After receiving the two letters sent by Lu Shanji, Emperor Chongzhen took a closer look and knew that Huang Taiji had resorted to this plan of negotiating peace and delaying the army and borrowing a knife to kill people, and he soon had a countermeasure in his heart.

It happened that at this time, it was time to transfer the food and salary materials for the third quarter of the second year of Chongzhen to the towns on the nine sides, so in the afternoon of the same day, Emperor Chongzhen sent two groups of ministers to serve as the leader, each with Tiancewei and Yulinwei, and prepared to escort the food and salary out of Beijing and go to Liaodong Town and Dongjiang Town.

The minister who went to Dongjiang Town this time was also the eunuch Chu Xianxian, the chief eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the head of the Imperial Attendant Military Attaché.

Chu Xianzhang went to Dongjiang Town in September last year to transfer food and salaries and sit in charge of the war, and he was not only familiar with Mao Wenlong, but also with the generals of the various general troops in Dongjiang Town below Mao Wenlong.

Because this time, it is not only as simple as escorting food, but also more important things to do.

Emperor Chongzhen asked him to bring a letter written by the slave chief Huang Taiji to the Ming Dynasty, which contained Huang Taiji's request that the Ming Dynasty punish Mao Wenlong and return Liu Xingzuo's brothers.

At a critical time, this should be taken out and used to motivate Anton Hou Mao Wenlong and Liu Xingzuo to lead the army to fight Liaodong Jianyu.

It's just that the timing of taking it out must be grasped properly, and this can only make Chu Xianxian, who is familiar with the inside of Dongjiang Town, out of the box.

As for the minister who led the team to Liaodong Town, it was Zheng Zhihui, the eunuch who accompanied the eunuch.

Zheng Zhihui, like Cao Huachun, was born in the inner study hall of Ouchi, but Chongzhen has always belonged to the kind that stands aside before he ascends the throne.

Now when Emperor Chongzhen cleaned the twenty-four yamen of the inner court, Zheng Zhihui did not take refuge in Cao Huachun, who was powerful at that time, but took refuge in Wang Chengen, who was younger than himself.

Not long ago, under the recommendation of Wang Chengen, a celebrity in front of the emperor, he entered the ceremonial eunuch as he wished, and became a eunuch with a hall slightly lower than the eunuch Bingbi, but he can already take turns as the celebrant eunuch.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen selected this Zheng Zhihui from a bunch of ministers, not because he was Wang Chengen's person, but because he was born in the inner study hall, not only very familiar with the various rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, but also flexible and very introverted, not a rigid person.

Such people make it difficult for them to stick to their integrity in the face of great calamity, but they are very suitable for this kind of negotiation and negotiation of hypocrisy and bargaining.

In fact, there are many people who are suitable for doing this kind of thing in the current Ming Dynasty, but the current Emperor Chongzhen knows that the matter of "negotiating peace" with Houjin must not be leaked out.

Huang Taiji is a fake peace, and now Emperor Chongzhen knows it, so his peace negotiation is also a fake negotiation and a fake negotiation, but it is just a false and a snake to paralyze Huang Taiji.

But this matter is above the Ming Dynasty, but it is a matter of seeing the light and dying.

Once a little bit of information leaks out, the matter will be self-defeating and there will be no way to continue.

Historically, Emperor Chongzhen was not without a little peace heart, when Yuan Chonghuan reported to him the Pingliao strategy, he put forward three methods, that is, "keep for the right, war for the odd, and peace for the side".

Regardless of whether the "harmony is aside" or not, it was a back road left by Yuan Chonghuan for himself at that time, but when Yuan Chonghuan reported this Pingliao strategy, Emperor Chongzhen agreed with his mouth.

However, later, after Yuan Chonghuan's private peace agreement with Houjin was exposed, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all resentful and indignant, and they all said that Yuan Chonghuan was a traitor.

Therefore, in history, Yuan Chonghuan had such a miserable end.

Later, Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department who was ordered to negotiate peace with the Later Jin Tongshu, was afraid of repeating the mistakes of the past and ending up with the same fate as Yuan Chonghuan, so he reserved evidence and recorded the things that Emperor Chongzhen had privately confessed to him, and revealed it to his friends in the same year, saying that the emperor asked him to do this kind of thing, and he was ordered to undertake it.

As a result, the news quickly leaked out, and it caused an uproar again.

In order to calm down the situation, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to state that he had no intention of making peace with the ugly prisoner, and then beheaded Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department who had leaked the news.

