Huang Taiji's long-awaited peace suddenly set off waves in Shengjing City.

Compared with the terms of peace that circulated in various parts of Liaodong not long ago, this peace terms seem to be much milder.

"Li Huayu's peace conditions are as follows: 1. The puppet emperor who went to encroach on the throne declared that the rebellion led by Nurhachi since the Wanli period was a rebellion, and sent a proton to Beijing to ask Emperor Chongzhen for guilt. (2) Abolish the system of enslavement and make it a freeman, and enact that no freeman should be mistreated. 3. Abolish the Manchu language, change all public places and official documents and correspondence to Chinese characters, suspend all private schools, and instead apply for relief loans from the Southern Yue Army to establish schools and hire teachers. Fourth, the Nanyue Army will help Liaodong develop production and improve its livelihood; for this reason, the Nanyue Army will send officials to gradually take over Liaoning, and the original officials in Liaodong can be retained, but they will need to attend the training classes of the Nanyue Army and study and pass the examination before they can work. All the funds needed for production shall apply for a relief loan from the Nanyue Army, with an annual interest rate of six cents, which can be deferred for repayment, but shall not be misappropriated or denied. Fifth, the soldiers and horses in Liaodong need to be reduced, but there is no need to cut a large number of them at one time, the Han army and the Mongolian army can go home to produce, and the other Eight Banner generals can stay in office, but they also need to participate in training courses and work after passing the examination. The salaries and rations of the generals will also be disbursed by the relief loan from Nanzhong, and the south will supervise the use of the loan and not embezzle or embezzle it. 6. In order to ensure the implementation of the treaty, the Nanyue Army will take the opportunity to send relevant personnel deacons to Liaodong to set up a public affairs bureau to supervise the implementation of the treaty. ”

When someone read the terms of the peace that had been copied from Li Peiting to the Dolgon brothers, Azig and his fifteenth brother Dordo couldn't help but let out a long snort, which was a breath of sullen breath in their chests.

"Second brother, the price of the Li family has been opened. What do you think? "As the most important of the three brothers. Naturally, Duoduo had to ask a thing or two about everything.

"Look, they put the knife on our necks!" Dorgon sneered, pointing out with his index and middle fingers, motioning for his two brothers to listen to the movement.

As a matchmaker this time, how could Huang Yunfa give up such a major political and economic intelligence? The others have not yet left Shengjing, and more than a dozen secret letters have already been sent out of the city by fast horses. They were delivered to him in Dengzhou, Laizhou and even in Shanghai County. At the same time, there are the remaining seven Jin merchants.

The content is basically the same, eat a lot of grain, rice, cloth, silk and other spots, and then hire a sea ship to quickly transport it to Liaodong, there is a big hat to grab!

To say that the unity and concerted action between the Jin merchants is really not said. That is, when Huang Yunfa led Kabula to meet Li Huayu in Jinan and expounded the discussions and pleas of the Qing Dynasty, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and others had already raised hundreds of thousands of stone of fine Nanzhong japonica rice, more than 10,000 dyed and calico, and as many as millions of catties of refined fine salt. Ships were hired at various wharves along the coast, and when there was good news in the city of Jinan, they were loaded and shipped to Liaodong.

The time is exactly the same as the proportion, the front foot Kabula's peace envoy team has just returned to Shengjing, and the back foot Jin Shang Eight families have arrived at Jinzhou, Jinzhou and other seas one by one, which is undoubtedly a good thing in the snow for Liaodong, where prices are boiling three times a day.

Of course, the price of charcoal in the eight major families is not cheap.

The crackling abacus was shocked, and the shopkeepers of the eight Jin merchants were pleasantly surprised. On this trip, they made at least three times the profit! This is still deducted, for example, the time is urgent. There is no time to mix sand and stones into the grain and rice, put earth, stone and sand into the salt and other processing processes, and at the same time, because they have to travel, they have to give the boatmen and sailors processing money and reward food and silver, and the cost of this in and out is a lot more costly.

But even so. In the face of the price of goods comparable to those in Liaodong during the Mandate of Heaven, the materials transported by the Jin merchants were tripled in profits, and they were also called the price of conscience by the Qing officials and people in Liaodong with tears.

In the face of this sudden and massive influx of relatively cheap goods, the prices of goods in Shengjing and various cities in Liaodong also fell for the first time in several months. Although the decline is only half a percent, it is undoubtedly a warning sign for Dorgon, who has been on the battlefield for many years.

