No matter how Chen Yue explained, Li Guo didn't believe it, and in Li Guo's opinion, this was just an excuse for Chen Yue to whitewash himself. Let your wife be the emperor first, and then let your wife pass the throne to herself, but the emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually agreed to pass the throne to his daughter, and even let a woman be the emperor, this surnamed Chen is really good at playing! Li Guo didn't know what to say.

Looking at Li Guo's expression, Chen Yue didn't want to explain more. Damn it, believe it or not! How can a thief understand Lao Tzu's behavior?

"In short, the rampant rebellion of the Ainengchi is just an illusion, as long as I say a word, the rebels will understand that they will disarm and become a Ming army. So, General Quan, you still don't expect the Ming Dynasty to profit from the civil strife. Until the Shun army is wiped out, my hundreds of thousands of Northern Expeditionary Army will not withdraw to the south at all. Chen Yue finally said.

Judging from Chen Yue's demeanor and tone, it didn't look like a lie, and with Chen Yue's status, there was no need to make an appointment to fool himself into surrendering by words, Li Guo's heart suddenly became heavy.

Since there was no internal turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, there was probably not much time left for the Shun army.

It was really difficult for Li Guo to rely on 200,000 newly recruited soldiers to resist and defeat the elite Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty, and in the Battle of Luoyang, he knew how different the combat effectiveness of the two sides was.

However, if you want me to surrender, it is indeed a dream!

"King Qi, in that case, why do you still want to negotiate with me, and simply bring a large army to kill you soon?" Li Guo sneered.

Chen Yue sighed: "Although you are rebellious, most of them are also my Ming people, and most of them are forced by life to take risks.

Since everyone is Han Chinese, there is no need to kill corpses all over the field. Now that the strength and weakness are clear, any resistance you will only cause some more unnecessary casualties. In the past 20 years, the world has been in turmoil, there have been too many dead, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, the entire Yellow River on both sides of the continuous war, the people do not survive, this king really does not want to kill again, do not want to die again.

So I can promise you, as long as you are willing to lay down your arms, I promise that everyone will be okay!

Ordinary soldiers can be disarmed and civilized, and the court will distribute the ownerless land to you, etc., and I will report to the court to exempt the war-torn northern provinces from paying taxes for three years to recuperate.

As for General Quan, you and other generals of the Shun army can choose to join the Ming army to lead the troops. Now, although Manchu has been driven out of the pass, it has not been completely eliminated, and there are still Mongolians on the steppe who covet my Ming territory from time to time, and there will be a place for you to use force in the future! ”

For Li Guo and other Shun troops, Chen Yue can be said to have released the greatest kindness, after all, compared with appeasing hundreds of thousands of Shun troops, it is easier and more direct to send a large army to exterminate them.

Moreover, Chen Yue's current position is actually a little embarrassing, after all, there is still the Ming Dynasty above, Chen Yue is not in power yet, if the news of his private appeasement of the rebels comes out, I am afraid there will be a lot of trouble.

However, Chen Yue has no confidence in whether he can be appeased, after all, the Shun army still occupies a province in Shaanxi, with hundreds of thousands of troops, and it has not reached a dead end.

Sure enough, after listening to Chen Yue's words, Li Guo directly refused: "King Qi, although the army under your command is strong, my hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Shun army are not given in vain.

For more than ten years, our Shun army and the Ming army have fought countless battles, and the hatred has long been as deep as the sea, and the emperor died in the hands of the Ming army. So, if you want us to surrender, it's simply impossible! ”

Chen Yue persuaded bitterly: "General Quan, don't you think about the lives of your hundreds of thousands of subordinates?" ”

Li Guo sneered: "Since the day they rebelled with me, I know that they may not be able to die well. King Qi, if you really have good intentions, you shouldn't bring troops to attack. Let me make a proposal, how about you and I strike the war with mountains and rivers as the boundary? To the west of the Yellow River in Tongguan is the border of my Dashun country, and to the east is the Ming Dynasty. ”

Chen Yue frowned and said, "General Quan, are you kidding?" ”

Li Guo sneered: "King Qi, why aren't you joking, it is a joke to make hundreds of thousands of soldiers defect to me with a few words." For the sake of the reputation of the King of Qi, you expelled the captives, so I came to meet you. Since we've seen it, let's go back and see you on the battlefield! ”

After speaking, Li Guo wanted to turn the horse back.

"Wait a minute!" Chen Yue hurriedly stopped.

"What? Does King Qi want to leave me here? Li Guo pressed the sword soldier on his waist and asked with a cold face, at this moment he was a little eager to try, wanting to see the force of the world-famous King of Ming Qi!

