"I beg your blessing...order Yue Le, Echu, Malji, Cao Xi and others to come on board and talk!"

Kangxi did not disembark immediately, but asked Yue Le, Echu, and Maleji, the three most powerful figures in Jiangning City, and Cao Xi, the Kangxi's eyes and ears in Jiangning, to board the ship to talk.

After giving the instructions, he turned around and returned to the cabin.

Yue Le, Echu, Malji, and Cao Xi did not dare not obey the imperial edict now. They all walked over the gangplank one by one, boarded Kangxi's royal boat, and then got into the cabin.

There was not much space in the cabin, but Emperor Kangxi still made a grand display. His confidant eunuch Xiao Guizi led eight eunuchs, four palace maids, and stars surrounded the throne. There were two precious fans and a long gauze.

The screen surrounded him behind him. Mingzhu, Zhuo Butai, Xiong Cilu, Wang Fuchen and other people all stood tall and knelt beside him, making the image of Emperor Kangxi particularly tall.

Yue Le, Echu, Malji, and Cao Xi once again kowtowed to Emperor Kangxi. Seeing the four slaves kowtow like worms, Emperor Kangxi sighed and said to Yue Le with tears in his eyes: "Emperor

Uncle, Fuquan was killed by the traitor Zhu Heji! I was defeated miserably by Wu Sangui in Jianyangshui... This is all my fault!

I originally thought that visiting the front line in person could boost morale and make the three armies fight vigorously. Unexpectedly, I was not good at using troops and was no match for Wu Sangui. And Fuquan could not defeat Zhu Heji, who was as brave as Xiang Ji, and was killed by his formation...

I feel sorry for Fuquan, and I feel sorry for so many soldiers who died for the Qing Dynasty!"

After saying this, Kangxi burst into tears.

Only then did Yue Le and others finally become convinced that the person in front of them was indeed the real Kangxi who "decapitated his head and survived".

Because this method of taking mistakes and excusing the people under him is not something that ordinary emperors can do - if the two armies are in a stalemate now, no one can do anything to the other. Then Kangxi should deal with the generals under him who are ineffective in fighting.

Military law was imposed. But now the three armies were defeated, people were panicked, and rumors were spreading. If Kangxi was too harsh and might not be able to disintegrate and fall apart, then the Qing Dynasty would really be over.

"Your Majesty, please take care..." Yue Le quickly persuaded with tears in his eyes, "Although the current situation is critical, it has not yet reached the point of being out of control. After all, the three provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang are still there.

Under the firm control of the imperial court! As long as we have the population, taxes, grain and sugar of these three provinces, we can continue to fight, and the advantage will still be on the side of the imperial court!"

Now the entire China has a population of about 50 to 60 million, so population is an extremely precious resource, and the population of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces accounts for at least a quarter of it.

With the population of these three provinces, plus the population of the northern region, the population in the hands of the Qing Dynasty now accounts for at least six-tenths of the country's population.

Once these three provinces are lost, most of China's population will be under the rule of Zhu and Wu.

The taxes provided by these three provinces accounted for more than one-third of the annual income of the Qing Dynasty before the war.

Now that the Qing Dynasty has lost the five relatively wealthy provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi, its financial income has dropped sharply compared with before the war. Therefore, the tax revenue of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces is even more important, accounting for at least the Qing Dynasty's tax revenue.

Half of the annual income!

In addition, and the most important point, Zhejiang Province among these three provinces also produces sugar!

Although Zhejiang's sugar output and quality cannot be compared with Guangdong and Fujian, for the Qing Dynasty, it was a matter of having it or not having it.

Now sugar has moved from the kitchen to the battlefield, and has become the most important military material! But now all the sugar in the world comes from the four provinces of China: Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, and Zhejiang. Among them, Guangdong and Fujian have the largest output and quality.

most.

And Guangdong and Fujian are now the territory of the Ming Dynasty!

In addition, Guangxi is now under the joint rule of Wu Sangui's cousin Zu Zeqing and Wu Sangui. As long as Guangxi is not lost, Wu Sangui will not be without sugar.

And the white sugar in Daqing can only be supplied by Zhejiang... If Zhejiang is lost, then the sugar supply chain in Daqing will not be in our hands.

Although it was impossible for Zhu Heji to completely control the flow of sugar, the cost of obtaining sugar for the Qing Dynasty would definitely increase significantly.

If the Qing Dynasty lost the income and population of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui at the same time, it would be really difficult to sustain this war.

