Chapter 124: Hau Gexi's Expedition II

Azig listened to Dolgon's words and gasped in his heart. He thought that this time at the Council of the Eight Kings, Dolgon would have to give in, but he didn't want his poisonous plan to be here.

I think Hauge can still be excited about the opportunity to fight for the battle, but he doesn't want to hide the murderous opportunity.

Azig secretly said in his heart: "I am indeed not as good as Lao Jiu. ”

Azig was not very convinced of Dorgon, although the three brothers depended on each other after their mother's death. But Azig felt that he was older, and his two younger brothers should listen to him, but he didn't want Dorgon to take over the voice, and Dorgon was also in line with Dorgon. I don't take him as a starling in my eyes at all.

However, Azig was unwilling to accept Dorgon's abilities at the same time, and his feelings were extremely complicated at the moment.

"Brother Jiu, is there really no problem on Haoge's side?" Dodor said.

Dolgon said, "Don't worry, I'll let Horlo arrange it." With Hauge's temperament, there is nothing wrong with sending troops outside, that is, I think highly of him. ”

Dolgon secretly said in his heart: "What's more, if there is no crime, you can also make up charges." ”

Holo would be a pawn that Dolgon had planted by Hauge's side for a long time. Perhaps not exactly a chess piece. Originally from the Two White Flags, he was a minion of Dolgon, and later served under Hauge.

If there is a garrison in Xi'an and Meng Qiaonian to settle down in the northwest, this time Hao Ge will go west, and He Luo will accompany him with affection and reason.

And with Dorgon's ability, how could he just place a chess piece, and He Luohui was just one of the more useful ones.

Dolgon let out a long sigh and said, "Actually, Hauge's problem is still a small problem, but the real problem is Jiangnan. When the former Ming Dynasty was there, four million stone grains were transported from Jiangnan every year to support the Beijing Division, and now Jiangnan is in the hands of thieves. ”

"This is the point?" said Dodor. ”

Dorgon remembered something, and asked the people outside in a loud voice, "Is Ingordai here?" ”

"Hui Ye, I'm already waiting in the ear room."

Dorgon said, "Let him come." ”

But after a while, an old man with a gray beard walked in, and when he saw the three of them, he immediately kowtowed and said, "Slave, Ying Erdai has seen the eighth master, the ninth master, and the tenth master." ”

"Get up. Look, you are a veteran of the Three Dynasties. Don't be polite to us juniors. Dorgon said.

"Slaves don't dare to be." Inordai said.

The subordinate sent a pier, and Ying Erdai only dared to sit on half of his ass.

What Dolgon said was right, Ying Ordai could be regarded as an old minister of the Three Dynasties, and among the Manchus, there were few civil ministers.

There are many people who think that the Manchurians are brave and brave, but in fact, they also have some good civil ministers.

For example, Inordai.

Ying Erdai was not originally a civil minister, and he still fought in the Taizu period, but later in the Huang Taiji period, he became the head of the household department and was in charge of the finances of Houjin, which was in charge for more than ten years.

Become the most proficient person in the accounts.

Don't look at the civil servants walking on the streets of Beijing, but the real household affairs are still in the hands of the British and Russians.

He was also the most trusted by Dorgon, but whenever Dolgon asked about money and food, he would ask him.

Dolgon said: "You told me a while ago that the money of the imperial court is not handy, what is the situation, in front of the two princes, you can tell me in detail." ”

"Wow." Ying and Russia said with a slight pause: "To be precise, the imperial court is not a hand of silver, but a hand of food. ”

"The more than 60 million taels of silver obtained from the thieves will not be spent for a while, but there are wars everywhere in the north and south of the world, and the price of grain in various places has soared. The price of grain in Jiangnan has risen because of the use of troops in Hunan, and in Beijing, the price of grain has increased several times. At one point, it even reached the point where even if there was money, he couldn't afford to buy food. ”

Beijing, at least in this era, was a pure consumption city, and the four million stone grains transported from the south of the Yangtze River every year were consumed by a considerable part of the people in this city.

