In the eyes of many people, it is very likely that Kangxi was worried that Ma De would gather in the party after seeing this battle between Anhui officials and Lianghuai salt merchants, and cut the arms and assistance of the governor of Ma Da. However, Ma De knew very well that although these transferred officials were all his subordinates on the surface, most of them had their own "thoughts" and would not be easily manipulated. For example, Shi Shilun, giving Ma De another ten thousand confidence, he was not confident that he could let this guy listen to his words honestly; and Yu Heng, although he had some friendship, the former Shuntian prefecture had never followed anyone since Soetu finished playing, and he would only be truly loyal to Kangxi; Lu Longqi wouldn't say that this is a great official, and as long as he is a clean official these days, there is no need to say anything else!

In addition to these three people with higher status, Liu Yingxia is more obedient, and may also become Ma De's loyal subordinate, but he was transferred to Guizhou. Although Zhang Kai and Li Lin also had the possibility of forming a clique with him, these two were transferred to Jiangnan Road and the other became Jiangsu Tongzheng envoy. In the place where big names gathered, it was a little short of it. At most, it would be to lay the foundation for Ma De to become the governor of Jiangnan in Jiangsu Province in the future. However, if he wanted to stir up trouble, it would be a little short of it.

And so many close officials were transferred away at once. People suspected that Kangxi was cutting Ma De's arm support, and naturally some people thought that Kangxi was paving the way for Ma De to be promoted to the Governor of Jiangnan in the future. However, these people were no longer interested after staring at Ma De for a while. Because in the next year, Ma De still remained in front of him as the governor of Anhui, without any change. However, many local officials were more intensified in working under him. Because the examples of Zhang Kai, Li Lin, Liu Yingxia and others have fully demonstrated one thing, that is, they will be promoted quickly and promoted higher with Ma De.

This situation lasted until the 42nd year of Kangxi. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a rule that local officials were generally not allowed to serve in the local area for too long to avoid occupying their positions and becoming a force. The term of office was generally six years. In other words, in the 42nd year of Kangxi, there was only one year left before Ma De's term in Anhui was about to expire. At this time, when most people had not yet begun to consider how to deal with Ma De's impending transfer or promotion, Kangxi finally issued an order to appoint Ma De as the Governor of Jiangnan.

Without waiting for people to react to this, Kangxi issued a series of personnel appointments, and completed various personnel adjustments before everyone reacted.

First of all, there was no change in the four ministers in Shangshu. Tong Guowei also served as the Minister of War, while Ma Qi replaced him as the General Manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Gao Shiqi and Zhang Tingyu were the Grand Secretary of Liewenyuan Pavilion, and led the Minister of Guards. Gao Shiqi was also the Minister of Rites. Zhang Tingyu was the Minister of Personnel and was in charge of the daily affairs of the Nanshu. In addition to these four giants, Li Guangdi's original position remained unchanged and was still the Governor of Zhili, the Minister of Personnel and the Grand Secretary of Personnel. Chen Tingjing, the Minister of Revenue, heard the old minister, and Kangxi unexpectedly did not appoint people from the court, but found an old minister, Wu Jiamo, and the household was very cold.

Chen Xijia, the minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was not counted. Kangxi also appointed You Mingtang, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, further reduced Chen Xijia's strength in the Ministry of Revenue. In addition to these appointments, A Linga was promoted to the position of Minister of the Inspectorate Guard and the Minister of Political Affairs, and at the same time, he restored the position of Manchuria in the Inlaid Yellow Banner. In addition, the Minister of Justice was still Wang Yuyang, but in addition to the golden seal, he had another Shi Shilun around him; the Minister of Works was Wang Hongxu;... Kuixue, who completed the task of enthroning the crown prince of Korea, was appointed as the right deputy chief envoy of the Crown Prince of the Crown Prince.

These appointments made the Qing court lively for a while. However, there was no big fluctuation in the central government, and the local governments. The news that Chen Huang was appointed as the governor of the river was promoted by Ma De to the governor of Jiangnan was blocked a lot, and it did not attract much attention.

And in the past two years, there have been many changes in the Northeast.

Bai Jin is worthy of being a priest, completely different from those guys who sell dog meat from later generations who are "good" and most of the people he found for Old Man Fei were indeed refugees. However, in front of Old Man Fei, these Western visitors were still squeezed out a lot of surplus value.

And the most useful one is a kind of maroon fire.

As the name suggests, the color of fire is no longer black, but maroon. This kind of fire is made by the chemistry teacher Turner and several craftsmen under the old man Fei. At that time, in order to increase the range of the cannon, Old Man Fei asked them to develop a slow-fire fire together. So, after more than a year of hard work, they made brown charcoal by reducing the roasting temperature of the wood used to make fire, and at the same time, they reduced the sulfur ratio in the fire formula. Then, under the guidance of Old Man Fei, they used a simple water press to make fire into high-density, single-hole or porous lotus-shaped fire cakes, and then dried at low temperatures to make fire. This kind of fire makes the hope of Fei's large long-range cannons a reality.

In addition to these, in the 42nd year of Kangxi, Old Man Fei's conspiracy against certain potential enemies began to appear.

