Yang Qing's search for evidence suddenly added 100,000 taels of silver to Chongzhen's inner treasury.

In other words, the speed of making money is still okay.

As for Yuan Yuzong, the next day he died with hatred on the ship that was specially imprisoned because he could not bear the poison of the Jinyi Guard, and his screams all night entertained Chongzhen's mood, and then the revenge was also avenged, and Chongzhen, who had a bulging wallet, continued to go south to his imperial capital with satisfaction. Li Yutian was appointed temporary acting governor of Tianjin, responsible for the placement of the Liaodong people and the Guanning army who were coming from Shanhaiguan by sea, and they were to board the canal ships heading south in Tianjin to their future homes.

Originally, the military rations escorted by Han Zan, Zhou Zhengzhilong and others were transferred to them.

In fact, Li Zicheng was given 50,000 stones.

Originally, Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu, the Shangshu of Nanjing's household department, were doing round-trips and battles, and 100,000 people had to be fully prepared for at least three months, so the two welcoming armies carried a total of 300,000 stone of military rations.

These are enough even for the Huang Fei Division.

But I didn't expect that the first batch of Yingjia troops would finish fighting just a few days after they arrived, so they just allocated a total of 240,000 Liao people and 100,000 stones, which was enough to support them to go to Huai'an, and Chongzhen had already found a resettlement place for them. It is the two prefectures of Luzhou and Anqing that Yang Qing suggested to him, and the establishment of Xinyang Mansion in Runing Mansion, after all, the north of the Huai River was given to Li Zicheng, so that the Huainan part of Runing Mansion can only come out alone, and the 240,000 people who moved inward from Liaodong will be in Tuntian in these three mansions. Cao Youyi, who had just returned from injury, was the general army of Luzhou, commanding a total of 35,000 Guanning troops, while Li Yutian was stationed in Anqing as the governor of Lu Xin'an, and the four towns in Jiangbei in history became five towns. To be precise, it should be the six towns, Liu Liangzuo Fengyang General Army, Liu Zeqing Huai'an General Army, Gao Jie Xuyi General Army, Huang Degong Chuzhou General Army, in fact, the defense area includes Chuzhou and Taipingfu, as well as Huang Fei's department, which was originally stationed in Dengzhou, moved south to garrison Yangzhou, and it is obvious that his loyalty has also been richly rewarded.

This is Chongzhen's entire Jiangbei defense circle.

Along the Huai line are Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie, these miscellaneous cards that Chongzhen can't trust, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and Lu Jiude, the superintendent of the army, are responsible for controlling them, both of whom have certain talents, and they have been dealing with them themselves.

Trustworthy Shougyeonggi.

Huang Fei in Yangzhou and Huang Degong in Chuzhou, they are nominally the first three supporters, but in fact they are supervising the team to prevent them from escaping.

The upstream handed over to the Ning Army.

In fact, Chongzhen also knew that Li Zicheng would not go south in a short time.

Lao Li Guang's mess in the north also had to be cleaned up for three or five years, he just swallowed it but didn't digest it at all, and even the resistance of the gentry in the territory intensified, after all, Dolgon had no hope, they could only find a way to save themselves now, and because of the blockade of the Xuanhua trade line, the Jin merchants were also ready to move.

And during this period, the biggest threat to Chongzhen was his Ning Nanbo, who had 200,000 troops and was almost like a separation.

The task of guarding against Zuo Liangyu was entrusted to Cao Youyi and Li Yutian's Guan Ning army.

They and Huang Degong are two lines of defense.

And this time Fang Guoan, Wang Zhiren and other troops who went north were stationed around Yingtian.

This can be regarded as Chongzhen's third line of defense.

In the end, Chongzhen relied on Yang Qing's Jinyiwei and Han Zanzhou's Dongchang control center in Nanjing's palace, Wang Chengen was responsible for helping him handle government affairs, and the rest of the cabinet and ministries were responsible for the work. As for the first assistant of the cabinet in the future, Yang Qing actually recommended Ma Shiying, but Ma Shiying needed to guard Fengyang, Han Zanzhou proposed Shi Kefa, but was opposed by Yang Qing, although there is no problem with Shi Kefa's fame and temperament, but his talent is not worthy of compliment at all, and using him as the first assistant is not as good as Lu Zhenfei in Huai'an!

But in the end, Chongzhen still chose Shi Kefa.

After all, he has to consider appeasing the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, Lu Zhenfei of the northerners is obviously not as good as Shi Kefa, the backbone of the Donglin Party, in line with the latter's wishes, in the final analysis, Chongzhen is going to be the emperor on the territory of the Donglin Party, the first thing he has to do is to show goodwill to the latter, as for gaining a firm foothold in Nanjing in the future, it is a big deal to change people if Shi Kefa is not pleasing to the eye.

In the end, the first assistant was determined to be Shi Kefa.

Except for the Guanning military system, all these appointments were issued in advance with the holy decree, Huang Fei and other departments had already taken the sea route south with the holy decree in advance, and they would arrive in Nanjing for more than half a month at most, and then the Shi Ge Department would quickly complete the preparations for the palace with the help of the Jiangnan gentry who were in a happy mood, and wait for His Majesty the Emperor to arrive. Zheng Zhilong, who had just arrived, returned to his teacher with a series of secret agreements with Li Zicheng after getting the title of Nan'an Earl, as for his son being a prisoner, Chongzhen originally wanted to give Jinyi Wei and let him grow up slowly with Yang Qing as a thousand households, but Zheng Sen still did not escape the dream of being born on the right path of the imperial examination, and then he was ready to continue to return to China to study for the Jinshi.

