Cong Gulen Gege asked Hosaku to deliver a letter, and he had to bring the shopkeeper of the Heaven and Earth Society to meet her.

This is not difficult for the fine work, and it also makes the fine work no longer able to delay for some reason.

There is no choice but to send a letter.

The people of the Tiandihui business are very efficient, and the Tiandihui business in the capital is at the general level, and Lord Wei is in the capital, so the letter was quickly delivered to Lord Wei.

Wei Bao said to Wu Xuexia: "Hurry up and arrange for Cong Gulen Gege to come over." ”

Wu Xuexia nodded, knowing that Lord Wei would arrange it like this, and sighed: "This girl is really bold enough, she dares to find Guannei alone, and she also found the capital, if she is discovered by outsiders, her name will not be guaranteed." ”

"We must not let Cong Gulun be discovered by the people of Dongchang or Jinyiwei, tell Lin Wenbiao, let Lin Wenbiao send someone to protect Cong Gulun Gege, to be foolproof, arrange a secret base in the suburbs of Beijing, and in two days I will go out of Beijing to the suburbs to enjoy the snow and go to see her." Wei Bao admonished.

After Wu Xuexia agreed, she went to convey Lord Wei's order.

Now Wei Bao rarely discusses anything directly with Lin Wenbiao.

As a secret service, the Statistical Office has to be subordinate to the Secretariat, no matter how powerful it is.

In the past, when Wang Qiuya managed the president's secretariat, it was not as big as Wu Xuexia's current authority to manage the president's secretariat.

Or it should not be said that there is a difference in authority, but because Wu Xuexia's ability is stronger than Wang Qiuya, she manages more things, and handles things efficiently, so the president's secretariat is on the right track.

It can be said that all the power organs of the Heaven and Earth Society, including the General Administration Bureau managed by Fan Xiaolin, are subordinate to the President's Secretariat.

This is normal.

Thinking of Cong Gulen Gege, Wei Bao thought of the policy towards Jiannu.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court had been facing internal and external difficulties.

In fact, in Wei Bao's view, the Ming court has a short window period to achieve peace with the Houjin to get through the most difficult moment.

But the Ming Dynasty did not grasp it, and the Donglin Party could not let the Ming court succeed in negotiating peace, and even the door to the peace would not be opened.

Historically, the courtiers represented by Lu Xiangsheng and Huang Daoquan fiercely opposed, and because the emperor did not dare to support the peace negotiation on the surface, the Ming court lost this opportunity.

In Wei Bao's view, if the Ming court and the Manchu side agree to negotiate peace, it is not completely impossible to do so.

If you can fight, you can make peace, in Wei Bao's view, now the Heaven and Earth Society and the Manchurians have this foundation.

Because the Bao army had just taken away the large-scale raids on all parts of Liaodong under the personal command of Nurhachi, this was enough to show the Manchus the powerful force of the Bao army, even if it was not a major victory.

What's more, the two sides have reached an intention before.

Nurhachi personally promised that as long as Wei Baoken married Conggulun, he would consider peace between the two families.

The Houjin and the Heaven and Earth Conference made peace, which was different from the Houjin and the Ming court.

Hou Jin is not ignorant of the Ming Dynasty, there is a fire in the backyard of the Ming Dynasty, and Hou Jin will definitely find a few excuses to take advantage of the fire to rob.

If the Ming Dynasty has the strength to defeat the Houjin, then what peace is still discussed.

What's more, negotiating peace also requires money, if the Ming court has the ability to negotiate peace, simply take it to pay the military salary, and then fight Jiannu.

The glory of the Ming Dynasty did not allow the emperor and the ministers to negotiate peace, which was the tone set in the hands of Zhu Baba and Zhu Di.

Both sides feel that they have no stability to eat each other and defeat each other's certainty, so they want to negotiate peace.

When it's strong, you don't need to ask, it's all dry, and people are greedy.

When the game is evenly matched, they all feel that they can win, so they still do it.

