At that time, Altan Khan gave an order, controlled 400,000 commands, defeated the Ming army's nine-sided forces many times, the cavalry went deep into the city of Beijing, the Jiajing was frightened, the two sides fought hard for many years, and finally ended with the mutual market, the court gave the title of the king of Shunyi, and enshrined a large number of governors and commanders, opened more horse markets, communicated with each other, and finally stabilized the right-wing Mongolia.

Unexpectedly, this stability, it is like a tiger to go to the minions, after the dull down, it will no longer be the prestige of the year, the current right-wing Mongolia is a mess of scattered sand, maybe the Dingkou has increased compared with the year, but it is impossible to gather tens of thousands of armored cavalry and hundreds of thousands of people who control the strings like I answered.

Zhang Han has no interest in the rise and fall of right-wing Mongolia, but Bu Shitu and Silver Ingot are his biggest supporters, and their weakness means that the risk of his business increases, and this is what really makes him depressed and helpless!

The silver ingot was also bored in his heart, and he barely cheered up and asked the servant to roast the sheep, Zhang Han was just about to excuse himself, when he heard a loud female voice outside and said in Chinese: "You don't know how many sheep you have roasted for others along the way, and you still roast sheep here, you idiot." ”

The silver ingot blushed, and also said in Chinese: "Then what to eat?" There are no pigs on our grassland, so we can't eat horse meat. ”

"Let's eat it differently. Isn't there a turnip? Stew mutton and eat it, and get a few seasonal vegetables or something, it's not much better than eating Naraush barbecue! ”

The woman's voice was almost like thunder, Zhang Han's many followers were in a daze, the silver ingot's face was red, and he first ordered his subordinates to do it, and then said, "You came in?" ”

"Come in, come in."

A shadow came from the window, and then the smell came to their faces, and everyone saw a huge figure enter through the side door, but a woman with an unusually tall and plump figure, a chest protruding and a face like a silver platter, strode in.

Zhang Han couldn't help laughing and said to the woman: "Li, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Speaking of which, Li Jinlian was originally Zhang Han's concubine, and she was also used as collateral for the silver ingot, but the silver ingot unceremoniously accepted her into the room, and now Zhang Han is not good at calling her by her name.

"I've seen the young master."

Li Jinlian was blessed, and her face was very calm, not like a silver ingot, a little like a thief being caught.

She herself also felt nothing, Zhang Han said that he would send her here to enjoy the blessings, and the fact is also the same, although the silver ingot is a small Taiji, only a few hundred herdsmen are subordinates, but it is better than the long-sleeved dance, quite a family, and is also a rich man in Taiji, and he is also a rich man in the mainland, and the Li family wants to marry such a person, and this is what he wants.

Zhang Han said with a smile: "You can call me the proprietor with the silver ingot, don't call the young master." ”

Li said: "How can this be done, in the end, I was also a person from the Zhang family, and I was also your concubine." ”

Sun Jingting and others knew the foundation of the woman in front of them, and looked up and down with great interest at the moment Li Shi, after such a long time, eating beef and mutton every day, Li Shi was much stronger than when he was in Xinpingbao, Zhang Han was long and jade, and his appearance was outstanding, but people really couldn't imagine that Li was his concubine.

On Sun Jingting's side, a gray-robed boy first snorted coldly, and then couldn't help but chuckle, and his two eyes faintly smiled into a beautiful crescent-like shape.

Zhang Han was also quite embarrassed, but seeing that the Li family was calm and generous, and the silver ingots didn't mind at all, if he minded, he showed that he was not broad-minded, and he smiled at the moment: "Li family, you are living very well here, why mention the past things." ”

In a word, this topic was diverted, Zhang Han and others were gossiping with silver ingots, talking about some customs and customs here in Qingcheng, until then Zhang Han knew that there were eight large bansheng land near Qingcheng, there were hundreds of Han villages, and tens of thousands of Han people gathered, providing a large amount of food and vegetables for the Tumut Department every year, the wealth and strength of right-wing Mongolia were also based on the work of the Han people, here in Fengzhou, the water and grass are fertile, and the land is very powerful. Right-wing Mongolia is no longer a pure nomadic economy, but the situation of nomadism and farming coexist, the situation here is completely different from the ridiculous appearance of the imaginary Mongols farming, the Han people have received strong support for both farming and business, the trade route is unimpeded, to the north is the three departments of Trans-Khalkha, to the west is the set of departments and Xinjiang, to the east is the Karaqin and Inner Khalkha five departments and the Chahar Ba Etuok and the headquarters, but also because there are many Han merchants here, the profits brought by the business road are really in front of everyone's eyes, Therefore, Zhang Han's smuggling business started from scratch and received the support of many Mongolian Taiji, and many Mongolian nobles could feel the business opportunities and the benefits they brought to themselves.

