The Manchu and Qing Dynasty's idea of ​​​​negotiating peace quickly spread throughout the country. In order to achieve his strategic goals, Dorgon even sent a negotiating mission composed of veterans of the Ming court southward, hoping to use the influence of these people to mobilize them in Nanjing.

An old acquaintance in the imperial court lobbied hard.

Originally, Emperor Chongzhen resolutely resisted negotiating peace. Although he had no political determination, he did not lack political common sense. However, after some lobbying by some ministers, especially Ruan Dacheng and others, he soon felt that it was beneficial.

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First, of course it was Dorgon's trick - pretending to negotiate for peace but really preparing for war. In this way, Chongzhen felt that he could take the initiative, but he didn't know that he had jumped into someone else's trap.

Secondly, it was natural to deal with the Consort Party. Even if Chongzhen had no sense of politics, he still smelled something was wrong in the court at this time. Especially people like Li Banghua, Ni Yuanlu, and Liu Zongzhou seemed to have become the Consort Party.

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If Wang Chaodong hadn't made enough false accusations behind his back, and Emperor Chongzhen had no bottom line in trusting someone, and would never trust someone again if he doubted someone, Chaodong wouldn't have been suspected yet.

It can only be said that Chongzhen has not changed to a certain extent, just as he trusted Hong Chengchou and doubted Sun Chuanting back then.

As for the third place, the affairs on the battlefield are handled by the prince-in-law. As for matters outside the battlefield, Emperor Chongzhen also wants to make a splash in this limelight, because Yixue was ashamed of leaving the capital and fleeing south.

During the year when Longting was rebuilt in Nanjing, Emperor Chongzhen heard a lot of gossip. He was always looking for opportunities to prove that he was not incompetent as an emperor, but was forced by the situation.

Moreover, there is the Prince Consort Party, which focuses on the military, and wants to rectify the government and manage finances. Naturally, there is the Emperor Party, which protects the so-called scholars and the interests of the civil servant group.

In today's court, the threat of the Qing army, the preparations for war in the north and south of the Huaihe River, the Huguang area, and even the border chaos in Yunnan and Guizhou have become secondary, while the battle between the Emperor's Party and the Prince Consort's Party has become the mainstream.

Of course, Chongzhen's connivance was involved. He didn't want to be like Li Yuan, and he didn't have Li Jiancheng to rely on. There was a huge difference between Zuo Liangyu and the three towns in Jiangbei.

Not to mention, it is hard to say whether he can really mobilize these military leaders when necessary.

Therefore, Chongzhen would not let go of such a good opportunity to negotiate peace. This matter would naturally be left to the ministers of the Prince Consort Party.

Of course, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen would not directly name anyone to do this kind of thing. This would be too low-level and would damage the emperor's prestige.

Only the ministers' constant memorials and a suitable opportunity could Chongzhen reluctantly push the matter to the so-called consort of Zhou Shixian's officials.

In this way, they can not only earn back their reputation by taking advantage of the opportunity of peace talks, but also take advantage of the opportunity to make some operations to discredit the so-called Prince Consort Party, which can be described as "killing two birds with one stone."

However, Emperor Chongzhen's abacus was crackling and Zhou Shixian heard it in his residence. He never thought about it, could his good consort agree?

When he first learned that Dorgon wanted to negotiate peace and even asked the Ming and Qing Dynasties to directly divide the Qing and Ming kingdoms based on the current boundaries, Zhou Shixian thought that this was a trick by the other party. After all, just a battle on the south bank of the Huaihe River was not enough.

Shake the Qing army.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhou Shixian knew very well that the Qing government now occupied the five northern provinces and northern Huguang, and after recruiting hundreds of thousands of Ming court border troops, it perfectly inherited the Ming court's financial problems.

In this way, there is no longer a question of whether we should march south, but a question of whether we must march south and when.

As for Chongzhen's plan, Zhou Shixian did not expect it. He only thought that after he won, the bones of these scholars would be stronger, but he did not expect that Chongzhen would come up with this trick. Zhou Shixian had already expected that Chongzhen would deal with him.

Yes, after all, in front of the throne, father and son are nothing, let alone their relationship?

But when it comes to matters like peace negotiation, it is obvious that we are going to kill the so-called "consort party"!

However, the good consort Zhou Shixian was never one to be passively beaten. Now that Chongzhen had already started to take action, he would naturally not be polite.

In fact, if Emperor Chongzhen's reputation wasn't bad enough now, he still had political prestige. Even because he was in the glory of Zhou Shixian, this prestige was not small. And Zhou Shixian's political prestige was far from enough for the throne. He

I have stopped playing with these nonsense a long time ago.

But it is absolutely impossible to rush into a coup to seize power before the time has come.

Zhou Shixian knows that no one can stop him now, but the problem is that after seizing that position, if the southern provinces are divided and fight on their own, and the local vassal kings and those powerful factions take the opportunity to start an uprising, and then the Qing army takes the opportunity to sneak attack, then Zhou Shixian

He is a sinner through the ages.

Therefore, until his influence is strong enough, nothing can be done, at least until the situation eases, the Qing army is really hurt, and Emperor Chongzhen also makes serious political mistakes and loses the hearts of the people.

Therefore, this peace negotiation is also an opportunity for Zhou Shixian.

He immediately asked Lu Jiude to continue sending people to sneak into the northern provinces to spy on the military situation, especially the dispatch of Wu Sangui's troops, which was very important.

Just like in the original history, Dorgon did not completely trust Wu Sangui. He is now guarding what he called "the border and the splitting of the land" in western Liaoning. As for the prince that Dorgon promised at the beginning, it was just a false title.

But if the Qing army goes south for the second time, in order to leave enough strength in the capital and to prevent Wu Sangui's remnant army of more than 20,000 men from threatening the capital, he will inevitably be transferred to the Huaihe River or the Huguang battlefield.

This is where the value of traitors comes from. Only when the blood shed by those heroes has value and hurts the so-called Manchus, will they reuse the Han people and use the Han people to control the Han people. Therefore, the Qing court's dispatch of troops and horses, and the traces of Wu Sangui

, became the focus of Zhou Shixian's attention.

As for internal actions, Zhou Shixian's counterattack against Emperor Chongzhen naturally had to be carried out silently. To deal with those civil servants, Zhou Shixian naturally did not need to take action. Li Banghua and Ni Yuanlu looked honest and loyal, but in fact their methods were not small.

Chao Chaodong, the leader of the Imperial Guard, also had his use at this time. As a person trusted by Emperor Chongzhen, it was not a bad idea to reveal the dirty information to the other party as a reminder and to gain further trust.

Lu Jiude was of great use again at this time. After he found out the dirty information about those officials, Li Banghua could naturally start impeachment.

In addition, Zhou Shixian also needed to control public opinion and gain support from the people and low-level military officers and officials. He also wanted to use the peace talks to gradually destroy the so-called "prestige" of Emperor Chongzhen.
Chapter completed!