Chapter 606 Jiangnan Road, friend and foe are difficult to distinguish

Li Wei and Nian Qianqiang's suggestions are not only their own understanding of "righteousness", but also for their own gain, and if they want to benefit, they have to fight for power. Yongzheng threw Jiang Jian and Zhejiang civil affairs to Li Wei, and military affairs to Nian Qianqiang. But in order to contain each other, Nian Qianqiang can meddle in civil affairs, and Li Wei is still pinching the green camp in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Yongzheng had the good wish to let the two of them be in the same boat, but the two felt like they were wrapped in a quilt, which was extremely uncomfortable.

Now the two of them will offer a strategy with completely different directions, which is also to point out to Yongzheng, who is the boss in Jiangsu and Zhejiang?

Li Nian and the others were still thinking about fighting for the boss at this time, but what happened next made them faintly feel that if they really became the boss, could they live a stable life?

There was a lot of commotion outside the garden, and it seemed that someone was going to rush into the garden and ask for justice.

"Lord Fan, Fan Xiantai, please save my master!"

"Master Gaotai doesn't care, Master Xiantai, you have to take care of it!"

A group of women screamed, and the garden, which had been quiet and pleasant, became hot and uneasy.

I heard Fan Shijie shouting: "This, this is a military matter, and Benxian can't help it." Li Zhengtai and Nian Dashuai are also here, they have to decide! ”

The two of them left the hall in amazement, and the family stepped forward to attach their ears, Li Wei's mallet eyebrows, and Nian Qianqiang's machete eyebrows, raised together, and then drooped down together.

Xi Wantong, the governor of Hangzhou Prefecture, never arrived at the meeting, thinking that he was sick, but he didn't want to be robbed by the Nanban. These women are his wives and concubines, and they first found the acting governor of the envoy, and were pushed to Fan Shijie by the envoy, and ran to Hangzhou to find someone, asking Fan Shijie to send troops to save people.

How dare Fan Shijie take this stall, and hurriedly pushed it to Li Wei and Nian Qianqiang.

Li Wei arched his hand and said: "Lianggong, this is a military matter, you have to give a charter." ”

Nian Qianqiang arched back to the past: "Another step." Ah, then it will be bothering you to issue the constitutional decree. ”

The two laughed, and the laughter was extremely stiff.

What did Nanban kidnap Xi Wantong for? Li Wei knew it in his heart, and secretly made up his mind. Earlier, he wielded a butcher's knife in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to slaughter scholars, and Xi Wantong was the most active one, most of whom were Jiangnan scholars who fled to Nanban to seek revenge. Save Xi Wantong? My neck is still cold.

After Nanban landed at Longmen, he doubled his stand-in attendants again, and now there are no one hundred and eighty people around him, and he doesn't dare to go out of the yamen at all. Xi Wantong didn't want to get involved in this matter at all.

Although Nian Qianqiang is not familiar with the previous Jiangnan literary disaster, he also knows that if the chief officials of other prefectures and counties do not arrest him, he will arrest the prefect of Hangzhou. This is a local matter in Jiangnan, and he, an outsider, doesn't want to be involved in this responsibility.

The two of them thought about it deeply, and they felt a little Meng Lang about their earlier suggestions. Yongzheng really wants to throw the entire Jiangnan to himself, can he carry it and put it even? Top dog...... It's not that easy to do. Pander to.

Yongzheng's reply came quickly, which made the two both frustrated and relieved.

Yongzheng is obviously also at both ends, his great determination has been used too much, and he can't cheer up at all in Jiangnan affairs.

Yongzheng denied Li Wei's strategy of giving up fighting with the Nanban in Jiangnan and allowing his industry and commerce to enter and exit on his own. The imperial approval severely reprimanded Li Wei for this "capitulationist line", Jiangnan is related to the lifeblood of the Qing Dynasty, nearly half of the money and two-thirds of the grain come from here, if he Yongzheng does not show his determination to protect Jiangnan, what will the princes and the court and the countryside think of him Yongzheng, how will they look at this Qing Dynasty?

Let the people of the world know that Jiangnan is not lost now, but it will be lost in three or five years, what will the people of the world think? They don't think that the emperor and the court are lying on their backs and tasting their gall, or that they are breaking their wrists in a strong man, they will only think that the emperor has given up and the Qing Dynasty is about to end. The Qing Dynasty is about to end, and the first is that his Yongzheng position is no longer in prison.

