The mutual market between the border town and Mongolia has a long history, and both sides take what they need, but such a mutual market, and the policy of the imperial court, has a great relationship, since the Wanli period, because Nurhachi raised troops against the Ming Dynasty, this mutual market has basically stopped, especially after Nurhachi sent troops to conquer the Mongolian tribes, basically I can't hear the imperial court talk about the mutual market.

The primary survival condition of the mutual market is that the two sides can conduct a fair trade in a fixed place, and if this foundation is lacking, it is not a transaction, because of the strength of the Houjin Tartars, over the years, the Mongolian tribes have followed the Houjin army and went deep into the interior of the Ming Dynasty to plunder, and easily obtained wealth, where do you still need to carry out mutual markets.

The production technology of the Later Jin and Mongolia is very backward, whether it is grain production or smelting technology, it can not be compared with the Ming Dynasty, so they lack a lot of things, food, iron and even weapons, although they continue to invade the interior of the Ming Dynasty, including the Emperor Taiji of the Later Jin, the Ming Dynasty is very worshipped, and the heart admits that the Ming Dynasty is prosperous and progressive, and represents the direction of wealth.

Judging from this situation, it seems that there is no need for the mutual market, but not necessarily, the gap between the rich and the poor of the Mongolian tribes is even greater, the tribal leaders have a lot of wealth, but the ordinary herdsmen below, unless they join the army, are also poor, they are not in the eyes of the elite, and few people notice them, this layer of farmers and herdsmen, need to carry out mutual markets, through horses and other exchanges for food, so the private mutual market still exists.

The risk of this kind of mutual market is very high, there is no guarantee, maybe in the process of trading, there will be robbery or even murder, people will die for money, birds will die for food, although there are many unstable situations. But the mutual market still survived tenaciously because someone needed it.

The profits of the mutual market are very huge, for example, Mongolian horses, in all parts of the Ming Dynasty, the price of each horse. At least fifty taels of silver, good horses, even more than a hundred taels of silver, according to the grain conversion, fifty taels of silver can buy more than 100 stone of grain, the price of grain in Shaanxi is high, rice and wheat are five coins of silver and one stone, but in the exchange process of the market, about 30 stone of grain. You can get a horse.

The price of iron tools is higher, the farmers and herdsmen of the Mongolian tribe do not know the smelting technique at all, and completely rely on buying these things from the Ming Dynasty. Because of the invasion of the Ming culture, the farmers and herdsmen families with good conditions. Iron pots have been used for a long time, and this must have affected many families, so the demand for iron tools is huge.

There are also weapons, which are forbidden to be traded, but they are traded privately. The ghost knows the way.

If there are these huge profits, there will also be transactions, which the imperial court cannot prohibit, and the border troops stationed there will even participate in the middle of the transaction. Let's get a piece of the pie together.

Su Tiancheng has already learned about these situations, and in less than a month, the intelligence collected through the dark line has fully demonstrated the mutual market situation in the border towns of Shaanxi, in which the King of Qin, the King of Rui and the King of Han have a share.

Generally speaking, the mutual market is generally under the control of the border army, but because of the weakness of the border army, it is not able to effectively protect the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the vicious events that appear in the mutual market are endless, some of the small businessmen who joined it, and even died because of this, the border army of the Ming Dynasty can find the business opportunities, and the leaders of the Mongolian tribes are not stupid, and they can still find the mystery, in the process of the mutual market, the army of the Mongolian tribe often appears, that is, the Mongolian Eight Banners, the border army is not the opponent of the Mongolian Eight Banners at all, and ultimately suffers, Or the common people.

There is now a subtle shift in the situation.

Without him, the Jiangning camp came to Shaanxi.

The prestige of the Jiangning camp has been introduced to Mongolia, and the 100,000 army led by Azig entered the interior of the Ming Dynasty, collided with the Jiangning camp, and suffered an unprecedented defeat.

Of course, the key point here is still the order issued by Huang Taiji, the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners, without receiving the order, are not allowed to enter the Guannai easily, so as not to encounter the Jiangning camp and cause heavy losses.

But such a change is not very obvious, after all, the Mongolian tribes fully feel the convenience of plundering, as long as they send troops to enter the realm of the Ming Dynasty, they can rob everywhere, and the border army of the Ming Dynasty is just an ornament.

The Spring Festival is approaching, everyone is going to celebrate the New Year, and this time is also the best time to rob.

When Su Tiancheng was still thinking about how to carry out the mutual market, he received an urgent message from the border army.

It turned out that seeing that the Spring Festival was approaching and the time was ripe for the annual raid, the leaders of the Mongol tribes organized an army and began to enter the places where the left, center, and right guards and Yulin guards were stationed in Ningxia, plundering property and capturing the population.

