The autumn wind blew the grass yellow, and the once verdant grassland would already be a withered yellow, and the half-human-high grass would have been eaten by horses, cattle and sheep, leaving only a few inches of grass roots. The topography of the grassland www.biquge.info however, is a little different, not the endless grassland, but the huge gentle slope that cannot be seen with both eyes. The rolling hillside made it necessary to jump off the horse and pull the reins forward, and the horse pulling the heavy cart also tensed its limbs and struggled to move forward step by step.

According to the veteran version of the accompanying team, this terrain is called a dam by the Mongols in the steppe. I don't know where to start or when it's over.

“…… When will I get to the place? ”

Again, Xu Tieshan picked up the telescope and looked into the distance, trying to find traces of the yurt in the telescope.

Two months ago, he had just returned to the Northeast from Mongolia and set foot on this land again, and unlike the previous expedition along the Zhangcha Trade Road, this time he was tasked with opening a new trade route.

"Give students three years, and students can spend no shots, bullets, and two articles in the house, which can make Mongolia return to their hearts!"

Two weeks ago, in the Governor's Palace, in the principal's office, Xu Tieshan made a military order to the principal. In the eyes of outsiders, this may be all boasting, but Xu Tieshan knows very well that it is not impossible, Jin merchants can ruin the reputation of the Han people among the Mongolian people through business, and similarly, Xu Tieshan can also pick up the reputation of the Han people through business.

"Senior, according to the information I saw in the library, at this time, it is the time for Jin merchants to return to their hometowns, and this year's business, everything that should be bought has been bought, what are we going to do now?"

Zhao Guolin, who had just graduated from the Northern Business School, looked at Xu Tieshan with some puzzlement. In his opinion, this is completely contrary to centuries-old business principles.

"For hundreds of years, the Jin merchants have come and gone in spring and autumn, and only Kulun and the trading city have the names of merchants, and as for other places, there are no more merchants. But this is the rule of Jin Shang. Don't forget that we are here just to eat from the bowl of the Jin merchants, either they will die or we will starve to death! If you don't want to starve to death, you have to find another way! Only in this way can the Jin merchants be starved to death! ”

Yo, this guy has a lot of mouth!

When I heard the handlebar next to me, I suddenly thought of a word "Jin merchants who can't starve to death", can there be any Jin merchants who starve to death in this world?

Look at the contempt on the leader's face. Xu Tieshan naturally knew what they were thinking, the Jin merchants would not die of hunger, it was because of the annual interest of tens of millions of taels collected in Mengdi every year, but how many more years could they collect?

Although Xu Tieshan is not used to the exploitation of Jin merchants in Mongolia, he knows that it is also the duty of businessmen, and even to a certain extent, he admires Jin Shang for a soft knife. He gave Mongolia a "scourge" and did what the Central Plains Dynasty wanted to do for thousands of years. Admiration is admiration, reality is reality.

Based on the interests of the Northeast, Mongolia controlled by the Jin merchants could not be accepted in any case, for the Jin merchants, Mongolia was just a place for skins and mutton, but for the Northeast. Mongolia is related to future industrialization and whether the Northeast can obtain a stable source of foreign exchange.

Of course, it's only economically, and strategically, well. Strategically, Mongolia will give the Northeast a "strategic advantage" over the Russians, and control of Mongolia will give the Northeast a strategic advantage over the Russian army in the Far East, and in this regard, its value even exceeds its economic value.

In any case, the Northeast will never accept the existence of Jin merchants as Manchu officials and merchants, let alone tolerate them becoming the help of the Manchus. Therefore, as far as the Northeast is concerned, the sin of the Jin merchants is not in the exploitation of the Mongols, but in Mongolia, in the Northeast they have taken a fancy to Mongolia, and in the special strategic position of Mongolia.

Sometimes, when everything is seen through, it is actually that simple, what is the so-called "Jin merchant exploitation", but it is just the beginning, even Xu Tieshan himself, as a businessman now, will not ignore the huge profits.

"Senior, this, this is too ......"

