"Li Dingguo."

Yang Qing looked at the young man in front of him with playful eyes.

"I am the son of my lord, and the Marquis of Zhongyong please call me Zhang Dingguo."

Li Dingguo said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"It is impossible for Zhang Xianzhong to be crowned king!"

Yang Qing said very simply.

"That's your lie?"

Li Dingguo said.

"At this time and that time, Emperor Daxing was still there at that time, of course he had the right to be crowned king, but now Emperor Daxing Yan is driving, and the princess is just supervising the country, not to mention Zhang Xianzhong, that is, those clans and vassals have no right to be crowned again, let alone kings with different surnames."

Yang Qing said.

Princess Kunxing really can't be crowned king.

The prison country has no such power, mainly this is also an excuse for Yang Qing to block the mouth of the clan and not give the clan kings who died to the vassal kings, not to mention that the north fled to the south, and even the few feudal clans in the south of the Yangtze River that died and had no heirs were actually withdrawn by him for this reason. This reason is very good, what is a prison state? is to look at the country for others, since it is not the main lord, of course there is no power to be knighted, even when the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei was not knighted before he became the king of Hanzhong, and all official positions were sealed in the way that the emperor of the Han Dynasty was presented, even if this table was just talking.

As for Yang Qing's own Zhongyong Marquis, it was sealed by Emperor Daxing before his death, although Chongzhen died after the seal, but it was also genuine.

If Zhang Xianzhong is crowned king again, then this will be a bit of a slap in the face.

"Then what do you want to do with my lord?"

Li Dingguo said.

"Governor!"

Yang Qing said.

"Marquis Zhongyong, this is your sincerity?"

Li Dingguo sneered.

"What do you want?"

Yang Qing said.

"Our lord of Sichuan, Kuimen is the boundary, west of Kuimen is the king of Shu to seal the country, everything according to Li Zicheng's Qin example, Hanzhong belongs to the king of Shu, and the king of Shu holds the right to conquer the southwest of the Ming Dynasty."

Li Dingguo said.

"And that's your sincerity?"

Zhang Guowei said angrily.

"South Sichuan and East Sichuan are still from the imperial court, do you want to let the imperial court cut the whole Sichuan land with a few words?"

Gu Xichou said next.

"Marquis Zhongyong, everyone, I think you haven't recognized the current situation, now it's not us who are begging you to form an alliance, but you are begging us, so we have the qualifications to make an offer, you don't. Li Zicheng's army is about to arrive in Wuchang, they have also taken Huai'an on the canal line, and it is just a day to sweep the south of the Yangtze River. Give Sichuan to the king of Shu, the Ming army in Sichuan surrendered to the king of Shu, and then the army of the king of Shu attacked Hanzhong in the north, and then attacked the enemy or down the Han River, threatening Li Zicheng from the flank, only in this way can you continue to favor the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Li Dingguo said.

Yang Qing was silent.

He knew that Li Dingguo was right.

Chongzhen was qualified to offer before, because Li Zicheng was attacking Sichuan, and Zhang Xianzhong was in the de facto two-sided attack between the Shun army and the Ming army, so he could only choose to fall to the Ming Dynasty, and then resist Li Zicheng with the help of the Ming Dynasty to keep the territory of Sichuan.

But now it's different.

Li Zicheng attacked the Ming Dynasty.

If Daming wants to maintain partial security in the attack of his 500,000 army, then he must win over Zhang Xianzhong, who has become Daming's lifeline, and of course people are qualified to make an offer. It stands to reason that Zhang Xianzhong wants the whole Sichuan is also inevitable, since he wants to divide Sichuan, he must not only cut Chengdu, Sichuan's special thing is that the two major natural dangers of Sword Pavilion and Kuimen, Sword Pavilion can block the attack from the north in his hands, so how to deal with the attack from the Ming Dynasty in the future?

The south and east of Sichuan are all in the hands of the Ming army, as long as the two sides cooperate to defeat Li Zicheng, if the Ming army wants to solve it, he only needs to transfer hundreds of thousands of troops into Sichuan, and he will have no play.

Li Zicheng is indeed his enemy.

But so is Da Ming!

He had to get Kuimen to ensure the closure of Sichuan.

"If Li Zicheng wins Jiangnan, how can you have a reason to exist alone?"

Zhang Guowei said.

"Yes, but you're the one who dies first."

Li Dingguo said.

The ministers were speechless.

"Your envoy go and rest first! We'll talk about that later! ”

Yang Qing said.

"Loyal and brave marquis, everyone, the world is divided into three points, it is already very good that you can be a Soochow!"

Li Dingguo said.

After saying that, he turned around and walked away proudly.

"These thieves are really rampant!"

Zhang Guowei said.

"A bunch of idiots have ruined the situation!"

Yang Qing sighed.

Indeed, if it weren't for the brain-dead actions of those nobles, the situation would be completely good for the imperial court, as long as Li Zicheng suffered a defeat in Hanzhong in the form of aiding Zhang Xianzhong, then at least three years could ensure that the two sides were fine, and all the local warlords or rebellions would be resolved in three years, and with sufficient financial support, Chongzhen could also train at least six armies in the Beijing camp, and the original armies could also be reorganized and then reorganized into at least ten armies.

Nearly 20 armies of the Qi family army turned into a Ming army, not to mention resisting Li Zicheng, it was enough for the Northern Expedition to gradually recover the Central Plains.

But now it's all over.

The internal strife has not been settled, and the foreign enemy has arrived, and it has suddenly reached the verge of destroying the country.

The ministers were equally silent.

They are also very aware of this, in the final analysis, all this is self-inflicted, if it weren't for Chongzhen's sudden death, none of this would have happened, and what happened to Chongzhen's death, in fact, they can also guess, in the end, this is really self-inflicted, this pig teammate is indeed a cheat!

