After being summoned by the emperor, Mingzhu hurriedly entered the palace, and at the same time pondered in his heart what the emperor meant by summoning him.

In the Xinuan Pavilion of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Xuan Ye had just picked up the ginseng soup sent by the eunuch, and he heard that someone outside had a common name:

"Minion Pearl, please see the Holy Driver."

"Well, let Mingzhu in!"

The eunuch summoned, and Mingzhu came in.

The Nalan family is the royal prince itself, and Mingzhu married the daughter of Prince Azig of England and became Xuan Ye's cousin in terms of seniority. As the pearl of the scholars of the dynasty, these years can be said to be the time of pride, won the trust of the emperor, Tiancheng 11 years when he was reappointed as the secretary of the military department, he immediately adopted the Ming method to train the soldiers, so that the elite combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners soared, and the emperor appreciated his talent very much.

In the sixteenth year of Tiancheng, he was awarded the scholar of Wuyingdian University, and soon after he was crowned the prince and the prince, which can be said to be the power of the government and the opposition. And Mingzhu became an important minister of the imperial court and monopolized the court, on the surface he was modest, but in fact he took advantage of Emperor Kangxi's trust to form a party for personal gain, and even embezzled and accepted bribes.

For all this, Xuan Ye naturally has heard of it, but he has always turned a blind eye, in terms of employing people, the biggest difference between him and the emperor of the Zhu family is that he has never been harsh on the minions, there is no problem with them being corrupt and taking bribes, as long as they do their best.

Hearing the emperor's call, Mingzhu didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly walked into the warm pavilion. As soon as he entered the door, he bowed three times and kowtowed to the emperor.

"Mingzhu, get up and speak."

Then Xuan Ye commanded the eunuch on the side.

"Fetch a stool, excuse me. Bestow the seat. ”

"The slave thanks the master Longen, the slave does not dare to sit in front of the master!"

Mingzhu thanked him, still kneeling there.

"Pearl. I said you, we are a family, it's not good for you to kneel like this, okay, sit down. Hurry up. ”

Xuan Ye's words were very cordial and considerate.

Mingzhu was immediately moved when she heard this, and hurriedly kowtowed again to thank her. Xuan Ye didn't say anything about this, but just chatted with him about some things in the court, and he was thinking about how to ask Mingzhu.

Sometimes, some words can't be said directly, you have to take your time, and the circle has to be bigger. Thinking of this, Emperor Xuanye spoke:

"Mingzhu, I heard that the candidate for this visit to the Rakshasa country has not yet been decided?"

Since the emperor summoned him, Mingzhu felt that the emperor must have something to find him. Now, when he heard the emperor ask such a question, he immediately replied.

"Your Majesty, this visit to the Rakshasa country has been going for three or five years, and naturally no one wants to go far away from the center."

Mingzhu couldn't help but say again.

"They always feel that the Rakshasa Kingdom is a place outside the world, so they don't want to go there in their hearts."

"Confused, that Rakshasa country is a big country in the West, there are more than a million with armor, let them pass, that is for the future of my Qing Dynasty, it is so indiscriminate, Mingzhu, this candidate, you draw it up, give it directly to me, I myself and he said, I don't believe it, someone dares to go against the will!"

The emperor's words made Mingzhu quickly get up and say.

"What the emperor said is extremely true, the territory of the Rakshasa country is not inferior to the Ming Dynasty, there are no less than a million people in armor, and the Cossacks under his command are even first-class elite soldiers, or if my Qing Dynasty can get this strong reinforcement, it is bound to join forces with it to attack the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty will no longer be in trouble for me."

Mingzhu then slapped his ass.

"The emperor is sage, far-sighted, and it is naturally difficult to understand the emperor's good intentions as a slave, and this Rakshasa country, as a strong reinforcement, should indeed be maintained."

As soon as Mingzhu said this, Xuan Ye seized the opportunity, so he said tentatively:

"Mingzhu, do you think it is possible for the Rakshasa Kingdom to send troops to help me resist the invasion of the Ming Kingdom?"

Seeing that Mingzhu didn't speak immediately, Xuan Ye said again.

"I know, many people say that the country is not a big deal, but this is not a big deal, I know that we alone will definitely not be able to stop the Ming Kingdom, since Li Yuan invited Turkic soldiers back then, so I thought, maybe, our Great Qing Kingdom can also ask the Rakshasa soldiers to help me, according to Li Yuan's method back then, give them land, women, gold and silver."

The emperor's words made Mingzhu fall into deep thought, he didn't answer immediately, he knew the emperor, and knew that since the emperor said so, he definitely didn't say it casually, he must have already had an idea in his heart, and maybe even this idea was more unacceptable than what he said.

Land, women, gold and silver......

The meaning of the emperor's words must be to give priority to land.

Although there has always been a saying that the Rakshasa country sent troops to help the Qing Dynasty recapture the Central Plains, but everyone knows that this is unrealistic, after all, it is impossible for the Rakshasa country to send hundreds of thousands of troops for such a little land, and now listening to the emperor say this, he knows that the emperor must have some ideas in his heart, not so much to ask for advice, but to tell him this idea, and then he can put it forward in the court.

