In the first month of the 11th year of the Ming Republic, Beijing, Xiyuan, General Li Dayuan.

After many years, when I came to this royal garden on the bank of the Forbidden City again, the mentality of General Li Zhongshan and General Li was very different.

Because of his Great General's Day Flag, he is now hunting and fluttering over the White Pagoda on Baita Mountain on Qionghua Island in Xiyuan. In the West Garden, on the shore of the Three Seas, most of the people who come and go are Ming officers and soldiers wearing Ming red uniforms.

The Ming army led by Li Yat-sen had successfully entered Beijing, the capital of the former Ming Emperor, in the last month of the tenth year of the Ming Republic, and his general Xingyuan was simply placed in the West Garden on the edge of the Forbidden City.

But Daming is not the only owner of Beijing now!

In addition to the Ming army, there were also Wu Zhou's army and the Beiyang army of "unknown nationality". Moreover, Wu Zhoujun and the Beiyang Army came earlier than the Ming Army, among which the Beiyang Army entered Beijing on the second day of November, and also carried out a Beijing uprising in Beijing, driving away the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai and the Crown Prince Baoqing of the Qing Dynasty!

And Wu Zhou's army entered Beijing on November 18, half a month later than Yang Qilong's Beiyang army, but they were also stationed with their military exploits - Bumu Butai sent to rescue Changning and Empress Yang's 50,000 Mongolian cavalry and 10,000 Zhenghuangqi new army, which was defeated by the Wu Zhoujun commanded by the old man Ma Baoma, among which the Zhenghuangqi new army led by Suo Etu was still surrendering to Wu Zhou in a desperate situation, and the Horqin prince Bandi and the king of Horqin County, Biliktu, both called the bamboo lancers of the Wu family to be stabbed to death!

In addition, Wu Yingqi also sent the general Wu Zhimao to lead 20,000 cavalry from Changping Prefecture to attack and capture the Kaiping Mansion in Shangjing of the Qing Dynasty!

With the capture of Kaiping Mansion and the annihilation of 60,000 Mongol-Manchurian coalition troops, Wu Yingqi is of course qualified to lead troops into Beijing and sit at the negotiating table for the division of the Qing Dynasty!

Although Li Yat-sen came the latest, he arrived in Beijing in late December of the 10th year of the Republic. But he has the most chips in his hand! The main force of the Qing Dynasty was wiped out by him, the regent of the Qing Dynasty surrendered to him, and the late Qing Emperor Kangxi was also assassinated by the daughter of Ao Bai while fighting against him (the official announcement must have said so), and all of Shandong under the rule of the Great Qing Dynasty, most of Zhili and Henan, were occupied by Li Yat-sen's army.

Moreover, Li Zhongshan's Northern Expeditionary Army alone has as many as 400,000 front-line troops, which is far stronger than the army in the hands of Wu Yingqi and Yang Qilong!

However, since Yang Qilong had the merit of the Beijing Uprising, and Wu Yingqi had the merit of destroying the Mongol-Manchurian coalition army and recovering Kaiping, Li Zhongshan could not immediately tear his face and start a war with them.

Besides, Li Yat-sen's army had been fighting for several months in a row, and had swallowed a lot of territory. And the back road is still flooded. Now the place where the Yellow River has burst its banks needs to be blocked, the newly occupied territory needs to be digested, and the troops also need to rest and replenish. Moreover, the weather in the north is too cold, and the Huai army and the southern army are a little unbearable. It will have to be suspended until April and May before the large-scale expedition can be resumed.

Therefore, after Li Yat-sen arrived in Beijing, he decided to convene a Beijing peace conference to divide the Qing legacy, and also invited Kong Yuqi, the prince of Confucius, who arrived in Beijing with him, to come forward and invite all families and factions to gather in Beijing to discuss the partition.

And these various factions, of course, are not only the three families of the Ming Dynasty, the Great Zhou, and the Beiyang, although the Qing Dynasty is dead, but such a large territory is placed there! Moreover, not all of these territories were directly under the Qing court, and a large number of territories were given to large and small princes. Some of these princes had enough strength at their hands to take a seat at the table to determine their future fate.