Just when Zhao Guolin wanted to say that it was unrealistic, Xu Tieshan seemed to see something, and walked forward with a fierce horse, from the telescope, he saw a river, and he could see a not too dense forest by the river, so he took out the map from the map bag and looked at it carefully for a while, and then turned around and said.

"Quick, big guy, work hard, it's almost there!"

Xu Tieshan, who was holding his horse, watched the caravan carriages pass in front of him one by one, these Western-style four-wheeled carriages were the main force of the United States to open up the west, millions of Americans took the carriage as their home, all the way to the west, and constantly turned the grassland into fertile land for thousands of years, and it was this kind of western carriage that supported the western development of the Americans. Compared to ordinary horse-drawn carriages, this inconspicuous-looking carriage does have its own amazing features, with a load capacity of up to six tons, and it is with its amazing carrying capacity that the Americans have traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Now, these 21 western carriages, loaded with hundreds of tons of tea bricks transported from Wuchang, cotton cloth, iron pots and other consumer goods produced in the northeast, have entered this grassland, and this is the first time in 250 years that a caravan other than the licensed Jin merchants has entered this grassland.

As a caravan, more precisely, as the manager of the "Zhonghe Trading Company", Xu Tieshan was convinced that he would be able to defeat the Jin merchants who monopolized trade, not only because of the support of the Governor's Palace, in fact, the support of the Governor's Mansion was nothing more than a charter, and this charter to trade with Mongolia was not so much a concession from the Governor's Palace, but rather a show to the Jin merchants, just to tell them that Mongolia was a place they had decided. To be more precise, it was to prevent the Jin merchants and the ministers in Mongolia from colluding with each other, confiscating the goods of the caravan and putting all the caravans in prison under the pretext of "ancestral examples".

With this charter, even if the minister in Mongolia is the emperor of Mongolia again, I am afraid he can only think twice, whether to handle it according to the ancestral system, continue to let the Jin merchants monopolize the Mongolian trade, or close his eyes, as long as he can trade in Mongolia, in fact, there are not many choices given to the minister in Mongolia, not to mention, as early as Qianlong, because the government relaxed control, the Mongolian merchants are not only Jin merchants, Beijing merchants and Zhili merchants also entered Mongolia? Now it's just one more Northeast.

Xu Tieshan believed that the trading companies in the Northeast could defeat the Jin merchants, and the reason why he was so confident was because of the cost. The cost of goods is lower. After all, the commercial houses in the Northeast do not need to consider the cost of bribing the government, and they also do not need to pay heavy centi, coupled with the low cost of transportation, so that the cost of the commercial bank is much lower than that of the Jin merchants, and, in the future. It might even be possible to build a railway into Mongolia! All this is not impossible!

It was nearly evening, when the weather was getting more and more gloomy, and it seemed that it was raining and snowing, and just as the caravan drivers and men who had traveled all the way were worried about the weather, a large flock of sheep appeared out of thin air on the grassland in front of them.

The flock, the real flock, numbered tens of thousands. Even tens of thousands of heads, like white clouds, "floated" over the withered yellow grass. These traders from the northeast were all stunned, they had never seen such a large flock of sheep, even in the Horqin grassland, which was the closest to the northeast.

Where there are sheep, there must be shepherds, and such a large flock of sheep means that this is the winter place for herdsmen, as the owner said. Although the Manchus demarcated the territory of the Qing Dynasty, the Mongols could not survive like their ancestors. But in the area of Zasak Palace, every winter, the herdsmen of the Inner Banner will cling to it, and only those herdsmen will stay in the desolate grassland, hiding from one cold winter after another!

But before the men could recover from their astonishment, they saw three shepherds in gray cotton robes galloping close on horseback. And the leader is even wearing the shirt and hat of the flag, and is obviously the little leader in the flag. The three horsemen were two in front of each other, one in front of the other, and they kept their dwarf Mongolian horses about twenty paces away from the caravan.

"Guests from afar, what kind of wind blew you to the tent of Hejibeizi!"

