I got a detailed insider about Sun Kewang's desire to become emperor from Ma Jixiang, and Li Mingxun also agreed to drag this secret. Since Sun Kewang was determined to become emperor, it was impossible to win over. The United States could not recognize an emperor who was not Zhu Ming, and he could not do so in the future. Now, it is even more impossible to win over. If you can't win over, you can only act hard. No matter how you move, the Jin vassal, or the Jin vassal lord Li Dingguo are all the key points. This Xiying general, the general of the Changsheng general, has a deep foundation and high prestige in the Xiying. To solve Sun Kewang and stabilize the situation in the southwest, it still depends on Li Dingguo.

But Li Dingguo is not omnipotent. Even he needs time to contact, instigate and win over. The way to procrastinate is very simple, just delay the wedding date.

"Procrastination will give us more time to prepare, but the current situation in the southwest, even if it is a military solution, should reduce the intensity of the war as much as possible. If it fails, it will give the Qing Dynasty an opportunity to take advantage of it." After Li Dingguo thought about it, he expressed his opinion. Li Mingxun nodded and said yes. He also thought so. Sun Kewang's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, although there are many but not elites, but it is a force that cannot be underestimated. In the southwest, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the mountains and rivers are intertwined, and there are few flat lands. The war quickly and quickly decides the victory or defeat. Once it is delayed for a long time, it will definitely give the Qing Dynasty a chance. Sun Kewang has no loyalty to Zhu Ming, and is shameless. It is hard to say that he will not do anything to lead a wolf into the house.

"But Dingguo thought that there was another key person in the southwest, that was King Wenxiu of Shu." Li Dingguo paused for a moment, and a trace of fortitude suddenly flashed across his face, as if he had made up his mind on something important.

Li Mingxun said: "Although my brother Yu didn't have much contact with Shu Wang Wenxiu, his loyalty and courage were not Sun Kewang or others. Could it be that Dingguo realized that there was something wrong with him?"

There is a reason why Li Mingxun asked this. After all, in the original history, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were in constant conflict.

Li Dingguo shook his head repeatedly: "The King of Shu is very sure of Dingguo. Although Shu is alienated from the United States, it is definitely not as ambitious as Sun Kewang. Wen Xiu also knows the general and takes the overall situation into consideration. He is still trustworthy in this matter. What Dingguo said just now is the key to the overall situation in the southwest. It is not that Wen Xiu has any doubts about Wen Xiu, but that Wen Xiu can unite and stabilize us.

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Li Mingxun was shocked and asked in dismay: "Dingguo wants Wenxiu to divide the military power of your Xiying!"

Li Dingguo nodded solemnly: "This is what Dingguo means. Only in this way can your country, Qiongfan and Zhu Ming emperor be relieved. Besides, Wenxiu is also the son of his adoptive father. He has many old subordinates in Xiying. If he gets his help, he will achieve twice the result with half the effort. Moreover, Wenxiu made outstanding contributions in the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi. If he makes new contributions in the southwest, it will be enough to create the Shufan."

Li Mingxun listened carefully to what Dingguo said, but couldn't speak for a long time, and finally said, "Dingguo, I never thought that you were so enlightened that I can't achieve this. If you say this, I'm just judging a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

Li Dingguo's request for the King of Shu to divide the vassals was indeed beyond his expectations. It was a forced choice for the Sun Kewang in the southwest to let Li Dingguo participate. However, Li Mingxun also had one concern, that is, Li Dingguo took advantage of his prestige in the Western Camp to take this opportunity to expand his strength. Now the Jin vassal and the Qiong vassal are divided equally between Guangdong and Guangxi, and the United States can still be restricted. However, if the Jin vassals have obtained the Yunnan and Guizhou provinces and added 100,000 troops, at that time, the United States will be difficult to control. People's ambitions will always be related to the increase of strength. If Dingguo eventually leads to independent independence, the strategy of supporting the Jin vassals was completely wrong.

"If you are aware, who can compare with your brother Yi? Dingguo went to Qiongzhou this time and benefited a lot from Mr. Lin. His brother Yilongpan overseas and was lying in the southeast. He has created such a foundation for more than ten years. How is it different from the establishment of the Dingding Ding? He Yi's brother is broad-minded and founded a country of unity, allowing the people to enjoy peace overseas and civilization to survive and develop in a foreign land. Who can match his brother's public intention?" Li Dingguo said sincerely.

