When night fell, the flags that had been distributed to the people who had plundered the goods began to celebrate, and the restaurants and restaurants were all the soldiers of the Eight Banners who were drinking and drinking wildly in the style of combing money rat tails, and the traditional habit of the Jiannu who had just been renamed Manchuria by Huangtai Chicken was when they sent out the army, all of them were happy, and their wives were also happy, but they wished to get more money. After getting the loot distributed by these loots, it is natural to enjoy it. And those who were assigned to the banners of the plundered population began their life as slaves or slaves.

On the west side of Tongtian Street, north of Middle Street, and on the north side of the Han Palace built by the old slave. A rectangular courtyard with two entrances to the north and south, and a wall carved from red bean stone produced in Benxi behind the main entrance. The wall is full of patterns of "sealing (bee) Hou (monkey) hanging seal" and "blessing (bat) Lu (deer) longevity (immortal) joy (magpie)".

Behind the wall, there were bursts of screams and whippings.

"Hit! Hit hard! ”

A Baya soldier leader greeted his subordinates viciously, and whipped the two oxenrod leathers who were tied to the ground, Zhang Jing and Fen De Pashku, with a thick cowhide whip in his hand.

"These two damn minions! On the street, we ran into the group of dog thieves with red flags, and the group of dog thieves insulted our prince, and these two minions went up to argue with them, but they started to do so, and they were beaten, which broke the prestige of our prince, and the master ordered us to whip them forty lashes, so that they could remember what it was like to retreat from battle! ”

Dolgon, who dismounted in front of the wall, listened to the introduction of the butler in the third brother Duoduo's mansion, and frowned, "My own minions. If you lose a fight with someone else, how can you still fight like this?! Let's go! Each person is given a stone of rice, so that they can take care of it, which is considered a reward for the master's efforts! ”

"Second brother, you're late! The good-looking barbarian women have all been picked up by the eldest brother! Although Azig, Dorgon, and Dordo were twelve, fourteen, and fifteen among the brothers, whenever the three brothers got together, they preferred to be called brothers of the same mother.

In the room, Duoduo and Azig were sitting around the low table, roasting lamb on an iron rack, unprocessed lamb. Fishy. It made several women who had just changed into flag man costumes on the side frown slightly, but they didn't dare to show any disgust.

Dolgon didn't say much, but took off his cloak, threw it to the Bayara soldiers beside him, and sat down opposite the two brothers. Take out the knife from your waist and start cutting the meat on the iron frame and eat it.

The bloodshot lamb had just been cut. I haven't put it in my mouth yet. The housekeeper came to report, and a merchant asked to see him.

"These! The nose is really spiritual, and I know that Lao Tzu has divided the money today. I have silver in my pocket! Sue them, go find that fat man! Don't bother Lao Tzu! ”

"That's it! Lao Tzu was just cut off three cows from his body by that fat man today, and he had no place to send his stomach angry! Prepare to take these barbarian women out of the fire at night! ”

The two of them, Dordor and Azig, were unbridled and invective.

"Forget it, since you came to the door, there must be some good things. Call in and take a look! "Although Dolgon also lost three Niulu, but there is still one Niulu in this banner, although it belongs to Abatai, but in fact, this Niulu is still his strength.

The butler took the order, and after a while, there was a sound of footsteps, and two men dressed as merchants came to the three brothers.

"From Shanxi? When you see this king, why don't you kneel down and salute? ”

Duoduo picked up the silver bowl and took a sip of wine, glancing at the two men with the strength of the wine.

An older man who was very familiar knelt down on one leg and saluted a thousand times, and greeted the three flag lords with the accent of the Shanxi Jiexiu area that Duoduo and others were accustomed to. (This is not a geographical attack, because Fan Yongdou, the head of the Eight Great Imperial Merchants, is a native of Jiexiu, Shanxi.) ）

"You brute, why don't you kneel?!" Azig looked at the man who was about forty years old, although he looked like a white-faced boy, but he didn't care.

