Chapter 130: Secret Battle in Zhangjiakou

In Fan Yongdou's living room, counting the owner Fan Yongdou, there are a total of eight businessmen from Zhangjiakou, these eight people are Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yongfa. All of them have been in business for several generations, and they can all be called rich and rival countries. Especially this Fan Yongdou's net worth is even more incredible, his family can top a few people here, and outsiders have a very good impression of him.

As early as the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Fan family did business in Zhangjiakou and Mongolia, after seven generations, it was passed to Fan Yongdou to become a wealthy Han merchant in Zhangjiakou area to Manchu and Mongolian trade.

In the past few years, these people have made a lot of money by providing military and living materials to the Manchus, and the Manchus also look at them differently.

The atmosphere in the living room was obviously very dull, and Fan Yongdou was a little dissatisfied, "I said everyone, what's wrong today." Isn't it just a Zhang Zhimu, can he eat us or swallow us? If we all really think of him as an adversary, then we don't have to be afraid of him. Even if you smash it with gold, our gold will kill him. ”

Wang Dengku, who had a goatee, finally squeezed out a little smile on his thin face and said, "Hehe, it's not that we're afraid of him, but we haven't figured out why we want to be his enemy." Zhangjiakou's business is done without their help, whose money do we earn? The question is whether he really took our food. If so, then it will be easy to do, and we will not have to do anything, so we will tell the people of the king of Khan about it. They will figure it out themselves. If it weren't for the fact that we wouldn't be guilty of going against such people. ”

In fact, the other people in the room were faintly afraid of this person they had never met and knew very little. This may be because they are a little weak-minded, because many of the things they do can't be put on the table, and they are all businesses that can't be killed. They didn't want to go against this Zhang Zhimu in their hearts, so they hoped that the food would not be taken away by Zhang Zhimu. Although these people have some heavenly skills and connections. But this Zhang Zhimu is even more powerful, he is holding the imperial bronze medal, which means that the emperor is his backstage. However, what Zhang Zhimu did for the emperor was also something that others couldn't do. So this businessman dared to come out with a few thousand musketeers to do business, and if others did this, they would have been imprisoned a long time ago.

Fan Yongdou saw these people like this, and he was so angry in his heart. But the face can't show it yet, "I say everyone, don't be like a frosted eggplant today, don't say anything like this, don't lose the face of our Zhangjiakou businessmen." Let's think about two things today, the first thing is when will our grain from Shanxi be shipped back, the envoy of the King of Khan has been angry several times; The second thing is that this Zhang Zhimu is here, we can't help but say it, if it doesn't mean that he will let him see us in Zhangjiakou as no one, how to express it. We've all come up with a charter. ”

Among these people, Wang Dayu was straight-tempered, and said, "Come on, what else are you discussing?" That's what happened. Fan Dongjia has an idea! ”

A few others should join in. Fan Yongdou wants this effect, "Since everyone doesn't have an idea, I'll say it." And then you see. ”

In fact, these people are like mirrors in their hearts, their business has always been Fan Yongdou's idea, but every time they have to make everyone beg him. They all said: "When it comes to you, this is for you to make up your mind, don't hold it!" ”

Fan Yongdou coughed and waited for everyone to be quiet before saying: "I see that our grain in Shanxi will be shipped immediately, if this matter is done by Zhang Zhimu, then he is now outside this Zhangjiakou City, and they will not have the ability to rob us anymore." We really can't wait, I look at the Khan's envoy Yan Jinghua every day, and my heart is jammed. We don't have to wait for the time of the grain we ship. ”

Wang Dayu said: "Since it is decided, let's release the pigeons quickly and let them hurry up." It's not a taste in our hearts when we wait every day. ”

Fan Yongdou didn't answer his stubble, and then said: "This Zhang Zhimu is here, we will treat him well in the honor of Shanxi businessmen, and we will also take a good look at where this Zhang Zhimu is sacred." But there is one thing I want to remind you that we must not offend this Zhang Zhimu at the banquet no matter what. Now he is clearly turning his face, none of us is his opponent, we have Wanguan family property in Zhangjiakou, but Zhang Zhimu is willing to do business here, and if he is not willing, he can go elsewhere. We've only heard a little about him now, and we really don't know how deep this man's water is. Even if we come to Hun, we are not anyone's opponent now. ”

