Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking : (From the 16th to the 20th Century)
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If you refuse peace on these terms, pray send us no more envoys, and hereafter whatsoever misfortunes may befall your people will be no fault of mine. I now hand this letter to your emissaries, and have arranged for their safe convoy through my territory, past my out- posts at Chinchou, as far as Lien Shan." 153 ANNALS AND MEMOIRS OF The Ming envoys knelt once and kotowed thrice on entering and leaving the Presence; they handed in a further decree from the Ming Emperor addressed, like the last,... to his Board of War, in which the Monarch asked for news of the negotiations, and gave the mission full powers to enter into a treaty at Moukden, but there was still no direct communication from Ch'ung Chen to his brother Sovereign. Unfortunately for the possible success of this mission, the Ming Emperor's instructions to keep its results strictly secret were disregarded. When the envoys returned to Peking they handed in T'ai Tsung's letter and the other documents to Ch'en Hsin-chia, the President of the Board of War, who was proceeding to draft a favourable report to the Throne when, through the error (possibly inten- tional) of a servant, copies of the Ming Emperor's decrees and a full account of the negotiations were published in the official Peking Gazette.
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