"I'm afraid Jiannu is going to be in big trouble this time."

Chongzhen smiled: "Even if you can win in the end, it is estimated that you will have to peel off your skin." ”

Zhu Cijiong said thoughtfully: "Father, so the rebellious subordinates are not all straw bales, except for Li Yan who can fight, there are actually people who know how to use interests to win over the Mongolian tribes." ”

"Zuo Maodi said that this person's name is Gu Junen." Chongzhen said solemnly, "It is the most far-sighted mastermind under Li Zicheng, and his foresight is even above Li Yan. ”

Zhu Cijiong said again: "Father, we can't take it lightly. ”

"That's nature." Chongzhen smiled and said, "That's why my father wants to try his best to promote the trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Puppet Shun, not only to make money, but also to make the Mongolian tribes in the Western Regions live a good life." ”

Zhu Cijiong said with a smile: "Then one day, I will cut off the source of goods, and the Mongolian tribes in the Western Regions will cut off the source of luxury goods, and I will pour out my anger and even anger on the head of the pseudo-shun." ”

Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "But that's for the future." ”

"Hey, that's not right." Zhu Cijiong suddenly said, "Father, I, the Ming Dynasty, can control the Mongolian tribes in the Western Regions through luxury goods such as tea, silk, and porcelain, can't Gu Junen see it?" If Gu Junen could see it, why didn't he tell the stakes to Chuang Rebellion? ”

Chongzhen said: "How do you know that Gu Junen didn't tell Chuang Rebellion? ”

Zhu Cijiong said: "If you know the stakes, how can you still promote the trade of luxury goods? ”

"Silly son, this is the general trend, or Yangmou!" Chongzhen said with a smile, "Chuang Chao and Gu Junen know that promoting the trade of luxury goods is a cup of poisonous wine, but they still have to drink it obediently, because the silk, tea and even porcelain produced by our Ming Dynasty are irreplaceable, and there is only one in the world, and there is no other semicolon." ”

Speaking of this, Chongzhen suddenly remembered another big event.

At that moment, Chongzhen turned his head and instructed Gao Qiqian to say: "Gao companion, go and invite Xia Yunyi to come." ”

"The old slave commands." Gao Qi responded and went to invite Xia Yunyi over.

Xia Yunyi came to Chongzhen, bowed to Chongzhen as usual, and then visited King Ding.

"Flat." Chongzhen shook his hand and asked again, "Xia Yunyi, I remember that you are from Songjiang Huating, and you are still a fellow villager with Xu Jie, right?" ”

"Back to the saint, the minister is the Songjiang Huating people."

Xia Yunyi said: "I am still an old friend with Xu Fuyuan, the great-grandson of Xu Ge. ”

Chongzhen said: "Songjiang is a good place, not only celebrities, but also cotton cloth. ”

Xia Yunyi was a little stunned when she heard this, and said in her heart, what does this mean? Came to talk to me on the march? Why did you suddenly pull the Songjiang cotton cloth again?

However, Xia Yunyi replied: "Yes, Songjiang cotton cloth is the best in the world, not only my Ming Dynasty, but also Dongying Xiyi can't weave such a good cotton cloth, so there are often businessmen from Xiyi and Dongying who come to our Songjiang to buy cotton cloth, and at most they will buy millions of cotton cloth at a time." ”

Chongzhen said again: "There should be a lot of cotton cloth produced in Songjiang, right?" ”

Xia Yunyi said: "Wanli has made statistics that there are more than 200,000 family textile machines in Songjiang Province, which can weave more than 20 million pieces of Songjiang cotton cloth every year!" In a good year, it can reach 40 million horses! ”

Zhu Cijiong next to him was dumbfounded, there are so many cotton cloths?

Chongzhen said again: "What I am more curious about is why other places can't weave cotton cloth of the same quality? ”

Xia Yunyi said: "First, because the local cotton in Songjiang is good, and secondly, because the technology of Songjiang weavers is good, there are few cotton cloths in other state capitals that can be comparable to Songjiang cotton cloth." ”

Chongzhen said: "There are not a few people like Songjiang cotton cloth who are unique. ”

Xia Yunyi said: "Yes, in addition to our Songjiang cotton cloth, there are also silk from Shudi in the south of the Yangtze River, porcelain from Jingdezhen and tea from Huguang, Fujian and Zhejiang, all of which are unique treasures in the world. ”

Chongzhen said again: "These treasures are all given to us by our ancestors, and we have to keep them." ”

Hearing this, Xia Yunyi finally tasted some flavors, the saint called him here for this?

Chongzhen did not pretend to be a dumb riddle with Xia Yunyi, but directly made it clear: "Xia Yunyi, I plan to set up a city department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is specifically responsible for managing the trade between the Ming Dynasty and overseas. ”

"There are two main responsibilities of the city, one is to collect customs duties, and the other is to strictly investigate smuggling."

"Our Ming Dynasty can lift the sea ban and welcome all overseas merchants to come to trade, but whether it is selling foreign goods to our Ming Dynasty or buying goods from our Ming Dynasty, we must pay tariffs."

"As for the standard of tariffs, you should discuss it with the Chamber of Commerce first, and then report it to me."

After saying this, Chongzhen continued: "The second point I want to tell you today is smuggling, not only to strictly investigate foreign merchants and Chinese businessmen who evade tariffs, but also to strictly investigate those merchants who vainly try to bring silkworm cocoons and tea seedlings out of the Ming Dynasty. ”

It's too late to ban silkworm cocoons.

