braggadocio of his sons and nephews, and he turned his gaze to Gao Yigong: "Lord Gao, this officer has a new idea, you and my army might as well talk about it." The cavalry of your army is strong, and I will compensate you for the Tianjin Left Guard. The artillery of our naval division is strong, and as compensation for our superiority, the port of Nigu belongs to us. How is it? ”

For Li Peiting's detailed self-thought, he has already figured out the high level of merit, so he naturally will not accept such conditions. He insisted that Long Shengxing and the merchants of Nanzhong would compensate for the events that occurred in the capital on the premise of ensuring the supply of materials with Dashun.

With such a gap, the two sides naturally broke up unhappily.

"Alright! Let's use cannons and guns to continue the conversation! (To be continued.) )