Chapter 32: The Meaning of Peace

The heart of the Great Zhao Empire, Jingshi City, is a genius who is bright and bright, and the morning star hangs lonely in the sky. The eunuch on duty in the Thousand Steps Corridor saw that the eastern sky was slightly revealing a white line, and shouted to his companion in a low voice with a sharp voice: "It's dawn, it's time to put out the lantern." ”

For a few days, the eunuch looked up at the white line of the eastern sky, rubbed his sleepy eyes, walked to the lantern and turned on the lampshade to blow it out. With the sound of blowing, the lanterns were blown out one after another.

"It's only the hour to blow the lamp! It's not bright yet! Liu Sili, the secretary of the ministry, didn't pay attention when he walked, accidentally stepped on the hem of the official uniform, almost fell, and complained dissatisfiedly.

"Shaorui (Liu Sili's word Shaorui), say a few words." Su Ke, the head of the household, walked cautiously with his hem, "The emperor advocates thrift, and the palace is thrifty up and down, and the emperor ordered that as long as the sky is bright, except for the lights in the three major halls, the lights in other places must be extinguished." ”

"That's not such a provincial law." Liu Sili still said dissatisfiedly, "The money that should be spent must be spent, if we let the barbarians see that we can even save money for this lamp, wouldn't our Da Zhao let those barbarians despise it?" ”

As they spoke, both of them walked to Wenyuan Pavilion, Liu Sili closed his mouth knowingly, and walked lightly into Wenyuan Pavilion with Su Ke.

In Wenyuan Pavilion, Xu Hongqian was sitting on the desk approving the document, and the two saluted Xu Hongqian and said good morning, and walked to their respective positions to work. But they can only work from standing.

Xu Hongqian took away the paperweight jade, took out a ticket from it, and said to Su Ke: "Shouxing (Su Ke character Shouxing), this is Guoliang (Peng Chaodongzi Guoliang) vote proposal on reopening the Beiyuan Tea and Horse Market, you can take it and take a look." ”

Su Ke humbly walked up to Xu Hongqian and took the ticket with both hands: "Hasn't the emperor already approved the ticket for the Beiyuan Tea Horse Market, why did you get another one?" ”

"The emperor of the Beiyuan Tea Horse Market agreed to open it, but the batch of tea quotations was too small, and Guoliang Shangshu asked the emperor to batch more tea quotations." Xu Hongqian said leisurely.

Su Ke's eyes swept over the ticket in his hand: "160,000 catties of tea is not a small amount, and the Beiyuan Tea and Horse Market in the Shenzong Dynasty at that time was only 100,000 catties of tea." ”

"At this time, at that time, Guoliang was under great pressure to go out of Liaodong, in addition to the pseudo-Liao, he also had to deal with the barbarians in Mobei, Chahar and other places. The King of Pingliao in western Liaoxi and the Duke of Wu'an in southeastern Liao were also not at ease, and the imperial court wanted to control the situation in eastern Liao, so it had to give more support to Guoliang. ”

"Teacher, let the students think again." Su Ke returned to his place.

Xu Hongqian nodded: "You are the head of the household, how much tea can you give to guide you to grasp it, too much is not good, it is not good to give less, if there are more Lu Zongcheng, those people have to make noise in the emperor's ears again, and it is also very difficult for the old man over there to give Guoliang." ”

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At this moment, Peng Chaodong, who is in Liaodong, is anxiously waiting for the cabinet's approval for increasing the tea introduction of the Beiyuan Tea Horse Market.

The Governor's Mansion of Liaodong was originally located in Liaoyang, and after the loss of Liaoyang, the Governor's Mansion of Liaodong was moved to Jinzhou City. There had just been a heavy snowfall last night, and the servants of the Governor's Palace were sweeping the snow in front of the Governor's Palace with brooms.

Peng Yuqian hurriedly walked into the governor's mansion and saw Peng Chaodong: "Father." ”

Hearing the word "father", Peng Chaodong looked displeased, buckled the table and reprimanded: "How many times have you said it, there is no father in the court, only Peng Chaodong, the governor of Liaodong!" ”

"Yes, Lord Governor." Peng Yuqian hurriedly changed his words.

