The spy team composed of detectives sent by Sun Chuanting and Shanxi merchants took advantage of the fact that the harsh winter had not yet arrived, and took a large number of goods from Xiping City to the south, through the territory of Xiaoyuzi, bypassing the southern foothills of the Ural Mountains, and entering the border of the Tsarist Empire.

Now Xiao Yuzi is no longer fighting with the Ming army, but began to cooperate, after the Ming army's severe blows, they deeply understand how powerful the Ming army is, and if they don't cooperate with the Ming army, maybe they will be eaten by the Ming army one day. Moreover, King Xiaoyuzi is also one of the successors of the Mongolian golden family, after Lu Xiangsheng sent a few subordinates to contact, the two sides officially settled down to negotiate, except for the Ming army in the east of the Ural Mountains, they can not enter, and the southern foot of the Urals, the Ming army will no longer enter, giving them a reassurance, peace of mind to develop their strength, so the Ming army's commercial spy team can pass through here.

The first target of this commercial spy force of the Ming army was Ufa, which was located on the southwestern side of the Ural Mountains, on the banks of the Belaya River, where the Ufa and Zoma rivers flow. The white ridges stretch across the plains, a hundred kilometers east of the South Ural Mountains. The main part is located in the river area between the White River and Ufa on the Wu Peninsula, and the city covers an area of more than 100 square miles. It is more than thirty miles long from north to south and more than fifteen miles from east to west, and it is a loose city. Ufa is located in the temperate northeast steppe subregion, with a temperate continental climate, humid enough, warm summers, little temperature difference between months, and moderately persistent cold winters.

This is a peculiar city, and the reason why Sun Chuanting wanted a spy team to come here is because of the complex population composition, not only the Bashkirs who believe in the * religion, but also the Tatars who are not fully Turkicized, both Finnish Christians and Mongolian remnants who believe in primitive shamanism. All kinds of religious buildings can be seen here, and all kinds of sects can survive here. Therefore, it is relatively safe to collect intelligence or establish any organization here.

Sun Chuanting also valued this place, that is, the last Khan of the former Kazan Khanate was imprisoned here, he meant to see if he could find some old and young people who were loyal to the Kazan Khanate, and tried to form an armed organization here, so as to carry out separatist activities in the name of restoring the Kazan Khanate.

The rise of the Jin merchants, first of all, was the implementation of the Ming Dynasty's "open the middle system" policy, which provided an opportunity for the development of the Jin merchants; Secondly, Shanxi was rich in mineral resources, and the handicraft and processing and manufacturing industries had begun to take shape at that time, which provided a material foundation for the development of Jin merchants and made them gradually move towards glory; In addition, due to the narrow and densely populated area in the southern part of Jin, going out to do business has become a means of livelihood for people, and the merchants in Jinzhong have spread all over the country at that time. With the increasingly fierce business competition, in order to strengthen their own strength and safeguard their own interests, the business organizations of Jin merchants began to appear. At first, the local local merchants were hired by businessmen with strong capital, and they became a loose group of businessmen by operating together and making profits together, and later developed into the East Partnership System, similar to the joint-stock system, which was a major initiative of the Jin Merchants and an important reason why the Jin Merchants could endure for a long time.

Shanxi merchants also opened up foreign markets, and the earliest and most common trade with Russia by land was the Shanxi people, and in more than a dozen Russian cities such as Moscow and Petersburg, there were businesses or branches opened by Shanxi people. The most famous commercial families that have been able to prosper for more than 200 years are: the Chang family in Yuci, the Nie family, the Cao family in Taigu, the Qiao family and the Qu family in Qixian, the Li family in Pingyao, the Hou family and the Ji family in Jiexiu, the Kang family in Linfen, the Pan family in Wanrong, the Yang family in Yangcheng and so on. They were both big merchants, big usurers, and big landowners, and they all had extremely strong capital.

