Fan Yongdou had already rushed from Zhangjiakou to Yanjing a month earlier, and Dolgon did not want to raise him too high at first, although he promised Zhangjiakou as his eternal business, and made him and seven other Jin merchants imperial merchants, and gave him a loose official and placed under the jurisdiction of the Internal Affairs Bureau. The social status seems to have risen a lot, but after all, there is still a distance from the real upper high-level gate.

However, the depletion of Manchu financial resources left Dolgon at a loss, and the former Ming officials who had surrendered to the Manchus were apparently not good at management. At this time, Feng Quan wrote a book to talk about Dolgon, which can be heard from Fan Yongdou and others.

Feng Quan is a standard eunuch remnant, the eunuch Li Yongzhen at that time once compared Feng Quan with Wei Zhongxian's confidant eunuch Tu Wenfu, saying: "There is Tu Wenfu in the internal minister, Feng Zhenlu in the external minister, and current affairs can be known." It can be seen that Feng Quan is already the leading figure in Wei Zhongxian's henchmen. Later, when Wei Zhongxian's case was decided, Feng Quan was the second guilty of one hundred and twenty-nine people, but he was only reduced to the people.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Dolgon, out of consideration for the lack of court officials, recruited people and talents, and also rehired all the officials of Zhu Ming who had been dismissed before, Feng Quan was one of them.

And because he had been a young protector and a prince Taibao, a scholar of the Hubu Shangshu, and a scholar of the Wuyingdian University, as soon as he was hired by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he directly became a high-ranking Hubu squire.

The financial difficulties of the Manchu Qing were seen by Feng Quan, who was more anxious than Dorgon.

How did Emperor Chongzhen's Ming Dynasty collapse? There are many reasons for this, but no one can deny the enormous role of fiscal collapse. If the Manchu Qing Dynasty also collapsed financially, wouldn't they have to retreat outside the Guan?

Feng Quan is reluctant to go to the bitter cold place outside the gate to be an official, and he is even more unwilling to give up the official position he has acquired.

Even though the Qing Dynasty is a Tartar, just like the original Mengyuan, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners are the first class, the Han Army Banner is the second class, and the Baoyi Aha is the third class, and then the Han people.

But the regent Wang Xianming, as soon as he entered the Han land, he knew that he would implement the Han law and marry the gentry, so if the Mongolian Tatars could understand this truth back then, how could they not have a hundred years of national fortune?

Feng Quan worked for the Qing Dynasty wholeheartedly, because as long as the Qing Dynasty was stable, his glory and wealth would also be stable.

Taking a step back, even if the Qing Dynasty is the same as their ancestor Jurchen Jin Kingdom, then there will be a hundred years of national fortune, right? His own wealth, his Feng family's wealth is enough, isn't it?

Feng Quan even wrote to Dolgon, first asking for an inventory of households, a list of acres of land, and a tax to be collected. Then ask for orders to collect the summer tax and the poll tax. Finally, the field tax is approved.

In the Zhu Ming period, ten years ago, when Chongzhen's salary was at its highest, it was less than seven million taels a year; Divided among each acre of land, one acre of land will be charged an extra penny and a half of silver (0.012 taels). In this way, most of them are not collected, four million is high, and it is usually only half.

(In the forty-sixth year of Wanli, the mu is increased by 3 centimeters and 5 millimeters, and the endowment of the world has increased by 2 million.) Next year, add 3.5 millimeters. Next year, the Second Ordnance Industry Department will ask for an additional 2%. Nine percent before and after the pass, an increase of 5.2 million yuan, so it is a quota.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, three cents were re-levied on nine cents of acres, and a total of 1,654,000 taxes were added)

Even ten years after Chongzhen, the Ming Empire had reached the final madness, but the so-called three salaries were all counted and apportioned to each acre of land, which was only three cents of silver (0.03 taels of silver).

If it weren't for the tenfold or dozens of times increase in revenue by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, this increase would really be nothing.

Feng Quan's proposal is, will I inherit these increases in the Ming Dynasty?

