The strength of the Fan family in Shanxi was finally revealed, and in half a month, a large number of goods gathered from all over the place, filling the Fan family's warehouse. The shopkeepers of the Huang family and the Tian family's shops looked at the busy shops of the Fan family with envy, secretly calculating in their hearts how much profit the opponent's export trade had earned, thinking that they would also have a good relationship with Chen Shoubei, and strive to get out of here next year.

"My lord, are we really going to do this?" Wang Yin looked at Chen Yue worriedly, trying to dissuade him, "A Fan family may be insignificant, but my lord, you don't know that behind the Fan family is the entire Jin Shang Group, and if we move the Fan family, it means that we are enemies of the entire Jin Shang family." Although it is said that the Jin Party is not visible in the DPRK, but the energy behind it can not be underestimated, my lord, you have set up enough enemies in the DPRK, why bother to offend the Jin Party to death! ”

"Yokoyama Gong is worried that if it were on weekdays, I naturally don't want to do this, but now I can't take care of it. Hengshan Gong, you also know that just last month, Sun Inspector's 100,000 army was defeated by the invasion army, and Sun Inspector was also killed, which also means that in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the imperial court no longer has a capable army to stop the thieves. Time is running out. Chen Yue sighed.

Wang Yin also knew the seriousness of the situation, and knew that the most important thing at the moment was to improve the strength of the Xishan Army as soon as possible, so a trip to the grassland was imperative, but he was still a little worried.

"Jiang Liang, the chief soldier of Datong, and Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, are very deeply involved with the Jin merchants, from the imperial court to the locality, and then to the army, the power of the Jin merchants is intertwined, and it is not something we can shake." Wang Yin sighed.

"I will pay attention to proportion, and I will not kill people indiscriminately, that is, I will use the caravan of the Fan family, and Hengshan Gong does not have to worry about it." Chen Yue knew that Wang Yin was worried that he would make too many enemies, and he was also thinking about himself for the Xishan Army.

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On November 16, the Fan family's caravan was finally reorganized, carrying more goods than last time, trying to enter the grassland before the snow fell. This time Chen Yue can't talk about it, Fan Tianyu took the initiative to ask the Xishan Army to send a team of guards, the last battle against the horse bandits made him impressed by the cavalry strength of the Xishan Army, with such a guard, he can enter the grassland with peace of mind. Of course, Chen Yue readily agreed.

However, when the gate was opened and Fan Tianyu was about to get out of the side wall, Chen Yue suddenly turned his face, and with an order, hundreds of soldiers of the Xishan Army with sharp blades surrounded him, surrounding the caravan's work guards in the middle.

"Lord Chen, why are you doing this?" Fan Tianyu was shocked, he suddenly turned his face when he had cooperated well, he couldn't believe this fact.

"Shopkeeper Fan, you have earned enough, why don't you give this business to Chen, rest assured, I will give you the full amount of the capital of the goods when I come back from the grassland." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"The surname is Chen, you are a clever robbery! My Fan family won't let you go! "Fan Tianyu is going crazy, the Fan family has been engaged in foreign trade for so many years, and no matter how greedy the guards of the side wall are, they have never dared to swallow all the goods of the caravan like Chen Yue, who doesn't know that the Fan family in Shanxi is the leader in the Jin merchants, and the second master of the Fan family serves as a third-grade waiter in the court, and Li Jiantai, a scholar of the dynasty, is a family member!

"Hmph, don't let me go, I want to ask the shopkeeper, why do you have so much grain and pig iron in your truck, don't you know the imperial court's ban on the export of pig iron? For so many years, the reason why the Manchu Tartars outside the customs have been able to tide over the difficulties many times in the years of famine is that you black-hearted businessmen have repeatedly trafficked military materials to the Manchu Tartars in order to make money, regardless of the country's court, which has made them grow bigger little by little and become the great enemies of the imperial court! What's wrong with me taking you? Chen Yue reprimanded fiercely.

"However, we have also purchased a large number of war horses for the imperial court, if there is no us, where will the horses of the hundreds of thousands of troops on the nine sides come from?" Fan Tianyu argued.

"Shopkeeper Fan, you don't need to say more, we always have a little friendship, don't worry, I won't embarrass you, as long as you live in my bluestone castle for a while, when I come back from the grassland, the capital of the goods will be returned to you a lot, and you don't have much loss."

Chen Yue waved his hand, and the two soldiers came up and escorted Fan Tianyu down, and the guys of the caravan were also taken down together and locked in the bluestone fort, and they couldn't leave here until the army returned from the grassland.

In order to prevent the leakage of the news, Chen Yue did not tell the story of the sneak attack on the Khalkha Mongol tribe by the Fan family's caravan, and the entire Qingshi Fort thought that Chen Yue was jealous of the huge profits obtained by the Fan family from foreign trade, so he relied on the army to rob.

The guards of the Fan family in the sixties and seventies were all imprisoned, and Liu Neng and Yu Feng took the original thirty soldiers to change their costumes and pretend to be the men of the caravan. They had already been to the Khalkha tribe once, and the tribe knew them, and it was perfect for them to pass them off. Wang Yin also followed, took off his robe and put on a sheepskin jacket, he played the role of the shopkeeper of the caravan, and the entire bluestone castle could not find anyone with a similar temperament except for him. For the sake of the fast journey, most of the original goods in the caravan were left behind, Chen Yue was reluctant to march with heavy pig iron grain, and the carts were loaded with lighter cotton cloth and tea, as well as some other daily necessities.

Wang Yin took Liu Neng and more than 50 other people, escorted more than 20 trucks, pretended to be a caravan and set off in advance, crossing the border wall and entering the vast grassland.

Chen Yue personally led 600 cavalry and 600 chariots under the Iron Lion, and quietly left the Qingshi Fort in the dark night, fearing that he would reveal his true purpose. Although it was a sneak attack on a Mongolian tribe thousands of miles away, this kind of military operation could still be kept secret.

As for the bluestone fort, it was left to Yang Zhengping to guard, and Yuan Keli was by the side to assist. With the arrival of the township soldiers from the Xishan Coal Mine, there are now several thousand more troops in Qingshi Fort, and the total number of troops is as much as 6,000. However, whether it is these township soldiers or the mountain people and military households who have newly joined the army, they must be strictly trained in order to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Therefore, Yang Zhengping's responsibility is huge.

Wang Yin led the caravan in front, Chen Yue followed with a large army, and the two sides kept a distance of twenty miles, walking on the vast grassland. The terrible north wind howled, and the knee-deep grass rattled. The army marched for 100 days, and at night they would find a place where the wind was blowing, set up camp, and set up thick tents under the cover of chariots, in which the soldiers hid, wrapped in thick bedding, but still felt the cold to the bone. In the winter of the grassland, the climate is much colder than that south of the Great Wall, but fortunately, Fan Tianyu's caravan carried a large amount of soju in order to resist the severe cold, which also cheapened the soldiers of the Xishan Army.