Chapter 515 The Fan Family's Firm
Fan Yongdou's elder brother Fan Yongkui thinks that Datong Town's killing of Hukou has an opportunity, not because the border army that killed Hukou is not tightly controlled, but because the town general who killed Hukou has been replaced.
At the end of the first year of Chongzhen, Hei Yunhe, the original iron-faced and selfless, black-faced and ruthless Hukou guard, was quietly replaced by Zu Dacheng, who had dealt with the old Fan family in Jinzhou City in Liaozuo.
Zu Dacheng is a few years younger than Zu Dashou and is one of Zu Dashou's many cousins.
When Zu Dashou was the chief general in Jinzhou City, Zu Dacheng was his right and left hand, and after he was transferred to Datong Town, he naturally brought it with him.
The importance of killing Hukou in Datong Town is second to none, Zu Dashou became the chief military officer of Datong Town, and the guards who killed Hukou naturally had to be replaced by someone he trusted in order to sleep.
Before, when Qu Jiazhen was the chief soldier of Datong Town, the killing of Hukou was also controlled by the Lao Qu family, otherwise how could the Lao Qu family engage in smuggling trade with the Khan Department in a grand manner, and then break the law knowing the law, so that the family-run business violated the ban of the imperial court, smuggled salt and iron forbidden goods, and sought ill-gotten gains?
When Qu Jiazhen was still serving as the chief military officer of Datong Town, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and other Shanxi profiteers once walked through the door of the Qu family.
It's just that not far from the mouth of Kill Hu is the city of naturalization, and the trade routes with the Tumut Department of Monan, the Chahar Department (that is, the Han Department), and even the Khalkha tribes outside Mobei have long been monopolized by the Qu family.
Therefore, the old Fan family and other Shanxi businessmen could not make much profit here, so they could only focus on Zhangjiakou in Xuanfu and take greater risks to trade directly with Jianfu.
Now that the business road in Zhangjiakou has been cut off, and the Lao Qu family has also been copied and uprooted, so Fan Yongkui wants to come to kill Hukou again to find an opportunity.
As a result, after killing Hukou, I inquired, good guy, now the ancestor from Ningyuan is in power, and the guard who killed Hukou is precisely the Liaodong border general Zu Dacheng who was bribed by Fan Yongdou and Fan Yongkui when they walked in Liaodong.
After learning the news, Fan Yongkui hurriedly sent someone to send Zu Dacheng's position as a general in killing Hukou back to Zhangjiakou.
Immediately afterwards, Fan Yongdou took the opportunity to go back to Jiexiu to visit his father and reunite with his relatives during the Chinese New Year, and went to Datong Right Guard.
As for Zu Dashou, the chief military officer of Datong Town, of course, he Fan Yongdou can see it if he wants to, and Zu Dashou was the chief general of Jinzhou in Liaodong back then, although his old Fan family's business is very big, but it is just a businessman, where can he have such a big face to make friends with Zu Dashou!
However, for Fan Yongdou, it is enough to kill Hu Kou and the general Zu Dacheng.
In the first month of the second year of Chongzhen, Fan Yongdou once again asked someone to find a way, contacted Zu Dacheng, the general who killed Hukou, and gave Zu Dacheng a generous gift.
And as soon as he made a move, he killed a house with a five-entry courtyard in the right acropolis of Datong in Hukou and five "Datong aunts" who were as beautiful as flowers, as well as maids and servants who were waiting for their daily lives in the courtyard.
When it comes to the name of Datong's mother-in-law, I have to talk about the "Yangzhou Thin Horse" with the same name.
"Yangzhou Skinny Horse" and "Datong Aunt Mother-in-law" can be said to be two types of famous prostitutes with completely different styles that were famous in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
Yangzhou Skinny Horse, as the name suggests, stands out for a thin word, and the main style is petite and weak.
Moreover, the thin horses in Yangzhou have been taught since childhood, and they are also chanting poems, playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
And Datong's mother-in-law is diametrically opposed, highlighting a big character, tall and plump, that is to say, their biggest feature is their big breasts and fat buttocks.
And what they learn is not piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, dance and ink, but the room art that specializes in serving men in bed and enjoying the joy of bed.
If Yangzhou Skinny Horse is the breeze and clear stream among famous prostitutes, then Datong's mother-in-law is a blizzard and mudslide among famous prostitutes.
