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Chapter 414 The Three Kingdoms Control the Western Regions

When Xie Ming, who was sent to Tianyun last year, returned to Hengshan, he was accompanied by Tianyun's negotiating envoy, who brought Tianyun's willingness to negotiate peace.

Naturally, Lin Yifan didn't dare to neglect, and immediately sent someone to negotiate with him.Finally, a truce between the two sides was established and friendly relations were restored.Hengshan releases the captive 200 Tianyun Army, and as a price, Tianyun will pay a ransom of 200 million taels.Of course, this is just a superficial statement. After all, no matter how expensive 30 soldiers are, they don't know that [-] million taels.Except for the [-] taels as a ransom, the rest was used as compensation to compensate the Hengshan Army for their losses in this war.As for the southern pass of Shazhou, the two sides will reduce the garrison to less than [-]; open the border and allow bilateral trade exchanges.At the same time, after difficult negotiations, the two parties agreed to adjust the tariff to [-] taxes, which will be collected at one time, and after entering the territory of both parties, no card tax will be collected.

After the two parties signed the agreement, the Tianyun envoy immediately set off to return to China.And Lin Yifan also sent a letter to Zheng Han who was stationed at Quyang Pass, asking him to prepare to hand over the prisoners.At the same time, he sent a letter to Chen Dengke, informing him of the agreement between Tianyun and Hengshan, making him ready to reopen business in Shazhou.

Just a few days after Tianyun Envoy left, Jiang Yunchuan who returned from the Eternal Kingdom also brought good news.The Eternal Kingdom agreed to a truce with Hengshan, on the condition that the captured [-] Eternal Army soldiers be released.Thinking about it, the current Eternal Kingdom has lost more than half of its [-]th army in Shazhou, and its strength is greatly weakened.In the east and north of them, there are two powerful enemies who are eyeing each other.Now they urgently need a chance to breathe, and it is really inappropriate to create a strong enemy.

From Jiang Yunchuan's report, Lin Yifan knew that the current eternity is also very afraid of Tianyun Kingdom.Because the enmity between the two countries has been condensed for a hundred years, and it has long been incompatible.Now Eternal was defeated and suffered heavy losses, and although Tianyun also suffered heavy losses, the foundation of national strength is far from what Eternal can compare to.Once the Sky Cloud Nation is restored, it will be their eternal destruction.

In addition, on the plateau, the environment is harsh and supplies are scarce.Originally, eternity can also come out of the sky and the autumn wind in the western regions at any time.But now Tianyun is heavily guarded in Xuelong Mountain, and it is difficult to violate the border at all.And the Western Regions have been ruined by Eternal and Xijin werewolves, and they are already dilapidated, and there is nothing to fish for.Therefore, the Eternal God Emperor decided to go west, climb over many snow-capped mountains, and conquer Vientiane Kingdom in the west.In this way, the center of gravity of the Eternal Kingdom will be shifted to the west, temporarily posing no threat to Hengshan.

After listening to Jiang Yunchuan's explanation, Lin Yifan suddenly had an idea in his mind.The most powerful enemies that Hengshan is facing now are all gathered in the west.In the southwest, there are Tianyun and Eternity, and in the northwest, there are Xijin Werewolves.Although there are now two parties showing goodwill to Hengshan, it is hard to guarantee that they will not see Li's desire to invade Hengshan.And Eternity is located on the plateau, facing Tianyun in the east, and reaching the Western Regions in the north. If they can form an alliance with Eternity, they can restrain Tianyun in the south and attack the Western Golden Wolf in the west.With the power of eternity, Hengshan's pressure in the Western Regions has been greatly reduced.

However, it is easy to contain Tianyun. After all, the two countries are in conflict, so it is completely feasible to form an alliance.But with Xijin werewolves as enemies, I'm afraid Eternal will not agree easily.If you can't promise great benefits, Eternal will definitely refuse.

Lin Yifan thought for a long time, and decided to send envoys to Eternity again to negotiate an alliance with him.As long as an alliance can be formed, Hengshan will open up business contacts with Eternal, and within the scope of trade, strategic materials such as weapons and equipment will be added.There is no other reason, just to balance the balance of Tianyun and Eternal military strength.He didn't want the Tianyun Kingdom, which had become stronger, to beat Eternity all over the place in one breath.The information collected from Tianyun shows that Tianyun Kingdom has adopted the strategy of plowing and fighting in the past few years, which has achieved remarkable results, and the strength of the entire country has risen in vain.If it weren't for the fact that the Eternal Army restrained Tianyun in time, I'm afraid that the Tianyun Kingdom would never let it go.

