Although Wang Chunyun stood up, he still maintained an appearance of being in a trance due to excessive impact, although Zhu Youzhen saw it in his heart, he didn't go to his heart.

He and the people of this era can be said to be completely different in terms of values, so naturally they cannot understand these people's awe of imperial power and worship of the Forbidden City, where the Son of Heaven lives.

Even though the Forbidden City in Nanjing has been abandoned for nearly 200 years, it is still a symbol of imperial power. Such a place was taken out by Chongzhen and mortgaged to a businessman, just to borrow a sum of money to be paid in installments of 10 years, which is really incredible.

If this loan contract spreads, it is estimated that the criticism of the government and the opposition will bury the central bank, and it is precisely because Wang Chunyun thought of this consequence that he was so frightened.

But for Chongzhen, Daming is the root of all this, if Daming doesn't exist, not to mention the Forbidden City in Nanjing, everything in this Beijing city will not be surnamed Zhu.

For more than 10 years, he has vigorously supported the expansion of the central bank, and the annual profit of this bank has more than doubled the annual income of the previous two Huai salt industries.

In fact, with the advancement of the Ming reform, the power base of this society is developing from land ownership to the possession of social resources. The orthodox Mandate of Heaven and the so-called royal majesty of the past are gradually being receding to the new factory owners and traders who wield vast amounts of social resources.

At this time, the boundaries between royal property and state property also became clearer. In the past, civil officials were dissatisfied with the emperor's use of the funds of the Ministry to repair the imperial palace, and tried all day long to get the emperor to use the inner treasury to subsidize the state's expenses.

Today, then, the civil servants have realized that since they cannot hinder the progress of the imperial reform, the state finances, which have gradually become healthier after the reform, should be cut off from the palace, so as to prevent the emperor from being satisfied with private enjoyment with the funds of the household department in the future.

At present, although the emperor is still subsidizing the state with the money from the inner treasury, it is showing a trend of decreasing year by year. Others believe that if the customs can be taken back to the state, the gap in the state's finances can be filled immediately, and there is no need for the inner treasury to continue to subsidize.

Therefore, some radical officials began to advocate that there should be a distinction between inside and outside, that there should be a clear distinction between public and private, and that the use of the royal family should no longer be as unrestricted as in the past, so that the system of feudal worship formulated by Zhang Juzheng should be imitated, and the state should allocate a fixed fee to the royal family every year, and the customs should be taken back from the state, and the investment industries under the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs should also be re-screened, and certain industries should be received under the name of the Ministry of Households.

It should be said that from the standpoint of these officials, these suggestions are not wrong. Even if Chongzhen has raised a large amount of funds to subsidize the state over the years, it cannot change the fact that his brother and grandfather have spent a lot of money on himself and his children.

If it weren't for the wanton squandering of the previous Ming emperors, the treasury would not have been so empty when Tianqi and Chongzhen ascended the throne. Therefore, it is only natural that these officials want to take advantage of the opportunity of the reform to continue to implement the reform and fix the use of the imperial family, so as to create obstacles for the emperor to use the funds of the ministry as much as possible.

Naturally, the ideas of these officials were opposed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and with the exception of the Customs, the various undertakings invested by the Ministry of Internal Affairs had nothing to do with the Foreign Court. These civil officials of the outer court not only want to take away the management of the customs, but also want to take away the wealth they have worked so hard to create.

Even Chongzhen himself, for these officials on the letter is also extremely unhappy, although he knows that this is the inevitability of the country's financial system, but in the current Ming Dynasty, lost the free disposal of financial power, which is equivalent to giving up the power in his hands, and those civil officials may not be able to solve the current troubles of the Ming Dynasty, which is naturally unacceptable to him.

Of course, he can't deal with this matter easily, after all, he used such an excuse to clean up the clan and the nobles, and if he changed the rules when it came to himself, it would inevitably cause a counterattack from the old school.

In such a situation, it is necessary for Zhu Youzhen to take precautions and divide certain things first. For example, the Forbidden City in Beijing and Nanjing, these two palaces and the eunuchs and palace maids served in them, he felt that they should be owned by the state, and could not be counted in the future royal family. This kind of palace, which was built on the financial resources of the entire country, was not able to afford the maintenance costs of the fixed royal family.

So no matter how difficult Wang Chunyun is to accept, he still wants to mortgage the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and then let the imperial court slowly redeem it, so as to break the concept of the Forbidden City as the emperor's private property.

After signaling Wang Chunyun to take a sip of tea to calm down his emotions, Zhu Youzhen said the third thing to explain today, "Before the New Year's Day, Shenyang sent a delegation of envoys and sent a handwritten letter from Huang Taiji, and the tone of the letter was quite humble, indicating that the Manchu Qing were willing to surrender to my Ming Dynasty and respect my Ming Dynasty as the suzerain's country.

