Faced with Zixiong's toughness, Duan Da was at a loss. For him, there was little time left in negotiations. In fact, it was impossible to complete the recruitment and stick to the bottom line in such a short time.

"You are trying harder and refuse to give in. This negotiation will definitely end in failure." Duan Da was anxious and exhausted, but he still maintained his majesty and threatened with a fierce look. "The Dongdu is determined to recruit Anton, and he is interested in Anton's benefits. If the benefits obtained are very limited and even have to pay a lot of money, how can Dongdu be willing to recruit? Of course, now you have the initiative, and there is a desert to leverage and blackmail Dongdu. But everything has its limits, and it exceeds the limits. I don't know what it means, and I don't overestimate my ability, the result will definitely go against your original intention."

Li Zixiong sneered, and said bluntly, pointing to the point, "Our original intention is to live and live with confidence, and don't worry about not seeing the sun tomorrow. But your nominal caress is actually to rob our victory fruits. What's even more shameless is that in order to achieve your goal, you will do everything you can, not only do not give us corresponding rewards, but also determined to put us to death. Is it unbearable that you want to put me to death, and do I have to cooperate with you and hand over your head and let you slaughter?"

Li Hun hurriedly smoothed out the situation, "Don't be impatient. Since we both are willing to sit together, we certainly have a common goal. We must work together, and it will be useless to tit for tat."

Cui Hongsheng also persuaded, "Under the current circumstances, stalemate will not benefit both of you and me. We should be flexible and should find ways to solve the problem together, instead of blaming each other or complaining each other, so as not to delay major events."

Duan Da swallowed his anger and closed his mouth.

Li Zixiong was aggressive and asked Cui Hongsheng, "How to be flexible? Does Mr. Huang Tai have a plan?"

"There is one way." Cui Hongsheng said slowly, "Now both sides have different opinions on some important issues. Because of the lack of trust, even if they continue to fight, there will be no result. No result is something that everyone wants to see. In this case, it is better for everyone to take a step back and temporarily put the issue of disputes for the time being, reach an agreement on the general direction and major principles, complete the pacification first, and include Anton into the territory of Middle-earth. Then we can report the victory to the Holy and the Central Committee, and report the good news to the Dongdu and Xijing. You can also get greater support from the Great Wall, and at the same time, the army on the Feihu can be safely withdrawn into Anton.

In this way, your strength will have a leap, which will help you quickly stabilize the situation in Andong and further consolidate and expand the existing results. By the beginning of spring, both sides will have tangible benefits and have a certain foundation of trust. By then, the problem that is quarrels may have an opportunity to resolve or even be solved. Of course, it may be possible to still be quarrels, but because of the trust between each other, the internal and external environment and the situation will be different. You can definitely reach a result when you sit together and talk slowly, so that you will not be in danger of turning against each other and becoming enemies like now. Once we do good things into bad things, the losses will be great, especially you will have the disaster of destruction."

Both negotiators nodded repeatedly and agreed with Cui Hongsheng's statement.

"Set on hold for the time being? Well, then on hold for the time being." Li Zixiong waved his hand and asked loudly, "Master Huang Tai, should you put one of the arguments or both of them be put on hold?"

Both arguments are favorable to Anzhou. When the recruitment is successful and the fait accompliance is returned, Anzhou can take a delay plan, neither allowing the Dongdu to send troops to Andong, nor accepting the main officials such as the Anton Protectorate appointed by the Dongdu. When Dongdu faces the "rogue behavior" of Anzhou, it is impossible to beat and scold, and it is useless. Cutting off money and food is more likely to force an anti-Anton, and it will inevitably fall into a passive position, which is very unfavorable.

Of course Duan Da would not be fooled, and replied without hesitation, "The issue of garrison is crucial and cannot be put aside."

Li Zixiong stroked his long beard with his hand and said coldly, "If you station troops in Andong, you will give me Anton autonomy. The main officials of the Anton Protectorate and the Protectorate's Office must be my Andong people."

The Middle-Turkish side wanted to resolve the two disputes separately, but Anzhou deliberately merged the two problems to solve them. The matter returned to the starting point, and Cui Hongsheng said it in vain.

Cui Hongsheng was worried. He knew Li Fengyun's bottom line, but he didn't know Li Zixiong's bottom line. Now the person who represents Anton's negotiation is Li Zixiong. If Li Zixiong has his own ideas and wants to use this negotiation to "involve private goods" to make personal gains, things will be troublesome.

Cui Hongsheng made a resolute decision and asked Li Zixiong in public in front of the negotiators of both sides, "What conditions do you need to be willing to make concessions on these two issues?"

Li Zixiong turned his head to look at Yuan An sitting beside him. Yang Gongdao, Wang Yun of the silence and Ashinahanhai exchanged a thoughtful look with them. Then he pondered for a moment and said sternly, "You want to garrison troops, it is reasonable and legal, but I, Anton, are weak, and survival is the first priority. A fierce beast lying beside the bed." Then his tone changed and his tone slowed down. "Of course, if a vicious dog lying on the door guarding the yard, it would be fine. Therefore, Anton, I, Anton, can compromise on the garrison issue, but the condition is that the number of your garrison troops, will be small, at most two thousand guards."

