"What should I do now, Your Excellency," Simmons asked.

Li Mingxun was a little embarrassed and could not give up on Guangdong and Guangxi's trip to Zhoushan. Although Zhoushan has a good geographical location, it is incomparable to the fertile land of Guangdong and Guangxi. Moreover, the political and public opinion risks of starting the Warring States surname was too great. His actions were endorsed by Zhu Yihai, the governor, and occupied the title of great righteousness.

As for public opinion, no matter what, Zheng Chenggong made contributions to restoring Zhoushan, this guy also made great publicity. Not to mention the 6th places, even Taiwan, tabloids and posts praising Zheng Chenggong as a national hero appeared. If it weren't for the Senate's control, similar news would have been overwhelming in Taiwan. Li Mingxun knew that Zheng Chenggong had used the rules of the United States to build momentum for himself, but the reality is that public opinion determined that Zheng Chenggong was the same hero as Li Dingguo. The United States soldiers attacked this hero, not to mention insufficient evidence, even if the evidence was sufficient, it would cause an uproar.

"Let's figure out the attitude of our allies first." Lee Mingxun sighed, and he looked at Simmons and asked, "Simmons, my friend, do you think I'm becoming more and more at ease in doing things now."

"Of course, dear Yuan, you are trapped in the kingly circle." Simmons smiled.

"The King's Circle? What's it?" Li Mingxun asked in confusion.

Simmons smiled: "This is a concept that I know. My son's teacher told me that the merits I made in naval battles will be eliminated in history, while some concepts, definitions, will last forever. When I reach my position, there is only one pursuit of leaving a name in history, right?"

"Tell me about the kingly circle." Li Mingxun said.

"I don't know Chinese historical figures. I admire Caesar the most in Europe. You may not know that Caesar loved adventure the most when he was young. It seemed that if he didn't take risks, he wouldn't be Caesar. When he became the king, he was extremely pragmatic and conservative, which is what you said to be looking forward to the front and back."

"Is that so? Can I already compare with Caesar?" Li Mingxun shook off the haze in his heart and smiled.

Simmons said: "It is different from the past. Your pride, your energy is getting bigger and bigger, and your influence is getting bigger and bigger. In your past adventure, you will only die of hundreds or thousands of people. Now, if you fail to take risks, you will die of hundreds of thousands or millions.

Your adventure back then was just destroying a community. Now, your failure will lose every province, one side, or even a country. Now you can't afford to lose!

Only generals will take risks, and the king will always be steady."

"Please Lord Yuan, Lord Shen is here." The attendant walked in and said.

Li Mingxun nodded slightly, knowing that it was Shen Tingyang who came, and signaled him to come in. Simmons said: "I have to remind you that Shen Tingyang has contacted the Southeast vassal states in private these days, and I am afraid there will be any illegal measures."

Lee Mingxun smiled: "It's okay, he notified me about this in advance."

Simmons was a little surprised and said, "He does nothing but leaks."

Li Mingxun patted Simmons's shoulders: "My friend, the group of scholars and officials born in the Confucian environment in the East are not only shameless people who are too cold and have itchy scalp, but also a few gentlemen. Shen Tingyang is one of them. He is not doing things without any leakage, but is open and honest."

At this time, Shen Tingyang walked in, and Li Mingxun stood up: "Mr. Shen, what was the discussion last night?"

"Your Excellency Yuan, thank you for allowing me to discuss this matter with all the nobles in private." Chen Tingyang thanked solemnly.

Li Mingxun had a "honeymoon period" with Chen Tingyang. At that time, Li Mingxun took action to resettle the people of the Ming Dynasty who escaped from the Qing Dynasty, paid money and grain to help the Ming Dynasty's royal army, and mediated various vassal states regardless of personal safety. However, the honeymoon period ended, Chen Tingyang was an insightful person in Zhoushan. He understood that everything Li Mingxun did was just to resist the Qing Dynasty, but not to restore the Ming Dynasty, while Chen Tingyang was a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Chen Tingyang was not pedantic. He invested in Borneo and opened a company for his descendants. He bought a large amount of land and houses for them in Taiwan, so that his nephews and clansmen could completely escape from the quagmire of the Ming and Qing wars. He still insisted on the front line of the anti-Qing Dynasty in Zhoushan. Unlike other vassal states, Chen Tingyang was already ready to die.

Chen Tingyang was a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and was willing to die for the Ming Dynasty, but he was not pedantic and would not destroy his family and relieve the difficulties, nor would he let the whole family be buried with Zhu Ming.

"It's nothing, Mr. Chen, after all, you promised me that you will tell the truth." Li Mingxun said in a humble and arrogant manner. He gave Chen Tingyang the opportunity to persuade the various divisions. Of course, regardless of success or failure, Chen Tingyang told him frankly, so that the problems brought about by the Zhoushan incident can be solved smoothly. If Chen Tingyang had not taken action, Li Mingxun would have waited for Xu Changxing to arrive.

