In the three years since the Liangxian landing, the port economic belt on which Liang relied was completely destroyed, and the maritime trade in the previous four years was paralyzed, and the economy of Liang was actually in a state of stagnation.

An economy that started with entrepot trade and infrastructure services is not a real economy after all, and once the port is destroyed and the commercial channel is paralyzed, it will be back to its original shape overnight.

In addition, there was no land reform in the Liang State, and agriculture only relied on the technology imported by the Xian State to increase the yield per mu, and the common people were not liberated, and the common people could not get benefits, so naturally they did not have the enthusiasm to invest in war production.

To survive until now, it basically depends on eating the old capital accumulated for hundreds of years, and the domestic gold and silver mines, and now the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and the Son of Heaven inevitably begins to consider the option of a truce.

At this time, Ji Jinsheng had just returned to the palace from Wang Li's mansion and went to Xihuan to resume his life, although the truce was limited to Jinye, but it made the princes see the possibility of a truce on the whole front.

"What did Wang Li say?"

"Queen Qiqi, General Wang said that the princes have participated in the war for only two years, fought two battles, and the enemy attacked and defended, with more than 700,000 casualties, and if it continues to be consumed in the long run, the war is bound to be more cruel, and the final casualties of the coalition army may not be less than four or five million, not counting the casualties of the people, Gao Changshi is in favor of the truce."

"Gao Changshi?" Xihuan sounded strange, and hurriedly asked Ji Jinsheng: "Aren't you asking Wang Li, what does Wang Li mean." ”

General Wang thought that his armpit was not credible, and he originally intended to be in favor of continuing the crusade, but the casualties were too great, so he was a little hesitant, but Gao Changshi did not approve of it. At present, the Jin State has not yet entered the war, so if we can make peace with the truce, our Jin State will be free from the disaster of swords, and after the war, the Jin State will be stronger than the princes outside the Xian State, and if it participates in the war, it will be as General Wang said. ”

"Is it a war or no war!" Xihuan asked urgently, quite annoyed in his heart. She also found that in recent years, the Jin Kingdom has become less and less like a normal prince who can stand up to the sky.

At this time, Ji Jinsheng asked carefully:

"I wonder if there's any news from the king?"

"Brother Wang is not in good health, Fan Xiangguo answered the phone."

"What does Fan Xiangguo mean?"

He reasoned that he wanted Wang Li to decide.

"This ......" Ji Jinsheng was silent, but he still stubbornly said: "This push back and forth is not accurate, what does the king think." ”

"This palace is also wondering, my brother Wang is getting older and more prosperous now, this is a big disaster, and he only cares about himself, even if he doesn't think about himself, he has to think about my sister!"

"Your Royal Highness, the king's attitude is unclear now, if the Xianguo side asks, how to deal with it."

"Get out of the palace and move to Liuhu, this palace can't control this matter, and this palace doesn't want to ignore it. Go and call Tuo'er and Ping'er together, and hurry out of the palace. ”

"That, ...... the King of Xian?"

"Let me know, he will do what he likes."

After Xihuan fell out of favor, the queen's bedroom actually became a cold palace, but she had the title of a queen in vain, and her life was still free, and many things could not be intervened at all, but if the Jin Kingdom made Xianguo unhappy, Jiang Yu would immediately come over and give it color. Xihuan really didn't want to be humiliated anymore, so he simply went out to hide from the disaster.

In the afternoon of the same day, Cross received a reply from the coalition forces, which made him vomit blood:

"It is unreasonable to ask us to surrender, this is humiliation!"

At this time Adjutant Nord said:

"Your Excellency, you can go first in the submarine, Admiral Kusa's fleet should be back soon."

"No, I can't leave my warriors."

"But now that the alien animals have more than ten times our strength and five times our firepower, they will soon launch a general attack, and it will be difficult to leave. You are a lieutenant general, and if you are killed, you will make the state very passive, and it will become a disgrace to history. ”

"No need to persuade me anymore, I will never leave."

Unable to dock south due to the harassment of the salty torpedo boats and airboats, Cusa's fleet sent several new submarines with a larger displacement to contact Cross and persuade him to flee with his senior officers in the submarines.

As of now, the highest rank of the fallen armpit general is brigadier general, the highest captured is colonel, and Cross is a lieutenant general. If captured, it will be even more demoralizing, and neither can happen.

That night, Bai Liyan went back to the house to eat in the study, now that his children have grown up, he gets off work late, and rarely gathers at a table to eat, more often he likes to stay in his study, accompanied by Jiang Rong or other wives and concubines to eat slowly.

"I heard there was going to be a truce, didn't you?" Jiang Rong asked carefully, busy putting vegetables in the bowl of Baili Yan.

"It's not an armistice, it's just a private request from the enemy generals in Jinye, not a complete truce. Even if there is a total truce, there is no possibility of them withdrawing their troops. Now the news that is spreading on the street is all hearsay. The spread of a partial armistice turned into a full-scale armistice, the more outrageous it became. My husband will write an editorial tonight to refute such irresponsible rumors. ”

"Look at you're excited, as for being so nervous, you're also old, can't you worry less about it."

"Alas......" Bai Liyan put down the dishes and chopsticks, held Jiang Rong's hand and said with emotion: "I want to too, but the situation is so difficult, and it is difficult to worry about it everywhere, it is difficult to ......."

"But there will always be a day when you have to let go, and when it comes, will you still be able to stay in this world?"