But Li Mingxun doesn't think so. It is undeniable that the failure to become emperor has made Li Mingxun's personal reputation a lot. However, Li Mingxun does not think that it is enlightenment. He believes that it is "wisdom". When the United States was founded, except that the United States itself was a country of merchants, the imperial system would restrict the development of trade. But the most important thing is that Li Mingxun did not see clearly the future of the United States. The key is whether China can be restored. At that time, the country was still very weak, and the Qing Dynasty swept the world, and Li Mingxun was not sure.

If China cannot be restored, especially if it cannot be done in the short term, the United States will definitely be much better than the empire, because if it cannot reach the mainland, it is necessary to expand the living space through colonization, and the feudal monarchy is the least suitable for colonization, especially the United States' explosive colonization.

In the seventeenth century, a large number of colonial countries appeared in Europe, and even Courland, whose population was only 200,000, colonized overseas. Britain and the Netherlands were able to surpass Iberia and have an indivisible relationship with the development of their capital class and the establishment of parliamentary system. This was not obvious in the seventeenth century, but it was revealed when colonial activities reached their climax in the eighteenth century.

Spain and Portugal have always maintained their loyalty to the country in overseas colonies. The main reason is that the colonies are weak, often with only a few hundred or thousands of residents. If they cannot get domestic support, they will be submerged in the vast ocean of indigenous people. In order to strengthen control, feudal countries often restrict the colonies. The Portuguese in Brazil even import nails from the country, and the colonies can only trade with the country, which seriously restricts the development of the colonies. In this way, the United States can send 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of people to the colonies in ten years. If it is a feudal system, who can the emperor Li Mingxun trust to rule the de facto independent kingdom of the colonies? As a result, it is trapped in the vicious circle of the deputy king system. For the emperor, only the son is trustworthy, but the son holds real power, which will pose a threat to the next emperor.

Therefore, Li Mingxun could only choose a republic system and established the United States, but he was also very clear that the imperial system could be useful and efficient in wars with higher resource integration capabilities. Therefore, while establishing the United States, Li Mingxun used authoritarian politics and huge-scale monopoly state-owned enterprises to improve his ability to obtain resources, and obtained a temporary balance between the imperial system and the republic.

All of this comes from the wisdom that a time traveler has gained from his predecessors. At least when Li Mingxun had children, he regretted that he had not become emperor. Li Mingxun did not proclaim himself emperor because he knew that it was right. Li Dingguo took the initiative to restrict himself because he was enlightened to take into account the overall situation.

"Actually, Brother Yu still trusts you." Li Mingxun said.

Li Dingguo shook his head: "Maybe, brother-in-law, but you will not trust my subordinates as much as I trust me, my subordinates will not obey you like me, and the Senate will not recognize your trust in me. You and I seem to be able to be arbitrary, but brother-in-law, you should know that you and I are all influenced by the people around you. I don't want my yellow robe to appear on my body, nor do you want you to risk the world's worst. Do you still remember what you said when you advised me to send my children from Jinfan to study at the United Front School and the Army Academy? Don't trust others easily, believe in the system!

Let the King of Shu divide the vassals to avoid the dominance of my Jinfan family. This is good for you, me, Jinfan, and the world. Mr. Lin made me believe that neither me, Sun Kewang, nor Zhu Ming or the two emperors of the Qing Dynasty, are your opponents. The world is full of heroes, and only the righteous brother is the only one who stands out."

Li Mingxun's heart was mixed with all kinds of unspeakable emotions, excitement, touching, and excitement. He didn't know what caused Li Dingguo to admire him so much, but today's conversation with Dingguo made him even more suspicious of the hero who was two famous kings in front of him. Li Mingxun solemnly raised Li Dingguo's hand and said word by word: "Dingguo, Brother Yu should fight for the revival of China in this life. If you have selfish thoughts, you will be sorry for your trust."

"Dingguo is also willing to help his brother Yi." Li Dingguo said immediately after a straight face.

In this way, the two of them had no grudges or concealment in the southwest matter, so they opened their hearts and discussed each other without any defense. Li Mingxun said: "Dingguo, the southwest matter here is related to the world. You and I plan, so we should not just plan Sun Kewang. Since we have taken action, we can just implement it to the end. How about it?"

Li Dingguo asked: "Who else is there except Sun Kewang?"