In addition, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, England, and Japan, the "allies" of the Qing Dynasty, stationed missions in Tianjin. Now that the Qing Dynasty is gone in the blink of an eye, they can't come and take a look?

The Qing Dynasty was the main force of the Eleven-Nation Alliance in the East Asian Theater of World War 0!

The Qing Dynasty is dead, and Wu Zhou sees that he is going to make peace alone, how can this East Asian battlefield be supported?

Moreover, the situation in the western theater during this period was also very unfavorable to the Eleven Alliance, Louis XIV slaughtered in all directions, first marching into Rome, supporting Catholicism, sweeping northern Italy, and then attacking the west and east, feinting to attack Spain proper, and then taking the Spanish Netherlands. Although England, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Empire sent troops to war with Louis XIV, Louis's French army was still at ease with one enemy and four enemies.

In the summer campaign of 1683, the French army also defeated the "British, Dutch, German, and Spanish" coalition forces, captured Brussels and Antwerp one after another, and dealt a devastating blow to the 65,000 HRE army commanded by the Duke of Lorraine, killing and capturing 50,000 of them!

Due to the heavy losses suffered by the HRE in the Spanish Netherlands, the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, which had always wanted to make a big wave in Central Europe, began to make a move - in the original history, the Ottoman-Turkish Empire had already attacked the HRE! However, in the past two years, Sultan Mehmed IV postponed his westward expansion plan due to Wu Zhou's repeated invasions of Persia, which made the Ottoman-Turkish Empire feel the danger and the opportunity to divide Persia.

However, with the destruction of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Zhou had to face the powerful Ming alone on the Eastern Front, and it was possible to transfer Wu Shicong's army to the east and make peace with Persia at the same time.

Once the Ottoman-Turkish Empire's worries were lifted, the Holy Roman Empire, which had been weakened by the French, was likely to face a great threat from the East, and the Holy Roman Empire was not only a barrier to Western Europe, but also the most important source of troops for Spain, the Netherlands, England and other countries!

If the Germans worship Allah, then where will Spain, the Netherlands, and England go to recruit troops? And it is also possible that Louis of France marched into Austria under the banner of Catholicism when the Shinra collapsed, and replaced him.

At that time, a great empire that ruled Western and Central Europe would be born!

In addition, the rule of the Kingdom of Spain in the New World was on the verge of collapse!

The army of the Aztec Republic is in the hall. After a great victory at the Battle of the Carmen estate, he crossed the Sierra Madre do Sul and began to approach the Mexica Valley step by step. And the Indians, mixed-race whites, and even some native whites in New Spain were bewitched by the republican ideas of the Aztec Republic and joined the Aztec Republican Army one after another!

New Spain is a bit precarious!

In this case, Spain, the Netherlands, England, Portugal all intended to end the war in the East as soon as possible. Therefore, the embassies of Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and England in Tianjin also came to Beijing with a cheeky face.

As for the Japanese mission, the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan theoretically did not go to war with the Ming Dynasty, but they provided a large number of mercenaries for Spain, the Netherlands, and England, and these mercenaries were sent to the beachhead of Hangzhou Bay by the Spaniards and the Dutch in large numbers, captured seven or eight castles, including the county seat of Pinghu, and launched several attacks on the county seat of Jinshan, Xiushui, the city of Jiaxing, and Lou County, the city of Songjiang, but they were all repelled by Li Zhongzheng.

And in this process, Japanese mercenaries were constantly sent to Pinghu, and the number of troops put into it has reached as many as sixty or seventy thousand!

However, with so much investment, no breakthrough has been formed, and there are still signs of falling into the quagmire of trench warfare, and it is not easy to withdraw the troops now. Because the ocean-going fleet of the Daming Navy, which sailed to the Americas before, has returned to the Western Pacific! It also passed directly through the Luzon archipelago into the South China Sea and posed a threat to Dutch domination in the East Indies and the Strait of Malacca!

