The big man in Tsing Yi is named Qian Laosan, he and more than ten of his subordinates were originally in the nearby Wangjiashan to occupy the mountain as the king, do some roadblock robbery, and were hired by the Wang family, the largest merchant in Puzhou City, half a year ago, and since then they have been whitewashed and become the guards of the Wang family's caravan.

Puzhou Wang family in the early Ming Dynasty began to do business, its ancestors on the sale of goods Zhangye, Jiuquan, a few years and south to Huai, Si, cross the river into Wu, after the benefit of difficulty, then traced the river and Han west to Lingxia, back and forth in Chu, Shu, although in the business world, but depending on the financial interests are very light, believe in the righteousness. The north and south have been respected by all businessmen, and finally created a great business. To this day, Wang Quanzhong, the current head of the Wang family, has three in his sixties, and Jia Yuanyou, who is 16 years old, travels in casual clothes, and has footprints all over the north and south of the river. When he ran the salt industry with his father, he was well-informed, accurate in his comprehensive calculations, and disdained to be careful. He has been in business for a long time, familiar with the distribution and scheduling of salt affairs, has the ability to manipulate, and has been very successful in business in the last years, with assets more than ten times that of the beginning. Wang Quanzhong is generous, willing to give righteousness, when his spirit is excited, he squandered his money and donated money to give Dragon Tiger Wei command of affairs.

With the official behind him, the business road of the Wang family is smoother, and among the Shanxi Jin merchants, the limelight is strong and the name is loud.

Half a month ago, Qian Laosan took more than ten people to escort a large number of important goods to Zhangjiakou, Hebei, who knew that not long after leaving the ancient city of Puzhou, he received an order from the Wang family, asking them to stop advancing, find a safe place to place the goods, and hide and standby. Qian Laosan and his group were born as thieves, fierce and violent, seeing that there were too many goods, they had to find a considerable place to hide, and immediately took advantage of the night to occupy the Pufu Temple outside Puzhou City, tied all the monks in the temple to the side hall to take care, and after the goods were properly placed, Qian Laosan ordered his subordinates to pretend to be monks, and pretended to renovate the temple to the people who came to burn incense and worship the Buddha, so he stayed in the temple for more than ten days.

After so many days, they have not received the order of the Wang family to start again, and Qian Laosan is also very puzzled, but the Wang family has a big business, and the reward for them is really expensive, so they have to wait patiently.

It has always been calm, but today I ran into Gao Jie and Ji Longfeng, two extremely smart guys, and they saw the flaws, but they were young and vigorous, nosy, and wanted to find out, so Qian Laosan and his gang suffered.

After listening to Qian Laosan's confession, Gao Jie secretly thought that this matter was really related to Jin Shang.

The usual meaning of the Jin merchants refers to the Shanxi merchants in the Qing Dynasty 500 years, the Jin merchants engaged in the salt industry, ticket numbers and other businesses, especially the ticket number is the most famous. Gao Jie studied archaeology and studied a lot of history, so he naturally knew a little about the Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty.

The earliest Jin merchants can be traced back to Wu Zetian's father, Wu Shi Mi, who was a well-known timber merchant in Shanxi at that time. In the process of Li Yuan's father and son rising against the Sui, Wu Shi Mi was the largest sponsor and provided full support from financial resources. After the deed was completed, Samurai Mi, as one of the shareholders, became a duke and became one of the founding ministers.

In the Song Dynasty, Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants were known as the two major consortia in the country, and became the spokesmen of Chinese commerce at that time. At that time, Shanxi was located in the border area of the Song and Liao, and most of the war horses needed by the Northern Song Dynasty relied on the Liao in the north to supply, and the Liao was also in urgent need of Song handicraft products. According to records, during the Qingli period of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty produced more than 2,000 pieces of silk to buy horses in Shanxi Qilan, and more than 30,000 horses of silk to buy horses in the state capitals of Shanxi, and unofficial private trade was even more frequent. "Marco Polo's Travels" wrote: "Merchants from Taiyuan to Pingyang (Linfen) traveled all over the country and made huge profits."

