"Negotiation, any negotiation is simply a compromise with the Liaodong Army. If such a thing is spread, the court's face will be gone. Please think twice!" The Minister of War, who has always been in charge of war, seized the last chance and asked loudly.

Yuan Shikai frowned, and after a deep look at the Minister of War who was not very good at dealing with him, he asked with a smile: "As Minister of War, Lord Li wants to fight, which is definitely a blessing for the court. But I want to know, Lord Li, how do you plan to fight?"

"This!" The Minister of War immediately showed a hesitant expression on his face.

Thinking of the various difficulties that Yuan Shikai had just raised, the Minister of War, who had already thought of several tactics, was rejected by him one by one in just a few seconds.

Finally, under the eyes of dozens of eyes in the court, he shook his head helplessly and replied: "The old minister hasn't thought of it yet. But for the sake of the court's face, the court cannot take the initiative to compromise no matter what."

The Minister of War who has been clamoring for nothing, let alone other ministers who dare not even speak.

In addition to disappointment, Cixi even more affirmed the negotiation solution proposed by Yuan Shikai.

However, Cixi was a very face-loving person. Although she was very disappointed with the Minister of War, the Minister of War still spoke to Cixi's heart with just one sentence.

Face. If the court compromises, not only will the court lose its face, but she will lose all face. This is definitely not the result that Cixi is willing to see. Therefore, while Cixi was disappointed, she showed a hesitant expression on her face, and she didn't know how to solve this problem.

If the court continues to fight, the first thing that will be the Beiyang Army closest to the outside of the pass will be the one that will be affected.

Before the Beiyang Army's firepower is strengthened, it is definitely impossible to go out of seclusion and die.

In addition, Yuan Shikai also hoped that the court would allocate some money to the Beiyang Army from the tight military expenditure and buy more weapons. So, at this moment, Yuan Shikai wanted to stop this battle than anyone else.

When Yuan Shikai saw Cixi's expression, he understood Cixi's concerns.

"Empress Dowager, I have a way to make the Liaodong Army take the initiative to surrender to the court, and the court can take this opportunity to surrender to the Liaodong Army. Even if it is finally spread, it will be that the court will take down the Liaodong Army without a single soldier. For the court, there are only benefits but no harm."

Seeing Cixi's eyes slowly lit up, Yuan Shikai changed his words and continued: "But, in order to let the Liaodong army cooperate with the court to perform this scene well, the court must secretly give the Liaodong army some benefits. After all, the Liaodong army's military front is now in full swing."

Hearing this sentence, Cixi did not show any unhappy expression on her face.

As a ruler, she has done this kind of thing more than once.

However, it turned out that the target of doing this was the great powers, but now, the target has changed from the great powers to the Liaodong Army, which made Cixi feel a little frustrated.

Since it is a private transaction in secret, of course, the fewer people know, the better.

After leaving Yuan Shikai and several important officials, Cixi announced her retirement from the court.

At this time, it had been five days since the Liaodong Army captured the three Chaoyang prefectures. During these five days, the Liaodong Army had done a lot of things.

A large number of officials were drawn from the five cities in Liaodong to make up for and replace the yamen originally appointed and established by the three prefectures of Chaoyang. As a result, the territory controlled by the Liaodong army suddenly had three more cities.

Because these three cities are closer to the inner city and have a milder climate, the total population of the three cities actually exceeds 600,000.

When the government led by Huang Xing began to digest the three cities of Chaoyang, thereby further increasing the strength of Liaodong.

The General Staff that entered Liaodong had begun to reorganize all the captives who surrendered.

More than 12,000 prisoners, after mobilization, more than 11,000 people were willing to join the Liaodong Army.

After supplementing the losses of Zhao Zhigang's third division, the General Staff directly reorganized them into 17 garrison regiments, and set up recruitment offices in the three cities of Chaoyang to recruit new recruits, so that the 17 garrison regiments could reach full."

Yang Xingguo was very satisfied with the performance of the Third Division and the government in the three cities of Chaoyang.

It is certain that with the territory of the three cities of Chaoyang, the strength of the Liaodong Army will definitely increase greatly.

But under this situation, there was one person in the Liaodong Army who was unhappy, that was Wang Hu, the commander of the First Division.

The troops have been assembled for five days. Facing Feng Tiancheng who is so close to him, although he has asked for battle many times, he sent troops to capture Feng Tian directly.

However, the reply that Commander Yang Xingguo has always given him was to hold his troops still.

Look, Wang Hu, who just sent someone to ask for battle yesterday, sent someone here again today.

Yang Xingguo frowned and thought about how to give Wang Hu a reply. Chief of Staff Sun Liechen hurried to his side and reported in a low voice.

"Commander, the imperial court has sent someone here. He is a commander under Yuan Shikai. Now he is outside. Should he find a place to meet him?"

Yang Xingguo's eyes lit up and said, "I was thinking about how to reply to Wang Hu just now, but now I don't need to read the reply. If nothing unexpected happens, the court should have compromised. Now it depends on what price the court is willing to pay to protect Fengtian."

"Let's go see him together and explore the details of the court."

After all, they are all military generals. As soon as Yang Xingguo came in, the other party stood up and said, "Commander Yang, the court does not want to continue to fight. As long as the Liaodong army submits a letter to surrender, the court will add you to the Governor of Liaodong. At that time, all the military and political power in Liaodong will fall into your hands. At that time, the Liaodong Governor's Office will only pay 500,000 taels of silver taxes to the court every year."

The Governor of Liaodong was indeed one of the prices that Yang Xingguo wanted the court to pay.

However, when my money is not enough, I still ask myself to pay 500,000 taels of silver every year, which is obviously a daydream.

Yang Xingguo did not refute and stopped Sun Liechen who wanted to get angry. Then he sneered at the commander in front of him: "Since that's the case, then I will send troops to Fengtian before the imperial edict is issued and take Fengtian down."

"I have gathered 10,000 elite troops and a large number of artillery in Liaoyang south of Fengtian. I am confident that I will take Fengtian in at most two days. As long as the court is willing to give me Fengtian, I will agree to the conditions issued by the court."

Yang Xingguo hit the opponent's weakness with just one word.

His face changed and he quickly replied: "Commander Yang calmed down. We can discuss the conditions again. You must not attack Fengtian, otherwise the Liaodong army and the court will fall into a situation of dying. I believe that this is not what Commander Yang wants to see."

Seeing that the other party was scared by himself, Yang Xingguo was also very pleased and answered directly: "First, I will be appointed as the governor of Liaodong; Second, the court of the Chaoyang government, which has been taken down by my Liaodong army, will not accept the imperial court; Third, my governor of Liaodong only pays tribute, does not listen to the proclamation, does not obey the order, and does not pay taxes to the court; Fourth, lift the blockade of Liaodong. There are four items in total. If the court agrees, I will give the court face and not attack Fengtian, and submit a letter to the court for surrender."

The old book "Rebirth of the Iron-Blooded War" of Rebirth was finally unblocked after being sealed for two years. At Qidian, Tencent Literature and Mobile Literature were uploaded at the same time, with more than 4 million words. Interested readers can go and take a look! (To be continued.)
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