Although some businessmen are not related to the prince, they just come to do business ordinarily, and then they meet the prince, and get to take care of the businessmen who have made a fortune in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they sincerely helped, not only saved the money and lives of these princes, but also promised to help these princes go to Daming and return to their hometown to enjoy the rest of their lives. There are also businessmen www.biquge.info the pen fun pavilion, who are obviously related to the prince, and in the end squeezed out the last bit of money from these down-and-out princes.

In short, it is with these mediated and pervasive profiteers that the Ming army easily occupied Zhejiang and southern Anhui, and only a few counties such as Yiwu broke out in the middle, and the Ming army was easily victorious.

Of course, the most important thing is strength, these princes who run the place, one by one hold real power, theoretically they all have soldiers in their hands, but their soldiers are not comparable to Li Xiucheng's army, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not provide them with military salaries, all of them have to rely on these princes to raise their own funds, so most of the army is not only not equipped with good equipment, but also almost does not pay military salaries, soldiers have to help the princes do sundries, to put it bluntly, these so-called local defenders, in fact, are just miscellaneous servants of the prince's family, and there is no combat effectiveness at all.

Fortunately, these princes did not fight, and some of the princes who chose to fight against them were cut off by the soldiers before the Ming army could make a move, and then sacrificed to the Ming army.

Obviously, it is a disgusting transaction in which the prince and the businessmen do not want to fight, and then surrender in exchange for the power of keeping property, Chen Zhiting is stunned can be said to be the will of the people, depending on the word, he has not been an official for so many years, and he has mastered the two basic skills of thick and black.

Bai Gui didn't know these reasons, he just heard that the Ming Dynasty not only occupied the two southern Anhui prefectures of Ningguo Mansion and Guangdezhou, but also marched to Wuhu and Chizhou Mansions, and there was a great posture of grabbing the entire Jiangnan in his hands, which made him deeply worried, his mission was to negotiate with the Ming army to divide Jiangnan, and the authority given by the imperial court was to let the Ming Dynasty take Zhejiang at most, and Anhui and Jiangsu must be in the hands of the imperial court.

Bai Gui was silent for a moment and adjusted his tone: "Your country knows that my Great Qing Xiangyong has captured Wuhu and Chizhou, but it still wants to march to that place, it doesn't seem that it is the sincerity of peace talks." ”

Chen Zhiting said with a smile: "The two cities of Wuhu and Chizhou are close to the Yangtze River, and they have indeed been captured by your country. However, there are still a large number of Taiping troops in various counties and villages, and today you and I are crusading against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and these Taiping troops in the countryside will naturally be purged. It can be regarded as relieving the worries of the Xiangyong who are approaching Tianjing! ”

Bai Gui said with a calm face: "After the extermination of the long-haired bandits, how will the territory of Jiangnan be divided?" ”

Chen Zhiting said: "Of course, it is to conquer the city, and each depends on his ability!" ”

Bai Gui snorted: "Your country's appetite is too big, and I'm not afraid that I won't be able to digest it." ”

Chen Zhiting said: "There are few people in our country, so why worry about it." ”

Bai Gui sighed and patiently suggested: "Your country has Zhejiang, my country has southern Anhui and southern Jiangsu, and the land of bandits will be divided equally, and it will not hurt the harmony, what does Lord Chen think?" ”

Chen Zhiting said: "No, it is still necessary to rely on their own ability, the Taiping rebels advocate chaos, your two countries obey the orders of the heavens, whoever captures the city and land, it is God-given, and if the heavens do not take it, they will suffer their guilt!" ”

As the Ming army easily took Zhejiang, and also greatly seized the land in southern Jiangsu, at this time I still want to divide it equally, isn't that to spit out what I eat? If it was something else, Chen Zhiting didn't care much, but this was land, how could he give it to others.

But Bai Gui thinks: "Our army is fighting hard with the rebel elite soldiers, but your country is cleverly taking advantage of it on the side, don't you think it is unjust?" ”

Chen Zhiting waved his hand: "The Taiping bandit is just a grasshopper behind the ball, if your country is unwilling to contribute, get out of the way, and look at my Ming Wangshi's means." ”

You don't want to fight in front, and the Ming army that picks fruits in the back is cheap, so get out of the way and let the Ming army go, what Chen Zhiting said is still very domineering.

He was domineering, and Bai Gui retreated, Bai Gui is a politician, he is used to compromise, he is good at compromise, even if it is a foreigner, he can cooperate.

sighed and said: "The land south of the Yangtze River has a lot to do with our country, and your country really refuses to let it?" ”

If the Ming army really refuses to give in one step, there is no need for the Qing court to fight this battle, it is better to let the Hunan army withdraw now, and let the Ming army compete with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Chen Zhiting sighed: "It's not that there is no way. ”

Since there is a way, it is a matter of bidding, Bai Gui said: "Please speak." ”

"Yunnan!"

Chen Zhiting did not hesitate, obviously he had already prepared this answer, Chen Zhiting could not let the Qing army see no hope and give up the decisive battle with the Taiping army, then it would have to be a big battle between the Ming army and the Taiping army, and then he had to guard against a Hunan army group next to him, the situation was unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, so the land south of the Yangtze River must be divided equally in order to let the Qing army cooperate, but the Ming Dynasty will never give up the land in vain, so the Qing army will have to exchange the land.

And Zhu Jinglun's opinion was to ask the Manchus for Yunnan.

Bai Gui frowned, the other party was so ruthless, he was going to take away a province of the Qing Dynasty at once, but they only needed to give up half of the province they occupied, and they didn't have to make any effort to seize the hometown of the Qing Dynasty.

But if it has to be exchanged, Bai Gui believes that it is cost-effective to exchange Yunnan for half of the south of the Yangtze River, whether it is Anhui or Jiangsu, it is much more important than Yunnan, before the Taiping Rebellion, there were only more than 7 million people in Yunnan, while Jiangsu had more than 40 million people, and Anhui also had more than 30 million people, Yunnan is a remote place, but Suzhou and Anhui are rich and important in the south of the Yangtze River. Even after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wreaked havoc and the population dropped by 70%, there were still more than 20 million people here. The population of Jiangnan is one-third, and this place accounts for two.

However, he has no right to agree to this unexpected condition proposed by Da Ming, and if he can not cut the land, he will not cut the land, and he has been afraid of cutting the land in the Qing Dynasty over the years.

"Yunnan is just a remote place, but there are other ways, if you can, I am willing to pay the city fee, and redeem the Ningguo, Huizhou and other prefectures occupied by your country, all as a reward for friends to help our country recover the land."

At that time, the Song Dynasty could not defeat the Liao State and could not recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, so the Jurchens rose, destroyed the Liao State, and returned most of the sixteen states of Yanyun to the ally Song State, and Tong Guan, who led the troops of the Song State, gave the Jurchens a large amount of gold and silver treasures.

Chen Zhiting shook his head: "You can only exchange land for land, the boss will tell you the truth, this is what His Majesty explained, saying that he can't make the boss embarrassed, change to another person, Your Majesty will never exchange the land of Jiangnan for the land of Yunnan, boss, don't let down Your Majesty's hard work." ”

In fact, Chen Zhiting didn't understand it at first, he asked Zhu Jinglun about his intentions, and Zhu Jinglun told him that Yunnan has now become a place of right and wrong, Britain and France have to build the railway here, and it has become a crossroads, both countries very much want to infiltrate Sichuan, Yunnan will be a necessary place, where there will be no peace in the future, relying on the Manchus to defend here, they can't hold it.