Huang Taiji coughed lightly, smiled and said, "It's just a discussion of state affairs, how did Big Baylor accuse San Baylor." Since we are discussing state affairs, we always have to let people express their thoughts, so let's talk about things and get back to business. Don't stand there any longer, sit down. ”

Mang Gurtai glanced at Dai Shan hatefully, and then sat back on the steps handed over by Huang Taiji.

Although Huang Taiji snatched the throne that should have belonged to him, the strange thing is that Mang Gurtai hates Dai Shan the most. He believes that Dai Shan's mother, who was harmed first, was misunderstood by his father Khan, and now he is blocking his way to the Khan, which is much more hateful than Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji continued: "Da Beile is right, our Dajin Kingdom really needs to make peace with the Ming Kingdom, and we do need to recuperate. However, by no means now.

My Jurchen conquered Korea in the east, rejected Mongolia in the west, and invaded the Ming Kingdom in the south. If people underestimate the force of my Dajin, these wild dogs around us will pounce on them without any scruples.

Although with my Dajin's martial arts, I naturally don't have to be afraid of these incompetent people. But as long as there is a war, there will inevitably be damage, can we leave the behemoth of the Ming Kingdom alone, but entangle with these wild dogs?

We want to negotiate peace with the Ming State after completely defeating the Ming State and making the children of the Southern Dynasty dare not look at me Dajin again. Rather than talking to us about what to do in the way of the present gift. ”

Mang Gurtai, who was originally speechless by Dai Shan, suddenly said loudly: "What Lao Ba said is right, I Dajin established the country with martial arts, if I can't deter my neighbors..."

Mang Gurtai got carried away and blurted out Huang Taiji's old name. Huang Taiji's face changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal.

The Jurchen aristocrats who were originally moved by Dai Shan's words now feel that what Huang Taiji said is more reasonable. Azig, who was behind the four major Baylors, watched coldly and did not step forward to speak for Huang Taiji.

Standing beside him, Dolgon, who was only 16 years old, rolled his eyes, and suddenly interjected: "What the Great Khan said is right, so should we categorically reject the Ming envoy's request for peace talks and send them back directly?" ”

Seeing a group of Jurchen nobles, only Dolgon still remembered that he was the Great Khan of the Jin Kingdom, Huang Taiji was quite unhappy, but he still said with a smile on his face.

"Otherwise, there has always been only one opponent of my Dajin, and that is Mingguo. Father Khan once said that Vaming is like cutting down a tree, can it be cut down at once? It must be cut with a knife and axe, and gradually the tree can be broken.

If you want to destroy a great power that is more powerful than yourself, can you succeed in one fell swoop? Be sure to cut off his peripheral helpers first. There are two helpers of the Ming Kingdom, one is North Korea in the east, and the other is Lin Dan Khan in the west.

Last year, Amin Belle conquered Korea and made a brotherly alliance with the king of Korea, which was equivalent to cutting off the right hand of the Ming Kingdom.

As for the left hand of the Ming Kingdom, most of the five Inner Khalkha tribes surrendered to my Dajin; Korqin has always been my Dajin's in-law; Among the Chahar Eight Otok, Naiman, Aohan, Alakchut and other departments also submitted to my Dajin.

The 30,000 households on the left wing of the Mongolian Chahar Department are already lonely. Lin Dan Khan was afraid of my Dajin soldiers, so he left the Dorot Department to garrison the Liaohe Loop, and he led his troops to move west to avoid my Dajin.

Of the Mongolian tribes west of Dajin today, only the Dorot and Karaqin tribes have not submitted to our Dajin. The Karaqin tribe has envoys to and from our Dajin, and they also know that our Dajin soldiers are brave and invincible. The only Dorot department does not know the destiny of heaven, and has intercepted and killed my Dajin envoy several times, which is really hateful.

We want to defeat the Ming Kingdom completely, so that it does not dare to treat us lightly. The Chahar must be conquered completely, and if you want to conquer the Chahar, you must first defeat the Dorot.

In order for us to go out to the Dorote Department, we will not let the Ming State create trouble for us in Liaodong, so what is wrong with the Ming State to negotiate peace?

The emperor of the Southern Dynasty wanted to negotiate peace to tie our hands and feet, but we just used peace to eliminate the worries of the crusade against the Mongols. We also need to spread the news of the peace negotiations to the grasslands, so that the Mongolian tribes who want to be the grass on the wall between Dajin and the Ming Kingdom will know the weakness and incompetence of the Ming Kingdom. ”

Huang Taiji's statement was unanimously agreed by the Jurchen nobles, and Huang Taiji then ordered Amin to replace Dai Shan and the Ming envoys to continue the peace talks, and he led his army to conquer the Chahar tribe of Liaohetao.

Huang Taiji only took two yellow flags and two white flags with him, and he crusaded against the Chahar tribe in the name of his envoys who were intercepted and killed by the Dorot tribe.

