Of course, in addition to the most important method, which is looting, there is another way to solve the financial problem of Jianqing, and that is trade. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, since the late Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty has decreed that trade with the Jianzhou Jurchens has been banned in various places along the border, but although the imperial court has banned official trade, the private smuggling trade has never been banned.

Shanxi merchants often made a detour through Mongolia to trade with the Jurchens, not only sending life-saving materials such as salt, iron, and grain to the Jurchens, but also acting as agents for the looting of the Jianjun.

And what they sold back in the Ming Dynasty was Dongzhu, ginseng, skins and other luxury goods that were useless to the state.

These Shanxi merchants who betrayed the country in disguise were the eight imperial merchants of the Manchu Dynasty Internal Affairs Office who were personally canonized in the early years of Shunzhi.

Now, due to the rectification of the border towns after Emperor Chongzhen's accession to the throne, Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou and Hukou have been subject to more severe restrictions than before.

Moreover, because the Karaqin Mongol tribes that were attached to the Later Jin Dynasty in history did not belong to the Later Jin Dynasty in this life, but continued to stand on the south bank of the Xilamulun River under the wings of the Ming Dynasty, the smuggling trade route between Shanxi merchants and the Later Jin had to continue to move north.

The distance increases, the risk increases, the cost is higher, and the scale of the deal that can be completed is much smaller.

Half a year after the failure of the Horqin Eastern Mongol Coalition Army to conquer Karaqin, they were still able to smoothly exit the customs from Dushikou, Zhangjiakou, Deshengbao and Shuhukou, detour through Mongolia, pass through Horqin, and finally send the salt, iron, grain, cloth and other scarce materials to the Jin State after the Jianlu, which not only decreased rapidly, but also rose sharply in price.

In this case, Houjin's financial crisis situation has become more serious.

At the end of the second year of Tiancong, the grain prices of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty rose sharply at the same time, and the grain prices in Hetuala, Fushun, Shenyang, Liaoyang, Tieling and other places in the Jin Kingdom after the capture of the Ming Dynasty were also rising sharply.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Taiji, who originally planned to rely on the Han people, let the Eight Banners rob the Han people in the territory in desperation, and also let the two white flags of Dolgon and Duoduo get out of control and stationed in Tungai Prefecture and Fuzhou to slaughter and plunder the few Han people on the Liaodong Peninsula.

The unexpected financial crisis, coupled with the unusual drought and cold this winter, also made Huang Taiji's body a little unbearable, and recently he had a cold, cough and fever, which tortured him to death.

At this moment, after a cough in the Dugong Palace, Huang Taiji looked at the Baylor ministers in the hall, waiting for them to give a solution.

"Great Khan, in the opinion of the slaves, this method is probably not a long-term solution, the banners defend the banners to rob the Han people, although they can live for a while, but in the spring, when the land of the banners needs to be cultivated, who will be allowed to cultivate?

"The children of the Eight Banners, since childhood, have been working hard to hunt, even if they used to be farmers, now they have not been farming for many years, if they continue to treat the Han people harshly and force them to flee, how will I do it in the future?"

The person who said this was Fei Yingdong, one of my five proficient classes.

Fei Yingdong's ancestors were naturalized Jurchen Han Chinese, and now he speaks Jurchen language and has a Jurchen hairstyle, even he has long regarded himself as a Jurchen, but he said this not for the sake of the Han people under the rule of the Later Jin State, but for the sake of his master.

Of course, Huang Taiji knows this truth, and he is doing it now, but there is really no other better way.

In addition to the lowest-class Han people in the Houjin country, who else can he rob?

The attached Jurchen tribes cannot be robbed, nor can the surrounding Mongolian tribes be robbed, and there is now a Dongjiang town between Korea and Houjin.

Could it be that you have just lost a game, and then go to war with Dongjiang?

Even if you want to go in the future, the top priority now is to solve the problem of eating in Houjin first!

Before Huang Taiji could speak, he listened to the sound of the Sanbeile Manggultai urn and spoke angrily.

"Why should the Great Khan ask! When the first Khan was there, my Jurchen Eight Banners ran off the grain and grass, which time didn't let the sons and daughters rob Nikan, kill the poor ghosts and kill the rich, kill the rich and kill the Xiucai, it really didn't work, so I went to rob it and the southern barbarians!

"If I want to say that as long as the Great Khan is at ease with the banner lords and beylers, wherever we go, we will have food and food, and we will live a nourishing and comfortable life than everyone nesting together in this Shenyang city. Look at Dorgon and Dordor, how did they ever have a shortage of food?! ”

There is a rule in the Houjin Eight Banners, that is, the Eight Banners and nobles should be concentrated in the vicinity of the Khan's palace to live, and each flag is also based on the Shenyang City to arrange the garrison according to the distance.

There are not many standing armies of each flag, this standing army is the guard of each flag, only these people do not produce, usually protect the nobles of the banner owner, supervise the army in wartime, and use it as a charge at a critical moment, the most elite but.

This time, Huang Taiji let go and let Dolgon and Duoduo brothers lead the two white flags to leave Shenyang and go to Gaizhou and Fuzhou on the Liaodong Peninsula to garrison, which undoubtedly allowed Dolgon and Duoduo brothers to return to the seabirds and enter the forest, and in just a few months, their strength has grown a lot.

This point makes Mang Gurtai, who is bent on going out and developing his own power, envious.

At the beginning, Mang Gurtai supported Huang Taiji to succeed to the throne, and there was a condition, that is, after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he wanted to let Mang Gurtai go to Tieling to open a mansion and build a government.

Huang Taiji agreed at first, but after inheriting the throne, he withdrew his order under the persuasion of his Han advisers and did not recognize the condition he had promised.

This made Mang Gurtai very dissatisfied with Huang Taiji, so he often opposed Huang Taiji openly and secretly.

Now, with the consolidation of Huang Taiji's position, and turning his hands into clouds and hands for rain, under some operation, he actually imprisoned Amin, the second beyler of the banner owner of Nuer Hachi, although Mang Gurtai is reckless by nature, he can no longer dare to be as arrogant and domineering as usual.

But at this time, seeing that Huang Taiji had summoned so many people to discuss things, he couldn't bear it for a while, and said what he wanted to say.

As soon as Mang Gurtai's words fell, Huang Taiji coughed again, and after a long time, Huang Taiji, who calmed down, said: "Today, I am ill and convene the ministers of the Baylor Ministers, and the people who are discussing are related to the future national fortune of my Dajin, so how can you be cautious. If someone talks nonsense again, Hugh blames me for turning his face and being ruthless! ”

Huang Taiji with lightning speed, after the blue flag owner Erbeile Amin was imprisoned, his power in the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty was even more unchallengeable, coupled with the centralized reform that has been carried out with the support of the Han strategists, so that the authority of Huang Taiji, the Great Khan, far overrode the authority of the previous eight kings, and his title to himself has also changed from "King Khan" to "I".

Now among the magnates of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Kingdom, there are almost no people who dare to speak to Huang Taiji like Mang Gurtai.