Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 400
Hu Renzhi smiled wryly and said, "Your Majesty, you are embarrassing the grassroots."

"Bold!" Gao Qiqian said angrily, "How can you talk to Lord Long Live?"

"Gao Banban, are you itchy again?" Chongzhen said, "Do you want to suffer the court rod again?"

Gao Qiqian was so frightened that he quickly retracted, not daring to say another word, lest he say the wrong thing again, or else Long Live Lord should be really angry, at least not yet.

Chongzhen said again: "Hu Renzhi, I will not make things difficult for you, you just tell the truth."

"Grassmen led the decree." Hu Renzhi said truthfully, "Among these treasures, purple gold and horseshoe gold are the most valuable. Whether they are in Yunnan or transported to Jiangnan, they can be worth the same price."

"But treasures such as rhinoceros horn, ivory, pearl agate, emerald cinnabar, and amber have completely different prices in Yunnan and Jiangnan. In addition, if they are all cleared at one time and shipped slowly over a long period of time, the price is also different. are not the same, so it is difficult to make an accurate estimate, Cao Min can only give a general idea."

Chongzhen smiled and said: "Then you can give a general idea."

After pondering for a moment, Hu Renzhi said: "It is worth [-] million taels at most in Yunnan. If it is shipped back to Jiangnan and cleared once, it can be worth about [-] million taels, but if it is stretched over [-] years and shipped slowly, it will be worth at least [-] million taels." Two silver!"

Hearing this, Chongzhen had a rough idea in his heart, and it would be no problem to sell [-] million taels.

As for slow shipments over fifty years or even hundreds of years, there is no need for that.

Immediately, Chongzhen asked Hu Renzhi, "Are your two families, Wang and Hu, also engaged in jewelry business?"

"My lord, our Hu family and Wang family are also in the jewelry business." Hu Renzhi couldn't help beating his heart when he heard this, he really couldn't calm down, this is a treasure worth fifty million.

"Okay, I will hand over this treasure to your two families." Having said this, Chongzhen said again, "For a price of [-] million taels of silver, I can also send troops to escort your two caravans back to Nanjing. "

Such a large batch of treasures cannot be protected by the Wang and Hu caravans alone.

"On behalf of the Hu family and Wang family, the grass people would like to thank the sage Long En." Hu Renzhi was overjoyed, and knelt down to adjourn his head.

This is really unexpected, the Holy One actually handed over such a large batch of treasures to the two of them to deal with. Although it is not easy to deal with such a large batch of treasures, it will definitely not lose money if you lose money.

Even with a conservative estimate, this order can earn at least two million taels.

If it is done well, it is not impossible to earn five million taels.

After all, there are many rare treasures in this batch of treasures, which are priceless.

Hu Renzhi left gratefully, and Zhu Cijiong said unwillingly: "Father, seeing Hu Renzhi like this, there must be a profit of [-] to [-], and the profit is not small, why don't we send troops to take this Send a batch of treasures back to Nanjing, and then hand them over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for auction? Wouldn’t this be able to sell more money?”

"Jiong'er, my father will teach you another truth today." Chongzhen said solemnly, "There must be a limit to a person's cognition, no matter how knowledgeable and talented you are, there are always things in the world that you don't know, so Don’t pretend to be omniscient, professional things must be handed over to professional people.”

"Cooking, leave it to the cook."

"Raise horses and leave it to the groom."

"To see a doctor, leave it to the doctor to see."

"Doing business, leave it to the merchant."

After a pause, Chongzhen went on to say: "Jiong'er, one day in the future, you will become the king of a foreign kingdom, so as a king, you can't just focus on such small profits, you can't just see this You can earn an extra one million taels or two million taels after the batch of treasures are shipped back to Nanjing, you have to see the sunk cost when dealing with this matter."

"Sunk cost?" Zhu Cijiong was a little confused, why didn't he understand?
Chongzhen gave an example: "If you are in charge of this matter, do you have to keep an eye on these treasures all the time? If there is a theft in the middle, I'm sure it will inevitably happen, and then you have to investigate? Investigations take time, and processing the results takes even more time, and it takes your energy."

"Finally transported back to Nanjing, there will only be more things to come."

"Don't think about handing over these treasures to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and it's over. The Ministry of Internal Affairs also has a lot of things at hand. They also need to spend a lot of time and energy to help you deal with these treasures. Then the Ministry of Internal Affairs handles so many things. Personnel, will there be any theft, will one or several of the treasures be taken as their own?"

"Then the bidding is even more troublesome. This is not one or two treasures."

"This is more than [-] trunks, hundreds of thousands of rare treasures."

"Money touches people's hearts, and handling these treasures is far more complicated than you imagine."

"Saving this time and energy, how many major national affairs can you handle?"

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen said again: "The same is true for handling these treasures, and the same is true for governing the country. Professional matters should be entrusted to professional people, so that you can save time and efficiently govern the country."

"My son understands." Zhu Cijiong suddenly said, "So the emperor handed over the government affairs to the cabinet to handle."

