Xu Shiyang saved some face for Li Liang.

He only accepted the surrender of Yi Liang, and after disarming the Goryeo army, he sent part of the elite troops into Goryeo Wangjing and controlled all the important strongholds in Wangjing.

All the rest of the Qi army were not allowed to enter Wangjing, let alone the Goryeo Palace.

After Li Liang surrendered, he continued to enjoy the treatment of the county king, and Xu Shiyang asked the Qi generals to maintain a minimum of respect for the king of Goryeo, and then sent Li Liang and the main two classes of nobles to Ganghwa Island.

The Governor of Qi Province, Xu Muhe, has arrived, and the King of Goryeo will discuss the specific issue of peace talks with the Governor of Qi Province on Ganghwa Island.

During the peace talks, Xu Shiyang and Li Liang simultaneously ordered the two armies to leave the state of war, and all units were stationed on the spot to wait for the results of the peace talks.

This was actually a unilateral goodwill of the Qi army to Goryeo, because the main force of the Goryeo army no longer existed, and the Qi army suffered few casualties and had the ability to launch a new offensive at any time.

Fortunately, the king and key officials of Goryeo are now in the hands of the Qi army, and even if the offensive is suspended, the Goryeo people do not have the ability to accumulate strength to make trouble for the Qi army.

The peace was a matter between the two regimes of the Metropolitan Government and the Kingdom of Goryeo, so there were many people on both sides.

Xu Shiyang, as the No. 2 person in Qi Province, is still the secretary of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, so he is naturally qualified to attend the meeting.

At the peace meeting, the already frightened Goryeo king Yi Liang behaved very badly, and in order to save his life, he even offered to propose that Goryeo pay 50 million yuan to Qi Province for redemption.

After Xu Muhe made it clear that he would not kill him, Li Liang said that as long as the governor was willing to keep his throne, he could give the wealth and silk children of all Goryeo with both hands.

The ugly appearance of groveling made Xu Shiyang, who was present at the meeting, suddenly feel that this Goryeo king had the demeanor of Emperor Huiqin II in another time and space.

It is a pity that the Qi army had no intention of fully occupying Goryeo, so they were indeed prepared to maintain the authority of Li Liang—just as the powers of another time and space were more than happy to maintain the authority of the late Qing court after the Gengzi disaster.

Therefore, neither Xu Muhe nor Xu Shiyang intended to oppress Goryeo too much.

In the end, Xu Muhe really had no choice, and he lowered the peace conditions proposed by Li Liang to a point that although harsh, it was acceptable to both sides.

On February 13 of the third year of Longdo, the Governor's Office signed the Treaty of Ganghwa with the Kingdom of Goryeo.

The main provisions of the treaty are:

1. Goryeo Yong is affiliated with the Central Plains and uses the Central Plains era name.

Xu Muhe deliberately replaced the Great Zhou with the word Zhongyuan, so that once he ascended the throne in the future, he could take advantage of the situation to force Goryeo to claim his vassal status.

Not yet, because after all, the Governor's Mansion is a nominal subordinate of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and after Goryeo surrenders, he enjoys the treatment of the king of Waifan County, and his political status can actually be regarded as equal to that of Xu Muhe, so naturally he cannot be a minister to the Governor's Mansion alone.

2. As a vassal state, Goryeo paid tribute to the Central Plains court every year.

At present, the tributes set are: 1,000 pieces of cloth of various colors, 1,000 pieces of skin, 1,000 taels of ginseng, 1000 taels of gold, 1,000 taels of silver, and 10,000 stones of grain every year.

Every five years, Goryeo had to send envoys to renegotiate the amount of tribute with the Governor's Office.

These tributes were theoretically given to the Central Plains court, but the peace treaty stipulated that they should be transported directly to Dengzhou, and when the time came, it would be none of Goryeo's business if the Qi Provincial Household Department could give it to the Great Zhou court.

3. Because some of the nobles of Goryeo (without mentioning the responsibility of Li Liang himself) insisted on going their own way and insulting the imperial court, so as to trigger this war, Goryeo should bear part of the military expenses of Qi Province's troops.

