Although the two Li Jieyi was just a brother and brother, and had nothing to do with the forces behind both sides, it was not the case. First, the two of them made a fuss to solve the primary and secondary issues of cooperation between the two sides. Not to mention the other side, with the merits and prestige of Li Dingguo and the identity of King Jin, it can theoretically represent the Yongli regime as the leader of the unified front of the Anti-Qing imperial guards. However, with the two of them made a fuss, the leader must belong to Li Mingxun for no reason. Li Mingxun is 36 years old this year, and Li Dingguo is only 32 years old, and the old is in order. Li Mingxun should be his brother, and Li Mingxun's prestige and merits far surpass Li Dingguo. What else can be argued about?

A commoner is indeed a good way. When the two parties intend to deepen cooperation, private relationships can make cooperation more smooth and reduce conflicts and differences, but this kind of private relationships will not make the strategy passive, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Even if some people oppose it, you can also get rid of it with "drunk at the time, and I don't know why I just bowed my hands."

The second Li Yi completed the first step of the alliance between the Xiying and the United States. The next step was to formally discuss the alliance and fight against the Qing Dynasty, especially the plan to recover Guangdong and Guangxi. This time, Li Dingguo took the initiative to conduct strategic consultations in Hong Kong. Li Mingxun happily agreed that he left a hundred Yuangu for Li Dingguo and escorted Li Dingguo to Hong Kong soon. At the same time, he informed Qiongfan, Shunjun, Jianguo and other forces in the unified front against the Qing Dynasty.

Returning to Hong Kong from Teng County, he needed to go through the Yulinzhou area where the Shun Army led by Gaoyi Power was stationed. When he was a bandit, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng did not deal with it. After establishing Dashun and Daxi, they fought even more big battles until Li Ding's army killed Kong Youde in Guangxi. Both sides were in harmony.

At that time, Li Mingxun decided to start the sea and then 6, and devoted the main resources to the Sino-Dutch war. Not only the 6th army was on the defensive, but even the allies were the same, especially the Qiongfan, who fought with the Manchu and Qing dynasties for many years and once lost the Gaozhou Prefecture and Leizhou Prefecture of the four prefectures in western Guangdong. If Li Dingguo had not led troops to capture Guangxi and killed King Kong Youde of Dingnan, the four prefectures in western Guangdong would have been dangerous.

When Dingfan was strong, Gao Yigong and Lin Cha, who were guarding the northern line, had to retreat to Tianmen Pass and lose a large area of ​​salary source. Later, Li Dingguo went out of Yunnan to kill Kong Youde and occupied Guangxi. The two sides were still in disputes in the Beiliu County. Li Dingguo was very strong and dispelled Gao Yigong's attempt to seize the fruits of victory in the name of regaining lost land. Later, Li Dingguo went north to Hunan, and most of Guangxi fell, but Dingfan was unable to defeat the past. Gao Yigong took the opportunity to capture a large area of ​​land in Wuzhou and Xunzhou. When Li Dingguo came back, he would defend himself and never retreat. This was one of the reasons why Li Mingxun left his guard to Li Dingguo. He did not want the Shun Army and Xiying to cause chaos due to old revenge.

According to Gao Yigong, when Li Dingguo regained Guangxi for a long time, he seemed to have to give up the entire Wuzhou area to him, but Gao Yigong was still afraid to take over and retreated to Rong County without any progress. The reason was very simple. Teng County cut off the main stream of the Xijiang River, and whoever occupied it would have to bear the pressure from the three Han vassals of the Qing Dynasty. Li Dingguo gave Gao Yigong a chance, but he did not dare to catch Gao Yigong and had no ability to catch it. In the end, the two sides did not conflict again because of the source of funds. Afterwards, it was Li Dingguo's plan.

"Although the King of Jin and Yuan have a harmonious relationship, it is easy to cause criticism. Let's not mention the other party for now. Do you really think that King of Jin will work together with us?" Gao Yigong asked seriously on the way from Li Mingxun to Hepu.

Li Mingxun glanced at Gao Yigong and knew that he was a little jealous. Now Li Mingxun's identity is different from the past. Among the various anti-Qing tribes, the United States was the strongest. Although the relationship with him would be criticized by those civil servants, the benefits brought were real. Although the Shun Army lineage is not as powerful as before, he still did not want to be inferior to others, especially the Xiying.

Li Mingxun smiled and said, "Li Dingguo is a hero of the past. To join him, it is beneficial to me personally and the United States and the entire anti-Qing cause. As for whether he is credible, it is necessary to say that I see Dingguo's past behavior. The resistance to Qing is true and the Ming is false. But it is not the case to say that he abandons Ming and works for the United States. Duke Ying, you and I should know that at this position, everyone has no control. Li Dingguo may be willing to work together with the United States for the overall situation, but his subordinates may not have this intention. No matter how strong a person is, he must follow the current situation. Dingguo needs this, and I am the same."

Not to mention the other side, the Ming Dynasty could give Li Dingguo and others the title of honor and authority to dominate everything, but the United States could not give it. For Dingguo's subordinates, if they join the United States, they would rather turn around and compete with Sun Kewang for the position of leader of the Xiying, so that they could continue to act as a mighty person and dominate the country.