Huangtai Ji ordered Dolgon and Duoduo Belle to be the vanguard, and led the elite soldiers of the two white flags to advance. Dolgon found out that the Dorot tribe Qing Batu Lu Selen and his men were living in Ao Mulun, so he attacked Ao Mulun with his army, and the Dorot tribe Dorzi Hatan Batu Lu was wounded and fled, Taiji Gulu was killed, and more than 10,000 of his men were captured by Huang Taiji.

In the State Guest House in Shenyang, Amin brought the revised peace conditions: Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Jin Kingdom, was willing to lower his status to the emperor of the Ming State and above the Ming ministers. The number of gifts requested above is halved, and the number of gifts given on the New Year is also reduced accordingly.

Regarding the conditions of the Jurchens, the envoys of the Ming Kingdom completely ignored them. Yang Hao privately proposed to Amin that he was willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver to collect the corpses of the Ming army on various battlefields in Liaodong in previous Liaodong operations.

After receiving a private gift of 5,000 taels of silver and a hundred horses of various colors of silk, Amin nodded and agreed to the request of the Ming State to send someone to collect the corpses of the Ming army.

The two sides agreed that this request was no longer within the scope of the peace talks. So Yang Hao sent his entourage to various old battlefields to collect the corpses of the Ming army. And he himself sat in Shenyang, and began a long phase of peace talks with Amin.

Amin was originally worried that Yang Hao sent these people to spy on the inside of the Jin Kingdom, but soon the subordinates he sent to monitor reported that these Ming people had indeed only collected the corpses, and he left this matter behind.

In a large banquet hall specially opened up in the hall, 230 business representatives from all over the Ming Dynasty sat opposite each other on the east and west sides.

Although the household officials who were in charge of presiding over this merchant congress did not arrange any seats. However, the first row of positions on the east side was occupied by Shanxi merchants. In the first row to the west, merchants from Dongting, Huizhou, and Zhejiang sat down.

The merchants of the rest of the region, divided by geography, attached themselves to them and seemed to have acquiesced in their leadership.

Zhang Jinquan, who was sitting at the bottom of the east side, had dark circles in his eyes, and he lowered his head and didn't know what to think about, but he obviously didn't put his mind on this meeting.

The seat in the palace was Zheng Tingji, the Guizhou Qing official of the Guizhou Qing Bureau, who presided over the meeting, and the Guizhou Qing Officials Division was responsible for the banknotes of all parts of the world, so he presided over this meeting of merchant representatives.

Zheng Tingji, a native of Nan'an, Fujian, attached great importance to the discussion of taxation at the merchants' congress. After all, this is a meeting hand-picked by the emperor, if he does not handle it well and is remembered by the emperor, it will be a disaster.

When the two officials of the same hall finished counting their names and reported to him that the personnel had arrived, he couldn't wait to say loudly: "Your Majesty personally ordered the convening of this merchant congress, the main purpose is to sort out the tax collection, now let's talk about it, how much should this tax be set?"

This official thinks that the country is now in the autumn of exhaustion, and it is necessary for you to work hard to serve the imperial court. Therefore, this tax must not be less than one-tenth, what do you think? ”

The merchants in the venue were in an uproar, although they did not dare to directly oppose this proposal due to Zheng Tingji's official authority, but they could not accept this tax rate.

Although the Ming commercial tax is thirty taxes and one, this is not a one-time tax, but each tax that passes through must be paid once. The long-distance trafficking of goods is most suitable for water transportation, so the customs of the imperial court are basically located on the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River.

There are about 40 customs customs in Daming, and 5 are occupied on the canal. Transported from Hangzhou to Beijing, you have to pay a tax of one-sixth of the value of the goods, which is already a fairly high tax rate.

Now changing to a one-tenth tax rate would not be a tax on one-half of the value of the goods. For serious businessmen, this is a completely unbearable burden.

The privileged merchants, who were attached to the powerful and exempt from paying taxes, did not attend the meeting at all. For them, no matter what the tax rate is, it will not be collected from them.

Most of the merchants who can sit here have to pay taxes. Although the merchants present here evaded most of the taxes through various means.

But after the tax rate increases, the cost of bribes to officials will definitely increase, which is undoubtedly closely related to their own interests.

Therefore, they all began to talk to Zheng Tingji, this dilemma of doing business in other places, and increasing such a high tax rate would undoubtedly force them to die.

Zheng Tingji didn't expect that as soon as he said a word, these profiteers began to complain in tears, wanting him to retract what he said. This made his face a little uncomfortable, and he was about to scold the profiteers with a gloomy face, when the door to the hall was suddenly opened.

After Zheng Tingji glanced up, he suddenly left his seat in a hurry and bowed down towards the door of the hall. The merchant representatives at the venue looked at the official's demeanor, and immediately turned their eyes to the door, and then they also learned Zheng Tingji's lying on the ground.

Zhu Youzhen, who was wearing regular clothes, took Lu Qi and Wang Chengen from the aisle to the main seat in the hall. Without squinting, he bypassed Zheng Tingji, who was kneeling on the ground, and sat down in the position where Zheng Tingji was originally sitting.

After Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen in a low voice, he said: "You delegates don't have to be polite, let's all be even." Zheng Langzhong is also flat, you can sit in front of me, I just want to hear what the meeting is discussing, everyone continue..."