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Chapter 335 I took Zhangjiakou first!

The messenger strode into the room, glanced around and said, "They're all here."

At this moment, everyone got up to pay respects, the envoy waved his hands and said, "You're welcome, sit down, everyone sit down."

The envoy naturally sat down on the seat that Fan Yongdou made just now, the host. Although he is a guest, he is the messenger of the Prince of Qing Dynasty, and these Zhangjiakou businessmen are already half of the house slaves of the Qing Dynasty, so they came here They are the hosts, so there is no reason for the host to sit as a guest.

And Fan Yongdou also sat in the second position naturally, and the others were no strangers to it. The Manchus are used to being domineering, so how could they offend them.

Everyone sat down again, Wang Dengku took a look at Fan Yongdou, the meaning was obvious, you ask for us what order did Prince He Shuorui give?

However, Fan Yongdou looked at his nose, his nose at his mouth, his mouth at his heart, calmly, without saying a word, very quiet, as if he didn't see Wang Dengku's eyes looking at him, Wang Dengku frowned and turned back to see other merchants, then turned to look at himself .

No way, who made him the second of the Eight Shanxi Merchants?

Wang Dengku calmed down, looked at the envoy and said, "The envoy has come to our Zhangjiakou, what order does the prince give us?"

After hearing this, the messenger took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Fan Yongdou. Fan Yongdou passed it to Wang Dengku without looking at it. ..."

"See for yourself."

Wang Dengku glanced at Fan Yongdou again, followed by opening the envelope, and glanced at the contents inside, his expression suddenly became ugly. Seeing Wang Dengku's change of color, the rest couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Wang Dengku passed the letter to the next person without saying a word. At this time, this person also looked over. When he saw the information on the letter, his face became ashen, and he passed it to the next person without sending a glance. A person looked over curiously when he saw this: "What's wrong, everyone has such an ugly expression."

Then after this person read it, his expression also turned into a pig liver color. When the letter was passed around, everyone's expressions changed.

Finally, the letter was passed to Huang Yunfa. Huang Yunfa saw the ugly expressions of the first few, and knew that it was probably not a good thing, so he opened the letter with a heavy heart, and saw in the letter: Well, everyone, I am Aixin Jueluo Dorgon, I would like to ask you all today, the city of Guihua on the frontier was taken by the bandits in Xiaoxiaolantian, I launched an army to attack, but the bandits could not hold out, my army besieged the city, but there was not enough food and grass, I hope you will help me and raise [-] yuan The grain and grass needed by the army for a year are transported to the fortress, so don't delay. "

"[-] troops, one year's food!"

Seeing these two keywords, Huang Yunfa couldn't help exclaiming, the cost is so huge, even if Huang Yunfa is one of the eight Shanxi merchants, he was shocked by the huge amount of supplies, and it might not be enough to empty his own family. People eat.

"Oh, is there a problem?"

The messenger was not in a hurry, and at this moment he raised his eyes and glanced at the crowd, his voice was cold and refreshing, and everyone froze immediately when they heard the words, and fell silent, not saying a word.

At this moment, the messenger took a sip of the Gaiwan tea on the table and said, "By the way, the prince dragged me to give you a message before I left."

When everyone heard the words, they looked at the messenger, and the messenger smiled and said: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while, I have raised the emperors in the Qing Dynasty for many years, and it is time for the emperors to repay the Qing Dynasty. I won't say much about other things. Let's discuss it." , After discussing it, write to me again, and I'll go have breakfast first."

The messenger got up, ignored the people sitting there, looked at the butler and asked, "Have you prepared something to eat?"

The housekeeper immediately said, "Ready, ready."

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

At this time, the eight people were silent, each of them was silent and silent. They thought it was an opportunity to make a fortune, but unexpectedly it turned into an opportunity for them to spend money. They have no problem making them rich, but you let them Bleeding, then there is a big problem, no one is willing to bleed, no one is willing to give their money to others, even if these people are their masters.

When earning money, everyone is happy, and when paying money, everyone is a mother, but don't they go out with the money?

Huang Yunfa was the first one to lose his temper. He was the last one of the eight Shanxi merchants to make a fortune. In the past, his family was engaged in business without capital, that is, they robbed small traders on the grassland. Later, when they became bigger, they came to Zhangjiakou. After buying fields and land, he made connections and made deals with people from Liaodong, and this is how he got his current worth.

