Win the Ding 1617

Huang Taiji's long-awaited peace negotiation immediately caused waves in Shengjing City.

Compared with the terms of the peace talks that were circulated all over Liaodong not long ago, the terms of this peace negotiation seem to be much milder.

"Li Huayu's negotiation conditions are as follows: [-]. Go to the pseudo-emperor, declare that the rebellion led by Nurhachi since the Wanli period is a rebellion, and send protons to Beijing to plead guilty to Emperor Chongzhen. [-]. Abolish the slavery system, Change it to free people, and make legislation not to abuse any free people. [-]. Abolish Manchu and Manchu, all public places and official documents and documents will be changed to Chinese characters, all private schools will be closed, and they will apply for relief loans from the Southern Guangdong Army instead. Establish schools and hire teachers. Fourth, the Southern Guangdong Army will help Liaodong develop production and improve life. For this reason, the Southern Guangdong Army will send officials to gradually take over Liaonan. The original officials in Liaodong can be retained, but they need to participate in the training courses of the Southern Guangdong Army and take exams You can work only after passing the qualifications. All the funds required for production will apply for a rescue loan from the Southern Guangdong Army, with an annual interest of six cents, and the repayment can be postponed, but it cannot be embezzled and denied. The Han army and the Mongolian army can go home to produce, and the other Eight Banners general Zuo Ke will stay in the post, but they also need to attend training courses and work after passing the exam. The salaries and rations of the generals will also be issued by the relief loan of Nanzhong. The South will supervise the use of the loan and cannot Embezzlement or misappropriation. Sixth, in order to ensure the implementation of the treaty, the Southern Guangdong Army will choose an opportunity to send relevant personnel and deacons to Liaodong to set up a public affairs bureau to supervise the implementation of the treaty. Once Liaodong violates the contract, it will be warned and punished immediately. If the circumstances are serious, the treaty will automatically become invalid.”

When someone read the terms of the agreement copied from Li Peiting to the Dorgon brothers, Azig and his fifteenth brother Duoduo couldn't help but let out a long snort, which seemed to relieve the suffocation in their chests.

"Second brother, the Li family's price has been announced. What do you think we should do?" As the one sitting among the three brothers, Duoduo naturally wanted to ask for advice on everything.

"What do you think, they put the knife on our necks!" Dorgon sneered, pointing out with his index and middle fingers, signaling his two brothers to listen to the movement outside.

Huang Yunfa was the one who made the matchmaking this time.How can such a major political and economic information be given up?Before he left Shengjing, more than a dozen secret letters had already been sent out of the city quickly.They were delivered to him in Dengzhou, Laizhou and even in Shanghai County, as well as the other seven Shanxi merchants.

The content is basically the same, and a large amount of grain, rice, cloth, silk and other spot goods are eaten.Then hire a sea boat to quickly transport it to Liaodong, there is a big hat to grab!

To talk about the unity and coordinated actions among Shanxi merchants is really nothing to say.That is to say, when Huang Yunfa led the Kabula to meet Li Huayu in Jinan and explain the pleadings for peace from the top and bottom of the Qing Dynasty, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and others had already raised hundreds of thousands of stones of high-quality Nanzhong japonica rice.More than [-] bolts of dyed and printed cloth, and more than one million catties of refined fine salt, hired ships at various docks along the coast, and when there was good news in Jinan, they were shipped to Liaodong.

The timing of the seasons is not bad. The team of Kabula’s peace envoys has just returned to Shengjing, and the fleets of the eight Shanxi merchants have arrived in Jinzhou, Jinzhou and other places one after another. For Liaodong, which is constantly boiling, it is undoubtedly a good thing to send charcoal in the snow.

Of course, the charcoal price of the Eight Great Families is not cheap.

Crackling the abacus to the sky, the shopkeepers of the eight Shanxi merchants were pleasantly surprised to find out.They made at least three times the profit in this transaction!This still deducts the process of adding sand and gravel into the grain and rice and putting earth, stone and sand into the salt, etc. due to the urgent time. At the same time, because of the rush, it is necessary to give the boatmen and sailors processing money to reward food and silver. The cost will be a lot more cost.

However, even so, in the face of Liaodong's price comparable to that of Tianming, the goods shipped by Shanxi merchants tripled their profits.It was also called the price of conscience by the tears of the officials and people of the Qing Dynasty in the remote Liaodong.

In the face of this sudden and large influx of relatively cheap goods, the prices in cities in Shengjing and Liaodong also fell for the first time in several months, although the drop was only half.However, for Dorgon, who has been on the battlefield for many years, it is undoubtedly a warning signal.