First in North Korea.

Although North Korean King Li Yin requested the Qing court to appoint Shupin's son as crown prince, this time his letter did not just go through the Qing court as before. Kangxi did not do as he wished, but pointed out that "the elders and the young are orderly, and etiquette and law cannot be abolished." He did not agree to his request. At the same time, without his consent, he directly issued an order to appoint Li Yun, the son of Zhang Xi, as crown prince of Korea, which caused a considerable chaos within North Korea.

While the Korean monarch and ministers were all focusing on the Qing court and the crown prince, Old Man Fei found some merchants in North Korea as agents, dumped Fengtian grains at low prices by the grain merchants in North Korea, and at the same time purchased the self-produced grains of the North Korean people at a price higher than the average price. In this way, although he lost money on the surface, he was gradually eroding North Korea's grain market. At that time, as long as he said, North Korea would starve across the country.

The same conspiracy is underway in Japan.

However, in comparison, the "investment" made in Japan is much larger.

Because it's not just Old Man Fei who is planning to make a decision on Japan.

Old Man Fei was playing with food, while Mo Jing played with textiles and other products. After establishing her own textile factory, Mo Jing did not rush to open up the market in Guannei, but first set her sights on Japan. Moreover, while dumping various wool textile products, she also pulled Shanxi merchants and Old Man Fei, selling luxury goods and daily necessities to Japan, and at the same time, she frantically searched for various precious metals, gold, silver, and copper in Japan.

Her behavior was also not just her own, but also found an agent in Japan. There were a few privileged merchants, and these people all had a considerable status in Osaka. The situation in Japan at this time was also greatly beneficial to Mo Jing and the others' actions.

After so many years of establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and after the Shimahara Rebellion led by Amakusa Shiro decades ago, the financial difficulties of the Shogunate were extremely difficult, and the divergence of the samurai ronin was also very serious. A few years ago, when the fourth-generation generals were in power, in order to resolve these situations, in order to resolve these situations, in order to rectify the discipline of the Daming and the Tanabolic Mater, he sentenced to "change" and reduce the seal, and confiscated the salary by 26 pieces, saving 800,000 stones of salary. After the family left, the fifth-generation general, Tsunayoshi, who took over the position, was even more ruthless. He confiscated the salary of Daming and the Tanabolic Mater forty-six times, saving 1.61 million stones of rice for the shogunate.

However, under their "arbitrary policy", many samurai who lost their lords had no choice but to live in a life and had to become a lost ronin. Not only did the shogunate where the shogunate was located several anti-shogunate events led by ronin, but also, the troubles of "ravagers" (Hamoto, Machinu) in Edo Castle became a major problem that caused the shogunate.

In addition to being dismissed from office and demoted to save money and food, the five-generation general Tsunayoshi Tsunayoshi also adopted other policies. He dismissed the corrupt and autocratic elder Tadaki Sakai, cracked down on the clan forces, and appointed close servants Makino Narita and Yanazawa Yoshisaki as side employed people, rectified the shogunate institutions, formulated etiquette and laws, and implemented the general's centralized autocracy. Moreover, due to respecting Confucianism, Tsunayoshi also appointed Confucian scholars such as Kinoshita Shun'an and Huo Sheng Juzhu to praise local filial sons and wise wives. People with famous families since the Rakimuromachi period inherited the position of the "Gao family" and tried to use Confucianism and red tape to correct the political abductions of the martial arts family. However, he relied on the preaching, rituals and uniformed cultural decorations of the Three Bonds and Five Constant People, but on the contrary, he could not solve these political and economic problems.

, due to the huge expenses of formal etiquette, the shogunate finance further became more difficult. In addition, Tsunayoshi not only became popular with Zhuzi's studies, but also believed in Buddhism and believed in monks' foolings. Because the monk said that he had no children, it was the retribution for killing many people in his previous life, and he had to abstain from killing animals, especially because Tsunayoshi was born in the year of Xu, so he had to take special care of dogs. Therefore, Tsunayoshi issued a "Care for Life" order for this, and the people were sentenced to death for killing dogs and other animals. Exile continued to occur, and eventually everyone did not dare to raise dogs. This was not counting, Tsunayoshi also collected taxes from the people and established a large number of dog kennels to accommodate wild dogs, so that the kennels in the suburbs of Edo actually reached more than 40,000. The people were so angry that they drove Tsunayoshi to "Gui Gong Fang" (Dog General).

The sacrificial lords and the shogunate corruption, extravagance became popular, and financial imbalance became even more serious. Tokugawa Tsunayoshi had to appoint "determination and implementation" (official position) to receive the former Shigee reformed the finance, but this acquisition of Shigee was not a great talent. He used his power and followed the advice of the privileged merchants to reduce the quality of the currency when changing the currency. Although the shogunate profit of 5 million taels, he temporarily had to make up for the finances. However, this practice caused the currency price to fall sharply, causing prices to rise, and the people could not bear the suffering, and the shogunate finances became even more difficult. Tsunayoshi had to increase taxes again and even reduce the salary of samurai in the name of "borrowing". However, this practice was limited, and Shigee had to use tribute rice as a means to borrow money from the merchants of Kyoto and Han. The retainers and samurai were even more difficult, and more samurai survived on side jobs.

