The Sony Mansion is located on Yuhuangmiao Street in Fengyiyuan, which was originally the mansion of the Tang Dynasty clan in Beijing, and is a very quiet place. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoDolgon led the Qing army into Beijing, and the mansion was given to Sonny in the name of the regent in the name of the regent.

Sony heard that Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan were visiting, and hurried to the gate of the mansion to greet them. At this time, Ning Wan's green sedan chair happened to get off in front of the Sony Mansion.

"Go! Locked Lord Ning's sedan chair and Fan Daren's sedan chair. The palanquin man went to the porter to arrange for drinking and eating meat. It's rare for a distinguished guest to arrive in our house. You have to be well received! ”

Sony is right. After entering the customs, his life was not as good as when he was in Shengjing.

Although he was given the title of second-class Ang Bang Zhangjing, he managed the affairs of the six departments. However, the regent Dolgon relieved Sonny of his position, leaving him much further away from the decision-making hierarchy.

Tan Tai, Gong Adai, Xihan and others, who were originally in Sanguanmiao that day, saw that Dolgon's power was getting bigger and bigger, and they all betrayed the alliance and attached themselves to Dolgon, only Sonny insisted on not attaching himself to him. This is the main reason why Sony is gradually leaving the core of power. Which supreme ruler would want to reuse such a person?

Three important ministers of the Huang Taiji era sat in Sony's study.

Since it is said to be a study, then, it is natural to put a few pieces of Qin bricks and Han tiles on Duobaoge, Zhou Ding Shangyi. On the bookshelf, there are several different versions of the 22 histories, such as "Food and Goods", "The Biography of Goods and Colonies" and "Zizhi Tongjian". However, the most eye-catching, and the most reflective of the identity of the owner, is the several strings of copper coins stacked on the table.

"Master Suo had a reputation for being a talented person when he was in Liaodong, and now after entering the customs, he has a place to be more useful." Fan Wencheng pointed to the goods on the bookshelf and the copper coins on the table, and deliberately sprinkled salt on Sony's sore spots.

Master Fan teased. We are slaves, but we are just sharing the worries of our masters! ”

Sony smiled bitterly, in response to Fan Wencheng's ridicule.

After the Qing army entered the customs, Chongzhen Tongbao was issued for a short period of time, but the difference is that the Tongbao was marked with full words. After Dolgon personally took over the first battle and minted coins and other bureaus, he abolished the minting and issuance of the Qing army's version of Chongzhen Tongbao, and instead minted Shunzhi Tongbao, and used it as military pay and military expenses in the Qing army's occupied areas.

However, Dolgon's Shunzhi Tongbao, which personally formulated the ratio of copper six lead and four leads, was beaten almost powerlessly in front of Nanzhong Tongbao, whose appearance and texture were all thrown off his streets by a few streets.

It is often the front foot soldiers who use the knife handle to forcibly sell and use, and ask the merchants to accept it, and the back foot merchants will find a way to hand over the Shunzhi Tongbao as a tax. These are still conscientious businesses and are more law-abiding. Those merchants with more flexible eyes simply bought a large number of Shunzhi Tongbao, and then smelted the Tongbao, cast it into bronze ware and sold it, one in and one out, and could obtain dozens of times the profit. Even the lead will not be wasted, and it will be sold to the procurement personnel of the Qing army to purchase military materials, so that they can take it back to make lead bullets for use.

"It's not just that it's not easy to use. Our Shanxi ministers, who have dealt with each other for many years, are also resisting openly and secretly. The situation reported by the minions below, the same bowl of noodles, with Shunzhi Tongbao at one price, with Nanzhong Tongbao at one price, with Running Horse Chongzhen, it is another price! "Sony was a little depressed.

In fact, the fineness of Shunzhi Tongbao is still good, and the copper content is the same as that of Nanzhong Tongbao, which is generally the ratio of copper six lead and four. But the appearance is far inferior to Nanzhong Tongbao. Nanzhong Tongbao used good brass and tin after the color appeared brighter, looking golden. What's more, the Nanzhong Tongbao issued by the Nanyue Army is a mechanism copper coin, and the copper coin made of stamping is definitely much better than the minted one.

"Now, in the newly recovered state capitals, the officials and gentry pay money, grain, and taxes, and most of them are handed over to these running horses Chongzhen!"

