Just when the Merchant Army's fleet bombarded Japan's gate with giant ships and heavy artillery, Shang Yi officially launched a four-party talks in Nanjing to formulate rules for the existence of four regimes in the south.
The representatives participating in the quadron talks were Li Yan and Li Songchen; the representatives of the Yongli court Ding Shikui and Wu Zhenyu; the representatives of the Yong'an court Zhang Huangyan and Shang Zhixiao; the representatives of the Shaowu court Zheng Hongkui and Gu Yuanjing also had three other quartiles. Wu Yan, Shi Kefa, and Huang Zongxi were responsible for mediating and coordinating the relationship between all parties
The entire talks lasted for more than a month and were very tortuous. The representatives of all parties tried their best to make sense and strive for their own interests. The process of the talks was interrupted many times. During the entire talks, seven recesses were suspended. There were two other representatives threatening to withdraw from the talks, and there were countless methods such as undercover operations under the table, such as coercion and inducement and differentiation.
However, the fact that the four regimes in the south are strong and the three weak is unchangeable. The three Southern Ming courts are all on the weak side, but they are not enterprising and cannot work hard to make efforts and work hard. They are still incompatible with each other and are difficult to form a connection. A close alliance came to fight against Nanjing, so in the general trend of the talks, they could only be led by Nanjing.
But after repeated negotiations and struggling, we finally reached an agreement on October 5th.
The agreement first stipulates that the legal status of the three Ming vassal courts, Yongli, Yong'an and Shaowu, are formally recognized, respect each other, if they meet, meet and sign the agreement, the seniority and age of the emperors of each court are ranked; The appointment of independent internal affairs officials within each dynasty, and no other parties shall interfere in the annual tax and service levy; Nanjing also admitted that the establishment of the three Ming vassal courts as the official statement is the truth, and the three Ming vassal courts also share the formalities. The four regions of Shang Yi were designated as King Jingbei, Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Nanjing, as Shang Yi's fiefdoms.
This is to confirm the current principle of order in the southern region. It also has gone through the most intense quarrel. Because it is the Yongli court. Zhu Youlang, the emperor of the Yongli court, was Song Zhen, and the cousins of the two emperors Hongguang are the most recent in terms of blood relationship. Therefore, he has always regarded himself as orthodox, of course he is unwilling to be on par with the other two courts. In comparison, Yong'an, Shaowu and the two courts were able to accept this fact because of their distant bloodline. The result was to suppress the Yongli court with a three-to-one advantage.
For this reason, the representatives of the Yongli court made a first withdrawal, but Nanjing was prepared to warn the Yongli court through private channels. Once the Yongli court withdrew for this, wait for Nanjing, Yong'an and Shaowu to reach an agreement. The consequences of the joint dispatch of troops to attack the Yongli court were very serious. I saw the result and the representatives of the Yongli court were indeed scared and could only surrender.
However, Shang Yi said that he still established these three Ming vassal courts as a formality, which gave them enough face. Although everyone knows that this is just a matter of the famous discussion, but after returning, he can make a statement and pay attention to Nanjing. Profit rather than false reputation, and Nanjing is an independent regime, basically, there will be no official relationship with the three Ming vassal courts.
The three Ming vassal courts recognized Shang Yi's title and fiefdom as King Shang Yi, but they were just following the flow. Because Shang Yi had already become king, his fiefdom was occupied and his acceptance was the same.
The second content of the agreement is to formally determine the territory of the three Ming vassal courts to the border and stipulate that friction incidents can only be resolved through negotiation or a third party is requested to mediate, but no troops are allowed to attack the offender without reason, otherwise other regimes will jointly fight against them.
The attack will be carried out, and other regions except the areas currently owned by all parties will be seized by all parties themselves.
After acknowledging the first principle, this one is the least controversial because the three Ming vassal courts were all unwilling to make progress and those who were able to defend their own land as a three-point land for a few days, the Emperor of Taiping lived a comfortable life.
I am satisfied that if others don't come and beat me, thank God, no one is interested in hitting others again to unify the world. Let's forget it. Officials within the courts are also busy fighting for power and profit. Can fight for power and profit in an external stable environment, of course, they are also affected by each other.
