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It has only been less than five years since the Manchu Qing Dynasty reached half of the country, and it is still necessary to talk about some "truth" in doing things.

After all, it's a "persuasion donation", how can you tear your face and fight each other with swords?

Isn't that a robber robbery?

Therefore, the face of the imperial court is somewhat scruples.

In addition, these eight imperial merchants, but Huang Taiji was sealed during his lifetime, and there are also three, four, and five tops on his head.

It's not that Dolgon wants to kill, so he can kill easily.

In desperation, Dolgon adopted Ganglin's suggestion and used a roundabout way to directly attack the most important point of the Jin merchants.

That is, the accounts of the business transactions of the Jin merchants in the past two years.

This trick is very powerful.

Originally, the merchant's account, the court checked a fart?

Therefore, the Jin merchants didn't care about this at all, except for a small number of really unsightly accounts, which would be destroyed immediately, and the rest, what it should be, would never deliberately falsify, because it was for themselves.

The imperial court had to check the accounts, and it was up to the household department to bring the army to investigate.

Naturally, the Jin merchants rebelled.

But Dolgon only used the simplest sentence to directly crush the last line of defense of the Jin merchants.

Dolgon said that the king had received a secret report that a group of Jin merchants had secretly colluded with the Yixing Dynasty in the south, and in order to prove the innocence of the Jin merchants, they must be thoroughly investigated.

At this moment, the Jin merchants were dumbfounded.

In fact, they were "innocent", and when the Qing court asked them for "charity donations" for the first three times, it gave them the monopoly rights of several prefectures such as salt and iron, and at the same time, it was also clear that most of these salt and iron were sold to Jiangnan, and in short, the Qing court acquiesced.

Unexpectedly, in order to ask for "charity donations" this time, he suddenly turned his face and denied people.

Jin Shang only understood at this time that the official word has two mouths, which is called a dumb person eating coptis, and he can't say anything about his suffering.

If this is investigated, the facts are all there, and they will be charged with the crime of "betraying the enemy of state-owned assets."

Finally, Jin Shang softened.

Not only did they promise Dolgon's three million taels, but they also promised to donate an additional three million taels to finance the formation of the Qing court's sailors.

Dorgon got what he wanted, and with Bumubutai's interference and mediation, he finally ordered that the investigation should not be pursued.

In order to appease the Jin merchants, Bumu Butai sang a white face, and at her suggestion, granted the Jin merchants a unique foreign trade concession, which is simply a disguised "smuggling right".

……。

A few days later, Wu Zheng learned of this bloody "purge" of Ying Tianfu, and his heart was mixed.

He understood that this change was by no means a peace, but a precursor to conflict.

It's the fierce collision of the old and the new.

Wu Zheng was a little worried about Zhu Yujiao, Zhu Yuanjiao's character is not a decisive person, and from the perspective of internal struggle, her brother is more suitable.

But Wu Zheng has no intention of getting involved in this fight, it is a muddy pit, and no matter which side he stands on, he will cause a commotion.

The integration of the eleven prefectures and the catalysis of internal affairs have divided Wu Zheng's greatest energy and time.

Rather than get bogged down, wait and see.

may also be able to help Zhu Yujiao at a certain juncture.

But Wu Zheng never expected that a well-laid net was slowly covering his head.

The conspiracy began to show its head, and it began to show its hideousness.

……。

In the blink of an eye, it has entered the New Year.

The two princesses are about to give birth.

Wu Zheng, who had been staying in Songjiang Mansion and supervising the construction of the railway, rushed back to Hangzhou Mansion in the dust.

This year was the most difficult year, and the big battle in May and June consumed most of the previous three years.

In response to the civil unrest in Tianfu, the financial situation has been even worse.

But the results are also enormous.

Defending the Yangtze River is the greatest victory.

Pushing the troops to the south of Yangzhou and occupying the four prefectures of Taizhou, Taixing, Rugao, and Tongzhou prepared a springboard for the Northern Expedition in the future.

The integration of Hanming Bank has enabled more than 20 provinces in the north and south of Yixing to have a unified exchange channel, and the influence of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has instantly expanded to Jiangxi, Huguang, Henan and Shandong.

In terms of military strength, although it suffered heavy casualties in the first half of the year, the annexation of the Loyal Battalion and the subsequent reorganization of some of the prisoners of war still showed a considerable increase in quantity, and after training in the second half of the year, it already had the strength to fight a war.

The expansion of military workshops led to a significant increase in the production of firearms.

In half a year, more than seventy percent of the 180,000 Northern Expeditionary Army has completed the redress, including Li Gong, Gao Yigong, and Liu Tiren, who were adapted from the Loyal Battalion to Guangxinwei.

The establishment of the infantry code of conduct made the army no longer dependent on generals.

This is like assembly line production in later generations, as long as soldiers are trained according to the infantry drill code and have the ability to cooperate with their comrades, they will no longer be picky about who is the main general.

This minimizes the possibility of leading generals to carry their own troops.

It also greatly improved the command efficiency of the generals.

It's like a good orchestra, even if the conductor is a layman, it can play a natural sound.

One of the main reasons why hot weapons eliminate cold weapons is that cold weapons are too selective of soldiers, and hot weapons have very low requirements for soldiers.

The time and cost of training an elite crossbowman is enough to train ten or even dozens of musketeers.

Wu Zheng is very clear about this, this is a model of winning quality with quantity.

If we look at the cost of training soldiers alone, it is still economically advantageous to exchange two, three, or even five soldiers for one enemy.

Because the musket can be recovered, it will not disappear due to the death of a soldier, and of course it will be damaged, but the iron barrel will remain. Replenishing a musketeer, at most three months, or even a month, can turn an ordinary person who has never held a gun into a qualified soldier.

But the death of an enemy, a crossbowman or a cavalryman, takes a year, two years, or even more to train.

This is the main reason why Wu Zheng no longer formed a bow and crossbow battalion and a cavalry battalion after the establishment of the military workshop.

The Northern Expedition in the future was by no means comparable to the previous battle to recover the Jiangnan Prefectures.

Once you get close to the enemy's core, you will face the enemy's frantic counterattack, and you must match it.

In other words, the real Northern Expedition is fought for strength and consumption, and there is no trick to speak of.

Then, whoever can quickly replenish the reserve into the battlefield will have the initiative in the war, which is similar to the theory advocated by later generations that war is to fight and supply.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty has always held the Eight Banners tightly in their hands and deployed them in Gyeonggi, claiming to be stationed in the Eight Banners, for one purpose, that is, in case of being attacked outside Gyeonggi, the capital can be defended.

As soon as the garrison of the Eight Banners moves, the Qing court and the opposition will be shaken.

Wu Zheng insisted on building a railway under extreme financial difficulties, which was not Wu Zheng's great achievement, let alone to increase his prestige and reputation with kit kat and lewd skills.

In fact, at this time, Wu Zheng believed that the role of the railway was not civilian, but military.