After writing the letter, Jia Liu picked up the small wooden stick on the table and knocked on the wooden fish fixed on the upper right corner of the desk.
It's really a wooden fish, the kind used by monks.
The purpose is equivalent to ringing a bell.
Just by ringing the bell, people outside will know that my husband is called, which is easier than making a phone call.
Since there were no high-end products like electric bells, wooden fish were used instead.
Cheap and practical.
Otherwise, every time Jia Liu had something to do, he would have to shout outside at the top of his lungs to see if anyone was there, which would be really tiring.
"Attsu!"
The crisp sound of wooden fish would always bring a small purification to Jia Liu's soul.
At the same time, it will also make his spirit perk up for no reason, both physically and mentally, as if he has been sublimated.
It's like the breeze blows away a group of drifters.
It feels more effective than Buddhist beads, peach wood swords, crosses and sickles hanging on the wall.
These magical instruments used by Jia Liu to calm the nerves and mend tires were all bought by Baozhu on the street outside Chongwenmen, but they were not effective.
This wooden fish came from Tailing Mingtang, and may have been blessed by the master.
Maybe it was just a psychological effect, but Jia Liuting enjoyed it anyway.
The office door was immediately pushed open, and a soldier came in and bowed: "What are your orders, sir?"
"Send this letter,"
Jia Liu put the letter into an envelope, wrote the address of General Jiangning's mansion and handed it to the soldiers, not forgetting to tell him to go through the normal route.
The normal way is to take the regular post roads in Daqing, which can save expedited fees.
It basically means taking the postal service instead of SF Express.
Anyway, it's not urgent, so there's no need to spend more money.
The country is in such a mess now, it would be better if we can save a little bit.
When the soldiers went out, Fan Wei happened to come in and saw the envelope in the hands of the soldiers, so he asked Mr. Gui who he was writing to.
Jia Liu told him about his cousin Song Chun.
Fan Wei frowned slightly after hearing this: "Since your lord has decided to call himself Prince Yu, why bother to win over this clan member who is far away in Jiangning?"
The implication is that it is not necessary. Even if we really want to get the hat of Prince Jian, it is better to support the other powerless and idle descendants of Jierhalang instead of recruiting General Jiangning, who has a heavy army and is an old man in the court.
Enter the game.
When those powerful ministers in ancient times appointed emperors, which one did not choose a child?
A truth.
"I didn't win over him,"
While reading the letter from Chairman Li of Sichuan, Jia Liu said casually: "I just want to ask my brother if he wants to compete for Prince Jian. If he wants to, I will give him a name. As for whether it must be Lao Fu and Prince An."
It has nothing to do with me."
"oh."
Fan Wei nodded, Mr. Gui family is causing trouble for Fu Zhongtang.
If Fu Zhongtang wants to agree to the Gui family's cousin being Prince Jian, there will also be Prince An, cousin, Prince Yu's brother-in-law, as well as Prince Rui, Prince Ying, and the hat king. At the meeting, the Gui family's relatives will make up the majority.
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In theory, it was possible to bypass the imperial court and directly decide on the candidate for the Qing emperor.
In the early days of the Republic of China, the hat king was the elector.
If we really want to restore this situation, Fu Zhongtang, the foreman military plane, will serve as a foil.
Unless he goes out of his way to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and bring down the Manchu hat king.
If Fuzhongtang disagrees, he will undoubtedly offend General Jiangning, who is very prestigious in the Yu clan and is a dominant figure in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. He will probably not be able to speak well in the south in the future.
If nothing else, if General Jiangning is dissatisfied with the imperial court and deliberately creates obstacles, there will be problems in the transportation of money and food from Jiangnan to the north.
Water transportation was the lifeblood of the Qing Dynasty.
Regardless of whether Fu Zhongtang agrees or not, this matter is enough for him to feel uncomfortable.
"King Zhang's treasure has been found. There are many young and old. Take a look."
Jia Liu showed Chairman Li's letter to Fan Wei.
This letter from President Lee is a good news letter.
It is said that since the launch of the Eight Kings Treasure Salvage Project in May, more than 100,000 pieces of various treasures have been taken out from the bottom of the river, mainly gold and silver utensils and gold and silver ingots. If all were melted, the equivalent of three to four million in silver could be obtained.
Two giants.
But what is more valuable are the gold and silver albums of the Daxi regime, various seals of officials, reward money from the King of the West, and other various cultural relics of the Daxi regime. Just stacking these things took up two warehouses.
