In the Wuying Hall, a group of first and second generations of the Eight Banners who have not yet had their fighting spirit sapped by wealth and wealth are discussing behind closed doors how to deal with Zhu Cixiang!

"Your Majesty, I think the Crown Prince of the Zhu family is very confident!" The speaker was He Luohui, Gushan'e Zhen of Zhenghuang Banner. "The Southern Expedition must be considered in the long term."

What He Luohui means is actually the consensus of the Dorgon system. They lost more than 800 warriors in the Battle of Dagukou, many of whom were white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers. If the two white flags hadn't had a strong foundation, they would have

It's debilitating.

Therefore, Dorgon's people were more cautious when it came to fighting Zhu Cihong.

"What about the marriage proposal?"

He Luohui said: "I think it's feasible. The prince of the Zhu family is capable. He will definitely be the emperor in the future. There is no more suitable candidate than him."

It was impossible for Emperor Shunzhi to marry his cousin. If Dongguo Gege wanted to marry the emperor, Zhu Cihong was the only option.

Moreover, Dorgon now monopolizes power, is domineering, and even coerces the emperor to sleep with the queen mother. Except for his confidants who were born in the Liangbai Banners, the rest of the Six Banners dignitaries are dissatisfied with Dorgon.

Now that Dorgon is alive, others dare not oppose him, but his health is not good. If Dongguo Gege falls into the hands of Dorgon's political opponents, it would be worse than falling into the hands of Zhu Cihong! So He Luo will be

I am really trying to find a way out for Dorgon's daughter.

Dorgon frowned and was noncommittal.

"What about the Marriage Council and the Trade Council?" Dorgon asked again, "What do these two councils manage?"

The marriage consultation embassy was actually an embassy, ​​but it was just in the name of "the marriage consultation", so that diplomatic exchanges could still be maintained when the two sides were at war. As long as no one in the Ming and Qing Dynasties had the strength to push the other side away, the negotiation channels would be very limited.

It is necessary to exist.

Of course, the trade hall was for commerce. This was the Ming and Qing trade method that Zhu Cixi decided to adopt after referring to the Dutch and Zheng family’s commercial halls in Nagasaki, Japan. In Zhu Cihong’s view, he wanted to use trade means to block and trap the current large-scale trade.

The Qing Dynasty was impossible.

The territory of the Qing Dynasty was large enough, including the three eastern provinces of later generations, Inner and Inner Mongolia, Outer Northeast China, Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Beijing City, Tianjin City, and North Korea and South Korea. How to blockade such a large territory?

Moreover, the current economic foundation of the Qing Dynasty is a typical feudal serfdom, and the basis for maintaining the serf economy of the Qing Dynasty is how much population and land the country can control! With the current control ability of the Qing Dynasty, it can completely rely on enclosure and investment

Keep it going!

Even if the trade between the north and the south is reduced to zero, as long as more land is encircled and more farmers are forced to work as slaves, there will be no problem of being unable to survive.

For example, more than 30 million acres in Shanxi and nearly 50 million acres in Beizhili were enclosed, and two to three million households were forced into slavery. One acre would be charged three measures of flour, and each household would receive one pound.

Cotton and linen cloth. You can also earn more than 20 million shi and two to three million horses a year. With such an income, are you afraid that the hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners masters will not be able to survive?

If that's not enough, at worst, we could have developed the Northeast two hundred years earlier, and at least we would have gained tens of millions of acres and millions of households of serfs!

Moreover, if these Han people who were forced to work as slaves only had to pay a "rent" of three measures per mu and a piece of cloth per household (the average rent payment in the Sui and Tang Dynasties was to collect cloth), the burden would be absolutely heavy.

It's lighter than when they used to work for the landlord.

As for the Little Ice Age or something like that, if some Han people starved to death, would the Eight Banners dignitaries care? And with the current combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners soldiers, the northern farmers would definitely not be able to defeat them if they launched an uprising.

