"Your subject, Yan Yingyuan, pays his respects to Your Majesty!"
Yan Yingyuan walked through the palace gates of the Palace of Heavenly Purity and knelt to perform the ritual. Emperor Chongzhen nodded and gestured for Wang Chengen to hand the letter regarding the peace negotiations to Yan Yingyuan.
After reading it, Yan Yingyuan pondered for a moment. "My opinion is that the rebel bandits have no intention of keeping Xuanfu Garrison. They are merely using this as a pretext to extort wealth."
Chapter 130