Guangzhou.

Li Dingguo was in a daze as he looked at the lantern swaying under his roof, but he didn't know that his heart was as uncertain as this lantern at this moment.

As the vassal lord of the Jin vassal state and the indisputable heir of the Daxi regime, Li Dingguo had a responsibility, that is, to eliminate the Qing Dynasty and avenge his adopted father and many brothers who died at the hands of the Qing army in Xiying, which was also the main driving force that had always supported his struggle.

Since they met Li Mingxun and became brothers, this dream gradually came to light. The battle between Guangdong and Guangxi recaptured Guangdong and Guangxi, established a vassal state, ruled the southwest, revived Yunnan, welcomed Yongli, and took charge of the Ming court. He had more and more troops and his territory became larger and larger, but he was far away from his dream.

The strategy of the Huameng League was towards the southeast and north that he could not reach. The United States began to stand alone. Li Dingguo finally understood that his responsibility was to stabilize the southwest for the Huameng League and restrain the Qing court. His righteous brother was unwilling to see him occupy more territory and have more power.

In a few years, he accepted such a role and did a good job, as did his subordinates and the people under his rule. People enjoyed peace with all their might, saw the hard-working farmers gaining money, the busy merchants gaining profits, the children had food to eat and school, and his once restless heart calmed down until the Ming court was still in Nanjing.

Li Dingguo was still calm enough, but the officials and generals of the vassal states could not hold back. The retainers of the royal family eagerly hoped that Li Dingguo would stand up and seize the opportunity to protect the interests of the Jin vassal states and keep Guangdong and Guangxi, but they did not receive any response. He continued his old habit of two meals a day, riding horses, shooting archery and training the army. It seemed that nothing had happened, but soon, the enthusiastic officials of the vassal states received news again. Lin Shizhang, the old man from Qiong vassal states, invited the Sanfan vassal states to come to the Jin vassal states to discuss matters. Everyone couldn't help but guess whether the Sanfan vassal states wanted to join forces to make a big move!

"Prince, the prince has welcomed the King of Shu and the three Dukes. You will be the first time you arrive." The attendant came to report.

Li Dingguo nodded slightly, went to the hall, and when he entered the room, he saw that everyone had their own thoughts, so he responded to the two sentences. During the chat, Yuan Shizhong took two bottles of wine and said, "Everyone, this was sent by my incompetent fourth brother from Hangzhou. The authentic Shaoxing Huang, let's talk to it today."

"Well, I haven't tasted it for years." Lin Shizhang said with a smile.

Yuan Shizhong's fourth son is Li Jundu's classmate. He has been in love since childhood and is now working around Li Jundu. Everyone knows that, and is quite envious. Of course, this is the case for each family.

Since the establishment of the Qiongfan, a rule was established. No matter how many sons the vassal states had, only one person could inherit the title and official position, and the rest were not allowed to be officials or generals. This was to make the descendants of the vassal states prosper and occupy too many positions, making the system rigid. Of course, it was also the rule given by Li Mingxun.

Later, in the Jin vassal state, Shu vassal states also had such rules in order to gain the support of Li Mingxun, but Li Mingxun did not treat the children of the Three Feudal states unfairly. He opened the door to the United Front School, accommodated the second sons who had no official titles, and opened most of the positions in the United States to them. Over the past ten years, each family had children as officials and generals in the United States, and the relationship had long been like a mess.

"I have not been clear about my ears for a while. I don't know what King Jin and Shu King?" Lin Shizhang asked with a smile after drinking.

"I just think it's a turbulent wind, but my heart is still as stable as before." Liu Wenxiu said with a smile.

Lin Shizhang looked at Li Dingguo and asked, "Where is the King of Jin?"

"It's just a few rabies barking in the sun, what's the point?" Li Dingguo filled a cup and drank it all in one drink.

Lin Shizhang nodded with satisfaction. Just when he thought this matter could pass by calmly, Li Dingguo put down his wine glass and said coldly: "We worked with our righteous brother to help the enemy, but we never thought that before the matter was accomplished, we were so suspicious and guarded. Now that Jiangnan has undergone a major change, the Shandong battlefield is in extraordinary times, but the righteous brother has not expressed his words, so I feel so heartbroken."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room was stunned. Everyone looked at each other, feeling a little unbelievable. Someone quietly looked at Liu Wenxiu, trying to see from his face whether this guy was making trouble. But Liu Wenxiu was also full of disbelief and didn't hold the wine glass firmly and sprinkled all over.

You should know that in the impression of the three giants of Qiongfan, the Jinfan's attitude towards the United States has always been relatively respectful. It can be proved that the customs and other departments of the Jinfan vassal area have been managed by the United States for a long time. However, because the Shufan was subject to many restrictions, even if the emperor was abducted and the court was useless, it did not take back the financial power within the vassal, so he had quite a complaint about the United States.

