Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Chapter 457 I gave birth to Su Xiang

After sleeping hard for two days, Su Yan finally recovered and had the strength to greet Lou, Huo and the others.

During the recovery period, his men still did not dare to leave lightly, so that they held the court meeting three times in a row. In the end, Su Yan looked really bad and drove Zhu Helin to Fengtianmen to listen to the government, and then re-set the specific date for the meeting in Prince City .

The Ministry of Rites presided over this meeting, but the terms and strategies for the negotiation had to be proposed by the cabinet, and the emperor finally made the decision.

Su Yan was worried, so he changed into regular clothes and came to the cabinet to participate in the discussions among the cabinet ministers, and found that the atmosphere seemed to be different from before.

Yu Chezhi was still friendly but not close to him as before; Xie and Jiang became more attentive and echoed his opinions in every possible way; the biggest change was the Chief Assistant Yang Ting, whose attitude towards him could almost be called indifference Yes, sometimes it is obvious that the other party is suffocating.In the past, Su Yan would call "Master Uncle, Master Uncle" in private, but Yang Ting said he didn't dare to take it seriously, but looked at him with a gratified smile in his eyes, and now he even tried to avoid eye contact with him, except for business Not much to say.

Su Yan felt a little sad in his heart, and also knew that when he proposed to establish a substitute prince and lured King Ning to take the bait, he hurt Yang Ting's heart with the domineering posture he deliberately assumed.But fortunately, he knew that Yang Ting was kind-hearted and soft-tempered, and he planned to find time to explain it after the talks between the two countries, so as to gain the other party's understanding.

Emperor Zhu Helin heard some rumors from nowhere, and sent Fu Bao to summon him from Wenyuan Pavilion to Fengtian Hall, and asked with a straight face, "Altan is gone?"

Didn't you already know?A few days ago, Altan left for Prince City, and you pretended to send an eunuch to read him a farewell poem with allusions.Su Yan replied inexplicably: "Let's go. What does the emperor want to say?"

"I heard that you became a national scholar for him when you were living in Beimo, and you gave him a long piece of advice. I just want to ask you, are you planning to sit in the seat of the second assistant of the Great Ming Cabinet in the Prince City talks this time?" Or sit in Beimo Zhongshuling's seat?"

These words are full of sour taste, public suspicion and private vinegar are eaten together, but Su Yan can't accuse him of narrow-mindedness, so he explained in a good voice: "Didn't the minister lose his memory at that time, didn't he know that he was a minister of the Great Ming Pavilion?" , The advice given to Altan is also to promote the mutual benefit of the two countries, and to quell the border war disputes. Even if I recovered my memory later and recalled that policy, I didn’t find anything that harmed our country’s interests, so the emperor can rest assured.”

"Is this the key?" Zhu Helin slapped the table and pointed at him, "The key is that you have never written a policy for me! 'Jingbei Dingbian' was written for King Yu, and 'Southern Union and Westward Advancement' was written for the king of Yu. Written by another country—what about for me? I am the monarch you should curry favor with, but you are lucky, you have given all the dry stuff to dubious people, and you are trying to fool me with rhetoric!"

Su Yan was so angry that he was scolded all over his face. He looked left and right for no one, picked up the preserved kumquat fruit on the table, sat cross-legged on the Arhat couch, and ignored him.

Seeing that the bluff was not effective, Zhu Helin resentfully drew up a pen to criticize the playbook.Before he finished approving a book, he put down the cinnabar pen and walked up to Su Yan with his hands behind his back: "How dare you steal my royal fruit!"

Su Yan picked up a dried kumquat wrapped in icing sugar: "The emperor doesn't like sour food, this preserved fruit is obviously for my ministers."

Zhu Helin made a bad face: "Nonsense, I use it for myself."

"Okay, I will serve the emperor." Su Yan smiled and stretched out his hand, stuffing the preserved kumquat into the emperor's mouth.

Zhu Helin grinned from the soreness, swallowed it whole, sat down beside him, and made a request: "You write a plan for me too, it should be longer and more attentive than those two articles."

He began to speak human words, and then Su Yan stroked his hair: "I was planning to give advice to the emperor when I came back from Beimo, but it was delayed due to various emergencies. If the emperor wants to listen now, I just said, if in doubt, I will answer it, and I will write it down in detail when I have time in the future.”