And the area around Beijing is not without food, and the Qing army entered the customs five times, and each time they entered the customs, the vicinity of Beijing would become the main battlefield.

After more than ten years of conquest, most of the vicinity of Beijing became ruins, and farmers fled one after another. It's already unbearable.

In addition, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to Beijing, there were enclosures and methods of escaping, and grain production reached almost nothing.

In this way, even if the Manchus held tens of millions of taels of silver, it would not be enough to spend.

"Don't you care?" Azig said.

Even if Azig is not good, he knows what it would be like without food.

Ying-Russian Dai said: "Back to the eight kings, the minions are in charge, and they kill a batch of them fiercely to control the price of grain." However, this treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Slaves can only supply food to the inner city, and the situation in the outer city is not managed by slaves. ”

Azig said: "Those Nikans in the outer city, don't worry about it, die a little, have fewer mouths, it's much better." ”

The strategy that Azig said was the cruel tactic used by the old slave, who was also short of food in Liaodong at the beginning. The solution he wanted to alleviate the food crisis was the Holocaust. When there are fewer people and more people eat grain, there will be more food per average.

Azig didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but because of his will.

"Starling, you can't say that." Dorgon said, "This time and that time. If you want to sit firmly in the Central Plains, you can't act like this. ”

Dorgon was much more politically minded than Azig. But no matter how much he has, there is nothing he can do at this time.

The shortage of four million stone of grain is not something that Dolgon can do with his head. He pondered for a while and said, "Isn't Gao Jie's side selling illicit salt?" Go where he buys food. ”

Generally speaking, there is still more grain in the south than in the north, although the south is not very peaceful, at least the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are still relatively blocked, and this area only needs to cultivate for one or two years, which is enough to support the grain consumption in the north.

"Gao Jie has already said that he doesn't sell grain. ”

Dorgon said, "If he doesn't sell, doesn't anyone sell?" This matter will be left to Fan Yongdou to do. I don't believe it, everyone under Gao Jie's command doesn't love silver? ”

Ying and Russia said: "The slave understands. ”

Then Dorgon said, "Do not be afraid to give out the money, but give them as much as they want, and leave them in their treasury for the time being, and one day they will be returned." ”

When he was in Liaodong, Hou Jin Danfan had financial problems, and there was only one way to solve them, that is, to grab the south.

Now that he encountered this problem, Dolgon's instinctive solution was to seize the south, but it was just shelved for the time being because the conditions were not suitable.

Dolgon asked the British and Russian Dai Haoge about the military rations for the expedition, even if Hauge went on the expedition, the British and Russian Dai did not prepare much food, and many of them were supplied outside the Beijing Division, so they tried not to use the food of the Beijing Division.

Even so, the total amount of food is not too much, almost a clear signal to Hauge, that is, because of the food to the enemy.

Because of the food to the enemy, these four words are easy to say, but they are much more cruel to do.

After Dolgon let the British and Russian go out, he said to Dordor: "Jiangnan, the Grand Canal, is the lifeblood of Beijing. So this time, Lao Jiu, you take the people from the headquarters to find out how strong Gao Jie is? ”

Dorgon had sensed that Gaujay was not easy to deal with. Let Haoge attack Sichuan, but he still wants Duoduo to test Gao Jie's details.

After all, hearsay is always uncountable. Only when you really fight a game can you know the strength and weakness of the opponent's virtual reality.

"Brother Jiu, I understand." Dodor said. One knows that this is a big deal. This battle is likely to be the outpost battle of the Southern Expedition, and when he thinks of what happened under the city of Xiangyang, Duoduo thinks that the army is tired of fighting for thousands of miles, and on the other hand, he has to admit that the Xia army is not a soft persimmon.

The matter of the southern expedition in the future is related to whether the Qing Dynasty can gain a firm foothold in the north, and he has to be imprudent.

Seeing that Dordor was so solemn, Dorgon said, "Tenth brother doesn't need to be like this, I am already ready to build a large number of fields, and the difficulties are only temporary. ”