The envoy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still Feng Quan, a scholar, and the deputy envoy is still the champion of the Manchu Dynasty, Lu Gong, but he is an envoy again, and the missions of the two have changed dramatically.

Last time, they played with the Longwu monarch and ministers, begging to delay time, this time, they sincerely begged for peace, but they didn't know if they would be angry with the old shame, and the Ming Dynasty ministers who were eager to shame were also played by the Ming Dynasty after being humiliated.

After the opening of the Qing Dynasty on the tenth day of the first month, without any warning in advance, the two received an order from Dolgon, asking them to go south immediately and exchange Yangzhou for a truce from the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the news blockade of Hanchen, Feng Quan did not know about Henan when he received this order, so he did not understand it a little, although from his political point of view, the Qing court would inevitably sue for peace with the Ming Dynasty in the future, but he did not expect this change to come so quickly.

Feng Quan only thought that the two raids were very successful, so Dolgon wanted to promote peace with victory, so he still had some confidence in this mission, so he didn't have to look at the face of the Ming Dynasty completely, but he was afraid that this time he would lose the battle, and then go to seek peace.

Feng Quan didn't want to go to the embassy, Lu Gong was humiliated by Xia Wanchun last time he lost his temper, and after he came back, he became a laughing stock among his colleagues, and his official position did not improve at all, but was sent to the Hanlin Academy, to delete the words "Hu", "Lu", "Di" and "Yi" in the ancient books, and large-scale revision of the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, which was equivalent to being beaten into the cold palace, which made him hold back his anger in his heart.

Although Feng Quan was a little worried that the Ming Dynasty would settle accounts with them, he was the only one on the Manchu side who was familiar with the road, and Dolgon gave the order directly, and he had no intention of consulting with him at all, so he had to pack up a little and hurriedly went south.

After the last envoy of Lu Gong, several provocations were resolved by Xia Wanchun, and Nanming also specially made up a play, called "The Champion Sees the Champion" to humiliate him, so that he was very faceless after returning to Beijing, so he simply ignored the things outside the window, and single-mindedly revised the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty in the Hanlin Academy, and by the way, he studied the number of sages, thinking that he could find the scene one day, so he didn't know much about external things.

The two set off from Beijing, one happy and one worried, along the Grand Canal to the south, the north straight is the heart of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, along the way is fine, and so on into Shandong, especially last year the Qing soldiers dug the Yellow River, diverted the river water to the north, water irrigated the Yuyuan army activities in Caozhou and other places, killing millions of people, now the entire northern part of Shandong, can be described as thousands of miles without rooster crow.

Although it was the beginning of spring, the earth had begun to recover and slowly regain its vitality, but everywhere the mission passed, there was no one to be seen, there were dilapidated and uninhabited villages everywhere, and the collapsed and uninhabited county town was like the Fengdu ghost domain in the painting book.

This is the land of Qilu under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, in the face of this scene, as an official of the Qing Dynasty, there is naturally no light on his face, Feng Quan saw that the land was decayed and broken, his face was full of frustration, and his heart was full of frustration.

When Lu Gong saw the scene along the way, he was so angry that he said to people: "After the Yuyuan bandits, the place is so chaotic, and the bandits should be punished urgently!" ”

The people next to him were stunned when they heard this, this champion's brain was different from ordinary people, and they shook their heads one after another, unwilling to explain to him.

Digging the Yellow River and drowning millions of people, the Manchus naturally could not admit such a thing, so they had to find someone to take the blame, and if they couldn't find anyone, they put the responsibility for the ruin of Shandong on the Yuyuan bandits.

Feng Quan, this old boy, still remembers that the last time he went on an envoy, the land of Shandong was still very densely populated, although there were also bandits, but on both sides of the canal during the meal, you could also see cooking smoke rising everywhere, and some people were popular, but it was only less than a year, and it was actually panicked like this.

It is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to govern the world, after all, it is the clan of dogs, and they refuse to integrate into China, and sooner or later they will be defeated.

After a few days of the mission, after passing the Yellow Flood Area, the situation was slightly better, and there were more people, but from time to time there were people who helped the old and the young and moved to the south, which made Feng Quan's heart rise again.

If the Qing Dynasty does not restore the place, I am afraid that the people will flee to the Jiangnan controlled by the Ming army, so what is left of the Qing Dynasty?

Standing at the bow of the boat, the warm wind blowing from the southeast blew Feng Quan's official robe, which made him sigh very much in his heart, "Changyin~ You and I have a heavy responsibility this time, and we have a lot of responsibilities to do in the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Lu Gong on the side looked at the refugee teams that appeared from time to time, and his face was a little ugly, "These people think that if they flee to the south, someone will raise them for nothing?" ”

Feng Quan shook his head and returned to the cabin, leaving Lu Gong alone to blow the wind on the bow of the ship.

The fleet went all the way south and arrived at Huai'an in a few days, which is the confluence of the Grand Canal, the Huai River and the Yellow River, the traffic point of the entire two Huai, and the first stop for the refugees.

A few days ago, the Huai River had thawed, and the Ming Dynasty began to vigorously provide relief to several counties in Jiangbei after being looted by the Qing army, as well as to relieve refugees fleeing from the north.

At this time, on the south bank of the Huai River, the riverbank is covered with endless tents, stretching for more than ten miles, where more than 100,000 refugees live, women stand by the river to wash and dry, children run and play between the tents, and hundreds of cooking smoke rise faintly in the camp.

Several officials in official robes, escorted by non-commissioned officers, were shuttling through the camp, presumably to inspect the situation of the refugees and ask whether the relief efforts had been implemented.

"How could the Ming Dynasty have so much food to manage so many refugees?" Lu Gong stood at the bow of the ship, the Ming and Qing dynasties formed a stark contrast, and he was very suspicious that this was Nanming's deliberate attempt to buy people's hearts.

"Lord Lu, in the future, you still have to go out and walk more, so that you can know the suffering of the people and the truth of the world!" Feng Quan pointed to the nearly 100 large ships docked on the south bank of the Huai River, and the coolies on the dock were stepping on the swaying planks and unloading bags of rice and grain from them.

When the mission arrived in Huai'an, it was stopped by the Ming army, Feng Quan identified himself to the defenders, and the defenders reported to Zhang Mingzhen, the governor of Jiangbei, Zhang Mingzhen's brain fire At the end of last year, the Qing army plundered Jiangbei, so he shirked to report to the imperial court first, and turned away the Qing mission.

Feng Quan and the others had no choice but to stay on the ship honestly and wait for the Ming army to report to Nanjing to see how the Ming Dynasty decided.

When the Qing mission arrived in Huai'an, because the Ming Dynasty recaptured Nanjing, and the new emperor ascended the throne, many vassals who had broken off contact with each other actually sent a mission over this time, and several other missions arrived in Nanjing, which was completely different from the treatment of the Qing mission, and they were personally received by the Ministry of Rites and even the regent of the King of Chu.

This was an exciting event for the Nanjing court, and the whole city was boiling.