Since the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan was levied heavy taxes, it is difficult to make a living by growing grain, the landlord in addition to leaving the ration field, the other land is more changed to cotton mulberry, "Suhu is familiar with the world" has long been unworthy of the name, the copper and iron production in the south of the Yangtze River is also very small, must be imported from Huguang and Jiangxi, Wuchang quietly punched, Nanjing felt the pain when the grain price has doubled.

Nanjing in midsummer is hotter than Wuchang, the Eight Banners soldiers from Liaodong have not suffered this kind of crime, so hot that they almost stick out their tongues like dogs and pant, and they dare not go out in the barracks - in fact, there is nothing to do, Liu Zeqing and Wang Yongji surrendered ashore not long ago, and since then there has been one less disaster, and the people in various places are easy to do, and the 300,000 Ming soldiers can not be raised in vain, so let these rotten soldiers go to kill and rob, anyway, the dead are all Han people, as for the remnants of the Ming Kingdom in Shaoxing, is such a big solar energy going out!

Duoduo was also too hot to stand it, and he had a prickly heat, the eunuchs in the palace would wait for people, and he didn't know where to find the ice cubes, which was much better, and it was not bad to sit in front of the ice cubes every day and drink sour plum soup to deal with official business - hey, the price of food has risen again, when he decided to go south, he only stared at the money in Jiangnan and ignored this fatal problem, but he grabbed the territory but was choked by the neck, Wuchang's hand is really poisonous, where has Hu Chunshui gone these days? To say that this guy is really capable, not only helped sell ginseng in the army, but also assisted the Qing Dynasty to stabilize the place, and he put down the civil uprisings in several counties.

Hu Chunshui finally showed his head, and as soon as he returned to Nanjing, he was called into the palace, and Duoduo slapped the table and roared when he saw him: "You guys are doing things again, food prices have skyrocketed all over the south of the Yangtze River, what's going on, do you want to go to war?" ”

"What a big deal, it's good to have grain to buy this year, what is the price increase, it's okay to have a variety of grains in the spring." Hu Chunshui was stunned for a moment, and replied indifferently.

"What will happen later?" Duoduo shook his head, Datong had a delicate relationship with the Qing Dynasty, and he was afraid that he would be killed before he could grow food.

Hu Chunshui scratched his head and said: "In this way, I will send someone to Wuchang to talk about how much to sell some cheap grain so that the Eight Banners brothers have a bowl of rice to eat, those green battalion Han soldiers are too bad, starve to death." ”

"Yes, starve to death, nonsense, no matter how bad they are, they are still dogs raised by the Qing Dynasty, and they have to have a bowl of rice to eat."

"Then there's no way, I can't help you feed a bunch of rotten soldiers."

Hu Chun's sailors began to play tricks, and Duoduo stared at him and asked, "Old Hu, where have you been these days?" ”

"Go to Jiangyin and Jiading, your rotten soldiers have killed countless people, I have to collect evidence quickly," Hu Chunshui came to his senses, and said with a smile, "Ten kings, I sued you again, if you can't figure it out, kill me." ”

"I am the Prince Yu of the Qing Dynasty, if you want to sue, you can do anything to this king," Duoduo also smiled, pointed to the eunuch outside the door and said, "Old Hu, we are friends, how can this king be willing to kill you, how about castrating you, and I will wait for this king with them in the future." ”

"It's late, I have two sons and a daughter, and they were all sent to Datong, this trick is useless." Hu Chunshui replied with a bitter face.

Lao Hu eats both black and white, and he is generous and righteous, and he is also the most enthusiastic about the affairs of the Eight Banners, and the old and young masters regard it as the cutest Han people, this guy is really hardworking, and in the several counties where he appeased, the people are very obedient and shaved their heads as good citizens, but the magistrates sent by the Qing court were driven out, on the grounds that they were corrupt and oppressed the people, and the evidence was conclusive. The Qing Dynasty has always fought against corruption and advocated honesty, and the Manchurians did not let go when they caught the handle of the Han officials, and rushed to get over the addiction of being the masters of the people, and as a result, several officials who remained in the Ming State were imprisoned. Duoduo always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find anything wrong, and he had to admire Lao Hu for being too slippery.

"Ten kings, report this matter to Beijing, let's get down to business, the wine business you want to do has a door, and there will be a batch of shipments to Nanjing in a few days, which is a lot of money." Hu Chunshui whispered.

"Get out, I'll see the king when the goods arrive." Duoduo flew up, Hu Chunshui dodged sideways, and ran away with a smile.

The bad things in Jiangnan are all caused by the old fourteen, and it is time for him to worry about dim sum - Duoduo figured it out, and immediately sent someone to report to Beijing: Jiangnan has more money and less grain, please ask the imperial court meeting to decide.