Kangxi was actually waiting for Yue Le to say that the three provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang were important. So he immediately took up the topic and said: "What the emperor's uncle said is absolutely true. I also feel that the gains and losses of Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are too great! So I thought

Following the example of the previous Ming Dynasty, Jiangning was transformed back into Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing... What does the emperor think?"

"Prince An," Academician Mingzhu rushed to speak without waiting for Yue Le to answer the question, "the imperial court recently sent an envoy to Jingzhou to redeem the captured Eight Banners soldiers from Wu Sangui. According to Hong Shiming who served as the envoy, Wang Shirong and Wang Shirong reported back

, now the people in Jingzhou City are happy and everyone is happy. Fu Honglie and Zhou Peigong, who once went to Guangfu to investigate the fake Ming Dynasty imperial examination, also reported that the people in Guangzhou City welcomed Zhu Ni and resisted the imperial court. This shows that the imperial court not only lost on the battlefield.

The people's hearts in Huguang, Guangdong, and Fujian are not towards the imperial court, but what about the people's hearts in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui?"

"Maleji, tell me!" Kangxi immediately forwarded the question to Malji, the governor of Liangjiang.

What did Malji say?

Saying that the Qing Dynasty was very popular in Jiangnan? Isn’t this deceiving the emperor? And it seems that the emperor doesn’t want to hear such nonsense.

But the truth is...

Forget it, don’t say anything anymore.

Malji quickly prostrated himself on the ground with his butt raised high and said nothing.

The meaning is very obvious. If you want to fight, just fight. Anyway, I don't dare to tell the truth.

"Cao Xi, tell me, you are one of my own, there is nothing I can't say." Kangxi approached Cao Xueqin's great-grandfather Cao Xi again, who was Kangxi's "own one".

"Returning to the emperor," Cao Xi said, "I think the people in Jiangnan can be redeemed compared to Guangdong, Fujian, and Huguang. The key depends on what the court does."

What he said was level-headed!

Not directly saying that the imperial court was unpopular, but saying that it could be restored. Moreover, it was compared with the places that had already been taken away by Zhu Heji and Wu Sangui.

Kangxi nodded, "I regard Jiangning as Nanjing Yingtian Mansion and personally take charge of it, just to win back people's hearts. As long as people's hearts are on the side of the Qing Dynasty, I will be sure of victory!"

"I wonder how the emperor plans to win back people's hearts besides sitting in Nanjing?" Yue Le said more at this time.

He really couldn't bear it anymore. Things have reached this point. How can we win back people's hearts? How to win back? Should we use violent expropriation to win back? Or should we use literal inquisition to win back?

When Kangxi was asked by Yue Le, he was a little embarrassed and said in a low voice: "Then how did Prince Zhu and Wu Sangui win the hearts of the people?"

This question... most people in this cabin know about it, maybe only Kangxi, the Holy Lord, doesn't know about it.

The method used by the Zhu and Wu families to win people's hearts is actually very simple, just two words - Qing Dynasty!

In fact, after the Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains, it didn't have to worry about so many things at all. It could live a peaceful life for more than two hundred years. But the Qing Dynasty wanted too much for "tens of millions of years", so it changed its methods and tormented the Han people. In the early Qing Dynasty,

In those years, the execution ability was relatively strong, so it was particularly powerful. Naturally, the people's hearts were very badly lost!

Of course, even Cao Xi did not dare to say this to Kangxi, but Cao Xi already had a way to deal with it. When he saw him taking out a red post from his arms, he raised his hands.

"Your Majesty, look at this."

Kangxi was stunned, "Is this...a wedding invitation? Getting married? Or giving birth to a son?"

"Your Majesty, this is a hero's note." Cao Xi said, "This is a hero's note for a heroes meeting to be held in Jiugong Mountain next spring to discuss the affairs of the country. It is issued in the name of the fake grandson of Zhu San!"

"To whom?" Kangxi asked hurriedly.

"Anonymous." Cao Xi said, "As long as you claim to be a hero, you can take the post to Jiugong Mountain. Many porcelain bottles sent from Jingdezhen to Jiangning these days have such heroic posts stuffed in them. There are also some smuggling salt and other

The gangsters who are trending are also distributing these hero posts everywhere."

"I see... Come and see." Kangxi winked at Little Guizi's father-in-law, who immediately sent this hero's note to Kangxi.

"So this is how Zhu Ni deceived the hearts of the scholar-bureaucrats," Emperor Kangxi opened the hero post and said to himself as he read it, "I also have the ability to speak widely. I will tell you everything I know, and I will tell you everything. The speaker is not guilty.
Chapter completed!