"Is there not peace in the city?" Chen Zhenhui was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Is it related to the Tiger Flag?"
Nothing major has happened in Nanjing City. To say that there has been any unrest recently, the only thing that happened was the envoy of the Tiger-Character Banner entering the city today.
Chen Yuting looked at his son and decided to reveal something, so he said: "There is a debate in the court about the peace with the Tiger Flag. Some people don't want to make peace."
"Father is saying that someone in the court will attack the envoys of the Tiger Flag and force the peace talks to fail! Doing so will definitely attract revenge from the Tiger Flag." Chen Zhenhui looked at her father with horror on her face.
His father's words were like a sledgehammer, shattering his original understanding of the court.
He could imagine that there would be people in the court who did not want peace talks with Tiger Flag, but he did not expect that there would be people who wanted to do something against Tiger Flag's envoys.
This is completely contrary to the fact that the two countries are not at war with each other.
Seeing his eldest son's three views being affected, Chen Yuting snorted and said: "Even if he takes action, he doesn't necessarily have to do it himself. Fan Wencheng of the Qing Dynasty is still in the city. For their Qing Dynasty, he will never do it." I will watch helplessly as the peace talks between the Tiger Character Banner and the Ming Dynasty succeed."
"Father, what do you think of the peace talks with Hu Ziqi?" Chen Zhenhui looked at her father.
After hearing this, Chen Yuting hesitated for a moment and then said: "Tiger Character Banner was born as a bandit, and he stole half of the Ming Dynasty. However, the nature of thieves is hard to change, and sooner or later there will be a battle with the Ming Dynasty."
"Since my father guessed that sooner or later there would be a battle between the Tiger Flag and the Ming Dynasty, why did he agree to let the Tiger Flag's envoys come to Nanjing? Could it be that my father also supported the removal of the Tiger Flag's envoys?" Chen Zhenhui asked.
Chen Yuting shook his head and said: "The envoys of the Tiger-Character Banner can come because some people in the court want to negotiate peace and no longer go to war with the Tiger-Character Banner. Although my father does not like the Tiger-Character Banner, he also feels that we are not at war with them at the moment. opportunity."
The more Chen Zhenhui listened, the more confused she became.
It can be heard that his father wants to negotiate for peace, but he is unwilling to negotiate for peace. It is very contradictory.
"Father, regarding the Tiger Character Banner and the Qing Dynasty, who do you think the Ming Dynasty should form an alliance with?" Chen Zhenhui asked.
After hearing this, Chen Yuting spread out the rice paper on the table, picked up a pen and drew an irregular circle on it, then pointed at the circle on the rice paper and said: "These three circles represent the Ming Dynasty, the tiger-character flag, The Qing Dynasty and the three parties."
As he spoke, he wrote the word "tiger" with a pen in the middle circle, and said at the same time: "The circle in the middle is the flag with the word tiger, and on both sides are the Ming and Qing Dynasties."
After that, he wrote another word Ming and Qing respectively.
Chen Zhenhui looked down at the three circles on the rice paper and looked at her father in confusion.
"In the strategy of making distant friends and attacking closely, the best alliance partner for the Ming Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty." Chen Yuting drew a line with a pen and connected the two circles representing the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty from below.
Chen Zhenhui frowned and said, "What my father means is that he hopes that the Ming Dynasty can form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty. If this is the case, why does my father still support the envoys of the Tiger Character Banner to come to Nandu?"
"Distant diplomacy and close attack are a good foreign strategy, and all dynasties have been doing this since ancient times." Chen Yuting said, "But this strategy failed the most only in the Song Dynasty, so that the Song Dynasty had to settle for a while, and even ended up losing the country. Do you know why this is?"
With such a simple question, Chen Zhenhui opened her mouth and said: "Because the Song Dynasty was too weak, what they needed was to ally with the weak to fight against the strong, instead of forming an alliance with the strongest to fight against the weak who were stronger than themselves."
"That's right." Chen Yuting said, "At that time, the Song Dynasty wanted to regain the land of Yanyun, so it chose to cooperate with the most powerful Jin Kingdom. Later, it thought of destroying the Jin Kingdom to wash away the shame it brought to the Song Dynasty. And we chose to cooperate with the strongest Mongols."
This time without asking, Chen Zhenhui took the initiative and said: "The weak cooperate with the strong. When the strong solves the potential threat, the weak will become the next target of the strong."
"That's right." Chen Yuting said, "The current Ming Dynasty is the weak one. No matter who he cooperates with, he will only become the object that the strong one will solve in the end."
Chen Zhenhui frowned and said, "Father, are you too worried? No matter how you say it, Ming Dynasty was once the most powerful one, how could it be the weakest one? Even if you are worried, others are worried that Ming Dynasty will annex them."
The Ming Dynasty was a unified dynasty.
Although the Tiger Character Banner was a powerful force at the time, many scholars among the officials of the Ming Dynasty were still optimistic about the Ming Dynasty. Even if the Ming Dynasty could not go north to regain the lost territory in the future, it would still have half a year of power in hand. Even like the Southern Song Dynasty, it would still have a century-old national destiny.
Seeing that his eldest son had such confidence in Ming Dynasty, Chen Yuting couldn't help but snorted.
He said: "You have been in the southern capital for a long time and don't know much about things in the north. Let's talk about the Qing Dynasty first. When the Ming Dynasty held two capitals and thirteen provinces, it suffered successive defeats in Liaodong. Every year, it spent a lot of money grabbing grain in Liaodong. , but in the end a large area of land in Liaodong fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty. From this point of view, the Ming Dynasty did not have an advantage when facing the Qing Dynasty, and even had some weaknesses."
"It doesn't mean that the army has stopped its decline in Liaodong and will soon be able to counterattack to regain the lost territory and eliminate Dajin at that time." Chen Zhenhui said with a frown.
After hearing this, Chen Yuting sarcastically said: "The so-called stopping the decline was just relying on Yuan Yuan Yuan to defend Ningyuan and preventing the Jin soldiers from reaching Shanhaiguan. Later, when Yuan Yuan Yuan died, Jinzhou City was lost once. Later, it was Jin Bing who took the initiative. After withdrawing from Jinzhou City, Jinzhou City fell back into the hands of the Ming army. In this way, some people in Liaodong packaged it as a great victory and asked for rewards from the imperial court."
"How could this happen? This is so different from what the child heard!" Chen Zhenhui was stunned.
Although he didn't believe that his father would lie to him about this kind of thing, it was really different from what he once thought.
Chen Yuting sneered and said: "Those things you know are all modified and deliberately spread by others. Sometimes even the Supreme Emperor doesn't know the truth."
"The Ming army in Liaodong created such a false victory to deceive the court. Could it be that no one in the court stood up?" Chen Zhenhui asked with a look of incomprehension.
Chen Yuting said: "Even if someone in the court knows about this kind of thing, who dares to tell it? Once the truth is told, the Supreme Emperor may not believe it, and may even think that someone is deliberately looking for trouble. Anyone who dares to tell the truth will first offend the Supreme Emperor." , and secondly, it offended the upper and lower officials in Liaodong, as well as those officials in the court who were inextricably linked to Liaodong, so even if they knew the truth, no one dared to tell them, and they were all deliberately hiding it..."
(End of chapter)
