"As long as the Ming army withdraws from Liaodong, the Qing Dynasty is willing to return all the lands west of the Xiaoling River to the Southern Dynasty!"

Shaling Fort, Liu Jun saw the peace letter sent by the Qing army envoy, smiled slightly, and then tore up the letter directly in front of the Qing army envoy.

The messenger was stunned, and his face turned angry.

Liu Jun threw the torn letter into the brazier, then took a sip of the teacup, and said slowly, "Go back and tell your four auxiliary kings, if you really want to make peace, then show some sincerity." I'm a person who likes to be happy, so I get straight to the point, and I don't like clouds and fog. It's best not to play any sky-high price with me, and pay back the money on the ground, I don't have that idle effort. ”

The envoy returned to Shenyang, and in front of the empress dowager of the two palaces, the little emperor and the three auxiliary kings, as well as the princes and ministers of Baylor, he truthfully relayed Liu Jun's words in the golden hall of the imperial palace.

"This Liu Jiye is arrogant!" Azig said angrily.

"Feng Shui takes turns, he Liu Jiye now has this arrogant capital, who told us that we can't do anything about him now." Hauge sighed. "Prince Rui, what do you say now, do you want to continue to sue for peace or fight?"

Dolgon frowned, Liu Jun's attitude did anger him, but he also understood that they were the ones who were in a hurry to sue for peace now.

"Go to Shaling Fort again, for the peace of the two families, our Qing Dynasty is willing to be a brotherly country with the Southern Dynasty forever, and from then on we will not invade each other. The Qing Dynasty could withdraw troops from Liaoxi, and the two countries were bounded by the Daling River, and the west belonged to the Ming Kingdom, and the east belonged to the Qing Dynasty. In exchange, the Ming Dynasty fully withdrew from Liaodong. ”

The envoy came to Shaling Fort again with a white flag and asked to see Liu Jun.

This time, Liu Jun didn't see anyone, so he directly asked people to take the letter, and then quickly replied to the letter and asked him to bring it back.

Liu Jun set out the conditions for peace in the reply letter.

"The Ming people asked me to remove the emperor's name last year, and then respect the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo, with the name of the Ming Dynasty, the lord of the Qing Dynasty was renamed the king, and then sent envoys to Beijing every year to pay tribute. Forever a Ming vassal domain. ”

"The Ming and Qing dynasties were bounded by the Liao River in the west, and the west of Liao returned to the Ming Dynasty. In Liaodong, the Liaodong Peninsula in the south belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and the Liaodong Peninsula includes Gaizhou, Fuzhou, Jinzhou, Zhenjiang and Xiuyan. The northeast boundary line of Liaodong is bounded by the six forts of Kuandian on the west bank of the Yalu River, which belong to the Ming Dynasty. ”

When the envoy finished reading the conditions set out by Liu Jun, Dolgon and the others were already extremely ugly.

If the boundary line is drawn according to Liu Jun's conditions, it will actually mean that all the coastal lines of the Qing Dynasty will belong to the Ming Dynasty in the future, and the Qing Dynasty will not even have access to the sea. It is bounded by the Liao River in the west, and the Liaodong Peninsula is assigned to the Ming Dynasty in the south. The east side is not even bounded by the Yalu River, but the Zhenjiang River and the Six Forts of Kuandian in the west of the Yalu River belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Such a line is very dangerous.

The Ming army advanced to the Liaohe River on the Western Front, then they were already very close to Liaoyang and Shenyang. In addition to controlling the Liaodong Peninsula, they also controlled the line of the Yalu River, which not only blocked their border with Korea, but also semi-surrounded the Qing Dynasty from the side, and could even penetrate into the rear of the Manchu Qing Dynasty from the line of the Yalu River at any time.

"Reply to Liu Jiye, we still have to discuss and consider this condition. But in order to show the sincerity of the peace. The king proposed to the Duke of Chu that the two families should strike a truce during the peace negotiation period and not invade each other. ”

Dorgon said to the messenger with a dark face. He is on fire in his heart, but he also knows that the situation is not as good as others. Now they are the ones who are most anxious to make peace, and they can only endure it. It is impossible for peace negotiations to be directly exposed, and it will definitely take a long time to talk. Dolgon wanted Liu Jun to take back the Black Flag dogs.

