When Yan Siqi basically put down the rebellion in northern Korea, the formal peace negotiations between the Ming Dynasty and the Chinese Army finally began. Xu Guangqi waited patiently for three days. Finally, Zeng Yue and others found it boring and asked someone to notify the Anhai Pavilion. Members of the mission said that the King of China granted angels free passes to go to the streets.
This was a signal, and Xu Guangqi took a full negotiation team to the headquarters of Zhonghua Company that day.
On the other side, Zhang Ye, Zhou Xiang and Hong Xu, the captain of Yin Feng's personal guard, are very familiar with each other. After all, they are all warriors, and most of the matters being negotiated have nothing to do with them. Zhang Ye and others also intend to make friends with a few grassroots officers of the Chinese Army. , so they had no scruples and soon called each other brothers. The Nancheng District where Hong Xu took Zhang Ye and others to that day was actually expanded after the formation of a large-scale urban area in Taiwan Port. This side is to the south of the harbor. , so it became Nancheng.
Beicheng District was developed on the basis of the original Pirate Wofanhan Village south of Yingang. It was built under the leadership of Yin Feng. It has checkerboard-shaped streets and a complete ceramic sewer system. It was built on the basis of complete planning in advance. .
Nancheng District was built spontaneously and haphazardly by immigrants from all walks of life in mainland China after the Great Immigration Plan began. There was basically no urban planning. Although an urban sewer system was later built and an urban management and security team was formed. , but it has always been the most dynamic and dangerous place on the island of Taiwan. Due to the mix of fish and dragons, various ethnic groups living together, and extremely poor public security, there is one industry that is the most distinctive in Nancheng District: the entertainment industry. There are also restaurants, theaters, and romantic venues in the North City. , but it was a high-end entertainment center, and the singers and actors there were all prostitutes rather than prostitutes.
In Nancheng District, overt and covert prostitutes are everywhere, and they are from all countries and nationalities. You can find beauties here, including beautiful women from Han Dynasty, Arabs, Persians, blacks, Malays, Indians, and mixed-race beauties from all over the world. , can also be regarded as a red light district with international characteristics.
When Hong Xu brought Jin Yiwei Qianhu Zhang Ye and Baihu Chief Zhou Xiang here, the first activity was to watch a belly dance performance. A half-naked Persian dancer from the country that founded belly dance suddenly caught the attention of the two Jinyiwei officers. Hold tightly, the brown-haired and blue-eyed Persian dancer is full of charm when she dances. It is said that the most skilled dancers can exercise every tiny muscle in the body through dancing, and can only use intangible sensory movements. , can become a source of joy and pleasure for men. The Persian beauty's swaying hip line, along with the twisting waist, the chest began to tremble violently... Zhang Ye and Zhou Xiang almost had nosebleeds on the spot.
Zhang Ye and Zhou Xiang walked around Nancheng District and were dazzled by what they saw. It really opened their eyes, so they got along very well with Hong Xu who was leading the way.
However, after all, Zhang Ye and others had some secret missions. While getting along with Hong Xu and others, they inquired about some inside stories of the Chinese Army. However, Hong Xu was a rough and tactful person, and his tone of voice was quite measured. , say what should be said, but don't say what should not be said. When the two sides were chatting, Hong Xu often compared the differences between the Ming army and the Chinese army.
When they heard that the lower-level officers at Hong Xu's level had a monthly military salary of fifty Chinese dollars, which was 100 taels of silver, Zhang Ye and Zhou Xiang were filled with envy. Even if they were members of a thousand households, their monthly military pay was only less than A salary of 300 shi of rice is sometimes less than 100 taels of silver, and you have to make a fortune by asking for bribes and collecting silver.
They were even more shocked when they heard that infantry soldiers in the Chinese Army could earn 15 taels of silver per month: the salary of a field soldier in the Ming Dynasty for two months was one stone of grain. Even one stone of grain could be converted into one tael of silver at most. In the capital at that time, it was equivalent to one month's salary of a civil servant working in a sixth-grade government.
Where did this pirate get so much money to raise troops?
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When the formal peace talks started with the mission, one of the negotiating parties was led by Xu Guangqi, and the other was led by Yin Feng.
At the beginning, the two sides still had disputes over details such as the order of seating arrangements and the corresponding official titles.
When Li Lihua appeared at the meeting, Sheng Yihong and others, as well as Yuan Chonghuan, expressed their unwillingness to have women present. Zeng Yue quickly smoothed things over, saying that Li Lihua was Yin Feng's wife, in charge of the company's daily affairs, and was an indispensable figure in negotiations.
However, both parties are Chinese after all, and conflicts that have traditionally been quarrelsome in formal occasions are often resolved privately at the wine table. Therefore, the peace talks alternated between eating, drinking, chatting, and fighting with each other.
On the side of the Chinese Army, Yin Feng, Zeng Yue, Xu Hongji, An Heping, and Li Lihua who later returned from Nanyang who participated in the negotiations were united in their opinions and maintained a united attitude during the negotiations.
The Ming Dynasty envoy was in chaos, with Sheng Yihong and the Ministry of Rites, Ke Dao Yushi as one group, Xu Guangqi, Yuan Chonghuan and several disciples of Xu Guangqi as one group. The two sides were drafting peace talks, the specific contents of the negotiations, etc. There were endless quarrels, and they could not unify their opinions no matter what. Sheng Yihong and others took a tough stance and demanded that the court's dignity and ancestral etiquette be maintained at all times, while Xu Guangqi and others insisted that they must make concessions in order to ease the situation and reach a peace agreement at all costs.
