If someone else asks this question, even if it is a cabinet minister like Jiang Yueguang, Liu Yongxi will use the answer of "integrating the south and then sending troops" to fool him, but since it was Li Dingguo who asked this question, Liu Yongxi naturally gave the answer very frankly: "It's not close at hand, there must be a few months of training time, and the country also needs to slow down a little, but the Northern Song Dynasty has learned from the past before the south and then the north, and we must not repeat the mistakes of the past." ”

Li Dingguo knew that Liu Yongxi was talking about the story of the early Song Dynasty, although the situation was completely different, but he did not take advantage of the opportunity of Jianyu's two defeats in the southern expedition to pursue the victory, and waited until the Qing State integrated the north to recuperate, and the Northern Expedition was a dream bubble.

Li Dingguo only made a suggestion that he thought was a little inappropriate: "Since Your Majesty has already embarked on the Northern Expedition, why should you let the two generals, Sun Kewang and Hao Shaoqi, go south?" These are real powerhouses, and it should be too late for them to return to the division. ”

Liu Yongxi immediately laughed when he heard Li Dingguo say this: "If Sun Kewang doesn't go south, who will lead the generals of Xiying?" ”

Li Dingguo didn't expect Liu Yongxi to think about the problem like this.

If Sun Kewang continues to stay in Lianghu, with his qualifications and prestige, he will definitely continue to be in charge of the old department of Xiying, but after Sun Kewang's southern expedition, it will naturally be Li Dingguo's turn to lead the old department of Xiying, which makes Li Dingguo flattered: "Your Majesty is so loving, Li Dingguo will definitely repay him with a national soldier!" ”

Liu Yongxi immediately laughed: "Li Dingguo is Li Dingguo, as long as you can be loyal to the imperial court, my hard work is not in vain, and there is another purpose for the two generals to march south, do you know?" ”

Li Dingguo knew that Liu Yongxi was testing himself, and although there was no problem if he couldn't answer, he still got serious as soon as possible and quickly gave an answer: "If this dynasty immediately goes on a northern expedition after pacifying Lianghuguang, I am afraid that now Jianyu will be forced to jump over the wall in a hurry and fight with this dynasty to lose both." ”

Liu Yongxi nodded with great satisfaction.

As the so-called pressure is the driving force, if you take advantage of the victory after the victory in Xuzhou, I am afraid that the princes and Baylors of the Great Qing Kingdom will be completely forced to be anxious, and after the full mobilization, they will do whatever it takes to win or lose with the Yue Ming Kingdom, in this case there are often many variables.

After all, the elite horse team of the Eight Banners of Manmeng and Mongolia has too many advantages in the competition between the north and the Central Plains, but after Liu Yongxi asked Sun Kewang and Hao Shaoqi to march south, it will give the princes and Baylor an illusion, making them feel that the Chengtian Dynasty is not ready for the Northern Expedition, so they will negotiate with the Great Qing Kingdom.

Since the Northern Expedition of the Yue Ming Army is still very far away, then the princes and Baylor are naturally busy solving the political enemies in front of them, and the Yue Ming Army can naturally take advantage of the situation at that time, and in addition to this, Liu Yongxi has other considerations.

Now Liu Yongxi's biggest worry is that the Qing army abandons the north and retreats directly outside the pass, and then constantly sends troops to plunder the pass, in that case, Liu Yongxi really has not much way to deal with the huge horse team galloping across the northern plain, so the main force of the Qing army must be left in the pass to solve it slowly.

He continued: "Sending Sun Kewang and General Hao Qi to the south is indeed to unify the south, and Li Zicheng is also a lesson from the past! ”

The rise and collapse of the Great Shun Army can be said to be short-lived, since there is a great risk in the Northern Expedition of the Chengtian Dynasty, then before the Northern Expedition, it is natural to integrate the resources of the south to the greatest extent, at least to take down the very rich province of Guangdong, and Li Dingguo immediately figured it out: "Your Majesty is far-sighted, and it is indeed more thoughtful than us!" ”

Liu Yongxi shook his head and said: "No matter how you plan, you have to cooperate with the prince of the Great Qing Kingdom and Baylor!" ”

And the princes and Baylors of the Great Qing Kingdom are also very cooperative with Liu Yongxi, although many Manchurian nobles also feel that staying in the customs will continue to lose blood, and it is the best choice to retreat outside the customs with the spoils of war, but since they have enjoyed the flower world in the pass, how can these princes and Baylor retreat directly outside the customs when the Yue Ming army has not yet sent troops to the Northern Expedition, so their voices are particularly loud when they discuss the matter.

And they also have one of the most powerful backups, that is, the British king Azig, who has an army of 100,000 in Henan and Shaanxi, also wants to hold the current territory, so someone played the banner of Azig: "Since the British king has spoken, don't discuss this matter!" ”

In the past, no one dared to say this, and Dolgon would make him suffer even if he didn't cut off his head, but now whether it is Dolgon or the other princes, Baylor is relieved, and since King Azig has spoken, this matter really does not need to be discussed anymore.

After all, Azig controls the largest and strongest field corps of the Great Qing Dynasty, and if there is no 100,000 army of King Azig, everyone thinks that the Great Qing Army can completely withdraw from the Guanwai, but it is precisely because of Azig's 100,000 army that the Great Qing State can compete with the Yue Ming Dynasty.