"Do you know that according to the rules of my Qing Dynasty, if you don't kneel down and ask for peace when you see this king, this king can behead you immediately! It doesn't matter what business name you belong to! Even if Fan Yongdou comes, he has to kowtow to this king! ”

"Really?" The person who came asked coldly in the accent of the Liaodong military town that the Dorgon brothers were accustomed to hearing.

"I want to ask, according to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, when the slave saw the old master, he didn't greet the old master, but instead made a threat, what kind of crime is it?!"

There was a clear thorn in the words.

"You son of a! Whose old master are you?! ”

Dodor dropped the bowl and was about to have a seizure.

"I want to ask, what should your father call when he sees Li Gong Chengliang?!"

The words of the person who came made Dolgon a little surprised. The days when his father was in the Liaodong General Army and Guangning Bo Li Chengliang's mansion before his career had long become the most secret and invisible history in their family. But that's often the case, the more you want to cover up, the more it will arouse the desire of others to peep. He Dolgon couldn't figure out whether his father's real name should be called Tong Nurhachi or Li Rumou?

"Duke Li has the virtue of nurturing and cultivating the imperial examination, so Li Yongfang is a concubine in my Daqing Dynasty, and he enjoys wealth and honor."

"Whew! This kid turned out to be a colt master! The person who came chuckled lightly and took off a jade pendant from his waist, "Send someone to send it to Li Yongfang's house, and say that his brother Changfang has arrived, let this dog come here to kowtow and salute!" ”

It turned out that the descendants of the Li family in Tieling had arrived! No wonder it's so arrogant!

The unexplained relationship between the Li family and the wild boar skin family that has been secretly circulating in the family, that Li Yongfang is just a side branch of the Li family, and before he has the blood of the Li family, he has already been asked Nurhachi to marry his granddaughter to him. Although it is said to the outside world that there is a merit of Fushun and the city, the secret in it is naturally not enough for outsiders! The three brothers couldn't help but put away the arrogance of Fang Cai, and looked at the person with the attitude of looking at their own people.

The person who came was Li Peiting!

"Li Yongfang died two years ago, and now his son Li Shutai is waiting in the city."

Li Peiting listened to Dolgon's words. His eyebrows twitched twice, "He's dead?" Lao Tzu came thousands of miles to find him, and he went to the Western Heaven Elysium? As he spoke, he didn't know if it was true or not, and his nose twitched twice.

However, he was immediately dissatisfied with the smell in the house.

"What are you eating?!" Pei Ting was very dismissive of the food that the three of them were enjoying.

"You brute! Let's respect you as the descendant of Li Gongchengliang, and you don't have the same knowledge as you, but you are talking nonsense here! ”

Pei Ting didn't answer Dorgon's roar, and just sat down next to Dolgon. Nodding his hand to the merchant who had come with him. With a few words in his ear, the man took the command and departed.

After a while, the butler led a few maids and maids back with the merchant, and took a bunch of large and small bottles and jars in his hands.

Pei Ting took out a few things from a few bottles and jars. Sprinkle the dishes in front of you. Mix gently. Reached out and took the knife from Dorgon's face. Cut a piece of mutton from the iron rack, dipped it in a dish, put it in your mouth and chewed it. I swallowed it with great satisfaction. Then, he handed the dish and knife to Dolgon.

"Lord Rui, please!"

Seeing that his brother was smiling when he ate, Duoduo also snatched the bowl and dipped it in the roasted mutton, and sure enough, the taste was very different.

The maid on the side opened the jar, and a strong smell of wine spread through the room.

As soon as you enter it, it is like a raging fire.

It was much stronger than any time the three brothers had ever drunk before.

"What is this?!"

After drinking a few bowls of wine and eating a sheep and four people to the point that only a skeleton remained, the Ten Princes Duoduo had already regarded Li Peiting as his own.