Therefore, Li Mingxun just wanted to bring in Li Dingguo's relationship through the alliance. As for the integration that some people think, it is impossible to annex or even subdue. Each group has the interests of each group. Either you give him more or eliminate this group, otherwise it is just cooperation. Li Mingxun doesn't think he has the aura of domineering power that can make Li Dingguo's hero accept it. Now the plan of the King of Jin is to seize a source of resources that he can master and have abundant resources. Guangxi is definitely not enough, and Guangdong is the goal, but the King of Jin is not enough to defeat the Three Han vassals.

For Li Mingxun, even the smelly fish and rotten sweet potatoes in the Jianguo lineage are willing to support him, let alone Li Dingguo, the two famous kings, the King of Jin.

In early July, all forces arrived in Hong Kong, discussing the strategy of Guangdong and Guangxi. In the King of Jin and the United States, Li Dingguo and Li Mingxun arrived in person. Qiongfan sent Yuan Shizhong and Shunjun to the first-class army. As usual, Shen Tingyang, a good man sent by the governor, was sent by Shen Tingyang, from the messenger side, from the perspective of the envoy, all parties were full of sincerity. With Li Mingxun personally mediated, all parties had high expectations for this matter.

Sincerity is sincerity, interests are interests. Although the anti-Qing Dynasty occupied the commanding heights of morality and justice, it was ultimately necessary to make profits. However, Guangdong now has too few territory and is not enough to divide it, so it still depends on the political wisdom and compromise of all parties.

In the huge conference room, everyone sat down. Li Mingxun was both a landlord and a noble status. He was on the throne. Li Dingguo and Shen Tingyang were on both sides, followed by Yuan Shizhong of the Qiongfan, Shunjun, Gao Yigong, Huifan Du Yonghe, and as for the several real-power military towns belonging to Yongli and Jianguo, they were not considered to be among them, although some military towns had military strength and combat power that had surpassed some vassal states.

After the Qing Dynasty occupied Guangdong and Guangxi, the forces in the four western Guangdong prefectures undertook a major reshuffle. The biggest change was the Huifan. During the peak period of Huifan, it was once the largest vassal in Yongli. However, Du Yonghe made a mistake in making a decision and advocated defending Guangzhou and waiting for the Xiying to leave Yunnan. However, Guangzhou fell without waiting for a soldier. Du Yonghe led the remaining troops to escape from the tiger's mouth with the help of the Guangdong Navy and arrived in Qiongzhou. The Huifan was also divided into two factions: Li Yuanyin and the veteran Du Yonghe. In the end, Li Yuanyin compromised and took his own personal soldiers and several brothers to the Kowloon colonization. Only then did Du Yonghe recover his strength, but now he only had three thousand elite soldiers, the weakest of all forces, and he could only follow Yuan Shizhong of the Qiongfan to agree.

Among other forces, the country's most powerful country, claiming to be 150,000 troops, but in fact only 100,000, belonging to various warlords. They were strengthened during the Korean War, but the army was unclear and had never passed the upright formation. It was just a superficially powerful one.

In addition, the Qiongfan Heshun Army. Before the Three Han vassals invaded Guangdong and Guangxi, the Qiongfan itself had 20,000 regular soldiers and 30,000 Yi soldiers. In addition, the Heshun Army who defected to him, at its peak, there were 80,000 soldiers and horses in western Guangdong. However, after nearly four years of fierce battles, western Guangdong had failed, betrayed and consumed one after another, and the troops were no longer as good as before. Because of insufficient military pay, some were dismissed. In addition, the warlords helped their nephews to explore the South China Sea. Now there are only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Qiongfan, more than half of them were elite. The Shun army retreated from Hunan and did not take good rest and recuperate, and the source of salary was small, so it has not been expanded. After fighting for several years, there are still 6,000 elite soldiers.

King Li Dingguo of Jin had more than 30,000 elite troops, many of whom were old soldiers of the Western Army. They had been through the battlefield for a long time and followed Li Dingguo's two famous kings. There was no need to worry about morale and combat power, but because Sun Kewang cut off his food and salary, the armor and equipment are now insufficient.

Among all the forces, the United States is naturally the strongest. Now the United States' 6th Army, Navy, and Navy's 6th Army, plus its subordinate Yi Army and Public Security Army, the defense forces in various places, as well as the garrison, pioneering, and slave capture armies, the number of people has exceeded 120,000, but these 120,000 people are not completely able to be brought to the battlefield. At least the navy cannot drive the battleships to the sixth floor.

The Navy shone brightly in the Sino-Dutch War, but the 6th Army has performed well in the past three years. The key is that in the Shandong battlefield, Li Mingxun invested resources into the ocean. Although the United States was relatively financially abundant through North Korea's acquisitions and selling land in Tainan, the disadvantage of military strength made Gao Feng unsure of defeating Zhang Cunren's heavy army group in Shandong.