At the same time, Yongzheng also denied Nian Qianqiang's strategy of setting off a big war in the south of the Yangtze River, in Yongzheng's view, this is an "opportunist line" that will die if you fight. He asked Nian Qianqiang two questions. Can the younger brother rely on the green camp in Jiangnan to win? In the previous battle of Longmen, five or six thousand green battalions fought less than two thousand red-clothed soldiers, what was the result? There are more than 100,000 green battalions in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, all of which are pampered and rotten, and they are inferior to the Nanban First Army, which is what you said in the excerpt before. …,

As for the transfer of Shaanxi, Gansu and even the Beijing Camp Firearms Army, don't even think about it. The imperial army, only in Jiangbei and the Central Plains, relying on cavalry, can still have a chance of winning, and throw the firearms army that Yongzheng has worked hard to accumulate for several years into the quagmire of Jiangnan, only a madman would do this.

The second question is, what are the consequences of stirring the people so violently?

Yongzheng coldly reminded Nian Qianqiang. Li Shi is not the kind of pedantic person Li Dingguo did earlier, and the trick of the people against the people shows that he is cunning enough to pass the buck. If the Jiangnan people are mobilized, who will they deal with in the end, this is a huge question. Thinking that back then, Jiangxi and Hunan Luying could turn against the imperial court, and if they really wanted to use this strategy, Li Xian was afraid that he would wake up from his dream with a smile. Once the people of Jiangnan are allowed to form an army by themselves, it will be enough for Li Xi to set up the banner of Zhu Yuanzhang back then!

So what to do?

Li Wei and Nian Qianqiang's suggestion is actually the two extreme reactions of Yongzheng and Daqing's situation in Jiangnan. Yongzheng was in pain, and he had to make a trade-off.

In the end, his instructions were that the imperial court could not help but show its determination to defend Jiangnan, so the Songjiang camp was to be built, and it was always necessary to fight with Nanban, at least it seemed that it was fighting.

However, Jiangnan can no longer mobilize the people in a big way, let them live honestly, pay taxes to the imperial court, and pressure them not to fall to the south.

Yongzheng denied the core of the two people's suggestions, which made the two frustrated, but at the same time, it also allowed the two to avoid being held responsible alone. Li Wei and Nian Qianqiang could only pinch their noses and continue to squeeze into the same bed, skin-to-skin. And for Yongzheng's attitude of obviously dragging to death, the two can only call in vain, no way, the position is first, Yongzheng first has to consider his dragon chair. For this Jiangnan, we can't lose it, we can't beat it, and we can't do it if the masses don't move.

Li Wei said to Nian Qianqiang heavily: "Let's just think about doing those two well, so that the emperor can sit a little more stable in the north." ”

Nian Qianqiang could only nod, Li Wei meant his heart. Yongzheng asked him to continue fighting, but he understood that this was just a full appearance, and what he really had to do was to restrict the entry and exit of Nanban people and goods in and out of Jiangnan.

The two soon found out that it was such a bottom line, and it was becoming more and more difficult to keep.

Caught between the north and the south, the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is becoming more and more complicated.

On October 28, in the capital city of Suzhou, 10,000 people rushed to the streets, and saw rice shops and smashed them.

"The Nanban occupied Hunan, and there was less and less rice entering the south of the Yangtze River, and now they were still cutting off the trade routes in Songjiang Province. We rice merchants followed the government to raise grain and rice, but the amount was still insufficient, and it was all Nanban's fault! ”

The shopkeeper of the rice shop shouted hoarsely, the reason why there was such a big mess was because the price of rice had skyrocketed. Suzhou Prefecture has a shortage of self-produced grain, and has to purchase millions of stone of grain every year. Since the beginning of this autumn, there seems to have been a problem with the flow of grain, and the price of rice has risen from 1234 yuan to 2256 yuan, and it is still rising at a rate of several tens of cents a day.

Originally, the people were anxious because of the confrontation between the north and the south, and at this time, their emotions were rapidly out of control, one person shouted, and ten thousand people responded, so they went to the street and robbed.

"The rice in the south is piled up at Longmen, and it is clear that you colluded with the government to prevent you from entering!"

"People's rice is only sold for eight yuan a stone, and I heard that they only sell for five or six yuan a stone in China, which is cheaper than Kangxi's meeting, why don't you let people's rice come in!?"

The facts were too conspicuous, and the shopkeeper's sophistry only aroused the anger of the people. The shopkeeper is also full of pain, who let the government do what kind of goods introduction now? If you don't spend money to get the goods from the officials, the officials in the government will have an excuse to come to the door to extort.

They have to have a guide for selling things, and those who sell grain have to have a guide. All kinds of states and counties and even Xuntang sentry cards have taken a bite to eat by checking the goods, peeling them off layer by layer, whether they are merchants or sitting merchants, the cost is more than double that of the past, and if the price does not rise, can they still do this business?