What's wrong today? Even if you want to be a monster, it's Liu Wenxiu who has to be a monster. Why did Li Dingguo fire? He also shot Li Mingxun in one shot. This is too direct.

"Second brother, are you drunk?" Liu Wenxiu quietly pushed Li Dingguo and said half-jokingly.

Li Dingguo got rid of Liu Wenxiu's arm, drank another cup of himself, and said, "Drunk? Even if he is drunk, he is not drunk, but is fascinated by my righteous brother."

Liu Wenxiu laughed awkwardly at everyone and wanted to cover up Li Dingguo, but Lin Shizhang stopped him. With a wave of his hand, only the five of them were left. Lin Shizhang said directly: "King Jin, just say it if you have something to do. Others always choose between us and Dongfan. In fact, we all have to understand that if there is anything, our three families will not find two different ways of retreat."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo slammed the wine glass directly on the table, looked around for a week, and said solemnly: "Since I have made it clear, I will say that since I heard the news from Jiangnan, I have been thinking about how my Jinfan should rise and fall in this tide, whether to move against the trend or follow the trend. After thinking about it, I thought it was not good. My Jinfan should promote this tide and eventually become one with it!

So... so I have made a decision in my heart and lead me to the elite troops of the vassal states to go north! Invade the Qing Dynasty!"

These decisive words were like a drop of water dripping into the oil pan, which exploded directly into the pot. Huang Fei, who had never spoken, shouted: "Going north and leading the army! King of Jin, are you crazy? We, the Three Feudals, are we all angry and in unison. At this time, leading troops to get suspicion from the United States, but not as good as us. This rift will last for a lifetime, and there will be a big mess."

"Grievance? My Jinfan is the military commander of the Hua League. I, Li Dingguo, is also the deputy commander of the Hua League army. The anti-Qing imperial captives was the responsibility of the Hua League army. I led the military commander of the China League army to practice the inherent responsibility. If there is any rift, we must have the heart to be affiliated with the middle school. We are afraid that our price will be too high in the future. We are afraid that we will offend the other side and will not be able to ask for anything in the future." Li Dingguo said coldly.

Li Dingguo said so openly, and everyone looked at each other. Seeing that he couldn't stop him, Liu Wenxiu simply said: "Hmph, before the emperor was captured, the United States was afraid that our territory would expand. After the emperor was captured, the United States was worried that we would support the Ming court and prevent it from unifying China..."

"You can't say that, King Shu, please ask yourself with your conscience, if the head of state does not support the head of state, would the Three Feudatories have such a territory? Not to mention anything else, when the revival of Yunnan, how much power the head of state will be, how much power the king of state will be, how much power the king of state will be, how much power the king of state will be, how much power the king of state will be, how much power the king of state will be, how much power the king of state will be, how can you, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Qiongxi? Everyone here can sit here and drink safely. Who is not the favor of the head of state? If it is too ugly, there will be no room for you.

King Shu, I'll ask you again, the head of state has not given an order to prevent you from attacking Sichuan and Guizhou in recent years. Ask yourself, is it because the territory has not been expanded? Or is it because it is someone else's restriction, or is it because it is not capable of doing it?" Yuan Shizhong sat there with his chest in his arms and asked directly.

"If he hadn't supported me in the east, food, gunpowder..." Liu Wenxiu felt embarrassed and argued loudly.

Yuan Shizhong laughed: "What a joke. When will the assistance of others become a matter of course? If they help you, you won't divide them even if you build a territory."

"You, what you said!" Liu Wenxiu stood up, but couldn't say anything.

Speaking of which, Li Mingxun had never issued a relevant order to restrict the development of the Three Feudals in the Southwest, but it is undeniable that the emergence of the United States itself was the biggest restriction on the Three Feudals in the Southwest, especially the establishment of the China Alliance. The purpose of the purpose was not only to resist the Qing Dynasty, but also to assimilate the Three Feudals in the Southwest through this framework. What's more, since the Three Feudals formed an alliance with the United States, the system of mutual communication, including the customs alliance, had already begun to restrict the Three Feudals.

During the era of the Four Generals, the reason why Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and others were able to quickly regain the southwest and occupy half of Huguang was the "wartime economic system" founded in the Yunnan period. In that system, 40% of the land output was used by the army, while peasants accounted for 50%, and only 10% of the landlords. With the establishment of the vassal territory, the vassal territory seized the gentry of the southwest with the support of the United States, resulting in the landlords of the southwest land turning from gentry to vassal descendants of the vassal descendants of the vassal consortium. Continuing to maintain this system is a damage to the interests of the vassal consortium. If the high tax rate is passed on to tenant farmers and self-cultivated farmers, it will lead to a large population transfer.

