However, this proposal is likely to arouse the disgust of the court.

After all, pirates were the target of severe crackdowns by the court. Even pirates like Wang Zhi were lured and killed by surrender.

Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong was also a pirate in his early years, but he was whitewashed early and had an invincible navy in his hands. The court was afraid of rats and had to use Zheng Zhilong more. But this does not mean that the court recognized the Zheng family, nor does it mean that the court recognized the pirates.

Zheng Chenggong knew this very well. With his sensitive identity, if he suggested that the court recruit pirates to form naval officers and soldiers, he would probably be sprayed with nothing in his body by the court officials.

In their opinion, pirates are never in the ordinary and cannot be promoted. How could such a majestic existence in the imperial court be mixed with the lowly pirates?

Letting the court admit that pirates are equivalent to letting him slap himself hard in the face.

It would be better to settle for the second best, suggest that the court recruit a large number of mercenaries from the Fujie Realm.

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Yuan Zongdi talked openly and once with Gao Guiying, and told Gao Guiying about his worries.

What surprised him was that Gao Guiying did not show any panic, but instead comforted Yuan Zongdi, because he thought too much.

Judging from the series of actions of the young emperor who had just ascended the throne, he is quite a capable hero.

Gao Guiying doesn't believe that such a person will do one thing.

If the little emperor really refused to let Gao Guiying go, he would definitely issue a clear order to Wen Anzhi from the beginning.

Since he did not make any statement, it means that at least he would not attack a woman.

The grudges between Shunjun and the Ming court were all written off from the moment Li Zicheng died, and all the blame was taken by Li Zicheng. Anyway, the dead would not crawl out of the grave to defend himself.

Of course, these are Gao Guiying's own judgments, or her wishful thinking.

No one knows what the real little emperor thought.

Unless Gao Guiying becomes a roundworm in the little emperor's belly, everything she says can only be considered inference.

However, Gao Guiying expressed at least one attitude, that is, everything is focused on the interests of the Shunjun and does not care about personal gains and losses.

She will support her as long as she decides that it is beneficial to Shunjun, even if it may cause her to be killed.

In the end, Yuan Zongdi chose to respect Gao Guiying's choice.

He, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang, Zuo Guangxian and other generals of Shun Army attended the banquet arranged by Wen Anzhi as scheduled.

Negotiation at the wine table has been a habit of China since ancient times.

Many things that were originally impossible to be negotiated turned into magic and impossible after some cups of tear.

From the beginning, the negotiations were moving in a direction that both sides expected.

After Tian Jianxiu persuaded most of the generals of the Shun Army wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

As for Wen Anzhi, he naturally wanted to surrender the remnants of Shun Army and share his worries with the emperor.

The only question is who will break the last layer of window paper.

The focus of the debate between the two sides is naturally the issue of treatment.

Generals such as Ta Mixiu have been striving to maximize their interests.

Wen Anzhi was also trying his best to win rights and interests for the court, and for this, he did not hesitate to fight wits and courage with the generals of the Shun Army.

"The court could not agree to the conditions for the title of kings proposed by General Tian. The Ming Dynasty never had this precedent, and it was even more impossible to set this precedent."

Wen Anzhi paused and said, "Besides, Gao Yigong surrendered to the court and only gave birth to a marquis. If all the generals were granted the title of king, then where would Li Guo and Gao Yigong be placed?"

Originally, Honda Mishui and others were still very calm.

But when Wen Anzhi said this, he was stunned.

"Mr. Wen just said that Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others have surrendered to the court?"

Ta Mixiu took a deep breath and said.

"Yes, General Tian still doesn't know? Now the imperial court not only grants two marquises, but also orders them to station in Jingmen, which is extremely honorable and favored."

Wen Anzhi stroked his beard and said, "If General Tian and others can surrender, I will definitely ask you to be named a marquis for you."

The title of the Ming Dynasty or the King of Yizi is very valuable and was never awarded a king of different surnames before his death. The duke is also very valuable and will not be awarded unless he has made great contributions. However, the title of marquis or marquis is completely different.

Even relatives of the foreigners can obtain similar titles by virtue of their identities. Why can't generals with heavy troops be able to do it?

Especially these generals are still standing opposite to the court.

If they can surrender by relying solely on a marquis, then this deal is really profitable.

Wen Anzhi was aggressive from the beginning of the banquet, and now he caught the weaknesses of the Shunjun army and chased them hard.

Isn’t they a big part of the reason why they think they have the capital to bargain with the court because they think that there is still Li Guo, a large army of more than 100,000 led by Gao Yipeng?

In Tian Jianxiu's opinion, although this army did not yet reunite the Shun army led by Wata Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang and others for various reasons, it would be a matter of time before the meeting.

At that time, the court will definitely not deliberately wait to suppress the Shun Army.

This is the biggest reliance of Ta Mixiu and others, but now it seems that there is no need to rely on it.

Li Guo, since Gao Yigong has been surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for him to rebel again in the short term.

This means that Tian Jianxiu and others either chose to accept the conditions offered by Wen Anzhi, or rely on their own forces to resist stubbornly.

If the latter is chosen, there will undoubtedly be full of encirclement and suppression by the Ming army.

After a series of defeats, everyone was not in a position to fight a battle of this scale.

The most terrifying thing is Li Guo. Gao Yigong may not know that Tian Jianxiu and others are in Guangdong, just as Tian Jianxiu and others do not know that Li Guo, Gao Yigong has arrived in Huguang and was surrendered by the Ming court.

The Ming court may have made up the idea of ​​defeating the Shun Army from the beginning, and made great efforts to take advantage of the asymmetry between the two Shun Army and the Ming Army, thereby seizing the greatest benefits.

Judging from the results, this move obviously worked.

Li Guo, Gao Yigong surrendered so easily, must have heard of the news that Li Zicheng died in Jiugong Mountain.

Of course this news is true, but I'm afraid there will be some explanations in the Ming court.

For example, if Li Zicheng died as the entire Shun Army was wiped out, no matter how bad it is, most of the main generals of the Shun Army were killed and the army was covered in scattered sand.

In this case, Li Guo and Gao Yigong would of course be discouraged, so it would be not difficult to understand that he would surrender to the Ming court.

The current situation is that the Ming court intends to use the tricks used by Li Guo and the first year of high school to Tian Jianxiu and others again.

Gao Guiying, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said aloud: "We are willing to accept the recruitment method proposed by Lord Wen just now. However, I also want to ask Lord Wen to make a guarantee."

"Mrs. Gao, please speak."

Wen Anzhi was quite polite to Gao Guiying.

"I would like to ask Lord Wen to promise that the soldiers of the Shun Army will not be allowed to die in vain in the future. Please treat us equally with the direct official army."

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Chapter completed!