When today's chaos, unpredictable, Ming, Qing, Fengzhou tripartite competition situation faintly emerged, this letter revealed the strategic purpose of Fengzhou - among the three parties, the Ming State is the strongest, the Qing State is second, but the Ming State is alive and well to pull the Qing State to fight, the two powers instead give up the strategic initiative to the weakest Fengzhou, Fengzhou is very smart, pedaling two boats between the two powers, left and right, to gain valuable development time for themselves. Fengzhou has great potential, the longer the time drags on, the more advantageous, of course, I don't want the balance between the Ming and Qing dynasties to be broken, the Qing army did not stop when it entered the customs, so it was beaten hard first, and then it was asked to shift the direction of attack to the Guanningjin line, but the Qing State could not refuse this request, the Ming army entrenched in Liaoxi was like a knife on the waist, since the entry was blocked, if Fengzhou could occupy Liaoxi in one fell swoop, of course, it would be a great thing, and the Qing Emperor could not resist this temptation.

But things are not simple, after the defeat of Korea and Dongjiang Town, Liaoxi is actually a dead land, and it is also a heavy burden, but the monarchs and ministers of the Ming State are unwilling to admit it, get rid of this burden, the limited financial resources and troops of the Ming State can be used in Shanhaiguan, Jizhen, and Changping line, and the defense of Gyeonggi will be greatly enhanced, but it will be a blessing in disguise; On the contrary, the Qing State got Liaoxi but fell into passivity, from Shengjing to Shanhaiguan nearly a thousand miles away, with the Qing State's population, financial resources to digest this result is not easy, in the future to control the locality, supply garrisons are a big problem, the result of Liaoxi change hands is very likely to appear in the Ming and Qing armies stalemate, this is probably what Fengzhou expects.

Erlu has really grown up, becoming more and more mature, forget it, I'll give way, but he shouldn't interfere in the Qing Dynasty, he has a good relationship with Haoge, I don't want Haoge to be the prince, Guan Jugong Concubine Chen's eighth elder brother died, but Yongfu Palace Concubine Zhuang gave birth to nine elder brothers last year, Lao Tzu's life is hard, and he can live to grow up with little elder brother.

"Erlu's hand is stretched too long, if you want to take care of the affairs of the Qing Kingdom, I invite him to Shengjing, I can't treat him badly." The Qing Emperor threw the letter on the table.

The commander's hand is stretched too long, openly interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, and in the name of preventing the Qing Kingdom from bloodshed and infighting again, it is purely nosy, Yun Rong replied stubbornly: "Your Majesty, it's not a family that doesn't speak a family, the commander regards you as a father, and he should also think about your Qing foundation!" ”

"Yunhezhou, you really know how to speak for your master, Elu has repeatedly attacked the Qing Dynasty, and now he dares to blatantly beat him, is there anyone in the world who is a son like him? Go back and tell him that he doesn't need to worry about the affairs of the Great Qing Kingdom. "Recognize Li Yu as the righteous son, and title Li Yu as the king of Jin County are Dolgon's ideas, originally wanted to suppress Fengzhou, and provoke Fengzhou and the Ming court to fight by the way, but after so many years, Li Yu did not have a fart matter, but used this as an excuse to meddle in the internal affairs of the Qing Dynasty, and even the merchants of Fengzhou also took the opportunity to swagger and deceive in Liaodong under the banner of the king of Jinjun, and cleared a false name and found nothing, Dolgon was really stupid to read, the Qing Emperor was a little angry, pointed to the letter on the table and said: "What are your ideas, I know in my heart, don't always hide behind and pick up cheap, The Qing Dynasty can fight Liaoxi, and Fengzhou must also go together. ”

"Fengzhou has a last resort, we have taken a huge risk to the Qing Dynasty, the two countries have in fact formed an alliance, I Fengzhou once again promised, acquiescing in the Qing Dynasty to the North Zhili troops, and at the same time guaranteed that if the Ming army crossed the Guangning line, Fengzhou will openly support the Qing Dynasty, our foundation is still weak, it is not easy to do this step. Your Majesty, Fengzhou and the Qing Dynasty are both Han, Mongolian, and Manchu countries, we are the northern captives, you are the eastern captives, and the Ming kingdom is too strong, and always treat us as barbarians who want to get rid of them quickly, in the long run, the two countries can only get closer and closer, why should Your Majesty be in a hurry. Buyantu said very sincerely.

