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With the Xingtian Army advancing along the way in the Huguang area, most of the entire territory of Huguang fell, and the officers and troops in various places could not meet it at all, either defeated on the spot, or abandoned the city and fled, or surrendered, and the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty have reached the point where it can almost be said to be irretrievable. （..)

Although Chongzhen and the ministers of the court also thought of some ways, but after all, for so many years, a large number of slightly more elite officers and soldiers have fallen into the hands of the Xingtian Army, and there are almost no soldiers and horses in the mainland that can be called by the imperial court, so although they have thought of a lot of ways, but in the face of the fierce Xingtian Army, they can only retreat step by step, and they are helpless to watch the entire territory of Huguang fall.

At this time, Chongzhen also understood a little bit of the taste, he was indeed a little mean to his ministers before, if it was according to his previous temper, this time Ding Qirui would probably have been arrested and dragged to Beijing City like Xiong Wencan, Yang Yihe, and Chen Qiyu to ask for guilt and abandon the city, but this time Chongzhen understood Ding Qirui's difficulties, and in addition to issuing an order to reprimand, he did not issue an order to remove Ding Qirui from his post and arrest him, but only ordered him to step up the preparation and training of the new army, first to protect Nanzhili, and then to seek to recover Huguang.

Chongzhen's doing this can be said to be unprecedentedly tolerant of his subordinate ministers, which made Ding Qirui grateful, and even stepped up the preparation of troops and horses in Nanzhili, preparing to deal with the attack of the Xingtian Army on Nanzhili.

And after Xiao Tianjian took Wuchang Mansion, he postponed continuing to go down the river and approached Nanjing City, which also gave the imperial court a chance to breathe, but everyone knows that the current Xingtian Army is slowing down the use of troops against Nan Zhili, not that Xiao Tianjian is satisfied with the current harvest, but that he has to digest what he eats in his stomach first, slowly accumulate strength, and then fight Nan Zhili.

And after November, all kinds of news show that the Xingtian Army is already preparing, and it is also imperative to take Nanzhili, everything shows that this Xiao Tianjian has made up his mind to replace his Zhu family world, and at this time, knowing that he can no longer only rely on the official army in the mainland to resist the expansion of the Xingtian Army, and when he sees that the world is about to overturn, Chongzhen can't take care of anything, and Huang Taiji on the Tartar side has also expressed his desire to negotiate peace many times. And Chongzhen didn't care about his face at this point, he had insisted on the issue of Jiannu for a long time, although when Jiannu entered the Kou last year, he moved the idea of making peace with Jiannu, but in the end he didn't completely tear off this fig leaf, and on the surface he still maintained the face of the court.

But now, as the Xingtian army took Huguang, entered Jiangxi, and then wanted to take Nanzhili, and would destroy his Ming Dynasty at any time, it was time of life and death, Chongzhen couldn't care about so much anymore, and had already secretly sent Ma Shaoyu and others from the military department to sneak out of Shanhaiguan secretly, go to Yizhou, and began to talk to Jiannu about the conditions of peace in Yizhou.

In November, Ma Shaoyu returned to the capital with the terms negotiated with Emperor Taiji of Jiannu, and for the sake of secrecy, none of the people who went to the peace conference this time passed on the news and content of the peace conference in the form of a letter, and it was all because they returned to the Beijing division with these things.

Chongzhen looked at the conditions proposed by the Tartars, and saw that the Jiannu side first proposed to intersect with the Ming on an equal footing, in fact, this condition is just a matter of face, for so many years, the Ming has been beaten by the Jiannu, and the equality and inequality are actually nothing!

Then Huang Taiji proposed that the Ming and Qing dynasties should be bounded by Ningyuan, the south belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the north belonged to the territory of the Qing Dynasty. Even if he disagreed and asked for the demarcation north of Jinzhou, Jinzhou was still the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but Ma Shaoyu said that this was the bottom line proposed by Jiannu, and if it didn't work, it would not be possible to negotiate peace! For this reason, Ma Shaoyu has been negotiating with Fan Wencheng sent by Jiannu in Yizhou for many days, and the other party will not let go, because he sees that Daming is eager to negotiate peace with them at the moment, and wants to take advantage of the opportunity.

Chongzhen originally wanted to immediately and categorically refuse this request to get rid of Jiannu, but at this time, news came from the south, saying that the Xingtian Army was going to open a branch in Wuchang Mansion to recruit soldiers, how could this be done? Open a business? Doesn't this make it clear that they are going to establish a regime? This is to compete with the imperial court for the scholar group, if it goes on like this, it will not be long before Xiao Tianjian opens the country and ascends the throne!

Chongzhen panicked, even if he agreed to Jiannu's request, whether it was blackmail or blackmail, the whole big tomorrow was compared with a small Jinzhou, he still had a clear distinction between which was more important, if Jinzhou was exchanged for him, he could recover the decline, re-restrain this Xiao Xingtian, and regain those lost land, it would be a very worthwhile deal, so he gritted his teeth and admitted!

In addition, Jiannu demanded the establishment of a mutual market in Ningyuan, and the two countries exchanged goods through the mutual market, and the Ming Dynasty was not allowed to prohibit merchants from trading with them and exporting the tea, grain and other things they needed, and they could also import furs, deer antlers, ginseng and other things to the Ming Dynasty through the mutual market.

Chongzhen has no objection to this, doing business is doing business! It's better than them going south to break through and grab it!

