Two days later, Ajige and Li Dingguo, who led a large army, fought a fierce battle west of the mall and the east bank of the river.

In this battle, the Daxi Army did not maintain the law of invincibility in the past two years. At the cost of more than 6,000 casualties, it was only exchanged for killing less than 3,000 Qing troops.

Li Dingguo, who has always been brave and leading the way, was also shot into the left arm by the enemy's stray arrow.

After this battle, Li Dingguo ordered to defend the mall and no longer had the strength to go out of the city to fight the Qing army.

By the afternoon of the next day, Ajige and Sun Kewang jointly completed the siege of the mall east, south and west, and the siege was about to begin.

There are not many choices left for Li Dingguo, either fighting to the death or retreating.

Li Dingguo, who had been unwilling to let Jianxing Dynasty and the Northern Expedition Army interfere in Henan, finally made a correct decision. While sending a messenger to Emperor Yongli who had moved to Hengyang, Huguang, he sent someone to Wu for help. At the same time, he urgently sought help from Jianyangwei, Luzhou, the Jianyangwei, the Beijing Army Liao Zhongping Zuoying and the Fengyang Fuchi Erhan's troops.

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At this time, the Qing court could not stop for a long time.

Several people quarreled.

Do they really don’t know that the situation is already at a critical moment?

Of course not, at least, except for Fulin, everyone knows everything.

But they were still quarreling endlessly, in order to seize the command of the new army formed after Fulin.

Fulin wanted to fight in person, but there was nothing to blame. Yanzhou was not far from the capital, so it was not impossible for the emperor to fight in person.

But this edict was rejected by Shuwang, Hong, Fan and others.

The reason is very simple. The emperor is noble and you cannot leave the palace easily, let alone the capital, let alone the battlefield, and the sword is eyeless.

This scene is very familiar. From ancient times to the present, except for the founding emperor who immediately won the world, the literati and officials have "sought to persuade" the emperor so much. The reason is not complicated. Just imagine, once the emperor really enjoys the people and the army, there will be too many things that cannot be hidden.

Just like there was an emperor in the Qing Dynasty who went out of the palace to eat chicken and realized that eating a whole chicken cost only more than 80 cents, rather than the 120 taels recorded in the imperial kitchen account.

Since Fulin cannot fight in person, someone must command the army to move south.

How did this candidate come about?

Who recommends it?

Who is qualified to recommend it?

This became the reason why the Qing court was quarreled.

It can be said that for the Qing court at this time, those who were in charge of the new army were in charge of the Qing court.

There are three kinds of voices in the court. One is commanded by Boluo. He was the commander of the 100,000 new army, the commander of the firearms and the commander of the two battalions. Moreover, he is the prince of the clan and Fulin's cousin. As the general of the new army, he is legitimate.

But Fu Lin refused to agree, and that was right. He had already arranged for Boluo to guard the three guards in Tianjin. If the two battalions of Boluo were given more troops, wouldn’t he be vaguely competing with the court?

At that time, Fulin wants to take back the military power, what should Boluo do if he doesn't agree?

Does the court still have the financial resources to form another new army?

Another voice is to be awarded the title of General Oboi and put the new army under his command to defend Yanzhou. Oboi was also a veteran of the three dynasties and had great military achievements. Anyway, he was already in Yanzhou at this time, so it was natural that he got the moon first near the water.

This proposal is very popular among court officials, but Boro refused.

Boluo was Prince Duan Chong. Although Oboi was named Batulu's "No. 1 Warrior in Manchuria", he was just a first-class marquis. Isn't it ridiculous to let a prince fall below the first-class marquis? But Boluo obviously would not give up the military power of the two battalions of Jianrui and Firearms.

If the court came forward, it would be obvious that Boluo, who had already gathered the former Dorgon's official, was not easy to meet.

The last voice is actually compromise and harmony, that is, let Fulin lead the general in the name of personal expedition, with Ebilong and Boluo as deputy generals, each leading the Tiger Gun Battalion, Shenji Battalion, Jianrui Battalion, and the Firearm Battalion, respectively, from Henan and Shandong to respond to the attacks of the Western Army and the Northern Expedition Army.

This plan was recognized by Fulin and made Boro unable to express his objection.

But then, several parties argued again about the characterization of this war.

Whether it is a decisive battle or a war to promote peace, local war or national war, is the focus of the government's government whether it is economy-oriented or war-oriented.

Jiergalang insisted that this was not the time to fight the Jianxing Dynasty. In order to meet the satisfaction of Fulin's establishment of these 100,000 new troops, the national treasury had already run away, and the Shanxi merchants were also ruthless, so that like the eight imperial merchants surrendered to Hong and Fan, this was a hidden pain in Jiergalang's heart and the main reason why he was criticized by his relatives in charge of the clan's mansion.

Otherwise, if Boluo entered Beijing, he would not have gathered Dorgon's suppressed officials so easily. Among them, the royal family in Beijing had secretly helped Boluo a lot, and Jirgalang knew it very well.

But Jirgalang had no plans to attack the royal family with this. After all, he still wanted to win the support of the royal family and lay the foundation for his ascension.

Hong and Fan, who have always claimed to be "the emperor" and "state affairs", are in a swaying situation at this time. They want to fight the Jianxing Dynasty, but they are also worried about the safety of the huge amount of money invested in the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce. Even if all the branches opened by the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce were sealed off, it would be a drop in the bucket. They were nothing more than shops, personnel and some working capital. Even the shops were rented, which was not worth a lot of money.

There are three main ways of money raised by the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce. The first is undoubtedly to fill the trap of the Finance Department of General Wu Zheng's Office. The second is also to Wu Zheng's way of purchasing a large amount of Songjiang New City. The idle land inside and outside the city was hoarded. Although the land price rose every day, if you want to cash it, you would be terrible. If you sell 10% of it, you can turn the land price back to the bottom.

The third item is slightly better than the first two items. More than 160 large sea ships of 600 to 800 stone travel from north to south every month, engaging in prohibited businesses that ordinary merchants cannot reach. This is the source of wealth for the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce to continuously pour in liquid capital. It is not enough to describe it as a daily wage of gold. It should be called a daily wage of ten gold, and a hundred gold is suitable.

If a local war is fought, both sides can ignore trade and trade, but if they really want to fight a decisive battle or a national war, then the first thing that is banned is these banned businesses.

It is said that if the boat is small, it is easy to turn around. Ordinary businessmen can turn their business to their respective internal areas in time, but the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has to sit and wait for death. Just one of these more than a hundred sea ships, tens of thousands of employees from north to south, and the blood loss rate can be called the speed of a leopard.

It’s not Hong, Fan can’t bear to give up this money, of course, it is indeed too.

But if there is a conflict with the national war, they still have the awareness of giving up on things that are outward.

The question is, can they give up things outside of themselves, others, and their supporters easily?
Chapter completed!