Chapter Fifty-Three: Confrontation in Court

"Your Majesty, slow down, hey, don't scare the old slave! This is not your place, let's go back to the palace, Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen cautiously followed Chongzhen's side, trying to cover Chongzhen with his body. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"I'm fine! Get out of the way!" Chongzhen pushed Wang Chengen away, these days the anxious Chongzhen always likes to take the eunuchs to inspect the Beijing division after retreating from the court, only when he sees with his own eyes that this city gate is still in the hands of the officials and soldiers, Chongzhen will be relieved.

"Your Majesty, go back quickly! It's too dangerous here!" Wang Chengen kept persuading. Chongzhen was relieved, but he scared Wang Chengen and these minions half to death, for fear that something would happen to this city gate.

"Your Majesty, there is a person down there who seems to be shouting something!" said a sharp-eyed eunuch pointing to a man on horseback at the bottom of the castle tower.

Everyone looked in the direction of the eunuch's finger, and sure enough, they saw a man dressed as a tartar sitting on a horse, as if he was still holding something in his hand, shouting something loudly.

"Let him go into the city!" Chongzhen wanted to hear what the man was trying to say!

After inspecting the city wall for a week, Chongzhen summoned his ministers to gather in the Imperial Palace.

The ministers who had just gone down to the court were hurriedly recruited back by the eunuchs in the palace before they went home, and the ministers who didn't know what was going on were muttering in their hearts, especially Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, and He Fengsheng, Chen Yan and others, who were even more worried.

"The emperor has arrived!" Wang Chengen still sang loudly in his voice that had not changed for a thousand years.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" The ministers suddenly knelt down and shouted long live.

Chongzhen sat down and raised his hand, "The ministers are flat!"

"Long live, I don't know why you summoned the ministers at this time?" Zhou Yanru, who is the first assistant of the cabinet, said out of class!

"Tartar Dolgon sent someone to come to make peace, and now he is outside the palace, I summoned all Aiqing to come here to let you Aiqing listen together!" The reason why Chongzhen convened the ministers, firstly, is to show the demeanor of the great tomorrow dynasty, and secondly, it is also to let these ministers give themselves ideas, in Chongzhen's heart, he is still biased towards peace talks, but as the king of a country, Chongzhen himself will never say this, Chongzhen convened the ministers in order to let the peace talks be expressed through the mouths of the ministers, so that he reluctantly agreed, so that everything is logical!

"The ministers are up to the emperor!"

"The ministers are up to the emperor!" The ministers saw that the first assistant had expressed their attitude, and they also hurriedly echoed it.

"Envoys come to you!"

"Envoys and ministers!" the voices of the eunuchs resounded wave after wave in the empty Forbidden City.

Fan Wencheng held the edict in his hand and walked into the main hall under the personal guards of the two brocade guards.

Fan Wencheng bent slightly towards Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, to show his respect, "His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, Fan Wencheng, the special envoy of the Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, see His Majesty the Emperor Chongzhen of the Great Ming Kingdom!"

"Why don't you kneel?" Fan Wencheng's meeting ceremony attracted the fingers of the Ming ministers, and they all accused Fan Wencheng behind his back.

"Your Majesty, this Qing envoy is really disrespectful when he sees that His Majesty does not kneel, and Weichen suggests that this envoy should be pushed out of the noon gate and beheaded!" Xie Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was the first to jump out and join the Tao.

"Weichen seconded, Weichen seconded!" As soon as the Ministry of Rites Shangshu jumped out, other officials also hurriedly participated.

Seeing that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were all angry about this trivial matter, Fan Wencheng couldn't help but shake his head, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty spent all their energy on these red tapes, and such a court was undefeated.

"The minister represents His Majesty the Emperor Shunzhi of the Great Qing Kingdom, and when he meets His Majesty the Emperor Chongzhen of the Great Ming Kingdom, he is also a king, and the ministers should bow instead of bowing!" Fan Wencheng said with a calm expression.

"Presumptuous!" Xie Sheng jumped out again and reprimanded angrily, "The barbarians dare to claim the country, and the tribal barbarian chiefs also dare to claim to be the king.

"Rude, rude!" the ministers pointed to pointing.

"Is it?" Fan Wencheng indifferently retorted, "Since the Ming Dynasty is the Heavenly Empire, and my Qing Dynasty is just a barbarian, why has this Heavenly Empire been beaten by our barbarian country for decades, throwing away its armor and abandoning the city and losing the land, so that it is now besieged by the Beijing Division?"

Faced with Fan Wencheng's words, the ministers were instantly speechless.

"Master Fan, I heard that you are also a Han and a scholar, since you are a Han person, why don't you think about serving the country, but instead commit yourself to the Tartars and be willing to be a slave, and be scolded by thousands of people? Dare to ask Master Fan where all the ways of Confucius and Mencius you have read? Dare to ask your ancestors under Jiuquan know that there is such a good descendant as you?" Chen Ying, the second assistant of the cabinet, rebuked angrily.

"Although I, Fan Wencheng, am familiar with the way of Confucius and Mencius, but I Fan Wencheng knows that Daqingxing is the will of heaven and the will of the people, what is wrong with my allegiance to such a court, but you don't know how much silver you have made after becoming an official, and it seems that Confucius and Mencius have not taught us how to make money as scholars! Hahaha!" Fan Wencheng sneered.

"You 、、、、、、" Chen Yan originally wanted to humiliate Fan Wencheng, but he didn't expect to be speechless by Fan Wencheng.

"Okay, the envoy will tell me what you are doing here!" Seeing that the ministers couldn't bargain, Chongzhen, who had not spoken, finally spoke.

"Yes!" Fan Wencheng slowly opened the edict, "His Majesty the Emperor Shunzhi of the Great Qing Kingdom respectfully sends to His Majesty the Emperor Chongzhen of the Great Ming Kingdom, the two countries are at war and the lives of the people are displaced!" His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom does not want to see this scene, and is specially willing to reconcile with His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Ming Kingdom, and for the sake of the friendship between the two countries from generation to generation, I hereby put forward the following requirements: First, the Ming Dynasty must recognize the Great Qing Dynasty, and the two countries will become fraternal countries; Second, the Ming Dynasty and the Great Qing Dynasty shall be bounded by Jinzhou, and the west of Jinzhou shall be returned to the Ming Dynasty, and the east shall be returned to the Great Qing Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty shall provide the Qing Dynasty with 800,000 taels of silver and 100,000 taels of gold every year, and the Qing Dynasty shall provide the Ming Dynasty with 300 mink skins and 50 horses every year; and the third Korean Dynasty shall be jointly administered!" After reading it, Fan Wencheng held the holy decree over the top, and a eunuch had already taken it and sent it to Chongzhen's hands.

"Your Majesty's condition is absolutely unacceptable!" Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian of the Zuodu, said out of the class, "Jiannu has plagued my Ming people for decades, killed my people, robbed me of my money, and invaded my land.

"Yes, the emperor, please think twice!" As soon as Liu Zongzhou's words fell, the imperial historians of the Qing school came out one after another to advise Chongzhen.

In fact, these opinions put forward by the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen's heart was not unacceptable, but as the emperor, he couldn't easily express his opinions, so Chongzhen set his eyes on Zhou Yanru who was standing below.

Zhou Yanru didn't know the emperor's thoughts, but he Zhou Yanru didn't dare to say that this charge of betraying the country and seeking glory was not easy to bear, so no matter how the emperor looked at him, Zhou Yanru couldn't see it.