Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, seven days had passed.

In the past seven days, everyone in the entire Youyu County Ya has not been idle.

Under the leadership of the shopkeepers that Zhou Chen borrowed from the Longmen Dart Bureau, the officials in the county government constantly counted the merchants and planned the land.

Su Tong and Wang Yan, the chief bookkeeper of the county, personally hired hundreds of ordinary laborers to build a large number of buildings outside the Shenhekou Pass, and began to establish a large-scale Fang City.

Even Zhou Chen himself lived with Badao in the Youyulin Wei military camp in Shenhekou, supervising the gradual rise of the mutual market.

Under Zhou Chen's personal research and measurement, the mutual market that will be opened was set by Zhou Chen on a gentle terrain five miles away from the Shenhekou Pass.

The terrain of Shenhekou is very precipitous, the high mountains on both sides of the pass face each other, the east is based on Tangzi Mountain, and the west is next to Dabao Mountain.

However, between the two mountains, there is an extremely open valley of the Cangtou River.

Put the mutual market here, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Mongolian side, whoever wants to make a bad idea in their hearts and lead troops to invade, the other party can find out in an instant.

In this way, this fang city will not be out of the control of Youyulinwei stationed at the Shenhekou Pass, and it will not make the grassland herdsmen dare not come because of fear.

Now, seven full days have passed, and under the sweat of hundreds of ordinary laborers, the overall structure of the mutual market has gradually become complete.

At this moment, Zhou Chenzheng, accompanied by Su Tong and Wang Yan, the chief bookkeeper, was inspecting this mutual market that was about to be completely completed.

Although Emperor Hongzhi only asked Zhou Chen to try to promote the establishment of the mutual market, Zhou Chen had the intention to establish the mutual market outside the entrance of the Shenhekou into the largest mutual market in the northern Xinjiang of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the scale of this mutual market was planned by Zhou Chen from the beginning, and it was wider than the main streets in Youyu County.

The whole market is divided into three horizontal, three vertical and six square markets, and the entire structure is mostly mud bricks and timber.

The three horizontal markets were prepared for merchants in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the three longitudinal markets, they were naturally prepared for the herdsmen on the grassland.

Most of the three horizontal markets are dominated by shops, which are certainly much more modest than those on both sides of the city's streets.

However, if it is only used to shelter from the wind and rain and sell goods, it is completely sufficient.

The three longitudinal markets, with the exception of a few necessary houses, are mostly fenced.

This is because the goods sold by the herdsmen on the grassland in the future must be mostly cattle, sheep and horses, so many livestock sheds have been established on this vertical market.

In order to ensure that the mutual market can be truly opened, Zhou Chen also directly transferred countless commodities from within the Ming Dynasty and displayed them in the shops of the three horizontal markets.

Snow-white and crystal salt and cane sugar, smooth and shiny silk cloth, exquisite and beautiful porcelain glaze and so on.

It can be said that except for the arms and ironware that were strictly prohibited from being sold in the Ming Dynasty, almost most of the goods can be found in the market.

When preparing these commodities, Zhou Chen spent a lot of thought.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Yun and Xu Yan had only spent two days to support two quite obedient principals among the Fan Tian family, I am afraid that Zhou Chen would have to take at least ten days and half a month to prepare these goods.

It was the new head of the Fan Tian family that operated most of the business power of the Fan Tian family, so Zhou Chen was able to support this city.

As for Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang, the former heads of the Fan Tian family, they were directly ruthlessly punished by Chen Yun and Xu Yan, and ended up in Jinyiwei's secret prison.

In addition, Chen Yun and Xu Yan held Zhou Chen's order of a thousand households, and quietly mobilized the Jinyi Guards in several prefectures and counties in Datong, and secretly executed all the diehards in the entire Fan Tian family.

Therefore, when Zhou Chen needed the business power of the two Fan Tian families, he did not receive the hindrance of the two family members.

Because all the opposition forces in the Fan Tian family have been killed by Chen Yun and Xu Yan with Jinyiwei.

Don't look at the Fan Tian family, they can be regarded as the leading businessmen among the Jin merchants, but in the face of violent institutions such as Jinyiwei and other imperial courts, they are not worth mentioning at all.

Under the secret operation of Jinyiwei, most of the merchants in Youyu County did not even know about the major changes that had happened to the Fan Tian family.

These small traders and hawkers still regard the Fan Tian family as the standard and basis for their actions, as in the past.

With the exemplary role played by the Fan Tian family, most of the vendors in Youyu County also rented a shop in the Fang Market established by Zhou Chen, adding a force to the opening of the mutual market.

Although the scale of these merchants alone is not very large, but after they are gathered together, they directly support most of the façade of the mutual market.

At least after the number of shops in this market increases, it will no longer be Zhou Chen singing a one-man show, which makes the face of the mutual market also passable.

In this city, there are not only merchants in Youyu County, but also merchants from other prefectures and counties who have opened shops in it.

Even among the remaining six families of the Jin merchants, three of them tried to establish their own shops in the Fang Market.

These three are the Jin family, the Liang family, and the Zhai family.

As the leader-level commercial force among the Jin merchants, the remaining six families had already discovered the changes that had broken out among the Fan Tian families.

However, the eight major families of the Jin Shang Dynasty are not the same existence, and there are even contradictions and conflicts between them.

After these six families faintly noticed that the Fan Tian family was controlled by Jinyiwei, although each family itself was deeply vigilant and vigilant.

But these six families never thought about the intention of standing up for the Fan Tian family, and just watched quietly.

It is precisely because of this that the situation of the two Fantian families operating a large number of commodities and goods stationed in the mutual market outside the customs is directly and incomparably clear in the eyes of these six companies.

Merchants are good at speculation, and these six merchants, as the top business families among the Jin merchants, there is absolutely no shortage of sharp-eyed people among them, and they can naturally see that this mutual market established outside the customs is very worthy of investment.

It's just that the Huang family and the remaining two Wang families are relatively more secure, and they are ready to wait and see from the sidelines for the time being, while the Jin family, the Liang family, and the Zhai family chose to enter directly.