Now you are about to participate in the bottomless pit of providing rations to the [-] Tartar army. His heart is bleeding. At this moment, Huang Yunfa said, "Why?"

A sentence of why, it can be said to the heart of the big guy, yes, why?We do business with our Tartars, that is no deception. Although the price is a bit expensive, we are risking our lives. We should get the money. Now you just let us pay for it. A lot of money, why?

Everyone thought about it, and then someone echoed: "Yes, why, we have done a lot of work for them these years, but in the end they ask us so much money, if we really pay, it will be divided equally among the eight of us, and each of us will share the money. Even the share is enough for our income for two or three years, and it can be regarded as doing it for them in the past two or three years, this, this is too cruel."

"That's right, is it easy for us to make some money? Those vampires in Liaodong, Ming Dynasty who are afraid of it will suck their blood and skin them. Now he has wiped out our two or three years of hard work with a single sentence. I don't accept it."

"I don't accept it either, we can't pay for this money."

"Yes, you can't take it out."

……

Several people talked to each other, and the voices gradually became louder, but only two people remained silent, one was Fan Yongdou and the other was Wang Dengku.

The two looked at each other, and Wang Dengku said, "What do you think, Mr. Fan?"

Fan Yongdou heard the words and said, "What does the prince think?"

Wang Dengku said: "It should be taken out, it must be taken out, what does Duke Fan think?"

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

After hearing this, Wang Dengku said: "Then Mr. Fan, please tell everyone, so that they won't spoil things by talking nonsense."

Fan Yongdou said: "The prince is here."

Wang Dengku said: "The eight great families of Shanxi merchants, the Fan family is the head, how can I do it for me?"

Fan Yongdou smiled and said: "You and my brother, why do you have to distinguish so clearly, but since Brother Wang asked me to say it, I will talk about it."

"Cough cough~"

Fan Yongdou coughed lightly, and at this moment everyone's attention came to focus, Fan Yongdou looked at them and said, "Listen to me, everyone."

Everyone turned their heads to look at Fan Yongdou, Fan Yongdou said: "Everyone may have misunderstood, let me ask you how the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty are doing?"

Everyone frowned after hearing this, Huang Yunfa said: "Naturally it is powerful, the army that fought against the Ming Dynasty was retreating steadily, and was completely defeated."

Fan Yongdou said: "I heard that all of you have raised private soldiers, how do you compare your private soldiers with the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty?"

Everyone shook their heads and said, "Duke Fan, don't be joking. We private soldiers beat horse thieves, and bandits are just fine. How can we compare with the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty?"

Fan Yongdou looked at the crowd with a sneer and said, "Then you all dare not pay, don't you think that after two years of business with the Qing Dynasty, you have a friendship, and you have the capital to bargain."

Fan Yongdou's words were so dark that the hairs on the backs of everyone stood up. Yes, I didn't know what to do. After two years of business with Da Qing, I felt that I could bargain with Da Qing. In fact, I It is a piece of meat that people eat, they can eat it whenever they want, and they can keep it if they want.

What can I do, if a strong man has the determination to sever his wrists now, and move his family away from Zhangjiakou, to the south, or Sichuan, where the Tartars are in no hurry, it will be fine, but they are also reluctant to part with the business of this family.

Everyone was silent, Fan Yongdou said: "You don't need to be so worried, money is something outside of your body, and this money is not wasted, it will be beneficial."

After hearing this, everyone looked at Fan Yongdou with a stiff expression, as if they were saying, are you lying to a fool?
Fan Yongdou said with a smile: "There are two advantages."

"First, the Qing Dynasty is now fighting against the Lantian thieves. Lantian has developed rapidly in recent years, and now it has controlled half of Shaanxi, but these bastards are very unfriendly to us. We wanted to buy food from them when we were short of food. Yes. We actually increased the price by [-]% when we bought grain, and we pretended that Shanxi merchants were rich, which caused us to lose a lot of money.”

"Now that they have provoked the Qing Dynasty, it will be the time when they fall. When the Qing Dynasty conquers Guihua City and turns its head southward, it will surely wipe out Lantian with the momentum of sweeping holes in the Liting Court. At that time, we will definitely be able to share a piece of the pie. To make up for the loss, and the Qing Dynasty won Guihua City, the commercial roads in Mobei can be unimpeded, and we have also benefited a lot."

