When Li Dingguo hurried back to Kunming and wanted to support the Dashun Dynasty, his opponent Wu Sangui had already arrived at Wuhan Mansion, the western capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The one who called Wu Sangui to Wuhan Mansion was, of course, Zhu Cihong, the great son of the emperor. Although Zhu Cihong felt that the time might have come to destroy the Great Shun Dynasty, he did not intend to take advantage of the mourning - he still had to give Li Laiheng a little time to bury his Ada Li Guo in the scenery.

It's not that Emperor Zhu is kind-hearted, but he knows that Li Laiheng is also a ruthless character! This guy seems to be the third generation of Shun at first glance, but in fact he is still a Shun generation, he fought in Li Zicheng and Li Guojun when he was a child, and he has a lot of experience in war. And Dashun is the emperor hanging the arch, the prince raising the army, and the eight kings discussing politics...... Li Guo, the emperor, is not a dictatorial monarch, and Li Laiheng, the crown prince of Fujun, is not Li Adou, who was raised in the deep palace.

Therefore, without Li Guo, the great combat effectiveness of the Dashun army will not collapse immediately, and it is unlikely that there will be infighting - according to reliable information, Li Laiheng's son Li Jicheng plundered India, and got 8 million taels of silver, and also brought back a lot of orchids, famous horses, and so many silver and good things and beauties in hand, even if Chongzhen went to be the third generation of the emperor of Dashun for Li Laiheng, there was no reason to be uneven.

However, in Zhu Cihong's view, the force of the Great Shun Dynasty is still inevitably going downhill. It is not because there is no Li Guo, but because the characteristics of the government military system and Li Jicheng's Indian wealth determine that the Dashun government soldiers will not be able to do it......

Dashun's military system, to put it bluntly, is 600,000 military contractors, who contract military service and then receive land, and pay for military service through the income from operating the land.

Actually, it's a business!

Although the Dashun Dynasty discriminated against merchants the most and was bent on suppressing business, the ruling foundation of Dashun was actually a group of war merchants who operated with a small capital.

Since you are a businessman, you have to think about making a profit!

How much profit can you make by fighting life and death with Wu Sangui? It's good not to lose your life!

And to fight with Tianzhu, whether you can enter the master or not, it is certain to get rich...... There are a lot of soldiers and money in that place, and there are also powerful partners like the Dutch Indian Pirate Company, and they can definitely make a lot of money by invading and stealing money from the sea together.

Therefore, the profit-seeking nature of the merchants determined that this group of Dashun soldiers would inevitably cry and shout to go south to rob India......

And with India, a place where soldiers are weak and have a lot of money, what morale can the soldiers of Dashun Mansion who were sent to Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Huguang battlefields to fight the Ming army desperately have?

Don't suffer from widowhood, but uneven exchange!

Of course, Li Laiheng can also throw money and reward to boost morale...... However, his robber son was able to go to India to steal money, but he had no way to transport India's grain, cotton cloth and other miscellaneous supplies back to Dashun itself.

The road from Sa Lian in Myanmar to Sichuan and Shaanxi is not very easy to walk in the 21st century, not to mention that it is only the 17th century, and even the steam engine has not yet been invented!

Therefore, the gold and silver that Li Jicheng snatched back from Yunnan and Sichuan was not only money, but also a weapon for the Ming Dynasty to launch a currency war against Dashun!

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"Uncle, come in, come in...... It's windy outside, come inside and talk! ”

Wuhan, East Lake Palace, outside Qingliang Pavilion, Ming Emperor Zhu Cihong invited himself out of the gate of the courtyard to greet Wu Sangui who came from afar. and Emperor Zhu were also Wu Sanmei, Wu Sanfu and Wu Yingxiong.

In the Qingliang Pavilion, a steaming copper pot with boiling water and plates of mutton slices and vegetables have been placed - today Zhu Cihong wants to invite Wu Sangui to eat shabu mutton and wash the dust for him.

Wu Sangui is already old, he is 55 years old this year, but the old Wu who has been running on the battlefield for a long time is still very tough, and he has been riding horses for seven or eight days in a row, and he has not shown fatigue at all. And the figure is also maintained well, not fat at all, but Wu Sanfu, who has been pampered in the military department in recent years, has become a fat man, and he is a little wheezing when he walks, it seems that this life lies in sports!

Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanmei are in the same year, they are both thirty-seven or eighteen, and they are both Bensi. However, both of them are still in good shape, neither fat nor thin, and they look energetic.

Wu Sanfu's son Wu Yingxiong is now Zhu Cihong's foreman and guard, and he is also tall and burly, with a dignified appearance. He is also a graduate of the martial arts hall, and he also led troops on the northwest front, served as the battalion commander of the black cavalry battalion, and fought more than a dozen battles with the Liukou before and after, and won all of them!

Of course, his victory was not because of how great his ability was, but because Dashun's cavalry was too weak, and where the cavalry could be used, the black cavalry of the Ming army had almost no opponents.

Wu Xiang, the father of Wu Sangui, Wu Sanfu, and Wu Sanmei, disappeared last year, and the scenery was a big funeral, and Emperor Zhu also abolished the dynasty for three days to show mourning.

However, Wu Sangui and Wu Sanfu's request to go home to Ding Wei for three years to be filial sons was rejected by Zhu Cihong - Zhu Cihong abolished the "three-year Ding worry" system for officials in the early years of Hongxing on the grounds that the country was in wartime, and replaced it with a three-month "short-term Ding worry".

The country is at war! Everyone still has to turn grief into strength, kill more Tartars and rogues, and be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty! You can't die for three years and your mother for three years, and if you are raised by a little wife, you have to keep three years of filial piety for the death of your biological mother...... How many years did the average life expectancy of people in the Ming Dynasty be? It would be a waste of life to keep filial piety for so long.

"Uncle Chang," pulled Wu Sangui into the table, and Zhu Cihong said to him with a smile, "I will not return to Sichuan this time, it seems that I have to live in Wuhan for a long time, you are supervising the army in Shaanxi, not far from Wuhan, you can often come here to walk around!" ”

Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, "Your Majesty, are you serious?" ”

"How?" Zhu Cihong smiled, "Don't believe that I can defeat the Liukou and restore the lost territory in Sichuan?" ”

Wu Sangui really doesn't believe it! It has been almost 20 years since the Ming Dynasty lost Sichuan...... Emperor Zhu also drove several expeditions in person, but the thunder was loud and the rain was small.

Zhu Cihong smiled and picked up a plate of sheep's tail oil, pulled the whole chop into the boiling water, and then said while pulling it with chopsticks: "This time is different...... In the past, the rogue was poor, and the poor were hard to destroy! This time, the poor man has made a fortune and has become a rich man, and the rich man will be easy to deal with! ”

As he spoke, Zhu Cihong had already scooped up the scalded sheep's tail oil, put it on the plate, then scooped a spoonful of mixed sesame sauce, and finally picked it up with chopsticks and ate it in one bite.

"It's so easy to deal with when you're rich?" Wu Sanfu asked with a smile.

"Yes," Wu Sanmei also asked, "Your Majesty, if the poor man over there has silver, he can buy guns and cannons, and it's even more difficult to fight!" ”

The people of the Wu family basically have no economic acumen and no international vision, and they are just a local warlord......

Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "What is silver?" Silver is but stone...... With our Ming Dynasty supplying them, silver is money. If not, silver is stone!

In recent years, Guangxi, Guizhou, Xichuan, and Huguang have never been cut off from the trade routes leading to Liukou, and the two major banks have been able to receive more than 2 million yuan of co-governance treasures every year...... Not anymore! ”

Zhu Cihong has decided to cut off the trade routes to Sichuan and Yunnan. As soon as the trade route is cut off, the gold and silver that Li Jicheng stole from India and the copper coins minted by Dashun Guo himself will become surplus currency in the Sichuan-Yunnan market. That's inflation!

"But Sichuan is also the land of abundance!" Wu Sangui shook his head, "You can also supply a lot of supplies, right?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Of course...... Sichuan has wine, meat, silk, cloth and rice grain, and the rogue puppet officials and puppet lords who have got money can eat, drink and have fun, but those who can't get money will be miserable! Everything rises, but the military does not rise, so he can only serve as a soldier for Li Laihengbai. Uncle Chief, do you think those rogue soldiers can still be willing to die? ”

Wu Sangui and Wu Sanfu glanced at each other, their brows still slightly furrowed.

Wu Sanfu reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, money can make ghosts grind, can we really ban the trade routes of the Liukou?" ”