Lin Jian was already soberly aware in Jiangning that Huaidong would face a situation of joint confrontation with all families in the future, and he could only adopt a posture of division and co-optation for the officials who fled to Luzhou with the emperor, and insisted on bloody purges, which would only make the officials who fled to Luzhou dying and struggling, trapping beasts, and making the situation difficult to control.

Yu Xinyuan was willing to return to Luzhou to persuade the emperor to return to the capital, and Sun Jingxuan and Chen Huawen naturally welcomed Huaidong on behalf of Huaidong, and even promised that Yu Xinyuan would return to Jiangning without downgrading. Yu Xinyuan does not expect to continue to be in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it is beyond his expectations to have these guarantees at present, as for how the road will be taken in the future, it depends on how the situation develops.

In the afternoon of the next day, the king of Chu, Yuanhan Chengcheng and Yu Xinyuan, left the camp of Kip Stone Mountain and went to Luzhou to persuade the emperor to return to Jiangning.

"The King of Chu also went to Luzhou, I'm afraid things are not so simple!" Chen Huawen and Sun Jingxuan sat opposite each other, frowning and said.

"What my lord means, as long as we don't set up two emperors, any conditions can be discussed, and as much as we can fight back, we will earn." Sun Jingxuan's mood is much more relaxed than Chen Huawen, he has followed Lin Tie over the years, watching Huaidong develop step by step from the palm-sized plot of Prison Island to today's scale, knowing that what Huaidong needs most at this time is buffer time, Emperor Yongxing has no ability to cut the domain, and so Huaidong will digest Mindong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places well, and some are means to cut the domain, at this time, let more conditions go out, which will not hinder the overall situation in the future.

Chen Huawen was still after the defeat of Huizhou, and he completely surrendered to Huaidong with the Chen family, and his understanding of Huaidong was naturally not as deep as Chen Jingxuan's, so it was inevitable to worry.

Sun Jingxuan and Chen Huawen went back to the hospital to rest, and after a while, Dong Yuan sent someone to invite them.

Dong Yuan, Liu Tingzhou, and Ding Zhiru waited in the big tent, Sun Jingxuan and Chen Huawen came in, sat down with a salute, and then talked about the substantive distribution of interests.

Liu Tingzhou was loyal to the clan, but the actual situation forced him to be tied to the interests of Huaixi, and when Huaidong's control of the government was difficult to change, he also had to fight for Huaixi's capital to stand on its own against Huaidong.

Huaidong wants to set up a new Privy Council in Jiangning to take charge of military and political power, and set up various defense districts and camps to take charge of local military and political affairs, so that the original military and political affairs of Huaidong can also be better integrated into the Privy Council system.

The basic conditions for Lin Tie to Huaixi were: Huaixi set up a camp, and Dong Yuan, as the deputy privy envoy and the right attendant of the military department, was also the head of the Huaixi defense camp, and was responsible for the Huaixi defense area.

The names of official titles are all false, and the framework proposed by Sun Jingxuan and Chen Huawen on behalf of Lin Lian, if Dong Yuan and Liu Tingzhou have any surprises, it is that Lin Lian did not integrate the two positions of first assistant and imperial envoy, that is, it was lighter than they expected, but this did not change their mind to fight for more interests in Huaixi.

Dong Yuan demanded that Huaixi govern five prefectures and one town, collect taxes and support themselves, and the taxes of Weiyang Mansion should also be allocated to Huaixi for special purposes, and Jiangning should allocate an additional 2 million taels of silver and grain every year. Huaixi officials must use the people recommended by Huaixi.

Sun Jingxuan insisted that Dongyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion be carved out from Huaixi and directly under the jurisdiction of Jiangning; Sizhou County, the capital of Haozhou, and the east of it, are actually located in the hinterland of the Xusi Defense Zone, and the area east of Sizhou County is required to be included in Xusi.