Dolgon quickly replied: Money can make ghosts grind, and use the way of others to govern their bodies - Duoduo understood, Lao Fourteen asked me to engage in smuggling, but there are no smugglers in the Qing Dynasty, Lao Hu is not bad, give him more commissions and let him do it, Wuchang has nothing to say if something happens.

Lao Hu agreed, and soon gathered a group of fox friends and dog friends to do smuggling work for the Qing Dynasty - Zhou Yi and Wuchang profiteers applauded this, trade is continuous, they all understand this truth, the purpose of raising the customs tax is to raise prices, grain prices, iron prices rise, and other Jiangnan goods have to rise, this is a good opportunity for Huguang and Jiangxi goods to seize the market, Jiangnan has silver not to make money for nothing.

Beijing, Dolgon will never think about profiteers, the state affairs are busy, from entering the customs to marching into the south of the Yangtze River, the Qing Dynasty is surprisingly lucky, and it is easy to achieve the goal, but every step forward makes him exhausted, and more and more weak - the country that originated in the frontier grassland is developing too fast, and it will show the trend of a strong country in more than ten years, and the Qing Dynasty will be annexed sooner or later, only to find life in the south, God bless the Qing Dynasty to enter the customs by luck, but Zhili, Shandong is eroded, the population is withered, and the territory of the Great Qing Dynasty is large. National strength is growing slowly, and the growing Datong is widening the gap, to survive must continue to the south to take the rich Jiangnan land, and Datong is more cunning, both to use the Qing Dynasty to weaken the Ming State, and the Qing Dynasty is not dead to my heart, only as soon as possible to integrate the Ming State's manpower, financial resources for their own use in order to compete with Datong, time, the key is time, Datong's biggest drawback is the decentralization of power decision-making slow, must be preempted before they start to strengthen the strength.

Dolgon has been working hard, sending people to Qufu to worship Confucius, and the god of Confucius as the most holy scholar of Dacheng Wenxuan, making it clear that Confucianism is also the official study of the Qing Dynasty, and the imperial examination must be resumed after the war is pacified; assigned scholars Feng Quan, Fan Wencheng, Gang Lin, Qi Chongge and others to revise the history of the Ming Dynasty, showing that the Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming Dynasty and was the right thing for the world; abolishing the "three salaries" and some exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, reducing taxes and taxes on famines, war-torn places and along the routes of the army, reducing the burden of the people and inviting people to buy people's hearts; The Han people were appointed to demote and abolish officials, and those who were willing to appease the local area were rewarded and rewarded with Han rule and Han to stabilize the place.

The most important thing is that the officials and the people in the world shave their hair and change their clothes, Datong pursues the policy of "the same race and different customs" to integrate the strength of all ethnic groups, and the national strength is getting stronger and stronger. However, it was difficult to implement this measure, and the Qing army was also forced to shave its hair at the beginning of its entry into the customs, and there were many killings in Gyeonggi and Zhili, and some areas of Zhili were out of control, so Dolgon had to follow the advice of Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng to stop shaving his hair and wait patiently for a new opportunity.

The Qing Dynasty regarded itself as inheriting the Ming Dynasty, of course, it was necessary to copy the Ming system, Hanchen found a familiar feeling in the Qing Dynasty, and involuntarily began to fight again, and the north-south party struggle throughout the Ming Dynasty naturally occurred - the firm Northern Party member, the Ministry of Rites and the Lang Sun Zhiqi was a man of temperament when he was young, and when Wei Zhongxian fell, he was not deeply involved in the case and could not meet the criteria for being selected as a eunuch, but recognized that the Donglin Party took the opportunity to persecute the Northern Party by cleaning up the eunuch party, and ran to the Taimiao to cry and cry in full view of the eyes of the people. He applied for the title of eunuch and went home, from the destitute of the Hanlin Academy to nothing, and the personality of this young talent was distorted for more than ten years.

After the Qing army entered the customs, Sun Zhiqi took the initiative to enter Beijing to join the Qing court, and became a comrade-in-arms of the Northern Party who fought side by side with Feng Quan, a scholar of the university. The two parties fought openly and secretly, attacked each other, and only divided the party into factions in everything, regardless of right and wrong, and vied with each other to invite favor to the Qing court. The Southern Party wanted to go back to his hometown and resolutely support the Southern Expedition to destroy the Ming Dynasty, but at the same time advocated retaining the Chinese style of clothing and hair, Sun Zhiqi did not dare to oppose the Southern Expedition, but shaved his hair and kept braids to sing the same play, this move angered the Southern Party, and the voice of condemnation rose, Sun Zhiqi simply suggested that all Qing officials and people shave their hair and change their clothes, and also used Datong as an example to show that changing their hair and crown can unify the hearts of the people and enhance national strength, and the Northern Party immediately echoed - Dolgon waited for this opportunity, and issued an edict to reprimand Gong Dingyu, Chen Mingxia and others for not thinking about the Qing Dynasty to learn Han etiquette and follow the Ming system, But with Hua Gui rejecting foreign customs, and wanting to make the Manchurians die? This hat was not lightly buttoned, and Gong Dingxiao, Chen Mingxia and others were so frightened that they retracted.

