Fang Yuan and his entourage of 100 Jinyi guards, 300 sergeants of the Shenji Battalion, and 300 people escorted a hundred ox carts full of large boxes to Zhangjiakou Gong City, which was located in the middle of the two border towns of Datong and Xuanfu.

The Shenji Battalion is the most elite firearms unit of the Ming Dynasty, and the accompanying 300 Shenji Battalion sergeants are led by Wang Qian of Qianhu and are equipped with the most sophisticated firearms in the Ming Dynasty - Bird Guns, Three-Eyed Divine Guns, and Five Thunder God Machines.

The Five Thor Machine is a five-barreled arquebus, which shoots in pairs, and is a revolver gun with more dense firepower than the three-eyed gun.

Chongzhen and Fang Yuan claimed that the boxes on the 100 ox carts contained 2 million taels of silver for the transfer of Sun Chuanting's troops in Shaanxi.

But only Fang Yuan knew it in his heart, only twenty ox cart boxes really had silver, a total of 400,000 taels of silver, and this was still the silver that Fang Yuan had advanced from Chongzhen.

The rest of the ox cart boxes were filled with stones.

Fang Yuan and Qin Zhan led a hundred brocade guards, as well as Wang Qian's three hundred divine machine battalions, and arrived at Zhangjiakou Gong City in the Great Wall Pass ten days later.

Zhangjiakou Gong City is the largest bazaar opened to trade with Mongolia in the Ming Dynasty, and over time, it has formed a key town of Biansai, with walls and sentry posts.

Twenty miles southwest of Gongshi is the fortified military fortress Kaiyang Military Fort.

One hundred miles northeast of Gong City is the Xuanfu Military Town, one of the nine border towns of the Ming Dynasty.

The biggest merchant in Gong City, Zhangjiakou, was the Jiexiu Fan family, who was blackmailed by Fang Yuan with 30,000 taels of silver.

Due to the large number of people in Fang Yuan and his entourage, going to Zhangjiakou Gong City was afraid that it would cause unnecessary panic in Gong City, so he ordered the accompanying Jinyi Guards and 300 Shenji Battalion sergeants to guard 400,000 taels of silver and stationed them in Kaiyang Military Fort.

Fang Yuan and Qin Zhan led twenty heavily armed Jinyi guards to Gong City to talk to the Fan family about grain trading.

Fang Yuan and his party marched along the official road towards Zhangjiakou Gong City, but found groups of displaced people along the way also heading in the direction of Gong City.

Qin Zhan found a group of displaced people to inquire and learned that these displaced people fled north to Shanxi because of the war in Kaifeng, and the reason why they rushed to Gong City in groups was because they heard that the Jin merchant Fan family in Gong City was giving porridge at the gate of Gong City.

"Could it be that the Fan family is still a good person?"

Fang Yuan was a little puzzled in his heart, and followed the direction of the crowd to the south gate of Zhangjiakou Gong City, where thousands of displaced people had already gathered outside the city gate, and the long queue was at least half a mile long.

These family members are dressed in black, with a tag like a family emblem on their chests, and a big 'Fan' character written on them, which seems to be indeed the family members of the Fan family.

Fang Yuan ordered Jin Yiwei to wait in the tea stall in the distance, and he and Qin Zhan came to the south gate. I saw two cauldrons placed outside the city gate, and at least fifty uniformly dressed family members were giving porridge to the homeless.

Fang Yuan found the clue at a glance, the homeless people queuing in front of these two cauldrons had to be reviewed by the Fan family in advance.

The first line of queues were the able-bodied homeless people, who were called to the right side of the city gate after the soup was served.

Before the soup kitchen, the woman and her family were called to the side, discussed in a low voice, and the numbers were also in their hands, and the two sides agreed, then the family gave some broken silver, and led the woman into the city, and the family could go to the queue to receive the porridge; If the agreement is not reached, the woman and her family will not be allowed to queue up to receive the porridge.

Fang Yuan really saw the purpose of soup kitchen, and the Fan family was buying and selling people in the name of soup kitchen, or buying and selling people at a low price.

"What a benevolent and righteous Fan family!"

Fang Yuan sneered in his heart, and slowly approached the right side of the city gate, among hundreds of young and strong laborers with strong physique, he found a strong man who was drinking porridge and asked, "Did the Fan family give you porridge for nothing?" ”

The strong man glanced at Fang Yuan and said, "Where is such a good thing?" Every day after eating porridge, you have to work for the Fan family. ”

Fang Yuan asked again, "What kind of work are you doing?" ”

The strong man pouted, drank white porridge, and said, "Yesterday I carried a lot of grain to the ox cart, and today I have to carry it." ”

"Carrying grain?"

Fang Yuan was slightly startled, and asked again, "There is a lot of grain to move?" Can't finish moving in a day? ”

After the strong man drank the white porridge, he was asked again and again, and said impatiently, "Where did you come from so many words?" I'm going to sleep for a while, and I'm going to work for a while. ”

Fang Yuan glanced at Qin Zhan, Qin Zhan hurriedly took out a small piece of broken silver and handed it to the strong man, "Say whatever you ask." ”

The strong man hurriedly put the broken silver into his bosom and said, "I heard that more than 8,000 ox carts will be set out, and it will take at least five days to load." ”

Fang Yuan secretly calculated that an ox cart could carry 10 stones, and eight thousand ox carts needed at least 20,000 young and strong laborers to escort them.

