Small and medium-sized merchants do not feel much, they are originally the big merchants after they have eaten their fill, and they do not have much feeling for these merchants who are not directly involved in first-hand trade.

There may be some medium-sized businessmen who will form a group to go north, but not many will have this kind of determination and organizational ability.

It is true that many of the medium-sized merchants in Zhangjiakou have formed groups to go north and have made a lot of money, but they have unique geographical conditions, and Zhangjiakou has carried out horse market trade for nearly 100 years, and the experience is also quite rich, and the Jin merchants are also easy to hold together, and they are more united than the merchants of other regions.

The merchants of Yongping are all big businessmen, at least the kind that can scrape together tens of thousands of goods.

In the past few years, thanks to the entrepot trade of Hutchison Firm, that is, to send the goods to Yongping, Yongping's people will be sent out of the customs, and then the freight outside the customs will come over, they have made a lot of money in this trade mode, this time it is not too risky, they have dealt with Hutchison for many years, there is no problem with safety, Hutchison gives them sufficient protection, they bring not many goods this time, are expensive gold and silver ornaments and silk, silk-based, and some exquisite stationery, including inkstone and rice paper.

These goods do not occupy much space, nor are they heavy, which is convenient for travel, and the price can make a small profit.

The most important thing is that they want to go to the trading city, see the trade there, and then organize a group to sell the goods that the Russians need.

This is actually the right way, the historical Sino-Russian trading city is in Kyakhta, further northeast, on the lower reaches of the Lena River, which is very convenient for Russians to transport, and there is not much difficulty for Chinese merchants, and the trading city is only a supplement to a branch of Kyakhta.

Now that the trading city has become a mainstream trading city, the Russians' exploration and expansion to the northeast are restricted, and they can only spend their energy on trade with the Chinese, and the motivation to move forward has weakened a lot, mainly because Hutchison has also explored and established settlements in Mobei, which restricts the Russians from moving forward.

The more important reason is that the Russians gave such treasures as Dezhnev to Hutchison for the sake of trade.

Now that Mrs. Gezhne is in Taiwan, who can build a big ship and go to sea from the mouth of the river, and then land from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and discover a new large piece of land?

From the land all the way to the east, there are thousands of miles, all of which are extremely cold weather in the mountains and the Arctic Circle, coupled with dense forests and wild people in the forest, if you want to smoothly push to the outer northeast area of the Heilongjiang estuary, don't think about it for decades.

The Russians' road to expansion was ended by Zhang Han, but they didn't know it.

Now that the Russians are intoxicated with the abundance of goods they get from Hutchison and the profits they bring from the goods, they are now more attentive to trade and are sourcing more goods from everywhere.

The Russians had better furs, larger ginseng, and a considerable variety of goods, including their native European produce, were also brought in for trade.

The Department of Finance and Taxation and the Department of Foreign Trade estimate that the trade volume will exceed 10 million in two or three years, which is no exaggeration.

Of course, the Russians buy more, they want as many goods as there are on the Chinese side, and if the goods are not enough, they can buy silver rubles, or gold and jewelry, and the goods of the Chinese are transported to Europe and quickly get out, and the profits are amazing, and the Russians are not stupid.

The idea of the merchants of Yongping Mansion is good, they are far away, it is not easy to get out of the customs, there is a Hutchison carriage to buy goods to the south, and there is also a Hutchison carriage to Yongping in Datong, the freight is convenient and the price is not expensive, the bulk of the goods are controlled by the big businessmen of Hutchison and Zhangjiakou, such as porcelain, tea, cloth, these goods need a lot of money, and the receiving channels are not wide and can not receive too many goods, it is better to sell some Hutchison here is not too attentive to the goods over, there may be a better income.

Unfortunately, it backfired, the Russians were interested in goods such as silk and silk, but there were not enough of them, and they were quickly polished.

Gold and silver jewellery and some delicate handicrafts, the Russians were of little interest, and it took a long time to sell a small part.

These merchants could not afford to delay in the trading city, they had to quickly adjust their strategies according to the situation in the trading city, and scraped together funds to buy a large number of silk and silk cloth, as well as some Chinese luxury goods, and they intended to focus on trade in this direction, and Zhangjiakou and Hutchison did not invest much in this area, which was the only gap and opportunity they found.

Returning from the trading city, with more than 10,000 taels of goods by their side, these Yongping merchants were certainly not in a very good mood, even if they saw such a grand scene in front of them, they still sighed.

"Master Zhang is back, why don't we go to the official of Hutchison and try it?"

"Makes sense, too."

"I heard that the people of Hutchison take great care of the merchants, and in order to attract more merchants to come, they will not ask us to go back at a loss."

"This, businessmen have always been risky, I haven't heard that the government can do such a thing for businessmen, let's think like this, I'm afraid it's not good?"

"What's this, try it and don't need money!"

"I saw Liu Ji's shopkeeper in Jingshi, and he said that if you have trouble going to the grassland trade, you can find the Department of Industry and Commerce of Hutchison, or the Department of Foreign Trade."

"I'll go to the Department of Industry and Commerce, we seem to be in charge of this matter."

"Yes, try it, it's less than half a month before the New Year, if you can get up now, you can still get home before the year."

"That is, there is a carriage with Hutchison, otherwise you would have dreamed when you got home a few years ago."