"Your Majesty, the slaves thought that if they wanted to ask the Rakshasa country to help the teacher, I am afraid that it may not be possible to rely on women, gold and silver, and the slaves thought that they had to cede the land to the Rakshasa country, but the slaves were worried that even if they ceded the land to them, they would not necessarily send troops. After all, the Rakshasa people are ambitious, if they take over the land, but they are unwilling to contribute, when the time comes, we will lose a lot! ”

Xuan Ye smiled slightly and said:

"Oh, what you said does make sense, the Rakshasa people should not be gullible, I know this truth, and it is definitely not realistic to let the Rakshasa Kingdom take millet from the fire for me. But now that the Ming Kingdom is coming, our national strength will be difficult to resist, in your opinion, how should we deal with this matter now? Is it still the same as in the past, fleeing all the way west and then fleeing to the south? Give up all the Western Regions and Kazakhstan to the Ming Kingdom? ”

After listening to the emperor's words, Mingzhu was even more surprised. It's not because of the emperor's reciprocal reciprocal words, but because after that, the emperor sent out the secret envoy through the Persians to give up the Western Regions, why did he suddenly change his mind now?

In fact, Mingzhu himself also knew in his heart that it would be good if the so-called secret envoy could save his life, and it would be impossible for the Ming Kingdom to negotiate peace at all. Mingzhu is clear, the emperor and the court officials are very clear, and everyone knows that a war with the Ming State is inevitable.

But what does the emperor mean by these words now?

As a minion, you can't understand the emperor's meaning from the surface, but from another angle.

The master is Mingjun!

Know this at all times!

Yes!

That's right, the emperor's intention is to cede the Western Regions and Kazakhstan to the Ming Kingdom, even if it is to the Ming Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom will be more comfortable to fight if it is not in order, and when the time comes, the Great Qing Kingdom will really have no place to be buried.

"Master, from the point of view of the minion, even if we cede the Western Regions and Kazakhstan to the Ming Kingdom, there is no way to guarantee that the Ming Kingdom will be treacherous one day and offend my Qing Dynasty again, even if the master intends to use these places to make up for the old things between the Ming State and the Ming Kingdom, I am afraid that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom will not remember the master's goodness. Therefore, the slave thinks that the Western Regions and Kazakhstan cannot be ceded to the Ming Kingdom, if they are ceded, it will be ten years at the earliest, or twenty years at most, and the Ming State will still break the peace treaty with treachery, and the Ming Kingdom will never believe it. ”

Of course, Mingzhu won't say anything, Mingguo won't forget hatred, he just talks about this fact on a case-by-case basis.

His analysis made Xuan Ye say with deep convincing.

"What Mingzhu said is very true, even if this Ming Kingdom is willing to negotiate peace today, he will still be treacherous in the end, after all, the Ming Kingdom will not die in my heart of the Qing Dynasty!"

For Mingzhu's interest and intelligence, Xuan Ye secretly praised in his heart, this is where he can't do without Mingzhu, Mingzhu can figure out what he wants, can think about what he thinks, no matter what, there is something he can't say when he is an emperor, but it is nothing to say it from the minister's mouth first.

Even if it is a few hundred years in the future, when the time comes, what people can remember is how the pearl was, not how the emperor was.

Looking at Mingzhu, Xuan Ye did not continue, but looked at him, waiting for his answer.

"Master!"

From the master's gaze, Mingzhu knew that the master wanted to hear his "physiognomy" from himself, and he knew that he would have to bear the trouble for the master no matter what, and then said.

"The slave thinks that instead of ceding the Western Regions and Kazakhstan to the Ming Kingdom, it is better to consider the Rakshasas."

"Rakshasa! Mingzhu, what do you mean! ”

Xuan Ye asked with a deliberate straight face.

"The reason why the Western Regions were ceded to the Ming Kingdom was to eliminate the misunderstanding between the two countries, but you pulled the Rakshasa in, what do you mean?"

"Back to the master, the slave is here for my Great Qing Kingdom!"

Thinking about the emperor's thoughts in his mind, Mingzhu's mind vaguely appeared in the terrain of the Western Regions, and then said tentatively.

"The slave thinks that as long as my Qing Kingdom still borders the Ming Kingdom, then the Ming Kingdom will inevitably offend my Qing Dynasty, so the slave will propose this, the Western Regions are a desolate place, let it to the Rakshasa Country, and the Rakshasa Kingdom will inevitably desperately protect the Western Regions, but because the Western Regions and the Rakshasa do not border, so the slave feels that the area north of the Kazakh Tianshan Mountains can be ceded to the Rakshasa Kingdom, so that the Rakshasa Kingdom will block between us and the Ming Kingdom, if the Ming Kingdom wants to invade my Qing Dynasty, there are only two choices, one is to attack the Rakshasa first, and then attack my Qing Dynasty, or cross the 10,000-year-old snow-capped mountains of the Pamir to invade my Great Qing Dynasty, which is obviously impossible, as for the former......"

Mingzhu sneered.

"Now the Rakshasa Kingdom is originally because of the contradictions between Siberia and the Ming Kingdom, if the Ming Kingdom invades the Western Regions again, the two countries will inevitably fight in the Western Regions, and at that time, it will no longer be us to find an alliance with the Rakshasa Kingdom, but the Rakshasa Kingdom will turn around and come to us to form an alliance to deal with the Ming Kingdom."

Although Mingzhu said exactly what he thought in his heart, Xuan Ye still groaned.

"The truth is this truth, but how can this land of my Ming Dynasty be easily ceded to other countries?"

"Master, it's not to cede, but to drop a piece of meat, let the Rakshasa ghost and the people of the Ming Kingdom bite it, and when they bite and lose both, in the end, we can't afford to be cheap to our Qing Kingdom!"

"However, this Shengjing ......"

Xuan Ye looked at Mingzhu and said in a deep voice.

"You can't just throw it away......"