The messenger strode into the room, glanced left and right, and said, "It's all here." ”

At this time, everyone stood up and saluted, and the messenger waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, sit, sit." “

The envoy naturally sat down on the top of what Fan Yongdou had just done, the master's position, although he was a guest, but his identity was the messenger of the prince of the Qing Dynasty, and these Zhangjiakou merchants were already half of the Manchu slaves, so they were the masters when they arrived here, so how could there be a reason for the master to sit as a guest.

And Fan Yongdou naturally sat in the second position, and everyone else was not surprised, the Manchurians were used to being domineering, how could they be offended.

Everyone sat down again, Wang Dengku glanced at Fan Yongdou, and the meaning was obvious, You ask Prince Heshuorui for us what order he gave him?

However, Fan Yongdou looked at his nose, nose and mouth, and mouth, calm, did not say a word, and was very quiet, as if he didn't see Wang Dengku's eyes looking at him, Wang Dengku frowned and looked back to see other merchants at this time.

There's no way, who made him the second in the eight Jin Shang families?

Wang Dengku calmed down for a while, looked at the envoy and said, "The envoy came to our Zhangjiakou, what orders does the prince have to give us?" ”

Hearing this, the messenger took out a letter from his arms, and then handed it to Fan Yongdou, Fan Yongdou didn't even look at it and handed it directly to Wang Dengku, Wang Dengku took the letter and looked at the messenger with an embarrassed expression and said, "Lord Messenger, this is ......"

"See for yourself."

Wang Dengku glanced at Fan Yongdou again, then opened the envelope, and glanced at the contents inside, This look suddenly became ugly, and the rest of the people saw that Wang Dengku had changed color, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" ”

Wang Dengku passed the letter to the next one without saying a word, and then this person also looked over, and when he saw the information on the letter, his face also became iron-blue, and then he didn't send it to the next person, and the other person also looked at it curiously: "What's the matter, each one has such an ugly expression." ”

Then after reading this person, his expression also changed to the color of pig liver, and the letter was circulated, and everyone's expressions changed.

In the end, the letter was passed to Huang Yunfa, Huang Yunfa saw the ugly expressions in front of him, and knew that it was not a good thing, so he opened the letter with a heavy heart, only to see that the letter read: All the kings are well, I am Aixinjue Luo Dolgon, today I have a request for you, plugging the naturalization city was taken by the Xiaoxiao Lantian thieves, I Xing soldiers crusade, but the thieves can't hold out, my army besieges the city, but the grain and grass are insufficient, I hope that the kings will help each other, raise 50,000 troops for a year's need for grain and grass, and transport it to the plug, don't delay. ”

"50,000 troops, a year's grain and grass!"

Seeing these two keywords, Huang Yunfa couldn't help but exclaim, what a huge cost this is, even if he Huang Yunfa is one of the eight major families of Jin Shang, he is also shocked by this massive amount of materials, I am afraid that hollowing out his own family will not be enough for these people to eat.

"Oh, there's a problem?"

The messenger was not in a hurry, and then he raised his eyes and glanced at everyone, his voice was cold and refreshing, and their expressions froze when they heard the words, and they were silent and did not say a word.

At this time, the messenger took a sip of the gaiwan tea on the table and said, "By the way, the prince dragged me to bring you a message when I was leaving. ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at the messenger, and the messenger smiled and said: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, I have raised the monarchs of the Qing Dynasty for many years, and the monarchs should also repay the Qing Dynasty once, as for the rest, I will not say much, let's discuss, come and give me a letter after discussion, I will go to have breakfast first." ”

The messenger got up, ignored the crowd, looked at the butler, and said, "Have you prepared something for me to eat?" ”

When the housekeeper heard this, he immediately said, "Ready, ready." ”

After saying this, the butler immediately walked towards the dining room with the messenger, and there were only eight merchants left in the house.

At this time, the eight people did not speak, one by one was silent, silent, originally thought it was an opportunity to make a fortune, but I didn't expect it to become an opportunity for them to bleed and pay money, let them get rich They have no problem, but if you let them bleed, then there is a big problem, no one wants to bleed, no one wants to give their money to others, even if these people are their own masters.

When they make money, they are happy, and when they make money, they all sell batches by their mothers, but don't they travel with this money?

Huang Yunfa is the first to be breathless, he is the latest one of the eight Jin merchants, in the past, their family was engaged in business, that is, robbing small traders on the grassland, and later became bigger, so they went to Zhangjiakou to buy land and land, and got into a relationship, and did business with Liaodong people, which is what it is today.

