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As a commercial town rising at the intersection of the three rivers, Zhoujiakou is indispensable for merchants from the south to the north. Like many major commercial towns, the local merchants in Chenzhou Prefecture did not occupy a leading position in Zhoujiakou, and the first to lay the foundation here were a group of veterans from Shanxi. Because of well-known reasons, the face of Shanxi Jin merchants in my Qing Dynasty is not ordinary.

Zhoujiakou can be transformed from a simple land and water thoroughfare to a tea distribution town on the tea road from Kyakhta to Moscow and Petersburg in the interior, which is of course indispensable to the contribution of Jin merchants. As early as the Kangxi period, the Jin merchants built a guild hall in Zhoujiakou, which was nominally a place of hometown friendship and commerce, but everyone knew what it was actually for.

In the 32nd year of Qianlong, Shanxi Guild Hall has become the arbiter and leader of Zhoujiakou's commercial order, discussing matters with the heads of various banks and colluding in series. At present, Zhoujiakou is facing a catastrophe, but Chen Zhoutong judged good luck and ran to Xihua, people are not here, how to deal with the current crisis in Zhoujiakou, Shanxi Hall is a well-deserved 'master'.

Tea shops, medicine shops, grain shops, cloth silk, ironware, etc., the first people of all walks of life, as well as those big businessmen across industries, almost all gathered in this Shanxi guild hall. They were all waiting for the outcome of the battle outside.

Some people pretended to be relaxed to cheer themselves up, "The bandits are small and the front is absolutely sloppy, how can they be the opponents of officers and soldiers?" "More people are sad and frightened.

How many of the people who can do business in the whole industry are fools? Chen Jiajun was able to fight in front of Zhoujiakou, which in itself already strongly represented something.

But the bad news came too quickly.

How long has it been since the guns rang out? Is there a quarter of an hour? The people who watched the news from the west hurried back to report that the officers and soldiers had been defeated!

The head of the Jin Shang in Zhoujiakou is surnamed Chang, and his name is Chang Baoshan, and his ancestors have settled in Zhoujiakou for two generations. It is said to be a side branch of the Yuci Chang family, and a lot of tea that is collected and transferred every year is indeed in and out of the Chang family's North Chang lineage Dade Yu firm. But no one can say for sure if it's true or not. The anti-normal Baoshan is strong, and his position as the head of the Shangjin Chamber of Commerce depends on his own worth, not that surname.

Looking at the long entourage who was in a hurry to report to him, Chang Baoshan swept the tea bowl on the table to the ground with a wave of his hand, and he didn't hear the crisp sound. "Officers and soldiers ......, defeated?" Defeated so quickly???

"Master, how dare the little one lie about this. The officers and soldiers were indeed defeated. ”

"They used small cannons to beat the shotgunners of the Lushan bandits, and the shotgunners of the Lushan bandits were lined up neatly than the officers and soldiers, and they walked neatly. was bombarded one by one by the officers and soldiers with small cannons, and they were stunned. The military training is really tough. Then a single platoon of guns disrupted the shotgunners of the officers and men, and the shotgunners in front of the second barrel of officers and men dispersed and fled. The Lushan thieves took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, but the officers and soldiers did not last long and were defeated. ”

There was silence in the hall.

Hearing this long follower's words, everyone was speechless, and no one dared to shout for throwing money to attract resistance.

Chang Baoshan took a long breath, the black dazzle in front of him disappeared, and he finally recovered from the blow. looked at the silence of the group of people in the hall, and was angry: "Why are you still stunned?" Go and treat the Lauru bandits. The doctor of the medicine store hurriedly sent to rescue the wounded, and the carriage and horse shop prepared the carriage and went to pick up the people. Restaurants and restaurants are busy, and the wine and food are gone. ”

Chang Baoshan sprayed everyone like a vent, but his hand tightly grasped a pinch of paper on the table, this is the Zhoujiakou merchants spit out first just in case, a total of 47,000 taels of silver and all kinds of grain, medicinal materials, cloth, salt and sugar substances.

"Prepare the car. I'm going to meet Young Master Chen who is a thief in person. "Forty-seven thousand taels of silver is a little less than the cornucopia-like Zhoujiakou, this is only the first batch, after seeing Chen Ming, Chang Baoshan will definitely say first: This is only the first batch, we will have a second batch next. As for those guys who ran away first, no one can care about whether their inns, their businesses, and their properties can be kept.

Chen Ming was waiting for someone to come from the west end of Zhoujiakou at this time. There is no need for him to go out to chase down the defeated soldiers, and after the defeat of the Qing army in this battle, the threat no longer exists. Chen Ming immediately shifted his target, his eyes fixed on Zhoujiakou. As Chang Baoshan thinks, Zhoujiakou is not a cornucopia full of gold and silver in Chen Ming's eyes.

According to Chen Liang's intelligence, Chen Jiajun can find at least five or six thousand catties of sulfur in this small town in front of him, and there will be more saltpeter, first, because the output of saltpeter is already larger than sulfur; The second reason is that in summer, saltpeter makes ice, which is very marketable in Zhoujiakou, which is rich in oil.

In Zhoujiakou, or the area south of the Yellow River, there are hardly ice cellars to be found. Although the entire Qing Dynasty was an official, both north and south had ice charcoal silver.

Therefore, the saltpeter reserves in Zhoujiakou are much more than sulfur, counting Chen Liang's own reserves, 20,000 catties is only a lot more. In this way, the gunpowder consumed by the Chen Jiajun and the Qing army in this battle will be all replenished.

At this time, there were not a few of the three hundred and sixty explosives packed, and there were not many fifty barrels of gunpowder left, and there were a large number of paper bullets and grenades, although he also captured some gunpowder in the war, but it was far from being compared with consumption. The Chen family's [gunpowder] lost more than one-third of this battle. can fill Chen Jiajun's gunpowder consumption this time, Chen Ming is all counting on Zhou Jiakou.

Chang Baoshan ran over, and the carriage stopped far away, and a layer of sweat broke out on his head. But the strips he gave Chen Ming absolutely did not approve, and the dignified Zhou Jiakou made up less than 50,000 taels of silver, fooling the ghost? If it weren't for Chang Baoshan's firm attitude and saying that there was a second filial piety, Chen Ming would have turned his face.

On this day, when the sun was in the west, Chen Jiajun swaggered into Zhoujiakou, and batches of materials were sent to the boat gang from the Zhoujiakou ferry, and the carriage and horse shops and boat gangs in Zhoujiakou were all requisitioned by Chen Jiajun. Zhang Yunhe, who was in Chen Yihe's firm, looked out in fear.

When the sound of gunfire came from the west, his heart pounded. As a result, it didn't take long for the news of the defeat of the officers and soldiers to spread to Zhoujiakou, and in the afternoon the soldiers of the Chen Jiajun entered, and the two thousand Chen Jiajun began to raid the house and shop in an uproar that night, such as the warehouse diagonally opposite Chen Yihe's business, the door was smashed open by a grenade by the Chen Jiajun, and the six men inside did not even dare to chirp, and tied their hands, and then dozens of soldiers moved the warehouse completely.

If it weren't for the fact that the innkeeper had slipped away, Zhang Yunhe believed that he would definitely see blood.

Every time Chen Jiajun's soldiers passed in front of Chen Yihe's business, he was nervous, afraid that the flag outside would not work, so that the semicolon would be copied by Chen Jiajun. As a result, every time Chen Jiajun walked in front of the door honestly, he didn't even pause. His heart is really like riding a roller coaster.