Tong Yangjia heard the emperor say this and knew that the matter was a foregone conclusion. Tong Yangjia smiled bitterly: I originally thought that I would let my nephew go to the north to ruin the peace talks, but the emperor sent so many people to monitor it, and seeing this matter was about to hang up. But Tong Yangjia had no choice but to take Tong Tuchang to receive the order, and at the same time he also had to thank the emperor for his concern.

Zhu Hongsan said to Tong Tuchang: "Tong Aiqing, please keep it first. I have something to tell you!"

Ma Mingyuan knew that this was the bottom line for the emperor to talk to Tong Tuchang, and probably he had any unethical ideas that could not be known to outsiders.

After seeing Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia go out, Zhu Hongsan drove out the eunuchs in the house and the great general standing guard at the door, leaving only Zhu Hai in the house. Then he said, "Tong Aiqing, this time the peace talks are very important to me. You must ensure success. When I come back, I can make you the governor of a province!"

Being an official is of course good, but the emperor has set up such bonds for himself, and I don’t know if he can be destined to come back to be the governor.

Tong Tuchang kept complaining in his heart and asked, "Your Majesty, what's the bottom line for peace talks? Can you tell me about it, I'm easy to operate!"

"There is no bottom line. The purpose is to stop the Qing army from going south for three or four years. The longer the time, the better. In order to achieve this goal, I can promise you that as long as I don't let me give up Nanjing, everything else is easy to say!"

When Tong Tuchang heard this, he found that the scale was too large, and there was still a possibility of successful peace talks.

Zhu Hongsan took a sip of tea and continued: "If the Qing Dynasty agrees to the peace talks, I can submit to the Qing Dynasty and follow the Tanyuan Alliance of the Northern Song Dynasty!"

Tong Tuchang was so angry that he heard the emperor say this. In this political environment in China, peace talks would be called to death. If he signed a Tanyuan alliance like the Northern Song Dynasty with the Qing Dynasty, he would not have to go back to Nanjing, and he would be scolded to death by scholars in Beijing. Tong Yangjia originally thought this was the emperor's biggest concession, but he didn't expect that the emperor would have something even more shameless!

"Tong Aiqing, if the Qing Dynasty still disagrees, you can call it a nephew to the Qing Dynasty!"

As soon as Zhu Hongsan said this, Zhu Hai couldn't listen to it anymore. This is so shameless.

"Father, this is really..."

Before Zhu Hai finished speaking, Zhu Hongsan cursed: "Prince, what do you know? Shut up!"

Zhu Hai had no choice but to shut up and not speak.

"Tong Aiqing, I tell you the truth. We and the Qing Dynasty are not dead at all. Now there is no problem saying anything. As long as we attract the attention of the Qing Dynasty to Zhu Youlang, it is a great achievement. History is written by the winner, and history books are not written by me as much as I want! But you must remember that no matter what the conditions are, we must attract the attention of the Qing Dynasty to Zhu Youlang. We must not be able to form a situation where we are attacked from both sides, do you know?"

Tong Tuchang suddenly realized that the emperor was afraid of this. Tong Tuchang quickly bowed and said, "Please rest assured, I will die before I can complete the peace talks assigned by Your Majesty!"

Seeing Tong Tuchang's guarantee letter, Zhu Hongsan nodded and asked Tong Tuchang to go down and prepare.

Tong Tuchang left the palace, and his uncle Tong Yangjia was waiting for him at the gate of the palace.

When Tong Yangjia saw his nephew coming out, he stepped forward and asked, "Chang'er, what did the emperor say to you?"

Tong Tuchang looked sad and whispered: "Uncle, there are so many people here, so let's talk about it when you go home!"

Tong Yangjia thought it was exactly this and went home without saying a word.

When he returned to his mansion and came to the study, Tong Yangjia asked before Tong Tuchang sat down, "Tell me quickly, what did the emperor tell you?"

Tong Tuchang sighed and said the bottom line of negotiation that the emperor had just handed over to him.

Tong Yangjia was shocked after hearing this. It was not because he was worried about the emperor's shamelessness, but because of his nephew.

There was no good ending for the ministers who presided over the peace talks in history, and Li Hongzhang, a later generation, was an example. Now the emperor ignored anything in order to negotiate and actually wanted to be a child emperor like Shi Jingtang. This was really embarrassing. No wonder the emperor wanted to drive away everyone else, and if the news was leaked, the emperor's reputation would definitely drop sharply.

Tong Yangjia now regrets recommending his nephew to go to Beijing for a peace talks. If he had known that the emperor would have such despicable conditions, it would be better to let Ma Mingyuan and the others go.

But now that everything is over, the imperial edict is not what you want to do.

Tong Yangjia sighed and said, "Chang'er, Uncle has hurt you. Uncle has been smart all his life, but he didn't expect that the ship capsized in the gutter now!"

Tong Tuchang also asked with a bitter face: "Uncle, now there is Fang Fengnian monitoring in the mission and the pressure of peace talks outside. Can't the matter to lure the Qing Dynasty to do it first?"

Tong Yangjia shook his head and said, "Now it seems that there is little hope for that matter. You can go to the north and do it yourself. If it doesn't work, run back. At worst, we won't do this official anymore. If you have uncles here, you can keep you safe!"

Tong Tuchang had no good idea, so he had to obey Tong Yangjia and nodded.

The matter was finalized, and the imperial edict was quickly issued to the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Rites prepared gifts according to the emperor's will. At the same time, the imperial edict was also sent to the Dali Temple where he was in prison.

Lao Fang beat Tong Tuchang half a month ago and was imprisoned in the prison of Dali Temple. It was not good enough. Everyone knows that Fang Fengnian just offended Tong Yangjia and could be released soon, so the officials of Dali Temple were still good.