Now you are going to participate in the bottomless pit of providing military rations to the 50,000 army of the Tartars, and his heart is dripping blood, at this time Huang Yunfa said: "Why? ”

Why, it's in the heart of the big guy, yes, why? We do business with your Tartars, that is Tong Suo is not bullied, although the price is a little expensive, but we are also risking our lives, this money should be our gotten, now you let us pay such a large sum of money with a word, why?

Everyone thought about it, and someone chimed in: "Yes, why, we have done a lot of things for them over the years, but in the end, we have to pay so much money, if we really pay it, even if we divide it equally among the eight families, each of us will have enough income for two or three years, and we will do it for them in the past two or three years, which is too ruthless." ”

"It's, it's like, is it easy for us to make some money? Those who are frightened and frightened will also suffer from the bloodsucking skin of those vampires in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, and now he has turned our two or three years of happiness into naught with a word, I am not convinced. ”

"I'm not convinced, we can't pay for this money."

"yes, you can't."

……

A few people, you and I said a word, and the voice gradually became louder, and only two people didn't say a word, one was Fan Yongdou, and the other was Wang Dengku.

The two glanced at each other, and Wang Dengku said, "What does Fan Gong think?" ”

Fan Yongdou heard this: "What does the prince think? ”

Wang Dengku said: "It should be paid, it must be paid, what does Fan Gong think?" ”

Fan Yongdou said: "People are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, do we have a choice?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Dengku said: "Then Fan Gong will talk to you, so that they don't have to shout and ruin things." ”

Fan Yongdou said: "The prince is here." ”

Wang Dengku said: "The eight families of the Jin merchants, the Fan family is the leader, how can I go beyond the bounds?" ”

Fan Yongdou smiled when he heard this: "You and my brother, why should you tell so clearly, but since Brother Wang asked me to say it, I will talk about it." ”

"Ahem~"

Fan Yongdou coughed lightly, and at this time, everyone's attention was concentrated, and Fan Yongdou looked at everyone: "Listen to me." ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at Fan Yongdou, and Fan Yongdou said: "You may be thinking badly, let me ask you how the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty are?" ”

Hearing this, everyone frowned, and Huang Yunfa said: "Naturally, it is powerful, and the Ming army is defeated and retreated, and it cannot be defeated." ”

Fan Yongdou said: "I heard that you all have private soldiers, so I don't know how your private soldiers compare with the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

Everyone shook their heads and said: "Fan Gong Mo wants to joke, we private soldiers fight horse thieves, and the bandits are okay, how can we compare with the Qing cavalry." “

Fan Yongdou looked at everyone and sneered when he heard this: "Then you dare not pay money, don't you think that if you have made friends with Daqing after two years of business, you will have the capital to bargain." ”

Fan Yongdou's words were so deep that the hairs behind everyone stood up, yes, he was a little ignorant, he had been doing business with Daqing for two years, and he felt that he could bargain with Daqing, in fact, he was a piece of meat on the side of people's mouths, they could eat it whenever they wanted, and they could raise it if they wanted to.

What can I do about it, now if I can have the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, move out of Zhangjiakou at home, and go to the south, or Sichuan, where the Tartar whip is not in a hurry, but they are also reluctant to do business in Zhangjiakou.

Everyone was silent, and Fan Yongdou said: "You don't have to worry so much, money is something outside the body, and this money is not spent in vain, it will be beneficial if you spend it." ”

Hearing this, everyone looked at Fan Yongdou, their expressions were very stiff, as if to say, are you lying to a fool, this is a good thing?

Fan Yongdou smiled: "There are two benefits. ”

"First, the Qing Dynasty is now fighting against the Lantian bandits, Lantian has developed rapidly over the years, and now it has mastered half of Shaanxi, but this group of bastards is very unfriendly to us, we were short of food and wanted to buy grain from them, and the price of buying grain for us was increased by one percent, which was called the Jin merchants and had a lot of money, so that we lost a lot of money in vain."

"Now that they have provoked the Qing Dynasty, then it is the time for them to fall, and when the Qing Dynasty defeats the Naturalization City and turns south, it will surely sweep the Lantian with the momentum of ploughing the court and sweeping the holes, and then we will definitely be able to get a piece of the pie and make up for the losses, and the Qing Dynasty will take the Naturalization City, and the trade road in Mobei will be unimpeded, and we will also benefit a lot."

"Second, since Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the maritime merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have reopened the way to sea trade, and a large number of goods have been dumped in Liaodong, and the Qing Dynasty's dependence on us is getting lower and lower.

