Chen Bangyan listened to Liu Shun's words, his steps stopped, and he was a little surprised in his heart, many of the finances looted by the Jin merchants in Jiangnan were transported to Yangzhou, and if these things had been emptied and transferred, the harvest of the Ming army would be greatly reduced.

Jin merchants have a lot of industries in Yangzhou, Chen Bangyan and Wang Yan both thought that they could gain a lot after conquering Yangzhou, but now it seems that they have miscalculated.

The merchants had a lot of information and a keen sense of the situation, perhaps the Jin merchants sensed that the Manchus could not destroy the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army was likely to advance to the Huai River line and the Qing court to divide the river, so they began to transfer the assets on the south bank of the Huai River to the north.

"They reacted very sharply!" Chen Bangyan frowned, such a large plate of dishes flew away, which made him very unhappy, but now there is no way to recover it, so he can only accept this fact.

Liu Shun and other generals were also very annoyed, according to the unspoken rules, the Ming army won a city, in addition to handing over to the imperial court, the troops involved in the siege of the city were able to intercept a part of the fierce soldiers.

Yangzhou is an important town in Jiangbei, a hub of Caoyun, and the Ming army has already received a lot of benefits, but the Jin merchants actually ran away in advance, which made him feel disappointed.

"Okay, the world is all Ming, although this time let this ** merchant slip away, but when you hit Shanxi, can they still bring the silver to the outside of the gate?" Chen Bangyan soothed a few words, "Let's go, go to the treasury and have a look!" ”

After speaking, Chen Bangyan stepped forward, the Jin merchants were cunning, the political sense of smell was sensitive, when the Manchu Qing was still outside the customs, the Manchu Qing made political investment, and now the situation in the Manchu Qing is unfavorable, they also reacted quickly, and actually took the first step to empty Yangzhou.

Chen Bangyan continued to walk on the streets, and the generals behind him hurriedly followed, and he could only hope that he could make some gains in the Yangzhou Mansion Treasury now.

After a short time, the group came to the Yangzhou Treasury, which was guarded by a thousand households of the Guangwu Battalion to prevent the impact of the rebels.

Seeing Chen Bangyan and his entourage coming, Qianhu hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Chen Bangyan waved his hand and asked directly: "How is the situation inside, has anyone gone in?" ”

"Back to the cabinet department, Director Liu of the household department is counting in the library, and the specific situation is not known to the lowly position."

Chen Bangyan listened, and then said: "Open the door of the library and let the pavilion go in and have a look!" ”

Qianhu immediately waved his hand, several soldiers hurriedly pushed open the gate, Chen Bangyan and others entered the gate of the treasury together, led by a soldier, walked through a section of the road, and entered the silver treasury first.

They pushed open the door, and the head of the household department was counting the silver ingots placed on the partitions with more than a dozen servants, and everyone could see that most of the partitions were empty, which could be described as empty.

Director Liu of the household department was holding the account book to reconcile with people, and when he saw a group of people coming in, he hurriedly handed over the accounts to the officials, and then greeted him and saluted Chen Bangyan, Chen Bangyan stood in the silver vault and looked around, "How much silver?" ”

"Cabinet Department, preliminary estimates, probably only about 100,000 taels!"

Director Liu hesitated, reported truthfully, his voice was in his ears, and the faces of Chen Bangyan and the others sank.

"Where's the grain stock?" Chen Bangyan already had a premonition in his heart that the harvest this time might be far less than he had imagined.

"There are only 80,000 stone of grain in the grain warehouse, and there are only 10,000 horses of cotton cloth in the cloth storehouse, and there are 8,000 stone of coarse salt in the salt warehouse!"

At that time, Yangzhou was the richest place in the south of the Yangtze River, as famous as Suzhou and Hangzhou, rich in the world, and it was so much that everyone was inevitably disappointed again.

Even if this Jin merchant ran away, the Yangzhou treasury was also empty, how could they accept it, after this battle, would the imperial court lose 1.8 million?

