Fei Ruhe returned to Beijing to report on his work, with 300 soldiers by his side.

After several years, he once again appreciated the wealth and prosperity of the south, which made Fei Ruhe feel quite emotional.

He had been stationed in Datong, and although people's livelihoods recovered quickly, they were still too sparsely populated compared to the areas south of the Yellow River. After all, Shanxi had been in drought for ten years, and was repeatedly ravaged by the Northwest Liukou, Ming officers and soldiers, and Manchurian Tatars.

Hearing that Xu Ying was in charge of Jiangsu, Fei Ruhe stopped in Yangzhou.

The guards were not allowed to enter the city at will, and the soldiers were left to camp outside the city, and Fei Ruhe only brought a few guards into the city.

Xu Ying heard that Fei Ruhe was coming, so she hurriedly went to greet her, and the two met on the street.

"Haha, Lao Xu, you have also become a feudal official." Fei Ruhe laughed out loud before he could get closer.

Xu Ying smiled and said jokingly: "You are a military general, and you have a private meeting with the chief official of a province on the way to report on your work, and you will be impeached in the former Ming Dynasty." ”

"Whoever loves impeachment will be impeached, and Lao Tzu can't come to see his old friends?" Fei Ruhe didn't care about this.

This goods stayed in Shanxi for several years, and belonged to the absolute emperor of the soil, and the local officials offered him as an ancestor. The temper must have grown, and he was not afraid of heaven and earth, and he also wrote a letter to him to ask a clan brother to go to the Shanxi border to do the leather business.

Violation, but not illegality.

He did not use his subordinates to do business, and he paid taxes normally. But his brother was able to prosper in business, and he had to borrow Fei Ruhe's might.

This is very similar to Gan Tangshu letting her in-laws do business, the difference is that Gan Tangshu has illegal operations incidentally.

For example, colluding with the Jiangsu Salt Department to bankrupt a Shanxi salt merchant, and then transferring the salt sales license of the Shanxi salt merchant to his in-laws at an ultra-low price (there is a quota for salt industry licenses in various provinces, and the approval of the Ministry of Commerce and the signature of the cabinet are required for additional licenses). Moreover, his in-laws did not have a transport fleet, so it was impossible to meet the salt transportation qualifications, and he had to hire a transport team at the beginning.

Fei Ruhe is much smarter, he doesn't touch Yan Zheng or Tian Zheng, he just lets his brother sell leather goods.

Don't underestimate the leather trade, this thing is very profitable!

In the Ming Dynasty, high-end fur was a luxury. In particular, sables, sea otters, lynx and other furs are forbidden for civilians to enjoy, and the Ming court has reiterated the ban four times before and after. It was not until the Longqing period that the leather goods from the grassland increased due to the tribute of the Tatars, and the price dropped slightly, but the Tatar rebellion caused the price of leather to skyrocket.

Even though the trade routes in Mongolia and Northeast China have been opened and the price of leather goods continues to fall, if you want to buy a piece of sable skin in Nanjing, the price is at least more than 300 taels. Sable fur in excellent condition, it is possible to go up for five hundred taels at every turn, and it is possible to sell it for thousands of taels of silver, and it may not be possible to buy it if you have money.

The bulk of the leather trade is still dominated by sheepskins, and the catch of precious skins is too small.

In order to make up for the gap in the market for high-end goods, many Mongolian tribes racked their brains and set their sights on the world's most ferocious cat, the rabbit raccoon.

In recent years, the price of rabbit fur has also been speculated, and the price of shipping to Nanjing starts at least 200 taels of silver.

In addition, the leather trade on the islands of Taiwan and Hainan is also thriving. Taiwan sika deer, Qiongzhou Po deer, a large number of killed. In later generations, this is an act of destroying the ecology, but it is conducive to the development of the frontier today.

For example, the Heilongjiang Capital Division has not really been set up, and the first to respond is actually Shangjia. Because of the Heilongjiang and Songhua River basins, the most precious furs can be obtained, and sable skins and sea otter skins come from there. Well-informed merchants, already gathered in Liaoning, were just waiting to follow the army to Harbin to open a trading post.

All the way to the back house of the political secretary's yamen, Fei Ruhe asked someone to get a gift: "This is an agate (rabbit) Qiu, for my younger siblings." ”

Xu Ying glanced at it, this fur is extremely exquisite, at least three rabbit skins are made, and the labor cost will not be cheap, and the price in the southern region must exceed one thousand taels. He hurriedly waved his hand and said, "The gift is too expensive for me to accept." ”

Fei Ruhe said with a smile: "Before I arrived in Yangzhou, I heard that you became an official slaughterer in Jiangsu." What are you afraid of? When I returned to Nanjing, I would give His Majesty a gift list, and let His Majesty personally see the gifts that were given and which ones I gave them to. Don't worry, it won't cause you trouble, and old friends can't give gifts when they meet? ”

Xu Ying still shook her head: "I received my heart, but I can't accept the gift." ”

"You people, you're really boring!"

Fei Ruhe muttered, didn't treat himself as an outsider, and swaggered into the living room to sit down.

Xu Ying personally made tea for Fei Ruhe and asked, "The situation outside the Cyprus is unstable?" ”

Fei Ruhe said: "There is nothing here in Shanxi, and Li Zicheng is fighting with various departments, and across the desert Gobi, the Khalkha Mongols in the north of the desert can't beat it." The northern grasslands of Hebei and Liaoning, let's call Modong Mongolia, are now very lively, and Khalkha Mongolia has called. ”

"The Mongols of Mobei actually have the strength to go south?" Xu Ying was quite surprised.