"Wine is called a knife burner. The bowl is just some refined salt, spices and other things, doesn't it taste better than mutton? ”

"Salt?" The muscles on Dolgon's face twitched slightly, "You have salt?" ”

"Yes! In the next time, I want to do some business with a few princes! ”

Although Guò's name had already been known, Dolgon was still a little skeptical.

"Business? What business? ”

"Let's say this." Pei Ting tapped the small jar containing refined salt with a knife, "And this." Pointing to the empty jar of liquor.

"And some spices, cotton and stuff."

"Say!" Dorgon drew his saber and pointed it straight at Pei Ting's nose, "Who the hell are you?!" What are you going to do in my big Qing Dynasty?! ”

"The knife is good, not worse than the one forged by Longquan. Lao Wang, bring me the gifts I prepared for the three princes! ”

Pei Ting glanced nonchalantly at the sabre that almost touched him.

"You said that you are a businessman, and you said that you are a descendant of the Li family, and you know our brother so well, who are you?"

"The Li family in Liaodong has been defeated, and the children are scattered everywhere, so we have been sent to the Far Evil Military State, and if we don't do something about Tao Zhugong, how can we make a living? Besides, the old king had already called you when he saluted your three brothers. I'm not stupid, of course I know which of you is Prince Rui and who is Prince Yu. ”

Pei Ting's words left the Dorgon brothers speechless.

More than a dozen coated aha walked in carrying dozens of fine cotton cloths. Two other maids cautiously followed behind with a huge mirror.

"This is what I gave to the three princes. Forty pieces of fine cotton cloth of various colors. Every prince has a dressing mirror. In addition, Pei Ting groped through the cloth bundle for a while like a trick, and pulled out three long knives, "Three high-quality iron and steel swords. Lord Rui, although your knife is good, compared to this knife, it is your grandchildren's! ”

"Then try it!"

The Azig and Duoduo brothers, who were born with a brutal and rude character, swung their knives and slashed each other, and sure enough, the saber that Dolgon had just used, a notch the size of a fingernail appeared on the body of the knife, and it was obvious that this knife was already useless. (Of course, the hardness and toughness of a modulated eutectic high manganese steel can be compared to that of an ordinary sword?) ）

"Good knives! Sure enough, it's a treasure knife! ”

"How about I and the three princes doing this business of cotton, salt, wine, spices, silk, mirrors, etc.?"

"What about this knife? How many knives do my brother want?! ”

Dodor cried out excitedly as he held a saber made of iron and steel, as if a child had received a beloved toy.

"It's hard, this knife is a treasure knife. Since it is a treasure sword, it is naturally not something that can be obtained casually. I can only say that I should be careful. Li Peiting spread his hands in embarrassment.

"Where has the gentleman been all these years?" Dorgon ordered the remnants to be removed, and Maha in the Dordor's house brought milk tea.

"Guangdong!"

"What a place! It is said that it is warm like spring all year round, and the land of fish and rice is abundant. The Dolgon brothers' eyes flashed with a hint of strangeness. They all remembered the incident that happened to the two white flags when Chongzhen arrived in Gyeonggi in the second year, and hundreds of warriors were killed and wounded by the guns and firearms of the Ming army escorted to Beijing from Guangdong.

"Sir, a few years ago, the warriors and minions of our two white banners heard that the iron smelting in Guangdong is very developed, and the iron produced is extremely fine. I wonder if Mr. has a way to do this? ”

"Iron?!" The corners of Li Peilin's eyes were full of sly smiles, "This, no more than other things, if the officials along the way know that I sell these things to your brothers, I am the son of a criminal who is worth three thousand miles." But it's going to be a thousand cuts! ”

As soon as I heard this. The three brothers' eyes lit up, "There is a door!" "This son of a brute is asking for a high price!

"Sir want to find a way, our brother has long heard of the excellence of Guangtie, and he wants to get some to make some utensils."

