Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1163

Dorgon was unable to flatten Shanxi in a short period of time. He could only hope that Hauge would know the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and would agree to his request and help him put down the rebellion with troops.

If the Jin army can attack Shanxi from the west, Jiang Xiang's rebel army will be surrounded on all sides. Now that Jiang Xiang's main force is fighting with him, Hauge suddenly intervenes in the war, and he can kill the rebel army by mistake. Not enough, broke into the hinterland of Shanxi.

At the end of September, after Fan Wencheng received Dorgon's order, he led more than 100 people from Beijing to the south. They ran all the way, changing horses and not changing people along the way. Master Fan's inner thigh was worn out with water cannons. It only took ten days We arrived at Tongguan.

Fan Wencheng was very anxious, but Jin Guo was not in a hurry. Tang Tong, the guard of Tongguan, notified Chang'an slowly. After half a month, Fan Wencheng was put into Guanzhong.

On October [-]th, on the official road from Tongguan to Chang'an, a team marched slowly, it was Fan Wencheng and his party.

The state of Jin also received news of the incident in Shanxi, which caused a shock in the state of Jin.

The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop. It can be said that it is the mood of Jin Kingdom at this time.

The Kingdom of Jin was different from the Qing Dynasty. Emperor Hauge did not have the authority of Dorgon, and the power of the Manchus was not strong enough. The Kingdom of Jin was more like a combination of forces such as Hauge, Wu Sangui, Meng Qiaofang, Han Chaoxuan, and Sun Kewang.

The current state of Jin is like managing the land in Guanzhong, and recovering its own strength first, but the external situation makes them unable to worry.

In the middle of the year, Dorgon contacted the Kingdom of Jin and asked the Jin army to go out of Hanzhong and attack Huguang with the Qing army, but Jin Guo did not agree.

In the past two years, Jin Guo has been tossing too hard, and the family property he had saved before has been exhausted. Naturally, Hauge did not agree to Dorgon's invitation.

In fact, after Hauge lost Sichuan, he already figured it out. The situation in the world has developed to the present.

He thinks this way, mainly because he sees that it is very difficult for Jin Guo to have the hope of unifying the world. Since he can't unify the world, why bother?He naturally retreated to the next best thing, didn't want to fight anymore, and sought to separate one side.

Song, Jin, and Xixia have coexisted for more than a hundred years, and the current situation is similar to it. Hauge will inevitably have this idea.

It's just that he thought so, Qing didn't think so, but Dorgon's ambition was not dead, he always wanted to make something big, and even Jin Guo couldn't stop.

In the middle of the year, Dorgon sent envoys to invite the Kingdom of Jin to send troops, but the ruling and opposition parties of the Kingdom of Jin have always opposed it.

Now Dorgon really got all the benefits, but his own internal explosion exploded, and now he came to Jin Guo for help.

Hauge was very annoyed by this. As soon as he heard that Fan Wencheng had arrived in Tongguan again, he had a bad premonition in his heart, always feeling that he would be tricked again.

The troubles caused by Dorgon should be borne by Dorgon and Qing Guo themselves. Why should they ask Jin Guo to wipe his ass, Hauge was very unwilling to participate in this matter.

It's just that now that the world is three-pointed and stands on three feet, it is necessary to maintain the balance of the situation. Although he has ten thousand words in his heart, after hesitating for a few days, he still asked the Ministry of Rites to send a chief to Tongguan to pick up Fan Wencheng and his party.

Fan Wencheng waited in Tongguan for a few days, his mouth full of anxiety, before he waited for Shen Wenhua, the head of the Ministry of Rites of the Kingdom of Jin, who came to welcome him, and the latter was not in a hurry.

The political structure of the Kingdom of Jin is like a group of clans or feudal lords co-ruling with the monarch. Because the Han gentry overwhelmed the Manchu nobles, the Guanzhong land, after six years of recovery, is much better than that under the Qing government. .

Because the Qing government was controlled by the Manchu nobles and the power was concentrated in the hands of Dorgon, they could levy corvee and increase taxes from the localities at will. Relatively speaking, the imperial court of the country cannot raise taxes arbitrarily, and it has to discuss with the Han officials and gentry how much to collect.

To a certain extent, this weakened the national strength of Jin Guo, but from the perspective of order, it quickly revived Guanzhong.

The Kingdom of Jin has fought continuously for the past two years, and the treasury has been emptied, and most of the troops directly under Hauge have been reimbursed, but this has not affected the development of the people, especially after the Kingdom of Jin re-managed Hexi, Chang'an has gradually become prosperous.

Influenced by the Ming Dynasty in the south, many workshops also appeared in the periphery of Chang'an, producing cotton cloth and other materials for trade with the Western Regions. In addition, coal and iron in Yan'an and Yulin, and copper and iron in Tongchuan also began to be mined on a large scale.

The rich clans and merchants in Guanzhong originally obtained goods from Jiangnan and Huguang through smuggling or other channels, and then resold them to the Western Regions and Mongolia. However, because of the war, they soon discovered that reselling them was not as profitable as making them themselves.

Jin Guo's management of Hexi has brought some development to the business of Jin Guo, and gradually formed a trade circle with Guanzhong as the core.