In view of this historical situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even if the Chongzhen Emperor is a fake peace, he does not dare to make it public, because for the construction of Liaodong, the Manchu Dynasty is the main war, so the space for negotiation and peace almost does not exist.

This is also the reason why, in history, from the Emperor of the Apocalypse to the Chongzhen Emperor, for more than 20 years, he would rather fight on two or even three fronts, and did not formally negotiate peace with the envoys of the Later Jin.

Now that he knows this situation, now Emperor Chongzhen naturally can't let the civil officials who have some political cleanliness to operate this matter, but can only let the ministers around him do it, and he can't let too conspicuous people do it.

For example, Cao Huachun, the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant is also a suitable candidate, but when the emperor is in Beijing, the eunuch of the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant leaves Beijing to do business, which is definitely a great event and will quickly attract the attention of the courtiers.

Once the attention of the courtiers is aroused, then the matter will not be able to go on immediately.

In this way, Zheng Zhihui, the newly promoted eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, is a suitable role.

He is Wang Chengen's cronies, so he naturally becomes a trusted person of the emperor, and some confidants can be explained to him.

At the same time, he is just a eunuch in the court, and with the emperor's decree, escorting the food and salary to the important town of Liaodong is also a reasonable thing, and naturally it will not attract anyone's attention.

On the first day of the seventh month, after the meeting of the Tsunayama Palace, it was the Imperial Meeting of the Bunkaden attended by the cabinet ministers and the relevant personnel of the six ministries.

At this meeting, Emperor Chongzhen agreed with Li Guohao, the first assistant of the cabinet, and others on the collection of summer taxes, the progress of the preparation of the World Bank, as well as the second town barracks of the Guards Army, the preparation of salaries and other important affairs of the court, and then took the opportunity to propose to understand the matter of sending the grain and salary of the nine sides in the third quarter.

Because Emperor Chongzhen still decided to pay the nine-sided military salary this time, and the cumulative amount of three million silver dollars would still be allocated from the internal funds, so the two ministers who participated in the imperial meeting of the Wenhua Palace, the two ministers and the two scholars of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry, of course, had no opinions.

In this way, on July 2, the eunuch Zheng Zhihui left Beijing with the secret decree of Emperor Chongzhen, went to Tongzhou, and handed over the money, grain and materials transferred to Liaodong Town with Bi Maoliang, the governor of Hubu Cangchang, and then went east out of Shanhaiguan.

When Emperor Chongzhen interviewed him, he instructed him to go to Jinzhou City to sit in Jinzhou City and negotiate with the slave chief Huang Taiji about the demarcation of the border and the contract.

However, negotiating peace does not mean not preparing for war, nor does it mean not fighting, what should the army in Jinzhou City do.

As for whether Huang Taiji will go to the emperor or something, whatever he wants, anyway, he will destroy him in the future, and he is now willing to call himself the God of Haotian by him.

As for the conditions put forward by Huang Taiji, such as the punishment of Mao Wenlong and Liu Xingzuo, it is not completely impossible to discuss.

But to talk about this issue, the Ming Dynasty also has conditions, that is, let Huang Taiji return Li Yongfang, Sun Degong, Bao Chengxian and other Ming army generals and rebel generals.

As for the issue of demarcation, the issue of Mongolia, and the issue of North Korea, they can all be discussed, and Emperor Chongzhen also explained the bottom line to Zheng Zhihui one by one.

On the morning of the fifth day of the seventh lunar month, after leaving Shanhaiguan, Zheng Zhihui took the former soldiers and horses accompanying the escort, left the slow-moving team to transport food and wages, and quickly went north to Ningyuan.

In the evening, he arrived at Ningyuan City, and after meeting with Lu Shanji, he conveyed to Lu Shanji, Man Gui, Chen Renxi, and Sun Zhan alone that Emperor Chongzhen asked Liaodong Town to step up preparations for war while pretending to negotiate peace.

On the sixth day of the seventh month, Zheng Zhihui led the former soldiers and horses accompanying the escort, accompanied by Sun Zhan, a thousand households of the Qianhu Institute of Jinyi Wei Liaodong, and Shi Zhuguo, the commander of the Chinese army under He Kegang, arrived in Jinzhou.

At noon on the second day, Zheng Zhihui immediately sent someone to secretly rush to the outside of Dalinghe City, which had been garrisoned by Jian, and submitted a letter to answer, starting the process of Emperor Chongzhen's plan to pretend to negotiate peace with the Houjin State.