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- In the imperial palace, a regular court meeting was being held at Huangji Gate.
The minister took out the memorial signed by Zhang Lei and Sun Chuanting and said, "Your Majesty, this is what Zhang Lei and Sun Chuanting sent back from Gansu."
"Oh? Bring it up." Chongzhen waved, and Wang Chengen quickly went down and brought the memorial to him.
"It's so unreasonable." Chongzhen was furious after reading the memorial. He casually closed the memorial and threw it forward. When it fell on the ground, the memorial had been torn in half.
The minister who presented the memorial was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and did not dare to say anything.
Wang Chengen quickly ran over and picked up all the things he loved. After putting them together, he carefully placed them on the table, then lowered his head and returned to his seat.
Chongzhen looked at the man still kneeling on the ground and said, "Get back on your feet and go back."
The man immediately returned to his seat and stood up. Chongzhen sat back on the dragon chair, picked up the memorial again, shook it, and said calmly: "You know what Zhang Lei wrote in it?" ?"
Now he was still angry. Who dared to answer him? Everyone lowered their heads and remained silent. Chongzhen suddenly raised his voice and said: "He actually blatantly asked for more troops inside! What do you think he wants to do? Last year he I haven't settled the matter with him for training half a million elite soldiers, and now he actually wants to continue to increase the number of troops! He said he wanted to fight against Li Zicheng, what do you think he wants to do? Do you know how many half a million soldiers there are? Also That Sun Chuanting, didn't he understand what I asked him to do? What did he do in the end? He actually followed that Zhang Lei and went crazy. The two of them jointly signed this memorial. Are they going to make me angry to death? "
What? Increase troops?
Everyone was very surprised. No wonder Chongzhen was so angry. Zhang Lei now has 500,000 troops. Looking at the whole world, who can have more soldiers than Zhang Lei? Coupled with Sun Chuanting, if the combined strength of the two of them can exceed 600,000, and more troops are needed, does he want to have a million troops?
Ma Shiying, who was scolded by Zhang Lei, said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang is so arrogant now. You must not agree to his plan to fuel his arrogance. Before, he would not have dared to fight with tens of thousands of people ten times. Do you want to fight the enemy? According to my opinion, it is better to order him to lay off 200,000 troops. The right way is to order him to lay off 200,000 troops. With only 100,000 men, he can resist millions of troops. Those laid off soldiers can be settled in farming and increase food production. , reducing famine, isn¡¯t this better than going to war?¡±
"You are right, but he has just trained these soldiers. If you ask him to disarm now, I am afraid he will not obey." Chongzhen said with some worry. Now Zhang Lei's power has made him very afraid. Zhang Lei even sent a message to Chongzhen through Ma Shiying. If pressed any further, he would rebel. Therefore, although Chongzhen was extremely moved by this proposal of disarmament, he really wanted to decree it. But it made him a little unable to make up his mind, for fear that Zhang Lei would directly tear up the imperial edict and rebel. At that time, even regret would be useless. It¡¯s not like Zhang Lei can¡¯t do this kind of thing!
Zhou Yanru said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang is an important minister of the imperial court, and because of his military exploits, everyone in the world is looking at him. If he blatantly disobeys the emperor's holy will, he will definitely be spurned by everyone in the world. When he is said to be a disloyal person, who will follow him?"
Other ministers also agreed one after another. Only a few people believed that Zhang Lei's memorial should be passed in order to stabilize the world as soon as possible. They were the ones who believed that Zhang Lei would not rebel. Of course, these voices were drowned in the discussions of other people before Chongzhen heard them.
After a while, Chongzhen patted the table and said: "Quiet for a moment, dear friends, please tell me, how should I respond to him next?"
Fan Fucui said: "Your Majesty, I think that if the Emperor doesn't want to pass the plan to increase troops, then let him keep it as it is for the time being, or issue an edict to warn him not to push too far, so that he will be honest. , I thought he would not rebel."