The household department of Qi Province requires 200,000 Zhou stone (30 million catties) of rice and 100,000 horses of various colored cloths.

4. Qi Province and Goryeo are in the mutual market, and merchants with Qi Provincial licenses can set up factories, open mines, build roads, travel, live, and trade in Goryeo at will, and the Goryeo court shall not stop them, and should provide preferential treatment and assistance.

Goryeo was not allowed to issue a separate currency, but instead used Qi provincial food stamps.

In order to ensure the circulation of Qi grain stamps in Goryeo, Goryeo opened up the financial industry to the province of Qi.

5. As a vassal state, the diplomatic, military, and educational affairs of the Kingdom of Goryeo should be carried out under the "guidance" of the officials of Qi Province.

Without the consent of the corresponding officials in Qi Province, Goryeo had no right to diplomatic relations with any regime.

When Qi Province launched a war, the Goryeo army should send troops to accompany it, and the Goryeo army should provide all its own food and weapons.

Goryeo set up a customs office, and the general director of the customs and taxation department was sent by Qi Province.

6. The king of Goryeo and the three hundred two-class aristocratic families specially designated by Qi Province should send heirs to Qi Province to study.

Goryeo princes and noble heirs who did not have experience studying in Qi Province were not allowed to inherit the throne and family business.

The replacement of the Goryeo throne must be approved by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, otherwise even if he ascends the throne, it will be illegal and usurpation.

7. Goryeo and Qi provinces sent envoys to each other, and consulates were set up in Quancheng and Wangjing respectively.

Goryeo was supposed to send officials to Jiangnan to pay tribute to the Great Zhou court, but who to send needed to be instructed by the Dadu Governor's Office.

8. Goryeo made Ganghwa Island a "concession" and ceded Jeju Island to the Governor's Office.

The above is the so-called Ganghwa Eight Articles, which basically encompasses various fields such as Goryeo's economy, military, education, and diplomacy, and completely ties Goryeo to the chariot of Qi Province.

Of course, in order to appease the mood of Goryeo, the Metropolitan Governor's Office also gave some preferential policies in many aspects.

For example, as the representative of the suzerain, the metropolitan government had the obligation to maintain the political system and the authority of the king of the Goryeo Kingdom; It is obliged to send troops to help Goryeo maintain its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

That is to say, from now on, whether it is the Tartars, the Wazi or Goryeo's own rebels, once Goryeo himself cannot resist, the Qi army is obliged to send troops to help Goryeo.

This was also the beginning of the "big policy" that the Goryeo Kingdom had adhered to ever since.

After the peace treaty was signed, Xu Shiyang was also very satisfied, and in order to continue to show goodwill to the Goryeo Kingdom, he ordered the release of more than 5,000 people from all the Goryeo clans, two classes of nobles and their families who had been captured in the previous war.

At the same time, the landed Goryeo class was allowed to ransom captured relatives at very low prices.

However, the official and private slaves and maids, who accounted for the vast majority of the captives, were not allowed to be released.

Of course, the king of Goryeo and the two classes of nobles were not too worried about the fate of these slaves.

In order to strengthen the alliance between the two sides, the king of Goryeo gave 11 county lords and clan daughters in his personal name to several core members of the Xu family as concubines.

Among them, Xu Shiyang, as a member of the Xu family who left the deepest impression on the Goryeo people, got the county lord of Hyomyeong, the biological daughter of the Goryeo king Yi Liang.

Xu Shiyang himself is very resistant to this kind of behavior of messing with mandarin duck scores, not that he has any opinion on adding a woman to the harem, but Xu Shiyang thinks that when the contract is just signed, it should not stimulate the nerves of the defeated too much.

But this time, Xu Muhe directly crossed him, and without waiting for Xu Shiyang's opinion, he directly agreed to Li Kun's request for peace.

The Metropolitan Governor even directly sent a clipper to send two noble Goryeo daughters to Xu Shisong and Xu Shiliu in Jiangnan.

When the wood is already in the boat, Xu Shiyang is helpless.

At the beginning of March of the third year of Longdao, the Qi army began to evacuate Goryeo in batches, and the crusade against Goryeo, which lasted for more than four months, finally came to an end.

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