The reason why Li Yangeng dared to take such a risk was naturally not only because of his grasp of Dolgon's psychology, but also because of the influence of the Ming Dynasty on Shenyang at this time.

In fact, after Huang Taiji seized all the assets and offices of the Sihai Trading Company in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he did not gain the support of the Manchu subjects, but instead contributed to the dissatisfaction of the subjects with the imperial court.

Unlike ordinary merchants in the market, Sihai Trading Company does not put economic interests first, but takes maintaining sales channels and occupying market share as the primary consideration.

Because of the Manchu trade order, the Sihai Trading Company was not qualified to conduct retail business directly to ordinary citizens, and its business was mainly to conduct wholesale trade through firms authorized by the Manchu Dynasty.

Although these firms were the property of the subjects of the Qing Dynasty, after Fan Yongdou fell to the Sihai Trading Company, those firms that tried to monopolize the Ming trade and then raise prices to earn high monopoly profits were eventually excluded.

Although the remaining firms enjoyed the benefits of monopoly trade, the retail pricing power of the market was in the hands of Sihai Trading Company, and many of them even received a large amount of loan support from Sihai Trading Company.

These firms were also those that were still trading within a certain quota when other firms in Shenyang closed their doors and refused to accept the Qing Yuan, because the Sihai Trading Company did not allow them to close their doors.

However, when Dolgon seized the offices and warehouses of the Four Seas Trading Company in Shenyang, these firms immediately followed the trend and shifted the responsibility for closing the door onto the imperial court.

Although these firms sold a limited number of goods every day, at least these firms gave the people of Shenyang a hope, and now these firms are also closed, while other firms are not open, which naturally makes the people of Shenyang begin to sympathize with the Sihai Trading Company, and are dissatisfied with the imperial court.

Although the people of Shenyang did not dare to scold Huang Taiji, they personally presided over the seizure of Dolgon and the soldiers of the White Banner of the Four Seas Trading Company, but they were scolded for being scolded.

When Dorgon saw the empty treasury of the Four Seas Trading Company, he knew that their plan to stabilize prices with the company's supplies was bankrupt.

If the Ming and the Qing Dynasty were still the same as in the past, the two sides did not interact with each other, and the Ming State strictly forbade merchants to enter the Qing trade, Dolgon would not care about the influence of a single firm, and even the subjects of the Qing Dynasty would not care.

After all, the smuggled materials of the merchants of the Ming Kingdom were generally to supply the strategic materials of the Houjin army and to satisfy the enjoyment of the upper class of the Eight Banners, and as for the middle and lower class people who wanted to obtain enough living materials, they either participated in the expedition to go to the south to rob them, or they endured a life of lack of materials.

However, after the stalemate between the Ming and the Later Jin in the past decade or so, the Ming opened up their trade activities.

At the beginning, Dolgon and other Manchurian nobles felt that this was because the Ming State was subdued by the Qing Dynasty, so they wanted to emulate the city rewards given to the Mongol tribes, give the Qing Dynasty a little sweetness of trade, so that they would not send troops to attack the borders of the Ming Kingdom, in short, this was a bribe.

But as the Four Seas Trading Company grew in the Qing Dynasty, heroes like Huang Taiji and Dolgon felt that something was wrong. Although due to historical limitations, they could not see any disadvantages of such trade to the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji still resolutely accepted Fan Yongdou's suggestion, opened the Qing Dynasty's own bank, and established a trading company to monopolize the trade with the Ming Dynasty.

But it wasn't until the financial crisis erupted that Dolgon really figured out what the Four Seas Trading Company had done over the years. The trading company was reshaping the consensus of the Manchu subjects.

Jianzhou Jurchen, before Nurhachi created this nation, in fact, they were those non-Khan and non-Mongolian minority tribes in the land of Liaodong. The level of civilization of these minority tribes is very low, and even after more than 200 years of association with the Han Chinese, they still have not departed from some of the barbaric customs of the tribal civilization.

However, in the course of more than 200 years of exchanges, the minority tribes in eastern Liaodong finally vaguely realized how beautiful life was in a high-level civilized society, and it was in contact with the Han and Mongolian people that these tribes began to transform into the social form of the Han people and began to gradually form their own national consciousness.

The reason why Nurhachi was able to condense these eastern Liao tribes into Jianzhou Jurchen was not only because of his military command art, but also because the people of these eastern Liao tribes could no longer tolerate their backward tribal civilization and hoped to establish an advanced civilized society like the Mongols or the Han Chinese.

However, the social productivity of these ethnic groups in eastern Liaodong is too low to support a civilized society like the Mongols or the Han Chinese.

And Nurhachi has found a way to solve the problem of low productivity, since we can't develop ourselves, then it would be better to rob the Han people. It was through the plundering of the Han people in Liaodong again and again that the material foundation for the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty was laid, and the tribes of Liaodong truly became the prototype of a nation.

Even if the Jianzhou Jurchens became Manchus and the Later Jin Dynasty became the Qing Dynasty, the imprint carved by Nurhachi on the minds of these Manchus did not fade, and if they wanted to live a life as rich as the Han people, the Manchus had to pick up swords and guns and go to the south to rob them.

Therefore, the war against the Ming Dynasty is completely a kind of political correctness for the Manchus, and it is also the consensus of the Eight Banners. However, the trade activities organized by the Four Seas Trading Company in Liaodong are breaking this consensus.

