The capital, the Qianqing Palace, the imperial meeting, several cabinet elders quarreled.

Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting on the throne, found that since the beginning of this year, the number of cabinet quarrels has increased, and the objects of quarrels are not fixed.

This is a good sign.

Zhu Youzhen drank the rain before the dragon well that Hangzhou had just paid tribute, and waited for the classic words of the pavilion elders: "Please make a decision." ”

A few days ago, the envoy sent by the Emperor Taiji to negotiate peace arrived in the capital, and the news brought caused a huge sensation in the officialdom of the capital.

Huang Taiji sent a signal to the Ming Dynasty through an envoy that as long as the Ming Dynasty opened the Jinzhou Mutual Market, the Jin State would abandon Guangning and proclaim himself a vassal to the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Youzhen saw Huang Taiji's peace conditions, he had a number in his heart, and the Tartars were about to be driven crazy by economic sanctions.

It is very rogue to impose economic sanctions on a single economy that is struggling to be self-sufficient even in the necessities of daily life, both in ancient and modern times.

But such hooligan methods, Zhu Youzhen likes it very much today.

The people of Liaodong are widowed and poor, as long as the Ming Dynasty can stabilize the country, it can drag him to death.

Zhu Youzhen saw this very clearly, but several ministers in the cabinet did not have the insight of his later generations for more than 400 years, and one by one they still argued about yes and right war.

After arguing for more than an hour, seeing that it was about to be dinner, the elders set their eyes on Zhu Youzhen.

"The matter is serious, please ask Your Majesty to decide!"

Seeing that it was finally his turn to speak, Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tea, cleared his throat, and prepared to popularize the relevant knowledge of economic warfare to the six pavilion elders.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the "Art of War" cloud, the upper army to fight, the second to fight, the second to attack the army, the siege of the city, the law of siege is the last resort, the soldier who surrenders without a fight, and the good is also good."

After staying with these old masters for a long time, now Zhu Youzhen can put together a few famous sayings and aphorisms.

But looking at the confused faces of several pavilion elders, Zhu Youzhen felt that it was better to go straight to the point.

"Jin country, the people are only a million, the soldiers are not more than 100,000, and the land is in the bitter cold of Liaodong, only one season is harvested at the age of one year, and it has repeatedly suffered natural disasters in recent years, and there is no benefit of fish, salt, iron, and the people have been hungry for a long time, which is not the way to build a country."

"However, the old slave chieftain has rebelled since the Wanli period, and it has been more than 20 years, from more than 100 people, mountains and wilderness, to today, there are 100,000 armor soldiers, the entire land of Liaodong, one relies on the prosperity of the soldiers, and the other comes to rob my Ming Dynasty."

"The Jurchens, the people of fishing and hunting in the mountains, do not produce, only rely on looting, but their rapid development has made a lot of contributions to the foundation of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years."

"However, since Guangning, the land of Liaodong has been lost, and the Tartars have been robbed and cannot be robbed, and the strength of the Jin Kingdom is not good."

"So, in order to maintain its rule over Liaodong, in recent years, the Tartars' plundering strategy turned to Mongolia and Korea, at the end of last year, after the strategy of robbing Hudun Rabbit was disturbed by my Ming Dynasty, I heard that at the end of February, the small slave chieftain sent Amin and Mang Gurtai each to lead 10,000 troops and march into Korea, and its purpose has been clearly revealed."

"A few days ago, in the book "War and Peace", I recorded that the basis for the maintenance of the rule of nomadic fishing and hunting peoples such as the Jurchens and the Mongols was foreign conquest and plunder."

"Its unproductive nature and unself-sufficient economic model have led to an extremely fragile domestic economy, which will collapse if a foreign war is unfavorable."

"And the current Jin country is facing such a situation, last year Liaodong drought drought, grain production decreased, and at the end of the year looting could not be achieved, this spring, Liaodong famine has been extremely serious."

"I heard that the price of rice in Shengjing has reached the point of ten taels of silver and one stone, and even more so in Hetuala, Haizhou, Tieling and other places, and fifteen taels of silver can't buy one stone of rice, and there is a great hunger and cannibalism."

"And I have forbidden the trade between the people and Liaodong, and I guess that the little slave chief has reached a point of great hardship at present, otherwise he would not have sent an envoy to negotiate peace with me."

"Do you know the causes and consequences of this peace negotiation?"

When Zhu Youzhen said this, he swept away the ministers.