"Anyway, what's going on in the North Plains Tea Horse Market?"

"It's still too little tea." Peng Yuqian said, "My subordinates went around Beiyuan, and there were many barbarians waiting for the transaction, and it was estimated that there were no two or three hundred thousand catties of tea, and it was probably not easy for Beiyuan Tea and Horse Market to continue." ”

"I have already neglected the matter of tea introduction, please ask the emperor to send some more tea introduction." Peng Chaodong asked again, "The envoys from the Chahar Department have also come to meet you, have they expressed their position?" ”

"Chahar Menggu has the meaning of peace." Peng Yuqian replied, "It's just that their asking price is too high, not only asking us to reopen the Beiyuan Tea and Horse Market and increase the number of tea, but also asking for 500,000 taels of silver per year." ”

When Peng Chaodong was the governor of Shaanxi, he went out of the fortress five times and expelled the forces of the Meng people from the Hetao. To this day, the deterrent effect on the Mongols is still there, and it is impossible for other feudal officials of the empire to force the Mongols to negotiate at this time, but Peng Chaodong and the Meng people will negotiate peace, and the Mongols will naturally consider it. However, the peace negotiation price of 500,000 taels, Peng Chaodong could not accept it. The emperor's expenses were tight, and Peng Chaodong did not have the ability to take out 500,000 taels of silver to negotiate peace with the Mongols at once. There are mainly two major departments of Mobei Menggu and Chahar Menggu, and the price of Chahar is so high, the price of Mobei Menggu peace talks is definitely not low.

"Continue to talk, the price of 500,000 taels is too high. The imperial court paid the Huang family and the He family today, and the total amount of silver issued by the two families was only 550,000 taels of silver. Peng Chaodong said, "Keep the price to the lowest." ”

"My subordinates have always wondered why they didn't rely on the Huang family to contain Menggu, so that the governor could free up his hands to clean up the pseudo-Liao, and he wouldn't be so tired." Peng Yuqian sighed.

Peng Chaodong smiled: "If the Huang family is reliable, Gao Guang will not fall so badly." You have to remember that everything can only be relied on by ourselves, if we want to pacify the pseudo-Liao, we can only rely on ourselves, we can't expect too much from other forces in Liaodong, the Huang family is unreliable, the He family in southeast Liaoning is also unreliable, and the only people who can rely on it are ourselves. ”

Peng Yuqian thought for a moment and sighed: "The subordinates understand, the subordinates will try their best to do this matter, but the subordinates still have something unclear." ”

"Just ask."

"Is it the Governor's idea that the center instructed the Governor to make peace with the Moe Ancient People, or is it the Governor's own idea?" Peng Yuqian said the question that puzzled him for a long time, Emperor Taizu was established at the beginning of the country, and he did not fit in, did not pay compensation, and did not pay tribute. Peace talks with the Meng ancients obviously violated the ancestral teachings of Taizu, and even if someone in the cabinet put forward the idea of peace talks with the Meng people, it will soon be refuted. Since the center of the imperial court could not have the intention of peace talks, then peace talks could only be made by Peng Chaodong on his own initiative to negotiate peace with the Mongols.

Peng Chaodong was stunned and said: "You don't have to ask, you can do this matter, whether you can pacify the pseudo-Liao, and the peace talks with the Meng ancients are a very crucial step." I will choose a day to go to the North Plains to put pressure on the Meng ancients, I don't feel at ease about handing over this matter to others, only if I leave it to you, I will be sure. ”

Peng Chaodong was reluctant to say, and it was inconvenient for Peng Yuqian to continue asking, but he already had the answer in his heart: peace talks with the Mongols were probably his father's own idea. It is unlikely that anyone in the DPRK and China would be willing to bear the infamy of violating the ancestral teachings and propose peace with the Meng people. Peng Chaodong threw out the olive branch of reopening the Beiyuan Tea Horse Market, not only to encircle the Menggu and other tribes, not to make the Menggu people stand in the Liao country, but also to pave the way for peace talks with the Menggu people in the future.

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