When Tian Guizi said that he would clear them all, he said that he would be very firm.

It can be seen that he really thought so.

Whether it is a clean official or a corrupt official, whether it is a war-oriented or a peace-oriented faction, whether it is a sympathetic person or a lower class, as long as it is not a fellow traveler, it must be liquidated without leaving any one.

Su Yonglin supported this. After the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, a wave of straightforward and complete liquidation would definitely be carried out. Without liquidation, it would not be enough to establish a new system and a new future.

However, Su Yonglin did not feel that there was only one Confucian scholar in the world who taught Xin Qiji.

Because a considerable number of those who brought China back from the brink of destruction and gave it hope of rebirth have also received more rigid Confucian ideological education.

But they can still awaken.

When they see the purgatory on earth, when they reach the crossroads of history, when they come into contact with new ideas, there will be a force that will drive them to accept change and move towards new life, or be completely buried with the old era.

There are always people who doubt the old era and the old system, but at the beginning they did not have a guiding ideology, did not know how to act, could not awaken, and were confined to traditional ideas, and could not transcend the outside.

And once they have a guiding ideology that goes beyond it...

Xin Qiji is reborn, Zhao Yucheng is reborn, and thousands of revival members are reborn.

Su Yonglin is somewhat an idealist style of acting, such as his expectations for the future and his progress without hesitation.

Although his methods were very harsh and decisive, he believed that without idealists and idealism, the real world would only continue to fall and fall into the abyss and cannot extricate itself.

It is precisely because of the struggle of idealists who seem ridiculous and even not accepted by the real world that this world that should have fallen will have a glimmer of hope.

Just as Su Yonglin saw the faint light of hope in the mist.

The Ming Kingdom today is a country of hope created by the light of ideals. In this country of hope, there should be ideals and hope, not just cold liquidation.

Tian Guizi reflected the deepest coldness and coldness in Su Yonglin's heart in his heart. With Tian Guizi, Su Yonglin's own ideals could shine.

Of course, Su Yonglin can see hope, while Zhao Ling can only see despair.

Su Yonglin's many requirements and suggestions on the negotiations soon arrived at Lin'an City through alternating transportation by water and land, and was handed over to frontline generals and clerks such as Zhou Zhi and Zhou Zhixue.

After reading Su Yonglin's instructions on the negotiation and the fundamental purpose, they unified their understanding and notified the relevant requirements and clauses of the Southern Song Dynasty, so that they could discuss it themselves for a while, and then come to the Ming army camp to negotiate after the negotiations.

Seeing the many terms of the surrender conditions required by the Ming army, Zhao Sheng's eyes turned dark and he almost fainted.

After he finally calmed down his emotions, he could hardly bear the anger in his heart, so he almost ordered the defenders in the city to attack and fight to the death with the Ming army.

Forget compensation for war, it’s also worth annual monies.

Just forget about annual monies, but you still have to ced the land.

Forget it, the Emperor of Song even had to pay tribute to the Ming Kingdom!

Respect!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I absolutely cannot surrender! Is it impossible to cede land! The entire Huainan East Road? Impossible! Mingguo is thinking about it! Impossible!!!"

Zhao Xing yelled at the prime minister meeting, slapped the table and smashed the bench, and smashed several tea bowls, which scared the eunuchs in the palace trembled, fearing that they would be implicated by the emperor's anger.

Tang Situi and Shen, who had not reacted much before, dared not speak, and did not know how to maintain their position on this matter so that they would not be settled by the emperor in the future.

Anyway, they must not dare to say that the emperor would agree to the Ming Kingdom's request, especially the claim of paying tribute to the Ming Empire, although they really wanted to promote peace too much.

Similarly, Shi Hao felt that he could not accept all the four major requirements of the Ming Dynasty.

Indemnity and annual monies are acceptable conditions in Shi Hao's mind.

Although he was unable to accept the cemetery of land, if the Ming Dynasty had not had many requirements, it would be impossible to negotiate. In exchange for peace, so that the Southern Song Dynasty could have a chance to breathe.

But the lion of Ming Kingdom spoke big, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he would need eight prefectures on Huainan East Road and a population of 800,000. This would feel a bit like slaughtering the Southern Song Dynasty as a pig, which is too much.

