Song Xiance received Li Zicheng's order, and immediately went south by boat again. A few days later, it arrived in Nanjing, and was immediately received by Li Xiao.

Song Xiance immediately told Li Xiao that Li Zicheng had now agreed to cede Hanzhong and south-central Henan, and hoped that the two countries could reach an agreement as soon as possible.

After listening to Song Xiance's words, Li Xiao was very happy, if he didn't care about his face, he would almost want to slap his palm.

Hmph, Li Zicheng must have made a big fuss with his subordinates, and finally had to agree with his own opinion.

After all, this guy needs more time than he needs to recuperate. Under this premise, Li Zicheng pinched his nose and could only admit the conditions he proposed.

In this way, without spending a single soldier, it is really a very pleasant thing to get Hanzhong and central and southern Henan almost empty-handed.

Therefore, Li Xiao issued an order to allow the Tang army to negotiate peace with Dashun, and sent Chen Zilong as the plenipotentiary to negotiate with Song Xiance in Nanjing.

After two days of careful consideration and specific discussions, Tang Shun and the two parties finally reached the following agreement, the specific terms of which are:

1. Dashun gave up Hanzhong and the southern part of central Henan and handed it over to the Tang Army to govern and govern. The two countries are in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and since then they have been bounded by the Qinling Mountains. In Henan, the three boundaries of Nanyang Mansion, Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion were assigned to the Tang Army, while the boundary of Kaifeng Mansion was bounded by Dengfeng, Xinzheng, Weishi and Qixian, with the Tang Army in the south and Dashun in the north.

2. After the two countries signed an agreement and handed over their territories, they ceased fighting and set up several customs points to trade with each other.

3. The two countries have reached this agreement with a minimum armistice and peace period of two years.

4. This agreement shall be signed by the plenipotentiaries of both parties and confirmed to come into force.

After the agreement was signed, Song Xiance returned to the capital with a happy face, and he couldn't wait to report the news of the agreement to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng received the reward, although he was silent, but the feeling in his heart was indescribable.

This kind of land cutting and seeking peace is even worse than the alliance between Song Liao and Yuan at that time.

After all, the Song Dynasty did not cede so much land at the beginning, nor did it only reach a two-year peace period with the Liao State, but continued the peace for a full hundred years.

Li Zicheng almost intuitively thought that if the peace period ended, then the Tang army should immediately turn around and attack.

What's even more tragic is that if the Tang army is a scoundrel and does not wait for the agreement to end, it will tear up the agreement and launch an attack on Dashun, then it will have no choice but to fight, and there is no way to stop it.

Rao is like this, this unrealistic agreement is also the only choice that Li Zicheng must take if he wants to change the status quo.

In two years, perhaps less than two years, if Dashun does not improve and change, Li Zicheng will dare not imagine the terrible consequences in the future.

In the end, the Emperor of Dashun, with a long sigh, stamped the dragon seal on the agreement and officially confirmed it.

With the confirmation of the two supreme rulers of Tang Shun, the next handover was very smooth.

The Dashun officials in Hanzhong and south-central Henan and the remnants of the garrison soldiers and horses, in front of the Tang soldiers and horses who came to receive them, were like frustrated defeated roosters, and they all withdrew and left. The handover was very smooth everywhere, and there was not even the slightest friction.

The Tang army successfully took over Hanzhong and the central and southern parts of Henan, and the Shun army deployed its defense to the north of the Qinling Mountains according to the previous plan, and confronted the Tang army on both sides of the line, but maintained a calm situation with a very tacit understanding.

At this point, both Tang and Shun have obtained the peace they desperately want.

In the Great Shun Kingdom, Li Zicheng adopted the opinions of Niu Jinxing and others, and began to eliminate the old and weak in the army, reduce the financial burden, and at the same time vigorously train new soldiers to prepare for future battles.

At the same time, he ordered the colonization of wastelands throughout the country to increase food production, and forced marriages between adult men and women to increase the population.

