Chapter 577 The Treaty of Middle Rowell
"Eunuch Huang, but something happened in the palace?" Liu Hongjian suddenly felt a little nervous.
Chongzhen's health has become worse and worse recently. When he was in North Korea last month, Zhu Cixuan wrote in a secret letter that he hoped he would go back as soon as possible.
Now that he is thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, people are still sent to find him in the palace, which means that something must have happened.
"The emperor is fine, please don't worry." Huang He knew that Liu Hongjian had a close relationship with Chongzhen, so he quickly explained.
It turned out that the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful recently. Seeing that the Crown Prince Zhu Cilang has become more capable in his work since he was in charge of the country, he finally decided to abdicate at the crown prince on the ninth day of the 19th year of Chongzhen.
The new emperor ascended the throne was a major event of the Ming Dynasty. The first thing Chongzhen thought of was Liu Hongjian. He might have been struggling to guard the nine borders all his life. Chongzhen has always been very interested in places outside the pass.
So no matter what the war situation outside the pass was, after the day of abdication was set, Chongzhen immediately came to summon Liu Hongjian to go back.
"The emperor now lives in Xishan Villa. He has been trying to improve the steam engine with Wuwei Bo Song Yingxing. He can laugh several times a day. Our family has been with the emperor for several years and has never seen him before!" Huang He smiled with a whisk in his hand.
Huang He first followed Chongzhen in the past two years to North Korea, and now he has seen the grasslands in the far north. He really thinks that the world is so big that he should go out to take a look.
He even wanted to make friends with the prince of Anguo to find a job in the newly established naval rank of the imperial court, and he was as famous as Zheng Gong.
"The emperor finally decided." Liu Hongjian smiled slightly and felt relieved.
Five thousand years ago, the great dream is boundless, and the so-called throne is nothing more than that. It is much better to let go of the burden before life disappears and regain true joy than to wake up when you die.
Uncle Chongzhen, who was obsessed with engineering, reminded Liu Hongjian of Chongzhen's brother Emperor Tianqi. This guy has done nothing for the emperor for seven years. He does carpenter work every day and is very happy.
"Thank you for a long time to come from Eunuch Huang. I will rest for two days and help me report back to the emperor. I will definitely rush to the capital before the Double Ninth Festival!
In addition, I would like to say to His Highness the Crown Prince, our Ming Dynasty probably needs another province."
Liu Hongjian told Uncle Chongzhen that he must have not told him that boy Zhu Cilang that he was very excited. As soon as he ascended the throne, two places outside the pass would be accepted. I think I would be so happy that I couldn't sleep after I heard the news.
Vasily did not let Liu Hongjian wait too long, but he wanted to delay it again, but Moscow sent another edict to make him truce the Ming Empire as soon as possible at any cost.
It turned out that Sweden and Poland also learned that the Kingdom of Rakshasa and the Ming Empire in the East were in a melee. The two kings communicated with each other and planned to let go of the Kingdom of Rakshasa.
It is still by Lake Baikal, and there are still a few people, but Vasily and Liu Hongjian's mood are different from the previous few days.
After the two of them sat down, Babutu, behind Liu Hongjian, turned a wink at the Maozi brother who had "spoken autumn photos" a few days ago, and took advantage of Liu Hongjian's two not paying attention to the reeds by the lake...
"Dear General of the Ming Dynasty, I have repeatedly considered the conditions you have put forward in the past few days and discussed with Marquis Morozov. We have no objection to the first two points you have proposed.
But we hope to reduce the compensation for war, which is based on 200,000 silver coins. I wonder if the general can agree?" Vasily knew that the Ming general in front of him had a bad temper, so he didn't like to beat around the bush and then said bluntly.
The armistice is a must, but Vasily still hopes to recover some losses as much as possible from his position.
"No problem! Just do it!" Liu Hongjian didn't even hesitate.
Isn’t it just some money, he doesn’t care. The court does not lack money, and the Ming Dynasty does not lack money, and there is not much time to spend outside the pass.
He must deal with these matters as soon as possible and then rush back to the capital to participate in Zhu Cixuan's ascension ceremony.
"Uh..." Vasily didn't expect that Liu Hongjian would agree so simply and a little surprised for a moment.
A few days ago, he had no tone of aggressive discussions. He was so refreshing and so refreshing, which made Vasily feel a little loss. He would have pressed it down if he had known.
"Since you have agreed, don't waste your time. Let's sign the treaty!" Liu Hongjian waved his hand, and a personal guard brought a pen, ink, paper and ink, and placed it on the table.
Seeing that things had come to this point, Vasily sighed and had to signal his followers to come and hold the pen.
Treaty provisions:
1. The territory of the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty was bounded by the Lena River, Ilga River and Ergou River, the Rakshasa Kingdom to the west, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty to the east, including the entire Baikal Lake, the two sides were in a standstill and no troops were allowed to be stationed on the border.
2. The Ming Dynasty returned the Marquis of Norton, the Rakshasa Kingdom, and all the captured soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom in the military camp. The Rakshasa Kingdom handed over the exiled Emperor Dai Shan and all the royal families of the Qing Dynasty.
3. The Rakshasa Kingdom pays 200,000 silver coins in compensation, and will be paid in one lump sum within two months after the contract is signed.
The treaty is in duplicate, and both parties each retain a document in Daming and Rakshasa Mandarin.
The person in charge of writing was Fan Sicong, a general translation who was familiar with Rakshasa. After he finished writing, he handed over one of them to the translation of Rakshasa Kingdom. The two exchanged documents and confirmed them separately before they placed them in front of Vasili and Liu Hongjian.
Liu Hongjian was happy without any hesitation. He took the brush and signed his name with a brush. Then he took out his prince's seal from the ring and pressed it hard on the document.
When he arrived at Vasily, this guy was obviously a little depressed. Although Alexey had authorized him to handle the matter with all his powers and at all costs, he had to pay compensation after losing so much territory. When he returned to the country, he would inevitably suffer the blame from the people of the whole country.
This is like Li Hongzhang more than two hundred years later. Even though everyone in the court knew that this was the best result, they still had to use him as a scapegoat.
After a moment of silence, Vasily finally picked up the goose brush and signed.
"I'm very happy to discuss matters with His Excellency Vasily. I hope to sign a contract next time and see you again." Liu Hongjian took the document handed over by Vasily and blew the undried ink marks, stretched out his right hand and said.
"I hope to see you again!" Vasily said in a muffled voice, reluctantly stretched out his right hand to shake hands with Liu Hongjian.
Although he was surprised that Liu Hongjian actually understood the etiquette of Europa, the irony in Liu Hongjian's words made him even more angry.
Marquis Morozov visited him last night and showed him the unexploded grenades collected on the battlefield. He said bluntly that he had already studied the structure of this thing and could summon workers to imitate it by returning home.
It was also because of this that Vasily decided to sign this shameful treaty.
The next time I see you, it must be when the Rakshasa Kingdom defeated the Ming Empire, and it must be that Vasily swears in his heart.
"Well, then let's do it, goodbye!" Liu Hongjian could not see the resentment in the eyes of this old man, but he didn't care, so he planned to flash the documents after he had collected the documents.
At this moment, the Guanning strong man Babutu, who secretly went out for a "trick" meeting, came back, and a limping Russian was still following behind him.
Chapter completed!