In mid-March, the People's Army and the Ming Court officially began armistice negotiations.

At first, the Ming court offered the same compensation as a few years ago, hoping that the People's Army would cease fighting, but the People's Army did not agree, and the Ming Court continued to increase the compensation slightly, but the People's Army was still not satisfied.

After that, the People's Army demanded that the Ming court cede Guizhou, Huguang and the northern Yangtze River region, and give another 10 million taels of silver before agreeing to an armistice with the Ming court.

The Ming court also could not accept the conditions offered by the People's Army, and the Ming court would not cede a cent of land, nor could it take out 10 million taels of silver.

Immediately after that, the Ming court successively came up with the strategy of "sealing the king" and "making peace with relatives", and the king was rejected by the People's Army, but the peace relatives were accepted by the People's Army, and the time had entered June, and the armistice negotiations entered the second half.

The princess of the Ming court married the governor of the People's Army, and the People's Army asked the Ming court for a "dowry", five million taels of silver and 30,000 craftsmen.

Materials worth five million taels of silver and 30,000 craftsmen are still unacceptable conditions for the Ming court, too much.

Especially 30,000 craftsmen, 30,000 craftsmen will be sent to the People's Army, the Ming Court has a large number of craftsmen who make weapons, even if it can gather millions of troops in a few years, maybe more than half of the soldiers have no weapons to use, and the People's Army has 30,000 more craftsmen, it can create more weapons, the weapons of the People's Army are already powerful, how can the Ming Court resist the People's Army.

However, now that the Ming court is desperate for a truce, it can give some silver and craftsmen, but it must not say so much to the People's Army.

It can be said that in the second half of the negotiations between the People's Army and the Ming Court, Wei Linhan's main task was to reduce the dowry as much as possible, and Cheng Xinyuan's task was to find the upper limit of the dowry that the Ming Court could take.

As for when the eldest princess of Qixia, Zhu Yaojiang, will marry the governor of the People's Army, the Ming Court wants to delay as much time as possible, and it is best to marry after a year, and the People's Army is not in a hurry, let the Ming Court choose the auspicious time, but on the surface, it should be urged a few times.

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In Guangdong Province, the People's Army's ruling area, with the efforts of the People's Army in the past few years, the railway road has become longer and longer, and even the railway road from Foshan to Guangzhou City is about to be completed.

The railway road is a relatively novel thing, and the people's curiosity is greater than when the cement road first appeared, after all, the people on the cement road can go up and walk casually, and the people's army on the rail road does not allow the people to approach casually.

The speed of the carriage on the railroad is much greater than that on the cement road, and the carriage driving on the railroad does not mean that it can stop, once someone in front of it is on the railroad road, if it is not timely to dodge, it will be directly hit by the carriage.

Only specially made horse-drawn carriages are allowed to pass on the tracks, and non-KPA carriages that want to travel on the tracks must also pay an equal amount of money as road money.

Both the concrete road and the railway road were built by the People's Army, and it was not necessary to take the cement road, but it was necessary to pay money to take the railway road, and according to the thinking of many people in the KPA-ruled areas, not many people would take the railway road.

But the truth is exactly what most people think, many merchants are willing to pay to take the railroad tracks, the most important of which is the speed of the horse-drawn carriages on the railroad roads.

Merchants don't know the saying "time is money", but they also know how important time is to them, and many times just an hour in advance, merchants can make a lot of money.

For example, if there is a shortage of sugar in a certain place, two chambers of commerce with their headquarters selling sugar in Guangzhou City send the news out together, one takes the railway road, the other takes the cement road, and the chamber of commerce that takes the railway road is the first to get the news, and immediately prepares a horse-drawn carriage to load the sugar, and then sends it to a certain place where there is a shortage of sugar through the railway track.

Maybe half of the journey has passed, the chamber of commerce that takes the cement road will send the news to Guangzhou City, and then send the sugar from Guangzhou City through the cement road, maybe the chamber of commerce that takes the rail road has already sent the sugar to the destination and started to sell, even if the price of sugar is a little higher, it will be sold quickly, and the money used by the rail road will be earned back.

The chamber of commerce that took the cement road, the sugar was transported to the destination, but few people bought it, they came late, and the people who lacked sugar had already gone to the former to buy sugar, and the chamber of commerce that took the railway road saw another chamber of commerce transporting sugar, and quickly lowered the price of sugar.

Most businessmen can see that this railway road is of greater significance to the People's Army, if the railway road can connect all parts of the People's Army's ruling area, the People's Army can quickly send a large number of supplies from the rear to the front, the Ming Court is simply incomparable.

Many times Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and other businessmen will sigh a few words about the changes in Guangdong Province, the People's Army has only occupied Guangdong Province for a few years, Guangdong Province has undergone such great changes, cement roads, railway roads, glass mirrors that everyone can afford, everyone has a smile on their faces, and the Ming Dynasty ruled Guangdong Province is simply a world of difference.

In fact, the merchants are not satisfied with the changes in Guangdong Province, if they can return to the scene when the Ming court ruled the area a few years ago, most of the merchants are willing, the status of the merchants is not as high as the officials, but it is also many times higher than the common people at the bottom, and they can bully the people as much as they want, even if something happens, it can be solved with a little silver.

But now, in the area ruled by the People's Army, no one dares to bully the common people, and the maids at home are still paid every month, and they are not allowed to beat and scold at will, and if the maids and servants want to leave, they can't stop them, especially the commercial tax set by the People's Army is a little higher than when the Ming Court ruled, and whoever dares to evade taxes will be severely punished by the People's Army.

Several businessmen with serious tax evasion were discovered and directly searched by the People's Army.

But now the merchants can only continue to live like this, the people's army is so powerful that it won't be long before even the Ming court will be destroyed, so they don't have to think about their previous life anymore.

If you think about it carefully, under the rule of the People's Army, the word "equality" is the most important, and the People's Army treats ordinary people or wealthy gentry and businessmen equally, punishing whoever makes mistakes, and maintaining a relatively fair environment as much as possible.

This relatively fair environment is a very high change for the people who have a low status, but it is very difficult to accept for the high-ranking gentry and businessmen in the past, but now they have to accept it if they don't accept it, no one wants to be raided by the people's army, and it is very good to be able to live and continue to live a rich life, and those who were killed and relegated to coolies are not even worse?

There are also businessmen who are more satisfied with the current situation, mainly those businessmen who did not have much background before, doing business under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, if there is no official background, once the business is big or provokes a businessman with a background, the businessman without a background will be unlucky, good luck is just a loss of wealth, bad luck may be stained with a crime and ruined.

In the areas ruled by the People's Army, there is no need to think about any background or background, and many small businessmen with business talent have developed rapidly.