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Looking at his back, Yang Feng was embarrassed.

The pressure on Lord Rui is very great, he has to shoulder the heavy mission of saving the Qing Dynasty, saving the Eight Banners, and saving his beloved woman, and he has to serve as the last defender of the beautiful era of countless gentry and the Lord and the sages.

"Alas, the love of children is long, and the heroes are short of breath!"

Looking at Da Yu'er, who was still looking at Dolgon, Yang Feng sighed.

Then it was his turn to be unlucky.

"Your Majesty, Li Shoufu, please return to the line quickly."

Liang Cheng stepped forward and whispered.

"What's going on?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Nanjing has fallen!"

"Huh?!"

Li Zicheng captured Nanjing.

"Zuo Liangyu, this traitor, I want to punish him for the nine clans, no, I want to punish him for the ten clans!"

Two hours later, Shanhaiguan was in the main hall, and Emperor Yang howled angrily.

Zuo Liangyu surrendered to Li Zicheng, led the army that is said to be 800,000 down the river, and Gao Yigong left and right to break through Anqing, Huang Degong fought unyieldingly, but unfortunately he was still unable to return to the sky after all, he himself was killed by his subordinate rebels with arrows, and his bones fell into the surging river. Then Zuo Liangyu's army went straight to Nanjing, Li Zicheng's army went out of Yangzhou and landed at Jingkou, and then the two armies surrounded Nanjing, and before they completed the siege, Nanjing was defeated, and the Tang king and the Nanjing gentry fled to Hangzhou in chaos.

Ma Shiying stayed in Nanjing to refuse Li Zicheng's persuasion to surrender, and committed suicide after the city was broken.

After the attack on Nanjing, Li Zicheng and Zuo Liangyu plundered the army, and the rich people in Nanjing who didn't have time to run were all unlucky, basically how they did it in Beijing and Yangzhou, they were still the same in Nanjing, all the noble officials who were caught in Nanjing or surrendered voluntarily, all threw them into the barracks to get sticks, it is said that Zhao Zhilong, the Bo of Xincheng, was captured and surrendered after giving his family wealth and was not spared, he himself was clipped out of his brain and exposed to the streets, and his family was also killed by the looted chaos.

Thousands of others died in Nanjing and the surrounding area.

Because the harvest was greater than expected, Li Zicheng even announced happily that all the areas under his control would not pay grain for three years, so as to fulfill his promise that he would not pay grain when King Chuang came, which made the people rejoice.

"These traitors!"

Yang Feng sat down dejectedly and said with tears in his eyes.

Acting!

Naturally, it should be more realistic.

"Your Majesty, what should I do?"

Li Yutian said cautiously.

Now at this time, scolding Zuo Liangyu is still a fart, so hurry up and find a way to deal with it.

Of course, Li Shoufu doesn't care about the life and death of the people in Jiangnan, and he won't care if those guys in Jiangnan die, saying that when his hometown died of drought and starvation in seven years, those officials and gentry in Jiangnan were very carefree, and they were reluctant to take out one or two pieces of silver to give disaster relief to the imperial court.

But this matter is not just as simple as Li Zicheng's attack on Nanjing, which also means that the food and salary of the line will be cut off, and it is impossible for the finance of the bank to be truly self-sufficient, and a large part of it was dependent on the supply of the south before, although the official is actually not much, but the emperor himself earns from the south, as the number one minister, he still knows very well. Han Zanzhou and Lu Jiude earn millions of silver for the emperor every year through the sale of luxury goods, and these silvers are directly handed over to the household, and the emperor himself has almost no one or two, but now the broken land of Nanjing City is in the hands of Li Zicheng, even those who have not fallen into his hands are in danger, who else will buy those things!

In fact, at this time, it was already on the verge of a financial crisis, and it was not easy to feed so many troops and maintain large-scale operations in such a situation, that all purchases were paid at the price, that even the conscription was exempted, and that the common people had to be paid for their work.

This is also fortunate that the emperor brought back some loot from Liaodong, plus Zheng Zhilong also sent a sum of silver, otherwise just to buy equipment for the 300,000 volunteers, you have to make Li Shoufu vomit blood, and now the Ming army is large-scale firearms, those guns and ammunition are not a cheap thing, a flowering bullet is not as cheap as a solid bullet, not to mention that you have to prepare for a decisive battle two months later, and then it will cost money like running water, but at this time, the financial resources are cut off but it is very fatal.

"Money!"

Yang Feng said indifferently.

"Issuing money?"

Li Shoufu said in horror.

Daming treasure banknotes are notorious, and the re-issuance of banknotes may cause public disgust.

"Not only to issue banknotes, but also to set up a royal bank, this bank is opened by me to invest money, and this bank is responsible for issuing banknotes, and the government will use banknotes for government procurement in the future, but this banknote is different from before, it is limited to three years, and the bank will take it back after three years, but each banknote will be recovered with the original value plus three percent, that is, if a banknote is worth one or two silver, then you can go to this bank to exchange one or two or three dollars after three years. Of course, it doesn't mean that the government will use banknotes for procurement in the future, this is only limited to before I recapture Beijing, after I recapture Beijing, it depends on the people's choice, and it is okay to ask for banknotes or silver, but the banknotes at that time did not have such a high annual interest. ”

Yang Feng said.

