Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 173 Singing Double Reed

Seeing Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang's refusal, Dorgon gritted his teeth and ran to the front of the two, eager to reach a peace talks result, and flew up with a handful of money at the back of his head: " Please stay tuned, both of you, the next few items are to be followed by you, but the details are still worthy of discussion.”

Hearing this, Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang glanced at each other, then turned around and walked back to the negotiating table in a tacit understanding.

Dorgon now wished he could eat these two, but he had no choice but to worry about himself now.

The so-called peace talks are sometimes like this. Although the peace talks are on the negotiating table, the outcome of the peace talks has actually been decided long before the peace talks. After all, the results of the peace talks are based on the comparison of the strengths of the two parties.

Although the Manchu Qing was a newly rising military aristocratic power group, it was still a regime with an unsound system and still remained in the serf system. Its national power was naturally not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, which was late but still dominated the world. If Man Qing wanted to live with Ming, he could only accept any request from Ming, otherwise he could only go to Ming to obtain survival materials through military aggression.

But the difficulty of the latter is obviously higher than that of the former, especially after Zhu Youxiao repelled the main forces of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in Gyeonggi, the Eight Banners soldiers of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties did not dare to enter and plunder at will. In the Ming Dynasty, there were no soldiers who dared to fight in the whole country. Although there was a Tianxiong army led by Lu Xiangsheng, they ended up fighting against the Qing Dynasty hungry.

What's more, there is no large-scale peasant uprising in the current Ming Dynasty, which can completely deal with the entry of the Manchu Tartars.

"The annual amount of tribute is five times that of previous years. This is really difficult. Our Qing Dynasty is poor and the people are exhausted. If we have to scrape three feet of land every year and take out five times the amount of tribute, it will be better than a war. It is expensive." Although the country is strong, if we really don't give me the slightest chance to breathe, we would rather die in battle than be starved to death by you!"

Dorgon slapped the table angrily and turned his head to look outside. It was obvious that this peace talk made him very depressed.

But Wen Tiren was tepid, still drinking tea, and blurted out after a long silence: "Forget it, His Majesty the Ming Emperor has always been lenient and treats all people equally. According to his request, it is only four times more than in previous years. of."

Yang Sichang glanced at Wen Tiren and couldn't help but smile. He naturally clearly remembered what His Majesty Zhu Youxiao said at the time was to triple the amount.

However, Yang Sichang didn't expose it either, but just shook his head, deliberately showing his dissatisfaction with Wen Tiren's betrayal of His Majesty's request.

Seeing the expressions of these two people, Dorgon thought that Wen Tiren was deliberately teasing himself by raising the five times at the beginning, and because of this, he deepened his hatred for the left servant of the Ministry of Rites of Ming Dynasty, and even cursed secretly : "Old fox!"

"Four times are fine, and my Qing Dynasty can only do my best to maintain it. Since your country is a father, it is really too stingy!"

Dorgon clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth and said this, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he didn't directly agree to the five times the number.

Wen Tiren hesitated for a while, but did not speak.

Yang Sichang also looked at Wen Tiren pretending not to be reconciled, and said: "Wen Shilang, I remember that His Majesty has always said that the increase is five times that of previous years, not four times. Now that you have changed Your Majesty's request without authorization, Your Majesty will blame you for that." Come down, don't drag me."

Wen Tiren made a very displeased look, glared at Yang Sichang angrily, and put the teacup on the table heavily: "I will take care of it! Is it possible that the peace talks have been dragged on? I have to return to Beijing in a hurry to ask for an order to return to my hometown to visit my relatives."

"it is good!"

Yang Sichang nodded, and pretended to be depressed and said: "Let's talk about the land south of Haizhou Wei. According to our Majesty's request, the land north of Liaohe River is the land granted to your country, but you still occupy Haizhou now. The more than forty cities south of Wei must be returned."

Except for a few important towns in today's Liaodong, most of them are unowned lands, which are very barren. Even after the Eight Banners of Manchuria occupied them, most of them destroyed their castles and abandoned the land.

Therefore, Dorgon didn't feel anything, so he agreed, but he had been coveting the fertile land around the Daling River for a long time. After all, the Qing Dynasty did not only rely on fishing and hunting for a living, but also had a large number of them. Serfs need land to cultivate, and there are more fertile fields along the Daling River, so Dorgon also brought this up.

"It doesn't matter. Although this place is now under the control of Liao King Wu Xiang, it is also the land of His Majesty the Ming Emperor. I will give it to you on behalf of His Majesty, but the peninsula south of Haizhouwei must be returned to you. I am Ming".

As Wen Tiren spoke, he secretly kicked Yang Sichang with his foot. Yang Sichang understood, and immediately slapped the table, stood up angrily, pointed at Wen Tiren and shouted: "Wen Shilang! Have you forgotten what His Majesty told you at that time, Hai?" The peninsula to the south of Zhouwei is a sparsely populated wasteland, Your Majesty calls it this place, but it actually refers to the land of Daling River, even if it belongs to the Liao King, it cannot belong to it!",

Yang Sichang shut his mouth when he said this, and acted as if he regretted that he had leaked the truth, and then sat down directly: "No matter what, I can't agree anyway, it must be south of Haizhou Wei, including All the land around the Daling River must be recognized as belonging to my Ming Dynasty, and several towns along the Daling River that your country occupies must also be returned to my Ming Dynasty."

Before Dorgon could speak, Wen Tiren argued with Yang Sichang first.

I saw that Wen Tiren was also blushing with anger and had a thick neck, and said sharply: "I am the official envoy of this peace negotiation. You, Yang Sichang, pay attention to the order of respect and inferiority. Don't think that you can despise this official just because you are famous in front of His Majesty. The official will tell you now that I am the official of the Six Departments and the Nine Ministers, and I have the right to perform privately, and now I can rush to Beijing to impeach you by [-] li!",

After speaking, Wen Tiren said again: "This matter is up to the decision, you don't need to say more."

Yang Sichang also waved his sleeves pretending to be angry, and wanted to leave his seat angrily.

But Dorgon was very proud of seeing this, he was very happy to see the two envoys of the other party at odds, so he could use the disagreement between the two to find out more information.

At least now, he feels that Wen Tiren, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, is cunning, but also a little unsteady in his stance, and he does things perfunctorily. People make such a fuss, but it will help them fight for more interests for the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, when Dorgon saw that Yang Sichang was about to leave, he kindly ran forward and persuaded Yang Sichang to come back: "Vice Envoy Yang, don't rush to leave. Since it is a peace negotiation, let's talk peacefully. Why get angry? However, Deputy Envoy Yang, please don’t be too aggressive. Wen Zhengshi did this to allow the peace talks to go on smoothly. This detail can be done at will. The land of the Daling River is my Qing Dynasty. The land of Longxing, so I ask your country not to take it by force."

"Forget it, I, Yang, did not do such a traitorous act. When the time comes, so-and-so loses his head, don't even think of me begging for mercy!"

Yang Sichang sat down and came back after saying a word. In this way, the peninsula south of Haizhouwei was owned by Daming, and the land of Daling River outside the Guan, which was originally given to the Guanning Army Wu Xiang’s troops, was sold directly to Manchuria by Wen Tiren. Daming naturally didn't care how Huang Taiji went to ask Wu Xiang for it.

(End of this chapter)