Since this is the case, Chongzhen had no choice but to encourage him to pull him down, but he still followed those Jiangdong talents to be a mole for Yang Qing.

He is now a fan of Yang Qing.

The entrance examination is for the right way, but it doesn't mean that Zheng Chenggong's mind will be really stupid enough to be with those mouthfuls, compared with these guys who get together every day to chant poems and write poems, it is obvious that Yang Qing's broad knowledge is more attractive......

"Why doesn't Ling Zun learn from the Dutch?"

Yang Qing said with a wine glass.

At this time, they have arrived in Qingxian, but Chongzhen did not get off the boat, so the entire fleet is lined up on the canal, mainly if Chongzhen gets off the boat, there must be local gentry to cry and beg like mourning, in Tianjin and Jinghai have been, these guys did not look forward to our Qing Dynasty king, and began to fantasize that Chongzhen can wake up and then lead the army to Beijing directly, after all, Li Zicheng has not come back, of course, Yuan Zongdi, who originally reinforced Shanhaiguan, entered Beijing, and the cavalry of the Shun army led by Gao Yi Power is still following on the shore, Li Zicheng is also afraid that Chongzhen will do this.

Chongzhen was annoyed by these guys, so he simply stopped the boat and didn't go ashore, and set up a defense line with brocade guards on the periphery, and those old villagers didn't see them.

Yang Qing is in charge of this.

"What does Brother Yang mean?"

Zheng Sen asked suspiciously.

"Go to Nanyang to grab a spice producing area, and then immigrate to pick spices and ship them back to China."

Yang Qing said.

"No, I don't."

Zheng Sen said with a smile.

"We Ming merchants don't need to spend so much effort at all, first, our Ming maritime merchants don't have the ability to compete with Dutch warships in the South Seas. Second, we don't need to do this, as long as the ships can transport our silk porcelain, even the worst porcelain, to Batavia, we can naturally exchange spices from the Dutch, and it is still profitable to transport them back. Third, in fact, at this time in Nanyang, there are already a lot of immigrants from our Ming Dynasty doing this, before the Dutch did not take Batavia and other places, Banten and other spice ports have always been our immigrants and local people to cooperate, although the Dutch attacked those small native countries, but our Ming immigrants are still treated preferentially.

So why grab it? ”

He continued.

"But robbing will make more money, right?"

Yang Qing said.

Yuan Yuan, who was performing the tea ceremony next to him, gave him a blank look.

"No, less!"

Zheng Sen said.

"If you want to rob it, you have to fight with the Dutch first, then you must build a large number of warships, large warships like them, otherwise you can't fight at all, and in the battle of Liuluo Bay, we relied on the convenience of our doorstep to defeat their dozen armed merchant ships, and the real Dutch warships are bigger and stronger, so the huge investment in shipbuilding is not something that businessmen can afford at all. In addition, even if you grab a piece of land, you have to build a city and garrison it, you have to maintain the shipping fleet of the fleet, you have to entangle with the natives, and you have to fight with other companies in Taixi, all of which require huge investments, millions of taels of investment. But if it is trade, our silk porcelain tea and the like can be exchanged for what you want as long as you transport it, and it doesn't cost a few silver to purchase these in Jiangnan, tea is the most inferior, porcelain is the most inferior, but the spices in exchange are the best quality. ”

He laughs.

"Then isn't your Zheng family rich enough to rival the country?"

Yang Qing exclaimed with a pure face.

"Huh?!"

Zheng Sen was shocked, he seemed to have been fooled!

"This, it's just to make some hard money, the danger of this sea storm is also extraordinary, the waves in the South China Sea are like mountains and unfathomable, not comparable to the shallow sea in the north, the round trip is often more than half a year, there are countless deaths from diseases, and even sometimes the wind and waves capsize the ship is all over, plus pirates are rampant, and the merchant ships of the Western countries and even the Ryukyus and other countries compete, and in the end it is just to maintain."

Zheng Sen said cautiously.

"Haha, don't be afraid, I won't be interested in your silver, we are brothers, although I Yang Qing thinks that I am not a good person, but some principles are still spoken, I am planning a great fortune, and the Zheng family will be indispensable when the time comes, but the time has not yet come, let's talk about it later!"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

The Ming version of the East India Company was not so easy.

The interests of this thing are too great, and the coastal gentry are all counting on maritime trade, and if they want to swallow this cake in one bite, even Chongzhen has to be prepared to accidentally fall into Xuanwu Lake.

This is not alarmist.

Jiangnan is the territory of these people.

They welcome Chongzhen only because Chongzhen represents order, represents the old system, and represents that everything about them will continue, Chongzhen and Daming represent the old world, and Li Zicheng is not popular because he is the destroyer of the old world, if Chongzhen also becomes the destroyer of the old world, then what is it for the Jiangnan gentry to kill an emperor who is begging for food on their own territory? When the Ming Emperor was in Beijing, he didn't prevent them from playing yin, not to mention that this emperor was on their territory.

(Resumption of two shifts per day from tomorrow)