And in the situation that Dolgon was hastily defeated back from Xuzhou, everyone felt that Azig used a lot of strength to preserve the 100,000 army, which can be said to be the number one hero of the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that although Azig said "don't discuss it", the Manchurian relatives and nobles who fought to the death because of this issue can always find other topics to quarrel and even draw knives against each other, and Dolgon also found that the situation is getting more and more out of control, but he has no good way to control the situation and motivate people.

But now a Jia Ma is really excited and dares to pull out a knife in front of him and slash indiscriminately, and Dolgon has no good way, so he can only watch everyone make noise, make noise and even draw knives against each other, but fortunately, everyone is noisy and finally got a very clear good news: "The envoy sent by His Royal Highness King Yu to the Southern Capital has replied, Emperor Chengtian means that the two countries will form a brotherly country and use the Yellow River as the boundary." ”

For the Great Qing Kingdom, this is a difficult condition to accept, if the Yellow River is the boundary, then the Great Qing Kingdom will give up most of Shaanxi, Shandong and Henan, but the prince and Baylor who were present suddenly resurrected with full blood: "The Emperor of the Ming State really proposed to take the Yellow River as the boundary? ”

"No, the Ming Kingdom actually wants to use the Yellow River as the boundary?"

"You can talk, you can talk about it, the Han people didn't say it, sit on the ground and make an offer, pay back the money on the spot, we can have a good talk with the Han people!"

"Since the Han people want to use the Yellow River as the boundary!"

When the northern and southern dynasties confronted each other, the natural dividing line was often the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River, but now that the Ming army had taken Xuzhou, it naturally occupied the strategic initiative, so when these princes and Baylor heard that Liu Yongxi's negotiation conditions were bounded by the Yellow River, they all felt that they had seen through Liu Yongxi's plan.

Yu Wang Duoduo, who was in charge of the central liaison, said very clearly: "I estimate that the Ming State is preparing to unify the south first and then come to deal with us, our Qing soldiers are the elite of the world, and those Ming troops in Liangguang and Yungui are different!" ”

"Yes, I heard that the Huguang side sent Zhang Xianzhongyi's descendants to the south with Hao Shaoqi, the general of the camp, although the Jiangnan side is not clear, but it is said that the Yue Ming Dynasty has appointed Lu Zhenfei as the new governor of Liangguang, and Yang Zhan as the governor of Sichuan."

For the Great Qing State, this is the real good news, since Liu Yongxi focused on the unification of the south, then through the time of his unification of the south, the Great Qing State can recuperate and consolidate the occupied areas, if it recovers before the Yue Ming State unifies the south, it will naturally launch the third southern expedition.

If the Great Qing Dynasty had not fully recovered before the unification of the South by the Yue Ming Kingdom, and it was still prepared to fight, everyone would be optimistic at once, and some people immediately estimated how much time it would take for the Yue Ming Kingdom to unify the South: "It will take at least a year for the Jinhua thieves to unify the South!" ”

Immediately, some people raised objections: "It should only take a year or even a few months to take the southern provinces, but it is not so easy to pacify the south, we swept the north in the first year of Shunzhi, but two years have passed, and the northern thieves are still coming and going, and the Jinhua thieves will also encounter the same problem." ”

Although everyone hopes to spread the situation, but the actual situation is much more complicated, now many of the thieves who raised troops against the Qing Dynasty are the gentlemen who welcomed the Qing Dynasty into the customs and defeated the thief Li Zicheng in the first year of Shunzhi, Liu Yongxi will also encounter many unexpected variables in the process of pacifying the southern provinces, so someone immediately put forward a reasonable judgment: "We have at least one year, if we are lucky, it may be two or three years!" ”

Dolgon felt that two or three years was too optimistic, and he said: "We must not underestimate the Jinhua thief, we have to plan for a year, at most a year and a half!" ”

Everyone thinks that Dolgon has a point, but for the Great Qing Kingdom, which has suffered serious blood loss in the two southern expeditions, even three or five months is very precious, not to mention a year to two or three years, although Dolgon said that "at most it is a year and a half", but on this issue, everyone is lenient to the enemy, and feels that it is impossible for the Chengtian Dynasty to integrate the resources of the south to launch the Northern Expedition without two or three years, and if you are optimistic, the South will launch the Northern Expedition after three or five years.

After all, the number of Northern Expeditions in the history of the Southern Dynasties is only so many times, and it was the North Attack and the South Defense before, so the Qing Dynasty has always suffered losses, but the Qing Dynasty has definitely taken advantage of the Great Qing Dynasty by attacking the south and defending the north, so everyone is jubilant and quarreling for their own interests.

Now everyone understands that the Great Qing Kingdom is no longer the Great Qing Kingdom of the past, as long as you have enough soldiers and horses to talk to the territory, it will work, not to mention the Azig who decided to "no longer discuss", Duoduo, Haoge, Daishan, these defeated generals can still sit here with great spirits, which shows that whoever has soldiers and horses and territory in their hands can be lawless now, so everyone has put the imperial court, Emperor Shunzhi and Dolgon, the regent, in their eyes.