After seeing Qin Xiucai from a distance, he immediately came over to greet him warmly, and then went back to be busy after saluting and greeting, Zhu Da deliberately looked inward a few times when he passed by, and through the sunset line, he could see that there were large and small packages stacked inside, as well as plants and trees.

At first, Zhu Da was very strange, thinking about why the store didn't have a signboard, and wondering what was being bought and sold inside, but he didn't understand it after seeing it, but after smelling the smell from the store, he knew that the smell of medicinal materials was very strong, and the taste of Chinese medicine had not changed much from ancient times to the present.

“...... Mongolians believe in witch doctors, and life and death depend on life and death when they get sick and injured, but they also know that Han medicine is easy to use, not to mention the veterinary medicine for treating cattle and horses, and the government prohibits the sale of medicinal materials to Mongolia, but this is not as important as weapons, as long as there is a festival, this business is not difficult to do, as long as the face is passable, don't hang signboards and disguises, this is also the rule of the borderland......"

Hearing this, it made Zhu Da a little eye-opening, even Zhou Qingyun could listen attentively, and the three people who were guarding them could hear it when they approached, but they didn't have any interest in it, which showed that these were common sense.

“...... There are more people doing business here, and the village is also thriving, but in the final analysis, it is unstable, not to mention the caravans from the south to the north, half merchants and half bandits, if they disagree, they will use knives and guns, and the trap of seeking money and killing is even more common, not to mention the surrounding Xiangma bandits, from time to time they have to come here to make a fortune, and the government is also about the same, so there are many people who are prosperous, but they can never prosper......"

Qin Xiucai stopped, looked at the neat street in front of him, and continued: "If you want to say how good the location is, it may not be said here, if it is really a choke point, a thoroughfare, it has long been a county seat, a state city or even a prefecture city, and there are many places similar to Zheng Jiaji, either the caravan is too ruthless and no one comes, or it is washed and damaged by bandit officers and soldiers, and it is so dilapidated and perished, this Zheng Jiaji can reach this point, thanks to the Zheng Baihu seventy years ago, and he is also the grandfather of the current old Zheng and Zheng Inspector. ”

Yesterday, when I returned to the house after practicing martial arts, I listened to the conversation between Qin Xiucai and the third brother Xu outside the house, and mentioned "Lao Zheng", which meant that this "Lao Zheng" was a big man in Zheng Jiaji, but he didn't expect that when he mentioned the commentary now, Zhu Da immediately cared.

Before coming here, that Zheng Baihu was just an inconspicuous military attache who stood on the wrong side of the guard, and the command above him was unlucky, and the good territory that Zheng Baihu was in charge of naturally had to be given to the newly powerful side, Zheng Jiaji was still a nameless village at that time, and it had just been washed by bandits, and it was dilapidated, and it was the most inferior place, so it was directly lost to Zheng Baihu.

Although the village has been repeatedly harmed by bandits, the villagers cannot be said to be pitiful and innocent, let alone harm the merchants. The villagers themselves have colluded with the surrounding bandits, which is very difficult to manage, and several hundred households have confiscated money and food here, and even lost their lives.

Zheng Baihu came here with his family, their Zheng family has a different place from the other families in the guard, that is, brotherly friendship, other families must be separated when they become adults, otherwise it will affect the hereditary inheritance, the Zheng family is three brothers have been together, Zheng Baihu as a brother took care of the two brothers sparingly, Zheng Baihu was forty-five or sixteen years old at that time, the eldest daughter was married, the two sons were also adults, and the three sons of the two younger brothers were also adults, that is to say, there were eight males in the Zheng family alone, and the son-in-law's family was also a martial artist. Someone can help, too.

In the early years, the armament of the Daming Guard was not so slack, and hundreds of families often had battlefield experience, more had practiced martial arts, and there was no shortage of weapons, and the Zheng family itself had three horses.

Eight to ten young and strong men who know martial arts, have weapons and equipment, and unite as one, this force is not small, and it is even more remarkable in the countryside, not to mention that the identity of the Zheng family is still there, and the official grade is also a help.

After this force came to the ruined village, it immediately gained a firm foothold, the resistance of the villagers is not worth mentioning, and there were also collusion with bandits and horse thieves to fight during the period, but the men of the Zheng family can shoot bows and horses, and can wield knives and guns, and the rabble of bandits is really not an opponent, and they dare not come after two heavy losses.

The ground stabilized, the displaced population returned, the merchants of the past stopped, and the nameless village gradually recovered.

As soon as there were many merchants who came, the villagers who were attached to the Zheng family had bad intentions and suggested that Zheng Baihu take action against the merchants, but after being refused, the villagers couldn't help but do it themselves.

Zheng Baihu and the Zheng family have seen the world, and they know the truth of releasing water to raise fish, and they immediately severely punished the villagers for killing chickens and taking eggs, and even compensated for the losses out of their own pockets, and achieved ten percent of their face and lining.