It is also too much to surrender.

The Southern Song Dynasty had just emerged from the shame of submitting to the Jin Kingdom, and now it is about to go back to its original place. This is a serious blow to the national character of the Southern Song Dynasty and the personality of the monarch and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty.

They can't accept it.

After Zhao Xing and Shi Hao clarified the maximum acceptable conditions for the Southern Song Dynasty, Shi Hao decided to go on a mission to the Ming army camp again.

The day after receiving the Ming army's notes, Shi Hao once again came to the Ming army camp and negotiated with Zhou Zhi and the command of the Mingnan Army led by Zhou Zhixue.

"The requirements of the Northern Dynasties have been clear to the Song Dynasty. His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was not happy about the many requirements of the Northern Dynasties. He put forward four requirements in a row, and the Northern Dynasties had a big appetite."

This time, Shi Hao came up and fired at Su Yonglin's four requests.

Zhou Zhixue confronted this.

"When General Xin went south, he only had the request for annual monies, but the Southern Dynasties did not agree. The Ming Dynasty decided to start a war without any help. To make a mistake, this is also the fault of the Southern Dynasties. What the Ming Dynasty needs now is the gain of victory. There is no problem. All four must be agreed upon, otherwise peace talks will be impossible."

Shi Hao is not to be outdone.

"Is it the right decision to make the request for annual monies to the Song Dynasty for no reason?"

Zhou Zhixue sneered.

"That was to renovate the Yellow River. The complete collapse of the Yellow River was caused by the Southern Dynasty... Mr. Shi, let's not discuss this issue more. Let's continue our original agenda!"

Seeing that Shi Hao seemed to want to debate the Yellow River issue, Zhou Zhixue immediately interrupted Shi Hao's spell casting.

Shi Hao was interrupted by casting spells, and his face was full of unhappiness, but as a representative of the defeated side, he could not refute the defeated side's request.

So the formal negotiations began.

The formal process must be to seek common ground while reserving differences, so the two sides first negotiate on the issue of war reparations.

There is no problem with the compensation of 6.2 million guan and has been recognized by the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, so the first of the four requirements has been recognized by both parties and is acceptable.

Then the next one is the second one. The Ming Dynasty required the Southern Song Dynasty to provide annual monies worth 300,000 taels of silver and 300,000 pieces of silk cloth every year, and transport them to the border areas of both sides for delivery every year.

Regarding this request, Shi Hao thought it was too difficult for the Southern Song Dynasty.

"The war has caused serious damage to the Song Dynasty. Six and two million guan has already damaged the Song Dynasty. It also costs 300,000 taels of silver and 300,000 pieces of silk cloth. This is too heavy for the Song Dynasty and almost unaffordable. Does the Northern Dynasties hope to watch the Song Dynasty fall apart?"

Zhou Zhixue has no intention of giving in to this.

"You gave the Jin Kingdom so many years old, but you didn't see you falling apart."

"That's different!"

"Why is it different? Didn't the Jin Dynasty also let the Southern Dynasties pay the annual tribute after going south to plunder and destroy? The Southern Dynasties paid the same tribute to the previous year? Besides, the Ming army went south to one without burning and killing, and did not plunder, strictly constrain military discipline, and did not invade the Southern Dynasties beyond war. Isn't it much better than the Jin Dynasty?"

Zhou Zhixue's words made Shi Hao speechless.

Indeed, Zhou Zhixue’s statement is very reasonable. If we say that the Jin Dynasty hurt the Southern Song Dynasty back then, it must be far more harmful than the Ming army today.

Not to mention that the Jin army went south and burned, killing and looting, not only demanding annual monies and war compensation, but also looting countless people to go north and become slaves.

In contrast, the Ming army strictly restricted military discipline. Apart from war, it did not destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, burned houses, plundered the people, and destroyed the fields.

As they headed south, the people in the areas captured by the Ming army were not hurt. Instead, the Ming army troops maintained order and ensured their daily lives and the normal operation of the city.

It seemed that their marching was really just to achieve strategic goals. The army was very obedient and to an incredible level of obedience, and they did whatever they asked to do.

Is there such an army in the world?
Chapter completed!