Shanghai, the great tomorrow is on the line, above the palace, the high-ranking officials of the Ming Cabinet and the Generalissimo's Mansion are gathered, and on the throne in the middle, Zhu Jishi is sitting on it. The Ming Dynasty meeting is reaching its climax.

"Your Majesty the King, something big may happen in Beijing!"

It was Rodriguez, the adviser to the minister, who had recently made a trip to Port Arthur, a port city on the Liaodong Peninsula that was now an important port of entry for the Manchu Qing dynasty and also had a British concession. Rodriguez took millions of real and fake money to buy horses, furs, and ginseng, and set up a trading station.

When I came back, I also went to Tianjin, responsible for escorting an unearthed cultural relic back to Jiangnan, and just returned to Shanghai today...... Cultural relics must not be avoided, they are all treasures created by the Chinese working people, the Ming Dynasty does not want them, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom may smash them! Therefore, Zhu Jishi is not afraid to share the crime of digging the ancestral grave of the Manchu Qing Dynasty with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! Moreover, this matter is still a test for the Confucian scholars in the DPRK and China.

Up to now, only a few minor officials have righteously suggested to King Zhu that these Manchu royal coffins be returned to Shengjing. Now they have all been dismissed from their official positions and will never be used - as for those old foxes of the Xianghu faction, the Liangjiang faction and the Cantonese faction, most of them recommend following the old Jurchen habits and cremating the bones and properly disposing of them...... Well, a bunch of old foxes really don't leak.

"Beijing? What's the news coming out? Zhu Jishi looked at Rodriguez, to be honest, this guy's news is sometimes more timely than Jinyiwei! I haven't heard from Beijing from Jinyiwei for several days.

"No news! Wang, there is no news coming out of Beijing...... The surroundings of Beijing have been blockaded by the Taiping Army. The only thing that had to do with Beijing was that the Taiping sent someone to take away the military doctor on the British battleship Willisley at a high price. ”

What's going on?

blocked the news, and hired a foreigner military doctor at a high price...... Yang Xiuqing fell ill? Injured? Still is...... Assassinated! If only that were the case. Zhu Jishi already knew how Hong Xiuquan was the king of heaven. If there is no Yang Xiuqing to work hard in front. It will be much easier for Zhu Ming to win the world.

Zhu Jishi really didn't expect that it was Emperor Daoguang who was injured and captured, so he really thought about it for a while.

Several people in the hall looked at each other, they were all confused, and the most embarrassed was Luo Dajunshi laughed: "Sensei guessed, I can't guess, and after a while, I will understand everything." He looked at Rodriguez, "Mr. Luo, let's tell us about what Lushunkou has seen...... Can the Manchu Qing Dynasty still live? Have you heard anything about Vladivostok? ”

The port of Vladivostok was frozen at the end of December last year. Naturally, communication with Shanghai was cut off.

"The Manchu Qing should be able to live on and on, and in the Chinese proverb it means that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Now the mouth of Lushun is full of grain ships, most of which are sand ships from the south of the Yangtze River...... Now the price of grain in Lushun is very high, almost twice as expensive as in Jiangnan, and the Manchus are buying grain at a high price. As for the news of Vladivostok, I have not heard of it, and it is estimated that the Manchus did not know that our men had already occupied Vladivostok. ”

It seems that grain has become a sweet spot in the eyes of the two major forces in the north, and Yang Xiuqing did not hesitate to dig graves to get antiques for rice and grain. This Manchu ...... It is estimated that the princes and ministers of each family took out their family savings to exchange rice and grain, right? Otherwise, where would Prince Gong Yixin get the silver to collect enough rice and grain at a high price?

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for us to sell grain to the Manchus like this, right?" Luo Zenan pondered and reminded, "You can't give Manchu Qing a chance to breathe." Starve them all to death! ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, this Luo Dajun is quite appetizing to himself. Zhu Jishi is the kind of guy who is a little unscrupulous in order to achieve his goals. In Europe, it is possible to manufacture H heroin and engage in bed politics without discipline, and in China, in order to oppose the Qing Dynasty and support such a cancer as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and now in order to fight the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he has recruited a priest and doctor...... Now they are plotting to starve the Manchu people to death! It's just disgusting.

"Prime Minister Zuo, go back and formulate a grain export control method, and the grain export must be subject to a licensing system."

