As for the reasons why Xu Xinsu chose to negotiate peace with Shibazhi, the Executive Committee and the military have made various inferences before this, including the possibility that Ning Qi said that "the water will lead to the east".

For the Fujian side, the war, which had been going on for several years, was an endless trouble, and although the battle situation prevailed, it was still unable to completely solve the difficult opponent of Shibazhi in the short term. If the method of a truce can be negotiated through peace talks and the coastal areas of Fujian can be turned into a non-belligerent zone again, then this should be regarded as an acceptable solution for the Fujian officials represented by Xu Xinsu. Either they will go north to the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, or they will have to choose to go south and re-enter the sphere of influence of the Haihan -- Xu Xinsu will probably prefer that the Eighteen Zhis make the latter choice and go to the coastal areas of Guangdong to continue to die until they provoke the great evil star of Haihan.

Xu Xinsu was noncommittal about Ning Qi's questioning, but just avoided the important and replied lightly: "If Eighteen Zhi has the courage to break into the waters of Guangdong again, then presumably the Haihan militia will definitely not sit idly by and ignore it." Thinking that your militia broke Liu Xiang's fleet at the mouth of the Pearl River, the old man later heard the descriptions of many parties, and he just hated to witness this battle at the scene. If you have an action to defeat Eighteen Zhi next time, the old man wants to go to the front line to watch the battle. ”

Although Xu Xinsu did not personally watch the battle of the Haihan militia, the two sides carried out military cooperation for several years, and he also sent several groups of officers to Sanya for training, many of whom observed several battles in Lijiazhuang, Dangan Island, and Wanshan Port as students, and even those who went to Annam to participate in the Hue Campaign. The invincible expression of the Haihan militia on the battlefield was basically reported to Xu Xinsu by word of mouth. These news channels were naturally deliberately arranged by Haihan, and the purpose was to some extent to deter the Fujian side, and Xu Xinsu could easily judge from these descriptions that the strength of the Haihan militia was far beyond the troops under his command, and as for how strong it was, it had always lacked an intuitive opportunity to understand.

But it's a pity that the Haihan militia has been in a state of basically no opponent in the South China Sea, last year there was finally a group of pirates who didn't know whether to live or die to attack Qiongzhou Island, and swept the entire northern Qiongzhou in a month, but after Haihan announced the dispatch of troops, before Xu Xinsu thought about whether to watch the battle, the war quickly reversed, and the Haihan militia took a shorter time to defeat this group of pirates who were enough to crush the Ming army, and recovered all the lost territory on Qiongzhou Island.

Xu Xinsu didn't care about these questions, because Qiongzhou Island was too far away from Fujian and would not affect Fujian's interests and situation. But Xu Xinsu did think about borrowing the hand of Haihan to destroy the thorn in the side of Eighteen Zhi. With the strength of the Haihan militia, it is unlikely that Eighteen Zhi will have a chance to change the results of the battle.

However, Xu Xinsu also has some worries about this, as the saying goes, it is easy to invite God and difficult to send God, if the Haihan militia really enters the Fujian sea, then it may not leave. This is not that Xu Xinsu is worried about the sky, but there are many precedents ahead.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the Haihan militia fought in Lijiazhuang, and after the battle, Lijiazhuang became the control area of Haihan, and now most of the entire Panyu County is Haihan's final say. The following year, the Haihan people sent troops to Annam and helped the Annam court to conquer the city of Hue, which was controlled by the southern rebels, and the Haihan took this opportunity to circle a string of ports from north to south on the coastline of Annam, and almost the entire coastline of Annam was under its own cover. And after fighting pirates in Qiongbei last year, the Haihan militia also took advantage of the situation to settle down in Qiongbei, and now it is difficult to say whether those places belong to the Ming Dynasty or to the Haihan.

If the Haihan militia went to Fujian to fight and stayed after the battle, then Xu Xinsu really had nothing to do, and of course he didn't want an uncontrolled force to appear in the territory he was in power - not to mention that this strength was still above the Ming army he led.

A more feasible solution is to move this battlefield that does not exist for the time being from Fujian to Guangdong, let Shibazhi enter the sphere of influence of the Haihan, and get rid of them by the hands of the Haihan, and it will not affect the local situation in Fujian.

Of course, this is just a plan, and it is obvious that the smart Haihan people have thought of this possibility, Xu Xinsu definitely can't admit it, and can only talk about him for the time being.