The divisions and discord within the Ming Dynasty mission could sometimes be discovered in public, and the two factions would even argue at the negotiation site.
The Ming Dynasty required the Chinese army to claim vassal status and pay tribute, but Yin Feng requested that it be compared to the old practices of Korea and Ryukyu: professing vassal status and paying tribute to foreign vassals, but not listening to the declaration.
The Ming Dynasty court requested that the Chinese military forces withdraw from Jiangnan, and Yin Feng proposed to lease Jiangnan, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places. The rent could be calculated as half of the taxes originally paid by the local area, and part of the customs tax could be paid to the Ming Dynasty court.
The Ming Dynasty court demanded that the Chinese army withdraw from Liaodong, but Yin Feng firmly refused, and only agreed to transfer the territory beyond the four prefectures of Jinfuhaigai. Liaoyang could cede it, but Shenyang firmly refused.
The Ming Dynasty asked the Chinese army to restore the tribute roads to Korea, Ryukyu and other countries. The Chinese army believed that the original Shang family of Ryukyu had been slaughtered by the Japanese. The Chinese army seized Ryukyu Island from the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain of the Japanese, and had established A garrison and three counties have nothing to do with the original Ryukyu Kingdom. As for North Korea, that is because North Korea took the lead in surrendering to the Jurchen Eight Banners. The Chinese army was stationed to defend Liaodong and for the majesty of the Celestial Dynasty. The Lee Dynasty of North Korea was not destroyed at all. mean.
"For the majesty of the Celestial Empire," Sheng Yihong almost felt like vomiting after listening to Yin Feng's talk about the North Korean issue: The pirates were almost going to invade the capital, yet they were still talking about fighting for the majesty of the Celestial Empire. However, the Ming Dynasty The military is currently out of reach of North Korea, Ryukyu and other places, and can only turn a blind eye to the actions of the Chinese army.
The Chinese Army proposed that the imperial court must completely lift the sea ban and allow Chinese companies to enter any place in the mainland to open commercial branches. Moreover, Chinese company merchants must have extraterritorial jurisdiction. In other words, people from Chinese companies who commit crimes in the mainland cannot be tried by the local government agencies who committed the crimes.
, it must be heard by a circuit judge sent by the China Company together with local officials.
"The whole world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers. Since we obey the king's rule, we must abide by the court's laws. How can we specifically help your people outside the law?" At this time, even the negotiating stance has always been relatively relaxed.
Xu Guangqi and others were also dissatisfied.
Yin Feng said: We do not believe that the officials of the imperial court can enforce the law impartially.
As soon as these words came out, Sheng Yihong and more than a dozen officials immediately stood up and left the scene angrily.
When the differences between the two sides became too great, Xu Hongji and Zeng Yue began to come forward and act as the red face of the Chinese army. They invited Xu Guangqi and others to drink in the evening, and proposed at the banquet whether all Chinese company businessmen could become imperial merchants, so as to use the Ming Dynasty's household names.
The Ministry comes forward to issue special road guide passports.
At the same time as the peace negotiations, Yin Feng was still constantly deploying troops from the main island of Taiwan. Nanyang troops were gathered in Taipei, preparing to continue their march north to North Korea. The Chinese army stationed in Jiangnan could not be mobilized because hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty troops were still watching around.
Yan Siqi gradually began to feel trouble in North Korea. Northern North Korea was the last area conquered and occupied by the Lee Korean Kingdom. It was a territory stolen from the Ming Dynasty. It had a small population and an underdeveloped economy. There were many Han and Jurchen residents, and the Chinese army
Controlling these areas is not difficult.
Going south from the Daedong River in Pyongyang, we began to enter the economically developed areas of the Kingdom of Korea, with a large population and a single ethnic composition. Therefore, when Yan Siqi began to march his army southward, he encountered more and more Korean "volunteers."
On another front, when the Chinese cavalry brigade went south to the Liaohe River, it encountered the Mongolian tribes of Chahar and Horqin tribes. Fighting broke out at the junction of grasslands and dense forests and in Tieyuan and other places. 2,200 Chinese troops from Xining Fort on the west bank of the Liaohe River faced
With the attack of 60,000 Ming army troops, they constantly sent distress pigeons to Zhao Tie in Jinzhou.
In order to support the lone army in Xining Fort, the Chinese Navy's Beiyang Fleet allocated ten gunboats. Their main force went to North Korea. The fleet set off from Lushunkou across the Bohai Sea and headed towards the coast of western Liaoning. It first captured Juehua Island, and then the 1,000-name land battle
The team members landed in the Liaoxi Corridor, using ships as carriers, and successively attacked Xixingbao, Jinzhou, Tiechang, Dalinghe, Tuanshan, Zhenning, Zhenyuan, Zhenwubao, Shisanshanyi, Xiaolinghe, Songshan, and Xing
There are more than 20 Ming army castles in Shan, Daning, Daping, Da'an, Dading, Damao, Dasheng, Dazhen, Dafu, Daxing, Tashan Fort, Zhong'an Fort, Shuangtai Fort, etc. These are all built under the leadership of Xiong Tingbi in western Liaoning
Defense line stronghold.
At this time, in the Ming court, Wei Zhongxian began to gradually control the cabinet. Ye Xianggao was attacked by many officials because the peace talks with the Chinese army had been delayed for too long. They had forgotten that it was only the efforts of Xu Guangqi and others that made the Ming army
Being able to go south to Sichuan and Guizhou to suppress the Nanman rebellion,