If both sides want to negotiate peace, it proves that both sides have temporarily lost the ability to attack each other, just like Song Liao and Song Jin, when they enter the stage of stalemate, they will often begin to negotiate peace, much like the relationship between the Bao army and the Houjin army now.

And the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty did not appear in this case.

Song and Qing did not discuss peace, but they didn't just find an excuse to start fighting.

In the event of a military defeat, the outcome of the negotiation is the same whether the peace is negotiated or not.

If you want to successfully start peace talks, it is a matter of the emperor's words.

The power of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is not small, Wuzong and Yingzong in front of Chongzhen, they can leave if they want to, and no one dares to stop them.

Jiajing and Wanli don't go to court, and no one can force them to go up.

Therefore, the biggest obstacle to peace is not the minister, or Chongzhen himself.

Including moving the capital, Wei Bao didn't believe that Chongzhen really wanted to leave, and the minister could still stop it, and killing someone would be a matter of one word.

If you can't kill a hundred, kill a thousand.

My life is gone, and I'm afraid of someone else's life.

It's quite difficult to talk about peace, but in Wei Bao's opinion, it's not that difficult.

Because by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the mentality of the Ming people was obviously not normal.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Yongle was too strong, and there was no opponent around, which led to the Ming people having the mentality of being the only one in the world.

"The respect of our dynasty's national power, beyond the ancient times, its control of the north and the west, no Han harmony, no Tang alliance, no Song Dynasty coins, no brothers and enemies" This is said by the Ming people, this passage basically compresses the diplomatic space of the Ming Dynasty to a minimum, so that later people do not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool, forming a sense of "political correctness".

If you dare to negotiate peace, you are a traitor, and only by shouting slogans and killing all opponents is it correct.

Affinity, alliances, coins, gifts of brotherhood and enemies, and several common relationships between ancient nations were denied.

Hongwu and Yongle do have strength, and they have used their strength to make the surrounding collectives kneel, but future generations may not be.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the country was strong, but it did not mean that it was always strong, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the country was extremely weak.

The mentality of the Ming people has not been adjusted, and they have always looked at the surrounding areas with the mentality of a central power.

Coupled with the negative typical case of the Song Dynasty, the Ming people took the Song Dynasty as a counterexample when they talked about peace, and no one dared to take responsibility, for fear of losing the reputation of a traitor Qin Hui.

When the Later Jin led by Nurhachi appeared in Liaodong, in fact, the Later Jin had evolved into a fully organized feudal state with a predominantly agricultural state.

The strength of the Houjin also far surpassed that of the loose tribal organizations of Mongolia, such as Yexian, Dayan, and Alta.

From the very beginning, the Ming Dynasty was too contemptuous, and in fact it was no less contemptuous than the Goguryeo post-Jin military and political group of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Ming Dynasty officials once said that the Houjin was just an ugly captive who "did not fit into a large county in China".

Wei Bao especially wanted to ask, which big county of the Ming Dynasty could pull out 100,000 soldiers at that time.

Moreover, the power of the Houjin country is far more than 100,000 troops, 200,000, 300,000, all of which are possible.

This contempt was fatal, and it also led to the crushing defeat of Sarhu.

It also led to a series of failures in which people like Yuan Yingtai lost Liao Shen and Wang Huazhen lost Guangning.

Obviously, many officials in the late Ming Dynasty treated Houjin without knowing themselves or the other.

Either blindly arrogant like Wang Huazhen, or afraid of gold like a tiger like Gaodi.

The mentality of the kingdom built on the glorious history of the early Ming Dynasty is not easy to change, and the topic of peace negotiation has naturally become a minefield in the political ecology of the Ming Dynasty.

Who dares to take a step beyond Lei Chi, all kinds of impeachment, and the pressure of being scolded by the people of the world is unbearable.

The ready-made case is Chen Xinjia, although he is only taking the blame for Chongzhen.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty itself actually cut off this road, although there are many people who are secretly engaged in peace negotiations, and there are even places where private agreements have been reached.

