On December 17th, the two sides continued negotiations.

Anzhou still adhered to the established conditions, but the Zhongtu side came up with new conditions for revenge. If Anton was willing to participate in the third Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo with his main force, Zhongtu would make corresponding concessions on autonomy.

Anzhou side was collectively silent.

Long before the return negotiations began, Li Fengyun had already conveyed his return strategy to the top leaders of the alliance to participate in the third Eastern Expedition in exchange for Anton's autonomy. Although this move is very risky, the alliance has no choice. If you want to break out of the predicament, you can only take a risk and put it to death and survive. Otherwise, under the attack of the strong, the alliance will not only grow and grow, but will even survive.

The implementation of this strategy can be divided into passive and proactive. If this strategy is proposed by China-Turkish side, Anzhou will be relatively proactive and can gain more benefits. The negotiations may be smoother. On the contrary, Anzhou will be very passive and the negotiations will be very difficult.

The result of the discussion between Li Zixiong and Yuan An and others was that they could not stand until the last moment, and they had no choice but to implement this policy passively. However, Li Zixiong was still confident in winning the initiative because he had Li Hun's secret cooperation, and Yuan An was confident because Li Fengyun and Cui Yu had reached a relevant agreement in Chifeng. Coincidentally, Cui Hongsheng was the negotiator, so Anzhou certainly had a great opportunity to grab some initiative in the negotiations.

But no one expected that the Middle-earth side could not wait to make concessions. The compromise speed was so fast that Anzhou caught off guard and made Li Zixiong, Yuan An and others feel ominous.

The Zhongtu side took the initiative to propose this new condition, which was Sima Zhao's intention. Passers-by knew it. It was purely digging pits and setting traps. Anzhou was prepared for this and was not afraid of this trap. Before Li Fengyun went out of the frontier to fight, who would have thought of today's brilliant results? In comparison, the danger and difficulty of participating in the third Eastern Expedition were smaller than this one. Therefore, although Anzhou had various concerns, he was still full of confidence in Li Fengyun.

However, there is a prerequisite for not being afraid of Middle-earth setting traps, that is, Middle-earth keeps its promise, grants Andong autonomy, and supports and protects Andong, so that Andong can win valuable breathing time. Otherwise, Andong's nightmare will come. Once Andong's main army suddenly abandons his righteousness during his expedition to Goguryeo, interrupts his support for Andong, and launches a large-scale attack, Andong will inevitably change hands, and Andong's army, far away on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition, was surrounded by enemies and could not escape the misfortune of destruction.

"There is a third Eastern Expedition?" Li Zixiong spoke with disbelief. "Under the current situation, there is still a need to mobilize a large number of expeditions to Goguryeo? For two consecutive years, although Goguryeo persisted, it was severely damaged and dying. It was no longer a threat to Middle Earth for a long time in the future. On the contrary, after a period of rest and recuperation, the Turks of the East and West had made a comeback and the threat to Middle Earth was increasing day by day. Therefore, Middle Earth's next goal should be Western Earth and the desert. How could it launch a meaningless third Eastern Expedition? How do you make us believe it?"

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not." Duan Da sneered, "You just need to accept our conditions."

"This condition is still beneficial to you." Cui Hongsheng also said, "If there was no third Eastern Expedition, of course there would be no expedition. Without the need to work on the expedition, the goal has been achieved, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

"The best of both worlds?" Li Zixiong sneered and mocked, "It would be great if the best of both worlds. If you are afraid, you will kill two birds with one stone."

Li Hun smiled and said with a pun, "Since there is no way to determine the future, we must focus on the present. Only by reaching an agreement can the two sides do their best to strive for the best of both worlds in the future and find ways to avoid killing two birds with one stone. On the contrary, if you do not give in now, you will miss a great opportunity, and both sides will suffer losses. This damage will have little impact on us, but the blow to you will be very fatal."

Li Zixiong exchanged glances with Yuan An, then laughed and nodded repeatedly, "Zhi Gong's words are reasonable. Since that's the case, I want to know, if we accept this condition and use the main army to participate in the third Eastern Expedition, will you allow Anton Autonomy?"

"If you accept this condition, be absolutely loyal to the Holy Lord, and absolutely follow the central order, we will allow the Antonian ethnic groups to be autonomous." Duan Da said without thinking, "We have made some changes to the suggestions for the Antonian ethnic groups to be autonomous. Among them, the establishment of the three governors' offices of Songshan, Raole and Songmo is feasible, but the establishment of the Anzhou General Administration has violated the current laws of Middle-earth. Now Middle-earth has abolished the state-level administrative division and abolished the position of General Administration. Therefore, for your suggestions, we have modified them to incorporate all the Anzhou areas outside the Great Wall into Anle County, and their administrative affairs are also unified under the leadership of Anle County."

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Zixiong's face suddenly looked ugly, and Yuan An, Yang Gongdao and others were also as heavy as water.

If you bully others too much, you will fail to succeed and have another plan. You are aggressive and not only will you openly seize the results of the alliance, but you will also be able to make a breakthrough and deliberately put the alliance to death.

