When Shang Yi was in Nanjing, he met Huang Zongxi, but the two had no communication. Huang Zongxi only regarded Shang Yi as an ordinary general, and Shang Yi did not want to have a relationship with the Donglin Party.
Shang Yi's Shandong news report to Nanjing twice caused quite a lot of trouble to the Nanjing court, because in the Southern Ming court, both the Donglin Party and the Ma Party had reached a consensus and decided to negotiate peace with the Qing army. Therefore, a group of officials led by Ma Shiying would anger Shang Yi's actions and refused to negotiate peace with the Nanjing court. However, Wu Xuan believed that the victory of the Shang army in Shandong could make the Qing army realize that the Nanjing court still had considerable strength and could not be defeated easily, which would be helpful for peace talks.
Although the two factions have different views, no matter what, the Merchant Army won the victory, and of course the victory of the Qing army should be rewarded. However, Shang Yi's official position was already high enough, so this time he only rewarded him without adding any rank. However, the merchant army chiefs on the Shandong battlefield were all given additional officials. Zhou Shaohuan is now a deputy general and appointed as the commander of Shandong, Tong Dayong is now a general, a commander of Shandong, etc. Huang Zongxi was sent to announce the reward of the Nanjing court. At the same time, he also had the official documents of Zhou Shiqi as the governor of Zhejiang and Wang Fuzhi as the governor of Zhejiang.
Of course, Huang Zongyi also had another mission, which was to advise Shang Yi to be a little more careful and not to do it too much. If it really makes the Qing army angry, it would be difficult to deal with. Because Huang Zongxi also agreed to temporarily discuss peace with the Qing army.
Unlike Zuo Liangyu and the four towns of Jiangbei, Shang Yi still showed great respect to the Nanjing court. Huang Zongxi's official position was not high, but the imperial envoy was equivalent to an imperial envoy and a famous thinker. Therefore, Shang Yi also welcomed Huang Zongxi very grandly. He brought Zhou Shiqi and Wang Fuzhi outside Hangzhou city.
After the two sides met, Shang Yi also took the initiative to salute and said with a smile: "Mr. Nan Lei, it's been nearly two months since he was separated in Nanjing. Are you okay?" Huang Zongxi named Lizhou in his later years, but when he was young, he called him Nan Lei, so Shang Yi also called him this to show respect for him.
Seeing that Shang Yi was polite, Huang Zongxi could not control Ao. Although he did not like Shang Yi very much, he also knew that Donglin's primary enemy is Ma Shiying. Shang Yi could be regarded as an alliance of the Donglin Party in a certain sense, so he bowed and said, "Shang Junmen has been missing for a long time." Because Shang Yi was a military general, he could be respected as the military gate according to convention.
Both of them were polite, and then Shang Yi guided Zhou Shiqi and Wang Fuzhi to Huang Zongxi. In fact, Wang Fuzhi also admired Huang Zongxi for a long time, because Huang Zongxi's articles and knowledge were already very famous in the ranks of the people.
Although Wang Fuzhi's reputation is not as good as Huang Zongxi, he has been publishing articles in the [Hangzhou Times]. As the influence of [Hangzhou Times] becomes greater and greater, Wang Fuzhi's popularity is gradually increasing. Although Huang Zongxi has a lot of criticisms about the [Hangzhou Times], he has also seen Wang Fuzhi's articles in the newspaper and admires Wang Fuzhi's talent very much.
Shang Yi welcomed Huang Zongxi to Hangzhou and sat in the Governor's Office. Huang Zongxi first read out the court's commendation to Shang Yi and the promotion orders for relevant personnel. Shang Yi and others pretended to bow to Nanjing to express their gratitude to the emperor. Huang Zongxi also said some words of encouragement and encouragement, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. Then Zhou Shiqi, Wang Fuzhi and other Zhejiang officials also retired one by one, leaving only Huang Zongxi and Shang Yi.