This story slowly spread, more and more merchants in the past were willing to stay in this village, the merchants of the health office were worried that they were not familiar with the south, and the merchants from the south were worried that it was not safe to go north, so they traded in this village, and the Zheng family opened an inn restaurant, and took out the capital to do some transit business of buying low and selling high in it, which slowly grew.

The so-called "hair growth" is just a lot of living a comfortable life, not to mention rich and comfortable, after all, the Zheng family is a big family, and the cost of martial arts bows, sabers and guns is also large, and this village's small business is like that.

However, in the autumn of Zheng Baihu's fifty-first birthday, two caravans came to this village to stay, and according to the prevailing rules, they paid several times higher than the market price for food and lodging.

If you are not in the core area of the health station and the prefecture and county, the transmission of big and small things will become slow, and no one will even remember to deliver the news to them. The disaster struck out suddenly, and on the morning of the second day of the caravan's stay, the nameless village was surrounded by more than 200 horse thieves.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia were at war, and the border was in flames, but at this time, traffickers came to Datong, or you had the ability to sell them to the grassland, and you could make a lot of money. Correspondingly, bandits in the chaotic border town area are rampant, and there are even Mongols involved, staring at the adventurous caravans, it is said that the border generals are behind the scenes, and there is even the shadow of the Daiwangfu looming.

It is not new for horse thieves to raid villages and towns, but it is rare to come to the nameless village, because it is considered to be deep into the hinterland, and I don't know if the horse thieves want to go deep into the hinterland, or if they have already set their eyes on the passing caravan and want to attack it.

With the Zheng family as the backbone, the villagers quickly organized, although the village has not been formed, but the house is also a regulation against thieves and theft, and there is no problem in resisting.

The horse thief pays attention to coming and going like the wind, and the flat field battle relies on the impact of the mount to have a huge advantage, and if you really want to attack any siege fortifications, you are not good at it, at the beginning, the horse thief directly put forward the conditions with the Zheng family, hand over the caravan, and the village will be fine.

Regardless of human favor or morality, it is common sense for the Zheng family to hand over the caravan, after all, he wants to protect his family and villagers, the leaders of the two caravans are frightened, they have a total of more than ten guards, counting the caravan's own young and strong have a dozen, but these people can rely on the house to guard, and there is only a dead end when they go out, the caravan and the Zheng family said that if they can protect them, then divide half of the goods as a reward, and they do not have the ability to move strongly, you must know that although the Zheng family has few men, it is not difficult to kill the caravan up and down.

According to Zheng Baihu and the two caravans, Zheng Baihu refused this reward at that time, saying that the Zheng family had to do things after receiving your money, of course, there were also some tongue-chewing chatters, after the Zheng family and the caravan repelled the horse thieves, the Zheng family suffered heavy casualties, and they could only save face and reputation, and they couldn't get it if they wanted to get it.

The horse thieves are bound to get the goods, and they also feel that they have more than 200 people, and it is not a big problem to take this dilapidated village, after two attempts, more than a dozen lives are gone, and the wall has not been crossed.

Fought intermittently for a day, until the son-in-law of the Zheng family came over with the rescuers, Zheng Baihu died in battle, the Zheng family died four men, the caravan Qingzhuang died nine, the villagers died six, and the horse thieves died more than 30.

No matter how calculated the two caravans, the Zheng family also preserved their goods and paid the price of human lives, and the death of a hundred households was worth some money, no matter how it was, they had to be thanked.

After this battle, not to mention the heavy losses of the Zheng family, the villagers also had grievances in their hearts, and the village, which had only been on its foothold for a few years, was unstable again.

The Zheng family mourned, but they were helpless about the scene in front of them, so they could only handle the funeral first, and they never thought that the first seven days had not passed, and the number of caravans that came to the village to stop trading had skyrocketed, and even some caravans were not on the way, and they would rather stay here to trade than go far.

In addition to the caravan, there were many people who came to take refuge, some people with their families, and some Jianghu people with horses and knives, all of whom were willing to work for the Zheng family and wanted to beg for food in this village.

After that battle, the re-ruined village suddenly flourished, in the final analysis, it was the Zheng family that made a name for itself in that war, in this messy Datong area, it can be regarded as a flag, bandits are rampant, and the border town area where people and thieves are not distinguished, with such a place of peace of mind, merchants and people naturally gather, hoping that someone can protect their safety.

The scene here is getting bigger and bigger, but the Zheng family has suffered a heartwarming matter, and the faction that has gained power took advantage of the death of Zheng Baihu in the battle, and actually took the position of this hundred households, and the whole Zheng family has become Yu Ding's identity.

“...... The fortune of people is together, how can it not be stopped, the Zheng family is also like this, the identity of the hundred households was taken away, and seeing that this territory is about to fly away, but this ......"

Qin Xiucai said happily, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun listened attentively, they had already walked to the center of Zhengjiaji, there are several mansions here, which look quite magnificent, in addition to the magnificent mansion, there is also a place to have fun, it is very lively, the sun is about to set, and lanterns have begun to hang in front of the store.

In this bustling and leisurely atmosphere, he suddenly heard a howling cry, and the cry seemed out of place here, Qin Xiucai stopped talking and looked in the direction of the voice......