437 conditions that cannot be refused

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Since Li Zicheng had no intention of agreeing not to go east, Li Zixiao simply did not mention it again.

Because, even if Li Zicheng agreed at this time, after defeating Luoyang, he promised not to advance eastward and attack Kaifeng, Li Zixiao couldn't believe it.

At that time, Li Zicheng can abandon his promise at any time, and in this kind of loss, in this kind of actual benefit, even if it is useless in black and white, let alone a verbal promise.

Moreover, Li Zixiao saw that Niu Jinxing wanted to use this as an excuse to let Li Zixiao provide food and ordnance for free, obviously to take him as a big wrongdoer!

At this time, unless Li Zixiao is stupid, he will continue this topic.

At that time, if Li Zicheng insisted on attacking the east to open the seal, then Li Zixiao would simply fight with him, and if he didn't beat him down again, he would not give up this idea.

"Let's not talk about the future. Let's talk about the cooperation we can have right now. ”

Li Zixiao said.

The meaning is very clear, that is, what happens after you take Luoyang, let's not talk about it, and then you will fight wherever you like.

Let's only talk about the cooperation in front of us, and our cooperation will only stop with you to capture Luoyang, and we will still be enemies at that time.

After hearing Li Zixiao's words, Niu Jinxing's eyes behind Li Zicheng were a little disappointed, he really wanted Li Zixiao to continue to talk about this matter.

If you can really exchange a verbal agreement for Li Zixiao to provide food and ordnance, it will be too cost-effective.

Even, Niu Jinxing has more ambitions, he is thinking that if Li Zicheng and Li Zixiao form an alliance at this time, maybe they can immediately take Luoyang and Kaifeng, and then go north to capture the capital and overthrow the Ming Dynasty.

But Niu Jinxing's idea, when it first came out, was also excited.

However, he then thought about it, and there was basically no possibility that this idea could be realized in reality.

Li Zixiao didn't know Niu Jinxing's idea, and even if he knew, he would scoff at it and never agree.

How could Li Zixiao form an alliance with Li Zicheng at this time and capture the capital!

If he wanted to rebel, he would have rebelled a long time ago, would he have waited until now?

Besides, if he really captures the capital with Li Zicheng, who will be the emperor at that time? How to divide the spoils? It is estimated that when the time comes, the two sides will have to turn against each other.

Then, the two gangs of guys fought in the capital, killed each other, and finally the Tartars entered the customs and had to pick peaches, which is estimated to be smoother than in history.

Niu Jinxing also figured this out later, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

If it weren't for, this time Lu Xiangsheng had been forcing Li Zixiao to go north to Luoyang, and Li Zixiao didn't want to join the battle of Luoyang for the time being.

Li Zixiao can imagine that as Li Zicheng attacks Luoyang, Lu Xiangsheng will inevitably defend to the death, and both sides will refuse to give in, and Luoyang will soon become a meat grinder.

Li Zixiao wanted to preserve his strength, so he would not join in, which made him decide to cooperate with Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng, you are not short of food, ordnance, ready to attack Luoyang, it's okay, Lao Tzu is here, Xuzhou has just had a bumper harvest, and the sweet potatoes are full.

Moreover, in the Xuzhou Arsenal, new armor and weapons are now being produced for the White Dragon Army and the City Defense Army, and the old armor that has been replaced is much stronger than those under Li Zicheng.

Lao Tzu can sell it to you, and even the artillery can be sold, so that you don't have the capital to attack Luoyang, of course, you have to pay for it.

Li Zicheng has traveled to so many places, captured so many counties, and there are many more big households than Lao Tzu, and you probably have a lot of silver in your hand, so spit it all out now!

Li Zixiao came to talk about cooperation with Li Zicheng this time, but in fact, he also came to do business.

Then, Li Zixiao set out the conditions for cooperation.

"Next, I need King Chuang to send a force to attack Ruzhou City, this force does not need to be elite, but the number must be large.

And you have to have your generals to lead, and it's best to have more generals, and the bigger the momentum, the better, which should not be difficult for King Chuang.

When the time comes, I will accompany the army sent by King Chuang to perform a play in Ruzhou City, and the two sides only need to put on a posture, and there is no need to really fight.

As long as King Chuang can do this, I can imagine King Chuang selling a batch of grain and ordnance at the same price as the market price.

Moreover, our army has just replaced a batch of armor and weapons, and there are some officers and soldiers of the imperial court in previous years, and the ordnance left behind can equip about 60,000 people.

It can also be sold to King Chuang, of course, the price is a little more expensive, but it is definitely satisfactory to King Chuang.

