Chapter 393: Jin Shang

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In Taiyuan, Shanxi Province in April, the green willow leaves swayed on the banks of the Fen River, and the poplar catkins flew all over the sky.

In the distance, the two teams met in the suburbs, and Xia Wanchun led the Hunan military camp to fight in Sichuan for a year, and he was quite familiar with Yang Zhan.

"Brother Duan, don't come unharmed." Yang Zhan's tone was very kind, but his expression was a little indifferent, this was definitely not the face of an old friend who had fought side by side and formed a deep friendship. He pulled the reins

Xia Wanchun knew that Yang Zhan led his troops to Datong, and he was about to start the great cause of conquering Liao with Yan Yingyuan, but he was transferred back to Sichuan. Whoever it is, he will be a little puzzled, he wiped his eyelids, and said with a smile: "Brother Yuliang's demeanor is better than in the past, when I came, I heard the prince talk about you, saying that it was best to go to Jinling to meet if I haven't been free for a long time." ”

Yang Zhan was a little excited at this time, and asked, "The prince still talked about me?" Hehe, after saying goodbye to Chengdu, I haven't seen the prince for two years. ”

Xia Wanchun saw that he had successfully lured him to this, and continued: "This time the prince is marrying the daughter of Hangzhou Qian Gong, Brother Yuliang might as well go to Jinling, one to congratulate and the other to reminisce, why not?" ”

Yang Zhan smiled bitterly and evacuated Shanxi with the Sichuan soldiers, replaced by 130,000 Hunan soldiers.

Taiyuan is the head of the nine important towns, and together with Jiliao, it forms a front to defend against the alien races in the north, and now it is even more important because of the plan to conquer Liao.

Xia Wanchun returned to the military power, and his passion in the past has not been reduced at all, and he is still the young man who went north to fight against the Qing Dynasty on the wedding night. Eager to make a career and fight on the battlefield, although this time he came with a special mission.

Hong Yixun came out of the cavalry, watched Yang Zhan's team gradually move away and disappeared on the horizon, then turned his head to look at the majestic Taiyuan City, and said: "Xiangxi Hou, since we have come, we must do it as soon as possible." These people are all local wealthy, and if they resist, they will not hesitate to help. ”

"Since it was ordered by the prince, I know." Xia Wanchun's tone was not happy, to be honest, he used to respect the Hidden Elephant Battalion, and all kinds of intelligence during the war made the Northern Expeditionary Army like a tiger, but after the Northern Expedition, they were completely reduced to a cleaning and killing organization, a bit similar to the Jinyi Guard in the early Ming Dynasty.

Hong Yixun saw his expression in his eyes, like a mirror in his heart, he only laughed secretly, but he couldn't see the expression on his face, and said lightly: "In this case, I will leave first, and if there is trouble, I will bother again." After saying that, he patted his horse and left, and hundreds of spies from the submarine battalion followed behind him, raising a puff of dust on the outskirts of Taiyuan.

There is no doubt that Shanxi is the Shanxi of Jin merchants.

How powerful are Jin Shang? "Pingyang, Ze, Lu, wealthy businessmen and big families are the best in the world, and they are not rich if they are not hundreds of thousands." There was also a popular saying in Beijing: "Beijing Normal University Jia counts Jin people".

In the Ming Dynasty, the wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River first recommended the Hui merchants, and the Jin merchants did not fall behind in the slightest. There is also a lot in common between the two.

For example, they all rely on the "open system" of the Ming Dynasty and use salt to make a windfall.

The so-called Kaizhong system, that is, the production and exploitation of salt, is firmly held in the hands of the imperial court, and the crime of selling illicit salt is very great. According to the military needs of border defense, the imperial court regularly or irregularly makes a list to attract investment. Merchants who apply for the recruitment must transport grain, tea, horses, beans, wheat, silk, iron, and other materials needed by the government to the border guard post in order to obtain a special license to sell salt ——— salt import. The salt was then led to the designated salt field to branch the salt and sold within the scope designated by the imperial court.

Jin merchants are still the businessmen who are the most able to unite and make money together.

The East Partnership System is a major initiative of theirs, at first by the wealthy businessmen to hire local merchants, joint management, friends to make profits into a loose group of businessmen, and later developed into the East Partnership System, similar to the joint-stock system, which is an important reason why the Jin merchants can endure for a long time.

No matter in which aspect, the Jin merchants are not far behind the Jiangnan Hui merchants.

Even Hui merchants like to raise Yangzhou thin horses, and Jin merchants are not far behind, and they have come up with a set of "Datong aunts". "Yangzhou Thin Horse" is mainly characterized by thin body shape and male style, while "Datong Mother-in-law" is full of breasts and fat buttocks, and is famous all over the country for her superior merit in bed. Like the lean horse breeders in Yangzhou, the bustard mothers of Datongfu County in the Ming and Qing dynasties bought beautiful girls from poor peasants, and in addition to teaching them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, words and deeds, they also let them sit on the mouth of the wine urn every day from the age of eight or nine to practice women's flattery. After long-term training, their pelvis can swing as they want.

Hong Yixun and his entourage got into the world of Jin Shang and were ready to make a big fuss.

"Boss, which one to start with?" A young spy asked, his name is Zhang Hao, he is one of the 2,000 people in Jiading who fled with Hou Xuanyan, when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he followed Gong Zifang to the sea to be a pirate, and now he has entered Hong Yixun's submarine camp.

Hong Yixun also took good care of this fellow, so he took him with him when he had nothing to do, and when he heard this, he said: "Shoot a man first and shoot a horse first, and capture a thief first and capture the king first." Since we want to wash Shanxi in blood, let's start with the most difficult bones to gnaw and dispose of Fan Yongdou, the head of the Eight Great Emperor Merchants, and the rest is not to be feared. ”

Fan Yongdou's notoriety, as early as when the Northern Expedition was unsuccessful, Hong Yixun was like thunder.

Without him, it would be difficult for the Manchus to develop, and they would probably be completely crushed to death in the blockade policy of the Ming Dynasty.

Fan Yongdou first saw the business opportunity in this, bribed officials, and bribed the ministers of the DPRK and China to open up for him. Countless iron tools, grain and grass, armor... and other strategic materials, peddled to Manchurian Jiannu. The reward received was the property plundered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty stained with the blood of the compatriots in Gyeonggi, Liaodong, and Shandong. This allowed Fan Yongdou to rise rapidly and become the leading wealthy merchant among the Jin merchants.

Datong Mansion in Shanxi, located in the northern suburbs of the Ming Empire, adjacent to Mongolia, has always been the hardest hit area of foreign races in the south.

But on the border line, there are many merchant families like Fan Yongdou and others, who are able to move freely between the two life-and-death races, relying on endless money.

Fan Yongdou's house, which is full of black tiles at a glance, looks simple and solemn, reflecting the light in the sun. Covering an area of half of Wei County, more than 4,000 houses constitute the old nest of this traitor, the exquisite mansion door is grounded to the sky, there are rockeries, artificial lakes, and thousands of shadow walls, wood carvings, brick carvings, stone carvings.

Hong Yixun was on the high post, looking at the breathtaking Fan Mansion, waved his hand and said: "This kind of family copying is not something that a hundred or ten of us can do, this is a fucking big job, Immeasurable Tianzun." "Fan Yongdou, as the head of the so-called Eight Great Emperor Merchants, really lived up to his reputation, and he relied on a courtyard before he showed up, and he frightened the commander of the Hidden Elephant Battalion.

"Boss, what are we going to do?"

"Go to Taiyuan and invite the army of Xiangxi Hou."

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