Regarding the reason why Huang Taiji sent envoys to discuss peace, these cabinet elders are all important ministers who have been in the sea for a long time, so they naturally know it.

But it is one thing to know, and it is really difficult for them to analyze the essence of the Jurchen emerging regime and the predicament it faces so thoroughly.

Although in terms of IQ, any of them are smarter than Zhu Youzhen, but they are beyond the shadow of the essence of slave society and feudal society, as well as some strategies based on modern political economy.

But at this time, after Zhu Youzhen's pointing, several pavilion elders gradually opened up.

"Your Majesty Shengming, comparable to the Tang Sect and Song Ancestor, the wolf ambition of the little slave chief was broken by His Majesty."

Zhu Youzhen didn't need to look at it, he knew that the first one to praise him must be Huang Liji.

After more than half a year of running-in, Zhu Youzhen and Huang Liji have now cooperated very tacitly.

Regarding when to praise, Huang Liji has a lot of experience.

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen then waved his hand again, Huang Liji said no more.

"The little slave chieftain's peace negotiation today is just a delaying tactic, hoping that I will open the border market and give the Jurchens a chance to breathe."

"And Guangning City has been demolished by my army, and now it is a pile of rubble, what do I want, the minister is even more to take off his pants and fart, I don't lack him as a courtier, so between me and the Jin State, peace is not to think about it, unless the little slave chief returns the whole territory of Liaodong, and binds himself to come to ask for guilt, I am a plan for the common people, and I may be able to talk to him."

Zhu Youzhen's arrogance, Sun Chengzong and the other main battle factions were very comfortable when they heard it, and their eyes were smug when they glanced at Shi Fenglai.

"But war is also impossible, Tartar production is not good, but Bing Ge is indeed better than my Ming, this reality also, since Yongle, my Ming army is declining, and today there is no power to fight with the Tartar Eight Banners."

"If you rashly go out to fight in the field, if you don't fight, you will actually send food and pay soldiers with the Jin State, this unwise move, I will not agree."

At this time, Li Guopu, who heard Zhu Youzhen's words, stepped forward to bow down.

"No war or peace, dare to ask Your Majesty how to deal with the Tartars?"

"Yuanzhi, Your Majesty has made it very clear that there will be no war and no peace."

Shi Fenglai deserves to be the second in the country, and his brain is naturally faster than Li Guopu.

"Haha, what Shi Aiqing said is very true, there will be no war and no peace, Huang Taiji is not sincere, let's drag it out."

"The Jurchen uses millions of people and a corner of Liaodong to fight against our hundreds of millions of people and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty.

"And although I don't send a large army to fight head-on with the Jurchen Eight Banners, my means of economic sanctions are not inferior to those of soldiers, if this law is continued to be implemented, and with the cooperation of Mongolia and Korea, within five years, the Jin State will fall apart without a fight."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked.

After five years of Pingliao, it was not Zhu Youzhen's boasting, because Zhu Youzhen was very clear about the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, after its Chongzhen Dynasty for 17 years, although it repeatedly entered the customs and plundered, but did not occupy the land in the pass, and the ability to operate step by step was to grab a handful and run.

It was not until Li Zicheng's peasant army captured Beijing, Chongzhen died, and occupied half of the northern part of the Daming River, that under the dedication of Wu Sangui, he entered the Central Plains under the leadership of the leading party Guan Ningjun.

Later, coupled with the peasant army and some unbelievable operations of the Southern Ming regime, this gave up thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in China to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Every time he thinks of this history, Zhu Youzhen has no regrets in his heart, but he naturally has doubts about the true strength of the Manchu Eight Banners.

Moreover, the current status quo of the Jin Kingdom is even weaker than in history, at least Dongjiang Town is still there, Yuan Chonghuan is not a supervisor, Lin Danhan did not run away to the Western Regions, and Zhu Youzhen is not the Chongzhen in history.

Everything is developing in a good direction, and five years is enough for Zhu You to train 50,000 modern firearms troops.

With these 50,000 firearms troops in hand, Zhu Youzhen was naturally not afraid of the Manchu Eight Banners.

And if the Manchu Qing did not get the opportunity to plunder everywhere within five years, Zhu Youzhen did not believe that the military nobles of the Manchu Qing could continue to obey the orders of Huang Taiji.

Rao is the Emperor Taiji's genius, if he can't bring stable benefits to those Baylors, it is unknown to kill him and sacrifice to the sky.

Five years, can it be done?