The sound of leather boots echoed through the empty hallway, and it was extremely harsh. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The owner of the info boots tried to walk a little lighter, but he was helpless to find that the more he did this, the more the boots seemed to be harsh, and this strange sound only showed a hint of embarrassment in his expression.

"Mr. Xu, please don't care so much, the more you pay attention, the louder the sound of shoes will be......"

The attendant who led the way, Yu, seemed to notice Xu Tieshan's strange appearance, and reminded this famous explorer that this rich son who graduated from the same literary college is quite famous in the northeast, and the reason is very simple: in the past year and a half, he set out from Vladivostok alone, rode a horse along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and traveled all of Mongolia in Ulan-Ude to the south, along the way he wrote down more than 200,000 words of travelogues, which are now serialized in the East Asia Daily Published above.

Some people even claim that Xu Tieshan is very likely to be commended by the Governor's Office this year and receive the title of honorary gentleman, of course, this is just a rumor from the outside world, but on the other side of the rumor, it shows the appreciation of the whole society for his behavior, of course, for the army, the map drawn and the geographical chronicle written by it are extremely valuable first-hand information, otherwise, the army will not interfere in the publication of his travelogue, and a large number of deletions and changes have been made to his travelogue.

"I'm wearing hard-soled boots......"

Like the travelers of this era, Xu Tieshan wore an English-style hunting suit, and wore hard-soled boots on his feet, which were naturally louder than the soft-soled boots on the feet of the attendants. It wasn't until I entered the office and stepped on the cork floor that the sound of boots finally died down. Just when Xu Tieshan breathed a sigh of relief. He saw the end of the spacious office. A man walked towards him from behind his desk, and although the shadow of the wall blocked his figure, Xu Tieshan still recognized the comer.

It's the principal!

Seeing the principal stretch out his hand, Xu Tieshan hurriedly walked over, and when he was bowing, the principal's words reached his ears.

"Tie Shan, my student, I am proud of you. The school is also very proud of you! ”

First stretched out his right hand to shake hands with Xu Tieshan, and at the same time patted his shoulder with his left hand, showing the intimacy, which was deliberately done by Tang Haoran, so as to shorten the distance between the two sides, and make the other party believe that he was really proud of him and really appreciated him.

"Headmaster!"

Feeling the closeness of the principal, Xu Tieshan instantly felt a warmth in his heart, and even that eye socket was hot.

"The students have seen the principal,"

As I wished, I received Xu Tieshan's respect. Tang Haoran looked carefully at the tanned young man in front of him, and said earnestly.

"It's been a year and a half. The mountains are high and the road is far away, you are alone, but it is really worrying, next time even if you go out again, you can no longer travel alone like this, I read the travelogue mentioned, several thrills, several illnesses, especially in Kulen, if it is not for the Russian doctor, hey...... Next time I go out, I can go to my alma mater to find a few like-minded students, so that we can take care of each other......"

As he spoke, Tang Haoran had already invited him to sit down on the sofa, and in the face of the principal's concern, especially his understanding of his own experience, Xu Tieshan was convinced that the principal had finished reading the book, which made him even more excited.

"Thank you Principal for your concern! The students are so reckless that everyone is worried! ”

While bowing his head and thanking him, Xu Tieshan slapped the principal's ass again.

"At that time, the principal was able to travel around several European countries alone and write the book "Tessice", which is really a role model for my generation......"

In the face of other people's sincerity and compliments, Tang Haoran did not have any discomfort, after getting used to nature, even he would have the illusion that he had traveled around Europe, of course, I came here today not to listen to Xu Tieshan's sincerity, but for other things, but politeness is always unavoidable, after a little politeness, Tang Haoran slowly turned the topic to today's topic, began to discuss his travelogue with him, and slowly led the topic to Mongolia.

"In the opinion of the students, among the provinces today, the people of Mongolia are not as miserable as the people of Mongolia, and they are not as sad as the people of Mongolia!"

Taking a deep breath, as he said this, Xu Tieshan watched as the principal described the poverty of the herders in Mongolia one by one.

“…… Since the Jin merchants funded the Manchu Qing Dynasty to enter the Central Plains, the Manchu court took the dragon ticket granted by Huang Taiji as the standard, and entrusted the Jin merchants with the right to Mongolian merchants, and allowed non-Jin merchants to enter Mongolia, and Mongolian merchants were not allowed to trade with domestic merchants, so that the Jin merchants specialized in Mongolian trade for more than 200 years......"