For example, the general of Xuanda later offered trade as a condition in exchange for the Qing army not to enter the army from Xuanda.

But after all, this kind of thing is not visible.

This mentality of the Ming court and hundreds of officials led to the Houjin side through private discussions and exchanges with the Ming Dynasty officials, and the Houjin side saw it very clearly.

Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng, the Houjin leaders who know Daming very well, can all point to the point.

Of course, this mentality was not clear at first.

It wasn't until after the change that Huang Taiji and other top leaders completely understood.

Houjin's side wants to negotiate peace, and he wants to negotiate peace very much, especially wants to negotiate peace, which can be seen from Nurhachi's attitude towards Wei Bao.

The Bao army and Houjin are all like that.

Bao Jun said that he killed more than 50,000 Jiannu.

Regardless of the soldiers or the common people, so far, the Bao army has killed and injured the Jiannu side, and Lord Wei estimates that it has exceeded at least 50,000 people.

But Nurhachi, on the contrary, wanted to negotiate peace with Wei Bao.

After Jin went from Nurhachi to Huang Taiji, Wei Bao felt that they all sincerely wanted to achieve peace.

On the Houjin side, it is impossible to get carried away by victory just because he has won a few military operations.

In Wei Bao's view, Houjin's ambitions were not so big at the beginning, at least so far.

These people, in Wei Bao's eyes, at this time, are just bandits with a large force.

As early as Nurhachi's letter to the Fifth Department of Khalkha in Mongolia, he wrote that his ambition was actually like that, "In order to relieve my seven hatreds, we should discuss giving up Liaodong and taking the Liao River as the boundary, so that our three kingdoms can live together in peace." Liaodong is bounded by Hailan to Taizi River. If you want to live in peace, you will swear to heaven and earth. As for the Liaodong land east of the Liao River, how to divide it to repay my seven hatreds, I will wait for your return. Because of the various countries, trade can be carried out with each other. If you take what I say is true, then reply quickly, and if you are reluctant, please do it yourself, and you will continue to use your troops. If the sky is right, you can drive me to the White Mountain; If the heavens think of me, I will also drive to Nanjing. ”

It is clear here that Nurhachi wanted the Ming Dynasty to recognize its status as a state, occupy Liaodong, with the Liao River as the boundary, and trade with it, nothing more.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he also proposed peace with the Ming Dynasty soon after the first year of Tiancong, and corresponded with Yuan Chonghuan, who was then the governor of Liaodong.

The first condition was written as follows: "It should be given as a gift of reconciliation in the form of 100,000 taels of gold, 10,000,000 taels of silver, 10,000,000 taels of satin, and 10,000,000 taels of fine blue cloth." After the ceremony was completed, the two countries gave each other gifts, with 10 pieces of eastern pearls, 1,000 mink skins, and 1,000 catties of ginseng, and 10,000 taels of gold, 100,000 taels of silver, 100,000 taels of satin, and 300,000 taels of fine blue cloth. If you want to give away as much as you want, so as to reconcile the two countries, then you swear to heaven and earth, and return to peace forever. ”

This condition is basically not constructive, it is a sky-high price, and it only asks for money.

Huang Taiji later wrote a letter to Lama Li, and proposed: "Ming Keju is outside the Shanhaiguan Pass, I live in Liaodong, and the Han people are all Shen, each of them is a country, and they live in peace." ”

"In the past, there were cases of Da Liao, Dajin and Song sending each other, and there were also cases of Er Ming sending things to Mongolian envoys, which is also the place of heaven."

That is, with Shanhaiguan as the boundary, imitating the example of Song Liaojin. It was still a sky-high asking price, and asked the Ming Dynasty to launch the whole Liao and abandon Ningjin.

Yuan Chonghuan didn't dare to agree to this kind of thing, but these letters to Governor Yuan were written during the period when the Later Jin Army went to Korea to attack Mao Wenlong Tieshan.

In other words, this is just a trick played by Huang Taiji, disrupting the judgment of the Ming side in the name of negotiating peace, and covering up the military action of the conquest of the dynasty.