Since then, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be a subject country of my Ming Dynasty, and the Aixinjue Luo clan will be my Ming Dynasty Yongzhen Liaodong, and the two countries will never stop the sword soldiers and share the peaceful world.

The third thing I have told you is that I want you to negotiate with the Manchu envoy on behalf of the imperial court. ”

After being so shocked just now, in the face of such an unexpected appointment by the emperor, Wang Chunyun was not so surprised, he just said in a trance: "But the minister is just a businessman, and he doesn't know how to negotiate peace?"

Moreover, the minister was not an official official of the imperial court, so how could he negotiate with the Manchu envoys on behalf of the imperial court? ”

Zhu Youzhen said disapprovingly: "The matter of identity is well resolved, the key point is that the purpose of this negotiation must not deviate from my grasp, if the officials of the DPRK and China are allowed to negotiate, it is very likely that Huang Taiji can achieve the goal of this negotiation."

After all, it has been almost 20 years since the fall of Liaodong, except for a small number of Liaodong officials and ordinary people, others are not so insistent on recovering Liaodong, and most of the officials in the DPRK and China actually hope that the status quo will be maintained.

As long as the Manchurians can't cross the northern defense line, they can live their current stable life. What they are most worried about now is that they are now strongly advocating the recovery of Liaodong, but if there is another defeat of Sarhu, it will be equivalent to more than ten years in vain. They are going back to the old life of worrying all day long, not knowing when the Manchurians will break through.

Therefore, no matter how much I emphasize the instructions, I am afraid that someone will still take advantage of this opportunity to reach a de facto peace treaty with the Manchus, thus putting the imperial court's policy towards the Manchus at risk of failure.

It was only because of your status as not an official that I was less influenced by these officials that I wanted you to be in charge of this matter. Moreover, the policy towards the Manchus will also be led by you businessmen, and it is not a problem for you to start contact with the Manchus now. ”

Since Chongzhen has said it so bluntly, although Wang Chunyun knows that this is not a good errand, he can only accept it and say: "The minister should follow His Majesty's wishes to negotiate, I don't know what Your Majesty wants about this negotiation?" ”

Zhu Youzhen pondered for a long time before he said: "Peace is a thing that both the Ming and Manchu people need now. It's just that everyone is not the same for the purpose of this peace, and the Ming Dynasty needs peace now because it has to deal with various domestic crises first, and the time to recover Liaodong is not ripe enough, so we need to maintain peace with the Manchurians for a period of time, and you can also see it as a break in the middle of the war.

As for the Manchurians' thoughts on this peace, I think they want to recuperate in anticipation of internal problems in my Ming Dynasty; Another idea was to use this negotiation to conclude a formal treaty that would clarify the political rights and obligations between the Ming and the Manchus, and thus gain political recognition.

In the past, the Manchurians were conceited and strong in martial arts, so they didn't care whether or not I recognized them as independent states. But today, the Manchus' martial arts are no longer able to deter the surrounding forces, so they will naturally seek the political recognition of the Manchus by the Ming Dynasty, so as to get rid of their status as a rebel regime under the Ming Dynasty.

If it was in the past, this little bit of careful thinking of the Manchu people would basically be useless to me. After all, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. A Hu regime that does not accept the king, and it is only right for the Central Plains Dynasty to send troops to fight.

However, today's world is no longer the world of the past, and China is reintegrating the political relations between overseas countries and China through treaties. Once the treaty is formally concluded, if you want to use troops against the Manchus again in the future, you will lose points politically, and this will also give the Manchus the justice to resist our DPRK's dispatch of troops to quell the rebellion.

So the outcome of this negotiation was needed by both the Ming and the Manchus. However, the agreement on a treaty should not be an obstacle for our DPRK to send troops to Shenyang in the future. Do you understand what I say? ”

Under the emperor's gaze, Wang Chunyun's mind spun rapidly, and he quickly said tentatively: "Your Majesty means that there should be no words and phrases such as the juxtaposition of the two countries, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty in the content of the treaty?" ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and said, "Yes, anything that may be regarded as a negotiation between the two countries should not appear in the treaty." I hope this is just an armistice between the central court and the local separatist powers, not a peace treaty between the two countries.

At the moment, we have the upper hand, so it is only natural to put forward some harsh conditions. And time is also on our side, and the longer the negotiations drag on, the better it will be for us.

So you don't have to worry about the breakdown of this negotiation, as long as we don't stop the negotiation in the first place, the responsibility for the breakdown of the negotiation will be borne by the other side first. This will be beneficial when our dynasty has dealt with its internal problems and then sent troops to Liaodong..."

After hearing the emperor's clear instructions, Wang Chunyun was finally relieved. In other words, the outcome of this negotiation is actually not so important, the important thing is to maintain the negotiation, in order to show the outside world that the Ming still hopes to maintain peace with the Manchus, so as to appease those officials and people who are disgusted with the Manchus and continue the war.

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