Wang Dayu said angrily: "I don't believe it, and the people of the Khan King can't deal with him." ”

Fan Yongdou was a little angry and said, "King Li Chuang is amazing, no, he also suffered his loss." The people of the Khan? Hum! Zhang Zhimu didn't deal with them this time, they would have to burn high incense! ”

In fact, these people still don't know that Zhang Zhimu has wiped out the Mongol cavalry that broke through to the Great Wall. After knowing it, it is estimated that this Wang Dayu will not do these stupid things.

After Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng and Yang Yulin returned to the inn, Zhang Zhimu felt a little tired and said, "Oh, it's so tiring to talk about such a conversation this day!" ”

Yang Yulin finally couldn't help laughing and said, "Oh, I'm most tired when I can't laugh when I hear where you speak, isn't it Uncle Chen?" ”

Chen Yufeng smiled noncommittally.

Yang Yulin then took Zhang Zhimu and said happily: "I found that if you find someone to make up stories, you are the most suitable." There's a little thing you can tell and tell a story. I see that the guard Li was dizzy by you early in the morning. I thought it would be okay to leave those gifts alone. ”

After washing his face, Zhang Zhimu was about to follow Lu Chengxiang and them to dinner, when Li Zhi rushed in. Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to say, "You guys go over to eat first!" I'll come back later. ”

It turned out that as soon as Li Zhi arrived in Zhangjiakou, he came to his hidden pile, which was a small inn opened by a few people he had sent a long time ago. The guys on the inn cabinet were also sent by Li Zhi together. As soon as he saw that Li Zhi was coming, he finally saw his family, and his heart jumped with joy, and he quickly pretended not to know him and asked, "Guest officer, are you staying in the hotel?" Li Zhi said: "If you live in a hotel, I want to go to a room." This guy hurriedly arranged Li Zhi in an upper room close to the inside, which was not easy for others to notice. When he entered the room, the guy's eyes were a little red and said, "Director Li, you are finally here, we are too anxious to wait." ”

Li Zhi hurriedly comforted and said, "I also think about you all the time, you don't allow it." Go and invite Sun Yujiao. ”

"Okay, you wait." The guy hurriedly ran out.

After a while, Sun Yujiao and the other two people who came together also came in, and these people were very excited to see Li Zhi, and their eyes were a little moist. They had been away for a long time, and when they arrived here, they realized how easy and comfortable life was in the kiln.

After a moment of politeness, Li Zhi immediately turned to the topic, "This time it was Mr. Zhang who personally led the team, and we now have thousands of people and horses, and we destroyed a large group of Mongolian cavalry on the way here." Next year, our plan is to open a transportation company, that is, to transport people and goods between Yaogang and Zhangjiakou and Kill Hukou, and the road from Yaogang to here is ready to be repaired from the beginning. We will build a station and a semicolon in this Zhangjiakou, and it will be much more convenient for you to go back to Yaogang at that time. Li Zhi introduced the relevant things after they left the kiln in one breath to these people. These people were very encouraged to hear this.

This Sun Yujiao also reported what happened after coming to Zhangjiakou. Then Sun Yujiao introduced: "Recently, we have made a big discovery, that is, there are often people entering and leaving the back door of Fan Yongdou's house, and through tracking, we found that every time this person comes out, he goes to a brothel called Zangxiang Pavilion. Later, through the people in the brothel, I learned that this person was in love with the top brand in the brothel, and he often went to cheer for the begonia red and was very generous, so that the old bustard of the Tibetan Xiang Pavilion did not dare to arrange the begonia red to pick up other guests. The most important thing is that this man named Yan Jinghua drank too much at one time, and he said, 'You Han people are all fucking cheap'. This begonia red judged that this person was a full man. Haitang Hong told the old bustard about this, and the old bustard told Haitang Hong not to say it again, and it would be terrible if this matter was known. If you can't get it, you're going to die. ”

Li Zhi clapped his hands happily when he heard this, "Almost all of our intelligence department was dispatched this time, just to get rid of Fan Yongdou and their scourges in Zhangjiakou. I'm worried about where to start. This is a godsend. ”

Sun Yujiao also said: "That's great, but Fan Yongdou in Zhangjiakou is not easy to mess with, and we are very careful." ”

Li Zhi said: "It should be said that we are even more difficult to mess with. Ha ha! Li Zhi's self-confidence greatly encouraged these Li Zhi's personal disciples.