When talking about the suffering of the Mongolian herdsmen, unlike others who attributed it to "Mongolian stupidity", Xu Tieshan completely blamed it on the Jin merchants in Mongolia, but out of caution, he did not mention this in his travelogue, after all, he knew that the speech in the Northeast has always been "national", so he naturally would not accept criticism of his own businessmen. But in front of the principal, he did not hide this, which was not only a trust in the principal, but also vaguely guessed, I am afraid that this time the principal received, Mongolia is the real problem, so naturally he did not dare to hide it.

When he mentioned the monopoly of the Jin merchants, Tang Haoran just nodded, and he naturally did not have any good impression of the group of Jin merchants who only knew silver but did not know the nationality at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which naturally did not even have much good impression of the "franchise" obtained by selling the nation.

“…… Monopoly brought huge profits to the merchants of Mongolia and Jin, such as his official businessman Da Shengkui bought an iron pot from Taiyuan for three to five cents of silver, took Mongolia and sold it to the Mongols for a few dollars, bought a wooden bowl for 20 wen, and sold it to the Mongols for six or seven cents of silver. The Mongols have no silver to pay the bills with horses, cattle and sheep, and a horse is converted into 3 taels of silver, and the horse is pulled back to Zhangjiakou, a horse can be sold for nine to twelve taels, and dozens of times the silver is made inside and out, of course, this is also directly related to its long distance and difficult to transport, but the principal, if it is only like this, how can there be the suffering of today's people? ”

After sighing, Xu Tieshan's voice raised slightly.

"For more than 250 years, the Jin merchants did business with the Mongolian people, and their business was all secondary, completely using the Mongolian people's honest and honest character, and making pit calculations, such as selling to Mongolian merchants, because they did not have silver to pay the bills, they often paid the bills with horses, cattle and sheep, and the iron pots, cotton cloth and other things necessary for the Mongolian people. Dozens of cattle and sheep are often exchanged. And the vendor said. The mountains are high and the road is far away, and the cattle and sheep on the road are inevitably damaged, so they often want to be sick in addition to three or four percent, and the Mongolian people think about this is also the truth, so they naturally agree, so that the Mongolian people need to exchange for living materials with more than three or four percent of the cattle and sheep, often as many as dozens, and this is almost equivalent to all the belongings of many Mongolian people. At this time, the Jin merchants said that they could not starve to death the Mongolian people, only half of them were taken this year, and the other half was taken in the coming year, and most of the Mongolian people thought that the Jin merchants were benevolent and righteous at the beginning, but in the coming year, when the merchants led the sheep, if they left ten sheep last year, they would take away twenty sheep this year, on the grounds that the sheep were three children in two years, and the sheep gave birth to sheep. Ten can breed as many as fifteen, and now it is benevolent to take only ten more. In this way, the honest Mongolian people naturally have no way to refute it, but there are no more than dozens of Mongolian sheep in a family, how can they be completely led away......"

Before he finished speaking, Tang Haoran took over and said.

"So those traders showed kindness and righteousness, and took away last year's interest, plus this year's new debt, and the Mongolian people owed at least twenty sheep, and the next year they took the profits, and added new debts, so that if the great Mongolia could be the pasture of the Jin merchants, hundreds of thousands of Mongolians would become the shepherd slaves of the Jin merchants!"

"Not really!"

Nodding vigorously, Xu Tieshan hurriedly said.

"When the students came back via Zhang Heng, the way was full of sheep teams such as Da Shengkui and other merchants in Mongolia and Jin, all of which were collected from the herdsmen outside the Saiwai with annual interest, which could reach millions every year, all because the people in the capital loved to eat shabu mutton, so the Jin merchants hired sheep workers to wear the stars and the moon, and the "sheep breath" collected in Mongolia was transported to the capital for sale, year after year, year after year, year after year, so ......

"No matter how stupid this Mongolian is, it should be time to turn the corner, after all, those Jin merchants left their sheep in Mongolia and ate Mongolian forage! Counting it, they are sheep raised by Jin merchants for nothing, even if the sheep give birth to sheep, it is not enough for this money. ”

"This bend was lost two hundred years ago, but even if it was lost, what could it do? No, there is a court to support the Jin merchants! ”

"Oh?"

Tang Haoran looked at Xu Tieshan curiously, if it was said that before he entered the customs, Huang Taiji relied on tens of millions of taels of silver lent by Jin merchants to establish a foothold in Liaodong, which is understandable, but later won the world, how can he support Jin merchants.

