Deng Ming did not ask Li Laiheng to come up with a cooperation plan immediately, but asked the other party to think about countermeasures. He also needed time to consider his own plan.

But Li Laiheng didn't think about the terms for several days, so Li Laiheng finally handed over the work in his hand to the deputy general and took a boat to Yiling with Deng Ming. Because this matter also concerns Liu Tichun's interests, the three of them held the first negotiation in Yiling, trying to make their alliance more stable.

Deng Ming took the condition that the newly established committee could check the Yangtze River trade. He had previously handed over the right to check the Chongming Island to Jiang Guozhu. Since in order to reach an agreement, he could hand over the right to high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty, Deng Ming did not intend to be petty with the Ming army alliance for this.

"If the two generals don't know how much Chengdu can benefit from the Yangtze River trade, maybe they don't know how much it will hit us." Deng Ming said. Internal friction is actually a game balance. Members make the most beneficial choices to themselves, but their choices are harmful to the whole, and the result is that the whole is eaten up and the members finally vomit out their own interests. However, this balance will not change because of a member's self-sacrifice. As long as one member does not give up his own strategies, the efforts made by other members will be in vain.

"The committee can check the accounts in Chengdu or the tax accounts of the two generals." Deng Ming hopes to communicate with this committee so that everyone will not infinitely test other people's bottom lines.

"But you will still be worried about others making fraud in this way, right?" Li Laiheng thought carefully over the past few days and came up with an opinion: "Otherwise, I will use last year's taxes as the benchmark, and there will be no tax increase without the consent of Admiral Deng, but the admiral provides me with a military pay as compensation." Speaking of this, Li Laiheng glanced at Liu Tichun: "It can be implemented in my territory first, General Liu doesn't have to be like me."

Now in the Xdong army, the three people with the best relationship with Deng Ming are Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng, and the two generals in the Han River Basin are a little different. However, even so, Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng are still wary of Deng Ming. Li Laiheng's proposal has shown great sincerity and sold part of the tax right that originally belonged to him to Deng Ming.

"I wonder how much military salary General Li wants?" Deng Ming was of course overjoyed.

Li Laiheng didn't know how big the trade volume was, so he said a number of 100,000 taels. Deng Ming did not agree at once, but said that he would wait until he checked the account book and had a clear understanding of the trade volume of the Yangtze River before confirming it.

Liu Tichun also agreed to accept Deng Ming's certain compensation, not raising taxes, and locking the taxes of each household on last year's benchmark. This solution only delayed the outbreak of conflicts because it was too rigid. The Ming army might have implemented the terms seriously when they signed the terms, but it was impossible to ignore the real cultivation for several consecutive years; it would not be possible to adjust if there was a disaster or a bumper harvest. Once there was a change, there would be an opportunity, and adding a little tax would be beneficial to the generals and subordinates.

In order to maintain his credit so that he can continue to obtain benefits through trade, Deng Ming can provide compensation to Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng, but even if he provides such compensation, it cannot guarantee that the other two people will not secretly collect more taxes; or guess that others are secretly collecting more taxes; or doubt that Deng Ming's distribution ratio is unreasonable. Any situation will lead to the invalidation of the agreement, no one can give in infinite concessions, and no one can accurately know other people's bottom line. When he accidentally crosses through, the war of unity within the Ming army will begin.

However, no matter what, this agreement can still delay the outbreak of conflicts and prevent the Ming generals from immediately facing the situation of three losses and the dilemma of choosing one of two in the war of unification - now the Qing Dynasty occupies nine-tenths of the world, and when the Qing Dynasty is eyeing it, the war of unification will definitely lead to the three losses.

The members of the committee were assigned by three companies. In principle, everyone agreed to put all disputes in the committee to resolve them. If there were any conflicts, they would not blame each other, but wait for the committee's review and inspection. Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun both believed that this was perfect, once again consolidated the relationship between the Anti-Qing alliance and eliminated the conflicts between them, but Deng Ming felt that it might not be enough.

"The committee was appointed by the three of us. What if our messengers are stubborn and insist on refusing to give in?" After all, this is just a communication agency. On the issue of taxation, it is very likely that Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun will unite to deal with Deng Ming. Although the demands are unreasonable, they can gain the upper hand in the debate. Deng Ming may also join forces with Li Laiheng or one of Liu Tichun's people, and let unreasonable demands be passed because of common interests. Once this communication agency loses its role, internal friction will lose control, and the Ming army will face the situation of choosing one of the two methods of suicide again.

In short, this committee was maintained entirely by the morality and overall view of the Ming army warlords, and was hurting their dictatorial power all the time. Deng Ming believed that both morality and overall view were unreliable. Even if he himself, Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng could control themselves during the honeymoon period, what should others do? If there is no effective way to reduce internal friction, then the committee might have to launch a unified war against Hao Yaoqi and He Zhen in the future. We can't expect all Ming generals to have a view of self-sacrifice and noble morality.

