There is an undercurrent surging in Nanjing, and Beijing City, which is thousands of miles away from Nanjing, is not the same?

At night, my mansion in Beijing was still brightly lit, and as a high-ranking official of the Qing Empire, many official duties that could not be completed during the day required him to consciously work overtime. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn this era, there is no such thing as overtime pay. Of course, he Lao Ning doesn't need this kind of thing.

According to the convention, confidential business is still handled in the study. It is still the housekeeper who serves him in the office, as the old housekeeper of the Ning Mansion, although Ning Fu is a slave on the surface, but in fact he has to serve as a staff member. Especially some handwritten posts and the like, he has to classify them so that it is convenient for me to deal with them. After some thought, the housekeeper Ning Fu first took out Chen Banda's post.

In the post, Chen Banda first explained the progress of his firearms research, then said that the regent had approved his request for appropriation, and finally urged Ning Wan to release the required funds as soon as possible, especially the benefits for craftsmen. Butler Ning Fu looked at Ning Wan's uncertain face, and said cautiously: "Master, the regent has spoken on this matter, and it seems that it should be handled as soon as possible." ”

The so-called benefits to craftsmen are an unprecedented move. At the suggestion of Chen Banda, Dolgon, in the name of the regent, issued an edict that all provinces should be removed from the nationality of craftsmen and exempted from the price of craftsmen in Beijing. The handicrafts of the government and the craftsmen required by the government were all changed to an employment system, and a system of remuneration for work was implemented. (This is a historical fact.) On the twenty-fourth day of April in the second year of Shunzhi, the Qing Dynasty issued an edict that all provinces should be exempted from the status of craftsmen and exempted from the price of craftsmen in Beijing. Li Shouhan: You damn author! Didn't you say that I was the only one who traveled through time? Could it be that this guy Dolgon is also a traverser?! You're playing double wear with me?! ）

Ning Wan gently threw my hand aside, and said disdainfully: "The pickle craftsman just climbed the high branch for a while, and came to me to pretend to be the master, I really don't know how thick the sky is." The weapons he built were of poor cost and high quality, and their production was much lower! I really don't understand, there is a silver to build these weapons, and find a way to open up the trade route with the southern merchants, just buy as much as you need! And pay those craftsmen! It's ridiculously tight! After all, the regent has spoken, so say hello to the adults of the household, let them discuss it, and if there is enough money and food for disaster relief, give him a little. ”

"That's what the lord said. Nowadays, there are wars everywhere, and the expenditure on military salaries is huge and the consumption is huge. Soon after the beginning of spring, we have to prepare for the autumn season, and these tens of thousands of moves have arrived, which is a huge expense. When they become court officials, you have to handle the expenses of the court. Ning Fu praised his master, as a confidant in charge of confidential affairs, he naturally knew a lot of important matters of the imperial court. For example, it has been put on the agenda and is scheduled for the autumn of August in the second year of Shunzhi.

In the second year of Shunzhi in history, there were two major events in the non-military field, one was the hair shaving order that made countless people cry bitterly. And along with the shaving order, there is also a notice to open a department, which is scheduled for the autumn of August of the second year of Shunzhi, and it seems that the effect of the autumn of August of the second year of Shunzhi is not very good, but Dolgon directly ordered everyone to be hired.

As a result, when the department was opened again, a large number of Han scholars flocked to it, and they didn't care about shaving their hair at all. The anti-Qing movement in the north was instantly quelled, and even the south was greatly affected. This is a later story, and I will not press the table for the time being.

Gently placing Chen Banda behind the refugees, Ning Wan seemed to be in a much better mood, he stretched his waist, and then asked the housekeeper: "What is the good news of Lord Li of Shangguo recently?" The Lord Li he called in his mouth was Li Huayu. Although he is the eldest son of the Nanyue Army, everyone knows that this kind of noble son is very taboo for others to call him the young master's son, which will make them feel that they are just relying on their father's Yu Yin. Therefore, they are generally referred to as official positions. This has been true since ancient times. For example, the most famous fourth son of the Republic of China, if you see Zhang Xueliang calling him "young marshal", then you will not be comfortable. You have to call him "brigade commander", "army commander", "corps commander" and so on according to the official titles of different periods. When he saw Sun Ke, he had to call this young man in his twenties "Mayor Sun". Because he was the mayor of Guangzhou of the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government, he was in charge of the most basic territory of the Guangzhou government. You must know that during the period of the so-called "Four Princes of the Republic of China", the Guangzhou government was able to control only part of Guangzhou City and its suburbs.