You must know that there are only 70 or 80 million mu of land in Beizhili, and after deducting the hidden fields in various places, there are also 40 million mu recorded in the official land register. And with the flight of a large number of officials and gentry to the south, as well as being swept up by Emperor Chongzhen and Li Zicheng successively, the acres of these people's fields must not be as cheap as his Feng family's fields.

However, the Gyeonggi region was so ravaged by war and disease that even if there were 50 million acres of cultivated land, he did not know how much grain tax he could collect.

If it's too light, it's not enough for me to consume, so it's troublesome, isn't it?

Dolgon saw this man's hot sincerity from Feng Quan's recital, so he favored it. Feng Quan then recommended Fan Yongdou, who did not disappoint Dolgon, and immediately proposed a salt tax and a salt introduction.

The output of the Changlu Salt Farm can be 200,000 taels now, and it can increase to 300,000 or 400,000 taels in the future. What's more, this salt introduction can also be increased, isn't it?

This transaction alone was enough to compare it to a rain of dew, and Dorgon was overjoyed.

As for whether Zheng Zhilong's sailor will come to greet him often, neither Fan Yongdou nor Dolgon will care. This is an emergency measure, and they believe that it will not be long before the Western Route army will make a breakthrough. When the time comes, there is a salt pond in the west of Jinxi, and this salt is still a salt lead.

"Good, good. Just do as you say. "Dolgon now looks at Fan Yongdou like he looks at the God of Wealth, and he promised right away that as long as Fan Yongdou works hard, Daqing will not treat him badly. At that time, there will inevitably be a place for him Fan Yongdou in the high-level of the Internal Affairs Office.

Fan Yongdou happily retreated from Prince Rui's mansion. This matter is handled by him, and the group of people led by the Fan family will have profits.

This is a salt introduction. The heirloom treasure, the foundation of wealth, the acres of land are still flooded and drought, what about the salt? Who doesn't eat salt?

Even the salt mixed with soil and sand tastes better than soil salt, isn't it?

However, when he returned to the mansion and heard the mourning sound from the West Courtyard, the joy in Fan Yongdou's heart suddenly weakened a lot.

The sixth child of his family did not see anyone dead or corpse, and the whole thing was missing. Even a lot of guys who have been used to it at home, and there is no one to be seen.

Although the Fan family has not yet mourned, everyone up and down has already decided that Fan Yongliang will not survive.

That's a lot of loss.

Not only did the food and materials worth hundreds of thousands disappear, but he also lost his sixth child and a lot of guys who could use it, and he also lost a lot of silver to the Fan family over the years, otherwise just such a thing would have bankrupted the Fan family earlier.

When he thought of this, he had to think of his son. The Qing Dynasty wants to buy cannons from Xiyi, and this matter must be careful and careful.

Fan Yongdou initially thought of his nephew Fan Yudong, but he soon changed his mind, because it was Dolgon's personal attention at this time, and although it was dangerous, it was also more meritorious. He quickly summoned Zhangjiakou's son Fan Sanpao, and Fan Sanpao immediately asked for orders after hearing about it.

What are you afraid of when you are in danger?

In this world, everything is to eat and wait for death, and there is a risk of choking to death, he Fan San is not afraid.

The next day, he took the hands of the people, and the people went south without knowing it.

So far, not even a single message has come back.

Fan Yongdou used to be happy for his son's 'forge ahead', but now, as the days passed, he was distraught. knew that there was still a salt lead business waiting for him, why did he bother to ask his son to go south to earn this hard work?

In terms of salt introduction, if he gives him three points of credit, won't he also be able to end up in front of the regent?

……

Zheng Zhilong had already led the team back to Jinmen, and then he encountered a very tricky matter. The mission sent by Jinling City had arrived at Jinmen, and then they were all detained by Zheng Zhipeng.

"Big brother, you have made a mess of the Tartars' nest outside the Guan, how dare the little brother let them go to Yanjing?" What Zheng Zhipeng said is not unreasonable. If Dolgon kills these people to vent his hatred, a large part of the revenge will not be recorded on Dolgon's head, but will fall on Zheng Zhilong's head.

