238 Letter from Uncle Zhou

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"Wei Hong, how is the situation with those poles over there?"

At this time, Li Zixiao turned his face to Wei Hong and asked.

"Boss, everything is going according to plan, I have already told those poles what we mean, they are all very happy, waiting to show their strengths."

After listening to Li Zixiao's inquiry, Wei Hong said with a strange smile on his face.

Although Li Zixiao was already a guerrilla general in the imperial court at this time, these old subordinates of his still liked to call Li Zixiao the master, which was a habit and an honor.

"Well, that's good, let them do it boldly, and we will support them behind their backs to ensure that they are okay.

However, he also warned them that if they dared to harm ordinary people, Lao Tzu would take their lives at any time. ”

Li Zixiao nodded slightly.

"Yes, don't worry, I will send someone to keep an eye on them."

Just when Li Zixiao and Wei Hong said this conversation, the faces of the surrounding generals such as Zhou Dazhu, Luo Chao, and Qi Wei all showed strange smiles.

"What are you all laughing at, Lao Tzu has kept these bandit poles and has not touched them, but has been cultivating them, you think Lao Tzu is charity, now it is time to dare them to work to repay us."

"Big boss, you are not afraid that the court will know, and we will be in trouble at that time."

"As long as the people here don't say it, how will the court know, and even if they do, what if they do, Lao Tzu didn't rebel, and the court didn't pay us military salaries, and Lao Tzu was not allowed to find a way to support himself!"

When Li Zixiao said this, his eyes couldn't help but look at Xu Wei and Qi Lin below, and saw the evaluation on their faces, but there was no movement.

Luo Chao next to him said with a smile: "Big boss, what if the imperial court asks us to send troops to exterminate these bandits?" ”

"What to do? Cold. ”

"The court asks you to suppress bandits, you just obediently go to suppress bandits, you really should instruct us not to spend money, if the court lets us suppress bandits, we will open our mouths to ask for money.

When the money is finished, when the time comes, as for whether or not these ferocious bandits can be exterminated, it is difficult to say. ”

After listening to Li Zixiao's words, everyone laughed, and they all praised Li Zixiao's method for being amazing.

Among all the generals of the White Dragon Army, only Xu Wei and Qi Lin glanced at each other with a wry smile on their faces.

What Li Zixiao said was to let those poles move, in fact, to let the poles that he had not moved for more than ten miles before to make a move against the large landlords in the surrounding states and counties of Yongcheng County.

At this time, the White Dragon Army has returned to the imperial court, and it can no longer blatantly attack these big landlords, but it does not prevent these poles from tossing around!

This is the main reason why Li Zixiao left these bandit poles, with the White Dragon Army providing them with weapons and equipment and helping them train, the combat power of these poles has still improved greatly.

It may be impossible to capture those large forts, but it is still okay to sweep the small forts around them.

And if these poles are combined, there are nearly 2,000 people and horses, maybe they can really get a big fort.

And Li Zixiao also felt that these pole leaders, the money they seized from those big forts, the White Dragon Army had to collect half of it, as a protection fee to protect them.

But this has made these pole leaders very grateful, before they followed the White Dragon Army to sweep around, but they didn't make less oil and water, and now these guys all know that they have meat to eat with the White Dragon Army.

Li Zixiao's plan did not hide from Xu Wei and Qi Lin, who had just joined the White Dragon Army, and even regarded it as a test of whether the two of them were truly integrated into the White Dragon Army.

Li Zixiao valued the ability of these two people to lead the troops to fight, as well as the more than 1,000 elite officers and soldiers under them, and he sincerely hoped that these two people could integrate into the White Dragon Army as soon as possible.

That's why he opened his mouth to ask Wu Laiyun for these two people, and at the same time, it can be regarded as dispelling the concerns of the government.

After all, with more than 1,000 officers and soldiers joining the White Dragon Army, in Wu Laiyun's view, this is equivalent to mixing sand into the White Dragon Army and planting a nail.

In this way, the court can really rest assured of them, otherwise they don't know what they are doing in private!

Li Zixiao simply dug a pit for himself, so as to prove to the court that he was sincerely obedient to the court, but who buried this pit in the end may not be known.

Wu Laiyun seems that there are two nails buried in the White Dragon Army by Xu and Qi, so that even if he has eyes and ears in the White Dragon Army, he can monitor every move of the White Dragon Army at all times.

Even when necessary, he could use Xu and Qi to pull the entire White Dragon Army under him.

