After Li Dongzhu left, Liu Ji immediately ordered to report to the military department to know that opening up a new route is not a trivial matter, which means the increase of supply points and stations, and the local gentry forces must also be leveled one by one, but since Li Dongzhu is behind the effort, the cost of this aspect can be negligible, if the route of most places in Beizhili is opened, it means that it can be further driven to Henan by land, without having to detour from the mountains in southern Jin to Hebei or Henan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As for the many relatives in Henan, this can be managed slowly, and it is always a good thing to be able to move forward smoothly.

When the outsiders were astigmatized and the store was on the door panel, Li Guobin said with a regretful face: "It's a pity that I only sent money over, otherwise I would have made a decent start today." ”

Liu Ji remained silent, obviously agreeing with Li Guobin's words, only Wang Faxiang said leisurely: "It's just icing on the cake that we send money here, there is a place where we are in a hurry to wait for the copper money to open up the situation, and the military department naturally has to take care of it over there." ”

……

It has been nearly two months since Fan Yongdou returned to Zhangjiakou.

During this period, the Fan family business house and the family house were hit by fire, people talked about Fan Yongdou's lack of morality, and the unprovoked divorce of his wife led to the wrath of God, depriving the Fan family of his fortune, resulting in continuous fire, these two fires are not strange, there are reasons, one is that the young man slept and knocked over the lamp oil, and the other is the embers in the kitchen stove in the house splashed out, igniting the accumulated firewood and causing the fire.

Fan Yongdou knew in his heart that this was Li Zhuang's punishment for him!

The two fires burned all the accumulation of Fan Yongdou in recent years, he originally relied on his own cooperation with Jin merchants to smuggle, and saved such a little wealth, after these two fires, it is completely over!

Not only that, because there was a loophole in the cooperation with the Jin merchants, Li Mingda's matter was advocated by Fan Yongdou, and as a result, Li Mingda counterattacked, resulting in failure, and the rest of the Jin merchants had great opinions on Fan Yongdou, which was considered to be a complete severance of contact.

His wife had already given up the last bit of her surplus wealth in the nunnery and spent the rest of her life there, and she could no longer help Fan Yongdou, and she had no connection with it.

Several of Fan Yongdou's children are almost adults, raised in the clan, and Fan Yongdou has no face to meet them.

After all the calculations, this once prominent proprietor of a super large commercial house that everyone knew and knew everywhere in Xuanda was now alone and independent.

And Fan Yongdou understands in his heart that this is still a "thin punishment", think about Zhang Xuzong's fate, Wang Xinyi's fate, his fate is already extraordinarily gracious, I think it is because He Yusheng has not mastered any confidential things, no longer poses a threat, and there may be other considerations, not long ago, after detaining Fan Yongdou for a long time, he was finally released back to Zhangjiakou.

After tumbling off the galloping carriage, Fan Yongdou felt like he had been reborn.

He made up his mind at that time that in this life, he would never be involved in anything related to Yusheng again.

Helpless tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, Fan Yongdou settled in a small temple, the temple Zhu was taken care of by Fan Yongdou back then, remembered the kindness, every day called him a place to sleep, a place to eat, Fan Yongdou has felt very satisfied, and even he has the idea of becoming a monk, but the peaceful life has not been too long, this afternoon, Fan Yongdou was copying the Nanhua Sutra, and saw Fan Yongming push the door and walked in.

"I've seen Big Brother." Fan Yongming made a gesture, and his demeanor was obviously not as respectful and reverent as back then.

Fan Yongdou's face was complicated, he nodded, and said, "Yongming is here." ”

Fan Yongdou also felt guilty about this brother, it was he who was the master and married the Han family, but Han Qi fell not long after, and before that, he extorted a lot of money from the Fan family, but it was useless, Fan Yongming also lost a lot of family wealth, and later separated from the daughter of the Han family.

These things have greatly damaged Fan Yongming's vitality, and he has been dormant for a few years, and Fan Yongdou is afraid that Fan Yongming will not let him know about it, but after a few years, it is suddenly like a lifetime, and when he sees Fan Yongming again, Fan Yongdou suddenly feels like a world away.

"This time the little brother came to do it with Yusheng......"

When Fan Yongdou was looking at himself, Fan Yongming was also looking at his brother.

Fan Yongdou is already dressed as a Taoist priest of the Fire Dwelling, copying scriptures cross-legged, with a withered face, almost like a half-dead person, the original image of the big proprietor who is not surprised when he encounters things and controls everything has disappeared.

Fan Yongming couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous in his heart, he said lightly: "This Wang Datong Wang proprietor, used to be the proprietor of my Fan family's cooperation, the main business is cloth and other groceries, recently and Yusheng and many big merchants snatched the purchase of various materials, although there is no gunsmoke, but it is also tense, Wang Dongzhu has some doubts in his heart, and the younger brother took him to see the eldest brother." ”

Fan Yongdou said quietly: "I'm already a wasted person, what else do you want to ask me?" No matter what I asked, I didn't know anything. ”

And Yusheng sent people arrived in Datong three months ago, to Datong here is to preside over this side of the semicolon, and then take all kinds of means to fight the Jin merchants in the city, those Jin merchants what to receive, and Yusheng here is to rush to receive, and those small and medium-sized suppliers of Jin merchants are in direct contact, the price will sometimes increase, sometimes purely to take the convenience of the account bureau and mule and horse shop to attract merchants, although and Yusheng wealth is powerful, but recently it seems that there is no ability to mobilize too much silver to Zhangjiakou side, And there has never been any intention to use force to subdue others, so this trade war has not yet been decided, and even if the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, several Jin merchants still have a faint sense of gaining the upper hand.

