Wei Linhan's letter was finally delivered to the capital, and just seeing the content of the letter, Zhu Yijun and the ministers were furious.

"Damn, hateful, how dare a thief refuse the emperor's gift?"

Zhu Yijun was very angry, but after the anger, Zhu Yijun was full of helplessness, when did no one want the prince of the Ming Dynasty, there was no way, now the thief is powerful.

The anger was temporarily suppressed, and after learning the content of Wei Linhan's letter, the anger that Zhu Yijun and the ministers had temporarily suppressed rose again.

Ceded Guizhou and Huguang and the northern Yangtze River region, and compensated 10 million taels of silver, neither of these two conditions could be agreed to by the Ming court.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what should we do?" Zhu Yijun looked at the ministers with an angry face.

"Your Majesty, you can't give Guizhou and Huguang to the thieves in the north of the Yangtze River, especially in the north of the Yangtze River, once the thieves cross the Yangtze River, there is no possibility of resisting the thieves south of the Yellow River."

"The thieves have never thought of a truce with the Ming Dynasty, the south of the Yangtze River can't stop the enemy, the emperor please order the troops to stick to the north bank of the Yangtze River, there is a natural danger of the Yangtze River, and the thieves will be able to stop it."

In the court, the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty opened their mouths one after another to express their thoughts, some suggested abandoning the south region of the Yangtze River, some continued to find ways to negotiate peace with the People's Army, and some proposed to send someone to assassinate the leader of the thieves.

Zhu Yijun also wanted to send someone to assassinate the leader of the thieves, as soon as the leader of the thieves died, the People's Army would fall into civil strife, and the Ming Dynasty would soon be able to exterminate the People's Army by attracting one or two.

But it is too difficult to assassinate the leader of the thieves, it is difficult for the Ming Dynasty to send people to infiltrate the area ruled by the People's Army, and there are only a handful of people who can infiltrate the city of Guangzhou, and it is impossible for those few people to assassinate the leader of the thieves who has many guards and protection.

Zhu Yijun in the south of the Yangtze River is unwilling to give up, how can the Ming Dynasty throw it to the People's Army in vain if there are so many places in Yunnan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili in the south of the Yangtze River.

What Zhu Yijun wants most is to negotiate peace with the People's Army, give Daming a few years, and rely on the escort team established by the gentry and businessmen to gather millions of people, even if they can't defeat the People's Army, they can also block the People's Army.

"You can't give the thieves a cent of land, and you can't take out 10 million taels of silver, do you have any other plans to get the thieves to agree to a truce?"

Zhu Yijun said a word, and all the ministers in the court immediately understood the emperor's thoughts, and wanted to negotiate peace, but they could not give the thieves land, nor could they take out 10 million taels of silver, and the ministers were also unwilling to exchange land and 10 million taels of silver for a truce with the People's Army.

For a while, the court was quiet, and many ministers fell into thought.

Unwilling to cede the land, and there is not much silver, I am afraid that the only things that Daming can take out are people.

Person!

Another minister thought of a suggestion he had made earlier.

"Your Majesty, you can marry a princess of the royal family to the leader of the thieves."

As soon as these words came out, a minister immediately retorted: "It's not proper, the thief doesn't want to be crowned the king, how can he agree to a truce because of this (the princess's marriage)." ”

"How do you know that a thief will refuse, who in the world doesn't want the princess to marry?"

In the court, a number of ministers engaged in a fierce debate on whether the People's Army accepted or rejected the "princess marry", but none of the ministers opposed the "princess marrying", and if the "princess married" could be exchanged for a temporary peace, the ministers were willing.

Listening to the arguments of the ministers, Zhu Yijun on the dragon chair was angry but couldn't express it, at this time, even Zhu Yijun thought that if he could exchange the "princess to marry" for a moment of peace, he could accept it.

After a while, Zhu Yijun waved his hand, asked the ministers to stop arguing, and said, "You can try." ”

You can try to use the "princess to marry" in exchange for the People's Army truce, but which princess to marry is a question, Zhu Yijun is only twenty-six years old this year, and the eldest daughter is not yet ten years old, so it is impossible to marry a young girl.

Soon, a minister thought of a suitable candidate, who was also a princess, but she was the eldest princess, the eldest princess was the daughter of Emperor Longqing in the previous generation, and she and Zhu Yijun were sisters or brother and sister.

Emperor Longqing has a total of four sons and seven daughters, the youngest Qixia eldest princess Zhu Yaojiang is seventeen years old this year, to be in the boudoir, it is just right to marry the leader of the thief, but it is a pity that Zhu Yao Jiangsheng's beauty is going to marry the leader of the thief.

Zhu Yijun also thought that the only person in the royal family who could marry the leader of the thieves was Zhu Yaojiang, compared to his daughter, Zhu Yijun was not very close to this sister, and she was married to the leader of the thieves, Zhu Yijun could accept it a little more in his heart.

However, there is no need to worry about determining the candidate, if the thief does not accept it, but his side selects the person, then what face will this person have to live in the future.

At the end of the court meeting, another secret decree was sent from the capital to Wei Linhan in Jiande County.

The secret decree ordered Wei Linhan to find a way to let the People's Army exchange for other armistice requirements, and the Ming Dynasty would not cede the land, nor would there be so much silver, and the condition of "the princess will marry" was taken out.

Zhu Yijun's secret decree is still on the way, and on the other side, in Guangdong Province, which is ruled by the People's Army, many businessmen who have already obtained quotas in the cement business have begun to take action.

This time, as in the cement business, as in the previous time, a meeting of businessmen with sufficient funds was convened at the city level, and at the meeting, some requirements of the cement business were stated, such as that the profits from the sale of cement by the cement factory to the People's Army should not exceed 10%.

The People's Army's various demands persuaded a group of businessmen to quit, but there were still a large number of businessmen who decided to participate in the cement business, especially the businessmen who were in the cement business for the first time, and none of them were left behind.

After determining the quota, the next step is to divide the area and determine the location of the cement plant construction of the merchants, and it is impossible for the People's Army to have multiple cement factories in a county area, and there is no cement plant in other remote areas, which affects the use of the power of the merchants by the People's Army.

After the location is determined, the businessmen will start to act, select their henchmen and even personally lead people to the cement plant site they have chosen before, and after arriving at the selected area, they will choose the specific cement plant location with the help of the people's military government.

If the cement factory will occupy the people's land, the businessman needs to give a little compensation or let the people who have occupied the land work in the cement factory.

It will take some time to hire people, build a cement plant, and produce cement, and the People's Army is not in a hurry, and if you urgently need cement, you can transfer it from the cement factory in Guangdong, and the cement produced by the cement plant in Guangdong can already meet the needs of the Guangdong region, and even sell some of it to "outsiders".

[In history, Princess Qixia Zhu Yaojiang died not long after she was born]