By the Ming Dynasty, the power of Shanxi merchants was further developed. In the Ming Dynasty, there were 33 large commercial cities in the country, and Shanxi Province accounted for three of them: Taiyuan, Pingyang and Puzhou. At this time, the capital accumulation of Shanxi merchants was already considerable: "Pingyang, Ze, and Lu are rich in the world, and they are not rich unless they are hundreds of thousands."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty and the continuous wars, the people of Hebei, Shandong and other places suffered from the war, and only the shrewd Jin merchants not only did not suffer losses, but made a fortune and grabbed more wealth. At that time, the Ming Dynasty government was tired of dealing with the iron cavalry of Nurhachi and his son, and the demand for arms, horses and other war necessities was the greatest. Occasionally, some Jinci rice and Qinzhou millet are produced, and they only grow on a palm-sized piece of land, barely enough to make tribute to the emperor. Besides, at that time, the Ming Dynasty was in financial difficulties, and the officials were also very scoundrels, and they could only make some money by doing business with the government. So there was no hope of doing business in their own country, so they set their sights on Lenurhachi.

At that time, although the population of the Houjin ruling area was only 700,000, natural disasters continued year after year, and food and clothing became the biggest problem.

Seeing this, the Jin merchants used Zhangjiakou as a base to collect goods from all over the country, and then traveled back and forth to inside and outside the Guanxi to engage in trade activities, and delivered a large number of basic daily necessities such as grain, clothing, and cooking utensils to the Later Jin regime. Nurhachi did not treat them badly, and exchanged ginseng, deer antlers, animal skins and other valuables to the other party, so that the Jin merchants gained a lot.

Gradually, the two sides established a deep relationship of interests, and Nurhachi, who attached great importance to espionage warfare, expanded the trade between the two sides from food and clothing to intelligence. The Later Jin regime attached great importance to the Jin merchants. All the gunpowder, eighty percent of the grain, and more than sixty percent of the metal needed for Huang Taiji's war machine came from the Jin merchants who were "honest" to the sky.

As a result, the Later Jin had enough food to feed millions of captives, and the Jin merchants amassed a great deal of wealth through these trades.

In later generations, many people called the Jin merchants traitors, but in Gao Jie's view, it was the most natural for businessmen to pursue profits, not to mention that at that time, the Ming economy was in recession, corruption was rampant, and the Jin merchants also had a last resort.

But in order to smuggle goods, the Puzhou royal family actually recruited bandits and forcibly occupied the temple, but Gao Jie was ashamed.

He turned his head to look at Ji Longfeng and asked, "Young Master Ji, do you know about this Puzhou royal family?"

Ji Longfeng is obsessed with martial arts, and he really doesn't know about this businessman's celebrity, he was already deeply embarrassed because of the "Yingying Tower" by Gao Masterpiece before, and now he sees that he is about to be stumped by this little hunter again, his heart is in a hurry, frowning and turning around, thinking hard, hoping to dig out even a little memory about the Wang family in his memory.

The hard work paid off, Ji Longfeng suddenly showed ecstasy, raised his head and grinned: "I really know something!"

Gao Jie bowed and said with a smile: "Then please ask Young Master Ji to come and hear it!"

Ji Longfeng shook his head and said proudly: "After I returned to Puzhou the year before last, I looked for masters everywhere to compete, but I didn't meet an opponent, and I felt bored in my heart. In the middle of last year, I suddenly heard that the Wang family, a wealthy merchant in Puzhou City, invited a master of the Kunlun faction to be the chief guest, so he went to challenge, but unfortunately the Wang family had a big business and a deep courtyard, and he never found that person!"

Gao Jie was surprised when he heard this: "Kunlun faction?"

