Chapter 2445

The military's view of the situation in Northeast Asia is definitely different from that of the Executive Committee. For the Executive Committee, the trend of the international situation, geopolitical relations, and Haihan's interests in this region are the primary factors to consider, followed by

Military expenditures, logistics supplies, personnel arrangements and other issues. However, the generals who lead troops on the front line actually have a much simpler view. Whether they have combat missions is the most important thing, because this will not only affect the career development of the generals, but also

It will also directly affect the treatment and morale of the troops under your command.

If the war stops here and all countries enter a period of peace, then there will be no need for the several elite troops currently deployed in Northeast Asia to continue to be stationed on the front line. The daily military expenditures of troops such as special operations groups are higher than those of ordinary troops.

It is much higher, and it is not cost-effective to deploy them in areas with less war risks for a long time. Moreover, generals like Qian Tiandun and Wang Tom will definitely not be able to bear loneliness, and will not be willing to let the combat effectiveness of their troops slow down.

Even if the Ministry of National Defense does not make redeployments, they themselves will take the initiative to apply for redeployment according to changes in the situation.

Qian Tiandun was not surprised at all when he heard the conversation between the two men. One of the reasons why he supported the peace talks was that he hoped to liberate the elite troops of the generals from the northern battlefield, because Liaodong was too far away from the mainland of Haihan, and the country

There is no way to support them to show their strength here, and continuing to station in Liaodong will only maintain the current confrontation situation, which is a waste of the combat effectiveness of these elite troops.

However, the negotiations have not yet begun. Tao Donglai is actually not sure whether the negotiations can be concluded, so he still has to show caution regarding the imagination of these two generals: "You don't have to rush to plan the next step.

, let’s do the things in front of us first. If there is anything I haven’t considered thoroughly enough, you must remember to remind me.”

Wang Tom responded: "Mr. Tao, now the weather, location, and people are all in our hands. Although it is a consultation between the four countries, in fact the other three countries have to look at our faces to act, so I am personally very optimistic about this negotiation.

the result of."

"Don't be too happy too early. Just stay cautiously optimistic." Tao Donglai's attitude is still very conservative: "We don't know what the bottom line is that they can accept. We can only test it slowly during the talks."

The shouting and cursing of the Manchu and Qing envoys outside the Nanguanling camp continued, and the crowd of onlookers also increased from a few hundred people when the Manchu and Qing envoys arrived here a few days ago to thousands. However, due to the reinforcement of the Haihan Army

Although they were on alert, no one dared to take more radical measures. However, these voices of shouting and cursing from a distance inevitably spread through the air into the camp and drifted into the tent where the Manchu envoys lived.

"Your Majesty, Haihan deliberately allowed these unruly people to shout and curse outside, why should we swallow our anger? Even if we can't kill these unruly people, we still have to give them some pain!"

In the tent, a Qing army officer was angrily complaining about the shouting outside. Judging from his accent, he was obviously a Han Chinese. He put one hand on the saber on his waist, as if he was going to go out as soon as his superiors gave the order.

Let's go find trouble with those unruly people.

Sitting on the chair opposite him was a muscular man in his thirties, wearing a blue brocade robe, with a long face and yellow skin, broom eyebrows and a mustache. It was Shang Kexi who was participating in the talks on behalf of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. From his appearance, it was hard to tell.

It turned out that he was a decisive and decisive general, more like a wealthy businessman.

Shang Kexi's mood was obviously much calmer than that of this subordinate, and he responded unhurriedly: "What's the matter if I just let them scold me? Can they scold me and kill a hair on my head? The most important thing is those ignorant people outside. , why are you so anxious?"

The officer was still very angry: "They are so disrespectful to the prince, but the Haihan people don't control them. It's really hateful!"

Shang Kexi shook his head slightly and said: "You are thinking too simply. Not only did the Haihan people not control it, it was probably them who arranged this drama. If I act angry about this, then I will be playing into their ways." Over the years, are there fewer people scolding me openly or secretly? If no one scolds me anymore, then there will be problems."

Shang Kexi is a Ming Han with roots in the Ming Dynasty. His ancestral home is Hongdong County, Shanxi. His grandfather's generation moved to Haizhou, Liaodong and settled there. When Shang Kexi was eighteen years old, his mother died in the war between Hou Jin and Liaoshen. , then father and son joined the Ming Army one after another. His father, Shang Xueli, went to Pi Island with Mao Wenlong to serve. Later, after joining the Navy of the Ming Army, Shang Kexi also went to Pi Island to find his father, and was adopted by Mao Wenlong as his adopted grandson.