The biggest gain was to fish out a gold seal of Zhang Xianzhong. President Li asked experts to see it and concluded that it might be the jade seal of Emperor Daxi when Zhang Xianzhong ascended the throne in Chengdu.
Priceless.
Since these things have "cultural relic" value, if they are sold in the antique market, the value will be several times higher than if they were melted, so Chairman Li means not to melt them, but to sell them directly through various channels.
Jia Liu agreed with this opinion and proposed that half of the income from Zhang Xianzhong's treasure should be used for the principal of Sichuan Bank, so that Sichuan Bank's business can develop better.
The remaining part is used as special salary expenses for the Banner and Han army controlled by the Gongjin Association, as well as operating funds for the local branches of the Gongjin Association.
Including but not limited to entertainment fees, introduction fees, advancement fees, pension fees, special fees, family fees, etc.
That is, the Sichuan Banner-Han army must be firmly under control.
"I heard the elders talk about this before, but I never thought that the Eight Kings really had treasures sunk in the river, and there were so many of them."
Fan Wei was definitely surprised, and Jia Liu was not surprised at all.
Various official and unofficial records in the late Ming Dynasty indicate that Zhang Xianzhong was attacked by the Ming army on the Minjiang River, causing a large amount of treasures stolen from the Chu Palace in Hubei, the Shu Palace in Chengdu, and the Ming Dynasty's vassal treasury to sink into the river.
The number is staggering.
The archaeological team in the previous life did indeed start the salvage project of this treasure, and the harvest was huge, and this was based on the fact that the treasure had been continuously lost and stolen over hundreds of years.
Today, only a hundred years have passed since Zhang Xianzhong died fighting against the Qing Dynasty, and at least 70% to 80% of the treasures remain at the bottom of the river.
The reason why the Qing government was able to quickly pacify China after entering the customs was that they relied on the tens of millions of Ming capital wealth they stole from Li Zicheng to support their various military deployments.
Zhang Xianzhong traveled to many places. Although he did not conquer the capital and his gains were not as good as those of Li Zicheng, they were still astonishing astronomical figures.
It is conservatively estimated to be worth tens of millions of taels.
In the past, Chairman Li's announcement would definitely make Jia Liu excitedly dance a song and boil a pot of wine, but now it is a bit calm.
He had no choice but to be knocked down by the report of the Guanggan Department secretly investigating the thirteenth bank in Guangdong with an annual income of more than 50 million taels.
No matter how great the treasure is, it cannot compare to opening the country to trade with Western countries.
Therefore, the matter of trade in Beiyang cannot be delayed.
The last letter was from Zu Yingyuan, the deputy general of Jinchuan Town.
The letter said two things.
First, Dingxi General Fengsheng, who led his army out of Sichuan to fight in Huguang, had already captured Jingzhou.
Second, after capturing Jingzhou, Fengshengwei formulated a grand plan for a comprehensive encirclement.
This plan looks very much like a replica of Yang Sichang, the Minister of War in the late Ming Dynasty.
In other words, it was the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign launched by the reactionary Qing government troops against the progressive Han Xing army.
The plan is very large, involving the five provinces of Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Henan, and Jiangxi, and plans to employ nearly 100,000 troops.
In addition to the main force of more than 40,000 Banner Han soldiers brought by Feng Shengquan from Jinchuan, the main force of the Sichuan Green Battalion, which had been fighting in Huguang in the early stage, was more than 10,000 people, and the Huguang Green Battalion of more than 10,000 people also participated in this battle.
In addition, there will be nearly 10,000 soldiers from Henan and Jiangxi provinces participating in the war, more than 10,000 soldiers from Huguang Governor Chen Huizu who retreated to Hunan, more than 10,000 soldiers from Hubei Governor Zheng Dajin, and more than 10,000 Tuanlian Xiangyong soldiers urgently recruited by the Hunan Governor.
Henan soldiers, Jiangxi soldiers, Hunan soldiers, and Hubei soldiers are mainly used for peripheral blockade. The main offensive force is Fengsheng'e headquarters and the Sichuan Green Battalion, which has been chasing and suppressing them in the early stage.
The plan should have been submitted to the capital as soon as possible. It only needs the emperor's approval and sufficient money and food from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue to be implemented.
Zu Yingyuan estimated that Fengsheng'e would use a large number of troops no later than mid-to-late February next year.
The purpose of writing this letter is to hope that the great Six Japs will make up their minds quickly.
Otherwise, if Feng Sheng'e were to capture Wuchang, they would all be doomed.