It's not that it can't be exported at all, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom still has to continue exporting, otherwise these guys should send troops south to grab food when they are hungry.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates think that you should still sell some grain to the Manchu Qing Dynasty." Zuo Zongtang did not agree with Zhu Jishi's method, "If the Manchu Qing Dynasty is short of food, those who starve to death will inevitably be old and weak, and those who remain are young and strong, which will not be of much benefit to our Northern Expedition after the beginning of spring." It is better to take advantage of the present to let the grain merchants in Jiangnan send more goods, so as not to cause the grain prices in Jiangnan to plummet after the autumn harvest this year. ”

In this era, China's grain-producing areas are all in the Yangtze River Valley, and now all of them are owned by Zhu Ming, and the grain prices in the Ming Dynasty are likely to fall after the autumn of the 3rd year of the recovery. He is now the prime minister, so it is natural to consider the problem more comprehensively.

"No, no, no, if you are afraid of falling food prices, you can set up an official reserve bureau and have the government fund to hoard grain." Zhu Jishi waved his hand, "Also, our crusade against Manchuria can come on the agricultural side." Before the spring sowing, he sent troops to find a place to land in Liaodong and put on a big battle posture...... Another expedition before the autumn harvest. In short, we just can't let the Manchus hoard enough food. ”

Although the Manchus only had half a life left, it was not easy for Zhu Ming to destroy the Manchus in one go, the main difficulty was not that he crossed the sea, but that Zhu Ming did not have a strong cavalry, and the northeast battlefield was too vast. Therefore, the battle of Manchuria could not be planned for a quick decision at all, and could only slowly consume the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and advance steadily towards the hinterland of Manchuria.

"Also...... It is strictly forbidden to worship God on our territory! After arranging the policy of "war of soldiers and food" against Manchuria, Zhu Jishi turned the topic back to the struggle against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The struggle between Zhu Ming and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was largely a religious struggle, and it was necessary to ban the spread of God worship.

"Summoning Miao Peilin to enter the Hajj as soon as possible, King Lone wants to discuss the situation in Henan with him." Zhu Jishi immediately gave another order.

Although Zhu Ming now put Lin Zexu and Zeng Guofan, the "remnants of the Manchu Dynasty", in front of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this kind of "proxy war" cannot last long. In the end, Zhu Ming still had to go to war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in person, and the main battlefield was definitely north of Huaihai. Miao Peilin was the head snake there, so Zhu Jishi had to personally consult him for his opinion on the battle of Henan.

Just when Zhu Jishi mentioned Miao Peilin, an officer of the Generalissimo's Mansion wearing a gray military uniform shouted at the door of the main hall: "Your Majesty, Huaibei Military News!" ”

Now is wartime, military affairs are the heaviest, even if a court meeting is being held, the staff officer of the Generalissimo's Office who informs the military affairs has the right to interrupt the court meeting and inform Zhu Datianzi of urgent military affairs.

"Miao Peilin's military report?" Zhu Jishi smiled, "As soon as he was mentioned, his military report arrived, which can be regarded as Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived." ”

Luo Zenan walked up to the Jinyi Guard, took an envelope, opened it and looked at it, frowning slightly: "Miao Peilin said that Yuan Jiasan, the Manchu Henan envoy stationed in Kaifeng, should lead his troops to surrender to us......"

"Oh, it turns out that Yuan Jiasan is Feng Ting." Zhu Jishi snorted: "Zuo Xiang, military advisor, how should we deal with this Yuan Jiasan?" ”

"Your Majesty, Yuan Jiasan may not be Feng Ting, he has already escorted the city of Kaifeng and abandoned the south of the city." Luo Zenan said with a frown.

"Protecting a city? If you make it more like Uncle Liuhuang, you shouldn't be caught up, right? Zhu Jishi shook his head, this Yuan Jiasan he had heard of in later generations, as if he was someone from Yuan Datou's grandfather's generation.

"In addition, there is another situation, the Prince of Kaifeng Hui Mianyu and Seng Greenqin have already led their troops to the west, and it seems that they want to cross the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and enter Ganxi to the west."

"What? Monk Greenqin wants to go west to Ganshan!? Zhu Jishi was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: "What is the situation?" Could it be that the Manchus are going to split? Monk Greenqin is ready to support Prince Lihui Mianyu to go to Ganshan to claim the emperor? ”

"Maybe Lin Muweng didn't let them go to the north of the floating sea in Shandong, right?" Zuo Zongtang took over the topic and said, "Monk Lingqin's soldiers are all horse teams, which is exactly what Mu Weng lacks, if they go to Shandong, they will most likely be left by Mu Weng to fight the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." (To be continued......)