Of course, Fan Yongdou knew about these things, but he didn't have the slightest interest, let alone participate in them.

"Fan Dongzhu, please advise." Wang Datong still retains a trace of respect for Fan Yongdou, after all, he followed Fan Yongdou to beg for food, and Fan Dongzhu took good care of him back then, and there was a love for incense.

Fan Yongdou said helplessly: "What does my brother want to ask me?" ”

"Now everyone actually understands," Wang Datong pondered: "Whether it is from Zhangjiakou, Jizhen, or to the area of Xinpingbao, the government-run horse market stops, and everyone can only make money by smuggling." There are so many businesses in Zhangjiakou, and the official also closes their eyes, not talking about bribery or anything, as soon as the horse market is closed, so many people have no livelihood, which is also a headache for the government. However, what is more worrying is the power of He Yusheng in the north. Now the news from the north is coming, the Beiyu are all afraid of Zhang Han to the bones, the Karaqin departments and our trade is also repeatedly advised, do not clash with Yusheng, they shout and kill on the surface, in fact, there is no heart to fight, according to this, last year and Yusheng said that it was to build a border wall to prevent the Beiyu from rushing in, in fact, it was much different, but took the initiative to send troops, and the Beiyu troops joined forces or failed miserably......"

Fan Yongdou knows some of these things, and some don't know them at all, he has been living in the temple recently, and he doesn't interact with outsiders, but he really didn't expect that He Yusheng has come to such a point.

"Zhang Han, a real person."

After sighing in his heart, Fan Yongdou said with a straight face: "Since the proprietor Wang knows that it is inviolable, it is necessary to cooperate with him." In my opinion, the North is only a sword, not benevolent, since the North is really jealous, it means that the general trend of and Yusheng has been achieved. ”

"That's exactly what happened." Wang Datong patted his leg and said: "But several big proprietors have made up their minds, saying that they are determined to compete with He Yusheng, and they can't admit defeat without fighting." Now and Yusheng wants to cut off the business of those big proprietors, and their business paths, if the price is higher than those ones, it will be fine, the same price, and Yusheng does this, I am a little difficult to explain to those ones...... The most important thing is that although He Yusheng has a big business, but after all, it is a foreign trading house in Zhangjiakou, and after so long, it is just that their mule and horse shop has indeed facilitated many merchants, and also made them earn a lot of silver, but what is its background, is it really strong enough to cross our big merchants in Zhangjiakou, and now no one can figure it out, and I can't understand it......"

"So," Fan Yongdou smiled slightly, and said, "The proprietor Wang came to me, the general of the defeated army with Yusheng, to inquire about the truth, isn't it?" ”

Wang Datong was stunned for a moment, then took out a big red envelope and said: "Here is the title deed of thirty acres of land, and there is a small courtyard, worth two hundred silver, which can be regarded as a tribute to Fan Dongzhu." If it was in previous years, these things could not be taken at all, and now it should be a small supplement to the current situation of Fan Dongzhu. ”

Fan Yongdou closed his eyes and was silent, two hundred silver was a generous gift to him now, if it was a few years ago, Wang Datong wanted to send this little thing, it is estimated that he might not have found a way to meet him.

Seeing this, Fan Yongming was impatient and said: "This time is different from the past, what is the eldest brother still hesitating. With this industry, you don't have to send people under the fence and look up to people, besides, a good man, don't you want to have a comeback day? ”

Fan Yongdou smiled bitterly when he heard this.

After half a ring, he looked at the two people in front of him and said, "Do you know why I want to settle down in a small temple, and often walk through the downtown area, deliberately asking people to find out my identity?" ”

Fan Yongming glared and said, "How do we know this?" ”

Fan Yongdou said coldly: "I did it on purpose, and Yusheng left me alive, and he could take my life at any time." If you don't let people see that I'm miserable, can you still let people see that I'm living comfortably? I can't get along with He Yusheng and Zhang Han, and I'm still very comfortable, what will people think? Now that you have come to see me, what if I still have the wealth and confidence? If I really want to rise one day, the next day you will find that I am violently dead! Needless to say, I won't ask for anything, and I won't get involved in anything between you. If you really want to ask me to say something, it is to persuade the proprietor of the king to cooperate with Yusheng with peace of mind, and you don't have to hesitate too much. ”

……

Fan Yongming and Wang Datong came out of the temple, Wang Datong looked lost and depressed, this time he also had great expectations for Fan Yongdou, although Fan Yongdou gave him an answer, it made him even more confused.

"I think my brother is terrified." Fan Yongdou said with a disdainful face: "If He Yusheng really has the ability to make him die of a violent illness, those big proprietors have been stubbornly refusing to admit defeat, which one of Zhang Han called him to die of a violent illness?" It's just that he scared himself, he called people trapped last time, and he was scared! ”