Sony picked up a gray-colored copper coin from the table and handed it to Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan to look at. "Wow. That's it! Running horse Chongzhen! It is cast according to the ratio of copper four lead and six, and it is broken into two with a light hand. ”

In all fairness, the gap between Shunzhi Tongbao and Nanzhong Tongbao lies in the quality. Those illiterate people who have had enough of the suffering of private money such as Horse Chongzhen and all kinds of privately cast "sand shells" naturally firmly believe that seeing is believing.

It is also a copper coin issued by the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qianlong Tongbao minted by the old man Hongli according to the unprecedented perverted ratio of copper eight lead and two is not as good as the copper coin of Xuantong, the descendant of his five surnamed domestic slaves, according to the copper coin of the copper six lead and four proportion mechanism. However, this narcissistic emperor could not resist the laws of economy and finance, and the perverted money he minted was collected by private merchants and used to cast bronze.

The same is true of Dolgon's situation today. A large number of Shunzhi Tongbao minted and issued were either smelted and sold for huge profits by the gentry and merchants, or exchanged Tongbao with Nanzhong merchants for silver dollars, and their private words were true: "Who knows when the army of the Heavenly Kingdom will come?" Tongbao is not only evidence of crime, but it is also very heavy to carry. Where can it be compared to the silver dollar of the grandfather of the country?! ”

As for paying taxes and paying money and grain, that is the biggest battlefield for Horse Chongzhen! Suppose you encounter the officials of the Eight Banners who come to collect taxes in person, or you encounter those honest officials who are still loyal to the king, then all kinds of inferior silver and scattered silver will come in handy.

All in all, you don't need to pay taxes and money to the Nanzhong Tongbao and silver dollars with high currency value, market welcome, and strong purchasing power!

"Why don't we, then, change our course and levy not money, but only in kind? Grain, forage, charcoal, beans. All in kind will be levied to supply military supplies! ”

After listening to Sony's complaints, I also frowned, and thought about it for a long time before I came up with such a seemingly clumsy and very labor-intensive method.

"Requisitioned in kind?" Sonny looked like he had eaten a poop again. "Do you think Lord Ning that the officials and generals below haven't had this idea? No way! ”

Policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom are the only way for the gentry class to protect their own interests for thousands of years. In addition to this trick, they also have another trick, which is to deliberately distort the scriptures and make the policies and regulations out of shape in the implementation process.

For example, some officials and generals of the Qing army demanded that they pay in kind to meet military needs, and if they could resist, they adopted various means to grind and harden. If they really encounter the kind of raw melons and eggs that don't eat the fireworks of the world, they will use another means to ensure their interests.

The rice in Nanzhong, which will be used to pay for military rations, is mixed with a large amount of sand, and it is better to die than to pay wheat anyway. Wheat, according to the purchase price given by the merchants in Nanzhong, one pound of wheat is exchanged for two pounds of rice. The gentry bought rice from the merchants of Nanzhong and mixed it with sand and stones to press the weight. In addition to handing over the actual goods, the rice exchanged for a pound of wheat can also have a surplus of more than a catty. As for cotton, there is not a pound or a tael! If you want to make cotton clothes and cotton nails, you can't do it.

The three of them went back and forth, trying to find out the details of each other by telling about the financial difficulties faced by the Qing Dynasty at present. Finally, I couldn't hold it anymore.

"Master Suo, in fact, from the point of view of the lower officials, the difficult situation in front of me may not be a little opportunity for my Daqing!"

With these words, I suddenly felt like I was shocked! couldn't help but make Sony's eyes widen and stare at Ning Wan and Fan Wencheng.

"What do you mean, the two adults, at the moment, I am in financial difficulties in the Qing Dynasty, and the supply of salaries is insufficient, but it is an opportunity for me to be in the Qing Dynasty? As a human minister, how can you have such words? Could it be that my Qing soldiers and horses were defeated on the front line, and it was my Qing Dynasty's blessing? How can you be in such a hurry to sell the country?! "If it weren't for the fact that the ministers wanted to leave some dignity for each other, I was afraid that Sonny would have a seizure on the spot and drive the two out of his study.

Seeing Sonny scolding himself with such a bare face, Ning Fan and the others looked at each other and smiled, but instead of having a seizure, they asked loudly: "Sony-sama, may I ask, which country is your so-called country?" ”

"Exactly, is this country yours to speak of?"

Fan Wencheng's words were as sharp as a knife, and Sony was speechless for a while, knowing that what these two people said was wrong, but he couldn't think of how to refute it for a while.