"This is equivalent to our forward is unstable and there are signs of collapse!"

After all, they are not professional speculators, nor have they experienced the baptism of the stock market crash, so how can they have the psychological quality of not changing their faces in the face of the sudden collapse of the price index?

So, some little scalpers quietly followed the trend and threw out all kinds of goods hoarded in their hands, anyway, they had already made a lot of money, just take the silver and hand it to the master, and go home to enjoy the share they should get!

However, those decent big scalpers in front of their masters just can't say it! Not only did he take the master's money out to do errands, but he also bought a lot of treetop contracts from Sony. At present, they are not worried that these goods will not be transported to Liaodong in time and delivered in Shengjing and Liaoyang, but they burn incense and worship the Buddha every day, looking forward to the wind and waves on the sea, and send the ships transporting the goods to the Dragon King of the East China Sea! According to the current prices in Shengjing, I am afraid that when those goods arrive in Liaodong, they can only lose money and make money!

There are those scalpers who are greedy for cheapness that day, under the temptation of heavy profits, the market is rumored and difficult to succeed, and they are afraid that when they are going to fight again, they rashly go to Sony's house to ask for delivery of goods or return the payment, but under the temptation of Sony's three-inch incorruptible tongue, they were fooled into borrowing loan sharks from Sony's house, and once again ate a lot of goods.

With prices falling on the one hand, and usury on the other hand, which earn interest on a daily basis, these people are on the verge of collapse!

In line with the tradition of the Eight Banners when there is trouble to find the master, these people inevitably have to cry and mourn in front of their respective masters. Explain all the recent troubles and bad things to the masters. After that, the masters who became in the same bad mood also reported to their masters the troubles encountered by the minions.

So, it was reported level by level, and finally all the problems were concentrated in front of Dorgon, the head of the current Three Banners!

"Dick. Right now, the minions are running out of steam. What the hell should you do, you have to come up with a charter! "The eldest of the three brothers, Azig, has not been the head of any banner for a long time, and it is precisely when he wants to show kindness and attract people's hearts to stabilize his position of power in the banner, if this price war is defeated. I'm afraid that if he speaks in the red flag, only the slaves of his own family will listen.

"That's it! Shanxi businessmen originally had a friendship with the black fat man in a pair of pants, and now is the time for them to make a lot of money, if they continue to toss it, our three flags, and Shuotuo's flag, but it is not far from the end! Duoduo was also worried.

The three brothers relied on nothing more than Li Peiting alone in terms of economy and materials, and they made a lot of money by monopolizing and controlling the trade between Eight Banners and Long, but now, Li Peiting is willing to negotiate peace because of Li Huayu's statement. became a little hesitant and did not dare to take a stand. This is undoubtedly a drain on the price war in Liaodong.

"Don't worry!" Dorgon hesitated for a moment, and finally made a decision.

"He, Huang Taiji, can go to Li Shouhan to negotiate peace through the Huang family, then, why don't we spread this matter up and down the capital of the Ming Kingdom? The generals and ministers privately discussed the matter of peace with our Qing Dynasty, and this kind of private giving and receiving was a big taboo in the Ming court! Don't forget, Yuan Chonghuan back then and Chen Xinjia not long ago. Both of them died because of the peace with me! ”

Not really! In the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, and Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, who was cut in two not long ago at the entrance of the vegetable market. Not all of them are important ministers who have been favored for a while, but once they touch the red line of negotiating peace with the Qing State in private, there is only one way to go to the vegetable market waiting for them. The difference is that 3,600 knives is still just one knife!

Soon, with the efforts of the two white flags and the red flag minions, the eldest son of Grandpa Li was stationed in Denglai, Shandong. Li Huayu, who was in charge of the affairs of the soldiers, horses, money, and grain reclamation in these two places, privately returned the anti-thief messengers from Liaodong, and ordered people to cross the Haidong to negotiate peace with the Liaodong thieves, and there was shocking news that a large amount of grain and materials were transported to Liaodong. At the speed of 800 miles of fast horses, it was transmitted to Shanhaiguan and Xuanda, and through fine work, it spread in the capital!

To spread the news, we must let the Ming State from the emperor to the minister, from the nobles to the eunuchs, from the cabinet elders to ordinary scholars, everyone who can have a say in the affairs of the Ming State, or who thinks they have the right to speak, knows that Li Guogong ordered his eldest son to come forward to negotiate peace with Jiannu!

