Li Hu swallowed a gulp of saliva. He would rather be beaten with a military stick than stay here for a day. A ruthless man like Huang Taiji, after being imprisoned for so many days, became unshaven and glazed over, looking at

It's like I've aged ten years.

In the past, Li Xiao said that this thing would make people go crazy, but Li Hu still didn't believe it. But now he believed it. Being locked up in this place could really make people go crazy.

"Huang Taiji!" Li Xiao covered his nose and sat across from Huang Taiji. The urine bucket had not been emptied for an unknown number of days. The smell in the room was even worse than the toilet.

Huang Taiji stared at Li Xiao for a while and then said slowly: "Li Xiao, what a powerful method!"

"You're welcome! It's just a small trick! I just want you to know that there are some things in this world that are more cruel than killing you. For example, locking you in a place like this."

"Killing the heart is much worse than killing the body." Huang Taiji shook his head in pain. His life these days was indeed worse than death.

"Yes! The most powerful thing in this world is not killing the body, but killing the heart."

"What do you want to do? Tell me!" Huang Taiji closed his eyes. He knew that he was now a piece of meat on the chopping board. Let him chop it how he wants.

"What I want is very simple. You listen to me and cooperate with me. Please believe me. If I can catch you once, I can catch you a second time."

"You want to let me go?" Huang Taiji looked at Li Xiao in surprise. Even in his most optimistic dreams, he never thought that Li Xiao would let him go.

"No! I have to prove to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty that I, Li Xiao, am qualified to be the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan. Therefore, you must go to the capital."

"Beijing? Will I survive when I get to the capital? Why do we talk about cooperating with you?" Although Huang Taiji was imprisoned for a few days, his brain was not completely stupid.

"Yes! If I send you to the capital, I can naturally find a way to keep you alive and make the court let you go. The rest is between you and me." Li Xiao pointed at Huang Taiji with his index finger.

, pointed at himself again.

"You and me?"

"Flagmaster of Zhengbai Banner, this must not be your ultimate goal. Your father, Khan Nurhachi, is almost sixty years old now, and many people are thinking about the position of Khan behind him. Are you sure that you, the leader of Zhengbai Banner,

Can the flag owner win over Daishan, Mang Gurtai?

Now that Daishan controls the two red flags, he can be said to be the strongest among the Eight Banners. Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner has elite soldiers. Compared with your Zhengbai Banner, it seems to be not bad.

There are also Azig and Dorgon, whom your father is very fond of. Your brothers are all staring at the Khan's chair."

"You want to help me win the position of Great Khan? I don't deny that I really want to sit in that position. But I still want to ask, why?"

"If I say that I admire you, I'm afraid you won't believe me."

"Your joke is not funny!" Huang Taiji stared directly into Li Xiao's eyes, as if he wanted to see through Li Xiao's heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.

"I want you to cooperate with me, and I will help you ascend to the throne of the Great Khan. You...! Promise to give me Liaodong!"

"This is impossible, Liaodong will be returned to you. Where are my Jurchens going!"

"How many people do you have in the Eight Banners? There are 67,000 Lejia people. Do you have 300,000 including family members? A place as big as the white mountains and black waters is not enough for you to live in? Tell the truth to yourself, what do you actually occupy in Liaodong today?

How many? The Han people were driven out by you, and those who were not driven out were either killed or became slaves. You captured Liaodong, but Liaodong was also empty.

How much land is left uncultivated in Liaodong now? How much grain can you harvest in a year? How many livestock can you raise?

Huang Taiji, you are a sensible person. Taking up so much land without anyone cultivating it is of no use at all. I can give you a piece of fertile land, and I will not treat you Jurchens like Li Chengliang did. You can live freely.

, I promise that no one will exploit you."

"You can be so good?" Huang Taiji looked at Li Xiao in disbelief. He had personally experienced the rise of the Jurchens. He had seen with his own eyes how the Jurchens plundered the land of the Han people, looted and massacred the Han people. With such deep hatred, Li Xiao

Can he just take it all away? Even if he was willing, would the Ming court be willing?

"Of course, I also have my conditions. That is Xianglan Banner. I want you to help me wipe out the Xianglan Banner clan. You know, the village in my hometown was massacred by Xianglan Banner. Xianglan Banner and I have a blood feud.

They must die."

Huang Taiji obviously saw that Li Xiao's eye circles were a little red!

Li Xiao's family was killed by Xiang Lanqi, which Huang Taiji had known for a long time. It was not too much for Li Xiao to make such a request.

Among the eight banners, apart from Nurhaci’s yellow flag, the blue flag has the largest number of Niulu flags! Although Amin is not qualified to inherit the throne, he is the most powerful flag owner Baylor. Huang Taiji’s relationship with Amin is pretty good.

But it is definitely not that good. On the contrary, Mang Gurtai has a very good relationship with Amin. In the future battle for the throne, I am afraid that this cousin will help Mang Gurtai 80% of the time.

Of course, the most important point is... Huang Taiji knows that with the current combat power of the Eight Banners, he will definitely not be Li Xiao's opponent!

If the Jurchens are less than 10,000, if they reach 10,000, they will be invincible. In Huang Taiji's view, this is a joke. If Li Xiao's army reaches 10,000, then he will definitely be invincible. Only by cooperating with Li Xiao can the Jurchens survive.

the only way out.

"Okay! I promise you!" Without a long ideological struggle, Huang Taiji agreed to Li Xiao's conditions.

"Then I wish us a happy cooperation!" Li Xiao smiled and bowed his hand to Huang Taiji.

