Liang's army retreated, but Hong Chengchou was not happy.

This time, he won't die by fighting the tiger. He did not take advantage of Gao Huan's opportunity to attack Liang Kingdom severely. When Gao Huan recovered and retaliated, it would be difficult for the Beiming to bear it.

Hong Chengchou sighed, thinking in his heart how to consider how to deal with Gao Huan's attack.

Wu Sangui looked at Hong Chengchou's expression and couldn't help asking: "Liang Jun retreated, why is Mr. Hong not happy?"

Hong Chengchou's eyes were melancholy, "This time we took advantage of Gao Huan's expedition to attack Liang State, which caused considerable losses to Liang State. Your Highness, you think, who will Gao Huan hit first if he has any action next time?"

Wu Sangui has been beaten repeatedly in recent years and his heart is shaking, "Would he beat us first?"

Hong Chengchou nodded, "Gao Huan learned this lesson. Before he went to war, he would definitely hurt us hard and then take other actions. Or his target is us! The court only occupies Shandong and the four prefectures, and is also between the Qing army and the Liang army. As long as the war begins, we cannot avoid it. Will Your Highness be sure to block the Liang army at that time?"

Wu Sangui naturally had no confidence. The continuous beatings had already lost his vigor. "Damn it, it would be great if the Qing court did not let us take the lead."

Hong Chengchou smiled helplessly. Wu Sangui knew it was impossible, so he could only sigh and wanted to retreat in advance.

...

Gao Mingheng received Gao Huan's military order and hurried back to Huai'an.

When Duoduo saw the Liang army withdrawing from Liang State, the army stopped after reaching Daming Mansion.

At this time, the Qing army was escorting a large amount of money, food, supplies, livestock, and more than 100,000 prisoners seized, and stationed in Daming Prefecture.

So many seizures can be said to be the largest seizure since the Qing army entered the pass.

The Eight Banners nobles were captured, and with money and supplies, they were reluctant to continue to work hard. They all wanted to divide the capture and enjoy it home for a while.

Duoduo learned that the Liang army had retreated, and after calling Kong Youde to scold him, he asked Ming Liang army about attacking Shandong, and hurriedly asked someone to recruit Wu Sangui to go there, but Wu Sangui said he was injured in the offensive and defensive battle in Jinan and could not go.

This made Duoduo look bad immediately, but he couldn't do anything to Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui was also afraid of offending Duoduo, so he sent his son Wu Yingxiong to Duoduo's army as a hostage.

Seeing this, Duoduo let Wu Sangui go and returned to the north with the seized materials and population.

Gao Mingheng withdrew back to Huai'an, Duoduo returned to Hebei, fought fiercely for half a year, and finally calmed down again.

Now, except for Li Guo who is still fighting with Li Jiyu, the world is basically peaceful.

Gao Huan then decided to change the focus of Liang State and formulate a long-term plan.

Gao Huan set up a supervisor in Huguang, Henan and Jiangbei.

Let Song Xiance take charge of Wuchang and hold 100,000 troops to guard against Zhang Xianzhong.

Gao Mingheng was in charge of Huainan and had 70,000 troops to guard against the false Ming Dynasty.

Sun Chuanting was in charge of Xuzhou, and he had to be both guarded against the Qing Dynasty and Li Jiyu, so he allocated 130,000 troops to his control.

Gao Huan left 200,000 troops to take charge of Nanjing and monitor Zheng Zhilong.

Gao Huan divided the land controlled by Liang State into several defense zones, and each defense zone sent a supervisor to take charge and liberated himself.

September, Nanjing.

After Gao Huan learned that the Qing army and Li Jiyu were retreating, Gao Huan knew that the war had ended. Next, both sides practiced their internal strength and prepared to start the war next time.

To this end, when Gao Huan was in Huai'an, he ordered the governors of various prefectures and counties in Liang State, as well as officials in Beijing to prepare for a conference.

The territory of Liang State is not very large now. In less than half a month, officials from Liang State arrived in Nanjing one after another.

For a time, a large number of officials entered Nanjing, making the originally empty inn immediately lively.

However, as the conference approached, as more and more officials arrived, the inn was already overcrowded.

Seeing this, Li Yan had to give instructions and ask Li Cao to book a few inns for the officials who came to participate in the meeting to temporarily stay.

So many officials gathered in Nanjing, which has caused Li Yan and many officials to be busy, and has also made the people of Nanjing discuss and wonder what is going on when so many officials arrive?

At this time, the newspapers controlled by the Liang State government began to serialize reports, and the Liang State was about to report the event of the conference.

At the end of September, the civil servants arrived almost the same, but the protagonist Gao Huan has not returned to Nanjing yet.

In early October, outside Nanjing City, Xiaguan Wharf.

Li Yan and a group of officials stood by the dock and watched a large ship dock. Soon after, Gao Huan came down from the boat.

"I welcome the king and return victoriously!" Li Yan and others hurriedly bowed and bowed.

Gao Huan walked over surrounded by Zhou Yanru and others, waved his hand, "You guys don't have to be too polite, let's go back to the palace first!"

Back in the Liang Palace, Li Yan and others sat in the flower hall waiting. Gao Huan took a shower, changed into regular clothes, and then came to the flower hall to sit down.

Gao Huan asked directly: "Have the chief officials of all prefectures and counties arrived in Nanjing?"

Li Yan saluted and said, "Report to the king, all the officials have arrived, and I'm waiting for you, King! I have already arranged the venue. Will the meeting be held soon?"

Gao Huan shook his head, "No hurry! If this meeting is to be held well, we must first reach a preliminary unification of opinions within the vassal states. I will first talk to several gentlemen and the chief officials of Cao, and then let the newspapers release the issue in advance to arouse discussion among all officials. After having a certain understanding of the meeting, a successful, united and victorious conference will be held!"

After this war that lasted more than half a year, Gao Huan felt that the strength of Liang State was still somewhat insufficient.

It is difficult for the Liang State to unify the world with its current strength.

Therefore, Gao Huan felt that the Liang State needed to develop, and this development must be the development of modernization in military, economic, agriculture, industry, education and other aspects.

Strictly speaking, Liang, Shun, Xi, Minyue, Northern Ming and Qing dynasties all belonged to the farming dynasty and the semi-agricultural dynasty. The economy and society were at the same level, and there was no big gap between the two sides.

Therefore, if Gao Huan wanted to crush them, he could only formulate a five-year plan and a fifteen-year plan to achieve national modernization.

At that time, a modern country or a semi-modern country in the Liang Kingdom will break a generation gap with other forces, and then its strength will be crushed.

If Gao Huan wants to achieve this goal, he can issue teaching orders and issue decrees to allow local officials to implement his plan. However, Gao Huan feels that this will not allow officials to exert their enthusiasm and subjective initiative.

Therefore, Gao Huan decided to explain to many officials in person what he wanted to do, point out the direction of Liang's development, so that officials have a sense of participation and mission, let them participate, and everyone builds Liang's country together.

This is to say that Gao Huan's personal goal has become the goal of all civil and military officials in the entire Liang State. The effect is very different from that of orders.

In the next few days, Gao Huan met with many important members in Nanjing and vented them in advance. Then, he helped the officials of various provinces to understand their ideas so as to avoid any discordant voices at the conference.

By the fifth day of October, it was sunny and the wind was bright, and colorful flags were fluttering inside and outside the Nanjing Government Affairs School, and the red carpet was paved at the door.

The first meeting of officials of the Liang State was held here.

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