Soon, Liu Jun replied. They could be given time to think about it, and as a sign of sincerity, he agreed to a truce between the two sides. He demanded that the Qing army withdraw Azig from the city of Puhe. During the period of peace talks, the two sides will maintain their actual control areas and will not wantonly cross the border or provoke attacks.

"Withdraw the troops under Puhe City." Dorgon said to Azig.

"Yes." Azig gritted his teeth and replied. On the same day, Azig withdrew the troops of Puhe City to Shenyang.

The next day, Liu Jun also ordered the Black Flag Army to withdraw to the cities of Fushun, Salhu, and Jiefan to rest.

Both sides have shown their sincerity to each other, and the negotiations have started well.

However, the negotiations began in earnest, and a negotiating mission was set up on each side to meet daily in a village between Shalingbao and Shenyang City.

The progress of the negotiations was very slow, with each side setting conditions and then fighting one by one, each showing its ability. Liu Jun sent the four sons of the Restoration Society to go out, led by Li Chunjiang himself, the rules are not high, and the sincerity is not insufficient. But Liu Jun also made demands on Li Chunjiang.

Talk slowly, don't worry, fight with each other one by one, and slowly drag time with them. In short, the Chu army is not in a hurry, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to the Qing army, because after the ice and snow melt, the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty will be able to drive over. Of course, Liu Jun didn't really want to wait until that time, and he didn't want to continue fighting with Tartar.

It's a strategy, though.

"What is our bottom line for negotiations?" Li Chunjiang asked. He attaches great importance to this negotiation and admires Liu Jun's grasp of the situation.

"In the west, we try to set the boundary to the west bank of the Liao River, if it really can't be done, we can use the Yiwu Lu Mountain as the boundary, no matter how bad it is, at least the Daling River and its tributary Burma River as the boundary, this is the lowest bottom line, which cannot be crossed."

"Where's the south side?"

"We can make more concessions in the south, but we can't back down at will, and we have to let the Qing people come up with other conditions in exchange. We can return all the castles occupied by Liao Shen to the Qing army, and even return Haizhou and Gaizhou to them, but it is better to keep Fuzhou and Jinzhou, at least Jinzhou. ”

"What about the east?"

"In the east, you can give up the six forts of Kuandian to the Qing army, but you have to leave Zhenjiang as a bridgehead."

"In addition, all the islands on the sea are owned by the Ming Dynasty."

Liu Jun did not intend to defend Liaodong, which could be ceded to the Qing army first, but he insisted on leaving the two bridgeheads of Lushun and Zhenjiang. In the future, when he deals with the Central Plains, then he will wave his army to conquer Liao, and Lushun and Zhenjiang will be the two best bridgeheads. And with these two bridgeheads, even if Liu Jun withdraws the main force to the Central Plains, he doesn't have to worry about the Qing army's westward direction for a while.

Zhenjiang and Lushun are two thorns in the eye, thorns in the flesh, and they are fiercely restrained.

The bottom line of the negotiation is to use Liao, Hai, Gai, Fu and other places in exchange for the return of Songjinyi land in western Liaoning. This is also the bottom line that Chongzhen and the imperial court handed over to Liu Jun for negotiation, and their purpose is to exchange for Songjin. It would be better if it could be exchanged back to Yiju, Quang Ninh, and Da Ling River. For this reason, they were willing to return all the occupied areas in Liaodong to the Qing army.

But Liu Jun won't be a loser like them.

Although it is said that the cities such as Haigafu are actually all red, and a big city like Liaoyang, although it is very good, the Qing people will definitely not back down. But Liu Jun will never give up Lushun and Zhenjiang, this is his bottom line. Controlling these two places can attack and retreat and defend, and it can also make the sailors absolutely control the Liaohai.

Negotiations are going on in a constant state of bickering. Liu Jun regained control of the passage of the Hunhe River between Liao and Shenyang. Liu Jun began to transfer the Black Flag Army back from the northeast of Shenyang, and the Black Flag Army continued to withdraw from the north of Shenyang every day, and they carried a large number of prisoners and a large number of looted supplies, swaggering through the city of Shenyang.