After all, there must be someone to play the role of the Wolf King and the Monkey King, and make the final decision from the perspective of the clan. In the constitutional model that Deng Ming knows, this almost god-like role is played by a judge. So Deng Ming originally wanted to propose that the criminal officer be responsible, but then he thought that the criminal officer in Chengdu was basically his subordinate, and he was Yuan Zongdi's nephew. Not to mention Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun, even Deng Ming himself doubted whether he could enforce the law impartially.

"If we have a dispute and cannot stand stalemate, we will leave it to General Wen to decide. What do you think?"

Both the Monkey King and the Wolf King became supreme because of their strongestness, and the same is true for human society; but it is difficult for the Sichuan Ming army to say who is the strongest. Deng Ming is the richest, and everyone also recognizes that he is strong, but his foundation is unstable and has many factions under him. If you don’t show it with real swords and guns, you still have doubts about this.

Even if Emperor Shunzhi was killed, Deng Ming became the most famous, just like the two famous kings of Li Dingguo at that time, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu still had doubts whether he was the most powerful in the Xiying. In the end, they determined the position of the Supreme, that is, the Supreme, by internal strife or the unified war within the Xiying.

The candidate proposed by Deng Ming is obviously not the strongest in the Ming army in Sichuan. Although Deng Ming gave Wen Anzhi a lot of money, Fengjie's troops can only protect Wen Anzhi's safety. If you really want to fight, Wen Anzhi may not even be able to defeat the weakest Ming army general. Besides, he is old and does not have to fight. Just fighting can cost him half of his life.

However, Wen Anzhi had a relatively high prestige. When he was in his seventies, he stood up to serve the Ming Dynasty. No one doubted that Wen Anzhi could look at the problem from a global perspective. Moreover, Wen Anzhi was the weakest and did not have the qualifications to compete for the first person in force at all, so there was no need to worry that he deliberately favored others and weakened his allies to cultivate his direct lineage.

But Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun did not agree immediately. They were not worried that Wen Anzhi wanted to expand their strength, but Wen Anzhi obviously had a great affection for Deng Ming, and they were afraid that Wen Anzhi would still support Deng Ming's unreasonable demands when Deng Ming was in a loss.

Although these two people had such concerns in their hearts, they did not make it clear. Deng Ming took the initiative to provoke: "We established this committee to ensure that we will not have major disputes and not let our own family fight, because we all know that if there is an internal strife now, it is no different from wiping our necks with a knife. Supervisor Wen is very wise and understands that if we cannot work together, it will sooner or later be eliminated by the Tartars. We might as well issue a public declaration to tell the people of the world that we set up this committee to always give up the right to resolve disputes by force, and Supervisor Wen's responsibility is to allow us to never have to tear up the declaration and pick up the swords and guns again. With Supervisor Wen's far-sighted vision, he will definitely not deliberately favor anyone, otherwise everyone will die together."

Deng Ming has a good credit and is justified. Once the Ming army has another internal strife, the entire army will undoubtedly be destroyed, but internal friction must be coordinated. This declaration is released throughout the world, and Wen Anzhi cannot make the Ming army in order to revive the great cause. His judgment will definitely uphold justice.

"Mr. Wen is highly respected, I agree." Li Laiheng responded first: "No matter what judgment Master Wen makes, I will obey even if I don't agree."

Deng Ming also made the same guarantee, and everyone knew in their hearts that if Wen Anzhi was really unreasonable, then in the end, no one would obey, and Fengjie did not have the force to force everyone to obey.

"But there is one problem, which does not conform to the laws of the court." Liu Tichun did not hurriedly agree, but pointed out a serious loophole, that is, this declaration does not comply with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and it also damages the prestige of the Yongli court. The generals publicly announced that their internal conflicts may lead to war, and if they are not coordinated properly, conflicts may break out. Although this is a big truth, the generals do not admit that they are loyal ministers and filial sons who can endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, and they do hurt the court's face.

"Oh, this is not easy to deal with." Deng Ming knew that Liu Tichun was not dissatisfied with this method of handling, but he needed someone to take the lead in denying the authority of the court. However, this is not the first time Deng Ming has done this. He did it once in Jianchang last time: "Our declaration shows that we are urgently following the power. Now the emperor is hunting in the south, and the Ming Dynasty's law will naturally fail. After the emperor returns, we will present the judicial power of this committee and the Wenshu to the emperor's Holy Punishment."

"good!"

Liu Tichun expressed satisfaction that he was willing to sign the declaration, and all three of them agreed that the new alliance would be open and that if other Ming generals were willing to accept the arbitration and trial powers of the Commission and Fengjie in the future, the alliance would also welcome them to join.
Chapter completed!