As soon as he heard that Jin Shang Lin Yi immediately came to the spirit, he decided to do a big job.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, if the word "Jin merchants" was mentioned, it could remind people of the words "the richest and richest man", and even the image of speculative profiteers and even traitors and traitors.

It's not because Lin Yi has any prejudices against businessmen, nor because he hates the rich, but Lin Yi doesn't have a good impression of the big businessmen such as Jin merchants, Hui merchants and Zhejiang merchants in the late Ming Dynasty.

Objectively speaking, businessmen are the products of the development of the social productive forces to a certain stage, and their emergence is of great positive significance to economic development, social progress, and cultural exchanges.

But the negative impact of businessmen is not small, which is mainly determined by the mercenary nature of businessmen, about which Marx has an incisive discussion:

Capitalists are afraid of no profit or too little profit, just as nature is afraid of a vacuum. As soon as there is a proper profit, capital is bold. If there is a 10% profit, the capital is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With 20% of the profits, capital can be active; With 50% of the profits, capital will take risks; For the sake of 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws; With more than 300% of the profits, capital dares to commit any crime, even to the risk of hanging his head.

The capitalist is also a businessman, but a more shrewd businessman.

It can be seen that these businessmen are crazy to the point of doing everything in order to make profits.

In this case, the state can only regulate the actions of businessmen with their machinery, including the military police, laws, prisons, etc., to make the best use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, so that the activities of businessmen operate in a direction conducive to the progress of society and the development of productive forces.

But now this mess at the end of the Ming Dynasty is full of holes, internal and external troubles, the building will collapse, and it is difficult to support a pillar.

The government clique headed by Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen was too busy to take care of itself, so how could it have time to regulate the activities of these businessmen, and these businessmen would be even more mercenary, doing whatever they wanted, doing everything, and flooding.

The most famous merchants in this period were probably these few, one was the Fu merchants, the second was the Jin merchants, and then the Zhejiang merchants and the Hui merchants.

Of course, the Fushang here refers to the merchants of Fujian, and the Zheng family of Fujian headed by Zheng Zhilong is of course second to none at this time.

Zheng Zhilong's identity is extremely complex, in the late Ming Dynasty is also a merchant and thief figures, born pirates, but the business overseas, with thousands of warships and tens of thousands of navies, with a rich country to describe it is not an exaggeration, in the naval battle, Zheng Zhilong's naval fleet not only defeated the Ming navy, but also one of the world's most powerful naval fleets, the Portuguese fleet fled in embarrassment, two world-leading Portuguese large warships, was sent to the bottom of the sea by Zheng Zhilong and his gang.

For a time, in the Fujian Strait of Taiwan, the merchant fleets of the Eastern, South and Western powers, Zheng Zhilong said that if they were allowed to pass, they would be able to pass, and if they were allowed to stop, they would have to stop.

For a time, the Eastern, Nanyang and Western powers only knew that there was Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, but did not know that there was a Ming court.

It can be seen how powerful this sea merchant is, and it has reached the point where it can threaten the rule of the imperial court. Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to appease him.

Although during this period, there were no more figures like Shen Wansan in Zhejiang and Hui merchants, but Zhejiang and Hui merchants also had a great influence on the economic development of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

But the greatest influence on the Ming Dynasty was not the Zheng family group on the southeast coast, nor the Zhejiang merchants and Hui merchants, but several merchants in Shanxi, such as the Fan family, the Wang family, the Jin family, the Liang family, and so on, a total of eight families, the most powerful, collectively known as the eight Jin merchants.

These people often wandered inside and outside the frontier, doing business with the Manchu Tartars, and passed the iron, firearms, and salt of the Central Plains to the Tartars, and exchanged them for the skins and animal hairs of the Tartars, the Three Treasures of the Northeast, and even the dragon tickets, and obtained huge profits from them.

Merchants make money is understandable, the key is that the eight Jin merchants are unscrupulous, they do not hesitate to betray the interests of the country and the nation, the Central Plains of iron, firearms, and salt, for the Nurhachi and Huang Taiji group outside the Guan, all are important, urgently needed strategic materials, the eight Jin merchants due to their strong strength, they often collude with the government, in order to make money, they do not hesitate to provide Nurhachi and Huang Taiji with Ming military secrets, sell intelligence, this is an out-and-out traitor.

These despicable traitorous behaviors of the Jin merchants, the Ming government has also been aware of them, and has also explicitly banned them, and has repeatedly ordered them, but the Ming Dynasty is full of internal and external troubles, full of holes, and it is already the lamp of the outlet, and the border troubles and thieves cannot be dealt with, how can there be the strength to manage these illegal traitors?