"Well, this is a good idea. Let's do it. I'll give him an edict. Now he has 500,000 troops, which is quite a lot. Let's just add more troops." Chongzhen made up his mind, and then He wrote an edict and sent it to someone to give to Zhang Lei.
After Zhang Lei sent the memorial, he was thinking about how many additional troops he would need. Not long after, someone sent Chongzhen's edict. At this time, Zhang Lei and Sun Chuanting happened to be making a battle plan in their tent. He stopped when the people below sent the edict over.
He opened the edict and took a look. There was not a word in it that mentioned the plan to increase troops. Instead, it was full of harsh words, saying that he should not do or do anything, and in the end? He also said that he would have to kill Li Zicheng within three months and bring his head to the meeting, otherwise he would reduce his army by 200,000 people.
Zhang Lei¡¯s expression was very interesting. He read the edict back and forth several times. He slapped the edict on the table without saying a word. Sun Chuanting was very confused, so he went to get the edict and read it. After reading the edict, he asked: "It seems that the emperor will not let us increase our troops."
"Someone must have said bad things about me in front of the emperor, and then the emperor's suspicion disorder was aroused, otherwise he would not have said such things to me. Oh, by the way, the supervisor named Ma Shiying who came not long ago I scolded him back, and it was most likely him who said this." Zhang Lei suddenly remembered the person named Ma Shiying and said with great certainty.
Sun Chuanting asked: "Master Zhang, what should we do next?"
Zhang Lei smiled and said: "Isn't it written above? Li Zicheng will be eliminated within three months. If we go and fight now, what else can we do?"
"But if I increase my troops, it will be very difficult to go directly into Gansu and kill him. Three months will pass quickly. I'm afraid" Sun Chuanting hesitated, thinking of three months. There will be disarmament after that, and he doesn't like it.
Zhang Lei turned to look at him and said, "Do you still remember what I told you?"
"What?" Sun Chuanting didn't react for a while.
Zhang Lei said: "Let's drive him out and let him go to the north to fight with the Manchu Tatars. In this way, we can greatly weaken his strength and kill him."
"Didn't Master Zhang say that he was afraid that the two of them would join forces and go south together? Then how could we stop them?" Sun Chuanting said.
Zhang Lei said: "That's what I thought at first. But then I thought again. If we find a way to get them to fight first, then they won't stop fighting. How can they cooperate? You think so?" Well, let¡¯s just add fuel to the flames and that¡¯s it.¡±
"But the distance is so long, it may be very difficult to implement. So how to solve this problem?" Sun Chuanting asked.
Zhang Lei said: "Since it is impossible for us to drive him all the way to the north, then we can think of another way. Let them voluntarily fight against the Tatars. Isn't that enough?"
Sun Chuanting thought Zhang Lei was joking. In his opinion, this plan was absolutely impossible to realize. He said: "Then would Li Zicheng be so stupid? He said he would go north."
"I think so. We can negotiate. Let's sit down and talk about what he wants and what I want. I'll provide him with what he needs, and he'll go to the north for me. Wouldn't that be great? If I really send troops, you say . Even 10,000 people can fight him with my cannon. If all of my more than 200,000 people are equipped with firearms, how can he fight me?" Zhang Lei said.
Sun Chuanting asked: "Then Mr. Zhang must have already made a plan, right? We might as well add it up. Listening to Mr. Zhang, it seems possible. Let's go and talk to him, but how to talk and where to talk are all questions. ah."
"Master Sun, don't worry about this. I already have a preliminary plan. I'll start implementing it after I figure it out. The current situation is not optimistic. There are some things that I can't tell you. You don't need to ask. Listen. Just mine." Zhang Lei said.
Although Sun Chuanting was a little depressed, he did not dare to fall out with Zhang Lei, and there was no need, so the two said a few more words and then left.
After he went out, Zhang Lei immediately called Jiang Yuyang in.
"Master Zhang, what do you want from me?" Jiang Yuyang asked.
Zhang Lei said: "I plan to negotiate with Li Zicheng."
