Hearing his words, Lu Yan couldn't help but be stunned.

Marry the princess to him, what's going on?

Soon he came to his senses that it was supposed to be another form of marriage.

I hope that the two families can eliminate each other's hostility in the form of blood blending, and at least let Daming survive this difficult moment.

Hearing this, Lu Yan pretended to ponder for a while, and then asked a question that men were very concerned about.

"Is she pretty?"

Wei Guang smiled slightly, "This princess looks like a fairy and will definitely not insult you." ”

Then he gave Lu Yan a look that all men understand.

Hearing this, Lu Yan nodded.

But think about it, the bloodline of the old Zhu family has undergone more than 200 years of maternal improvement, even if it is worse, it will not be much worse.

He felt that it would be good to marry a princess, so he agreed.

"Okay then."

Seeing this, Li Sancai and Wei Guangwei were relieved.

Today's events are really unexpectedly smooth, and the emperor must have praised them.

"By the way, my sister will also be crowned a county lord, I think there is no problem with this."

At this time, Lu Yan remembered his sister who had just arrived in Hangzhou, and she must have been very worried and scared during this time.

"No problem, we've been prepared for this."

Li Sancai said with a smile.

Lu Yan nodded, and seeing that it was not early, he asked them to have dinner together and wait until the next day to negotiate.

So the negotiations lasted about two days, and some of the main terms were finalized.

The news of the peace talks finally spread, and then the two sides issued an edict to the world.

Lü Yan officially became a powerful vassal king who occupied all of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, most of Nanzhili, and part of Jiangxi and Huguang.

Although the Ming Dynasty felt that this matter was too embarrassing. In less than a year, the Ming Dynasty lost its cities and lost its territory, and lost successive battles. Almost lost most of the south of the Yangtze River, but it was better than Lu Yan hitting Beijing City.

After knowing the news. Some people rejoice, some people are sad.

Many scholars wept bitterly, lamented the incompetence of the imperial court, and scolded the ferocity of the Lu thief.

There are also people who are extremely disappointed, they originally hoped that the royal division of the imperial court would come over and take back Lu Yan's confiscated property, but it seems that it is no fun now.

Those officials who took refuge in Lu Yan were also surging in emotion, and when the victory of Fengyang in the First World War came, they all cried with joy.

Because they all know they've finally picked the right team. Maybe they will be able to become the founding heroes of the country and be worshiped by future generations.

However, many people are both afraid and dissatisfied with this peace.

can obviously sweep the world, why do you want to crown any vassal king.

And what if the Ming court settles accounts with these subordinates?

So the snowflake persuasion table was sent to Lu Yan's Wu Wangfu in Hangzhou, and they all hoped that Lu Yan would establish himself as emperor, and then wave the Northern Expedition to decide the world in a war.

Of course, Lu Yan knew their feelings.

On the one hand, he told them that the Ming court could not control these officials, so that they could only rest assured.

The reason why he was crowned the vassal king was to fight against the great enemy of Houjin.

At the same time, all of them were promoted to the next rank to appease their uneasy feelings.

After learning the news. It was only then that the mood of some officials calmed down.

However, in order to show their loyalty and at the same time show a break with the Ming Dynasty, some officials were once again on the persuasion table. I hope that Lu Yan will sit on an equal footing with the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Lu Yan just laughed at this and didn't take it to heart.

Although there are many officials who have taken refuge in Lu Yan, they are far from satisfying his needs, and many county towns still do not even have county governors and county officials, and the county's official affairs have been completely paralyzed.

Therefore, Lu Yan issued a merit selection order, requiring some people who are willing to be officials under him, and those who have merit above the talent level can come to Hangzhou to be assessed.

Once the assessment is successful, you can serve as officials at all levels such as the prefect, county governor, prefect, and pusher.

The reason why Lu Yan did this was to win over those readers. After all, his subordinates killed some Donglin party members in Wuxi, and his reputation was a little unpleasant.

Plus the massive confiscation of the property of those landlords and gentry. There had been some tension between him and the readers.

Now it's time to throw some bait to tempt those who read, and in fact he knows very well what virtues are in those readers.

Just throw some bait. Those who read the book promised to forgive him regardless of their previous suspicions, and then they fought for it, not to mention that he threw out hundreds of official positions.

In fact, his plan was very successful.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar in Daming.

The appointment of officials in the Ming Dynasty has always been based on the imperial examination, and those who have the fame of talent and merit cannot be officials at all, and even some people who want to be officials are also embarrassed, because there are too many jinshi on their heads.

But now a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is in front of them, and even Xiucai and Juren can become officials.

Thinking of this, those talents and lifters were greatly moved.

Why did they gain fame? Aren't you still an official?

As long as the advantages of being an official are known to Chinese, as long as they become officials, money and beauty are not how much or how much.

Especially those old talents who have been taking the exam all their lives, almost after knowing the news, they immediately packed up and went to Hangzhou.