"At that time, the Manchus originally entered the Central Plains in alliance with the Mongols, and many queens were Mongols, but the Manchus were more strict than ever against the Mongols. In order to avoid this situation, the Mongol princes refused to repay the evil debts of the Jin merchants on the grounds that their people refused to repay, so that the Jin merchants were both through the Jin officials in the middle of the court, so that the imperial court opened their eyes, such as Kangxi and other Manchu emperors, seeing that the Jin merchants had made hundreds of thousands of Mongolian men become lamas who did not produce in just a few decades, and they were naturally happy to see the strength of Mongolia weakened, and they ordered the construction of a lama temple on the one hand, expressing their support for the lama. On the one hand, he continued to support the Jin merchants to deceive the Mongolian people in order to seize the livestock, cattle and sheep of the Mongolian people, so the minister in Mongolia said that "it is natural and righteous to repay debts", and seized the throne on the grounds that some princes and nobles were untrustworthy, and even the minister in Mongolia took advantage of Kangxi's suppression of the Galdan situation, so that the Mongolian banners recognized that "the father's debts are repaid by the son, and the husband's debts are repaid by the wife." Since then, even if the Mongolian herdsmen do not owe a penny, they also owe heavy debts, and the debts are more and more owed, so that in the end, the Mongolian people are overwhelmed, so they have to be ordered to avoid entering the temple, so as not to bear the burden, and the Mongolian lands are almost collapsed, and the banners and banners have written to the Manchu court, asking the court to come forward......"

When mentioning the Manchu Emperor, the corners of Xu Tieshan's lips were slightly raised, and his face was full of mockery

At this time, the emperor came forward to meet with the flag princes in the paddock, and appeased them, and then said that the Manchurian and Mongolian are one, and the Han people will never be allowed to harm the Mongolian flag, but it is natural to repay the debt, on the one hand, the Jin merchants are exempted from part of the debt, and on the other hand, the flag is ordered to negotiate with the debt repayment matters, and the court comes forward as a guarantee, and the Meng Qi repays the interest every year to reduce the burden of the Meng Qi, and the Qi Gong has the responsibility to help negotiate the debt, if its debt is not good, the court can take its public position, so that the Qi Gong has to help negotiate the debt in order to protect the throne, Although the Jin merchants lost part of their debts, their debts were guaranteed by the imperial court, while the banner people were exploited, and then for more than 100 years, the people of Monti, in order to make a living, often left only one male in each household, and the rest were sent to the Lama Temple, which also led to the prosperity of the Monti Lama Temple......"

Xu Tieshan's explanation made Tang Haoran's eyes widen, and later generations always said that "the Great Wall was repaired in the Ming Dynasty and the temple was repaired in the Qing Dynasty", all of which were boasting about the merits of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. There is no mention of the "commercial power" in this process. Perhaps the Jin merchants are becoming more and more exploited. But it fundamentally disintegrated Mongolia, bringing this once powerful nomadic people to the brink of collapse.

"When the students were in Mongolia, they had contact with the Mongolian banner princes and herdsmen, and according to the students' calculations, now the Mongolian people owe no less than 500 taels to the Jin merchants, and the two hundred and fifty years of exploitation have already caused the Mongolian land to almost collapse. The hostility of the people towards the Han Chinese is increasing day by day,"

As if he was afraid that the principal would not know why the Mongols were hostile to the Han people, he hurriedly explained.

"The Mongolian people are honest by nature, and they only see that the Manchu court asks the Jin merchants to reduce their debts every few years, and they feel their kindness, and at the same time, they only see the Han people forcing debts, so they are naturally full of hostility to the Han people......"

Xu Tieshan's final summary made Tang Haoran nod approvingly, isn't it, at least on the surface, the Manchu court is a favor to the Mongols. And what about the Han people, who were mainly Jin merchants? The Mongols could not see that without the support of the Manchus for the Jin merchants, they would never dare to deceive them in this way. It is even more impossible that for more than 250 years, the exploitation was like this, 500 taels per capita, and the annual interest alone allowed the Jin merchants to transport as many as several million sheep out of Mongolia when the autumn and winter intersected.

These sheep have been turned into "shabu mutton", which satisfies the appetite of Jingqi, but for the northeast, this is unacceptable, not to mention that this kind of exploitation will arouse the dissatisfaction of the Mongols against the Han Chinese, and then lead to the future centrifugation of China. It is based on the commercial interests of the Northeast alone, which is also unacceptable to the Northeast.

