On the morning of the ninth day of the first month of the 34th year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan rubbed his father's car again to go to work in the yamen.

Like yesterday, Zhu Jianyan asked the driver to go to Honglu Temple first, and Zhu Jingyuan also curiously followed into his theoretical place of work.

When the night shift official of Honglu Temple saw Zhu Jianyan coming in, he immediately handed over the important telegram documents that had been packed, and reported very solemnly:

"Your Highness, I received an invitation for peace talks from Xiyi yesterday night, and it has been nine hours, should we reply to them?"

"Oh?"

Zhu Jianyan's father and son showed curious expressions at the same time, and looked at the telegram handed over by the other party together, and Xiyi's invitation for peace talks was placed on the top.

After reading it, Zhu Jianyan shook his head with a dry smile:

"I'm still stubborn, just inviting peace talks, not unilaterally suing for peace, don't reply first, wait until the morning comes back, you go and rest first."

Zhu Jianyan flipped through the other telegrams a little, and didn't find that they were particularly important enough to be said by the court, so he went out with the Xiyi telegram of the proposal and invitation.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Jingyuan followed his father into the car and instructed the driver:

"I don't go to the Ministry of Industry, I don't have to stop at the entrance of the Ministry of Industry, I will go to the court with my father today."

Zhu Jianyan was stunned when he heard this voice:

"Why? If you don't design a battleship, what do you want to do when you go to the DPRK? ”

Zhu Jingyuan said as a matter of course:

"Xiyi has officially submitted for peace talks, and I should also officially disclose my identity as the prince and take over the position of acting Honglu Siqing, peace talks are my official errand......"

Zhu Jianyan was silent for a moment.

What this kid said seems to be true, he is the theoretical Honglu Siqing, and he has actually been removed.

Zhu Jianyan took his son into the palace with a rather complicated mood and walked into the Wenhua Hall together.

The ministers who got off the bus together subconsciously wanted to say hello to Zhu Jianyan, but they saw Zhu Jingyuan beside him.

Then everyone's mood suddenly became not so pleasant, and the greeting became a ceremonial smile.

When the old emperor entered the hall, he raised his eyes and saw Zhu Jingyuan, the youngest person on the scene, and immediately subconsciously blew his beard:

"Why did you come to court? Is the battleship design ready? ”

After Zhu Jingyuan saluted with the princes and ministers, he casually replied to the old emperor and said:

"Grandpa Qiqi, the direction of the battleship design is basically determined, only the final information and data are sorted out, and it should be almost the same this morning.

"Sun Chen came here today because he saw Xiyi's telegram requesting peace talks, and felt that he should start performing his official duties."

Hearing the news of Xiyi's request for peace talks, the surrounding ministers immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Then immediately after a short period of confusion, he quickly reacted, what did Zhu Jingyuan mean by performing his duties.

This kid is now in an official position...... In fact, it's the acting Honglu Temple!

The old emperor also went through a similar mental journey, and then nodded lightly and sat down in his place:

"Let's all sit down, then let's start the discussion today, and let's talk about it first, how should we respond?"

Zhu Jianyan bowed and said:

"Father and Emperor, Xiyi is still inviting peace talks for the time being, speaking on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty, rather than asking for peace with the Ming Dynasty.

"So Erchen thinks that we should continue to dry them, at least twice, or not respond directly."

Zhu Jianyan's suggestion made some ministers nod lightly, and also made some ministers frown slightly.

But no one stood up against it, no one agreed, and no one was willing to speak up on such a sensitive topic.

The old emperor was noncommittal, his eyes swept over the faces of the surrounding ministers, and finally fell on the face of Zhu Jingyuan, who had never sat down:

"Jingyuan, since you are standing, and it is also your duty, let's talk about it as well."

When the ministers heard the old emperor name Zhu Jingyuan, they suddenly had a feeling that yesterday had reappeared, and they had a bad premonition.

