At the dock, a centipede boat slowly approached the dock, and as soon as the boat was stable, some passengers walked out of the cabin, stepped on the gangplank and went ashore, and the attaché followed closely. The man's steps were steady, but he looked a little anxious, and his expression was a little anxious as he walked up the stairs of the pier.

"It's all right."

The attendant in the back shouted softly.

"Forgot again!" Zhao Guocheng interrupted him in a deep voice.

"Now you and I are not officials in Jiangbei, but ordinary people who come to Wuchang to do business, do you know?"

Of course, Yu Shujie is not an ordinary person, he is the Jianghuai Economic Envoy - now it should be said that King Huai joined the military affairs of the military affairs of the Yamen, and Zhao Guocheng, who spoke, was the experience of the Yazhong, the two of them were ordered to come to Wuchang, of course, they came to Wuchang as the secret envoy of the King of Huai, so naturally they can no longer be called officials.

"Yes!"

Zhao Guocheng hurriedly changed his words.

"Mr. Yu, it's already dark, otherwise, let's talk about business tomorrow, so we can sort out our thoughts."

Yu Shujie didn't make a sound, he just glanced ahead, and then said.

"There's no time, let's go straight over!"

As the king's secret envoy, Yu Shujie knew that he couldn't afford to delay at all, in case King Yanping's lobbyist arrived first and persuaded Li Ziyuan, what would he do then?

Thinking of the increasingly tense situation at the moment, Yu Shujie's steps became faster, and he knew what his trip meant, which meant whether the hundreds of thousands of brothers of the Loyal and Righteous Army would wave their swords at him.

"Yu Shujie?"

Li Ziyuan, who was discussing things with Yao Qisheng and others in the yamen, as soon as he heard the visitor's name, his face showed some different colors, like Zhao Jiquan, Li An and other generals who were born in the old camp naturally knew who Yu Shujie was.

"Why is this scholar here?"

"It was this surnamed Yu who broke the good thing of the military gate at the beginning, according to me, I directly coaxed him out."

Regarding Li An's suggestion, Li Ziyuan naturally just smiled, but glanced out the door, and then went out of the house to greet him. After all, they are also old acquaintances.

"Shaoxing, you and my brother haven't seen each other for two years."

"Shujie has seen the military gate."

Yu Shujie saw it with the courtesy of his subordinates, after all, as the military affairs of the Huai Wangfu, he was only a fourth-grade officer, while Li Ziyuan was the chief military officer of the second-grade army. After receiving his salute, Li Ziyuan asked.

"Less, how are you doing?"

"The labor army is leading the way, and it has been okay recently."

Li Ziyuan only smiled slightly after hearing this. The two exchanged a few more words before Li Ziyuan invited him into the room, Zhao Jiquan and the others naturally followed in, and Yu Shaojie greeted them warmly and complimented.

"After a farewell to Nanjing, who would have thought that you could not only do miraculous feats for my Ming Dynasty with the command of the military gate, but also restore Wuchang for my Ming Dynasty, and the merits of your brothers are far above the younger brother......"

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, he was so complimented by Yu Shujie, and everyone laughed. But Li Ziyuan said with a serious expression.

"When I left Nanjing, what were we left but a few hundred brothers? If it weren't for the dedication of the brothers, how could we be waiting for today, and how many of the old brothers are still alive today? ”

Li Ziyuan's words made everyone feel uncomfortable. Then Li Ziyuan looked at Yu Shujie again and said.

"How can there be a reason for immortals to fight in a war, after all, we fought for this breath, first beat Jiangxi to Shao Sima, and last year took Huguang back, which can be regarded as worthy of the dead brothers."

Knowing that Li Ziyuan said this, he was telling him that although there was no old grudge between him Li Ziyuan and Zhu Mingzhong, there was also an old grudge, Yu Shujie nodded with a smile, and then said:

"What the military gate said is extremely true, marching and fighting will naturally avoid deaths and injuries, as long as I can recover my Daming rivers and mountains, I will naturally be worthy of the dead brothers."

After saying these words, Yu Shujie changed the conversation again.

"After all, the reason why the military and the brothers joined the army back then was to restore my Ming dynasty and let the Han people not be bullied by the Tartars. However, the military gate can know that with the current situation, if our loyal and righteous army crosses the river, I am afraid that not only will my strength be greatly damaged by the Ming Dynasty, but also the Manchu fishermen will benefit, so ......"

Before Yu Shujie finished speaking, Li Ziyuan shook his head and said.

"Shaoxing, although you and I have an old grudge, but we have an old grudge with King Huai, you are also the person concerned, you say, with this old grudge, how can Li raise troops to help King Huai?"

There is no need for Yu Shujie to continue, Li Ziyuan also knows his intention, the reason why he came here must be to persuade himself to help him and crusade against Zheng Chenggong with him, Li Ziyuan has no interest in this kind of thing, in his opinion, this is a thankless thing at all.

"Please rest assured that the military gate is not a last resort, King Huai will never do things that are painful to relatives and happy to enemies, and Shujie's trip is not to lobby the military to send troops to Jiangnan, but to give gifts to the military gate!"