They know that with their skills, let alone becoming a jinshi, it is impossible to even raise people, and if they want to become officials, this is probably their only chance.

All of a sudden, many gentry who scolded Lu Yan for treating the scholars harshly immediately turned their tunes and praised Lu Yan for knowing how to treat scholars well.

Then pack up the salute and prepare to go to Hangzhou to take the exam regardless of the villain.

For a while, the entire Ming Dynasty was full of scholars who went to Hangzhou City, even the northern land under the rule of the Ming Dynasty was no exception.

In the final analysis, there are indeed loyal and unyielding characters like Wen Tianxiang and Shi Kefa in this world, but there are even more people who are obsessed with officials.

You didn't see Gu Bingqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who was almost ancient that year, and in order to go further, he actually wanted to recognize Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of power, as his godfather.

Of course, it is not for nothing that resolutely opposes Lu Yan's doing, especially those Jinshi. Lu Yan definitely moved their confinement by doing this.

Historically, these positions have been held by them Jinshi, so why should they be assigned to those Xiucai and Jinshi.

But what harm could these extremely weak oppositions do to Lu Yan, not to mention the support of more people and talents than them.

Lu Yan is a rare differentiator of the world's readers.

Besides. Mingting's reaction was also a bit intense.

They sent an envoy to strongly rebuke Lu Yan for this practice.

It is believed that his practice shook the authority of the Ming Dynasty.

Lu Yan scoffed at this. Authority is earned by oneself, not given by others.

But he ostensibly accepted Mingting's statement and promised to keep the momentum smaller.

So a unique assessment was held in Hangzhou, and the assessment was presided over by Zhang Juzheng.

It was too big to let Zhang Juzheng stay in Taiwan, so he summoned Hangzhou in the future.

This assessment not only has a written test, but also an interview.

Zhang Juzheng thought that those who had certain talents would let them be officials.

Zhang Juzheng thought that it would not work, so he issued the travel fee. Kind words to comfort them, let them go back, in the future Lu Yan will hold his own imperial examination, welcome to participate in it when the time comes.

So Lu Yan appointed hundreds of officials at once, and most of them were talented.

Those talents are all grateful to Lu Yan, because they know that if there is no Lu Yan, they will never want to become an official in this life.

And Lu Yan also knows that these showmen will become his most loyal supporters, and they will do things for themselves wholeheartedly, because once the Ming Dynasty calls, they will all be removed and questioned. Then their official positions will also be replaced by those jinshi.

At the same time, Batavia finally sent a messenger.

The Dutch were extremely shocked that Lu Yan was able to exterminate the Dutch in Penghu.

They thought that the Ming Dynasty could be easily defeated just like the Native Americans. But I didn't expect that it was myself who lost.

Nearly 1,000 Dutch soldiers were all defeated and hundreds were captured alive, which was definitely the most humiliating record in the history of Dutch conquest.

They came to see Lu Yan and hoped that Lu Yan would let those Dutch go.

Lu Yan didn't even see them, but asked someone to bring them a sentence, if they couldn't see a million taels of silver in three months, they would behead all those Dutchmen.

And he will send a large army against Batavia.

After sending the Dutch away, Lü Yan summoned some of his generals to Hangzhou for discussion.

"We've had a lot of things to do lately. But the most important thing now is whether the Jurchens in the north will enter the customs. ”

Lu Yan said with a solemn face.

Now the Jurchens have begun to attack Shanhaiguan, but Lu Yan thinks that things will not be so simple.

In history, the Jurchens have broken through many times. Enter the pass to kill and loot.

Of course, in the words of a certain historian surnamed Yan, this is called Yaowei in Guannei.

Hence his estimates. This time, the Jurchens are also likely to attack the Guannai.

"If the Jurchens really enter the customs, I plan to send 20,000 cavalry to the north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Transport, and the grain needed along the way can be transported through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then send 10,000 infantry troops and 2,000 cavalry to the north by sea."

Lu Yan said.

"But I'm afraid the Ming Dynasty won't agree to our King Qin."

Zhang Juzheng said with a frown.

Lu Yan also nodded, thinking that Zhang Juzheng was reasonable.

Because the Ming Dynasty didn't believe him, because in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, he and the Jurchens were completely at the same level, both of them were chaotic ministers and thieves.

Even he is more dangerous than the Jurchens, because he has proven that he has the strength to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.

In case he and the Jurchens joined forces near Beizhili, it was very likely that they would fall into Beijing in a battle.

"We don't need their consent, this time we are going to kill the Jurchens, and if anyone dares to stop us, we will kill them."

Lu Yan sighed and said.

This time he really beat the Ming Dynasty to the ground, and without his help, even if the officers and soldiers from all over the country came to King Qin, I am afraid that they would not be able to drive the Jurchens out of the Guanwai.

So he felt he had to send troops.

"I plan to concentrate the fleet in the Haizhou area first, and the cavalry in the Qingjiangpu area, once there is a change in the north, we can attack quickly."

Lu Yan said. (To be continued)