When the cavalry of the Qing army was completely dispersed, the cavalry of the Fu Han army soon directly intercepted the horse team of Prince Zhuang and others, and directly captured Prince Zhuang Yunlu and hundreds of people from the Empress Dowager and other clans.

The end of the battle of Shengjing City was faster than imagined, thousands of Qing soldiers directly chose to surrender, and the strong men captured from Korea were completely dispersed at the beginning of the war, and Ma Qi, the governor of Shengjing, chose to commit suicide by swallowing gold in the governor's Yamen Mansion.

Ning Zuyi, the commander of the Central Group Army of the Fu Han Army, was overjoyed after hearing that Prince Zhuang and others were captured, after all, hundreds of Qing army clans were captured in a row, but they had never had a record before, and now except for Emperor Qianlong, who was still in Korea, the entire Aixin Jueluo family was captured.

In addition to this good thing, the rest is the wealth seized from the Shengjing Palace, but it was a big surprise to Ning Zuyi after entering the city, gold and silver utensils, jade jewelry, calligraphy and painting treasures and other unimaginable treasures, almost piled up dozens of houses, these are still left, and dozens of cars of the most precious property, which were originally going to be taken to Xingjing by Prince Zhuang, but now they are fortunately intercepted.

Since there is no relevant professional appraisal in Suijun, even Ning Zuyi does not know how much these things are worth, but after checking and making a book, it is conservatively estimated that the value is more than 20,000 silver dollars.

20,000,000 silver dollars is almost 200,000,000 taels of silver, which is an extremely surprising astronomical amount, but it made Ning Zuyi a little startled, he looked at the thick stack of documents in his hand, and said in a low voice: "Can this be determined?" Why is there so much money? ”

He was originally a close confidant of Shi Xue, the director of the Military Intelligence Department, and was later promoted to deputy director because of his meritorious service.

Now seeing that the wealth has been intercepted, Deng Tianlun breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and said with a smile: "Ning Dashuai doesn't know, in addition to the accumulation of the Qing court's royal family and princely ministers over the years, a large part of this money is scavenged from North Korea, at least more than 40 million silver dollars, but these should not be all the wealth of the Qing court, there should be some ....... in Xingjing."

Ning Zuyi nodded, and said with a smile: "Beijing has intercepted a batch, Shengjing has intercepted a batch, it seems that if Xingjing is copied again, it is estimated that the Qing Dynasty will become a poor egg, we have to pay attention to it." ”

Deng Tianlun nodded, and then said softly: "It's just that this batch of wealth is very important at the moment, and I also ask the marshal to send a regiment to escort this batch of wealth back to Beijing, and then the lower officials will submit all the wealth and related records to Your Majesty." ”

"This is natural, an escorted regiment is ready, waiting for our side to leave when it is done."

Ning Zuyi touched his chin and looked at Shengjing City, which had gradually calmed down, but he despised the Qing court a little in his heart, he was obviously so rich, but he was reluctant to spend more on armaments, and now he was so weak and weak in the fight, but it made people unable to raise their energy.

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When the battle in the direction of Shengjing was in full swing, Emperor Qianlong, who returned to Seoul, was full of fear in his heart, just like the Korean Li Yu kneeling in front of him, and both of them had a strong sense of confusion about the future.

Li Yu is seventeen years older than Qianlong, and now he is thirty-one years old, the fourth son of the former Joseon King Li Chun, and in the first thirty years of his life, he did not live very well, and began to experience twists and turns since he was a child, especially when Zhang Xifei was still in power, his biological mother Shu Concubine Cui assisted Queen Renxian to restore the throne, and single-handedly denounced Zhang Xifei's witch incident, which can be said to have been a thorn in Zhang Xifei's side, and also made Li Xi repeatedly devastated.

It wasn't until Zhang Xi's concubine was abolished and killed that Li Yun's life was a little better, and later after Li Yun was the king of Joseon at that time, Li Yun lived in the outer residence as Yanrenjun and Wang Shidi, but because of this, he became the focus of factional struggles in the imperial court, and did not live a day of peace of mind.

After the Qing court entered North Korea, I don't know why, Li Yun did not keep up with his brother Li Yun's team in time, but was captured by the Qing army, and then succeeded to the throne in Seoul in a daze and became the king of Joseon, but for Li Yun, he did not want to be this puppet-like king of Joseon.

The reason is very simple, Li Yu's teacher Shen Wan told him that if the king dies, he will inherit the position of the king of Joseon at that time, and there is no need to do anything else - but now although he became the king in advance, he has also become a prisoner in the hands of the Qing people, and if he is caught by the Han army in the future, he is afraid that there will be no good end.

