In the Wuying Palace, a group of Eight Banners generation and second generations who have not been consumed by wealth and nobility are discussing how to deal with Zhu Cihong behind closed doors!

"Lord Wang, the slave thinks that the prince of the Zhu family is full of confidence!" It was Gushan Ezhen He Luohui who spoke of the Zhenghuang Banner, "The matter of the Southern Expedition still has to be considered in the long run." ”

What He Luohui meant was actually the consensus of the Dolgon system - they killed more than 800 warriors in the Battle of Dagukou, many of whom were white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers. If it weren't for the thick foundation of the two white flags, it would have hurt the vitality.

Therefore, Dorgon's people were more cautious about fighting Zhu Cihong.

"What about the marriage?"

He Luo would say, "The minions think it's feasible...... The crown prince of the Zhu family is capable, and he will definitely be the emperor in the future, and there is no more suitable candidate than him. ”

It is impossible for Emperor Shunzhi to marry his cousin, and if Dongguo Gege wants to marry the emperor, then only Zhu Cihong can choose.

And Dolgon is now in power, flying and domineering, and coercing the Son of Heaven to sleep with the Queen Mother, except for the henchmen from the two white flags, the remaining six banner magnates are dissatisfied with Dolgon.

Now that Dorgon is alive, no one dares to oppose him, but he is not in good health, and he will not live long...... It would be better for Tungor Gege to fall into the hands of Dolgon's political enemies than to fall into the hands of Zhu Cihong! Therefore, Holo will be genuinely trying to find a way out for Dorgon's daughter.

Dolgon's brow furrowed, noncommittal.

"What about the Kinkan and the International Trade Hall?" Dolgon asked, "What are these two pavilions all about?" ”

The Parliamentary Pavilion is actually an embassy, but it is only in the name of "Parliamentary Relations", so that when the two sides are at war, they can still maintain diplomatic exchanges - as long as neither side of the Ming and Qing Dynasties has the strength to push the other side, it is necessary for the negotiation channel to exist.

Of course, the trade hall was commercial, which was the Ming and Qing trade methods that Zhu Cihong decided to adopt after referring to the Dutch and Zheng family's merchant houses in Nagasaki, Japan—in Zhu Cihong's view, it was impossible to blockade and trap the current Qing Dynasty by means of trade.

The territory of the Great Qing Kingdom was large enough to include the three eastern provinces of the later dynasty, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Outer Northeast, Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Beijing City, Tianjin City, as well as North Korea and South Korea. How can such a large territory be blocked?

Moreover, the economic basis of the Great Qing Dynasty today is a typical feudal serfdom, and the foundation for maintaining the serf economy of the Great Qing Dynasty is how much population and land the state can control! With the current control ability of the Great Qing Kingdom, it can be maintained by enclosing land and investing!

Even if the trade between the North and the South is zeroed, as long as more land is encircled and more peasants are forced into slavery, there is no problem of not being able to survive.

For example, more than 30 million mu in Shanxi and nearly 50 million mu in Beizhili were encircled, and two or three million households were forced into slavery. Three buckets of flour are harvested per acre, and one cotton and linen cloth is collected by one household. There can be more than 20 million stones and two or three million horses a year, can you have such an income, and you are afraid that hundreds of thousands of Eight Banner masters will not survive?

If it is not enough, it is a big deal to develop the Northeast 200 years earlier, at least we can get tens of millions of acres and millions of serfs!

Moreover, if these Han people who were forced to become slaves only needed to pay the "rent" of one mu and three buckets of noodles and the "tune" of one piece of cloth per household (the rent of the Sui and Tang dynasties was the transfer of cloth), the burden would definitely be lighter than the work they originally gave to the landlord......

As for the Xiaoice River period or something, starving to death some Han people, will the Eight Banners magnates care? Moreover, with the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners now, the northern peasants will definitely not be able to defeat the uprising.

Therefore, it is basically a dream to rely on the means of blockading trade and suppressing commerce to force the current Qing Dynasty to collapse. On the contrary, prosperous commercial activities will make the children of the Eight Banners corrupt and degenerate, and gradually lose their combat effectiveness.

Since the trade blockade will not weaken the combat effectiveness of the children of the Eight Banners, but will maintain their combat effectiveness, of course Zhu Cihong will not do such a thing.

Therefore, he took advantage of the opportunity of "discussing relatives" to open a merchant house on Haisha Island, which hangs at the mouth of the Weihe River in Tianjin, and strived to put the initiative of trade between the Ming and Qing dynasties under the control of Shen Tingyang, the minister of Beiyang. Then a large number of good things to eat, drink and have fun were entered, so that the children of the Eight Banners who settled in Beijing could live a leisurely life of carrying cages and birds as soon as possible.

Fan Wencheng, a white flag minion who had just returned from the Datong front, frowned and thought for a long time, and didn't understand Zhu Cihong's thoughts, so he said to Dolgon: "Lord Wang, you might as well agree first...... Anyway, Haisha Island is not easy to control, and it is easy to get it when the river freezes in winter, and when the river surface melts, it will be an island, so it is better to let the Southern Dynasty set up two pavilions there, but they are not allowed to garrison troops. Let's station some people at Dagukou and watch Haisha Island. ”

"What about the marriage?" Dolgon's brow furrowed.

Fan Wencheng said: "Anyway, Gege is still young, just discuss it slowly...... There is a channel for discussion on both sides, and the minions think it's not bad. His brows gradually twisted, "Lord, this discussion of relatives and peace, the difference between one word can also become the same thing." ”

Dolgon nodded: "Yes, anyway, we can't deal with the Southern Dynasty for the time being, it doesn't hurt to negotiate peace slowly, and we can also paralyze the prince of the Zhu family!" ”

When Dolgon discussed the southern expedition with He Luohui, Fan Wencheng and others, the three of them did not know that in Nanjing at this time, the anti-Qing sentiment had risen to the extreme!

Only a few people in Nanjing knew about Zhu Cihong's dispatch of envoys to Beijing. And the news that came out public, whether it was written in the newspaper or published in the "public revelation", all showed that the brutal Dongyu was about to go south!

If the people and scholars in the southeast don't want to become slaves of the Tartars, don't want their property to be seized by the Tartars, and don't want their wives and daughters to be humiliated by the Tartars, then they can only contribute money and efforts to resist the Qing Dynasty to the end.

The tide of the whole people's resistance to the Qing Dynasty spread from the city of Nanjing to all directions.

And one of them followed Zhu Cihong's envoy Hou Fangyu up the river to Wuchang City under the rule of Zuo Liangyu.

In December, Wuchang City gave people an unusually depressing feeling. The whole city is always shrouded in haze, not the weather, but the mood of the people.

Because in December six years ago, there was a mutiny in Xuzhou City, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province, and Xuzhou happened to be the old camp of Zuo Liangyu's army that was encircling and suppressing the Liukou in the Central Plains at that time! Including Zuo Liangyu, many family members of Zuo officers and soldiers were killed in this mutiny.

So every December, it is the death day of these martyred left family members!

And in the history of later generations, the infamous Zuo Liangyu Zuo Dashuai, at this time, the "personality" is full of loyalty!

So for Zhu Cihong, he is a more difficult character to deal with than Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo. Zuo Liangyu's whole family was basically martyred for the Ming Dynasty, leaving him and a son, and an adopted daughter, it can be said that he destroyed all 8 families for the Ming Dynasty!

And he is old and can't live for a few days, so pity an "old loyal minister", what can Zhu Cihong do with him? The evil deeds of the Zuo Jiajun in history have not happened yet, whose crimes can Prince Zhu openly punish?

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