At the end of July of the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Henan, Kaifeng Mansion, Zhengzhou City.

Because the city of Kaifeng was destroyed by Li Zicheng's water attack in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhengzhou City was blessed by misfortune and became the location of the Yamen of the Henan Governor of the Qing Dynasty, the Yamen of the Admiral and the Yamen of the Kaifeng Prefect, and it was the de facto capital of Henan Province.

Although it has become the capital of a province, the streets and markets of Zhengzhou still look extremely depressed. Among the small state towns, only two intersecting commercial streets are somewhat popular. But that's how popular it is, there are dozens of half-dead shops in the sparse pull, among which the slightly more decent ones belong to the Nine Emperor Merchants, accounting for about one-third of the total number of shops. They are all big shops of grain, salt, tea, wine, cloth, iron, livestock, and medicinal herbs—in today's Qing Dynasty, these eight trades are all big deals!

The reason for this is, of course, related to years of war and the two major policies of land enclosure and Juntian. In other words, most of the early days of the "restart" dynasty that were overturned and restarted were like this.

Because of the small number of people, it is not easy for industry and commerce to develop. The failure of industry and commerce to develop has contributed to the popularity of the small-scale peasant economy and the manor economy. The characteristics of the small-scale peasant economy and the manor economy are self-sufficient, the small-scale peasant economy pays attention to male farmers and women weaving, and the hereditary manor economy is slightly better, but the whole social environment is like this, of course, it has to take the road of self-sufficiency. Now that everyone is self-sufficient, it is even less difficult for industry and commerce to prosper.

However, no matter how self-sufficient, salt, iron, wine, and tea, which are monopolized by the state and the Nine Banners, are still a bit of a market - the current Qing Dynasty has not yet achieved "unification", and it still maintains the situation of the banner owner and the public rule of the eight-point king. Therefore, the power of the Nine Banners Banner Owner and the Metropolitan Command Division is very great, as if they are "small Qing countries", so they also have the right to operate monopoly goods, but in principle, they can only operate for the purpose of satisfying the needs of the flag.

In addition to the Nine Banners, the markets for salt, iron, wine, and tea needed by more than 10 million Han people were contracted to the Nine Imperial Merchants to operate.

In addition to these four monopoly commodities, the market for grain, cloth, livestock, and medicinal materials is not small. Grain, cloth, and livestock are the most important products of the small-scale peasant economy and the manor economy, and they are also necessities, and livestock are necessary for the soldiers of the Nine Banners. As for the herb shop...... How can a person who eats grains be healthy forever?

Moreover, the taxes levied by the Qing court on small farmers were not silver or copper coins, mainly flour (or wheat) and cloth, and after the Qing government collected all the wheat and cloth, they would also take out some of it to trade with the nine imperial merchants in exchange for some handmade products or gold, silver and copper coins they needed.

In addition, the six elements of salt, iron, wine, tea, grain, and livestock are also the main goods traded by the nine imperial merchants and the Mongolian banners on the steppe. Salt, iron, wine, tea, and grain were shipped to Mongolia, while livestock were imported into Han China.

Now the southern Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolia and most of the Han land in the north belonged to the Great Qing Kingdom, so there was no longer any obstacle to trade between these regions, and the nine imperial merchants could be allowed to come and go.

On the whole, however, the scale of industry and commerce under the Qing Dynasty is small, and with the exception of Beijing and Tianjin, which are slightly prosperous, the rest of the cities are unusually depressed and have few urban residents. Zhengzhou is no exception, even if you run a horse on the busiest street in broad daylight, you may not necessarily bump into pedestrians.

During this time, because the Qing Emperor Ama was stationed in Zhengzhou, there were often horse teams passing by on the streets to deliver news and wills, which could be regarded as adding some popularity to the depressed market.

Another bell rang, and a few healthy horses swept over the streets of Zhengzhou, speeding past a shop with a wide door and a sign of "Jia Le City". Inside the shop, at this time, there was a man in a long shirt and horse coat, wearing a melon skin hat, and dragging a braid on the back of his head that symbolized the identity of the flag man, who was none other than Gibbs, one of the nine great merchants of the Qing Dynasty.