Therefore, it is basically a dream to force the collapse of the Qing Dynasty by blocking trade and suppressing commerce. On the contrary, prosperous commercial activities will corrupt the Eight Banners disciples and gradually lose their combat effectiveness.

Since the trade blockade will not weaken the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners disciples, but will maintain their combat effectiveness, Zhu Cixiang will certainly not do such a thing.

Therefore, he took advantage of the opportunity of "marriage negotiations" to open a commercial store on a sandy island hanging at the mouth of the Wei River in Tianjin, striving to put the initiative of Ming and Qing trade under the control of Beiyang Minister Shen Tingyang. Then A large number of good things for eating, drinking and having fun were imported, so that the Eight Banners disciples who settled in Beijing could live a happy life as soon as possible.

Fan Wencheng, a slave with a white flag who had just returned from the front line of Datong, frowned and thought for a long time. He didn't understand what Zhu Cixi was thinking, so he said to Dorgon: "Your Majesty, you might as well agree first. Haisha Island is not easy to control anyway." , it’s easy to do when the river freezes in winter, but when the river melts it becomes an island. Why not let the Southern Dynasties set up two pavilions there, but they are not allowed to station troops. Let’s station some troops at Dagukou to keep an eye on the sea sand. Just the island.”

"What about the marriage proposal?" Dorgon frowned.

Fan Wencheng said: "Anyway, Gege is still young, so we can slowly discuss it and have a channel for discussion between the two sides. I think it's not bad." His brows gradually wrinkled, "Your Majesty, there is a big difference between discussing marriage and negotiating peace. , can also become the same thing.”

Dorgon nodded: "That's right. Anyway, we can't spare any time to deal with the Southern Dynasty for the time being. It doesn't hurt to negotiate a peace slowly. We can also paralyze the Zhu family prince!"

When Dorgon discussed the southern expedition with He Luohui, Fan Wencheng and others, the three of them did not know that the anti-Qing sentiment in Nanjing at this time had reached an extreme level!

Only a few people in Nanjing knew about Zhu Cixiang's dispatch of an envoy to Beijing to discuss matters. And the public information, whether it was written in the Dibao or published in the "Public Gazette", All of which indicate that the brutal Donglu will soon move south in large numbers!

If the people and scholar-bureaucrats in the southeast do not want to become slaves of the Tatars, do not want their property to be seized by the Tatars, and do not want their wives and daughters to be raped and humiliated by the Tatars, then they have no choice but to contribute money and effort to resist the Qing Dynasty to the end.

The wave of nationwide resistance to the Qing Dynasty spread from Nanjing to all directions.

One of them followed Zhu Cihong's envoy Hou Fangyu up the river and arrived at Wuchang City under the rule of Zuo Liangyu.

Wuchang City gives people an extremely depressing feeling in December. The whole city is always shrouded in haze, not the weather, but people's mood.

Because in December six years ago, a mutiny occurred in Xuzhou City, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province, and Xuzhou happened to be the old camp of Zuo Liangyu’s army that was encircling and suppressing bandits in the Central Plains at that time! Many Zuo soldiers, including Zuo Liangyu, The families of the officers and soldiers were killed in this mutiny.

Therefore, every December is the death anniversary of these martyred Zuobu family members!

And Marshal Zuo Liangyu, who was notorious in the history of later generations, at this time, his "personality" was full of loyalty!

Therefore, for Zhu Cixiang, he is a more difficult character to deal with than Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo. Zuo Liangyu's entire family basically died for the Ming Dynasty, leaving only himself, a son, and an adopted daughter. , it can be said that all 8 families were destroyed for the sake of the Ming Dynasty!

Moreover, he is old and it seems that he will not survive for a few days. He is such a pitiful "old loyal minister". What can Zhu Cixi do to him? The evil deeds of Zuo Jiajun in history have not happened yet. Who can Prince Zhu punish openly?
Chapter completed!