(On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Muzi greets everyone for the New Year, and I wish everyone all the best in the Year of the Monkey!) ）

North of the Great Wall, the Qing army camp on the east bank of the Luan River.

Dressed in white armor, Duoduo stood silently on a towering watchtower in the camp, looking into the wind with his hands behind his back.

The wind of early summer swept up his long white cloak, and from a distance, he looked like a Haidongqing with wings spread in the wind.

On the other side of the river, a few black dots moved rapidly, and a smile finally appeared on Duoduo's face. He put away the clairvoyant mirror and walked down the tower quickly.

A quarter of an hour later, several horsemen galloped into the camp.

"Lord Wang, the people who went to the Southern Dynasty have returned."

"It's finally back." Duoduo's eyebrows flew, "Bring it up." ”

Hauge and Azig came to the big tent with Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou, "I heard that the people who went to Beijing have returned, how are they talking?" ”

"You'll find out in a moment." Dodor said confidently. Liu Jiye is still the emperor after all, and he actually came to a yellow robe, but he can play. But at this time, it was still extremely advantageous for the Qing Dynasty to be crowned emperor. As soon as Liu Jun became emperor, the Ming Dynasty, which recovered his vitality step by step, was no longer able to unite again, and a civil strife broke out at hand.

At this time, Liu Jun must focus on controlling the situation in the South Korea, and at this time, as long as the conditions they put forward are not too excessive, Liu Jiye has to agree.

"Meet the princes."

"Get up, tell me quickly, how about this trip, Liu Jiye agreed to our conditions?" Azig asked impatiently.

"Back to the prince, Liu Jiye is willing to renegotiate peace, and even proposed to redraw the line with the current line of actual control between the two sides, but he has a premise."

"What premise?" Duoduo asked.

Babutai glanced at Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou quietly, then hesitated, and said hesitantly, "Liu Jiye wants me to be a vassal to the Han State in the Qing Dynasty and a vassal forever." ”

"Don't think!" Azig shouted without thinking.

But Dodor was silent. He looked at Babutai with his eyes, and then said, "I know, you stand down, come here, and reward Babutai with a hundred taels of silver." ”

Babutai stepped back, and the atmosphere in the room was a little strange.

Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou exchanged their eyes secretly, thinking about it.

Dordor broke the silence with a cough.

"Since Liu Jiye is bargaining, I think he intends to negotiate peace. Otherwise, he simply refused. He is bargaining now, which means that he does not dare to go to war with us at this time. As for the conditions he proposed, I think they are just an excuse, and if we talk about them twice, he will certainly not insist on them again. I believe that now all parts of the Central Plains must know the news of Liu Jiye's plot to usurp the throne, but I am afraid that the rebellion has been set off in various places, Liu Jun does not have much time, and he does not have so much time to spend with us. He was in a hurry to move troops south to stabilize the situation. ”

"So what do we do?" Azig asked the brother.

Duoduo sneered, "At this time, it depends on who collapses, and then send someone over." Our conditions remained the same, all the land outside the pass was returned to the Qing Dynasty, and the Ming army withdrew from outside the pass. The two countries thought that they were brotherly states and traded with each other. Ming gave me five million silver coins a year, and we gave me mink ginseng pearl wood in return. ”

"It's still the same condition, don't cut half the point?" Hauge asked.

"No less."

The few talked for a while. Then each of them will return the bill.

Dodor called the guards, "Go and call Babutai." ”

After Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou left the account, they walked together. The two walked silently for a while, looking far away from the big tent, looking around and seeing no one else, Zu Dashou said to his nephew with a worried face, "I see that something is wrong." ”

"I think so too, Babutai didn't say anything in front of us just now. Surely the unspoken things are related to us. ”

"So you can see it." Zu Dashou said worriedly, "Do you think the matter is related to us?" ”

"I think so, I guess Liu Jiye may have put forward some important conditions, maybe it has something to do with us."

"Liu Jiye wants our heads?"

Wu Sangui nodded, although he is now a second tartar and still in front of the prince of the county, Wu Sangui is not stable. He knows very well the embarrassing situation of the Qing army at the moment, on the surface it seems to be very majestic, and it has hit the Great Wall, but in fact, the Qing army is in a precursor to collapse, and if it continues to be consumed, the Qing army itself will collapse. Not only is it becoming more and more difficult to supply food, but as summer approaches, the Han army, which has the advantage at sea, may take their back route and attack their lair. ”

He has always opposed the Qing army's peace with the Southern Dynasties, and advocated a direct withdrawal of troops.

But the Qing army wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, but Liu Jiye's robbery was so easy to fight.

And now, Wu Sangui was worried about Han Qing's peace, so he sold them directly.