"Negotiation?" Jiang Yuyang's eyes widened. This was the first time he heard Zhang Lei say this. How to negotiate with Li Zicheng?
Zhang Lei showed Jiang Yuyang the edict sent by Chongzhen and said: "I have to get Li Zicheng's head within three months. If we want to achieve this goal, we must use absolute superiority to kill him." A devastating blow is enough, and in order to do this, I calculated that all our soldiers should be equipped with three-eyed blunderbuss, which means that we must have 300,000 three-eyed blunderbuss. To match the three-eyed gun with 500 rounds of bullets, there must be 150 million rounds of bullets. How long do you think it will take our factory to produce these things? Not to mention that in addition to the three-eyed gun, we also have We need the Ares No. 1 cannon. Even if one cannon is used for 1,000 people, we need 300 cannons. This is enough for the factory to produce for several months. After these three months have been produced, how can we still fight? ?¡±
"That's true, but I still don't understand what this has to do with negotiations.""" Jiang Yuyang said.
Zhang Lei said: "Look, it will take more than three months for us to produce enough weapons to annihilate them all, let alone transport them here. That is even more impossible. So we need to negotiate with Li Zicheng and find a way to eradicate him within three months, do you understand?"
"I almost understand, but I don't quite understand. So what can we talk about with him?" Jiang Yuyang still seemed a little confused. At least in his heart, it was almost impossible to sit down and have a calm conversation with Li Zicheng. to things.
Zhang Lei told everything about his plan, and then said with some regret: "I personally feel that this plan has no flaws at all, but I haven't found a suitable person yet. This is not a good sign. You often talk to the people below. We are together, is there anyone you can choose?"
"What other candidates does Mr. Zhang need? Just let me, Lao Qi, go. At most, I can bring a few more people. This will be considered worthy of Li Zicheng's status." Jiang Yuyang said.
"I'm also going to let you take someone with you, but I'm worried about your safety, so I have to think of a foolproof way. I can't let you take risks. Do you think this is a good idea? Let's find a way to contact him. Then we agree on where to meet and how many people each will bring. I will take the person there myself and talk to him face to face. How about you follow me?" Zhang Lei said, he thought about letting Jiang Yuyang take the people, but he was afraid Unable to express himself clearly, he decided to go himself.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Yuyang objected without thinking: "No, how can Mr. Zhang take this risk? Let Lao Qi take the others."
"No, I have already made up my mind. I will find a restaurant or somewhere nearby, and then invite him over. We will have an interview here. Once we reach an agreement, everything will be fine. If not, we will be finished together. I I don¡¯t think Li Zicheng would be willing to die with me.¡±
No matter how Jiang Yuyang objected later, Zhang Lei was determined not to waver. Jiang Yuyang had no choice but to make arrangements according to Zhang Lei's instructions. Zhang Lei only needed to wait for Jiang Yuyang to bring him the news. He could also take advantage of the situation. Use this time to plan carefully.
"Master Zhang, I heard that you are going to negotiate with Li Zicheng? How can you go in person? It's too dangerous. Let me go. At most, Brother Qi and I will go together." Leqiu didn't know where he heard the news. Suddenly broke into Zhang Lei's tent and said.
Zhang Lei smiled and said: "Why are you making such a fuss? What danger could I be in? Besides, you have made Li Zicheng lose such a big face in front of hundreds of thousands of people, and you still dare to meet him? I'm afraid what will happen to him?" If I don¡¯t care, I will kill you first, so what else should I talk about?¡±
Leqiu frowned and said, "If I don't go, then Seventh Brother will go. If Seventh Brother is serious, how can Master Zhang be allowed to put himself in danger?"
Zhang Lei comforted: "It's not as scary as you said. Besides, I didn't go directly to Li Zicheng alone. What danger could there be? Let's find a place, right? You will be outside then. I Talk to him inside, how is he doing?"
At this time, Jiang Yuyang ran in from outside and said: "It's done." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster! - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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