Of course, the Han officials and gentry in Guanzhong mainly benefited from this. Because the government of Jin State lacked authority, the pace of centralization was slow, and strict tax laws were not formulated, the imperial court did not benefit much.

After the First World War in Sichuan, most of the troops directly under Hauge were finished. The remaining troops of the Kingdom of Jin were all subordinates of various generals, such as Wu Sangui's tens of thousands, Meng Qiaofang's men, and other powerful troops. , They all take orders from these Han gentry first.

Hauge didn't have enough military power, so he was naturally not harsh in his words. The political structure of the Kingdom of Jin was a bit back to the clan politics of the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Last year, Sun Kewang defended Hexi, and after the Kingdom of Jin and the Kingdom of Qing defeated Zhungeer together, the trade between the Kingdom of Jin and the Western Regions became more frequent.

Although the Manchu Qing controlled Mobei in name, due to the erosion of the area under the Manchu Qing rule, the commerce was underdeveloped, and the handicraft industry was even rarer. In addition to farming to collect military food, mining and making weapons, other industries that served the war, other industries such as Weaving cloth, firing porcelain, and even making an iron pot and kitchen knife are very difficult.

Because the handicraft industry of the Kingdom of Jin has been restored to a certain extent, although Mobei belongs to the Qing Dynasty, there are more Mongols there than in the Kingdom of Jin to trade, because the Kingdom of Jin has what they want, but the Qing Dynasty does not.

Even the eight imperial merchants, half of the goods traded with the Mongols in Zhangjiakou came from the Kingdom of Jin.

The Kingdom of Jin has been in Chang'an for six years, and now Chang'an has become the economic, cultural and political revival of Guanzhong.

In order to get a share of the pie, Haoge set up two cities in the city, the east and the west, to regulate trade, strengthen the tax revenue of the Kingdom of Jin, and moved many shops to the two cities, so that all the surrounding merchants came to Chang'an to do business, and even the Raksha Kingdom, Lu Miguo and Persians came to Chang'an.

The Raksha State is the Russians, and their forwards have crossed the Ural Mountains and established a stronghold in Tyumen.

After the remnants of Zhungeer broke through their barriers and moved westward to the Volga River, the power of the Mongols there increased greatly, making Russia feel threatened, and what made them more worried was the eastern power that could defeat Zhungeer, so the Russians took the initiative Sending people to Chang'an is clearly for trade, but actually for spying.

The Lumi Kingdom is the Ottoman Turkish Empire that dominates Europe, Asia and Africa. After the demise of the Timurid Empire, it was convenient for the Ming Dynasty to have contact with it, and was called the Lumi Kingdom by the Ming Dynasty.

According to historical records, Ottoman sent envoys to Ming Dynasty five times, with more than 90 people at the most.

Before the rise of the West, China, India, Ottomans, Persia, and North Africa had formed a huge trade network.At that time, this place was the center of the world, and China was the center of the center, the most critical link in the entire trade network, and it was also the starting point.

Now that the West is involved, the original trade network has been destroyed and torn apart. In the past, the Arabs crossed the sea and controlled the trade channels with China and India. Now it is the Westerners who control the sea. The maritime trade routes between Ottoman and China are blocked. , They found the Kingdom of Jin from land.

Persia is the Safavid dynasty located in Iran, which also hopes to resume trade.

Among the three countries, Osman was the most difficult. Both Safi and Russia were his mortal enemies, but he never expected that they could travel such a long distance to reach Chang'an City.

The arrival of these three countries heralded a signal that the Silk Road, which had been interrupted for a long time, seemed likely to resume, which further promoted the prosperity of Chang'an.

A large number of shops moved into Chang'an, handicraft workshops began to emerge, old houses in the city were demolished in large numbers, and new houses for officials and gentry were erected. Barbarians from the Western Regions can be seen everywhere, and Chang'an is developing at a speed that can be seen.

Originally, if the Kingdom of Jin continued to operate like this, there would definitely be some achievements, but I didn't want Dorgon, a crap stick, to come and drag the Kingdom of Jin into the quagmire of the war against Ming.

"That's the caravan of the Zhongyuzi Khanate. They are in the west of Yarkand. When Mr. Fan came to Chang'an last time, he hasn't seen so many Hu people from the Western Regions!" Shen Wenhua pointed to a camel caravan in the distance. Said.

Zhongyuzi is also a branch of the Kazakh Khanate. This Khanate is still to the west of the Yarkand Khanate. At present, the country is very chaotic and divided into several small Khanates.

In a great battle last year, the Kingdom of Jin successfully defended Hexi. After the news spread, the subsequent impact was that Hu merchants from the Western Regions knew that the Kingdom of Jin had reopened trade routes, and came here with camel caravans one after another.

Fan Wencheng echoed, he didn't care about the Hu merchants from the Western Regions, he just wanted to see Hauge sooner.

On the way to Chang'an, this Shen Wenhua just talked all the way without playing. Now that he has been delayed for so many days, Fan Wencheng couldn't help it, and asked anxiously, "Master Shen, I don't know the emperor of your country. When will you receive me?"

(End of this chapter)