After getting Bai Liyan's affirmative reply, the two then agreed on some details, Li Zhu finally left the pavilion with joy and went directly to the Jingshang Mansion, and then in the afternoon, Li Dai, Bai Lijuan, and Li Yi came to congratulate him, which was obviously Li Zhu's trick again.

So that this marriage will become an ironclad fait accompli, no matter how Bai Liyan disagrees, he will still have to give it to the faces of several families.

The news of Li Zhu's proposal soon spread to the Son of Heaven, but it did not cause any reaction, although the storm did not intercept the premeditated news, but Li Zhu's step was obviously recognized by all parties, what Ji Feng did not do back then, Li Zhu only took half a day to do it, it seems that after Ji passed the world, Antaihou Mansion ushered in the era of Li Zhu.

In a sense, Li Zhu is just a woman under sixty, from a modern point of view, she is still young, if there are still ten years of vigorous years, she is enough to continue to play some role and residual heat in the political circle.

Moreover, now that medicine has been "very developed", with Li Zhu's dignity and status, it is expected that he can live to the age of 70, or even "longer".

From January to February, the fighting in Liang tended to ease, and neither side launched a battle of more than 200 men, so Xiao Gongyi was able to escape and rush to Boyuan on February 17.

The Son of Heaven sent secret envoys to communicate with him several times, and Xiao Gongyi also agreed to the conditions of the alliance led by Liang Guo in the Xian Kingdom, because he could not refuse.

First, there was an alliance between Yuke and Liang back then, and now the Son of Heaven has made the stakes clear, even if Xiao Gongyi pretends to be stupid and doesn't know that Xianguo wants to seize the power of the world, he can't tear up the alliance with Liang in a grand manner.

Secondly, Liang is the largest financier outside the Xian Kingdom, in the past three or four years, Yuke has not opened a consistent "fate" model, on the one hand, the southern border has accumulated a large number of family funds, after these years of operation and business operations, accumulated a lot of cash and financial resources.

On the other hand, there were the market privileges of the Xian State and the commissions provided by the Liang State, as well as the agricultural production machinery provided by the Xian State, while the vassal states were too weak in their financial resources and had little merit except for materials

Once the alliance begins, the scale of the war will expand, and the consumption of financial resources will inevitably increase sharply, and people will definitely have to be sent all over the world, and without the support of the Liang and Xian countries, it is obviously impossible to ask for money and food as unscrupulously as before.

Finally, Xiao Gongyi must consider the political status of the Yuke after the unification of the Central Plains by the Xian State in the future, the departure and stay of the Liang State and the stay of the Yuke are linked, if the Liang State can have a good death, the status of the Yuke will not be lower than that of the princes.

But if Liang Guo has no good fruit to eat, Yuke, as an armed force not controlled by the imperial court, Baili Yan is in one day, and it can protect its day, if Bai Li Yan is not there, the consequences are unpredictable, so Liang Guo's bargaining chip is of special significance to Yuke.

Regarding the alliance, Xiao Gongyi consulted Bai Liyan for advice, and Bai Liyan did not refuse Liang Guo's request, but correspondingly, he had his own conditions.

Gyeonggi Dong-gun and Gwanyeongbuk-gun were assigned to the field defense zone of the coalition forces in the future, and the administration and economy were still under the jurisdiction of the Liang State, and the Xian State did not intervene militarily, and the Western Front battlefield was led by the Commander-in-Chief of Yuke.

This condition does not involve sovereignty and governing power, Baili Yan expects the Son of Heaven and Mo Chung Zi will not object, the Xian army has begun to start spring ploughing in the Yongping territory, his motive is very clear, to turn the local area into the logistics center and base of the army, with Baili Yan's consistent style, the army must develop the economy everywhere it goes, which is beneficial to the Liang State, but the unfavorable factors are that they cannot understand.

Bailiyan was about to marry Sun, and Liang, as the economic center west of the Central Plains and the core of the old aristocracy, would weaken its position as a political center in the future.

In the long-term planning of Bailiyan, the western part of the Central Plains needs a light industry and education fulcrum, and Liang State is obviously inappropriate, but Liang State has a ready-made economic circle and relatively large early education resources, so the fulcrum of light industry and modern education can be located in Sun State, where the national strength is weak.

Of course, there are two major prerequisites before this, one is that the scale of the local industry in Xianguo is large enough, the education is widely popularized, and the industrial population is large.

Second, it will take at least twenty or thirty years for the unification of the territory, and it will take thirty years or even longer for Sun's light industry and education fulcrum to reach the level of Xianguo ten years ago, which adds up to fifty or sixty years.

The news of the alliance is still in the brewing stage, Bai Liyan does not plan to meet the alliance immediately for the time being, and he still wants to delay it for another year and a half, as planned, it is best to do it at the end of this year and early next year.

Last year, the armpit fell into a quagmire in the Liang country, and this year it has just withdrawn, and it is not enough to attack and expand the invasion to the west in the near future, Bailiyan hopes to buy some time to understand the next strategic intention of the armpit.

A few days after Ji Kang got the news, he rushed back to Boyuan to "rejuvenate the teacher and ask the guilt", he didn't know about this matter in advance, and when he knew about it, it was already a boat, under the pressure of his biological mother Li Zhu and his wife Ji Yuan'er, where did Ji Kang have his own choice.

But he couldn't pull his face, and went to see Bailiyan's in-laws, and returned to the fiefdom after staying for two days.

