There is no room for compromise in negotiations like this.

Among the officials on both sides who participated in the negotiations, none dared to make the slightest omission, let alone openly give away the results of the soldiers on both sides who fought with their lives.

This is also a battlefield, not with a sword, but with a tongue.

It was not blood, it was spittle.

But its intensity is definitely not inferior to the battlefield.

After five days, this difficult negotiation lasted for five days before and after, and finally came to an end.

June 23, everything is not appropriate.

Ignoring everyone's opposition, Wu Zheng insisted on formally signing the armistice treaty on this day.

If I can't clean you up, I will have to disgust you.

Wu Zheng uses a cautious eye that is almost like a scoundrel naughty boy to vent his frustration with Dorgon.

Because Dolgon only used one move, he defused all of Wu Zheng's offensives - Qian and Shen's two lives.

Wu Zheng can't fight back, can't fight back, don't dare to fight back!

The treaty was finally signed by Huang Daozhou and Wakda on behalf of both parties, and then exchanged, each of which was sent back to the capital to use seals.

In the end, the important terms were that the two sides should use the armistice area as the boundary for mutual non-aggression and trade between the north and the south, and that normal trade should not be restricted. The Qing court recognized the occupation of Jiangdu, Taizhou, and Rugao by the Ming army, but the garrison of the Ming army in Jiangbei could not exceed 10,000 people. Kar Chuhun, Shang Shan and other members of the Qing court clan were all returned at the price negotiated by the two parties. Defeated the remnants of Nikan outside the Guan, and allowed them to cross the river and return within three days. The prisoners on both sides are exchanged in equal amounts, and the rest is disposed of by the other party, and so on.

In this battle, there was almost no victory or defeat to speak of, and both sides invested a total of more than 400,000 troops.

On the side of the Yixing Dynasty, 120,000 Jingwei, 12,000 Jianyangwei, 16,000 sailors, and even the forbidden army went to war, plus the three guards of Hangzhou, Jinshan, and Lihai under Wu Zheng, Jiang Quanyi's department and Fang Guoan's more than 10,000 new troops of the military academy, adding up, there are about 200,000 troops, which is almost the limit of the troops that the Yixing Dynasty can invest.

On the side of the Qing army, Nikan had 120,000 troops on the front line of Yizhen and Jiangpu, 60,000 on the line from Taizhou to Tongzhou, and 60,000 people transferred from Xuzhou by Dolgon in the later period and his accompanying iron cavalry, the number was more than 240,000, and this was also the limit of the Qing court's ability to gather troops along the coast.

This was originally a battle of "spirit", but in the end it almost got out of control and turned into a decisive battle, and when the two sides were exhausted and suffered heavy casualties, they invariably chose to cease fighting and negotiate peace.

The Yixing Dynasty had 120,000 Jingwei casualties of 60%, Jianyangwei casualties of more than 50%, the entire naval division was annihilated, and a Guogong was killed in battle.

On the side of the Qing army, the casualties were no less than those of the Yixing Dynasty, the Karchuhun department was defeated by Lu Zhiyu and Chi Erhan, Karchuhun and Shang Shan were taken prisoner, although there were not many casualties in their divisions, but only more than 10,000 prisoners were captured, the rest were scattered in the wilderness, most of them fled to the north of Yancheng, and it is said that when the final completion of the containment and reorganization in Xuzhou, there were only less than 20,000 people.

Nikan's attacking force in the direction of Yizhen had 40,000 people, this army was completely annihilated, at that time, Wu Zheng led 3,000 musketeers, with Zhenjiang, Dantu defenders to form a "mixed army", and was stationed in the east of Xuanwu Gate at that time more than 20,000 Beijing guards, this Qing army, except for a small number of jumped into the river to escape, the rest of the people who did not die were taken prisoner.

The 80,000 troops in the direction of Jiangpu led by Nikan himself were actually not particularly large, because before Chen Sheng led Lihaiwei to Yingtianfu, the Qing army controlled the rhythm of the battle, and the wounded soldiers generated during the siege and battle almost completely withdrew to the other side of the river.

So, it sounds like this army is crippled, but in fact, the real dead and captured add up to no more than forty percent.

Both sides took a large number of prisoners, but in comparison, because the main battlefield was on the south bank, the Qing army was more captured.

After the exchange, there were more than 30,000 captives on the Yixing side.

And Wu Zheng's side, although the casualties of Sanwei also exceeded 30%, but he did get a lot of benefits, one is Jiangdu, Taizhou, Rugao and the land south of it, Wu Zheng is not so generous, naturally it will not be handed over to the Yixing Dynasty. The second is the huge ransom money of Karchuhun, Shang Shan and others, although the imperial court is also coveting this floating wealth, but at least, no one dares to propose it to Wu Zheng in person. The third is the more than 30,000 captives who were hated by the Yixing Dynasty, and the Yixing Dynasty didn't even have a place to raise pensions for the casualties at this time, how could they have the heart to take care of these more than 30,000 mouths? So, Wu Zheng was cheapened, and these captives were immediately ordered by Wu Zheng to be deported to Wusong New Town.

……。

The Second Siege of the Capital, which lasted 22 days, ended.

The next day, Wu Zheng returned to Yingtianfu with the negotiators.

As soon as I arrived in the capital, the first thing I dealt with was the money bank fraud case.

After several negotiations between the imperial court and Mo Zhinian and other major shareholders of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, the merger and acquisition plan was finally determined.

The shortfall of more than 21 million taels involved in the case was divided into three parts.

The imperial court sold the money village to the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce at a price of more than 7 million taels, that is, the court no longer had any rights and interests in the money village.

In addition, the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce issued more than 7 million taels of interest-free payment to the imperial court for a period of eight years, with the annual tax of the imperial court as collateral, and the principal was repaid year by year from the third year of the loan, and all of them were repaid in the tenth year.

However, the merger plan could not be formally implemented because a third copy was missing.

Mo Zhinian came to Wu Zheng, and after handing over a list, he was silent.

Wu Zheng looked at the names on the list and said with a wry smile: "Old Mo, you are really going to make trouble for me!" ”

In this list, there are more than a dozen clans listed in the front, especially the first few, which are all princes.

Wu Zheng pointed to the list, frowned and asked, "This Qin King Zhu Cuncao, who has no power or soldiers in his hands, is just a wine bag and rice bag, and he is also involved in this case?" ”

The last king of Qin, originally Zhu Cunji, the third son of Zhu Yi and Luoshu, after Zhu Cunji and Emperor Hongguang were executed by the Qing court at the same time, Zhu Cunji's second son escaped, came to Yingtianfu, and was canonized as the king of Qin by Zhu Cihong.

Mo Zhinian replied in a calm tone: "In Song Zhengyu's silver account book, King Qin has a dry share. ”

Wu Zheng was stunned, then pointed to a name and asked, "But this Blessed King Zhu Lianbi, who is only seven or eight years old, can also be involved in this case?" ”

"Back to the prince, in the account book of the household bank, Qian Qianyi gave 160,000 taels of silver to King Fu before and after."

Wu Zheng pointed to another name and asked, "What about Zhu Cixuan, the king of Jing?" ”

"King Jing has more shares in the silver number, which is five out of one."

Wu Zheng didn't ask anymore, and threw the list in his hand on the table, "I won't look at it, just say it, how many people from the clan are in this list?" ”

"Back to the prince, there are five princes, eleven county kings, and more than 20 other clan relatives, and the officials in the capital account for more, and those who are greedy for less than 1,000 taels are not on the list."