The war on the Liaodong Peninsula is naturally very important to the many officers of the Liaodong Provisional Regiment who are in it, and it is not only about their future prospects, but also about their lives.

If you fight well, you can get promoted and get rich, but if you don't fight well, you will die heroically if you are not careful.

Even though there are dozens of transport ships, two frigates, and many patrol ships on standby in the port for a long time, ready to respond to the retreat of the garrison at any time, how can it be said accurately that there is such a thing as a war.

However, this kind of importance is only for the Liaodong Provisional Regiment, and for the entire Tang Dynasty, the war on the Liaodong Peninsula is just a secondary front, and even the War Department is too lazy to formulate relevant plans, but has full authority to deal with it by Honghuofang.

For many senior staff officers in the War Department, they were still concerned first of all about the war in the southwest, and secondly about the north, especially the Tatars and Warats.

Although the Tang Dynasty has finalized a preliminary contract with the Tatar envoys, it has not yet been signed, and in the first month, the Tatars who have been in Jinling City for a long time sent people to return north with the preliminary agreement, and they want to send the preliminary agreement back to the steppe, wait for Altan Khan's reply, and then send the relevant results back to Jinling City.

Subsequently, the two sides were able to formally sign a treaty of armistice and mutual markets!

The whole process should take more than two or three months!

Until then, neither side can be called the end of the war!

Of course, although the two sides are still in a state of war, in fact, since the Tang Army took over Hebei, northern Shanxi and other regions, the two sides have not broken out large-scale wars, at most some small-scale armed conflicts.

In the short term, there should be no large-scale war on the northern border!

However, the Tang Army has always regarded the Tatars and Warats as enemies, and has never forgotten to be vigilant, let alone to formulate relevant offensive plans!

In general, at present, in the north, both sides are maintaining a confrontational posture of high vigilance!

This was a good thing for Altan Khan, as they were able to free up their hands to clean up some of the tribes in the eastern steppe, and at the same time prepare to deal with the Warats.

For the Tang Dynasty, this is also a rare buffer time, so that the Tang Dynasty can free up their hands to pacify the southwest first!

However, after the Tang Dynasty pacified the southwest, the military center of gravity will definitely move north again, and at that time, the relationship between the two sides will inevitably become tense again.

However, this is all a matter of the future, at least in the next year, the Tang Dynasty has no plans to launch a large-scale war in the northern grasslands, the southwest in the near future, and Liaodong in the middle term.

After these two threats have been resolved, it is time to consider addressing the threats to the northern grasslands.

In Jinling City, Li Xuan also summoned officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs again and listened to the situation in the northern steppe, on the Tatar side, the situation is the same, the negotiations are almost over, the conditions on both sides are quite conservative, obviously, both sides know that this is just a temporary truce forced by both sides, and they do not expect to gain much benefit.

Therefore, in this negotiation with the Tatars, the two sides mainly reached three points: first, the two sides will cease fighting, and the Tatars will completely withdraw from the border towns occupied by the puppet Ming defenders and retreat to the north of the Great Wall, that is, to restore the status quo before going south.

The second is that the Tang Dynasty officially canonized Altan Khan as the king of Shunyi, and the fief was 'Tang Jin Guo', which means 'Jin State under the Tang Dynasty'.

And this Tang Jin State is also the first vassal state officially recognized by the Tang Dynasty at present, as for the other Annan, North Korea or something, although they are all traditional vassals of the Central Dynasty of China, but they still did not ask for canonization, and the Tang Dynasty did not canonize them, so strictly speaking, it is not counted.

The third is that the two sides exchanged markets in a number of fixed border towns, and the Tatars exchanged all kinds of materials with horses to the Tang Dynasty, and ordinary materials were naturally not the core materials, but a number of strategic materials that were vital to the grassland peoples, such as salt, iron, and tea, and an additional 5,000 arquebuses were approved for sale!

And these materials need to be exchanged for horses by the Tatars, and the Tang Dynasty does not accept other forms of payment!

Of course, there are also some ordinary materials exchange, but there is no such strict control, such as cloth, soap, all kinds of spices imported from the South Seas and other goods, the Tang Dynasty said, these things you can exchange for livestock, you can also exchange gold and silver.

In addition to the above three nuclear treaties, the others are basically gone, and the Tatars originally proposed that the two sides make peace, asking the Tang Dynasty to marry a princess to Altan Khan, and Altan Khan will also send a child or granddaughter to Li Xuan as a concubine.

Some people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs felt that being close to each other could increase a certain degree of mutual trust, so they agreed to it temporarily, and then reported it to Li Xuan!

As soon as Li Xuan heard this, he immediately devalued the official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who was in charge of talking about this matter and sent him to Yunnan to become a section chief of a small county!

