Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 153 Smooth negotiations? A surging trap!
Zhang Chonghui's "wild words" soon reached the ears of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun.

"He actually dares to say that I don't dare to see him? Dare not?"

Zhu Yijun was also laughed out of anger. You know, he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty! Can the emperor dare to do anything?

He just 'disdains' it! I don’t even bother to see this criminal! after!
"Your Majesty." Chen Ju comforted his Majesty the Emperor, who was over thirty years old, as if comforting a child, and said:
"That kid is just trying to provoke you and want to take this opportunity to meet the saint in order to achieve his ulterior motives."

Chen Ju did not explain this 'ulterior purpose', but both master and servant knew it.

After all, two years ago, when Zhu Yijun made "that promise" to Zhang Chonghui "in person", Chen Ju was beside him.

Facts have proved that this 'comfort' is not what His Majesty the Emperor wants to hear.

"What's going on with those fans?" Zhu Yijun asked directly:
"Why was that kid discovered so many times? Can't they even hide? I didn't know that Jin Yiwei has become so stupid and incompetent now!"

Chen Ju finally "waited" for His Majesty the Emperor's questioning. After all, as a "secret service", the Dongchang fans had always been elusive and difficult to detect.

However, since Chen Ju took over the position of governor of Dongchang, Zhu Yijun has always heard bad news about the "exposed" whereabouts of the gangsters.

After all, all the gossips that were 'exposed' were 'only' exposed in front of Zhang Chonghui...

More than a month passed and the negotiations ended.

One of them is a general and the other is a guerrilla. Let Qiu Balao, who can't even read a few Chinese characters, become an envoy on behalf of the Ming Dynasty?

At the same time, Li Rusong, the favorite "capable" general of Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun, was making an "absurd" decision on the distant Korean Peninsula.

"Well..." Shen Weijing seemed a little uneasy, but after a brief hesitation, he still replied firmly:
"Yes! Toyotomi Hideyoshi agreed! He said he wanted to live in harmony with the Ming Dynasty! He will withdraw his troops from North Korea soon! As long as...as long as the Ming Dynasty is willing to canonize him as the king of Japan!"

After being yelled at by their boss, Xie Yongzi and Xu Yiguan could only accept the errand and go back to pack up and prepare to go on a business trip abroad.

Song Yingchang saw that Shen Weijing was deliberately hiding something, but this time, he did not reveal it. Instead, he waved his hands hastily and sent Shen Weijing away.

"Admiral, I can't even read!" Xie Yongzi said hurriedly.

"Yes, Admiral!" Xu Yiguan also agreed: "We only know how to kill Japanese slaves, but we don't know how to negotiate with Japanese slaves..."

The two 'real envoys' Xie Yongzi and Xu Yiguan were confused throughout the whole process. They could not understand the Japanese language, and they did not know what Toyotomi Hideyoshi had been talking about in the past month or so.

If it hadn't been for the fact that his immediate superior, Minister of War, Shi Xing, had been blindly advocating for peace talks recently, and everyone in the court was shouting about "no money," he would have asked Li Rusong to lead his troops to attack the Japanese slaves!
Still talking about peace? Talk nonsense!
Just a bunch of uncivilized barbaric Japanese slaves! What qualifications do you have to negotiate peace with the Great Tomorrow!

"Even if the Japanese slaves are stupid, they can't be this stupid, right?"

……

"What? Toyotomi Hideyoshi agreed to withdraw his troops? Are you still willing to surrender to me, the Ming Dynasty?"

They only know that the women of Japan are quite nice and moist.

Faced with the embarrassing refusal from his two subordinates, Li Rusong directly scolded: "Go if you are told! There is so much nonsense!"

After all, in Song Yingchang's eyes, he never thought about peace talks with the Japanese slaves from beginning to end.

It’s the end of June in the twenty-first year of Wanli.

Shen Weijing was scolded by Song Yingchang, and in the end he had no choice but to lead Xie Yongzi and Xu Yiguan, two "serious envoys" who didn't know a few characters, across the ocean to negotiate with Japan!

I saw Li Rusong casually pointing to the two big men on the side, and said to Shen Weijing who came to 'beg' for the serious envoy:
"Just the two of them."

……

Moreover, during this trip, they also learned a few Japanese words, such as - Ya Zhi Die, Si Guoyi.

Li Rusong crossed his legs and after thinking nonchalantly for a moment, he adopted the principle of proximity 'again'.

This is this...

Shen Weijing was almost dumbfounded throughout the whole process. After all, Li Rusong didn't even give him a chance to "breathe" and directly decided on the two so-called envoys who would go to Japan for "peace talks" together.

Shen Weijing thought that these two people were inappropriate, so he took the initiative to find Song Yingchang, the economic and strategic envoy, and hoped that Song Yingchang could send him two more "serious" Ming officials to go to the Japanese country for peace talks.

