229 conditions, sub-village

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Three days later, Li Zixiao met with Wu Laiyun again, and these three days were simply a kind of torment for Wu Laiyun.

Finally seeing Li Zixiao again, Wu Laiyun couldn't wait to ask, "How is Li Dangjia thinking about it?" ”

"Well, I have thought clearly, it is not impossible for our White Dragon Army to accept the recruitment of the imperial court."

As soon as Li Zixiao said this, Wu Laiyun immediately breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Li Zixiao really had the intention of serving the imperial court, there would be a chance to continue to talk about this matter.

"But ......"

But then, Li Zixiao said again: "In addition to asking for a guerrilla position, I also have a few conditions, as long as the court can promise me, I will immediately accept Zhao'an." ”

"Li Dangjia, please say, as long as the conditions are not too excessive, I will definitely fight for Li Dangjia."

Wu Laiyun was afraid of Li Zixiao at this time, and put forward any harsh requirements.

"First, our White Dragon Army can accept the imperial court's recruitment, but we are not allowed to break up my brothers, we still have to be together, and we still have to be stationed in Yongcheng County."

"This one does."

Wu Laiyun thought about it, this is not too much, no matter how stupid Li Zixiao is, it is impossible to hand over the military power in his hand.

"Second, the imperial court can't treat my brothers badly, a few guards, there should always be a thousand or something."

"Nature, this nature."

"Third, the imperial court is not allowed to take back the land we have distributed to the people in Yongcheng County, and our White Dragon Army wants Yongcheng County's annual tax as a military salary."

"This ......" Wu Laiyun hesitated a little after listening to Li Zixiao's third condition.

Li Zixiao saw Wu Laiyun hesitating, so he simply continued: "Lord Wu is just worried that the big families who originally had the land in Yongcheng County will move back, and they will want the government to ask for the land when the time comes.

This Lord Wu can rest assured, they have no chance to come back, because the original owners of these lands have either been killed by me or fled, and they will not dare to come back for the rest of their lives. ”

After Wu Laiyun heard Li Zixiao's words, Wu Laiyun also had to admire Li Zixiao's ruthlessness, and the landlords of the entire county were cleaned up by him.

"Okay, you can agree to this." In the end, Wu Laiyun gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Fourth, shouldn't the imperial court give us a month's military salary first, and allocate a batch of grain and grass to us?" Then Li Zixiao looked at Wu Laiyun playfully and asked.

He knew that at this time, the Ming court was so poor that it was almost pants, plus Shaanxi, Huguang continued to suppress bandits, and the bottomless pit in Liaodong, and the court couldn't take out much grain at all at this time.

This time, it made Wu Laiyun embarrassed, because the condition proposed by Li Zixiao was not too much, and the people accepted Zhao'an, and you could not give a penny of food!

"Master Li, I can persuade the imperial court to send you a sum of 50,000 taels of silver first, and then allocate 5,000 stone of grain to you, how about it?"

"Hahaha."

After listening to Wu Laiyun's words, Li Zixiao suddenly burst out laughing.

Then, he looked at Wu Laiyun, the smile on his face disappeared instantly, and he said in a cold voice: "Lord Wu, don't you think it's funny?" With only 50,000 taels of silver and 5,000 stone of grain, are you calling Huazi? ”

"This ...... It's really a little little, but at this time, the court has no food in its hands, and there will be no food until after the summer harvest. Wu Laiyun's old face turned red, and he also knew that the price he had just offered was a little trembling.

But he can't help it, the court really can't take out much food at this time, and it tastes like a white wolf with empty gloves.

"Lord Wu, I have an idea, if the imperial court is willing to agree, our White Dragon Army can not need this amount of money and food."

Suddenly, Li Zixiao threw such a temptation at Wu Laiyun and said.

"Master Li, please talk about it."

Wu Laiyun is an old man, of course he would not be easily believed by Li Zixiao when he said such a sentence.

"I want Lord Wu to have two people, Xu Wei and Qi Lin, and the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers who have been captured by us this time will be transferred to my command."

Li Zixiao obviously took a fancy to Xu Wei and Qi Lin's ability to lead the troops, as well as the more than 1,000 veterans.

For Li Zixiao, he is not short of money and food at this time, weapons, armor, soldiers, war horses, etc., as long as he has money and food in his hands, he can find a way to get them.

But only veterans with rich experience in leading troops, as well as these veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, are the most difficult to find, as the saying goes, 'a thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find'.

"No problem, I can call the shots."

