If someone else asked this question, even if it was a cabinet minister like Jiang Yueguang, Liu Yongxi would use the answer to "integrate the south and then send troops" to fool him. But since Li Dingguo asked this question, Liu Yongxi naturally gave the answer very frankly: "It's not easy to say that he is close. There must be several months of training time, and the country needs to slow down a little, but the Northern Song Dynasty first and then north is a lesson, and we must not repeat the same mistakes."

Li Dingguo knew that Liu Yongxi was telling the story of the Song Dynasty. Although the situation was completely different, he did not take advantage of the opportunity of Jianlu's defeat in the southern expedition and pursued the victory. After the Qing Dynasty integrated the north and recuperated, the Northern Expedition would be a dream bubble.

Li Dingguo just made a suggestion that he thought was inappropriate: "Since Your Majesty has started the Northern Expedition, why should we let the two generals Sun Kewang and Hao Yaoqi fight southward? These are both real power brigades, and it should be too late to let them return to the army now."

Liu Yongxi laughed when he heard Li Dingguo say this: "Who will command the generals of the Western Camp if Sun Kewang is not in the southern expedition?"

Li Dingguo did not expect Liu Yongxi to think about the problem like this.

If Sun Kewang continues to stay in the Two Lakes, with his qualifications and prestige, he will definitely continue to lead the former subordinates of Xiying. However, after Sun Kewang's southern expedition, it was naturally Li Dingguo's turn to lead the former subordinates of Xiying, which made Li Dingguo flattered: "Your Majesty is so loving, Li Dingguo will definitely repay him with his national talents!"

Liu Yongxi immediately laughed: "Li Dingguo is Li Dingguo. As long as you can be loyal to the court, my efforts will not be in vain. And you know that the two generals have another meaning to the southern expedition?"

Li Dingguo knew that Liu Yongxi was testing him. Although he couldn't answer it, he still became serious and quickly gave the answer: "If this dynasty pacified the two Huguang and then immediately fought the Northern Expedition, I am afraid that Jianlu would be forced to fight with this dynasty and defeat both sides."

Liu Yongxi nodded with great satisfaction.

As the saying goes, pressure is motivation. If you take advantage of the victory after the Xuzhou victory, you will probably force the princes and bells of the Qing Dynasty to be completely impatient. After the full mobilization, you will be able to win or lose with the Yue Ming Dynasty at all costs. In this case, there are often many variables.

After all, the elite horse teams of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia have too many advantages in the competition between the north and the Central Plains. However, after Liu Yongxi made Sun Kewang and Hao Yaoqi fight south, he would give the princes and Beile an illusion, making them feel that Chengtian Dynasty was not ready for the Northern Expedition, so he negotiated with the Qing Dynasty.

Since the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty of the Yue Ming Army was still very far away, then all the princes, Beile was naturally busy solving the political enemies in front of him. At that time, the Ming Dynasty of the Yue Ming Army could naturally take advantage of the situation, and in addition to this, Liu Yongxi had other considerations.

The problem that Liu Yongxi is most worried about now is that the Qing army abandons the north and retreats directly outside the pass and continues to send troops to plunder the pass. In that case, Liu Yongxi really has no way to deal with the huge cavalry that is galloping across the northern plains, so the main force of the Qing army must be left in the pass and solved slowly.

He continued: "Submitting Sun Kewang and General Haoqi's southern expedition was indeed to unify the south. Li Zicheng is also a lesson from the past!"

The rise and collapse of the Dashun Army can be said to be a flash in the pan. Since there are great risks in the Northern Expedition of the Heavenly Dynasty, it is natural to integrate southern resources to the greatest extent before the Northern Expedition, and at least take down Guangdong, a very wealthy province. Li Dingguo suddenly realized: "Your Majesty has a long-term plan and is indeed more thorough than we think about it!"

Liu Yongxi shook his head and said, "No matter how much he plans, he must cooperate with the prince of the Qing Dynasty and Beile!"

The princes of the Qing Dynasty, Beile, also cooperated with Liu Yongxi very much. Although many Manchu nobles also felt that staying in the pass would continue to lose blood, and retreating outside the pass with spoils was the best choice, but since they had enjoyed the colorful world inside the pass, how could these princes, Beile, directly retreat outside the pass without the Ming army sending troops to the northern expedition? So they were very loud when discussing matters.

And they also have the most powerful supporter, that is, King Ajige, who has an army of 100,000 in Henan and Shaanxi, also demanded to defend his current territory, so someone raised the banner of Ajige: "Since the King of England has spoken, don't discuss this matter!"

No one dared to say that in the past. Even if Dorgon didn't cut his head, he would suffer a lot. But now, whether it was Dorgon or other princes, Bele breathed a sigh of relief. Since King Ajige of the British had spoken, there was no need to discuss this matter anymore.