According to Duan Da's suggestion, Zhongtu did agree to the autonomy of all ethnic groups in Anton, but the price paid by the alliance was too high. Not only did it participate in the third Eastern Expedition, but it also had to exchange the territory of Anzhou. Of course, the third Eastern Expedition was still verbally and may not be successful in the future. However, the territory of Anzhou is a real real interest and the greatest result of the alliance's out-of-bounds battle. The core interests of the alliance lies. If the alliance hand over this core interest, what is left of the alliance? A group of barbarians will be greedy? The result can be imagined that a group of barbarians will be betrayal of the poor "big brother" of the alliance and throw themselves into the arms of the "super tycoon" of Zhongtu. Therefore, the forces leading by Li Fengyun and Li Zixiong will immediately fall into the dilemma of being betrayed by everyone and being attacked from both sides. The next situation can be imagined.

Li Zixiong laughed in anger, "Very good! Very good! Anle County was originally part of Anzhou. Now that Anzhou has returned to Central Earth, Anzhou and Anle County should be combined into one." Speaking of this, Li Zixiong turned his eyes to Guo Xuan and Murong Zhengze, and said quietly, "Andong's return to the fore, Guo Envoy and Murong Deputy Town made great contributions. It is reasonable to promote and increase the title. When the two of them enter the capital to serve the Holy Lord in the future, the important task of guarding the border will be borne by me."

This time it was Duan Da's turn to change his face. Cui Hongsheng and Li Hun were also expressionless, while Guo Xuan and Murong Zheng sat upright and ignored him. They pretended not to hear the fierce "counterattack" against Li Zixiong.

"Anle County is directly under the Eastern Capital." Duan Da said solemnly with a cold expression, "The three governors' offices of Songshan, Raole and Songmo are also directly under the Eastern Capital. The appointment and removal of officials from the Eastern Capital are also from the Eastern Capital."

If you want to control Anle County, you can control it? If you want to control one side, you can control it? Be your dream of autumn.

"Is this what you call Anton Autonomy?" Li Zixiong asked.

"Anton is Andong under the control of the Eastern Capital, and the various autonomy of Andong is also the autonomy under the control of the Eastern Capital." Duan Da said seriously, "It is impossible to achieve a square and a circle. The laws and regulations cannot be violated."

Duan Da finally talked about the key point: Anton Autonomy is incompatible with the law and goes against the main theme of centralized reform. Therefore, even if the Holy Lord and the Central Committee make compromises, Anton Autonomy is also a conditional autonomy under the central control, and will not let autonomy get out of control to form de facto separatist rule of the vassal states, which will make centralized reform step by step.

This is a principle and a bottom line. If Anzhou insists on his own initiative, he insists on governing himself, and is determined to seize the party and cross the bottom line of Middle Earth without any consequences, the result can be imagined that Anzhou is the enemy of Middle Earth, and Middle Earth will use all means to kill the opponent.

"Your laws cannot be violated, but our interests are not guaranteed. So what else can we talk about? You have to be a knife and I don't want to be fished. This is the difference."

Li Zixiong didn't want to continue talking anymore and wasting his mouth. It would be better to go back and drink some wine on the stove.

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On December 17th, in the afternoon, Yuwen Shu frowned, anxious and troubled after listening to Duan Da’s story.

The key to the problem now is not a competition of strength between the two sides, but because the Holy Lord and the Reformers are in political difficulties and urgently need a "life-saving straw". A martial art of expanding territory has caused the Sino-Turkish side to fall into a huge passive and unsolvable passive in negotiations.

The Holy Lord wants to spread the good news of opening Andong to Dongdu by the end of the year, so there is very little time left for Yuwen Shu to complete the recruitment of Andong. At the latest, the recruitment of Andong must be completed. In this way, there are only two ways: either unprincipled compromise or deceiving, and deceiving is very difficult. The other party is not a fool. How can you "pass" by talking nonsense?

Yuwen Shu looked up at Cui Hongsheng.

Cui Hongsheng smiled bitterly, "As it said, they must be given autonomy and complete autonomy, otherwise Li Zixiong will not be able to overcome that level."

"Once the autonomy is granted, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee are equal to slapping themselves in the face, and the martial arts of Xinjiang will be greatly reduced." Duan Da also smiled bitterly, "The consequences caused by this are also unpredictable. Once the domestic situation deteriorates, the two capitals will accelerate to break, and the blame will be great and we cannot afford it."

Yuwen Shu thought for a long time and asked, "Can't you find a way to get the best of both worlds?"

Everyone looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

"The Holy Lord's decree is to be flexible and flexible, and flexibility is very important." Yuwen Shu had no choice but to reveal a little real thought hidden in his heart, "For example, autonomy can be given to them, but on the surface, autonomy is still in the hands of the central government, without any damage."

There was silence, Duan Da, Cui Hongsheng, Li Hun, Guo Xuan and Murong Zhengze all said nothing.

Yuwen Shu's eyes slowly swept over and finally stopped on Cui Hongsheng, "Duke Huang Tai, do you have any good plans?"

Cui Hongsheng bowed as a courtesy, "It's a plan, but whether it can be successful or not depends on Ming Gong."

Yuwen Shu hesitated for a moment and reached out to invite him.
Chapter completed!