Chapter 47 Shunzhi Concubine

As I said before, such a large-scale Sichuan salt out of Sichuan can't be hidden from people at all.

The second batch of salt here has not yet arrived in Chóng Qìng, and the two newspapers have already flown to Beijing. One is Yangzhou, and the other is Luoyang. Even Yangzhou's recital came a little faster. Hong Chengchou said that the Southern Dynasty's inspection in the Yangtze River was suddenly tightened, the salt merchants suffered heavy losses, and the Wang clan patriarch Wang Wende was detained.

Dolgon still has some impressions of this Wang Wende.

Duoduo's recital said that when he hit Yangzhou, this Wang Wende had become a monk to fund the army, as for hundreds of thousands of taels, Dolgon couldn't think of it for a while, and his head seemed to deviate from the point when he thought about Duoduo.

He simply didn't think about it, he was just a minion.

Although he buys salt from Jiangnan. It was almost an official act of the Qing court. But there are some things that the Qing court still doesn't come forward to, so it is natural to handle it alone, and Wang Wende's candidate appears in the eyes of the Qing court. Still, as Dorgon thought.

If this man is lost, he is lost. It didn't carry much weight in Dorgon's heart.

Dolgon looked at Luoyang's recital again.

In fact, Luoyang's recital was forwarded. It was the Qing court's ambush in Hubei, and the large-scale export of Sichuan salt out of Sichuan was passed to the Qing court, and it was forwarded from Luoyang.

"Wu Sangui." Dorgon weighed the two letters in his hand and tapped them lightly with his fingers. secretly said in his heart: "It's a good time for you to pick." ”

What's a good time?

It's a good time for Shunzhi to take a concubine.

It was discussed before, in order to win over Hanchen, Shunzhi accepted two concubines, one was Kong Sizhen and the other was Zuo.

Needless to say, Kong Sizhen said before, she is Kong Youde's daughter, and the Zuo family is from the Northwest Generals. Grandfather is Zuo Guangxian, a famous general in the Ming Dynasty, and his father is Zuo Xian, who went out from Sun Chuanting. However, Zuo Guang first voted for Li Zicheng, and then surrendered to the Qing court with Bai Guangen and others.

These people were to be suppressed in the eyes of the Qing court. Therefore, they were all collected in the Beijing division to hang an idle position, and they were also included in the Han army flag.

These veterans have fought all their lives, and now in this situation of almost being imprisoned, many people are depressed, and even can't afford to get sick, including Zuo Guangxian, who returned to the West with his life when he was in Shunzhi for five years.

Even to some extent, Zuo Guang died first. The Qing court chose Zuo.

The reason is simple, Zuo Guangxian is different from others. Zuo Guangxian was born in Yulin Jiangmen, and among the Northwest Jiangmen, he has a wide reputation. Of course, the Zuo family is in the Northwest Gate, not the first-rate portal, who is the first-rate portal? It's the You family.

It's just that the You family fought against Li Zicheng in the bloody battle of Yulin, and the whole family was martyred, and there was not even a single orphan.

If Zuo Guangxian is still there, the Qing court chose the Zuo family, which will inevitably increase Zuo Guangxian's power greatly, and now Zuo Guangxian is dead, and his son's generation, there are few people who can fight, which can not only achieve the intention of winning over the northwest generals, but also not let the Zuo family sit big.

Just looking at the candidates, it can be seen that the Queen Mother is also thinking hard.

In this case, how could Dolgon attack Wu Sangui? Not to mention the changes that Wu Sangui can have, just talking about Wu Sangui's identity, he is a banner of the Han generals in the court, and he is trying to win over the Han generals and dispose of Wu Sangui at the same time.

It will inevitably make some people mutter.

A lot of things in politics are not evidence-based.

No matter how much Wu Sangui commits a crime, he can only press it for a period of time. Wait for the day after the autumn to settle accounts.

Dolgon put aside Wu Sangui's affairs, ordered someone to find John Tang, and asked, "What do the Dutch say?" ”

This time the defeat of the southern expedition, Dolgon summed up a lot of problems, the biggest problem is the problem of the water division, in the south to fight without the water division, it is really not good. Therefore, Dolgon was bent on strengthening the Qing court's sailors, and ordered Hong Chengchou to prepare the Yangtze River sailors of the Qing Dynasty.

But things didn't go well.