"As long as Mr. can find us a Guangzhou railway. Just say it. It is to ask for skin, gold and silver, raw gold, and ginseng. Our brother doesn't blink an eyelid, just let you make the price! ”

In the evening, the people of Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku went to the palace to receive the mission. Inquire about the situation of those armor, swords, guns and artillery, and by the way, learn about the affairs of the Nanzhong Army, why it is boasted like a heavenly soldier in the newspaper. When entering the palace, the people of the two businesses brought the latest news from Beijing, and all the towns of the Ming army were rumoring about the training strategy of the Nanzhong Army, and brought the news of the Nanban armor that all the banner owners were very concerned about.

"The armor, knives and guns purchased in Datong Town and Shanxi Town can be resold to the minions, and the minions will naturally be sent to the emperor immediately."

However, the price is also amazing, Wang Pu added a very conscientious thirty percent on the basis of the selling price of the Nanzhong Army, and Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku are also simple and kind people, so naturally they will not add more, and they also add thirty percent of the errand money.

For example, today there is a Li Peiting from Guangdong, how can this not surprise the brothers?

"Three princes, let's talk about the previous business first? My cargo ship is anchored off the coast of Lion's Mouth (today's Dalian Lushunkou), if the three of you are interested, you can order someone to inspect and unload the cargo? ”

Soon, the four of them carried Li Peiting to five cargo ships in Liaodong this time, totaling 1,500 stone refined salt, 50,000 horses of muslin, 1,000 horses of silk, 50,000 catties of spirits, and tens of thousands of catties of various spices.

"What we have in the Qing Dynasty is silver, even if there is no silver, there are good things such as skins and raw gold, Dongzhu, ginseng, beeswax, etc., Mr. has these goods, just send them, dozens of cattle under the command of our brothers, hundreds of thousands of people, these things are consumed in a blink of an eye."

Dolgon's words are not bad at all, salt and cloth have always been in short supply in Liaodong. According to historical records, when the bear's paw of Tsarist Russia stretched into the Northeast, the supply of salt in the Northeast was very scarce. The common ones on the market are the kind of large-grain salt, not to mention the bitter taste, but also extremely rough and with a lot of impurities.

Silver is cheap and expensive is a problem that has been bothering him since the old Nurhachi raised troops in Liaodong, and until his death, this economic problem has not been solved, in order to alleviate this problem, he can only keep waging war outside to obtain material replenishment.

It has to be said that the old slave and his family have always had good luck and met the generals of the Ming army, who were soon as timid as rats, and if they encountered a failure, they would enter a vicious circle of economy and material.

When the Huangtai chicken ascended the throne, this crisis reached the point of reaching the peak, in the jurisdiction of Jiannu in Liaodong, the price of rice was eight taels of silver, a good horse was worth three hundred taels of silver, a cow was worth one hundred taels of silver, a python satin was worth one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and a piece of cloth was nine taels of silver. In the face of such huge profits, it is no wonder that there will be eight Jin merchants.

However, these five ships of supplies emptied the pockets of the three brothers, and according to the shipping price of the Jin merchants, the private wealth of the three brothers together was only enough to barely pay half of the price of the goods.

Seeing that so many good things couldn't be started, the three brothers couldn't help but feel a little melancholy.

"Lord Rui, where did you buy so many items?" Li Peiting deliberately pretended to be confused.

"Zuo is just someone who sees that my brother Bo has a family property, and he can't be angry. It's just an industrial population that has been trying to rob us of this little breadwinner! Six cattle have been taken away today! Buying these things is just to reward his subordinates and win people's hearts with kindness and righteousness. ”

Huangtai Chicken's transfer of three Niu Lu from each of the hands of the two white flag Dolgon brothers to Manchuria with the red flag and Rao Yu Belle Abatai, which belonged to the Zhengbai flag, has long been known to everyone in Shenyang City, and Li Peiting is naturally also clear. He sneered, "People can be swept away, but the heart must stay!" ”

Duoduo, who had been rowed out of three cows, grabbed Li Peiting's arm, "How can I leave my heart?!" Teach me, sir! ”

"For example, more than 1,000 households in these six cattle records are publicly rewarded in the name of three. Or order someone to send it privately. Give a piece of cloth, two jars of wine, and a few catties of salt as gifts, saying that the three masters will give the minions a little household allowance when they leave, and they can also come to the old master when they encounter difficulties in the future. ”

When the three of them heard this, their eyes couldn't help but light up. Dafan was classified as a cow under someone else's command like this. will be raised as a stepmother. In the first place in the war, the reward and wealth are the least, and at this time, the benefits of the old masters will appear in everyone's mind.