Chen Yue shook his head: "Definitely." I just want to remind General Quan that if the battle is unfavorable, you can lead the army to the west, and after crossing the desert, there will be another world. This world is very large, in addition to the Ming Middle Earth, there is an incomparably vast land outside the territory, with the power of the general, conquer the alien race and establish their own kingdom outside the territory. ”

After saying this, Chen Yue turned his horse back.

Looking at Chen Yue's back, Li Guo's eyes flickered thoughtfully. Leading the troops to the west, does this surnamed Chen want me to lead the troops to leave Shaanxi and go to the Western Regions? It's a joke to let me leave my hundreds of thousands of soldiers and go to the Western Regions!

Letting the Shun army leave Middle-earth and go to the Western Regions was the second set of plans formulated by Chen Yue, if Li Guo refused to surrender.

If Li Guo and the other Shun troops are willing to disarm and surrender, naturally everything will be fine, and the war can be easily extinguished. If Li Guo refused, instead of destroying them in battle, it was better to drive them west and drive them to the Western Regions.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the westernmost region has only controlled the Hami area, and has little control over the vast Western Regions, let alone the Hezhong area across the green mountains, which has no impact at all.

The reason for this is not that the Ming Dynasty was not aggressive, but the most fundamental reason was the lack of motivation.

After the occupation of the Mongols, the princes in the Western Regions were divided and all industries withered, and it was no longer the prosperous Western Regions of the past. There are more than 10 forces from all sides in the entire Western Regions of the vast desert, and the total population is only hundreds of thousands. So in the end, even the westernmost Hamiwei, Da Ming gave up.

The biggest reason why the Western Regions is so poor is the rise of sea routes, which led to the decline of the Silk Road. For the Western Regions, which is located in the vast desert desert, when the value of trade is lost, no one wants to go there, and decline is inevitable. And this is the biggest reason why Daming did not run the Western Regions.

Even if Chen Yue is in power, he is not willing to send troops to such a barren place, after all, there are too many vast and rich territories overseas that can be occupied and explored, but if he can fool the Shun army to go to the Western Regions, it is a good choice.

With the strength of the Shun army, there is no problem in occupying the Western Regions, which now has a total number of hundreds of thousands, and when the Western Regions cannot support the huge army of the Shun army, they will naturally cross the green ridge to the west and attack Central Asia. And the Yarkand Kazakh and other khanates in Central Asia have declined, and the Shun army should be able to gain a foothold.

At that time, even if the Shun army could not defeat those nomads on horseback, Chen Yue, who was also a Han Chinese, would naturally not stand by, and it would be no problem to support some muskets and artillery.

Let the Shun army become the pioneer in the development of Western Regions and Central Asia, this is Chen Yue's thinking. As for whether it can be done, you might as well try it.

"How did the prince and that Li Guo talk?" On the way back, Zhang Huangyan couldn't help but ask Chen Yue's side.

Chen Yue shook his head: "Li Guo refuses to surrender." ”

Zhang Huang said: "This is also an imaginary thing, after all, the Shun army still has a lot of strength, and it is not at the end of the road." ”

Chen Yue said: "It's okay if you don't want to surrender, you can just implement our second plan." ”

Zhang Huang said: "Lord Wang, it's not a subordinate to pour cold water, I'm afraid that the Shun army is more willing to surrender than to go to the Western Regions." In these years, what the people are most afraid of is leaving their homeland and dying in a foreign country. ”

Chen Yue sighed: "It is precisely because of the inherent thinking of nostalgia for the homeland that I will not leave my hometown unless I have to, and I Han people are reluctant to leave Middle-earth and cannot see the wider world outside." Although Middle-earth is large, the number of Han Chinese is larger, and the limited land simply cannot support the growing population.

Therefore, every few hundred years, there are wars, and this is the reason for them. And when decades of war are over and countless people have died in the war, when the land can accommodate the people, peace will be ushered in again. And with the increase of the peaceful population, when the land is not enough to support the people, the war breaks out again, and so on, which is the main reason for the change of dynasties in the Ming Dynasty.

Since ancient times, our Han dynasty has proclaimed itself the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and regarded the surrounding area as barbarians, and there was no land outside of Middle Earth in their eyes.

In fact, there is a wider territory outside the Ming Dynasty, with countless rich lands. Instead of killing each other in Middle-earth, why not look beyond the borders of the country, seize the rich lands of the lands, and feed my growing people! ”

Chen Yue's words shocked Zhang Huangyan's heart, and he has always admired Chen Yue's achievements, but Zhang Huangyan doesn't look down on Chen Yue's way of doing things and Chen Yue's indecisiveness.