In this case, the Spanish Armada naturally had to go south to find a decisive battle with the ocean-going fleet of the Ming Navy, and as soon as they left, the logistical supply of the Japanese mercenaries who were thrown on the shore of Hangzhou Bay became a problem.

Therefore, the Tokugawa shogunate also wanted to make peace with the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible while he still had some capital in his hand. It would be even more ideal if the land in Pinghu County could be exchanged for some "city rewards".

In addition, during the decisive battle of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Golden Horde, who had been stationed in the Ulan Butong Mountain in Mobei, also sent a mission to Beijing. The purpose of Galdan is to possess the Mobei grassland and the Moxi grassland, and become the "Great Khan" of the whole Mongolia!

In short, the current city of Beijing is a "Game of Thrones table" where representatives of various forces gather, and players from all walks of life want to play at this table!

And Li Zhongshan, as the player with the most chips and the biggest hole cards at this table, of course, does not mind playing so many games in all aspects during the rest of his army.

Today, on the sixteenth day of the first month of the 11th year of the Republic, the general who had finished the "Tangyuan Festival" left Qionghua Island early in the morning under the guidance of his sister-in-law, the former Empress Yang of the Qing Dynasty, and went all the way south along the west bank of the frozen Taiye Pond, straight to Yingtai Island.

Yingtai Island is theoretically the place of Yang Xiaomi's "house arrest", but the former Empress of the Qing Dynasty who was under house arrest can still move freely in the West Garden, and can even enter and leave Qionghua Island, where the general himself lives, and can also meet guests on Yingtai Island - mainly to meet some old relatives and friends, such as Wu Yingqi, the prime minister of Wu Zhou, Nalan Mingzhu, the former governor of Liaodong in the Qing Dynasty, Duolong, the former governor of Liaodong in the Qing Dynasty, Yang Qilong, the former minister of Beiyang in the Qing Dynasty and the supervisor of North Korea, and the "good sister" of Empress Yang Anukodun (Galdan's wife).

Today, it was Wu Yingqi and Yang Qilong who came to visit, so Li Zhongshan and Yang Xiaomi, who got the news, left Qionghua Island together, and then arrived on foot to Yingtai Island.

The place where Yang Xiaomi arranged for Li Yat-sen to meet Wu Yingqi and Yang Qilong was the Hanyuan Hall on Yingtai Island.

At the beginning of the meeting, there were only Li Yat-sen, Wu Yingqi, Yang Qilong, Yang Xiaomi and Shang Shuying, who was in charge of serving tea and pouring water, in the huge Hanyuan Palace, there were only five people, and everyone else left Yingtai Island.

"Wu Xiangye, General Li, we are all our own people, we worked together to fight against the Qing Dynasty back then, and now it is finally done! Now the Qing Kingdom has cooled, but there are still a lot of industries left, how to divide the huge foundation, let's discuss it first? ”

After greeting for a while, Yang Qilong changed his words and went straight to the point and got to the point.

"Shi Kai, this destruction of the Qing Dynasty is mainly due to you and the Ming Dynasty, and our Wu Zhou just helped out. This land in Shanxi, I, Wu Zhou, only take Datong Mansion, and the rest of the land within the Great Wall, which originally belonged to the Qing Dynasty, Wu Zhou will not take it. What do you think? ”

Of course, Wu Yingqi didn't dare to ask for too much Han land, after all, Da Ming couldn't afford to provoke it now! Moreover, what Wu Zhou lacked was not land, but population, a population that could follow Wu Zhou to move west.