"President Konishi wants a serious Ming envoy?"

Facts have proved that Song Yingchang seemed to be even less concerned about the 'peace talks' than Li Rusong. Not only did he not help Shen Weijing pick two serious people to go with him, he even scolded Shen Weijing impatiently.

"Incompetent!" After Zhu Yijun scolded, he did not really punish Chen Ju. After all, he knew it well.

At this moment, Shen Weijing was dumbfounded... You must know that the serious envoy he came to ask for this time was the one who wanted to take him across the ocean to the Japanese country to have face-to-face "peace talks" with Toyotomi Hideyoshi!
But Li Rusong just pointed at two people so casually? This, this, this... this is too casual! ?

However, after Shen Weijing left, the right minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty and the envoy of North Korea began to talk to himself in a panic.

……

North Korea, Wang Jing.

"Your Majesty, it's all my fault for not taking good care of you." All Chen Ju could do was kowtow to plead guilty, even though he was crying out for injustice in his heart.

……

Not to mention Shen Weijing was dumbfounded, even Xie Yongzi and Xu Yiguan, who were pointed out by Li Rusong, were also dumbfounded...

For more than a month, the three-person mission was warmly welcomed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

How could Fanzi's whereabouts really be exposed? He was obviously being stared at too closely, so tightly that Zhang Chonghui could guess that he was being 'targeted' even with his eyes closed!
Chen Ju was scolded as "incompetent" for nothing.

Song Yingchang's eyes almost popped out of his head. Obviously, he didn't believe in such a 'perfect' result!

After more than a month of negotiations, the "peace talks" were finally concluded.

Shen Weijing, who 'knows' everything, and two 'real envoys' who know nothing, returned to the royal capital of Joseon in a daze under the warm welcome of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and others.

"No...it's definitely not that simple..."

"Could it be that...it's wrong!"

By now, Song Yingchang was almost certain that Shen Weijing was hiding something!
Moreover, there must be someone else behind Shen Weijing!

"Who is it? Is it Shi Xing?"

"No, he's an old man who doesn't have the brains..."

"Who else could it be? Shen Li? Guo Zhengyu? No..."

Song Yingchang thought carefully to himself, but no matter how much he thought, he couldn't figure out who was behind Shen Weijing and what purpose he had!
But Song Yingchang is almost certain that he has been caught in a huge conspiracy 'trap'!
After all, Song Yingchang was still Song Yingchang. In the eyes of outsiders, this taciturn man could still gain the respect of His Majesty the Emperor. He soon had a clue.

Not being able to find the 'answer' often means that the starting point of the problem is already wrong from the beginning!

In this case, let's start from the beginning and find it step by step!

In order to find clues and answers, Song Yingchang first calmed himself down. Immediately afterwards, he took out a piece of paper and began to analyze step by step the whole story of this 'trap'!

"start……"

Song Yingchang was drawing and writing, thinking about the beginning and course of the problem, and muttering to himself:

"The beginning is negotiation. The very beginning of negotiation is...Zhang Chonghui!"

"Zhang Chonghui went to negotiate at that time. What was wrong with it?"

"That's right! He didn't even bring the paperwork and the deal was concluded!" "Japanese slaves are not fools. Zhang Chonghui must have used some tricks. There is definitely something wrong with this!"

"The problem must lie with Zhang Chonghui!"

"Zhang Chonghui must have agreed to some conditions for Toyotomi Hideyoshi! But how did he do it, and make Toyotomi Hideyoshi so convinced that the Ming Dynasty wanted peace talks without any documents?"

"Wait! What if... Zhang Chonghui has documents?"

"But where did he get the documents? Even if it's on Shen Weijing's body, it's just a survey issued casually by the Ministry of War to fool people!"

"Never mind! Just pretend he has it! No matter how he got here! The point is, what is Zhang Chonghui's purpose?"

"Pull me down? That's not right! I have no enmity or enmity with him, I just didn't intercede with his father-in-law..."

When he recalled this point, Song Yingchang's scalp suddenly felt numb!
Almost as a conditioned reflex, he recalled the first time he met Zhang Chonghui in North Korea a few months ago, and also recalled the big words Zhang Chonghui said to him at that time——

——"Originally, helping my father-in-law get promoted would be a big help for you to join the cabinet. But now it seems that with your situation, you may not be able to join the cabinet in this life."

Song Yingchang recalled Zhang Chonghui's words, and also recalled Shen Weijing's sudden excited rebuke at that time!
At that time, Song Yingchang felt that Shen Weijing was a little strange. He, the client, was not anxious yet. Why was Shen Weijing anxious?
Now, Song Yingchang understood.

"Join the cabinet...cabinet..."

As Song Yingchang murmured to himself, he realized. After realizing it, he smiled.

