In other words, Li Zicheng is still very sober.

He knew that the friendship between him and Yang Qing would last for ten years at most, so he simply took this opportunity to pay twenty years of protection money at once, anyway, after Zhu Cihong returned to Nanjing, it would be impossible for him to continue to send him food.

But ten years is too little.

After all, even if he raised Zhu Cihong, Yang Qing could basically give him ten years.

But 20 million stones is really too much.

In the case of the household department and the inner treasury, the sages of Donglin can only raise donations in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their faces cannot raise more than five million taels in any case, not that the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have no money, in fact, there are fifty million of these bastards, and a large part of the silver scraped by the Spaniards on the bones of the indigenous people in South America is in their hands.

But the investment of the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is risky!

If they can guarantee a stable business, they can invest, and eventually in exchange for continuing the gentry tax exemption, their support for Donglin Qunxian is mainly to want Emperor Longxing to come back and restore tax exemption after killing Yang Qing. But the problem is that there is no way to win now, even if Emperor Longxing comes back, he is just a lonely man, even if he has the sincere assistance of Donglin Qunxian, it is still difficult to fight Yang Qing, who has hundreds of thousands of troops and Jinyi Guard.

This is the reason why Huang Zongxi jumped out.

The gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are making two-handed, even three-handed preparations.

The return of the Son of Heaven is two-handed.

If he loses, Donglin Qunxian will definitely fall, so Huang Zongxi and these people will quickly form a new force and continue to fight with Yang Qing by virtue of the popular support gained during this time, ensuring that the interests of the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will not continue to be damaged at least for the time being.

If he wins, this is the New Party.

A new party, with the goal of limiting imperial power and striving for local autonomy, took up the banner of Yang Qing and continued to fight against imperial power.

Or to ensure the interests of the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

After all, the strength of the imperial power is also what they oppose.

But if they can't welcome the emperor, they will partner with Donglin Qunxian, and eventually form two forces of the government and the opposition to continue to fight with Yang Qing, a chaotic minister and thief, and limit Yang Qing's power step by step. In the final analysis, they jumped out to take advantage of the opportunity that Yang Qing was also advocating civil rights, and used the same advocacy of civil rights to gain the support of the people, and dressed themselves as fighters for civil rights in the Ming Dynasty. As for the appearance of the original form after success, this is another matter, the bald guy was still a good young man in the new era in the eyes of Comrade Steel!

Therefore, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang did not completely bet on Donglin Qunxian.

These guys are so incompetent.

I have to say that they disappointed the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang too much, and they fought with Yang Qing for three years, but they fought and retreated, even the gentry of Zhejiang saw that these mouth cannons were still mouth cannons after all. What they really bet on is Huang Zongxi, who is more in line with their hearts and is also younger than the spokesperson of the new generation, these people are obviously more combative. In this case, it is not so easy for Donglin Qunxian to pull sponsorship, at least more than five million taels of sponsorship is impossible.

But this is not Yang Qing's business.

He will not be blackmailed by Li Zicheng.

As for Donglin Qunxian, who was sent to the door, how to solve this problem has nothing to do with him.

"I heard that you have a lot of dealings with the Dzungars?"

Yang Qing said.

Li Zicheng and the Dzungar Ministry are actually not just quite associated.

They are allies.

At this time, the strongest in the Western Regions was not actually Dzungaria, after all, Ge Erdan was only three years old at this time, and the strongest was the Yarkand Khanate, before Yarkand Khan Abdullah also seized the Ili River Valley, which originally belonged to the Dzungar Department, and even occupied the Ferghana Basin and Tashkent. The territory is basically bounded by the Tianshan Mountains in the north, Yumen Pass in the east, Tashkent in the west, and cities in the south of the Taklamakan Desert, forming a huge khanate with Taklamakan as the hinterland.

To the northwest is the Dzungar region.

To the southeast of it is the Heshuo Special Division, which is subordinated to Li Zicheng, that is, the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

and Li Zicheng is bounded by Yumen Pass.

As for the northeast, the Khalkha Mongols were subservient to our Qing Dynasty, which had moved south, and even some of the Khalkha Mongol cavalry had become the main force of the Qing army in Xuanda, threatening Li Zicheng's northern fortress Yanmen Pass in the north.

As for the Dzungar Ministry, it was not strong at this time.

The main reason is that they have more than one enemy, not only the Yarkand Khanate is fighting with them for the Ili River valley, but the Russians in the north are also moving south.

In fact, the main enemy of the Dzungar Ministry at this time is Russia, Ge Erdan's father Batur Huntaiji has been fighting with Russia all these years, before his army even attacked Tyumen, originally two years later in history, the Dzungar Department and the Russian army in Tomsk started a big battle, and completely annihilated the Russian army. I have to say that Ma Ge's battle of Yaksa was really bad, and even the Dzungar Department could often fight the total annihilation of the Russian army at the level of several thousand people, and his siege of a small earthen city with a few hundred people had to be solved by siege.

When Ge Erdan's elder brother was a monk, the Dzungar Ministry was also competing with Russia in the Irtysh River Valley.

Until Ge Erdan came to power.