"Do you want to promise them?"

Gao Hongtu said cautiously.

As the head of the household, he actually knows very well that the conditions for agreeing to Zhang Xianzhong do not have any substantial loss to the imperial court, except for reputation, if Sichuan is indeed one of the sources of wealth in peacetime, under normal circumstances, the payment of the imperial court to Yungui is from Sichuan in addition to local income, all from Sichuan to make up for the gap, but now Sichuan has long been in chaos, and the taxes there cannot reach the imperial court at all. And if Zhang Xianzhong wanted the whole of Sichuan, in the case of Li Zicheng's withdrawal in the north, only Ma Gan and Yang Zhan would not be able to stop him, and they only took advantage of Zhang Xianzhong's opportunity to go north to recover eastern and southern Sichuan.

If Zhang Xianzhong went all out to the south, they would still be defeated.

Then Zhang Xianzhong still had to go to the whole of Sichuan.

Even Zhang Xianzhong can form an alliance with Li Zicheng, and the two sides will temporarily truce, Li Zicheng also needs him not to take the opportunity to attack Hanzhong, and then Zhang Xianzhong will sweep south and east Sichuan without distraction, seize Kuimen before Li Zicheng destroys the Ming Dynasty, stabilize the internal and close the gate of Sichuan. Of course, this choice is better than an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, because even if the Ming Dynasty defeats Li Zicheng's south, he will not be able to continue the Northern Expedition, and he will still be shrouded in the clouds of the latter, and he will not have the ability to attack Sichuan in a short period of time, leaving Zhang Xianzhong with much longer preparation time, on the contrary, Li Zicheng will immediately attack Sichuan if he gets Jiangnan, and Zhang Xianzhong's preparation time can only depend on the resistance time of the Ming army.

Obviously, the former is more advantageous.

Therefore, the alliance between the two sides is a win-win situation, but it is more difficult to do this king, after all, Zhang Xianzhong has already been called the emperor, and it is difficult for him to accept it if he is not crowned king, he is already ashamed of Li Zicheng.

Can you be crowned a king......

"But what about Li Zicheng?"

Gu Xichou said.

Princess Kunxing has no right to be crowned king, she can say that Chongzhen's edict is the same as Chongzhen's edict, if Chongzhen's edict is like this, then Li Zicheng is not so justified to go south even if he coerces the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but she wants to give Zhang Xianzhong the title of king, which is obviously not qualified to do by the prison country, which just gives Li Zicheng the best reason to go south.

"Didn't they go south now?"

Shi Kefa said with a wry smile.

At this time, in fact, even Fengyang was lost, before Li Dingguo came, the information about the loss there had just been delivered, in the face of Yuan Zongdi's attack, the original Liu Liangzuo's 80,000 troops stationed on the front line of Fengyang Shouchun Linhuai Pass still collapsed in World War I, and the difference from last time was that they fought a battle with Yuan Zongdi more or less, but under the impact of Yuan Zong's 10,000 cavalry, these wastes had no hope at all, they did not surrender in front of Li Zicheng, and they were already worthy of the military salary of the imperial court.

Ma Shiying retreated to Chuzhou again.

Yang Qing had already given Cao Youyi an order to abandon Xinyang and withdraw to Hefei to hold on.

Although the Beijing camp relied on Gao Jie's persuasion to quickly recapture Xuyi, it had actually been caught in the two directions of Fengyang and Huai'an, and had become a salient to protect the last vestiges of Nanjing's dignity and avoid being humiliated by the enemy standing on Guabu Mountain. And Fang Guoan's first army retreated to Chuzhou, after all, Yang Qing really couldn't count on Ma Shiying's rabble, he could only rely on the Beijing camp if he wanted to hold Chuzhou, so that the Huai line had actually collapsed, and the Ming army retreated to the second line of defense in addition to the salient of Xuyi. The next thing to do is to defend a few key points, Yangzhou, Hefei, Wuchang, and at the same time ensure the salient of Xuyi in front of it, and as long as these four strategic points are lost, there is basically no play in Nanjing.

Similarly, Li Zicheng can't open this line, and he basically doesn't want to drink the Yangtze River.

Yang Qing, who was short of troops, could only play defense.

Although he can also lead his troops to attack, taking advantage of Li Zicheng's follow-up army not to arrive, counterattack to recapture a few points lost along the Huai, but it is still useless, because he has no trustworthy army to defend, he can rely on Jingying and Huang Fei, Cao Youyi's four armies, just Huang Fei guarding Yangzhou, Cao Youyi guarding Hefei, and the two armies of Jingying, one Xuyi and one Chuzhou, with those rabble. As for the gaps between these points, this is not a big deal, these points of the war between the north and the south must be fought for because of the control of water transportation, Li Zicheng can't open these points, even if the troops come to Nanjing, it is meaningless, he can't take hundreds of thousands of troops without logistics to besiege Nanjing.

That's suicide, not offense.

Second, Yang Qing was also afraid that there would be any chaos after he left Nanjing, he didn't dare to guarantee that there would be more pig teammates, and it would be fun if there was a brain-pumping night attack on the imperial city.

Nanming's lessons from the past.

There are a lot of pig teammates like Nanming who are still fighting under the city when the enemy soldiers are in the city.

But the situation is really dangerous.

In the silence, Xie Xuelong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, hurriedly walked in.

"Loyal and brave marquis, the envoy of Jiannu to Wusongkou."

He said.

"The Slave Emissary?"

Zhang Guowei's eyes lit up instantly.

(Yesterday went to relatives, I will try to go back to the previous time to send)