Wu Laiyun was very confident, and immediately after he went back, he rewarded the families of Xu Wei and Qi Lin with a lot of money and food out of his own pocket, which can be regarded as a disguised way to win over the two.

But Li Zixiao is more confident than Wu Laiyun, he believes that Xu Wei and Qi Lin are both smart people, and they are not the kind of foolish and loyal people.

When they joined the White Dragon Army and got to know him and the White Dragon Army more deeply, he believed that these two would see the potential of the White Dragon Army and would truly integrate into the White Dragon Army, which would take time.

While Wu Laiyun was calculating Li Zixiao, Li Zixiao was not calculating him, in the end, the old fox was powerful, or the little fox was blue, so let's see later!

Xu Wei and Qi Lin also all knew Wu Laiyun's intentions, before they joined the White Dragon Army, they definitely thought that Wu Laiyun was a big thick leg, and it was right to hold him.

But after these two joined the White Dragon Army, they lived in the White Dragon Army for a month, and after getting along with Li Zixiao, Zhou Dazhu, Wei Hong and others for this month.

They gradually found that they really liked the life here, and they didn't need flattery, and they spoke on the basis of their military exploits in the White Dragon Army.

The two of them are confident, if they really speak on the basis of their military exploits, they will never lose to any of the generals of the White Dragon Army, and they are still confident in their own abilities.

At the same time, they saw the true strength of the White Dragon Army even more, which made them feel vigorous, which was a stark contrast to the lifeless of the imperial court officials.

And Xu and Qi can both feel that Li Zixiao is definitely not the kind of guy who is greedy for vanity and official power, and his performance in front of Wu Laiyun before was more like pretending.

They realized that Li Zixiao was definitely that kind of careerist, and everything he did at this time looked more like a kind of hibernation, waiting for the moment when the hidden dragon came out of the abyss, that is, when he soared into the sky.

Xu Wei and Qi Lin are indeed very nostalgic for the Ming Dynasty and don't want to see the Ming Dynasty perish, but it doesn't mean that they are the kind of foolish and loyal people, they also want to think about their own future and the future of their families.

They felt that it seemed that following Li Zixiao was more promising, and at this time the two were still in the swing stage, and finally the two of them made a decision together.

As long as Li Zixiao does not rebel, they will follow Li Zixiao.

But in order to leave a way back for themselves, they still did not interrupt their secret contact with Wu Laiyun, after all, their families are still all in Fengyang.

All this, in fact, Li Zixiao has already gotten the news through Zhang Fugui's Intelligence Department, Zhang Fugui is indeed talented in intelligence.

In this regard, Li Zixiao secretly sighed that these two people still have a little vision, if these two people fall directly to Wu Laiyun's side at this time, Li Zixiao will not be soft on them, and will find a way to clean them up.

Since the decision of the two is quite decent now, he will continue to investigate the two, and he believes that these two people will really make the right decision in the future.

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In the following time, Li Zixiao paid close attention to the movements of the imperial court to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other rebels.

Let Zhang Fugui use the intelligence system they established in Kaifeng to accurately obtain first-hand information about the encirclement and suppression of the rebel army by the imperial court.

In April of the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ming Dynasty's military department and a scholar of the cabinet, presided over the affairs of encircling and suppressing the rebels from all walks of life.

Yang Sichang planned the encirclement and suppression strategy of "four positives", "six corners", and "ten-sided nets", and this new encirclement and suppression strategy of the righteous army had a miraculous effect.

In the following months, Li Zicheng suffered several defeats in Shaanxi, and the rebel army led by Liu Guoneng also returned to the imperial court in Henan, and the main force of the rebel army led by Zhang Xianzhong also encountered difficulties.

At this time, Li Zicheng was also besieged by the imperial court in the Weinan area of Shaanxi, and Li Zixiao knew that Li Zicheng would soon be defeated, and then hid in the Shangluo Mountains in the southeast of Shaanxi, and survived.

In addition, the situation of Zhang Xianzhong's righteous army was not good, and he suffered heavy defeats one after another, so that Zhang Xianzhong had to consider temporarily returning to the imperial court to buy time for himself.

And after Li Zixiao received the information sent back by Zhang Fugui, he found that the history was basically the same as the history in his memory, and the wings of his little butterfly had not affected those big people.

Li Zixiao knew that it would not be long before under the powerful offensive of the official army, in order to preserve his strength, Zhang Xianzhong would accept the "appeasement" of Xiong Wencan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, in Gucheng and Luo Rucai in Yunyang.

Li Zixiao had to sigh, his strength was still too weak at this time, and he had to make good use of the time left for him in the past two years.

