In order to ensure the safety of Chengdu soldiers, Deng Ming took this opportunity to draft an agreement, which stipulated that when Chengdu soldiers were captured for various reasons, including ship crashes, they should receive preferential treatment from the Qing army, and would not be beaten and forced to confess, and the Ming army was allowed to redeem them with silver. Before these prisoners of war were redeemed, they should receive basic food and food treatment and would not be killed at will. Deng Ming announced that if the Qing army violated this agreement, they would not expect to be released, but this is still equivalent. If the Qing army beat and abused prisoners of war, they would have to bear the consequences of fines. Only when the Ming army killed prisoners of war, Deng Ming would ask for life. Deng Ming did not intend to force those enemies who abused the prisoners of war in the Ming army to kill and silence them.

The agreement was also decided on the same day. After signing the Zhongxian Treaty on the treatment of prisoners of war, which is unknown whether it can be implemented, Deng Ming immediately prepared to take half of the main force on board the ship and leave, allowing Ren Tang and Mu Tan to stay to deal with the issue of accepting prisoners of war.

So far, almost 75,000 prisoners were captured by the Sichuan army. Deng Ming ordered the division into two parts, and 40,000 were sent back to Chengdu, which sent 37,000 soldiers, and 35,000 prisoners of war were sent to Xuzhou, which sent 27,000 soldiers (excluding the 12,000 people intercepted by Yuan Xiang and others last time, it would be 23,000). Seeing that Deng Ming actually agreed to let the number of prisoners of war exceed the original population of Xuzhou, even the business owners who sent the guys to support the front line were a little surprised.

"If I remember correctly, many of the guys you use now were brought by Gao Mingzhan, including Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong from Guizhou, and those who caught him when he fought against Li Guoying last time. Now they are actively going to fight for the court?" Deng Ming was very open-minded. The Sichuan government must do its best to win the love of the people, otherwise it will be difficult to escape the end of destruction: "But if you are wrong, if the Xuzhou Empire Parliament feels inappropriate, you can send it to the capital by yourself. I guess the prefect Liu will not think there are too many people."

Of course, these people are unwilling to send them back. No industry will complain about the number of people in this shortage of labor. Moreover, the distribution plan this time was proposed by Deng Ming, and it was about to be used to block Liu Jinge's mouth. Before, Deng Ming ordered all prisoners of war to be sent back to Chengdu, but they took the initiative to intercept them. However, now everyone in Xuzhou plans to say that they are just implementing Deng Ming's order.

"There is another thing. After these prisoners pay taxes, they will also be fellow scholars, scholars. At that time, they will not need to be restricted by household registration and can move freely under the rule of the court." The flow that Deng Ming mentioned is actually more relaxed than the flow of scholars in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty just did not need scholars to provide guidance, but there was still a problem of origin. Deng Ming allowed fellow scholars to choose their place of residence and work at will: "If they want to find a job in Chengdu at that time, I will not be able to control it."

"I understand, understand." Everyone nodded. Everyone knew that Deng Ming meant that they were kind to the prisoners, to take on the kindness, and to make them willing to stay in Xuzhou. People in this era still valued kindness and had a very important kindness complex. Moreover, when they had kindness with scholars and their bosses, they were easily absorbed into the Chengdu system and became supporters and supporters of the Deng Ming government.

After explaining these things, the seven thousand Ming soldiers and 15,000 civilians had already boarded the ship. Deng Ming no longer spoke much to the members of the stolen party and ordered the convening of the officers' meeting.

Deng Ming originally believed that Chongqing lacked self-defense capabilities. Now that Li Guoying fled, Wang Mingde negotiated peace, there were no threatening enemies around the Ming army, and Chongqing would not be able to receive support in the short term - at least in Deng Ming's opinion.

"Li Guoying mobilized about 100,000 civilians this time. Last time we caught 10,000, and this time we caught 62,000 again. If we left the ones caught by General Yuan, we were exhausted and lost. The 100,000 auxiliary soldiers had already gone 80,000." Before boarding the ship, Deng Ming told the officers about his thoughts and let them spread throughout the army: "Without the support of auxiliary soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's combat forces has decreased a lot and its maneuverability has also been greatly reduced. Now Chongqing should only have a small number of Green Camp and the Three Thousand Han Eight Banners. This is the only Qing army field troops that have auxiliary soldiers to support and can fight mobile operations, but they are already scared."

"Li Guoying is fleeing north with seven thousand armored soldiers from the Green Camp in Shanxi. He lacks intelligence and guidance. In order to avoid our army, he will definitely run north desperately. He will run far away before he dares to turn west." Deng Ming unintentionally took the Ming army to chase Li Guoying, because rushing into the mountains to pursue the Ming army would also lead to a lot of non-combat reductions, and the benefits would probably not be much: "Even if he rushed back to Chongqing without armor or auxiliary troops, he would neither have combat power nor mobility. He would not have any threat to our army in the short term."

After the agreement was signed, Deng Ming knew Wang Mingde's little calculation - Li Guoying threw the armor of the green camp in the camp, but Deng Ming felt that there was no need to break the contract for this. Credit is now everything about Deng Ming. If he lost his credit, his difficulties would be magnified ten times immediately. Moreover, the armor left by Li Guoying would also be spent with Wang Mingde in Zhong County for a month, at least meaningless to the Qing army in the next battle; in addition to the armor issue, Deng Ming also asked Ren Tang and Mu Tan to accept the prisoners, while accepting the prisoners, to discuss the issue of exchanging prisoners of war with Yuan Zongdi, and help Wang Mingde redeem all his subordinates.

