Fan Yongdou thought for a while: "Mr. Fan, this matter still needs to be discussed with the family, I wonder if Mr. Fan can wait a few days?" ”

"Absolutely. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Fan Qiuming replied, "But I still have to ask Master Fan to give a reply as soon as possible in the next one, because someone is already discussing business matters with us." ”

"This is natural, please wait a few days for Mr. Fan."

Fan Qiuming quit Fan Yongdou's home. Xu Lang mentioned a question in his letter to Fan Qiuming, asking Fan Qiuming not to care whether Fan Yongdou would resell these materials to Huang Taiji, because Xu Lang wanted to fight a dozen trade wars with Huang Taiji.

Ever since Nurhachi established Houjin, Houjin has been in a state of food shortage. On the first day of December 1621, Nurhachi ordered the Han Chinese to truthfully report the amount of grain stored and to implement the method of rationing grain according to the population, and the specific ration amount was: "According to the population of Zhushen, each person will be given four liters of grain a month." "Four liters of grain is about 16 catties. Even if consumption is compressed in this way, it still cannot solve the urgent need.

The serfdom of the grange implemented by the Later Jin Dynasty was an obvious retrogression to the original feudal tenant relationship in eastern Liaodong and greatly dampened the peasants' enthusiasm for production. Coupled with the economic blockade of the Later Jin by the Ming Dynasty government, specialty products such as ginseng and mink lost their traditional markets. In the first year of Tiancong, there was a great famine in Houjin, "when there was a great hunger in the country, the price of rice was eight taels of silver, and there were cannibals." Although there are many silver in the country, there is no foreign trade, and everything is expensive because of the cheapness of silver. Therefore, Huang Taiji had no choice but to enter the customs again and again to plunder.

But now the situation has changed, and the Later Jin have conquered Korea, and Tao Min and Tao Gong have defected to the side of Huang Taiji. As for how Tao Min will transform Houjin's economy, Xu Lang is still unknown. However, Xu Lang believes that just blindly carrying out an economic blockade of Houjin may not have too obvious effects. What he wanted to use was similar to the method of Goujian, the king of Yue, to pay tribute to the state of Wu with ripe seeds, and suddenly collapse the economy of Houjin. But what to do, Xu Lang didn't have any idea yet.

After Fan Qiuming left, several Jin merchants gathered in Fan Yongdou's living room.

"Master Fan." Liang Jiabin asked, "What did the remnants of the Song Dynasty say to you?" ”

Fan Yongdou didn't answer this question, but put the things left by Fan Qiuming in front of everyone: "You all see, how profitable these things will be if they are sold." ”

Several Jin merchants all showed surprise one by one: "Master Fan, are these things sent by the remnants of the Song Dynasty, this thing is much stronger than our current one." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen." Fan Yongdou said slowly, "We are in business, if you all think these things are good, then the old man can also assure you that the old man has reached an agreement with them, and we will monopolize their goods." ”

"Franchise?" Everyone began to play their own little Jiujiu in their hearts.

"But they are also conditional." Fan Yongdou said again, "The share of these things should be distributed according to the amount of our family's contribution this time, and whoever contributes more will have more share." ”

"Master Fan, do you agree with the court?" Liang Jiabin asked.

"The old man never said he disagreed."

"Then I'll pay 20,000 taels." Huang Yongfa was the first to shout.

"I'll also give 20,000 taels." Someone shouted again.

"I'll give 50,000 taels." Liang Jiabin added 30,000 at once.

"I'll give 30,000."

"I'll give 40,000."

The seven Jin merchants made up a total of 250,000 taels, and after everyone finished shouting, they found that Fan Yongdou had not spoken.

"Master Fan." Huang Yongfa cautiously asked, "How much do you have?" ”

"Huh." Fan Yongdou said with a smile, "You guys give the old man a face, and the old man will make up a whole number, and he will also give 250,000 taels." ”

Everyone silently said in their hearts: "It's still Master Fan's wealth, and this time he accounts for half of the share." ”

That's pretty much it. After the Jin merchants took their leave, Fan Yongdou called his son Fan Sanba to his study.

