Chapter 145 Ming and Qing Dynasties and Qing Discussation

With the Xing Tianjun's rapid progress in the Huguang area, most of Huguang has been lost. The officers and soldiers in various places can't meet the front at all. Either they are defeated on the ground, or they will abandon the city and flee, or they will surrender. The state affairs of the Ming Dynasty have reached a point that can be said to be almost irreparable.

Although Chongzhen and the courtiers have also thought of some ways, after all, over the years, a large number of slightly more powerful officers and soldiers have been folded into the hands of the Xingtian Army one after another. There are almost no soldiers and horses in the mainland that can be used by the court. Therefore, although they have thought of a lot of ways, in the face of the fierce Xing Tianjun, But he could only retreat steadily, watching the whole territory of Huguang fall, but there was nothing he could do.

At this time, Chongzhen also understands the taste. He was indeed a little mean to his opponent's ministers before. If it had been according to his previous temper, Ding Qirui would have been arrested and dragged to Beijing to ask for the crime and abandon the market like Xiong Wencan, Yang Yihe and Chen Qiyu, but this time Chongzhen understood Ding Qi. In addition to reprimanding Rui's difficulties, he did not order Ding Qirui to be removed from office and arrested, but only ordered him to step up the preparation of the new army, first protect Nan Zhili, and then seek to restore Huguang.

Chongzhen did this, which can be said to be the unprecedented tolerance of his opponent's ministers, which made Ding Qirui grateful, and even stepped up the preparation of soldiers and horses in Nanzhili to prepare for the Xingtian Army's attack on Nanzhili.

After taking Wuchang Mansion, Xiao Tianjian suspended and continued to go down the river and went straight to Nanjing City, which also gave the court a chance to breathe. However, everyone knows that at present, Xing Tianjun slowed down the use of troops against Nan Zhili. It was not that Xiao Tianjian satisfied the current harvest, but that he had to digested it and ate it first. Things, slowly accumulate strength, and then hit Nanzhili.

And after November, all kinds of news have shown that Xing Tianjun is already preparing, and it is also necessary to take Nan Zhili. Everything shows that Xiao Tianjian has made up his mind to replace him. At this time, he knows that he can no longer rely on the officers and soldiers in the mainland. To resist the expansion of Xing Tianjun, when the world was about to collapse, Chongzhen could not take care of anything. The emperor Taiji on the side of the Taran also repeatedly expressed the idea of negotiating peace, and Chongzhen could not care about it at this time. He has persisted for a long time on the issue of Jiannu, although when Jiannu entered the country last year, He had the idea of making peace with Jian Nu, but in the end, he did not completely tear off the fig leaf. On the surface, he still maintained the face of the court.

But now with the Xing Tianjun taking Huguang and forcing Jiangxi into Jiangxi, and then taking Nan Zhili, he will destroy his Ming Dynasty at any time. When it is a matter of life and death, Chongzhen can no longer care so much. He has secretly sent Lang Zhong Ma Shaoyu and others to secretly sneak out of Shanhaiguan and go to Yizhou. He began to talk about the conditions for peace with Jiannu in Yizhou.

In November, Ma Shaoyu returned to the capital with the terms agreed with Emperor Jiannu Taiji, and in order to keep it secret, the people who went to the peace this time did not convey the news and content of the peace in the form of a letter, relying on them to return to the capital with these things.

Chongzhen took a look at the conditions put forward by the Ta's and saw that Jiannu first proposed to have an equal relationship with Daming. In fact, this condition is just a matter of face. For so many years, Daming has been riding and beaten by Jiannu. In fact, equality and inequality is nothing!

Then Huang Taiji proposed that the Ming and Qing Dynasties take Ningyuan as the boundary, the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the south, and the territory of the Qing Dynasty in the north. They ruled the territory and will never invade each other. From then on, Chongzhen was very angry at this point. If the boundaries were divided in this way, Jinzhou would be assigned to Jiannu, although the Liaodong area had been built for a long time. The slave controlled it. In essence, Daming has already lost those places and pulled them down. But after all, Jinzhou is still under the control of Daming at present. In this way, it is equivalent to ceding the land to the other party! Even if he disagreed and asked to demarize the territory north of Jinzhou, Jinzhou was still the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but Ma Shaoyu said that this was the bottom line proposed by Jiannu. If not, he could not negotiate! For this reason, Ma Shaoyu has been negotiating with Fan Wencheng sent by Jiannu in Yizhou for many days. The other party can't let go, but he can see that Daming is eager to make peace with them now and wants to take advantage of it.

Chongzhen originally wanted to immediately and severly refuse Jiannu's request, but at this time, news came from the south that Xing Tianjun was going to take a course in Wuchang Mansion. What's the matter? Take a taxi? Isn't it clear that they are going to establish a regime? This is to compete with the imperial court for the scholar group. If it goes on like this, it won't be long before Xiao Tianjian ascended the throne!

In panic, when Chongzhen agreed to Jiannu's request, whether it was extortion or extortion, compared with a small Jinzhou, he still knows which is more important and which is less. If Jinzhou is exchanged for him, he can save the decline, restrain this Xiao Xingtian again, and regain those lost land. It was also a very worthwhile business, so he gritted his teeth and admitted it!

In addition, Jiannu asked for the establishment of a mutual market in Ningyuan. The two countries communicate with each other through mutual market. Daming shall not prohibit merchants from trading with them and export the tea, grain and other things they need, and they can also import fur, deer antler, ginseng and other things to Daming through mutual market.