"This is tantamount to our striker being unstable and showing signs of collapse!"

Those coated minions sent by the two white flags and the positive red flag to stir up prices and take the opportunity to make huge profits have already become unstable. After all, they are not professional speculators.I haven't experienced the baptism of the stock market crash, how can I have the psychological quality to face the sudden drop of the price index without changing my face and not feeling hurt?

As a result, some small scalpers quietly followed suit and threw out the various goods they had hoarded in their hands. Anyway, they had already made a lot of money, so they just handed over the silver to the master, and went home to enjoy what they deserved!

However, those big oxen who are respectable in front of their masters are just suffering and can't tell!Not only did he take the master's money to do business, but he also bought a lot of treetop contracts from Sony that were due for delivery.Right now, they are not worried that these goods will not be transported to Liaodong in time, and the delivery will be completed in Shengjing, Liaoyang and other places. Instead, they burn incense and pray to Buddha every day, hoping that there will be storms and waves on the sea, and they will send all the cargo ships to the Dragon King of the East China Sea. go!According to the current prices in Shengjing, even if those goods arrive in Liaodong, they can only lose money and make money!

There are those scalpers who were greedy for cheap, under the temptation of high profits, and it was difficult to succeed in the market, and they were afraid that there would be another big battle, and rashly went to Sony's house to ask for delivery of the goods or a refund of the purchase price. Tempted by the rotten tongue, the fooled one took out a usury loan from Sony's house, and ate a lot of goods again.

On the one hand, there are continuously falling prices, and on the other hand, the daily interest-bearing usury, these people are almost on the verge of collapse!

In line with the Eight Banners tradition of finding their masters when they have trouble finding their masters, it is inevitable for these people to go to their respective masters to cry and mourn.Tell the masters about all the recent troubles and bad things.After that, the masters who became in the same mood also reported to their masters the troubles the slaves encountered.

So, reports were made level by level, and finally all the problems were concentrated in front of Dorgon, the current head of the Three Banners!

"Second brother, the slaves are going to be unable to hold on now. What should you do? You have to come up with a charter!" The eldest brother of the three brothers, Azig, just became the leader of the banner not long ago. Schneider.When attracting people's hearts and stabilizing his powerful position in the banner, if the price war is defeated, I am afraid that only his servants will listen to what he says in Zhenghongqi.

"That's right! The Shanxi businessman was originally friends with that black fat man in a pair of pants, and now is the time for them to make a lot of money. If they are allowed to continue to toss, our three flags, and Shuo Tuo's flag, will be separated from each other. The end is not far away!" Duoduo also frowned.

The three brothers relied on Li Peiting alone economically and materially, and made a lot of money by monopolizing and controlling the trade between the Eight Banners and Longsheng.But now, because Li Huayu expressed his willingness to negotiate a peace, Li Peiting has become a little hesitant and dare not express his position.This is undoubtedly a blow to the price war in Liaodong.

"Don't worry!" Dorgon hesitated for a while, and finally made a decision.

"He, Huang Taiji, was able to go to Li Shouhan to negotiate a peace through the Huang family. Then, why don't we spread this matter in the capital of the Ming Dynasty? The generals and ministers discussed the peace with me in the Qing Dynasty in private. This kind of private giving and receiving , it is a big taboo in the court of the Ming Dynasty! Don’t forget, Yuan Chonghuan back then and Chen Xinjia not long ago. Both died because they negotiated peace with me!”

This is not it!Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong in the second year of Chongzhen, and Chen Xinjia, the Minister of the Ministry of War who was cut apart at Caishikou not long ago, were not all important ministers who were favored for a while, but once they touched the red line of negotiating peace with the Qing Dynasty in private, all they had to do was to wait for them. Caishikou is the way to go.The difference is that it is [-] knives or [-] knives!

Soon, with the efforts of the slaves of Liangbaiqi and Zhenghongqi, Li Huayu, the eldest son of Mr. Li, stationed in Denglai, Shandong Province, and in charge of the reclamation of soldiers, horses, money and grain in these two places, privately communicated with the Liaodong anti-thief messenger dealing.He also ordered people to cross the sea to the east to negotiate a peace with the Liao thieves, and there was a shocking news that a large amount of food and supplies were shipped to Liaodong, so they accelerated at a speed of eight hundred miles.Passed to Shanhaiguan, passed to Xuanda, and through meticulous work, spread in the capital!