The military campaign to conquer the DPRK was a great success, because the Ming Dynasty did not move, not only was Korea militarily attacked, but it was forced to end the military blockade of Houjin and provide supplies to Houjin. More importantly, the Ming army led by Dongjiang Town was almost destroyed, and Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town could hardly make much splash in southern Liaoning. So far, from the first year of Tiancong to the third year of Tiancong, although Huang Taiji corresponded with Yuan Chonghuan, Mao Wenlong, Zu Dashou, and even Jinzhou Town Eunuch Ji Yong and other Liao officials and generals to discuss peace, but there have been no constructive opinions, more of a joke or mutual ridicule. However, in the leap April of the third year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji once again put forward a new peace condition: "Heaven does not care about the size of the country, but on the right and wrong of things, so Liaodong and Guangning are used to deal with me." If it weren't for the heavens, the fortified cities of Guangning in eastern Liaodong, and tens of thousands of soldiers guarding them, even with a small number of my soldiers, how could they be defeated? The big city is vested, but the small city is outnumbered, attacking but not overcome, so I think about it, God hopes that our two countries will strike and repair, and share the peace, at this time! I am willing to reconcile and share peace. It is to send envoys with sincerity, how to negotiate peace, and listen to your words. "Huang Taiji's new conditions have been changed to Guangning and Liaodong as the boundary, which is actually the control area of Houjin. This condition is quite pragmatic, and it can be seen that Huang Taiji can't wait to promote peace. Then he proposed to Yuan Chonghuan that "if the sincerity is reconciled, then the Daling River is the boundary, and the Sancha River is our boundary, and between the two places, leave it as an open space, and the fugitive thieves will be easy to detect, so as not to breed trouble, and the way of reconciliation can last for a long time. That being the case, I was made to cast the seal of the Khan of the Kingdom of Jin and me. As for giving money to each other with the gift of repair, you will wait for it. Do not treat me like Chahar Khan, then I will not allow it. That's what I'm concerned about. I am willing to quit the army and share the peace, out of sincerity. You are also honest and honest. We waited for the mothers of both sides to have their heads on their heads and tricks against the sky. "The Daling River and the Sancha River were the military demarcation line between the Ming and Qing dynasties at this time, and it was also proposed to establish an open space as a military buffer zone. As long as the Ming Dynasty gave Huang Taiji a higher reward than Chahar Khan, and recognized Huang Taiji as the Khan of a country, "casting the Khan seal of the gold country and me", it is basically imitating me to pay tribute. I am afraid that this condition is from Nurhachi to Huang Taiji, since the anti-Ming Dynasty, has been hoping to obtain the substantive status, Hou Jin hopes to become an independent country, but after all, the Ming Dynasty is powerful, still respect the Ming Dynasty as the nominal monarch, become the official Ming Dynasty canonized Khan King, and included in the Ming Dynasty tributary system. However, this condition was still rejected by Yuan Chonghuan on the grounds that the Liaodong people hoped to restore the land of their ancestors. "The book says: Yuan Fu, the secretary of the military department who was ordered by the emperor to patrol the border and transfer troops, wrote to His Majesty Khan. Khan sent a letter to the lama to reminisce about the past. Moreover, the book has the word that it depends on the emperor and gets along well, and only ghosts and gods know it. China's territory is Kyushu, that is, the loss of a Liaodong, what a pity. Moreover, the land was not owned by the Khan. Liaodong people come to the west, and their foundation is in them, I force them to miss the ancestors, but what? It is also undesirable. It is unspeakable to stop receiving it, so the emperor does not know it. To the courtesy, for the sake of the dignity of the country. My emperor is magnanimous and wise, and he never distinguishes between dignity and inferiority. If the Khan thinks of honor, governs all affairs, and takes morality as the rule, then he will go to Chahar and be ashamed. Even China treats each other with courtesy! As for the words of the seal, they are not exhaustive. This time, Yuan Chonghuan's refusal made Huang Taiji very angry, especially when Yuan Chonghuan said, "Therefore, the emperor knows it." So Huang Taiji replied: "The officials and scribes of the