"Sanba, you go and do two things right away."

"Dad, what's the matter?"

"First, you go and see the remnant of the Song Dynasty named Fan Qiuming right away, he should still be in the inn now. You tell him that our eight Jin merchants have scraped together 300,000 taels of silver, but he must give the monopoly rights of all the goods to our Fan family. ”

"Dad, isn't it 500,000 taels?" Fan Sanba asked strangely, "Didn't you say that our family paid 250,000?" ”

Fan Yongdou looked at his son and didn't speak, and Fan Sanba immediately understood what his father meant: "Dad, the ginger is still old and spicy, and my son admires it." ”

"Second." Fan Yongdou ignored his son's compliment and looked out the window, "You can find someone to send a secret letter to the person over there and reveal the news, but remember, you can't say it in too much detail, just mention it." ”

"Dad, since we promised the court, and the interests here are very large, why do you have to tell that over there?"

"Confused." Fan Yongdou stared at his son, "Never hang yourself on a tree, do you dare to guarantee that this expedition to Mongolia will be successful, who dares to guarantee that those remnants of the Song Dynasty will be so credible." ”

"I see, Dad." Fan Sanba didn't say anything anymore, "I'll do it right away." ”

Outside the Shengjing Palace, a group of Eight Banners stood in a row with flintlock pistols, and in front of them was a 6-pounder cannon.

"Fire."

With the order of the leader Niu Lu Ezhen, 30 flintlock pistols were fired, and a row of wooden targets 100 meters away was knocked down.

"Fire."

There was another earth-shattering sound of cannon, and the 6-pounder gun hit a 5-pound projectile more than 1,000 meters away.

"The Great Khan." Tao Min complacently gave Huang Taiji a thousand, "This is a gun that the minions have just made, if the Great Khan is satisfied, the minions will arrange for them to step up production." ”

"Thank you, sir." Huang Taiji stepped forward and helped Tao Min up, "Mr. is really a god, my Dajin has such a sharp firearm, why worry about the world." ”

The people around knelt on the ground together: "Congratulations to the Great Khan, the Great Khan will rule the world for thousands of generations." ”

"Herald." Huang Taiji said, "Aixinjue Luo Taomin, Aixinjue Luo Taogong, do their best, assist Dajin, seal the town of Guogong, carry the yellow flag, reward 3,000 taels of silver, 20 brocades." ”

Tao Min and Tao Gong knelt down together: "The slave Xie Master Longen." ”

Tao Min and Tao Gong returned to their residence, and as soon as they entered the door, their family came to report: "Master, someone sent a letter." ”

Tao Min took the letter and looked at it: "Got it, you go out." ”

"Brother, who got the letter?"

Tao Min opened the letter and read it for a while, and then replied to his younger brother: "Xie Tian has come with information, Jiang Beiming and Xu Lang have already said that Chongzhen wants to go on an expedition to Mongolia." ”

"They're going to fight Mongolia?" Tao Gong asked, "Could this be a plan that Xu Lang came up with to divide our troops?" ”

"Probably not." Tao Min pondered for a moment, "Xu Lang must know that Lin Dan Khan will be in the near future, and he may want to control Mongolia first in order to weaken our power." ”

"So what do we do?" Tao Gong asked again, "Xie Tian's last information said that Wang Zhaoxing is now stationed in Dengzhou, if we also go to Mongolia, it is difficult to say whether Wang Zhaoxing will make any moves there." Moreover, we have just begun to make guns and cannons, and most of the flintlock pistols of the Yulin Army that were captured in the past cannot be used, and there are no firearms at all. ”

"You make me think about it." Tao Min slowly paced around the room, "This Xu Lang can really find trouble." ”

Tao Min turned around for a while, and suddenly stopped: "Is there any news from Li Zicheng?" ”

"Not yet." Tao Gong replied, "Our people around Li Zicheng are currently very slow to deliver news, and we haven't received information for more than three months. ”

Jiang Beiming was discussing preparations for the expedition to Mongolia with Xu Lang and others, when a noise came from the door of the barracks.

