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Chapter 334 As long as the profit is enough, we dare to do it

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

"Master, all the masters from other families have arrived."

At this time, the housekeeper came behind Fan Yongdou and reminded him in a low voice, Fan Yongdou retracted his thoughts and said, "Well, take them all to the living room."

After hearing this, the housekeeper said, "It's all arranged."

Fan Yongdou nodded, then turned around and said to the housekeeper, "Go and invite Prince He Shuorui's envoy to the reception hall."

"Yes."

The butler immediately trotted to a room, and there was a burst of unpleasant male and female laughter in the room, which was arranged by Fan Yongdou, all the distinguished guests came, Fan Yongdou specially found a few pretty maids to serve the envoy, the envoy was very satisfied Ah, fighting life and death on the front line, you can still enjoy the Han women here, let the envoys be wild, and the conquest has never stopped overnight.

"Master messenger."

"Master messenger."

The old butler stood at the door and shouted. After a long time, a woman inside reminded him: "My lord, the butler is calling you."

"What's the matter!"

The messenger was very unhappy, didn't you see that I was having a good time?

The housekeeper said at this time: "My lord asked me to inform you that the heads of the other families have come. Please send the envoy to come over and read out the will of the lord."

After hearing this, the messenger said: "Oh, I see, let them wait for a while."

At this time, in the living room, seven middle-aged men were sitting there, drinking tea and discussing with each other: What are you calling us for?Another big deal?
While they were discussing, Fan Yongdou walked into the living room, and the others stood up and said, "Fan Gong."

Fan Yongdou also bowed his hands to the others and said, "Please sit down, gentlemen."

Everyone sat down, and Wang Dengku, who was sitting on the left hand side with drooping hands, spoke first, "Why did Mr. Fan ask me to come here?"

Wang Dengku is the second largest businessman in Zhangjiakou. If he doesn't speak up, it's difficult for others to speak up. Fan Yongdou's Fan family is the leader of Shanxi merchants.

Fan Yongdou heard the words and said: "There is no major event, and I dare not work. Come here, that's how it is. Last night, Prince He Shuorui of the Qing Dynasty sent an envoy to announce a major event. I can't be the master alone, so I invite everyone to come here. Come discuss this."

After hearing this, Huang Yunfa, who was sitting in the second seat on the right, said, "The Prince of the Qing Dynasty personally sent envoys here. Could it be that the Qing Dynasty is going to send troops south again?"

After hearing this, the eyes of everyone except Fan Yongdou are brightened. This is a good thing. When the Manchus invaded the Central Plains, it was when they made a fortune. First, they provided military rations to the Manchus, and the price was [-]% higher than the normal market price. The Manchus plundered the Central Plains, and some Shanxi merchants would exchange things that were not easy to exchange for money directly, such as money, food, tea and iron, and they would make a lot of money.

Therefore, when the Tartars attacked the Central Plains and all the people of the Ming Dynasty suffered, it was the time when the Shanxi merchants made a fortune. Therefore, these people were not many people in the Ming Dynasty who expected the Tartars to invade.

As for murder and arson, rape and looting, those who killed were not our family members, nor were we raping and looting our Zhangjiakou people, so it is not important, making money is the most important thing.

This group of Shanxi merchants are the moths of the Ming Dynasty. All they distribute is the wealth of the country and the wealth of traitors.

Shanxi merchants used to be some local hahaha. They were once overwhelmed by Huizhou merchants and Yangzhou merchants in the south, because Huizhou merchants and Yangzhou merchants started their business by relying on the salt industry. Salt is sold by officials of the Ming Dynasty. These big salt merchants colluded with officials and businessmen, and directly monopolized half of the Ming Dynasty's salt industry. In addition, they assisted some businesses such as silk, ceramics, and tea, which suppressed Shanxi merchants. It means Huizhou merchants.

At that time, Shanxi merchants, originally Shanxi, Shaanxi, the economic situation in the northern regions were 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 sold some salt business, which was incomparable with Jiangnan. Northerners just have no money, and their spending power is not at the same level.

Originally, if this continued to develop, Shanxi merchants would never even think about raising their heads for the rest of their lives, but God will not starve blind house sparrows to death, and God has placed a huge business opportunity in front of them.