After Wu Laiyun heard this, he didn't hesitate at all, so he agreed and directly sold Xu Wei and Qi Lin to Li Zixiao.

In Wu Laiyun's opinion, although Xu Wei and Qi Lin are rare generals, they are insignificant compared to him getting out and keeping his official position.

"Okay, my conditions are over, how about it, Lord Wu, don't be harsh!" After Li Zixiao finished speaking, he asked Wu Laiyun with a smile.

"That's it?"

Wu Laiyun was also incredulous for a while, he originally thought that the conditions proposed by Li Zixiao this time must be a lion's mouth.

But he didn't expect that the four conditions proposed by Li Zixiao were simply reasonable.

In fact, Li Zixiao didn't want to mention more conditions, but he was afraid that he would put forward too many conditions, and if Wu Laiyun couldn't persuade the court to recruit them, then his plan would be in vain.

So at this time, Li Zixiao did not take the opportunity to put forward any harsh requirements.

He believed that in this way, Wu Laiyun would be very smooth if he wanted to persuade the imperial court to recruit them.

"Li Dangjia is really happy, this official is even more confident this time, the court is definitely willing to recruit a strong army like you.

However, the official also has a few small requirements, and he hopes that Li Da will abide by them. ”

Wu Laiyun said happily.

"Please."

"First of all, after you return to the imperial court, you must ensure that your men and horses do not exceed 4,000 men, and secondly, you must not attack the Dahu Zhuang Fort in the surrounding states and counties.

In the future, you will be the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, and you must abide by the laws of the imperial court to protect the territory and the people. ”

"I can promise that." Li Zixiao said.

"Also, Master Li, do you have a letter in your hand......

At this time, after Wu Laiyun finished talking about the big thing, he mentioned this matter to Li Zixiao, and the letter was always a handle for him.

"Lord Wu, rest assured, the letter is still intact in my hands, and when the Lord brings me a letter appointed by the imperial court as a guerrilla, I will hand over this letter to you."

Such a killer feature, of course Li Zixiao will not give up early, and staying in his hands is also a deterrent to Wu Laiyun.

"Then thank you Li for being in charge."

"Now Lord Wu can repair a book, and I will send someone to send it to Fengyang Mansion, I believe that with your eldest brother Fengyang's command and acquaintance, these things will definitely be handled."

Li Zixiao didn't plan to let Wu Laiyun go, and keeping him in his hands was also a hostage, and I believe that the Wu family would do their best when the time came.

"Okay, this official will write to my eldest brother immediately."

Wu Laiyun said excitedly, in his opinion, the conditions proposed by Li Zixiao are not harsh, and the chance of the imperial court recruiting them is very high.

You must know that at this time in the imperial court, with Xiong Wencan serving as the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty's suppression of bandits, he hoped to force the rebel army to surrender, and he was also willing to accept the surrender of the rebel army.

Even he can recruit rebel leaders like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, so there is no reason to refuse Li Zixiao's side.

Subsequently, Wu Laiyun sent someone to return to Fengyang Mansion with the letter he wrote, handed it to his brother, and also wrote a letter for Yin Tianxing to send to Kaifeng.

However, it will take at least a while before Li Zixiao can wait for the imperial court's Zhao'an letter.

Of course, it is also possible that he will not be able to wait until the end to recruit from the imperial court, and then he will have to find another way.

…………………………………………………………

As the time entered mid-May, Qian Guangyuan had already led people out to organize the people, busy with the affairs of the summer harvest, and Wei Hong's recruitment of new soldiers was successfully completed.

At this time, Li Zixiao also received news from Baihu Village, the construction of the wall of Baihu Village has been completed, and part of the industry of White Snake Village can be transferred, and its personnel have passed.

At this time, although the White Snake Village has expanded several times compared with the beginning, there are more and more people under the White Dragon Army, and the industry is also increasing.

At this time, there were more than 30 blacksmith shops in the White Snake Village alone, and the entire cottage reached six or seven thousand people, which became crowded.

Li Zixiao had long planned to transfer some people and industries to the White Tiger Village, which was abandoned and used by the White Dragon Army several times, but it was indeed a strategic location.

After coming back this time, Li Zixiao ordered the old master to organize labor, speed up the reconstruction of the white tiger, and design a new walled wall for it.

At the same time, they also began to transfer some soldiers and craftsmen to the past, and Li Zixiao just received the news from the old master that the reconstruction of Baihu Village has been completely completed.

