In the Wuying Palace, a group of the 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 run."
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 had not had a strong foundation, their vitality would have been damaged.
Therefore, Dorgon's people were more cautious about 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 is impossible for Emperor Shunzhi to marry his cousin. If Dongguo Gege wants to marry the emperor, Zhu Cixiang is the only option.
Moreover, Dorgon now holds all the 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 Flags dignitaries are dissatisfied with Dorgon.
Now that Dorgon is alive, others dare not oppose him, but he is not in good health. If he does not live long... Dongguo Gege would be worse off in the hands of Dorgon's political opponents than in the hands of Zhu Cihong. ! So He Luohui is sincerely looking for 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?"
In fact, the embassy was an embassy, but it was just in the name of "progress", so that diplomatic exchanges could still be maintained when the two sides were at war - as long as neither side in the Ming and Qing Dynasties had the strength to push the other side, the negotiation channels It is necessary to exist.
Of course, the trade hall was for trade. This was the trade method of the Ming and Qing Dynasties that Zhu Cixi decided to adopt after referring to the merchant houses of the Netherlands and the Zheng family in Nagasaki, Japan. In Zhu Cixi's view, he wanted to use trade means to block and trap the present. The Qing Dynasty is 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, as well as North Korea and South Korea. How can such a large area be sealed off?
Moreover, the economic foundation of the Qing Dynasty today 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 be maintained by enclosure and investment!
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. Three measures of flour were collected from one acre, and one bolt of cotton and linen was collected from each household. He can earn more than 20 million dan 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, if we develop the Northeast two hundred years earlier, we can at least get 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, they will definitely not be able to defeat the uprising launched by the northern farmers.
Therefore, it is basically a dream to force the Qing Dynasty to collapse by blocking trade and suppressing commerce. On the contrary, prosperous commercial activities will corrupt the children of the Eight Banners 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 amount of fun things to eat, drink and have 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... Anyway, Haisha Island This place is not easy to control. It is easy to control when the river freezes in winter. When the river melts, it will become an island. Why not let Nanchao set up two pavilions there, but they are not allowed to station troops. Let's station some troops at Dagukou. , just keep an eye on the sea sand island."
"What about the marriage proposal?" Dorgon frowned.
Fan Wencheng said: "Anyway, Gege is still young, so we can discuss it slowly... There is a channel for discussion between the two sides, and I think it is good." His brows gradually wrinkled, "Your Majesty, this marriage discussion... Talking about peace, just one word, can mean 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 at this time in Nanjing, the anti-Qing sentiment had reached its peak!
Only a few people in Nanjing knew about Zhu Cihong's dispatch of a personal envoy to Beijing. And the news that has been published, whether it is the news written in the Di newspaper or the news published in the "Gongjie", all 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! Including Zuo Liangyu, many family members of leftist officers and soldiers died 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 combined. Basically, Zuo Liangyu's whole family died for the Ming Dynasty, except for himself, one son, and an adopted daughter. It can be said that he destroyed all 8 families for the Ming Dynasty!
Moreover, he is old and it seems that he will not survive for a few days. Such a pitiful "old loyal minister", what can Zhu Cihong do to him? The evil deeds of Zuo Jiajun in history have not happened yet. Whose crime can Prince Zhu publicly punish?
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