Shang Kexi's father also died in the war with Hou Jin. It can be said that there was actually a deep hatred between him and Hou Jin. However, due to failure in the power struggle within Dongjiang, Shang Kexi defected to the enemy. But in order to survive, he put all the hatred of the country and family behind. Such behavior naturally attracted a lot of infamy.

But then again, if the Ming Dynasty hadn't scolded him so much that the whole country wanted to drown this traitor with saliva, how would Huang Taiji have believed that a Ming general whose parents died at the hands of the Manchus would sincerely surrender to him, let alone It is said that later on, Shang Kexi was awarded the title of King Zhishun, and his birthplace of Haizhou was given to him as a fief.

Shang Kexi is actually very clear about his own value. He is now a corporal of Huang Taiji, and he has yet to be embodied by the Han ministers. As for whether he has the ability to lead troops in war, that is secondary. If Huang Taiji wants to attract Han talents to work for him, then It is gratifying to have Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde and others serve as role models. The higher the courtesy they, the rebel generals of the Ming Dynasty, and their surrendered ministers receive from the Manchus, the less resistance they will encounter when the Qing Dynasty conquers the Ming Dynasty in the future.

But since these people can betray the Ming Dynasty, it is of course difficult to say whether they can remain loyal to the Manchu Qing. In addition to giving high-ranking officials generous salaries, they will definitely monitor their relationship with the Ming Dynasty in case the situation goes wrong one day. These guys He jumped back to Daming again.

The more Ming Dynasty officials and people hated them and their attitudes became more hostile, the more Huang Taiji felt relieved about these people. After all, they had no other way out and had no choice but to work for the Manchus. Shang Kexi only spent ten He climbed from an unknown person to the position of a prince in a few years, so he certainly has a good mind, and he has already figured out the truth. So after arriving in Jinzhou, although there were people yelling at him by name every day outside the camp, he still had a good mind. Fortunately, there is no pressure. He knows that someone will report these situations to Huang Taiji. The more he is scolded and angered in Jinzhou, the more Huang Taiji will feel at ease with him. If he comes here and is warmly entertained, no one will If he is treated as a traitor, then there will be real trouble.

Even opponents like Qian Tiandun may not be able to understand the complicated truth here, let alone his officers. Therefore, although Qian Tiandun deliberately did not stop the yelling outside the camp, this behavior is actually The impact on Shang Kexi was very limited, and the more he scolded him, the more he felt at ease.

What really makes Shang Kexi feel uneasy is the prospect of this negotiation. Last winter, the Qing army went south to enter the customs. On the one hand, it was a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty, which had been unwilling to negotiate, and to further exert military pressure on it. On the other hand, it was also

I want to see the extent of the so-called military alliance between Haihan and Ming Dynasty, and whether the Haihan army will directly enter the Ming Dynasty to fight, just like they did in Korea before.

Although the Qing army's southern invasion can be said to have gone as smoothly as cutting melons and vegetables, and no trace of the Haihan army was found in the Ming Dynasty, the Haihan army still launched a new round of looting along the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula this winter.

, it seems that you fight yours and I fight mine, neither intending to have a truce with the Manchus, nor wanting to fight on the frontal battlefield. Huang Taiji and his ministers all believed that Haihan had already had the ability to send troops to the Ming Dynasty to participate in the war.

, but in the end no troops were sent, and they only made some small moves in the Liaodong Peninsula. This only shows that the relationship between Haihan and Ming Dynasty is not as close as they claimed to the outside world.

And this became an opportunity for Huang Taiji to decide to negotiate peace with Haihan. He believed that since Haihan had no intention of saving the Ming Dynasty, he could use the Haihan people's favorite trade or other feasible conditions in exchange for Haihan.

Stop all military operations on the Liaodong Peninsula.

In view of the fact that the generals of the Haihan Army were actually Han Chinese, Huang Taiji also carefully selected Shang Kexi as the person in charge of the armistice and peace talks. In Huang Taiji’s view, Shang Kexi was very smart and had experience in Dongjiang Town. He had great influence on Liaodong.