Daria, the leader, raised his voice. Asked in stiff Chinese.

Although as early as the Shunzhi period, in order to "thank" the Mongols for the Manchus to seize the Central Plains, the Mongolian princes who ordered to build a number of palaces for the Mongolian princes on the grassland, the Mongols ended their nomadic life of chasing water and grass, but nearly a thousand years of habits make the flag still use "tent" to describe the palace of Belle Ye.

Daria looked at the carriages that he had never seen before, and then at the men and leaders on the carriages, and muttered to himself, these people were obviously a little different from the vendors in previous years.

"This brother is invited, and below is Xu Tieshan, the owner of Shenyang Xu Zhong and the trading house, and this time he came to the front of Baylor's tent in order to get along with Baylor and the people under the Chechen Khan......"

Although he had never done business in Mongolia, Xu Tieshan knew how to deal with the Mongols, and when he spoke, he had already stepped forward and gave a tea brick as a greeting gift.

"Please also ask Brother Tai to pass it on your behalf!"

A pound of ordinary tea bricks, in Wuchang is not even worth a penny of silver, even if it is plus freight, transported to the Northeast, it is only a dime of silver dollars, but in this grassland is worth more than a tael of silver, even the poorest Mongolians, daily life is inseparable from tea bricks, maybe they can not wear new clothes, but this tea is like an iron pot, are the necessities of their lives. On the grassland, tea bricks are the most valuable gifts.

This generous gift from the mainland businessman really made Dari'a's attitude change suddenly, and he was short of manpower, so he hurriedly confessed and rode away in the direction of the palace.

When Daria was led into the mansion, Lord Belle was smoking a big cigarette under the service of the maid, and the big smoke was something that only a noble person like Lord Belle could afford to smoke on the grassland. As soon as Daria said this, before Lord Belle could speak, the eyes of Master Xu, who was wearing a green cloth robe, suddenly opened.

"Dari, are you sure they said they were from Shenyang?"

Maybe they don't know where Shenyang is, but Xu Linchuan knows what Shenyang is, and he also knows what it means.

"Master Xu, this, this has their official defense documents......"

Trumpet...... After spitting out a puff of cigarette, he finally opened his eyes, and there was no trace of heroism in his prime. But the seemingly sloppy eyes still flashed when they took over the official defense issued by the yamen of the governor of the three eastern provinces. But his face is still the same lazy look.

"Shenyang? What is Shenyang? Lao Xu, tell me about ......"

Shenyang, it's not that Heci Baylor is pretending to be confused there, he really doesn't know where Shenyang is, and for Baylor, who has not left Baylor's Mansion for many years, he really doesn't know how this outside has changed. Even he doesn't care, at most he cares about whether the emperor is big and whether he has a new emperor, that's it.

As for Shenyang, as for the Northeast, it seems that it was also lively for a while. What happened next? Didn't the emperor give an order to the Northeast, look at this brain......

"Lord Belle, this Shenyang is the Shengjing of the past, this year the Northeast built a province, this Shengjing let the Tang Dynasty in the Northeast take away, and now the surname Tang has to take Manchuria, this caravan is sent to us, obviously to meddle in our Mongolia, Lord Belle. Judging from the small one, you still have to give them gifts out of the country, if it is rumored that Lord Belle let the caravan in the northeast stay here, I am afraid that it will ...... then."

As a native of Shanxi, Xu Linchuan immediately realized the complexity of this matter as soon as he heard that a caravan was coming from the northeast, and the first thing he thought of was to protect the interests of the villagers first. In any case, let's block the caravan from the northeast first. Now winter is coming, and it's to deliver letters. I can't send it back to Taiyuan!

If you want to send a letter, you have to wait for next year, and when the spring flowers bloom, you can send the news to Kulun and Taiyuan. Delivered to the old owners and old shopkeepers.