"Hehe, if it weren't for the Hutchison carriage, we wouldn't be here, would we?"

"That's right."

A group of businessmen from Yongping Mansion settled down and began to seriously look at Zhang Han's honor guards.

A team of more than 1,000 people plus more than 1,000 people who greeted them, and more than 2,000 cavalry slowly marched towards the north gate of Qingcheng in the north.

Under the large number of banners was a dazzling cold light, groups of cavalry slowly poured down from the low hillside, and in the thick cavalry array, the steel-clad iron men and war horses fused together, and under the cold light of the spears like a forest and the bayonets, the banners were hunted by the north wind.

Everyone looked at the situation with relish and was deeply shaken.

This kind of scene of thousands of cavalry moving Yongping Mansion is no stranger, when the Liao affairs are tense, the imperial court almost does not stop to transfer soldiers and horses to Liaozhen, from Sichuan in the southwest to Zhejiang in the southeast, and then to Yulin and Gansu in the northwest, the imperial court will transfer every place worth mobilizing soldiers and horses to Liaodong, and the people of Yongping Mansion can see the soldiers and horses passing by every day for a while.

The white-pole soldiers of Sichuan, carrying a long spear pointing to the sky, walked slowly and raised smoke and dust in the sky.

The convoy and firearms of the Zhejiang soldiers, those capable and short-looking Zhejiang people, can burst out with the courage and combat effectiveness that the soldiers in the north of Liaozhen do not have.

There are also cavalry led by the generals of Xuanfu and Datong, as well as Qin soldiers from Yulin, Jizhen soldiers and Shanxi town soldiers, a large number of troops from Yongping to Shanhaiguan together, every day in the soldiers, cavalry, infantry, chariots, artillery, auxiliaries, people, these years the imperial court at least transferred more than 200,000 troops and people out of the customs.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of beggar-like homeless people ran out of Shanhaiguan, their faces were full of the joy and panic of the rest of their lives, they were not only glad to have escaped and got their lives, but also felt sorry for those relatives who died in the war and fled on the way, and when talking about the Ming army, most of the words are fiasco, corpses are everywhere, the army is defeated, or the general army died in battle.

After so many years, the people of Yongping Mansion are used to it, when will the Ming Dynasty King be able to win a beautiful battle?

After a long time, almost no one thought like this, but the cavalry in front of them seemed to have opened a certain valve that they had forcibly closed in their memory.

Strong, civilized, mighty, murderous and full of beauty at the same time.

Some people have seen the appearance of the Mongol cavalry at its peak, and twenty years ago, the Mongols invaded along the Great Wall with more than 100,000 or 200,000 at every turn, and it is not uncommon for people living in Yongping Province to see it.

There have also been people who have seen the Jurchen soldiers, those barbarians in bright armor or sleeves, with bare heads and ridiculous pigtails dragging behind their heads, their eyes are cold, they are inhumane, they are just complete killing machines.

It may be that a powerful army needs such cold-blooded soldiers, but when the soldiers who are enthusiastic and strong as a mountain, and are quite friendly to the people, and have a peaceful smile in their eyes, no one doubts the combat effectiveness of this powerful army in front of them.

All the past achievements speak for themselves, the merchant soldiers are quite powerful, their records are proud, and they have all the exploits and everything they want to have that the Ming army does not have.

"It's really a king's teacher." The Yongping businessman who spoke first sighed with heartfelt emotion, and was not afraid of what his partners around him thought.

Everyone nodded slightly, everyone was completely on the same page, and they didn't feel too taboo.

In the eyes of Yongping merchants, the existence of Hutchison is already a definite reality, and now the emperor's cold treatment is quite appropriate.

When Hutchison's strength swelled to the point that the Ming Dynasty could not get around, he might canonize Zhang Han as the king of Shunyi, and appropriately move out the foundation of Hutchison in the mainland, leaving only some trade ports, which would not threaten the security of the Ming Dynasty's interior, and could rise a fairly strong Han force outside the border wall, which was a win-win plan for both sides.

The Ming Dynasty has no right to govern on the grassland, never has it been, at most it is canonized, since it can canonize the Mongols, it can't canonize a Han Chinese?

Businessmen are always naïve and naïve in politics, and they always take politics for granted in this regard, as an exchange of interests.

Of course, there must be an exchange of interests in politics, but there are some principled things that cannot be exchanged for equal interests.

What a nightmare for the Emperor of the Apocalypse to have a Han dynasty on the steppe that was stronger than the Mongols? If there is really such a thing, the threat index is definitely above the Jurchens, after all, it has been nearly three hundred years since the Liaojin Dynasty, and the powerful Han Dynasty has been pressing the Jurchens to fight, although the Wang Shi has been repeatedly defeated, but the Jurchens are still limited to Liaodong and cannot advance an inch, it is difficult to make people believe that the Jurchens can win the world, after all, this powerful alien race has only 60,000 Dingkou, and there are less than 30,000 warriors, and this number is still very likely to be used to win a city and a place, In the previous battles since Salhu, the Jurchens have also proved their strong combat effectiveness, but that's it.

It can be said that Zhang Han and his Hutchison have really developed to the point where they can establish a country, and the threat index in the eyes of the Ming monarch and the ministers and doctors will definitely exceed that of the Jurchens by dozens of times, and they still expect the Ming court to canonize them?

The day Zhang Han became king was the time to break with the Ming Dynasty.