Today, the south of the Yangtze River, including Fujian and Guangdong, has fallen into the hands of the Great Western Army and the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The 100,000 troops of Fujian and Guangdong surrendered either to death, and this change triggered the northwest road, and the Qingming army led by Wu Sangui was in turmoil.

In this chaos, the remnants of the Dashun army in Shaanxi, Gansu and northern Shu are equivalent to having a breath of air, and there is a great tendency to resurrect.

That's right, these Qing troops were originally grass on the wall, can they still be required to be loyal to the Qing court?

The trees fell and scattered, and the walls fell and everyone pushed them, so the Qing court immediately changed its strategy and ordered the Qing army in the northwest to quickly return to the east, and the strategy was contracted, as long as it was close enough to the capital, it could naturally be controlled.

But in this way, the territory is getting smaller and smaller, and the annual income is getting less and less.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

At this time, the Qing court not only had to raise the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, but also took over the Ming army that surrendered over one million.

In addition to throttling, it also has to be open source, but where is the source so easy to open?

At this time, someone took the initiative to send the "open source" way...... Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce.

How good, as long as the silver is put in, it is at least six or seven percent of the profit a year, and after a year and a half, the interest will be returned, is there a safer way to make money in this world?

Of course, there are.

Looting, even if it's a robbery that has changed its rhetoric, it's not less done before the Manchurians.

But now it's different, the Manchurians are going to sit in the world, can they still do this?

Even if you really can't hold it back, you can only do it secretly and change the law, but how many are there?

Divided into stakeholders, there are still more monks and less porridge!

The Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce is different, it is large, big enough to accommodate all the floating wealth in the world, that is, a huge gold-swallowing beast, and it can also suck silver.

Therefore, no matter how jealous and hateful Hong and Fan are of the young man named Wu Zheng in Jiangnan, and no matter how they regard the ghost of the dead Ming in Jiangnan - how unpleasant the Jianxing Dynasty is, no one can't get along with silver, right?

The interest groups represented by these two people do not want to fight this battle.

Because as soon as this battle starts, the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce will definitely be affected.

With the embargo on both sides, the daily gold will become the daily gold dispersion.

Not to mention dividends, I'm afraid that even the principal will be lost.

As soon as the embargo of the Qing court was issued, the General's Mansion had already begun to counteract, the goods from the north did not come, the goods from the south did not ship, and although the merchants from the north and the south came and went freely, how could they do it without goods?

This is an era of extremely low productivity, there are goods, and I am not afraid that I will not be able to sell them, which is also the main reason why an oil seller picks a load of oil and sells it for a day, and the income can reach one or two silvers.

In particular, the supply of clothing such as the "Han robe" of the Jiangnan Weaving Division began to tighten, and in just two months, the price of the clothing shops in the capital changed the law, and the price of the new "Han robe" has quadrupled, which is simply "Luoyang paper expensive".

Of course, if you choose between making money and the life and death of the Qing court, Hong, Fan and others will naturally choose the latter, no matter how greedy they are, they have to have a life flower, they can't smash their own rice bowls, and the guys who eat by themselves.

Ke Hong and Fan also firmly believe that the information they have obtained will not be wrong, and their judgment will not be wrong, and the General's Mansion is already a foreign powerhouse.

Wu Zheng's foundation is too thin, and his rise is only five years.

After years of war in the south of the Yangtze River, even if commerce and trade are prosperous, but the people love money and do not produce, relying on commerce and trade alone is far from enough to lay a solid foundation, as long as the war is opened, all industries wither, grain will become a scarce commodity, but where the reserves are insufficient, even if the businessmen want to buy from the surrounding area, I am afraid they will not be able to buy, even if they can buy, then the price is rolling upward.

And this is an unsolvable problem for the Great General's Mansion, which has never had a solid foundation.

So does Wu Zheng still dare to make a desperate gamble and fight a big war that lasts at least three or five years with the 200,000 Northern Expeditionary Army under his command?

Hong and Fan unanimously judged that this was impossible.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty, no, it was still Jin at that time, and it was necessary to dye the land, which was also prepared for nearly ten years, and for this purpose, it also specially married and formed an alliance with the Mongolian tribes, and then leveled Goryeo, and then dared to commit a big crime.

Moreover, with the northern wealthy and large families frantically investing money in the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, the proportion of the share capital of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has irreversibly begun to tilt towards the north of the Yangtze River.

Of course, this folk refers not to the people's people, but to the people of wealthy families and large families, including the important ministers of the Han people in the imperial court represented by Hong and Fan.

Can this battle be fought? This dozen, don't you just throw your own silver into the river?

Before entering the palace with Zierharang, Hong and Fan had already communicated with him privately, and the three of them reached a unanimous agreement, that is, it was impossible for Wu Zheng to launch the Northern Expedition at the moment, and all his actions were nothing more than to extort and blackmail, and the only psychological preparation for the imperial court was the land south of Fengyang Mansion.

But the two mansions of Luzhou and Anqing south of Fengyang Mansion are still really under the control of the imperial court?

When Li Dingguo's Great Western Army was stationed in Macheng above Huguang, Luzhou and Anqing were attacked by the Great Western Army and Jianyang Weidong and West of Jianxing Dynasty's Weiguo Gong, and they had already become a lonely salient department.

Once Li Xiaguo and Xia Wanchun have a whim, they will occupy it, and what can Azig do with the two sides, it is nothing more than beating his chest and sighing in vain.

Don't fight, can't fight!

This is the consensus reached by the three of them in private.

Since the south is unable to go on the Northern Expedition, and it is just a frame, then give some benefits and calm down the war.

What will happen in the future, ride a donkey and read the record book, and we'll see.

But these three people all have their own ghosts, and none of them can be the master of others, but only the temporary convergence of interests.

Jin Shang suddenly turned around and threw himself into the arms of Zierharang, which made Hong and Fan already feel guilty.

This caused the two and the Hanchen under their control to suffer great losses.

But you can't say this openly, it's like knocking out your teeth and swallowing it in your stomach, is it uncomfortable?

Therefore, the three of them just stood together because of something.

On the other hand, Hong and Fan didn't know what Zilharang really thought in their hearts at this time.

……。

It was late at night.

In the towering gatehouse of Prince Zheng's mansion, the lanterns were extinguished one after another.

Only two large lanterns hung on each side of the vermilion lacquer gate remained.

The front of the gatehouse is already empty, who dares to play an autumn breeze at this time, close to the gate within ten zhang.

That must have been shot into a hedgehog with a spike in its bones.

But the strange thing is that a small alley west of the palace suddenly turned out of a green sedan chair and went straight to the front of the palace.

What's even more strange is that there is no one to stop it, not even the porter.

When the sedan chair arrived in front of the gatehouse, a person leaned out of the sedan chair, went straight up the steps, and knocked on the bronze knocker of the palace gate.

After a few clicks, the door was opened, and the man who got out of the sedan chair didn't speak, but flashed in through the crack in the door.

The gate was then closed tightly with a "bang", and the sedan chair carrying people outside the gatehouse also disappeared into the alley when it came.

It's as if no one has ever been there.