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After all, they are a benevolent and righteous army.

They did not harm the people of Jiaozhi in the slightest. Of course, the captured cities and supplies in the warehouses naturally belonged to them.

However, a portion of these supplies must be used to resettle the people.

Therefore, their supplies are still relatively scarce.

Doesn’t Jiaozhi want peace talks now?
In that case, wouldn't it be too much to ask them to send a large amount of food and fodder over first?

If you don't give it, it proves that you have absolutely no sincerity in peace talks.

If you don’t give it to me, there’s nothing to say. Just hit me and it’s over.

And what was given?

If I give it to you, of course I still have to act for a few days!

You can also give the soldiers the opportunity to rest for a few days. After they have rested well, it will not be too late to continue the attack.

Thinking of this, Feng Ziying immediately delayed it temporarily, using the excuse that he did not dare to act on his own and had to report to the court.

Then he demanded 10,000 dan of grain and 3,000 carts of fodder from Jiaozhi.

Jiaozhi didn't want to give it. What a joke! The negotiations haven't even started yet. How can they ask for things at this time?
However, Feng Ziying was born in the year of the dog. When he heard that Jiaozhi didn't want to give it to him, he immediately turned against him.

They immediately said that Jiaozhi didn't even want to give them any food and grass, and must be just trying to delay time, without any sincerity.

Immediately gather the troops and continue the attack.

The Jiaozhi court was terrified and immediately agreed to Feng Ziying's request.

Seeing this, Feng Ziying couldn't help but sneer.

I have to say, bitches are just pretentious!

If we don't scare them, they will really dare not cooperate!

After a little scare, they became much more obedient.

Sure enough, food and fodder were soon delivered from Jiaozhi.

Feng Ziying ordered his soldiers to have a good rest and recuperate.

Seven days later, Feng Ziying's report was delivered to Jia Cong.

Upon seeing this, Jia Cong readily agreed without even consulting the ministers.

Because Jia Cong knew that if he discussed it with the ministers, it would take a lot of effort.

Because they feel that China is a great country and must be honest and trustworthy. How can it go back on its word?

Even if this may bring temporary benefits, it will damage China's reputation and will still be a loss in the long run.

However, Jia Cong felt that ice was a treacherous place, a place of life and death, and one must be careful.

War is a fight to the death. Unless you are crazy, how can you be honest with the other party in such a matter?
When you confronted the Qing Dynasty, you did speak honestly, but did the Qing Dynasty ever speak honestly to you?
A great country should be humble, and it is true that one must have the mind of a great country. However, such things are relative and cannot be generalized.

Therefore, Jia Cong did not discuss with the ministers and directly agreed to Feng Ziying's request, giving him full responsibility for the matter.

Jia Cong also gave some patient instructions and then ordered someone to pass it back quickly.

Seven or eight days later, Feng Ziying received a reply from Jia Cong and was overjoyed.

The thing a general fears most is encountering a court that does not trust him and that pretends to be knowledgeable and gives orders recklessly.

Although the general is not subject to military orders when he is away from home, if he goes too far, it will inevitably create a rift between the two.

It is indeed a general's fortune to meet an emperor who trusts him and fully delegates power to him.

Otherwise, why do they say that a man will die for his best friend, and a woman will dress up for the one who pleases her?
Next, Feng Ziying pretended to negotiate with Jiaozhi.

But secretly, he ordered the Jinyiwei to speed up the collection of intelligence on Jiaozhi.

Just when the Jiaozhi court was overjoyed and thought that China was really willing to negotiate with them.

Feng Ziying suddenly found a mistake of Jiaozhi, and then with lightning speed, he captured three cities of Jiaozhi within one day.

Well, although Jiaozhi has a large population, its land area is not really that large.

Originally, Feng Ziying had already captured six or seven of their cities.

If we take these three cities, we will have almost conquered half of their territory.

Further ahead is the capital of Jiaozhi.

As for Jiaozhi, they were completely stunned by Feng Ziying.

He hurriedly asked Feng Ziying why he went back on his word and broke his promise?

No credibility?

Who will keep your word during a war?
However, we cannot say this openly.

Feng Ziying found an excuse and sent Jiaozhi away.

He also flatly rejected Jiaozhi's proposal for further peace talks and decided to destroy Jiaozhi.

At this point, Jiaozhi was in a panic.

They were definitely no match for Zhongyuan, and this time, for some reason, Zhongyuan was no longer as easy to talk to as before.

