In the end, Song Xiance couldn't help it, he hurriedly spoke: "Dolgon and Li Chuang are both harboring evil intentions, what tricks can they play, at most it is just a counter-trick, it is extremely stupid, but there are even more stupid than them, eight out of ten 'nine will be fooled!" ”

What Song Xiance said was more stupid than Dolgon and Li Zicheng, and there was no doubt that he was referring to those people in the court.

Especially Emperor Chongzhen, he is stubborn and suspicious, but he likes to be smart, this kind of strategy can really make him fooled.

But Song Xiance's "stupid" has another meaning.

There is no need for them to break the scheme, now Chongzhen's suspicion of Yu Guozhen has reached the extreme, but so what, Yu Guozhen has enough strength to let Chongzhen keep all the suspicions in his heart, and during the New Year's holidays, even on the birthday of Yu Guozhen's eldest son, Chongzhen did not obediently send an envoy to issue an order of reward.

The rewards are all worthless fame, but this later shows his entrapment of Yu Guozhen, which is extremely obvious.

Dolgon and Li Zicheng are no longer heroes, and there is no way to get the secret agreement that Yu Guozhen and Chongzhen made through Fan Xian in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, I don't know that in that secret agreement, Chongzhen exchanged the promise of Yu Guozhen not to go north at the cost of opening the market and population migration. The secret agreement between the two sides is not at all something that can be shaken by sowing discord, because it is based on the strategic choice of both sides: Chongzhen is unable to look south, while Yu Guozhen hopes to get valuable development time and market.

Everyone laughed when they heard Song Xiance's words, and Song Xiance said again: "No matter what they say." We all verbally agreed, but what they asked us to do, we resolutely did not do, and if they asked us not to do it, we did it immediately......"

"You're a donkey." Mao Yuanyi was dissatisfied.

Everyone laughed again, according to Song Xiance's statement, isn't it a donkey who is leading and not walking backwards.

Song Xiance laughed dryly, others said that he would definitely blush and quarrel with a thick neck. But Mao Yuanyi - firstly, his qualifications are indeed older than him, and secondly, in terms of strategic vision, he admits that he is not as good as him.

"What does Mr. Mao think?"

"What Mr. Xiao Song said is not wrong, this is a divisive scheme, at least dividing our relationship with the imperial court is one of its goals. Confirm this, then the main purpose of the other party is easy to speculate, Li Zicheng said that he wanted to go east. Attack Xuzhou, but what is he going to do after attacking Xuzhou? Now Li Zicheng's army is 100,000. And it's not the kind of rabble that comes together. Instead, he has been a habitual soldier who has followed Li Zicheng for two or three years - Mo Xiao, Mo Xiao, although compared with our tiger guards, they are still a rabble, but at least against the officers and soldiers, they are no longer defeated at the touch of a button. ”

The laughter of everyone made Mao Yuanyi's originally tense face relaxed, and he was not too embarrassed to praise the combat effectiveness of the army. After all, everyone here is familiar with Tiger Guard. The strongest army in the world is none other than Huwei. Even if the strong armies of European countries are pulled over, they may not be able to be stronger than the tiger guard.

"Li Zicheng arrived in Xuzhou and got our grain, if he goes south next, he will have to face our anger, so his only choice is to go north and wave his army into Beijing." After everyone laughed, Mao Yuanyi said softly: "He wants to go to the Forbidden City to live an emperor addiction." ”

This made everyone completely quiet, and almost all eyes looked at Yu Guozhen.

In the eyes of everyone here, if the world needs to change an emperor, then this emperor is not qualified except for Yu Guozhen. So when they learned that Li Zicheng, a rogue, was now coveting the emperor's throne, everyone was furious without exception.

It was Yu Guozhen himself, who was still very quiet.

"What about Jianyu, Jianyu sent people, could it be that he also wants to enter Beijing again?" Yu Guozhen asked.

He delicately and skillfully put aside the emperor's matter and regarded it as a mustard, which made everyone a little unwilling and couldn't help but admire.

How many people in this world can face the temptation of the emperor's throne without moving color?

They didn't know that Yu Guozhen's idea was very simple, it should be his, it would be his after all, and everything would fall into place. Even if Li Zicheng really went to the Forbidden City to become the emperor, what could he do, would he Yu Guozhen admit it?

"The purpose of Jianyu, in addition to being separated and entering Beijing, I am afraid that there is no other embrace, and I am afraid that Jianyu also has the possibility of testing whether we can live in peace with us...... What I don't understand is whether there is collusion or just a coincidence. Mao Yuanyi said.

"As long as the Jianyu have not paid off their sins against Huaxia, then there will be no peace with us." Yu Guozhen said calmly: "This point, no matter how Dolgon tempts, it will not change. ”

This is Yu Guozhen's usual attitude, and the so-called Jianyu is full of sins, the first of which is the destruction of the Aixin Jueluo clan - this is an absolutely impossible condition for Jianyu to accept, so the death of the two sides is inevitable.

"Anyone else to add?" Mao Yuanyi had already thought about it very comprehensively, and what Yu Guozhen thought of by himself was these, so Yu Guozhen skipped the procedures one by one and asked directly.

