After the ministers retreated, Dorgon couldn't help knocking his forehead and felt a splitting headache. Now, it has been more than a year and a half since the Southern Expedition. The order of the Qing court is basically normal. With the hard work of several Han ministers, agricultural production in various places is also slowly recovering. People have begun to settle down and open up land. Farming is also somewhat income in the national treasury this year. At least the salaries of civil and military officials can be provided.

Moreover, Dorgon has ordered the cessation of land enclosure orders and the surcharge law to facilitate the stability of the domestic environment. Of course, in fact, the land enclosures are almost all enclosed, and the Eight Banners nobles who have enclosed the land have forced a large number of people to take care of their own clothes. Therefore, Dorgon terminated these two laws and did not have much impact. The law of fugitives and other laws continue to be implemented and the Han people are still prohibited from entering the pass and entering the so-called "Land of Dragons" of the Qing court to open up land and reclaim fields.

But although there is no war now, the military expenditure of the Qing court is still a huge number. First, because it is because it is a huge cost to maintain nearly one million troops. Second, it is also a large firearm. Therefore, at the current development speed, it will take five or six years to hold the Nanzheng Zhishou again.

But now the Qing court is also preparing for Nanjing. The advantage of the south and the north is that it can carry out industry, commerce and overseas trade. Although Dorgon does not understand the great historical significance of developing industry and commerce, one thing he is innocent, that is, business makes money quickly, so if both sides compete for development, the Qing court will definitely not be able to compete with Nanjing.

Moreover, in the past year or so, the Qing court has also been confirmed that Shang Yi is indeed vigorously developing industry, commerce and overseas trade every year, and profits from it are huge every year. Only customs tariffs can be as high as tens of millions of taels of silver. Although Dorgon is still a little doubtful about this number, the other number he just obtained this year is unquestionable. That is, in the time so far this year, the Qing court spent more than three million taels of silver to purchase goods from the south. The Qing court sold less than five hundred thousand taels of silver to Nanjing.

Although this year has not yet ended, it is a certain fact that Nanjing zhèng fu has to earn more than 2.5 million taels of silver from the Qing court every year. In fact, as early as the first half of this year, someone told Dorgon to stop trade between the north and the south to prevent the outflow of silver from the Qing court to support the enemy country Dorgon handed over this proposal to ministers for discussion, but was opposed by the ministers of the Wushu. Some Manchu ministers still opposed it because they were fierce. In the end, the officials who had to give up and said the matter were also dismissed.

Because the goods flowing into the north from the south are mostly high-end consumer goods such as porcelain, glass, silk, etc., which are deeply loved by the Eight Banners nobles. They represent identity symbols. For example, large-sized glass mirrors must be placed in a conspicuous position in the main hall so that people can see at a glance. Of course, the largest size is the better. If anyone can have a glass mirror of one person, it is definitely a family heirloom. If there is no mirror at home, it will be embarrassing. Therefore, the Eight Banners nobles have also become the main force of southern commodity consumption and are not afraid of spending money. Once the trade between the North and the South is stopped, it means that the Eight Banners nobles are certainly unwilling to come.

On the other hand, it was also the result of the efforts of the eight royal merchants led by the Fan family. Because the Qing court's north-south trade was monopolized by the eight companies. The goods in the south were very sold and the profits were huge. Therefore, the eight royal merchants did not want to stop the north-south trade. Of course, they did not dare to object explicitly, but they could also use various means to make a group of Eight Banner nobles speak for themselves against this proposal.

In fact, Dorgon also likes southern goods. There are two sides and one person tall glass mirrors in his home. Not to mention that even the windows of most rooms have been replaced with transparent glass. This is even more generous than the palace and he did not get the numbers of the whole body at that time. Therefore, he did not think that there was anything wrong with the trade between the north and the south. Just spend some money. Seeing that most people opposed it, it naturally denied this proposal.

But now it seems that this is not a little money, but two or three million taels of silver. The income of the Qing Dynasty last year was only more than ten million taels of silver. Shang Yi made 2 or three million taels of silver from the Qing court. The development of the Qing court was not as good as Nanjing now, and he still gave money to others to help. Of course, it is not OK.

For this reason, Dorgon also recruited Fan Yongdou to ask him whether the Qing court could also vigorously develop business. But the problem is that the Qing court cannot produce any goods that can be sold in the south. The northern Chahar-Zhangjiakou first-tier trade is currently limited, so it is difficult to make money from the outside. Dorgon realized that the problem was serious and began to seriously think about whether the trade between the north and the south should be stopped.

