Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 485 Unequal Treaties

In the spring of the 17th year of the Apocalypse, Qi Changguo agreed to the peace talks request of Tsar Mikhail I of the Raksha Kingdom, and agreed to negotiate in Tianci City after the Imperial Guards withdrew from Moscow, and the time was set on May 28. " was signed on the same date.

Last year, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty ordered the Ministry of Rites to recount the meritorious deeds of capable ministers who made great contributions to the country, and Qi Jiguang was also posthumously awarded for his contribution to suppressing Japanese pirates and repelling Tartars during the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli years. It is the title of Marquis of Jianou.

Although Qi Jiguang, who has a heart for the whole world, said that "I don't want to be a marquis, I hope Haibo is peaceful", but after all, it is not a bad thing to be a marquis. It is also necessary to be a marquis.

And Qi Changguo, as his son, was also hereditary to build Oubo. Therefore, although Qi Changguo was only a member of the imperial guards, he had the title of Jianoubo and a leftist who was also added because of his father's meritorious service. With the false title of first-class governor, he is also qualified as a plenipotentiary representative to preside over this negotiation against the Raksha Kingdom.

The Raksha Kingdom sent the great aristocrat, Duke Morozov, to come to Tianci City to negotiate with Daming on behalf of the Raksha Kingdom.

The so-called Tianci City is actually the Tianci City built by the imperial guards guarding here after Daming developed the Tianci Coalfield, managers of the Royal Industrial Company, and workers recruited from Monan, Mobei, Gansu and other places. Although the sky here has always been gray due to the influence of the "Tianci Coal Field", the newly built Tianci City is the first step in Daming's cultural expansion, because Tianci City is built with the city pools of the Central Plains. The majestic pavilions and pavilions, the majestic towers, the inner and outer city walls, and the moat like a green belt are all signs that Han cultural elements have begun to be imprinted in Siberia.

At this time, the weather is getting warmer and the snow is melting. Due to the construction of Tianci City and the mining of Tianci Coalfield, the large-scale bulldozing of the virgin forest has made the field of vision in this area extremely wide. Now when the weather improves and the blue sky reappears, it is even more Makes people feel at ease.

Qi Changguo also specially put on the imperial boa robe today, and sat on the official hat chair imposingly, fiddling with a globe made of brass in his hand. Said: "Have all the long-haired ghosts come?"

"We're all here, waiting for you," Burkut said with a complacent smile on his fat pig-like head, and saw Qi Changguo waving to him and pointing to Qi Changguo's soles. Burkut understood, and quickly ran over and lay down on the ground, arching his back, waiting for Qi Changguo to step on his back, and almost flashing his fat waist, before he squeezed out a smile: "Grandpa's inner strength is renewed!"

Qi Changguo didn't say anything, just smiled, but Qi Changguo was quite satisfied with it. He didn't expect there to be such a long-haired ghost who could talk and be a slave.

Qi Changguo calmly bent down and patted the dust on the moiré boots before he withdrew his feet from the Berkut's back, and the Berkut shook a few times like a fat pig at this time Only then stood up tremblingly again, still with a harmless smile, asked: "Master, are you going to meet these long-haired ghosts now?"

"Don't worry, wait until that guy Jiao Lian arrives." Although according to the instructions of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty, whoever arrives in Moscow first will have full authority to negotiate with Mikhail on behalf of Daming, but Jiao Lian did not look for it. The shortcut to marching to Moscow allowed Qi Changguo to take the lead in forcing Tsar Mikhail I of the Raksha Kingdom to sue for peace, but after all Jiao Lian was considered the number two figure in the advance army of the Ming Dynasty, so Qi Changguo also invited him Come join us in this negotiation.

Although Qi Changguo was the first to attack Moscow and forced the Tsar Mikhail I of the Raksha Kingdom to pray for peace, but Qi Changguo's temper is not as hot as Jiao Lian's, and as a general, he also has a bit of a military strategy. Therefore, he is not as ruthless as Jiao Lian was in Raksha Kingdom.

When Qi Changguo led the Special Forces of the Imperial Guards towards Moscow, the capital of the Raksha State, Jiao Lian launched continuous attacks on countless Raksha State cities along the way because he could not find the specific direction of Moscow, killing many of them. There are few people in the Raksha country, and thus left a vicious people in the Raksha country. Now almost no one in the Raksha country is not afraid of Jiao Lian.

