Li Zicheng regretted it as soon as he established the crown prince.

Although Li Guo is his nephew, how can his nephew compare to his own son?

Now that Li Zicheng's beloved concubine has not yet been born, she doesn't know whether she is a son or a daughter, but Li Zicheng has already become aspiring to be abolished.

After hearing Gao Lian's words, Li Zicheng felt as if he was mocking him.

The prince is not his son, so what is worth congratulating?

If this were the past, after Li Zicheng had disappeared, he would definitely think that Gao Huan was disgusting himself, but now, his Li family already has a back.

Li Zicheng has been paying attention to Gao Huan and knows that Luo Rucai's daughter has become pregnant with Gao Huan.

If Li Zicheng's concubine was not pregnant now, Old Li would definitely get angry, but now he is about to have a future, so Gao Lian's words would not feel so harsh.

Now the imperial concubine is pregnant with a man or a woman, and she is not sure, so Li Zicheng did not clearly express his thoughts.

In the eyes of outsiders, Li Zicheng still trusts Li Guo very much, and the father and son are still kind and filial, and are happy.

Li Zicheng smiled and said, "I know the kindness of King Liang. The envoy came this time, besides congratulations, what gift did he bring to me?"

Li Zicheng expressed his intentions without any concealment.

Within the Dashun Dynasty, there have been many voices recently, and have begun to question the Liangshun alliance.

After all, since the alliance with Gao Huan, Shunjun has been on the decline.

The interests of the Shun Army and civil and military officials have not been expanded for a long time and their salary has not increased for several years, which has seriously dissatisfied the Shun Country.

As Emperor Dashun, Li Zicheng naturally knew about this.

Now he can't beat the Qing Dynasty in the Northeast, and Zhang Xianzhong in the south, and the Shun Army cannot obtain new benefits, so he can only ask Gao Huan for it. If Gao Huan doesn't give it to him, he will turn against him.

Gao Lian said: "In addition to congratulating Dashun for his appointment as a crown prince, the Liang Kingdom hopes to continue to maintain an alliance with His Majesty. For this reason, my king asked me to send you 10,000 pieces of cloth and 10,000 kilograms of tea to express my sincerity."

The economy of Liang State is now subject to Zheng Zhilong. The vassal state gave gifts to Li Zicheng. One was to please Li Zicheng and maintain the Liang Shun alliance. Secondly, it was to take this opportunity to let Shun State see the goods in Jiangnan so that the powerful and wealthy people in Shun State would feel good after using it, and then buy them from Liang State.

In addition to being sold overseas, the goods produced in Jiangnan were also shipped to Huguang for grain, to Guanzhong for wool, fur, horses, and to Beijing to earn silver.

Now the world is divided and the sea trade is controlled by the Zheng family, which has not only failed to develop but has shrunk.

There is a tunnel theory in economics.

When the economy develops, vehicles in the tunnel move forward in an orderly manner.

At this time, everyone can see the hope ahead, and the vehicles are moving. Even if there are conflicts in the whole society, they will still be developing and moving forward, with good expectations, and the atmosphere is positive and the overall harmony is relatively good.

This is what is often said, "Development is the hard truth."

Because development can solve many social problems.

However, when economic development stagnates or shrinks, vehicles in the tunnel will be stuck and cannot move forward one step.

At this time, if the time lasts for as long as a few years, and the people there will be motionless, their emotions will be out of control, their tolerance will be lost, the atmosphere will become irritable, and all kinds of contradictions will appear, seriously threatening the stability of the country.

Although the Liang State was powerful at this time, its economy was in a stage of stagnation and shrinking.

Of course, this stagnation and shrinkage was not caused by Gao Huan, but by the destruction of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the chaos in the world.

Now Liang State took out some cloth, tea and other goods and gave them to Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng himself couldn't use it and would definitely reward the ministers. When the ministers used it, they thought it was better to Jiangnan.

At that time, Shunguo will have demand for goods from the south of the Yangtze River from the government to the people.

This will prompt the Qin merchants in Guanzhong to go to Jiangnan to purchase a large amount of goods, thereby driving the economy of Liang State, so that the vehicles in the tunnel will not be stuck in traffic and can move forward slowly.