Ge Tao's loud voice came into the barracks from afar: "Why, you don't have to pay for food if you owe it." We are open doors to do business, no matter who it is, it is natural to give money for dinner. ”

Several people in the room looked at each other, Ge Tao was able to find this place to ask for food money, I am afraid that something urgent happened.

"Sentinel." Jiang Beiming shouted, "Whoever is noisy at the door and brings it in, is not afraid of embarrassing our teaching group." ”

It didn't take long for Ge Tao to be brought into the office by the sentry.

"If you owe money and give money, I don't care what kind of regiment you belong to." Ge Tao shouted as he turned his head to look out of the house.

"There's no one left, let's talk about it." Jiang Beiming closed the door.

"Sir, it's an emergency." Ge Tao took out the information from the innermost layer of his clothes, "Our people in Liaodong sent it back, and Huang Taiji is transferring troops, probably going to Mongolia." ”

After Zhang Fubei's sacrifice, Ji Tonghai is still out of touch, Wang Hua asked He Jiong to send a few more people to Liaodong to engage in intelligence, and now Liaodong's contact network has been established.

Jiang Beiming opened the information and looked at it for a while, and then handed it over to the others.

Xu Lang was the last to read it, took out the fire sickle and lit the oil paper, and then shouted: "Sentinel." ”

"Here." A Yulin soldier opened the door and walked in.

Xu Lang pretended to be very angry: "You take him to the secretary to settle the meal money, and you can also chase after the door to ask for a few taels of silver." ”

"Why, a few taels of silver aren't money." Geng Tao stiffened his neck again, "You won't give a few taels of silver." ”

"Let's go, let's go." The sentry impatiently came up and grabbed Ge Tao's clothes, "I'll take you to the checkout." ”

Ge Tao walked out of the door, and Jiang Beiming looked around at the others: "Now it seems that Tao Min already knows about our plan to enter Mongolia, and he may also want to get ahead of us." ”

Xu Lang suddenly burst out laughing on the side, and everyone asked puzzledly, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"Nothing." Xu Lang shook his hand and said, "You said that the current information is still a bit confidential, Tao Min fully understands our movements, and we can also know what he is thinking, which can be regarded as intelligence." ”

"Alas, Xu Lang." Zhang Hai asked, "If Ge Tao hadn't told us, how would you know Tao Min and know what we're going to do?" ”

"It's not easy." Xu Lang stopped laughing, "Even if Xie Tian doesn't know, the imperial court has made a decree, who can not know this, I estimate that Fan Yongdou will report to Huang Taiji if he doesn't get it right." ”

"Whoever sent the letter is another story." Jiang Beiming interrupted Xu Lang's words, "You have all read the information, what should we do now, we all have an idea." ”

"Without further ado." Xu Lang was the first to say, "Grab time with Tao Min." ”

"But how are we going to grab the time?" Han Wantao asked, "It's not like you don't know the combat effectiveness of these Ming troops in the past few days. We are now the two regiments of Zhou Lei and Wang Qianxiang, the cavalry has not yet been formed, there are a total of 12 cannons, and the 20 cannons and 3,000 guns promised to be sent by the family have not arrived. Let's not be the same as last time, using 2,000 people to fight against the Manchus. ”

"It doesn't matter." Xu Lang said, "We're not ready, I'm afraid Tao Min isn't ready either." I guess he probably hasn't even made a cannon now, and he's still the old Eight Banners. Although our Yulin army only has 2,000 people, this time we have the assistance of the Ming army, and we can also have the militia of Jin merchants. Even if he can't win against Tao Min, at least he can consume some of his vitality, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty can't consume the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )