The Qing Dynasty is now facing such a crisis, whether the Jin Kingdom will be saved, Fan Wencheng is not sure.

Judging from Shen Wenhua's actions, he could almost conclude that Jin Guo would not borrow troops from the army.

These days, Shen Wenhua has taken him all the way slowly, and he can see that Jin Guo is cultivating and focusing on internal affairs, and has no intention of fighting.

Although last year, King Daishan signed an agreement with the Jin State, in addition to stipulating the border between the two sides in the north, it also stipulated that the Jin and Qing would jointly defend the Ming Dynasty, but now the Ming army has not participated in the war, and Haoge may not value this agreement, he does not know if the Jin State can see the situation clearly and borrow troops to help the Qing Dynasty.

Shen Wenhua listened to Fan Wencheng's words, stopped, looked at Fan Wencheng with a smile, and didn't answer directly, just smiled lightly: "When Your Majesty will summon you, I don't know very well, I'm just responsible for bringing Lord Fan to Chang'an." All the way to the dust, presumably Lord Fan is also inside, I will take you to the post house to rest first, when His Majesty summons you, someone will naturally inform Lord Fan! ”

Coming to Chang'an has wasted a lot of time, even if Jin Guo agrees to send troops this time, he will have to put forward some conditions, and he may not be able to call the shots, it will take time to come back and forth, so he really can't afford to delay.

"Lord Shen, please tell a few ministers of state, your lips are cold, and please ask Emperor Dajin to summon him as soon as possible!" Fan Wencheng said, put his hand into the sleeve of the horse's hoof, and took out a few more tickets and stuffed them to Shen Wenhua.

The latter did not refuse, took the ticket and looked at it, it was all one hundred taels, about more than a thousand taels.

Shen Wenhua didn't put it away after reading it, but returned it to Fan Wencheng, and said with a smile: "Lord Fan may not know that the ticket for this Zhongqing number is now like straw paper and worthless." ”

Fan Wencheng was stunned when he heard this, the Zhongqing number is the money bank of Fan Yongdou and others, and the semicolons are all over the Qing Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, how can it not be worthless?

As if to understand Fan Wencheng's doubts, Shen Wenhua said: "Just before I went to Tongguan, the imperial court had already sealed the Zhongqing number, and all the money was returned to the public!" ”

The Eight Great Emperor Merchants bet on both sides, but after Haoge retreated to Sichuan and Shaanxi, Fan Yongdou and others also reduced their support for Haoge.

After all, their nest is in Shanxi, in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, plus there are other Han gentry in the Jin Kingdom, and Haoge did not give them much convenience, so the Eight Imperial Merchants mainly worked for the Qing Dynasty.

Before, Haoge still wanted to win the support of Fan Yongdou and others, and wanted to get some money from them, but Jiang Xiangshan was against the Qing Dynasty and copied the nest of Fan Yongdou and others.

All the properties of the eight imperial merchants in the Jin Kingdom were confiscated by the Jin Kingdom, fattening Haoge's pockets, and killing Fan Yongdou's son and several shopkeepers.

Fan Wencheng was a little distracted when he heard this, the fat sheep raised in the Qing Dynasty was first slaughtered by Jiang Xiang, and now he was completely killed by Jin Guo.

From this point of view, the mercantile value of the Jin State is still very different from that of the Ming Dynasty.

Jin is not like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the merchant groups in the Long area, in addition to the eight imperial merchants, there is less competition, the Manchu Qing can be such a family, without them, the country's bloodline is not alive, and it is a problem for the people to eat salt.

Shen Wenhua smiled, and directly took Fan Wencheng to the post house to live, while he returned to the Ministry of Rites to resume his life.

The anxious Fan Wencheng did not rest in the post house, and as soon as Shen Wenhua left, he went to the mansions of Meng Qiaofang, Han Chaoxuan and others to meet him, but several prime ministers of the Jin State did not receive them.

In fact, Fan Wencheng didn't know that when he was anxiously begging for help, the Jin court had already discussed the matter of aiding the Qing Dynasty.

Jin Palace, Qinzheng Palace, Jin Emperor Haoge wore a yellow dragon robe, a jade belt around his waist, a black winged crown, embroidered with a golden dragon, and sat on the main hall with his legs slightly open, at first glance, he thought he was a Ming Dynasty vassal king.

On both sides of the main hall sat seven prime ministers of the Jin Kingdom, who were basically the same as the Ming Dynasty except for the different looks of the official government from the Ming Dynasty.

Although Fan Wencheng had only arrived in Chang'an, the letter of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was sent one step earlier, so everyone in the Jin Kingdom already knew Fan Wencheng's intention to come to Chang'an.