Dolgon frightened Hanchen, and had to win the support of the Manchus, but the Manchus suspected that Dolgon wanted to weaken their power, to be honest, after entering the customs, they were indeed left out in the cold, not familiar with the situation in the pass, and their knowledge could not be compared with Hanchen, they couldn't write official documents, and they didn't dare to talk more for fear of making a fool of themselves when they participated in the court meeting, and they couldn't keep their bear-like power, and Dolgon took the opportunity to get rid of them and monopolize the power - using the Manchus to suppress the Han, and then using Hanchen to restrain the Manchus, Dolgon's heart was known to everyone, They are full of grievances and nostalgia for the good times in Liaodong, and they are doubly vigilant against Dolgon's moths, what are we after shaving our hair and changing our clothes, will this family business founded by Taizu and Taizong be handed over to the Han people?

At the meeting of the princes and beylers, Dolgon talked about his grand plan, Prince Dai Shan, Prince Zheng Zierharang pretended to be stupid and did not express his position, with them as an example, and the others were silent, everyone was angry in their hearts, you Dolgon monopolized the power, and the princes and beylors meeting had already become an ornament, why should we support you?

"The many benefits of shaving hair and changing clothes have been said by this king, what do Prince Li and Prince Zheng think?" Dolgon was tired of persuasion, and directly named Daishan and Zilharang.

"Full of suffering, abandoning the family business from the dragon into the customs, but the life is not better than outside the customs, a few days ago someone died of smallpox, young to leave the orphans and widows, it is sad to think about." Dai Shan wiped his tears and sighed.

"The Han people have no conscience, we used to be so good to them, but they wanted to run when they entered the customs, and when they entered the door, some people said that the slaves in the family ran away three more, so pitiful, one of the two sons died in Henan and the other went to Jiangnan, how to live after the family lost its population!" Zilharang was also crying.

"We are too few Manchurians, but there are countless Han people, and the slaves are afraid, maybe one day they will rebel, and then the family will have no way to live." Prince Su Hauge interjected.

The prince Belle cried bitterly, obviously deliberately off-topic, and Dolgon suppressed the fire and pretended to smile and said: "This king knows the suffering of his minions, and if there is anything that needs to be done by this king, just say it." ”

Just waiting for this sentence, the prince Baylor looked at each other for a while, and finally Haoge opened his mouth to ask for a price: "The minions go out to do things and die for a lifetime, and they are most concerned about the livelihood of the old and young in the family, and we as masters also have to think about the minions, can we, can we allow them to accept the Han people?" ”

After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the "Enclosure Law" was promulgated, and the Huangzhuang and ownerless wasteland in Gyeonggi and Zhili were distributed to the banner people as a livelihood, but the limited land could not satisfy the appetite of the banner people, and they continued to grab the land of the Han people on the grounds that the land was barren and the distribution was not uniform, and they also learned a good way to lie at home and eat and drink - accept the charge, and the Han people can take the land into their names after paying a certain amount of land harvest, and then exempt from paying the court taxes.

Dolgon hesitated for a long time, sighed and waved his hand, and said, "Go back and set up a rule that the minions of the banners should not go too far. ”

The prince Baylor was overjoyed, and Zilharang nodded and replied: "It is time to establish a rule, the uncle is young and promising, and he can do it himself in major matters, and the minions are still oriented towards their own people." ”

The deal was successful, everyone went their separate ways, and that night someone reported to Datong that the shaving order was the work of Dolgon and Hanchen, and it had nothing to do with me.

Dolgon still couldn't take care of the inner ghost, and the next day he issued an edict "Now there is a family in China and abroad, the king is like a father, the people are like a son, and the father and son are one, how can it be disobeyed, if you don't draw one, it will eventually belong to two hearts", and explicitly ordered the world to shave their hair and change their clothes.

If today's general decision has been made and the people's hearts are attached, there should not be much resistance to shaving and changing clothes - Dolgon thought about it beautifully, Jiangnan immediately became a piece, and civil uprisings also broke out in many places in Zhili and Shandong, and the Qing Dynasty suddenly became full of smoke and blood.