In the last years of Wanli, Nurhachi, an old slave in Jianzhou, started with eight sets of armor, led the Jurchen in Jianzhou, defeated the Jurchen in Haixi, and unified all the Jurchen tribes. Then his ambition burst out and he led troops south to compete with Ming Dynasty for the Liaohe River Basin and Liaodong Peninsula. In the Battle of Erhu, various defeat methods were adopted, and the Ming army was defeated by tens of thousands of troops, and the Ming army has been in a state of decline 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, completing Nurhachi's Liaodong separatist scene.

Daming saw that the situation was not right, and under the auspices of a generation of famous general Sun Chengzong, he began to build a defense line in the Liaoxi Corridor, which was the famous Guanning Line of Defense, which formed a blockade against the Tartars.

However, in military terms at that time, the blockade of the Tartars was already the limit. It was difficult for the Ming army to win a field battle with the Tartars. , Until Chongzhen hanged himself, this line of defense was not broken.

Of course, there is also credit for the generals of Liaodong. After all, these generals of Liaodong regard that piece of land as their own. It is really desperate to fight, but they are not willing to let them attack.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to send troops to exterminate the Tartars at once, so Daming borrowed from the method of previous dynasties, which is to block the economy of ethnic minorities and let them fend for themselves in the absence of supplies.

To put it bluntly, the market is closed, we will not sell your things, and you will be trapped to death in Liaodong.

Everyone of the ethnic minorities knows that they have no serious light industry and handicraft industry, and their smelting technology is so poor that they can't even make a decent iron pot. As for the cotton clothes to keep out the cold, it can be said that Let Nurhachi suffer a little.

But should I say it or not, Nurhachi, as a leader of the ethnic minority who can accomplish things, has vision and strategy online, otherwise he would not be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty, so Nurhachi made three changes.

The first one is to encourage the Han people left behind in Liaodong to cultivate land, develop agriculture, and solve the food shortage.

The second, high salary and high job, the introduction of talents from the Central Plains, and help Houjin develop Liaodong. This policy is very good and has attracted many people, such as the famous Fan Wencheng.

Fan Wencheng used to be a scholar who failed many times. In the court of Ming Dynasty, he was a stinky piece of shit, and he thought he was full of economics and talents. If the court didn’t use me, I voted for Manqing, and then got Manqing’s award. Reuse, and then this guy has the idea of ​​dying for his confidant.

Otherwise, this guy wouldn't be able to risk his life to help Manqing kill the Ming people, and even let Duoduo play with his wife and didn't want to take revenge, and he was only thinking about Manqing.

Is this person really that cheap?If there is no reason for this, how can he do this step.

Of course cheap, there must be some in Fan Wencheng's character, but there is another reason that cannot be ignored. His ambition can only be displayed in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If he is placed in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, he is just a younger brother. They can't do business, but if they cheat a colleague or suppress a newcomer, it's even more fun.

For a poor scholar like Fan Wencheng who has no backing, if he votes for Daming, he can be a county magistrate at the highest level, but he is not looking for his talent. In Manchu, he was the number one adviser of the Han people. Among the muscular Tatars, his IQ is top-notch, which gives him a sense of superiority. Can he not try his best?
In Daming, he was a stinky shit, and in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was an important minister. It is also understandable that he gave birth to the idea of ​​working hard for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

But no matter how much he wants to realize his personal aspirations, no matter how much he wants to gain power, he can’t get it by selling out his compatriots. This kind of behavior is a traitor, a dead lackey, and he deserves death. You're not a traitor anymore.

If so, those collaborators and traitors can also explain it. They want to live, they are afraid of pain, so they betrayed their compatriots, and even helped the beasts to kill their compatriots. Is it right?

Of course, after cursing these collaborators and traitors, we also have to think about whether the Ming court was too corrupt, allowing treacherous officials to rule, and those who are capable can only surrender to the enemy and treason, or rebel, such as Niu Jinxing, a down-and-out teacher under Li Zicheng's command in the future Sir, haven't you also become a strategist with ever-changing strategies?
For capable people like Fan Wencheng, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and Li Yan, Daming is useless. It can be seen that Daming is really rotten. , The imperial court also used it sparingly, not to mention these unknown pawns.