"Naturally, it's the Great Qing Kingdom!" Sony himself felt that he had no confidence in what he said.

"Then right now, who are you talking about this Great Qing Kingdom?" Fan Wencheng knocked on the corner and asked rhetorically.

"Naturally, I am the Great Qing Dynasty of Emperor Shunzhi!"

"Hahahaha!" Ning finished me with a wild laugh, laughing so that Sonny was a little confused, I don't know where I said something wrong.

"Master Suo, since you said that the current Great Qing Kingdom is the Great Qing Kingdom of His Majesty Emperor Shunzhi, then the lower officials will ask you. Whose room is the Emperor's mother in now? Whose bed is the emperor's sister-in-law in? What is the official position of the murderer of the emperor's brother? ”

After Ning finished my few questions, Sony was even more speechless for a while. As a Manchurian with a high degree of sinicization, he could not explain the conflict between the system of step-marriage, which was considered a matter of course among the Manchurians and Mongols, and the ritual culture of the Han people.

Among the nomadic peoples of northern China and Central Asia, such as Mongolians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hezhe, Tibetans, and Manchus, stepmarriage is a common custom. Kazakhs openly say that the skin of the horse goes to the owner after the death of the horse, and the wife goes to the brother after the death of the brother. Historical Records. The Biography of the Huns has this record: "When the father dies, the wife is the stepmother; When a brother dies, he takes his wife. After Liu Bang's death, Mao Dun wrote a letter to Empress Lu to propose marriage. Empress Lu was furious and wanted to kill the envoys and send troops to conscript. After the minister Ji Bu pointed out the risk of attacking the Xiongnu using the example of the siege of Baideng, she rewrote the letter and politely declined, so she stepped down the ladder on the grounds that the customs of the two countries were different. Later, in the Han Dynasty, Princess Xijun and Princess Xie Wu, who married Wusun, and Wang Zhaojun, who married the Xiongnu, all remarried the son of the former king who succeeded to the throne according to custom after the death of the original husband (Princess Xijun remarried her grandson). When Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, Wang Zhaojun married the Xiongnu Hu Han Evil Shan Yu, and after the death of the Hu Han Evil, she had to pass on to the concubine as his wife. At that time, the law of the Han Dynasty had expressly prohibited stepmarriage, but it could not restrain Hu Di. "Zhaojun wrote a letter to ask for return, and Emperor Cheng ordered him to obey the customs", Zhaojun had no choice but to obey the order. Although Wang Zhaojun's request was in line with the customs of the Han people, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty preferred to sacrifice Wang Zhaojun's personal wishes in order to avoid friction between the Han and the Hungarians.

However, such a thing is illegal in the Han culture area of the Central Plains. "Ming Law Collection Explanation. Bylaw. Household Marriage": "The brother who dies and accepts the sister-in-law, and the brother who dies and accepts the wife, each hangs." ”

However, the emperor naturally did not have to implement such a system. In history, Emperor Yang of Sui succeeded his mother-in-law on the day of the death of his father Emperor Wen of Sui, Mrs. Xuanhua, Tang Taizong also inherited his younger brother Li Yuanji's concubine Yang, and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi inherited his father Tang Taizong's talented Wu Zetian and Feng Zhaoyi. (Oh, it seems that in recent years, this story has been constantly brought to the screen, so that countless people are coveting how the emperor shook immediately, ignoring the inappropriateness of this kind of thing.) In the Tang Xuanzong period, this kind of thing was even more unacceptable to the broad masses of the people. The song of hatred between Li Sanlang and his daughter-in-law that lingers for thousands of years is actually Bai Juyi's scolding work.

Sonny babbled and listed the examples of Sui and Tang as the legal basis for Dolgon to accept Hauge Fujin, but he was immediately ridiculed by Ning Wan.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty accepted his father's Mrs. Xuanhua, but after more than ten years, the Great Sui court collapsed. Li Shimin killed his brother in the front court, imprisoned his father in the harem, if it weren't for the rule of Zhenguan, a brocade was covered, and he was also a tyrannical king. As for Gaozong Li Zhi, he accepted Wu Zetian into the palace, what was the result? The Tang clan was almost slaughtered by this woman! It's even more that the temple community has changed its surname! As for Li Sanlang, if it weren't for his disobedience to *** favor the Yang family, how could he have come to the Anshi Rebellion? ! ”

When it comes to reading, the ability to lose the book bag, don't look at Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, I am just a showman, compared to them, Sony's ability is even worse.