Dolgon was furious, convened a meeting in front of the palace to vent his anger to the ministers: "I Qing Dynasty to benevolence and filial piety to rule the world, Confucianism, courtesy, gentry, tax reduction, than the Ming Dynasty more than ten million times better, there are ugly instigation of the people to resist the government, but I don't know that the people of the east of Shun, the people of the west of Yu, the people of the Manchu people learn Han etiquette, the Han people obey the Manchu customs, so that the Huayi can share the peace, some people just pretend not to know, their hearts are extremely sinister, the king ordered the Prince of Ying, the Prince of Yu to continue to stay in Kaifeng, Nanjing, dare to plot rebellion severely punished. ”

The Manchurian and Mongolian ministers were silent as usual, and the Hanchen looked at each other for a moment, and the highest status of the Inner Secretaries of the Academy, the secretary of the military department and the right capital of the imperial Shi Hong Chengchou replied: "The minister had said before the southern expedition, do not slaughter the people, do not burn the house, do not forgive the meaning of property, where the door is opened and surrendered, the official will be promoted, the army and the people have not committed any crimes, if they resist and disobey, the day of the city, the officials will be punished, the people are still safe, there are advocates of internal response, exceptional reward, this important task is also, today's chaos will be punished, but the strong enemy has to be guarded against on the side, and the powerful minister should be sent as soon as possible to pacify the place, so as not to be overwhelmed inside and outside. ”

"The minister seconded the proposal and recommended Lord Hong to pacify the provinces south of the Yangtze River." Fan Wencheng came out of the ranks.

"The ministers seconded the proposal." Gong Dingyu, Chen Mingxia and other ministers of the Southern Party echoed the voice.

Dolgon gradually calmed down, and looked at Feng Quan, Sun Zhiqi and a group of northern parties, so that the Han and Manchu people could check and balance each other, and the Hanchen internal party used the northern party and the southern party to check and balance each other, which was his consistent practice.

Feng Quan, a scholar of Hongwen Academy, was silent, and Sun Zhiqi came out and said: "The minister also seconded the proposal, but it is the national policy of the Qing Dynasty to shave his hair and change his clothes, and those who are willing to shave their hair can be exempted, and those who resist will have different hearts and must not be forgiven." ”

"That's it," Dolgon nodded, and suddenly remembered something again, and asked the ministers, "Datong is engaged in shaving his hair and letting go of his feet, and there doesn't seem to be any trouble, do you know the details?" ”

"The minister knows," Gang Lin, a scholar from the National Academy of History, stood up and said with a disdainful expression, "Most of the officials in Datong are evil Confucians and profiteers, what good can they do?" It is nothing more than to deceive the people, such as letting women put their feet, those profiteers set up cloth factories and woolen factories, and tricked women into working for them, and women who put enough money to work earn more, and the people let their own women put their feet when they see the money, but the women of serious people still don't want to let go of their feet, as for the matter of shaving their hair, they are even more shameless, and they make up a microscope, insisting that the growth of hair should generate anger and nourish small insects to invade the human body, and the epidemic was born because of this, and the people were frightened to shave their hair, and often took a bath and laundry. A few days ago, Datong sent two microscopes, persuading us to buy more to persuade the people, profiteers are profiteers, and they can't forget to do business at any time, and the ministers will give them to the Ministry of Rites without looking at them. ”

"Oh, what a microscope is, this king would like to see it." Dorgon was interested.

"Uncle, the minister is guilty, the minister ordered the microscope to be smashed," Chen Mingxia quickly knelt down and kowtowed, wiped his tears and said, "The minister didn't dare to stay, and the book "Microscope Said" was sent with the microscope, which is simply a fallacy and heresy, among which there are 'people's ** contains countless small insects, stupid and moving like tadpoles playing in the water', is this what people say, evil magic is definitely evil art, I can't touch it in the Qing Dynasty." ”

Dolgon laughed: "Chen Mingxia, you smashed well, this king has already said, Datong officials do not learn and have no skills, establish a country with heresy, and get rid of China, its momentum cannot last long, I entered China in the Qing Dynasty and practiced Han etiquette, respected Confucius and Mencius and re-educated, China is in me, now the Manchu and Han families are worried about the country's prosperity, this king reiterates, the Qing Dynasty is confident that the Confucian-based theory is correct, the self-confidence inheritance of the Ming system is correct, the self-confidence of the imperial power unification road is correct, and in time my Qing Dynasty will be able to make China glorious again. ”

The three self-confidence greatly encouraged the ministers, and they shouted with tears in their eyes: "Uncle Shengming, Uncle Emperor Shengming!" ”

The waiter of the Ministry of Industry made a report: "Uncle, the minister has good news, the officials of the Ministry of Industry work together, the 5,000-pound camp cannon trial is successful, the daily march can be 100 miles, the cannon falls is a piece of erosion, there is such a sharp weapon, why not be afraid of Datong ugly!" ”

Dolgon was so excited that he waved his fist and shouted: "I'm a great Qing country, it's amazing!" ”

"Long live my emperor, long live my emperor, uncle thousand years old, thousand years old." The ministers chanted again.