Although the Qing Dynasty did not form an alliance with the Dutch, it was finally known about the Sino-Dutch naval battle. Gao Feng was prepared for the opportunity to attack Shandong. At the beginning of the Sino-Dutch war, Gao Feng began to completely complete the people of Shandong on a large scale. Before Shandong fell, he withdrew more than 400,000 people from Shandong and immigrated to Yongning, Jeju and Tainan. After the immigration, Gao Feng began to withdraw his troops, only retaining the Yi army and the 10,000 6 troops to defend the Qingdao Fortress like an iron barrel. Although losing ground without fighting was a stain on the sixth battle, the veterans understood this behavior. After all, no one would think that the United States had the ability to fight decisively with the powers and the first maritime forces in the East.

Now it seems that the withdrawal of the 6th Army is a good thing. At least enough troops are liberated to be used in the Guangdong battlefield. In addition to completing the evacuation of the Shandong battlefield, Gao Feng's biggest achievement in the past two years is to carry out a new military reform on the 6th Army and establish a systematic military system, military rank and position system.

The Allied Forces of the Central Ming Dynasty should be the United States, and then the Zheng Fan (Zheng Cai), Jin Fan, and Qiong Fan, who were in charge of the country, obviously would not fight with all their might. The main force also depends on the United States, Jin Fan and western Guangdong vassal states.

In the past few years of fierce battles, the three Han vassals also suffered a lot. Not to mention the other ones, even the King Kong Youde of Dingnan was killed. Now the Dingfan is under the command of the former general under Kong Youde, and the Guangxi admiral Guoan is under the supervision of the Guangxi admiral Guoan. The two vassals of Ping and Jing fought in western Guangdong for several years, and were also scarce. If the Allies were willing to do their best, victory was in sight, but the key was to agree on how to divide the victory cake. This kind of approach of starting a villain and then a gentleman was strongly advocated by Li Mingxun. Although it was spread out, it was not conducive to the reputation of all parties, but it was much better than fighting the civil war after the foreign enemy.

Before the negotiation, Li Mingxun had already talked with all parties and persuaded all parties to compromise. Li Mingxun was confident.

"In this time, the three Han vassals in Guangdong and Guangxi still occupied seven prefectures and one prefecture. If they win, the land they belong to was cut in it." Li Mingxun drew out the land occupied by the Three Han vassals in the picture and said loudly that in addition to western Guangdong, all six prefectures and one scattered states in Guangdong were occupied by the Han vassals, and they were still stole to occupy part of Gaozhou in western Guangdong, Wuzhou prefecture and some county towns in Guangxi. These two places together are considered one prefecture, so it is not fake to call them seven prefectures and one prefecture.

"First declare that the country will assist in the war, regardless of territory, and the conditions are that the rest of the parties will receive military salaries and be distributed and seized. In addition, if the Fujian family will be conquered in the future, the Yongli family will not be divided into territory. I wonder what you think?" Li Mingxun asked sincerely.

The meaning is very clear. The vassal states of the country are here to be mercenaries. They pay as much money to pay. If they win, they will have to win. Through this matter, the southwest belongs to Yongli and the southeast belongs to the country and divide the sphere of influence. Of course, the Yongli lineage has ideas. After all, after the recovery of Guangdong and Guangxi, the next goal is Fujian. If the territory of Fujian cannot be divided, there will be a lot of territory in vain, but no one stands up to oppose it at this time. Guangdong has no mouths and talks about Fujian too early, and secondly, it is not completely impossible to deal with it. The country has soldiers but no territory, and has always relied on smuggling and plundering to raise soldiers. He is very poor. In the future, he will send more troops to ask for money. If the country cannot afford it, he will need territory.

After the Yongli vassal states did not object, Li Mingxun said: "Then this is established. The second one is that the United States only has Chaozhou."

Everyone was uproar because everyone didn't expect Li Mingxun to be so generous. At least most of them thought that Li Mingxun would at least ask Huizhou Prefecture again. Li Dingguo coughed lightly: "Old Master Yuan, I wonder how many troops your country is willing to send this time?"

Qu Shixi sold Chaozhou and sold 5,000 soldiers and 1.5 million taels of silver. If it were converted to the United States, it would be only 15,000. But the current situation is that the Allies need more than 15,000 troops from the United States to send more than 15,000 troops and horses, and they also need food and salary support.

Lee Mingxun said: "At least it will not be less than Jinfan, how about it."

Li Mingxun refused to speak directly, and everyone was even more suspicious. Li Mingxun said: "Everyone, what our country has taken is not related to the dispatch of troops. The Allied forces regard me as the commander, and I should take out sufficient troops. You also know that Mingxun uses troops. If you don't move, you will win. If you ask me how many soldiers you will send, I can tell you that you can defeat the Three Han vassals and recover the soldiers from Guangdong and Guangxi."

"Where are there other conditions, such as on issues such as Hong Kong?" Du Yonghe asked. He knew that when he sold Chaozhou, Li Mingxun wanted to buy Hong Kong and save money every year, but Qu Shisi and Li Chengdong did not agree to let go of the chicken that lays golden eggs.

"The conditions are made by but no longer involve territories, but trade issues." Li Mingxun told the truth, and he added: "That was after the recapture of Guangdong and Guangxi."
Chapter completed!