Yu Shujie's answer made Li Ziyuan and everyone stunned, not to mention Zhao Jiquan and them, even like Yao Qisheng and other people's staff, they all looked at him in surprise, and they couldn't figure out his intention at all.

Didn't you come to lobby the military to send troops to Jiangnan?

So why did he come to Wuchang?

Come and give a gift?

"Gift-giving?"

Li Ziyuan looked at Yu Shujie in surprise, his eyes full of puzzlement.

"Exactly, King Huai knows that the military gate is the sincerity of the country, if there is no military gate to shield Hubei, how can he cut off the capture in the north and south, and the military gate has been training hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Huguang since last year, and there are deficiencies in weapons, so he is specially ordered to send a big gift to the military gate!"

As he spoke, Yu Shujie took out a "gift list", and at the same time reported the gifts on the gift list one by one.

"The weapons donated by King Huai include 40,000 sets of Jiangbei armor, 35,000 six-money flint guns, 7 million paper-wrapped bullets, 175 six-pound cannons, and ...... cannons."

With Yu Shujie's words, everyone gasped, they never thought that someone would send such a big gift.

Hearing that Zhu Mingzhong gave him so many weapons and himself, Li Ziyuan was excited, but he was secretly vigilant, why did this person send such a generous gift?

But on the other hand, he is eager to get these weapons, since the forced conscription of 160,000 soldiers, he has been quite troubled by the matter of weapons, although he can barely use a spear, but he knows that this spear is only for a short time, if you want to defeat Hong Chengchou, you have to have the cannon produced in Jiangbei and the six-coin firearm. But if you want to get these weapons, you need money, Zhang Huangyan can buy weapons from Zhu Mingzhong, and he Li Ziyuan can do the same, but he needs to pay cash.

Although he raided the soldiers of Huguang, he copied the homes of some traitors, but the income was not sufficient. It is precisely because of the lack of money that there are very few weapons bought, and now the "Li Family Army" under his command is just about the same as the Loyal and Righteous Army when it was first built, most of them are only a spear, at most there are some self-produced grenades.

He was naturally extremely dissatisfied with this, after all, he knew from various channels what the loyal army in Jiangbei looked like now, it was equipped with a large number of guns and cannons, and they had already eliminated the spears, although the spears were good, but they were still not as good as the guns!

During the first battle of Tongjimen, the spear was weak in the face of bows and arrows, bird guns and armor, and Li Ziyuan naturally remembered it vividly, so he naturally longed to get as many spontaneous guns as possible, but the quality of the self-made guns was not only inferior to Jiangbei's, but the price was also higher than Jiangbei's. This is especially true in artillery, the cost of self-casting one cannon is enough to buy two Jiangbei cast cannons.

Although Jiangbei's weapons are good, they also need real money to buy!

How much does it cost to have weapons for these hundreds of thousands of people?

Li Ziyuan, who was originally worried about the lack of weapons and the inability to buy them, naturally couldn't even think of refusing in the face of such a big gift, let alone him, even Zhao Jiquan, Li An and others, who also had light in their eyes, in this world, who doesn't know that Jiangbei weapons are excellent.

In the past, they didn't have enough silver to buy, so even if they bought Jiangbei's weapons, they were only equipped with a few elites, but now that Zhu Mingzhong sent such a big gift, how could they not be excited.

"This, this courtesy, it's really big enough!"

With 35,000 six-coin guns, 175 cannons, and tens of thousands of sets of armor, who can refuse in the face of such a big gift?

Even Yao Qisheng faced such a big gift, he was also breathless, looking at Yu Shujie nervously and puzzled, and countless questions rolled in his heart.

Why did he give this gift?

Why did you give me a gift?

Although he was moved by this gift, Li Ziyuan knew very well that this gift was probably not simply sent, since he Zhu Mingzhong gave this gift, he must have a plan, what is he plotting?

Don't need to help him send troops to Jiangnan?

Thinking of Yu Shujie's previous words, Li Ziyuan was even more curious, since he didn't need to send troops to Jiangnan, what was the purpose of this gift?

There's no such thing as a free dinner!

Sighing in his heart, Li Ziyuan slowly calmed himself down, and finally he shook his head and said.

"No merit is not rewarded!"

While shaking his head and refusing, Li Ziyuan's heart was dripping with blood - 35,000 firearms, 40,000 sets of armor, and nearly 200 cannons.

If he gets these weapons, then the combat effectiveness of his Li family army will probably reach a new level, and at that time, he will be able to have 50,000 firearms, 50,000 armored infantry, plus 100,000 pikemen, and at that time, who in this world can stop his Li Ziyuan's more than 200,000 troops!

Can...... This gift is too heavy, so heavy that he doesn't dare to eat it, because he doesn't know what kind of price he needs to pay after eating it!

The military gate's answer made Yao Qisheng breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, the military gate has not been fascinated by the heavy ceremony. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, Yu Shujie's voice came from his ears again.

"Junmen, since King Huai has given this great gift, he naturally has a request for Junmen!"

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