Chen Tingyang took the teacup, put it aside, and said, "That's right, the Zhoushan vassal state hopes that you can come forward to negotiate with the people of the country about their family and private wealth. Only Zheng Fan wants to send troops with your country and regain control of the gold and Xiamen."

"Did no one blame me?" Li Mingxun asked with a smile.

Chen Tingyang said: "A little noise, Yuan doesn't need to take it to heart."

The so-called noise is that some nobles blame Li Mingxun for inviting them to help Guangdong and Guangxi, and drew elites and navy, giving the Qing and the national surnames an opportunity to take advantage of it. But this is not true, because the so-called initiation of aid is just a propaganda word, indicating to the world that China and Ming countries work together to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but in fact it is not the case. The cooperation between the United States and various units of the Ming army is settled clearly by brothers. Take this Southeast vassal states in Guangdong and Guangxi for example. Military expenses are paid monthly, and military rations, equipment, gunpowder and lead are also provided by the United States. It can be said that the Southeast vassal states are long-term workers who eat and live in the home of the United States, the landlord, and they get money monthly, and there are dividends after the work is finished. The long-term workers' homes are stolen, so the landlord of the United States cannot be held responsible.

In fact, those vassal states didn't really feel wronged, just wanted to see if they could scare Li Mingxun and let the United States help to regain territory. This was obviously impossible.

"In other words, except for Zheng Fan, the other vassal states gave up Zhoushan?" Li Mingxun asked.

Chen Tingyang nodded slightly, and Simmons said: "This is impossible. How could they give up the territory they depend on for their living?"

Chen Tingyang coughed lightly: "Your Highness the Superintendent of the State has written to the Emperor, requesting to go to the State to be granted the title, and... Please grant Zheng Chenggong the King of Yanping to control all military and political affairs in the southeast."

Li Mingxun smiled slightly: "Zheng Chenggong is very ambitious."

This was somewhat beyond Li Mingxun's expectations. After all, he did not take Zheng Chenggong to heart. He never thought that Zheng Chenggong had mastered the overall situation of the southeast coast's anti-Qing situation. From the analysis of the southeast vassal states, it is actually easy to understand. Now Yongli is mastered by Sun Kewang. Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong are not in harmony with Li Mingxun. They can cause some trouble for Li Mingxun at sea. Sun Kewang is naturally willing, so he can definitely get a title and go to the state to supervise the title.

The banner of the governor of the country is gone, and the legal basis of the Southeast vassal states will no longer exist. In this way, the only forces in the world to resist Qing Dynasty are the Ming and China. If the Southeast vassal states do not want to join the United States, they will have to be recognized by Yongli. As a result, the Southeast vassal states will all become Zheng Chenggong's subordinates. With Zheng Chenggong's vindictive character, they are not going to control them at will.

In this way, except for Zheng Cai, the southeast vassal states could go back if they wanted to go back to Zhoushan, but they had to accept the command of Zheng Chenggong. Obviously, this was not in their interest. Therefore, except for Zheng Fan, most of the vassal states wanted to retreat bravely or change their families. The former wanted to let Nanshan go directly to Borneo to settle down, while the latter wanted to change the territory, without having to join the United States and not threatened by Zheng Chenggong.

Both of these people have a demand for Zheng Chenggong, that is, to take out the wife, children, and private property that are still in Zhoushan. If they don’t have the courage to ask for it, they still have to rely on Li Mingxun.

In addition to Zheng Fan, the Southeast vassal states wanted to withdraw from the Ming and Qing war with a decent attitude to maintain wealth and honor, which was Li Mingxun's attitude. If Li Mingxun refused to announce that Zheng Chenggong would invite the Southeast vassal states to send troops to the criminal who provoked the civil war, even if they sent troops after the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, these people would not have such a thought. Unfortunately, Li Mingxun would not do so.

Zheng Chenggong used up all his conspiracies and tricks in this incident, but he also followed the rules very well. Everything was handled with reasonable grounds. Although his coincidences were too coincidental and he also prepared in advance, the evidence was insufficient.

In fact, the only way is to send troops immediately. After all, the regime of the state supervising state is still there, and the regime is still a member of the unified front against the Qing Dynasty. Li Mingxun could investigate and deal with this matter in the name of the unified front. But the problem is that Guangdong and Guangxi are the overall situation. By the time the battle between Guangdong and Guangxi, Zheng Chenggong was already the King of Yanping of the Ming Dynasty. The regime of the state supervising state who joined the unified front against the Qing Dynasty no longer exists. At that time, sending troops would be to provoke a civil war.

