"Li Dingguo has caused me all the problems." On June 30, 1687, in Yin County, the capital of Ningshao, Liu Houfei, who was inspecting the construction progress of Shangding Railway in the field, said with a wry smile to his entourage.

To be honest, this incident happened to Nanming this time was both accidental and there were many inevitable factors. As long as the conflict between Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang was not a person with a low ear, he had heard of it several times over the years. Although Sun Kewang is a good at managing internal affairs and has a high prestige among the old brothers in Xiying, he was too ambitious after all. After so many years of resignation to Nanming, he saw that Nanming became less and less powerful, and he actually had the intention of usurping the throne and reincarnating. This was a fundamental conflict between him and Li Dingguo and others.

Li Dingguo believed that the Southern Ming court's foundation is unstable and its national strength is weak. If he does not want to be covered with dust and fall into the hands of the Hu people, he can only work together with the ministers of the Southern Ming court. Therefore, even if he can't stand their behavior, he must endure it and find ways to resolve the conflict. This is the best choice.

But this argument is impossible to recognize the King of Qin. Don’t forget that they were from peasant army and had natural hatred towards the king and ministers of Nanming. On the contrary, Nanming also disliked them. In short, everyone is joining together to keep warm and use each other. But if the stability has been too long, people’s ideas may change, and with some factors such as selfish desires and ambitions, it is not surprising that Sun Kewang has the idea of ​​reincarnation and usurping the throne. As a result, he can be an emperor, with great power, and his party members are also granted the title of Duke and Marquis one by one, and everyone has benefits, so why not do it?

It is impossible not to say that Sun Kewang and others ignore the overall situation, because in their opinion, this is the overall situation! All their actions are for the final victory of their own small collective, rather than the entire court or the world. Compared with this, Li Dingguo is more clever. Although his level of transformation is similar to Sun Kewang and others and his background is similar, the height he stands at is undoubtedly higher when considering the problem, and will consider it from the perspective of the entire world. This is their biggest difference.

Therefore, since many years ago, the relationship between Li and Sun has not been very good, and the relationship between the party members under his command has become much distant. However, Li Dingguo has not been in good health these years and has been recuperating for a lot of time in the year, so he has handed over many positions in the court, which provides an opportunity for Sun Kewang's power to grow, otherwise things may not have come to this point.

But now the matter has happened, and it is not varied by anyone's objective will. Li Dingguo will race against time to clean up the mess. Dashun is transferring animal resources and the army to prepare for invasion. The East Coast people are implementing the embargo measures against Dashun or not, and the sanctions must always be put forward. Otherwise, the powerful people on mainland China will not take the East Coast people seriously in the future? How can that be!

"Captain, it has been more than two months since Sun Kewang was killed, and the matter has been fully fermented. What is certain now is that Shunguo has sent troops, and the troops are divided into two groups to attack Ming, and the intention of swallowing the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi is very obvious. With the temptation of such a large territory of the three provinces here, Li Laiheng will not listen to us no matter what, unless we can fight to Changsha and shake his foundation, but this is not in our interests. Of course, we are afraid that we will not have the ability to fight to Changsha for the time being, haha." The person who spoke was Cai Shengguo, general manager of the Bank of Taiwan.

He was the second-generation leader of this large colonial trade and finance enterprise. He is definitely the first-tier ranks on the Far East ground. This time, Liu Houfei inspected the process of Shangding Railway. He was also called to come and see. Who made their family have a seat on the board of directors that jumped on the railway? Compared with Cai, Nan Yimin, the representative of the Far East of Nan Railway Company (the director of the Jiaoyan Railway Management Committee, Shangding Railway is currently under the supervision of him), is much more low-key. Although their company is the actual operator of this railway and has a veto power in the board of directors, his confidence is still not comparable to those of Cai Shengguo who has a strong roots and a Taiwanese bank.

