It can be resolved through negotiation, and it is better to negotiate to solve the matter, which is more time-saving and labor-saving.

After the war report from the southwest reached Nanjing, the negotiations between the Ming Dynasty and Han Chaoxuan ended.

Han Chaoxuan was sent by Haoge to Nanjing to sue for peace with the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty was clearly delaying, but Haoge took the initiative to sue for peace, and suddenly sent troops south to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army.

This raid will be a surprise attack, if it happens, then it's okay to say, the key is that the raid failed, but was surrounded by the Ming army, and almost became a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, although Haoge escaped by chance, he damaged the vitality of the Jin State, and made the Han Dynasty Xuan in Nanjing very passive, and was pointed at and scolded by the officials of the Ming Dynasty Ministry of Rites for being a barbarian state, having no credibility, and completely ending the previous negotiations.

This is simply stealing chickens and rice.

After Haoge was defeated and returned to Chengdu, he was very frightened, afraid that the Ming army would take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Chengdu, so he licked his face and sent a secret envoy to tell Han Chaoxuan, hoping that he could negotiate with the Ming Dynasty, and if he failed, he would delay time.

The Ming Dynasty lost a few words between Han Chaoxuan and Jin, but still started new negotiations. This time, the Ming Dynasty not only stood on the commanding heights of morality, but also stood on the side of the victors, so the attitude was extremely tough, and put forward a series of conditions including the return of Sichuan and Hanzhong to the Jin State, the opening of border cities to send war horses to the Ming Dynasty every year, and the proclamation of vassals to the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Ming Dynasty was played by the Qing envoy once, the Ming Dynasty was very vigilant about negotiations, and it can be regarded as eating a trench and growing wise, basically negotiating while preparing, so the negotiation will not affect the preparation of the Ming Dynasty, he is just another means to achieve the goal.

Haoge suffered a defeat, Jin Guo was injured and didn't want to fight anymore, Haoge expressed his willingness to open a border city, but the Ming Dynasty still didn't give in, insisting that Haoge be a minister, and wanted Sichuan and Hanzhong.

The clay figurines still have three points of earthiness, and the Ming Dynasty is also unforgiving, Haoge became angry and categorically rejected the Ming Dynasty's request.

The blackmail failed, and the Ming Dynasty did not react, concentrating on preparing for the war to seize Hanzhong and Sichuan.

The Ming Dynasty didn't react here, and didn't even say a word of cruelty, and the monarchs and ministers of the Jin Kingdom began to worry, the dog that would bite people didn't bark, and the group of insidious villains in the south must have failed to blackmail, so they had to take advantage of their defeat and the vitality had not yet recovered, and they would take action against the Dajin Kingdom.

For a time, the Jin State's spy organization Hangjingwei sent news back to Haoge, showing that the Ming Dynasty was ready to move from Sichuan and Hanzhong at the same time, and wanted to seize half of his Jin country in a war.

The current strength of the Jin State is only about 150,000, and the total number of Hanzhong and Sichuan is only 50,000, and the Ming army may use an army of about 150,000, and Haoge himself finds it difficult to resist, let alone count on the generals below.

In order to fight against the Ming Dynasty, Haoge could only prepare for war from both internal and external aspects.

In the first battle of Sichuan, the Manchu forces of the Jin State lost most of them, Haoge could only rely on the Han people, Wu Sangui was named the king of Shu, Meng Qiaofang was named the king of Yongping County, and even the newly surrendered Sun Kewang was also named the king of Guiyi, and the Han ministers basically grasped the power and began to prepare for war.

In addition to mobilizing his own troops and horses, Hauge could only put down his face and beg Dolgon, asking Dolgon to attack the Ming Dynasty and help him share the pressure.

When Dolgon in Beijing saw Hauge's letter, he was secretly refreshed and at the same time, he was also very worried about the Ming Dynasty becoming bigger.

