Looking at Dolgon's distrustful expression, Guan Shanhe said softly: "Ah Shan, who accompanied this Kul into the city today, suddenly had a high fever an hour ago, and there were many rashes on his body, according to our doctor's diagnosis, I think he should have smallpox.

I think you should know that this kind of vicious disease can be passed, and the mortality rate is still very high. This Kur has been in contact with Ahsan, so we have to isolate him. Not only him, but also your guards outside the city will be quarantined one by one. We need to make sure that smallpox doesn't spread in and around the city.

Of course, you can also choose to bring them back immediately, and we will prepare a carriage for you to transport the patients. ”

"God, smallpox! Are you saying that it is possible that Kur Entangle has passed smallpox? Before Dolgon could say anything, Gao Hongzhong, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but shout, and Dolgon also found that Gao Hongzhong, who was originally standing between him and Kurtang, quickly turned to his other side as if he was burned by fire, and avoided Kurtang far away.

Kurtang, who was confronting the white-robed Mingren, obviously heard Gao Hongzhong's shouts, and his face turned a little pale in the firelight. Several Jurchens standing beside him couldn't understand Chinese, and looking at Gao Hongzhong's strange appearance, they couldn't help but ask Kurtang a few words.

After hearing Kurtang's answer, although these Jurchens were not as exaggerated as Gao Hongzhong, their footsteps quietly moved back, and the movements of moving away from Kurtang naturally reacted.

Although there were five or six steps between Dolgon and Kurtang, his legs were faintly trying to move away at this moment, but Dolgon's strong self-control finally prevailed, and he finally did not move away from Kurtang.

Dolgon turned his head and smiled stiffly at Kuhl before he said to Guan Shanhe, "Are you really sure it's smallpox?" And not other diseases? Whether Ahsan has smallpox or not, I have to go and see the guards who came with me. When I'm sure of Ahsan's condition, I can tell you whether to send them back or have you isolate them. As for Kurtan, I agree with you to isolate him for the time being, but I hope he will be properly healed. ”

Kuhl, who was standing nearby, listened and immediately bowed down to Dolgon gratefully. Guan Shanhe nodded, and then instructed the medical nurses behind him and said, "You will divide two people to take this Kur Entanglement Envoy to the quarantine area, and the others will carry out a disinfection operation here." ”

Guan Shanhe then asked Dolgon to follow him out of the city to verify Ahsan's condition with his own eyes. In this sudden situation, Dorgon was able to maintain his composure, and his performance was much stronger than that of ordinary people. But after all, he was still a teenager, and he was also terrified of smallpox, a serious disease that the Jurchens heard about.

By the time he arrived at the camp outside the city with Guan Shanhe, the number of people suspected of contracting smallpox had increased to three, and the number of 80 Jurchen soldiers was now divided into two groups. Ah Shan and a few other patients plus more than a dozen Jurchen soldiers who took care of them were in one group, and nearly 60 other Jurchen soldiers were in another group.

When Dolgon entered the camp, it was the larger Jurchens who were making a noise and demanding that the Ming army move them out, because they did not want to live with the sick people like Ahsan.

Looking at the performance of these subordinates, Dolgon finally believed that there were smallpox patients among his subordinates. After he came forward to appease the soldiers with the two white flags and make them believe that they would be properly taken care of, he asked Guan Shanhe's people to take them to the quarantine area separately.

As for the sick Ahsan, Dolgon stood outside the tent and looked inside, and after casually saying a few words to Ahsan and the others to recuperate, he hurriedly retreated.

When he returned to the city, Dolgon finally asked seriously about how the Ming army quarantined these Jurchen soldiers and how long they needed to be quarantined.

After Guan Shanhe said a few perfunctory words, saying that they would have to be quarantined for at least 3 days to determine whether they had contracted smallpox, Dolgon finally calmed down.

When those Jurchens were restlessly undergoing the quarantine inspection of the Ming army, Zhu Youzhen was also communicating with Li Chenfang, and after praising Li Chenfang's performance in the past two years, he began to get to the point and said: "The Japanese you trained this time performed well, and when you ordered them to go forward to fight, you can do your best."

There were about a lot of Japanese casualties in this war, and although I ordered them to be rewarded and favored, you, as their superior, still need to care for them mentally.

For those Japanese who died in the war, after the bodies were cremated, arrangements were made for personnel to be sent back to Japan for burial, and a bereavement pension was given to the families of the victims. If any of these family members wish to continue in the military, they may be accepted first.

As for those Japanese who were seriously wounded and could not continue to go to the battlefield after recovering from their injuries, those who wanted to return to China were given a severance payment, and those who were willing to stay were arranged to work in the Tokai Inspection Office or the Japanese Division of the Four Seas Trading Company.