Zhu Helin turned his anger into joy, got up and went to get a map from the bookshelf, unfolded it and looked at it with him.

Prince City is located outside the Great Wall of Longmen Pass in Xuanfu. Su Yan found this former palace city on the map, and was about to touch it with his fingertips, but found that his fingers were covered with icing sugar, so he went to take out the handkerchief in his sleeve .

Zhu Helin grabbed his finger first, licked off the icing sugar with the tip of his tongue, and then found that his wet fingers could no longer touch the map, so he wiped it on his dragon robe again.Su Yan was stunned, and laughed and scolded: "You are a good-looking young man, don't follow Yu Wanglang's way of profligacy!"

"Aren't you just following King Yu's tricks? When you come to me, you will dislike him."

Su Yan raised his forehead: "He is him, and you are you. If he pretends to be innocent, I will dislike him too."

"I'm pure? I'm quite pure...so when will Teacher Su come to teach again?"

Teacher Su gave the innocent male student a faceless Wuzhishan: "Talk about business, don't talk nonsense!"

He withdrew his hand and clicked on the Prince City on the map: "How do we talk about the mutual market between my country and Beimo? Xu Shangshu from the Ministry of Finance and others are smarter than me in managing money bags all the year round. At most, I am in foreign trade such as Gongbo. You can come up with some ideas. But shipping is something that will be considered in the next stage, so it’s not too late to discuss.”

"In fact, the biggest point of controversy in this meeting should be here—" Su Yan's finger moved to the southwest, and stopped on a flat river outside the Hetao and within the Yinshan Mountain.

"Yunnei Hirakawa?"

"Yes. The Great Wall is only our defense line, not the national border. The Hetao area must be marked. As for Yunnei Pingchuan, we must also strive to take it."

Zhu Helin said: "I think so too. But last time when Altan's troops came to the capital, I had a brief negotiation with him and found that he was bound to win Yunnei Pingchuan. Look, didn't he still send troops Rebuild the burnt Yunnei City?"

"Altan is very smart. He knows that if he wants to explore a new way of combining pastoralism and farming for his people, Yunnei Pingchuan, known as 'Shangshang Xiaojiangnan', is an excellent experimental field." Su Yan's finger is on the location of Yunnei Pingchuan on the map A long arc was drawn, "He didn't know that the 400 mm iso-precipitation line was the dividing line between semi-humid and semi-arid areas, but with his keen sense of smell, he found the only piece of fertile soil on the edge of the Northern Desert. Hold it firmly in your hand."

...I don't know either.Zhu Helin suffocated this sentence in his stomach, and resolutely refused to ask what is the "400 mm isoprecipitation line".The dignified emperor of Ming Dynasty cannot have the same knowledge as the barbarian chieftain.

But Zhu Helin knew that in order to defend against the enemy's horse herding, Yunnei Pingchuan near the Great Wall was burned every year, and the "black border land" let alone planting crops, there was no grass growing.

"Does Qinghe think that the century-old policy of burning land should be abolished and Yunnei Pingchuan should be returned to cultivation?"

After thinking about it, Su Yan said: "To be honest, we don't lack arable land. The reason why we want to hold Yunnei Pingchuan in our hands is that its diplomatic strategic significance is far greater than the benefits brought by farming."

"Diplomatic...strategic significance...Please ask the teacher for detailed instructions."

Seeing Zhu Helin's serious appearance asking for advice, Su Yan revealed the real reason why he wanted Da Ming to form an alliance with Beimo: "My Da Ming is located in the Central Plains, surrounded by barbarians on all sides, and the border is long. Establishing a 'buffer zone' on the border will face the unfavorable situation that when other countries become stronger, they will shoot guns at our country's gate."

The young emperor's student understood everything: "Yunnei Pingchuan is the buffer zone between Daming and Beimo?"

"Yes, so during the negotiation, even if I have a dispute with Beimo because of the territorial ownership of Yunnei Pingchuan, I still have a second plan, which can keep this buffer zone." Su Yan smiled slightly, "Okay, classmate Zhu, we It’s time to set up an expansion question—there are so many neighboring countries around, why did you choose Beimo to form an alliance with me, Daming?”

Because you put Beimo Khan to sleep!Zhu Helin cursed angrily and bitterly.

