Heta's eyes were red, and the green tendons on his head burst out: "Ah! Damn rakshasas! It's too much of a deception! ”

"Report!" Outside, there was a report from Goshha, "Great Khan, Prince Zhuoliktu's people are here!" Here came two thousand cavalry! Right outside our camp! ”

"Good! That's great! He Ta stood up, "With two thousand more people, the Rakshasas will not dare to act rashly!" We can't keep up with the Rakshasas, but we can at least keep our people safe! When the imperial army arrives, they will definitely break all those hateful Rakshasas into pieces! ”

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"There are too many Tartars, and they are likely to attack us! They can divide their forces to entangle us, and in turn make us uneasy. Now let's get out of here and go to the tribe of the pseudo-prince of Zhuoliktu to surprise them! The people of the pseudo-prince of Zhuoliktu have all come, and their tribal forces must be empty! Xiao Gongchen ordered.

The sled soldiers were extremely fast, and they were haunted in the snowfield, and if they didn't want to fight, they could not fight, avoiding the main force of the Horqin Mongols, and broke into the territory of the Zalut Banner.

However, Xiao Gongchen's troops did not directly attack the tribe where Prince Zhuo Liketu's sweat tent was located, but took the sheep and wiped out several small tribes on the grassland.

Three days later, Xiao Gongchen attacked a small tribe again, and after dawn, the Ming army was preparing to set up camp, but a cavalry reconnaissance on the periphery came to report: "General! We found a convoy coming to the south! There were about 1,000 guards, and more than 2,000 people. The banner played is the banner of Fan, Wang and Jin and other Jin Shang eight masters! ”

"Eight Jin merchants? That's great! I've been looking for them! I didn't expect that there was nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it didn't take any effort to get there! The eight major Jin merchants actually sent them to the door by themselves! Xiao Gongchen laughed.

Cao Lei said: "General, a few days ago, we also met a group of strange warriors, all of whom are Han Chinese, and they are suspicious of their humble positions, they are dead soldiers raised by the Eight Great Jin merchants!" ”

Xiao Gongchen said "um": "General Ben also suspects that it's them!" I've been trying to find them for the past few days, but their caravan seems to have disappeared! In the past few days, we have exterminated several Tartar tribes, and even the charcoal and food for the winter are gone! It would be strange if this caravan hadn't come yet! ”

"As early as the Chongzhen Dynasty, the eight families of the Jin merchants collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, and delivered iron tools and grain to the Tartars! The gold and silver treasures plundered by the Tartars were also exchanged for weapons and food through the Jin merchants! It's only hateful that the three towns of Xuanda were complicit back then, and even the officials in the court knew about it, but Chongzhen was kept in the dark! Cao Lei said indignantly.

Xiao Gongchen said: "The first emperor weakened the factory guards, which can be described as cutting off his arm, turning himself into a deaf and blind man, and letting those civil officials talk nonsense!" I am a big country, and it is in the hands of those civil officials! The first emperor was martyred, and those civil officials were good, and when the thieves entered Beijing, they took refuge in the thieves; The thieves were driven away, and they shaved their hair again and took refuge in the Tartars! ”

Cai Zhichao said angrily: "Those civil officials are the most shameless things in the world!" They are selfish, but their mouths are righteous and awe-inspiring, and as soon as the Tartars enter the customs, these civil officials show their original forms! ”

Xiao Gongchen stood up and pulled out his waist knife: "Brothers! Now that the Jin merchants' convoy is here, don't let them go today! Brothers, go with so-and-so! Kill all the Jin merchants! Loot their belongings! ”

The sled soldiers had harassed the Mongols for a whole night, and many of them were already very tired, but when they heard that the caravan of the Jin merchants was in front of them, everyone came to the spirit, and everyone was eager to destroy the caravan of the Jin merchants immediately.

Fan Sanba's third son, Fan Yubin, sat in a carriage, the grassland was piled up with thick snow, knee-deep, the carriage was driving on the snow, the wheels were deep in the snow, and it was very inconvenient to walk.

"What the hell is weather! If it weren't for the Queen Mother Lafayette's name, Lao Tzu wouldn't want to come here! Fan Yubin cursed the damn ghost weather and muttered to himself.

Fan Yubin's father, Fan Sanba, is the son of the famous Fan Yongdou. Fan Yubin especially admires his grandfather Fan Yongdou, and the Jiexiu Fan family was started by his grandfather Fan Yongdou. Originally, his great-grandfather Fan Ming was an ordinary little showman, but he couldn't get a higher reputation after reading all his life, so he could only be a poor scholar.

But because of the real rise of the Jin Nu in Liaodong, Fan Yongdou saw the opportunity to make a fortune.

The old slave promulgated the Seven Hatreds, and after breaking with the Ming court, the Later Jin Jurchen was naturally listed as a rebel general, and the Ming court forbade any merchant to trade with the Later Jin Jurchen. But the head-killing business is the most profitable business! Fan Yongdou saw this opportunity, at first he took the risk of transporting goods out of customs, and after making money, he opened up the relationship up and down, and sent a large number of ironware, food and other materials urgently needed by the Houjin Jurchen to the hands of the old slave and Huang Taiji.

