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Eight days have passed in a blink of an eye, and Jingshi is not far from Datong, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and this Gyeonggi is naturally far away, otherwise where will there be a country? Although it rained and the roads were muddy, we inevitably arrived in Datong. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The arrival of this huge caravan, naturally caused the attention of the whole Datong, Datong is the most important pass of the entire Xuanfu, now after a hundred years of operation, it has also become a commercial transit center, lively and extraordinary, but this lively is only compared with other border towns, and compared with Jingshi and Beitongzhou, it is much colder, that is, the current Lianzhou, it is also very far away.

Jubao Trading House has already bought a large piece of land here, there are many warehouses and merchants, and the caravan led by Liu Chengfeng has arrived here, and there is no need to go out of his way to find an inn, someone has already arranged everything for them.

The next thing is to negotiate with the government and take stock of the customs, which will also delay a lot of time, and the people at the bottom have begun to prepare step by step, Liu Chengfeng is also happy to be idle, but he should not show his head too much, so he just entertains himself in the commercial house, sometimes playing chess with Li Dongdong, and sometimes watching and studying and studying.

In fact, the caravan of the Jubao Commercial Bank has not yet arrived in Datong, and someone has already received the news, and the arrival of the Jubao caravan is naturally worrying.

The same street as Jubao Commercial Bank is the Kaitai Commercial Bank, which can be traced back to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Mongols dominated the world, the prevention and prohibition of the customs inside and outside the customs was relaxed, Datong as the only way inside and outside the Guan, once prosperous, and the Kaitai Commercial Bank was started at that time, passed to the present, has a great foundation, and the owner of the Kaitai Commercial Bank is surnamed Fan, called Fan Yong.

In this Datong and even Xuanfu, there is really no one who has not heard of the Fan family's prestige, the Fan family started with customs trade, and the wealth is extensive, and there are thousands of hired farmers in the nearby grange, and the family is rich enough to rival the country, and it is definitely the kind of person who trembles on the street with trembling feet.

It is said that the change of the civil fort in that year, Datong was lost, and the tile spur people invaded Datong, the people in Datong were panicked, only the eight surnames of Datong headed by the Fan family were not in a hurry, but still let themselves do business in the shops of Datong, as a result, the tile spur people really burned and looted, but the big family like the Fan family was not guilty of autumn, and there were even rumors that the tile spur people not only did not burn their property, but even sent soldiers to protect it, but these rumors have no evidence, and no one dares to say anything.

In fact, there are a lot of people who know the relationship here, the eight surnames of Datong headed by the Fan family were originally to trade with the tile thorns and Tatars, and the imperial court forbade merchants to trade out of the customs, but the eight surnames have already bought off the garrison of the border pass, and the goods are unimpeded to do business with the tiles and Tatars, and sometimes the relationship between the Ming and the tiles and the Tatars is relaxed, and they are allowed to trade with each other, but some contraband is checked very strictly, but the eight surnames are to meet the tiles and Tatars, and many horseshoes, knives and guns are put every year. Clusters of arrows were sent to the outside of the gate by various means.

In this way, the Tile Thorns almost regarded them as their logistics chiefs, although the scale of this trade was not large, and the asking price was extremely high, but the various ministries outside this pass could not do without them, so naturally they would not turn against them.

The Fan family is the leader of the eight surnames, and in addition to the Fan family, there are also surnames such as Wang, Jin Liangyu, Liang, Tian, Zhai, and Huang who operate these businesses all year round with the Fan family. In history, these eight surnames because of the rise of the Houjin turned to the Houjin trade, in the most difficult time of the Houjin, a large number of ordnance, food and other things to support the Jin, after which the Tartars entered the customs, for "wealth is out, the country is not scarce", then the eight surnames of the meritorious businessmen were summoned into the capital, given a banquet to the palace, naturalized in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and named the imperial merchants, since then the eight smuggling wealthy families have become eight imperial merchants.

The Fan family is deeply rooted in Datong, but now there is a haze shrouded in their heads, the head of the family, Fan Yong, surprisingly did not go to the Qingfeng Temple outside the city to play against people, every time he just sat at home, Fan Yong has always prided himself as a gentleman, full of poetry and books, and was born quite dignified, especially in a famine year, he will always ask his family to give some porridge and rice to the people in the city, so everyone gave him a nickname, called him Fan Junzi.

It's just that the people of the Fan family know that although Fan Junzi is like a spring breeze outside, with long sleeves and good at dancing, he is a very strict person in this Fan family, and he has always been a military rule of law, once he is in a bad mood, it is by no means fun.

Fan Yong's mood during this time was actually not good, every time he locked himself in the study, only a few of his closest slaves went to the study to report some things to him, and the rest of the time, even the meals were sent to the study, and he refused to come out to show people easily.

This is a sign that the old man is in a bad mood, so the whole house is cautious, and the way through the study is tiptoeing through.