Ning Qi naturally saw the subtlety of Xu Xinsu's attitude, and said with a smile: "Lord Xu wants to observe our army's battle, it is not difficult, as long as you say a word, our army can enter Fujian within a month, cross the sea and destroy Eighteen Zhi, it is only a matter of time." ”

This time he kicked the ball back to Xu Xinsu, but he was stumped. Xu Xinsu could only smile and respond: "I'm afraid that our army is not strong enough to cooperate with the Haihan militia to fight, and besides, these eighteen zhi are just a group of pirates who are difficult to achieve, so why do you need the Haihan militia to go on an expedition?"

"Lord Xu, it is true that Eighteen Zhi can't become the climate, but there is also a premise. Ning Qi said solemnly: "Then we will continue to provide military support and assistance to you." ”

Xu Xinsu just wanted to say a few sycophants, but Ning Qi continued: "But the one we provide also has a premise, that is, the direction of your actions is consistent with ours. If, one day, we feel that there is a difference of opinion on this issue, then we also reserve the right to terminate the cooperation. ”

Ning Qi said this more straightforwardly, and Xu Xinsu's face was slightly stiff after listening to it: "The old man has never had a difference of opinion in the past few years of cooperation with you, Mr. Ning is too worried." ”

"I hope so. Ning Qi didn't want to push the other party too hard at the beginning of the negotiation, so he didn't say anything more, and took the initiative to change the topic: "It's the first time I've visited Zhangzhou, but I'm going to trouble Lord Xu to introduce me to the local situation." ”

Xu Xinsu was relieved, and quickly began to explain the historical evolution of Zhangzhou. Since Ning Qi is going to visit Zhangzhou, he has naturally done his homework first, but there must still be some discrepancies between what he looks in this book and what the locals have introduced. In addition, he himself is a historical mystery, so he also listened to it with relish, and did not feel how difficult the voyage of several hours was.

The voyage from the port in the southwest of Xiamen Island to Zhangzhou City is only more than 20 nautical miles, although it is upstream, but the water flow at the mouth of the Zhangjiang River is slow, and it will take half a day to arrive.

Zhangzhou is also an ancient city with a long history in Fujian, which was founded in the Tang Dynasty as early as a thousand years ago, and was named because it is close to the Zhangjiang River. Because of its early development, it has also become an important product export center and maritime trade port city in Fujian.

As early as the Song Dynasty, the Zhangzhou area was known as the "Sugar King of Bazhou" because of the developed sugar industry, and white sugar, rock sugar, and horn sugar are all specialties here. The start of the textile industry is also very early, when Chen Hongjin of the Southern Tang Dynasty seized Quanzhou, the annual production of Ge cloth is as much as more than 20,000 horses, to the Ming Dynasty Wanli years, Zhang velvet, Zhang yarn, Zhang silk, Tulu silk and other fabrics, has been sold overseas in large quantities. In addition, Zhangzhou's shipbuilding industry, porcelain, tea, papermaking, etc., were also very prosperous industries at this time.

Where the economy is prosperous, the general cultural and educational undertakings will not be too backward, and Zhangzhou is such a typical city. In the Tang Dynasty, there was Songzhou Academy, and in the Song and Song dynasties, the establishment of academies became a social atmosphere here. During the reign of Song Guangzong, the Dali scholar Zhu Xi once served as the prefect of Zhangzhou, and according to historical records, Zhu Xi "would lead his subordinate officials to go down to the state to study the students and talk about the "primary school" for their justice, and the same was true for the county school on the sixth day. With the words and deeds of a magistrate like Zhu Xi, the local cultural and educational undertakings can be said to be very prosperous, and cultural celebrities have emerged. In the original time and space, Zhangzhou produced the first Jinshi Zhou Kuangwu in the 11th year of the Tang Yuan Dynasty, and a total of 977 Jinshi came out of the Qing Dynasty, including three champions.

After the fleet docked at the wharf outside Zhangzhou City, Xu Xinsu's men had already arranged a guard of honor to greet them. And the local officials of Zhangzhou Mansion have also arrived at the dock to wait. Seeing this on the deck, Ning Qi asked, "Wouldn't it be bad to have such fanfare?"

Xu Xinsu responded: "There's nothing wrong with it, the old man's distinguished guest is the distinguished guest of Zhangzhou Mansion, Mr. Ning is here, just enjoy it!"

After the two disembarked, they first met with the local officials waiting on the pier. Ning Qi also felt that the situation here was a little different from other places, other places were all civilian officials in charge and military attachés were foiling, and Zhangzhou was obviously Xu Xinsu the protagonist, and the local officials were submissive to him, and he did seem to have a bit of a taste of the emperor of the soil.