Fan Wencheng's face was covered with a layer of frost: "Lord Sony, you tell us about loyalty and treachery, good and evil, but you serve the powerful ministers and are friendly with the traitorous party, what qualifications do you have to betray the country with us?" You have already sold your conscience to Dolgon, this Qing Dynasty has long been the country of powerful ministers, even if I clearly mark the price, what can I do? Is this better to avenge the master of Hauge!? ”

"How good are you guys? Even if Li Shouhan killed Dolgon, how could he let the emperor go, it would be better to serve Dolgon at that time, at least the emperor would still have his life! Still on the throne! Not to be outdone, Sony immediately ridiculed each other.

In this way, the details of both sides are immediately exposed!

One is to take out the powerful minister Dolgon and his gang and regain power. One is to take the preservation of Emperor Shunzhi's life and the emperor's name as the minimum standard. This was undoubtedly the discovery of the best ally, and although the two were not as excited and tearful as the comrades who had been separated for many years had found the organization, they were also very happy.

Now that they have no sense of precaution against each other, they are naturally open and honest.

"Liang Guogong is a man of great talent, and he has thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, how could he kill young sons and women for no reason? And Dolgon has a heavy army in his hands, and his wealth is powerful, even if he dies, Liang Guogong also needs someone to coordinate the overall situation of Liaodong for him. I can't wait, I am willing to be the arm of the emperor, protect the emperor's integrity, and realize the grand wish of Liang Guogong. To tell you the truth, we received news from Jin Shang a few days ago that the shopkeeper of Long Shengxing Lin Wenbing had made a promise that once Dolgon was willing to strike his army, or if he was ill, Long Shengxing was willing to resume trade and re-implement the treaty signed with the former emperor. ”

"In this way, isn't it that since Emperor Taizu Gao, the painstaking wish of my two generations of emperors in the Qing Dynasty for decades will be fulfilled?" At first hearing such conditions, Sony could hardly believe his ears.

To be able to obtain the official canonization of the Ming Dynasty, to recognize the legitimacy of their rule over Liaodong, and to open border markets to trade in the border areas were the goals of the two father and son Huang Taiji for decades during their reign. Now, as long as the Dolgon faction is defeated, Huang Taiji's faction can take the opportunity to regain power, and then they can consolidate their power position with the east wind of canonization and border cities, and completely suppress the Dolgon faction. How can such good news not excite Lord Soniso, who is one of the few loyal to Huang Taiji among the two yellow flags?

Sonny didn't say much, just stood up from his seat, tidied up his clothes, and then pushed Jin Shan to kneel on the ground like a jade pillar, and solemnly saluted Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan.

His courtesy and demeanor scared Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan and me.

"Sony-sama, why did you make such a big gift?"

"It's true. Sonny originally saw that the two adults were very popular in front of the regent in the new dynasty, and he despised the two gentlemen in his heart. I thought that the two gentlemen were treacherous villains who tended to be inflammatory, attached to power, and greedy for wealth. Now it seems that the two gentlemen are like Cheng Ying and Gongsun Pestle, who searched for orphans and rescued orphans, they are all passionate and loyal people! Saving orphans is difficult, but it is a one-knife suffering, and it is far worse than standing orphans to endure humiliation. Thinking that Cheng Ying back then, not only did he give up his only child, but also had to bear all kinds of humiliation and infamy from the world. This kind of perseverance, Sony saw it in the two gentlemen! For the great cause of the emperor, he did not hesitate to endure humiliation and burden, and succumbed to the power and treachery of thieves, in order to be able to stand alone one day! The two gentlemen are so loyal, how can Sony not treat each other with courtesy? On behalf of all the soldiers of the Two Yellow Flags, Sony would like to thank the two gentlemen! ”

It is worthy of being an old fritter that can stand tall after many political storms in the early days of the Qing Dynasty! Sony's move completely set up Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan. The two of them cursed incessantly in their hearts: "Who said that these Manchurian Tatars are honest and simple?!" Sony, this guy is so cunning! ”

They didn't know that this was just a means for Sony, who had worked with Aobai for many years and was unscathed, but had become Xiao Mazi's grandfather's father-in-law. If he lets his third son Suo Etu come out, I'm afraid that Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan and I won't even have a bit of bone residue left!