Jiang Rong was a little sad, she only thought she was marrying a good man, but she didn't want to be so great and dedicated, but it made her annoyed, and now she just wants to be an idle cloud and wild crane to be comfortable and quiet, but it's a pity what a luxury this is.

Once you climb that step and want to come down, there are thousands of people looking at you and counting on you, even if you want to come down, thousands of people don't want you to come down.

At this time, Bai Liyan saw Jiang Rong's thoughts, and he comforted and said:

"Don't worry, one day it will be free, if it comes to that day, I'm afraid you'll be tired of me."

"Nonsense, I've been following you for thirty years, when did I get tired of you."

"Hehe, you don't have to regret it."

Bailiyan has been waiting for another suitable opportunity to carry out the injection and rehabilitation of bud cells in a small area, and many people are currently participating in this project, and the more people participate, the more complex the social relationship, the more difficult it is to keep this secret, and sooner or later it will be exposed.

The whole project is not only about Xianguo, but also about the fate of the entire human civilization, with the current situation of the country and the princes, improper control, will inevitably lead to a large-scale vicious fight, so it must be absolutely controlled under his surveillance, when to use it on himself and his family is still debatable, at least in the next five years.

When he was talking, the black telephone landline on the table rang the electric bell, which was a phone connected from an outside line.

"Hey, whoever."

Gongliang Xiu on the other end of the phone said:

"It's me, my king agrees to continue to send troops to encircle and annihilate the enemy of Jinye."

"What are the conditions?"

"All the seizures went to our country, at least half of them. In addition, the king did not agree, it was Concubine Hui. ”

"I see."

Because of Ximen Yunfang, Concubine Hui Rou did not have a huge political power background in the Jin Kingdom except for Queen Wang Rui. After marrying Tang Yuanxiang, Zai Zhiguo couldn't speak and couldn't pull up power.

Before returning to Zhiguo from Xianguo in April last year, he purchased basic light industrial processing equipment such as steam looms, sewing machines, oil presses, flour mills, threshers, small forging presses, walk-behind harvesters, stamping machines, wind and hydraulic equipment, etc.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for Bailiyan to sell basic light industry production equipment to foreign countries like this, but she is Ximen Yunfang's daughter after all, and this face is a free gift, and she cannot supplement his debt to Ximen Yunfang.

Because of this, or Tang Yuanxiang's intentional arrangement, Xi Rou's status and value in Zhiguo have been greatly improved, but to say that it is all Xi Rou's influence, it is not enough.

Gongliangxiu's mention of Ji Rou is nothing more than a hint that he needs more light industry production equipment, and Bai Liyan, a heavy industry and high-level industrial equipment, has always been very clear and resolutely refuses to give it.

But through the purchase of light industrial equipment, and even the reverse imitation and research and development of other kinds of machinery, with the technology of the Bronze Age, it is completely possible.

Hanging up the phone from Gongliangxiu, Jiang Rong asked:

"What did my father-in-law say?"

"King Zhi agreed to continue to send troops to attack the enemy entrenched in Jinye, but not without conditions."

"On what terms?"

"There is still a list of last year's purchases by Concubine Hui."

"I should still keep it, I'll let someone find it."

"Wait for tomorrow, prepare twice the amount according to last year's list, and prepare the goods at the end of the year, and I will prepare some additional equipment."

Zhiguo is a large country with a vast territory and abundant manpower, and if the infrastructure construction keeps up, with the current agricultural output, with a little technological innovation and land reform, it will not be a big problem to raise 7800 million people, and it can appropriately develop the basic people's livelihood light industry for self-sufficiency, and it will all depend on the supply of all industrial products from the Xianguo side, and the current production capacity and industrial time consumption will not be able to keep up.

The next day, Chu Ye personally passed over the house and expressed his attitude towards continuing to attack and besiege Jinye, and it was obvious that the greetings of the royal guests still had some effect.

On that day, the offensive of the enemy besieging Jinye continued, while at the same time the situation on the Changsun Peninsula deteriorated sharply, and Oka accelerated the southern push of the front, and the two counties of Changsun were lost one after another, and the capital of Changsun was getting closer and closer. Bailiyan urgently needed to solve the war in Liang State, transferred back to the Xian army to supplement and repair, and sent the Xian army to Changsun to stabilize the situation.

On October 27, the coalition forces achieved a breakthrough on the western front of Tianjin, and Cross was unable to continue to hold on, so he was forced to move to the port, and on October 29, the coalition forces began to carry out intensive artillery bombardment of the enemy entrenched in the port from the city, this time mainly using improvised fixed-fire rockets.

Due to the obstruction of the city wall, the city is too close to the port, and the artillery effect is not good, so the rocket is switched to a large elevation angle and high throw fire, a salvo of more than 2,000 rounds, a day to shoot out 30,000 rockets, the entire dock into a sea of fire, the coalition forces took advantage of the situation to launch a full-line attack on three sides, two days later to capture the port, Cross and other remnants retreated to the coastal area west of the port to continue to resist stubbornly.

Kusa's fleet forced a breakthrough of the naval blockade of the Xian army, less than 100 miles from the shore, but in the face of the fierce fire of more than 2,000 artillery of the coalition forces and the constant attack of speedboats and airboats, Kusa was never able to get close to the coast.

On the fifth day of November, after several days of struggle, the Cross Front was completely annihilated on the coast, and nearly 100 members of the senior officer corps under Cross were captured, and the Battle of Jinye ended. The coalition forces suffered more than 150,000 casualties and annihilated about 70,000 enemies.

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