Sun Yujiao is obviously also a qualified intelligence officer, she said: "That Yan Jinghua's activities are very regular, usually he goes to Haitanghong once every three or four days, and every time he brings two bodyguards, if we ambush him at the back door of Fan Yongdou's house, we will definitely be able to catch him." ”

The second thing reported by Sun Yujiao was that Meng Si'er stayed here for two days after arriving in Zhangjiakou and then left, probably in the direction of Beijing. I didn't say what it was for.

Li Zhi nodded after hearing this, and said in his heart that Meng Si'er was right if he didn't say it, which means that Meng Si'er is a qualified intelligence officer and knows that secrecy is the best.

After listening to Sun Yujiao's report, Li Zhi instructed: "Yujiao, you arrange someone to take me around the back door of Fan Yongdou's house, and I will go to understand the situation in person." ”

Sun Yujiao said just ask Jiang Bin (Sun Yujiao's current husband) to take you there, he has always brought people there to monitor, and he is familiar with the situation there.

Li Zhi followed Jiang Bin to the back door of Fan's mansion.

This Fan Mansion is a high-walled compound, which looks very magnificent from a distance, and the corridors around the courtyard wall are all roads built with blue bricks. Drainage ditches are also made of bricks on both sides of the road to prevent the road surface from being flooded by rain when it rains, affecting the walking of passers-by. The Fan family's reputation in Zhangjiakou is excellent, and it is by no means false.

Behind and outside Fan's Mansion are some retail houses, and the alleys between these houses are irregular, and people are very tolerant of hiding inside.

Li Zhi found that diagonally facing the back door of Fan's mansion, there was a small courtyard, the gate of the courtyard was hidden, and the front of the door was very messy, as if no one had lived in it for a long time. took Jiang Bin, came to the door, pushed the door in. When I entered the small courtyard, I found that the yard had really been uninhabited for a long time, and there was dust everywhere. Li Zhihe hurriedly retreated. At this time, an old man rushed over and asked, "Guest officer, are you renting a house?" This house is cheap, you can just give two pieces of silver. ”

Li Zhi hurriedly said: "Yes, a friend of mine wants to do some small business in Zhangjiakou, and he can't afford to live in the inn, so he wants me to help rent a house." At least half a year will be lived, but I don't think you can live in this house. ”

The old man was very happy when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, guest officer, this house is a good house, but it has not been inhabited for a long time and the dust is a little bigger. ”

Li Zhi said: "That's great, my guests want to stay for half a year for a tael of silver, do you think it's okay?" ”

"Oh, this is a whole yard, you can give one or two halves." The old man bargained.

"Okay, that's it. Tomorrow afternoon, I will ask him to come and collect the house, and you will clean it up. It's a little money, and you keep it. Li Zhi took out a little bit of broken silver and gave it to the old man.

Li Zhi knew that he couldn't show up here again, and he had to send two of them over tomorrow. Here, you can just keep an eye on the back door of the Fan Mansion.

On the way back, Li Zhi said to Jiang Bin: "After you bring someone over tomorrow, you are not allowed to show up here in public, you are going to lurk here for a long time, don't expose yourself easily." After you have come here to identify people, you should not come. Don't tell anyone who comes who you are. ”

Jiang Bin said, "Got it." ”

Li Zhi returned to the inn and entered his room. After a while, Sun Yujiao also came in. Li Zhi said: "I took a brief look at the situation and set up a small courtyard behind Fan's Mansion. Tomorrow I will send someone from our intelligence department to live in and monitor the Pham Mansion there. It's too late today, I haven't taken a closer look at my surroundings. The ambush location, the evacuation route, the location of the responders, and the hiding place of the captives have not yet been chosen. These need to be carefully arranged. ”

