After a period of silence in the pavilion, Wang Chengen finally said worriedly: "But Your Majesty, if they really encourage the scholars who go to Beijing to take the exam, I am afraid it will hit Your Majesty's prestige." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the Taiye Pool outside the pavilion for a long time before he cleared up the thoughts in his mind, and he calmly said to the two of them: "Most people are like people, and their energy is also very limited, and they can only pay attention to one thing at a time.

As long as we can find some hot news for these scholars first, then the matter of Shunyi will not attract many people's attention. ”

Wang Chengen and Lian Shanxiang didn't understand what the emperor was thinking, and when the two were trying to guess Chongzhen's thoughts, Zhu Youzhen had already made up his mind to continue.

"Lian Shanxiang, you go and inform Liu Jingting to find some articles attacking Xue Zhen to publish in the newspaper, and the articles defending him should also be published in the newspaper.

Withdraw the suppression of the imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate, let the Donglin Party members be free to impeach Xue Zhen, and then ask Li Kuilong to find someone to defend Xue Zhen. Involve all the scholars in the capital in the controversy..."

Lian Shanxiang immediately agreed, accepted the emperor's order, and left in a hurry. After Zhu Youzhen heard Lian Shanxiang's footsteps go away, he continued to Wang Chengen.

In the name of Jinyiwei's rotation training, Zhang Daojun and Ye Qi were transferred back to the capital to continue to implement commune management in Shunyi. Tell the Jinyi Wei officials who went to replace them that as long as the local gentry did not interfere with the establishment of the commune, there was no need to exacerbate the conflict.

Inform Mr. Xu and ask the Ministry of Officials to issue a document to transfer Xu Congzhi to other places, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, as long as the place is remote enough. If Shunyi County Shangshu impeached Jinyiwei, he would be removed from office in the name of governing the local disadvantage.

After the beginning of spring, the families related to the Wenxiang Sect rebellious people were moved to Taiwan, and these big families who took the lead in opposing Jinyiwei also moved away by the way. ”

Wang Chengen's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but carefully advise: "Your Majesty, is this too much movement?" These local gentry are all good places and settle the place for His Majesty. I have always been the imperial power and do not go to the countryside, without these local gentry and big households, who will collect land endowments for Your Majesty and manage the people? ”

"They collect land taxes for the imperial court? Aren't they trying to rip out the bones of the people in the name of the imperial court? If the tax of the imperial court is one liter, then they dare to collect a bucket from the people.

The Ming Dynasty is now in the autumn of the sky, and if they really think about the future of this country, then they will not oppose the policy of the cultivator having his land. Since they don't have this country in their hearts, why should I care what their lives will be? ”

Wang Chengen suddenly didn't dare to intercede for these Shunyi gentry and big families, and when he was bowing his head and saying nothing, Zhu Youzhen seemed to think of something, and added to him: "For the land in their hands, they will exchange it for land three times the area of Taiwan, and of course they have to reclaim those lands themselves." ”

Wang Chengen couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, although the palace didn't know anything about Taiwan in the past, but since Lu Jiude and others went to Taiwan once, they brought back some information about Taiwan.

He finally had a basic idea of Taiwan, although the land in Taiwan is fertile, but most of it is primeval forest, there are many miasma diseases, and there are brutal cannibals.

Swapping land for three times the size of the land sounds like a good deal. But given the cost of clearing land and the mortality rate of immigrants, this is not really a good trade-off.

While Wang Chengen was thinking, Zhu Youzhen suddenly asked again: "Have all the merchant representatives from all over the country arrived?" ”

Wang Chengen immediately came back to his senses, and he immediately replied, "Yes, Your Majesty." The minister is planning to ask His Majesty for instructions on whether to hold the meeting in the same hall. ”

"Then put it in the guild hall. When can I hold a meeting? Zhu Youzhen approved Wang Chengen's arrangement.

"If it is decided to hold it in the Huitong Pavilion, the meeting will be officially held the day after tomorrow..."Wang Chengen replied as he stood behind Chongzhen with his head down.

"Shenyang is a beautiful place, the west conquers the Ming Dynasty, crosses the Liao River from Duerbi, the road is straight and near; The northern expedition to Mongolia can be reached in two or three days; Conquer Korea in the south, advance from Qinghe Road; And in the Hunhe Sukesu River upstream of the river felling wood down the river, with the palace as a salary, can not be used; Sometimes they go out to hunt, there are many beasts near the mountains, and the water tribes in the river can also be caught and taken..."

This was the reason that Nurhachi used to persuade the Jurchen nobles when he moved the capital from Liaoyang to Shenyang.

After Nurhachi captured Shenyang in 1621, most of the main forces of the Ming army in Liaodong had been wiped out. In order to strengthen his rule over the Liaodong region, Nurhachi moved his capital from Hetuara to Liaoyang.

Later Jin built a new city on the bank of the Taizi River in the east of Liaoyang City in the Ming Dynasty, and after spending four years, this new Liaoyang City, known as Tokyo, has a city, palaces, altars, temples, and government offices.

When Liaoyang City had the rudimentary shape of the capital, and the Jurchen nobles also thought that they could enjoy it with peace of mind, Nurhachi did not hesitate to put forward the idea of moving the capital to Shenyang again.

It can be said that after the Later Jin moved the capital to Shenyang, this Tunguska savage tribe would no longer be satisfied with a corner of peace and closed the door to claim the fate of the king.