Use these two years to try to strengthen the power in his hands and build an elite iron army, and wait until two years later, Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again, and Li Zicheng killed Shangluo Mountain.

At that time, it was also Li Zixiao's opportunity, so during this time, in addition to recruiting soldiers, training new soldiers, and building armor, he also had to accumulate money and food to stabilize the base area, and there were many things.

In this way, two months passed, and the time came to August of the tenth year of Chongzhen, and the harvest season was about to begin, but at this time Li Zixiao received a letter from Jinling.

The letter was sent by Uncle Zhou secretly, and Uncle Zhou's letter did not mention the matter of the Li family, because he knew that Li Zixiao was full of resentment towards the Li family.

In the letter, Zhou Bo only mentioned one thing to Li Zixiao, that is, his mother was found by him.

"Mother."

Li Zixiao took the letter written by Zhou Bo to him, and the word 'mother' evoked those trivial memories in Li Zixiao's mind.

In the memories that Li Zixiao inherited, there was very little information about his mother, and he only remembered seeing his mother once when he was very young.

But after he was brought back to the Li family, he never saw his mother again, and in the memory of inheritance, Li Zixiao was the one who cared about his mother the most.

As for why Li Zixiao didn't see his mother again, needless to say, it must be the Li family's ghost.

In his memory, the vague figure, the confused face, and the forgotten voice have always worried Li Zixiao.

Because he still vaguely remembers that that woman was the person Li Zixiao relied on the most in his early childhood, and she was also the person who loved him the most.

At this time, Li Zixiao's heart was flooded with a strange emotion, not only the residual memories of this body affecting him, but also Li Zixiao's own nostalgia for his mother in the 21st century.

"Come here, invite the old master, the military advisor, Wei Hong, and all the battalions and battalions." Li Zixiao suddenly made a decision in his heart, and shouted to his guards.

"General, the military division is still in the county seat."

"Then send someone to call him back, no matter what urgent matter they have, let me go, and return to the cottage to see me immediately."

"Yes, my subordinates will go."

As the guard left, Li Zixiao turned his face to look at the quartz on the side, and ordered, "Stone, go and gather all the guard battalions under you." ”

"The big boss is going out?" Quartz asked, confused.

"Yes."

As the guards went to the county seat to invite Qian Guangyuan back, soon Qian Guangyuan, Wei Laofuzi and Wei Hong, as well as Zhou Dazhu, Luo Chao and other battalion generals, were all summoned to the conference hall to see Li Zixiao.

"I am in such a hurry to summon you here today, just to tell you something, I plan to leave the cottage and go south to Jinling for a while.

During the period of my absence, all the military affairs of the cottage were handled by Wei Hong, and the government affairs were troubled by Mr. Qian, and the money and food needed needed to be approved by the old master.

In short, even if I am no longer in the cottage, you still continue to implement the plan according to the rules and regulations of our White Dragon Army.

Remember, 'stability, low-key, development', these six words are what I summarize for you, our action strategy for the next year. ”

After Li Zixiao saw that all his main henchmen and generals had arrived, he directly ordered.

"Big boss, what are you doing in Jinling?" Qian Guangyuan asked.

"I have some personal matters to deal with when I go to Jinling."

"Do you have to go?"

Qian Guangyuan really didn't want Li Zixiao to leave the cottage at this time, in case he had any accident, then this White Dragon Army, which was not easy to gather, would definitely disperse.

Li Zixiao is the soul of this army, and no one can replace him.

"I have to go." Li Zixiao has made up his mind and will not change it easily.

"Since the big boss has made a decision in his heart, his subordinates will no longer persuade him, so let Quartz take the brothers of the guard battalion and accompany the big boss, so that the big boss can be safe."

"Well, that's what I thought, I've asked Quartz to gather the guard battalion, and they'll follow me.

You don't have to worry, at this time, I am also a guerrilla general recognized by the imperial court, and I am no longer the bandit leader who robbed houses.

With this identity, even if I go to Jinling City, the government will not embarrass me, so there will be no danger, as for the bandits that may be encountered along the way, there is quartz with me, it's fine. ”

Li Zixiao was worried about Qian Guangyuan's worries and spoke.

"The big boss is right, I don't know when the big boss will set off?"

"I need to send a smart and delicate person to the front station first, prepare everything for me along the way, and I'll set off in two days with Quartz."

"It's better to let Zilong go, this kid is very clever, and he has good skills, and he can also let him go out and see for a long time."

"It's okay, just let Zilong stand for me." (To be continued.) )