Compared with Zhang Zuolin, a warlord born with a beard, and he still has to let his son start from a platoon commander, to a mixed background in a martial arts hall, mixed qualifications, mixed classmates, and then led the guard brigade to Heilongjiang to suppress bandits, our former prime minister is much greater, and his steps are very bold. directly put his son in a high-power position, which is equivalent to letting a new party member who has just joined the party directly enter the Standing Committee. Why! It is because of the world-shattering love between the former prime minister and Miss Song Er that Sun Ke, who has just returned from overseas, wants to celebrate his biological mother Mrs. Lu in Guangzhou. The result of the bargaining between the father and son was that Sun Ke had this position. Compared with Sun Ke's one-step ascension, Comrade Nikolai became a lieutenant general, a regional commissioner in southern Jiangnan, and the director of the Political Department of the Youth Army within a few days of returning from the Soviet Union.

Steward Ning Fu hesitated for a moment, considered the wording and said: "Shandong soldiers and horses seem to have made me a slight setback in the Qing Dynasty recently, in addition to the defeat of the two red flags, the prince of Yu in Henan, the prince Duoduo and the Jueluo Cao Zhenyan, have both suffered defeats, and now I heard that they are digging ditches and defending in deep ditches and high bases on the front line, waiting for hundreds of thousands of horses to meet with Prince Azig of Ying and Wu Sangui, King of Pingxi. ”

After listening to Ning, I laughed and said: "Shangguo is really worthy of being brave and good at fighting, Cao Zhenyan, a dog minion, actually wants to use his mantis arm as a car, and he deserves it." By the way, what are the recent requirements of the merchant group in Dongjiang Rice Lane, Shangguo? ”

Butler Ning Fu thought for a moment, took out a post from the bottom of a stack of documents and said, "It's not a big deal lately, but yesterday it wasn't a soldier who molested the women of the merchant group, and you corrected the law." The merchant group expressed their gratitude, but you only killed people, did not clean up the scene, and the merchant group said that they hoped that you would carry the body away next time you killed. ”

The housekeeper Ning Fu didn't expect that as soon as he finished speaking, Ning slapped me and then scolded: "Dog slave, didn't I tell you that the matter of the Shangguo Business Group, no matter what, is bigger than the sky." Why didn't you report me earlier? ”

"Let the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division go to Dongjiang Rice Lane and explain to Shangguo Haosheng, just say that the beheaded Han soldier Ding is a member of the Liukou party. At the beginning, Li broke into Beijing, forced Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty to death, and fought with the Nanyue Army in Gyeonggi, Tianjin and other places, and this person also had a part. After being found out by my Daqing, he was beheaded at the mouth of Mixiang in Dongjiang, and then exposed his body to the public. Please don't get me wrong. ”

The housekeeper Ning Fu was slapped for no reason, but he didn't dare to fight back, so he could only claim that the slave deserved to die. After Ning Wan's anger subsided a little, the housekeeper Ning Fu said: "Master, the business group has another request, Lin Wen Binglin's shopkeeper hopes to meet and talk to you tonight, and I also hope that Master Fan Wencheng Fan can also come to meet." ”

After hearing this, Ning was angry and wanted to hit someone again, but as soon as the slap was raised and put down, he scolded: "Dog minion, go, send someone to invite Master Fan quickly." He told him that his little flowers and plants were sold. ”

The housekeeper Ning Fu answered the call to do it, and after about two quarters of an hour, I only heard a crisp ringing of the bell outside the mansion, which made Ning Wan and me startled, thinking that it was a martial artist who would visit. As a result, after a while, it was Fan Wencheng who visited. After the two of them greeted each other politely, Ning Wan smiled and said, "Brother Fan, although you are also a good equestrian, you haven't ridden a horse for many years, why are you visiting today?" Fan Wencheng pointed at Ning Wan and said, "Why are you, I am why." After that, both of them smiled.