This time the commercial espionage team leader is the Yang family with the smallest reputation, because the reputation is too big will be noticed, and it is easy to cause future business disputes, the Yang family's task this time is also Yang Lin, although he is also a businessman's son, but he also has another identity - Jinyiwei secret agent, long before Zhu Youxiao planned to do something to the Tsarist Russian Empire, Zhu Youxiao asked Song and Jin's Jinyiwei to arrange the eyeliner in the Tsarist Russian Empire, the best eyeliner is nothing more than to appear as a businessman, which is a very common phenomenon in later generations, Zhu Youxiao naturally told Song Jin about this idea.

The business network of Jin merchants is very developed, Song Jin, the head of Jinyiwei, will naturally not let go, you must know that Jinyiwei can be said to be pervasive, Yang Lin's ancestors have been placed in Jinshang's Jinyiwei for generations, and he is the son of a small shopkeeper of the Yang family, his father naturally passed this position to this most inconspicuous little son, after several years of secret training, Yang Lin has become a qualified Jinyiwei agent, and the task of entering the Tsarist Russian Empire this time was naturally handed over to him.

After leading the caravan into Ufa, Yang Lin sold the goods brought from the Ming Dynasty, while thinking about the structure and living conditions of the local residents, and then thinking about finding useful characters. As long as you carefully go deep into the ordinary people, through constantly and consciously asking some technical questions, you can analyze it in some lively places such as wine shops and markets, but if you want to find suitable and utilizable talents, you have to find them through the upper class nobles and other classes.

The last thing Yang Lin lacked in his hands was all kinds of strange goods, but the largest goods were lighters and spices, which were the most precious here. For the residents of the Ufa area, which is still in a semi-nomadic state, these two things are extremely attractive, even the upper aristocratic class, they may not have seen these things, Yang Lin plans to use these rare goods to deal with the upper nobles, looking for people who can be used by the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Lin planned to show the lighters and spices in his hands to the aristocracy of Ufa through several Jin merchant channels that had been operating here for several years, so as to gain their favor and establish a good personal relationship. As a result, Yang Lin continued to invite fellow Jin merchants to hold banquets here, and gradually began to have a good impact, and he got acquainted with more and more upper-class nobles, and the relationship became very harmonious.

At a relatively large banquet, Yang Lin played a new trick. He invited more than a dozen very powerful, wealthy, and prestigious nobles, and in the evening, he asked the owner of the hotel to rent out the hotel to himself, and then replaced the chef he brought, and laid out the food that had been prepared one by one, these ingredients used precious spices, both taste and vision are very special, for these bun-like Ufa nobles, it can be said that it is unheard of, unseen rich.

The black light at the door of the hotel made the invited guests wonder if this was what Yang Lin meant by releasing their pigeons. Just when the guests were impatient, and even the temperamental people were about to have a seizure, several servants came out of the dark hotel, each holding a lighter in their hands, and each stood in front of a huge candle, and then the leader raised his hand, and they "snapped" at the same time and lit the lighter from the door, all the way to the VIP room hall, without any pause, and finally lit the huge candle in the middle of the VIP room.

Yang Lin, who was sitting in the main seat, stood up, let everyone sit down according to their own identities, and said loudly to the guests in the room: "Dear friends, I am very honored to invite you to come here, this is a big meal I have carefully prepared for my friends, I hope my friends can like it, and everyone can enjoy it to the fullest." If there is any shortcoming, please bring it up to your friends, so that everyone can enjoy better deliciousness in the future. ”

The ten plates of cold dishes that have been placed on the table are old vinegar peanuts, cold jellyfish shreds, brine platter, glutinous rice lotus, cucumbers, pickled pepper and phoenix feet, preserved eggs mixed with tofu, garlic and white meat, husband and wife lung slices, and white chopped chicken, which are the top ten famous dishes carefully prepared by Daming chefs after countless experiments and several special spices. Under the bright candlelight, the color is bright and the taste is refreshing. It is appetizing, so that the water at the door of these dirt buns flows out, and the appetite is open, and they are eager to eat one by one.