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"oh?"

Surprise sounds were everywhere in the seat.

Although Dorgon's whereabouts after he led his army out of Juyongguan was not difficult to guess from Li Xin's perspective, he had the biggest golden finger of the time traveler. He could speculate on his whereabouts based on Dorgon's personality and ordinary behavior. Others could not do it, even if Li Zicheng could not guess that the Qing army would attack Shanxi, so the Qing army attacked Shanxi was listed as the highest secret.

Fan Yongdou looked down with satisfaction, and waited for the surprise to stop, and then said: "Everyone, you have no foundation in Shanxi. The Qing Dynasty is under heavy troops and it is no problem to seize Shanxi. Even though the Regent was not careful for a while and could not capture Beijing, he took Shanxi and then Henan, and surrounded Beijing and seized the Central Plains. He was more confident in seizing the world. Although Li Xin was lucky enough to occupy Beijing, he was attacked from all sides. I expected that he would retreat to Jianghuai within one or two years and do nothing. I hope you should not be scared by him and follow the Qing Dynasty wholeheartedly. In the future, the Emperor and the Regent will definitely wait for us!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone said yes.

After all, although Li Xin won all the battles and won consecutive victories, his rise lasted for a short time, only a few years, and many people did not understand him. The Qing Dynasty was already the third generation of monarchs. It took decades to get to the present, with clear lines, giving people the illusion of a solid foundation.

Especially the Shanxi merchants, who have served the Qing Dynasty since the Nurhaci era, have a very profound understanding of the Qing Dynasty. A defeat is not a catastrophe. The foundation of the Qing Dynasty has not been damaged and several famous generals have not been lost. In their minds, they still tend toward the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, Dorgon has a wise reputation, and they believe that Dorgon can successfully take down Shanxi and encircle Li Xin!

However, Jin Liangyu still asked: "Brother, if we don't go back to Beijing, the Shanxi Guild Hall will be sealed immediately, and then Li Xin will also strictly prohibit border trade. The bandit army is not the Ming army. The Ming army has basically been infiltrated by us, but the bandit army may not necessarily eat our set. If there is no material to transport it out, the Regent is afraid... over time, he will feel impatient!"

Fan Yongjiu sneered: "If we cannot return within five days according to the date in the letter, then the Li surname will definitely check the guild hall and will definitely ban border trade. But everyone, this is the third day. Unless we leave immediately and run around without stopping, we can return to Beijing. What should we do with our family business? The Li surnamed doesn't want us to come back at all, and we want to kill us all!

As for the ways, we can send someone to inquire about the situation first. I don’t believe it. Who in the world can resist the temptation of money!"

"ha!"

Liang Jiabin smiled: "It's just to use more money."

Tian Shenglan asked, "What should we do if we stayed in the Shanxi Guild Hall?"

Fan Yongjiu sighed: "I'll be blessed. Fortunately, the direct tribes of our eight families are all in Zhangjiakou, and the Li surnamed can't reach. By the way, let's raise another batch of food and grass to send to the Regent!"

"Yeah~~"

Everyone nodded. Since they chose to break with Li Xin, Dorgon's thighs were going to hug him tighter.

On the morning of the sixth day after the letter was sent, just as Li Xin got up, Huang Hai came to report: "Commander-in-Chief, none of the eight Shanxi merchants came back."

Li Xin nodded and said, "I had expected this and sent an order to Wu Mengming, asking him to send someone to the Shanxi Guild Hall to arrest people. Everyone, etc., would be interrogated strictly. Anyone who violated the Chongzhen ban on border order and transported food, weapons, gunpowder and other materials to the frontier regardless of their jurisdiction, would be sentenced to prison. Before exile to North America, labor reform, confiscation of the guild hall, and the maids and other female family members inside would be betrothed to the meritorious soldiers."

"Get orders!"

Huang Hai left.

Li Xin said to Liu Rushi again: "Help me draw an edict to prohibit the absolute Manchuria-Mongolia trade. He will not teach a grain of rice, and send a needle out of the frontier. Anyone who violates the order will be sent to Yangzhou first!"

"Um!"

Liu Rushi nodded and sat down to write.

Thanks to Li Xin's restoration of the post station, on the fourth day, Li Xin's edict to ban the Manchuria and Mongolia trade was delivered to the salt merchants in Yangzhou, especially the Shanxi merchants. The Shanxi merchants in Yangzhou had close ties with the eight imperial merchants.