Originally, Nurha Chihuang Taiji they were a small tribe in the border wilderness, and their strategic resources were very scarce, limited to galloping on the grassland, bending bows and archery, but after getting these "funding" from the Ming merchants, their iron and firearms developed rapidly, especially in the era of Huang Taiji, that is, when Lin Yi crossed over, they had a special artillery team, called Wuzhen Chaoha, well-equipped red-clothed cannons, coupled with valuable intelligence, which made the Tartars outside the gate like a tiger with wings, hastened the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

It is not unreasonable for some scholars to even characterize the Eight Great Jin Merchants as the heroes of the Ming Dynasty's demise. Because if there were no these Jin merchants, the wild boar skins outside the customs would not have the strength to enter the customs and knock on the door, let alone enter the Central Plains and dominate the world.

As a person who has traveled through time, Lin Yi certainly knows what has changed about these Jin merchants, so as soon as Zu Keyong said this, he decided to attack this Jin merchants.

But Lin Yi knows that in order to make this deal, it is necessary to make full preparations, this is not a simple roadblock robbery, it is indispensable to find out the bottom of the road.

Since the strength of the Jin merchants is so strong, their bodyguards will definitely not be less, in addition, they have traveled long distances, traveled several provincial roads, can smoothly enter and exit the customs, and do business with the Tartars, not only with the support of the Tartars, but also have the Ming thieves to support them and act as a protective umbrella, so that these profiteers can have a green light all the way.

Zu Keyong had already inquired about it, and within three to five days, this caravan would inevitably pass through Erdaogou Town, which was more than 100 miles away from them.

In order to be sure, this trip Lin Yi decided to personally go out and divide the troops into two routes, so that Zu Keyong would take a thousand elite soldiers and go east to ambush near Erdaogou.

Lin Yi took Xiaoying, Zhang Hua, Erhu, Wang Qi, Dongsheng, Gan Bao, Jiang Xingyuan and more than 100 other personal guards to the northwest to Yingzhou.

The remaining 700 people, led by Wang Jian, were stationed in their camp, and they had to take care of their base camp.

Erdaogou Town belongs to the jurisdiction of Yingzhou, 400 miles away in the northwest direction of Qianxi, Lin Yi in order to find out the real background of this Jin merchant, his more than 100 people also disguised as long-distance merchants.

I got more than a dozen cars, and the cars were full of sacks, which were full of broken bricks, rotten stones, and sandy soil, with a layer of rocks scraped on the surface, pretending to be high-quality salt, and covered with grass on the outside, so that outsiders couldn't tell what was pulling inside.

Lin Yi has now taken off his military uniform, wearing a martial arts scarf, a cotton shirt, and a saber hanging from his waist, becoming a personable young boy, and Xiaoying has become a beautiful chivalrous woman.

Zhang Hua, Erhu, Dongsheng, Wang Qi, Gan Bao, Jiang Xingyuan, these people became family servants and bodyguards, etc., and the remaining more than 100 guards became horsemen with makeup.

They drilled out of the mountains and drove the car to the direction of Yingzhou.

The weather was unusually cold, but fortunately the weather was sunny during this period of time, and the snow of the previous days had almost melted away, and it was still cold, and the walking of people and cars had not had much impact.

The cold wind is biting, Lin Yi and they are all wearing cotton clothes, thanks to their young physique and good physique, they have more or less martial arts, so the wind and cold of these side plugs are not much of a threat to them.

But the road is not very easy to walk, although it is also an official road, but the road is rugged, this area is ups and downs, there are mountains and mountains, sparsely populated.

In order to hurry up and not miss the target in Yingzhou, Lin Yi and his team traveled day and night, getting up early and greedy for darkness, walking more than 200 miles a day, and the next day when the sun was in the west, Lin Yi and their caravan drove into the county seat of Yingzhou.

Yingzhou is a small border county, and the specific location is probably in the northern part of Chengde, but the current Chengde is not a prosperous big city, nor is it a summer resort that escaped the strong ships and cannons of the Eight-Nation Alliance, or even a market town, but a small village full of turnips and trees.

However, the geographical location of Yingzhou small county is good, at the foot of the Great Wall, to the east is a border town of a stone and Shanhaiguan, to the west is Xifengkou, Xifengkou is on the Great Wall, Nurhachi father and son bypass Mongolia repeatedly violated the Central Plains a passage.

