The Battle of the Han River was the only decent battle in the Korean War, and although it was huge in scale, there were few casualties on either side because there was no actual decisive battle.

As a result, the Manchus began a new round of negotiations with the trading companies, and it was not until this time that the Manchus recognized Li Zhaoji's sincerity.

Prior to this, the Manchu side had always regarded Li Zhaoji as an anti-Qing demon, as if his hatred for Manchuria was deeper than that of the Ming Dynasty, so it had always regarded Li Zhaoji's various contacts and peace talks in the direction of the peninsula as conspiracy, but now it is different.

After the Qing army retreated to the north bank, the Han River froze again, and this time the freeze lasted for more than a month, even if the temperature rose again, there was no flood phenomenon, if the Oriental Trading Company marched, it would definitely be able to do it, but Li Zhaoji did not do this.

The march to the north shore will be nothing more than three outcomes, a big victory, a big defeat and a draw. A big defeat is completely unacceptable, and if it wins a big victory, the Manchu active mobile corps under the command of Zilharang will be severely damaged or even annihilated, which will directly lead to the breaking of the strategic balance in the continental direction.

Either the Manchus were destroyed by the Great Shun, or the Manchus surrendered to the Great Shun, either way, the final result was that the Great Shun completed the unification of the north, and then waved its army south to unify China.

If it ends in a draw, it will be a long battle, and it will be a waste of resources. None of these outcomes were favorable to the trading companies, so Li Zhaoji insisted on the strategic objectives set in the pre-war preparation stage, using war to promote peace and force the Manchus to recognize the occupation of the southern part of the peninsula.

The parties can sign a treaty for a period of peace. This was acceptable to both sides, and the Manchus could use this time to rebuild their armaments and train new armies for a later comeback.

The trading companies could also convert the abundant population they had gained on the peninsula into military power, and officially enter the ranks of the struggle for world dominance and the Central Plains.

The difference is only how the two sides divide the peninsula. On this point, the two sides launched a large-scale tug-of-war and a long period of attrition, which lasted until the end of the fourth year of Hongguang.

Neither side wants a decisive battle, so they can only play lip service, and there is only a low-intensity battle on both sides of the Han River, and then they each think of an off-the-board move.

Li Zhaoji's off-the-board move was to constantly encourage his allies, and the Dashun side launched an attack in western Liaoning, but it was obvious that in the case of the Dongfang Trading Company's lack of work, the Dashun side was also lacking interest, and the two sides confronted each other in the Ningyuan fortress, without even a sound of cannons, and they each nested in the fortifications, roasting sweet potatoes while roasting the fire and eating.

The Manchu Qing asked the Ming to help, and the Manchu and the Ming, who had been fighting for decades, came together because of the rise of the Great Shun, and also made a secret alliance.

The Manchu side hoped that the Ming could put pressure on the Eastern Trading Company, after all, the Oriental Trading Company was forming an alliance with the Great Shun, which touched the bottom line of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the case, Daming is very dissatisfied with this, but there is a good personal relationship between Daming's high-level and Li Zhaoji, and the two sides have close contacts, so Shen Youlong did not tear his face, but constantly sent henchmen to persuade Li Zhaoji, but he was also ready to tear his face, and was solved by Li Zhaoji with one move.

Li Zhaoji's method was more simple and rude, he directly ordered the court, the Xian king Li Hao to send his confidant ministers to Nanjing, to ask for the canonization of the Ming Dynasty as a gift, and also sent his son as a hostage.

Li Hao even said that as long as the Ming canonized him as the dynasty and the king of Xian, he would immediately sever relations with Dashun.

This trick can be described as a dignified conspiracy, which made the entire Nanjing court enter a state of carnival. In Li Zhaoji's eyes, the dynasty and Xianzhong are subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, and they will have a reputation, and they have no practical benefits, and there is no meaning in terms of face.

But for the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, this is a matter of orthodoxy, and the fact that the dynasty and the Xian are attached anyway proves that the Ming dynasty, which is partial to the south of the Yangtze River, is more like Chinese orthodoxy than the Dashun that has occupied the capital.

In addition, Li Zhaoji also had no intention of fighting a decisive battle with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and only wanted to seize more territory in Korea and the Xian Peninsula, which did not affect the strategic interests of the Ming Dynasty, so he no longer got involved in this matter.

In the end, Zilharang represented the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Yang Yandi represented the Oriental Trading Company, and Li Hao attended in person, and the three parties signed the "Han River Treaty" on the ice of the Han River.

The most important thing of the treaty is to divide the north-south boundary of the peninsula, which has been repeatedly determined by both sides several times as a natural boundary, with the main stream of the Han River and the Zhaoyang River, a tributary of the North Han River, a tributary of the Han River, as the boundary.

Deals and compromises are the norm in politics, and this is what Lee Siu Kee understands in his heart. The boundaries demarcated by the Treaty of the Han River were also advantageous for the trading companies, and the four provinces of Namsi proposed earlier, three of which were obtained in their entirety, and only Gyeonggi Province also received most of them, and they were all fertile plains, and they also received part of Gangwon Province, and Lee Zhaoji was satisfied with the land gained.

The only regret is that I didn't get Seoul, a very symbolic city, for the simple reason that the city of Seoul is north of the Han River.