In fact, as he followed Chen Yue for a long time, in Zhang Huangyan's eyes, Chen Yue's IQ ability was very average, not so amazing, and the reason why he was able to achieve today's achievements was probably more luck!

Recently, Chen Yue's words made Zhang Huangyan truly realize Chen Yue's mind and foresight.

Putting aside whether what Chen Yue said was right or not, he was able to establish a connection between the wars and the population of the fields since the dynasties, and summarized the reasons for the rise and fall of the wars.

Zhang Huangyan can also be regarded as well-read, and he has also read the history books of previous dynasties, but he has never thought deeply about the reasons for the rise and fall.

Chen Yue's statement sounds ridiculous at first, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it. In the last years of each dynasty, the land was annexed and the population was large, resulting in the people not having enough to eat and had to rebel. If there is another invasion by foreign races, there is a risk of destroying the country.

Combined with the history books he read, and thinking about Chen Yue's words, Zhang Huangyan had to admit that what Chen Yue said might really be right.

And Chen Yue can look beyond Daming and look at the world, so as to propose a solution to the succession, such a mind makes Zhang Huangyan ashamed!

Perhaps, according to Chen Yue's thinking, the Ming Dynasty continued to expand the land outward and transfer the excess population to the newly occupied land, so as to solve the contradiction between the limited land and the increasing population. Perhaps, this move can really solve the problem of rebellion!

However, it is said that Chen Yue, the king of Qi, was born in a military household and had never read much, so why could he think so far? Why did he have such insight? At this moment, Zhang Huangyan was very suspicious in his heart.

"King Qi's foresight makes his subordinates ashamed, but King Qi, why can you think so long-term? Why do you know everything about the Western Regions and overseas? Finally couldn't help the curiosity in his heart, Zhang Huangyan asked.

Chen Yue glanced sideways at Zhang Huangyan, and said casually: "Brother Cangshui has never heard a sentence, 'The pit is not cold and the Shandong is chaotic, Liu Xiang does not study', Zhang Liang and Han Xin are excellent in the art of war, Xiao He Cao Shen is proficient in government affairs, why is Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, who don't like to study, do something big?"

I was born in the Taizu herding cow baby, and it is not the same as expelling the Mongolian Tartars to create the Ming Dynasty and create various systems as the foundation of eternity?

It can be seen that the more you read, the more you will be absorbed by the knowledge in the book. If you read a dead book, the more you read, the more you read it, the more you might read it, and you might become a fool. ”

Zhang Huangyan suddenly became depressed when he heard this, it turned out that there was a disadvantage in reading too much.

"As for why I know about overseas and the Western Regions, it is because when Beijing had not fallen, I knew the Xiyi missionary John Tang, and I saw a map of all countries from John Tang, and I also learned a lot of overseas things from John Tang." Chen Yue continued.

"I see." Zhang Huangyan finally understood, "King Qi, will Li Guo listen to your plan and lead his troops to the Western Regions?" ”

Chen Yue was silent for a moment: "I'm not sure either." However, since he refuses to surrender, as long as we force him to go all the way to the west, we should be able to force him to go to the Western Regions. However, it is necessary to completely cut off his hope of staying in Daming.

Therefore, since Li Guo refuses to surrender today. I will issue an order to refuse to accept the surrender of the Shun army in the future, and in this way, force them to either fight to the death, or have to flee westward! ”

"In this case, you have to plan it properly. Lord Wang, I suggest an order to Hao Shao's banner, ordering him to send troops from Xiangyang and cut off the road for the Shun army to flee to Wuguan and Hanzhong. Zhang Huangyan suggested.

Chen Yue nodded and agreed with Zhang Huangyan's suggestion.

Back at the camp, Chen Yue immediately wrote an order, ordering Li Yi to send someone to Xiangyang as soon as possible.

At the same time, he sent people to Puzhou to give an order, ordering Ma Chuang, Yu Feng and other generals who led troops in Puzhou to immediately lead their headquarters to attack Yuan Zong's first department, which occupied the crossing of the Yellow River, and strive to seize the ferry and open the way to Shaanxi.

At the same time, under the leadership of Li Yi, the Ming army in Henan also began to march towards Tongguan. The Ming army in two places in Shanxi in Henan launched an attack on the Shun army at the same time.

PS: On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I want to leave my relatives and take my daughter-in-law back to my parents' house, and I will definitely drink. So I stayed up late and coded a chapter and sent it in advance. Well, today it was the earliest!