Fang Fengnian himself did not expect that he could turn over. He was counting ants in prison and promoted him to the Ministry of Rites with an imperial edict.

When the officials of Dali Temple heard that Fang Fengnian had been promoted, they all came over to congratulate him.

Fang Fengnian was confused. The imperial edict did not say why he was born, but only appointed himself as a doctor of the third rank of rituals. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty officialdom, the doctor was equivalent to the director of the department of the central departments in later generations. He was a fourth rank, and was at the same level as the prefect. I don’t know why he was given a doctor of the third rank.

Fang Fengnian asked the eunuch who came to pass the imperial edict: "Why did His Majesty the Emperor promote me to the third-rank doctor?"

The little eunuch only paid attention to the order and did not know anything else. Fang Fengnian had no choice but to go to the Ministry of Rites to ask.

After leaving the prison of Dali Temple, Fang Fengnian did not change his clothes and rushed to the ritual office of Qianbulang in red prison clothes.

The yamen runner at the entrance of the Ministry of Rites saw an old man wearing prison clothes coming to the door and was about to fight out, but he didn't know that the old man took out the emperor's imperial edict. The yamen runner only realized that this was the new third-rank doctor, so he hurried in to report.

The Minister of Rites is now Gao Wenbing, a native of Zhejiang, and can also be regarded as a student of Qian Qianyi. He and Fang Fengnian both came from Qingliu.

Gao Wenbing knew that Fang Fengnian was very arrogant. He dared to scold him in public when the eunuch party was rampant. Now he would not make any fuss about doing such a thing as wearing prison clothes to take office.

Gao Wenbing was a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli. For example, Fengnian was old enough to treat Gao Wenbing like Tong Tuchang. Seeing Gao Wenbing came, he quickly stood up and saluted: "I have met the master of the ministry in the official department in Fengnian!"

Gao Wenbing smiled bitterly and asked, "Shutian, are you too anxious! Can't you go home and change your clothes?"

"My dean, the officials are really anxious. Why did the imperial edict ask the officials to come to the Ministry of Rites to be the third-rank doctor? The officials are really confused!"

"Hehe, I just received the imperial edict and knew you could come and ask. Tell you, the emperor is going to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty and appoint Tong Tuchang as the chief envoy. Yuan Fu recommends you to be the deputy envoy!"

Fang Fengnian was furious as soon as he heard this, "What? Peace talks? Who should be killed to propose this proposal?"

"Shutian, don't worry, you'd better go and ask Yuan Fu!"

Ask Ma Lao Er? Fang Fengnian thought about it. No matter how he said he was released from prison, he was thanked by Ma Lao Er, and he should also go to see him.

Fang Fengnian borrowed ten silver dollars from Gao Wenbing, then went out to find an inn to wash it, change his clothes to see Ma Mingyuan.

Fang Fengnian is not stupid. He still wants to be in the officialdom. Of course, he knows that no matter how crazy he is to outsiders, he should not offend the supervisor. So Fang Fengnian dares to wear prison clothes to meet Gao Wenbing, but he dare not wear prison clothes to meet Ma Mingyuan.

Ma Mingyuan's mansion was Xu Da's mansion back then, and now it has become Ma's mansion. Fang Fengnian came to the door and saw the gifts. There were many officials who paid a visit to the chief minister. How long the line was, Fang Fengnian thought he didn't know when he was going to line up, but he knew that as soon as the famous post was delivered, he was immediately received.

Fang Fengnian was the same year as Ma Jiyuan and also worked as a scholar in Huguang. Ma Mingyuan's reputation as a scholar was won by Fang Fengnian. But the other person is the first, and now he is the chief assistant. Fang Fengnian originally thought that Ma Mingyuan might not be too arrogant when he saw that he was not sure how could he pretend to be big, but he didn't know that Ma Mingyuan greeted him at the door of the second hall. When he saw that he was coming, he quickly bowed and said, "Teacher!"

This mentor made Fang Fengnian feel much better. It turned out that Ma Mingyuan was not as arrogant as his brother Ma Jiyuan said. It seemed that their buddies had a bad relationship, Ma Jiyuan didn't tell the truth.

Fang Fengnian quickly bowed and said, "Shame! I dare to become Yuan Fu's teacher now!"

"There are some students who were wasted many years of fame and fame in scholars, but they were only the students who were awarded after their mentors arrived in Huguang!"

Fang Fengnian heard Ma Mingyuan say this, so he didn't say anything. In fact, it was Fang Fengnian who was able to win the game back then. Ma Mingyuan was arrogant and thought that his articles were the best in the world. The articles he wrote were too extreme, so he had not passed the imperial examination in his twenties. Later, Fang Fengnian went to Huguang to be in charge of academic affairs, and Fang Fengnian and Ma Jiyuan were in the same year, so it was natural.

Ma Mingyuan welcomed Fang Fengnian into the house in person, served tea and asked, "Teacher, I wonder what's going on today?"

Fang Fengnian told the news he had just received in the Ministry of Rites, and then asked: "Yuan Fu, I don't know why he recommended the lower official as deputy envoy?"

Ma Mingyuan was waiting for Fang Fengnian to come to find him. Ma Mingyuan twisted his beard and smiled: "Teacher, this is the case. The teacher probably knows the peace talks proposed by the students before the New Year!"

Of course Fang Fengnian knew, and also knew that Ma Mingyuan used this incident to squeeze Chen Zizhuang away, so he did not take Old Man Chen's life. He also knew that Ma Mingyuan had a very bad reputation for civil officials because of this incident.
Chapter completed!