In September of the third year of Xuande, the news that Li Yuntian had been waiting for finally came from Jiaozhi, Li Li killed the envoy sent by the king of Zhancheng to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to report to Emperor Xuande in mid-August, and cut off the head of the envoy and sent it to the king of Zhancheng, because the king of Zhancheng asked Emperor Xuande to send troops to recruit the traitors in Jiaozhi as a vassal state.

The envoy of the king of Champa was intercepted by the Japanese of Jilong Mountain in Xiaoliuqiu in the Yizhou Strait in early June, and then the Japanese of Jilong Mountain began to negotiate with Li Li about the envoy of the king of Champong and others.

After some bargaining, the two sides finally reached a deal at the price of 20,000 taels of silver, and Li Li paid 20,000 taels of silver and received a letter from the envoy of the king of Champa and the king of Champa to Emperor Xuande requesting an army.

The reason why the Japanese of Jilong Mountain contacted Li Li after capturing the envoy of the king of Jilong Mountain instead of asking for ransom from the Zhancheng State was because Li Li had already taken the lead in reaching an agreement with the Japanese of Jilong Mountain, and paid a deposit of 1,000 taels, asking the Japanese of Jilong Mountain to intercept the envoy sent by the Zhancheng State to the Ming Dynasty in the Yizhou Strait, and was willing to pay another 5,000 taels of silver after the matter was completed.

At the same time that Wu Qian returned to occupy the city, Li Yuntian secretly sent an envoy to Jiaozhou City to ask Li Li Xingshi for his guilt.

Due to the lack of information, Li Li was surprised to learn that General Dingnan of the Ming Dynasty had been assassinated in Liuzhou City, and that the assassin claimed to be a Jiaozhi man sent by him.

Judging from the current situation, the general Dingnan of the Ming Dynasty fulfilled his promise in full accordance with the agreement, not only ceased war with the rebels, but also transferred troops to Guangxi to suppress bandits, and made every effort to develop agriculture and economy within the territory under his jurisdiction, putting on a posture of indisputability, which made the pressure on the rebels plummet.

Li Li is now waiting for General Dingnan to present Emperor Xuande next year to make him the Tusi of Jiaozhi, and then he can streamline the huge rebel army and divert his energy to the construction of internal affairs.

According to Li Yuntian's confession, the envoy he sent to see Li Li was very arrogant, arrogant and domineering, claiming that Li Li was a capricious, despicable and treacherous villain, so General Nan was ready to tear up the agreement between the two sides, and Emperor Xuande sent 200,000 troops to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion.

Li Li never expected this to happen, at first he thought that his subordinates had done it, but after careful questioning, none of them admitted to sending someone to assassinate General Nam.

As the chief adviser of the rebels, Nguyen Yan quickly saw the clues from this assassination incident, and it was obvious that someone deliberately planted the blame for Le Li's assassination of General Dingnan, and then suspected that the Champa state in the south of Jiaozhi would benefit greatly from this incident.

Therefore, Le Li and Ruan Yan tried their best to appease the envoy, and swore that the person who assassinated General Dingnan in Liuzhou City was definitely not sent by the Jiaozhi rebels, and someone must have made trouble and pointed the finger at the Champa State.

After being "reminded" by Li Li and Ruan Yan, the envoy remembered something and told them that after the assassination of General Dingnan, he had seen the people of Zhancheng in Liuzhou City, as if he had asked to see General Dingnan, who had escaped death, but he did not know the specific details.

Upon learning of this important news, Le Ly and Nguyen Yan were even more suspicious that the assassination was committed by the people of Champa State, so they implored the envoy to convey the message to General Dinh Nam, solemnly stating that the rebels would absolutely strictly abide by the agreement reached between the two sides, and that the assassination was not committed by the rebels, but was deliberately framed.

After "bribing" the envoy sent by Li Yuntian with a large amount of money, the envoy's tone finally softened, saying that he would truthfully inform General Dingnan of the replies of the two, and urged the two to do their best to find out the mastermind of the assassination, and to explain to General Dingnan in the future.

After the envoy left, Li Li and Ruan Yan discussed the assassination of Liuzhou City, and Ruan Yan believed that the Champa State had planned the assassination, and the purpose was naturally to provoke the Ming Dynasty and make the Ming Dynasty go all out to encircle and suppress the rebels in Jiaozhi.

Moreover, Ruan Yan keenly felt that the Champa State sent people to Liuzhou City to meet the assassinated General Dingnan's intentions, if he was not mistaken, the Champa State probably wanted to send troops to assist the Ming army to attack the Jiaozhi rebels, because without the will of the Ming Emperor, the king of the Champa State could not interfere in the affairs of the Ming Dynasty, so the only way to achieve the purpose of sending troops was to General Guò Dingnan.

Li Li was not surprised by this, and if he were the king of Champang, he would do the same, and took the opportunity to finish off the other party, so as not to become a scourge in the future.

If the king of the Champa Kingdom wanted to send troops, according to the usual process, he had to send an envoy to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to ask Emperor Xuande to send troops.

Therefore, under Ruan Yan's Jianyi, Li Li sent people to contact the Japanese in Jilong Mountain in Xiaoliuqiu and asked them to intercept them.

As a result, the hard work paid off, and the Japanese of Jilong Mountain really stopped the envoy sent by the king of Champa to the Ming Dynasty, and found out from him the recital of the king of Champa to Emperor Xuande requesting troops to assist the Ming army in quelling the rebellion of Jiaozhi.