"If the Tartars really want to sell us, then we will fight with them." Zu Dashou said ruthlessly, and when he got to this point, Zu Dashou became more and more vicious, and he didn't believe anyone anymore. Even for the Qing people, they have been secretly wary.

"After we go back, we should take precautions as soon as possible, take more precautions, bring more guards with us, and don't leave the camp easily. If something doesn't go right, let's kill it. It's really not good, it's a big deal for us to lead the troops to the west, the world is so big, we can't go anywhere, as long as we have soldiers and horses in our hands, we will be the prince everywhere. ”

The Great Tent of the Chinese Army.

Babutai was brought in again.

Duoduo looked at him and said, "Does Liu Jiye still have any conditions, let's talk about it now." ”

"Back to the master, Liu Jiye does have one condition, he proposed that he can negotiate peace with us, but we must hand over Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui, he also said, life to see people, death to see the corpse, hand over Wu Zu and the two children, Liu Jiye is willing to believe in our sincerity, from now on the two families will make peace and share peace."

Duoduo thought for a moment, then turned to the guards and said, "Go and invite Prince Su and Prince Ying." ”

Haug and Azig had just arrived in the tent when they heard that Dodor had sent someone to invite them, and they both returned with doubts. When they heard Duoduo explain the situation, both of them couldn't help but hesitate.

"I'm afraid I can't believe Liu Jiye's words, he may just want to borrow a knife to kill people, and when we hand over Wu Zu and the others, and Liu Jiye doesn't admit it again, then won't we be played by him in vain?"

Hauge's words Azig also agreed, he didn't care about Wu Zu and the others, he cared about the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under the two of them, as well as tens of thousands of Han people in Liaoxi. Even in the time of Huang Taiji, this was a very strong force. What's more, for today's Qing State, it is even more important.

"Liu Jiye can't help but think that we are too simple, such a simple plan to kill people with a knife, how can we be fooled."

Wu Sangui returned to the tent, and as soon as he sat down, he found a letter on his desk. He picked up the letter and saw that it was written in a few big words by Wu Sangui himself.

When he opened it, he found that the letter was actually his father's handwriting, and what made him even more amazed was that the content of the letter was actually written by his father to persuade him to surrender to the court. There is also a letter attached to the back, which is actually Liu Jiye's handwritten letter. In the letter, Liu Jiye advised him to abandon the darkness and turn to the light and rejoin the imperial court.

Liu Jiye made a very tempting condition, as long as he was willing to belong to the imperial court, the Han Empire would not blame their past, and promised to crown him as Ping Xibo and Feng Zu Dashou as Jing Nanbo.

After reading the letter, Wu Sangui suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He looked left and right, and ran to the tent door. There were more than 100 guards outside the tent, "Who entered my tent just now?" ”

The head of the team shook his head. "Marshal, after you left to discuss matters with the Chinese army, we have been guarding here, and we haven't seen anyone enter the big tent."

Wu Sangui was furious. How is this possible, no one has entered the account, so is this letter flying in by itself? He suddenly thought of a possibility, maybe there were traitors among his subordinates.

Or a fine assassin sent by Liu Jiye. Or the Jinyi guard has long been arranged in his army.

Thinking of this, his back was really wet with cold sweat.

Forbidden City.

Liu Jun stepped into the Changchun Palace, and the noble concubine Li Hui hurriedly hugged Wu Guogong to greet him.

Since entering the Forbidden Palace. Liu Jun has not yet met the Empress Dowager of Zhou, Empress Dowager Zhang and others who moved to the West Palace, and he excused himself to be busy with affairs, but he is actually a little difficult to face them. In the past, he faced them as a loyal minister, but now, he usurped the throne of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Jun felt that he was better for the world as an emperor, but in terms of personal feelings, he still felt ashamed of them. He made excuses to avoid seeing them, and even these days he was not very willing to see the Empress Lu.

During this time, Empress Lu and Shen Man and a few others went to accompany Empress Dowager Zhou and Empress Dowager Zhang, and every time Liu Jun saw Lu now, he would inevitably talk about Empress Dowager Zhou and others.

It was Li Guifei's side that made it easier for him.

Liu Jun hugged his son, who couldn't speak, and made him laugh.

"This kid really looks like me."

Li Shi stood aside, listening to Liu Jun's words, and couldn't help but show joy.

"Your Majesty likes Brother Yuan so much, why don't you crown him king."

"He's just a child under the age of age, what difference does it make to him if he is crowned a prince and a king?"

Li said, "Brother Yuan is the prince, throughout the ages, the prince is the king, it is a matter of course." ”

"You think too much, Brother Kun hasn't been crowned king yet." Liu Jun shook his son in his arm and said, "Actually, I think the Zong title system in the Song Dynasty is good. ”

The clan of the Song Dynasty was never a threat to the central court, and in the Song Dynasty, the prince generally did not directly crown the king, although the prince generally eventually bound to be crowned the king, and they were not directly sealed, but were initially crowned with a lower title and position, and then moved.

