It is said that the eight major families in Shanxi are not monolithic, and there are intrigues and intrigues between each family, and the relationship is intricate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The eight major families are mainly in Zhangjiakou, and they trade with Manchu and Mongolia with Zhangjiakou as the center. They don't care about the survival of the Han people, they only care about the selfish interests of the family; They want to make small profits and forget the righteousness, and they are actually traitors and scum of the Han clan.

Although Zonghu set up the headquarters of the Coal Division in Taiyuan, Zonghu's real purpose was to limit the solution of the problems of the eight major businessmen. Therefore, a branch was soon set up in Zhangjiakou and stationed in Zhangjiakou for a long time.

In the eyes of the outside world, Zonghu, the coal company, is really a bit unprofessional, and there is no specific wording for coal mining, ordinary people still mine coal privately, and small coal mines are blooming everywhere.

After a short period of contact, Zonghu had more or less some contact with the eight major families. As Director of the Coal Division, he is in charge of all matters relating to coal. Although Zonghu has not done anything substantive now, it is undeniable that the coal division can bring huge profits.

Businessmen chase profits and have a keen sense of smell. Whoever can seize the opportunity will be able to make a lot of money. Therefore, the eight major families all specially arranged for people to contact Zonghu.

The eight businessmen represented by Fan Yongdou are the group with the most sensitive sense of smell. They traded frequently with Houjin, providing Houjin with a steady stream of strategic materials and helping Houjin sell looted items to earn high profits.

The Jurchens of Houjin are located in the northeast, and the weather is very cold, and the winter is particularly sad. Therefore, the heating part is mainly fueled by charcoal and coal. That is to say, the heating equipment is mainly a fire kang, and the Jurchens wear soil as a bed, and the fire is under it, and the sleeping and living are on it. The Jurchens had the habit of sitting and lying along the wall, cooking at the end of the fire during the day, and removing the cooking utensils and plugging the fire holes at night, so that they could sleep on the mat and the residual warmth.

Charcoal is made from burning trees and burns like coal, but fortunately it does not contain toxic substances such as sulfur. But herein lies the problem, the raw material of charcoal is trees, and more often it is directly used as fuel. In addition, in the later period, the Jurchens, who had lived in the northeast for a long time, occupied a large number of cities, and the gap in using trees as fuel became larger and larger. So a lot of it is replaced by coal. In addition, coal combustion can bring higher temperatures, which makes it widely used in ironmaking and weapons manufacturing. Therefore, coal has also become one of the items traded between the eight major families in Shanxi and the Jurchens.

Originally, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, coal only appeared in the form of a substitute, so although the coal division was ordered by the emperor himself, it was not actually valued by everyone, which also created favorable conditions for Zonghu to enter Shanxi smoothly.

In Chongzhen's plan, if the Houjin regime surrendered without a fight, then a total economic blockade was the best way. However, there are two sides to everything, so this plan should not be set very tightly, otherwise, it will have the opposite effect.

It's like flying a kite, if the string is too loose, the kite will fall off, but if the string is just right, the kite will soar in the sky.

Chongzhen is now a kite flyer, while Zonghu is a line, and the eight families are kites.

Those who are good at preserving in the boat can break the wind and waves;

Those who are good at controlling good horses can run thousands of miles in the wilderness;

And those who are good at dividing can divide everything!

Zonghu strictly implemented Chongzhen's plan, planning and acting before every step. Under the cover of his indulgence in wine, Zonghu is implementing the plan to divide and attack the eight major families step by step.

As the time of his trip to Shanxi increased, Zong Hu became more and more aware of the ugly faces of the eight major businessmen. Ignoring the blockade ban of the imperial court, they secretly communicated with the Later Jin Dynasty and smuggled grain, silk, porcelain, steel and firearms and other materials, directly helping the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty and bringing great disasters to the Han people.

In Zong Hu's second-step strategy, the first task is to comprehensively defeat the Fan family and make sure it collapses completely. Zonghu does not have the right to directly interfere in local affairs, but as long as it is handled properly, he can also bring the Fan family to death in a flash.

The rise of the Fan family offended many people in Zhangjiakou, and the growth of wealth did not increase his reputation much. Moreover, the Fan family has traded with Manchu and Mongolia in the Zhangjiakou area since their ancestors, and has become a well-known local Han wealthy businessman. And Fan Yongdou's generation is already the seventh generation, and Fan Yongdou is even better than the blue, and he is unscrupulous in pursuit of interests.

In order to get the position of the head of the Fan family, he did whatever it took to get it, and his despicability was no less than his means of profit-seeking. This is what Zong Hu is going to do now, it seems to be Fan Yongdou's strongest place, but it is precisely where his biggest weakness lies. A fire in the backyard is far more terrible than the enemy. He Fan Yongdou didn't understand, but disdainful. Because he has never looked down on those defeated generals, but he doesn't know that these people can make the glory and wealth they have come to naught in an instant because of anger!

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