Fei Ruhe said: "The Monan and Eastern Mongolian tribes were divided and ruled by the Manchurian Tatars, and now they have been fighting each other for many years, and they have long been sparsely beaten and exhausted. The Khalkha Mongols in Mobei have not been controlled by the Tatars. The seven Khalkha divisions were already headed by the Tushetu department, and the Chechen department was hit hard by the Tatars. Tushetu Khan Gunbu took the opportunity to annex the Chechen ministry and subjugated the other six by force. After unifying Mobei, Gunbu expanded to the east and south. ”

"To the east, Gunbu annexed Alu Korqin (Hulunbuir)."

"To the south, the Bahrain division has been annexed, and the Zalut division is also under attack. The Zarut Mongols, who had been fighting with Korqin, were under the enemy's back, and simply submitted to Gunbu completely. ”

Mobei Mongolia can be roughly understood as the Outer Mongolia region.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the left wing of the Khalkha Mongols moved south to the Xilamulun River Basin in the Great Khing'an Mountains, which was called the "Five Divisions of the Inner Khalkha". After years of scuffle, there are now only two left, Bahrain and Zalut. Among them, the territory of the Bahrain Department can reach as far south as Chifeng, which already borders Datong China. The territory of the Zalut Mongols is already next to Tongliao in the south, bordering Horqin Mongols.

During the Jiajing period, the Khalkha right wing, which remained in Mobei, gradually unified the entire Outer Mongolia region. And it was divided into seven sons to govern, called the "Seven Divisions of Transkhalkha".

Now, the leader of the Seven Divisions of Transkhalkha, Tushetu Khan Gunbu, has begun to expand frantically by taking advantage of the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the fact that the Datong army has not yet gone north. The Inner Khalkha Mongols, who had only two left, were already besieged by other tribes, so they simply turned around and took refuge under the command of Gunbu, who had been a family a hundred years ago anyway.

Fei Ruhe continued: "Gunbu is still a little afraid, so he took the initiative to send him south and ask for the canonization of Emperor Datong. But when the messenger was halfway there, Gon Bu fell ill and died, on the way to conquer Nenkorqin. His son, Chahun Dorji, succeeded to the throne and proclaimed himself 'the Waqi Tushetu Khan of both faith and strength', threatening to avenge his father and saying that he would be the Great Khan of all Mongolia. ”

"Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers." Xu Ying commented.

The old Khan Gunbu of the Khalkha Mongols, although he expanded greatly, still knew that he was afraid. When it was about to border China, it immediately sent an envoy to ask for canonization.

But this new Khan Chahun Dorji is purely a stunned young man, who does not take China in his eyes at all, and directly shouts that he wants to be the Great Khan of all Mongolia. With this slogan, China must also send troops to fight!

However, then again, the Khalkha new Khan Chahun Dorji is indeed very awesome in military capabilities.

Historically, among Kangxi's many sons, only one had a Mongolian name. is still the name taken by Da Yu'er herself, called Aixin Jueluo Sainchahun. Sain is the religious khan name of Chahun Dorji, which comes directly from the name of Chahun Dorji. Da Yu'er did this with two meanings, one was to hope that her grandson could be as strong as Chahun Dorji, and the other was to remind Kangxi to be wary of Chahun Dorji's expansion.

Fei Ruhe said: "When I returned to Beijing this time to report on my work, I was to discuss the use of troops on the grassland. Not only did they have to fight, but they also had to appease the various ministries, and they needed to send a lot of envoys north. ”

The expansion of the Khalkha Mongols was stuck in the Yinshan line in the west, and Chifeng and Tongliao were almost in the east. In any case, the imperial court cannot sit idly by.

Fei Ruhe said again: "This Khalkha Mongolia is also in collusion with the Rakshasa ghosts, and Tushetu Khan has a dragoon guard by his side!" ”

"It's all the more deserving!" Xu Ying said.

Actually, it's not that serious.

Khalkha Mongolia has been in contact with Russia for more than two decades. The relationship between the two sides is complex, with deepening commercial exchanges on the one hand, and territorial disputes on the other. The Buryat Mongols, whose lands were usurped by the Cossacks, were a subsidiary of the Khalkha Mongols.

The Russians, who were expanding eastward, bought a large number of furs and war horses from Khalkha Mongolia, and have become Khalkha Mongolia's largest foreign trade partner. At the same time, muskets and gunpowder were sold to the Khalkha Mongols. There were even a few small cannons sold, the kind mounted on Cossack ships, with barrels as thick as calves.

After chatting about the military for a while, Fei Ruhe said again: "My two cubs were all eliminated by the Imperial City School. What about yours? ”

Xu Ying said: "A son and a daughter, both of whom are studying in the Imperial City School. ”

"Damn, people are more angry than people!" Fei Ruhe didn't have a good airway.

Xu Ying persuaded: "Don't mind, my daughter is about to be eliminated, the Imperial City School is full of prodigies, and it's normal to be unable to compete." ”

Fei Ruhe suddenly laughed again: "Hehe, Zhang Tieniu's sons and daughters are not as good as my pair of children." With him at the bottom, I'm not ashamed, and I can still play with him next time we meet. ”

Xu Ying suddenly came back to her senses: "If you appease all the tribes of the grassland and attack the Khalkha Mongols together, do you need to appease Li Zicheng as well?" ”

"Then it depends on what Your Majesty means," Fei Ruhe said, "After many years, everything has faded, and it is not easy to have a Han force in Hetao." In my opinion, it's better to be appeased. ”

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