Seeing the student's expression, Su Yan knew that his mind was running the train dirty again, so he slapped him on the forehead: "Because the whole Beimo is also our buffer zone! Look further away ,look--"

He flicked his cuffs to the large blank space to the north and west of Beimo: "This map is not drawn, and there is a bear-like country near the extreme north, which is gradually expanding their territory. To be honest, I am very disappointed." We don’t want Daming to be bordered by it, and it will be much better if Beimo is inserted in the middle. This country in the extreme north will also come to snatch Beimo’s attachment in the future, and it will be beneficial and harmless for us to win over Beimo one step ahead.”

Zhu Helin thought of the world map on the screen wall of Tiangongyuan, which was refined based on Su Yan's hand-painted map.He himself is interested in strange countries and novel things, and he also knows that Su Yan is good at analyzing the general trend of the world, so he showed a bit of excitement, and asked, "Will this country in the extreme north start a war with me in the future?"

"It's best not to start a war." Su Yan said, circling a large expanse of land north of Liaodong with his fingers, "Only when the Northern Desert is stabilized can we let go and govern Nuer Gandusi."

"The Jurchen part surrendered to Da Ming, how else do we need to govern?"

"Surrender now, may not cause trouble in the future. It is not enough for the imperial court to appease them, it should gradually Sinicize them with immigration policy."

Zhu Helin vaguely felt that Su Yan was very worried about Jurchen [-], even to the point of vigilance.He didn't know, but he trusted Su Yan's vision and judgment very much. He nodded and said: "When the relationship with Beimo stabilizes, we can start to manage Nuer Gandusi."

Su Yan stared closely at the coastal line of Nuergandusi, the largest natural seaport in the Far East, and said with a sigh: "Vladivostok...Vladivostok!"

Seeing his fingertips trembling uncontrollably, Zhu Helin asked in confusion and concern, "Where? Oh, near Shuangchengwei, what's wrong?"

"...It's nothing, it won't be too late when we start planning shipping routes in the future." The largest port in the Far East will never disappear from Daming's territory together with the territory that was cut off.Never will!

Life is so short, but there are too many things to do.Su Yan took a deep breath, and put his arms around Zhu Helin's shoulders: "Master, we two will live a long life! By the way, can you have more cubs in the future? I'll pick a smart one and train them well. "

Zhu Helin sneered: "I can't have children, young master, why don't you have more children, and you can make whoever you want as the reserve."

Su Yan was startled.His original intention was only to hope that the realization of this huge blueprint would lead to successors, but after speaking, he suddenly realized that if he wanted to have more princes, the emperor had to establish a concubine.The question is, is Zhu Helin willing?At the beginning, even the crown princess was fighting for it.

And himself... Is he willing?Could it be that in Zhu Helin's heart, the status of a king is more important than a lover, and the meaning of "government channels" is more than "hand in hand"?

Seeing that Su Yan's face suddenly turned ugly, Zhu Helin thought that his joke had offended the other party, so he quickly softened and said: "I was joking, I didn't think of you as a woman, I really didn't! Qinghe, don't be angry."

Su Yan's expression changed, and finally his eye sockets gradually became moist. He leaned over and hugged Zhu Helin: "I was wrong, and I almost misled others and myself! The issue of heirs will always be resolved... He Lin, He Lin!"

Zhu Helin was talented, and the issue of heirs was too far away from him, so he never thought about it at all.But seeing that Su Yan was sad because of this, he also became worried, stroked Su Yan's back, and comforted him: "It's all right, don't be sad, I don't care if I have any children, you care more than me... okay Well, I gave birth. I, Da Mingqing and the emperor will personally give birth to Su Xiang's son, and I will write a letter to prove it. I agree with you. Is that okay?"

Su Yan was amused, and thumped his shoulder: "You're full of nonsense, you don't look like an emperor!"

Zhu Helin took the opportunity to press him on the couch, kissed aggressively, and panted, "When I come back from Prince City, I have something to give you..."

The Prince City League, also known as the "Qinghe Peace Agreement" and "Bonfire League", occupies a strong and colorful stroke in the history books of later generations.

According to historical records, Da Ming and Bei Mo each sent elite teams to talk and argue at the negotiating table.One person in the mission was beaten and injured by fists, and two were injured by flying pen holders and pen holders. Both sides suffered injuries.

The quarrel did not come under control until Beimo Shenghan Altan personally appeared on the stage, and Daming's side dispatched an ace diplomat—Su Yan, who was then the cabinet's second assistant.