Because on the Yangtze River, the Xia Dynasty's sailors were extremely strong, and it can be said that whenever a ship flew the flag of the Qing court, it would be sunk immediately.

Dolgon originally wanted Wu Sangui to raise sailors in Sichuan. But after reading this information, I had to let it go first. Another backup plan was turned over by Dolgon, this plan was nothing else, that is, to contact the Dutch and ask the Dutch to train sailors for the Qing Dynasty.

This suggestion was made by John Tang.

After John Tang defected to the Qing court, he wholeheartedly wanted to come out and preach. It solved many difficulties for the Qing court. For example, some problems with the Beijing Gun Factory. Huang Shu is a cadre. But after all, he is not a technocrat and feels difficult to mass-produce artillery just by virtue of what he has heard about it at the beginning. Invite Beijing skilled craftsmen.

John Tong was among them.

John Tang really has a few brushes. Solved a lot of problems for Huang Shu. and rebuilt the Zunyi Iron Works to supply steel to the Beijing Artillery Factory. Recommended by Huang Shu, he made achievements in the astronomical calendar and was known by the high-level of the Qing court.

It was after he knew that Dolgon wanted to establish the Great Shimizu Division, so Mao recommended himself and recommended that he unite with the Dutch to establish the Great Shimizu Division. And his advice was not only to do this, but also to lure the Dutch north with open trade as bait.

This brings us to the relationship between the Dutch and the Zheng family.

The Dutch and Zheng are important partners. Also competitors. However, after Zheng Zhilong defected to Great Xia, he almost monopolized the Southeast Sea in the name of the official, and with the support of Great Xia, Zheng Zhilong was safe in the Great Xia court, but he was not at all at ease at sea.

Although they did not meet the Westerners, they were not soft at all in terms of competition, and at least one of the most important trade routes of the Dutch was cut off by the Zheng family.

Even the northernmost part of the Dutch route was restricted to Taiwan.

Trade with Japan had to go through the Zheng family. Among them, the loss of profits is great.

Even the Dutch knew that there was a cry among the Zheng clan that the Dutch only had to wait in Batavia to receive the goods, and the Zheng clan could do everything else. But this kind of substitution is not something that the Dutch want.

Therefore, the Dutch's dissatisfaction with Zheng is not a day or two. There are two important reasons why it is not triggered.

A Dutchman could not do without the Zheng clan, and the Guy Zheng clan had a near monopoly on goods from South China. Even if Macau is open, Zheng is not without influence in Guangdong. And with the Zheng family's position in the Xia Dynasty solidified, the Zheng family's supply of goods increased greatly, bringing them greater benefits. Let them endure it.

The other is Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong's name is a well-known sea dragon on the sea, and now Zheng's strength is the most powerful. They feel that if they fight, they may not have a chance of winning.

But in just a year or two, everything has changed.

Zheng Zhilong actually died, which made many Dutch people can't believe that the man died in such an unknown way. As soon as Zheng Zhilong died, many people were ready to move. But it's just about to move, after all, Zheng Zhilong is dead, and the strength of the Zheng family is still there.

But Zheng Jun had another defeat at Nanjing.

Westerners, led by the Dutch, feel that Zheng's strength needs to be re-evaluated, and even whether Zheng Zhilong is a tiger father and a dog son, or a tiger father without a dog son, still needs to be carefully observed.

If it weren't for the Zheng family's loss of strength, there would also be internal strife. began to shrink some spheres of influence. The Dutch war to besiege the Zheng clan had already begun.

However, the Dutch also have a doubt. They don't care about the encirclement and suppression of the Zheng clan, the only thing they are afraid of is the strength of the Xia Dynasty. The war between Xia and Qing, the Dutch were not unaware, and this move was in several directions, and hundreds of thousands of battles were thrown into the battlefield. Thousands of cannons, countless muskets. Let the Dutch have a little awe of the Qing Dynasty and the Xia Dynasty.

Westerners are the most powerful.

Having the strength will naturally respect you.

Because of the fear of the Xia Dynasty, this war has been brewing and has not been implemented. Although John Tang was in Beijing, his circle was still very well-informed about all parties, and when he saw the concerns of the two parties, he immediately smelled an opportunity in his heart.

So he seized the opportunity to put this matter in front of Dolgon, who immediately made a decision and contacted the Dutch.

Dolgon didn't care if the Dutch could win or not, he just wanted to set Zhang Xuan's backyard on fire. Anyway, it's a matter of benefiting and not costing.