"Your Majesty, the Great Commander is willing to make a pact with you personally in the name of the Mongolian Hutu Ketu Batulu, we will never stand idly by and watch you fight Liaoxi, lack of money, we borrow, lack of weapons, we sell, lack of manpower, more than 20,000 people in Fengzhou will be allowed to return to their hometown," Yun Rong said and quietly glanced at the emperor, seeing that the emperor was smiling and shaking his head, he simply spread his hands and said, "We people on the grassland speak straightforwardly, we must do what we can do, and we will not hide what we can't do, if Your Majesty thinks it can't be done, then we will pack up and return to life, The relationship between Fengzhou and the Qing State is not mentioned. ”

The Qing Emperor laughed: "Others say that Elu is a fool, but I have already seen it, he is smarter than anyone else, but I don't know it yet, I know it in my heart, Hezhou, Wenliang, you all sit down and tell me about Fengzhou, about my son." ”

The boss spoke, and the people below were easy to do, Duoduo, who was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and Haoge, who was in charge of the Ministry of Households, personally came forward, and Fengzhou and the Qing State made a treaty within two days - the two sides agreed to guard the border and not offend each other, and continue to trade in the mutual market of Duo Lunoer and Ulan Hada, and the two places implemented free trade, allowing merchants to do business independently, and the customs tax on both sides was reduced to less than 30 percent, and Fengzhou would also provide a three-year low-interest loan of 200,000 taels of silver to the Qing State for the purchase of ordnance and equipment by the Qing State, including gunpowder, flowering shells, and 800 catties of camp artillery, and even four Hongyi cannons, the Qing State agreed to deposit 300,000 taels of silver into the Ulan Hada Branch established by the Fengzhou Silver Banknote Bureau, so that they could be exchanged for silver banknotes at any time for trading.

The more thorny problem of returning money and property was also solved, and Fengzhou originally planned to return the 100,000 taels of silver bills to the Qing State, but Haoge was very angry, patted his chest and said that the Manchurians never paid their bills, and if they lost the war, they had to admit compensation, and to say that to repay the money was to look down on the Manchurians.

The issue of repatriation of prisoners is also easy to handle, and Zilharang, who is in charge of the Criminal Department, came to say that the prisoners who are willing to come back are welcome, and those who do not want to come back should take root and sprout in Fengzhou, and it is also a good thing to be able to leave some Manchurian seeds on the grassland, and the family members of Liaodong will not be connected, and those who want to go to Fengzhou to find relatives will be released, and the representatives of Fengzhou were taken aback and hurriedly dissuaded, you can keep people yourself, we can't afford to raise them.

The contract was written in Mongolian and Manchu, and it was a bit strange that the two parties to the contract were the Mongol Hutuktu Baturu and the Mongol Bogda Chechen Khan - Li Yu and the Qing Emperor were both cautious, and those who did not know the inside story would definitely not understand.

Both sides are happy, Fan Yongdou, Fan Erxi's uncle and nephew gritted their teeth with hatred, Fengzhou merchants were driven out of Liaodong, and they can only make waves in Ulan Hada in the future, they want to retaliate, wait and see, you can control the big city in the Qing Dynasty, but you can't control smuggling, who is afraid of whom!

Haoge was also dissatisfied, he finally restored the title of Prince Su, as soon as Li Yu mentioned the matter of establishing the prince, the face of the Qing Emperor was immediately ugly, and he found fault and beat him two days ago, Haoge asked Yunrong to tell Li Yu that if everyone is still a brother, please be nosy in the future.

Yun Rong is done, and he has made a big business of hundreds of thousands of taels, which feels very cool, but this trip is not visible, and he must hurry home. Yun Rong and Bu Yantu were like thieves, they wanted to sneak out of Shengjing City as soon as it was dawn, but when they walked to the city gate, a large stream of people poured out from everywhere, there were banners and Han people, officials and ordinary people, beating gongs and drums to send them home, and even banners were played out - "It is good for the Qing Empire to form an alliance with the Fengzhou Citizen State", "Fengzhou of the Great Qing Dynasty is one family, and they will work together to fight Liaoxi", Yun Rong was still in a daze, Dolgon suddenly came out, and said goodbye to them with a smile on his face, so angry that Yun Rong wanted to smash his little white face with a fist.

At the end of July, Yun Rong and his entourage returned to naturalization, and when they walked to the naturalization square, they found that there were people demonstrating, four or five hundred people huddled together and shouted, and the inspection was hurriedly separating them from the angry Fengzhou people - since the border was opened, the naturalization square has hardly stopped, and the Fengzhou people have something to figure out, just vent it, but the problem is that the Fengzhou people rarely come when they have no major events, but they often run here to complain, and the inspection tells them that Fengzhou can't manage other things, and advises them to go back quickly, but they are justified and say, Naturalized Li Dashuai is a great official, but also a great hero in Shanxi, if there is a grievance, you have to find him, this kind of thing happens too much to make people upset, the naturalized prefect Yamen wanted to close the square several times, but the Dafa Division resolutely disagreed, so he had to let it go. However, today, this group of people did not cry and wipe their tears to complain, but a group of passionate readers, who seemed to be still scolding the commander, how could the commander become a "traitor and traitor" again-Yun Rong, Buyantu and others stood in front of the prime minister's palace and looked at the group of people in the square in a daze.