After receiving the edict, Liang Chengdao, general manager of Yangzhou Urban Construction, summoned Zhang Yuanshan, Guo Youcai, Shen Taiming and other Shanxi merchants to discuss secretly for half a day, submitted a petition to Li Xin, and denounced the eight imperial merchants' behavior of selling the country and seeking honor. They were willing to cut off all contact with him, and promised that they would never leave a grain of salt and a grain of food from them.

Li Xin was not surprised by this result. After all, the Shanxi and Shaanxi salt merchants have been living in Yangzhou for many years, and even their accents have gradually become local to Yangzhou. In addition to their hometown, they are distant relatives who cannot be far away.

Moreover, their interests were fully entangled with Li Xin, and they became deeper and deeper in the real estate industry. In the past, due to the friendship between fellow villagers, some profits could provide some goods to the eight royal merchants. However, when Li Xin's ban was released, they still had a minor difference. They immediately cut off their ties with the eight royal merchants. Even the liaison personnel stationed in Yangzhou were tied up by them and sent to Shi Kefa.

It was extremely thorough.

In addition, Sun Chuanting did not come to take office as Li Xin expected. In fact, Li Xin did not expect Sun Chuanting to come to Beijing to serve as the Minister of War. His main purpose was to alert the enemy.

If Sun Chuanting had stood firm in Hangzhou, he would respond with kind words and then make excuses to delay the situation. When his contacts were quite different, he would raise the banner of clearing the emperor and call on the world to attack him.

However, Sun Chuanting resigned from the position of Minister of War on the grounds of being ill, which was sufficiently low-key, indicating that there were still voices of opposition within Hangzhou, and Sun Chuanting did not gain absolute control over Hangzhou.

In the following period, various officials kept visiting Li Xin to talk about his grand plans. Although most of them were pedantic and lost money, some people even had a stubborn and refused to let go with their own opinions, Li Xin still maintained enough patience to listen.

Gradually, he couldn't bear it!

At the same time, as Li Xin strictly handled the righteous man and woman, some young men and women were driven out of the houses of officials, merchants and wealthy families. Li Xin knew that Wu Mengming had shown mercy and did not handle it strictly. However, this was also his original intention. He only wanted to stop the habit of slaughtering slavery and release more people, and did not really want to search the house.

After all, it is better to do less than house searches.

Half a month later, Shi Kefa came. Li Xin ignored Shi Kefa's dust and received Shi Kefa alone, handed over the political affairs, and gave Tian Huang's relatives' house as the prime minister's mansion.

Fortunately, Shi Kefa knew Li Xin's character, otherwise he would not dare to be the prime minister. After all, since Li Shanchang, the Ming Dynasty had no prime minister. The key is that there is an irreconcilable contradiction between prime minister's power and monarch's power. Almost all those who are prime ministers will not die well.

Although Shi Kefa accepted the appointment of the prime minister, he was used to poverty and refused to refuse Tian’s relative’s house. His family had only four people, plus no more than ten old servants, so the big house could not be managed. So Li Xin changed the house of Chongzhen’s cousin Liu Yuanbing to Shi Kefa.

Liu Yuanbing was the waiter, and the house was smaller in scale, but it also had several acres.

Shi Kefa still felt that it was too big, and Shi's mother advised: "This is also the commander's wish, so you should keep it. Mom knows that you are not greedy or not, so I am afraid that you can't afford to live there. But hasn't the commander's salary increased? You can live there with peace of mind."

His wife also said, "There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and it is the greatest thing to have no descendants. I have married my husband for so many years, but I have not given up my husband's blood. I am actually guilty. My husband should take a few concubines and try to make the husband have a descendant, so that I will not become a sinner of the Shi family."

Shi Mu smiled and said, "This house is spacious enough, so you can live in a few rooms!"

Shi Kefa had no choice but to respond.

In addition to Shi Kefa, Qian Qianyi, Huimei, Huiying, Li Lanzhi and Kou Baimen's younger brother Kou Song, Caiyi and Caishang were temporarily staying in Nanjing. After Hongniangzi and Zhou Zheng had children, they went to Beijing together.

Li Xin appointed Qian Qianyi as the Minister of Rites. Qian Qianyi also knew that Liu Rushi and Li Xin were mingling with him. Facing this man who took his family and insulted him, he couldn't hate him.

As the saying goes, the gap between him and Li Xin can only look up to his back. Is this kind of hatred meaningful? It is better to be honest and calm in doing things for Li Xin, which is good for him and his family.

Qian Qianyi was not a strong person at all. He sighed inwardly and accepted the arrangement of fate.
Chapter completed!