His identity, of course, is a banner man with braids, or Duoduo personally carried the flag for him, at first he was subordinate to the Han Army with a white flag, and now he has followed Duoduo to the Han Army of the Blue Banner, and he has also obtained an official body as an alternate county commander - of course, there will be no real shortage for him, but the identity of the flag man official is there.

This time, he was ordered by the Zhenglan Banner to serve in front of the army - charging into battle, he didn't need to give advice, but the military needs had to be participated by these imperial merchants, and the spoils grabbed by the Nine Banners masters also had to be realized by them.

In short, together with the war, each of them can send a vote!

Therefore, the imperial businessmen gathered in Zhengzhou, everyone was overjoyed, and they were waiting to make a fortune!

However, when Jabbs stayed alone in the "Jia Le City" business, his brows were always twisted, and the gloom on his face could not be erased.

Because of the amount of military supplies he needed, he already knew that the scale of Dolgon's troops this time was quite large!

Now the soldiers of the Nine Banners of the Qing Dynasty are all soldiers and peasants, and the old Eight Banners are better because of the help of the clothed slaves, and the Zhenglu Banner does not have a coating (one more household is clothed, and one less household pays taxes to the Qing Dynasty). Therefore, large-scale point collection has a great impact on farming!

And now the news of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty has not yet come...... Jabbs didn't know if Daming would take the opportunity of Zhang Xianzhong's eastern expedition to a northern expedition?

In this case, what does it mean that Doama wants to have a larger army? This shows that Doama is ready to go to war with the Ming Dynasty!

"Huang Ama, General Pingnan is in an emergency!" A white-armored soldier with a white flag stood outside a pavilion in the Emperor's Ama line at this time, and respectfully handed over the box he had just received for the recital.

Hearing the announcement, the two men who were playing in this pavilion glanced at each other, and one of them immediately got up, walked over and took the box containing the cantata, and then came to the other, "Huang Amma, it's the recital of Dorobele Lekdehun." ”

The person who spoke was Fan Wencheng, and the one he called Huang Ama was of course Dolgon.

And the person who sent Dolgon's urgent message was Luckedhun, the grandson of Daishan, the younger brother of the hapless Adali who openly supported Dolgon's reign. Adali was killed by his own grandfather, Daishan, and Luckedhun was implicated as a commoner under Hauge. However, his common people did not last long before they were fished out by Dolgon and sealed Dorobelle, and after Dolgon became the emperor Amma, he also went further to become the general of Pingnan, stationed in Dongchang Mansion, and was the leader of the Qing Dynasty in Shandong.

"I'm guessing," Dolgon lowered his head and stared at the chessboard, "is Zhu Cihong going on a northern expedition?" ”

When Fan Wencheng heard this, he hurriedly took out the music in the box and opened it, only after a few glances, his face changed greatly: "Huang Ama...... How do you know? ”

Dorgon smiled, "Guess! Now that the matter of the relatives has been negotiated, it is natural to see you on the battlefield! ”

"Huang Ama, he, he said that you slaughtered Datong City, it is treacherous, and he wants to seek justice for the hundreds of thousands of people in Datong City!"

"Humph!" Dolgon smiled coldly, "I've become emperors, what else do you say is fair or unfair...... It's just an excuse! ”

"Huang Ama......" Fan Wencheng's face became more and more ugly, "Luck Dehun also said that Zhu Cihong canonized Wu Sanmei as the queen!" ”

"Oh," Dolgon sneered, "so he and Wu Sangui have finally come to an agreement?" ”

"Huang Ama, if Wu Sangui is reversed...... I'm afraid there will be no peace in the Northwest! ”

Dorgon smiled, "So what? Can he still march to the Monan grassland? ”

"We are not afraid of him when we go to the South Grassland!" Fan Wencheng had already finished reading the recital, and thought about it, "But Zhu Cihong is menacing this time, I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with!" And Zhang Xianzhong was proclaimed emperor in Luoyang...... He occupies Chang'an and Luoyang! Not to be underestimated! ”

Dorgon waved his hand, "It's okay...... It's just dry bones! ”