The last one is that Jiannu asked that every year in the future, Jiannu will give Daming a thousand catties of ginseng and a thousand mink skins, and Daming will give them back 10,000 taels of gold and 1,000,000 taels of silver!

Chongzhen almost didn't sit on the ground, this Jiannu is really a lion with his mouth open! A mouth is 10,000 taels of gold, 1 million taels of silver, although the Ming Dynasty said that the previous annual income of the fiscal year could reach 10 million taels of silver, but now Henan, Shanxi, Huguang are gone, Shaanxi there thieves are still entrenched in Hanzhong, threatening Xi'an and Sichuan, only Nanzhili, Shandong and part of the Beijing auxiliary land Zhejiang Liangguang, he now has to turn around to deal with the Xingtian Army, the mobilization of soldiers and horses still needs money, where to get so much silver!

Chongzhen was almost about to cry, but crying and crying, it was difficult to return, and he had to agree to this condition, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would be completely finished, endure it first, and then wait for the Xingtian Army to be destroyed, and then turn his face and deny it after he freed his hands, and then turned around and went to deal with Jiannu, and now the most important thing is to deal with the Xingtian Army first.

In short, the conditions were very harsh, but in the end, Chongzhen still pinched his nose and admitted, and now in order to quickly draw out the soldiers and horses from the north, he hurried south to deal with the Xingtian Army, and he could ignore anything.

So he immediately summoned Chen Xinjia, ordered Chen Xinjia to preside, and Jiannu quickly reached a peace agreement, and immediately raised silver taels, part of which was given to Jiannu first, owed them a little, and the other raised silver taels should be divided into a part as military salaries, and immediately transferred Liaodong general Wu Sangui and Xuanfu general Wang Pu, Shanhaiguan general soldier Ma Ke and other generals, so that he led his troops to the south quickly, to Shunde Mansion, temporarily under the command of Sun Chuanting, and at the same time ordered Hong Chengchou to withdraw from Jinzhou, withdraw to Ningyuan, sit in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, and prevent Jiannu from treacherously attacking the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, he gave Sun Chuanting the sword of Shang Fang, and the superintendent slammed the Xingtian Army, first entered Henan, took the hinterland of the Xingtian Army, prevented the Xingtian Army from attacking Nanzhili, and fought to the death with the Xingtian Army in Henan, striving to completely kill the Xingtian Army in one fell swoop.

So Chen Xinjia was reluctant, but he didn't dare to insist that no, after all, he also saw that the Ming Dynasty had reached the verge of extinction, and now the emperor in order to keep the country, agreed to such humiliating conditions, and Jiannu to negotiate peace, it can also be said that it was a helpless move, so he sent Ma Shaoyu to ask for the order to go north, to reach a peace agreement with Jiannu, and at the same time Chongzhen tried his best to raise a batch of silver taels, and transferred Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and others, and immediately went south to Shunde Mansion day and night, and came under the command of Sun Chuanting to deal with the Xingtian Army.

All these actions are rarely fast, when the wind is revealed, there is an uproar in the capital, a large number of people and even officials are scolding, demanding the abolition of this peace, in short, everyone thinks, can not and should not negotiate peace with Jiannu, otherwise, for so many years, the court has invested a huge amount of money in Liaodong and millions of Liaodong soldiers and people who died in Liaodong will be in vain, and Liaodong is ceded to Jiannu like this, it is unacceptable.

But although after the news was revealed, the government and the opposition were scolded, but after all, Chongzhen still signed this peace agreement, which is basically a done deal, whether the officials and the people want it or not, it can be said that it is irretrievable.

After Ma Shaoyu signed a peace agreement with Jiannu in Yizhou, he informed Jiannu that he said that now Daming could not give them so much gold and silver, and he would postpone it for a year, and the slave chief Taiji immediately agreed, after all, when Dolgon led the troops back to Guanwai at the beginning of the year, he took back a large number of gold and silver property, and also took back more than 200,000 slaves and nearly 100,000 heads of various livestock, which was enough for them to toss for a while.

And Huang Taiji is an extremely smart person, through the incident of encountering the Xingtian Army in the Guannei after Dolgon and others came back, Huang Taiji also learned that there was such a force in the Guannei that could confront their Jiannu Army head-on.

In fact, Huang Taiji is not at all unaware of the current situation in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, after all, there are a large number of Jin merchants acting as their secret agents, constantly transporting the information of the Ming Dynasty to the outside of the customs, from the very beginning, in fact, Huang Taiji noticed such a force of the Xingtian Army, but after all, there is a Ming Dynasty between the Xingtian Army and them, and the two parties have not had any intersection before, so he did not pay too much attention to the Xingtian Army.

However, after Dolgon and them returned to the Guanwai this time, Huang Taiji knew that the Xingtian Army had actually grown into a force that he had to pay attention to, and with the ability of Dolgon and the generals who accompanied him to the south this time, he was very aware of how powerful his Jiannu Army was now, but in the case of more and less, not only did he not be able to defeat this Xingtian Army, but he was deflated under the hands of this Xingtian Army in the Jingfu area, and a large number of slaves and livestock, money, food and other things that had been in his hands were also eaten, was actually robbed by the Xingtian Army, which had to make him re-examine this Xingtian Army.

(I personally estimate that there will definitely be brothers who will jump out to shout grievances against Chongzhen, I don't think there is any need to argue, you might as well search for related things on Baidu, Chongzhen didn't think about making peace with Jiannu, but never succeeded!) ）