People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.

Ai Xin Jueluo, who recognizes the situation clearly. Yongqi didn't take Zhang Rui's words again. After all, they weren't really in the peace talks, and he was just a captive at this time.

"Since you said that you want to negotiate peace with us, then please show sincerity, according to your statement, I think you have no sincerity in peace talks." Ai Xin Jueluo. Yongqi said.

"Let you go back, that is my greatest sincerity to Qianlong's release. As for the sincerity you said. It's very simple, in a few days I will send troops over to capture those two cities, and then it will be called sincerity! Zhang Rui replied lightly.

"You..." Yongqi gritted his teeth, but he was helpless.

Zhang Rui dared to say so, then if he wanted to occupy these two places, he would definitely be able to occupy them.

Other conditions aside, but in the space of last night and one night, thousands of green battalions on their side threw themselves into their bandit army. On the basis of these troops, and with the advantage of their current firearms, if he can't get his soldiers and horses, he only needs to set up in front of those two cities, and the officials in the cities will surrender immediately.

"Don't believe it, the best way for you to protect your Qing Dynasty at present is to quickly take my letter and discuss it with your Emperor Amma. Don't wait until all my troops have crossed the Yellow River (1), and then talk to me, you will feel even more at a loss. Zhang Rui seemed to be advised.

"Your letter, I will naturally take it to my emperor Ama to discuss. But if you want to negotiate peace with us, please come up with reasonable conditions. That's right, we can't move you now, but as long as our Northwest Road army of the Qing Dynasty withdraws back, it's still okay to fight you to the death. "Aixin Jueluo. Yongqi looked fearless.

"That's right, my Great Qing Kingdom is in some predicament now, but your predicament will definitely not be smaller than ours, otherwise you will not be the first to propose peace talks."

"You're really smart. However, all the conditions for peace talks depend on whether you, the emperor, are willing to pull down that face. Otherwise, let's die together! At that time, it is unlikely that you Manchus will continue to stay in Beijing. Zhang Rui couldn't help but glance at Aixin Jueluo. Yongqi.

Yes, compared to the war in the Manchu Dynasty, the situation faced by the bandit army was no worse than it.

If it was just an Annan invasion, Zhang Rui didn't even need to mobilize the current army to go back, and the army stationed in Guangxi alone could slap the Annan invading army to death.

Moreover, even the bandit suppression army did not even need to dispatch the garrison stationed in Guangxi, and the bandit army only needed to release some money, grain, oil and salt as rewards, which was enough to mobilize the people of Guangxi to launch a blockade against the troops invading Annam, so as to slow down their pace and even annihilate them.

The reason why Zhang Rui wanted to negotiate peace with the Manchus was because compared with the invasion of Annan, what gave Zhang Rui more headaches was that various natural disasters had occurred in the areas occupied by the bandits.

The Qing Dynasty once again showed its ungodly luck, holding back Zhang Rui's pace of preparing to continue the attack.

Guangdong and Fujian were hit by severe winds, floods occurred in Jiangxi, drought occurred in Anhui, and epidemics even appeared in the Yangtze River valley.

When an earthquake struck Sichuan, Manchu officials in Sichuan not only provided disaster relief, but also brought disaster relief to the east and sent the victims to Hubei.

Henan floods, Manchu officials still do not provide disaster relief, and drive those homeless hungry victims to Anhui and Jiangsu.

In the twenty-second year of Qianlong, whether these things have happened in history, Zhang Rui is really unclear. His understanding of the major events that happened during the Qianlong period mainly comes from the TV series he watched before.

But those TV series are basically based on singing praises for the Qing Dynasty, and will not truly explain the events in history.

As for whether these natural disasters are inevitable in history or because of Zhang Rui, Zhang Rui is not clear. In history, whether the Manchu Qing Dynasty provided disaster relief or left these victims to fend for themselves, Zhang Rui was also unclear.

However, since they have become the people under Zhang Rui's management, after these natural disasters come out, their bandit army must go all out to provide disaster relief no matter what.

In addition to helping the people in those disaster areas, it is also to prevent rumors from spreading among those disaster victims, thus affecting the future dominance of the anti-bandit army.

It is precisely because of the war with the Manchu Qing on the one hand, the war with Annam on the other, and the disaster relief at the same time, that the already not rich Hubu treasury of the bandit army is almost at the bottom.

Fortunately, Zhai Dakun, who came to invest at the beginning, found the treasure left by Zheng Chenggong with millions of taels of money, otherwise even if the bandit army had captured a lot of money along the way and the maritime trade was rich, it would be difficult to support so many lines of expenditure at once.

Moreover, because the bandit army has been conquering too quickly all the way, many taxes have not yet been collected, and the huge military expenditure of the bandit army is also a headache for Zhang Rui.

Peace talks, Qianlong needs, Zhang Rui also needs.

The territory of the bandit army is getting bigger and bigger, but the team is also getting more and more bloated.

Although the combat effectiveness of the bandit army is stronger than that of the Qing army it faces, these are Qing troops that are in the interior and do not fight all year round, and they really have to face the border army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Zhang Rui does not think that he can get anything good.

At the same time, the anti-bandit army now has a big problem, that is, it lacks enough civilian officials.

Civil and military are the two legs of the imperial court, and both are indispensable.

Otherwise, even if the bandit army could defeat the Manchus militarily, if the government decree did not work, there was still a danger of failure.

In order to appease the students on the turf, the bandit army had opened the imperial examination as early as last year to introduce talents for the upcoming imperial court. However, even so, in the face of the expanding territory of the bandit army, the number of civilian officials is still insufficient.

After all, the bandit suppression army divided the position that was originally just a county official into several positions, and even directly sent some students who had passed the imperial examination to become village chiefs and township heads. Therefore, the lack of civilian officials in the anti-bandit army can be imagined.

More importantly, than the lack of civilian officials, the bandit army has not yet formulated its own set of laws and regulations, and the territory of the bandit army is basically all in accordance with the laws of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, except for some special regulations pointed out by Zhang Rui.

And all of this is waiting for Zhang Rui to go back and solve them one by one.

Therefore, it seems that the bandit army is calm now, but there are actually many risks. If Zhang Rui could not reach peace talks with Qianlong, and there was a period of stability for Zhang Rui to deal with these risks one by one, then the future path of the bandit army would also become very dangerous.