Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 537 The Jinyiwei was rescued by excavating the tunnel, and Fan Yongdou enjoyed the change of the double castle
Although it is very important to arrest Shanxi merchants, Li Laiheng did not take people there personally, but he kept watching the rescue site of the collapsed tunnel because there was a walkie-talkie to command his generals.

Because he knew that the patriarchs of the Eight Shanxi Merchants in Laiyang and Wei would not be able to escape if the imperial court cast a net.

Even if he really escaped, it would only cost the court a lot of trouble.

Because Jin Yiwei has already grasped the important evidence of the Eight Shanxi Merchants' smuggling and treason.

Today, not only did they arrest the heads of the Eight Great Jin Merchants who gathered at Yanghewei in Datong Prefecture, but also in Zhangjiakou and other places in Xuanfu, Huang Degong will also command the frontier guards under the leadership of Jin Yiwei to arrest the traitorous Eight Jin Merchants. The merchants launched a major operation of all arrests and house raids.

Since His Majesty has issued an imperial decree, the eight traitorous Shanxi merchants can only be destroyed!
However, the life and death of Liu Gang and others trapped in the collapsed tunnel are still unknown, which makes Li Laiheng more concerned.

"Dig it!"

"Find someone!"

Several consecutive exclamations brought Li Laiheng back to his senses. He immediately came to the side of the excavated hole and personally directed the soldiers to rescue the people trapped inside.

In the end, the first thing to be fished out was the body of a captain of Jinyiwei Nanzhen Fusi. Judging from the signs of his body, it was obviously suffocated to death. This made everyone's heart sink, and they thought to themselves: It's been a long time I'm afraid that the people inside will all be suffocated to death, right?
This kind of thinking slowed down the digging movements of some soldiers.

Li Laiheng noticed this, and immediately shouted: "Why are the movements slowed down? Hurry up, even faster!
Think about it, if there are still living people trapped inside, if it is you who are trapped, if the people outside move a little slower, it may kill you! "

After hearing this, the soldiers immediately sped up their movements again, even faster than before.

As for scientific excavation and prevention of secondary collapse, it is naturally out of the question at this time.

Besides, the tunnels are mostly mud, and they are not very deep. Even if they collapse a second time, they won't be too bad.

Only when people are dug out can they be saved, and everything else is secondary.

Under the joint action of hundreds of border guards, another body was soon dug up, and this time it was indeed suffocated to death after being injured.

However, the morale did not drop any more, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers was aroused instead, and the digging movements became faster.

Finally, they came out with a semi-conscious Jin Yiwei.

Although Jin Yiwei's face was ugly and his breath was weak, he still insisted on saying: "Quick, quick, Liu Xiaoqi and the others are still trapped inside..."

"Quick, dig faster!"

After Li Laiheng gave an order, all the soldiers went all out.

In the end, after more than half an hour of excavation, the people who were still alive and those who had died buried in the collapsed tunnel were finally found out.

According to statistics, 13 people were sacrificed, five people were seriously injured, and only six people survived, but all suffered minor injuries.

Fortunately, Xiaoqi Liu Gang was only slightly injured.

But facing the dead and injured Brother Jin Yiwei at this time, he was full of shame, thinking that he was too eager to make contributions and negligent, which caused so many casualties of Brother Jin Yiwei.

After regaining some breath and strength, he knelt down in front of more than a dozen corpses, unwilling to get up.

Seeing this, Ma Xu wanted to comfort Liu Gang, but he didn't know how to comfort him.

Because he understands that, for people like them, life and death are impermanent.

What Liu Gang cared about was not the sacrifices of his brothers, but his impatience and carelessness, which caused the deaths of his brothers.

At this time, Li Laiheng came over and said: "Liu Xiaoqi, Ma Xiaoqi, the eight masters of the Shanxi Merchants in Laiyang and Wei have all been captured, and the next thing should be left to you."

Hearing this, Liu Gang finally raised his head.

Only a pair of eyes were exposed on the face covered with mud, and the eyes were as cold as prison!
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Also this day.

morning.

Xuanfu Zhangjiakou.

Zhangjiakou at this time is quite different from Zhangjiakou City in later generations. To be precise, it should be called Zhangjiakou Fort.

It was first built in the fourth year of Xuande, that is, in 1429 AD.

The site is located on a highland by the Qingshui River, and is located in the intermountain basin in Northwest Hebei, at the junction of the Bashang grassland in Mongolia and the Baxia plain in Northwest Hebei.Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river on one side, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the location is extremely dangerous.