Just as Dorgon was pondering, a eunuch came in with a big newspaper and said, "The regent's batch of [Hangzhou Times] has been sent."

Dorgon nodded and said, "Let it go."

The eunuch put down the newspaper and turned away from Jingsi Hall Dorgon temporarily put down the trade between the north and the south to read the newspaper. Because the Qing government's intelligence network in Nanjing has been destroyed most of the time, so the main way for the Qing government to understand the situation in Nanjing can only be through [Hangzhou Times]. Although this is very ironic, there is no way. However, [Hangzhou Times] is at least twenty days to a month later when sent to Beijing. Every time a new [Hangzhou Times] Dorgon will read it carefully. Although it is necessary to understand the situation in Nanjing, Dorgon has to admit in his heart that the content of [Hangzhou Times] is really attractive. It is much better than what I do with Ning Wan.

Under Ning Wan's suggestion, Dorgon also issued a [Qing Dynasty] and hoped to become the verbal speech of the Qing court like [Hangzhou Times]

However, after the release of the [Daqing Times], the result was much better than Dorgon's expectations. In addition to the first two and three periods, it caused a little sensation. Then it got worse. Although the circulation of [Daqing Times] is only 5,000 copies and less than one-tenth of [Hangzhou Times], each period can only be sold at most 2,000 copies. In fact, it is better to smuggle them to the Qing Dynasty. It is easy to sell. Although the Qing Dynasty has clearly stipulated that [Hangzhou Times] should be prohibited from selling in the Qing Dynasty, there is no need to worry about the buyer who still has [Hangzhou Times] private sales. There are many places where the cover clip of [Daqing Times] is openly sold on the street.

This also made Dorgon very dissatisfied with him. Although he didn't understand the newspaper, he also knew that if no one reads it, then what else would be used for this [Qing Times]. Therefore, Dorgon was very depressed. Why did the things that were very good in Shang Yi's hands change their taste as soon as they reached the Qing court? And I was very dissatisfied with Ning Wan's performance.

In fact, I am also very wronged by Ning Wan. The content of [Hangzhou Times] is very wide. The various administrative and decrees of zhèng fu can appear in newspapers. For example, the news of Shang Yi's expedition to Manila is posted. You can say that you dare to publish anything. There are also related comments. Scores allow ordinary people to publish articles in newspapers. In many big cities in zhèng fu, almost every teahouse restaurant will arrange a lecturer to speak in the current period. The content of the [Hangzhou Times] is to attract customers who are illiterate but want to understand the content of [Hangzhou Times].

But [Qing Dynasty] It seems that there are only two events that are not allowed to be published, but this is not allowed to be published, and that is not allowed to be published. The content of each issue can only be some unpainful things. Most of the content is to sing praises to the Qing court and sing praises. The content is monotonous and repeated. Don’t even say you can read such newspapers? No one wants to listen to them. Sales naturally fell sharply, and this was caught by [Hangzhou Times] for sarcasm.

In this era, newspapers are also a new thing in Europe, let alone in China. Although Shang Yi has never run a newspaper, who has not dealt with newspapers in the 21st century, and he adopted the strategy of openness of the ruling laws and regulations. Most of the administrative laws of zhèng fu were conveyed to the society through newspapers and seized several times of Guanjian incidents and vigorously developed [Hangzhou Times] Therefore, at this time, [Hangzhou Times] had more than 60,000 copies of circulation and almost all of China's provinces.

Although this practice will indeed reveal some of the situation and trends of Nanjing zhèng fu to the outside world, many officials have expressed this concern to Shang Yi and suggested that Shang Yi reduce the content of the report [Hangzhou Times], Shang Yi still insists on the principle of open government orders, so it also makes [Hangzhou Times] have a high credibility within the ruling area of ​​Nanjing zhèng fu

For a newspaper, credibility is just like the basis of survival. Therefore, basically as long as the news published in the [Hangzhou Times] is published, readers can believe that this will naturally be better able to play the role of verbal verbal. From the final results, the gain is definitely greater than the loss.

The Qing court knew nothing about the nature and characteristics of newspapers. He only saw that newspapers could represent the right to speak and control their voice. So he thought that according to the appearance of [Hangzhou Times], he could have the same effect as [Hangzhou Times]. But he never thought about how to make newspapers attract readers to build their credibility. The whole article was full of big talk. The content of empty talk was monotonous and rigid. Things with substantial value did not have such newspapers. Of course, they would not have the ability to survive.
Chapter completed!