It stands to reason that both of them are members of the imperial court, and when businessmen come to visit, they should receive them in casual clothes, but since they are Shangguo businessmen, it is different. Although the formal clothes were tiring, the two did not feel slack at all, fortunately, the businessmen of Nanzhong were always on time, and when it came to the appointed time, Lin Wenbing Shi Ran came to visit on time.

After meeting, it was naturally a common practice to greet each other and greet each other, but after sitting down, Ning Fan Wencheng didn't mean to be polite, they said straight to the point: "Now that the north and the south are fighting, the trade routes are blocked, and there are many things related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and there is a shortage in various parts of Gyeonggi, so that prices are soaring, and the people are complaining." I don't know if Lin Da's shopkeeper can have a good plan? ”

This is the strategic advantage of mastering grain, cloth and all kinds of necessities for life! Li Shouhan's commercial blockade order, although there were no sword soldiers, made the Qing army miserable and suffered heavy losses.

Historically, the Qing army after entering the customs also encountered difficulties in food shortage. However, fortunately, with the help of the Southern Ming court's strategy of "borrowing and capturing Pingkou", a large number of grain, cloth, silk and other items were obtained to tide over the difficulties. Later, a large amount of grain and rice was purchased from Tong'an Hou Zheng Zhilong to ensure military and civilian food. But now, there are no two ways to replenish it.

It's always been rare and expensive. Nowadays, although the price of daily necessities such as grain, rice, cloth, salt, and tea in the Jingshi area has not risen to the point of being as terrifying as when Fan Wencheng was in Liaodong, it is also to the point that the soldiers and civilians of the Eight Banners and the people of Jingshi are complaining.

Although under Dolgon's strict orders, the state capitals were desperately urging the payment of money and grain taxes, but the drought in the north for many years, and the years of war, the farmland had long been barren, and the peasants had become homeless. Even in the peaceful years, the yield is only about two stones per mu. Out of thin air, there are hundreds of thousands of people all at once, and almost the same number of mules, horses, camels and other livestock, how can Gyeonggi, Shanxi, Xuanfu, and Daetong be able to feed and afford? Not to mention that hundreds of years ago, even today, when agricultural machinery, fine seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides were about to be flooded, the so-called Xuanda area, which is now the Datong area of Zhangjiakou, is not a grain production area. I really don't know how the authors who can feed tens of thousands of elite soldiers in this area at every turn have their brains. Not only can the troops be fed, but there is also no shortage of oil, poultry, eggs and meat, which is really rare!

Today, the main purpose of Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan's meeting with Lin Wenbing was to get all kinds of materials needed by the Qing army from Lin Wenbing's road: grain, oil, cloth, salt, tea, silk, and all kinds of iron farm tools.

The last need was the consensus of Dorgon and the Eight Banners. After entering the customs, the officials and generals of the Eight Banners selected fertile land along the way for horse racing. Turning the peasant tenants who used to farm here into serfs on their farms. This is similar to what Qian Qianyi did in Jiangnan.

However, the seizure of land is only the first step. After that, if you want to get food out of the land, you still have to work intensively. I learned from Shanxi businessmen that the reason why Nanzhong was able to pile up mountains and reclaim grain was that in addition to keeping up with fertilizer, it was to use a large number of metal farm tools, especially the best farm tools made of nine turn steel, to plough the land.

Therefore, the idea of getting iron from Nanzhong, especially the agricultural tools made of Jiuzhuan Steel, is the unanimous consensus of these newly born landlords above and below the Eight Banners.

Probably Lin Wenbing also got the news from the front and learned that Duoduo and the others were not in a good situation, so he seemed to feel very good. When Ning Wan and I and Fan Wencheng just proposed that they hoped to resume trade between the two sides and lay the foundation for the next step of the north-south strike, Lin Wenbing readily agreed.

However, in view of the large variety and quantity of trade between the North and the South, especially now that it is the time of the military engagement, it is still very sensitive to the commodity of grain. Therefore, for the import of food, Lin Wenbing said that he could not help the two adults.

