After receiving the reward of the holy decree, Lu Xiangsheng distributed the inner silver rewarded by the Son of Heaven to the whole army, and he only left five taels of silver to make a wine cup as a commemoration. Although the 30,000 soldiers www.biquge.info did not receive much silver, they were all very excited when they learned that the governor was like this.

Now that the army has sufficient food and salary, in the evening, Lu Xiangsheng set up a celebration banquet in the Hanjiazhuang Ethics Office.

When Li Zhi walked into the official hall, the generals from all walks of life were already sitting in the hall. Li Zhi saw the head of the generals, and there was an empty seat next to Zhang Yan, the general of the Xuanfu, and he was about to sit in, but he saw Chen An, the general of Lu Xiangsheng, who was sitting at the top of the generals, stand up and said loudly: "General Longhu, sit in my position!" ”

Li Zhi was stunned, and arched his hand and said: "The last general is just a general, let's sit down!" ”

The other generals laughed, and Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, said: "It all depends on the Dragon and Tiger Generals, we have food and grass to eat, what else is there to be humble?" ”

Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, also said: "In the past few days, General Longhu has won many victories, and we have not made any achievements!" If General Dragon and Tiger doesn't sit in the first place, we won't be able to eat food and drink! ”

Hu Dawei also scolded loudly: "What else do you have to serve as a general and a general soldier?" Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are much stronger than our general soldiers! ”

Li Zhi looked at Lu Xiangsheng, and Lu Xiangsheng also nodded and said, "General Dragon and Tiger has made outstanding achievements, and he can be ranked first!" ”

Li Zhi walked to Chen An's side, bowed to Chen An, and sat in the first place.

Sitting in the first place, he had a feeling of being valued, and Li Zhi felt that the eyes of the generals looked at him with a little more respect.

Yang Guozhu saw Li Zhi sitting beside him, slapped the table and said, "That day, General Longhu said that he was going to fight Hanjiazhuang, and I didn't believe that he could capture it within four days. If I had known that General Long Hu's subordinates were so good at fighting, I would have followed and hunted down dozens of Tartars! Get some merit! ”

Wang Pu said with a smile: "I didn't believe that General Longhu could defeat Hanjiazhuang, who knew that it would only take two days to break the city!" With such a brave military horse as General Dragon and Tiger in the army, I am really not afraid of Tartars! ”

Hu Dawei said loudly: "Hearing about the military exploits of General Long Hu, the sergeants under my account are greatly encouraged, and they only feel that it is easy to kill the Tartars, and they are eager to fight, and their morale has been very different!" ”

The generals were sighing there, and Zhang Yan, the general of the Xuanfu Staff, said coldly: "General Longhu formed an army with firearms, dare to ask the key to it?" I want to learn the system of General Dragon and Tiger, how to start? ”

Hearing Zhang Yan's words, all the generals stopped sighing and looked at Li Zhi one by one. Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are so strong, all the generals have the heart to learn.

Lu Xiangsheng was also very interested in this topic, and turned his head to look at Li Zhi.

Li Zhi secretly said goodbye to being asked by these Ming generals about the secret of his rifled gun, thought about it and said: "The key to firearms lies in fineness!" The key parts of my firecracker are all made of stainless steel, flintlock ignition, the firing rate is more than ninety, and a firecracker costs fifteen taels! Moreover, my soldiers practice firearms every day in order to have eight or ninety percent of the hits on the battlefield. With this kind of practice intensity, you have to break a torch every three months! ”

Hearing Li Zhi's words, the generals were speechless, according to Li Zhi's statement, the maintenance cost of each moonlight training firearm costs five taels of silver per person, this is not a firecracker, this is silver! Other Ming generals, sometimes one or two silver a month can't pay the soldier's monthly salary, where is there so much silver to maintain such a firearms army?

Li Zhi has to be rich and use private property to raise soldiers, so he can play like this. Li Zhi raised 10,000 soldiers and horses, which was enough for other military attaches to raise 30,000 soldiers and horses. If other Ming generals learn Li Zhi's method to raise the army, how will the imperial court explain when they select soldiers and horses? Say I'm raising elite soldiers? Who believes? Doesn't the official want to join you for an empty salary?