Haozhou, Shouzhou, Xinyang and Wuyang Military Town can be directly governed by Huaixi; However, Jiangning's allocation of money and grain to Huaixi was only two million taels of silver, which was paid in three years, and then unless it was necessary for Huaixi to increase the number of troops, Huaixi's armaments would have to be spent from local taxes. Huaixi officials, except for officials, can be recommended by Huaixi to be recorded, but the recommendation must meet the basic conditions for the appointment of officials, and each post needs to recommend three people for Jiang Ning's alternative; Supervisors and officials, directly appointed by Jiang Ning; Huaixi supervised the chief officer, and Huaidong recommended Liu Tingzhou to take the title of deputy capital imperial historian.

The conditions on the two sides are too different to be negotiated for a while, and Sun Jingxuan and Chen Huawen are not impatient.

On the Huaixi side, because Voryang is located on the north bank of the Huai River, there is a worry about the siege of Yanlu at any time, and the grain and grass reserves are the most sufficient, but only the grain reserves of Voryang are the most sufficient, and the official and military reserves of Shouzhou, Haozhou, and Xinyang are extremely limited.

Affected by the continuous war after the autumn, the autumn tax in Jiangnan and other prefectures and counties has not yet been collected, and the batch of money and grain that Jiangning should send to Huaixi before the winter has been delayed until today.

Although Dong Yuan also requisitioned grain from the people during this period to prepare for emergencies, the requisition of 200,000 stone grain from the land of Sanfu pushed the price of grain more than doubled, which shows that the devastation of Huaixi is far from recuperating.

At this time, we could not wait for Jiangning's grain to solve the difficulties, first, the high grain prices sharply depleted the Huaixi military government's silver reserves, and second, the continued requisition would aggravate the fear of the people, and promote the local rich to follow the grain storage to prepare for war and famine, which would cause great harm to the civil population and be even more detrimental to the foundation of Huaixi.

In the next three days of negotiations, the Huaixi people made more concessions, but Sun Jingxuan and Chen Huawen made few concessions.

The eastern area of Haozhou Mansion is the earliest place in Huaixi to be recuperated, and it is also the first area where Liu Tingzhou carried out camp and field cultivation, and it is located in Hongzepu West Bay, so Dong Yuan and Liu Tingzhou naturally refused to give up direct control to Huaidong.

The division of defense areas, and finally Haozhou, Shouzhou, Xinyang and Wuyang Town were divided into Huaixi, and the taxes were also collected by Huaixi, but the proportion of taxes collected should not exceed the upper limit allowed by Jiangning. The Luzhou Prefecture was placed under the direct jurisdiction of Jiangning, but the Luzhou garrison was transferred to the north and was directly governed by Huaixi. The number of Huaixi soldiers was increased by 10,000, and the number of Ding soldiers was increased to 110,000, or to be tun or to fight, at the discretion of Huaixi.

The total amount of money and food allocated by Jiangning for raising troops was increased from 2 million taels of silver to 3 million taels of silver, which was paid in two years; In addition, an additional 200,000 taels of silver will be added every year for the additional 10,000 soldiers.

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Emperor Yongxing abandoned Jiangning and ran westward, and the accompanying guards of the imperial camp and the imperial horse supervisor soldiers and horses were about 20,000 people, and the larger ones were the harem concubines, eunuchs, palace maids, and hundreds of officials and families who fled westward, with no less than 70,000 or 80,000 people.

All the way lost soul, panic fled westward, on the way to fall into the water and died countless, Yongxing Emperor also almost fell into the water on the way, so to the eunuch to stop, frightened, but sick, bed afraid of the wind, afraid of the light, afraid of the sound.

Nearly 100,000 people rushed to Juchao in a mess, and they were worried that Xie Dan, the Luzhou guard who had been Yue Lengqiu and Deng Yu's confidant, had ill intentions, so they stopped at Juchao and asked Xie Dan to come to Juchao to see him.

Emperor Yongxing needs to go to the palace, accompany hundreds of officials with their families, as well as servants and servants, and have a pavilion, and the guards have become frightened birds, and they dare not camp outside the city, and they need to enter the city to camp.