However, like salt, tea, cloth, spirits, glass, porcelain, silk, copperware, tinware, tobacco, snuff and other things, Lin Wenbing patted his chest and said, "This matter is wrapped up in Lin!" As long as the two adults can exempt themselves from taxes when importing and marketing in various places, they can have as much as they want! ”

Such an attitude is not that Lin Wenbing forgets his righteousness when he sees profit. This kind of attitude and method was also carefully deduced by Li Shouhan and Li Peiting for many days.

Cloth, silk, and salt, although they can be used for military purposes, are more important for people's livelihood. A large amount of input into the Qing army's controlled area will not have an uncontrollable impact on the battle situation. On the contrary, the import of large quantities of cloth and silk would deal a fatal blow to the handicraft industry and the rural natural economy in the areas controlled by the Qing army, and further destroy the ruling base and economic resources of the Qing army. The same goes for salt input.

After the Qing army had taken control of Shanxi, the troops were directed at Shaanxi, and the problem of salt was no longer a particularly huge difficulty. Because, Shanxi Yuncheng produces salt, which is called salt solution. And Huamachi in Dingbian, northern Shaanxi, is a huge salt production area. Rather than waiting for the Qing army to use these two salt ponds to ensure the demand for salt in the ruling area after resuming production, and turning the salt tax revenue from salt sales into an important source of military salary, it is better to quickly occupy the market in the Qing area before this and import a large amount of refined salt to block the sales channel of pond salt.

Like spirits, tea, copperware, pewter tobacco, snuff and other things, it is a variety that can allow Nanzhong to find a way out for its own products, and then obtain huge profits. Not to mention anything else, like tea, now the Nanyue Army has controlled almost two-thirds of the tea-producing areas, except for a few areas such as Hanzhong, Sichuan, and Hubei, most of the tea mountains are under the jurisdiction of the Nanyue Army. Controlling so many tea mountains, it naturally has the right to price products. The Qing army, a political regime formed with the northern nomadic fishing and hunting people as the core, was even more indispensable for tea. As long as there is, no matter what kind of price is offered, they have to grit their teeth and accept it.

However, this is excellent news for Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan. Salt, tea, cloth, silk, liquor, and tobacco were openly supplied to the Qing army's ruling areas, and for them, Yu Gong could show himself in front of Dolgon, and then gain more power and higher official titles. Yu Zhi, as the person in charge, in the process of trading with the merchants of Nanzhong, the benefits they can obtain are enough to make them crazy.

In addition to these items that are needed by everyone, or by most people, there are also those that are needed by niche groups such as tobacco and snuff, but they are also very profitable items. For example, the snuff bottle used to hold snuff, snuff, was brought into China by the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. There are precious medicinal materials such as borneol and camphor inside, which are ground into powder with high-grade oil-rich and fragrant dried tobacco leaves, packed into sealed containers, and can only be used after a certain period of aging. If you have a cold, dizziness and nasal congestion, smoke some snuff, sneeze a few times, clear the customs immediately, and breathe smoothly; If you are dizzy and tired, you can breathe some snuff to wake up your mind and refresh your mind, which is indeed unique.

The ingenious jewelers in Nanzhong have developed a variety of different styles and varieties on the basis of the Franc machine. From the material, there are porcelain, copper, coral, jade, ivory, jade, agate, amber and other materials, and the agate pot is divided into zolang, algae, silk, rock sugar. There are chicken hearts, fish roots, bricks, moon gardens, double-linked, beautiful shoulders and so on. In terms of techniques, the use of blue and white, five-colored, carved porcelain, nesting, ingenious work, interior painting and other techniques has turned this utensil, which was originally used to hold snuff with the effect of brightening the eyes and avoiding epidemics, into a marker representing identity and taste. This elegant thing quickly spread from the group of officials in the Ming Dynasty to the group of officials of the Eight Banners. Just like the first people to use modern fruit machines, they are often the ladies and second wives of nightclubs.

The coral, jade, ivory, and jade stones in Nanzhong were carefully polished and carved by exquisite craftsmen, and became the favorite playthings in the hands of Qing army generals and officials. Of course, a large amount of gold and silver is the medium of exchange.

Naturally, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan will also get their own share of the huge profits from this kind of luxury trade activities.