Huang Zongxi then said, "Shang Junmen, do you know that the imperial court has sent a northern mission to the north to visit the tombs of the capital and pay homage to the late emperor."
Shang Yi nodded and said, "Of course I know about such a thing. Is it hard to say that the court is afraid that I will win in Shandong and annoy the Qing army and affect this peace talks?"
Huang Zongxi didn't expect Shang Yi to say so directly, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, saying: "The Shang army probably knows the situation within the court now. Treacherous ministers are in power, blocking the wise path, and the court will not prosper. Therefore, it is better not to start a war easily, it is better to give in a little."
Shang Yi thought to himself that the Nanjing court is in chaos now, and your Donglin Party may have made great contributions, but he didn't want to fight with Huang Zongxi, so he said: "Mr. Nan Lei, in my opinion, this peace and disagreement may no longer be with us, but with the Qing Dynasty?"
Huang Zongxi was stunned and said, "Shang Junmen, what do you mean?"
Shang Yi smiled and said, "If the Qing Dynasty insisted on seizing our Ming Dynasty, we would send envoys to make concessions. I am afraid they would not agree to discuss peace with us. Therefore, I think this peace talk will be difficult, and even the envoys who negotiate peace talks will find it difficult to return to the south again."
Huang Zongxi shook his head and said, "The Qing Dynasty had attacked our Ming Dynasty five times before, and each time it went deep into the hinterland, but eventually retreated outside the pass. It can be seen that they only care about their children's wealth and did not intend to seize the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, this time is probably no exception. As long as they are allowed some money, peace talks should be successful."
Shang Yi smiled bitterly. Huang Zongxi's political views were indeed very poor. Of course, it was not just Huang Zongxi, but the entire Nanjing court was similar. Just look at the main content of this Northern Mission's peace talks: the place outside the Seshan Haiguan was with the Qing Dynasty; the examples of the Southern and Northern Dynasties were equally used; Emperor Hongguang was old and called "Shu"; Emperor Shunzhi was young and called "nephew"; the Ming Dynasty gave the Qing Dynasty 100,000 "annual money" every year, etc. It can be imagined that, not to mention that the Qing Dynasty was not interested in discussing peace talks with the Southern Ming Dynasty, even if it was intended to negotiate peace, such conditions would not be possible.
Therefore, Shang Yi said: "Manqing has always been watching my Ming Dynasty, how could he not seek land? The Qing Dynasty attacked my Ming Dynasty five times before, but it was not that he did not want to occupy the land of my Ming Dynasty, but that he still could not. At that time, the national strength of my Ming Dynasty was still there. Although he had a temporary defeat, he still had spare strength. The Qing Dynasty's small people were few and had no long battles, so he could not be one. At that time, there was still Ningyuan outside the pass, and Jinzhou was not lost. The Qing Dynasty's foundation was unstable, so it was two. Moreover, Shanhaiguan was still in the hands of my Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty attacked my Ming Dynasty five times, and all three could not be gone. It was precisely these three candies that Manqing had not long occupied my Ming Dynasty. Now all these three candies have been gone. The Qing Dynasty has occupied the Beizhi Jingshi, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and other places, and will also gain Long and look at Shu, and lead the troops south to enter the land of Jiangnan. How could he easily withdraw from the outside of the pass?"
After a pause, Shang Yi said again: "Just say that in this battle of Qingzhou, our Ming army was still in Qingzhou. It was because the Qing Dynasty sent troops to attack each other, so our army could not fight back. If the Qing Dynasty had no intention of occupying the land of our Ming Dynasty, how could it come to attack Qingzhou? Mr. Nan Lei was familiar with historical events, wouldn't he know the story of Yashan in the Southern Song Dynasty? In the past, Mongolia could still lead his troops south and collect Jiangnan. Now Mongolia has surrendered to Manqing, and how could the Qing Dynasty not want to follow Mongolia?"
When Huang Zongxi heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, feeling that he had nothing to say.