Ma Hongshan listened to Gao Yihuan's words, was slightly stunned, immediately reacted, and said in his heart: "This tanning workshop is not very important, it does not produce leather armor, but makes some leather belts and leather boots. ”

When he entered the workshop, King Wei was absent-minded and not very happy, he thought that King Wei was not very satisfied with the production, but now that he understands, Ma Hongshan can't wait to whip himself a big mouth, he is busy saying: "Don't worry, Xiaomin will prepare a silver ticket for the king later." ”

"Haha~ Don't be in a hurry~ The lonely king just asks! Don't think about it! Gao Yihuan's face was full of smiles, "Let's go, let's continue to see." ”

In fact, less than two years after the recovery of Shanxi, although Ma Hongshan received many workshops and shops, the original trade channels were not fully mastered, and he did not earn any silver, but invested a lot of capital, but he did not dare to owe the money of King Gao.

Moreover, the wool came out of the sheep, and the silver that Ma Hongshan gave to the King of Wei, even if it was the King of Wei's people, who would dare to trouble him with the local officials, and with the help of the power of the King of Wei, he could still quickly form a monopoly, and he was afraid that he would not be able to make money?

Ma Hongshan secretly wiped his sweat, and said with a smile: "This is as it should be, but the villain is not thoughtful enough." ”

When the next group continued to walk forward, Ma Hongshan hurriedly instructed his subordinate shopkeepers to accompany Gao Yihuan to continue the inspection.

At this time, Gao Yihuan achieved his goal, and he was not interested in looking at the tannery outside the horseman, he looked at a few finished products, and felt that it was actually more ordinary, so he returned to Taiyuan.

On the way back, Gao Yihuan looked at the fields near Taiyuan again, now that the autumn harvest has passed, there are no patches of wheat in sight, but the piles of wheat grass in the fields show that this year's harvest should be good.

In the evening, Gao Yihuan returned to the Taiyuan Palace, and Zhou Daji stepped forward to hold the reins of the horse, and reported by the way: "Wang, just now the people from Xingqing sent a batch of gifts to the king. ”

"Oh, so fast!" Gao Yihuan turned over and dismounted, handed the horsewhip to his subordinates, and then said with a smile as he walked inside: "Where's the thing?" Take it to the Lone King! ”

"It's in the king's study!" Zhou Daji replied.

Gao Yihuan strode into the palace, and went directly to his study, and sure enough, he saw a tray on the desk, covered with a red cloth.

Gao Yihuan sat on the chair and lifted the red cloth, revealing a pair of boxes, each with a century-old ginseng inside, and a small wooden box under the box, Gao Yihuan opened it, with a smile on his face, and took out a stack of silver tickets inside.

These are all large camp tickets of one thousand taels, Gao Yihuan counted them, a total of two hundred, a total of 200,000 taels, and immediately showed a satisfied smile on his face.

With this money, this year is much better.

This is fortunate to be in Taiyuan, otherwise Ma Hongshan estimated that he would not be able to come out with so much silver, and Gao Yihuan took this money, which will naturally be convenient for Ma Hongshan in the future, as long as he doesn't go too far, Gao Yihuan is very willing to maintain this relationship for a long time.

In mid-October, after Gao Yihuan stayed in Taiyuan for a while, he saw that Dolgon had no next move, so he returned to Guanzhong and began to inspect the Great Craftsman's Academy, as well as the work of translating books, and continued to scatter money.

At the same time, Jin Shenghuan, who received instructions from Luoyang, began to send troops to deploy the formation, and arranged for the Wei army in Nanyang, Tongguan, and Jinnan, with a total of 50,000 troops, to rush to Luoyang.

After the Wei army occupied Hedong, Luoyang was in the middle of the Wei army's three-sided attack, and strategically fell into complete passivity.

Dol Roll had been preparing to give up Luoyang many times before, but considering Luoyang's political status and the status of the middle capital of the world, he had not been able to make up his mind to give up, and it was not until he decided to withdraw from the customs that he made up his mind completely.

It's just that his determination didn't last long, but it changed because of the end of the Battle of Liaoxi.

There is no other reason, it takes time to sail across Liao, and Luoyang guards it, whether it can be held or not, it can serve the purpose of exchanging space for time.

In November 1650, after a month of dispatching troops and allocating grain and grass equipment, Jin Shenghuan commanded the three-way soldiers and horses, Wu Shizhao led 20,000 soldiers out of Nanyang and went north to Ruzhou, Bai Wen selected 10,000 soldiers to attack Huaiqing in the south, Jin Shenghuan led 20,000 soldiers out of Tongguan, and the three-way army would join Luoyang and encircle and annihilate the defenders of Luoyang.