When the Song Dynasty Shenzong, the princes of the first division of the festival of the example, the seal of the country, the relocation of the county king, the level of the chapter, to the cabinet when the king began to two towns, plus Sikong, and later into custom.

On the other hand, the prince usually does not have the title of heir after the prince, although the Northern Song Dynasty had the title of heir, and it was stipulated that the son of the prince would be the heir, but in fact it was like a fictitious one. In addition, the prince is crowned the king, the prince only stops at his body, and the descendants do not ask the heirs, with the longest one of them, the duke, and the rest of the descendants are just the shadow into the office, for the sanitation officer, and then in order to move around, and the different surname of the official shadow into the general, must be in the old age, seniority, Fang Te to the king (county king), and his ancestors, father received the lord is not inherited. The prince did not become the king but only one person inherited the duke, so in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a situation of "almost no king with the surname".

This system has greatly restricted the power of the clan, and there has even been a situation where the clan has almost no king. This is completely opposite to the Ming Dynasty, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the custom raid: the eldest son of the prince was ten years old and established the prince's son, and the eldest grandson was established as the grandson;

When the sons were ten years old, they were named the kings of the county;

The eldest son of the county king is the son of the county king, and the sons are awarded the general of the town country, from the first product; General Sun Fuguo, from the second grade; Great-grandson General Fengguo, from the second grade; Lieutenant Sun Zhenguo of the 4th Generation; From the four pins. Lieutenant of the 5th Sun Fuguo, from the 5th grade; The sixth and lower generations are all lieutenants of the country. From the six pins.

And these clans of the Ming Dynasty are of a very high grade, the lowest are from the sixth grade, and the Yulu is also high, and there are a large number of fields, so that the Ming Dynasty is like raising pigs, and now, the clans all over the world have reached more than 80,000, and the annual tax of the imperial court is used to pay the part of the clan more than the share of raising officials.

After the Battle of Jingjing, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty lost their military power and ceased to be a councilor.

Divide the feud but not the soil, the lord but not the people, and eat but not govern.

It really became a pig farmer.

Liu Jun is now called the emperor, and he does not want the imperial family of his empire to be like the Ming Dynasty in the future. In terms of the clan system, he appreciated the practice of the Song Dynasty, and the clan should be treated preferentially, but not excessively.

Now he only has two sons, both of whom are still young, so he is not in a hurry to establish a prince, and he does not even give them the title of king, but only one prince. His two brothers were only crowned marquis.

Liu Jun plans to only be crowned a prince at the beginning of the future, and he will only be crowned king when he is an adult, and he may not be crowned king, it depends on his moral character. If it's just very mediocre, then maybe you can only be a national prince for the rest of your life.

As for the rest of the clans, such as his brothers, starting from Hou Feng, the highest can only be crowned as the king of the county.

Whether it is the son of the prince or the emperor's brother, only the eldest of them will be crowned, and the rest will only be awarded the lord, and they can be promoted, but they must have merit to be promoted, and unless they are particularly meritorious, they will not be promoted to higher titles. Even if it is the son-in-law of the princes and princes of the clan, after being demoted to the rank of lord, if he does not have special merits, he cannot be promoted to a higher title based on his qualifications.

In addition to not being able to enter the cabinet, the clan cannot do important positions such as Jiuqing, Shangshu, governor, governor, admiral, and general soldier, but they can enter the imperial examination and join the army to serve the country.

Moreover, Liu Jun does not plan to grant feudal lands to the clans, and the imperial court will give them the corresponding Yulu according to their titles, but Yulu will definitely not be as generous as the Ming Dynasty.

He also planned to restore the fifth-class knighthood system for meritorious heroes with different surnames, and set it as a fifth-class knighthood for dukes and uncles.

The title system of the Han Empire from high to low will be prince, county king, guo gong, county duke, county duke, county marquis, county marquis, county marquis, county uncle, county son, county male, lord eleven, etc.

A different surname is not allowed to be crowned a king.

Regardless of the clan and meritorious heroes, regardless of the eldest son, only the eldest son will be the lord, the clan will be demoted to the second class, and the meritorious person with a different surname will be demoted to the third class.

The Lord is a title for life and is not hereditary.

All the knights have no fiefdoms, and there is no real seal of the food estate, only the Yulu, and every 20 households of the food and the city are folded into a silver dollar, which is distributed with the money.

The word "founding" is added to the front of the title of meritorious hero with a different surname to distinguish it from the title of the clan. (To be continued.) )