The silver ingot finally said hatefully: "Even the plain sac and the cloth sac know that they are so hard-standing, and they are not sure how to feel distressed in their hearts." ”

Zhang Han said: "What is the biggest risk in the business of Han merchants? ”

"Horse bandits and wolves." Silver Ingot said: "When encountering these two, the former still has a way to live, and the latter can only turn into wolf dung, so Han merchants generally have to hold together." ”

He also said: "Recently, the small and medium-sized Han merchants in the south have not had a good time, in the past, they went from Qingcheng to Xinpingbao and various small forts to smuggle, and sold goods when the official market and the moon market were not open, since we cooperated with you, these guys are unlucky, I heard that they have a lot of groups, ready to open up a business route to Baicheng." ”

Baicheng is the location of Lin Dan Khan's Khan City, located in Chifeng, the core of the ranch of the current Bahrain Department. This Mongolian city is at least two thousand miles away from Qingcheng, it takes at least half a year to go back and forth, of course, the profit is certainly not small, from Karaqin to Inner Khalkha and Chahar headquarters is still in a state of war with the Ming Dynasty, there is no horse market, the scale of smuggling is also small, the value of the goods opened up by the trade road is far more than that of Qingcheng, but the road is far away, the risk is extremely high, there are not only large and small tribes on the grassland, but also large and small horse bandits, these people even dare to rob Taiji's felt bags, not to mention the Han people's business groups. In this era, the population of Mongolia is about one million at most, scattered into hundreds of tribes, and there are so many people living in a radius of millions of square kilometers, not to mention horse bandits, large and small wild wolf packs are also the great enemies of merchants, in case they encounter more than 100 wolf packs, a small merchant group composed of more than a dozen merchants, and the bones will be gnawed in an instant.

After eating, everyone went back to their rooms to rest, Zhang Han changed into a robe and sat idly reading a book.

He was quiet on the surface, but he was actually very anxious in his heart.

In recent years, Liaodong will fight hard, Zhang Han remembers that after going to the future, the Jin Society began to gradually integrate the Mongolian forces, to the Chongzhen period, it is basically the integration of Mongolia and Manchuria, not only the Mongolian Eight Banners, in the steppe Emperor Taiji called Bogda Khan, became the co-owner of the Mongolian ministries, the smuggling business of the Jin merchants was actually more expanded at that time, but that was the snort of the people, the so-called eight Jin merchants made a fortune with this, not only selling grain, cloth and ironware, but also selling intelligence, which is generally correct, but how much of a role it plays, it is doubtful. At least in the early period of the Later Jin Dynasty, there was not only a shortage of grain, but a serious shortage of grain, a stone of grain was sold for 20 taels, and the smuggling business of the Han merchants was obviously very unsuccessful, and the scale was certainly very small, and the role was very limited.

During the Chongzhen period, there was also a famine on the Mongolian steppe, Yuan Chonghuan was convicted of selling grain to the Khalkha tribes without authorization, and Fengzhou on the Tumut side was also affected by the disaster, the Han people were displaced, and the vitality was greatly damaged, which is also the reason why the Tumut Department was later defeated by Lin Dan Khan, if the smuggling scale of the Jin merchants was really large, I am afraid that the famine situation in Mongolia and Houjin would not be so serious.

Huge business opportunities are in front of you, and you have seized a ray of opportunity, if you can't grasp it, sit back and watch the opportunity slip away, all the previous foreshadowing is in vain, many things have to be turned around, the tone of development to change the whole thing, for the allies and those big people who support themselves behind them, you can imagine what bad news this is!

He sighed softly, the book in his hand almost sinking into his hands.

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It was already dark when Zhang Ziming returned home, he watched the excitement outside Qingcheng for a while, and then ran to a few shops he knew to settle the arrears, and it was not yet time to settle the accounts, which was considered to be a broken rule, and the proprietors of those houses were not very good-looking, but Zhang Ziming had no choice, the famine he owed in his hands was too bad, and recently gathered a group of people to plan to go to Baicheng for an adventure, the business trip was far away, there were almost few points of turnover and rest in the middle, the goods must be sufficient, and the carriages and horses should also be strong, Along the way, there are only some small boards that can repair vehicles and rest, before going on the road, be sure to prepare the goods and carriages and horses, and also need to hire a few guards who can fight, along the way for two thousand miles, at least one way to go for more than a month, goods, manpower, the most adequate preparation the better.

When it got dark, Zhang Ziming's wife lit an oil lamp, and the family of five sat in the courtyard to eat.

The steamed bun made of millet seeds, the pickled shredded radish is dripped with a few drops of sesame oil, which is very refreshing, and the porridge boiled with mixed grains is very sweet for the whole family.

"I'll have to leave at the end of the month." Zhang Ziming finished eating first, he saved two steamed buns for his two sons to eat, the eldest son was fifteen years old, and he ate a wolf, which was the age when the eldest son ate strong rice, and the younger son was twelve, and his appetite gradually increased.

Zhang Ziming is a little bitter in his heart, if the business is good, he also has more than 1,000 taels of capital on hand, I dare not say that every day there are big fish and meat, white flour steamed buns are still enough for the boys to eat, noodles, white flour buns, burned, change the pattern of eating, Qingcheng here are Shanxi people, Shaanxi people, Gansu, North Zhili, making pasta is full of tricks, but now he has to ask his two sons to eat millet steamed buns, he feels sorry for his family.

The youngest girl is only five years old, she is lying on the table and adding her own bowl, the grains are too coarse, and the children are also eating very carefully, Zhang Ziming looked at it and felt sad in his heart.