Although in the past two years, the Northeast has made great strides to promote industrialization, but the accumulation of industrialization funds in the Northeast is abnormal -- to obtain funds through the sale of South African gold mine stocks, not to mention the day when this source of funds is exhausted, even the Northeast itself has a big problem with its own primitive accumulation, and the most critical problem is that there are no suitable export products except soybeans, although there are industrial exports, but the annual export profits of 20 to 30 million yuan of industrial products are limited, not to mention that compared with imports of up to 100 million yuan, it is also a drop in the bucket. The Northeast needs a suitable "specialty" as a fist product for export exchange.

What is a so-called specialty?

Just like the large-scale export of raw silk from Japan in another time and space, it is a specialty, but due to the limited climate, the northeast cannot develop a large-scale silk industry, and only the southern part of Korea can develop the silk industry. Even if the trading companies purchased silkworm cocoons on a large scale in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and other places, and processed them into high-quality white silk for export to Europe and the United States, they could not change the fact that the purchases in the interior required cash payments, and the trading companies only received part of the profits, and in the northeast, they did not receive the foreign exchange needed to support the industrialization of the regions.

At present, the way for Northeast China to obtain foreign exchange is very simple, that is, to export soybeans, because grain companies buy soybeans with paper money, and export settlement is settled by customs money. For the authorities, the export of soybeans alone was not enough, for which the trading company chose sheep, wool to be exact. At this point, the company did agree with itself, but Tang Haoran valued achieving control of Mongolia through the wool trade.

In this era, because wool is an important raw material for clothing, and whether it is France or Germany, limited by their own area and natural environment, their wool is often solved through imports, and the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina and other countries are the most important wool exporters.

Every year, France and Germany alone need to import billions of kilograms of wool from abroad, worth billions of dollars. Not to mention distant neighbors, it is now Japan, because of the popularity of suits, its wool imports are as high as tens of millions of kilograms, worth nearly 100 million yuan. In addition to overseas demand, there is also a surge in domestic demand.

It is precisely because of the huge demand for wool that the company has set its sights on wool and tried to build it into a pillar industry in Northeast China to earn foreign exchange. In addition to the planned implementation of sheep farming in the settlements. Mongolia is also an indispensable link, but if the development of sheep breeding in Mongolia is not allowed to allow the Jin merchants to plunder millions of sheep from Mongolia every year like a harvester, to satisfy the appetite of the people of the capital banner, the Northeast needs the Mongolian energy and limited pasture for sheep breeding, for the foreign trade of the Northeast to provide wool.

Of course, the reason why Mongolia was chosen, in addition to the grazing habits of the Mongols, more importantly, they did not have the habit of using silver taels, and there was no more suitable than Mongolia, which was accustomed to barter, to act as a dumping ground for industrial products in Northeast China, and the semi-blank currency also enabled them to accept paper money in Northeast China, so that Northeast China could use its own industrial products and paper money in exchange for wool that could be exchanged for foreign exchange.

Even compared to economic interests, strategic security has been put on the back burner. But the only question is how to put your hand in Mongolia, how to get the Mongols to stand with the Northeast, or rather, to put their hand in Mongolia when they have a minister in Mongolia.

"Tie Shan, in the entire northeast, no one knows Mongolia better than you, so in your opinion, now, with our strength, can we control Mongolia without using force! Hmmm......"

Just as Tang Haoran was pondering, Xu Tieshan's brows furrowed slightly, and then said hesitantly.

"Headmaster, in the eyes of the Mongolian people, the Han people are very treacherous, such as the governor's intention to pass through the Mongols, it is not a one-day effort, in the eyes of the students, if they take the liberty of interfering, they may be too hasty, but it will be counterproductive, but since the Jin merchants can do business with the Mongols, then why can't we?"

After a slight pause, Xu Tieshan looked at the principal and said again.

"If the principal trusts the students, the students can make a military order, give the students three years, and the students can pay no more than a single shot, a bullet, a penny, and they can bring Mongolia to their hearts!"

(Xu Tieshan, this person is not a book friend, the reason why I wrote about this character is to remember another person in history - General Xu Shuzheng, who once recovered Mongolia, only hated the heavens and had no eyes, so that he was harmed by the villain, every time I think about General Xu's achievements in recovering Mongolia, I feel pity, and I feel even more sad!) (To be continued.) )