Ji Longfeng nodded and said, "Well, it is said that it is a return, and few people have seen him, which is very mysterious." My two brothers-in-law died in battle a month ago, and according to my sister's father-in-law, Mr. Ren, at that time, they intercepted a caravan that was smuggling and collaborating with the enemy, but they were defeated by a fifty-year-old man in the caravan, and even two brothers-in-law died under a strange-shaped stick-shaped weapon of that man. I suspect that it should be the mysterious guest of the Wang family!"

Gao Jie frowned in contemplation and remained silent.

When Li Ji moved to the village, Gao Jie met Lao Hui Ma Shouying and learned that he was from the Kunlun faction. Kunlun faction is a famous Taoist branch of the Ming Dynasty, its location is located in the eastern part of the Pamir Plateau Kunlun Mountain, Kunlun Mountain hundreds of miles, the mountains are secluded and beautiful, Taoist people go to practice one after another, Kunlun faction is named after the mountain, self-reliant. It is rumored that the Kunlun sect originated during the reign of King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty. Hongjun passed on three friends together: Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian. Lao Tzu (Li Er) had one disciple, and Yuan Shi had twelve disciples. Lao Tzu and Yuan Shi are the ancestors of the Kunlun faction. The 12 disciples of the Yuan Shi are the 12 ancestors of the Kunlun School. Later, the Kunlun sect was divided into two schools, east and west, both of which belonged to Taoism.

Because of its distance outside the territory, the Kunlun faction rarely set foot in the Central Plains, and it seems quite mysterious in the martial arts, and most of its disciples are Hui people, and their martial arts are quite different from those in the Central Plains.

Ji Longfeng saw that Gao Jie didn't speak for a long time, and thought that his answer about the Wang family was of little value, so he was uneasy in his heart, and even his smile slowly retracted.

Gao Jie pondered for a long time before he said slowly: "It seems that this Wang family is really not simple, they dare to ignore the strict order of the imperial court prohibiting trade with Houjin, and risk killing their heads, and go over the mountains and mountains to Zhangjiakou to do business with the Jurchen people.

Ji Longfeng saw that Gao Jie did not underestimate what he said, and he was happy in his heart, and said: "Speaking of this Wang family, I really want to meet that mysterious Hui Keqing, and learn from him!"

"Is it?!" A loud voice came from a distance, and Gao Jie and the others looked at the temple gate when they heard the sound.

I saw an old man in a white robe, a black horse jacket, and a white flat-capped round hat fluttering across the temple gate and entering in an instant, and came to the three of them in an instant.

Gao Jie saw that the costume of the person who came was a typical Hui costume, but the fabric of his clothes and hat was different from Ma Shouying, not made of white bleached cloth, but made of high-grade silk fabrics that were very valuable in the Ming Dynasty.

After this person appeared, although he was not slow or sick, but he was elegant and agile, as if he did not touch the ground, and he came over with his floating skills, and when he came to him, a powerful aura of coercion rushed towards him like a substance, and Gao Jie's hearts couldn't help but be awe-inspiring.

Gao Jie was originally from the Hui tribe, and when he saw this old man, he immediately pressed his right hand on his left chest, and saluted: "Press the color of the two eyes to come to Kun!"

The old man was of medium stature, with very high eyebrow bones, deep eye sockets, and extremely deep and sharp eyes, he was surprised that Gao Jie actually greeted him with Hui etiquette, but there was no color change on his face, and he also replied lightly: "Wu'er Lai Kun Se Liangmu!"

Ji Longfeng looked at Gao Jie in surprise and said, "You are also back!"

Gao Jie smiled and said, "Can't you?"

Ji Longfeng pouted and said, "What's not good, it doesn't matter what kind of clan he is, it's the same in my eyes!"

Gao Jie admired the eccentric Ji Longfeng's stance towards ethnic minorities, and they were very similar in this regard.

The black beard of the Hui old man, who was about fifty years old, fluttered on his chest, and he said meaningfully: "I didn't expect that such a secret matter of our chamber of commerce was also broken by the three of you, I don't know if it's the misfortune of the Wang family or your misfortune, especially when I see this little brother of the same clan, I suddenly feel compassion in my heart, and I really can't do it!"