"Hahaha...you are so stupid!"

"In order to join the cabinet, you actually plotted against me!"

Song Yingchang realized that before this, he never thought that the person behind Shen Weijing was actually his fellow countryman Shen Yiguan!
Yes, if Song Yingchang wins a big victory in this trip, he will definitely be promoted to the cabinet! At that time, all the Zhejiang people in the court will be led by Song Yingchang!

But this clique, which is only from Zhejiang, was obviously organized by Shen Yiguan. How could he, Shen Jianwu, be willing to succumb to others?

Song Yingchang understood that the "thunder" had been laid long ago. When the thunder exploded, the Zhejiang Party would still be shining brightly, but he, Song Yingchang, was the one who took the blame for "burying the thunder with his own body"!

By then, Shen Yiguan will be able to take over as the leader of the Zhejiang Party with great glory!
"Son of a bitch!"

Song Yingchang was so angry that he tore up the paper that had been messed up by his drawings!
"Well done to you Shen Yiguan! Well done to you Zhang Chonghui!"

"A bunch of bastards! They used me as a swordsman! They retreated completely!"

This time, Song Yingchang was really angry! Angry that I had done so much with so much hard work, but in the end I was treated as a pawn!

However, Song Yingchang is still Song Yingchang after all.

"You want to use me as a swordsman?"

Song Yingchang smiled, and under his ferocious smile, he made a very bold decision!

"Since the trap has been set here, that's good!"

"Just keep trying!"

"You keep playing! You keep playing!"

"I'll take my leave now!"

……

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

"Huh? Toyotomi Hideyoshi actually agreed to withdraw troops from Korea and was willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty?"

Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial written by Shi Xingshang, Minister of the Ministry of War, in his hand, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Zhu Yijun did not believe that the ambitious Toyotomi Hideyoshi would be so honest and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

"Didn't Song Yingchang submit a memorial recently?"

Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Cheng who was on the side. He was a little surprised why Song Yingchang didn't take the initiative to report recently, but directly passed the news back to the Ministry of War, and then the Minister of War, Shi Xing, conveyed it.

"Go back to your Majesty." Zhang Cheng, the eunuch in charge of the ceremonial department, replied:

"Nowadays, almost all the ministers in the court advocate negotiating peace with the Japanese, but Song Yingchang strongly urges that the war should continue.

Now there are almost a mountain of memorials to impeach Song Yingchang in the DPRK. They all say that he refused to cease the war because he was greedy for military glory.

Come to think of it... he must have been scolded to the point... that he didn't dare to speak, right? "

Upon hearing such an answer, Zhu Yijun said directly: "Go and get the memorial to impeach Song Yingchang. I want to read it."

Not long after, several eunuchs brought several stacks of memorials.

Seeing this astonishing amount, Zhu Yijun was dumbfounded for a moment. After flipping through a few books, he couldn't help but sigh:

"They have already been impeached like this. It seems that Song Yingchang will not be in office for long..."

……

Time flies, and it’s the end of the 21st year of Wanli.

No matter how incredible it is, in short, the 'negotiations' between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese went very smoothly.

At the end of the year, the Japanese also withdrew a large part of their Japanese troops from North Korea.

Although the Japanese army at this time still firmly occupied the four southern roads of Korea, and also held Busan Castle.

But the Japanese side still returned all the captured Korean princes and Korean ministers to the Korean side.

The peace talks went so smoothly, but some people were happy and some were worried.

Song Yingchang, the North Korean economic and strategic envoy who had always been in charge of the war and had "strongly suggested that war must be fought many times", was impeached by his colleagues and resigned from office on the grounds that he was "greedy for merit and in love with war."

Now, most of the credit for aiding Korea fell almost entirely on Shi Xing, the Minister of War.

Shi Xing was very happy that the credit was not taken away by Song Yingchang!

Perhaps he felt that he had benefited from the 'peace negotiation'. The Minister of the Ministry of War, who had waved his fist and said in anger that 'we must fight', was now keen on negotiating peace with the Japanese.

Really funny.

They have already negotiated peace with Japan, and there is no need for the Ming army to stay in Korea.

After much debate, Emperor Wanli ordered the Ming army to withdraw back to the DPRK, leaving only Liu Wei and Wu Weizhong leading more than 7,000 Ming troops to continue to garrison North Korea.

……

The army returned to the DPRK, and as the main general in this battle to aid the DPRK, Li Rusong could be said to have unlimited glory.

Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun not only increased Li Rusong's salary, but also gave Li Rusong the first-grade official title of "Prince Taibao".

In addition, His Majesty the Emperor, who does not like to meet people, actually received Li Rusong in person for the first time.

At the same time, one day at the end of the twenty-first year of Wanli.

Zhang Chonghui got married.

(End of this chapter)