Dolgon and others in Shenyang City were dripping blood, but there was an agreement in advance, and the Qing army could not attack the Ming army to provoke disputes. As soon as they dared to attack the Black Flag Army, they would have a reason to stop negotiating.

Now, Dolgon, he wants to conclude the negotiations sooner rather than later. so that the Ming army could withdraw from Liaoshen.

The negotiators of the Qing army protested to Li Chunjiang, arguing that the Ming army could not take away the captured Qing soldiers and civilians, and should immediately return them to the Qing people.

Li Chunjiang immediately made a demand, unless the Qing State returned the more than one million people who had been taken captive from the Ming Dynasty and from the Ming Dynasty's vassal state Korea. As long as the Qing State has no more Ming and Korean people. Then the Ming army is also willing to return all the Jurchens to the Qing people.

Again, this is a question of incomprehension.

It was impossible for the Qing to return all the Han and Korean people they controlled to the Ming Dynasty.

From the first month of the month to April, the two sides have been negotiating.

After more than three months of talks, the two sides have reached a number of agreements, and the two sides are constantly lowering their own demands.

"Your Excellency. The ice of the Hunhe River has begun to melt, and at most half a month, it will be open to boats. Wang Qian said to Liu Jun excitedly.

"It's time to speed up the negotiations." Liu Jun then said to Li Chunjiang.

At this time, the Black Flag Army had all withdrawn from the north of Shenyang. They escorted all kinds of supplies in batches and withdrew into the three forts such as Shaling.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Dragon Boat Festival, outside the city of Shenyang, Liu Jun and Dolgon each led their troops and horses out of the city, and then began to sign the peace letter in front of the two armies.

"I have admired the prestige of the Chu State for a long time, and when I see it today, it is really extraordinary." Dolgon stood there, arching his hand at Liu Jun.

Liu Jun was dressed in a red python robe, wearing a black gauze hat, but wearing a sword around his waist.

"Prince Rui is also heroic."

Among the two armies, a row of tables has already been set up, and the book has been prepared and written in Han and Manchu languages. In the end, Chengda's peace conditions were basically similar to Liu Jun's requirements.

The boundary between the Ming and Qing dynasties was in the west, and it was finally agreed that Guangning City and Daling River City would be the boundary, and this boundary would be west of the Liao River and east of the Daling River. Located in the east of Yiwu Lu Mountain, the Ming army not only recovered the lost Songjin Zhucheng, but also recovered the Yizhou, Dalinghe, and Guangning Zhucheng that were controlled by the Qing army before the war, which can be said to be a great victory, and recovered all the land in western Liaoxi that the Tianqi Dynasty lost.

Although the border was not pushed to the Liao River, when this boundary was transmitted back to the imperial court, Chongzhen and the ministers were overjoyed, and they did not expect such a good result at all.

And what makes them happy is not only the recovery of the cities of Liaoxi, but also in Liaodong, it is not completely lost. According to the agreement, the castles around Shenyang, as well as the Liao, Hai, and Gai prefectures occupied by the Ming army, were returned to the Qing state, while the Ming Dynasty retained the Jinzhou region of the Liaodong Peninsula and the Liaohai Islands.

Moreover, at the mouth of the Yalu River, the Ming army was also able to retain Zhenjiang and Jiuliancheng, and at the same time, the Qing state also recognized Korea as a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty retained Zhenjiang and Lushun, but the Qing Dynasty also insisted on refusing to go to the country name Yi Di, the formal relationship between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was a country of brothers, not a suzerainty and a vassal state, the Qing Emperor Fulin, and respected the Ming Chongzhen Emperor as the emperor's uncle.

Liu Jun was concerned about the actual retention of Fuzhou and Jinzhou, as well as Zhenjiang City and Jiulian City, and he didn't care too much about the name of the emperor or something about this vassal state. Those are just false names, once he has his hands free in the future, he will beat them until they surrender.

"It is agreed with the book, the two countries will be reconciled from now on, never offend each other, and share peace!" Dolgon looked at the book spread out on the table and said, there was still pain in his eyes, it was humiliation. If this book had been written twenty years earlier, perhaps the whole Houjin would have been happy. But when they broke the Ming army, captured Songjin, and saw that they were about to fight under the Shanhai Pass, they were forced to sign this peace document, gave up Liaoxi, which was hard to get their hands on, and ceded two large pieces of Liaodong to the Ming army.

