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The merchant group in Naturalization City may not be so bold, these people were just merchants doing business in Daming and the grassland two years ago. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But after staying in Naturalization City for a period of time, he reluctantly raised guards, but unconsciously found that he was very powerful, those ancient tribes on the grassland, those ancient cavalry who came and went like the wind, seemed to be as terrible as a beast in the eyes of the merchants, but in this short period of time, they found that they were so worthless.

Bows and arrows could not shoot as far as firearms, and the cavalry charge could not break through the circled formation, while the caravan guards could calmly plunder.

The grassland that was originally in crisis has suddenly become a world where you can do anything, and this change has shocked everyone greatly, and everyone's way of looking at things and surviving on the grassland has changed.

The power of individuals and their own merchants has become stronger, and the result is that they will not suffer losses on the grassland and can plunder, but the system of Naturalization City has united these merchants, and there is also the power of the government to back them up.

The large trading houses are only nearly a thousand guards, and they can summon two or three thousand city sides, and the small business houses are just over a hundred people and mobilize hundreds of city sides, but if they want to join forces, they can actually make up nearly 10,000 guards, and more than 10,000 city sides, this is only their own strength.

If you count the guards, soldiers, regimental training, and city sides that can be mobilized in the Naturalization City, the total can exceed 40,000 people, most of whom are cavalry, and the rest are also equipped with firearms and carts.

What can be done with such a force on the grassland, and the Ministry of Answers can only mobilize 50,000 cavalry, which is enough to run rampant on the grassland.

The core of the formation of the Naturalized City Business Group was the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, "but the most active were the Han merchants who were originally attached to the Ministry of Peace" and the Han merchants in Shanxi and Shaanxi who were running on the grasslands.

It's okay to deal with small tribes, it's okay to deal with horse thieves" but it doesn't mean that you can also deal with the cavalry brigade of the captives, and everyone was apprehensive at first, but after a few battles between Juzhong and the Chahar Department, the merchants and merchants of Guihua City found that the guards of the original families were gathered, and they were immediately a complete group of forces, without any rustiness" It was an army at all.

Everyone's elite equipment, fire goggles and carts are a kind of regulation, and the core of everyone's escort is the veterans who have retired from the Huwei Army and Jizhen, these people are familiar with each other, and the classes are clear, and when they get together, "they immediately return to the way they were when they were in the army, and there is no problem with cooperation."

As long as it is gathered, it can even be said that it is a weakened version of the army led by Wang Tong that year, and it is really simple to sweep these tribes on the grassland.

Against the cavalry of the captive, he originally had little confidence, but after fighting with Chahar, he found that "he can fight, and as long as the forces of the Naturalization City go enough, he will even blame the advantage."

From the time when the Han caravan in Naturalization City was guarded, battles of all sizes were fought, which made the Naturalization City merchant group more and more confident, and also made their ambitions more and more inflated.

The vast area west of the Naturalization City is a rare fertile land that can be cultivated in the northwest, not only the wealthy merchants of the Naturalization City want, but also the Jiangmen in the border town to the west of Datong, the wealthy families in Shaanxi and Shanxi also want it, and even the vassal kings and nobles in the northwest want to get involved.

The main scope of the Altan tribe's domination on the grassland is in the vast area west of the Naturalization City, the Altan tribe was wiped out, there was a vacuum here, and the remnants of the large and small tribes were quickly wiped out by the merchant groups of the Naturalized City and the local forces in Shanxi, but this also brought a problem, that is, the Naturalized City merchant group could share the benefits of commerce and trade.

The wealthy families in Shanxi have sufficient manpower, and they are also familiar with the grassland, dividing the territory in the Hetao area and reclaiming wasteland, without falling behind, the partial naturalization city business group has no way to rob them, everyone is doing business in the naturalization city, but after all, the roots are all in the Ming Dynasty, and they are all people in the Shanxi area, except for the merchants sent by those forces, the rest of the people are not deep-rooted, so they naturally can't fight.

is still the old saying, if people are rich and peaceful, they are naturally unwilling to take risks and compete for profits, and this cadre who is willing to do business in Naturalization City may not have any wealth in Daming.

Seeing that the big profits in the west are being divided by various forces, and the rest of the people on their side can't eat much except for the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, everyone must be unwilling, but there is no way to fight, the family is small or something in the Shanxi area, or have some scruples, dare not be tough.

Everyone can't eat in the west, and their eyes are focused on the east, east of the Naturalization City, although most of the ancient departments of Korqin, Chahar and Duoyan Sanwei over there have expressed their submission to the Ministry of Response, but that is only a superficial vassal, those big tribes are doing their own thing, and even have conflicts with the Ministry of Response.