"Cabinet Department, do you want to copy the Qing officials in the city?"

Liu Shun and the others were obviously unwilling to do such a thing, Chen Bangyan pondered for a while, "You can copy it, but you must have the household officials and the pacification officials present." ”

"Humble knows!" Liu Shun listened, hugged his fists, and hurriedly left.

Chen Bangyan listened to Director Liu's report, and had no interest in going to other warehouses to inspect one by one, and after explaining that Director Liu's statistics were completed, he would send him the results, and then inspect the city once, and then temporarily live in the palace.

He first asked the soldiers to post notices in the name of the Jiangbei Governor of the University, and then met with the gentry in Yangzhou City to appease them, and began to count the military exploits, preparing to report to the imperial court.

Liu Shun and others were impatient, carrying torches, and raided many Qing officials' houses overnight, including Duoduo's line in Yangzhou, but only a handful of them were captured.

The generals will inevitably be disappointed again, but as a scholar of the imperial court, Chen Bangyan saw another layer of things in it while being disappointed.

The Ming army attacked Yangzhou, except for leaving 40,000 green battalion soldiers, did not capture in other aspects, the Jin merchants slipped away, and the Yangzhou treasury was also empty, even those Qing Dynasty officials did not copy anything, and the total obtained was only 100,000 stone of grain, 150,000 taels of silver, and it was not as much as when the grain was stirred, and a rich and noble family came more.

The Qing army robbed so much wealth in Jiangnan, where to go?

In the middle of the night, in the Yabian Hall of Yangzhou Mansion, the candle flame flickered, Chen Bangyan asked Liu Shun, who came to report, to sit down and not be irritable, and the guards served a cup of tea to one of them.

Chen Bangyan did not sit in the middle hall, but sat close to Liu Shun, "Although this acquisition is not satisfactory, but from it we can see at least two situations, on the one hand, it can be seen that the financial situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty may be quite embarrassing, and the materials are extremely scarce, on the other hand, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no ambition to compete with our dynasty, which is from the Jin merchants fled Yangzhou, we did not copy things in Yangzhou, it can be seen that if they still have the enterprising spirit, they will not transfer all the assets early." ”

It is estimated that after the Ming army captured Nanjing, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, whether it was the people under the rule or the officials and troops of the Manchu Dynasty, had no confidence in Yangzhou, or for the south of the Huai River, they were ready to give up, and Dolgon's court, in terms of reaction, was obviously slower than the people, otherwise more than 40,000 green battalions would not fall into Yangzhou.

Liu Shun didn't think about it so much, he frowned, "Pavilion, what does this portend?" ”

Jin Bangyan smiled, "This indicates that the threat of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to our dynasty has been basically lifted, and the momentum of standing on its feet may exist for a long time, Liu Duzhen is in Jiangbei, and he wants to grasp the whole army for His Highness!" ”

Liu Shun listened, thoughtful, Chen Bangyan saw that the time was not early, and stood up, "Okay, that's all here today, let's go and rest, and tomorrow we will discuss the aftermath." ”

Seven days after the Ming army broke through Yangzhou, Huai and Si Zhang Mingzhen came to the news, Duoduo led thousands of remnants of the army, wandering near Sizhou, Zhang Mingzhen lacked cavalry, unable to encircle Duoduo, plus Jiangbei He Luo will send troops to respond, Duoduo crossed the Huai River from the west of Sizhou near Fushan, and withdrew to Huaibei.

The 30,000 Qing troops who had been fighting against Zhang Mingzhen for many days on the north bank of the Huai River immediately returned north and retreated to the city of Xuzhou.

More than 40,000 green battalion soldiers in Yangzhou did not return to Huaibei in the end, and the Qing army was already at a disadvantage in terms of the comparison of the strength of the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After several months of fierce fighting, the Jiangbei War came to an end, and Chen Bangyan left Zhang Huangyan in Yangzhou to deal with the aftermath, while he returned to Nanjing by boat to report to Wang Yan and the imperial court.

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