"You Huang Taiji can use the power of Li Shouhan to suppress us, and we will also use the power of the Ming court to suppress Li Shouhan, and then let your wishful thinking of making peace with Li Shouhan completely fail!"

After receiving the news that the rumors had been spread by the minions everywhere, Dorgon looked at the undulating waves of wheat on the banks of the Hun, and was quite satisfied.

In their opinion, according to past experience, the Ming Dynasty and the opposition were extremely opposed to negotiating peace with the Qing State! In the eyes of those scholars and gentlemen, to negotiate peace is to surrender! The dignified Heavenly Empire should be fought to the end! You can't win without destroying your opponent! As for saying that fighting a war requires money and fighting a war requires death, I'm sorry, that's your government's business, and we scholars don't care. We're just in charge of spraying people.

However, to Dorgon's surprise, Wu Sangui, who had not long ago annihilated the mission sent by Huang Taiji in a salvo of cannons and bows and arrows in Xiluo City, Shanhaiguan, chose to be unusually quiet after receiving such news that shocked the Guanning army. It seems that the previous Wu Sangui who shouted "If there are traitorous ministers in the court who intend to betray the country and seek glory, the ministers should go on the horse with tears, behead the Liao thieves first, and then lead my Liaodong children to Beijing to make a case with the princes of the court" is not him.

"Dashuai, why don't you speak? The barracks in and out of the city are discussing this matter, and the generals of the battalions have come to see the marshal, intending to ask for an explanation from the marshal, why don't you see them? "Wu Jingsi, the general of Wu Sangui's family, who has now been promoted to the rank of general, is a little confused about his own handsome's thoughts.

The muscles on Wu Sangui's face twitched a few times, folded a piece of deerskin in his hand, and sheathed the polished crystal sword. "How are our cavalry and firecrackers doing? How are the tens of thousands of Liaodong people recaptured from southern Liaoning settling down? ”

Since the end of the Liaodong War, Wu Sangui used a large number of cane grain and grass stored in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan to wantonly annex and rectify the stragglers in various parts of Liaoxi, and at the same time, greatly expanded his descendant troops. The original family wolf cavalry, which was only 1,000, expanded to more than 4,000 in a blink of an eye. Meantime. Those Han people who were rescued from all over southern Liaoning were even organized into military households, and they were engaged in military activities. Relying on a kind of foot plough and hoes and sickles made of fine wrought iron that were purchased in large quantities in Longsheng, Wu Sangui was very pleasantly surprised to find that there were barren tuntians in various places a few years ago. This year, there is actually a bit of a bumper harvest, and the wheat waves that stretch for dozens of miles look really gratifying.

Among the towns in eastern Liaodong, from the generals to the generals, there are almost no landlords who are not landlords of all sizes. Not to mention other generals, among the Wu Sangui family alone, almost everyone in his father Wu Xiang's 3,000 families owned at least hundreds of acres of land. In this way, this year is bound to be a bumper harvest in western Liaoning. With food, over time, Wu Sangui is confident that the Guanning army will completely become the identity of the Wu family.

And there is a large amount of grain and grass left by Li Shouhan in Ningyuan to support it. It can be used for him to hold up until at least this fall. Looking at the wheat that gradually turned yellow from Zhonghou to Ningyuan and to the grain fields in Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui also knew that his wings were gradually ripening like this wheat.

"What do you mean?"

"Our soldiers and horses are not as elite as the model brigade and the county lord, so don't think about other idle things!"

"But, Marshal, if the peace negotiation is really successful, then wouldn't it be the salary of our Guan Ning Army?"

"Panic what! It's not a matter of peace, it's just a rumor that Ben Shuai's uncle sent someone to contact the Liao thief? Serious discussion and success. It's too early! ”

"But, Great. At present, there are people's hearts floating everywhere in the city. The soldiers are good to say, they will eat food and receive pay at all times; But the generals at all levels didn't dare to think like this! ”

Wu Jingsi's words immediately inspired Wu Sangui.

"Ponder quietly, among the various passes right now, how many people and horses have not been attached to my Wu family?"

After thinking about it for a while, Wu Jingsi replied. "There are about 10,000 or so, belonging to a few generals and guerrilla subordinates. These guys believed that the soldiers were strong, and the equipment and armor were good, and they ignored the solicitation that the marshal proposed at the beginning. ”

"Good! Send out and spread rumors among these camps. Tell them that peace will be negotiated soon, and in the future, the Liaodong army and horses will be dismantled, or go to all parts of the Central Plains to exterminate the Liukou, and encourage them to rise up and make noise. ”

Wu Jingsi is also a nodding figure, and he immediately understood the intentions of his coach.

