Liu Ximing's sycophancy scratched Chongzhen's itch, doesn't he think so, the affairs of the court are not done well, so naturally the courtiers are not effective.

If he does a good job, then he must be able to use people well.

Liu Ximing has figured out Chongzhen's temperament in the past two years, and with Wen Tiren as an example, there is no pressure to pat yourself on the back and say beautiful things.

"Aiqing is different from those courtiers, I told you directly, Yang Wenqiao also proposed to make peace with Dongyu, so as to free up his hands to deal with the thieves with all his might, I don't know what Aiqing thinks?"

Liu Ximing chuckled in his heart, and sure enough, he came, but fortunately, he had already discussed countermeasures with Huang Zonghui and others.

He immediately raised his head and replied: "Your Majesty, please think twice, the East has captured Kou Pass several times, plundered places, and killed the people, and has long had a common enmity with my Ming Dynasty, Yang Gong's remarks are of course out of public intentions, but the ministers are afraid of ......."

Seeing Liu Xi's life, Chongzhen asked curiously, "But what are you afraid of?" ”

"But the minister is afraid that the people of the world will think that His Majesty wants to make peace, but it will hurt His Majesty's prestige."

Chongzhen closed his eyes and stood still, and began to say nothing.

He wasn't worried about this, and brought Liu Ximing here today, on the one hand, to consult his attitude, and on the other hand, to see if he could let Liu Ximing take the initiative to take the initiative.

Last time, Liu Ximing directly impeached Wen Tiren in the court, which impressed Chongzhen, and he had already labeled Liu Ximing as a young and vigorous label in his heart, but he didn't expect Liu Ximing to hit him in the key point.

"Then Aiqing is not in favor of peace?" , Chongzhen asked in a deep voice.

Liu Ximing hurriedly lowered his head and bowed his head, "As long as it can benefit the imperial court, the minister feels that any method can be tried, but this matter is really a big matter, once the operation is not done properly, I am afraid that it will lead to resistance from the government and the opposition, so the minister asked His Majesty to think twice." ”

In the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen's figure looked a little thin and desolate, full of a dilemma.

In Shenyang, which is 1,200 miles away from Beijing, in the Chongzheng Hall of the Manchu Qing Palace, which is now renamed Shengjing by Huang Taiji, there is also a discussion about the peace of the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji has a wide face and a long face, but the squinting eyes against the backdrop of a pair of single eyelids have destroyed the prestige that he has finally accumulated.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty started from the barbarians, and the palaces and temples all relied on Han craftsmen to build, so the palaces were similar to the Han land, but they also incorporated many Manchu and Mongolian characteristics.

If Liu Ximing is here, I am afraid that he will scoff at it, the barbarian's liking for blue and green is simply deep in the bone marrow, and the flowers and greens look more vulgar and vulgar, and they are not as vigorous and colorful as Huaxia.

In the Chongzheng Palace, dozens of Manchu and Han ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty gathered densely, and Huang Taiji, dressed in bright yellow clothes, stood high on the throne, looking at everyone in the hall expressionlessly.

"Ming has sent envoys several times to talk to me about peace with the Qing Dynasty, I don't know what the ministers think?"

Although Chongzhen has not yet found the person who is behind the blame, he has already come forward by Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, at the suggestion of Yang Sichang, and sent several envoys to negotiate.

Dai Shan, the prince of the four major beylers, who had existed since the Nurhachi period, was the first to speak: "Great Khan, the Ming people and I are a feud, and the words of the Southern Barbarians are the most untrustworthy, and this matter is false. ”

"Yes, the Southern Barbarians want to surrender because they can't beat us, but if we really negotiate peace, where will we rob the women, slaves and livestock we want, Great Khan, this matter cannot be agreed."

Prince Azig roared loudly a little irritably, he was the twelfth son of Nurhachi, and naturally he didn't have too many scruples when he spoke.

Huang Taiji glanced at Dai Shan and Azig with some dissatisfaction, "How many times have you said it, we have now built the Qing Dynasty, and we will call Your Majesty in the future." ”

Azig responded, lowered his head and muttered, "Why are you relying on the set of things of the Southern Barbarians, it's good for me to call us the Great Khan." ”

Huang Taiji looked at Azig who was muttering with some annoyance, and turned his head to look at the number one Han minister under him, Fan Wencheng, a scholar of the Inner Secretary Academy.

Although Fan Wencheng is a literati, he is quite brave, and he has followed Huang Taiji's personal expeditions in succession, so he has won Huang Taiji's trust.

Seeing him looking at him, Fan Wencheng hurriedly stepped out of the queue and carefully bowed his hand, "Your Majesty, it is absolutely not feasible for the Ming people to negotiate peace. ”

"The slave heard that now the Ming Kingdom is now encircling and suppressing the rogues, and it is said that many of the rogues have been forced into the Jedi, so the Ming Emperor wants to negotiate peace in order to increase the extermination of the Central Plains rogues."

"At this juncture, instead of negotiating peace with the Ming people, we should take this opportunity to enter the customs again to attack the Ming Kingdom."

"What kind of stupid idea is this, we only finished fighting North Korea a few years ago, and the sons and daughters haven't repaired it yet, why do you want to talk about entering the customs now, Great Khan, no, Your Majesty, I think it's better to be later."