Hearing this, everyone nodded in unison, and Huang Yunfa said, "I'm about twenty percent less." ”

The other is Jin merchant Wang Dayu said: "I'm missing a full thirty percent." ”

"Me too, more than three percent."

"But isn't it, I also have a loss of two or three percent."

Wang Dengku cleared his throat at this time and said, "I have about thirty and a half losses. ”

Fan Yongdou said: "Then I am at most, I am about to reach four, this is the loss brought to us by the maritime merchants, and this is a good opportunity, Prince Shuorui's prestige in the Manchu Qing Dynasty does not need me to say more, you should all understand, we helped him this time, and in the future, we can open our mouth to let him shelter our Jin merchants, to ensure that our share is not overwhelmed by the maritime merchants, on this point, you think this money is not suitable for us." ”

Hearing this, everyone quieted down, if they exchanged 50,000 troops for a year's grain and grass in exchange for their own share of the Manchu trade in the future, this is acceptable, thinking that everyone would be quiet, sitting in their positions, secretly calculating in their hearts, some people have even taken out a small abacus from their sleeves, calculating how much the grain and grass of the 50,000 army will cost in a year.

Seeing this, Fan Yongdou glanced at the housekeeper: "Go and call the messenger." ”

"Yes, sir."

……

In this way, the eight Jin merchants decided on a plan to support Dolgon's army for a year's rations, and they only cared about one thing in the whole plan, that is, whether their own interests could be guaranteed, and they never thought that the batch of grain and grass they supported would be used to fight anyone.

I never knew that I was a Ming person, I didn't have the slightest concept of family and country in my heart, I only calculated my own gains and losses, because they had hooked up with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and when the Ming Dynasty was finished, they could also get rich, the Ming Dynasty survived, they still made a fortune, there was no thousand-year-old country, but there was a thousand-year-old family, although they could not prosper for a thousand years, but there was no problem with working hard for a hundred years.

So they are traitors who betray the country, but they have never been ashamed of it, on the contrary, they are even faintly proud, which is pure shamelessness.

A family of traitors and profiteers.

……

It's good to plug the scenery, it's been a month in the blink of an eye, this month, the naturalization city is closed, and the internal construction is not out, no, it's not that the city is closed, the big project moat project at the gate of the city has begun to start, and the naturalization city is engaged in construction, and the Tartars are planting the military camp thirty miles away, and there is no intention of retreating.

At this time, in the City Lord's Mansion, Li Chaosheng frowned, looked at the map and said, "Tartar just stays like this for a month?" ”

Li Chaohu said: "Well, after staying for a month, there were still Tartars running out of the camp at the beginning, and after being ambushed by us a few times, there were not even many people out of the camp, and they seemed to be really ready to go down with us." ”

"There are more than 50,000 of them, and they will consume it with us, where will their food and grass come from?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaohu and asked, then Gu Zi said: "I know this, I received a telegram from Wang Guixiang a few days ago, the telegram said that he found that the merchants in Zhangjiakou were transporting grain to Dolgon's army, Wang Guixiang led people to ambush it, and as a result, the Manchu Qing sent Duoduo to personally press the grain, he did not take advantage, but he grabbed his tongue and asked for some information. ”

"Oh, what information?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi, and Gu Zi said: "The eight Jin merchants of Zhangjiakou are buying grain to supply Dolgon's army. ”

"Eight Great Jin Merchants?"

Li Chaosheng frowned slightly, and Gu Zi said: "Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa, these eight are the eight families of Jin Shang. ”

Li Chaosheng's eyes gradually became cold when he heard this, the Ming people supplied military food to the Manchu Tartars to fight the Ming people, this is really the filial son and grandson of the Manchu Tartars, Li Chaosheng was killed, and then looked at Gu Zi and said: "How often do they transport grain, and how much at one time?" ”

Gu Zi said: "Wang Guixiang said that because there is too much military ration, they transport it once every half a month, and it can last about 20 days at a time. ”

"Half a month, twenty days at a time, how long ago did Wang Guixiang and their hijacking happen?"

"Five days ago."

Gu Zi said, hearing this, Li Chaosheng's eyes lit up: "Okay, very good, let me inform you, let Bai Shoumin launch Zhangjiakou's secret spies, closely monitor the movements of the eight major merchants in Zhangjiakou, and inform Wang Guixiang to go to Zhangjiakou immediately and prepare to attack the city, Lao Tzu will take Zhangjiakou first!" I'll let them betray the country! ”

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