Wang Haoran looked at everyone, everyone didn't make a sound, he thought about it, and finally raised his hand.

"Brother Wang, say it." Yu Guozhen said with a smile.

"Ahem......" The sentence "Brother Wang" almost blocked Wang Haoran's words back again, he glared at Yu Guozhen, as if he had returned to the time when the two were simple friends, and the original nervous mood was relaxed.

"There may not be any collusion between the captives and the thieves, it may just be a coincidence, otherwise the two sides would not have sent envoys to us at the same time, wouldn't this be a superfluous move. I have been paying attention to some things within Daming these days, and in the past two years, there have been some things within Daming, which is quite interesting. ”

"In the area of Nanzhili, the original weavers resisted donations, which happened from time to time, and in the past two years, they have been frequent every month, and about half of the cotton machine households in Songjiang have arrived in our Xinxiang, and the remaining half are difficult, and the imperial court is still collecting taxes, cutting salaries, Liao salaries, and every year, they can only resist donations."

"The west area of Huguang River was originally a granary, but in the past two years, because of the thief disaster, the people have been displaced, and finally the thief has been driven to the mountains again, but the court has heavy taxes, and the people can't afford to pay the silver taels, so they have sold their fields and become homeless people.

Yu Guozhen's throat was slightly itchy, he glanced at Mao Yuanyi, Mao Yuanyi happened to look over, and both of them were slightly ashamed in their eyes.

Wang Haoran also put this trace of shame in his eyes, and he also sighed in his heart.

The handicraft workshops in Nanzhili and the yeoman farmers in the west of Huguangjiang went bankrupt, and the imperial court's harsh taxes were the main reasons, but Xinxiang also contributed to this matter. In recent years, with the application of steam engines, Xinxiang has achieved industrialization in many industries, taking the cotton textile industry as an example, not only new spinning machines and looms have been introduced, but even cotton varieties have been replaced by American cotton with longer fibers and more suitable for weaving. Under such competition, how can the weavers in the Nanzhili area not go bankrupt? The bankruptcy of yeoman farmers in the western part of Huguangjiang was the result of Yu Guozhen's intentions, and whenever he harvested, he would transport the newly produced rice to these places and sell it at a low price to keep down the price of rice. Under Xinxiang's low-price dumping, the tragedy of the yeoman farmers "overharvesting three or five buckets" has been repeated almost year after year.

By this time, Yu Guozhen and Mao Yuanyi were all stunned, and Wang Haoran revealed something they were reluctant to think about, but it also gave them a clearer understanding of the entire situation.

Mao Yuanyi is an old minister of the Ming Dynasty after all, and when he really sees this dynasty going to the end of the road, he still feels a little unbearable in his heart; Yu Guozhen looked at this dynasty with inertia, and always felt that this dynasty still had two years to support.

But in fact, in order to counteract the economic means of the imperial court to besiege Xinxiang, Xinxiang has destroyed the last two roots of this big tree like termites.

It only took a gust of wind for the tree to fall.

What makes people feel even more meaningful is that both the court and the people have lost their interests in this matter, but they have to accept Yu Guozhen's feelings: the court wants to thank Yu Guozhen for the grain that has stabilized the price of rice, and the landless homesteaders have to thank them for not being desperate because of the existence of Xinxiang.

"Some time ago, the imperial court sent Fan Xian to Xinxiang to discuss the matter of finding a loan for Xinxiang, because Fan Xian was not very eager, so we didn't pay attention to it. It seems that the imperial court has also realized that it will not last long, so it will make this move. But this Fan Gonggong didn't know how to think about it, and did not truthfully reflect the emperor's true intentions, so we will ignore the meaning behind it. Wang Haoran didn't think about the meaning in Yu Guozhen and Mao Yuanyi's eyes, he just continued to say his thoughts: "Therefore, I suggest that we don't need to mainly consider the true intentions of Li Chuang and Jianyu, but should consider how we should do it if the imperial court really can't hold on." ”

"Then you don't need to ask, naturally it is a small official who went north, became an emperor, and married seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courts." Tian Boguang said with a smile, only he dared to make a joke about Yu Guozhen in this kind of thing.

But it's just a joke, and everyone understands it.

"Our intelligence system in the capital...... Why is there no news about this, the court can't hold on, it may only be that there is no money, but, in our calculations, the court should still have some money in its hands. Gu Jiaming said cautiously.

"The imperial court 'should' still have some money, but it can't stop them from drifting." Wang Haoran's answer was concise and forceful.

Yes, Xinxiang gave the imperial court a certain amount of support, and to some extent alleviated the financial difficulties caused by Xinxiang's economic invasion, but the damage caused by moths within the imperial court was not even investigated by Xinxiang's intelligence system.

"Brother Wang is right, it seems that the imperial court is really powerless to support it, and it is strong in the middle, and unfortunately, this kind of strong in the outside is seen through by Jianyu and Li Chuang. We just didn't have the heart to overthrow the imperial court, so we didn't think about it, otherwise we would have seen through it a long time ago. Yu Guozhen said slowly, everyone understood that he had adopted Wang Haoran's suggestion, and the next meeting would shift from how to pay Li Chuang and Jianyu back to how to deal with the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

(To be continued)