Chapter 10: The Eight Great Jin Merchants

As the saying goes, people are in good spirits on happy occasions, Fan Yongdou can be described as three happy people today, the first joy is that the smuggling trade with the Qing court ended perfectly, making a net profit of 180,000 taels of silver, and also won a military order of 300,000 taels of silver! The profit of the Qing court's military orders was as high as ten times, and the 20,000 taels of materials purchased in the Ming Dynasty could be sold to the Qing court for more than 200,000 taels! The second joy is that I accepted a little concubine today, the concubine is twenty-six years old, and she is smart, tsk, I have to exercise with the little lady tonight; The third joy, the husband said, his daughter-in-law is happy again!

Fan Yongdou hummed a little song, and was making wishful thinking in his heart, Daqing and Daming will fight hard for a few more years, and he will earn millions more, and he will donate an official position to his son, and then take a concubine who is very smart, tsk, this day is getting more and more comfortable. I was dreaming, and suddenly my neck was cold.

"Fan Yongdou, get up and come with us"

Fan Yongdou turned his head and looked, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to move, the cold thing on his neck turned out to be a white dangling knife!

"Your Excellency... My lord... What kind of mistake did Xiaomin make?"

"You know what sin you have, get up and come with us"

Has Shanxi changed the eunuch in charge again? This court is becoming more and more corrupt, and if you change a eunuch, you will have to offer a lot of silver taels.

It's just that Fan Yongdou didn't understand that Jin Yiwei not only arrested him, but also raided his mansion! All the hired men were also taken down, even the old man who swept the floor and the kitchen guys were also arrested! His smuggling affair with the Qing State will be exposed to the world, he will be cut in half, and he and his descendants will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history!

Oh, no, he has no descendants, and the great crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason is to be copied and annihilated by the three tribes!

Fan Yongdou saw Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa coming in one after another in the prison. These people are his companions who smuggle with him. He began to wonder if his trade with the Qing court had leaked.

But his smuggling can be described as leaky, he traveled from Zhangjiakou to Khalkha, and then from Khalkha to Qingguo, the trade between Daming and Khalkha is legal, and the trade between Khalkha and Qing Ming does not know.

If he leaked the military information of the Ming army, then he was arrested directly when he found out.

It must be that the offerings are not enough, and the eunuchs just want to ask for more silver, arrest them and scare them. Yes, it must be so.

"Master Fan, do you know what's going on, we have all been arrested" Wang Dengku asked timidly, since he smuggled with Qingguo, he has been restless, although he has earned a lot of money, but this is a matter of killing the head

"Yes, Master Fan, you are the most capable among our people, do you know why Jinyiwei suddenly arrested us" Tian Sheng Lan also asked no

"I don't know, did you miss anything?" Fan Yongdou also asked weakly

"No, I'm at home these days," Wang Dengku said

"I don't have it either, I didn't notice anything abnormal," Jin Liangyu followed

"It is estimated that Shanxi has changed the eunuch in charge, and he wants us to send Fengyin to him, don't panic" Although Fan Yongdou thought that it was the eunuch who wanted to serve the silver, but years of smuggling made him think carefully no matter what he encountered.

He was afraid that in case, if he was caught for smuggling, this was treason with the enemy, and he would be beheaded.

So he desperately recalled what went wrong and how to remedy it.

"Everyone is convinced, we are serious businessmen!" Fan Yongdou said to others, "I don't think the Jinyiwei will have our evidence, two months ago Li Zicheng besieged Beijing, the Jinyiwei was almost disbanded, the Jinyiwei was re-established for just over a month, and the Jinyiwei came to Shanxi for more than half a month, and the Jinyiwei did not have time to find out the evidence of our smuggling, as long as everyone decided that we were serious businessmen, and the law did not blame the public, there would be nothing."

Fan Yongdou thinks that as long as he doesn't admit it, Jinyiwei will release him if he has no evidence, at most he will give more silver to Jinyiwei, silver, if it's gone, it's a bit painful to give silver, but his life is still there, and he will make twenty times the profit when he does business with Daqing!

"Master Fan is right," Wang Dengku echoed.

"Yes, listen to Master Fan," the others also chimed in.

If they're meeting other people, that's fine. But it's a pity that I met it, and now Chongzhen is crossing!

Chongzhen believes that the current Qing Kingdom, that is, a group of hunters in the deep mountains of the northeast, hunting and digging for life, the reason why they can rise so quickly is that they have tasted the benefits of looting. There is no cost to rob the people of the Ming Dynasty, as soon as the army arrives, they will kill the men they see, and take them away when they see women and children. Women can breed offspring, children can be domesticated, and fight for the Qing Kingdom.

And the Qing emperor has great ambitions, Huang Taiji let the Qing soldiers who entered the customs in addition to plundering women, children, livestock, gold and silver treasures, but also specially explained to the Qing soldiers, there are skilled craftsmen, such as iron, also taken away, let them build weapons for the Qing State. So much so that during the Chongzhen period, the Ming army cut corners with cold weapons, and when it touched the sharp blade of the Qing army, it was broken! How can the Ming army win such a battle!

If you want to win the Qing army, you must first cut off their sources of weapons so that they cannot be supplied. As Chongzhen, who has crossed over, understands that as long as the eight major Jin merchants are arrested, and no one supplies the Qing army with pig iron, raw salt and grain, half of this battle will be won!

"Get up! Get up! Get up and eat, you just wait for the road at dawn," the cell boss rudely woke up Fan Yongdou and the other eight people.

"May I ask the official, what crime did Xiaomin commit, where did he go at dawn?" Fan Yongdou asked, rubbing his eyes.

Although he was arrested, he had never encountered any strong winds and waves, and he had never suffered any hardships, so he should still sleep and eat. Unlike the timid Wang Dengku, who kept wailing in front of the cell and attracted a whip from the cell leader.

"Execution ground!" The jailer said with a blank face

"What are you going to do at the execution ground" Fan Yongdou's heart trembled

"What else can be done? Beheaded! Another jailer said

"......" Wang Dengku was directly paralyzed on the ground and peed his pants

What the? Behead?

"What a crime we have committed! Wronged! Fan Yongdou cried

"Before we go to court, what will condemn us"

"Master Fan, what should I do?"

Eight people cried in a mess!

"Let's go!" The jailer raised the whip in his hand,

There was a "snap" sound, and it fell directly on the prisoners

"Ahh

The jailers didn't care about this, they just knew that they had to send these eight people to the execution ground, and the prisoners that Uncle Jinyi Wei wanted to kill couldn't be saved.

If you can't keep it, then there is no need to talk nonsense. Because nonsense is not good at all!