In this recital, the king of Champa found a reasonable reason for pointing out that the Jiaozhi rebels often went south to harass the Champong, looting property and killing the people.

However, in reality, this is not the case, the rebels are already struggling enough in the face of the Ming army, where can they still have the heart to provoke the Zhancheng State, and the Zhancheng State is just a reason to send troops.

When Li Li got the recital of the king of Champa and was immediately furious, once the recital of the king of Champa was sent to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, then Emperor Xuande was likely to agree to send his troops, so that the rebels of Jiaozhi would be attacked on their backs.

In Li Li's view, his main opponent in the Indochina Peninsula was not the Ming army, after all, the Ming army was laboring on an expedition and was not familiar with the place, so he was sure that the Ming army would be dragged to death in Jiaozhi.

However, the Zhancheng State is different, he is very familiar with the terrain of Jiaozhi, and he has repeatedly attacked Jiaozhou City, which can be described as a big trouble for his henchmen.

Therefore, Le Li ordered the head of the envoy of the king of Champa to be cut off and sent to the king of Champa for demonstration.

At the same time, Le Li also began to dispatch troops to gather troops in Shenghua Province, the southernmost part of Cochin, to prepare to take the lead in attacking the Champa state to prevent the rebels from being attacked on their backs.

In fact, the reason why Le Li decided to launch a large army against Champa was not because of the performance of the king of Champang, but because the conflict of interests between the military and the people in the territory of the Jiaozhi rebels became more and more severe, forcing Le Li to go to war against the Champa State in order to ease the relationship between the military and the people in the territory and transfer the internal contradictions to the outside.

The biggest problem that plagued Le Li was the rebels' finances, as the rebels and the Ming army were still at war, so they were unable to carry out foreign trade to obtain funds, so he had to collect taxes on the people and merchants in his jurisdiction.

The second is the lack of officials to manage local affairs, and some of the local officials are held by rebel generals, and some are recruited from the society, which makes the local officials not only limited in ability, but also mixed with good and bad, causing the local order to deteriorate rapidly.

In the face of the current predicament of the rebels, even Nguyen Yan was powerless, he was good at strategy rather than government affairs, so he also believed that attacking the Champa state was the best way to stabilize the hearts and minds of the people in the territory of the rebels, which not only diverted the contradictions between the military and the people in the rebel territory, but also solved the financial crisis of the rebels by looting money and goods from the Champa state.

Li Yuntian secretly breathed a sigh of relief after learning that Li Li had killed the envoy sent to the Ming Dynasty by the king of the Champa Kingdom, he was worried that Li Li would not be able to capture the envoy, so that he would not be able to provoke Li Li to take the initiative to attack the Champa Kingdom.

Moreover, once the envoy of the king of the Champa State arrives in Beijing, it will undoubtedly bring trouble to Li Yuntian, and now the civil and military officials in the court are trying their best to end the war in Jiaozhi, and nine times out of ten they will persuade Emperor Xuande to let the Champa State send troops to attack the rear of the Jiaozhi rebels, and flank the rebels with the counterinsurgency army in Jiaozhi, which will destroy Li Yuntian's plan.

In Li Yuntian's plan, he wanted to take advantage of the Jiaozhi rebels to capture the Champa State and then exterminate it, so that he could take advantage of the situation to take advantage of the Champa State, so he had to provoke Li Li to take the initiative to attack, so that he could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, so that the two sides could fight and lose both.

Li Yuntian knew very well that since Li Li had sent back the head of the envoy of the king of the Champa Kingdom, it was clear that he was going to use force against the Champa State, and that a war would definitely start in October at the latest.

It is worth mentioning that because the mountains and forests of Indochina are full of miasma in summer, the time for fighting is usually in winter, so as to avoid miasma, which means that there is not much time left for Li Li, if he cannot take the Champa state before May next year, then his military operations will be affected by the miasma in the mountains and forests, which has many disadvantages.

What's more, the rebels have always been in a state of quasi-combat readiness, and as long as Li Li gives an order, they will soon be able to enter the battle.

Therefore, Li Yuntian issued an order to the more than 20,000 recruits of the Xiaowu Army who had been training in Guangxi for more than half a year, ordering them to go and encircle and suppress the rebellion of Wei Wanhuang, Wei Chaochuan, and other barbarians in Liuzhou and Qingyuan Mansion.

After more than half a year of training, the more than 20,000 recruits of the Xiaowu Army in Guangxi have taken on a new mental outlook, not only have they gained a lot of weight, they are very strong, and their morale is high, and they can't wait to make meritorious contributions to the suppression of bandits, and then they can be turned into non-commissioned officers or officers of the Xiaowu Army.

According to the plan drawn up by Li Yuntian, the service period of this group of Xiaowu soldiers in Guangxi is five years, and after five years, they will retire and return home, and will be given five acres of land by the Jiangwutang to one person for cultivation, and they will enjoy the policy of three exemptions and two halves, that is, the land they cultivate will be exempted from paying the field tax to the Jiangwutang for the first three years, and only half of the field tax will be paid in the next two years.

Not only that, if Jiangwutang opens an industry in Guangxi, it will give priority to those retired soldiers and their families, which can be described as a good treatment.

As far as Li Yuntian is concerned, he is constantly working hard to change the people's perception of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty and turn joining the army into a profession in society that can support his family, only in this way can he recruit the best soldiers, and can also promote the development of the compulsory military service system, and truly hide the soldiers from the people.