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    "Your Majesty, do we really want to marry Yu Ying so far away in western Sichuan? Or should she be a concubine to that bandit marshal?" A Manchu woman in her fifties said with red eyes.  Is she none other than Aixinjueluo, Prince of Dingjun?  Pu Xu's Ma Jia family in Fujin.  When she thought about her youngest daughter having to marry so far away, she, as a mother, felt very reluctant to let go.

    "Lafayette has already spoken, can we still resist? Besides, Western Sichuan is very powerful now, so Yuying may not suffer a loss if she marries there. Maybe one day Western Sichuan will conquer the world, and we will become royal relatives.  The country is mourning!" Puxu, the king of Dingjun, said.

    "Ah! My lord, you are a member of the royal family of the Qing Dynasty. How can you say such a thing?" Ma Jia of Fujin looked at Pu Xu in astonishment.  In the Qing Dynasty, they love the Xinjueluo family!  How can any member of the family expect outsiders to take over their family's world?

    "Hey, didn't I just talk about it at home? Everyone knows that I, Pu Xu, am a useless person. The world of the Aixinjueluo family has nothing to do with me, Pu Xu. On the contrary, if Yu Ying marries me,  If Western Sichuan succeeds, then our Dingjun Prince's Mansion will be the first-class family in the world, and we will no longer have to look at other people's faces!" Pu Xu said.  He didn't like being an errand, firstly because he didn't have much talent in this area, and partly because he was considered a lower-ranking member of the Qing Dynasty's clan.  Calling this one uncle and that one grandpa, they are often bullied by these people.  Therefore, he simply stopped working to avoid being angry.  Who would have thought that at this age, there would be such a good thing.  With the powerful foreign aid from Western Sichuan, in the future in these four-nine cities, his Dingjun Prince's Mansion will be able to truly feel proud.  And he, Puxu, was able to hold his head high and conduct himself in front of many clan members.

    "But, sir. Isn't Yuying engaged to the youngest son of the Duolong family? What should we do?" Fujin Ma Jiashi said worriedly.  Marrying one girl twice is not a good reputation!

    "Hmph! What a woman sees! This is the decree of the frightened old Buddha. Does the Duolong family dare to say anything more? I am sure that within two days, the Duolong family will definitely send someone to cancel the engagement."  Pu Xu said with great certainty.

    Sure enough, two days later, the Duolong family took the initiative to cancel the engagement, and they didn¡¯t even want the betrothal gift given when they got engaged.  He was extremely flattering to Pu Xu, the king of Dingjun, which made Pu Xu very happy.  Even before his daughter was married, there had already been such a change. This change made Pu Xu very satisfied.  Although he has not yet seen what his future son-in-law looks like, he is already very satisfied with this son-in-law.

    On August 17, all the war reparations from the Manchu and Qing government were transferred to the Bank of Western Sichuan. After receiving the money, the Western Sichuan army naturally had no reason to stay in the capital.  On the same day, Wang Yuze led his army back to Chengdu.  Liang Xingrong, who came to participate in the negotiations, also returned to western Sichuan with Wang Yuze, while Song Zhengping temporarily stayed in the capital to handle follow-up affairs.  For example, Western Sichuan captured hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war. Should the Manchus redeem these prisoners of war and at what price?  In addition, there is the marriage between Wang Yuze and Yu Ying Gege, how to arrange it, etc.  Song Zhengping was responsible for staying in the capital and taking full charge of the matter.  In order to protect his safety, Wang Yuze left a company of soldiers behind.

    "Young Marshal, are you going back to Chengdu if you don't want to see your fianc¨¦e?" On the way back, Liang Xingrong made a joke about Wang Yuze.  In this war, Western Sichuan gained a lot, and all the people in Western Sichuan were very happy.

    "What's there to see? It will be the same when the time comes anyway!" Wang Yuze said indifferently.  The reason why he agreed to marry this Gege was just in the name of intervening in Manchu affairs.  No matter what the character is like, even if she is ugly, it doesn't matter.  However, the Manchus would not deliberately marry an ugly Gege to deliberately disgust him, right?

    This time, when Wang Yuze returned to Chengdu from the capital, he was no longer walking in the Gobi.  The reason for attacking the capital before was to keep it secret.  We have to walk through the Gobi and grasslands.  Now, we have won the battle, and there is no need to suffer again.

    The army in western Sichuan set out from the capital, passed through Baoding to Taiyuan and Linfen in Shanxi, and arrived in Xi'an by the end of August.  Along the way, the neat military appearance and high morale of Western Sichuan inspired the people under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.  Before, the Manchus promoted Western Sichuan as bandits who only knew killing. However, as the goods from Western Sichuan continued to pour into thousands of households.  This time the Manchu Qing was even more defeated by Western Sichuan.  It immediately elevated the status of western Sichuan in the hearts of the people.  Many people can't help but have such an idea in their minds.  "It seems that the change of dynasties is about to begin again. The Tatar world is no longer stable, and it is time for the Han people to come to power!" Although, after more than two hundred years of enslavement education, most Han people have identified with the Manchus.  Qing rule.  But there are also many people with lofty ideals who have not stopped resisting, and the victory in western Sichuan has undoubtedly pointed out a way for these people.  catchIn the time since then, many elites from all over China have rushed to western Sichuan to join this great era.