The civil war against sin and shamefulness is the fundamental principle of the United States' war against the Qing Dynasty, and it is also an important evidence that the United States shows its superiority to the entire Chinese nation, Zhu Ming's regime. Li Mingxun did not want to destroy the righteous image of the United States fighting for the people and fighting for the nation. Li Mingxun never cared about people's strength and the Ming army's strength, but he would never allow it to be compared with morality.

It's like a person, you can comment on who is stronger and weaker when I am with a murderer, but you can't discuss who is more humane with that murderer. This is an insult to this person.

"You can tell them that I will come forward with their requests." Li Mingxun said, adding: "After the war in Guangdong and Guangxi stops."

Shen Tingyang nodded. He knew that Li Mingxun had always been righteous to his friends. He asked again: "Where is Zheng Fan?"

Li Mingxun said: "It's very simple. Zheng Chenggong has a reasonable and well-founded position in Zhoushan, but sending troops to Jin Xia is completely provoking civil war. I know that as long as I hold him accountable, Zheng Chenggong will take Shi Lang out as a scapegoat. OK, then let him hand Shi Lang over to Hong Kong, and I'm going to cut him off!"

"The letter from the Supervisor said that he only asked the Guo family to send Shi Lang to lead the navy to aid Jin Xia, and did not let him join the Zhenglian." Shen Tingyang said.

As soon as Li Mingxun spread his hands, he knew that Shi Lang was a scapegoat.

"In other words, if the Guo surname does not return Jin Xia to Zheng Cai, you will start a war. What is the reason?" Chen Tingyang asked nervously.

Lee Mingxun said: "When the nation survives and dies, the United States declares war on the nation's sinners who provoke civil war. Who dares to refute it?"

Chen Tingyang was blocked by these words. He pondered for a long time and asked, "Your Excellency, I really want to know, if the Guo family handled Jin Xia's affairs, would you still send troops?"

Li Mingxun was stunned and said, "Mr. Chen, you must know that this is a major event, a major event for the survival of the nation. Our country is a legal country. We have strict legal restrictions on wars. The conflict with the national surname is only related to whether he betrayed the nation, and has nothing to do with the personal grudges between us. I do have some resentment towards the national surname, but I am more sorry for the national surname, but I regret that he is not fighting for the national surname. My passion is not used on the right path, not because he is the son of the Min Haiwang and poses a threat to our sea power. Do you understand?

From a personal point of view, the only thing I regret is that when I was in Chaozhou, I let him go of Guo’s surname and gave him a chance, but I also said that it was the last time.”

The Chaoshan Incident was not because Zheng Chenggong was clean, but because Li Mingxun didn't want to kill him. Of course, he needed to go to Ryukyu to provoke a war against Japan. Li Mingxun still gave this historical national hero a chance. Otherwise, that time, the national surname that provoked a civil war and forced the Qing generals to resist the head would have their heads.

Chen Tingyang nodded: "If this is the case, then I will feel relieved. I will inform you of the surname of the country."

Li Mingxun pointed at his feet: "Is Shi Lang's own decision to make the case for the Jin Xia change? The other country's surname does not count, and the country's supervisor does not count. Within a month, bring Shi Lang to me and hand over Jin Xia to Zheng Cai. This matter will be done without any consequences. If you can't do it within a month, you can clean your neck and wait in Zhoushan. At that time, neither the Zhoushan governor nor An Long's Yongli, nor the Jesus he believed in could save him."

"Okay, I understand." Faced with Li Mingxun's sudden toughness, Chen Tingyang was afraid to look him in the eyes. Seeing that Chen Tingyang was about to stand up and say goodbye, Li Mingxun said: "Mr. Chen, please tell my words to the Guo surname intact. There is no need to care about our personal relationship. I have no personal relationship with the Guo surname. The United States and him will soon be no ally."

Chen Tingyang heard the anger in Li Mingxun's heart and said, "Yes, I will tell the Guo surname intact."

Chen Tingyang left, and Simmons asked in confusion: "I have never seen you lose your composure."

Li Mingxun said: "My friend, I have suffered a lot of losses in my life, both open and secretly, but this is the first time I have suffered a silence. For the interests of the United States and the future of the nation, I have formulated many rules, but I have been exploited by Zheng Chenggong. Perhaps, I really underestimated him."

Simmons asked: "If Zheng Chenggong really meets your request, send Shi Lang and give up Jin Xia, will you let him occupy Zhoushan and control the southeast coast?"

"A strong Southeast regime is a threat to the United States in the long run, but it is also a threat to the Qing Dynasty. At least in the near future, it will have a greater threat to the Qing Dynasty. This also means that it will involve more power in the Qing Dynasty in the future, and it will also be beneficial to the situation in the Great Sixth War." Li Mingxun said.
Chapter completed!