Originally, the resident population of the county was only 40,000 or 50,000 people, but in recent years, there were heavy soldiers in the east to protect them, and these Tartars in the west passed beyond the Xifeng Pass and went straight to the land of Gyeonggi, intentionally or unintentionally bypassing this belt, and it became a peaceful and prosperous era here.

In order to avoid the war and the ravages of the Tartars, those people who left their hometowns and had nowhere to go also ran here, and the Ming merchants who did business with the Tartars also stopped here, and some came here to open inns and do business, so the population here increased, once doubled, and the people who came from the south to the north also became lively.

During the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the county with a population of 100,000 was definitely a big county.

Lin Yi was still afraid that he would miss the target, so he hurriedly found the largest inn in the county, planned to stay first, and quickly sent someone to inquire.

As soon as you look at the sign of this inn, you will know that this is a luxurious inn, with four big characters written on it, and the golden signboard is shining.

Lin Yi and the others have cars and more than 100 people, of course they can't live in a small shop. In addition, there are many people in the big inn, so it is easy to inquire about things.

However, Lin Yi found that although the inn was large, it was very deserted, and the door was crowded.

Lin Yi was puzzled and ordered someone to come forward and call the door.

Xiao Er came out to greet the guests, and when he saw that Lin Yi looked energetic, he looked like the son of a rich and noble family, and he also brought a beautiful woman, this team of people took the car and discharged half of the street long, and the face smiled into a chrysanthemum: "May I ask where the guest master came from and where is he going?"

Lin Yi felt that this little er's question was a little awkward, the customer is God, you are the one who opened the store, we are the one who lives in the store, didn't you let us in enthusiastically first, and asked us where we came from, does it matter?

"My son is from Henan, and he wants to go outside the Saiwai."

As soon as Lin Yi said this, Xiao Er's face suddenly turned cold, and his smile gradually decreased: "I'm sorry Master Ke, you came to the wrong place, our place has been taken over, you have high feet, go elsewhere."

The shopkeeper finished speaking and left.

Lin Yi was not happy in his heart, and the second tiger couldn't suppress the fire, so he stopped him in two steps, "You guy, stop me!" ”

Xiao Er saw the tiger's back and bear waist of the second tiger, his eyes were like buns, and he stood in fright.

"You are so rude, since the inn has been chartered, why do you still ask me where I came from? As soon as our son-in-law said that he was from Henan, your face immediately changed, and you said this, what is wrong with us, let's go elsewhere, is it because we are afraid that we will not be able to pay money, but our son-in-law has offended you? ”

Erhu said, grabbing Xiao Er's clothes by the collar.

"What do you want to do with it? You don't look at what kind of place this is, I see that you are here for the first time, go and inquire, who is worthy of staying in our store? ”

"You're really a fucking dog, looking down on people......" Erhu's big fist picked up.

"Huzi must not be rude." Lin Yi felt that there was something in Xiao Er's words, so he came over to stop Erhu, for the convenience of his actions, concealed his identity, and was afraid of revealing the news, Lin Yi and the others all temporarily changed their names.

"Little second brother, we are indeed new to the city, and our first trip to go out to do business, I really don't know the rules here, and I ask the little second brother to explain it clearly."

Lin Yi said with a smile on his face, Xiao Er told the truth, this inn only accepts merchants from Jindi, if the merchants from Jindi do not come, the inn would rather be empty than accept other guests, so as to ensure that the merchants of Jindi have a place to live at any time, otherwise someone will find them to settle accounts, then their store will not be opened, the innkeeper is so explained, he also does this, all these years have been this rule.

When Lin Yi heard this, the Jin merchants were really bigger, and there were this kind of overlord clauses, but they just took this opportunity to inquire, and thinking of this, Lin Yi said: "Little second brother, since you are opening a store, you are still afraid that you will not be able to make more money, and the merchants of Jindi are not here now, and the store is idle, and we can't live badly, so we must give more money, and the merchants of Jindi are here, we will move out quickly, we must not embarrass you, please make it convenient for the little second brother?"

Lin Yi said, and gave him 10 taels of silver.

Xiao Er didn't dare to take the silver, and shook his head like a rattle: "This son, don't be embarrassed as a villain, this is really unacceptable, the merchants of Jindi are here tonight, you have so many people who don't look for a place earlier, where will you find it when the time comes?" You go further, turn two streets, there is a Daqin Inn, the conditions and environment are good, the store is quite large, and the price is much cheaper than ours, Gongzi hurry up and go over there. ”

Lin Yi heard it, damn, this is really a coincidence that it came early, Lao Tzu didn't live here tonight!