After the Wei army occupied Hedong and Luoyang became a protruding department, it was strategically in an extremely passive situation, and the Qing army in Luoyang was in danger of being surrounded at any time.

Therefore, in the past two years, the Qing court has long had no intention of governing Henan, and only cared about looting the place and transferring materials out of Henan, causing thieves, grass robbers, and rebels in northern Henan to swarm and become a pot of porridge.

After Jin Shenghuan's troops came out of Tongguan, they made a big announcement that the three armies of the Great Wei Dynasty surrounded Luoyang, and each road falsely claimed 100,000.

The Wei scouts had already found out that the defenders in northern Henan would not exceed 20,000, and many generals thought that there was no need to make such a big noise, but Jin Shenghuan insisted on falsely claiming 300,000, not for anything else, just to appear lively and increase the influence of the Luoyang Campaign.

The rebels in northern Henan had submitted letters earlier, hoping that the Wei army would attack northern Henan, but now they just heard that the Wei army was coming, so they launched an attack one after another, occupied the county seat, and waited for Zhao'an.

Before the Wei army entered northern Henan, the rebels and Caokou from all walks of life fought on their own, and they attacked each other, just to occupy more territory so that they could get better conditions when recruiting An.

In mid-November, the Wei army entered northern Henan, and Ruzhou, Shenchi, Xin'an, Mengjin, Hanoi and other places heard the wind and surrendered, causing chaos in Luoyang and a great earthquake in the world.

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Nanjing, Bauhinia City, inside the Imperial Study.

At this time, the news of the capture of Jinzhou by the Wei army had already reached Nanjing, and at the same time there was also the news that the Wei army would attack Luoyang.

Zhu Cihong sat behind the imperial case with a gloomy face, looking at the secret letter that Dorgon gave him.

In the letter, Dolgon raised the idea that Zhu Cihong would give him a group of ships and sailors so that he could return to Liaodong by sea, and in return, Dolgon promised that after he returned to Liaodong, when the Wei army attacked the Ming army, he would send troops to contain the Wei army, so that the Wei army could not attack Jiangnan with all its might.

Zhu Cihong read the letter with a gloomy face, without saying a word, and then lit the letter and burned it.

After half a ring, he looked at Ruan Dacheng, who had been standing with his hands down for a while, and said in a cold voice: "The grain doesn't need to be pressed, it can be transported to Dolgon, but neither the ship nor the craftsman can give it!" ”

Ruan Dacheng shuddered, and found that Zhu Cihong's body exuded a gloomy and cold aura, which was terrifying.

Ruan Dacheng hesitated for a while, but still reminded: "Your Majesty, will this not damage the relationship between the two families." ”

Zhu Cihong snorted coldly and said coldly: "The high thief has controlled Liaoxi, and Jiannu has been blocked in the pass, give them the boat, and Jiannu has no intention of resisting the high thief, and will only think about evacuating." If I don't give the slave ship, they can only fight with the high thieves, and you don't have to worry about anything else. ”

Zhu Cihong's reluctance to give the ship, and his reluctance to hand over grain before, was actually a reason, that is, he was afraid that the Qing army would escape from the pass.

Now that the Wei army occupies Jinzhou, and Gao Yihuan's capital is in Xi'an, even if the Qing army withdraws from the Guanwai, I am afraid that it will not be of much help at that time. Dorgon had no way out, he would fight to the death, but he would be able to buy him time.

Zhu Cihong is trying to force Dolgon to fight to the death with the Wei army, but does Dolgon still have the strength? If the Wei army defeats the Qing army quickly, then I am afraid that the Qing army will not only not play a role in containment, but also weaken the strength of this helper.

Ruan Dacheng frowned slightly, "Your Majesty, now that Jiannu is no longer the opponent of the Wei thief, wouldn't this allow the Wei thief to completely defeat the Jiannu." ”

Zhu Cihong said in a deep voice: "The situation has reached this point, I can't shrink anymore, and I will give Jiannu some substantial help so that Dolgon can last longer." I received a secret report that the Wei thief was preparing to attack Luoyang, and you sent a secret message to the Duke of Yasukuni for me, so that he could find an excuse to provoke some trouble in Wuchang, increase the troops in Wuchang, and put some pressure on the Wei thief~~~~~~"

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