"Who's that?"

"No, that's the one."

One of the women who had just given the soup was called over, with gray hair and wrinkles on her face as deep as a wooden carving.

"This is the Wu family."

Li pointed at the woman and said, "You come to see this young proprietor, you think in your heart, maybe he can help you." ”

"Yes......"

Wu looked to be at least seventy years old, and his speech was muddy, and as she spoke, Zhang Han felt the hairs on his back gradually stand up.

“…… I am a native of Ulzhou, Wanli sixteen years Tartar rushed in, snatched our village, my in-laws were poked to death, my man was hacked to death by a knife, my brother-in-law was only eleven years old, ran away from the river and drowned, I was put away immediately when I was snatched away, I watched his body float down the river, I cried very much, my family Xiaobao was only three years old, I was hidden in the firewood, he could cry so much, I plugged his mouth with a strip of cloth, and then I was arrested, I think about my Xiaobao every day, I don't know what he is doing now, he didn't marry a daughter-in-law, I have grandchildren, don't I ......."

It turned out that the woman was not yet fifty years old, and she had been robbed for thirty years, and the reason that supported this woman to survive was her three-year-old child, who had stayed in Ulju and hid in the haystack.

Zhang Han felt a hot and sour breath hit his heart, and there seemed to be a picture fluttering in his eyes.

Jiajing to Longqing, and then to the early Wanli period, these decades of war, at that time it was already Zhang Juzheng's new policy, the border defense was strengthened, but there was a record of the Mongols breaking through the customs during the Longqing period, to the Wanli period, the small conflict on the border, the destruction of an ordinary rural family, in terms of the imperial court politics is not worth mentioning at all, only hundreds of thousands of Mongols committed the border, or 200,000 people like Pullik to peep westward, which is worthy of the attention of the court and the border ministers, as for the suffering of ordinary people, And how many people will take it to heart?

How many such tragedies have happened in the past 200 years?

No wonder the Ming Dynasty always said that the Mongols always said that the Tartars, the northern captives, this kind of contempt is not for no reason, the vendetta between the two sides has a historical history, there are militaristic detours at the national level, and more is composed of these "little things" in the border towns.

"My family's surname is Wu, I live in Wujiazhuang, Ulzhou, my man Wu Decai, I don't know the name of my in-laws, my mother's surname is He, and I live in Jiatai......"

Wu babbled and said, telling the village in his memory in as much detail as possible.

"Don't worry, I will arrange for someone to find your son when I go back, and then send you back to Daming, so that you can enjoy the evening in peace."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, in the end, it's a man, and you speak categorically......"

The look of anticipation in Wu's eyes deepened, and he kept praising "manly", but he didn't notice that the faces of the men present were more or less uncomfortable and silent.

Being praised by such a woman for her masculinity almost made the faces of every man present uncomfortable.

Zhang Han left almost embarrassed, he couldn't meet the women's expectant or numb eyes.

There is still something to look forward to, it is nothing more than that there are relatives in the hometown, and the eyes are indifferent, that is, the hope and hope have been completely lost, and living in the world is nothing more than that people have no way to die easily, only a little bit of the idea of survival, which is no different from the walking dead.

When he returned to his house, Zhang Han asked Li: "How many such women are there on the grassland?" ”

"This is perhaps, there are always hundreds of thousands of Han people who have been looted in the past few decades, and most of them must have died, and some have survived, or they may live in Banshengdi, or they may still be slaves in the herdsman's house, and there are also those who live as beggars in several cities, and the Mongolians are ruthless, and the Han beggars live very hard, and they can't live for a few years."

Zhang Han groaned: "I look at the Han people and businessmen who have risen to the ground, and their lives are quite normal? ”

"Tartars aren't stupid." Li pouted and said: "Those who come to do business and come to escape from the famine are different from what they robbed, or the shepherds robbed the Han people when they saw them, who planted these lands, and who did the nobles buy and sell to, did they farm the land or do it trading?" These will also herd sheep! ”

"No wonder."

"And this is a right-wing Mongolian ......," Zhang Han said himself: "After all, the mutual market has been in the market for many years, and I am afraid it is not as chaotic as it was a few decades ago." ”

"We'll have to wait until the wool grows." Li said: "Do you think that the Han people in Bansheng City and other places are very safe? Speaking of which, looking up to people snorts, but the taxes are lower, the big households are less, and there are no relatives, although they are bullied, they are more comfortable than living in the Ming realm. ”

Zhang Han was silent for a while, drifting away from a foreign land, and became a second-class citizen, which was originally a miserable thing, but from the experience of the Han people in various parts of Bansheng City, it seems that they would rather be bullied and oppressed by the Mongols than return to their hometown.