"Master Xu, you said that this court can't stop his Tang Dashuai's tiger might. I am a and a second Beizi, and I have that bullish spirit, can I block the caravan from the northeast? ”

Although he had just smoked a big cigarette, he was not a fool, and he didn't know about this caravan from the northeast. With the benefits of their own home, at least then this thing can be cheaper. If it weren't for this, how could he, Xu Linchuan, want to block them out of the door so much, it's not that he can't see that Jin Shang's hand can't go to the northeast, and he can't ask people, and people will naturally not follow their wishes and come according to their price. At that time, the two tigers fought, and it was the Mongols who fell cheaper.

"But, Lord Belle, if it reaches Coulomb......"

"Coulomb? When you go back, you prepare a piece and hand it to Kulen, and say that the caravan from the northeast is coming, and it has the official defense opened by the governors of the three eastern provinces, what should I do, please give the minister a quasi-......"

As he spoke, he had already sat up and walked out the door. The reason why he is so confident is that there is a precedent, a few decades ago, the Russians could only do business in the trading city, that would Jin commercial tea bricks to force Russian businessmen not to go south to Mongolia, but from more than 30 years ago, the tea bricks in the trading city could not be sold, there were Russian traders from the trading city to the south, selling foreign cloth, glass or something, that would be the minister in Mongolia is not also a blind eye, the court does not dare to provoke foreigners, and the minister in Mongolia dare to provoke foreigners. Now the position of the governor of the three eastern provinces was snatched from the imperial court with a gun and a cannon, and the minister stationed in Mongolia wanted to speak, but he was afraid that he would have to ask the imperial court first, as for him, he was a little Baylor. The immortal fight has nothing to do with him, it depends on whether this trading house from the northeast has anything new.

"Let's go, let's meet this caravan in the northeast together......"

Just when he went out, snow began to fall in the sky, and looking at the snow, he couldn't help muttering to himself.

"This man came at the right time, if it was two more days later, he might have buried the snow on the road......"

If it's another day later, looking at the snow in the sky, Xu Tieshan secretly rejoices that if it's a day late, maybe the convoy will have to stop halfway, even if it's only a day's road, it won't go one step further, it's winter, it's snowing, this Mongolian land is a dead land, even if the Mongolians who have lived here for generations, they won't go out of the tent when the snow falls in winter, all of them are nesting in the tent. Even they may have to set up tents on the spot, and then nest in the snow for this winter, although they have already made plans, carrying rice, flour, oil and salt in the car, and even killing horses if necessary, but ...... This is not what he wants, what he hopes is to use this winter to open a trade route in Mongolia!

"Owner, you said this is the whole thing, we just came here, the snow is falling, this snow is coming, don't beat everyone back to the house cat winter, when the time comes, who will come to buy our goods......"

There seemed to be some schadenfreude in Dongjiang's words, no wonder, in his opinion, this Xu Dongjia is too young, ignoring the rules of hundreds of years, and those who come to Mongolia to do business in winter, even those retail merchants who ran to Mongolia in the past are not so bold.

"It's okay, it's okay, what we're doing is winter business,"

Xu Tieshan smiled, the handlebar-style schadenfreude was all ignored, in winter, there would be no business in winter? There is no business in the eyes of Jin Shang, and there is not necessarily no business in his eyes.

Winter, what kind of business can you do in winter? Just when the handlebar was muttering, a team of horses came from a distance, and there were a few flags in the horse team, looking at the flag from a distance, Xu Tieshan showed a smile on his face, he knew that as originally expected, the Mongols, from the princes to the herdsmen, had long been fed up with the exploitation of the Jin merchants, and all they had to do was that there was no one to replace the Jin merchants!

But now, here I am!

Thinking of this, the corners of Xu Tieshan's lips lifted and said to Zhao Guolin beside him.

"It's Hecibeizi, people greet us in person, go you and I come forward to greet you, Guolin, can we stay in Mongolia, but it's all today!"

"Yes, Senpai!"

In response, Zhao Guolin's eyes glanced in the direction of Guannei, and he couldn't help but sigh lightly because he was a little homesick, and then followed behind the manager to greet the Belle Master. (To be continued.) )