Zhu Jingyuan immediately bowed his hand, then stood up straight and said:

Sun Chen believes that although Xiyi must unite to pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty, we cannot let them clearly understand and solidify this kind of thinking.

"We should accept it when we see it, and then kill them, dismantle the anti-Ming alliance, break into the enemy's interior, and then break them individually."

This is obviously just the beginning, and the ministers were a little confused, and the old emperor subconsciously asked directly:

"Tell me carefully, what is to accept when you see a good thing, how to kill, and what is to penetrate into the enemy?"

Zhu Jingyuan went on to explain:

"If you see it, you will accept it, put forward a request that is not particularly high, and if the other party agrees, then accept the invitation and officially start peace talks.

"For example, Xiyi's withdrawal from the territory occupied by the Ming Dynasty and the territory of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi should be achievable as a prerequisite for peace talks.

"If the Ming Dynasty excessively persecuted and suppressed them, it may objectively push the Taixi states to maintain unity, and even continue to retain the anti-Ming alliance after the peace talks.

"At the very least, when the Ming Dynasty makes a move against any Taixi country in the future, they may immediately form a new anti-Ming alliance again.

"Killing refers to raising all the major countries of the anti-Ming alliance to the same level as the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will nominally treat all Taixi countries as equals in the future.

In this way, the state of Taixi was given too high a status, which made them proud and gradually inflated, and then despised the existence of allies and the Ming Dynasty.

"Then we catalyze nationalist sentiment in each country, allowing them to fight independently and even against each other, so as to prevent them from uniting against the Ming again.

"To penetrate into the enemy's interior is to let us join the alliance formed by the Taixi people, or form a common new alliance together.

Then the Ming Dynasty led and controlled the order of this alliance with absolute superiority, and managed and mediated the contradictions between countries.

"Prevent them from carrying the Ming on their backs, forming an alliance against the Ming again, and avoiding the integration of the Taixi Continent.

"This alliance, including Daming, is also a platform to achieve the killing of the countries of Taixi."

Many ministers nodded secretly when they heard this, but they were not in favor of Zhu Jingyuan's idea.

Instead, he confirmed that the bad premonition really came true, and recalled the feeling of Zhu Jingyuan being involved in the government.

This child will always jump out of the usual logic, do not play according to the routine, and contribute from an angle that he did not expect.

But after a little analysis, I feel that his point of view is actually quite reasonable.

Now Zhu Jingyuan's strategy of accepting when he sees a good thing, killing and discord is a common plan.

It is also too strange to take the initiative to join the alliance of the enemy against you, and find a way to dominate this alliance.

But if it can really be done, it can indeed solve the threat of Xiyi once and for all.

And it does need to be matched by the previous ones, such as receiving, killing and dividing.

It's just that he wants to elevate Xiyi to the status of the Ming court, but it is unacceptable to almost all ministers.

After a short silence, Huang Yue, the most suitable speaker of the Ministry of Rites, took the initiative to stand up and object:

"The minister thinks it's inappropriate, and giving all Xiyi the same status as Daming is really incompatible with etiquette, and it is not in line with reality.

"How can the kings of countries such as Holland and Sardinia be compared with my Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty?

"One of their provinces is only one county of my Daming, how can it be listed with my Daming's political envoy?

"In terms of national strength and heritage, even Lucia and Britain are far from the Ming Dynasty, please think twice, Your Majesty thinks twice......"

Huang Yue's words are not the arrogance of the traditional central dynasty bureaucracy, but the natural view formed after seeing the reality of the world.

In fact, in the other world, that is, in modern society, all countries are nominally equal to each other.

From ancient times to World War II, the status and relationship between countries were directly determined by the strength of the country.

Huang Yue's words were unanimously approved by the princes and ministers, and Zhu Jingyuan did not refute anything, but immediately continued to ask:

"That is to say, in addition to giving Xiyi the same status, is the great uncle in favor of the other opinions of the late life?"