Happy New Year. Ten chapters were released today, two chapters every two hours. I wish readers and friends a happy Chinese New Year and all the best!

Fan Yubin, seventeen years old, he is tall and personable. The skin is slightly dark (that is, the wheat color often referred to in later generations), which adds a bit of heroism to its elegance. His father, Fan Sanba, is the second person in the Fan family's compound who has no different meaning except for Mrs. Fan, and his position is high. His mother, Wang, the daughter of the Datong Wang family, is also a wealthy daughter after a famous family.

There are five brothers in Fan Yubin, although Fan Yubin is the third, but he is the eldest grandson of Nagato. Fan Yubin was smart and clever when he was a child, and he was deeply loved by Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba. The Fan family is mainly engaged in border trade, and there is a lot of smuggling, and they often need to go deep into the desert or even barren land, which is extremely dangerous. Therefore, most of the descendants of the Fan family can be literate and martial, and they all have kung fu. Most of the descendants of the Fan family were born and grew up in the border pass, and the most seen are cows, horses and grasslands, it is not an exaggeration to say that they grew up on horseback, and it is common to have a riding and archery kung fu.

Fan Yubin, as the future star of the Fan family, has been focused on training. He learned literature at the age of five and martial arts at the age of six, both of which were studied under famous families. At a very young age, he was trained in the commercial business in the Fan family's private school. (In ancient times, big businessmen all set up private schools, and taught their business secrets to their family youths to cultivate reserve talents, and kept them secret)

Fan Yubin is also very competitive, he is not up to expectations, Chongzhen was admitted to Xiucai in nine years, and his martial arts are also extraordinary, all he owes is the heat, and bows, horses, riding, and shooting are rare opponents. The rarest thing is that he has a great talent for commercial goods, often knows a little bit, and can draw inferences from one another, and has a tendency to be better than the blue.

"Young master, let's eat early. You didn't sleep all night last night. Fan Gui timidly stepped forward and whispered. He hung his head slightly, obviously feeling a little uneasy about disturbing the young master's contemplation.

"Hehe, I'm really hungry, it's time to eat something." Fan Yubin turned his head, looked at Fan Gui and said with a smile.

Fan Gui's heart was relieved, and a sunny smile immediately appeared on his face. There was an extra cup of fragrant tea in his hand as if he was doing a trick. He respectfully handed it to Fan Yubin with both hands, and said respectfully: "Fan Fu has already reported safety to the old lady and the old man just now. They let the young master recuperate in peace for a few days, and there was no need to go over to say goodbye. ”

"Got it." Fan Yubin took a sip of tea and said warmly: "You guys get ready, after eating, let's go around the castle together today." ”

"Yes, young master!" Fan Gui didn't ask anything, and replied simply.

After breakfast, Fan Yubin, Fan Fu and Fan Gui changed into strong clothes. They hung swords at their waists, rode high-headed horses, and slowly wandered on the Wucheng Street of Zhangjiakou Fort, with a horse bow, a foot bow and a few pots of arrows hanging diagonally next to the saddle.

On Wucheng Street, the shops on the street are lined up one after another, one after the other. Fan Yubin glanced at it, and there were mostly silk, cotton cloth, tea shops, rice shops, and some sugar, salt, furs, jewelry, etc., the goods were complete and colorful.

The streets are also crowded with people, forming a dense flow of people. The flow of people is dominated by Han Chinese and Mongols, mixed with a small number of Persians, Arabs, and Semu people, and it is incredible that there are some Jurchens in it. The streets are noisy, buying and selling, shouting, one after another, and the prosperity is abnormal. Fan Yubin couldn't help but widen his eyes, and secretly sighed in his heart: Is this still the end of the Ming Dynasty when swords and soldiers were everywhere and the people were struggling to make a living?

Suddenly, Fan Yubin's eyes were stunned, and at the door of a grain store, there was a large basket of fresh potatoes. How? Does Da Ming have this thing now? Fan Yubin thought in his heart, turned over and dismounted, and walked over.

The owner is a Hu man who speaks fluent Chinese. Hearing Fan Yubin ask about potatoes, he couldn't help frowning and complaining bitterly. It turned out that he stumbled upon this thing when he was purchasing goods from other places, and he thought it was a business opportunity and could make a lot of money. At the expense of blood, he left a large deposit and ordered hundreds of thousands of catties (some readers may think that the quantity is too large, but in fact, it is normal for potatoes to yield thousands of catties per mu, and hundreds of thousands of catties are about 100 mu of output.) Ready to sell to the grassland in Zhangjiakou.

Unexpectedly, people in this era did not recognize this thing at all, and the tens of thousands of catties of potatoes transported in the early stage were not cared for at all. Even if he gave it away, no one wanted it, tens of thousands of catties of potatoes were all pressed in his hands, and the owner of the goods still pressed his large deposit, and now he wanted to die. His own family also eats potatoes every day, boiling potatoes at noon and boiling potatoes at night, and the family who eats them now wants to vomit when they see potatoes.

The shopkeeper kindly said that if he wanted, he could transfer the order to him, and he only needed to pay the deposit, or even lose a little. As he spoke, the shopkeeper nodded his head and wanted to kneel down for Fan Yubin. Fan Yubin asked about the price, it was surprisingly cheap, he nodded, didn't say anything, and walked out.

After a while, when they came to the east gate, the veteran guarding the door glimpsed it from afar, and hurriedly beckoned a few of his men to disperse the crowd, and then bowed his hands by the door, smiling all over his face. Fan Yubin nodded, jumped out of the horse, and Fan Gui behind him threw it casually, and two pieces of silver of about one tael flew towards the veteran, only to see a flash of white light, and the silver quickly sank into the sleeves of the veteran's robe. The veteran made a gesture towards the distant back, then turned around, straightened his waist, held his head high, and said loudly with an extra piece of money the size of five coins in his hand: "Look, look, in the end, it is the young master of the Fan family, it is exquisite!" In the evening we went to the welcome house for a good meal. The crowd cheered together.

Fan Yubin galloped along the official road, and Fan Fu and Fan Gui followed closely. Running away from Rich, Fan Yu Bin Lema looked back. Zhangjiakou Fort under the sun shines and stands majestically: what a majestic castle!

Zhangjiakou is located at the intersection of Taihang Mountain, Yanshan Mountain and Yinshan Mountain Range, there are east and west Taiping Mountains in the north such as a giant mouth, Zhangjiakou Fort is built by the commander Zhang Wen again, and its descendants are also hereditary garrison here, so the name "Zhangjiakou" (it is also said that Zhangjiakou Fort is built by the commander Zhang Wen, and his descendant Zhang Zhen opens the north gate, the north gate is very small, can not run a horse, the shape is like a small mouth, so it is called Zhangjiakou. ）

Zhangjiakou Fort has Ci'er Mountain in the west, and Qingshui River in the east, which can be said to be close to the mountains and rivers, and the tiger is in the dragon plate. Zhangjiakou Fort is commonly known as Fort Li. Twin fort structure. Laiyuan Fort is Shangbao, located in Zhangjiakou North Five Miles, is the largest horse market in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhangjiakou Fort city wall has more than four miles, the inner outer brick, three zhang five feet high, 8-10 meters wide down, 6-8 meters wide on the top, the structure is very solid, there is a garrison tower at the four corners of the castle, there is a heavy eaves attic with the function of resisting the enemy on the southeast gate tower and the west city wall, there are dart department, the camp office, the garrison office in the fort, there are a lot of troops stationed all the year round, so there is the name of "Wucheng".