After Emperor Chongzhen received Agrabari and Ilduqi, he quickly asked the Imperial Court and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to finalize the types and locations of goods for mutual trade between the Mongol tribes of the left wing of Horqin and the Ming Dynasty.

War horses, cattle and sheep, leather, felt, meat, dairy products, and even timber and forage from the Horqin steppes were all included in the bartered trade.

The things included in the list of trade items of the Ming Dynasty have been reviewed by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Military Aircraft Department.

As for the location of the mutual trade, no matter how Ilduqi and others fought for it, in the end they still followed the instructions of Emperor Chongzhen and settled in Zhangjiakou.

At the same time, on the side of the Ming Dynasty, the Hengxing Company of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Zhangjiakou still monopolized the trade route between Chaganhot in the north and the Mongolian tribes of the left wing of Horqin.

The Mongolian tribes of the left wing of Horqin could go south to the Rongchang outside Zhangjiakou and trade goods with the northern and southern merchants of the Ming Dynasty, but the caravans that could go north to the Horqin grassland on the side of the Ming Dynasty could only be monopolized by the Hengxing Company.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen asked the Internal Affairs Office to insist on doing so was not to monopolize the profits of trade with the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribes.

The question of profit is of course important, but more important than profit is to control the scale, type, and scope of trade with the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribes.

If Horqin provided war horses, cattle, sheep and livestock, then as many as they wanted, the Ming Dynasty could ask for as much as they wanted.

But if it's mink, ginseng, dongzhu, deer antler and the like, the price and scale must be strictly controlled.

Because things like war horses and cattle, sheep, and livestock are useful, while things like mink, ginseng, and dongzhu deer antler velvet are useless.

Of course, things like mink ginseng can't be said to be completely useless.

It's just that almost 100% of these things come from the territory of the Houjin State after the establishment of the Jin Kingdom, and if you want these things, it is actually equivalent to funding the economy of the Houjin Kingdom.

Now there is no need for Emperor Chongzhen to do such a thing personally.

After Emperor Chongzhen's repeated requests in the past few years, now, whether it is the envoy of the household department, or the upper echelons of the companies that monopolize foreign trade controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they have all understood the truth behind the trade war.

Including those ministers in the cabinet and the military aircraft department, now they have gradually understood the beauty of the trade war, and gradually understood the beauty of surrendering without a fight, and they no longer always think of using various opportunities to suggest to the emperor that they should send troops outside Shanhaiguan as soon as possible, so as to level the Jianyu Jurchens in one fell swoop.

Once upon a time, when Emperor Chongzhen sent Jinyiwei and Dongchang personnel to Xuanda, Shanxi and other places to arrest and capture the Jin merchants, and then execute them all on the charge of traitors, many officials in the court and China were opposed.

Many ministers, including the Cabinet, the Sixth Ministry, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, are afraid to speak out.

Now, a year or two have passed, and the Mongol tribes in Saibei have not provoked war because the imperial court cut off their trade with the Ming Dynasty folk merchants.

Those large and small Mongolian tribes, on the contrary, because the Ming Dynasty controlled almost all the border trade in the hands of the imperial court, and became more respectful and obedient to the Ming court.

Even the Jianyu Jurchens in the northeast have not launched an attack on the borders of the Ming Dynasty for a few days.

Such a situation is more convincing than any reprimand of Emperor Chongzhen at the Great Court Meeting at the beginning of his succession.

In the last years of Wanli, especially during the Apocalypse, the Jianyu Jurchens in the northeast rarely stayed quietly, either besieging the towns in the northeast border area of the Ming Dynasty, or on the way to launch a siege on the northeast border towns of the Ming Dynasty.

The military intelligence reports from outside the Northeast Pass are almost all the time, and most of them are bad news that the Liaodong border army of the Ming Dynasty has lost its troops and will lose its city and land, so that the court of the Ming Dynasty has always been in a situation of being overwhelmed.

And now, except for some urgent military information from time to time in the northwest region, the land of Liaodong outside Shanhaiguan is calm.

Since Huang Taiji withdrew his troops from Mo Nan and retreated to Shenyang, there has been no movement for a long time.

If this situation does not show that the current Emperor Chongzhen is a lord of the Holy Ming, then what other facts can show this?

And this is also the reason why since the second half of Chongzhen's third year, there have rarely been fierce party disputes in the court of the Ming Dynasty.

Not only did a cannon like Liu Zongzhou no longer easily oppose Emperor Chongzhen's major political decisions, but even Qi Biaojia, the leader of the Qingliu who had an important influence among the young officials of the Hanlin Academy, the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, and the Six Science Corridors, began to adopt a wait-and-see attitude.

This Qi Biaojia is also a disciple of Liu Zongzhou.

In the second year of Chongzhen, with the departure of many Donglin Party members in the DPRK and China, he has earned a lot of fame for himself because of his youthful ambition and fierce speech, and now among the young officials of the Hanlin Academy, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Science Corridors, he has replaced the Donglin Party figures in the past, and has become a new generation of Qingliu leaders.

is such a person, and now he also discovers that His Majesty the Emperor has only been on the throne for four years, but the national situation of the Ming Dynasty is already thriving.

At least compared to when Qi Biaojia was just a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, the current Ming Dynasty border is stable, the court situation is stable, the finances are stable, and even the emperor's harem is stable.

Under such circumstances, although it is their forte to sit and talk and find faults, they also clearly know that the current situation is really much better than in the past.