"Hezhou, Wenliang, come in, those scholars are unreasonable, and even you will be scolded later." Du Hongtai passed by the door, pulled them into the prime minister's office, and by the way told the origin of the matter - in mid-May, the giant Zhang Xianzhong rebelled in Gucheng, and the five battalions of the left and other large and small thieves responded with troops, and the once silent rogues were rampant again, Xiong Wencan, the military affairs of the five provinces, the prime minister, had no way to deal with it, and Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, was also repeatedly impeached, Yang Sichang was forced to be anxious, and the letter hoped that Fengzhou would send troops to quell the chaos, and the commander did not want to meddle in his affairs, so he turned to the emperor and played a special song, hoping to give up Liaoxi as soon as possible, so as to transfer a part of the Guanning army south to Huguang, The rebellion of the thieves will be quickly quelled, the commander is reckless, Liu Wenzhong is illiterate, the letter was sent in a daze, and the result is full of turmoil, and a large group of scholars also ran to naturalization to make trouble.

"Meng Qing, what's the big deal with naturalization recently? There seem to be a lot of outsiders on the street, is it still the Shanxi scholars who made trouble in the square last time? Buyantu asked.

"At the beginning of last month, the bond exchange was listed to trade stocks, the Fengzhou Chamber of Commerce was well-connected, and a large number of accomplices were recruited from the customs to support the tableWhat is this? ”

Yun Rong laughed, the Great Commander had done a lot of reckless things, and hundreds of scholars making trouble was nothing, and asked Du Hongtai: "On the way back, I saw locusts being exterminated everywhere, is the locust plague in Fengzhou serious?" ”

"Xuande, Xinghe and Liangwei are more serious, and other places have little impact, and we plant more yam eggs, this locust plague is nothing, but Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan are seriously drought locusts, and a large area of land in the north is out of harvest, which is a big problem, and the Shanxi refugees are in Chuangfeng Prefecture again," Du Hongtai sighed, pointed to Yunrong and Buyantu and said, "Hezhou, Wenliang, you go home and rest first, tonight we will hold a meeting at the end of the month, we have a lot of headaches." ”

In the evening, all the servants and officials of the affairs office, plus the governor Liu Zhilun arrived at the Great Commander's Mansion, when Li Yu entered the main hall, he was followed by the Chahar Tuba, the Khalkha Subutai, and the Oirats Ashu, after everyone sat down, Li Yu signaled Yun Rong to report the situation of the envoy to the Qing State first.

The people present were too mixed, and Yun Rong naturally concealed many things, such as Fengzhou's support for the Qing State to attack Liaoxi, but everyone knew it, and applauded together, and congratulated Sun Tingyao on finally getting rid of the two Hongyi cannons that no one wanted - throwing Liaoxi as a bait to drag the Qing army and win a few years of recuperation for Fengzhou, which was originally discussed in advance, but Yun Rong took back hundreds of thousands of taels, and at the same time abducted 300,000 taels of silver from the Qing State, but it was unexpected, and even Liu Zhilun gloated about the Qing Kingdom.

Ortaile shouted twice, bringing the meeting back to the point - the month-end meeting of the office is basically a routine, summarize the events of the month, make the next arrangements, and the new secretary of the Commander's Office, Zhang Zhiyao, immediately got up and talked.

First of all, the military situation in the Guannei, the Ming army Huguang defeated the thieves, and the giant Zhang Xianzhong was in Luo, Fang County? The mountain defeated the general soldier Zuo Liangyu, captured and killed the general soldier Luo Dai, the court was shocked, and the edict was sent to arrest Xiong Wencan and put him in prison, Yang Sichang was forced to ask the government and the opposition to ask for the superintendent to suppress the thief, and at the same time asked for additional training salary, which has been approved by the edict to be implemented in the world, so that the imperial court in addition to the levy of land on each mu of land, and also collect one cent and two cents of silver Liao, Liuhe grain, and one cent of silver.