Even if it is a negotiation now, when Jiao Lian walked in with a big horse, all the negotiators of the Raksha Kingdom couldn't help but retreat a few steps, and Burkut's legs trembled in fright.

At this time, Jiao Lian saw him standing beside Qi Changguo and staring at him, so he shouted and asked, "What are you looking at, believe it or not, I will chop you up!"

Hearing this, Bokut couldn't help stepping back a few steps in fright, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "Don't dare, don't dare."

"Why, do you really think that I dare not, sir, look at your fat and puffy appearance, tell me how you serve Uncle Qi at night." Although Jiao Lian was apparently trying to get along with Berkut, But in fact, he refused to accept that Qi Changguo took the lead and occupied Moscow City first, which made him very depressed, but he did not dare to disobey the emperor's order, so he had to vent his anger on this foreign slave Bokut.

And this Bokut also knows how to read his words, knowing that this Ming general named Jiao Lian is dissatisfied with his current loyal master Qi Changguo, but both are people he can't afford to offend, so he can only force I endured it myself, and dared not say a word of big words.

At this time, Qi Changguo couldn't stand it any longer. He patted the back of his chair and suddenly stood up and said, "My surname Jiao, what day is it today? You know that if your Majesty's important event is delayed, you can't afford it. In addition, It’s not your turn to come and drink my new dog, so if you have the ability, go and catch a long-haired ghost who can speak my official dialect and use it as a dog!”

"I'm not interested in this kind of dog with a handle", Jiao Lian entered the negotiation hall before Qi Changguo. The general named Jiao Lian even called himself a dog with a handle. Although these Ming people already looked down on people like himself, Burkut still pretended to be silly and smiled.

But what people didn't expect was that when Jiao Lian entered the negotiation hall, he was stopped by a negotiator from the Raksha Kingdom. This made Jiao Lian very depressed, and he wanted to hit someone, so he couldn't help shouting: " You long-haired ghosts dare to stop me, and you don't even think about how much you have!"

The negotiators of these Raksha kingdoms naturally dare not sit on an equal footing with the Ming generals like Jiao Lian, so they naturally explained calmly: "This general has misunderstood. We are negotiating with your country on behalf of the tsar. The target is General Qi Changguo, the Earl of the Ming Dynasty, so he can only negotiate with us here."

"Grandma, long-haired ghosts look down on people!"

As Jiao Lian spoke, he directly put the knife on the neck of the Duke Morozov, but the Duke Morozov could not change his face, he still looked at Jiao Lian without any expression of fear on his face.

Seeing this, Jiao Lian didn't bother him too much, so he put down the knife, but he still forcibly walked in, and sat on the long table in the middle of the hall, and the Duke Morozov didn't dare to embarrass Jiao anymore. Lian, as a relatively capable Raksha country politician, he knows what tolerance is, especially when his own country is relatively weak, he has to endure humiliation even more.

Qi Changguo also came in at this time, and also walked to the place where Jiao Lian was sitting in the middle: "Get up, this is my seat, your seat is opposite!"

Jiao Lian snorted, not wanting to be too unreasonable, so she got up and walked towards the opposite side. As soon as she sat down, she put the musket at her waist directly on the table, which scared all the officials of Raksha Kingdom to tremble secretly. For a moment, at the same time, I sighed in my heart, no wonder this Da Ming is so powerful, now he is only a Da Ming general who can fly so domineeringly, and I don't know if the Emperor Da Ming will be even more arrogant.

Qi Changguo did not learn from Jiao Lian's intention to act arrogantly to frighten the Raksha State officials who came to negotiate.

On the contrary, in order to let the negotiating officials of the Raksha Kingdom relax a little bit and reduce their vigilance to achieve their goals more easily, Qi Changguo was more polite than Jiao Lian, and asked :
"Your Excellency, Duke Morozov, was exhausted all the way. You should rest for a few days before starting the negotiation. But the matter is urgent. The main fighters in our Ming Dynasty have long been dissatisfied with my official's intention to resolve the war between our Ming Dynasty and Rakshasa, and advocated Directly mobilize the army to destroy your country in one go."

"But my Majesty Ming is a benevolent king after all, and I can't bear to confront your country with swords and swords. Therefore, I must sign a peace covenant with your country as soon as possible, so as to block the mouths of the people in the country, so that the respected Duke has to travel thousands of miles. Come and negotiate with me.”

