Sir, you have to pay more

After writing the letter, Jia Liu casually picked up the small wooden stick on the table and tapped the wooden fish fixed on the upper right corner of the desk.

It's really wooden fish, the kind used by monks.

The purpose is equivalent to ringing a bell.

That is, as soon as the bell rings, people outside will know that there is a call, which is better than making a phone call.

Since there is no such high-end product as an electric bell, wooden fish is used instead.

Cheap and practical.

Otherwise, every time Jia Liu has something to do, he has to shout outside to see if anyone is there, which is really tiring.

"Tuk!"

The light and crisp sound of the wooden fish would give Jia Liu a small purification of his mind.

At the same time, it would also boost his spirit for no reason, as if he had been sublimated physically and mentally.

It was like the breeze blowing away a group of Apiao.

It feels more effective than Buddhist beads, mahogany swords, crosses, and sickles hanging on the wall.

These few pieces of magical instruments that Jia Liu used to soothe the nerves and mend the tire were all bought by Baozhu on the street outside Chongwenmen, but the effect was not good.

This wooden fish came from the Tailing Mingtang, and may have been consecrated by the master.

Maybe it's just a psychological effect, anyway, Jia Liuting enjoys it.

The office door was pushed open immediately, and a soldier entered, bowing: "What are your orders?"

"Send this letter,"

Jia Liu put the letter in an envelope, wrote the address of General Jiangning's mansion, and handed it to the soldiers, not forgetting to ask the normal way.

The normal way is to take the regular post road of the Qing Dynasty, which can save the expedited fee.

It's almost the meaning of postal service instead of SF Express.

Anyway, this matter is not urgent, there is no need to spend more money.

The country is now in such a mess, and it is a little bit to save a little bit.

When the soldiers went out, Fan Wei just came in and saw the soldiers holding an envelope in his hand, so he asked who the Master Guijia was writing the letter to.

Jia Liu told about his cousin Songchun.

Fan Wei frowned slightly after hearing this: "Since your lord has decided to call himself Prince Yu, why bother to win over this clan far away in Jiangning."

The implication is unnecessary. Even if you really want to get Prince Jane, the king of hats, it is better to support the other powerless and idle descendants of Jierhalang, instead of pulling a general Jiang Ning who holds a heavy soldier or is an old fritter in the court into the game.

In ancient times, those powerful ministers established the emperor, which one didn't choose a child to establish him?
One reason.

"I didn't win him over,"

While reading President Li's letter from Sichuan, Jia Liu said casually: "I just want to ask my brother if he wants to compete for Prince Jane, and if so, please name him. It's nothing to do with me."

"Oh."

Fan Wei nodded, Mr. Guijia is making trouble for Fu Zhongtang.

Fu Zhongtang wants to agree to the cousin of Lord Gui's family as Prince Jane, and there will be a cousin of Prince An, brother-in-law of Prince Yu, and Prince Rui and Prince Ying who don't know where the flowers will fall. The relatives of Lord Gui's family will account for the majority .

In theory, it is possible to bypass the imperial court and directly decide the candidate for the Qing emperor.

At the beginning of the country, the hat king was the elector.

If we really want to restore this situation, Fu Zhongtang, the leader of the military aircraft, is a foil.

Unless he went all out to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and took the Manchu hat king in one pot.

If Fu Zhongtang disagreed, he would undoubtedly offend General Jiang Ning, a prestigious and powerful clan in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Among other things, if General Jiang Ning is dissatisfied with the imperial court and intentionally trips him up, there will be problems with the transportation of money and food in the south of the Yangtze River to the north.

Water transport was the lifeblood of the Qing Dynasty.

Anyway, whether Fu Zhongtang agrees or not, this matter is enough for him to feel uncomfortable.

"Dawang Zhang's treasure has been found out, it's not old or young, take a look."

Jia Liu showed President Li's letter to Fan Wei.

Chairman Li's letter is a letter of good news.

It is said that since the start of the eight kings treasure salvage project in May, more than 4 pieces of various treasures have been taken out from the bottom of the river, mainly gold and silver artifacts and gold and silver ingots. huge.

But what are more valuable are the gold and silver albums of the Daxi regime, the various seals of officials, the money rewarded by the king of the West, and a number of other cultural relics of the Daxi regime. These things just used two warehouses for stacking.

