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Su Tiancheng made another big move in Dengzhou, and Zhou Yanru was no exception, and he also made a big move in the capital.

The cabinet has its own characteristics, the cabinet minister is actually the prime minister, although it shows that the dynasty abolished the prime minister system, but the cabinet established later, slowly evolved into the prime minister system, and the cabinet has greater power, and can even play a role in deceiving the upper and lower levels, so that the emperor is completely in the dark. After a few hundred years, it is somewhat unimaginable to see this situation, but in the Ming Dynasty, where communication was not developed at all, such a situation completely existed.

After the cabinet has seen these twists and turns, it will be presented to the emperor if it is necessary to play them, otherwise it will be directly pressed down, if all the twists and turns are let the emperor decide, the emperor will not eat or drink for 24 hours, and he will not be able to deal with so many twists and turns.

In the cabinet, the final decision is whether to report the fold to the emperor, the focus is on the opinion of the cabinet chief, many cabinet ministers, each has a piece of responsibility, involving this piece of things, the important fold will be dealt with together with the opinions, first report to the cabinet chief, simple things were determined at that time, major issues, need to be studied, the cabinet chief assistant convened many cabinet ministers, and even six departments of Shangshu participated, together to study, after taking out the opinions, finally presented to the emperor, Make the final decision.

From this point of view, the power of the cabinet chief assistant is very large, but because the cabinet minister is not the prime minister in the real sense, the meaning of the original establishment of the cabinet is equivalent to the meaning of the emperor's secretary team, so the power of the cabinet, the focus is still on how the emperor delegates power. The emperor himself is lazy and does not like to intervene in the affairs of the court, in this case, the power of the cabinet is very great, and if the emperor is very diligent, he will control everything in the court. The Cabinet doesn't necessarily have that much power.

Zhou Yanru became the first assistant of the cabinet again, of course, he was thinking about the pursuit of the highest power, and the confrontation with Wen Tiren left him too deep stimulation, although Wen Tiren had passed, and he was also removed from the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, but Zhou Yanru was really unwilling, the first thing he had to do was to clean up some of the officials promoted by Wen Tiren as much as possible. Next, Zhou Yanru will do his best to maintain his power and eliminate all possible threats.

It is precisely because of the guidance of such thoughts that Zhou Yanru behaved differently when he took office.

Through this adjustment of officials, many ministers of civil and military affairs have understood one thing, that is, Zhou Yanru can decide the position of officials, except for cabinet ministers, even if it is six books. I'm afraid it's possible to adjust. As for the cabinet ministers, they understand this truth even more. Compared with Zhou Yanru, they are unmatchable in terms of qualifications and experience, so this also prompts Zhou Yanru to concentrate power more.

If you want to be autocratic, there is one more important aspect. That is how to deal with the emperor, on the one hand, to gain the emperor's trust, on the other hand, to hide from the emperor, not to let the emperor know everything, that is not conducive to dictatorship.

However, Zhou Yanru mastered the emperor's biggest weakness. That is, he likes to listen to good words, likes to be touted, likes to be complacent, and thinks that he is stronger than the Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors. Mastering this weakness of the emperor, Zhou Yanru naturally has a way to deal with it, the most obvious thing is the negotiation between the imperial court and the Houjin Tartars, Zhou Yanru always picks up the good and says, for example, what Huang Taiji is particularly in awe and respect for the emperor, extremely afraid of the emperor's wisdom, the Han people in Shenyang and other places miss the emperor's grace all the time, and the emperor's prestige is not only spread in Liaodong, but even in Heilongjiang, which is preached.

It is impossible to say that the emperor completely believes these words, after all, Zhu Youzhen is not a stupid person, and he is very diligent, but after years of diligence and depression, Zhu Youzhen's personality is a little weird, he is very happy to hear Zhou Yanru's praise like this, and after listening to the words of praise, he really thinks that is the case.

Of course, there are still some facts in this, at least there is silver in the imperial treasury, which is enough for expenses, and the disasters in various places have also been relieved, there are no rogues rebelling, most of the places have basically calmed down, and the Houjin Tartars have also come to the capital to obediently surrender, and years of hard work have alleviated the situation full of holes, which is also the reason why Zhu Youzhen is happy.

It is precisely because of this situation that Zhu Youzhen began to rest assured that Zhou Yanru was in power, and he always believed in Zhou Yanru, even when Zhou Yanru went into hiding.

The most important thing that Zhou Yanru dealt with was the submission of the Houjin Tartars.

In fact, in the cabinet, there are also different views, Chen Xinjia fought with the Houjin Tartars, and it was a fiasco, and he had a deep impression of the courage of the Houjin Tartars, so when the Houjin Tartars expressed their submission, they also focused on how to place the Houjin Tartars' army, at least under the control of the imperial court, and Fan Jingwen also insisted on this opinion.