To spread the news, let the Ming Dynasty go from the emperor to the ministers, from the nobles to the eunuchs.From cabinet veterans to ordinary scholars, everyone who has the right to speak about the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, or who thinks he has the right to speak, knows that Li Guogong ordered his eldest son to come forward to negotiate peace with Jiannu!

"You, Huang Taiji, can use the power of Li Shouhan to suppress us, and we will also use the power of the Ming court to suppress Li Shouhan, so that your wishful thinking of negotiating peace with Li Shouhan will come to naught!"

After Dorgon received the report that the servants everywhere had spread the rumors, he looked at the undulating wheat waves on the bank of the Hun River, quite complacent.

In their view, based on past experience, the Ming government and the public are extremely opposed to the peace talks with the Qing!In the eyes of those scholar-bureaucrats and honest gentlemen, negotiating peace is surrender!The dignified kingdom of heaven should fight to the end!You can't be considered a victory if you don't eliminate your opponent!As for fighting money and killing people, I'm sorry, that's your government's business, and we scholars don't care.We are just responsible for spraying people.

However, to Dorgon's surprise, Wu Sangui, who had not long ago wiped out the mission sent by Huang Taiji in Xiluo City, Shanhaiguan, with a volley of bows and arrows, received such news that the Guanning army was enraged. Afterwards, she chose to be extremely quiet.It seems that Wu Sangui who clamored before, "If there are treacherous ministers in the court intending to betray the country and seek glory, the ministers should get on the horse with tears, kill the Liao thieves first, and then lead my Liaodong children to the capital, and complain to the princes of the court." he.

"Commander, why don't you speak? All the barracks in and outside the city are discussing this matter, and the generals of each battalion have come to see the commander one after another, planning to ask the commander for an explanation. Why don't you see them?" General Ding of Wu Sangui's family has now recommended Wu Jingsi to the rank of general, and he is a little confused about the thoughts of his own commander.

The muscles on Wu Sangui's face twitched a few times, he folded a piece of deerskin in his hand, and sheathed the clean and bright sword. "How are our cavalry and firecrackers performing? How are the tens of thousands of Liaodong people recaptured from southern Liaoning settled down?"

Since the end of the Liaodong War, Wu Sangui has used a large number of Jiazhang food and grass stored in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan to wantonly annex and rectify the stragglers in western Liaoning. At the same time, he has greatly expanded his direct troops.The wolf cavalry team, which was originally only [-], expanded to more than [-] in the blink of an eye.At the same time, those Han people who were rescued from various places in southern Liaoning were even organized into military households, and they were engaged in military activities as part of the army.Relying on a kind of step plow purchased in large quantities during the popularity of Long, and farm tools such as hoes and sickles made of high-quality wrought iron.Wu Sangui was very pleasantly surprised to find that the farmlands that had been barren a few years ago actually had a somewhat bumper harvest this year, and the wheat waves stretching for tens of miles looked really gratifying.

Among the towns in Liaodong.From generals and officers to servants, there is almost no one who is not a large or small landlord who owns a lot of fields.Not to mention other generals, among Wu Sangui's family alone, almost every one of his father Wu Xiang's [-] family members owns at least several hundred acres of land.Calculated in this way, this year's western Liaoning is bound to be a bumper harvest.With food.In time, Wu Sangui is confident that Guan Ning's army will be completely unified by the Wu family.

And there is a large amount of food and grass that Li Shouhan left in Ningyuan to support him, which can support him until at least this autumn.Looking at the wheat gradually turning yellow in the grain fields from Zhonghou to Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui also knew that his wings were gradually maturing just like the wheat.

"What do you mean, Master?"

"Our soldiers and horses have not been drilled into the elite soldiers of the model brigade and the princess, so don't think about other trivial matters!"

"But, Marshal, if the peace negotiation is really successful, then wouldn't it be the Liao pay for our Guan Ning army?"

"What are you panicking about? Isn't it a matter of peace negotiations? It's just rumors that my commander-in-chief's uncle sent someone to contact the Liao thieves? Seriously, the peace negotiations were successful. It's too early!"

"However, Commander, right now, people's hearts are fluctuating everywhere in the Guancheng. It's okay for soldiers to say that they will be fed and paid at any time; but the generals at all levels dare not think so!"

Wu Jingsi's words immediately inspired Wu Sangui.

"Jing Si, how many people are there in the various passes that have not been attached to my Wu family's banner?"

