In order to drag Zuo Liangyu to death, it is not enough to bleed for the Left Army, but also to intercept the flow and cut off the source of income for the Left Army, otherwise, the Left Army can continue to buy military rations and materials from other provinces.

When Fang Yuan returned to Suzhou City, he immediately summoned the cabinet to discuss specific measures for the economic blockade of the Left Army.

Xi Benzhen spoke first, "Jiangxi's main economic source is Jingdezhen's porcelain, which accounts for more than eighty percent of Jiangxi's income. ”

In order to protect Jingdezhen porcelain, the largest source of wealth, Zuo Liangyu stationed 30,000 Zuo family soldiers in Raozhou Mansion to guard it, which shows the importance of the income source of Jingdezhen porcelain to the Zuo army.

To block the sales of Jingdezhen porcelain, Fang Yuan could think of two methods. One is to replace Jingdezhen's porcelain with modern porcelain on Taobao before recovering Jingdezhen, and sell overseas trade, and then slowly cut off Taobao purchase and sales after recovering Jingdezhen; The second is to cut off Jiangxi's foreign trade routes, no matter how good the porcelain in Jingdezhen is, it can only rot in Jiangxi if it can't be sold.

Fang Yuan groaned and asked, "Which provinces does Jingdezhen's porcelain trade route lead to?" ”

When it comes to the Jingdezhen trade route, Xi Benzhen is like a treasure, "Jiangxi is adjacent to Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Huguang, and if you want to block Jiangxi's trade routes, as long as the neighboring provinces do not allow Jiangxi's porcelain to transit, it will not be able to exchange for silver." ”

Fang Yuan secretly estimated to himself that the merchants of Zhejiang and Fujian were in the control area of Fang Yuan, as long as the government gave an order, it was estimated that there were very few businessmen who dared to take over, so there was no need to worry too much. The only difficult ones are Guangdong and Huguang provinces, Huguang is Li Zicheng's territory, and Guangdong is an enclave of power vacuum, neither of which Fang Yuan can decide.

Fang Yuan pondered for a while and said, "Elder Wang, the cabinet immediately voted that all the merchants of the business association are not allowed to have any porcelain transactions with Jingdezhen. Porcelain for domestic and foreign trade was specially supplied by the Governor's Palace. The major merchant gangs will report the quantity that needs to be ordered to the Governor's Palace, and within half a month, the Governor's Palace will deliver the full amount. The price of porcelain in the Governor's Mansion is compared with Jingdezhen porcelain, and the texture is better than that of Jingdezhen. ”

Xi Benzhen is well aware of the trade routes, although the porcelain sold by Fang Yuan has not been widely promoted in the Ming Dynasty, only foreign trade sales, but some porcelain on the market has long been popular in Zhejiang. This time, Fang Yuan was willing to sell a large amount of porcelain, which I believe will attract crazy robberies from major merchants.

Xi Benzhen said worriedly, "Governor Fang, if porcelain is directly supplied by the Governor's Mansion to the major merchants, I am afraid that the fifty or sixty large porcelain kilns in the Zhejiang area will close before Jingdezhen porcelain, which is related to the livelihood of more than 100,000 employees!" ”

The porcelain that Fang Yuan bought from Taobao had at least one to two taels of silver per catty of ordinary quality. As for the high-end quality, the price is discussed separately by piece, and the profit is more lucrative.

Fang Yuan did not sell this kind of porcelain bought on Taobao to make money before, precisely because he wanted to protect dozens of large porcelain kilns in the Zhejiang region, as well as the livelihood of hired workers.

Xi Benzhen's question is also a problem, the porcelain of the Zhezhi porcelain kiln is obviously inferior to Jingdezhen in terms of cost performance, according to the pure commercial point of view, it is indeed the Zhezhi porcelain kiln that goes bankrupt first, and then it can be the turn of Jingdezhen.

Fang Yuan thought for a while and said, "I will mix and match the porcelain sold in the Governor's Mansion and the porcelain from the Zhezhi Porcelain Kiln on a one-to-one basis, and the price per catty will remain the same." Master Xi, what do you think? ”

He mixed and sold low-priced Taobao porcelain and high-priced Zhezhi porcelain porcelain, which actually spread up the cost and reduced the profit, and the profit per catty of porcelain dropped from two taels of silver to half a tael of silver. Although Fang Yuan's income was reduced by a large amount, it finally protected these national industries from being drowned by Taobao dumping.

Xi Benzhen had nothing to say, and nodded together with Wang Bingjian.

