Zhangjiabao became particularly depressed.

The largest dozen or so Jin merchant warehouses were seized and changed to royal merchants. The remaining merchants, who were not seized, suffered heavy casualties in the Mongol invasion of the horse market.

In the past, Zhangjiabao, where business travel flourished, there were hundreds of merchants settled in, and now there are only more than 20 left, almost every family has been killed and injured, and every household has filial piety.

There were people coming and going in the streets, but their faces were gloomy. In the shops facing the street, the shopkeepers were silently busy, looking sad, because they didn't know when the next horse market would open.

"Bang, bang, bang" gongs sounded, and two prisoner cars drove through the street.

"Isn't that Shopkeeper Fan?" The sharp-eyed young man shouted.

"What Fan shopkeeper, it's Fan Yongdou dog thief, it's he who led the Mongols into the horse market!" The other guy snorted angrily.

"I don't know what the imperial court is going to do with Fan Yongdou, the shopkeeper, can we go and see?" A guy pleaded.

"Go, all of you." The way of the shopkeeper. There's no work anyway, so it's time to give the guys a holiday.

A few guys went happily, and the shopkeeper thought about it, so he simply went to the door panel and closed the shop, and went to see it himself.

As the prisoner cart drove on the street, more and more businessmen and ordinary people walked out of their homes and stood on both sides of the road to watch, looking at Fan Yongdou and his son in the prisoner cart, many businessmen looked extremely complicated.

Just half a month ago, the Fan family was still the leader of Zhangjiakou merchants, earning countless silver in the horse market trade every year, and was the object of envy and emulation of most merchants in Zhangjiakou.

However, for many guys and people, there is no sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox, and some are just hatred for the Fan family's father and son.

In the Battle of the Horse Market, hundreds of merchants in the Horse Market were in charge of trading, and seven or eight out of ten were killed by the Mongols, most of whom had relatives in Zhangjiabao City. And the Mongols were introduced into the side wall by the Fan family father and son, which made them not hate the Fan family father and son?

"Dog thief!" A woman who had lost her son scolded angrily, picked up a piece of dirt from the ground and threw it at the prisoner's cart.

"Traitor!" Some people picked up something from the ground casually and smashed it into Fan Yongdou in the prisoner car.

"Bastard!"

"Son of a bitch!"

The people cursed angrily, and all kinds of rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, bricks and tiles were thrown at the prisoner car.

The brocade guards who escorted the car only protected their faces to prevent accidental injury, and did not care about the behavior of the people at all.

Fan Yongdou's father and son on the prisoner car were smashed with blue noses and swollen faces, struggling hard, but they couldn't move at all, their mouths were tightly stuffed, and they couldn't even speak.

The prisoner cart soon drove to Cross Street, in the middle of which a high platform had already been erected.

The Jinyi guard who escorted the car opened the prisoner cart, dragged the Fan family father and son down, and dragged them to the high platform.

"Fan Yongdou, a native of Jiexiu, Shanxi, a merchant in Zhangjiakou, in October of the first year of Chongzhen, sent a caravan to Liaoxi and Jiannu through the grassland, sold 20,000 catties of fine iron, and 20 stones of gunpowder to Jiannu, which was seized by Liaodong Jinyiwei, and everyone was stolen!

Jiannu, the great enemy of my Ming Dynasty, occupies my Liaodong territory and slaughters millions of Liao people. The father and son of the Fan family sold iron and gunpowder to Jiannu without permission, but they were actually selling the state and the enemy of the state, and committed a great unforgivable crime. His Majesty the Emperor issued an order to confiscate the Fan family's business name and arrest the people involved.

Fan Yongdou Fan Sanba's father and son heard the news and escaped from Zhangjiabao, but they did not repent, and even colluded with the Mongolian Karaqin Department to invade the border wall and attack the horse market, slaughtering Qilibao and slaughtering the merchants of the horse market.

Fan Yongdou Fan Sanba's father and son, as a Ming man, but he colluded with foreign races to slaughter my people, which is really mad.

His Majesty was furious, and ordered Ling Chi Fan Yongdou Fan Santo pull out his father and son, in order to set an example, thinking that the latecomer would be a precaution! ”

Xu Xianchun stood on the stage and read out the accusations of the Fan family's father and son with an expressionless face.

Ling Chi! Many people gasped, this is the most cruel punishment in the world!

However, with the sins committed by the father and son of the Fan family, even if it is a thousand cuts, it is not an exaggeration.

As Xu Xianchun finished speaking, several brocade guards stepped forward, stripped off the clothes of the Fan family's father and son, and stripped them naked and tied them to the two pillars.

The two executioners stepped forward, and each wrapped the Fan family father and son with fishing nets, and tightened them, so that skin and flesh protruded from the mesh.

With a knife, he picks up a piece of meat from his thigh and throws it into the air, which is called sacrificing to the sky. Then quickly apply medicine to the wound to prevent excessive bleeding and death.

In the next two days, the father and son of the Fan family will enjoy the punishment of thousands of knives, and if the executioner is skillful, at least more than 3,000 cuts per person will be cut.

Offstage, the onlookers watched with fear, and the excitement at the beginning had disappeared.

Seeing the pieces of flesh being cut off, and watching the painful twisting of the prisoner's body, many people couldn't help but hide their eyes and dare not watch. However, those people whose family members were killed by the Mongols looked at them with hatred and felt particularly relieved.

And the shopkeepers of the merchant inns were full of fear in their hearts. Because they knew that the reason why they were in Zhangjiabao was to kill chickens and monkeys, and tell all the Jin merchants in Zhangjiakou that if they dared to trade with the Tartars in private and sell military materials, the Fan family and his son would be their fate!

The horse market trade makes money, but the most profitable goods are still prohibited goods such as fine iron, and an iron pot can be exchanged for a war horse, which shows how profitable it is! However, from now on, when these businessmen want to sell these things privately, they have to think about it, and think about the fate of the Fan family's father and son.

From then on, no one dared to trade with the Tartars in private.

At the crossroads, Ling Chi's punishment is underway, and in the original Fanjia Warehouse on East Street, the Xuanfu Royal Firm was officially established.

The royal firm hired hundreds of people, including shopkeepers, bookkeepers, and men, and had more than 10 stores in total, making it the largest business in Zhangjiakou.

However, in order to give the small merchants some way to live, Zhu Youzhen announced that the royal business only dealt in ironware, grain, tea, and cloth, and other goods were left to other merchants. And the war horses exchanged by the merchants had to be sold to the royal merchants at the price of Xuanfu.

At the same time as the establishment of the royal firm, Zhu Youzhen announced the establishment of a tax customs in Zhangjiakou, and all trade in the horse market would be subject to commercial tax according to the proportion of 11, and the royal firm was no exception. Half of the tax revenue is allocated to the Xuanfu locality, and half is handed over to the royal treasury for the office expenses of the local yamen.

Zhu Youjian decided to carry out reforms, and the collection of commercial taxes will be an important part of the reform. Of course, it is not feasible to collect a commercial tax on the whole country now, so it should be done in the territory that the Praetorian Guard can control. Let's try it out and create a sound tax system in a few years, such as how to avoid tax corruption, make various regulations, and so on. When the time is ripe in the future, we will promote the perfect tax system to the whole country.