It's as if Xiang Yu has Fan Zeng and can't use it, so it's useless to give him more counselors. To put it bluntly, Da Ming is rotten, and no matter how many talents he has, he can't use it. It's time to change the dynasty.

The first two policies of the old slave are very good. It is to fundamentally develop Liaodong and increase the heritage of Liaodong. However, the long-distance water cannot quench the near thirst. These developments will take at least a few years to develop, and how to solve the problem of shortage of materials now Woolen cloth?
So Nurhachi used the third method: promulgate a government order to increase the price of purchased materials, one hundred coins for a piece of iron in Ming Dynasty, three hundred coins for us, six coins for a load of grain, and twelve coins for us.Doubled the price to buy.

Marx said: What capital is afraid of is no profit or too little profit, just like nature is afraid of a vacuum, and once the profit increases, capital will be bold.

If there is a 20.00% profit, it will be used, if there is a 50.00% profit, it will be active, if there is a [-]% profit, it will take risks, and when there is a [-]% profit, it will dare to trample Law, when there is a [-]% profit, he dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of hanging his head.

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

In this way, the Guanning line of defense that Sun Chengzong worked hard to build blocked the fierce Jianzhou Tartars, but it failed to stop the greedy Shanxi merchants.

At that time, in addition to Shanxi merchants, there were also Shandong merchants who took a fancy to the big cake in Liaodong. Therefore, the smuggling group was divided into two parts. One part was Shanxi Shanxi merchants who traveled by land. Shandong merchants wanted to take the water route through the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea finally arrived at Qingniwa Port, and then transported to Liaodong. Oh, by the way, Qingniwa Port is now Dalian Port.

Originally, this road was the most convenient and fast, and the cost of water transportation was much lower than that of land transportation. If we follow the normal thinking, the Shandong businessmen should make a lot of money in the end. There is a group of people on the waterway, and that is Mao Wenlong from Liaodong.

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

The Shanxi merchants in Shanxi used the Mongolian business road to build relationships along the way. In addition, they were also responsible for delivering supplies to the Liaodong generals on the Guanning defense line. They hooked up with each other and completed a beautiful smuggling campaign.

They made a lot of money, so I would like to mention more here. Just now, it was said that Mao Wenlong intercepted the caravan transporting supplies by sea. Some scholars once speculated that there was another reason why Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong besides Mao Wenlong's disobedience.

Yuan Chonghuan represents the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. The collusion between officials and businessmen in Jiangnan is almost obvious. Is there a possibility that the businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River have taken a fancy to the big cake in Liaodong. As a result, Mao Wenlong was lying on the river, making this business impossible, so he used some means to get Yuan Chonghuan to kill Mao Wenlong, so as not to stop them from making a fortune.

Of course, this is just a conjecture, and there is no real evidence, but if you look at some things in a different way, you may find more interesting things. In addition to political conflicts, Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong may also have economic conflicts. , it is not impossible to do such immoral things.

However, after Mao Wenlong's death, Daming shipped a lot more things to Liaodong by sea than when Mao Wenlong was there. This can be verified by checking historical data.

Through this method, the old slaves developed the land of Liaodong, and the Shanxi merchants also followed this shareholder trend, tying themselves together with the Jiannu, making a fortune, and they even became high-ranking officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Among other things, Fan Yongdou's grandson became a second-rank official in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Tai Pu Si Qing.

It can be said that Shanxi Merchants and Tatars are already deeply bound, even inseparable. Therefore, when Fan Yongdou said that the Manchu Prince came as a messenger, his first impression was that he was about to get rich again, so a group of people were very excited.

Fan Yongdou looked at a few people and thought for a while without saying anything. He knew it was not a good thing this time, but to make them vomit blood. It is more convincing for the Manchu people to say that it is easy to offend people, and even make these guys feel that they have the idea of ​​wanting to flatter the Manchu prince, which is not good.

After all, this time they were asked to vomit blood and pay for it, how could they be willing, so they pretended not to know about it.

"Master Messenger has arrived."

Fan Yongdou was thinking, at this moment the housekeeper yelled outside the door, Fan Yongdou raised his brows, and the real master came.

(End of this chapter)