"Secondly, since Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the sea merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have reopened their access to sea trade, and a large amount of goods have been dumped in Liaodong. The Qing has become less and less dependent on us. In recent years, everyone from the Qing Are there fewer and fewer orders?"

After hearing this, everyone nodded in unison, and Huang Yun said, "I'm about [-]% short."

The other said, Wang Dayu, a Shanxi merchant, "I'm missing a full [-]%."

"Me too, more than [-]%."

"Isn't it? I also have a loss of [-]-[-]%."

At this moment, Wang Dengku cleared his throat and said, "I have about [-]% of losses."

Fan Yongdou said: "Then I have the most, I have almost reached [-]%, this is the loss brought to us by the sea merchants, and this time is a good opportunity, I don't need to say more about Prince He Shuorui's power in the Qing Dynasty, everyone should We all understand that we helped him this time, and in the future we can ask him to protect our Shanxi merchants and ensure that our share will not be overwhelmed by the maritime merchants. On this point, everyone thinks it is appropriate for us to pay the money."

After hearing this, everyone quieted down. It would be acceptable to exchange the [-] army for a year's grain and grass in exchange for their share in the Manchu trade. Thinking of everyone quieting down, they sat in their seats and secretly calculated, some People have even pulled out a small abacus from their sleeves, calculating how much food and grass will cost a [-] army for a year.

Seeing this, Fan Yongdou winked at the butler: "Go and call the messenger."

"Yes, sir."

……

In this way, the Eight Shanxi Merchants decided on a plan to support Dorgon's army for a year, 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 food and grass they supported would be used. who to fight.

I never knew that I was a Daming person, and I didn't have any concept of family and country in my heart, only thinking about my own gains and losses, because they had already hooked up with the Manqing, and when the Ming Dynasty was over, they would still be able to get rich, and if Daming survived, they would still get rich, There is no country with a thousand years, but a family with a thousand years. Although they cannot prosper for a thousand years, it is no problem to strive to be brilliant for a hundred years.

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

A family of traitors and profiteers.

……

The scenery on the plug is so good, a month has passed in the blink of an eye, this month, the city of Guihua is closed, and the internal construction is going on. Now, Guihua City is under construction, and the Tartars have placed their barracks thirty miles away, and they have no intention of retreating.

At this time, Li Chaosheng frowned at the city lord's mansion, looked at the map and said, "Is this what the Tartars will do for a month?"

Li Chaohu said: "Well, after staying for a month, there were Tartars who came out of the camp to race horses. After being ambushed by us a few times, not many even left the camp. It seems that they are really ready to spend with us. .”

"There are more than 5 of them. If they are consumed with us, where will they get their food and grass?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaohu and asked, at this time Guzi said: "I know this, I received a telegram from Wang Guixiang a few days ago, in which he found that merchants in Zhangjiakou were transporting food to Dorgon's army, and Wang Guixiang led people to ambush him." After a while, it turned out that the Manchu Qing sent Duoduo to press the grain himself, and he didn't take advantage of it, 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 major Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou are buying grain to supply Dorgon's army."

"Eight Shanxi Merchants?"

Li Chaosheng frowned slightly, and Gu Zi said: "Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa, these eight are the eight great merchants of Shanxi."

Li Chaosheng's eyes became cold after hearing this. The Ming people supplied the Manchu Tartars with rations and beat the Ming people. This is really a filial son of the Manchu Tartars. Li Chaosheng became murderous. At this moment, he looked at Guzi and said: "They How often does it take to ship food, and how much does it cost at a time?"

Gu Zi said: "Wang Guixiang said that due to the large amount of military rations, they transport them every two weeks, and each time can last for about 20 days."

"One luck every half a month, 20 days at a time, how long ago did Wang Guixiang and the others hijack?"

"Five days ago."

Gu Zi said, Li Chaosheng's eyes lit up after hearing this: "Okay, very good, let me inform you, let Bai Shoumin activate Zhangjiakou's secret spies to closely monitor the movements of the eight major merchants in Zhangjiakou, and also inform Wang Guixiang to go to Zhangjiakou immediately and prepare to attack the city. I will take Zhangjiakou first! I will let them be traitorous to the enemy!"

(End of this chapter)