"Chang Wei, you kid stabbed Lou Zi."

Liang Xing scolded with a smile, he knew that there were still three or four hundred steps apart, and he was not afraid of hurting people with birds or bows and arrows, but if he didn't explain it here, when he approached it after a while, the guards over there would not hesitate to send birds and shoot arrows to hurt people, which was stipulated in the general training syllabus, without any exceptions.

Once the hostility is revealed, and no identity is revealed, then it is determined that it is friend or foe, and you can launch an attack, if the enemy is too strong, you can consider holding on while trying to escape and transfer, Liang Xing knows that there is a secret door behind the store, there are several escape routes to choose from, and there are several plans to prepare, and when the situation specified in the plan is reached, the people in the store can make a choice.

The important thing is the silver of the account bureau and the goods of the guests, and there are not many of them here in the East Sixth Store.

"Brother Liang, I was wrong, can you help......"

Chang Wei rushed back with a few wild birds in his hand, and was stunned when he saw the situation in front of him, so he hurriedly asked Liang Xing for help.

"It's good that the stinky boy knows how good it is."

Liang Xing liked Chang Wei very much, not too much, rode forward, to about 100 steps to show his identity, and then the door of the store was opened, the dart master in the high place did not come down, or on the roof of the guard, until Zhang Han appeared, everyone recognized their own proprietor and some dart partners, many people cheered on the roof.

Then the shopkeeper and the dart master of the branch ran out one after another, Zhang Han couldn't help but praise: "The response is quick, the response is good, from the shopkeeper to the guy to the dart master are doing a good job, which makes me very satisfied." ”

The shopkeeper of the branch is surnamed Liu Mingji, in his thirties, the obvious feature is the thinning of his hair, Zhang Han said that he was worried about it when he saw him last time, this time the hair fell out more obviously, Zhang Han smiled at him: "It seems that the shopkeeper Liu is worried about hair loss, and he turned around and asked someone to send a few catties of high-quality He Shou Wu over, and asked the shopkeeper Liu to eat and make up for it." ”

Liu Ji smiled and thanked him repeatedly, but Zhang Han said to him at this time: "Why are there a lot of tartars in the store?" ”

There was indeed a bunch of tartars standing in the storefront, about five or six people, leather jackets and bowled felt hats, short and stout, everyone was with hoop legs, and their faces were cross-faced.

"There's a lot of it." Liu Ji said: "There are a total of twenty people, protecting a Tartar official, saying that they have something to do in Beijing on business, and they will fight here for one night and leave tomorrow morning." ”

"Tartar going to Beijing on business?" Sun Jingting said strangely on the side: "Aren't their affairs all the dishes of each town?" ”

The influence of the king of Shunyi is now limited to Jizhen and Xuanda, thirty years ago there was a feat of pulling the two hundred thousand people to the west, the successive kings of Shunyi in the past thirty years have been extremely deferential, and generally there are things that the governor of Xuanda can handle, including the succession of the Shunyi king's throne, as well as the remarriage of the legendary three ladies and the opening and closing of the market and many other matters, generally alarming to the governor level is great, these Tartars actually want to enter Beijing, and the local officials also allow it, this is really a surprising thing.

"Hello friends!"

A large man wearing a tall fur hat walked out of the shop, and he cautiously walked around the stove and greeted Zhang Han and the others in Mongolian.

Dongliu store is different from ordinary mule and horse shops, the only thing that is the same is the store, because it is necessary to cook for many passing guests to cook by themselves, so the store is not only very large, but also has many stoves, as long as the guests give oil, salt and firewood money, the pot stove can be used at will.

In these years, in order to save dozens of dollars and cook their own meals, the guests are the mainstream, order a few dishes, ask for two pots of wine, and slowly drink and eat vegetables are only a few.

If the flow of customers is not large and there are not many routes, Zhang Han's dozens of branches will not be able to make a profit of seven or eight hundred taels a day, and it is no wonder that the mule and horse shop is not a noble business, and the gentry and merchants with a little strength and wealth will not engage in this kind of business.

The tall man in the top hat was terrifying, and when he got closer, Zhang Han saw that the style and material of this person's clothes were obviously different from those of Tartar, the cut style was a jacket and pants, a belt in the middle, and boots on his feet all the way to the bottom of his knees.

If you get closer, you can see the face.

"Caucasians?" Zhang Han suddenly had a suspicion in his heart.

In front of him was indeed a white man, with messy blond hair hanging down in front of his hat, blue eyes, a big and straight nose, and two swords-and-nose beards.