He has long wanted to engage in the central bank, but has not been able to take care of it, and now he is taking this opportunity to launch it, he is not worried that the people will reject his banknotes, in Jidong and Liaodong have his endorsement The people will never refuse, first survive this difficult period, and his central bank will also operate, and after the defeat of Beijing, you can absorb deposits, and issue banknotes on the silver standard, and then issue treasury bonds when necessary, and control the financial affairs of the whole country.

"That's okay, so the minister will arrange for someone to make the layout printed."

Li Yutian said.

In the final analysis, banknotes are a matter of credibility, and the current emperor, at least in the people, has no need to worry about the credibility problem, so that banknotes can be used.

"Wait a minute."

Yang Feng said and beckoned.

The four little eunuchs next to him immediately brought a large wooden box and put it in front of Lord Shousuke.

"What is this?"

Li Shoufu grabbed a handful of things that were round like a small jade ring, but more delicate and warm than the jade ring, and said in a trembling tone.

"Nephrite, this time the money is equivalent to me borrowing money from the people, but I am about to fight with Na Dolgon, although I know that I will win, but the people may eventually have doubts, so I not only use the paper printed treasure banknote, but also use this nephrite ring as a certificate, the treasure money has always been worth one or two silver, ten treasure notes can go to the bank to exchange for a nephrite ring, in the future, the treasure money will be recovered, even if I reward the people, and I will provide the paper for printing money to prevent anyone from forging."

Yang Feng said righteously.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Li Shoufu said with emotion.

This emperor is really a good emperor, just look at the warmth and purity of this nephrite ring, I am afraid that it is definitely more than ten taels of silver, the emperor can use this thing as evidence, then it can be said that he has achieved the ultimate in this letter.

"Also, send a message to Huang Fei, let him lead the third town of the Navy Division to the south, and assist the Tang King to defend Hangzhou, we are far away, there is only so much we can do, tell the Tang King, hold on for half a year, and I will lead the army to pacify the north and go south. In addition, chasing Jin Huang Degong Jingnangong, Zhen Zhongwu, chasing Earl Ma Shiying, Zhen Wenzhong, alas, this person, only the coffin can be conclusive, no matter how good he is boasting on weekdays, when he encounters a life-and-death situation, he has removed all the painting skins, he can run, he has betrayed, and he has forgotten all the loyal words in the past! ”

Yang Feng said with a sigh.

Ma Shiying's suicide and martyrdom did surprise him, but it was better to get such a result than if he was skinned by the Qing army in the original history, as for the matter in Nanjing, that's it, anyway, the emperor is thousands of miles apart, otherwise what else can he do? The next decisive battle with Dorgon is the most important.

Dolgon's withdrawal was very painful, and in the afternoon of the same day, the Qing army besieging Funing and Changli withdrew like a low tide.

At the same time, Yang Feng's holy decree was also sent to the besieged cities, especially Wu Sangui in Lulong City, all the Ming troops did not move, allowing the Qing army surrounded outside their city to retreat, in fact, during this time there was rarely a real battle between the two sides, those green battalions would not take the initiative to attack the city at all, and Dolgon also as long as they blocked the volunteers and the Ming army, the two sides basically passed under a wall every day.

Yang Feng followed the retreating Qing army all the way to the cities, showing his harvest in Liaodong to the soldiers and civilians, enjoying the cheers of the people, and awarding knighthoods and decorations to meritorious personnel by the way.

Among them, Yan Yingyuan, who made new contributions, was made an earl, plus the official position of the prefect of Yongping, Wu Sangui entered the title of Duke of Pingxi, Yang Feng promised Lao Wu that he would be crowned king once he recaptured Beijing, and now it is not far from regaining Beijing, this should also be further advanced to the duke, and others, including Li Yutian and others, are all knighted, anyway, Yang Feng doesn't care about the knighthood, his title is a fief, even if the king is only 50,000 mu, the little baron is only 5,000 mu, and these lands must be taxed according to the law according to the law.

The propertied must pay taxes, which is Yang Feng's principle.

In the future, the clan will also have to pay taxes.

Even he had to pay taxes himself, and the land endowment of the imperial field was his tax, but the tenants paid it on their behalf, and his newly opened factories and mines were also taxed according to the law.

In addition to knighthood, there is also a more important thing to send seeds.

Boatloads of potatoes, corn, and soybean seeds sent out from warehouses in Ningyuan and other places were quickly transported to Shanhaiguan, and then distributed to the people in eastern Hebei through local governments.

Anyway, he can buy it with paper money.

The issuance of this thing went smoothly, and the banknotes printed by the bank he opened, can the people still not accept it? What's more, there is also the nephrite ring as a certificate, and everyone understands that as long as the emperor returns to Beijing, there is no money yet, no more, it is enough to copy the homes of those rebellious gentry in various places, and look at Li Zicheng! In other words, this investment will definitely not be lost, so why not accept it?