"Chongzhen has been levied for ten years, and the original plan was only for one year, but now the salary should be abolished, and the salary will be sent again, Yang Wenqiao is drinking to quench his thirst!" Liu Zhilun Tieqing's face was full of emotion, everyone's reaction was very indifferent, Fengzhou levied one out of ten to levy the land tax, and the people were also very happy, and the Ming State levied this tax to make a fuss, which can only show that there is something wrong with this court.

Zhang Zhiyao continued: Hamiwei commanded Ma Qi to report urgently, the Western Pioneer Regiment lured the officials of the Yarkand Khanate and seized the city of Turu Domain, Hamiwei expanded its territory to the west for more than 1,000 li, and the population was insufficient, and asked for at least 50,000 immigrants to be given to him this year; Tulu Baihu of the West Sea came to report that the beheaded Baili Tusi Dunyue Dorjee was not dead, and hid in the Chuankang place to continue to resist, and the Heshuo Special Department was ready to ask Fengzhou to lend him another 30,000 taels of silver, and the matter of entering Tibet had to be postponed; Batur came to report that the Dzungar Department had defeated the main force of the Yarkand Khanate, and was currently clearing its remnants, but the Rakshasas on the northern front were strong, and the two sides had won and lost several battles in the middle reaches of the Irtysh River, and asked for some more guns and gunpowder, and the Dzungar Department, the Heshute Department and the Hamiwei met in the west of the Turu Domain, and the three parties had friction over the ownership of the grassland, and he hoped that all parties would negotiate to resolve the matter.

"Ma Qi didn't go to grow grain or cotton but went to war, who let him take the Tulu Domain? I don't want land, he gets into trouble and solves it himself, and what's going on with Tulubaihu and Batur? Khalkha do business to make money, but they will only reach out and ask for it, and Fengzhou does not have so many things for them. Li Yu waved his hand dissatisfied.

Batu shook his head slightly and said: "Hanmin, you can't blame others, in the past two years, we have only paid attention to the Ming and Qing dynasties, but we have neglected the development of our allies, this is not good, the gap between Fengzhou and them is too big, there will be accidents in the future, and it is also difficult for Ma Qi's side, with the land of Hami projectiles, if you don't actively develop outward, survival cannot be guaranteed, we have to try to help them, Nangui, what do you say." ”

Zhou Yi nodded and replied: "Great President, the Prime Minister's Office has negotiated a charter - we have won a great victory in Shandong, and opened a stock transaction, a large amount of silver has flowed in, and the inventory has soared to four million taels, and the silver banknotes on the market are tight, and the Prime Minister's Office plans to print a large number of silver banknotes, so as to increase the circulating silver banknotes to 10 million taels, we have silver in our hands, and no matter how much silver money there is, as long as it is used in the right place, we are not afraid." People also have the fact that there are more than 100,000 people inside and outside the border wall from the beginning of spring to eat our relief grain, and I think that I should go back to the land in Datong Tuntian, which we exchanged for the land of Hetao and Baoketu, and also carried a debt of 200,000 taels, and it can't be cheapened by the Ming State Mansion, with the land of Datong and the westward migration of Hamiwei, it is just to digest more than 100,000 people, but this is up to you to come forward and talk to the governor of Datong. In addition, Fengzhou is in short supply of government talents, and the Prime Minister's Office plans to open a government affairs school, specializing in six subjects: law, industry and commerce, taxation, agriculture and animal husbandry, general administration, and degree support, and Chahar, Khalkha, and Oirat, all of whom can send people to study, and they can give a little money, but they will eventually have to live on their own. ”

The Oirats Ashu stood up with a red face and said to Li Yu: "Great Commander, I have always wanted to say that Mongolia has been divided for a long time, and the people of all tribes have suffered a lot, and it is not easy to unite and must not be separated again, you are the recognized Hutu Ketu Batulu on the steppe, and now it is time to make rules." ”

Li Yu thought for a while and said categorically: "Send a letter to the leaders of the various departments, I will go to Dzungaria in the spring of next year, and ask them to also go together to discuss the future of Mongolia." ”

Li Jianji had just returned from Guannei, and he also talked about the situation of his trip to Nanzhili and Shandong: The Jianghuai General Chamber of Commerce was very interested in Fengzhou in Tuntian, Shandong, but hoped that the location of Tuntian would be moved to Qingzhou Mansion, which was close to Nanzhili, where it was bordered by the sea in the east, the mountains in the west, Jiaozhou in the north, and Haizhou in the south. Sun Fuhu and Zhang Guoji died in the epidemic in Jinan, and more than 3,000 people died, and they were eager to leave as soon as possible.

"Tell Sun Fuhu and Zhang Guoji that they are in charge of Shandong's affairs, and the Grand Commander's Office will support them." Li Yu waved his hand and said.