What Nan Yimin cares about now is not actually Shun, which is far away from thousands of miles away. The war between Ming Dynasty is something that big men consider, not technocrats like him. What Nan Yimin is most concerned about is whether the construction funds of Shangding Railway will be misappropriated. That is, will Captain Liu of the Southern Development Team use this money as military expenses when the finances are not very abundant, and he will go to Guangdong, Guangxi and even Huguang to make trouble. Because Shun, the Ming war is a sudden incident for everyone, and there is no such thing as no

Thinking of this, there was no emergency fund in the fiscal budget to cope with this situation (even if there was one, it was not enough, it was not the same order of magnitude at all). In this case, the large amount of funds raised for the construction of the Shangding Railway seemed to have become a hot commodity that could be used at will. Moreover, Liu Houfei led everyone to inspect the construction progress of the Shangding Railway at this sensitive moment. It is hard to say what kind of statement this is. Therefore, Nan Yimin is actually quite nervous now, but there is no way.

"It is impossible to take Changsha. Dashun has more than 200,000 troops, the popularity of firearms is extremely high, and the war experience is even much richer than us. How to fight? How much does it cost? What's more, after fighting, the relationship deteriorates, how can we get along in the future?" Liu Houfei's words were actually very straightforward. The East Coast people are not restricted by Dashun now, and even the bottom line is very blurred, so that the monarchs and ministers in Changsha have tested the bottom line step by step and led the nose. It is also a depressing thing that Li Laiheng and the people were struggling in the war. They played the role of dancing on the steel wires perfectly. If you are sure that the people in the East Coast dare not send troops, and even the navy that helped Dashun in the Han River and the Yangtze River will not withdraw. It really made the people in the East Coast very clear.

Now Liu Houfei is facing such an embarrassing situation. He found that he could not use military means to sanction the Li Shun regime, so he could only implement some trade embargo, and at the same time withdrew a series of technical assistance and people's livelihood loans (mainly led by several state-owned banks and also absorbed a large amount of private funds), which made Dashun's society and economy not run smoothly, and the level of productivity declined, which in turn affected national strength.

But the question is, does Shunguo buy this level of punishment? Or, can they feel the pain? Everyone who understands the actual situation is probably not so optimistic.

First of all, the biggest harm to Shunguo should be exchanges and assistance in the military field. Over the years, the East Coast Republic has been the main supplier of the Dashun military system in heavy artillery, metal armor, engineers and equipment, special medicines, artillery sighting and measurement devices, weapon maintenance tools, military bayonets and war horses (including horses). The East Coast people produced a large amount of military supplies produced by Yangma Island, Jeju Island and Sakhalin Island have flowed into the Dashun military system through the Madang Fortress and Baling County, helping them to establish a relatively modern armed force. Once the East Coast people choose to lose stock, then Dashun is actually incompetent and at least cannot be supplemented on a large scale, because its degree of localization is very low, and there are defects in technology and production management. Once the inventory is exhausted, the military's combat effectiveness will be reduced a little in the medium and short term. This is undoubtedly.

This time, Liu Houfei and Liao Degong had agreed that if they could withdraw their investment, they would withdraw their investment. If they could not withdraw, they would never expand the production scale. Let Li Laiheng of Changsha also feel what it feels like to lack money in his pocket. He often sent more than 100,000 troops to attack Ming in two directions, and he would have to do it. Now it is easy to teach you that 100,000 people chewed outsiders, and they also had to buy gunpowder, medicine, projectiles and other materials. The cost is not a small amount. It depends on how long you can persist!

Of course, the people of the East Coast have not forgotten to take a political offensive against Shunguo. The envoys they sent have been lingering in the mansions of King Lu of Wentai, Zheng Jing of Fujian, and Er Li of Guangdong for a long time. Even the local governments of Nanming in Guangxi were lobbying by Guangdong merchants or officials requested by the East Coast, so that they must insist on fighting and delay the actions of the Shun Army as much as possible. The people of the East Coast will take action later and will not let their family property be captured by the Shun Army. In short, they will do everything possible to fool the East Coast Army to gain time and create opportunities for the actions of the East Coast Army in Lianzhou, Wuzhou and other places.

"In short, no matter whether Shunguo listens to us or not, they really won't listen to us. This time, we have to use all kinds of sanctions, so that Shunguo people can feel the unforgettable taste of being cut off. Some people do not feel the pain, just reasoning for him is useless, and only a slap in the face can make them wake up. Now, we are going to give Li Laiheng a slap in the face to let him understand who gave him protection." After inspecting the route, everyone went to a tea shed to rest, and Liu Houfei said to everyone.
Chapter completed!