Zhangjiakou, the old house of the Fan family, Fan Yongdou, the head of the Fan family, looked at the dark clouds in the sky with his hands behind his back, and was silent for a long time, this is going to rain.

"Master, the masters of the other families have arrived."

At this time, the housekeeper came behind Fan Yongdou and reminded him in a whisper, Fan Yongdou retracted his thoughts when he heard this, and said, "Well, bring them all to the living room." ”

Hearing this, the housekeeper said, "It's all arranged." ”

Fan Yongdou nodded, then turned to the butler and said, "Go and invite Prince Heshuorui's envoy to the meeting room." ”

"Yes."

The housekeeper immediately trotted to a room, the room was emitting a burst of unbearable laughter of men and women, this was arranged by Fan Yongdou, the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to be distinguished guests, Fan Yongdou specially found a few beautiful maids to serve the messenger, the messenger was very satisfied, Fighting life and death on the front line, Come here and enjoy the Han women, let the envoy be beastly, and the expedition has not stopped all night.

"Your Excellency, Messenger."

"Your Excellency, Messenger."

The old butler stood at the door and shouted, and after a long time, he heard a woman inside remind: "My lord, the housekeeper called you." ”

"What's the matter?"

The messenger is very unhappy, don't you see that I am having a good time?

At this time, the butler said, "My lord asked me to inform you that the heads of the other families have come, and I invite the messenger to come over and read out the prince's will." ”

Hearing this, the messenger said, "Oh, I see, let them wait a while." ”

At this time, in the living room, seven middle-aged men were sitting there, drinking tea, and talking to each other: What did you call us to come? Another big deal?

was discussing, At this time, Fan Yongdou walked into the living room, and the rest of the people stood up and said, "Fan Gong." ”

Fan Yongdou also arched his hand to the rest of the people and said, "Princes, please take a seat." ”

Everyone sat down, and Wang Dengku, who was sitting on the left hand side of his drooping hand, took the lead in speaking: "What is the matter with Fan Gong recruiting me to come?" ”

Wang Dengku is the second largest merchant in Zhangjiakou, he doesn't open his mouth, others are not good at talking, and Fan Yongdou's Fan family is the one who holds the Jin businessman's bull's ear.

Fan Yongdou heard this: "There is no big event, I don't dare to labor the heads of the family to come, that's the case, last night the Qing Dynasty Prince Heshuorui sent a messenger to announce the big event, I can't be the master alone, so I invited you all to discuss this matter." ”

Hearing this, Huang Yunfa, who was sitting in the second position on the right, spoke: "The prince of the Great Qing Dynasty personally sent a messenger to come, could it be that the Great Qing Dynasty is going to raise troops to the south again?" ”

Hearing this, except for Fan Yongdou, the eyes of the rest of the people lit up, this is a good thing, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, that is, when they made a fortune, first, they provided military food to the Manchu Dynasty, and the price could be fifty percent higher than the ordinary market price, and the Manchu Qing plundered in the Central Plains, some things that are not good to be exchanged for money directly will let these Jin merchants exchange them for money and grain, tea and iron and other materials, this handover, they will make a profit.

Therefore, when the Tartars attacked the Central Plains, and all the people of the Ming Dynasty suffered, it was the time when they made a fortune from the Jin merchants, so these people were also not many people in the Ming Dynasty who hoped that the Tartars would enter the army.

As for murder and arson, rape and plunder, it is not our family that is killed, and adultery and plunder is not rape and robbery of our Zhangjiakou people, so it is not important, making money is the most important thing.

This group of Jin merchants is the moth of the Ming Dynasty, and they all have national wealth and traitor wealth, and they have to be cut by a thousand knives.

Jin merchants used to be some Tuhaha, once by the southern Hui merchants, Yangzhou merchants pressed to the head of the head, because Hui merchants, Yangzhou merchants, started by the salt industry, salt this kind of thing is sold by the Ming officials, these big salt merchants colluded with the officials and businessmen, directly monopolized half of the Ming salt industry, and assisted some silk, ceramics, tea and other businesses, so that the Jin merchants could not raise their heads, at that time, when it came to businessmen, they were all talking about Hui merchants.

At that time, the Jin merchants, originally Shanxi, Shaanxi, the economic situation of the great northern areas was not as good as the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and their main business was still tea, cotton, iron, and occasionally with a little salt business, and the Jiangnan wanton salt sales can not be compared, northerners just have no money, and the consumption power is not at the same level at all.

Originally, if it had been developing like this, Jin Shang would never have thought of raising his head for the rest of his life, but God would not die of hunger and blindness, and God put a huge business opportunity in front of them.