In addition, I would like you to select a group of reliable personnel from these Japanese to join the Brocade Guard. These people will be assigned to a new department to gather intelligence on Korea, Japan, and the Ryukyus, and I want you to be in charge of this department. ”

Hearing that Chongzhen put him in charge of a new department, Li Chenfang didn't feel much joy, but said to the emperor in surprise: "Is Your Majesty going to transfer the minister back to Jinyiwei?" ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at him and said, "What, you still like your current job and don't want to change jobs?" ”

Li Chenfang finally reacted, and hurriedly said: "The minister just didn't react for a while, as long as it is His Majesty's order, the minister will obey it." Those Japanese under the vassals, except for those ronin samurai, other civilian-born people will basically be willing to be loyal to my Daming.

His Majesty treated the casualties of the Japanese so favorably this time, and the minister thought that the remaining Japanese should be more loyal to our Ming than their lords in the country. And the manpower that His Majesty needs, the minister will also select as soon as possible. But..."

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but say: "But what? ”

Li Chenfang said with some doubts: "Korea, Japan, and Ryukyu are just small countries, and the minister has been getting along with those Japanese for a long time, but he also understands some Japanese affairs.

It is said that Japan is an island country surrounded by the sea, and the island is full of mountains and forests, and there are often volcanic earthquakes. Even if they are so-called samurai daimyo, they can eat rice every day, and they already feel like a heavenly day.

Those Japanese civilians who were forcibly arrested to join the army, after enjoying the food provided by my Daming, swore one by one that as long as they could eat such food every day, they would rather die for Daming than return to Japan.

With such a scarce island country, do we really need to spend so much energy to deal with them? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Li Chenfang and smiled and said, "You are right, Japan is indeed a country with a shortage of materials, but this country also has many good things. In the past 30 years, according to the information I have collected now, Japan's export of silver has increased from 100,000 taels to nearly 10 million taels this year. It can be seen that although Japan is short of materials, it is not short of precious metals.

Although the Ming Dynasty claims to be a vast land, the amount of silver mined each year is less than a fraction of Japan's annual output. Since I ascended the throne, although I tried my best to promote paper money and wanted to reduce the amount of silver flowing in the market, those merchants and people still believed that only silver was the real wealth, and the paper money in hand was always consumed as soon as possible, for fear that it would become a Ming treasure banknote in their hands.

It is precisely because of this popular will that even if the three major banks were established and these big businessmen were allowed to use their assets as collateral to issue banknotes, I would never dare to issue banknotes that exceeded the value of the bank's assets, otherwise the banknotes would become a piece of waste paper.

However, our Ming Dynasty has a population of hundreds of millions, and as long as the economy improves slightly, it will be able to produce millions of taels of silk, cotton, linen, steel and other material wealth every year. These products must be exchanged in the market for producers to profit from them and thus get a reasonable return.

However, in order to exchange in the market, there must be enough currency. Now everyone in the Ming Dynasty only recognizes silver as currency, but I can't produce silver myself, so I can only absorb it from overseas. If overseas silver stops flowing into Daming, then there will be a shortage of money in our market.

Silver is expensive and cheap, and the more you produce, the more you lose. If the people cannot rely on labor to support themselves, they will inevitably choose to pick up knives and guns to find a way to live.

In a short period of time, it is obviously impossible for me to find a silver mine with an annual output of millions of taels in the Ming Dynasty. Then we must obtain a channel for the steady inflow of overseas silver to stabilize the steady development of the Ming economy.

There are now two sources of bulk silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty from overseas, one is the silver brought by Europeans across the Pacific Ocean from the Americas; The other is from Japan.

It is said that most of the silver in the Americas comes from the Spanish colonies, and the amount of silver produced annually far exceeds that of Japan, but there is a Pacific Ocean between my Ming and the Americas, and it is obviously impractical to try to plot American silver with the power of the Ming Dynasty at sea, so we can only try to maintain trade relations with Europeans.

Japan is located in the northeast sea of our country, and the distance between them is not far away. So, if we want to control a stable source of silver, or the most likely place in the near future, the only place we want to control is Japan..."

Although Chongzhen had said it as concisely as possible, Li Chenfang was still a little ignorant. However, he understood one thing, Chongzhen wanted to deal with Japan, not to boast of martial arts, but to control the steady flow of Japanese silver into the country to ensure the economic development of the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, it is to maintain social stability and eliminate the factors that make it impossible for the peasants to survive and rise up in revolt. For such a lofty mission, Li Chenfang's enthusiasm has naturally increased a lot.

He said with a serious face towards Chongzhen: "As long as Your Majesty gives an order, the ministers will be broken to pieces, and your Majesty's order will be completed." ”