Also, if you need artillery, we can move some ...... from our side."

When Li Zixiao's words came to this, Li Zicheng's heart was already jumping with excitement, which was really a surprise.

The food and ordnance provided by Li Zixiao were all what Li Zicheng lacked the most at this time.

Li Zicheng also knew that Luoyang City was high and deep, and with Lu Xiangsheng in charge, it must be very difficult to fight, so he had to be well prepared.

Li Zicheng is now recruiting soldiers and training soldiers, but now in the Ming Dynasty, soldiers are easy to find, and there are disaster victims everywhere, but there is nowhere to buy food and ordnance.

Previously, Li Zicheng secretly bought a batch of grain from several big businessmen in Shanxi, and spent a price seven or eight times higher than the market, which was simply outrageous.

But even so, Li Zicheng finally bought it.

If you don't buy it, there is no way, the big households in Henan Mansion have basically been robbed by him.

He couldn't do anything to the poor people, and at this time he had just established a good reputation as a king, and he didn't want to destroy it again, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to recruit soldiers.

In this way, he will have no way to make grain, and even if the price is high, he can only admit it.

However, those merchants were also very careful one by one, for fear that their deal with Li Zicheng would be revealed and the court would know about it, which would be bad.

Therefore, these businessmen were cautious one by one, and after trading with Li Zicheng once, there was no movement.

But that batch of grain, Li Zicheng will soon be consumed, if it weren't for the previous Li Zicheng's general Song Xiance, captured Shaanzhou, crossed the Yellow River, and killed in Shanxi.

He went down to the four cities in a row and looted a large amount of grain, which temporarily solved Li Zicheng's food crisis.

But if Li Zicheng wants to capture Luoyang, he must raise a large amount of military rations in advance, and he estimates that if he wants to capture Luoyang, it will not be possible to do it for a while, and he must be prepared to attack the city for a long time.

In this way, Li Zicheng must get a large amount of military rations before attacking Luoyang, which can at least supply his 100,000 troops for a month or two of consumption.

But with such a large amount of food, where can I rob it, Song Xiance has already encountered the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court officers and soldiers in Shanxi, and it is not as smooth as before, and it is difficult to provide food for Li Zicheng again.

Li Zicheng was also worried, he was worried about where to rob the grain, but as a result, 'if you want to sleep, someone will send you a pillow', Li Zixiao's conditions made him unable to refuse at all.

What's more, the condition offered by Li Zixiao is simply not a condition for Li Zicheng.

Isn't it just to send a miscellaneous army to attack Ruzhou City, or to act, and you don't really need to attack Ruzhou City.

In fact, when Li Zixiao finished saying this condition, Li Zicheng had already guessed Li Zixiao's intentions in his heart.

Li Zicheng knew that Li Zixiao couldn't do this just to stay in Ruzhou City, not go north to Luoyang, and preserve his strength.

But this is not a good thing for Li Zicheng!

Li Zixiao did not lead the army north to Luoyang, so that when they attacked Luoyang next, they would be much less hindered.

This is equivalent to using an old, weak, sick and disabled team, plus one or two generals, to contain an elite division like Li Zixiao, which is simply a lot of money.

Li Zixiao asked Li Zicheng to send generals to lead the army, just to create momentum, so that Lu Xiangsheng thought that they were attacked by Li Zicheng's elite army, so they just went north.

This is also easy for Li Zicheng to understand.

As for the later Li Zixiao's offer to sell grain at market prices, as well as sell ordnance at lower prices, and even artillery, Li Zixiao was even more excited.

The silver he robbed was of no use to Li Zicheng at all, and it was no different from a pile of stones.

Only by changing it for food, weapons, and strengthening the strength in his hands can he hope to be an emperor in the future.

From this point alone, Li Zicheng is much stronger than Zhang Xianzhong in the hands of another rogue at this time.

Zhang Xianzhong is not only brutal and murderous, but also more greedy for money, he has collected tens of millions of taels in history, and he is not willing to spend it and keeps it in his hands.

In the end, Zhang Xianzhong's troops were defeated, and not all of them sank into the river, and he couldn't take a penny away after he died.

"Are you really willing to sell us grain at market prices?" Li Zicheng was a little skeptical and asked Li Zixiao.

"Of course, it's just that the grain I sell is not the previous grain such as sorghum and corn, but a new kind of grain, which can also be eaten, but it doesn't taste very good.

But I can guarantee that I will be able to fill my stomach if I eat this new grain, and I will be able to let my soldiers eat it first. ”

Li Zixiao explained to Li Zicheng.