As a fierce general in Liaodong Town, what kind of taste Zu Dacheng is, it is naturally self-evident.
If Fan Yongdou simply gave silver, Ning Yuan, the ancestor from a family of generals, might not be able to see it in his eyes, but giving a mansion to a beautiful woman, especially the world-famous Datong aunt, is the weakness of the ancestor Dacheng.
When Zu Dacheng was in Liaodong, there were already a lot of beautiful wives and concubines, but after following Zu Dashou, who is now the highest status of the old ancestral family, came to the border of Datong Town to take up his post, the beautiful wives and concubines who were far away in Ningyuan naturally had no way to bring them.
Now, not long after he became the general of killing Hukou Ginseng, a wealthy businessman who had dealt with him before sent a beautiful woman to a beautiful house, and it was also Fan Yongdou's Datong mother-in-law who was selected by thousands of people, and of course Zu Dacheng immediately laughed at it.
At the same time, the current imperial court also agreed that the merchants of the Qin and Jin dynasties would establish a trade market with the Mongol tribes of southern Mo.
Therefore, Zu Dacheng knew that Brother Fan Yongdou "must ask for something when he is courteous", but under the temptation of Datong's mother-in-law's beauty, he just turned a blind eye and didn't know anything.
In this way, in February of the first year of Chongzhen, Fan Yongdou bought a large number of shops, houses and warehouses in Datong Youwei and Kill Hukou, and transferred the old Fan family's business in Zhangjiakou to Kill Hukou.
As soon as the old Fan family did this, they naturally couldn't hide it from the other seven members of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce in Zhangjiakou.
So, starting from March of the second year of Chongzhen, the other seven companies in the original Zhangjiakou Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, including Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa, also followed up and began to shift the focus of each business to the direction of killing Hukou.
Coincidentally, it was also in this March that Fan Wencheng's younger brother Fan Wenhuan, as well as Sun Degong, a general from Liaodong under Wang Huazhen, accompanied Huang Taiji's henchman and one of the many foreheads of the wild boar skin family, Yanguli, disguised as the caravan of Chechen Khan, one of the three Khalkha tribes of Mobei Mongolia, and came to Guihua City.
Fifty miles southwest of the city of Guihua, the old place of Dongshengwei, although it has been abandoned for many years, but since the first year of Chongzhen's first year in September, the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian tribes re-established the field here, and began to trade and exchange markets regularly, it soon regained its vitality.
It was at the opening of the market in March that Yangguli, Fan Wenyu, Sun Degong and others found the signboard of the Fan family's firm in the market, and connected with Fan Yongkui, who entered the market with a caravan.
The arrival of Yanguli, Fan Wenyu and others, for Fan Yongkui, was like when someone suddenly handed him a pillow when he was sleeping.
Fan Yongkui, who was originally in Liaodong and Yanguli, the Jurchen nobleman, took over, after seeing Yanguli and others, it was like a rain in a long drought, which was a great joy!
After the market was closed for three days, Fan Yongkui immediately asked these people to disguise themselves as the guys of the Fan family's business, and took them into the killing of Hukou smoothly, and went all the way to Shuoping City, where the right guard of Datong was located, and met with Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and other bigwigs of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce.
After learning that the person who came was the forehead of the Dajin Kingdom, and he was also a close confidant of the current Great Khan of the Dajin Kingdom, Yanguli, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and other bigwigs of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce immediately treated him as guests.
Not only did he tell all the people in Shaanxi and Shanxi who had been in drought for many years and that countless hungry people had gathered to rebel, but he also took this opportunity to sit on the ground and negotiate a profiteering deal, and at a price 30 times higher than that of the mutual market, he transported a sum of salt, ironware, millet, and tea to Horqin.
In this way, at the end of March of the first year of Chongzhen, a caravan dominated by the Fan family firm quietly left Hukou and went north on a dark and windy night.
Under the auspices of Fan Yongkui, one of the proprietors of the Fan family's business, that is, Fan Yongdou's own brother, and under the leadership of several henchmen brought by Yanguli, a caravan composed of sixty horse-drawn carts, two hundred and forty camels, and hundreds of family guards went west to bypass Guihua City, avoiding Lin Dan Khan's garrison, and then went all the way north.
It went to the edge of Mobei Mongolia, then turned eastward, passed through the territory of the Chechen Khan of Transkhalkha, and finally lasted more than two months, and finally reached the territory of Korqin's right-wing Belkondol.