"The final threat is Zhao Liangdong. He is still in Baoning for the time being." The previous prisoners had already given Deng Ming a clear confession, that is, Sun Sic had intercepted all the auxiliary soldiers and ships used to transport Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao's troops. Without ships, it was difficult to move quickly, and without auxiliary soldiers, it was even difficult to move: "The battle in Chongqing has basically ended. We will finally harvest Li Guoying's military camp and complete our plan before sending troops."

Deng Ming was obsessed with Li Guoying's military camp. When the latter discovered Yuan Zongdi's strong strength, he raised the destruction of Wanxian military camp to the top priority. Deng Ming was the same. The unprecedented scale of the Qing army gave Deng Ming a great sense of crisis. He did not want to let Wanxian or Xuzhou be threatened again when he went to Jiangnan.

Although some prisoners said that there were no military camps around Chongqing, Deng Ming believed that these prisoners were passing civilians or Shanxi Green Camps, so they were not clear about the inside story. Like Li Guoying, Deng Ming had never seen a garrison who did not engage in military camps. Of course, Wang Mingde and others would know more about the situation. However, Deng Mingcai introduced a Zhongxian Treaty, so he might not threaten Wang Mingde and the others on the same day. Besides, they were also prisoners who negotiated peace rather than surrendered - since there must be, there was no need to alert the enemy.

The final request of Wang Mingde and others made Deng Ming feel even more relieved, that is, the senior generals of the Qing army also believed that Chongqing did not have the ability to counterattack, and even believed that Chongqing was likely to be captured by Deng Ming in one fell swoop.

"If we have the chance, we can consider capturing Chongqing." In the past, Deng Ming felt that Chongqing was not of much significance, and it could consume the resources of the Qing court and cooperate with friendly forces on other battlefields, so he did not particularly want to seize it. But after discovering the huge threat brought by Chongqing this time, Deng Ming felt that before considering his allies, he needed to consider the safety of Yuan Zongdi in Chengdu and Wanxian. If Chongqing was indeed empty and could easily be captured, Deng Ming planned to demolish the city and the dock: "We have no spare energy to divide our troops to station in Chongqing. Chongqing city is too large, and it is useless to release few soldiers. If there are many, we need to monitor the Jialing River for the sake of the security of the defenders. Unless General Yuan or anyone else is willing to help, we should demolish Chongqing as a better place - but there is no benefit. Who is willing to help us with such a big favor? Now we are not rich at hand, so don't hire someone to demolish the city directly."

If the threat from Chongqing cannot be eliminated, Deng Ming will have to establish stations between Wanxian and Xuzhou, and also provide early warning means and self-defense capabilities for these stations, which is also a large expense.

Because he did not show any benefits, Deng Ming did not even discuss this issue with Yuan Zongdi. Not long ago, an envoy from Fujian came to Fengjie, which brought news about Zheng Chenggong, saying that the Fujian army was ready to expedition to Taiwan. The envoy left Xiamen in May and finally arrived in Fengjie in early July. But I don’t know if there was new news later, because the attack launched by Li Guoying also cut off the communication from Fengjie to Xuzhou.

Deng Ming was eager to settle these troubles in Chongqing, destroying the Qing army's stronghold or cutting Li Guoying's grain - Li Guoying brought all the auxiliary soldiers out to fight, and the grain was probably still in the field or in the warehouse outside the city. Then he got out to deal with the matter in Jiangnan - there was also news from Wuchang, as if there was something going on, the Yangtze River's suppression of Deng Zongli Yamen wanted to discuss with Deng Ming.

When Deng Ming hurriedly left Wanxian, Guiyang...

"The barbarian king from Myanmar has written a letter to attack Yongli and serve the court." Xia State Prime Minister reported to Wu Sangui.

"Sparse." Pingxi King was stunned for a moment. If the Qing army approached the Myanmar border, it would not be strange for the Burmese King to do this at all, but Li Dingguo is still in Yunnan now. Moreover, Deng Ming's victory in the battles should have some influence on the vassal states. For example, Vietnam is a good example. In the past, Vietnam's tone was quite tough, and he refused to see the envoys sent by the Qing army from Guangdong and Guangxi, and even sent it directly to the Ming army, and unanimously provided food and fodder to the Guangxi Western Army. However, after Yongli abandoned the country, Vietnam's tone instantly softened, and he had basically agreed to surrender to the Qing court. Under Shang Kexi's coercion, he even agreed to send troops to wipe out the Ming army fled into Vietnam.

But after a series of incidents such as the Kunming fire, Vietnam completely overturned the agreement reached by monk Kexi and continued to shelter the Ming army in Vietnam. After the Battle of Gaoyou Lake, the Ming army began to recruit soldiers and horses in Vietnam. Shang Kexi and Sun Yanling repeatedly asked the court to attack Vietnam, but Beijing did not have enough resources to open up a new battlefield. Moreover, in Beijing's view, as long as it wins on the main battlefield, Vietnam will naturally surrender.

"Mangbai said that as long as the officers and soldiers arrive at the Myanmar border, he will present Yongli." Xia Guoxiang added.

"So that's it." Wu Sangui smiled slightly: "It's still necessary for the officers and soldiers to fight to the door before they can turn against each other."

"This may not be necessary." Seeing that Wu Sangui seemed to lose interest, the Prime Minister Xia said again: "According to the last general, Mangbai is already quite dissatisfied with Yongli, and can the king know that Yongli has just issued an edict to grant Deng Ming Duke and the left governor."

The expression on Wu Sangui's face changed suddenly, but Prime Minister Xia had not finished speaking: "This Duke will not posthumously be granted the title of the third generation."
Chapter completed!