After all, Ajige has the most powerful field corps in the Qing Dynasty. Without the 100,000 army of King Ajige, everyone thinks that the Qing army can withdraw from the outside of the pass, but it is precisely because of Ajige's 100,000 army that the Qing Dynasty can compete with the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, in the situation where Dorgon was hastily defeated from Xuzhou, everyone felt that Ajige used the power of a thousand ox to save the 100,000 army, which can be said to be the number one hero of the Qing Dynasty. Now even the defeated generals who fled back from Xuzhou were the first to be lawless in the political meeting with heavy troops in hand, and Ajige's speech was naturally a final result.

However, although Ajige said "don't discuss it", the Manchu relatives who fought to the death because of this issue always found other topics and even quarreled. Dorgon also found that the situation was getting out of control, but he had no good way to control the situation and inspire people.

But now, when a man is so excited, he dares to draw his sword in front of him and slash around. Dorgon has no good idea. He can only watch everyone argue, and even draw their swords to each other. Fortunately, everyone finally got a very clear good news as they quarreled: "The envoy sent by His Highness of the King of Yu to Nandu replied. Emperor Chengtian means that the two countries form a brotherly country and use the Yellow River as the boundary."

For the Qing Dynasty, this is a very difficult condition. If the Yellow River is bounded, then the Qing Dynasty would give up most of Shaanxi, Shandong and Henan, but the prince present, Beile, suddenly became full of blood and resurrected: "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty really proposed to use the Yellow River as the boundary?"

"No, Ming Dynasty actually wants to use the Yellow River as its boundary?"

"It can be talked about, it can be talked about. The Han people said that they would pay the price on the ground and pay it back locally. We can have a good talk with the Han people!"

"Since the Han people want to use the Yellow River as the boundary!"

When the two dynasties confronted each other, the natural dividing line was often the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River, but now the Ming army has taken over Xuzhou, it naturally takes the strategic initiative. Therefore, when these princes and Beile heard that Liu Yongxi's negotiation conditions were bounded by the Yellow River, they all felt that they could see through Liu Yongxi's plan.

Duoduo, the king of Yu who was in charge of the central contact, said very clearly: "I guess the Ming Kingdom is going to unify the south first and then deal with us. Our Qing soldiers are the elite in the world, and the Ming troops in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan and Guizhou are different!"

"Yes, I heard that Huguang sent Zhang Xianzhong's descendants Kewang and Hao Yaoqi, who was the general of the camp, to go south. Although Jiangnan is not clear, it is said that the Ming Dynasty of Yue appointed Lu Zhenfei as the new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Yang Zhan was also appointed as the governor of Sichuan."

For the Qing Dynasty, this is the real good news. Since Liu Yongxi focused on unifying the south, he could take advantage of the period when he unified the south to recuperate and consolidate the occupied areas. If he could recover his vitality before the Ming Dynasty reunification of the south, he would naturally launch the third southern expedition.

If the Qing Dynasty had not fully recovered its vitality before the reunification of the south, it was still ready to fight. Everyone became optimistic all of a sudden. Some people immediately estimated how much time it would take for the Ming Dynasty to unify the south: "It will take at least one year for the thief of Jinhua to unify the south!"

Someone immediately raised an objection: "It should only take one or even a few months to capture the southern provinces, but it is not so easy to pacify the south. We wiped out the north in the first year of Shunzhi, but two years later, the thieves in the northern region are still rising one after another, and the thieves in Jinhua will also encounter the same problem."

Although everyone hopes to make a decision by edict, the actual situation is much more complicated. Now many bandits who raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty were the gentry who welcomed the Qing Dynasty into the pass in the first year of Shunzhi to defeat the bandit Li Zicheng. Liu Yongxi also encountered many unexpected variables in the process of pacifying the southern provinces. Therefore, someone immediately made a reasonable judgment: "We have at least one year left, and if we are lucky, it may be two or three years!"

Dorgon felt that two or three years had been too optimistic, so he spoke: "We must not underestimate the Jinhua thief. We have to plan for one year, at most one and a half years!"

Everyone thinks Dorgon’s statement makes sense, but for the Qing Dynasty, which suffered severe blood loss during the two southern expeditions, even three to five months is very precious, let alone one to two to three years. Although Dorgon said, “it will only be one and a half at most,” on this issue, everyone expects the enemy to be lenient. They feel that it is impossible for the Tian Dynasty to integrate southern resources to launch the Northern Expedition without two or three years. If they are more optimistic, the Southern Expedition will not be launched in three to five years.

After all, the Northern Expeditions in the history of the Southern Dynasty were only a few times. Before, they attacked the north and defended the south, so the Qing Dynasty had always suffered losses. However, if it were attacked the south and defended the north, the Qing Dynasty definitely took advantage of the great advantage. Therefore, everyone was happily arguing for their own interests.
Chapter completed!