The first thing Yue Tuo did after waking up was to order someone to take down the main general who was responsible for receiving and protecting the caravan, and then called the soldiers who were present to participate in the battle and the Liang family's family members, and asked them one by one.

On the surface, the Ming army did ambush the caravan, but what can't be explained is that the other two reinforcements of the Ming army rushed to the battlefield one after another to fight.

But the stakes are high, this pot is too heavy, he can't carry it a little, after thinking about it repeatedly, he decided, he didn't carry this pot to death, and the only solution was to throw the pot.

After some threats, the tribal warriors who went to meet the escort caravan were all in a unified voice, and they were ambushed by the three-way Ming army with a dead bite, Yue Tuo is Baylor, he couldn't afford to carry this pot, and they ordinary soldiers couldn't afford to carry it, so they had to lose their heads, not to mention that they were the banner soldiers under Yue Tuo, and they were loyal to him, so they could only throw the pot and find a substitute for the dead ghost to be the bearer.

The next day, Yue Tuo wrote a letter and sent people to Liaodong, the content of the letter in addition to telling what happened, but also to the emperor Taiji to ask for guilt and accept punishment, showing the responsibility and bearing of the leader, and sent someone to send a sternly worded secret letter to the eight imperial merchants, throwing this heavy pot to the eight imperial merchants, and at the same time sent his henchmen and cronies to escort the Liang family's coachmen back to Guannei, but these family coachmen did not return home, they disappeared halfway, and since then the world has evaporated.

For the Liang family, these coachmen are all ants, they don't care at all, let alone track their whereabouts, and if they don't come back for a few days, they will be put on the list of missing people.

Kannai, Fan's family.

In the study, the heads of the eight imperial merchants gathered together and held an important meeting.

"Check, check for me, be sure to check for me!" As the eldest brother, Fan Yongdou waved his hands, gritted his teeth and roared, his facial features were distorted, he looked hideous and scary, his chest rose and fell violently, and he was really annoyed to the extreme.

It's no wonder that he is so angry, the caravans of the eight families have been robbed one after another, and they have suffered a lot of losses, which has made them feel a headache, and now this has happened again, and they are all going to go berserk.

Of course, for the wealthy eight families, these losses are trivial, what they are most worried about is Huang Taiji's anger, if Huang Taiji is angry with them and changes to do business with other merchants, their losses are immeasurable, so, in order to give Huang Taiji an explanation, no matter what, they must find out the spies lurking inside them and hand them over to Huang Taiji to deal with, so as to calm his anger.

The other seven heads of the family nodded in agreement, although they were extremely shrewd and made a lot of money, but they did not know much about military affairs, and Yue Tuo's harshly worded letter was misleading, and it was natural that there were profiteers lurking inside and that they must be found out.

The matter of tracking down the spy can be put aside first, how to deal with the Phoenix Legion stationed in Shanhaiguan at present, there are their eyeliner inside and outside the pass, and it was learned afterwards that the Phoenix Legion was out of Da'ankou, and retreated into Shanhaiguan after ambushing the caravan, and is currently temporarily stationed in the pass, the commander is the favorite concubine of the Son of Heaven, Lu Hongniang, and the chief military officer of Shanhaiguan Zhao Shujiao dare not offend the powerful women.

All the goods shipped to Dajin fell into the hands of Lu Hongniang, they didn't dare to come forward to ask for it, they could only eat this dumb loss, fortunately no family member or coachman was caught, even if they were caught, they could refuse to admit it on the grounds of impersonation, if it was so troublesome that it couldn't be cleaned up, it was a big deal to push out the Liang family to carry this cauldron.

Although the eight imperial merchants suffered this dumb loss, it does not mean that they are afraid in their hearts, the eight great families dominate the mountainous areas, monopolize the big business outside the customs, and there is an incomparably powerful backer of the civil official group behind them, when have they been afraid of anyone? Don't dare to play the bright ones, and you can't play the yin ones anymore?

The reason why they want to do everything possible to force Lu Hongniang and her Phoenix Legion away is that after the Phoenix Legion entered Shanhaiguan, they added checkpoints, and the inventory was very strict, and all kinds of goods could not be transported out of the customs, which was equivalent to cutting off their main financial routes, blocking people's financial routes, which was tantamount to killing their parents.

The eight families have been operating in the border fortresses for many years, investing a lot of money and manpower, and they have long been operating like iron barrels, and the shops in the city of Shanshan Customs account for more than two-thirds, and the daily necessities such as food are refused to be sold to the Phoenix Legion, see how you can stay?

After some discussion, the eight masters of the family went back to their respective homes and began to track down the matter of the spies, which made the big family make a lot of trouble, and the people were panicked.

Although the eight imperial merchants formed an alliance for the common interests, joined hands to invest in and control the civil official group of the Ming Dynasty, and were closer than brothers, but the fact is that everyone is guarding against whom, and it is not really a monolith.

Among the eight families, the important secret meeting of the families of the second-ranked Wang family and the third-ranked Jin family has been held for a long time, everyone has ambitions, everyone wants to be the eldest brother who gives orders, and they don't want to be the second and third in ten thousand years, the strength of the Wang family and the Jin family is not weak, the Fan family is not weak, why can your Fan family be the eldest brother, our two families can only be the second and third, we are ten thousand dissatisfied.

If you want to kill a strong opponent, of course, you must first understand all the details of the opponent, and then you can make the corresponding deployment, give a fatal blow at the critical time, and inserting spies around the other party is the most commonly used old trick, Wang and Jin have spent a lot of effort to successfully install a few loyal spies in the Fan family, and several other families have also planted some spies, which are usually hidden deeply, but this time the matter is big, and each family has to track down the spies, and they are worried that the spies that have been inserted into each family will be discovered. I had to carefully discuss countermeasures.

Similarly, in order to stabilize the position of the eldest brother, the Fan family is also careful to prevent the other seven, and they have also taken great pains to install eyeliner spies in each family, so as to clearly understand and grasp the trends of each family.

This is a very headache, but now at the critical time of the investigation, it is really inconvenient to contact, I just hope that those eyeliner spies can be smarter, carefully protect themselves, and do not expose their identities to be found out, otherwise, they can only save face by making false accusations and biting back.

Tracking down the spy is not something that can be found out in a while, this needs to be carefully planned, it takes time to investigate and arrange, and it will take ten days and a half months at the earliest to get rid of it, but the yin trick against the Phoenix Legion was implemented first.