Li Zhongshan smiled slightly when he heard this: "Prime Minister Wu, do you still want Meiyu (Wu Shifan) to be the late emperor of Eastern Wu?" ”

Wu Yingqi's face turned gloomy, and his tone sank: "Li Shikai, what do you mean?" It's not enough to swallow the Qing Kingdom, and you still want to kill me Wu Zhou? ”

Li Zhongshan said: "In the past, Sun Quan once asked Zhuge Zhi and Wei Wen to float 10,000 people to Taiwan, but unfortunately they were killed by miasma on the island, and they died of a lot of diseases. Every time Zhongshan reads this history, he feels sorry for Zhuge Zhi and Wei Wen. In fact, from the mouth of the Yangtze River to Kyushu Island, but 1,500 miles by sea, it is almost the same as going to Taiwan. Moreover, the climate on Kyushu Island is similar to that of Middle-earth, and there is no miasma, and there are already indigenous and Chinese immigrants living together on the island. If the Wu army arrives, it will definitely be able to open up a county. Zhuge Zhi and Wei Wen took the stage in the second year of Huanglong, and there were still 50 years before the fall of Eastern Wu. If he can run Kyushu for 50 years, when Sun Hao dies in Wu, can he go to Kyushu by boat, go to Kyushu, and then open the foundation of Dongwu? ”

"Do you want my Great Zhou to abandon the ancestral inheritance and move west to the barren land of Hezhong and Mughul?" Wu Yingqi had long known Li Zhongshan's thoughts, but he was still unwilling. Although the land of Hezhong and Mughal is large enough, it is much larger than Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou. But the population there is too small, and the Han people are even less. After the Wu family ran away, it was really not easy to manage the situation of the Wu family in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.

"The middle of the river and the land of Mughal can not be a barren land," Li Zhongshan turned his head to look at the graceful Yang Xiaomi, "Xiaomi, do you know what the land of the river and the Mughal land is." Let's talk about it! ”

Yang Xiaomi smiled slightly, and owed Wu Yingqi: "Prime Minister Wu Cheng doesn't know, although the river is dry and rainless, which is not conducive to farming, but there is a blessed land in Taiping Valley, because there is snow melting in the Tianshan Mountains, and the water and soil are abundant, which is no less than Sichuan Tianfu. On that day, Xuan Ye also wanted to use the land of Tianfu in Taiping Valley as a retreat. I didn't expect that the destiny of heaven was over, and there was no blessing to go to the west. Prime Minister Wu, don't learn from Xuan Ye! ”

Li Zhongshan said: "Prime Minister Wu, I must unify the Central Plains!" Wu Zhou might as well move to the west of Yeerqiang's hometown, and the land of Hezhong and Mengwuer will all belong to the Great Zhou, and in the future, the Western Zhou and Dongming will be each other's brotherly countries. If the prime minister feels that the population of Hezhong and Mughal is insufficient, even if he moves more bannermen to Kaiping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion, he can go with Prime Minister Wu! The population of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu, Prime Minister Wu Cheng, how much do you want to move to the West, and the Ming Dynasty will not stop you! ”

As he spoke, he looked at Yang Qilong again.

Yang Qilong smiled: "Prime Minister Wu, if you think that this travel fee is not enough. Credit Suisse Hall can lend a sum of money, how about 10 million taels? If you find it troublesome to move, you can ask the Jin merchants in Shanxi to help, they are good at doing this! ”

Wu Yingqi is also calculating, there are about 200,000 Han people (banner people) in Taiping Valley, and another 200,000 from Beijing and Kaiping will not be a big problem in the past, and about 100,000 Jin merchant groups in Shanxi can move over, and Horqin Mongolia is a nomadic herder, and it is not a problem to move 300,000 people in the past. Wu Zhou's own hinterland can always move five or six hundred thousand upwards one after another.

In addition, Wu Zhou had already migrated a large number of Shaanxi-Gansu Hui people and the Chagatai and Hui people of the Western Regions to Hezhong, and two or three hundred thousand people had passed there one after another.

Together, all of the above are about 2 million.

The population of 200 is about 20% of the total population of Wu Zhou in Han now, and even if you add the locals in the Hezhong and Mughal areas, the population will double at most, and it will be about 4 million.

Besides, Galdan is also aiming at the grasslands of the Mughal people, and most of them have scored a lot, which is really not easy for the whole country to move westward! No, you have to pay more!

(End of chapter)