After meeting with the local officials, Haihan's personnel stationed in Zhangzhou also came to pay their respects. These people are all naturalized citizens who were naturalized earlier, and they are mainly engaged in business and trade here, and by the way, they also collect some local information on the current situation and send it back to the Sanya base camp regularly.

"The old man has ordered someone to prepare a reception banquet, don't shirk. After the people who should be met were finished, Xu Xinsu invited the people of the mission to ride into the city without saying anything.

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"I hope so. Ning Qi didn't want to push the other party too hard at the beginning of the negotiation, so he didn't say anything more, and took the initiative to change the topic: "It's the first time I've visited Zhangzhou, but I'm going to trouble Lord Xu to introduce me to the local situation." ”

Xu Xinsu was relieved, and quickly began to explain the historical evolution of Zhangzhou. Since Ning Qi is going to visit Zhangzhou, he has naturally done his homework first, but there must still be some discrepancies between what he looks in this book and what the locals have introduced. In addition, he himself is a historical mystery, so he also listened to it with relish, and did not feel how difficult the voyage of several hours was.

The voyage from the port in the southwest of Xiamen Island to Zhangzhou City is only more than 20 nautical miles, although it is upstream, but the water flow at the mouth of the Zhangjiang River is slow, and it will take half a day to arrive.

Zhangzhou is also an ancient city with a long history in Fujian, which was founded in the Tang Dynasty as early as a thousand years ago, and was named because it is close to the Zhangjiang River. Because of its early development, it has also become an important product export center and maritime trade port city in Fujian.

As early as the Song Dynasty, the Zhangzhou area was known as the "Sugar King of Bazhou" because of the developed sugar industry, and white sugar, rock sugar, and horn sugar are all specialties here. The start of the textile industry is also very early, when Chen Hongjin of the Southern Tang Dynasty seized Quanzhou, the annual production of Ge cloth is as much as more than 20,000 horses, to the Ming Dynasty Wanli years, Zhang velvet, Zhang yarn, Zhang silk, Tulu silk and other fabrics, has been sold overseas in large quantities. In addition, Zhangzhou's shipbuilding industry, porcelain, tea, papermaking, etc., were also very prosperous industries at this time.

Where the economy is prosperous, the general cultural and educational undertakings will not be too backward, and Zhangzhou is such a typical city. In the Tang Dynasty, there was Songzhou Academy, and in the Song and Song dynasties, the establishment of academies became a social atmosphere here. During the reign of Song Guangzong, the Dali scholar Zhu Xi once served as the prefect of Zhangzhou, and according to historical records, Zhu Xi "would lead his subordinate officials to go down to the state to study the students and talk about the "primary school" for their justice, and the same was true for the county school on the sixth day. With the words and deeds of a magistrate like Zhu Xi, the local cultural and educational undertakings can be said to be very prosperous, and cultural celebrities have emerged. In the original time and space, Zhangzhou produced the first Jinshi Zhou Kuangwu in the 11th year of the Tang Yuan Dynasty, and a total of 977 Jinshi came out of the Qing Dynasty, including three champions.

After the fleet docked at the wharf outside Zhangzhou City, Xu Xinsu's men had already arranged a guard of honor to greet them. And the local officials of Zhangzhou Mansion have also arrived at the dock to wait. Seeing this on the deck, Ning Qi asked, "Wouldn't it be bad to have such fanfare?"

Xu Xinsu responded: "There's nothing wrong with it, the old man's distinguished guest is the distinguished guest of Zhangzhou Mansion, Mr. Ning is here, just enjoy it!"

After the two disembarked, they first met with the local officials waiting on the pier. Ning Qi also felt that the situation here was a little different from other places, other places were all civilian officials in charge and military attachés were foiling, and Zhangzhou was obviously Xu Xinsu the protagonist, and the local officials were submissive to him, and he did seem to have a bit of a taste of the emperor of the soil.

After meeting with the local officials, Haihan's personnel stationed in Zhangzhou also came to pay their respects. These people are all naturalized citizens who were naturalized earlier, and they are mainly engaged in business and trade here, and by the way, they also collect some local information on the current situation and send it back to the Sanya base camp regularly.

"The old man has ordered someone to prepare a reception banquet, don't shirk. After the people who should be met were finished, Xu Xinsu invited the people of the mission to ride into the city without saying anything.