In the south of the Yangtze River at the beginning of June, just after the summer heat, the air exudes the fragrance of green grass, the seedlings in the rice fields outside the city are growing and growing, the summer breeze blows, bows down, and acts into waves of green waves.

In the third year after the Qing army occupied Nanjing, after the initial massacres and looting, the Qing court made policy adjustments to the areas that had gradually succumbed, and began to focus on the restoration of local agriculture to ensure the rations needed by the Qing army.

As the war continued to expand, and the Ming Dynasty gained a firm foothold in Chu and Jiangxi, the war consumption was amazing, and the Qing court became more aware of this, and there must be more food.

As the governor of Jiangnan, Hong Chengchou was given high hopes by the Qing court, and he did not live up to the trust and expectations of his master.

He first broke through Chen Zilong's righteous army, which had been entrenched in Taihu Lake for nearly three years, so that the anti-Qing forces in the entire Jiangnan turned from bright to dark, so that Jiangnan was peaceful on the surface, and then actively appeased the displaced people and resumed production, so that Jiangnan recovered a trace of vitality.

If nothing else, Jiangnan will definitely have a big harvest this year, and with food to eat, the people will settle down.

At this time, in Jiangning City, with the change of policy, it was not as depressed and dilapidated as when the Qing soldiers had just occupied, and many small traders began to appear on the streets, and there were a few shops.

Although compared with the original Nanjing City with a million household registrations and commercial prosperity, it is not as much as a drop in the bucket, and it cannot be compared with the current Guangjing, but it has gradually had a hint of commercial atmosphere.

This is mostly due to Hong Chengchou, and of course it is also because the eight imperial merchants entered Jiangnan and began to stake their land.

The Qing soldiers went south, and the salt merchants of Lianghuai fell together with the Yangzhou city that had been operating for a hundred years, most of them died in the first battle of Yangzhou, and a small number of them abandoned their families and businesses, followed Wang Yan to the south, settled in Qiongzhou, and changed their careers to become maritime merchants.

As a supporter of the Qing army's entry into the customs, Shunzhi Xiaoer personally summoned and canonized the imperial merchants, and they naturally took the profits of the salt industry from the declining two Huai salt merchants.

In addition, with the entry of the Qing soldiers into the south of the Yangtze River, the emerging southeast merchant groups under the protection of the Donglin Party, as well as the maritime merchants in the east of Zhejiang under the protection of the Zhejiang Party, all suffered from the looting of the Qing soldiers, and the southeast commerce was completely destroyed, and with their decline, the eight imperial merchants who were in full swing naturally extended their hands to the south of the Yangtze River.

Today, in Jiangning City, at least eight of the ten shops are owned by the Eight Imperial Merchants.

As the governor of Jiangnan, Hong Chengchou also supported the merchants of Shanxi, with them, the people had surplus rice, they could exchange it for silver, and with the money, they could buy cloth and farm tools, and revitalize the business, which was conducive to his restoration of Jiangnan.

At the same time, just as before the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they provided the Manchu Qing with strategic materials such as iron tools and gunpowder, which bankrupted the Ming Dynasty's trade blockade of the Manchus, provided the Qing soldiers with news of the Ming army, and made the Ming army fail in battle, the Eight Great Imperial Merchants can now help him buy strategic materials from the areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and as well-informed merchants, they can also provide him with a lot of information, sometimes this news is faster and more accurate than the secret agents of the Qing court.

At this time, Hong Chengchou held a letter in his hand from the news provided by the eight imperial merchants, and hurriedly came to the mansion of Prince Yu Duoduo.

This mansion was originally the mansion of Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei in the Ming Dynasty, the Duke of Wei is in the same vein, from Xu Da to Xu Wenjue after eleven generations, more than two hundred and seventy years of operation, the mansion is how good-looking and good-looking, how magnificent and magnificent, in addition to not being as good as the palace, Jiangning City is absolutely unique.