Shenyang is the key point between the Liaodong Peninsula and the Songliao Plain, and it is also the transportation hub between the Northeast region and the Central Plains. Changbai Mountain stands in the east, Yilu Mountain guards its west, the giant current and the Yalu River surround its front, and the mixed river and black water are behind it.

Shenyang occupies a geographical point and is a transportation hub. If the Central Plains Dynasty wants to control Liaodong, it must possess Shenyang, and if the Liaodong clan wants to resist the attack of the Central Plains Dynasty, they also need Shenyang City as a barrier.

When Nurhachi moved the capital to Shenyang, it also marked that his ambitions did not stop at Liaodong.

In 1625, Nurhachi moved his capital to Shenyang, and died of illness a year later. Huang Taiji ascended to the throne with the support of the Great Belle Daishan, and began to rebuild the city of Shenyang.

During Nurhachi's lifetime, he built the Palace of the Mandate of Heaven, the Great Hall of the Great Government and the Pavilion of the Ten Kings in Shenyang. After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he began to consider expanding the urban scale of Shenyang City.

Before Nurhachi captured Shenyang, there were more than 70,000 soldiers and civilians in Shenyang. After the fall of Shenyang, the population was reduced by half because of the massacre of the Houjin.

After Nurhachi moved the capital, half of the population of the Houjin Eight Banners moved to Shenyang, and with the Han population forcibly relocated back from the Liaodong Peninsula, the population in Shenyang has exceeded 120,000.

When Yang Hao and his entourage arrived in Shenyang under the escort of the Houjin soldiers, the Shenyang he saw was very different from the old Shenyang with the broken city wall in his memory. The outer city wall bricks of Shenyang have not only been renovated, but also rebuilt and enlarged in some areas.

After entering the castle, the changes are even greater, and the main road that originally crisscrossed the castle has now been transformed into a well-shaped traffic avenue. The streets of the city are crowded with people, and Mongolians, Manchus, Han Chinese, and Koreans abound, and it is very lively.

In the central area of Shenyang City, a high platform was erected, and various palaces were built on the Jurchens. A small tribe in the border area, while being the enemy of its neighbors, can still build a large number of buildings, which shows that this small country that calls itself Houjin is in a period of vigorous prosperity.

The newly enthroned Ming Emperor sent an envoy to the peace talks, which was obviously unexpected by the nobles of the Eight Banners in Shenyang.

Huang Taiji, the Great Khan who had always advocated peace talks with the Ming State, did not send people to greet the Ming envoys with great fanfare, but ordered the border troops to escort the Ming envoys to Shenyang in a low-key manner.

After entering Shenyang City, Yang Hao and other Ming envoys were placed in the guest house near the east gate, and were placed under house arrest by the Houjin army, forbidding them to go out of the hall.

However, at this time, Huang Taiji was not the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, but only the Great Khan of Houjin who was elected by Heshuo Babeiler, and the news that the envoys of the Ming Kingdom came to negotiate peace quickly spread in Shenyang.

The envoy Yang Hao was good friends with Li Rusong back then, and he knew Nurhachi as well. As Nurhachi's second son, Daishan naturally met Yang Hao.

After hearing that Yang Hao came to negotiate peace on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, Dai Shan immediately came to visit, wanting to find out the sincerity of the Ming Dynasty to seek peace.

For this high-ranking and powerful Big Baylor, the Eight Banners Army guarding the State Guest House naturally did not dare to stop it.

With Dai Shan taking the lead, Erbeile Amin, who was frustrated in North Korea, suddenly pulled up Sanbeile Mang Gurtai and visited Yang Ho with great fanfare.

In this way, the matter of the Ming Dynasty sending envoys to negotiate peace was finally blinded, and the entire military and civilians in Shenyang City knew the news.

Except for some Liao people who were deeply disappointed by this, the generals of the Eight Banners were all excited, and they thought that the war with the Ming Dynasty had finally seen the hope of an end. The war against the Ming Dynasty in general with the behemoth is a lingering psychological shadow for every Jianzhou Jurchen.

In the past 10 years, there has hardly been a day when the Jurchens have not been at war. Although under the leadership of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, the Jianzhou Jurchens were almost invincible, the Mandate of Heaven Khan was dead after all.

And now the four major Baylors who lead the Jurchens, none of them have the prestige of the Heavenly Mandate Khan, and there are also many contradictions between the four Baylors. As soon as the Mandate of Heaven Khan died, the eldest concubine Abahai was forced to die by Huang Taiji and Zhubeile.

After the Battle of Ningjin, the Jin army was repulsed without any results, which was in stark contrast to the period of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, and the Ming army must have something in every battle.

Therefore, for the lower-class Jurchen soldiers and civilians, this period is a period of confusion that has lost its direction, and no one knows where the future of the Jurchen clan is.

In such a period, the Ming Dynasty envoys brought the willingness to negotiate peace, which undoubtedly made these Jianzhou Jurchens who had just come out of the mountains and forests ecstatic. This undoubtedly means that the greatest enemy of the Later Jin has finally compromised, and the Songliao Plain, which was originally abandoned to defend against the Ming army, can finally drive the Ahabs to cultivate.

Then the only enemies of Jin were the Mongols in the western steppe. This made the tense nerves of the Jurchens, who had always been enemies on all sides, suddenly relaxed.