In the first year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, in the sixteenth year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty, in Nanjing.

While drinking tea, Jiang Guozhu and Liang Huafeng talked about the situation in the southeast. In the past two months, Jiang Guozhu's mood has been getting better and better. Tens of thousands of Ming troops passed by, causing a sensation in the government and the people. Beijing ordered Nanjing and Nanchang to defend themselves strictly and not give the Ming army the opportunity to attack the important town of Liangjiang. This order was in line with the wishes of Jiang Guozhu and Zhang Chao, and the Liangjiang Green Camp had more reason not to fight with the Ming army. After the Ming army passed, the Liangjiang yamen kept commending merits and demanded tax exemption.

The Sichuan Army traveled to Chongming. After Zhoushan landed in Zhejiang, the Zhejiang Green Camp and the subsequent Fujian Green Camp were opened by Zhou, and Li Xinghan and Ren Tang were defeated.

In the past, when the Ming army was scattered across the two rivers and Huguang, the Zhejiang officialdom had been singing high-profile, resolutely leading the suppression, and constantly impeaching Liangjiang. The officials in Huguang were incompetent, and even encouraged the court to dispatch a large army to enter Sichuan to suppress the Ming army regime in Chengdu. After it was reported that Li Guoying was defeated, Zhejiang also impeached Li Guoying for losing his troops and humiliating the country, and was extremely guilty. But this time, after Zhejiang really encountered the Sichuan army, this voice disappeared immediately, leaving only a constant request for help from the court.

"Why should we go to save them? First of all, we can't save them. Even if we can save them, don't they remember how they scolded me at the beginning?" Jiang Guozhu sneered and handed the Zhejiang letter of help to Liang Huafeng: "Anyway, I have written to the court, and Jiangning is the top priority in the Southeast. As long as we respond to changes in the same way as before and strive to ensure that Jiangning is not lost, then this time the Ming army invasion will be the same as the previous two times. They will eventually go back wherever they come."

"What the Governor General said is very true." Liang Huafeng had just rushed back to Jiangning from Songjiang Prefecture. His explanation to the court was to concentrate elite troops and strengthen generals to ensure Nanjing, and to the Ming army, he said that the Jiangnan Green Camp would never interfere with their sincerity: "I heard from people that it seemed that the Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou went out of the city to discuss and paid a million taels of silver to General Zhou and the others to save Hangzhou without losing it. I don't know if this matter is true or false."

"It's probably true." Jiang Guozhu sneered: "It's really shameless to have an affair with a song! However, I am a kind person, so I won't hear the news and impeach officials from Zhejiang and Fujian."

When the Ming army passed by, the local products along the Yangtze River finally had to be sold again, and the Ming army also needed a lot of firewood and food, which greatly alleviated the economic crisis of Liangjiang. Now the Ming army has begun to set off to return to Sichuan, and is renting ships everywhere to buy grain and cloth, causing the sluggish prices of Liangjiang to rise steadily.

For example, the price of grain. Because of the crushing of bone-knocking and marrow in Beijing, in order to pay taxes, the small landlords and farmers even began to sell rations and seeds to overcome the current difficulties, causing the grain prices to fall again and again, falling below one tael of silver and five stones of grain. It is conceivable that after the taxes, the small landlords and farmers will inevitably borrow large amounts of money to purchase living grain and seeds, and there will be a round of crazy rises. I wonder how many people will lose their money this winter. The Ming army not only purchased a large amount of grain when they came, but also took out more than ten times the previous orders before returning to Sichuan. The agreement between the Ming army and the General Li Yamen to Suppress Deng was not a secret for Liangjiang Governor Jiang Guozhu. He knew that the Ming army had booked rations for hundreds of thousands of people. These orders kept the grain prices stable. Moreover, the Ming army was given real money and silver, and the grain prices in July this year must be maintained at around one tael of one tael of one tael of one stone.

In addition to grain prices, it is more obvious that the land price rebounded. Before the Ming army went to Jiangnan, the land price fell to one acre and one tael of silver. Many small landlords thought of the terrible taxes that were coming, and even had the idea of ​​giving the land to others for free. Unfortunately, even if they were given for free, few people dared to take over.

As the grain prices rise, the price of land also rises with the water. Many small landlords either sold food to the Ming army or took the deposit from the Ming army to prepare the food they needed for the return journey. After having the silver in their hands to pay taxes, these people were unwilling to sell their land. Moreover, the news of tax exemption has spread in the past few days. I heard that a large number of prefectures and counties could receive tax exemption treatment, and the price of land has been greatly increased. The prices of some fertile land near Jiangning have approached the 100-two-one acre mark.

By suppressing Deng Zongli Yamen, Jiang Guozhu's Liangjiang Governor's yamen could also count on making some money from the Ming army returning to Sichuan - for Liangjiang, this is actually the harvest of the Ming army sharing commercial profits with them and attacking Zhejiang. Although Jiang Guozhu is no longer worried about how to transfer grain silver to Beijing, he is still a little dissatisfied with Sichuan's handling this time.

Because Sichuan did not act according to Jiang Guozhu's plan, it was obvious that Sichuan was still very cautious about Jiang Guozhu - well, Jiang Guozhu admitted that this was completely reasonable, and he was also careful about the Sichuan army. If the Sichuan army suffered a big defeat in Zhejiang, he might also let Liang Huafeng beat the dogs in the water. Sichuan's guards made Jiang Guozhu no longer have the opportunity to clean the straits in Jiangnan. He originally wanted to eliminate those who were particularly loyal to the Qing court and the most dangerous supporters of the Ming court. Now, because of Sichuan's non-cooperation, he lost this opportunity to unify the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. Moreover, these scholars also had rich property, which could make Jiang Guozhu's small treasury more abundant and give him more confidence to fight against Beijing and Chengdu.