In the blink of an eye, it was March, and Bailiyan got some good news, but at the same time, there was a lot of bad news.

The good news is that the malignant pneumonia vaccine has been successful, and it is about to be applied clinically, although the theoretical data obtained by Wild Lan shows that the probability of adverse reactions is very small, but the process of artificial basic research and clinical trials must be carried out, and industrial production can be carried out in advance, after all, Bailiyan has already obtained theoretical results, and it is advantageous to produce first and reserve more.

For safety reasons, Bailiyan still has expensive antisera in laboratory stockpiles for use in special populations as a response to pathogen mutations or vaccine failures.

The second piece of good news comes from the research of military projects, Bailiyan decided to study a giant bomb at the end of last year, but Yongxing City has come up with an unbelievable weapon, a liquefied gas bomb.

The reason is also very simple, the power of petroleum liquefied gas is greater than that of TNT, and with the current production technology and cost, the cost of petroleum liquefied gas is lower, the relative reserves are a lot, and the power of liquefied gas is greater under the same weight.

An ordinary household gas tank can store energy equivalent to about 140 kg to 150 kg of TNT, and theoretically without the constraints of a steel cylinder, the power of an explosion caused by a full fusion of oxygen is enough to destroy a six-story residential building.

This reminded Bai Liyan of a similar question, the power of liquefied gas cylinders used in mortars is indeed very amazing. Especially in the Middle East, as long as you have a brain, you can use anything.

Since the establishment of the chemical industry in Xianguo, the earliest purchase of petroleum from Zhiguo to refine gasoline, diesel and kerosene, as well as other petrochemical raw materials, liquefied gas is a by-product, at that time more used in industry, such as metallurgy, gaseous fuel, heat supply kinetic energy and gas cutting, but the total output is not much.

After the development of the Dongyuan County oil field, the production of liquefied gas soared, and the current domestic industrial scale was not enough to digest the increasing amount of liquefied gas, and then began to distribute liquefied gas tanks to the army for cooking, and then opened civilian liquefied gas tanks to the people of Donggun, the capital, for the use of powerful and public facilities.

Soon after the Zhiguo Oilfield was incorporated into industrial production, the production of liquefied gas increased substantially, due to the popularization of awareness and safe operation and other problems, liquefied gas is not open to the private sector outside the eastern county of the capital county, so the private market is still not opened, and the excess liquefied gas can only be used for gas power generation and storage, and now it is made into an aerial bomb, and the power can be imagined.

However, war does not change in essence in a short period of time because of one or two powerful weapons. The end of the Liangxian Campaign meant that the armpit people had gained a firm foothold in the ports of Tianyun and Jinye, and after three months of respite, the armpit people were able to continue the military operations that had been delayed last year on the Changsun Peninsula and began to encircle the inland hinterland north of the Changsun Peninsula.

The armpit corps on the eastern front was interspersed in place last October, and the western front was affected by the battle of Liangxian and drew a large number of troops, and Marshal Oka was unable to complete the offensive on the western front as he wished, blocking the southward passage in the northern interior of Changsun. At the beginning of spring this year, the relieved Oka hit a left hook with a backhand and threw it hard in the face of Changsun Jun.

At the same time, there were also quiet changes within the Central Plains, and before half of March, King Zhi died, and Zhiguo ushered in the era of the second son, Tang Yuanxiang.

On 19 March, the Allied forces of the Armpits, the 2nd Front Army Group of the Yarkis Alliance, and the 3rd Front Army arrived at the observation post of the forward positions of the 3rd Front Army, led by Lieutenant General Cross, who had fought in Liang County.

In the Battle of Liang in May last year, more than 100,000 troops of Cross's front army landed on the coast in three ways, and Cross led the main force of his headquarters to go ashore on the Vortex Cattle Beach to make a feint, so Bailiyan encountered not all the main forces of Cross.

At this time, a lieutenant colonel pointed to several mountain bags more than thirty miles ahead, describing in detail the strange phenomena that had been going on for months, and Cross carefully observed the situation in the distance through the telescope, and the shock in his heart was incomprehensible.

"It's unbelievable, three months ago it was still a flat place, they must have used something!"

At this time, the lieutenant colonel quickly said:

"In addition to my defense area, a similar situation has also occurred in other defense areas, and they are raising the mountain bags that have appeared every day, and more and more."

"Then why not send scouts to find out!" Cross asked.

"They planted explosives, barbed wire, and trenches in front of the mountain packs, and we couldn't get through their blockade."

At the end of last year, Cross successively went to the outskirts of Cuicheng and Jinye Port to inspect the defense area, and he had personally visited the positions here.

He had a good memory, and he confirmed that more than three months ago there was still a plain in the distance, but three months later, mountain bags appeared for unknown reasons, and not one or two, almost every defense area had more than a dozen connected mountain bags on the front, as if they had grown out of the ground.

"Nord, the heralds will push forward until our heavy artillery reaches them."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Cross prepares to launch a tentative attack, and he wants to figure out how these mountain packs grow.

So in the afternoon of the same day, the two divisions advanced ten miles to the frontal Xian army, and Cross pushed the heavy howitzer to twenty-five miles to the front of the coalition army, and carried out artillery fire on the frontal coalition positions and hills to test the reaction of the coalition forces.

From this day onwards, the non-stop tentative offensive continued into the summer, and as Oka focused on the capture of the Changsun Peninsula, Cross was never able to launch a large-scale offensive against the frontal coalition forces, thus missing the best opportunity to break through the blockade and tear through the defenses.

：。 ：