After walking out of the dungeon door, Li Hu looked at Li Xiao suspiciously and asked: "Brother, do you really want to cooperate with the Tatars?"

"Yes! If he doesn't cooperate with me, how can I make their Jurchens die off their descendants?"

"Hiss...!" Li Hu looked at Li Xiao's back and felt for the first time that his elder brother was so cruel.

Mangui took his cavalry and escorted Huang Taiji away with Yuan Chonghuan. After Li Xiao saw them off at the dock, he took Zheng Sen and Tagawa Nanaemon on board the ship.

Their destination is Quanzhou, and rubber is too important to Li Xiao.

Wu Daji watched in pain as Li Xiao sailed away. Neither Maori Terumoto nor Tokugawa Ieyasu took him seriously. Without Li Xiao's support, he would never come back. Tokugawa Ieyasu took care of Li Xiao.

In order to save face, the more than 100 pieces of Goryeo royal treasures that were returned may be the only gain from Goryeo’s military expedition.

Now that Li Xiao is gone, it is estimated that the Japanese will order Wu Daji to leave soon. There is no way, everything is in vain if he cannot defeat them. Looking at the soldiers behind him, Wu Daji wants to throw them all into the sea.

In these years, jibs have been widely used in navigation technology. Ships can freely shuttle across the sea without waiting for the monsoon. Of course, they need to be absolutely avoided during typhoon season. Ships in the Ming Dynasty were not able to fight against typhoons that unleash the power of heaven and earth.

to the ultimate disaster.

Mangui needed to transport tens of thousands of taels of gold loot, and Yuan Chonghuan needed to escort high-level prisoners like Huang Taiji. Li Xiao gave them most of the warships for escort, and he and Li Xiu only went to Quanzhou in one ship.

Li Xiao and Li Xiu's ships were equipped with two infantry companies, and each ship had a brass cannon mounted on its bow. Each ship also had a mortar company, although the direct-fire artillery was not suitable for dealing with moving targets at sea.

But the naval battles in those years were also at very close distances. A mortar salvo from this distance was definitely a nightmare for the opposing warships.

It can be said that what Li Xiao and Li Xiu are driving now is definitely the most powerful naval warfare weapon in this era.

Not to mention encountering pirates, even if he encounters the Dutch or the Portuguese fleet, Li Xiao will not be afraid!

Not to mention, there are really blind pirates. Seeing that Li Xiao only had two ships, several pirate ships followed him all night. At dawn, they rushed up with shouts of "ooh" and "ooh"!

As a result, the mortars didn't even have time to fire, and the brass cannon only fired two rounds. Three pirate ships were killed, and the rest fled.

Li Xiao didn't bother to chase after pirates, who were as numerous as Xiao Qiang. They were endlessly killing them, and I didn't hear of any dynasty or generation catching all the thieves.

Due to the wrong monsoon, the ship's sailing speed was not very fast. The novelty of sailing was quickly replaced by boredom.

"Teacher! What happened next? Did the Monkey King come out from under Wuzhi Mountain?" Little Zheng Sen asked Li Xiao with his fists tightly clenched and his face flushed.

Such a peerless hero was actually pinned down by the insidious Buddha at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain. This made little Zheng Sen very unhappy!

Obviously, the story of "Journey to the West" had not yet spread abroad in this era. At least Zheng Sen, who was in the Japanese country, did not know the heroic deeds of the Monkey King.

"It's time to go to sleep, we'll talk about it tomorrow." In the cabin, Tokugawa Chienhime had already laid out the bedding for Li Xiao. Li Xiao could only chase him away!

"Teacher, please talk a little longer." Zheng Sen pulled Li Xiao's sleeve and begged.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow. Go back to bed now. Otherwise, we won't talk about it tomorrow!" Li Xiao's face dropped.

Why is this child so ignorant? The teacher is now in a hurry to study the different structures of the human body with Aoi... Tokugawa-san. How can I have time to tell you stories!

After blasting away the resentful Zheng Sen and Tagawa Nanaemon, Tokugawa Chihime's face began to turn red.

Sex is actually the same thing for men and women. Just like Adam and Eve couldn't get rid of this desire after tasting the apples in the Garden of Eden. Once men and women experience that kind of thing, both men and women are actually quite addicted.

.

"sleep!"

"Sleep!" Li Xiao said one sentence, and Tokugawa Chiki imitated one sentence.

Tokugawa Chinehime helped Li Xiao take off her clothes, and Li Xiao began to teach Tokugawa Chinehime how to speak Chinese. Since she chose to be a Chinese wife, how could she succeed if she didn't know Chinese.

"Lie down!"

"Lie down!"

"****!"

"****!"

"hair!"

"hair!"

"Yigu!" "Yigu!"

The heavy breathing combined with the trembling of the waves caused the window lattice to shake slightly. The summer sea breeze carried a mature flavor and blew in through the portholes. The waves on the sea seemed to be particularly strong tonight, and the ship was shaking violently.

The moon quietly hid behind the clouds, as if it didn't dare to look at the shameful things below.

Sailing is boring, sailing is hard, sailing... is really tiring.

I once heard an old volunteer soldier say that he was a man seventeen times a night, but now Li Xiao thinks that 99% of this guy is a fool. With limited physical strength and energy, he can accomplish such a feat. It only shows that this guy has failed early and will continue to do so in the future.

Maybe it's a no-brainer.

After more than ten days of hard work, Li Xiao now feels as if his body has been hollowed out. In the past, just by touching Tokugawa Chiki's hair, Li Xiao felt that some indescribable parts were straightened.
To be continued...