Taking advantage of Russia's successive defeats and temporarily losing the courage to invade the south, Ge Erdan took the initiative to adopt the policy of forming a good alliance with Russia and invading other ministries, so that the Dzungar tribe became the hegemon of the Western Regions. He not only destroyed Yarkand, but also conquered Kazakhstan, and then began to try to fight east with our Qing Dynasty for the north, but finally defeated Ulan Butong and ended the glory of the Dzungar department.

As for the friendship between Li Zicheng and the Dzungar Ministry, the reason is very simple.

Cooperate to destroy Yarkand.

The Shun army, which had already completed the control of the Hexi Corridor and the Hetao area, could not go to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to fight with Gushi Khan for this land of altitude sickness, and the cold and barren Mobei grassland to the north was also of little value to him, and he didn't even want the Datong area, let alone the cold grassland further north. But the Western Regions, especially the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, is different, from Turpan forward sandwiched between the Tianshan Mountains and the Taklamakan Desert is different, this area can be said to be warm and rich, and more importantly, it controls his trade routes to the west, and the benefits of conquering this area far exceed that of his southward or northward movements.

He wanted to target the Tang Dynasty.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of you!"

Yang Qing said in Li Laiheng's wary gaze.

"I also have a good impression of the Dzungar Ministry."

He continued.

"As far as I know, you're not friendly to what they believe in, are you? I heard that you are preparing some religious tax, and you are checking the temple properties in various places, and even ordered Zhang Xianzhong to strictly prohibit the Buddhas on the side of the river from crossing the Dadu River. ”

Li Laiheng said.

"Well, that's just my personal request."

Yang Qing said.

He did give Zhang Xianzhong an order, and the actual content was even more murderous, and even a brocade guard specially supervised this matter with Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong cooperated with this, after all, the Sichuan gentry who supported Zhang Xianzhong did not like these people, but this did not prevent him from supporting the Dzungar Ministry in the northwest.

It is said that Yarkand Khan is called Abdullah.

Ge Erdan is the last hope of Buddhism in the Western Regions.

"But there's no point in discussing this, we don't have a land connection with the Dzungar Ministry, we have to pass through the Yarkand control area."

Li Laiheng said.

"You can go west out of the Yumen Pass and take Hami and Turpan! If you send troops to attack the Western Regions, then I can provide a loan, and you can use the loan to buy arms, of course, you need to provide some collateral, such as mortgaging the area you control in Hebei to me. Or simply sell it to me, I'll pay a million Singapore dollars to buy this place, but I can only pay for paper money, and then you can use paper money to buy arms in Nanjing, and after you buy it, you can go west out of Yumen and march towards the great cause of the Han and Tang Dynasties. ”

Yang Qing said.

Li Zicheng also controlled Huaiqing and Weihui north of the Yellow River, which was actually not worth a million, and its own value was to ensure the shipping of the Yellow River, which was in the hands of the Ming army as in the hands of the Shun army.

He just wanted to fool Li Zicheng out of the Jade Gate.

Although the S$1,000,000 is paper, it can be exchanged at any time at any time at the branches of the Imperial Bank and even those banks, and it can also buy anything. In this way, in exchange for providing Li Zicheng with arms, Li Zicheng then went out of Yumen to expedition to Hami and Turpan, forming a connection with the Dzungar Ministry, and then providing the Dzungar Ministry's arms trade and their two sides to attack Yarkand. The Dzungar tribe seized the Ili River valley and even marched to the middle of the river to bully the Kazakhs, while Li Zicheng marched to Yarkand in the south to take southern Xinjiang, and finally divided the Yarkand Khanate with the Dzungar tribe and bloodbathed the Yarkand Khanate.

This result made Yang Qing very happy.

As for the ...... he got

Well, he doesn't actually get any good, but he can just have fun.

He doesn't need to die anyway.

On the contrary, war loans can be used to stimulate the Ming economy, especially military production, and now with the completion of the reorganization of the army, the speed of military production in the Ming Dynasty has slowed down.

It used to be all over the subway yard.

Hundreds of thousands of troops of all kinds of ordnance must not only be manufactured by the Ministry of Industry, in the late Ming Dynasty, there were already purchases of civilian ordnance, relying on the support of military procurement, small iron yards have sprung up all over the country. Even the quality is not inferior to that of the Ministry of Industry, even if the wrought iron forged by Yang Qing's wrought iron furnace is at the same level as the products of those blacksmiths in Suzhou, but the latter does not have his scale.

Not to mention military food, clothing, and medicines, all of which are involved in civilian businessmen.

The reorganization of more than 300,000 troops!

One saber per person costs more than 300,000 sabers! This kind of thing without much technical content can basically be played by a blacksmith furnace, and the iron knife is not high-tech, and this major reorganization brings an industrial carnival.

Now the carnival is coming to an end.

That's not going to work.

If he did not go on the southern expedition and the northern expedition to stimulate the economy, it would be difficult for the Ming army to maintain its garrisons in various parts of the country to restore the previous economic growth. If one million is not enough, he will continue to lend, as long as Li Zicheng can come up with the mortgage, as long as Li Zicheng is willing to attack westward, what does it matter if he prints five million banknotes?