In the past, even if they were independent, as long as the Central Plains attacked, they would surrender immediately because they were no match for the opponent.

Generally speaking, the Central Plains would not make things too difficult for them.

This time, no one knows what happened, but the Central Plains actually wants to kill them all!
Although their capital city had high walls and thick defenses, they were helpless because the Central Plains had artillery.

Their city gates were completely vulnerable to the artillery fire from the Central Plains.

Moreover, their muskets were too powerful. How could they fight this battle? How could they defend this city?
Use your head to fight? Use your life to defend?

The royal family of Jiaozhi was almost scared to death.

They had already learned that the people of the Central Plains had never abused prisoners and had never been harsh on the people of Jiaozhi.

Therefore, even if the imperial city was breached, Jiaozhi would be destroyed.

But those ministers will not necessarily be executed.

There is even a possibility that he will be reused by the Central Plains and continue to serve as an official.

After all, they were originally officials of Jiaozhi and were very familiar with the situation in Jiaozhi.

After the Central Plains conquered Jiaozhi, if they wanted to govern Jiaozhi, they had to use some officials who were familiar with Jiaozhi.

But as an emperor, he is bound to die.

Therefore, how can the Emperor of Jiaozhi not panic?

At this time, he was even afraid that his ministers and generals would collude to capture him as the emperor and then send him to the Central Plains to seek credit.

It's not like this hasn't happened before.

Thinking of this, the Emperor of Jiaozhi became very frightened.

Finally, he gathered a large army to defend the city.

And he himself secretly escaped with his concubines and children at night.

Even the royal descendants of the same clan were not taken away.

After daybreak, the high officials of Jiaozhi State realized belatedly that their emperor had actually escaped.

This made a number of senior officials and generals very angry and confused.

What’s infuriating is that they were originally full of enthusiasm and were ready to die with the country.

However, when they woke up, they found that their emperor had secretly run away.

This made their enthusiasm a joke.

Who are they loyal to?

Therefore, the ministers and generals of Jiaozhi finally decided to surrender to the Central Plains.

They don't feel too much psychological pressure about this.

After all, their emperor had secretly run away, so how could they expect them to remain loyal?

After all, Jiaozhi has been part of the Central Plains for thousands of years.

If we surrender now, we will just go back to the past.

However, after Feng Ziying received the surrender letter from Jiaozhi, he was stunned.

what's the situation?
I haven't even started to exert my strength yet, but you're suddenly surrendering?

Feng Ziying attached great importance to Jiaozhi, because when they first attacked, they found that the people here were really fearless and unafraid of death.

Moreover, regardless of gender, age or status, it is almost the same if not entirely universal military service.

He was so frightened that he didn't dare to attack rashly at that time. It was not until he asked the court for help that he dared to continue the attack after the court's help arrived.

Unexpectedly, just as he was about to exert force, Jiaozhi fell down.

However, the war of public opinion played a great role in this.

If it weren’t for the Jinyiwei who successfully instigated the people of Jiaozhi to rebel.

How can their progress be so easy?
Once all the people of Jiaozhi become soldiers and fight with all their might, the war will inevitably be dragged into a quagmire.

However, they could not massacre civilians on a large scale. If they did so, they would lose their original intention of conquering Jiaozhi.

It was precisely because of a series of psychological warfare that the people of Jiaozhi were successfully instigated to rebel.

This made the battle easier to fight.

It would be enough to defeat Jiaozhi's army head-on.

Therefore, all these factors combined led to such a huge victory.

Feng Ziying was not afraid that they would pretend to surrender.

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy or trickery would seem pale, powerless and ridiculous.

Next, Feng Ziying quickly sent troops to take over the entire Jiaozhi.

Then send out the good news and wait for the court's decision.

Seven days later, the good news was sent to the court.

When Jia Cong saw the good news, he was overjoyed.

He immediately called a meeting of the cabinet ministers and officials from various ministries.

After all the senior officials arrived, Jia Cong took out the good news and showed it to everyone.

After reading it, all the officials were overjoyed.

A big victory!
Moreover, this battle was fought so beautifully!

The troops were dispatched in less than three months, without many casualties and without spending much money, and Jiaozhi was captured in one fell swoop.

This record is not inferior to that of the famous generals in ancient times.

Moreover, this is the achievement of expanding territory.

Qin Daxueshi said immediately: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty, this is an achievement in expanding the territory!"