Ma Dan, you dare to let the Tang princess marry a barbarian, this is simply bold!

What's more, now there is only one adult princess of the Tang Dynasty, Princess Huichen, and after being ignored by the Empress Dowager Bai for many years, Princess Huichen finally finalized a marriage for her at the end of last year and is ready to get married this spring.

The royal family is withered, and there are no distant relatives, so the unmarried princess is only left with Li Xuan's two daughters, not to mention how old Li Xuan's two daughters are, whether they can be married.

But you bastards, you bastards, dare to beat their ideas, want to marry them to barbarians, I didn't exterminate you is polite.

Perhaps in the eyes of many officials, these princesses are all money-losing goods, and it is normal to use them to stabilize Altan Khan and buy time for the empire, but in Li Xuan's opinion, this is not the case.

When Li Xuan criticized this matter, he rarely compared it with the deeds of Qianming, saying that Qianming is so fucked, everyone knows that they don't get along, Nima, you are good, I didn't learn the good things of the Qiantang Dynasty, but I learned a proficient one when I sent a woman, and I also took Princess Wencheng and his relatives as an example on the excerpt, Nima, how can my Tang Dynasty be compared with the Qiantang Dynasty.

When will the hundreds of thousands of my Tang Dynasty be unable to defend the border, and a weak woman will be needed to guard the frontier?

As a result, the matter of harmony was over, and Li Xuan even refused the Tatar request to send Altan Khan's daughter or granddaughter over!

If he wants a Tatar woman, he can send a large army to rob it!

However, Datang doesn't need to be close!

So in the end, the main content finalized is three, and it can be seen from these three that this truce is only a temporary truce, as short as three or five years, and as long as ten years, the war in the north is bound to start again!

The negotiation with Altan Khan is almost like this, and the negotiation with the Warat people is much simpler and even pureer, there is no official contact between the two sides, only contact on the northwest border, and the content of the contact is quite simple, that is, mutual market!

The content of the mutual market is also very simple, horses for supplies!

For any mutual market that can expand the source of horses, the Tang Dynasty welcomes it, well, provided that you don't open your mouth and ask for artillery.

Artillery is not for sale, not a single item is sold, but arquebuses can be bought appropriately!

As for the flintlock pistol, that's not for sale either!

And ordinary ironware, salt, tea, cloth and other materials, now the Tang Dynasty has opened up, anyway, now the Tang Dynasty's steel products are getting higher and higher.

And more importantly, now that the war has entered the age of guns, it doesn't matter if you sell some of the iron and let the nomads in the north build a little sword or something.

On the whole, the situation in the north is calm at present, and the war in the southwest is also relatively smooth.

Therefore, Li Xuan's main concern in the near future is still internal affairs, and he is ready to set off a new round of various reforms, and at the same time vigorously promote the development of industry and commerce.

The development of industry and commerce will directly promote the development of maritime trade!

Because of the development of industry and commerce, the demand for raw materials and markets will be greater and greater!

And the development of sea trade, and the contradiction with the Francophone is getting bigger and bigger!

When there was a small fleet of Spaniards who traveled thousands of miles, they finally hid in Tibet and came to the South Seas, but they were discovered by the patrol fleet of the Francophiles, and gathered the warships to flee everywhere, and finally were forced to hide in the port of Guangzhou to avoid the destruction of the whole army.

Once again, the Francophiles lodged a serious protest against the Tang Dynasty's cover-up of the Spaniards!

Unfortunately, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Datang also submitted a protest document to the Francois once again.

It is said that the Franco-Rang man obstructs the normalization of trade in the South Seas!

And the contradictions between the two sides can also be seen from the protests again and again, which are getting bigger and bigger!

In the final analysis, because of the increasing volume of trade between the two sides, the Franco-Rang Man-man tried to completely monopolize the trade from Europe to East Asia, while the Tang Dynasty tried to get rid of the monopoly of the Franco-Man-Philosopher, and trade directly with more Western countries, so as to earn more profits.

But protests are protests, but both sides still maintain great restraint, after all, money still has to be earned!

The Francophile also did not dare to provoke the Tang Dynasty, for fear of cutting off the trade between the two sides.

At the same time, the Tang Dynasty was also unwilling to interrupt trade casually before there was no channel to replace it.

So the relationship between the two countries is to do business while protesting, which is very interesting!

However, will this continue forever?

Both sides know it's impossible!

But if you want to fight, you can't do it for a while, and it's just like that, and when you enter April, the Tang Dynasty will usher in two major events!

The first is the palace examination in the seventh year of Xuanping, when more than 1,000 tributes from the Jinshi and doctoral departments will gather together to participate in the palace examination, thus changing the fate of their lives.

And the second major event is that the only adult princess of the Tang Dynasty and the only sister of the Son of Heaven, Princess Huichen got married!