Fang Yuan said again, "Elder Wang Ge, the cabinet has to issue another vote, ordering Wu Zhiping, the governor of Fujian, and Feng Ting, the general soldier of Fujian, to jointly write a letter to Gu Yuanjing, the political envoy of the Guangdong Political Division. There are two points in the content, one is that the Cantonese merchants in the territory of the Guangdong Provincial Government Department immediately cut off all porcelain trade with Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, and the porcelain sold by the Cantonese merchants must be provided by the Governor's Office of Zhejiang; Second, he ordered Gu Yuanjing, the political envoy of Guangdong, to immediately escort Qian Qianyi, an old thief from Donglin who had fled to Guangdong, to the Governor's Mansion of Zhejiang. If there is disobedience, the disaster is coming, and it is too late to regret it, don't say that you are unprepared! ”

His two conditions are to nakedly manage Guangdong as a reserved land. In the past, the Guangdong Political Secretary dared to take in the old thief Qian Qianyi, which was already a taboo for Fang Yuan, and now it is also the last warning to the Guangdong Political Secretary. If the chief political secretary of Guangdong dares to oppose him again, he will send troops to attack Guangdong and control all the trading ports along the coast.

Wang Bingjian ordered the cabinet clerks to write them down one by one, and then the votes were prepared truthfully.

Fang Yuan rushed to the frontier and said, "The news of economic sanctions against Jiangxi and persuasion to surrender was immediately spread through the channels of Jiangxi literati, especially in Jiangxi, causing a powerful public opinion offensive. I want all the gentry and people in Jiangxi, including Zuo Liangyu, to know that if you eat our original, you must spit it out with interest. Those who surrender early can be sold for a good price, and if they surrender when the soldiers are in the city, it will be worthless. ”

Mao Bijiang also wrote down the contents of the public opinion offensive he explained one by one.

Fang Yuan left the cabinet, returned to the Governor's Palace, and immediately called Princess Kunxing and Xiaoyuan's two daughters, first explained to them a few official documents that would be sent to the Governor's Mansion for approval after the cabinet vote, and then said that the next target was Zuo Liangyu in Jiangxi.

Next, Fang Yuan began to get to the point, "The Governor's Mansion immediately prepared three urgent official letters, one of which went to the Zhejiang General Military Mansion, and handed it over to the General Soldier Ma Lin, and ordered him to mobilize the Xuanjia Sergeant, the guards of the entire Zhejiang Guard, to build fortifications in the direction of Jiangxi, and to prevent the movement of the Jiangxi Left Army, not to be careless." ”

Zuo Liangyu's will not attack Zhejiang is just Fang Yuan's speculation, speculation obviously cannot be used as a basis, take precautions, in case Zuo Liangyu jumps over the wall in a hurry and makes a desperate attempt to attack Zhejiang, if he is unprepared, he will be caught off guard.

Xiao Yuan truthfully recorded the first official document and handed it to the penmaid of the Palm Seal Division to transcribe.

Fang Yuan said, "The second copy was handed over to Shi Lang, the commander of the naval division of Zhenhaiwei in Fujian, so that he would prepare to attack Guangdong and Kinmen from the day he received the official document. ”

Xiao Yuan raised his head and asked, "Gongzi is going on an expedition to attack Kinmen and Guangdong again?" Didn't the cabinet send an official letter to Guangdong and not wait for a reply from Guangdong? ”

Fang Yuan nodded and said, "There's no need to wait, the Guangdong Political Secretary dares to take in Qian Qianyi, and it is clear that they are against me, and I conclude that they will inevitably violate the order." Send an official document to go, just salute first and then soldier. Moreover, Zheng Sen is still stubbornly resisting in the corner of Kinmen, and he has always been a big trouble. It is better to solve the Guangdong and Taiwan issues at once. ”

Princess Kunxing suddenly said, "Mrs. Yuan, I also have a personal letter to say hello to the little worm, talk about sisterhood, and send it to Commander Shi Lang with the official document!" ”

Xiao Yuan frowned and said, "Princess, there are also sisters' letters mixed in the official documents, you really don't distinguish between public and private!" ”

Fang Yuan Zhengrong said, "Well done Jiao'er! It is said that Shi Lang is in charge of the only artillery mothership formation of the Xuanjia Army, and there is also one of the most powerful sailors in the Ming Dynasty, and he is also in control of Shi Lang's ambitions, Mrs. Yuan, do it! ”

Xiao Yuan was a little stunned, this time she lost another move to Princess Kunxing in front of Fang Yuan, looking up at Princess Kunxing's smiling expression, she realized that she had entered the trap set by the princess in advance, and she was angry.

Fang Yuan saw the open and secret struggle of the two daughters in his eyes, but he was noncommittal on his face, and continued, "There is another one, not in the form of an official document, but in a private letter, stamped with the governor's seal, and sent to Li Zicheng in Henan and Huguang. ”

He was halfway through his words, swallowed back the rest of the words, looked at the second daughter, and asked, "What do you say, what should be written on this letter?" ”

Fang Yuan's words have a beginning and an end, let alone a policy towards Li Zicheng, that is, he is playing dumb riddles to the second daughter, and he is also in the vision and insight of the two of them in the examination school.