The biggest achievement was to find a golden seal of Zhang Xianzhong. Chairman Li asked experts to find out that it might be the jade seal of the Daxi Emperor who Zhang Xianzhong ascended the throne in Chengdu.

Valuable.

Because these things have the value of "cultural relics", if they are sold in the antique market, the value will be several times higher than if they are melted down. Therefore, Chairman Li means not to melt them down, but to sell them directly through various channels.

Jia Liu agreed with this opinion, and proposed that half of Zhang Xianzhong's treasure income should be used for the principal of Bank of Sichuan, so that the business of Bank of Sichuan can be better developed.

The remaining part is used for the special payment expenses of the Banner Han army controlled by the Gongjin Association, and the operating funds of the various branches of the Gongjin Association.

Including but not limited to entertainment fees, introduction fees, advancement fees, pension fees, special fees, family fees, etc.

It is necessary to firmly control the Sichuan Banner Han army.

"I heard the old people talk about this before, but I didn't think that the Eight Great Kings really had treasures sunk in the river, and there were so many treasures."

Fan Wei must have been surprised, and Jia Liu was not surprised at all.

Various official and unofficial records at the end of the Ming Dynasty show that Zhang Xianzhong was attacked by the Ming army on the Minjiang River, causing a large amount of treasures looted from the Chu Palace in Hubei, the Shu Palace in Chengdu, and the treasury of the prefectures of the Ming Dynasty to sink into the river. The number is astonishing.

The archaeological team members in the previous life did start the salvage project of this treasure, and they gained a lot, and it was based on the fact that the treasure has been lost and stolen for hundreds of years.

It is only a hundred years since Zhang Xianzhong died in the fight against the Qing Dynasty, and there are at least [-]% to [-]% of the treasures left at the bottom of the river.

The reason why the Qing government was able to quickly pacify China after entering the customs was that the wealth of the Ming capital, which was snatched from Li Zicheng, was tens of millions of taels to support their various troops.

Zhang Xianzhong traveled across many lands, although he did not break through the capital, and his income was not as good as that of Li Zicheng, but it was still an astonishing astronomical figure.

It is conservatively estimated that the value of tens of millions of taels is still there.

In the past, President Li's announcement would definitely make Jia Liu excitedly dance a song and boil a pot of wine, but now it is a little calm.

There is no way, he has been knocked down by the report of the secret investigation of Guangdong Shisanhang with an annual income of 50 million.

No matter how big the treasure is, it cannot be compared with opening the country's door to trade with Western countries.

Therefore, the matter of Beiyang trade is urgent.

The last letter was sent by Zu Yingyuan, deputy general of Jinchuan Town.

The letter said two things.

One is that General Feng Sheng of Dingxi, who led the army out of Sichuan to fight in Huguang, has captured Jingzhou.

The second is that after capturing Jingzhou, Fengsheng made a big plan for a comprehensive encirclement.

This plan looks very much like a replica of Yang Sichang's "Four Zhengs and Six Corners, Ten Sides Spreading the Net" by Minister of War in the late Ming Dynasty.

In other words, it was the fifth encirclement campaign launched by the reactionary Qing government army against the progressive Xinghan army.

The plan is huge, involving the five provinces of Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Henan, and Jiangxi, and plans to use nearly 100,000 people.

In addition to the more than [-] Banner Han main force brought by Fengsheng from Jinchuan, more than [-] main force of the Sichuan Green Camp who had been fighting in Huguang in the early stage, and more than [-] people from the Huguang Green Camp also participated in this battle.

In addition, there will be nearly [-] battalions from Henan and Jiangxi provinces, more than [-] soldiers from Huguang Governor Chen Huizu and Hubei Governor Zheng Dajin who have retreated to Hunan, and more than [-] soldiers from Tuanlian Xiangyong recruited urgently by Hunan Governor.

The Henan soldiers, Jiangxi soldiers, Hunan soldiers, and Hubei soldiers were mainly used for peripheral blockade. The main force of the attack was Fengsheng'e headquarters, as well as the Sichuan Green Camp, which had been chasing hard in the early stage.

The plan should have been reported to the capital quickly, and it only needs to be approved by the emperor, and it can be implemented after the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households provide sufficient money and food.

Zu Yingyuan estimated that by mid-to-late February next year at the latest, Feng Sheng would use a large number of troops.

The purpose of writing the letter is to hope that the great devil six masters will make up their minds quickly.

Otherwise, if Feng Sheng'er really took Wuchang, they would all be finished.