"I heard that you are the owner of this shop, and there are many branches of this size, and you are the owner of a large trading house. Petrin, on the orders of His Majesty the Tsar of our country, I am on my way to the 'Great China Town', and it is my honor to meet your Excellency here! ”

Regardless of whether Zhang Han can understand it or not, this Petrin speaks quickly and quickly, his voice is loud, his face is full of smiles, and even his voice is full of enthusiasm and cordiality, even if he really can't understand people, I'm afraid he can feel this person's enthusiasm.

Zhang Han also said in Mongolian: "It turns out that you are Russian!" ”

"That's right!" Petrin was overjoyed and said, "It turns out that this honorable young proprietor knows about us Russia. ”

"Of course I do."

There was not the slightest kindness in Zhang Han's eyes.

In this year, the Russian expansion was very strong, the typical hairy bear style, first infiltrated with merchants, established trade routes, and then sent Cossacks after making profits, first a small friction, and then a large number of marches, at this time the Central Asian region has been to China's Outer Mongolia Plateau, Fang Guangli, this huge area is also in the weakest time, several khanates in Central Asia have been swallowed by the Russians, and then they are not satisfied, continue to expand along a few rivers to the East Asian side, West and Central Asia could no longer satisfy their appetites, and the pace of progress expanded in the past few decades to the borders of China and the far north, until the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, after a war and the cession of large territories to the Russians, the border between China and Russia was temporarily stabilized.

It's just that Lao Maozi's greedy nature can't be stopped, in the late Qing Dynasty, when China was the weakest, the most powerful robbery was the neighbor in the north, a large territory was forcibly occupied, and even the Northeast and Xinjiang were almost not kept, to say ambition, that is, Japan's comprehensive invasion of China grabbed the first, otherwise from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the appetite for China was the greatest, and the most hurtful was undoubtedly Russia did not run.

"We have come from Tomsk on the Tom River, and we have come to Great China City on the orders of our lord, Tsar Ivan IV, to present our credentials and affirm the friendship between our two countries."

It is not surprising that Petrin's Mongolian language is very slippery, and the biggest opponents of the Russians in the process of expanding into Central Asia are the Mongol khanates.

Zhang Han has also been learning Mongolian for a long time, and there is no problem with dialogue.

"I see."

Zhang Han nodded, having no interest in this Russian "envoy" mission.

In these days, how can there be any serious envoys, and at most the Russian envoys will go to Europe, and how can they really send diplomatic envoys to Central Asia or East Asia? The Russians themselves in these years are also regarded as barbarians by the West, but in the eyes of these Europeans, except for the whites, the whole world is barbarians, this Petrin may really have the mission of the tsar, otherwise he would not dare to talk nonsense, and the Mongols will not pay attention to him, but I think it is a brigade of temptation and spies, walking the land of China, and detecting the strength of China, in the process of Russian expansion, such things are very common.

"China's land is really vast, and the place is really rich......

Petrin began to praise vigorously in Mongolian, many of the people present understood, many of them looked colorful, and the faces of those Tartars showed strange expressions, probably remembering their former glory, after all, they were also the former masters of this rich land.

"Your Excellency has no need to say more." Zhang Han's attitude was still very calm, looking at the Russians who were dancing, he said: "Running out to talk to me, I'm afraid it may not just be these flattering words, right?" ”

"You're right!" Petrin had no embarrassment on his face, and clapped his hands and said: "I heard that you are a big businessman with a lot of property, we have a large number of goods in Tomsk, honey, dried fruits, furs, ginseng, pearls, these are all very profitable goods, I know that you Ming people like to receive these things the most, and I heard that you have a strong transport fleet, if we cooperate......"

"What about the Mongols and horse bandits in the steppe? What about thousands of kilometers? ”

Zhang Han almost laughed out loud in anger, and he was also grateful for this idea.

From Tomsk to Zhangjiakou, the straight-line distance will take at least three months, and it will take half a year to go back and forth, and there are only a small number of supply points built by the Russians on the journey, not to mention the city, there are few decent fortresses, and you have to go straight through Outer Mongolia and reach the West Asia region to trade, even if Russia has been expanding to the east, it is estimated that it will be possible to build the fortress area to Outer Mongolia in a few years, and it is good to arrive at the Altai region and the Irkutsk region.

The goods of the Russians are indeed complementary to the Ming Dynasty, they need exquisite items from the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is tea, after Ivan IV sent Petrin in history, Wanli gave a reply, and then after a few years Ivan IV sent an envoy again, this time the biggest harvest of the envoy was to bring back tea, and the Russians also began to plant tea extensively, which is the biggest harvest of the city of Tomsk and the envoys of the two factions.