Houjin was able to successfully enter the Central Plains, in fact, it was not entirely dependent on Wu Sangui to open the gate of Shanhaiguan, and the relationship with many interest groups within the Ming Dynasty was also inseparable.

In particular, the merchants were most closely connected, and the iron products and tea, salt and sugar, which were extremely lacking in Houjin, were common things in the Central Plains, but these things were very expensive in the bitter cold land and grassland outside the Guan, and they were often usurious.

The trade outside the customs of the Ming Dynasty is generally controlled by the imperial court, and the exchange of trade in which place is set up is determined by the imperial court, and such trade is several times a year, not like modern trade between countries can be transported to each other's territory day and night through the port.

As you can imagine, it will be difficult to maintain the needs of the people of all ethnic groups outside the border, which gives merchants the opportunity to take risks and transport the urgently needed goods outside the border to quietly sell at high prices.

And what about the Houjin outside the gate, firstly, because of the need for these things, and secondly, it is located in a bitter cold place, and there is no money to ask for people, and there are not enough people, so you can only rely on digging some wild ginseng in the mountains to exchange, this mountain ginseng is naturally limited, so where does the money come from, of course, it still comes from Daming.

They continued to detain and plunder, from the beginning they only robbed money and grain, and then they did not let go of any livestock, because they found that the population was just as important, and by robbing these people, the women could provide for their own amusement, and the men could send them to work in the fields.

As for themselves, they can concentrate on fighting, and Houjin relies on this policy to continuously liberate the young and strong laborers of the clan from the life of fishing and hunting, and then gradually form a professional regular army, of course, if you want to completely confront the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty, it is far from enough to rely on the population of the clan.

After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he played the role of a Ming lord and began to join Mongolia to collect Han, that is, to form an alliance with the Mongols, and organize those Mongolian tribes that had been conquered into the Mongolian Eight Banners Army. In the weaving of those who fled from inside the customs to the outside of the customs or behaved well into the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

This policy of ethnic assimilation can be said to have provided the driving force for the strength of the Later Jin, and their military strength also increased, and the time for attacking cities and plundering land also increased.

It can be said that at first, in fact, the rulers of the Later Jin Dynasty did not have the idea of entering the Central Plains to sit on the world, they just wanted to grab more money to enjoy.

With money, they can enjoy everything in the Guan, but later because of the mutation in the Guan, coupled with the advice of the Hanchen around them, they later sat on the Central Plains, otherwise how would the population of Jin rule the Central Plains in the future.

Feng Zihai lurked outside the customs to collect Houjin's information, which can be said to be of little use. Australia is not like the Houjin army, and it is not like the Ming Dynasty to sell intelligence, and such a team of people lurking here is purely to facilitate business exchanges.

The Later Jin aristocracy was notoriously hedonistic, they robbed a lot of wealth, just for enjoyment, and they also bought those enjoyment items from the hands of Ming merchants, except for ordinary clothing items, that is, some strange things.

Feng Zihai's identity here is a businessman on the surface, but secretly he is an Australian intelligence officer. The local gang of traversers worked hard to make money, and knowing that the nobles of Houjin were rich, in order to expand the market, the Department of Homeland Security sent Feng Zihai to sit here on the grounds of collecting intelligence.

Comrade Lao Feng is a member of the traversal crowd. Since he is in a dangerous place, it is impossible not to take advantage, he has to collect available information for analysis, and at the same time have to do business.

Australian mirrors are undoubtedly the most sought-after goods after export, in addition to mirrors. Australian knives are also the favorite of the post-gold aristocrats, and those daggers studded with gems are not known to be made of iron, which is extremely hard. It's harder than the weapon you use.

Of course, like this kind of large-scale war knife or something, Australia will never export it, as for whether the nobles of Houjin will use all the daggers they buy to melt and forge again, it is not something that Australia can manage, even if they can melt and forge from the new, the cost is very high, and only the nobles can use it.

At present, the relationship between Feng Zihai and Aobai can be said to be very close, and the business is getting bigger and bigger by relying on Aobai's relationship, and in addition to the close relationship between the two parties, it can be regarded as a cooperative relationship. By driving the Houjin aristocracy to join the list of business partners, Feng Zihai was like a fish in water, and no one knew that he would be an Australian sleeper.

"Shopkeeper Feng, it's been good lately." Ao Bai suddenly appeared in Feng Zihai's warehouse, which made him a little surprised, because the other party had not appeared for a long time, and some items from Australia had entered the Houjin region, and Ao Bai also enjoyed it like other nobles, and even came in to fight less and less.

However, there must be something wrong with the other party's appearance, Feng Zihai is almost certain that every time the other party appears, there is no Australian cigarette ointment, and it is okay to say that he can directly send someone to get it as a worshipper, but every time he wants to enhance the relationship between each other, he will come to pick it up in person, which also provides an opportunity for Feng Zihai to get some inside information.

"General Ao came to the door in person, is there no cigarette paste anymore," Feng Zihai walked out from behind the counter and saluted towards Ao Bai with a fist.

"Well, from the sea, I'm here to give you a message, don't sell cigarette paste in the future, it won't take long for Dahan to order a ban on smoking, although this balm is good, but if you smoke too much, you have no energy and weak limbs, these days I quit smoking at home."

Ban smoking, Feng Zihai didn't expect Huang Taiji to actually propose a ban on smoking, it seems that as the ruler of Houjin, he also found the disadvantages of this thing, if it is allowed to go on like this, the foundation laid by the father and son for two generations may be finished, so it must have given a ban on smoking to the Houjin nobles internally, and it may take some time for the official document to be issued.

However, this will not have much impact on Feng Zihai, at the beginning, for the sake of insurance, so as not to investigate the source in the future and find out to himself, he deliberately took the goods from another agent of Australian balm, which can be regarded as throwing himself away, so that he will not be held accountable.

It can be seen from the fact that Ao Bai can personally come to ventilate him, at least he has not been affected in the hearts of the nobles he has befriended, and when the real document comes out, the life of the general agent may not be easy.

Just three days after Ao Bai informed Feng Zihai, Huang Taiji's letter was issued, demanding that the entire Houjin region ban the sale of cigarette paste, and arresting a large number of merchants selling cigarette paste and cigarette smoking nobles and commoners.

Of course, the nobles who were arrested were naturally not very close to Huang Taiji, and they had festivals, and Feng Zihai was barely arrested because of Ao Bai and other characters that Huang Taiji fancied. (To be continued......)