With Hauge's breach of the treaty this year, the energy and strategic focus of the Ming Dynasty shifted to the southwest, and Dolgon and the Qing Kingdom only felt relaxed. It not only repelled the invasion of the Moxi Mongolian Junggar Department, but also subdued the Mobei Mongolia, and the power was slightly restored, and what is more gratifying is that it taught the North Korea a lesson, defeated 30,000 Ming troops in Korea, and greatly increased the morale of the Qing army, which can be said to have transferred the decline of the Great Qing State in one fell swoop.

All of this is thanks to one person, that is, Haoge, if he hadn't taken the initiative to set himself on fire, the Great Qing Kingdom would not have been so easy.

Looking at Hauge's letter, Dolgon was very hesitant, after all, he was preparing to solve Jiang Jiu in Shanxi, step by step to eradicate the Han warlords who supported the army and respected themselves in the Qing Dynasty, and strengthened the centralization of power.

In a blink of an eye, at the end of 1651, the Ming Dynasty began to summarize the accounts at the end of the year, and found that because of several wars, the imperial court had a debt of more than 6 million yuan this year.

In this regard, the council hall was a little dissatisfied with Wang Yan, who held great power, and hoped that the imperial court could fill the treasury first.

Wang Yan wants to drastically rectify the military and government and increase the national strength, and he really needs the national treasury to be full, and he can't always eat grain.

If you want to enrich the national treasury and enhance the national strength, what do you rely on? Of course, it's the economy, and you can't do anything without money.

In the past few years, the economy of the South has gradually recovered, and industry and commerce have become more and more developed, but it still cannot afford to cope with the huge expenses brought about by frequent wars, and the treasury is still stretched.

The economy of the Southern Song Dynasty was developed enough, reaching more than 100 million yuan when the annual income was high, but it still could not hold up the long-term tug-of-war, and finally went bankrupt after persisting for nearly 50 years.

The annual income of the Ming Dynasty was less than 20 million, and it was a dream to throttle, so Wang Yan could only focus on overseas trade, because this was the most profitable.

In the third year of the co-rule, Wang Yan decided to further strengthen the imperial court's control over the various treaty ports, in addition to the previous promotion of the post of the city shipping department, which was directly dispatched by the central government and unified management, from next year onwards, other officials of the city shipping department must also be approved and appointed by the central government, so as to strengthen the central government's management of overseas trade.

In addition, Wang Yan will also send envoys to Japan to revise the trade treaty.

Japan is now in a state of seclusion, and most of the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan is smuggling, mainly with the daimyo in southern Japan, the Ouchi family, and the Shimazu clan.

This smuggling was too small on a small scale, and it was in the hands of the Zheng family and the Lu Wang faction, which prevented other merchants from entering Japan, and Sino-Japanese trade could not be expanded.

The current silver of the Ming Dynasty is partly imported from Japan, many merchants are eager to further open the Japanese market, Wang Yan wants to open source, only negotiate with Japan, hope that the Japanese shogunate can allow Chinese to freely enter the Japanese trade, in order to further expand the market.

In addition to Japan, the Nanyang vassals also had to revise the treaty anew, and the original tributary system of exploration trade could no longer be applied to the current ordinary maritime trade, and the treaty had to be revised.

In addition, in the South Seas, there has been a bottleneck in maritime trade, with the Dutch sphere of influence in the south, the Spaniards in the east, and the Nanyang overlord Donghu in the west, and the Ming Dynasty being surrounded in the middle and unable to develop.

It is said that the Zheng family's fleet has avoided the power of the Guangnan merchants, directly crossed the South Seas, and drove the fleet to Tianzhu, but the voyage is far away, and the sea ships encountered at sea, no matter which force, can become pirates at any time, and the Zheng family does not have a stronghold like the Dutch along the way, and the trade road is not smooth.

Guangnan merchants are not as strong as the Zheng family at sea, so it is naturally impossible to venture to Tianzhu, they aim at Spain, which has gradually declined, and want to obtain the Luzon region, but the strength of the maritime merchants is not very strong now, and there are very few ships that can be equipped with twelve-pounder guns, and they cannot shake Spain.

At this time, a Cantonese minister began to write to the imperial court, saying that the Spaniards had destroyed our subject country and had massacred the Ming people in Luzon, hoping that the imperial court would come forward to protect the Chinese in Luzon and help the Luzon people restore the country.

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