Li Mingxun said: "Now the nation is in a dilemma. Within the forces of the Qing Dynasty, those who are harmful to the great cause of the Qing Dynasty are just ambitious people like Sun Kewang, and the other are the civil servants and officials who are loyal to Zhu Ming. Although these civil servants are not honest, they are not enough to do anything. Whether it is Zhu Ming's vassal lord or like the foreign countries like our country, civil servants are distrustful and secretly provoked and instigated them one after another. Like Sun Kewang, they are all cancers of the great cause of the great cause of the Qing Dynasty. Why not remove them together?"

Li Dingguo nodded slightly. He did not deny the problem of the civil servant group. In the early years when Xiying supported Ming and resisted Qing dynasties, these civil servants jumped up and down and played with power. At that time, civil servants no longer held military power and were weak in strength. They had to provoke the division within the Xiying, so that they and Sun Kewang could restrain each other's internal struggles. They used cancer to describe these people at all, but Li Dingguo still had some doubts: "Brother, let me tell you, although civil servants were pedantic and insulted, they were influenced by the literati.

The people of the country have been in China for a long time, and the people of the country often look at loyal ministers and righteous men. Dingguo also knows that the so-called loyalty is just to keep his historical books and is useless in fighting the Qing Dynasty. This is true for Qu Shixi and others. It is only because of the many shameless people like Hong Chengchou that he seemed to be noble and majestic. However, the righteous brother must be admitted that the heart of the world was deceived by the scholars and officials. If the righteous brother rashly takes action to eliminate it, he will be afraid of damage to the reputation of the Qing Dynasty. If the people question the righteous brother, it will be useless to fight against the Qing Dynasty."

After hearing Li Dingguo say this, Li Mingxun nodded and said, "Dingguo is very pleased with Brother Yu. You don't need to worry. Brother Yu will definitely not take action personally and bear a bad reputation."

"What is righteous brother meant...assassination?" Li Ding Guodao.

Li Mingxun waved his hand: "Of course not. Although these civil servants are extremely useless, those who are good at killing are always despised. This infamous reputation cannot be escaped. It is better to let others bear it, such as Sun Kewang."

Li Dingguo suddenly said, "Yes, yes, if Sun Kewang takes action, he will lose people's hearts. It's just for no reason, how can Sun Kewang kill these crows?"

"Where is no reason, these people secretly contacted the King of Jin and conspired to intercept the enemy, which was a serious crime. As for how many people were implicated, they had to ask another person to help, and this person was Ma Jixiang." Li Mingxun said.

Li Dingguo thought a little and said, "Okay, very good, so the overall situation in the Southwest has more chances of winning."

Of course, the killing of those civil servants and officials was not only because they were not enough to do anything, but also to better control the Emperor Yongli. Without these civil servants, Yongli would be a rootless duckweed and would never cause any big waves. In the future, no matter whether they were abolished or established, they would just need to act according to the time.

Time was like a wild donkey, and it kept running. Li Mingxun's wedding was postponed from the end of the eighth year of Yongli to the ninth year of Yongli. For a long time, the war on the mainland seemed to have entered an intermission, especially the Qing Dynasty and the Allied forces, and there were few conflicts. The Allied forces trained soldiers, trained camps, and prepared for a big battle. The Qing army was also licking the wounds.

The Allied forces and the Qing army generally maintained the confrontation on the Nanling line. In the Beiyang War Zone, Li Mingxun built a reinforced division and a mixed brigade. In addition to a regiment commanded by Gao Feng, the Yi army and the security army had a force of about 55,000. In addition to being responsible for the defense of Qingdao Fortress and Ocean Island Fortress, this army was mostly responsible for the rotation of war between Jeju Island and Qingdao Fortress. The greatest value of this army was to restrain the Qing army.

Because of the existence of the Beiyang War Zone, the Qing Dynasty had to leave two heavy troops in Liaodong and Shandong to prevent the landing of the United States Army. Zhang Cunren's troops in Shandong and Mandahai in Liaodong each had 50,000 people, both of which were newly formed by the Qing Dynasty. After the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Qing Dynasty made another strategic change. This time, the direction of the mobile force sent by the Qing Dynasty was southwest, and the Qing court once again embarked on the old path, or Dorgon's old strategy, which was easy first and then difficult, destroy the Southern Ming first, and then fight against the Eastern Band.
Chapter completed!