There are only more than 1,000 households in the county seat of Juchao, and the emperor drove to Juchao, and the county people, regardless of the old and young, were all expelled from the city, and the entire county was requisitioned for the camp and the camp.

When they fled westward, they only thought about bringing gold and silver wealth with them, and almost emptied the silver deposits of the household department, the industrial department, and the inner treasury, but no one thought about the problem of feeding nearly 100,000 people. On the way to the west, nearly 100,000 people were starving. After arriving in Juchao County, the county's grain storage is only more than 200 stones, and it can't even last a day. When driving the people out of the city, the soldiers and horses of the imperial camp also let go of the plunder, which was extremely vicious and vicious, but the food that was plundered could not last for a few days.

On the one hand, the Luzhou guard Xie Dan and the surrounding prefectures and counties were ordered to escort the grain to the nest, and at the same time, the troops and horses went out of the city to raise grain - the so-called grain raising is no different from looting, and the royal camp army with signs of loss of control in seven or eight days is not necessarily much better than the Liukou, and the countryside is looted and washed, and there are also rapes, fornications, and incidents from time to time.

In order to welcome the return of Luxury Wenzhuang to the west, Luxury Fei Xiong sent Yang Xiong to lead the naval army to the east of the river, to the periphery of Chizhou, forcing the Jiangzhou army to avoid entering the city, and also divided a small group of soldiers and horses to plunder the north bank - the imperial camp army fled into the nest city in a panic at this time, and did not dare to go out to plunder.

Immediately after Huaidong Shuiying advanced westward, Yang Xiong led the Dongting Hukou to withdraw, and the news of the recovery of Jiangning also reached Juchao, and the chaotic situation settled down a little.

Yue Lengqiu handed over the guilty fold to Jiangning, making it clear that he would give up Emperor Yongxing, and Zhang Yan angrily left Chizhou and crossed the river to return to Juchao.

Xie Dan, the general of Luzhou who was the old department of Deng Yue, was the first to rush to Juchao to see the driver, and gave him the title of auxiliary general, Chao Jiangbo, and the deputy commander of the imperial camp army, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in the original Luzhou were all incorporated into the imperial camp army.

If it weren't for the fact that Emperor Yongxing was bedridden after arriving at Juchao, afraid of the wind and cold, when Zhang Yan rushed back to Juchao, he would have moved to Luzhou City.

Knowing that Yue Lengqiu had sent a plea to Jiangning, Emperor Yongxing was so angry that he scolded Yue Lengqiu for being ungrateful, jumped up from the sickbed in anger, pulled out the saber hanging on the wall and slashed and killed.

Zhang Yan's arm was cut, Cheng Yuqian fell and broke his head, and Zuo Chengmu and other ministers could let the inner servants escort them out and escaped; A palace maid didn't have time to escape and was hacked to death on the spot.

After a long time, Emperor Yongxing regained his senses, sitting in a pool of blood, so weak that it was even difficult to stand, but he asked Zhang Yan, Cheng Yuqian, Zuo Chengmu and other ministers to keep drafting edicts to order the prefectures and counties of the world, and to dispatch troops, as if the world was still under his control.

Zhang Yan, Cheng Yuqian, Zuo Chengmu, Wang Xueshan and other ministers who served left and right had to let people withdraw all the metal utensils that could hurt people in the room. also blocked to avoid Emperor Yongxing hearing the news of Jiang Ning and regenerating stimulation, I only hope that Yu Xinyuan can bring back good news from Shouzhou, so that the emperor can return to normal.

Shouzhou is Luzhou along the river, much closer than going to Dongyang Mansion, Yu Xinyuan and Chu Wang Yuan Hancheng entered the nest on the 15th; Liu Zhi heard the news that Emperor Yongxing was going crazy and killing people, and he stopped in Yijiang for the time being, and he didn't dare to come to Juchao.