This is compared to the pit thatched hut outside the gate, I don't know how much stronger, every tree, every stone has to pay attention to, it is a small bridge flowing water, pavilions and attics, beautiful.

Such a good house, if it falls into the hands of Hong Chengchou, cultural people can see some doorways, and they can write a few lines of poetry from time to time, but in Duoduo's hands, he can only use one sentence, "It's really fucking good-looking" to express his feelings.

Hong Chengchou hurried through the corridor, crossed the small bridge, turned a few corners in the house, and finally came to a garden, and before he entered the courtyard, he heard a babbling song coming out, presumably Duoduo was listening to the play.

In the courtyard, Duoduo wore only a white single coat, his chest was leaking on a rattan chair, his eyes were closed, his hands were rhythmically patting on his laps with the lyrics of the two little students, and beside him sat two young beauties wearing only tulle, one gently shook a fan for him, and the other picked up the chilled grapes, peeled off the skin, and then sent them to his mouth with a jade finger, life was not comfortable.

At this time, the woman next to him lowered her head and reminded him in his ear, and Duoduo opened his eyes, just in time to see Hong Chengchou standing aside with his head down, and he didn't know how long he had been waiting.

Seeing this, Duoduo was a little embarrassed, waved his hand, told his servants and maids to step back, and then closed his single garment with his hand to block his increasingly loose belly.

The Manchurians had been in the land south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and they had come to know a little beauty and ugliness, and a little shame, so he sat up from the rattan chair and asked, "Governor Hong, why did you come here today?" ”

Hong Chengchou looked at Duoduo's somewhat puffy face, sighed in his heart, saluted him, and then said: "Lord Wang, Fan Douyong's people got the news when they were purchasing supplies in the south, Wang Yanxing soldiers three roads, claiming that 500,000 horses have entered Shu in a big way. ”

When Duoduo heard this, he suddenly straightened up, but then raised his eyebrows and smiled again, and softened, "Oh~ Isn't that Hauge suffering." ”

Hong Chengchou was stunned, and after half a sound, he said: "Before, news came from Beijing, saying that Prince Su and King Pingxi were in Sichuan like a bamboo, occupying Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong was also surrounded, and Sichuan and Shu were about to be settled!" But if Wang Yan enters Sichuan, then the situation may change, after all, Prince Su, King Pingxi's soldiers and horses have been fighting for nearly a year, and they are tired, in case Wang Yan reverses the situation in Sichuan and Shu, then I have been in the Qing Dynasty since the third year of Shunzhi, and all the wars against the Ming Dynasty have almost ended in failure. In this way, I am afraid that the trend of the world will be reversed! ”

Duoduo frowned when he heard this, although he wanted to see Hauge deflated, but he could still distinguish the importance of the overall situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He straightened up, and a serious look appeared on his face, "What does Governor Hong mean?" ”

"Lord Wang, the firms of Fan Douyong and others bought and sold goods in Huguang and Jiangxi, and collected a lot of information. This time, Wang Yan entered Shu and took away the vast majority of the elite soldiers in Canton and Hunan, and the strength of the Ming army on the eastern front became empty. Now that Jiangnan has stabilized, after removing the nail of Taihu Lake, we have no worries. The humble position thinks that he should take advantage of the opportunity of Wang Yan's entry into Shu to plot the land of Chu and Jiangxi! ”

Duoduo nodded, Chu Gan was lost from the hands of the Dolgon faction, if he could take it back, his Duo brothers' position within the Qing court would definitely be greatly consolidated, and it would not be impossible to pull the little emperor down in the future.

"What does Governor Hong think we should fight? There are about 60,000 Ming troops in Jiangxi, Huguang He Tengjiao, Fu Shangrui and nearly 100,000 horses, we will fight Jiangxi first, or Hubei first, or after reporting to the imperial court, unite the two Shun kings of Henan and fight the entire Chu and Jiangxi together? ”

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