As long as rumors spread among these battalions that were not yet considered soldiers and horses of the Wu family, those soldiers who had been in arrears for a long time would make trouble and even mutiny. No matter what kind of means they take, Wu Sangui, who has a bag of money and rice in his hand, is happy to see it happen. He would wait for these generals to come to the door and ask him to reorganize their ranks!

Sending Wu Jingsi to those miscellaneous military units to do the fanning of the flames, Wu Sangui ordered people to invite a few copywriters under his account.

"You write a letter for Ben Shuai. It is about the fact that Ben Shuai's uncle sent people to negotiate peace with the Liao thieves that are circulating everywhere at the moment. ”

"Dashuai, but I want to reprimand Li Huayu and Master Li, and ask him to stop the precipice, don't do this kind of thing that is bound to leave a reputation for eternity?" A copywriter from a well-founded background boldly expressed his thoughts and looked at several colleagues quite proudly.

"Nonsense! Master Li is the elder of Ben Shuai! Ben Shuai has today, completely relying on the love and promotion of the elders! ”

"So, what do you mean?"

"You draft a letter and tell it to Ben Shuai's uncle. It is said that tens of thousands of soldiers in Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan and other places, and more than 100,000 Liao people who have practiced in regiments, are all looking forward to the head of the young marshal and the horse. Willing to follow the big young marshal! ”

Looking at each other, several copywriters had no choice but to sing in unison to draft this letter of allegiance to Li Huayu expressing their support for his proposal and proposal. Wu Sangui was left alone in his signing room.

"Although the man has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command at the moment, there are more than 100,000 Liao people. In the eyes of outsiders, it can be said that the soldiers are strong and strong, but the man knows that his strength is not good. At this time, he never dared to turn his face with the Li family's father and son, although it was humiliating to send people under the fence, although the man categorically did not want it to succeed, but the eldest prince must not be offended. Therefore, the lesser of two evils is chosen. ”

Several pieces of letterhead were full of walnut-sized words, and this letter to his family was written by him to his father Wu Xiang, who was living in the capital at this time. It can be regarded as a portrayal of the real situation in his heart.

"I don't know if such a thing will set off a monstrous wave in the capital?" Wu Sangui sealed the envelope, looked at the city of Beijing in the southwest, and muttered to himself.

The situation in the capital not only surprised Dolgon, but also surprised Wu Sangui. In the capital, although there were people in the streets and alleys talking about the matter of Li Dagongzi sending people to Liaodong to accept the peace proposal proposed by Jiannu, there was not even a splash in the court.

Although Shengdou Xiaomin didn't believe that Grandpa Li, who had killed Tartars all over Gyeonggi and killed thousands of Tartars in a row, would do that kind of betrayal of the country and seek glory, it was some scholars who looked at the Li family's father and son in the past who were very unpleasant, and they couldn't think of it anyway, how could the Li family, who was a cowardly eldest lady of Zhaoyang County Lord, personally led his own soldiers to storm Tashan, and almost died of being hit by a cannon, how could he do such a thing?

The court officials are thinking more about things. However, almost all of them chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Although the nobles did not believe that Li Shouhan would betray the court for the sake of Jiannu's petty profits, even some imperial historians who secretly opposed Li Jiaming in the past also felt that this matter was a bit unbelievable. How did the Liao thief, who had already been beaten to the death of the Li family, propose to surrender to the Li family again? And is he willing to be a vassal of the Li family, from the Ryukyus, Siamese example? What benefits can the Liao thieves promise to the Li family? Gold, silver, jewelry, or official titles? It's all unlikely, right?

And the eunuchs touched the large amount of silver dollars they earned from trafficking in new fruits, grain, rice, oil and salt in their pockets for a winter, and couldn't stop sneering on their faces: "Grandpa Li is our food and clothing parents, and he treats us people as human beings, if he dares to stumble on Grandpa Li behind his back and put cold arrows, don't say that several ancestors will not spare him, even our slaves and maids will not go around him!" ”

The two ancestors in the mouths of the eunuchs were summoned by Emperor Chongzhen to the East Warm Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace to talk at this time.

"The two big companions, there are rumors in the capital at the moment, and the fans who have fought the incident everywhere say that Li Huayu sent people to Shengjing to negotiate peace with the slave and thief chieftain Hong Tai. I wonder what the two companions think about this matter? (To be continued......)