Liu Zongzhou and Qi Biaojia were all born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and when Emperor Chongzhen decided to open the sea for trade, their Donglin Party members who were born in Nanzhili and the peripheral officials of the Donglin Party desperately wrote against it.

However, in the past two or three years, the opening of the sea and trade, which they once fiercely opposed, has really brought considerable benefits to Zhejiang and various places in Nanzhili.

Let's not talk about other places, just talk about the Kaifu trade in Ningbo Port in Zhejiang Province and Shanghai Port in Songjiang Prefecture in Nanzhi, which has already made the Shaoxing clan, represented by Liu Zongzhou and Qi Biaojia, who are half-cultivated and half-weaved, also make a fortune from it.

And those merchants who directly operated or participated in the operation of maritime trade were cotton cloth from Songjiang, silk from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and porcelain from Jiangxi and Zhejiang, which were sold to Java, and they became rich one by one.

In the face of such facts, in front of the interests of relatives and friends in their hometown, even super masters like Liu Zongzhou and Qi Biaojia can't help but reflect on whether what they did in the past was right or wrong.

In this way, Emperor Chongzhen's personal decision on the mutual trade with the Horqin left-wing Mongolian tribes did not cause any controversy in the court, and soon entered the link of concrete implementation.

In late May, Ilduqi and his entourage, accompanied by Yang Zhen and Deng Tianhe, the two imperial attendants, as well as Haskan and Agrabarhi, left the capital of the Ming Dynasty and embarked on a journey back to Chaganhot.

The figures who went to Chaganhot with Ilduqi and others, as well as Chen Shiqi, the military aircraft senator of the Military Aircraft Department.

Chen Shiqi, as Emperor Chongzhen's envoy, followed Ilduqi and others to Chaganhot to canonize Borzigit Zaisang, the leader of the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribe, as a first-class virtuous marquis of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, this time, Emperor Chongzhen also instructed the Military Aircraft Department to change the name of the Ganhot Han to Baicheng in the form of an edict from the emperor, and to give Baicheng and its surrounding areas north of the Taer River to the first-class virtuous Marquis Borzigit Zaisang of the Ming Dynasty, as the fief of the Mongolian tribes of the left wing of Horqin.

As the envoy of Zhaisang, the leader of the left-wing Mongol tribes in Horqin, Ilduqi himself was not very satisfied with the results of this envoy to the Ming Dynasty, especially the arrangements made by Emperor Chongzhen for mutual trade.

In particular, the condition of the Ming Dynasty's comprehensive liberalization of mutual trade was to kill the Jurchen wife of the Manzhu Xili, that is, the Later Jin State Gege who married into the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribe.

How can such a thing be done right now?!

The Jurchen wife who is full of rituals is not an ordinary daughter of the Jurchen clan.

She is not only the daughter of Heshuo Belle Yuetuo, one of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin State, but also Gege, who was adopted by Huang Taiji since childhood.

It would be easy to kill this woman, but after killing this woman, it will definitely cause an uproar between Horqin and the Jurchens of the Later Jin Kingdom.

If you do this, I am afraid that the relationship between the Horqin left wing and the Jurchens will immediately break down, and you will immediately set yourself on fire.

Doing so is not in the interests of the Horqin left-wing Mongolian tribes!

And it is also the complete opposite of the Horqin left-wing Mongolia's current intention of betting on both sides and taking it all on both sides.

In Ilduqi's heart, if Horqin's left-wing Mongolian leader Zaisan finds an excuse, such as Manzhu Xili being detained in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that he will not be able to return to the Horqin grassland in this life, and then use this reason as an excuse to send Manzhu Xili's Jurchen wife in Horqin back to Yue Tuo's side, or send her back to Shenyang City and let her marry again, then everything is reasonable.

After all, it is a fact that Manzhu Xili was detained, and it has nothing to do with Huang Taiji.

Under such circumstances, it is unreasonable to let the daughter of the Later Jin Kingdom and Shuobeile Yuetuo, and Gege, who was born in the Jurchen clan of the Later Jin Kingdom, love the Xinjueluo family, be a widow on the Horqin grassland.

This was one of the terms that Ilduqi had negotiated with him in Chaganhot before his departure that could be exchanged.

Moreover, it was used as a last resort to show the sincerity of the submission of the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribes.

However, now His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is more difficult than Jaisan and Ilduqi expected.

At the beginning of June in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the grass and trees on the Horqin grassland were luxuriant, and the flowers were in full bloom, and Borzigit Jaisang, who lived in the city of Chaganhot, welcomed back the Ilduqi and his party who sent the Ming Dynasty to Beijing, and also ushered in the canonization envoy team sent by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Ilduqi reported to Zhaisang what he saw and heard on the way to and from the Ming Dynasty, as well as what he saw during his stay in the Ming Dynasty, as well as the trade arrangements he had reached with the Ming Dynasty's household department, the Li Fan Yuan, the Internal Affairs Bureau, and other yamen.

Two days after Ilduqi led the canonization envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shiqi and others, back to Chaganhot, Borzigit Jaisang accepted the canonization of the Ming court in his own big tent in the city, and became a first-class virtuous marquis of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the condition proposed by Emperor Chongzhen to grant a full trade license to the left wing of Horqin, Zhai Sang did not react, and Chen Shiqi, the canonized envoy of the Ming Dynasty, tacitly did not mention it.