Of course, those Han people are different from those who were robbed, the men who were robbed were slaves, and they couldn't live long, and the women were forced to give birth to children for the Mongols, and they did the same work, and they were resold after they were old and decrepit, I am afraid that they were bent on returning to their homeland, but they didn't have the opportunity.

"Li, what you did was very good, this is a good deed." Zhang Han gradually calmed down, and there was a complicated feeling in his heart, if he didn't see some things, he could not think about them, but if he saw them with his own eyes and was indifferent, or made excuses, then he was not worthy of living in this world. He praised the Li family first, and when he saw that the silver plate had a big face showing a smile, he then smiled: "But settling these people is not something that can be done by a grain or grocery store, and my store still can't ask you to do it." ”

He saw that Li's complexion changed, and he was quite tempted to run away, so he hurriedly said: "I mean, ask someone to send some cloth and silk every month, you can open a cloth shop here, and help people make ready-made clothes by the way. There are few tailors among the Han people, you open this shop, and then open a shoe store, it is more of a woman's work, and it is inevitable to raise more people, I will supply you with enough raw materials, these two stores, enough for you to do a lot of things. ”

Li Shi lowered her head and thought about it carefully, her face was already full of smiles, she stood up, a rare blessing, and said with a smile: "No wonder the stupid man of the silver ingot said that young master, what kind of genius are you in Laoshzi, when it comes to doing business, I can't catch up with you even if I join him and the horse, according to what the young master said, I will open this shop!" ”

After she was blessed, she smiled again and said: "That Mu'er is unwilling to contribute, just because he feels that the benefits are divided between the silver ingots and the Great Khan and the Taiji, and he takes less, and the young master only works this." ”

Zhang Hanwan smiled.

This matter, those who don't know the inside story are like being in the fog, and if they know, that's actually what it's all about.

Many things, I am afraid of fundamental differences, and those as few as Namur are just technical details.

Even if Li didn't know what to say, Zhang Han actually knew how to do it.

……

In the morning, Liang Xing and the others were summoned by Zhang Han.

Zhang Han first asked Li Dongxue: "How many goods do we have left?" ”

"Two and a half cars." Li Dongxue said: "Most of them have been sent out." ”

This trip with several cars of hard goods, all of the best silk wool and utensils to play, any car is worth more than 1,000 taels, just arrived in Qingcheng to send out most of it, this is because there is a prepared gift list in advance.

"The rest will not be delivered first." Zhang Han said: "We will give it to Namur Taiji." ”

Sun Jingting already knew about last night's incident, and his face was a little depressed.

Zhang Han said to him: "Brother Xiaozheng doesn't have to be like this, it is the imperial court and the border generals who caused this situation, and in recent years, the border has been stable." ”

Sun Jingting said: "I heard that Jizhen and Liaodong are still uneasy, Wen Lan, to be honest, I am already a little awkward in my heart. ”

"In business." Zhang Han said: "While we are waiting for the business to get rich, we can do some good deeds to help others, we have already done our duty, and the rest of the things are up, but it depends on the court and those officials." ”

"Well, that's right!"

Sun Jingting nodded heavily, and the expression on his face became better.

Zhang Han didn't want him to have a thorn in his heart, not to mention that the Dongshan Club was already an important force in the Steel Guild to support him, and the Sun brothers and sisters had also saved themselves, and they lost their temper with each other, so they could be regarded as close friends, if they were born because of some things, he didn't want to do it in his heart.

Everyone began to prepare, and the silver ingot rushed over when he heard the news, and said approvingly: "This move is very good, yesterday I thought of persuading you to take a soft suit and open up the joints of the vegetarian capsule, so that Li Shi sprayed a face of saliva, and now I feel that it is more cost-effective to pull Na Mu'er over." But don't leave in a hurry, stay another day, and I'll see how it looks. ”

Zhang Han also shook his head and smiled, the silver ingot is smart, but it is not on the right path, if he goes to open the joints of the Su Sac, and he offends Bu Shitu ruthlessly, this trade route will be completely broken, how can there be such a thing. As for him asking Zhang Han to wait, it was nothing more than that the silver ingot was Bu Shitu's direct Taiji, and he didn't want Zhang Han to deal with Namu'er, so he had to work harder.

Namur'er's original station was far away, this time because of the discussion of things, it was also a transfer by the way, the tribe and the felt bag were moved over, according to the guidance of the silver ingot, Zhang Han and others went all the way north along the Heishui River, saw the remaining veins of Daqing Mountain, and then turned over Ma'anling, less than a hundred miles, which is where Namur's felt bag is.

Namur had already left after the meeting, and more than a dozen Taiji of the same tribe with him also left, and Su Nang returned to Bansheng City, but Bu Nang Taiji instead brought people to meet Bu Shitu Khan, and demanded the repatriation of Zhang Han and others with a tough attitude, and they were not allowed to agree to open the trade route to Liaodong.