country can give advice to Emperor Er." By the grace of God, he is the king of a country. You don't accept my words, and look up to Emperor Er as if he is in the sky, and the ministers and others regard themselves as gods, and they don't want to hear about the emperor and don't agree with the ministers, so that my messenger will not go directly to the capital and return it, but it has been two years. Compared with the great Liao, it is very bad. This is also the natural ear! Shall I force it to be repaired? Huang Taiji believed that it was officials like Yuan Chonghuan who refused to inform the Ming Emperor of the intention of Houjin to make peace, and at this time Huang Taiji had begun to give up negotiating peace with Yuan Chonghuan and began to seek military action. On July 18, the third year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji issued a final peace letter, expressing a military threat: "If I want to reconcile, but I don't obey, I will start a war, and the people will be punished, but I will not punish you, but also punish yourself." I am sincere and reconciled, you are arrogant and disobedient, forgive the heavens and learn from it, and people will hear it! "This time, Yuan Chonghuan's negotiation and trick is a bit out of the way. Less than 3 months of preparation, on the second day of October, Huang Taiji led the army west to Mongolia, and then by the Mongolian Subudi as a guide, from Jizhen into the Kou, straight to Beijing, this is the famous change of Jisi. Huang Taiji unilaterally believed that it was the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty who refused to report the content of the peace to the emperor, so he decided to send Chen Da to the city of Beijing to make peace. When the Qing army reached Tongzhou, Huang Taiji ordered the Qing army to spread a letter of peace to the castles, saying: "The Khan of the Jin State told the gentry, the army and the people to know: Our country has always been loyal to the border, and Yehe originally belonged to our country. Emperor Wanli intervened in matters outside the border, divided our country, and divided it into two. The song is in the Yehe department, and the strong is sheltered; In our country, and the desire to kill is wanton bullying, resulting in seven hatreds. I knew that they were incompatible in the end, so I cautiously told Tianxingshi. Heaven thinks of me as the right one, and first gave me the land east of the river. Father Khan still wanted to repair, and sent people to write a book to talk about peace, but the country did not obey. Then God blessed me with the place west of the river, and I still sent envoys to make peace. Emperor Apocalypse and Emperor Chongzhen resumed bullying, ordered to go to the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, and banned self-made national treasures. I am also happy to reconcile, and I want to go to the emperor to become Khan, and order the country to make seals for use, but I am not allowed to do it. Therefore, I replied to the Tianxing Division, and drove here for a long time, broke the cauldron and sank the boat, and never returned. Once again, he threw out the conditions for peace negotiation when he communicated with Yuan Chonghuan, "I am also happy to reconcile, and I want to go to the emperor to call Khan, and make the seal of the country to be used, but I am not allowed to do it", the purpose is to let Chongzhen get the information of peace negotiation in this way. However, how did Huang Taiji know that it was precisely because Chongzhen was still full of hope at this time that he was still in Pingliao in the fifth year, how could he agree to this peace condition? How dare the ministers persuade Chongzhen to agree to peace at this time? Empress Taiji and the generals were summoned to confront, and Ma Dengyun admitted the truth: "Emperor Ming is young, and the ruling ministers are disloyal, and they want to protect themselves." I am afraid to play the matter of peace. If you don't listen, your relatives will be destroyed, so you don't dare to speak. Since then, Huang Taiji has completely understood the mentality of the Ming Dynasty. But he still tried to persuade the ministers of the Ming Dynasty to "discuss with the superior officials, enlighten the emperor, and discuss reconciliation quickly." In the early days, the officials were all scornful of the enemy, but those who did not allow peace were either killed in battle, or killed by the emperor, and in addition, there was a person who established a meritorious name. I have no cunning, but I tell you sincerely. If I insist that it is impossible, it is the fate of God, and I have nothing to do. "But in the end, it's just wishful thinking! With political correctness in the first place, who is willing to bear the infamy to promote peace? Chen Xinjia?