That's right, the grain that Li Zixiao wants to sell to Li Zicheng is the sweet potatoes that have just been harvested in Xuzhou, no wonder he will sell them to Li Zicheng at the market price!

You must know that at this time, in the grain price set by the Xuzhou government, under normal circumstances, the price of sweet potatoes is only one-sixth or seven-fold of rice and noodles.

This price was set by Qian Guangyuan and others of the Xuzhou government after deliberation and reported to Li Zixiao for approval.

It can be said that the price of sweet potatoes is very cheap, and ordinary people can buy enough sweet potatoes for more than half a year with the previous month's grain money.

Although the price of sweet potatoes is very low, the people of Xuzhou are already very satisfied, after all, although the price of sweet potatoes is low, they have more sweet potatoes per mu in their fields!

They keep the sweet potatoes for their family to eat, and after selling the rest, they can still have a small income in their hands, allowing them to buy some other refined grains, cloth and other daily necessities.

If it had been placed in the past, their harvest in one season would have been pitiful, and they could only produce 200 catties of wheat per mu, and after paying the field rent and taxes, they would not be able to support the family's food at all.

Although, eating too many sweet potatoes will make people disgusted, but it is better than starving to death, besides, the bottom farmers ate food before, and it was not very good.

It's all that kind of black cake, white flour, and they can only eat it during the New Year.

At this time, the peasants were not as delicate as the later generations, and they did not see the victims in Shaanxi and Henan, who were so hungry that they even stripped off the bark, and even ate the soil in the end.

After all, at this time, the yield of sweet potatoes in one acre of fields in Xuzhou was almost six or seven times that of wheat in previous years, or even ten times.

Li Zixiao is now selling sweet potatoes to Li Zicheng at the market price, which is actually equivalent to him selling grain at six or seven times the price, or even higher.

At this time, Li Zixiao deliberately did not explain, but just gave Li Zicheng a little reminder, and Li Zicheng said that he was a liar.

"Haha, it's okay, as long as I can eat, I can let my soldiers fill their stomachs and have the strength to go into battle to kill the enemy."

Li Zicheng didn't know at all about the new grain in Li Zixiao's hands, and he happily agreed at this time.

In this regard, Li Zixiao also smiled slightly and deliberately did not explain.

"Okay, this king wants to buy 50,000 stone of grain, can you?" Li Zicheng asked excitedly.

"No problem. According to the market price of one stone and five taels of silver, King Chuang needs 200,000 taels of silver to buy 50,000 stone of grain. Li Zixiao said with a smile.

"Lord Li is not right, the market price of grain is not very expensive now, and it is normal to only pay three taels of silver."

At this time, Niu Jinxing in the back stood up and said.

"Yes, but as far as I know, the price of grain in Shaanxi seems to have reached six or seven taels of silver and one stone, are you not satisfied with five taels and one stone?"

"Okay, five taels and one stone, just five taels and one stone, this king bought it." Li Zicheng was quite satisfied, for fear that Li Zixiao would regret it, so he agreed.

Niu Jinxing saw that Li Zicheng had agreed, so he didn't say anything anymore.

If you can spend a mere 250,000 taels of silver, you can buy 50,000 stone of grain, at least enough to feed Li Zicheng's army of more than 100,000 people for more than two months, and Li Zicheng is already very satisfied.

"And the ordnance ......," Li Zicheng continued to ask.

"Armaments capable of equipping 60,000 horses, as well as 20 old-style large bowl guns, 30 Furlong machines and 50 tiger squat cannons, priced at two million taels of silver."

"Two million taels! You're a gun! ”

As soon as Li Zixiao finished speaking, Niu Jinxing shouted, at this time, even Li Zicheng's face was not very good-looking.

Li Zixiao's appearance this time is indeed a little ugly, after all, even if he rebuilds the ordnance of 60,000 people, it will not cost 500,000 taels of silver at most.

Moreover, the artillery sold by Li Zixiao was all junk, and he didn't plan to sell any of the sophisticated Western cannons in Li Zixiao's hands to Li Zicheng.

"Two million taels? This is still the preferential price I offer for the sake of our cooperation, if it is someone else, I will not sell two million taels.

You know, now the grain is easy to sell, but who can sell the ordnance, and it is still sold so much at one time, who can sell it, I also have to take a lot of risks.

If you think, then forget it, you go and buy it from someone else. ”

After Li Zixiao said this, he felt blushing, but fortunately, at this time, Li Zixiao had already practiced thick enough, and he looked like he was still at a loss.

(End of chapter)