So, Li Zixiao took Zhou Dazhu, Luo Chao and other generals to Baihu Village to observe.

After they arrived at the White Tiger Village, the old master happily connected them to the village, and Li Zixiao walked all the way, checking the current situation in the White Tiger Village.

After walking all the way, Li Zixiao was finally satisfied.

The wall of Baihu Village, after more than two months of construction, the wall of several key places, by this time, was finally basically completed.

Although the wall has not yet been completely covered with stones, it is also in the final stage, and it is expected that in another half a month, all the works will basically be completed.

The main wall of White Tiger Village is still used, which is the kind of fortress-style wall designed by Li Zixiao, which has been built on the outer wall of White Snake Village before.

Zhou Dazhu and other generals of the White Dragon Army also gasped after seeing this new type of fortress-style wall.

They have always been very afraid of such a walled wall.

After the construction of the fortress-style walled wall on the periphery of the White Snake Village was completed, they had made several actual combat deductions.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that with the defensive strength being ten to one, the attacking side would have to pay more than three times more to capture this fortress wall than they would to capture an ordinary wall.

'Insiders watch the doorway, outsiders watch the bustle', for people like them, this kind of fortress-style walled wall is undoubtedly very cruel to the attacker in their opinion.

After seeing this new wall, these generals all put themselves in the position of the attacking side, and made assumptions about how they would attack if they were allowed to attack the White Tiger Village.

As a result, after thinking about it, they all felt extremely tricky, and they couldn't think of any good way to capture Baihu Village.

The terrain of the White Tiger Village is not particularly dangerous, but it is also based on the high and defended, starting from the bottom of the mountain to attack the White Tiger Village, there are only two or three ways for them to attack.

In the face of such a wall, no matter where they start, they will not be able to effectively exert their combat power.

It can only adopt the method of refueling warfare and constantly invest troops under the wall, and the angular wall, no matter from any angle, can strike a fierce blow to the attacking side.

The attacking side could not rely on their firepower to suppress the defenders on the wall.

Therefore, the attacker can only be passive and be beaten under the wall.

If there are no 18,000 people, if you want to capture this White Tiger Village, you basically don't have to think about it.

Ever since the generals of the White Dragon Army knew that this 'cruel' walled wall was from Li Zixiao's hands, these guys had thoroughly admired him.

After the generals entered the wall, Li Zixiao first let them go up to the wall, and then explained to them the wonders of this wall.

After listening to it, the generals praised such a wall.

After Liu Chong figured out the structure of this wall, he shouted loudly that if he was allowed to garrison here, only 500 elite soldiers would be enough to block the attack of 10,000 enemy troops.

Liu Chong is indeed one of the generals of the White Dragon Army who is relatively good at guarding, otherwise Li Zixiao would not have sent him to refuse to defend Zhouzhuang before.

But this time, after Liu Chong's shouting, it immediately caused everyone to laugh.

Li Zixiao also smiled: "Liu Chong said that he could be five hundred against ten thousand, which is obviously a bit exaggerated, but at least according to the White Tiger Village, it is not a big problem for our soldiers to be ten by one."

And I really gave Liu Chong 500 elite soldiers and let him hold on for more than half a month, which I still believe. ”

After saying that, the generals nodded again and again, thinking that Li Zixiao's words were still more pertinent, not exaggerated or belittled.

Moreover, at this time, the White Tiger Village was also rebuilt by Mr. Wei according to Li Zixiao's design, dividing different areas such as residential area, training area, and craftsman shop area.

Some craftsmen have been relocated here one after another, and in a few months, the White Tiger Village has changed dramatically compared to when they first took over here.

The traces of the original arson and burning by the Cai family have completely disappeared so far, and all kinds of newly built sheds and houses are lined up one after another.

There is a wide passage in the middle, and all kinds of craftsmen shuttle back and forth between the various sheds, and all kinds of products are also continuously produced, transported to the warehouse, ready to be used everywhere at any time.

The carpentry workshop, mill, leather workshop, gunpowder workshop, and iron work in the village are basically all available, and the craftsmen who came earlier are already in full swing in it.

The sound of striking iron in the cottage blacksmith shop seems to never stop.

The craftsmen were divided into two shifts, and they were busy at their respective stations in the ironwork, and all kinds of weapons and agricultural tools were also continuously built in the hands of the blacksmiths, and transported to various places to be used.

Li Zixiao distributed these craftsmen according to their work, and distributed them silver and grain according to their 'performance', which made these craftsmen burst out with great enthusiasm for work. (To be continued.) )