You should know that the people in the southwest are not unfamiliar with the United States. They know that this new country has a large area of ​​undeveloped territory overseas, and even if they are poor and poor, they can gain ownership of the land. The development of industry and commerce also provides more means of making a living for the people. If the people in the southwest are too exploited, they will choose to go overseas. The system of mutual communication between the United States and the vassals does not allow the vassals to use violent means to control the people.

In fact, as the children of various vassals also devoted themselves to industry and commerce, they opposed high tax rates. After all, farmers who were severely exploited had no ability to consume.

Therefore, the various vassals successively gave up the high tax rates of the wartime economy. As the army of the Three vassals changed, the army that once dominated the cold weapons became the firearm army, and the treatment of soldiers was improved (if they were not promoted, they would join the United States Army). The various vassals faced financial difficulties and successively streamlined the army, each maintaining elite forces ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 to deal with the threats from the Qing army, Myanmar and Annan.

In fact, the relationship between the United States and the Three Feudalists has long been in a mess and cannot be left out. As for whom whom is owed, it is a confusing account that cannot be calculated.

Seeing that the two of them had an argument, Lin Shizhang knocked on the table and said, "Okay, if you have this energy, why not think about how to deal with those restless people."

What Lin Shizhang said about restlessness refers to the children of the vassals of various vassals. These children of various vassals do not engage in industry, commerce and trade, but rely on titles and official positions and the land they seized from gentry. In fact, they are no different from gentry. These people do not want to give up their legal and tax privileges, and have always urged the vassals of various vassals to support the Nanjing court.

However, these people were all the close confidants of the people present and the heroes of various vassals, and they were unwilling to act. Huang Fei said, "Forget it, I can't get the result if I quarrel for ten days. Let's get back to the point. King Jin, why do you insist on sending troops?"

Li Dingguo looked around for a week and said, "You all know that Qingzhou camp was the last heavy army group of the Qing Dynasty, and our allies also put the main force of sea and land and national resources on the Shandong battlefield. In fact, everyone should know that it was a decisive battle and the final decisive battle!

In such a decisive battle that determines the fate of the country and the nation, are you willing to be without the participation of our Three Feudalists in the Southwest?"

Yuan Shizhong laughed: "I also want to show my face, but I don't want to have a rift with my allies for many years because of some credit. Compared with each other, it's better not to go."

As soon as these words were said, several people nodded. Li Dingguo refused to comment and said, "I will say it again, that is the last battle!"

Everyone looked at each other but didn't understand it very much. When they looked at Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo asked: "Do you really think that my righteous brother has not made a clear statement to the Nanjing court yet, just to stabilize us?"

"If he doesn't move, we won't move rashly. Is there anything else to say besides this?" Liu Wenxiu asked.

Everyone was also suspicious. After thinking about it carefully, there seemed to be something that was not understood. Li Dingguo's next words were loud and loud: "Everyone, in that decisive battle in Shandong, it was not the Qing Dynasty, but the two dynasties of the Ming and Qing Dynasties!"

"This...how do you say this?" Lin Shizhang was startled.

Li Dingguodao: "Although Qian Qianyi and Hong Chengchou are traitors, they are also smart people. They are not ignorant of their virtues, nor do they know that their righteous brother hates them, and they must know that the powerful and powerful people in the United States are determined to win the land of Jiangnan, but they still want to be recognized by the United States. Where does their grasp come from? It was the Qing army from Qingzhou.

I think the Nanjing court will lead a army to Shandong north to put pressure on the United States and tell me that righteous brother, if you admit me, I will help you eliminate the Qing Dynasty. If you don’t admit me, I will destroy you with the Qing Dynasty. This is to combine the power of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and force my righteous brother to submit. Unfortunately, this is a delusion!"

"What you mean is that no matter what, the head of state will not recognize the Nanjing court?" Liu Wenxiu asked.

Everyone was puzzled. They thought that Li Mingxun would eventually recognize the Nanjing court. After all, the emperor was real, but of course he did not admit the current situation. At least Jiangnan would not give Zhu Ming, Qian, Hong, Wu and other traitors to punish him.

"Of course not. My righteous brother didn't express his opinion. He even wanted the Nanjing court to bring troops north, and Zhu Ming and the Qing Dynasty were in charge of joining the Qing Dynasty." When Li Dingguo said this, he grabbed the wine pot and poured his mouth over.

Lin Shizhang suddenly realized: "Yes, if you are surrounded by traitors and traitors today, if you cooperate with the Qing Dynasty, you will betray your ancestors and China. Such a dynasty that abandons your country and family and is willing to join forces with your enemies will still be called orthodox? At that time, Zhu Ming lost all his heart because of his own defilement. Wouldn't it be..."
Chapter completed!