Although Chongzhen was very interested in meeting Huang Taiji, a famous person in history, his idea was quickly stopped by Yuan Chonghuan and others.

First, for his safety, several of Houjin's big Baylors are all generals who are older than the military array, but they are not comparable to Chongzhen, who is longer than the deep palace, even if Chongzhen has been on the battlefield several times.

The second is that this peace is not Houjin bowing his head to Daming, and the place where the two sides meet is to set up a tent in the middle of the battlefield. Such an equal meeting is not in line with etiquette, and it will be criticized by domestic public opinion if it is propagated.

Zhu Youzhen was unwilling to quarrel with his subordinates over these trivial matters, so he appointed Yuan Chonghuan to conduct this informal peace talks. Although Daming didn't mind talking slowly, Huang Taiji and Dai Shan, who confirmed that they had no chance of turning the tables, were very decisive.

They were also worried that the peace talks were a delaying tactic thrown out by the Ming Dynasty, so they did not dwell on some details, but only promised that the territory of the Later Jin and Mongolia would be divided in the Daxing'an Mountains, but denied the Ming Dynasty's protective status of the Mongol tribes in southern Mo, and did not recognize the suzerainty of the Chahar tribe over the Trans-Khalkha tribe.

With the Ming army returning the wounded and corpses to Houjin as agreed, Huang Taiji had already arranged for the army to begin to retreat in batches to the gap on the northeast side of the basin. After occupying this gap, Houjin breathed a sigh of relief and knew that this war was really over.

The Ming army sent the 1st and 7th cavalry divisions to follow and monitor the movements of the Houjin army, and put the remaining prisoners back one after another.

Due to the victory of the Ming army, the Ming army gained the right to clean up the battlefield after the war, which made many wounded Ming and Mongolian soldiers get timely assistance, although many people lost part of their limbs, but they still saved their lives. The field hospital set up by the Ming army has reduced the mortality rate of the wounded on the battlefield to less than 30%, which has greatly alleviated the soldiers' fear of injury.

On the third day after the end of the war, that is, the day the Later Jin army withdrew, Cao Bianjiao finally came to his senses. Zhu Youzhen went to visit him as soon as he woke up, and in addition to asking him to recuperate from his injuries, he also assured him that the dead and wounded of the Eighth Cavalry Division would be properly resettled.

On the fifth day after the end of the war, Zhu Youzhen once again inspected the various units that participated in the war, commended the meritorious personnel who participated in the battle, and transferred one cavalry battalion from each of the Guards Division, the First Cavalry Division, and the Seventh Cavalry Division to supplement the Eighth Cavalry Division, restored the organizational system of the Eighth Cavalry Division, and presented the Eighth Cavalry Division with the title of Ulanqab Heroic Division.

With the initial establishment of the field army system, the senior officers of the various ministries finally began to understand what it meant for the emperor to bestow honorary titles on certain troops. This is not only an empty name for the Yue family army and the Qi family army in the past, but also represents the status of these armies in the emperor's heart.

If the status of the field army lies above the status of the local garrison, then the troops with honorary titles are above the ordinary field army, and the officers and men from these honorary units are more likely to be promoted and favored by the emperor. However, with the rise of the combat effectiveness of the various units of the Ming army, it seems that the honorary title is becoming more and more difficult to obtain.

For example, the Ninth Cavalry Division, which fought with the Eighth Cavalry Division, let the Eighth Cavalry Division take away all its aura because Zuo Guang first took care of the strength of his own army. Although the Ninth Cavalry Division also received many awards, it did not receive an honorary title, which made the Ninth Cavalry Division feel quite disappointed.

The First Battle of Ulanqab shattered the myth of the invincibility of the Houjin field, and after the news of the victory spread, many officials who criticized the staff system and the field army system were blocked. At the same time, the performance of the Ming army in this battle also shocked the Mongol tribes, and they no longer dared to regard the Ming army as an army that could only defend the city.

After this war, some Chahar nobles led by Gonchuktaiji finally dismissed the re-election of the Mongol Great Khan to maintain the independent status of the Chahar tribe, and instead accepted Chongzhen's wooing and bribery.

After the military parade in Ulanqab, Zhu Youzhen proposed to the leaders of the Mongolian tribes present to convene a Kuritai conference to decide on the affairs of the Mongolian tribes during Lin Dan Khan's absence and the development plan for how the Mongolian people would build their homeland in the future.

Under the operation of the emperor, the Kuritai Assembly, which originally only decided the throne of the Chahar Khan, eventually expanded into a conference with the participation of the entire Mongol tribes in southern Mongol, of course, these tribes did not include those Mongol tribes under the rule of the Later Jin.

In order to facilitate the ministries to send representatives to attend the meeting, the enlarged Kuritai conference was placed in Fengzhen for a month later. Under Chongzhen's orders, an oval building was built outside Fengzhen that could be used for meetings of hundreds of people. At the same time, the Jin Chamber of Commerce, the Shanxi Bank, the Religious Committee led by Liu Jingting, and the disciples recruited by Huang Daozhou in Inner Mongolia all began to exchange and communicate with the representatives of various ministries.