Who asked him to lead the team to make a mess outside the gate?

Dolgon was angry and killed, is it understandable? When the time comes, Zheng Zhilong will not be a person inside and out.

"What's more, this time the imperial court sent Zuo Maodi as the main envoy, if he is really going to be killed by the Tartars because of foreign affairs, how should the eldest brother deal with himself?" Zheng Zhipeng is also strange, why did the imperial court send Zuo Maodi?

As early as the forty-third year of Wanli (1615), he participated in the famous Wenshe Shanzuo Taisha (Fushe Branch) with his cousins Zuo Maotai, Zuo Maofen, Zuo Maogui, Zuo Liangfu and others.

His people have the name of Shilinqing, love the people for the officials, advocate frugality, and have the name of knowing the soldiers. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, he was an official in Hancheng in the west of Jinxi, when tens of thousands of civil troops besieged the city, Zuo Maodi organized the gentry and people in the city to defend the city, after more than 40 days, thieves could not enter.

Therefore, this person's ethics and practical ability are above the civil service level of this era. At the same time, he was also one of the leaders in Jinling City who opposed the Lianyu Pingkou.

But even if he was opposed to making peace with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and joining forces to level the Kou, Zuo Maodi also sprayed Zheng Zhipeng's scolding in the past few days.

Zheng Zhilong laughed when he heard this, and he was not surprised. People like Zuo Maodi, who regard the court more seriously than anyone else, Zheng Zhipeng, as a general of the Ming Dynasty, had the audacity to intercept their delegation sent by the imperial court, so in his eyes, isn't it lawless.

"Big Wood." Zheng Zhilong shouted.

"The child is here."

"You go to the post station, invite Zuo Maodi and the deputy envoy, and say that I will set up a banquet to make amends."

After Zheng Sen received the order, he turned around and rushed to the post station.

I didn't see Zuo Maodi first, and the first thing I saw was Chen Hongfan, one of the two deputy envoys on this trip. This person is a martial artist, in the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618), although he has no great ability, but he has miraculously prospered all the way.

In ten years, he became the governor of the right capital and the chief military officer of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Later, when the Emperor Chongzhen sent 8,000 soldiers to help, it was gone. After Chen Hongfan led his troops into the Guanwai, the Qing army attacked Phi Island, and Chen Hongfan fled to Guanglu Island, so he was dismissed.

Later, following Xiong Wencan to intercept the people's army, Zhang Xianzhong surrendered because he received Zhang Xianzhong's gold, silver and jewelry, and matched him with him, which allowed Zhang Xianzhong to escape.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639), Chen Hongfan was unfavorable many times, and was almost captured by the peasant army in Xiangyang, and was dismissed due to illness.

Unexpectedly, he quietly hooked up with Ma Shiying. This time, the Jinling Imperial Court wanted to "join forces with the Pingkou," and it became a top priority to send an embassy to collude with the Qing court. Chen Hongfan was recommended by Ma Shiying, volunteered to invite the northern envoy, and became one of the two deputy envoys in the northern mission.

Chen Hongfan stayed at the Jinmen Station, and it stands to reason that he was served with good food and drink, but others were anxious.

Zheng Zhipeng has already said that his eldest brother led his troops north, knocked down Niuzhuang, Anshan and Liaoyang, and pushed them all the way to Shengjing, and the Tartars suffered great losses outside the pass. If they enter Beijing, then don't they be slashed to death? Zheng Zhilong killed a scholar in Tartar before.

Zuo Maodi was not afraid of death, although he opposed peace, he insisted on entering Yanjing.

But Chen Hongfan is afraid of death, but he can't show that he is afraid of death, and he still wants to return to officialdom with his performance this time. Therefore, he also studied with Zuo Maodi, while carrying a heart, he scolded Zheng Zhipeng when he saw him.

scolded and scolded, and he really hated the Zheng family.

You said that if Zheng Zhilong hadn't been mischievous, would this matter be so dangerous?