Duan Da, Li Hun, Cui Hongsheng, Guo Xuan, and Murong Zheng looked at each other, and a hint of anger flashed across his eyes. It's outrageous. What can such a big Anton do? Not to mention intimidating the captives, even self-protection is not enough. It's purely a decoration, and it's given to Anton two thousand hostages.

However, for the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, the garrison of Andong is just a political means. A banner that declares sovereignty has more symbolic significance than practical significance. Therefore, the number of garrisons does not matter. What is important is that there must be garrisons.

Li Zixiong was once the general of the Twelve Guards, and he was also at the core of the central government with the Minister of Civil Affairs. Of course, he knew that the military and the Holy Lord, the central government had different attitudes towards the garrison Andong. The sage master and the central government valued the political significance of the garrison, while the military valued the military's military value, so the requirements for the number of garrisons were completely different.

Li Zixiong keenly captured this key, and communicated with Yuan An about the candidate for the Anton Protectorate. After guessing Li Fengyun's true thoughts, he immediately decided to make a compromise on the issue of garrison and try his best to reduce the number of garrisons, striving to exchange the political significance of garrisons for Dongdu's concession in its military value. This concession of Dongdu is very critical to Andong's control of autonomy, because the small number of garrisons means that Dongdu cannot control Andong with strong force, and cannot provide strong support to the Anton Protectorate and the main officials of the Anton Protectorate appointed by Dongdu. On the contrary, if Anton's local forces are in a group, they can easily undermine the Anton Protectorate. In the absence of a head-on conflict with Dongdu, they will actually control Andong and realize Andong's autonomy, and take great strides on the road of separatist vassal states.

Duan Da vetoed it. Li Hun did not make any statement. Cui Hongsheng "repayed the money on the spot" and suggested that the scale of the garrison should not be too small, which would lose its deterrence and garrison significance. Therefore, it is recommended to control the number of garrisons to about 10,000.

Li Zixiong no longer concessions. Two crucial key issues, one is temporarily shelved, and then discusses it later, and the other is compromised by oneself. This is the biggest concession that Anzhou can make.

Li Zixiong confessed frankly that if it were not for the purpose of meeting the urgent need of the Saint Lord and the Central Government to open up the martial arts of Xinjiang, if it was not for the purpose of winning the favor of the Saint Lord and the Central Government, and for the maximum interests of Anzhou in the subsequent negotiations, Anzhou would never be able to make concessions.

In fact, if Anzhou drags on this negotiation indefinitely, it will certainly be unfavorable to Anzhou itself, but for the Holy Lord and the Reformers, it will also miss a rare opportunity to reverse the domestic political situation. The series of serious consequences caused by this will definitely be greater than the negative impact of Anton Autonomous.

Duan Da was so angry that he couldn't accept this condition. He felt that if he agreed to this condition, he would not only lose face, but also make the Holy Lord and the Central Committee look dull, so he insisted that the garrison would not give up.

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December 19th, at night, Yanle City.

Yuwen Shu was very satisfied with the results of today's negotiations.

Anzhou's compromise on key issues is the biggest result of these four days of intense negotiations, and in fact it has cleared the biggest obstacle to the pacification negotiations.

Duan Da was very angry and could not accept the conditions for garrison proposed by Anzhou, and his anger made the atmosphere in the house very depressing.

"The facts are very clear. Anzhou takes advantage of the situation and deliberately sets a trap to counter our plan to shelve and delay." Duan Da said furiously, "Not to say that the two thousand garrisons can give strong support to the Anton Protectorate, they can't even ensure the safety of the Protectorate. If we accept this condition, the result can be imagined that the Anton Protectorate is useless, in name only, and meaningless."

Cui Hongsheng couldn't understand Yuwen Shu's attitude, but from the perspective of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, since he hoped that the revenge would be successful, he would inevitably make some compromises that violated the principles, otherwise he would not be able to "tempt" Anzhou at all. So after weighing the pros and cons, Cui Hongsheng still said cautiously, "The real key to this revenge is to force Andong to participate in the third Eastern Expedition. As long as the third Eastern Expedition is completed, as long as the main army of Andong enters the Liaodong battlefield, the situation will be reversed instantly and everything is under control."

Duan Da retorted without hesitation, "If there was no third Eastern Expedition, Andong would take the lead and seriously threaten the safety of the Great Wall, what should we do?"

"Don't talk about the third Eastern Expedition now." Yuwen Shu shook his hand and said slowly, "What we need to discuss now is what methods we can use tomorrow to reach an agreement with our opponents and complete the pleading."

Duan Da and Cui Hongsheng had known that the negotiation time was extremely limited, but Guo Xuan and Murong Zhengze didn't know, so when they heard Yu Wen Shu's words, they were stunned. How could this be possible? There was no other way except for their own compromise. This compromise was equivalent to disguised acquiesce to Andong's autonomy, breaking through the bottom line of the Saint Lord and the Central Committee, and seriously violated the fundamental principle of centralization. How can they explain to the Saint Lord and the Central Committee in the future? Wouldn't all those who participated in the negotiation bear the blame?
Chapter completed!