For the eastern part of the grassland, there are not many conflicts between the three border towns of Xuanfu, Jizhen and Liaozhen, and the real big battles are the two battles in which Wang Tong participated, and the one launched by Liaozhen recently.

Xuanfu and Jizhen seek stability, and become the main one in order to defend themselves, and Liaozhen wants to raise thieves and self-respect, and borrow targets to seek wealth for their own families, and there has been no big action in these years.

Although the Chahar Department has been suppressed by the Ministry of Altan and other departments, it has been peaceful over the years, and it has maintained the righteous name of the Golden Family, in fact, the power of the two big tribes has been expanding.

Because the two big tribes are booming, and because the three border towns of the Ming Dynasty are not weak, the two sides have always maintained a balanced but tense situation, so trade is only carried out in Zhangjiakou and Xifengkou in Xuanfu, as well as in a few very fixed places outside the border wall of Liaozhen, and the scale is not large.

It was because of the addition of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank that the scale of the business here suddenly increased, and the alkali industry and livestock trade were extremely prosperous, but even so, in this area, the Ming merchants had little to do with the grassland, and the local forces did not have much to do with the grassland because of the barrier of the Yanshan Mountains.

That is to say, on the vast grassland from the east of the Naturalization City to the border wall of Liao Town, there are also various rich lands, and there are also all kinds of large tribes full of goods, but no one will come to rob them.

At present, the only people who have the heart to do this, and who have the ability to do so, are the merchant groups of Guihua City, how much land, how many cattle and sheep, and how much wealth, which is really too tempting.

The conflict with the Chahar Department proves one more thing, the merchant group of Guihua City is not unable to fight with them, and they may not suffer losses if they fight. …………

Meng Feng's letter didn't say so much about it, because the people in the merchant group would not talk to him so much, but there was a more detailed report from the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, because the people in the merchant group regarded Sanjiang Commercial Bank as their own person and Wang Tong as a person like them.

"......, there is no need for Hou Ye to send a soldier and a pawn, I am willing to lay another naturalization for Hou Ye, but I ask Hou Ye to play tomorrow, and send officials to guard the pasture............"

This was said by Niu Gensheng, looking at the heroic and dry clouds, in fact, it was also a greeting in advance, if the team of the merchant group suffered, it would be necessary for the court to come out, and to put it bluntly, it was necessary to let Wang Tong come out.

"It's like a child fighting, talking a lot at first, and then the outside suffers a loss or has to find an adult to come out.

It is rare for Wang Tong's study to be so lively, Zhang Shiqiang, Sun Dahai, Gu Zibin and others from Tianjin Wei are all here, Wang Tong said the content of the letter, and said with a smile.

In front of him is a funny laugh, since Gu Zibin joined the Wang Tong Group, his family property has swelled tenfold, dozens of times, and he also has the official title of Jinyi Wei General Banner, and his net worth and status have been greatly improved, but he is the big shopkeeper of Sanjiang Commercial Bank, and he often runs around in Guihua City, Xuanfu, and Tianjin Wei, and it is also hard, not to mention the white hair on his temples, and his face is darker than that of ordinary people, all of which are suffering from running around.

"Master Hou, Niu Gensheng and their cadres should have started to prepare last year, there was a shop opened in Naturalization City in October last year, this shop does not sell goods, but only provides escorts for some merchants and merchants who have just arrived in Naturalization City, and some large merchants will also go there to hire when they go to the goods, but there are too many guards in this shop, Shanshan Xuanfu, and even the warriors of Henan have been recruited, and they are the people who buy the most firearms in the Sanjiang Workshop, is it possible that the achievement is prepared for this matter?"

Wang Tong groaned for a while, and said: "Tan Jiang has a letter over there in this matter, and he deliberately transferred regiments to practice in the farms around to naturalize, just to guard against this shop, but there has been no change, and he also asked Tan Jiang and Huwei Jun to ask veterans to be the head of the sect, I thought it was a new business for those merchants, and Gu Dongjia said that it was originally prepared for this. ”

Wang Tong paused and said: "This shop must have our people, Zhang Shiqiang and Bei Dahai, you go back and select reliable people from the escort team of the Huwei Army and the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, and stuff them over." The two hurriedly got up and agreed, the original Tianjin Wei's security army is now the escort of the commercial house, Yang Sichen asked on the side: "Master Hou, then these businessmen are plotting to do more things, do you want to make Gonggong Meng's side cautious?" "Don't be cautious, let Tonghai and Yongsheng get involved, we don't have to be the main force in this matter, but we must participate, and at the same time the Lijia side should say hello, if there is really the possibility of occupying Duolun, we and the Lijia are close to the water, we must eat a big portion!" ”