The points of dispute between the two countries gradually narrowed, and finally the conflict focused on the ownership of Yunnei Hirakawa.

Altan is bound to win this piece of Fortress Jiangnan, and Su Yan is also clinging to it.The two are sometimes amicable, hiding needles in their faces; sometimes they are full of anger and slap the table to scold each other; sometimes they compare pennies and pennies;

On the verge of turning heads and talking about collapse, Su Yan threw out a term that was extremely unfamiliar to everyone - "Yunnei Pingchuan Economic and Trade Autonomous Region", and finally resolved this disputed issue.

Territorial sovereignty belongs to Daming, but internal affairs have a high degree of autonomy. An economic and trade committee is established, and Beimo is allowed to send personnel to participate in economic and trade management within a certain percentage range, creating a market transaction model that can be regulated by the imperial court.

This is the most economical among diplomats, right?Economics student said.

Wrong, this is the most diplomatic official among the reformist officials who started in infrastructure.A student from the Department of Foreign Affairs said.

The fans of the history department said: Are you kidding, we, Prime Minister Su, can do decathlon.

As a result of the negotiation, Beimo Shenghan accepted Su Cifu's proposal after careful consideration, and the two sides further conducted detailed discussions on border mutual market, technology transfer, and talent exchange.

It is reported that Da Mingqing and the emperor also came to the scene in person, and drew a successful conclusion to this alliance with an oral order:

"My lord China, King Shuomo, live in peace with each other, and wait for your naturalization."

I rule China, and you rule Beimo. It is best for each other to live in peace. In the future, if you think about it clearly, you are willing to naturalize and submit to my Great Ming, which is the real way out.

Does this look like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy?Did you start practicing speaking skills in the womb?Emperor fans are proud.Khan powder is gone: our golden king is not amazing but stunning?

That era when the stars were shining... Ming Fan raised her hands high and cried to the sky.

But at that time, that place, among those parties, all kinds of grievances and resentments, love and righteousness, justice and selfishness, great interests and small loves... are all hidden behind the few words in the history books, and are not known to most future generations.

We can only get a glimpse of it from the unofficial historical records such as "Altan Khan entered Beijing to pay tribute in January, but did not return in April. The emperor ordered Honglu Temple to play the song of seeing off guests day and night. He went and came back in October".

"What does the emperor want to bestow?" Su Yan looked forward to it, but also wanted to laugh——

The young emperor in full attire stood in front of him with his hands behind his back, seemingly in control of the world, but there was a trace of anxiety in his eyes.

"It's a gift, not a gift." Zhu Helin corrected.

"Okay, yes, what does the emperor want to give me?" Su Yan changed his words obediently.

Zhu Helin took a deep breath, and after mustering up his courage, he knelt down on one knee, revealed the object hidden behind him, and held it in his hand.

It was a corolla made of green branches—to be precise, there were no flowers, but laurel branches and leaves, which should be called laurel wreaths.

"When we first met when we were young, Qinghe once told me the story of Apollo, the sun god, and Daphne, the daughter of the river god whom he pursued. I still remember that it was on the carriage going to Dongyuan to participate in the Dragon Boat Festival." Zhu Helin looked at his companions, teachers, ministers and loved ones, and said clearly, "Qinghe said, 'Even if you are pursued by the emperor, you should have the right to refuse'. I scoffed at that time, but now I deeply think that Of course."

"But even if you will be rejected, I still want to give you this laurel wreath weaved by myself." Then, he stood up and took off the crown hat from Su Yan's head, and put the laurel wreath on solemnly.

Su Yan pursed his lips, with a serious face, and reached out to touch the green laurel leaves.

"You want to take it off?" Zhu Helin stared at him nervously, his eyes widened unconsciously.

"Of course." Su Yan said, seeing the collapsed expression on Longyan's face as expected, he laughed and said, "Who the hell likes to wear a piece of green on his head! Can't I hang it on the head of the bed? Let it be embalmed and put away." Can't you put it in my baby box?"

Zhu Helin turned his sorrow into joy: "Of course!"

When he reached out to help pick off the laurel crown, the branches wrapped around Su Yan's hair.The two hid their faces behind the falling branches and kissed, and Su Yan muttered between breaths: "Where did you learn to kneel on one knee?"

"The Xiyi people said that's how they proposed..."

The thin voices disappeared in the shade of the summer afternoon.