He has a good understanding of history, humanities, and geography, and there are no language and cultural barriers in communicating with the Haihan generals, so he should be more suitable to complete this task. As for the other two kings among the three Shun kings, who are also Han Chinese, they were not selected because they had already

He led his troops to fight against Haihan's army on the Daheishan defense line, but barely gained any advantage. Huang Taiji believed that they would be at a psychological disadvantage if they sat down to negotiate with Haihan, so in the end they chose Shang Kexi to take charge of the matter.

But Shang Kexi believes that there is another reason why Huang Taiji chose him, that is, he served in Dongjiang Town for many years before defecting to the Manchus. Now that the people in Dongjiang Town have actually collectively committed treason and chosen to join the Haihan people, Shang Kexi is very happy.

There will be no pressure on Jinzhou. After all, the commander-in-chief Shen Shikui, deputy general Jin Riguan and others who were in charge of Pidao are now working under the Haihan people. To be honest, they are no more noble than Shang Kexi.

However, what makes Shang Kexi slightly regretful is that after entering Jinzhou this time, he has not met any of his former colleagues. Especially Shen Shikui, who wanted to kill him back then, I heard that he has given up on his own initiative.

Bing Quan has switched his career to business. If he could meet him, Shang Kexi would definitely ridicule him - they all betrayed the Ming Dynasty and went to other countries. I have become a prince in the Qing Dynasty, but you Shen Shikui is living more and more back.

Now that even the military power is gone, people move to higher places and water flows to lower places. It is clear at a glance which of the original choices was higher or lower.

It was a pity that Haihan did not arrange such an opportunity for him. After the mission arrived in Jinzhou, they were taken to the Nanguanling Camp to stay. The people outside could not get in, and naturally they could not get out. This Jinzhou

This is a war zone, so it is natural to restrict their movements. The local general Haihan did not seem to have any intention of receiving them immediately. He just asked them to stay in peace and wait for all parties to arrive before formal talks could begin.

Fortunately, there were no discounts on food, accommodation and treatment. They were provided with delicious food and drinks every day, especially the various fine wines produced by Haihan, which immediately became the favorite of the Manchu envoys. Since they could only spend all day in

There were activities inside and outside the tent they were staying in, and out of boredom, the people in the delegation could only drink and chat to pass the time.

However, the supply of these fine wines is not unlimited. There is only a small quota every day. After drinking it, you can only buy it out of your own pocket. The Haihan people have good reasons. These wines are shipped from the south thousands of miles away, and the shipping cost alone is

The cost was very high, and of course it was impossible to supply them all for free. In desperation, they had no choice but to buy some more on their own, but these wines were very expensive, and even though the officials in the mission were wealthy, they still felt a sense of pain.

Shang Kexi joined the army at a young age and spent half of his life in the army. Naturally, he also likes to drink. However, most of the wines he can drink on weekdays are made with crude craftsmanship and the taste is far from the level of Haihan wine, let alone Haihan wine.

Hanjiu also had a variety of flavors to choose from, which made him so addicted that he even felt that he had drank more than 20 years of wine in vain. In just a few days, he spent hundreds of taels of wine on wine.

, even when I was slightly tipsy, I couldn't help but sigh that this Haihan people were indeed as good at business as rumored, and even during the armistice and peace talks, they did not forget to seize the opportunity to make money.

But it is not necessarily true to say that the Haihan people were greedy for money. The people in the envoy took advantage of the opportunity of buying wine to get close to the Haihan soldiers and tried to bribe these people with money, but they were all sternly rejected.

Shang Kexi believes that this can only mean one thing. Selling alcohol to the mission is a deliberate arrangement from the top management of Haihan, and strictly guarding the mission to prevent any inquiring about information is the normal state of the military camp. From another perspective, if

If someone really leaked the information to them, it was most likely the Haihan people's method. They pretended to be true and sometimes they were true. They had no way of distinguishing the authenticity of the information in this closed environment. Even if they could buy the information, the credibility of it would be very low.

There will also be doubts.

Why did the Haihan people specially make such an arrangement? Shang Kexi believes that this is not out of good intentions. But it seems unreasonable to deliberately get the officials of the mission drunk. If they really want to do that, there is no need to limit the supply.

They had to spend extra money to buy it. After thinking about it, Shang Kexi could only think that the Haihan people were preparing for future trade. After all, these wines are really good things. If they could be trafficked into the Qing Dynasty, even if the price was high, they would

There is a good market, and there must be a lot of princes and nobles willing to spend money to buy these fine wines. And they, the officials of the mission, are probably the best candidates to do voluntary publicity for these fine wines.
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