It's a pity that this opinion was actually put forward by Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang did not agree with the submission of the Houjin Tartars, it was precisely because of the issue of the Houjin Tartars' army, Zhou Yanru was opposed, they all knew very well that if it involved the issue of the Houjin Tartars' army, the negotiations would not be able to proceed, but Zhou Yanru's understanding was more profound, and he did not let the Houjin Tartars surrender, which did not meet the emperor's requirements.

Therefore, Zhou Yanru directly pinched the negotiation matters in his hands.

When Jia Jihan came to visit the mansion for the first time, he once sent gold, all of which Zhou Yanru reported to the emperor and paid into the treasury, which was greatly praised by the emperor, but unfortunately all this was just a ploy that Zhou Yanru came up with, the purpose of which was to completely control the progress of the negotiations and control all the decision-making power.

After that, Jia Jihan came to visit Zhou Kang several times, and the gifts sent after that could not be compared with the first time, there were night pearls, treasure knives, thousands of horses, etc., all of which were priceless things, Zhou Kang did not refuse, and all of them were laughed, in fact, Zhou Yanru smiled.

Since he has accepted so many gifts, it is easy to talk about the negotiation, Zhou Yanru only asks for a good face, and there are some things that the two parties can sign an agreement, as for whether it is implemented or not, that is another meaning.

Thinking about the success of the peace talks, Jilharang naturally understood the meaning of this, so he made concessions on many key issues, looking forward to the conclusion of the negotiations as soon as possible.

Zhu Youzhen is also very concerned about this negotiation, several times to ask, and personally read the relevant records, for the Houjin Tartar to be able to accept so many conditions, is very happy, thinking that Zhou Yanru is really capable, for example, to send officers, into the Manchurian Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners, such conditions, Houjin Tartar agreed, it seems that he is thinking of real surrender.

Seeing the records of the negotiations, Zhu Youzhen was completely relieved, and entrusted all the matters of the negotiation to Zhou Yanru.

Zhu Youzhen should understand a word, painting cakes to satisfy hunger, the negotiation between the imperial court and the Houjin Tartars, there is already some taste of painting cakes to satisfy hunger, the Houjin Tartars agree to a lot of conditions, some are principled conditions, it was impossible to agree to it before, but Zhu Youzhen did not seriously consider it, what would the Houjin Tartars agree to these conditions, including the imperial court can send officials to enter Shenyang City, including the Emperor Taiji of Houjin has to come to the capital every year to meet the emperor, I can't come, I have to send a messenger to meet the emperor, etc., It even includes the post-gold tartars, who have to pay a certain amount of gold and silver every year, and so on.

The conditions for the imperial court to do are also very clear, the first is to no longer attack the Houjin Tartars, and the second is to put them in some of the treaty ports, so that the merchants on both sides can do business freely, of course, the Houjin Tartars also mentioned a very important condition, that is, the Ming army stationed in Liaodong, whether it can be less, such a principled thing, Zhou Yanru did not dare to agree, after all, Zhou Yanru is clear in his heart, the submission of the Houjin Tartars, with too many question marks.

Negotiations with the Houjin Tatars ended in less than a month.

After signing the agreement, Zilharang was in a hurry to return to Shenyang, many things, he needed to report, and during this time in the capital, he more or less had some information. Judging from the many pieces of information we have, there is no doubt that the current situation is very favorable to the Qing Kingdom.

Zhou Yanru personally set up a banquet and entertained Zilharang, as for what the two talked about, outsiders don't know.

Su Tiancheng, who was far away in Dengzhou, also got a rubbing copy of the agreement.

Su Tiancheng looked very carefully, but after seeing the back, his face had already changed, Zhu Xianxin and Qu Qingze stood next to them and did not speak for the time being.

"Joke, it's really a joke, I don't know what Emperor Lu Dao thinks, the result of this negotiation is really amazing, Houjin Tartar completely surrendered to the court, and he almost handed over the army directly, it turns out that Lord Zhou Yanru is so powerful, our hundreds of thousands of troops went to conquer Houjin Tartar, and we can't achieve this purpose, Lord Zhou can destroy the army of hundreds of thousands of Houjin Tartars in a few words, it's amazing, it's really amazing."

Su Tiancheng said the opposite.

Zhu Xianxuan followed and spoke.

"It seems that this negotiation agreement has no effect in the slightest, and many of the things mentioned in it are probably not ready to be implemented by the Houjin Tartars."

Qu Qingze, who knew the situation here, also spoke.

"Among the envoys of the Houjin Tartars, there is a person named Jia Jihan, it was this Jia Jihan who provoked the infighting between the Xibe tribe and the Dauria tribe back then, if it wasn't for the adults who considered it in advance, and made special arrangements, I'm afraid that these two tribes have been in a hurry, this Jia Jihan, after arriving in the capital, is very active, often secretly goes out of the city, and comes and goes very freely, the lower officials think that the Houjin Tartars are afraid of knowing the situation faced by the Daoist court."

Su Tiancheng's face was even more ugly.

"I thought that after Zhou Yanru became the first assistant of the cabinet, he would do earth-shattering things, but it turned out to be this kind of coping and fooling, which is called self-inflicted sin and can't live." (To be continued......)