Li Zicheng also ordered that he should learn from the Tang Army's model of building an army with firearms, and began to organize technical personnel in the country to conduct ordnance research. In the same way as the Tang Army, we should vigorously develop firearms, comprehensively enhance the army's firearms combat capability, strive not to lag behind the Tang Army too much, and it is best to achieve a reluctant balance of firearms power with the Tang Army.

On the Tang Army's side, the work of dispatching newly appointed court officials, resettling the people in the Xinde area, restoring the order of local production and life, and stepping up the reorganization and training of the soldiers and horses of the two towns was already carried out in an orderly manner.

In addition to these, Li Xiao decided to follow the original plan and ordered the work of reclaiming the entire southwest region.

Changing the land to return to the stream refers to changing the Tusi system to the liuguan system, which began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and refers to the abolition of the original Tusi leaders who ruled ethnic minorities in the southwest region and changed them to the central government of the imperial court to appoint liuguan.

In short, to change the land and return to the stream is to change the way of management of ethnic minority Tusi to the way of government officials. Tusi is the leader of the original nation, and the officials are appointed by the central court of the imperial court. Changing the land and returning it to the river is conducive to eliminating the backwardness of the Tusi system, and at the same time strengthening the central government's rule over some areas inhabited by ethnic minorities in the southwest.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it has gradually begun. It arose in the context of the increasingly acute contradictions between the local officials and the feudal dynasty. This contradiction has existed for a long time since the Tang and Song dynasties. With the continuous development of the social productive forces, the system of local officials is becoming less and less suitable for the needs of society.

At the same time, the local officials increasingly opposed the imperial court and opposed its jurisdiction. This kind of behavior that is detrimental to the unity of the country is naturally intolerable to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is imperative to "change the land and return to the stream".

And the practice of the Ming Dynasty was actually relatively modest. For example, when encountering the extinction of the heirs of the local officials, the vendetta between the local officials or the rebellion is put down, and the local officials are dismissed for crimes. The local Tusi system was abolished and replaced by liuguan.

Rao is so, because the measures of the Ming Dynasty are basically the opposite of the interests of Tusi, so there are many rebellions in various places. Among them, the largest was the rebellion of Wumeng Tusi, which was of course successfully suppressed by the imperial court.

Drawing on the relevant experience of the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiao decided that the work of land reform and return to the river that began in the southwest region should be divided into three major parts according to the specific situation of Tusi, and treated and carried out separately.

Due to the vast territory of the southwest and the large number of toasts, Li Xiao did not rush to make a one-size-fits-all rough push for all the toasts, but first divided the toasts into three parts.

The first part is the local Tusi who have a small force and weak soldiers and horses, but have a good relationship with the Tang army, and even join the Tang army or assist the Tang army in the southwest. For this part of the toast, Li Xiao decided not to carry out the work of soil change and diversion for the time being, but to continue to maintain the original state. In this way, I hope that these toasts will continue to maintain friendly relations with themselves.

Li Xiao plans to carry out this part of the work of changing the soil and returning the land to the stream, and even after the unification of the whole country, it is not impossible to carry it out.

The second part is the local Tusi who has a general force, not many soldiers and horses, and a general relationship with the Tang army, and adopts a neutral attitude when the Tang army invades the southwest. Li Xiao gave them a year to allow them to improve gradually, so that they finally agreed to change the land and return it to the stream, and let the imperial court send officials to replace the Tusi system that had been in place.

The third part is the local Tusi who has a large force and many soldiers and horses, but has a poor relationship with the Tang army, and once stood on the opposite side of the Tang army, but was later forced to surrender. For these toasts, Li Xiao decided to cut them first, asking them to rectify immediately, change the land and return to the stream, and not disobey, so as to achieve the effect of capturing the thief and capturing the king first.

So, under Li Xiao's secret order, the soldiers and horses of the Tang army in all parts of the southwest rushed to the place where the big Tusi might rebel and settled down before the imperial court summoned the order.

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