Hauge squatted and looked at the ministers below, and said in a deep voice: "Dolgon's letter of state, several ministers have read it. I know that the most important thing for Daikin to do at the moment is to cultivate his voice, enrich the treasury, train the new army, and should not participate in the big war, but Dolgon is very anxious to ask for help, and he makes it clear that Daikin should deal with it, and several Aiqing have also discussed it for a few days, but they have made a decision? ”

The seven prime ministers sitting on both sides discussed for a while, and the courtesy minister Kong Wenfu said angrily: "In the middle of this year, Dolgon sent someone to invite us to send troops, and I objected at that time. How about now? Sure enough, I didn't get any benefits, but I got into trouble and got into big trouble! The Qing army entered the customs for only ten years, and Dolgon did not accept sinicization, and adopted a fierce national policy, the Qing Dynasty was unpopular, and the foundation was unstable, he should have cleaned up the interior first, stabilized people's hearts, and eliminated hidden dangers, but he wanted to provoke the Ming Dynasty, and as a result, he caused such a big trouble, and wanted to pull me into the water, which is really unreasonable! ”

Kong Wenfu scolded first, and then saluted Haoge: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter has to be borne by the Qing Kingdom himself, and my Dajin can't interfere!" ”

Haoge didn't want to intervene, but judging from the information he received, this time the Manchu Qing estimated that they would not be able to resist, and if he didn't make a move, the Ming army would at least drive Dolgon back to the outside of the pass, and Dajin would be in danger.

The power of the Jin State is not centralized, and Haoge is basically about to be hollowed out, which can be seen from the fact that several prime ministers in the Qinzheng Hall are sitting on their butts. In the Ming Dynasty, only Yan Song and a few other first assistants had this treatment, and the rest had to stand.

Haoge knocked his fingers on the dragon chair a few times, looked at Meng Qiaofang and said, "Meng Qing, what do you think?" ”

Meng Qiaofang saw Haoge's roll call, he could only get up and salute and replied: "Your Majesty, if you rescue the Qing State, then the troops that Dajin is holding against the Ming army in Qinghai will be withdrawn, and the plan to unite with the Kazakh Khanate to attack Yarkand will also be postponed." In addition, the imperial court's plan to expand the Tongchuan mine, reclaim cotton fields in Ningxiawei, and open an additional official kiln in Guyuan will all be affected. ”

The Ming army built two cities in the south of Qinghai, like nails in Qinghai, the Jin army took advantage of the cavalry advantage, has been besieging for more than two months, trying to force the Ming army out of Qinghai, but has not yet been realized.

Now the strength of the Jin State is only about 160,000, of which 50,000 in Hanzhong cannot be moved, 20,000 in the Hexi Corridor cannot be transferred, and among the remaining 90,000 people, Tongguan Hangu should put 10,000 each, the north of the Great Wall line, also put 10,000, and Chang'an also needs 10,000 people to guard, which is a total of 110,000 people.

Even if it is a complete Qing Dynasty, at least 40,000 or 50,000 people must go, and the men and horses who are fighting in Qinghai will definitely have to be withdrawn, not to mention the attack on Yarkand.

In addition to the army, the war also required several times the number of people in the army to transport grain and grass materials, and Guanzhong because of the war in the Chongzhen period The population withered, if a large number of people were requisitioned, it would definitely affect the production and commerce of the Jin State.

Hauge frowned when he heard this, and at the same time he was a little unhappy in his heart.

Strategically speaking, the Jin State will inevitably stand on the side of the Qing this time, if the Jin State does not save it when it sees death, after the Qing Dynasty is destroyed by the Southern Ming, the next one will inevitably be the Jin State.

Although Hauge also hated Dolgon, the troublemaker, he felt that he should still pull him out from reason, but several Xiangguo and the Han gentry behind them seemed to only care about the interests of the family or themselves, and were unwilling to participate in this war.

"Does Meng Qing mean that he is not in favor of sending troops either?" Hauge said in a deep voice.

Meng Qiaofang is the first assistant and the county king of Dajin, if he does not agree, even if Haoge insists, it is impossible for the Jin State to send troops.

Meng Qiaofang shook his head, "Your Majesty, when the minister said this, he did not oppose the dispatch of troops, but to let His Majesty and several ministers know what kind of loss the sending of troops would cause to my Dajin!" If the Qing Kingdom wants me to send troops with a lot of gold, I have to exchange it for something of equal value! ”

Haoge was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then reacted, he really couldn't be fooled by a few empty words like last time, and stupidly sent troops to Sichuan. This time, if Dolgon wants Jin to send troops to help Qing Guo, he must bleed!

At this time, Han Chaoxuan also spoke: "The lips are cold and the teeth are cold, so the minister is also in favor of sending troops, but after all, this matter was provoked by the Qing State itself, and we must have good conditions for sending troops." The minister thinks that there are two factors that restrict my Dajin national strength, one is the land, and the other is the population. In terms of land, we can bring the Hetao area, and we can take advantage of the war to move some people from Shanxi. ”

The Han gentry are always full of desire for land, and if they want land, they also need a population, especially mines, workshops, and cotton fields, which require a lot of labor.

Hauge nodded after hearing this, and asked, "What other conditions do you have to mention?" ”

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