"After this battle, we will expand the territory of China. Your Majesty, you are truly an emperor of all ages!"

After Qin Daxueshi finished speaking, other officials echoed him.

Only Academician Kou and Lin Ruhai remained silent.

Hearing these compliments, Jia Cong couldn't help laughing.

I have to say that this Grand Secretary Qin's ability to understand people's thoughts and flatter people is really in his blood.

However, listening to these occasionally can indeed make people happy physically and mentally.

Jia Cong said: "It can't be considered as expanding territory. Jiaozhi has been my Central Plains for thousands of years."

"This matter is nothing more than retaking it. Now that we have taken Jiaozhi, how should we develop Jiaozhi next? Let's discuss it together."

You can conquer the world immediately, but you cannot rule the world immediately.

However, the ministers in the court are all capable officials.

Managing Jiaozhi is no problem at all.

Kou Daxueshi could not help but say: "Your Majesty, I think we can follow the old system and set up the Annan Protectorate in Jiaozhi and station an army here to guard it."

After hearing this, Jia Cong nodded and said, "What Grand Secretary Kou said is indeed a mature and wise way to plan for the country! Then we should set up an Annan Protectorate."

"I think we can promote Feng Ziying to the Duke of Annan and let him lead the army to guard Annan."

Kou Daxueshi said hurriedly: "Great!"

The reason why Grand Secretary Kou spoke first was actually because he was afraid that the emperor was still thinking about the plan before the battle.

That is to relocate one third of the people of Annan, and then migrate people from the Central Plains.

The population of Annan is simply too large, and relocating one third of it is a huge project.

And in the opinion of Academician Kou, this is completely unnecessary.

Therefore, he was afraid that the emperor would bring up the old matter again, so he spoke first.

In the end, the emperor not only approved his proposal, but also did not bring up the old matter again.

This finally made Academician Kou breathe a sigh of relief.

What he didn't know was that Jia Cong had actually found another solution.

Jia Cong has the thinking of later generations and an extremely advanced consciousness.

But these awarenesses may not necessarily make him a good emperor.

Some things cannot be achieved just because he thinks they are good or feasible.

Therefore, in recent days, Jia Cong has been slowly adapting to how to be a good emperor and how to use the thinking of the previous dynasties to take root in this world.

Some time ago, he decided to migrate a large number of Jiaozhi people to make the population of Jiaozhi mixed. After a few generations, Jiaozhi would be completely assimilated into China.

After thinking about it for a while, Jia Cong felt that this was not an easy thing to do.

It is also likely to cause panic and suspicion among the people of Jiaozhi.

Therefore, it is better to adopt more gentle means and methods.

After taking Jiaozhi, the Central Plains no longer had to worry about food problems.

By the way, Jiaozhi is also a very suitable area for growing rubber.

In later generations, rubber planting in Jiaozhi occupied a very important position in the world.

Well, this can also be put on the agenda.

I wonder if rubber has been planted in the West yet?
Most likely not, right?

According to the original historical trajectory, the tire should have been invented in the 19th century.

Probably not yet.

People can buy some rubber trees to plant first, and then start developing applications for rubber.

Alas, there are still too few scientific researchers at hand.

Not enough, not enough at all.

The training speed must be accelerated.

……

In recent days, Jia Cong has also been busy.

What he was busy with was naturally the affairs in Jiaozhi.

The establishment of an Annan Protectorate involved a myriad of issues, and as the emperor, he naturally had a lot of things to do.

One day, when Jia Cong was reviewing memorials, Zhou Liang walked in quietly.

Jia Cong couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Liang hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Lord Tang wants to see you."

Lord Tang?
Johann Adam Schall ...?
This guy never comes to visit unless he has something important to do.

Since he is here, it means that his research should have produced results.

If you really say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here!
Now that his research has yielded results, he can put this project aside and study rubber.

Jia Cong suddenly felt a little bit unbearable.

He treated Nan Huairen like an animal. Even the donkey in the production team didn't work as hard as he did.

But who can blame him? He is the only capable person among Jia Cong's subordinates at the moment!
Those who are capable should do more work, so I have no choice but to let him work harder.

Moreover, Jia Cong also felt that although it was tiring and hard, Johann Adam Schall von Bell enjoyed it.

As a missionary, he has almost forgotten the original purpose of crossing the ocean and is now immersed in invention... (End of this chapter)