After thinking for a while, Wu Jingsi replied, "There are about [-] more, which belong to several generals and guerrilla subordinates. These guys are confident that their soldiers are strong. The equipment and armor are good. The heart of solicitation is ignored."

"Okay! You just send people to these battalions to spread rumors and tell them. The peace talks will be concluded soon, and the Liaodong army will be disbanded in the future, or go to all parts of the Guannei Central Plains to wipe out the bandits and encourage them to rise up and make noise. Make a fuss."

Wu Jingsi was also a person who nodded knowingly, and immediately understood the intention of her coach.

As long as rumors spread among these few battalions that were not considered to be soldiers of the Wu family, those soldiers who had owed their wages for a long time would start arguing about their wages.Even mutiny.No matter what means they adopt, Wu Sangui, who holds money bags and rice bags in his hands, is happy to see the results.He will wait for these generals to come to ask him to reorganize their team!

Wu Jingsi was sent to those miscellaneous army units to do insidious and insidious activities, and Wu Sangui ordered someone to invite some copywriters under his account.

"You write a letter for me. It's about the fact that my uncle sent people to discuss peace with the Liao thieves, which is circulating everywhere."

"The commander-in-chief wants to reprimand Mrs. Li Huayu and Mr. Li, and make a bitter statement, and ask him to rein in the precipice and not do such things that will inevitably leave him with eternal infamy?" A copywriter who was born in Juren boldly expressed his opinion, quite He looked at his colleagues proudly.

"Nonsense! Master Li is the elder of this handsome! This handsome today is entirely dependent on the love and promotion of the elders!"

"Then, what does the commander-in-chief mean?"

"Draft a letter and tell this commander's uncle. He said that tens of thousands of soldiers in Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan and other places, and more than [-] regiments of Liao people, all follow the young commander in chief. They are willing to follow the young commander!"

After looking at each other, several copywriters had no choice but to sing promises in unison to draft this letter of allegiance to Li Huayu expressing support for his peace proposal.Only Wu Sangui was left alone in his signing room.

"Although the man has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and there are more than [-] Liao people. In the eyes of outsiders, he can be said to be a strong soldier, but the man knows that his strength is not enough. At this time, he absolutely dare not turn against the Li family and his son. Although the man in charge absolutely does not want him to succeed, the eldest son must not offend him. Therefore, the two evils are the lesser of the two."

Several pieces of letter paper were covered with walnut-sized words. This letter from home was written by him to his father Wu Xiang, who was living idle in the capital at this time.It can be regarded as a portrayal of the real situation in his heart.

"I don't know if such a thing will cause huge waves in the capital?" Wu Sangui sealed the envelope, looked at the capital city in the southwest direction, and muttered to himself.

The situation in the capital not only surprised Dorgon, but also surprised Wu Sangui.In the capital, although there were people talking about the fact that Mr. Li sent people to Liaodong to accept the peace proposal proposed by Jiannu, there was not even a splash in the court.

Of course, Shengdou Xiaomin did not believe that Li Gongye, who had killed thousands of Tartars in various places in Gyeonggi, would do such a thing of treason and glory. , and no matter what, I can't think of it, even the cowardly and timid young lady of Princess Zhaoyang led her own soldiers to rush to Tashan, and the Li family, who was almost shot and almost died, would do such a thing Come?

Court officials, on the other hand, had more things to consider.However, almost all of them chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Of course the nobles did not believe that Li Shouhan would betray the imperial court for the sake of Jiannu's petty gain, even some of the censors who had secretly opposed Li Jiaming in the past also felt that this was a bit unbelievable.How could the Liao thieves who had been beaten to death by the Li family propose to surrender to the Li family?And are you willing to be a vassal under the Li family, from Ryukyu and Siam?What benefits can the Liao thieves promise to the Li family?Gold, silver and jewelry or official titles?Impossible, right?

The eunuchs, on the other hand, touched their pockets for the huge amount of silver dollars they had earned from selling new fruits, grains, rice, oil and salt all winter, with a sneer on their faces: "Grandpa Li is our food and clothing parent. These people are human beings, if they dare to trip up Mr. Li behind his back, not to mention the old ancestors will not spare him, even us slaves will not go around him!"

The two old ancestors mentioned by the eunuchs were summoned by Emperor Chongzhen to the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace to talk.

"Two big companions, rumors are spreading in the capital right now, and people who are involved in the incident say that Li Huayu sent people to Shengjing to negotiate peace with Hong Tai, the leader of the slave chief. I wonder what the two big companions think about this matter?" (~ ^~)