"Dudu, Abatai. You two remember to Lao Tzu that your twelve masters' things are not so delicious, I'm afraid that you can eat it and won't be able to pull it out! Azig whispered viciously.

The three of them discussed a few words in Jurchen in a low voice, and still handed over to Li Peiting led by Dolgon: "Sir, these five ships of goods, all three of us brothers want." However, I hope that Mr. will be considerate, and now my three brothers are shy in their pockets, and they are about to go to North Korea, and Mr. will be considerate of this money, and when I and my fifteenth brother return from North Korea, we will take North Korea's goods and gold and silver to pay. ”

"When did I say I only took cash? The Dongzhu and ginseng in your hands, as well as the skins of black foxes, yuan foxes, red foxes, minks, tigers, leopards, sea otters, green rats, and yellow rats, can be used to offset the price of the goods. Prince Fang Cairui said, the goods of North Korea, in this way, the ginseng, brass and other things you obtained in North Korea can be handed over to me, and I will exchange spices, good wine, salt and cloth with you! ”

"Good! A gentleman's word, a quick horse! My brother would like to thank him for his kindness. ”

"Thousands of miles away just for money, when the prince goes on the expedition, he can tell his subordinates, and the property obtained can be exchanged for what they want here!"

Syllable! Pei Ting's two hands were slapped heavily by Azig and Duoduo, making a crisp sound.

"That's it!"

On the first day of December in the ninth year of Chongzhen and the first year of Chongde, Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the Han Army, and the Mongolian troops who came to conquer Korea with a total of 100,000 horses.

As soon as the front foot brigade left Shenyang, the back foot Azig began to order people to quietly visit and condole one by one. The necessities of life, such as salt, cloth, and wine, were delivered to the families of the six Niu Lu, so that they could see their long-lost mothers like motherless children.

And the families of the two white flags, especially the Niulu population to which the three Dolgon brothers belonged, all raised their eyebrows and showed off their new clothes to the relatives of the other six banners, "Look, this is a reward from the masters!" Fine muslin! ”

The old north wind swept the snowflakes and fell in the large elm forest on the edge of the Hunhe River outside Shenyang, Peiting and his party looked at the city wall of Shenyang City from afar, and they didn't know what it was like.

"Shopkeeper, our goods have been loaded, are we ready to go? If you don't leave, your subordinates are afraid that it will be difficult to walk on the road when it snows heavily. ”

There are still hundreds of miles to go from Shenyang to Lushun, and you have to avoid the Qing army that is conquering Korea, even if you have the official document issued by Azig who stayed in Shenyang, you must be cautious!

"Have all the businesses in the city settled?" After receiving an affirmative answer, Pei Ting glanced back at the majestic Shenyang City, "It's spring again, Dolgon, and I'll bring you more good things when the time comes!" ”

Sitting in the carriage holding the copper hand stove, the people swayed regularly with the carriage, and from time to time a gust of cold wind came in through the gap in the carriage.

"Ye Qi of Nanjing sold armor, knives, guns, gunpowder, and Buddha machines to Liukou, I sold cotton, salt, silk, spirits, and spices to Jiannu, and the lord gave the emperor a lot of money and grain. You've all been replenished, but don't let us down, you must fight well! ”

Lift the cotton curtain of the carriage and look to the far north, where the clouds are even clearer, brewing with heavy snowfall.

"Huangtai chicken, I came to Liaodong and didn't see you, but my old deputy prepared a generous gift for me! You can use it slowly! ”

A fierce look slowly appeared on Pei Ting's white face. (To be continued......)