Chongzhen did not object to this. Let's do business! It's better than them going south to break the barrier and grab it!

The last one is that Jiannu asked Jiannu to give Daming a thousand catties of ginseng and a thousand pieces of mink skin every year in the future, while Daming will give them back 10,000 taels of gold and one million taels of silver!

Chongzhen almost didn't sit on the ground. This Jiannu really opened his mouth! One mouth is 10,000 taels of gold and one million taels of silver. Although Daming's annual fiscal income could reach 10 to 220 taels of silver in the past, now Henan, Shanxi and Huguang are gone. The thieves in Shaanxi are still in Hanzhong, threatening Xi'an and Sichuan, leaving only Nanzhili, Shandong and some of the Beijing auxiliary places of Zhejiang and Guangzhou. Now he still has to turn around to deal with Xing Tianjun. He still needs money to mobilize soldiers. How can he get so much money?

Chongzhen is almost about to cry, but it is difficult to cry. He must also agree to this condition. Otherwise, Daming will be completely finished. Let's put up with it first. In the future, after destroying Xing Tianjun, he will free his hands and turn around and not admit it. It's okay to turn around to deal with Jiannu. Now the most important thing now is to deal with the punishment first. Tianjun is the most important.

In a word, the conditions were very harsh, but in the end, Chongzhen still pinched his nose and recognized it. Now in order to quickly pull out the soldiers and horses from the north, he hurried south to deal with the Xing Tianjun. He can ignore anything.

So he immediately summoned Chen Xinjia, ordered Chen Xinjia to preside over, and quickly reach a peace agreement with Jiannu. In addition, he immediately raised some silver, one of which was given to Jiannu and owed them a little. In addition, the other silver raised should be divided into part as military pay, and immediately transferred Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong, Wang Pu, the general of Xuanfu, and the general soldier of Shanhaiguan. Ma Ke and other generals ordered him to lead his troops to the south quickly and go to Shunde Mansion, temporarily under the control of Sun Chuanting. At the same time, he ordered Hong Chengchou to withdraw from Jinzhou, withdraw to Ningyuan, and sit in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan to prevent the construction of treachery and attack Daming again.

At the same time, Sun Chuanting was awarded the sword of Shang Fang. The supervisor slammed the Xing Tianjun, first entered Henan, took the hinterland of the Xing Tianjun, prevented the Xing Tianjun from attacking Nan Zhili, fought to the death with the Xing Tianjun in Henan, and strived to completely kill the Xing Tianjun in one fell swoop.

So although Chen Xinjia was reluctant, he did not dare to insist that no. After all, he also saw that the Ming Dynasty had reached the verge of extinction. Now in order to protect the country, the emperor promised such humiliating conditions and make peace with Jiannu, which can also be said to be a helpless move, so he sent Ma Shaoyu to go north to Hejian. The slave reached a peace agreement, and at the same time, Chongzhen tried his best to raise a batch of silver. Wu Sangui, the general of Shanhaiguan, and others, immediately went south to Shunde Mansion day and night, and joined Sun Chuanting to deal with the Xing Tianjun.

All these actions are rare and fast. When the wind is exposed, there is an uproar in the capital. A large number of people and even officials scolded and demanded that this peace agreement be abolished. In short, everyone believes that they can't and should not negotiate with Jiannu. Otherwise, the court has devoted themselves to Liaodong for so many years. The huge capital and millions of soldiers and people who died in Liaodong are in vain, and it is unacceptable for Liaodong to cede to Jiannu like this.

However, although after the news was revealed, the government and the opposition were full of curses, after all, Chongzhen still signed this peace document, which is basically a complete success. Whether the officials and the people are willing or not, it can be said to be irreparable.

After Ma Shaoyu signed a peace agreement with Jiannu in Yizhou, he told Jiannu that Daming could not give them so much gold and silver at once, and it would be postponed for another year. The slave chief Taiji immediately agreed. After all, when Dorcon led the troops to return the customs at the beginning of the year, he recovered a large amount of gold and silver. He also took back more than 200,000 slaves and nearly 100,000 kinds of livestock, enough for them to toss around for a while.

Moreover, Huang Taiji is an extremely smart person. Through the situation of encountering Xing Tianjun in Guanne, which was stated by Dorcon and others after he came back, Huang Taiji also learned that there was such a force in Guan that could confront their slave army.

In fact, Huang Taiji is not completely unaware of the current situation in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. After all, there are a large number of Jin merchants acting as their secret agents and constantly sending Ming's information outside the customs. From the beginning, Huang Taiji has noticed such a force as the Xing Tianjun, but after all, there is a Ming Dynasty between Xing Tianjun and them. There has been no intersection between the two sides before, so he didn't pay much attention to Xing Tianjun.

However, after Dorcon returned to the customs this time, Huang Taiji knew that the Xing Tianjun had actually grown into a force he had to pay attention to. With the ability of Dorcon and the generals who accompanied him to go south this time, he was very clear about his slaves. How powerful is the army, but in the case of more than one fight and less, it not only failed to defeat this Xingtian army, but also suffered under the Xingtian army in Jingfu. A large number of slaves, as well as livestock, money, food and other things, were actually robbed by the Xing Tianjun, so he had to re-examine this. Support the punishment of the heavenly army.

(I personally estimate that some brothers will definitely jump out and shout injustice to Chongzhen. I don't think there is a need to argue about this. You might as well search for relevant things on Baidu. It's not that Chongzhen hasn't thought about making peace with Jiannu, but he has never succeeded!)