As he said that, Qi Changguo ordered Burkut to translate his original words to the Duke Morozov, and at the same time handed him a treaty plan he had already drafted to the Duke Morozov.

After Berkut's translation was finished, Qi Changguo threw the plan drafted by Daming to the Duke Morozov, and said:

"If your country wants to sign a peace treaty with my Ming Dynasty, the following points must be met:

First, I must recognize my status as the suzerain of the Ming Dynasty, and I am no longer allowed to call myself the emperor, only the king;

Second, your country needs to cede Sisiporia and the vast area east of the Urals to Ming Dynasty;
Third, your country should compensate me for the 2000 taels of silver dollars spent on the suppression of the bandits in Ming Dynasty;

Fourth, your country should allow me, Ming, to establish treaty ports in big cities such as Moscow in your country;

Fifth, your country should recognize Ming's most-favored-nation treatment, and allow Ming to establish concessions in more than ten cities including Moscow and choose the area and duration of the concession. "

Morozov, the Duke of the Raksha Kingdom, felt quite embarrassed after hearing this, because before he left, the tsar of the Raksha Kingdom had clearly told him that if he ceded the land, he could only go to a few states in the southern part of Siberia, and if the compensation was not more than five hundred Yuan.

And Zhu Youxiao also saw him frowning, so he turned cold and asked quite seriously: "Why, isn't your country unwilling? That's fine, just wait for my big Ming army to come." , when the time comes, it will not be as simple as cutting off West Siberia."

Although Qi Changguo said that his language was very plain and he didn't appear to be domineering, he could also play tricks and began to threaten the Duke of the Rakshasa Kingdom, Morozov. After speaking, he deliberately left the negotiating table. The appearance of peace talks.

In the end, it was Morozov, the Duke of the Raksha Kingdom, who had no choice but to agree to Qi Changguo's various nonsensical conditions in principle, and begged Qi Changguo to continue to sit down and discuss the details with him.

Qi Changguo made a look of embarrassment, and finally sat back on his seat, and deliberately expressed his displeasure at Duke Morozov and said, "Go on, what details do you want to change?"

The Duke of the Rakshasa Kingdom, Morozov, expressed his opinion carefully:

"First, although it is a matter of celebration for my Romanov dynasty to be subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty has always been diligent in governing the government and determined to reform, and the people of the country have always been lacking in talent and ability, so I'm afraid that when I belong to your country, it will make His Majesty angry in vain."

Article [-]: It is enough to cede Sicipolia. Why do you need the Ural area? This is a newly acquired land of the Romonov Dynasty. There are many uneducated people. Please allow your country to act on your behalf. management for several years.

As for the third article, 2000 million taels is too much. Although our Romanov dynasty has a large land and resources, it is still poor and the country is poor. There are many people who starve to death. I ask your country to be considerate of the difficulties of the poor country, and it is better to pay 500 million taels.”

"Okay! If your country doesn't regard our Ming Dynasty as the master, it's fine, but if there are foreign enemies or civil strife at that time, don't blame my Ming Dynasty for not helping you; as for the second, the Ural River area is fine." Don’t cut it, but you have to pay 3000 million taels of silver for the redemption, and the total of compensation is 5000 million taels, otherwise there is no talk!”

Qi Changguo directly interrupted the words of the Duke of Rakshasa Morozov, and came up with his own modification plan, and directly slapped the table with his palm, which made Morozov tremble.

But Morozov still had to plead bitterly: "I would like to ask your country to be considerate, the amount of compensation is too high, can it be reduced to 3000 million taels!"

"Snapped!"

An official in the negotiating team of the Raksha Kingdom suddenly screamed and was shot, and then fell to the ground in a daze. At this time, they saw that it was Jiao Lian who fired the shot, and only heard Jiao Lian said: "Grandma's, 3000 million taels less is fine, but you have to exchange it with your head!"

Morozov, the Duke of the Raksha Kingdom, had never seen such a domineering person, but now he could only dare not speak out, and had to admit that the content of the treaty was basically correct, and then signed the treaty embarrassingly .

As for how the Raksha Kingdom managed to raise the 7000 million taels of indemnity, Qi Changguo naturally didn't know, but until this was the first time that other powers were forced to sign an unequal treaty with Ming, and it wouldn't be the last.

(End of this chapter)