Sun Yujiao said: "It's easy to do after catching someone, our store is the front and back courtyards." The backyard is where I live with Jiang Bin (Sun Yujiao's husband), and no one else is allowed to enter. I have already arranged a secret room in the backyard, and there is a back door that is not often walked, which is very safe. Anyway, the person who catches it will also cover his head. Even if he doesn't cover his head, he won't let him out again. ”

Li Zhi was very satisfied with Sun Yujiao when he heard this, "It seems that during this time, you have worked very hard, not bad." When I go back, I will also report your situation to Mr. Zhang, and I think he will be happy for you too. ”

Sun Yujiao and others were also very happy to be praised, Sun Yujiao asked: "Can we meet Mr. Zhang this time?" ”

Li Zhi got up and said, "I'll go back now to report your work to Mr. Zhang, and try to let Mr. Zhang come to see you before Mr. Zhang leaves." If you continue to monitor the situation of Fan Yongdou's family, don't expose it, today's matter is very important, I will go back and report this matter immediately.

After speaking, Li Zhi rushed back.

After listening to Zhang Zhimu's report, he said in his heart, "Okay, this is the beginning." Then he said to Li Zhi: "Great, Sun Yujiao, they are doing an excellent job, I am proud of them, I will definitely go to see them before leaving." Let's go to dinner first, and when we come back, we'll study it together and plan our next actions. ”

Fan Yongdou and they would never have dreamed that a big net would be cast at them so quickly. Because they really don't know what kind of people his opponents are, this is a group of people composed of some elites of this era, and a group of people with hundreds of years of advanced technology and ideas among them.

After dinner, the cadres of the kiln gang gathered in Zhang Zhimu's room for a meeting. Li Jing's special forces stood guard outside the room.

After Li Zhi first introduced the situation, Zhang Zhimu said: "Now we know that Meng Si'er and his team have already set off, and we originally planned to arrive in Zhangjiakou Li Jing's special forces will immediately go to the way to rob grain. I didn't expect Li Zhi's work here to be so effective, I think Li Jing and the others should not go first. If the problem of Zhangjiakou can be solved here, it is best to solve it here. ”

Ouyang He said: "Now that we have the initiative, I think we should not move that Manchu man first." Wait until we understand the situation, if we can easily move this piece. Fan Yongdou died and did not admit that he had anything to do with him, so we were passive. Because Fan Yongdou is not an ordinary person, we must have ironclad evidence if we want to move to him. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "We're not in a hurry, we haven't fought with them yet, so we're not in a hurry." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I don't care about business matters, Mr. Lu will worry about it." Li Zhi helped Mr. Lu find a good location, we opened a branch, and then built a station. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "I will go out tomorrow to show my face." Today, we will take a look at these businesses in Zhangjiakou. Tomorrow the one who invites us to dinner will break his head. Wait and see. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Good thing, what is delicious in this Zhangjiakou, Mr. Lu will tell us first?" "The big thing is over, and Zhang Zhimu is also relaxed.

Lu Chengxiang deliberately whetted everyone's appetite and said: "It's boring to say it now, and you'll know when the time comes." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Let's calm down, tomorrow I will still play in the mountains and rivers." Just get busy! ”

"Alright, it's okay, let's rest early today. I've been so tired these days. Chen Yufeng said.

Zhangjiakou is the northern gate of Beijing, and it is also a place where soldiers must fight in history. The origin of the name of Zhangjiakou is also very interesting.

The birthplace of Zhangjiakou is the area of Fort (bǔ) Zili, which is also known as Xiabao, which belonged to Xuanfu Town of Jingshi (now Xuanhua District (County)) in the Ming Dynasty, and is the right guard of Wanquan. In the fourth year of Xuande (1429 AD), Zhang Wen began to build a castle called Zhangjiabao. Zhangjiabao is three feet high, four miles and thirteen steps, open a door in the southeast, call "Yongzhen Gate" in the east, call "Chengen Gate" in the south. In the eighth year of Jiajing (1529 AD), Zhang Zhen opened a small gate in the north city wall, called "Little North Gate", because the door was small as a mouth, and was built by Zhang Zhen, so it was called "Zhangjiakou".