    After arriving in Xi'an, Wang Yuze left the army behind and let the outgoing army rest and regroup in Xi'an. He returned to Chengdu with a small number of guards, Liang Xingrong and Cai Yun.  The war has now come to an end, and the focus of Western Sichuan will once again turn to construction.  Especially those provinces that have just been conquered require a lot of investment.  These areas cannot become a burden to Western Sichuan, but should contribute to the strength of Western Sichuan, otherwise the battle in Western Sichuan will be in vain.

    At the same time, Song Zhengping, who stayed in the capital, began to quarrel with the Manchus again.  The Manchu Qing wanted to reorganize its armaments. Weapons could be ordered from the great powers, but what about soldiers?  You can't ask the great powers for help!  Even if the great powers agreed, could the Manchu rulers agree?  It¡¯s not like they want to be puppets!

    In this war, the Manchu Qing invested millions of troops, but now only about 200,000 remain. Except for more than 200,000 who were killed or wounded on the battlefield, a small part of the remaining ones collapsed.  of.  The remaining 500,000 people entered prisoner-of-war camps in western Sichuan.  Among them, there are more than 30,000 Mongolian cavalry from the Horqin tribe and more than 50,000 new imperial guards.  The rest are the New Army and Green Camp of the Qing Dynasty, but these are all Han people.  The Manchus and Qing Dynasties did not pay that much attention to it.

    "Director Song, now that we have signed an armistice treaty, your army should be able to release the captured soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, right?" Prince Gong Yixin found Song Zhengping and wanted to release the captured 500,000 soldiers.  The army is going back.  In this case, after being retrained and equipped with weapons imported from abroad, they can quickly form an army.  It comes much faster than re-recruiting and training.

    "Of course. However, we in western Sichuan have been raising these captives for two months, and the expenses are not small. Since you want to take them back, you have to pay for them!" Song Zhengping said.

    The corner of Prince Gong Yixin's mouth twitched. As expected, the people in Western Sichuan have all fallen into the eyes of money. So gentle and polite!  In addition, Xi Sichuan's appetite is too big. He just extorted 120 million taels of silver from the Qing Dynasty, and now he wants money. It is simply shameless!

    "Then I don't know how much money the court needs to redeem these prisoners of war?" Prince Gong Yixin asked.  Western Sichuan is so powerful that he has to bow his head!

    "Let me do the math! Food expenses, accommodation expenses, nutrition expenses, medical expenses, lost work expenses Let's do it this way, each prisoner of war is worth one hundred taels of silver, and we will package up 500,000 prisoners of war and sell them all to you!" Song Zhengping said  .

    Prince Gong Yixin almost fainted when he heard the price.  A prisoner of war costs one hundred taels, and half a million prisoners of war still cost fifty million taels of silver!  How could the Qing Dynasty get such a huge amount of money?

    "Director Song, the price is too expensive. Can you make it cheaper? You know, the Qing Dynasty's treasury is already empty, and it still owes a lot of foreign debts. How can there be so much money to redeem prisoners of war?" Gong!  Prince Yixin said.

    "Okay then, ninety taels of silver for each prisoner of war. This is the biggest concession I can make. Originally, when the young marshal left, he requested that each prisoner of war be sold for two hundred taels of silver. I also considered the Qing Dynasty.  The price was reduced by half because of the difficulties!" Song Zhengping looked like he was considering the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

    Yi Xin was almost pissed off by Song Zhengping. How could this middle-aged man who looked elegant be so shameless?

    "Director Song, with so many prisoners of war, keeping them in Western Sichuan will be a huge burden for you! Why not sell them to us at a low price, which can also reduce the burden on Western Sichuan!" Prince Gong Yixin said.

    "It's okay! The young marshal said it. If the Qing Dynasty doesn't pay for ransom, we will send all these prisoners of war to build roads and mines in a month. Now that the territory of western Sichuan has expanded a lot, how many railways and roads need to be built?  ! These require a lot of manpower!" Song Zhengping said indifferently.

    "That's too cruel! He was actually sent to do coolies, so he died of exhaustion on the construction site?" Yi Xin was very speechless. Western Sichuan was almost certain to defeat the Qing Dynasty.

    "Director Song. Then we will only redeem the Mongolian cavalry and the new imperial guard army." Yi Xin said.  Since the asking price in western Sichuan was too high, they could only redeem the Mongols and bannermen, which were the basis of the Qing Dynasty's rule.  As for the Han soldiers, we can just recruit them when the time comes.  Anyway, there are so many Han people.

    "Okay. A Mongolian cavalry is worth 300 taels of silver. A new guard army is also worth 300 taels. The total of the Mongolian cavalry and the new guard army is more than 90,000 people. Erase the fraction and count you as 90,000 people. Give a total of 2  Seventeen million taels of silver will suffice," Song Zhengping said.

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