In addition to the division of territory, the Treaty of the Han River also stipulated other provisions, such as that trading companies were not allowed to occupy the islands north of Kyaw Hwa Island, and that both sides were not allowed to station troops of more than 1,000 men within 30 miles of each side of the Han River.

No pontoon bridges are allowed to be built over the Han River, and only ferries are allowed in the Seoul area, and they are strictly controlled.

The treaty is valid for five years, after which it is automatically renewed for another five years if there is no objection from both parties.

Comparatively speaking, the Manchu side paid more attention to its own border security and external communication channels, and for some time after the treaty was signed, both sides still had delegations stationed in Seoul, constantly adding and revising various articles.

The scope of the treaty has also gradually expanded from the peninsula to the outer northeast and all coastal waters of the Yellow Sea.

The Manchus hoped that after the treaty was signed, they would not be involved in too many troops and resources in the direction of the peninsula, and could concentrate on dealing with western Liaoning and reorganizing the new army.

At the same time, the Manchus also wanted to cooperate with the trading companies in commerce, and the relations between the two sides were normalized, so that more goods could be obtained through legitimate trade, rather than allowing smuggling ships to play a game of cat and mouse with the fleets of the Eastern trading companies and anti-smuggling ships at sea.

However, the latter was rejected, and the Oriental Trading Company remained hostile to the Manchus, and the blockade of them persisted.

However, contrary to the expectations of the Manchu Qing side, Li Zhaoji insisted on cutting off political contacts between the two sides of the Han River, and demanded that a clause prohibiting the admission of fugitive slaves from the other side be included in the treaty.

This is a look of old and dead, so that the Manchu Qing always thought that Li Zhaoji had some conspiracy, but the conspiracy finally appeared in the second half of the fifth year of Hongguang.

In the second half of the fifth year of Hongguang, when the situation on the peninsula stabilized, Li Zhaoji launched a purge campaign in the name of Li Hao.

The Peninsula War made Li Hao a slave with three surnames, he was originally a proton sent to Shengjing by the Li Dynasty, and later served Dashun as the suzerain, accepted its canonization, and after the Peninsula War, he accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Hao's regime immediately entered the state of one country and two subordinates.

He declared himself a vassal to both the Ming and the Great Shun, and even secretly sent people to contact the Manchus, saying that everything was operated by the Oriental Trading Company behind the scenes, but in fact, Li Hao was the puppet of the Oriental Trading Company ruling the peninsula.

After the Peninsula War, Li Zhaoji quickly squeezed out the Li Laiheng stationed on the peninsula, and at the same time announced the restoration of the country in Gwangju, but the imperial court was an empty shell, only a few ministers of parliament, and even the six ministers could not get together, when the two classes of nobles on the peninsula thought that they could occupy a position in the court, Li Zhaoji immediately purged in the name of Li Hao, and announced that all the two classes of nobles were traitors who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and had no discipline, and then killed them.

Immediately, the untouchable status system of the dynasty and Xian was abolished, and the land of the two classes of nobles was distributed to the newly liberated untouchables and a large number of poor peasants who lacked land.

Coupled with the arrival of the Second Army on the peninsula to assist in the suppression of the thieves, the old forces led by the two classes of nobles disappeared immediately.

Li Zhaoji sent troops to the yamen of various state capitals, shackled officials to handle official business, and maintained his rule for a short time, and then removed people from the Kodansha and Jiangwutang to serve as officials in various parts of the court and Xian, and those Ming scholars who could not pass the Ming imperial examination found their goal in life in an instant, and the Kodansha was crowded for a while.

If you want to be an official in the Ming Dynasty, you still need to take the imperial examination, and after passing the palace examination, you can be completely sure of becoming a jinshi, but in the dynasty under the governance of the Oriental Trading Company, Xian, you only need to graduate from the Kodansha to get an official and a half position.

Under the auspices of Li Zhaoji, the various maladministrations left over by the Li dynasty were swept away, and the peninsula entered the stage of a new policy.

The purge was long and thorough, with two classes of nobles being the elite and at the same time the cultural class, and during the purge, they were either exterminated or taken on transport ships and sent to Golden State or Borneo.

However, because Golden State and Borneo are tropical regions, and the two classes of nobles from rich and noble backgrounds could not withstand the harsh climate of the region, after the beginning of the Mita system in Luzon, the Catholicism of Luzon was gradually adopted, and the two classes of nobles were transported north to Sado gold mines or develop Ezo.

At least 200,000 people were taken out of the peninsula, and the vast majority have never returned. In the Korean War, the trading company received 8 million courts, and 4.5 million of the young population experienced war, escape, and exile, and the population remained about 4 million, making it the most populous area in the area ruled by the trading company.

From the beginning of the four-year Korean Peninsula War to the end of the sixth year of Hongguang, Li Zhaoji stayed in Korea for two and a half years, and established a new bureaucratic system and taxation system for the DPRK.

The relationship between the trading companies and the Daiminshi class became closer and closer, and the membership of Kodansha began to diverge.

Kodansha recruits two kinds of people, poor scholars with no background, and allies with close ties to trading companies, and the latter requires letters of recommendation that only a few people can issue.

The fifth and sixth years of Hongguang were also the two years of expansion in the maritime direction, and the company gained a firm foothold in Luzon, while the development of the Golden State, the Americas, and Australia was also gradually improving.

After solving the population problem, trading companies entered a period of vigorous development.