Therefore, when Li Yu saw the young man in brocade in front of him, he first felt a strong fear, and then despair for the future, so he kept kneeling on the ground, not daring to say a word.

Relatively speaking, Emperor Qianlong has received a relatively complete royal education, and he has basically established the status of the prince since he was a child, so the temperament of the whole person is very graceful and luxurious, which is very different from ordinary people, so although he is young, his temperament is firmly above Li Yu.

"King Joseon, how are you doing?"

"Xiao Wang is fine, thank you for the emperor's greetings."

"King of Joseon, have you ever complained since you surrendered to my Qing Dynasty?"

"Xiao Wang will never dare to have the slightest complaint, if it were not for the emperor, Xiao Wang would only be afraid that he would have died in the chaos."

The two sat down and knelt down and said some polite words to each other, but Emperor Qianlong was young after all, and he quickly said worriedly: "Now that Chu Shun has entered Liaodong, maybe when he will come to fight North Korea, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Li Yu sighed in his heart, if the Ning Chu army could really come earlier, why would it be so tragic that tens of millions of Li Shu in North Korea were so poisoned? Although the Qing people made him a king, this so-called king is not appropriate.

Of course, Li Yu never dared to say these words directly, he sighed in a low voice: "Xiao Wang thinks that with the Qing Emperor in Korea, he should be able to protect the peace of Korea. ”

Qianlong pursed his lips, and he simply said bluntly: "My Daqing is naturally not with Chu Shun, and the king of Joseon must understand this now, your brother is still on Jeju Island, he is only afraid that he will let Chu Shun quickly fight to Seoul, and then kill you - so you have to understand that if you want to save your life, you have to cooperate with me honestly in Daqing." ”

Li Yu nodded blankly and said, "Since the emperor said so, there is naturally this reason, but Xiao Wang Yi can't go into battle to kill the enemy, and he can't get off the horse to appease the people, but he doesn't know how to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty." ”

Qianlong smiled slightly, but he called Zhang Tingyu and Xu Yuanmeng, and said: "Cooperation is simple, in the future, Lord Xu will be the Minister of Parliament of North Korea, Shen Wan will be the Minister of Parliament of the right, and Master Zhang will be the Minister of Parliament of the Left, and the judgments of the six Cao will be drawn up by the Minister of Parliament and handed over to me to decide." As for the two divisions and yamen, the same is true. ”

At this time, Li Yu understood, Emperor Qianlong's approach is to put almost all the important official positions in North Korea in his hands, such as leading the government, the two divisions, and even the judgment of Liucao, Li Yu himself cannot make the decision, and his teacher Shen Wan is only a nominal right-wing minister, which means that he Li Yu, a puppet, is made of porcelain.

However, Li Yu didn't dare to say half a word, after all, he didn't even have his own palace guards at the moment, and everyone around him was sent by the Qing people, even if he killed the so-called king of Joseon, it was a matter of one sentence, so Li Yu could only kneel on the ground and thank him for obeying the order.

In the following days, Seoul also initially recovered from the war, but a new "shaving order" was also issued from the official residence of the consulate, which basically followed the political measures of the Qing court after entering the customs, in addition to shaving hair, there were several orders, including the "Fugitive Law", "Enclosure Order", "Surrender Law", and "Slaughter Order" were also issued, which can be said to be almost a copy of that year.

In the face of these evil governments, the Eight Banners naturally include the greatest benefits, even including those Han people who live in North Korea with the Eight Banners, and they have also received a lot of benefits, after all, in the current North Korea, it is also divided into a five-class system, the first class is the Manchuria Eight Banners, the second class is the Mongolian Eight Banners, the third class is the Eight Banners of the Han Army, the fourth class is the Eight Banners of Korea, and the fifth class is the lowest Korean people.

Under the blessing of these bad governments, today's North Korea is still Lee Korea on the surface, but in fact it has been reduced to a puppet under the control of the Eight Banners, and for a time all parts of Korea have played the banner of the righteous army, most of them played the banner of 'expelling the Tartars, Jeju is restored', that is, under the leadership of King Li Yun on Jeju Island, the whole of Korea will be restored.

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On the 15th of May, Ningyu, who was in Beijing, received good news from two aspects, on the one hand, it was naturally the news of the Battle of Shengjing, and the seizure of property worth 20,000 silver dollars, and on the other hand, the Great Righteous Army had finally fought a battle with Nian Qianyao's army in Qinzhou since the beginning of the spring and had won a great victory.