Because the technology of silkworm raising and silk reeling has long spread to Central Asia and Europe.

However, tea was transplanted to India by the British during the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Speaking of this, Chongzhen said: "There are also techniques about silk reeling, weaving, embroidery and firing porcelain, which are not allowed to be leaked to foreign merchants in Xiyi, and foreign merchants must be prohibited from visiting the workshop." ”

The traditional craftsmanship passed down from our ancestors must be kept in high secrecy.

Xia Yunyi said solemnly: "The minister understands, and the minister will go back to Beijing to form the city." ”

"You'll be back now." Chongzhen said again, "Don't stop, let Xia Wanchun come over and lead the troops for you." ”

The total of 270 Huating soldiers in Huating was recruited by Xia Yunyi when he returned to his hometown, and now that Xia Yunyi is gone, he naturally has to change to Huating's Qinwang Shizi to lead them, which is none other than Xia Wanchun.

……

At the same time, far away in Beijing, in the palace of Prince Rui.

Dolgon was discussing with Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan.

When it comes to fighting, naturally you have to rely on the Eight Banner nobles, but when it comes to using your brains, those Eight Banner nobles are not enough, and even dozens of people can't tie up with Hong Chengchou and the three of them.

There was no shortage of other Han Chinese who were scheming, but Dolgon couldn't believe it.

Dolgon's most trusted people are Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, especially Hong Chengchou, who has the most trust from him, and every time he encounters something difficult, he will summon Hong Chengchou's staff officers.

This time, for example, Dorgon is in trouble again.

Dolgon said, "Three gentlemen, the Qing Dynasty is going to be in trouble. ”

Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, and Ning Wan glanced at each other and asked, "Dare to ask the master, what's the trouble?" ”

Dolgon said: "Not long ago, our scattered in the steppe sent back news that the pseudo-shun was secretly colluding with the Khalkha and Chahar tribes in the name of Sangar, preparing to form an anti-Qing alliance! Not only that, but even the Dzungar tribes are in frequent contact with the puppet Shun, and they have to merge if they don't do well. ”

Fan Wencheng said: "Master, don't worry about this matter, the pseudo-shun can't form an alliance." ”

Ning Wan also said with a smile: "When the first emperor was there, Lin Dan Khan made an alliance, but in the end, it was a basin of loose sand, and it was easily defeated by the first emperor with thousands of elite horses. ”

"But this time it's different." Dolgon said solemnly, "This time, in order to curry favor with the Mongol tribes, the Pseudo-Shun opened the horse market, and the Mongols could exchange cattle, sheep and horses for tea, salt, ironware, silk and even porcelain that they urgently needed, and there was no limit, as many as they wanted!" Therefore, the Mongol tribes are a little ready to move. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Hong Chengchou and the three couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this.

If this is the case, things will be difficult to do, and the pseudo-shun has such courage?

For a long time, the Central Plains Dynasty would impose a strict blockade on the nomads in the north, and also set up a horse market, but strictly limited the total amount of trade, and only the tribes that were obedient to the Central Plains Dynasty were eligible to trade in the horse market.

But this time, the pseudo-shun actually relaxed the restrictions and allowed the Mongolian tribes to exchange urgently needed goods?

After a long time, Hong Chengchou said: "Master, such words really can't be underestimated. ”

Dolgon said, "I came to the three gentlemen today just to ask you what good countermeasures you have?" ”

Hong Chengchou said: "The most effective countermeasure is that we in the Qing Dynasty also provide tea, silk, salt, porcelain and other materials to the Mongolian tribes, but unfortunately we can't get the most precious tea and silk." ”

Hearing this, Dolgon's face fell, because the Ming Dynasty had completely cut off trade between the two countries.

As long as it is found out that it is a Qing court merchant or a Jin merchant, not only will you not be able to buy the goods, but you will also be killed.

So now, the Qing court and Jin merchants have a huge amount of silver in their hands, but they can't buy a piece of silk, a tea brick, or a porcelain made in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there is still smuggling.

But the amount of smuggling was too small, and the price was ridiculously high, so it was obviously not possible to buy silk, tea, and porcelain from the black market and trade them with the Mongols.

Fan Wencheng said: "Nanming, this is obviously aimed at our Qing Dynasty." ”

"Not really." Ning Wan also smiled bitterly and said, "The pseudo-shun can buy any items from the Nanming, but only our merchants in the Qing Dynasty can't buy it, this is to help the pseudo-shun to encircle the Mongolian tribes." ”

Hong Chengchou sighed and said, "Master, this matter is unsolvable. ”

This is a conspiracy, upright, and the Ming Dynasty is going to block you financially.

Dolgon said, "In this case, the alliance between the puppet and the Mongol tribes can only be broken by force. ”

"I'm afraid so." Hong Chengchou said, "But fortunately, the strength of the Mongolian tribes is extremely limited, even if they are in collusion with the puppet Shun Gao Gong Department and Li Yan Department, it is not enough to be afraid." ”

Fan Wencheng said: "If my Eight Banners warriors can defeat the Mongols once, they can defeat them twice." ”

Dolgon said: "Since it has been decided to send troops, it is better to fight sooner rather than later, and fight at the beginning of spring!" ”