The Ming Dynasty originally built Zhangjiakou Fort to prevent the northern captives and the enemy from the west from threatening the capital.

Therefore, the entire Zhangjiakou Fort is designed according to the Chinese-style war fortress - the perimeter of the castle wall is four miles, and the wall height is three feet and five feet. In the fort, only the Yongzhen Gate in the east and the Chengen Gate in the south are opened, and a box city is also designed. There is also a small city in the fort.

During the reign of Xuande, there was one guard in the fort, two generals, and five thousand troops.It is also equipped with military facilities such as the garrison department, granaries, and pastures. It can be said that it is completely a military fortress.

It is a pity that no matter how good a fortress is, it must be guarded by people. If people are not good enough, no matter how well built a fortress or fortress is, it will be useless.

In addition to the Xuande period, Zhangjiakou Fort played some roles as the bridgehead for the Ming army to attack Mongolia.

After that, Zhangjiakou Fort failed to play its due defensive role, whether it was the defeat of Tumu Fort in the Orthodox years or Alda Khan's defeat in the Jiajing years.

In 1571 A.D., Alta Khan granted tribute and negotiated peace with Daming, forcing Ming to open mutual markets in Datong, Xuanfu and other places, and Zhangjiakou became the place where Xuanfu traded.

Naturally, it was impossible for Daming to use a military fort as a horse market for trading, so Laiyuan Fort was built on the north side of it as the location of the horse market, forming a special double-fort structure with Zhangjiakou Fort.

Until today, Zhangjiakou has become more and more prosperous due to nearly a hundred years of mutual trade between the Longqing period and now, and even surpassed many inland counties in terms of population and trade.

Many businessmen chose to buy real estate in Zhangjiakou in order to facilitate foreign trade or make money through the mutual market, and even their entire families moved here.

Naturally, these merchants could not live in Zhangjiakou Fort, which was used for military purposes, but all lived in Laiyuan Fort, which was used for mutual trading.

It's just that Shuangbao is now often collectively called Zhangjiakou.

The Fan family, as the largest Shanxi merchant family in Zhangjiakou today, is not one of them. The mansion is also located in the city of Laiyuanbao.

When the sun rose in mid-spring, Fan Yongdou, who had already had breakfast, was sitting on a platform in his courtyard basking in the sun.

Now that he has retreated to the second line, he has gradually delegated power to his most outstanding son, Fan Sanbo. When Fan Sanpao is fully in power, he can completely retire and retire.

This time, another trade route was opened from Datong, and the trade route to the northern and eastern captives was re-opened. On the surface, it seemed that Fan Sanbo was in charge again, but in fact he had a lot of pointers behind the scenes.

Although the Qing captives failed to take over Shenzhou, Fan Yongdou felt that the Fan family had lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform, but he couldn't help it.

Who would have thought that a female emperor would turn out to be born in the Ming Dynasty, turn the world around, and continue the rule of the Ming Dynasty?

Now, the Fan family can only stay dormant and continue to do their previous smuggling business secretly, waiting for the times.

Fan Yongdou has been doing business inside and outside the customs for decades, and he has seen a lot. He believes that Daming is dying. Even if there is this Zhaowu empress Zhongxing Daming, in his opinion, it is just like the emperors after the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty. Daming will live for another few decades.

The root cause of the disease is hard to get rid of, and sooner or later, Daming will have to finish playing.

Maybe by then, their Fan family will have another chance to transform.

Unfortunately, he is too old to see that day.

Now we can only educate the next generation and enjoy family happiness by the way.

"Greetings to Father!"

"Greetings to Grandpa!"

"Father, this is my health-preserving soup, you have a taste."

Not long after, Fan Yongdou's sons and daughters-in-law brought their grandchildren over to greet him good morning.

Although he has retreated to the second line now, he still holds the greatest financial power of the Fan family.How much property the remaining sons will get in the future, and what positions they can get in the Fan family, are all up to him. Naturally, he will please him in every possible way, even his daughter-in-law and grandchildren are no exception.

"Good good."

Looking at the twenty or so children and grandchildren in front of him, Fan Yongdou felt that the depression he had felt since he was kicked out by Daming because of Qinglu had dissipated a lot, so he couldn't help smiling.

Served by the personal servant girl, he tasted the health-preserving soup made by his third daughter-in-law, and touched the head of his favorite grandson, Fan Yupin. Fan Yongdou was about to say something when he saw the porter come in quickly.

When they came to the pavilion, the gatekeeper respectfully bowed to Fan Yongdou and said, "My lord, the county magistrate sent someone to invite you to the county government office to discuss the expansion of Yuanbaoma City."

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)