In fact, during the entire Northern Expedition, Nian Qianyao and Yue Zhongqi in the northwest had conceived of aiding the Qing court, although they did not have much loyalty to Yongzheng, but they also understood the truth of the cold lips and teeth, once the Han army was freed up, they also ushered in the day of destruction.

However, since the Great Righteous Army was blocked in Shaanxi, Nian Qianyao's several attempts to launch attacks were not effective, but he lost a lot of troops, but the Northwest Qing Army at this time still maintained its advantage over the Great Righteous Army.

Until the Fu Han army began the Northern Expedition, Ning Qianqiu, under the instruction of Ning Yu, provided considerable support to the Great Righteous Army, more than 30,000 bird guns and more than 150 old-fashioned artillery pieces were sent to Xi'an, for which the Great Righteous Army was trained an additional 40,000 troops, and with these 40,000 troops, the offensive and defensive positions of the two sides have changed.

Under the leadership of Chen Daoxian, after handing over Xi'an to the Fu Han army, he led nearly 60,000 righteous troops to launch an attack directly in the direction of Gansu, and fought a big battle with Nian Qianyao's 40,000 Qing troops in the land of Qinzhou, successfully killed more than 4,000 Qing troops, and captured more than 8,000 Qing troops, which was considered to be a complete cripple of Nian Qianyao's department.

At this time, Yue Zhongqi's department in Qinghai was only more than 8,000 people, and there was no way to intervene in it, so he could only sit back and watch the rout of Nian Qianyao's department.

Ning Yu smiled and said, "Chen Daoxian can do this step, it is not in vain that the initial assistance was wasted, but in view of the situation in Gansu, what is the plan of the Privy Council?" ”

Ujijing, deputy director of the General Staff, said softly: "Back to Your Majesty, the 2nd, 7th, and 19th Divisions will go directly south from Yulin, Suide, and Yanzhou, interspersed with Qingyang and Guyuan, on the one hand, it is naturally to respond to Chen Daoxian's righteous army, and on the other hand, it is also a warning to him, so that he can honestly enter Qinghai." ”

"That's right, only Qinghai-Tibet is the way back for the Great Righteous Army."

Ning Yu stood up, looked at the road map of the march, and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that there will be a preliminary conclusion on the affairs of Mongolia this year, and when the time comes, whether it is a war or a peace, there must always be an explanation - before that, the situation in the northwest must be controlled, and there must not be too much chaos." ”

"It's to ........ with the Rakshasa people" Ujijing began to guess, and he was a little worried in his heart.

"No, there will be no fight with the Russians anytime soon, at least not yet."

Ning Yu sighed slightly, "The privy envoy will arrive in Kunming before June, and the long-prepared battle for Burma will start at that time, so we must pull out the thorn in the south first." ”

Ujijing nodded, he knew about this matter, originally in the Privy Council, he had drawn up a plan for the conquest of Burma early, and it was originally expected to be launched in the spring of this year, but because of some things, the plan for the conquest of Burma was delayed, so now Ning Zhongyi personally rushed to Kunming to sit in the town, just to be able to steadily advance the conquest of Burma.

North Korea, Mongolia, and Burma, these three places have now become the top priority on Ning Yu's agenda, and the key is that these places are not suitable for a long war, and once a long war is a long time, it will cost too much money and food, which is quite unfavorable to the follow-up plan, so Ning Yu hopes to be able to solve it cleanly.

Among them, North Korea is mainly political, supplemented by military, and Myanmar is mainly military, supplemented by politics. As for Mongolia, it is relatively much more complicated, and if you want to properly solve it, Ning Yu has to make more plans.

But fortunately, the wealth of 20,000 silver dollars obtained from Shengjing made Ning Yu a little overjoyed, if these things were really to be discounted, they would definitely not be able to sell for so much money, but they were also a lot of wealth, almost comparable to the current annual income of Ning Chu for three years, once there was this money, even if the Fu Han army opened up two or three battlefields, it would not feel particularly difficult.

However, it will take some time to truly convert this wealth into silver dollars. Among them, it is naturally easy to say that gold and silver are directly minted at a discount, and what is really difficult to deal with is those antique calligraphy and paintings, jade playthings, and their prices are difficult to really define.

Ning Yu thought about it, but he thought of a way that was not a solution, that is, to organize a royal auction, directly crown all these things with the name of royal, and then the money obtained from the auction was directly included in the treasury management.

There is one point in particular, that is, there are more royal certifications, and I dare not say anything else, this price will definitely not suffer too much.

Thinking of this, Ning Yu was still a little proud, it seems that he really has some talent for doing business, if he hadn't been the emperor, I'm afraid he would have made a fortune a long time ago.