The ox cart plus the weight of the people is about 100,000 stone of grain, no wonder the Fan family is here to give porridge, just to gather cheap labor.

What made Fang Yuan even more shocked was where did the 100,000 stone grain go? Could it be that it was transported out of the customs to the Manchu Qing Dynasty?

He hurriedly asked in a low voice, "Where did the eight thousand ox carts go?" Out of the customs to outside the customs? ”

The strong man nodded and said, "It will take more than a month to go back and forth, alas! It's not easy to eat! ”

Fang Yuan's speculation was confirmed, and the current Fan family and the other seven Jin merchants were all together to transport grain outside the customs and sell it to the Manchu Qing.

These grains were used by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to reserve and prepare the military rations needed to enter the customs after the autumn.

Fang Yuan asked coldly, "Organizing 8,000 ox carts and more than 20,000 people, but the Fan family probably doesn't have such a big force!" ”

The strong man said, "The Fan family is the leader, and the 100,000 stone grain this time is a large amount, and I heard that the eight major Jin merchants in Gong City are all involved." ”

Fang Yuan's eyes showed a thick murderous intent, what he had reserved about Jin Shang before, but now he had confirmed it with his own eyes.

"Uncles, please, give me a mouthful of porridge!"

A few homeless people dressed in rags and covered with dust surrounded the soup kitchener, which immediately attracted many onlookers.

Fang Yuan glanced at Qin Zhan, and the two of them approached again.

A family member carefully looked at the five or six homeless people who came up to beg, his eyes were fixed on the second daughter among the homeless, and he waved a horsewhip at the second daughter, "I am Fan Fu, the head of the Fan family, these two women, make a price!" ”

The two young girls were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and they were busy hugging behind their families, looking timidly at Fan Fu, like jackals, tigers and leopards, and fierce gods.

Fang Yuan looked at the two women in the pile of displaced people, although he deliberately covered his face with dust, it was difficult to hide his beauty.

The grandfather of the two pretty women trembled, "Uncle, we are fleeing from Kaifeng to find some livelihood, not selling women." ”

Fan Fu shouted impatiently and said, "Don't catch it yet? ”

As soon as he gave the order, three members of the family pushed away the homeless people and escorted the two women out.

The old man was still waiting to be stopped, but Fan Fu didn't say a word, and kicked him in the chest.

The old man screamed, fell to the ground and curled up into a ball, and coughed violently.

Fan Fu kicked people hard and scolded him sharply, "Don't be ashamed!" Listen to me! Whoever doesn't want to sell his daughter will immediately go back to Henan Mansion to fend for himself. ”

He made it clear that he was coerced to buy and sell, and there was a commotion in the homeless pile, crying out for the old man.

The rampant Fan family members punched and kicked one by one, and whoever wanted to get ahead was beaten with a horsewhip.

The family is vicious, and there are many people, and the homeless people can't fight, so they can only look at each other, and no one dares to go to fight again.

Under Fan Fu's coercion, the old man had to agree to talk about this human trafficking.

Fan Fu threw three taels of silver and threw them on the ground, and then ordered the family to pull the two women away.

Usually a woman's asking price is five taels of silver, and three taels of silver to buy two women with outstanding appearance, which is considered a forced purchase and forced sale, and the old man and the woman's family can only kneel and plead and beg for more.

The two Fan family members waved horsewhips and whirred, trying to intimidate away the entangled woman's family. Selling women is a last resort, let alone less than one-third of the market price?

The woman's family was not convinced, and continued to pester the Fan family to bargain.

Fan Fu kicked a ragged homeless person in front of him, and several family members dragged away the two beautiful women who were screaming to the heavens and the earth.

The cries of the women and the screams of the homeless people were intertwined, and although the onlookers were angry, they did not dare to come forward, so they could only curse in secret.

The displaced people have fled their hometowns and are homeless, but they are still bullied by the Fan family, and people with a little conscience can't see it.

Fang Yuan said slowly, "The Fan family of the dog day, no, the eight Jin merchants, all of them should be damned!" ”

Qin Zhan whispered, "Boss, we are here to buy grain from these Jin merchants on this trip, so let's make less trouble!" ”

Fang Yuan tilted his head and looked at him with a smile, "Who said that we came here to buy grain from these Jin merchants?" ”

Qin Zhan saw the thick murderous intent in Fang Yuan's eyes, and said violently, "Boss, do you want to?" ”

Fang Yuan didn't answer Qin Zhan's words, and said coldly, "Fourth, you can start making trouble!" ”

Qin Zhan comprehended, walked directly to the cauldron of soup kitchen, threw the porcelain bowl in the soup pot of soup kitchen, and shouted angrily, "It's all rice soup, and you can't feed the dogs, when your fourth grandfather wants to eat?" ”