"Set sail!"

Under the order of Li Hanrong, deputy commander of the navy, as the flagship set sail first, after the flagship, six warships and hundreds of civilian ships carrying 10,000 army troops followed one after another, preparing to cross the Qiongzhou Strait to conquer the Qiongzhou capital.

The Ming court's strength in Qiongzhou Mansion was only about 10,000, mainly the Weisu army, and there were few warships, and the People's Army crossed the Qiongzhou Strait very smoothly, and only when it was about to set foot on the land of Qiongzhou Mansion did it encounter the Ming army's resistance.

The Ming army on the shore set up artillery to bombard the KPA fleet sailing on the sea, and the warships of the KPA flotilla also fired back one after another, and the guns of both sides fired solid shells, which could not bring much damage to the other side.

Finally, the People's Army fleet docked, and the People's Army, which had been honed on the battlefield, rushed to land and launched an attack on the Ming army, easily defeating the Ming army.

The People's Army's first target in the conquest of Qiongzhou is the capital city of Qiongzhou, and after capturing the capital city of Qiongzhou, it will quickly move south and occupy the entire Qiongzhou capital.

However, the total area of Qiongzhou is more than 30,000 square kilometers, and it will take some time to occupy the entire Qiongzhou capital, and after the People's Army completes the occupation of Qiongzhou capital, it will quickly send personnel to build roads, mine iron ore and coal mines, and build a large steel plant.

It was only a matter of time before the People's Army took the Qiongzhou Mansion, and on the other side, in southern Jiangxi, peace talks between the Ming Court and the People's Army continued.

Talking about peace is not something that can be completed in a short time, the capital is thousands of miles away from Jiangxi, and Song Yingchang himself is guilty of meritorious service, even if the Ming court gives Song Yingchang a certain authority, Song Yingchang cannot make a final decision.

When the People's Army captured the capital city of Qiongzhou, the People's Army gave Song Yingchang the conditions for peace talks: 10 million taels of silver, and the Ming army retreated 100 miles.

10 million taels of silver is not directly transported back from the Ming court 10 million taels of silver, silver is just a precious metal, only to transport this precious metal back, it is not very useful, but to use this 10 million taels of silver to buy various materials from the Ming court and transport them back to Guangdong to support the development of Guangdong.

In fact, in modern times, when the land of China was invaded by Western powers, tens of millions of taels of silver and hundreds of millions of taels of silver were purchased from the land of China and transported back to various materials, and the value of these materials was much higher than the amount of silver paid for the indemnity.

Of course, the People's Army's request for 10 million taels of silver is purely a sky-high asking price, waiting for the Ming court to bargain, the Ming court's current annual financial revenue is only a few million taels of silver, and the income of grain, cloth, etc., is converted into silver, which is probably more than 20 million taels.

It is difficult for the Ming court to get 10 million taels of silver, and the Ming court cannot bear this humiliation, it is more likely that the Ming court will give up the negotiation of peace, and continue to fight with the People's Army even if the south is abolished.

When he received the peace conditions of the People's Army, Song Yingchang was also full of anger by the People's Army's "10 million taels of silver" peace talks, and he was eager to continue to unify the army and start a war with the People's Army.

However, at present, the Ming army cannot defeat the people's army, and tens of thousands of Ming troops in Fujian, Huguang, and Guangxi are besieged by the people's army, and if they are not careful, they may be eaten by the people's army, and Song Yingchang can only endure it.

Then Song Yingchang replied with a letter, saying that the Ming Dynasty would not give 10 million taels of silver, not even a cent of silver, and the condition of withdrawing 100 miles was not possible, and the armies of both sides could retreat 50 miles each.

In the face of Song Yingchang's response, the People's Army replied directly: "Then continue to fight." ”

The People's Army of Fujian, Huguang, and Guangxi continued to bombard the Ming army besieged in the city, and even Wang Shengrong's army advanced from the Xinfeng county area to the capital city of Ganzhou.

Seeing that a fierce war was about to break out, under the persuasion of his subordinates, Song Yingchang had no choice but to continue to bargain with the People's Army.

From 10 million taels to 5 million taels, and then to 3 million taels, Cheng Xinyuan bit the price and stopped falling.

And Song Yingchang has already sent the matter of the People's Army's request for silver compensation to the capital, and said that Fujian, Huguang, and Guangxi are in danger, and tens of thousands of Ming troops are besieged by the People's Army, and they can't hold out for long.

In the face of the people's army's silver compensation, the entire Ming court, from the emperor to the ministers, was furious, eager to eat the people's army raw, but now that the people's army is strong, the Ming court can not send many people to encircle and suppress the people's army for the time being, and can only let the people's army in Guangdong, Fujian, Huguang, and Guangxi to cause chaos.

The matter of recruiting young and strong people to expand the army by one million is already in the process of being carried out by the Ming court, but it is not a simple matter to expand the army by one million, and the matter of the people's army quickly spread throughout the country under the rule of the Ming court, and this is due to the merits of the military intelligence department of the people's army.

Knowing that he was going to join the army to suppress the thieves, the possibility of death was very high, and many young people were unwilling to join the army even if they were hungry, so that the progress of the Ming court's army expansion plan was slow, and even some local officials directly arrested the strong men, and there were a lot of chaos.

Under the persuasion of the ministers, Zhu Yijun humiliatingly agreed to the silver compensation demanded by the People's Army, but the maximum compensation for the People's Army was 1 million taels of silver, which was discussed by Song Yingchang.

Zhu Di, the Emperor of Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, said when he returned to the dynasty for the second time to sweep away thousands of miles of desert and then returned to the court: "The respect of our dynasty is beyond the ancient times, and it controls the western oceans of the north and the south island, and there is no harmony between the Han and the family, no alliance of the Tang Dynasty, no Song Dynasty's thin coins, and no gifts of brothers and enemies. ”

In fact, the so-called Ming Dynasty "does not make peace, does not pay compensation, does not cede land, does not pay tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies in Sheji" The description is not correct.

For example, in order to avoid fighting on two fronts, and hoping to use the power of Lin Dan Khan to contain the Houjin, the Ming Dynasty agreed to use the town of Guangning as a window for trade with Mongolia in 1617 to give Mongolia economic benefits.

And in return, the Ming Dynasty presented Lin Dan Khan with a thousand taels of silver every year to show gratitude, and the reward continued to increase, reaching 120,000 taels of silver in the last year of the Apocalypse.

Compensation to the thief of one million taels of silver, this is definitely a rare humiliation in the founding of the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, the biggest humiliation for the Ming Dynasty is the capture of Ming Yingzong, if the Ming court still has the strength to fight against the People's Army in the south, Zhu Yijun will not agree to this decision to disgrace the ancestors.

In order to get Zhu Yijun to agree, the ministers of their hometowns in Fujian, Huguang, and Guangxi contributed the most, and they were most worried that their hometowns would be attacked and harassed by the People's Army.

The ministers constantly belittled the People's Army, believing that as long as the People's Army negotiated peace, it would definitely be able to exterminate the People's Army when the Ming million-strong army attacked.

In addition, the compensation of one million taels of silver was not a defeat indemnity, but a ransom to redeem the captured generals and soldiers of the Ming army.

The ministers took turns to persuade Zhu Yijun to agree.