In the Western Regions, in order to deal with the Western Golden Werewolves, Hengshan will join hands with Eternity to attack the Western Golden Werewolves, force them to withdraw from the Western Regions, and dissolve their relations with other countries.Furthermore, the three parties sat down together to discuss how to carve up the Western Regions.In fact, this was also Lin Yifan's forced decision. The Western Region was too big, and Hengshan's foundation was too weak. There was simply not so much manpower and material resources to control the entire Western Region.In Hengshan's overall plan, the purpose of attacking the Western Regions is to open up commercial routes and control the commercial routes leading to the West.As for the control rights in other places, try to fight for what you can, and it doesn't matter if you can't.There are advantages and disadvantages in doing so. The advantage is that it saves Hengshan's control costs, so that Hengshan does not have to invest a lot of manpower and material resources for the entire Western Region.But the disadvantage is that Hengshan is sandwiched between Eternity and the Western Golden Werewolf, if the situation changes, the other party may cut off the rear traffic in one fell swoop, leaving the Protectorate of the Western Regions in isolation.

At this time, the advantage of Xizhou's geographical location is highlighted. With Xizhou, the distance between Hengshan's local reinforcements and the Western Regions will be greatly reduced.Once something happened, the Xizhou garrison could call in tens of thousands of troops to reinforce it. This was the reason why Lin Yifan dared to eat with tigers and wolves.

After talking about eternity with Jiang Yunchuan, Lin Yifan immediately discussed with him about going south to negotiate with the Li family forces.Now that the war is over, military reforms are proceeding in an orderly manner.But after the three wars, Hengshan's strength has declined, and all the major forces in the south are ready to move.Although they would not dare to attack Hengshan, during this period of time, they made things difficult for Hengshan merchants and prevented the caravan from purchasing supplies.In their eyes, Hengshan was about to collapse under a series of blows.Especially Li Yuan, because of his proximity to Hengshan, thought that Hengshan was about to be defeated, so he secretly mobilized troops and stationed troops south of Jishan Pass, waiting for an opportunity to move.However, Hengshan's successive victories frightened him immediately. While withdrawing his troops, he strengthened the troops at Jishan Pass, fearing that after this battle, Hengshan would use this as an excuse to attack him.

However, Lin Yifan was really dissatisfied with Li Yuan's performance of disregarding the overall situation. Hengshan was resisting aliens and guarding the Central Plains, but this guy was making small moves behind his back.If severe punishment is not imposed, I am afraid that everyone will think that Hengshan has already been strong and hollow in these few wars.

Therefore, Lin Yifan decided to show his muscles to the outside world, to let them see that Hengshan is still the powerful Hengshan.And use this to extort a sum of military expenses from them.In his view, the Hengshan Army was fighting for the Central Plains, so the money, food, and supplies spent in these wars had to be shared equally among the major forces in the Central Plains.Otherwise, why should my Hengshan army shed blood and sweat, and you people are not only indifferent, but also secretly stumbling?In fact, this is also a helpless move. In order to cope with the three successive wars, Hengshan has already exhausted the savings of the past two years. As a result, Hengshan is now financially unable to make ends meet, supplies are scarce, and people's livelihood is in turmoil.If money, food and materials were not raised from other places, it would take another two to three years for Hengshan to recover.

After hearing Lin Yifan's words, Jiang Yunchuan looked at him with a strange expression, forced a smile and said, "My lord, how can this be done? Such an excuse is really, really unheard of before."

"Master Jiang is wrong, this is not an excuse, this is a call for justice." Lin Yifan said righteously, "Under the mighty power of our army, I don't believe it, Li Yuan dare not give him the Military spending."

"Yes, but even if Li Yuan is willing to pay, other forces may not be willing to pay our military expenses." Jiang Yunchuan said with a wry smile, "You know, they don't border us."

"Hey, Mr. Jiang just go ahead and do it. I firmly believe that they will pay the military expenses." Lin Yifan grinned and sneered.

(End of this chapter)