Li Zicheng naturally didn't know that Liang Guo's plans, but Gao Huan's gifts to him undoubtedly confirmed his judgment.

Even if the envoy from Liang State did not come this time, Li Zicheng would send someone to Liang State to ask for supplies. Now that the envoy has arrived, he will not be able to send someone there.

"I have taken it with ten thousand pieces of cloth and ten thousand kilograms of tea." Li Zicheng smiled and said, "I have not been over the past year when the Qing army went south. At the invitation of the King of Liang, I sent troops to Hedong. It cost a lot of money to restrain the Qing army. When will the King of Liang pay me this military expenses?"

Gao Lian was stunned when he heard the words. Li Zicheng attacked Hedong because he saw the Qing army heading south and felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. He wanted to regain the land of Hedong.

Now Shunguo demands military expenses from Liang, which is obviously unreasonable.

After all, if the Shun Army captured Hedong, it would be impossible to hand over Hedong to Liang State.

Gao Lian heard the words, but did not refute that his mission this time was mainly to establish good relations and maintain fragile alliances.

"Your Majesty! I don't know about this, but after I go back, I can ask for your Majesty!" Gao Lian said in a deep voice.

Li Zicheng snorted coldly when he heard the words, "Then go and ask King Liang quickly. Reply to me as soon as possible, otherwise I will not be able to go to the alliance next time the Qing army attacks Liang!"

Gao Lian was on an envoy and was just maintaining the relationship between the two sides, but now he met Li Zicheng extortion. He was thinking in his heart that he could not explain to the vassal state and Gao Huan when he brought such news back.

Now that he heard Li Zicheng's threatening words, Gao Lian smiled and said, "Your Majesty has said this, it is difficult for me to remember it for a while. Please ask Your Majesty to write it down. I will remember it repeatedly and go back to tell the king!"

Li Zicheng now felt that the Qing Dynasty and Liang State were trying to win over him and felt that his strange goods were alive, so he arrogantly asked someone to bring paper and pen, then wrote down his request, and ordered the eunuch to hand it over to Gao Lian.

Gao Lian received Li Zicheng's handwritten letter, so he immediately said goodbye and returned to China, preparing to hand over Li Zicheng's handwritten letter to Gao Huan.

...

Chang'an City, Li Jiyu's mansion, in the study.

Fan Yongdou asked, "Mr. Marquis, has Liang left?"

Li Jiyu said: "I left Chang'an in the afternoon and returned to Liang State."

Fan Yongdou frowned and asked, "What did Envoy Liang and Li Zicheng say?"

"What else can I do? Congratulations to Li Guo for being crowned as crown prince and giving Li Zicheng some cloth and tea!" Li Jiyu said coldly.

Fan Yongdou worried, "What is Li Zicheng's attitude?"

Li Jiyu said: "Li Zicheng accepted the gift and asked Liang State for some money, grain and military funds!"

"This year Gao Huan annexed Jiangxi, and his troops have reached 500,000." Fan Yongdou said worriedly: "King Li and King Zheng judged that Gao Huan would take a break and either take Wuchang or attack Fujian in the next year. At that time, the Qing army will go south with all its might, so before that, Shunguo must end the alliance with Gao Huan!"

Li Zicheng said annoyedly: "In this situation, I have no choice but to do anything about it. Li Zicheng doesn't listen to others' words at all. It's all your fault, what kind of assassin you are looking for. If Li Zicheng was shot and killed that day, now I am the lord of Dashun, we will join forces to help Gao Huan."

...

When Gao Lian returned to Nanjing from Chang'an, it was already early October. During this period, a major event occurred in the Liang Kingdom, that was, the princess was born. Unfortunately, what disappointed Cao's camp was that it was not the prince, but the princess.

However, Gao Huan was still very happy about the birth of his eldest daughter.

He is still young and strong now, and does not have the urgency that Li Zicheng does.

At this time, in the Liang Palace.

When Gao Lian saw Gao Huan, he directly handed Li Zicheng's letter to Gao Huan for viewing.

When Gao Huan saw that Li Zicheng had spoken out loudly and asked him for nearly one million taels of military funds, he was furious.
Chapter completed!