Azig was a little unhappy, his troops had suffered the most damage in the last attack on Korea, and if he had attacked Ming now, he would not have been able to eat meat, so he was a little resistant.

On the contrary, Huang Taiji thought clearly, he motioned to Azig to shut up and turned his head to look at Fan Wencheng.

"Fan Qing is saying that we should take this opportunity to transfer the soldiers and horses of the Ming Kingdom to the north, so that the rogues in the Ming Kingdom can grow up again?"

"Exactly."

Huang Taiji's eyes widened slightly, and he instantly understood the key.

Without waiting to ask for the opinions of Dai Shan and other Manchu ministers again, he waved his hand to set the tone.

"In this case, I will first send people to discuss the matter of peace with the Ming envoy, and in addition, the banners will reorganize the troops and horses, and only wait for a few months to cut down the Ming again."

"Roar"

"Long live the Great Khan"

In addition to Azig and others, the other important ministers of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all overjoyed and excited, and they were able to enter the customs again, wouldn't it be another big deal.

Since returning to Beijing to face the saint, Liu Ximing's life in the capital has gradually returned to normalcy.

Except for occasionally being summoned by Chongzhen to consult some political affairs, he accompanied the crown prince Zhu Cihong to study in the Ciqing Palace.

With many years of experience in Liujia Village, Liu Ximing has his own opinions on government affairs, and what he says can often make Chongzhen refreshing.

But Chongzhen's questions are basically how to eat enough soldiers and other questions, although Liu Ximing has a strategy, but the Ming Dynasty bureaucratic system has become a big hole, in Liu Ximing's own opinion, his practical operation of these strategies is almost zero.

However, Chongzhen naturally didn't know Liu Ximing's thoughts, and when he heard his unheard of ideas, Liu Ximing's identity as a strategist in Chongzhen's heart became stronger and stronger.

Therefore, in the past few months, Liu Ximing has spent a lot of time running to the Qianqing Palace, and for a while, no one inside and outside the government and the opposition knows that this new Amber is a big celebrity in front of him today, and there is an endless stream of people who are clinging to him.

After the impeachment of the Fushe, the Datong Society has also gone underground, and in the eyes of outsiders, Liu Ximing also belongs to the category of non-party.

It's just that secretly, he has a lot of contact with the Chu Party of Yang Sichang and others.

On the one hand, the Liu family is now expanding trade routes in Huguang and other places, and it is urgent to establish a good relationship with the local gentry, and on the other hand, they are using the connections of the Chu Party to do some things for their own people.

As for the inner palace, Liu Ximing personally went to Cao Huachun to visit the courtyard outside the palace several times.

This old eunuch has suffered a lot of fatigue for more than a year because of his position as the commander of the Beijing camp, so his body is a little unhappy, so he thinks about resigning and returning home.

Liu Ximing met him, so he naturally wanted to express himself to Cao Huachun again.

Speaking of which, he also has to thank Cao Huachun, during Cao Huachun's time as commander of the Beijing camp, Jiang Deshen and the others who he arranged in advance to enter the Beijing camp were indeed taken care of by Cao Huachun's subordinates.

Coupled with the support of the Liu family's large amount of money, Jiang Deshen, a dozen or so officers of the guards, has now become very popular among the middle and low-level officers in the Beijing camp.

As the commanders and officers of the Beijing battalion, these guards each have dozens or hundreds of men and horses under their hands, and there are nearly 2,000 people in total, which can be regarded as a large force.

What's more, these horses can basically be regarded as elite soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp.

On the one hand, it was because Jiang Deshen and the others did not have the bad habits of the officers and soldiers, such as deducting military salaries and beating and scolding non-commissioned officers, and other things would never happen in their camp, so people with lofty ideals who heard about their names in the Beijing camp applied for a change one after another.

On the other hand, it is also because the Liu family's military training skills are unique, the first is discipline, and the second is drill.

Although there are still more than 100,000 people in the current Daming Beijing camp, they have long been eroded, and they will not be like generals, soldiers will not be like soldiers, and the original regulations of a few days will also be abandoned.

However, the troops led by Jiang Deshen and others exercised every day, and such a scene caused many officers to be unhappy at the beginning of the Beijing camp, but fortunately, Liu Xi's request was pressed down by Cao Huachun's men.

Only then did the officers of the Beijing battalion know that there are big bosses behind Jiang Deshen and others, so they don't dare to make trouble, which gives Jiang Desin and others room for development.

In addition to the army led by Jiang Deshen and other personal guards, there were not no loyal and brave generals in the Beijing camp.

Zhou Yuji, the deputy general of the Fifth Military Battalion, is one of them, and after learning that Jiang Deshen and others are well-trained and rigorous in managing the army, Zhou Yuji also wants to recruit Jiang Deshen and others to his command many times.

Fortunately, with Cao Huachun's guise to use, Jiang Deshen and others avoided this embarrassing situation, but the relationship between the two sides was concluded.

On the fourth day of December in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, there was news that the Qing army entered the Kou again, and entered the wall and Qingshankou in two ways.

Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, and Lu Zongwen, the general soldier, were defeated and died, and the lieutenant Zheng Xizhao fled, and the Qing army drove straight into the army and camped in Niulan Mountain.

Jingshi, it's messed up.