After listening to Li Zhi's words, everyone had no idea of learning from Li Zhi's firearms army, and they raised their wine glasses and said, "Drink!" ”

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On October 21, Yang Sichang, a scholar of Dongge University, brought Chen Xinjia, the governor of Xuanda, to Hanjiazhuang to meet Lu Xiangsheng.

Yang Sichang worriedly walked into the official hall of Hanjiazhuang, and talked with Lu Xiangsheng behind closed doors in the second hall of the official hall, and even Chen Xinjia could only stand outside and wait. When the generals saw that Yang Sichang, who had repeatedly made things difficult for this army, came, they all gathered in the hall of the official hall, waiting for the result of the conversation between the two.

In the second hall, Yang Sichang said in a deep voice: "Governor, it's not that Yang Sichang has the intention to embarrass you, it's just that the situation is difficult now!" The Qing army is powerful, and our elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty only have this point, and they must not fight in vain. If we lose the first battle, then we will have no soldiers to fight! ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Yang Sichang and said coldly: "You can't fight in vain in the left sentence, and the Qing army is powerful in the right sentence, divide my soldiers and horses and cut off my food and salary, but don't you see that my army has already won two great victories?" After a pause, Lu Xiangsheng said generously: "You are bent on negotiating peace with the Qing army, don't you know that the alliance under the city is a great shame in the Spring and Autumn Period?" Now that I am the governor of the world, and all the officials in the capital are like a sharp tongue, if there is a peace discussion, it will definitely be the end of the second Yuan Chonghuan. ”

When Yang Sichang heard Lu Xiangsheng's words, he stood up excitedly and asked angrily: "The first peace agreement is the second Yuan Chonghuan?" What do you mean? What if I make a peace? Are you going to kill me with the sword of Shang Fang? ”

Lu Xiangsheng also stood up and said loudly: "Shang Fang's sword must be on my neck first!" If I can't repel the 100,000 Qing army, how can Shang Fang's sword easily hit someone else's neck? ”

Yang Sichang's face turned pale and said, "Then what if you repel 100,000 Qing troops?" Are you going to kill me with the sword of Shang Fang? ”

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned, and secretly said that he had said the wrong thing. He didn't answer this sentence, slapped the table and said, "I will never agree to talk about soothing without a fight!" ”

Yang Sichang saw that Lu Xiangsheng was excited, and he was really a little afraid that Lu Xiangsheng would get up, and Lu Xiangsheng had the Shang Fang sword in his hand. Yang Sichang turned his mouth and said: "No, no one has ever said that they want to negotiate peace?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said generously: "You sent Zhou Yuanzhong to Liaodong to negotiate peace, everyone in the world knows, who have you deceived?" If you want to be Qin Hui, no one in the world will agree! ”

Yang Sichang was silent, half a ring, he didn't say much to Lu Xiangsheng, only pushed open the door and walked out of the second hall.

The generals in the lobby saw Yang Sichang's face and knew that the two had broken down again. The generals looked at each other a few times and looked at each other.

Chen Xinjia caught up with Yang Sichang, got on the horse and left Hanjiazhuang.

Halfway through, Yang Sichang suddenly said coldly: "I will kill Lu Xiangsheng!" ”

Chen Xinjia was stunned and said: "Pavilion Elder, Lu Xiangsheng is expected by the world, and it is ominous to kill!" ”

Yang Sichang gritted his teeth and said: "He is conceited and morally noble, and he is bent on being Yue Fei, comparing me to Qin Hui." If he can repel the Qing army, he will kill me. ”

After a pause, Yang Sichang muttered: "I miss that Yang Sichang is worried about state affairs, and he has persuaded him with good words five times, but now he is compared to Qin Hui!" If he wants to kill me, why should I be merciful? ”

Chen Xinjia lowered his head and thought about it, but didn't dare to say more. (To be continued.) )