The peace book already has the signatures of the two emperors, and more than half a month ago, the peace agreement has been reached, and then it is submitted to the two emperors for approval. Chongzhen was of course overjoyed with the result of this easy outbreak, and immediately signed and agreed.

Three-year-old Fu Lin is still using the era name of Chongde, and under the guidance of the Empress Dowager of the West, Da Yu'er, he left his name on the book and stamped it with a jade seal.

Liu Jun glanced at the seal on the book.

This seal is the seal of the jade seal of the country. And this heirloom jade seal, which was obtained by Dolgon and Haoge when they conquered Mongolia, is a jade seal that has been inherited by China for more than 1,000 years since the Qin Dynasty. In that year, Dorgon received this seal and presented it to Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji was overjoyed after passing on the jade seal of the country, and then changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty, called the emperor, and used this jade seal as the national seal.

"Prince Rui, there is only one last thing left, and after the things are handed over, you and I can sign it, and then the book will officially take effect." Liu Jun said with a smile.

Dolgon's hands clenched into fists, his chest heaving rapidly, and it took a long time for him to restrain his heart from wanting to go berserk.

"Bring up the jade seal of the country and ask the Duke of Chu to take a look." At this moment, Dolgon's heart was broken. Back then, he snatched this heirloom jade seal from the Mongols, and now, this national seal of the Qing Dynasty has been lost from him.

The jade seal was placed in a delicate brocade box, and Liu Jun looked at the jade seal with a smile on his face. Beckoning back, a group of people came up and took a closer look at the jade seal, and after a long time, they all nodded to Liu Jun.

Liu Jun actually didn't believe that this jade seal was actually a jade seal that had been inherited for more than a thousand years, but since everyone said yes, then he believed it. It doesn't matter what the truth is, it's important that everyone believes it's true. The value of a jade seal itself is limited, but with the identity of the jade seal of the Chinese millennium, this jade seal is already a priceless treasure.

"Please sign and book from the State of Chu!" Dolgon gritted his teeth and said word for word.

"Prince Rui, please."

Dolgon first signed his name on one copy, and then watched Liu Jun sign his name on the other with a stroke of his pen.

He picked up the book in his hand, exchanged it with Liu Jun, and then signed his name under the crooked name of Fulin.

Liu Jun also wrote his name.

At this moment, the Ming and Qing Dynasties Shenyang Peace Treaty was officially completed and took effect immediately.

Holding the jade seal of the country in one hand and the newly signed peace treaty in the other, Liu Jun smiled and said to Dolgon, "The peace book has been signed, and after Prince Zheng withdraws from Liaoxi, Liu will immediately retreat." ”

This is also a clause in the peace treaty, the Qing army withdraws first, and then the Ming army withdraws.

"Prince Zheng will withdraw his troops soon, and I hope that the Duke of Chu will also abide by the peace treaty."

"Don't worry, I won't cheat you." Liu Jun smiled very happily.

After returning to Shaling Fort, they all cheered from Fu Zonglong, Li Chunjiang, and Wang Qian and other generals. This result is already very good in everyone's opinion.

"Prepare some, and when it is confirmed that Zilharang has withdrawn from Liaoxi, we will immediately shift the teacher." The Beiyang Fleet had already entered the Liao River and sent a large number of warships and transport ships to the Hunhe River near Liaoyang and Shenyang, waiting to cover the withdrawal of the army.

With the cover of the mobile batteries of the naval division's battleships, Liu Jun could finally withdraw his troops with confidence.

Ten days later, news came back from Liaoxi that Jierharang had withdrawn all 30,000 soldiers and horses to the west bank of the Liaohe River, and that Wu Sanguizu Dashou had led his troops to successfully take over the cities of Tashan, Xingshan, Songshan, Jinzhou, Yizhou, Guangning, and Dalinghe.

"Pass on my military order, the whole army is in class, triumphant!"

"Triumph!"

A roar sounded, and the Chu army, which had spent a winter and a spring outside Shenyang, was finally leaving.

Liu Jun stood on the Shaling Fort and looked at Shenyang City in the north, and sighed lightly, "I will come back!" (To be continued.) )