At this time, it was noon, but one of the most trusted old servants appeared at the door of the study full of potted plants under the eaves, knocked lightly, and the person inside said majestically: "Come in." ”

The old servant opened the door through a crack and entered lightly, while Fan Yong was reclining on the Taishi chair at this time, pressing his temples with his hands, looking like he had a headache.

"Have they made contact with the Tartars?"

The old servant was silent for a moment and said, "I got in touch, they ......"

The old servant stopped talking.

Fan Yong frowned, pinched the beautiful hair that had always been self-righteous, and said, "You say." ”

"Yes, what they mean over there is that our Fan family is an old friend with them, and it is naturally easy to say if they have something to say. However, if our Fan family and their Jubao firm have the same price, they will naturally buy our Fan family's goods first......"

"Humph!" Fan Yong sneered: "It turns out that we usually do so many things for them are worth such a little friendship, it seems that they are determined to do business with Jubao Firm?" ”

The old servant didn't speak again, friendship is really not worth a few dollars in the mall, doing business is just a good word, the word is the head, the enemy can be a friend, a friend who has cooperated for many years can become a hater, the tile thorn and the Tatars want nothing more than goods, the Fan family can trade with them, they will deal with the Fan family, the treasure firm has goods, they naturally deal with the treasure firm.

Fan Yong took a few breaths, but the name of this gentleman was not called in vain, although his face was ugly, he quickly tried hard to make himself appear calm. After a long time, he said: "Has the bottom of Jubao Commercial Bank's exit this time been carefully investigated?" Who is leading the team out of customs this time? ”

The old servant said: "I inquired, I only know that this person's surname is Chen, a single name is a Feng character, this time the scale of the customs is very huge, the lord does not know, Jubao Firm has a lot of real estate a few months ago, which is a mountain of goods, mules and horses have prepared thousands of heads, and there are as many as 3,000 related people, silk, tea, porcelain, and some ironware, and they also trade as usual." ”

Fan Yong's eyes narrowed, and he said coldly: "With such a large mutual market, what will our Fan family eat in the future?" It seems that this Jubao Firm is going to push our Fan family into a desperate situation. ”

The old servant hesitated for a moment and said: "Actually, it may not be, the thorns and the Tatars are interested in firecrackers, but the Jubao Merchant House does not sell firecrackers and artillery, and the thorns and Tatars have already let go, saying that they are firecrackers and artillery, and if anyone can transport them out of the customs, the price is negotiable." ”

Fan Yongsen smiled and said, "Why are they interested in the firebolt?" ”

The old servant said: "It is said that there is a student army on the side of the Jingshi, and they beat the iron horsemen of the tile spurs with fire guns and fled, presumably these tile thorns and Tatars want to see what is so strange about this fire guns, but they said that they don't want the fire guns in the border towns, but what the student army uses in their hands." ”

Fan Yong snorted coldly: "The tile thorns and the Tatars have always been born on horseback, they don't use many firearms, most of them just want some to take to study, see what is so powerful about this firecracker, even if they buy it at a high price, we can't earn a few silver, the most difficult thing to do at the moment is the treasure firm, as soon as the treasure firm is out of the customs, do anyone still want the goods hoarded in our warehouse?" Customs trade is the foundation of the Fan family, my Fan family has been doing this business for generations, this foundation can not be in the hands of my Fan Yong, so it is said that the treasure firm is here, and our Fan family has no way to live. ”

He squinted, then sighed again, and continued: "But the origin of Jubao Trading House does not seem to be small, otherwise we would not dare to blatantly do such a big business, it seems that we have to visit the shopkeeper who led the team first, is it called Chen Feng?" You went to get my prayer post, and said that you would invite the shopkeeper Chen to have a light meal, and said that when they arrived here, Fan was a landlord, how could he not exhaust the friendship of the landlord? Please don't appreciate it, if they are willing to give us a way to live, it's just that, it really can't be done, we can only use it. ”

When he said this, Fan Yong had a lot of confidence, this is not a joke, the Fan family has been operating here for hundreds of years, and the relationship is complicated, it is the head snake of this Xuanfu, to put it mildly, even the governor of Xuanfu sent by the imperial court has to give him a little face, and he is strong, Fan Yong is still very confident.

When the old servant heard this, he hurriedly said, "Yes." ”

The old servant was about to do as Fan Yong instructed, and Fan Yong instructed again: "Also, call the other seven surnames of Datong as well, and Gonggong Cui, who guards the Xuanfu, also asks him to come forward and make a strong appearance." ”

The old servant nodded, as if he had thought of something, and asked, "What about Lord Zuo, the governor of Xuanfu?" ”

Fan Yong shook his head and said: "He is a civil official, this kind of thing is not suitable to come forward, we have fed him in the past few years, and we will have to take care of him in the future, so there is no need to invite him to come today." ”

The old servant said, "Yes, the villain will do it." ”

(To be continued)