Just as Chongzhen was busy preparing for the Kuritai Conference, which was attended by the Mongol tribes of Southern China, a caravan from China had just entered the city of Moscow, accompanied by officials sent by the Tomsk Yamen. This was not only the first time that a Chinese caravan had crossed the Ural Mountains, but also the first time it had entered the heart of Russia.

Li Zicheng and others, who had just stepped onto the wharf, were immediately attracted by the Kremlin towering on the Borovitsky hill on the Moscow River and the St. Basil's Church opposite it.

The zigzag red city walls and the tall and majestic spires of the buildings brought them no less shock than the buildings in Xi'an. It was only then that they were finally convinced that the country of Russia was somewhat different from the Tartars of the steppes.

Russia in 1632 was the period of national recovery that ended the chaotic period since Ivan the Terrible. Of course, at this time, Russia was still in an era of wanton bullying by its neighbors, except for the wild people in the Siberian jungle, as long as it was a country, it could come and bully the Russians.

Sweden in the north seized from the Russians five cities, including Yam and Ivan, which surrounded the Gulf of Finland, cutting off Russia's access to the Baltic Sea.

The Crimean Khanate in the south inherited the mantle of the Golden Horde, but became a semi-vassal of the Ottoman Empire, not only in its own *, but also in an attempt to establish a new * state on the banks of the Volga. Whether it is due to historical tradition or religious culture, the Crimean Khanate is the most wary enemy of the Russians.

To the west, the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom was Russia's most powerful and sinister enemy, and the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom was essentially a co-commonwealth, with separate executive and legislative branches in addition to the same king.

The Polish-Lithuanian kingdom under Sigmund III not only took away large swathes of Russian land, but also twice stormed Moscow, erected a puppet tsar, Dimitri, and cut off the head of another.

Even when the Polish-Lithuanian forces were driven out of Moscow, Sigmund III refused to recognize Mikhail, elected by the All-Russian Gentry, as the Tsar of Russia, insisting that his son, Prince Vladislav of Poland, was the real Tsar. But fortunately, the Polish king, who frightened the Russians, finally died this year.

While celebrating the death of the Polish king, the Russians were eager to start a war to recapture the city of Smolensk, which had been ceded to Poland in 1618.

As for the domestic situation in Russia, Tsar Mikhail Romanov, elected by the All-Russian Gentry Congress, was not a strong monarch, and even refused to be the tsar at first, fearing that he would become the next tsar to be beheaded by the Polish king. Thus, for a few years after his accession to the throne, Russia was controlled by the All-Russian Gentry Assembly, controlled by the great nobility, not by the Tsar's court.

However, this situation ended in 1619 when the Tsar's father, Patriarch Filaret, was released by the Poles, a determined and ruthless strongman who, upon his return to Moscow, took over from his son the power to act on behalf of the Tsar and soon pushed the great nobles out of the political center of Russia.

Patriarch Filaret and some wise men among the Russian nobility realized that Russia needed a strong army if it wanted to defend itself; And if you want to build a strong army, you must enrich the treasury.

In Russia at that time, in order to enrich the national treasury, one was to increase the land tax and the other was to vigorously develop trade and find ways to get rid of trade taxes. It is clear that an increase in land taxes will harm the interests of the aristocracy,

Therefore, Russia's reform began with trade taxation. The new statistics on the number of inhabitants and state property have strongly encouraged trade with foreign countries, making customs revenues the main source of finance for the State treasury. The conquest of the vast Siberia was creating a lot of wealth for Russia and enriching its treasury.

Because of the strong state obstacles in the north, west, and south, Russia has been forced to constantly expand into the Siberian jungle to the east, allowing them to find a treasure trove of skins. However, the Russians have also been looking for what the Tatars call the rich silk country Khan Bali in the east, trying to get enough wealth from this distant eastern country to allow Russia to fulfill its dream of rising.

This also makes it so that when Li Zicheng's caravan arrived at Tomsk, a wooden and stone castle 60 kilometers away from the mouth of the Ob River, at the foot of the South Mountain on the right bank of the Tomi River, after more than 10 months, the military and political chief of this castle thought that this caravan from Khan Bali was here to express submission to the tsar.

The leader of the caravan immediately expressed his anger to the military governor through an interpreter, and said that the military governor knew that the Erut and Altan Khan were vassals of the Ming monarch, and that they had come to Russia only to open trade routes and present the Tsar with credentials of friendship between the two countries, and that they had not come to be humiliated.

The military commander looked at the Tatar who was acting as an interpreter, but did not dare to refute the caravan leader's statement, and immediately realized that the information they had learned from the Tatar about China might be wrong.

As a Russian nobleman who had pioneered Siberia and Central Asia, the military governor of Tomsk was clearly a flexible man. He quickly apologized to the leader of the caravan and promised to send someone to escort the caravan to Moscow to meet the Tsar and present his credentials.

The distance from Tomsk to Moscow took up about a third of the caravan's trip, but the members of the caravan found it much easier than the previous one. Because there are waterways everywhere along this route, you don't have to rely on livestock and feet anymore.