These things, from top to bottom, were pressed by aristocrats and merchants at all levels, and were heavily attached to farmers and urban civilians from all over Japan. The lives of these people became increasingly difficult.

The serious differentiation between the upper and lower poles of Japan has made Mo Jing's cheap wool textiles very popular, and various smuggling activities are also in full swing with the private support of many Daming, whose income has decreased.

However, these are just "small problems". The real big problem in Japan is in the north, Hokkaido.

Hokkaido was the agricultural center of Japan and its main grain production base in later generations. Since Matsumae Yoshisuke had a strong backer, he began to send people to recruit people to open up land in other parts of Japan according to Yuzhong's instructions, and also recruit samurai to serve in Matsumae's vassal. Because his conditions were to provide one year of food, seeds, corresponding land, and low taxes, a large number of Japanese people who lived in difficult life began to migrate northwards without caring about the legend of the desolation of the Hokkaido. At the same time, ronin who lost his samurai status or samurai who lived in poverty also began to march towards Hokkaido. After a year of this kind, Matsumae Yoshisuke sent some people or samurai originally belonging to the state and other places back to their original place, and made a statement about Hokkaido, which made the "move north" situation even more intense.

After a while of the beginning, this incident was noticed by the shogunate and nobles from all over the country. However, although it was suspected that the Matsumae vassal suddenly had this capital, since the situation at the beginning was only a few, dozens of moving north were not very serious, and the pressure on their own territory could be slightly relieved. Therefore, the shogunate and daimyos from all over the country did not "make a big deal". Although the situation was a little more serious, the bribery was in place, but it still did not attract too many people's attention. However, by the 42nd year of the Kangxi reign, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi had to pay attention to the Matsumae vassal.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, in order to restrict the forces of daimyos from all over the country, he forced many daimyos to move to Edo and pay tribute every year. He often transferred the seal or deposed some daimyos on excuses. Just like the Asano family in the past few years, they were uprooted because of an unsuccessful child. The Matsumae vassal has always been a remote small vassal and has no great power, so it did not implement this order. However, in just over two years, a small vassal with less than 20,000 people under its jurisdiction became a big vassal with more than 100,000 people, samurai and more than 2,500 ronin. The shogunate had to ask Matsumae Hirosuke to "fulfil" this ban.

If it were in the past, if Matsumae Hirosuke heard this order from the shogunate, he would definitely be very grateful while feeling very honored. However, now it is different. Matsumae Hirosuke's confidence is already very strong at this time.

Facing the side-employed person sent by Tokugawa Tsuyoshi, the head of the Matsumae family not only rejected the orders of the shogun, but also pointed at the arrogant and asked for the imperial envoy who asked for this and that, and bombed the Hokkaido.

So, when the news reached Edo, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was furious and ordered the old man Sakai Tadaki, who had been dismissed by him, to lead 5,000 troops, and at the same time, to order the Andong and Tsugusans near the Matsue family to send 10,000 troops to suppress the rebellion of Hokkaido.

However, when Sakai Tadaki's army arrived at the Tsuguba area, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's order came again. This order did not urge Sakai Tadaki, but asked him to suspend his march.

The reason is that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi received two letters.

One of these two letters is from the letter of the Rifenyuan, which they called the Qing Dynasty. On the letter of the Rifenyuan, Ferdinand, on the one hand, expressed his "long-term admiration" towards the shogun Tokugawa Tsuyoshi, and at the same time, he also expressed his desire to deepen his understanding with the Japanese shogunate and the people and establish a deeper exchange. On the other hand, he raised doubts about Japan and North Korea relations. In the letter, Ferdinand claimed that the Qing Dynasty, as the sect leader, had found that North Korea had been hostile to China for many years and had evil intentions, and learned that North Korea had wanted to invade the Central Plains with Japanese troops. Although this incident did not happen, what is the reason why Japan and North Korea sent envoys to each other every year and gave each other generous gifts? Aren't the two countries' feuds?... And with this letter of state, it was an extremely rich and gorgeous gift, and a sharp sword.

Another letter was also from the Qing Dynasty, and was from the Admiral of the Manchu Navy. This was located at the admiral of the Manchu Navy. The admiral first expressed his "friendship", and then told Tokugawa Tsunayoshi that in the territory of the Matsumae vassal state, he purchased a "small" piece of land as a place for his army to rest. At the request of Matsumae Honkaisuke, he also requested the Qing court to grant Matsumae Honkaido garrison. Although he did not seek the consent of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi in advance, as a shogunate general, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi had the ambition to "inclusive of Honshu Island" and probably wouldn't mind this little "small matter". Similarly, this letter also came with generous gifts and weapons of some symbolic significance.

It was these two letters that forced Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and his subordinates to urgently stop Sakai Tadaki's anti-rebellion campaign.

The entire shogunate senior officials became nervous.

At the same time, the 5,000 Manchurian Navy tribes stationed in Ishikawa Bay also began to prepare to welcome the main navy forces from the sea husk.

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Chapter completed!