Most of the arrows shot by the Later Jin army at the Ming army were sent by the Fan family; Most of the cotton armor worn by the Later Jin Jurchen was transported to Liaodong by the Fan family; When the Houjin Jurchen was in the famine, it was the Fan family who sent charcoal in the snow and sent the food that the Houjin Jurchen urgently needed to them!

The gold and silver stained with the blood stains of the Han people could neither be eaten nor drunk, nor could they be used as weapons, it was the Fan family and other Jin merchants who sent strategic materials such as iron, grain, cotton, and salt to Liaodong, and exchanged the bloodstained gold and silver from the hands of the Donglu. Their supplies fattened the Dongyu and made the Houjin Jurchen stronger!

It can be said that if there were no Jin Shang Eight Families, it would be impossible to have the day when the Qing army entered the customs!

It is precisely because of the contributions made by the eight families of the Jin merchants to the Qing court that after the Qing army entered the customs, the eight families of the Jin merchants became the eight imperial merchants, and the Fan family, headed by the eight families, received the highest treatment.

Pham Sam Ba was a merchant appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, providing goods not only to the Imperial Palace, but also to the princes and princes. Many Mongolian princes of the Horqin tribe did not enter Beijing to enjoy, but stayed on the grassland, and the Fan family was responsible for sending them ironware, salt, grain and other commodities urgently needed on the grassland, and when winter came, charcoal was also sent.

As for Fan Yubin, he even served as the official position of the Taifu Siqing of Zheng Sanpin and became a businessman with an official position. After Fan Sanba became old, Fan Yubin took on the task of transfusing blood to the Horqin Department.

The caravan of the Jin merchants was a big caravan, and in such a cold weather, the Jin merchants would not go out of the jam to traffic goods. But because today's winter is particularly cold, the grain and charcoal on the steppe are depleted extremely quickly.

A while ago, it is said that there was a disturbance on the grassland, and a caravan sent by Fan Yubin before almost encountered the Rakshasa people, but fortunately, the escort team escorting the caravan was alert, so it was not looted by the Rakshasas.

However, the charcoal and grain were not delivered to the Horqin Department, and the Empress Dowager's family on the grassland was starving and freezing, and the Empress Dowager was furious when she learned the news, and forced Fan Yubin to personally take the caravan to the Horqin Ministry.

Fan Yubin had no choice but to leave the warm home in the capital and embark on the trip.

Before the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month had passed, Fan Yubin took the three hundred bodyguards of the Fan family, together with more than 1,000 cavalrymen of the Eight Banners of Manmeng, and went out of the customs together and entered the frozen grassland.

The caravan had been waiting on the Chahar grassland for a long time, and because of the Rakshasas, the caravan could not pass, so they waited for the arrival of imperial reinforcements in the Chahar grassland. They waited for more than ten days in Chahar, and finally waited for Fan Yubin's escort.

Leave the Chahar steppe and head towards the Horqin steppe. The farther north you go, the colder the climate becomes, and the snow on the ground gets thicker and thicker. When we were about to enter the Horqin grassland, the snow on the ground reached more than two feet thick. Such weather is a terrible white plague for the Mongolians in the steppe.

Caravans, laden with grain, salt, cotton cloth, and charcoal, moved slowly, knee-deep in snow. From time to time, wheels got stuck in the snow, and the caravan men shouted, and it took a lot of effort to push the wheels out.

The caravan slept in the open along the way, and even the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a grand festival of the Han people, was spent in the ice and snow. That night, Fan Yubin blew the cold wind and spent the saddest Lantern Festival in his life.

In some places, the snow reached waist-down, and the people who drove the cars had a hard time. However, Fan Yubin's carriage is still relatively comfortable, and the carriage he is riding in is a two-wheeled carriage made in Nanyang. It was very inconvenient to walk in the grassland and snow in the more comfortable four-wheeled carriage, so the Fan family chose a two-wheeled carriage.

Despite being a two-wheeled carriage, it is quite comfortable, with bright transparent glass windows and a spacious interior covered with thick woolen blankets where you can sleep. Under the car, there is also a charcoal stove, and there is a special person behind the car who is responsible for lighting a fire to keep the temperature in the car.

However, when we arrived at the Horqin grassland, where the snow was very thick, the entire wheel was sunk in the snow in some places, and the charcoal stove installed under the car was also in the snow, the furnace fire was extinguished, and the temperature in the car dropped.

"Fan Fugui! You dog minion! How to make a fire? I want to freeze to death! Fan Yubin wrapped his fur coat tightly, opened the car window and poked his head out and scolded.

"Sir, the whole carriage is in the snow." The servant Fan Fugui walked up with his head down.

Fan Yubin got out of the car, he just opened the car door and stepped out of the car, and as soon as he stepped down, he fell into waist-deep snow, the cold of the snow pierced the thick cotton pants, and drilled straight into the bone marrow, Fan Yubin trembled a few times.

"One, two, one! One, two, one! "A carriage full of goods in front of him fell into the snow, and the six men shouted loudly and pushed the wagon, and with each shout, white water vapor erupted from their mouths.

The wind blew again in the sky, and the goose feathers and snow fell one after another.

"Damn the weather! How does this weather go? Fan Yubin raised his head and looked at the sky.

"Sir!" A bodyguard came galloping on horseback, "It seems that a few cavalry are shaking in front of us just now!" The little ones chased after them, and they were gone! (To be continued.) )