Fang's welcome
The final content of the agreement is aimed at the Qing court. The contents included: the southern courts were incompatible with the Qing court and it was their responsibility to recover lost territory and agreed that the party who first recovered Beijing would be the co-lord of the world; any official exchanges with the Qing court, sign
The peace agreement must be made in a whole. No party shall sign any agreement with the Qing court in private. The peace agreement shall be made; any party is attacked by the Qing court or other forces and the other three parties are obliged to send troops to support; and if the three Ming vassal courts are
Want to send troops to the north to attack Shang Yi will make way for him
There is nothing else about this part, because now the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are Shang Yi's territory. Except for the Yongli court, some of them are connected with Sichuan, they are not directly adjacent to the Qing court. No one is worried that the Qing army will fight.
The Yongli court was also very satisfied when he came here to sign the four-way offensive and defensive alliance, but neither of the other two sides had any objections.
The most contending thing is to recover Beijing as the co-lord of the world. Because everyone knows that the South now has the strength to recover Beijing, only Shang Yi is the only one. Therefore, this is tailor-made for Shang Yi, but no one can object. After all, we can't say that we can't say that we are.
Can't recover Beijing
In the south, the only Zheng Chenggong Group, apart from Shang Yi, who really wanted to fight the Qing army, Shang Yi also privately promised that they would ask them to send troops together in the next battle with the Qing court and give up a place in the coastal area on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Therefore, Zheng Chenggong Group also fully supports this agreement
Of course, there are some other secondary contents, such as the parties will open up their border areas to communicate with each other and reduce tariffs on commodity trade; allow [Hangzhou Times] to be freely issued within the other three courts; Nanjing zhèng fu also invites three Mingshu.
The vassal court sent officials to stay in Nanjing for communication and other things, because these matters did not involve the fundamental interests of all parties and did not cause much controversy. It was soon confirmed.
This iconic document, which was later called the formation of the Southern Anti-Qing United Front, was also tinkered with in this way. In the later archives, the document was called the [Southern Union Agreement] in the calendar.
After signing the agreement, the representatives of all parties left Nanjing with their own agreement and returned to their court. However, in their respective courts, they triggered a controversy, and some people agreed, while others opposed the real powers of all parties.
I know in my heart that the three southern courts cannot compete with Shang Yi at all, and this agreement is somewhat beneficial to me, but there seems to be no such thing as this agreement. If Shang Yi is defeated, I will not admit it.
What should I do if I really call you?
In addition, many ministers from the other three parties also had this idea. Anyway, Shang Yi was blocking the Qing court in front, so he asked him to fight with the Qing court hard until they fought for both sides and suffered losses. Therefore, in this multiple factors Although I had a quarrel, I finally recognized the agreement and then all parties devoted themselves to the power struggle. As for the agreement, no one paid attention to it.
Shang Yi also knew from the intelligence departments that some general developments did not come out of his expectations. Although theoretically speaking, the signed agreement itself was not very binding and could be torn down at any time. However, the three Ming vassal courts were willing to send people to Nanjing to attend the talks, which basically expressed the main attitudes of all parties towards the results of the talks, and the agreement fully took into account the actual interests of all parties. Therefore, before the current situation did not change significantly, all parties It will not easily violate this agreement for at least a period of time
Then in a short period of time, I don’t have to focus on the main energy in the south, but on most of the attention of the Qing court in the north and overseas.
At the same time, the news of the Second Ryukyu Battle and the attack on Japan to attack Edo were also transmitted back to Nanjing. The progress of the war was very smooth and has been carried out according to Shang Yi's plan. It is also very reassuring. Therefore, Shang Yi's main energy is now It’s still about the internal adjustments that I have to do now. There are still many arrangements to be made until the end of this year.
The first thing to do is to hold a king-appointed ceremony. Although Shang Yi has now claimed that King Jingbei has been more than three months old, he has also used the title of King Jingbei in Nanjing's documents and has also obtained three Ming vassals. The court formally recognized the case, but due to the progress of the four-party talks and other affairs, Shang Yi started to hold a formal coronation ceremony. Although it was just a king, there was still a very complex set of procedures and rituals in ancient China. It attaches great importance to it, so theoretically speaking, Shang Yi, the King of Jingbei, is not legitimate
Now other things have come to an end. The four-party talks have achieved relatively good results. Therefore, Zhou Shiqi, Wang Fuzhi, Li Yan, Li Gefei and others also advised Shang Yi that they should build a platform to sacrifice to the sky in Nanjing to choose a good day. The official launch of the crown, seal and ribbon. Be king from the south and the north
Although Shang Yi did not like these cumbersome rituals, it was not good for everyone's wishes. Therefore, he had to agree but asked that all rituals be carried out as simply as possible.
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