"Children can be taught." Chongzhen said happily, "Your father, I don't want to be like Emperor Gao, who sleeps at four o'clock and gets up at five o'clock every day. He can't do anything all day, and only cares about reviewing ministers' memorials."

"Your father, I have to spare all my time and all my energy."

"Dedicated to fighting, dedicated to recruiting rebellion and expanding the territory for Ming Dynasty."

Having said that, he paused, and then said: "When it comes to fighting, your father, I am a professional."

"I understand." Zhu Cijiong said frantically, "In the future, I will also learn from my father, the emperor, and hand over the affairs of state to the ministers, and leave all professional matters to professional people. I will only lead troops to fight. Expansion of territory."

"That's right, expanding the territory is what emperors and kings should do." Chongzhen smiled, then raised his head and turned his gaze to the north, as if he could see Sichuan thousands of miles away across the void.

Originally, after thinking of pacifying Shadingzhou, Zhang Xianzhong from Sichuan was also cleaned up.

But now it seems that there is not enough time, because it is already late September, and the preparations for the conquest of Zhang Xianzhong are almost at the end of November, and then the march will be at least two months, and the battle will be six months, Zhang Xianzhong It's not that the grassroots bandits in Shadingzhou can compare, Zhang Xianzhong has already formed a certain climate.

In this way, it will be delayed until July and August next year.

This will definitely not work. At that time, Jiannu and Pseudo-Shun have already finished fighting.

So I can only wait for the opportunity in the future to free up my hands to deal with Zhang Xianzhong.

Fortunately, Yang Zhan played pretty well in Sichuan. Didn't Qin Liangyu say that Yang Zhan had already fought in Meizhou last time?It seems to be the same in history. Zhang Xianzhong summoned an army of more than [-] to fight back to Wuchang, but he was defeated by Peng Chuankou and Yang Zhan. He was driven to northern Sichuan, and then defeated by Hauge's Qing army.

The world line of this world has been changed beyond recognition.

Hauge is dead, and it is even more impossible for Hauge's army to enter Sichuan.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong will not be shot to death by Yabran again, and Yang Zhan will not necessarily be murdered by his subordinates, so let this pair of fateful opponents entangle for a few more years.

On the contrary, the war between Pseudo-Shun and Jiannu's Tumet, I don't know the result?

But judging from the time, the winner should almost be decided, right?

……

"Ah! Ah! Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!"

Dorgon suddenly felt itchy nose and sneezed three times in a row.

"Master, it's getting cold, put on your cloak quickly." Hou Fangyu hurriedly brought a white fox fur cloak, and put it on Dorgon's body thoughtfully.

Dorgon didn't feel it at all.

All Dorgon's attention was focused on the river beach ahead.

On the river beach, I saw the puppet army's horse-buoyed army wading across the river.

The Junzijin confrontation with the puppet Shun army has lasted for almost half a year, from the beginning of April to the end of September, during which more than [-] battles have been fought, and finally ushered in the final battle today.

It's time to decide the outcome, because the Eight Banners warriors are already tired.

What's more, Monan will soon enter winter, and the weather will not allow the war to drag on.

Before that, every time the Qing army wanted to seek a decisive battle, the Puppet Shun always insisted on sticking to the camp on the opposite bank. The Qing army tried to cross the Yellow River several times to launch a strong attack, but was beaten back by the Puppet Shun army.

But this time, the Puppet Shun Army uncharacteristically took the initiative to cross the river and launch an attack.

Dorgon naturally had this in mind, and immediately ordered the Qing army to line up to meet it.

Hong Chengchou was unavoidably worried about this, and said: "Master, I have been a coward for six months. No matter how provocative our Qing soldiers were before, we couldn't hold on to it. Why did we take the initiative to cross the river today to attack? Slave It is suspected that there is another mystery in it, so the master still needs to be careful."

"Another mystery? What mystery can there be?" Dorgon said, "Worried about ambushes? Junzijin has an open terrain, and you can see dozens of miles away at a glance. Is it possible that the pseudo-obedient ambushes can still come out of the ground?"

"Ambush is definitely impossible." Hong Chengchou said, "But there may be one or two powerful killing moves."

"Hmm." Dorgon said thoughtfully, "Heng Jiu, what do you mean to say, we have flintlock guns as our trump card, and the pseudo-shun may also have the same trump card?"

"It's not a big mistake to be careful anyway," Hong Chengchou said.

Dorgon tapped his riding boots unconsciously with his whip, pondered for a moment and said, "Then let's change our style of play."

"The Eight Banners Han army will not participate in this decisive battle, and will stay in the rear and wait for orders. The decisive battle against the Puppet Shun will be handed over to the Green Camp, Eight Banners Manchuria, and Eight Banners Mongolia. There should be enough troops. After all, they will attack halfway through."

Speaking of this meal, he added: "In this way, even if an accident does happen on the battlefield, the Eight Banners Han Army can provide timely support, and the Eight Banners Manchuria, Eight Banners Mongolia, and the Green Battalion can safely withdraw."

Just before sending troops to Monan, Dorgon reorganized all the surrendered troops and organized them into the Green Battalion with [-] soldiers, of which [-] Green Battalion soldiers were responsible for stationing the place.

(End of this chapter)