At the beginning, when the Shen family's warehouse was raided, many merchants in Zhangjiabao were still gloating. The Jin merchants are only a collective name, not a united whole, and they are constantly competing with each other. After all, the trading object is fixed, you sell more goods, and I naturally sell less. Many businessmen wish that others would be unlucky and that they would get a bigger share of the market.

Of course, there are also some sensitive businessmen who are secretly worried, afraid that the next one to be seized will be themselves, everyone knows the bottom line, and no one's ass is clean. Some people have already heard that the Praetorian Guards are accused of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, but if selling some contraband is betraying the country, how many innocent businessmen in this Zhangjiakou are?

Many big Jin merchants quietly discussed, thinking of ways to see how they could avoid this disaster. However, they could not even see the new governor in person, and they could not find a way to bribe.

At this moment, the Jinyi Guard and the Praetorian Guard went out and began to search all the warehouses in the city.

Some Jin merchants who felt that they had a strong background tried to lead their men to block the search, and they showed their backstage one after another, but the Praetorian Guards didn't care about this, a row of fire guns was released, and the guys who blocked fell down, and the others were so frightened that they cried wolf.

Fuyi Hall Castle, listening to the sound of fire guns coming from the south, Shen Di, the head of the household department, his face changed.

He already knew that the new governor of Xuanfu had entered Zhangjiabao with the army, and he instinctively sensed that the other party had bad intentions. When he heard the firecracker, he couldn't sit still any longer, and hurriedly led people to the gate of Zhangjiabao and asked to meet the governor.

"Fuyi Hall Shen Di?" Hong Chengchou smiled, "Open the city gate and let him in!" ”

Shen Di was the head of the household department, and was sent by the household department to manage the Fuyi Department to be responsible for trading with the Mongols, and obeyed the dual leadership of the household department and the governor of Xuanfu, and nominally he was also a subordinate of Hong Chengchou.

"Xiaguan Shen Di visits Futai!" Shen Di bowed respectfully.

"Lord Shen is polite, take a seat." Hong Chengchou said with a smile. Everyone is a scholar, and they all have the fame of being a scholar, so it is natural to maintain the style of a scholar, knowing that the other party is not good, but also to be polite.

After talking about the same year as the seniority, and after chatting about some nonsense without nutrition, Shen Di finally couldn't sit still and asked:

"Futai, when the lower officials entered the city, they saw that there were officers and soldiers and Jinyi guards sealing the warehouses, I don't know what happened?"

Hong Chengchou smiled slightly, and said casually: "It's not a big deal, it's just a matter of raiding some businessmen who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country." ”

Shen Di couldn't help but say: "Futai, I'm afraid it's not to raid one or two, I clearly saw that there were soldiers in every warehouse along the street." ”

Hong Chengchou said: "Director Shen, you are not mistaken, it's just that it is just a search to see if there is contraband." Although I am a Ming Dynasty and the Mongols negotiate peace and trade, not all kinds of goods are allowed to trade, and you know this better than me. The warehouse without contraband is naturally fine, and if there is, it will be dealt with in accordance with the Ming Law. ”

Shen Di's face suddenly turned ugly, he was in charge of the Fuyi Hall, and the trade in Zhangjiakou was under his management, so he naturally knew this. But the problem is, the profits of contraband such as iron tools are very large, an iron pot can be exchanged for a horse, and a hammer can be exchanged for a cow, so can the merchant bear such profits? Although a large number of iron weapons were not allowed to trade in the horse market, these merchants did not trade in the horse market at all, but secretly engaged in it, and it was impossible to prohibit it at all.

And Zhangjiakou lives on the horse market up and down, and is bought by businessmen, even Shen Di, the head of the Fuyi Department, is no exception. One year in this Zhangjiakou is worth five years in other places, and the huge benefits have made Shen Di completely in the same stream as the Jin merchants. So at this time, he had to help the merchants speak.

"Lord Futai should think twice!" Shen Di persuaded, "Trading with the Mongols is the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, if you do this, it will inevitably affect the normal opening of the horse market, and the Mongols will be dissatisfied if they can't trade, if they start a mess, it will affect the imperial court!" ”

Hong Chengchou said lightly: "I'm afraid that Lord Shen is exaggerating, is it possible that if it is not opened in three or two months, the Mongols will attack the Ming Dynasty?" Even so, what is there to fear, the seventy or eighty thousand soldiers of Xuanfu are not raised for nothing! In addition, it will not take much time to search and deal with the merchants, as long as it is proved that there are no merchants selling contraband, they will naturally be safe and sound, and the horse market trade will not be delayed for much time. ”

Shen Di sighed: "Futai doesn't know, this Zhangjiakou more than 10,000 soldiers, tens of thousands of people, all rely on the survival of Ma City, the adults are too big, it will inevitably scare those merchants, if they leave Zhangjiakou, then the trade cut off is small, what should tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians do?" I'm afraid it's going to be a mess. ”

Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "Don't worry about this, I brought three thousand elite guards, and His Majesty Xuanhua City still has six or seven thousand Praetorian Guards, and any trouble can be calmed down!" ”

When Shen Di wanted to say more, he was stopped by Hong Chengchou stretching out his hand:

"Master Shen, I might as well tell you the truth, just this month, Jin Yiwei grabbed a caravan in Liaodong and sold fine iron gunpowder to Jiannu privately. After interrogation, I learned that the caravan was sent by the Fan family in Zhangjiakou, and I also copied a large number of iron tools in the warehouse of the Fan family's warehouse. Should I search the other warehouses? ”

Shen Di's face changed greatly, and he finally realized the seriousness of the matter, and privately sold iron and gunpowder to Jiannu, which is really a crime of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country! The Fan family, I'm afraid it's over!

"But right now, Fan Yongdou Fan Sanba's father and son are on the run, Ben Fu is sending someone to chase him, and I don't know if there are any Fan family accomplices in Zhangjiakou, Director Shen, if you know anything, you must tell Ben Fu." Hong Chengchou said with a smile.

"Of course, of course." Shen Di said again and again, and he didn't dare to ask more. After a few more reluctant conversations, he hurriedly said goodbye.

Looking at Shen Di's distant back, Hong Chengchou commanded in a deep voice: "Send a few people to secretly monitor this Shen Di and see what he will do next?" ”

Coming over from Shen Di, Hong Chengchou felt that something was wrong with him. And as the head of the management of the Fuyi Hall, Shen Di must have too much to do with the Jin merchants. Hong Chengchou didn't take him down directly, he just wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, and wanted to see how deep the water in this Zhangjiakou was!

Shen Di returned to the Fuyi Hall, fidgeted for a long time, and finally made up his mind:

"Someone!"

"Sir!" His butler heard the noise.

"Send someone to quietly check where Fan Yongdou and his son went, find a few reliable people, and make them for me!" Shen Di commanded gloomily.

"Yes, sir." The butler quietly left.

Shen Yi let out a sigh, slumped on the chair, and muttered to himself, "Fan Yongdou, Fan Yongdou, don't blame me for being ruthless, it's really you who have caused a big disaster, if you are caught by Jinyiwei, I will definitely be implicated, I can only be sorry!" ”