"When the Sichuan Army passed by, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait probably welcomed each other again, right?" Jiang Guozhu said with a little sourness.

"It must be true. The gentry and wealthy families on the shore moved their own houses with lots of land. Can they not support the Sichuan Army? The people on both sides of the strait have already said that as long as the Sichuan Army comes once, they will not worry about the New Year." Liang Huafeng told Jiang Guozhu: "There are still many people in Songjiang Prefecture shouting to the passing Sichuan Army ships: 'Don't forget to come next year, go to Shandong next year'. I heard that there are still many people shouting."

"They are all looking forward to selling grain and buying bargains again, right?" Jiang Guozhu snorted coldly again: "These unruly people."

The important matter has been discussed, and Jiang Guozhu chatted with Liang Huafeng about a trivial matter he had just heard: "There is a Zhuang man in Huzhou who wrote this book. It seems to be Ming Shi or something, and someone sued him."

"Zhuang Yuncheng." Liang Huafeng replied quickly.

"Well, it's not bad, it seems to be the name." Jiang Guozhu and Liang Huafeng talked about this because he vaguely heard that Liang Huafeng seemed to be involved in it.

"The last general knows about this. Zhuang Yuncheng is a wealthy man. His only son was a famous talent when he was fifteen years old. He was selected as the Imperial College in the former Ming Dynasty. Later, he suddenly became seriously ill and blinded." Liang Huafeng introduced enthusiastically: "Seeing that his son had no chance to achieve fame, he bought a manuscript by Zhu Guozhen..."

"How could Zhu Guozhen sell manuscripts?" Jiang Guozhu asked casually. After Liang Huafeng said this, he had confirmed that the dealer must have money to send his son to the Imperial College. However, his talent is probably average, otherwise he would not have no fame. Zhu Guozhen is famous very much. Jiang Guozhu knew that his writing was very well written, and the only thing he was confused about was why his manuscripts fell into the dealer.

"I heard that after Zhu Guozhen's death, his sons sold the manuscript to the dealer." Liang Huafeng was obviously clear about this matter. He carefully reported to the Governor of Liangjiang: "The dealer hired many talented men and revised the manuscript. It took three or five years to write it. It was the winter of the 17th year of Shunzhi - well, it was published before the Battle of Gaoyou Lake."

Liang Huafeng said happily that he heard that talented people from Jiangnan gathered to write this book, and even Gu Yanwu had visited Huzhou. Liang Huafeng also sent someone to send a gift, and used both soft and hard to force the dealer to write his deeds well: Liang Huafeng felt that with so many Shi Lin Junxiu in the compilation of this book, it would definitely be passed down through the ages in the future.

"Oh. So that's it." Jiang Guozhu nodded. After the book was released in the 18th year of Shunzhi, Cha Jizuo and Wu Zhirong reported the book to slander the court. This matter was really a trivial matter for the Governor of Liangjiang. However, after hearing that the Admiral of Jiangnan under his command seemed to be involved, Jiang Guozhu asked Liang Huafeng a few words.

"This dealer would not slander the court. He was to make his son famous for his eternal years." Liang Huafeng also knew that someone was suing the dealer, but he thought it was completely a frame-up: "And the dealer named the book "A Brief History of Ming Dynasty", and the last general's master said that based on this name, it means that the dealer admitted that the Ming Dynasty had perished."

"It's right." Jiang Guozhu thought about it. This book took several years and obviously recognized the unification of the Qing court before the internal strife of the Three Kings of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Since that's the case, even if he had committed a little taboo, it would not be a big deal, Jiang Guozhu thought it would be a big deal. The general direction of this book is correct, and it is definitely not a counter-book.

"The Ming Dynasty was already dead." Since he had been worried before, Jiang Guozhu, who had completely relaxed, said: "Although Deng Ming was brave, what about their emperor? Even the emperor ran away, that would of course be a destruction of the country."

"What the Governor said is that Deng Ming even claimed to be the Imperial Army. Not only did they become robbers, but they were not ashamed but proud." Speaking of this, Liang Huafeng's face was also disdainful: "Where is the posture of officers and soldiers? Sooner or later, they will be wiped out."

"They just survived in that remote corner of Sichuan."

The two of them talked about Deng Ming's lack of ambition, and had no doubt about the fact that the Ming Dynasty had perished. When they were in a state of great enthusiasm, a guard sent two urgent documents to the Governor of Liangjiang.

"Shu has been a peaceful place since ancient times. How scary is Deng Ming so short-sighted?" After reading the two letters, Jiang Guozhu belittled Deng Ming and handed a quick message to Liang Huafeng: "The letter from Ren Tang said that there was an important person passing through the border. Admiral Liang, you send a team of soldiers to follow him quietly. Don't let him notice it, don't let outsiders know, let him have any accidents in our territory."

"Don't worry, Governor." Liang Huafeng nodded and retreated.

After Liang Huafeng left, Jiang Guozhu sank his face. The second report stated that the stone tablet that Deng Ming erected by the river was splashed with dirty things, as if he was an ignorant person who wanted to express his loyalty to the government and expressed his irreconcilability with the Ming army.

"Is it impossible to do such a small matter?" Jiang Guozhu was furious: "Immediately send someone to clean the stone tablet, arrest the crazy gangster who was splashing things, beat him hard, and then throw his whole family into the river to feed the fish!"
Chapter completed!