By purchasing timber, soybeans, furs, and various mountain goods, the Four Seas Trading Company gave some of the war-weathing Eight Banners nobles a reason to oppose the war. The introduction of potatoes, corn and agricultural tools from the Ming Kingdom, the introduction of cold-tolerant rice from Korea and the capture of a large number of laborers greatly improved the level of agricultural production in Liaodong.

For the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had few people and a lot of land, and the Manchu people, who occupied the fertile black soil, the land around Shenyang was already overflowing before the land around Shenyang was fully developed. With such a rapid increase in productivity, running a farm or organizing people to cut wood was more rewarding than going to the battlefield to rob the Han Chinese, and there was naturally a division among the Manchus.

What's more, since the new emperor of the Ming Kingdom ascended the throne, he adjusted the defense line in the north, which not only re-encircled the Mongolian tribes on the steppe, but also greatly improved the combat ability of the Ming army. The surrender of the main force of the Zhenglan Banner in the Battle of Uiju shattered the myth that there were thousands of people invincible. The price of robbing the south has made some Manchus feel unaffordable.

Now, those who are still insisting on supporting Huang Taiji's use of troops in the south, except for those Jurchens and Han officials in Liaodong who were captured from the deep mountains and old forests, everyone else hopes to maintain the status quo.

However, everyone also knew very well in their hearts that the reason why the Jurchens supported the Khan's southern expedition was entirely because they did not catch up with the good times. They joined the Eight Banners too late and failed to catch up with the previous raids against the Han people in Liaodong, so they had no family background, and their lives in Shenyang were extremely difficult.

After all, living in Shenyang is not enough to have a good skill, and there are no wild beasts here for them to hunt, they can only rely on the meager rewards of Yulu and the Khan King to live, and they will naturally support sending troops south.

As for those Han officials, who supported sending troops south to wage war with the Ming State, it was not entirely for plunder, but in the hope that they could stay away from the exploitation of the Manchu relatives and nobles in Shenyang, and worried that the two countries would reconcile themselves, and these people would be returned to the Ming State for accountability.

However, with the establishment of bases in the vicinity of the Qing Dynasty by the Ming State, fewer and fewer Jurchens joined the Manchu Dynasty, and their opinions naturally did not matter much. As for the opinions of those Han officials, when will the Han minions be able to be the masters of the Manchurian masters.

In fact, the Manchurian nobles were much more polite to the ordinary employees of the Sihai Trading Company than to their Han colleagues.

Therefore, if it weren't for the financial crisis that made the middle and lower classes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty full of resentment, Huang Taiji really couldn't dominate the political situation in the DPRK and China so easily.

But if Huang Taiji can't solve the problem of material shortages faced by the people of Shenyang, his current almost unlimited power will have to pay the price after all.

The ancient Chinese have long pointed out: it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. And Westerners have also said: I can endure the darkness as long as I have never seen the light.

By plundering the wealth of the Han Chinese, Nurhachi brought a better life to the Manchus, thus winning the support of the Eight Banners. The problem now is that no matter how well Huang Taiji does it, without the material input of the Four Seas Trading Company, he will not be able to change the shortage of materials for the Manchu subjects.

If, in such a situation, he still has to start a war, the centrifugal detachment of the middle and lower classes of the Manchu Qing is inevitable. Therefore, after Dolgon sealed the treasury, he still maintained preferential treatment for these people, although he seized the employees of the Four Seas Trading Company.

Because he knew very well that unless the Ming State publicly stated that it would sever all trade ties with the Qing Dynasty, the key to finally solving the problem of the shortage of materials in the Qing Dynasty was the staff of these Sihai Trading Company. Although the Manchu subjects will slowly accept the reality after the two countries are at odds with each other, it does not mean that they will not resent themselves now. Therefore, Dolgon tried to stay out of the matter as much as possible, showing that he was also acting on orders, and it was not his will to seize the Four Seas Trading Company.

Dolgon's guess was correct, Huang Taiji really couldn't solve the problem of material shortage. However, Huang Taiji did not bow to the Sihai Trading Company as expected and negotiate the import of materials.

Huang Taiji directly dealt with the people who caused him trouble, sent the people of the Manggu Jigege faction to prison, and confiscated the family property to stabilize prices. With such violent means, he shocked the relatives and nobles of the clan who were difficult to make money, and they can be regarded as surviving the current difficulties.

When Dolgon was cautiously paying attention to Huang Taiji's actions, he saw Haoge come to his mansion with Li Yangeng, who was disguised as a servant, saying that he wanted Li Yangeng to live in his mansion for a few days.

If he didn't know Hauge's personality well and knew that he couldn't come up with such an insidious plan, he once thought that the other party wanted to take the opportunity to frame him.

If it weren't for the fact that he suddenly remembered that Li Yangeng seemed to be mixing well after defecting to the Ming Kingdom, and he might become a microphone between himself and the Ming court, Dolgon once wanted to open his mouth and drive the two out of the mansion directly.

As Li Yangeng guessed, at this time, Dolgon didn't want to make meritorious contributions at all, and he didn't have time to hide from Huang Taiji, for fear that this brother would worry about him. However, Li Yangeng didn't expect that Dolgon's purpose in leaving him was not to fear that he would fall into the hands of Huang Taiji, but to keep a channel for dialogue with Mingguo.