This Zhangjiakou Fort is the fortress of Xuanfu Town, the defense line of the Great Wall, has been playing an important role in preventing the Mongol army from attacking, and has never been lost in the war, so it is known as the "Martial City" and the crown of the northern frontier. This is also a very important reason why Zhang Zhimu is determined to make a difference here.

During the Longqing and Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, the situation underwent major changes, and the Ming court and the Mongolian Ministry of Albert turned hostility into jade silk, realizing the "tea and horse market". The function of Zhangjiakou Fort has also changed accordingly, from a simple military castle to a border city with trade functions. At its peak, Zhangjiakou traded more than 35,000 horses every year. It is the largest tea and horse trade gateway in the north. Kill Hukou is the west mouth of the northern frontier, and Zhangjiakou is called the north mouth. In terms of the volume of horse trading, Zhangjiakou is far more than killing Hukou.

Zhang Zhimu's plan is to do a good job in the transportation business, but also to carry out the exchange of silver bills between Zhangjiakou and Zhuhukou and various parts of Shanxi, and in the future, it can be extended to Tongguan, Xuzhou, and even Jiangnan.

Of course, this kind of business requires a certain amount of hard currency reserves, Zhang Zhimu calculated, if the gold and silver stored in the underground vault of Tongguan are taken out, it is estimated that it is enough to carry out business on a small scale.

Zhang Zhimu and Lu Chengxiang said this idea, and Lu Chengxiang agreed very much when he heard it, but he said, let's do this thing steadily, this is a big deal. However, now there is no need to take cash for the small accounts between the Yaogang headquarters and Li Mao, just keep an account. The silver sold by the goods transported here is placed in Yangzhou, and the goods transported from Yangzhou are placed in the kiln and not used to transport gold and silver back, which saves a lot of trouble. Zhang Zhimu was thinking, if these businesses expand to other businesses, other businesses will also benefit, and we will benefit from collecting a little water in the middle.

Of all the northern border passes, this Zhangjiakou is the largest. Therefore, Zhang Zhimu came to Zhangjiakou this time to work hard and take root in Zhangjiakou. Once the business here is launched, it can be brought to life a little bit.

When he got up in the morning, Zhang Zhimu and others opened the city gate, asked Li Jing to go out of the city, called Liu Yunliu Chenghuang into the city, and told them that they were going out to enjoy the mountains and rivers today.

Liu Yun and the others also knew that this was Zhang Zhimu, who wanted to take them well to familiarize themselves with the terrain of this important pass. Hearing Li Jing call them over, they were very excited. Because I came out with Ouyang He to see the terrain, I could learn a lot. The sparse and ordinary terrain that others drive is different when Ouyang He says it. They now admired Ouyang He very much. During this time, Ouyang He also slowly showed his extraordinary intelligence, and he had unique insights on many things.

Zhang Zhimu's team went out in two four-wheeled carriages at a time, Zhang Zhimu and Yang Yulin took one, Ouyang He and Chen Yufeng rode one, and the others were all on horseback. The place where this team of people went was very eye-catching, especially Zhang Zhimu's glass carriage, the people inside could be seen from the outside, and people were pointing on the road. Yang Yulin seems to be very useful to all this.

The news of Zhang Zhimu's high-profile appearance was soon reported to Fan Yongdou. This Fan Yongdou is a little confused, ordinary businessmen are very taboo to swagger like this, this Zhang Zhimu is really a stunned young man, and he came out by being bold and tough. If so, this man will be easy to deal with. It's not right to think about it again, if it is a stunned young man, his business will not be so big.

This kind of person is like this, he has been calculating others, and he doesn't know what kind of consequences the arrival of his nemesis Zhang Zhimu will bring to him.

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By the way, I recommend "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty", similar to this article, it is also a "technology flow" through the novel, but it takes place in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yashan, Anti-Yuan, Restoration, and European World Wars.