At the end of Wanli, the old slave of Jianzhou Nurhachi started with eight pairs of armor, led the Jianzhou Jurchens, defeated the Haixi Jurchens, unified the Jurchen tribes, and then burst out of ambition, led the troops south and the Ming Dynasty began to compete for the Liao River Valley and the Liaodong Peninsula, and in the battle of Sarhu, they took various ways to break through, defeated the Ming army of tens of thousands of troops, and the Ming army has been in a slump since then.

Then the old slave led the army, took the opportunity to go south, and captured the two big cities of Shenyang and Liaoyang in one fell swoop, and completed Nurhachi's Liaodong secession scene.

Da Ming saw that the situation was not right, and under the auspices of Sun Chengzong, a generation of famous generals, began to build a defense line in the western Liaoning corridor, which was the famous Guanning defense line, which formed a blockade of the Tartars.

However, militarily at that time, the blockade of the Tartars was already the limit, and the Tartars were in a field battle, and it was difficult for the Ming army to win, but with Xiongguan, it was difficult for the Tartars to break through, and this point of view was also verified, the Guanning defense line, until Chongzhen hanged, this line of defense was not broken.

Of course, there is also the credit of the Liaodong generals here, after all, these Liaodong generals regard that piece of land as their own home, and it is really fatal to fight, but if you let them attack, they are also unwilling.

Therefore, it was unrealistic to send troops to exterminate the Tartars for a while, so the Ming Dynasty borrowed the methods of the previous dynasties, that is, to block the economy of the ethnic minorities and let them fend for themselves in the lack of materials.

To put it bluntly, the market is closed, we won't sell your things, you will be trapped in Liaodong.

As everyone knows about the ethnic minorities, they have no serious light industry and handicraft industry, and their smelting technology is also poor, and they can't even make a decent iron pot, and they can't make so much cotton clothes to keep out the cold, so it can be said that Nurhachi suffered a little good at that time.

But whether it should be said or not, Nurhachi, as a leader of ethnic minorities who can achieve things, has a vision and strategy that are all online, otherwise he will not be able to fight Daming and retreat, so Nurhachi made three changes.

First, the Han people who stayed in Liaodong were encouraged to cultivate land, develop agriculture, and solve the food shortage.

Second, high-paying and high-level positions, the introduction of talents from the Central Plains, and the help of Houjin to develop Liaodong, this policy is very good and has attracted many people, such as the famous Fan Wencheng.

Fan Wencheng used to be a tried and tested talent, in the Ming court, he was a stinky shit, and he felt that he was full of economy and talent, the court did not need me, I voted for the Manchu Qing, and then got the reuse of the Manchu Qing, and then this guy raised the idea of dying as a confidant.

Otherwise, this guy wouldn't be able to help the Manchus kill the Ming people, and even let Duoduo play with his wife, he didn't want to retaliate, and he was still thinking about the Manchus.

Is this person really that cheap? If there is no reason for this, how can he get back to this point?

Of course, there must be something in Fan Wencheng's character, but there is also a part of the reason that cannot be ignored is that his ambitions can only be displayed in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he is a younger brother in the Ming officialdom.

Xiang Fan Wencheng, a poor talent without a background, if he votes for the Ming Dynasty, he will be able to do a county order at the highest, but it doesn't depend on your talent at the top, but in the Manchu Dynasty, he is the number one adviser of the Han people, in a group of Tartars with muscles in his brain, his IQ is top-notch, which has a sense of superiority, can he not be effective?

In the Ming Dynasty, he was a stinky shit, and in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was an important minister, and his idea of giving birth to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to serve the death force can also be explained.

But no matter how much he wants to realize his personal ambitions, no matter how much he wants to gain power, he can't get it by betraying his compatriots, this kind of behavior is a traitor, a dead lackey, the crime deserves death, and it is not an exaggeration to cut a thousand knives, not that your behavior is explained, you are not a traitor.

If you say that, those who collaborate with the enemy and betray the country can also explain it, they want to live, they are afraid of pain, so they betray their compatriots, and even help the beasts kill their compatriots?

Of course, after cursing these collaborators and traitors, let's also think about it, is the Ming court too corrupt, let the traitorous ministers be in charge, and those who have the ability can only defect to the enemy and commit treason, or rebel, for example, Niu Jinxing under Li Zicheng in the future, a down-and-out teacher, didn't he also become a scheming military advisor?

Fan Wencheng, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan These capable people, Daming is useless, it can be seen that Daming is really rotten, of course, in fact, it is relieved to think about it, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and other capable ministers, the court is also in a nodulum, not to mention these nobodies.

It's as if Xiang Yu has Fan Zeng and can't use it, and no matter how many strategists he is, he won't be able to use it, to put it bluntly, the Ming Dynasty is rotten, and no matter how many talents there are, it can't be used, it's time to change the dynasty.

The first two policies of the old slave are very good, which is to fundamentally develop Liaodong and increase the heritage of Liaodong, but far water cannot quench the thirst of the near, and these developments will take at least a few years to develop, and how to solve the problem of lack of materials now?

So the third method used by Nurhachi: to issue a decree to increase the price of purchased materials, a piece of iron in the Ming Dynasty is 100 yuan, we are 300 yuan, a load of grain is 6 yuan of silver, and we are 12 yuan of silver. Double the price of the purchase.

Marx said: What capital fears is no profit or too little profit, just as nature is afraid of a vacuum, and once there is more profit, capital will be bold.

If there is 10 percent profit, it will be used, if there is 20 percent profit, it will be active, if there is 50 percent profit, it will take risks, when there is 100 percent profit, he will dare to trample on the law, and when there is 300 percent profit, he will dare to commit any crime, even if it is at the risk of hanging his head.

So when the old slave of Liaodong offered this price, Shanxi Jin merchants went crazy.

In this way, the Guanning defense line that Sun Chengzong worked hard to build blocked the fierce Jianzhou Tartars, but it did not stop the greedy Jin merchants.

At that time, in addition to the Jin merchants, there were also Shandong merchants who took a fancy to the big cake of Liaodong, so the smuggling group was divided into two parts at that time, one part was the Shanxi Jin merchants who took the land route, they had to cross the prairie and transport the materials to Liaodong, and the Shandong merchants wanted to take the waterway through the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea finally arrived at Qingniwa Port, and then transported to Liaodong, oh yes, Qingniwa Port is now Dalian Port.

Originally, this road is the most convenient and fast, and the cost of water transportation is much smaller than that of land transportation, if according to the normal way of thinking, the last person who makes a lot of money should be Shandong businessmen, but it is a coincidence that there is a group of people on this waterway at that time, that is, Mao Wenlong of Liaodong.

He guarded Phi Island and directly cut off the sea route, so that the merchant ships of Shandong could not enter Liaodong and could not make this money.

The Jin merchants in Shanxi were through the Mongolian trade route, all the way to the relationship, in addition, they were also responsible for transporting materials to the Liaodong Jiangmen of the Guanning defense line at that time, and they hooked up and completed a beautiful smuggling campaign.

The money is a lot of money, here is one more mouthful, just said that Mao Wenlong intercepted the caravan transporting supplies by sea, some scholars have speculated that Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, in addition to Mao Wenlong's disobedience to orders, there is another reason.

Yuan Chonghuan represents the gentry in Jiangnan, and the collusion between officials and businessmen in Jiangnan is almost on the surface, is there a possibility that the merchants in Jiangnan fell in love with the big cake in Liaodong, and they wanted to transport the materials to Liaodong by sea to grab the business of the Jin merchants, but Mao Wenlong was on the river, so that this deal could not be done, so he used some means to let Yuan Chonghuan kill Mao Wenlong, don't prevent them from getting rich.

Of course, this is just a conjecture, and there is no real evidence, but some things may be found in a different way of thinking, and more interesting things may be found, Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong may also have economic contradictions in addition to political contradictions, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty in order to make money, such a lack of morality is not impossible to do.

However, after Mao Wenlong's death, the Ming Dynasty shipped a lot more things to Liaodong by sea than when Mao Wenlong was there, which can be verified by historical data.

Through this method, the old slave developed the land of Liaodong, and the Jin merchants also swayed with this shareholder wind, tied themselves to Jiannu, and made a fortune, and even in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they also sat on the high-ranking officials, not to mention anything else, Fan Yongdou's grandson, became the second grade of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Taifu Siqing.

It can be said that the Jin merchants and the Tartars are tied deep enough, and even inseparable, so as soon as Fan Yongdou said that the Manchu prince came to the messenger, his first impression was that he was going to get rich again, so a group of people were very excited.

Fan Yongdou looked at a few people and thought about it and didn't say anything, he knew that this time was not a good thing, but to make them vomit blood, but at this time, everyone was in good spirits, and he didn't want to interrupt, after all, this kind of thing is more convincing to be said by the Manchu people, he said that it is easy to offend people, and even makes these guys feel that there is still an idea that they want to flatter the Manchu prince, which is not good.

After all, this time they were made to vomit blood and pay money, how could they be willing, so they should not know about it.

"The messenger has arrived."

Fan Yongdou thought, at this time the housekeeper shouted outside the door, Fan Yongdou raised his eyebrows, and the main owner came.

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