Chapter 170: Cloud City Single Family
Only then did Shen Xiao explain the matter, "Shan Gongzi is the grandson of the Shan family in Cloud City......
Yuncheng is located in the south of the Great Jin Dynasty, with convenient water and land transportation, prosperous economy, half of the annual tax of the Great Jin Dynasty comes here, and has always been known as the "Southern Capital", which shows its prosperity. Z.br>
The single family started as a fur business, made a fortune fifteen years ago, and then gradually expanded the family business to cloth, porcelain, tea, spices, jade and other industries, and became the richest man in Yuncheng ten years ago.
Shan Mancheng is the only grandson of the Yun family's generation, and he began to contact the family business at the age of fifteen.
Although he looks like a weak son, he has a heart that yearns for the vast world, and at the beginning of this year, he followed his family's caravan to embark on the trade route between Dajin and Dawan.
The caravan of a single family is naturally not an ordinary small caravan, and the whole team carries a lot of goods and is of great value, and they also specially hire a dart bureau to escort them throughout the process.
Originally, the journey was smooth until the return journey passed through the Jiayu Royal Court.
According to the usual practice, a single caravan has to make some transactions with the Jiayu Royal Court, and if it goes well, it can go back in three days.
But this time, the atmosphere of the Jiayu clan seemed to be very tense, and Shan Mancheng immediately gave up the transaction and left directly with the caravan, but who knew that this laid the root of the curse.
The caravan moved slowly, and after a day out, Shan Mancheng ordered to stop and rectify, and just as they were sorting out their goods, a group of three hundred Jiayu people surrounded them.
Shan Mancheng has been smart since he was a child, and he has the ability to never forget, the head of the single family simply held him in the palm of his hand, invited many teachers to teach him, and because the single family is engaged in transnational business, Shan Mancheng has learned some of the languages of several small countries that the single family has contacted.
The language of the Jiayu clan is one of the things that Shan Mancheng understands, the caravan is surrounded, and Shan Mancheng comes forward to negotiate, but the other party asks him to drop all the goods and money.
Shan Mancheng obviously didn't want to accept such a result, and argued with reason, but the local government didn't listen to it at all, and seeing that he didn't agree, he directly let people kill and rob him.
Shan Mancheng was young, he had never encountered such a thing, and he couldn't react to being injured in the ribs, and the most powerful dart master in the dart bureau escorted him to escape, and the rest of the people scattered as birds and beasts.
Naturally, all the goods were lost, and only the 500,000 taels of silver tickets on Shan Mancheng remained.
And these 500,000 taels of silver tickets also caused Shan Mancheng to be killed, and later, he was chased to the border of northern Hubei Province, because there was a road guide, and he hurriedly entered the customs.
At that time, Shan Mancheng was already a little delirious, and he only knew that he was going to escape, so he ran all the way into the valley where Shen Qingqian and them had opened up the wasteland, and he couldn't hold it anymore before he fell.
Shen Qingqian almost all knew what happened after that, but there were still some doubts.
"Big brother, didn't anyone suspect him of lying?" Shen Qingqian was the first to question.
Shen Xiao said: "Naturally, there are, but there are just some people among the general's personal guards who recognize this Shan Gongzi, plus the road guide and the documents of various caravans on him, as well as the 500,000 taels of real silver tickets, no one doubts it anymore."
Especially after Shan Mancheng met General Zhenbei, the first thing he did was to donate the 500,000 taels of silver tickets on his body to the Northern Hubei Army, and he was short of manpower, and after confirming that his identity was fine, of course the general would not say anything.
You must know that the military salary of ordinary soldiers in the Northern Hubei Army is now three dollars of silver per month, and it is only three taels or six dollars a year, and the 500,000 taels alone are enough for the 100,000 troops of the Northern Hubei Army for a whole year.