What surprised Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou was that Jirgalang, who should take the opportunity to retaliate, actually agreed and said: "What the two great scholars said is actually a matter of planning for the country. This is a strategy of killing people with a knife, which is amazing... I admire it!"

Fulin made a decision on the spot, "...Prince An was appointed General Xuanwei, led 3,000 Zhengbai Banner and 10,000 new troops, and a total of 13,000 troops to reinforce Haizhou today!"

This move was indeed very large for Fulin and the Qing court at that time.

The population of Manchu and Mongolia has always been a constraint on the Qing court's military strength. After establishing a foothold in Shuntian Prefecture, they had to recruit Han people to join the army. This made the inequality between the Manchu and Han tribes actually no longer exist. Just imagine that while asking people to fight for battle and being slaves, who can tolerate it?

With the existence of Han ministers represented by Hong and Fan, sharing power became a secret tacit understanding.

Of course, ordinary people cannot enjoy it, and what they can enjoy is naturally the elite figures of contemporary Han people, such as Hong and Fan.

In the Qing army after entering the pass, the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia had almost become a decoration.

It’s not that the combat power drops too quickly, but that the military strength is really not enough.

Often, one or two Niu records were sent to list the names and then a large number of Han troops were injected into it, claiming to be the Eight Banners Army.

But in fact, where do so many young and strong men in the Mongolian world come from?

It's nothing more than selling dog meat with sheep's head.

Manchus cannot afford to die. Even if the Manchus and Mongolian tribes are able to create people, one young man will take at least sixteen years to go into battle.

So Fulin spent a lot of money this time, and the three thousand Zhengbai Banners were almost 40% of the Zhengbai Banners. In other words, if something happened to this team, after Dorgon's death, Fulin took the five flags in his arms, it would be equivalent to 20% of them.

Why do you say that? Because the Eight Banners are actually not military strength and have the same strength.

The two yellow flags controlled by Huang Taiji of Xiangyuan were naturally full of troops, while the two white and Zhenglan flags controlled by Dorgon were second, and the other three flags were only four or five thousand.

This is the main reason why the Qing Dynasty had to fight in the east before officially fighting with the Ming Dynasty.

Poor Koreans who truly regarded the Ming Dynasty as the leader at that time, after being led by Huang Taiji to personally expedition, they had to offer their country to surrender. The final price was that the prince was taken hostage and 300,000 people were used as cannon fodder for the Qing Dynasty to attack the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, when the Qing army entered the pass and went south to fight against the Qingming army and the rebels in various places, there were definitely not a few people who died in battle, but the Manchu and Mongolian tribes died a little because there were 300,000 Korean cannon fodder.

"The emperor is wise!"

This time, there was no private goods involved, and it was sincere, because Fulin approved all their advice.

As long as you give me a favor, you will naturally be sincere in praising me.

This is what makes the king and his subjects get along.

....

Outside the Fan Mansion, a group of businessmen wearing gorgeous clothes and wearing outer hats were looking forward to it for a long time.

These old Xiers are microcosms of the merchants of this era.

They spent a lot of money on the surface and shine, but in fact, they searched hard in private.

Under the halo of wealth and honor, the imperial merchants actually have no control over themselves. They do have money, but they are really theirs?

God knows that apart from digging holes into the ground and burying them until they can't even remember how much they had been buried or how long they had been buried, there was actually not much wealth they really controlled, because the officials of the Qing court never shifted their attention from their wealth.

If you take me and take me, if you have a slight mistake, your family will be destroyed.

Therefore, these merchants were as obedient as quails outside the Fan Mansion, so naturally they did not dare to come empty-handed.

And today, he is even more extraordinary.

Behind them, there are long chariots.

The cart was full of vermilion solid wood boxes with copper nails, and the nails were shining brightly in the sun... Tsk tsk, you can tell at a glance that the box in the car must be valuable.

Until a moment passed by noon, the two Grand Secretary's carriages slowly entered the Fanglan.

Someone had already sprinted to inform him, so more than a dozen merchants rushed forward with their eyes red. Tsk tsk, the pose seemed to be two young erotic geniuses.

....

In the side hall at the southeast corner of Fan Mansion, merchants were smiling with flattery expressions.

Their eyes were full of expectations.

Yes, since the establishment of the Yixing Dynasty and the founding of Wu Zheng in Hangzhou, the trade between the north and the south has changed a lot.

The originally high north has always been superior to the south.

The latest and most singular things flow from the north to the south, especially the tributes in the palace. Tsk tsk, if you can take a look, it is the virtues of the ancestors, just like smelling the fragrance of a real dragon.

In the south, there have always been the ones that pay tribute, such as grain, fabrics, and of course, the specialty tributes that have been produced every year.

But now, the situation is slowly turning back.

The fabrics from the south are still transported in the north, but they are no longer shipped to the finished products, but are finished Han robes produced by the weaving department.

The profit difference between the semi-finished products and the finished products is huge, especially after hanging on the nameplate of the Hangzhou Weaving Department, it is worth a thousand gold.

The Qing court's embargo order was ordered, and the Grand Canal channel was blocked. Oh my God, can this business continue?

Although the south did not issue a ban like the north, whenever the merchant ship passed Xuzhou, the water checkpoints would consume the originally doubled gross profit margin of Han robes.

The royal merchants are better, with large amounts of goods. If you feed them at one time, you will feel merciful. But those small merchants are in trouble. They will use money all the way. Not to mention the profits, they will have to pay the money. If they don’t use them, they will have to pay the money. If they don’t use them, they will be even worse. Once they are detained for collusion with the enemy, being blackmailed is a trivial matter. If they are pushed to the side of the boat on the spot, they will fall into the river with one knife. The body pulled back by the family is incomplete, and they have to hire someone to fish it out of the river. But with such a large canal, the water flows fast, how can they fish it out?

Little merchants usually rely on these great merchants. Now that they encounter difficulties, they naturally have to ask for a hug.

So, the thighs finally couldn't help but come together to "petition".

You have to burn incense to the clay Buddha. You must naturally be polite when you come to "petition". Only by being polite can you appear sincere.

More than a dozen Shanxi merchants gathered thirty carts for a big gift, hired a hundred people, and took them to the front of the Fan Mansion.

I gave the reward to the concierge and handed over the famous post.

I stood outside the mansion for a whole day until night fell, and Lao Fan said something from the mansion, "I know what happened, don't be impatient, and I will know after entering the palace tomorrow."

So the merchants came and returned together. Today, before dawn, they were waiting outside the mansion again.
Chapter completed!