The angry people beat their heads full of bags, and the shopkeeper also let out, shouting: "Nanmi is cheap and large, and Longmen is close to here, if we can buy it, how can the price of rice be high?" It's all the government's fault! ”

There is no need for the shopkeeper to mention it, the anger of the people was not vented in the rice shop, and they all flocked to the yamen of the Suzhou prefect, asking the government to relax the grain control, and then they were led to the yamen of the governor of Liangjiang by the Suzhou prefect with snot and tears on his face. …,

Li Wei had already run away, and he couldn't come forward in person about this. The staff came forward in his name, swore a gambling curse, and promised to lower the price of rice, which barely appeased the people.

The rice rush in Suzhou has not completely subsided, and there is another salt rush in Hangzhou, and Fan Shijie has encountered greater pressure than Li Wei, and the salt merchants have salt ding, and the salt ding has knives and guns, and on November 3, the people of Hangzhou grabbed salt, and the salt Ding opened fire, killing and injuring more than 100 people.

Unlike rice merchants, salt merchants are mostly private merchants who do grain and rice business all year round. After all, the profits are bo, the origin and the market are complicated, and the officials and merchants and the imperial merchants are not very deep. The salt business is highly profitable, the salt field is clear, the route is direct, and the imperial court controls it, and the specific handlers are imperial merchants and official businessmen.

Salt was already salt-induced, and by taking advantage of the strict control of commercial goods, salt merchants raised the banner of "anti-smuggling" and waved a big stick to clean up many illegal salt dealers, and the price of salt also soared.

Salt affairs were strictly controlled by the Qing court, and other places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang paid close attention to this matter to prevent the price of salt from being too outrageous. Salt is not rice after all, and as long as the price of salt is not high enough to the point that it cannot be eaten, the people can still tolerate it. But here in Hangzhou, the prefect Xi Wantong has just been arrested, and the new prefect is from the north, and he is completely blind to local affairs.

On the north and south, the comparison of grain prices is not too exciting, but the comparison of salt prices is too amazing. The salt piled up in Longmen is less than 10 wen, and the salt in Hangzhou is as high as 80 wen a catty.

Rocking a small boat, buying salt from Longmen, there was an endless stream of people transporting it to Hangzhou, and the Hangzhou salt merchants instigated Yanding to kill these smuggled salt sellers at the wharf, but they also bought salt from Longmen, which made the people unbearable.

There was also a shout from the crowd of the salt shop that made Fan Shijie tremble: "Reverse this Qing Dynasty, let Yinghua be the home of our Jiangnan people!" ”

So he tolerated the shooting of Yanding, and at the same time labeled the matter as a case of rebellion by the Southern Barbarians, but he summoned the salt merchants overnight and asked them to lower the price of salt.

A salt merchant said leisurely: "Lord Li, your way is not in line with Li Zhitai and Nian Dashuai's orders." Our salt is different from the salt of Nanban, Jun Ling wants us to strictly control the salt road, so we have to hire salt, this money is thrown out, the price of salt will definitely be high, how to drop? ”

Fan Shijie really wanted to spray a mouthful of old blood on his face, different!? Who doesn't know that you all go to Longmen to buy salt?

If these salt merchants are allowed to go down, Hangzhou Mansion will really be reversed, Hangzhou Mansion will be reversed, and Fan Shijie's top and even his head may be gone. He also didn't care that the backstage of these salt merchants was either from the Internal Affairs Office or from the palace, and said in a deep voice: "This matter is related to the foundation of the imperial court, if you don't surrender, don't blame Benxian's subordinates for being ruthless!" ”

The salt merchants sneered disapprovingly, the governor of the district, who could be frightened. Pander to.

Fan Shijie is gone, he is fierce, but he really doesn't dare to touch these salt merchants, but the price of salt can't be lowered, and this matter is also troublesome, what should I do?

The master nagged for a while, and Fan Shijie's eyes lit up.

A few days later, the price of salt in Hangzhou fell, because Fan Shijie himself became a salt dealer, he communicated with the Shengliang Salt Company in Longmen through Zhou Kunlai's line, organized a group of illegal salt dealers, and used the city guard battalion under his control to transport a large amount of Yinghua refined salt into Hangzhou, and finally stabilized the price of salt.

"Alas...... This is really indistinguishable from friend and foe. Pander to. ”

Fan Shijie stroked his forehead, and felt that he really couldn't figure it out.

In Longmen Port, in the newly renovated Xingying Office, Xue Xue said to Xiang Huailiang: "Now in this Jiangnan, friend and foe should be able to distinguish between friend and foe, right?" ”。 ）

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