The twists and turns of the border army and the intelligence of the dark line were all placed on the desk, Su Tiancheng had read it many times, and he had been thinking about whether to send troops to strike a blow to the arrogance of the Mongolian tribes.

The information of the dark line is very detailed, this time to the border to harass, is the Mongolian Xibe and Daurian people, these two tribes, in the history of the fame is very great, Shunzhi and Kangxi years, the Xibe tribe formed the Xibe battalion, the Daourian tribe formed the Soren battalion, the two battalions are the most capable of fighting in the Qing Dynasty, the combat effectiveness exceeds the Manchurian Eight Banners, become the pride of the Qing soldiers.

It's just that now these two clans have not yet formed a strong combat effectiveness and are not so famous.

The tribes of Mongolia have basically been recovered by Huang Taiji, and have become places under the jurisdiction of Huang Taiji, and the tribes that Mongolia can fight wars are mainly concentrated in the Hetao area, which used to be subordinate to the Yuan'er Dusi, and today, they have long become the biggest threat to the Ming border army, and the Xibe and Daurian are concentrated here.

Mongolian farmers and herdsmen, since childhood living on horseback, their riding skills are exquisite, the cavalry has a strong combat effectiveness, act quickly, when the Ming army faces the Mongolian cavalry, it does not occupy any advantage, almost only the part of being beaten, but the Mongolian cavalry and the Houjin army, have a fatal weakness, that is, will not attack the city, so after they enter the territory of the Ming Dynasty, most of them are also around the activities around the town, may be the reason, the Mongolian army entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, did not form a big impact, Nor did it attract the attention of the imperial court.

The border army of the Ming Dynasty has built a lot of castles, these small barriers, known as the fire road pier, Su Tiancheng once saw it in Beizhili, these fire road piers, can prevent the attack of the Tartars, but also trapped the border army to the greatest extent, to put it mildly, the fire road pier only protects the safety of the border army, and can not protect the people at all.

The invasion of the mainland by the Tartars can cause the imperial court to shake, that is, the city is breached, or a large number of fire road piers are attacked or even destroyed, as for the villages and towns that have been attacked, and the people have suffered tragic losses, in the eyes of some court officials, it is nothing.

After Hong Chengchou came in, Su Tiancheng pointed to the folds and information on the table, and motioned for Hong Chengchou to take a look.

Half an hour later, Hong Chengchou spoke.

"My lord, are you thinking of striking at the Mongol army?"

"I'm still thinking about it, it's not very easy to say that it is not easy to fight the Mongolian army, the time is different now, it is the Spring Festival soon, and it will cause a certain amount of panic if you dispatch a large army at this time."

"What the Lord said is ah, this attack on the Mongolian army, always need some reason, I don't know what Lord Lu Dao wants to send troops for, it is said that the Mongolian army, that is, Ningxia Wei and Yulinwei are stationed to harass it, and it has not affected other places in Shaanxi for the time being."

A smile appeared on Su Tiancheng's face.

"Lord Hong, I'm afraid you haven't noticed, the profits of the mutual market are too big, the expenses of the Jiangning camp are increasing day by day, and a stable source of income is needed, if you can directly control the mutual market, then you will have a good income, it is for this reason, you must also teach the Mongolian tribe army a good lesson, besides, I heard that the Xibe and Daurian are very brave, then try it, how hard their necks are."

Su Tiancheng casually took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou looked at the letter quickly, and the expression on his face gradually changed.

"My lord, I really didn't expect that the profits of the mutual market are so huge, but the imperial court strictly prohibits the mutual market."

"At this time and that time, the imperial court was not allowed to trade with each other before, because it was worried that the Mongolian tribes had become stronger, including the Houjin, and it was also forbidden to trade with each other, but now the situation is different, we are not allowed to sell each other, the armies of the Mongolian tribes have not yet penetrated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty to plunder, to put an end to such a situation, there are only two ways, one is to strike hard at the armies of the Mongolian tribes, to fear them, and even go deep into the Hetao area, copy their lair, let them fear the Jiangning camp, so that they are honest, and the other is to carry out mutual marketsMongolian farmers and herdsmen have a large number of horses, cattle and sheep, as well as gold and silver treasures, the focus of the lack is grain, iron, etc., as for silk and other supplies, even if it is a luxury, why don't we seize such an opportunity to gather wealth. ”

Hong Chengchou's eyes lit up, the mutual market is a matter of the future, there is no need to think about it at present, but to attack the Mongolian tribal army, or even go deep into the Hetao area, to hit the Mongolian tribe's nest, what a spectacular thing, think about the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Li Jing, these well-known generals, are deep into the Hetao area, and even farther away, and hit the foreign invaders, they are also famous through the ages, and become the object of worship in later generations.

Now that the opportunity has come, Hong Chengchou doesn't want to miss it. (To be continued......)