Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 538 The Fan Family?Stay tuned!
[Sending someone directly to the Shanxi merchant house to arrest people is too brainless, and it may not be possible to catch Fan Yongdou, so at the end of the last chapter, it was changed to "please go to a meeting". 】

There was no county magistrate in Zhangjiakou, but in the spring of this year, under the decision of Aimee Zhu, the Ming Dynasty resettled the Xuanfu, Yanqing, and Jizhou prefectures around the capital, and later established a county in Zhangjiakou.

And after that, another decree was issued to restore the mutual market policy with the northern captives in Xuanfu and Datong.

This is a good thing for Shanxi merchants, Shaanxi merchants and other merchants who do overseas business in the north.

Although a serious business within the regulations of the Ming Dynasty cannot make huge profits like the Fan family and other eight Shanxi merchants did by smuggling embargoed materials, as long as the business is done well, they can also make a lot of profits.

Although the Fan family mainly smuggled embargoed materials and sold treasures such as ginseng and oriental pearls cherished in Liaodong in the mainland, they also participated in normal mutual market business on the surface, and even the scale was not small.

Otherwise, how can the huge source of wealth of the Fan family be concealed?

As one of the serious businessmen in Zhangjiakou, of course he has to participate in the things called by the government, not to mention the expansion of the horse market is still a good thing for all the businessmen.

Therefore, upon hearing this, Fan Yongdou stood up with the help of the maid—it wasn't that he couldn't stand up by himself, it was just that he had developed the habit of being served by others.

He glanced at the children and grandchildren around him, and said with a smile: "The government says it wants to expand the horse market, but in fact it just wants us businessmen to donate, and in the end, maybe only a small part of the money will be used to expand the horse market by the way, just for show .

As for where most of the money from the donation went, you must all know, right? "

The third son of the concubine, Fan Hua, said first: "It goes without saying, of course it was put into the bag by the officials, and it was for the benefit of the public."

Well said, Fan Yongdou nodded with a smile.

But I was thinking in my heart: the third son is good, and the third daughter-in-law who often cooks health soup for him is even better. In the future, I can arrange a good position and share more property.

"So, in the future, whether you are in Zhangjiakou or other places, if the local government wants to lose donations, you must not be stingy and donate as much as possible.

One, it can leave a good and good name for my Fan family, and two, it can also take the opportunity to let those who are officials know the sincerity of my Fan family. In the future, it will be a matter of course to give gifts during the festivals and deepen cooperation with it. son. "

The sons responded one after another, and flattered Fan Yongdou by the way.

"My father's words are all wise and famous, my son must remember them."

"My lord father's words really made my son Mao Sai suddenly enlightened, and he will never worry about not being able to get in touch with those officials in the future."

"Listening to what my father said, I feel that it is more effective than running a business for ten years."

"···"

Fan Yongdou knew that his sons were deliberately flattering him, but it was still very useful.

After the sons finished speaking, he waved his hands and said with a smile: "Okay, it's just a little life experience, nothing more.

Come here, change my clothes for me, I'm going to meet the county magistrate Chen for a while. "

The first county magistrate of this family's family was surnamed Chen Mingyu, named Lingtao. He was in his thirties and had been here for more than a month. Fan Yongdou naturally inquired about the relevant information he could get.

It is said that this person was originally a scholar in Zhejiang, and he traveled to Sichuan to study. It happened that Emperor Zhaowu held a rural examination in Chengdu to supervise the country, and he was fifth in high school in that rural examination.

As for what kind of official this person was and what achievements he had in the next year, the Fan family didn't find out.

Thinking about it, he should have some political achievements, otherwise he would not have been transferred to such an important place as Zhangjiakou as the county magistrate.

When Chen Yu first took office, the Fan family and other big merchants sent butlers to give gifts as usual, but Chen Yu didn't take any of them.

This situation made all merchants tremble.

Because it has become a Ming practice for new officials to receive gifts from local gentry and wealthy businessmen, if the other party does not accept gifts, it is very likely that they want more, or want to do something big.

In short, if officials do not accept gifts, the situation in the eyes of businessmen is very bad.

But after a month of trembling among the merchants in Zhangjiakou, they found that Chen Yu just wandered around with his entourage all day long, not doing anything, and no matter whether he saw gentry, wealthy businessmen or ordinary people, he laughed.

He even learned Mongolian from others.

When bold people greeted him, Chen Yu would respond, acting very close to the people.

It wasn't until a few days ago that the imperial court came down with the policy of resuming trade with the northern captives, and Chen Yu started to do things seriously.

This time, large merchants in Zhangjiakou were summoned to the county government to discuss the expansion of the horse market. It was also rumored a few days ago, so Fan Yongdou hardly had any doubts about this trip.

Just before going out after changing his clothes, he asked, "Apart from my house, have the other county offices also greeted me?"

The steward knew that the other companies that Fan Yongdou mentioned were the smuggling group of the Eight Great Families, and immediately said, "I asked, and it was Zhangjiakou, but anyone with a regular business name was invited."

"Ah."

Fan Yongdou nodded, said no more, went out, got into the carriage, and went straight to the county government office.

Because Zhangjiakou was only established as a county, the county government has not yet been built. Currently, Chen Yu and the officials below live in a mansion confiscated by the government.

This mansion originally belonged to a wealthy businessman, but Huang Degong's subordinates found out that he had sold an excessive amount of iron pots to the northern captives, so he was arrested and convicted, and his family property was confiscated. Although iron pots were not a material prohibited by the Ming Dynasty to export outside the customs, there is a certain amount of export per year. There is a fixed number, each family can only take a certain number of iron pots to sell.

If the iron pot is smuggled out of the customs through other channels, it will naturally be illegal.

In fact, the Fan family also did this business, but they saw that Huang Degong and the new troops of Ming Dynasty were not easy to deal with, so they opened up the door in Datong, and made a lot of money in the end.

After all, the northern captives entered the customs with the Qing captives last year, not to mention that they didn't grab much, and they suffered heavy losses when they arrived.

After entering the mansion, Fan Yongdou found that many big businessmen had already arrived, and they were all sitting there drinking tea.

After a rough look, there are actually four NO.50 people, and it is no wonder that they are not arranged to sit in the hall, because there is simply no room for them.

The so-called big houses here in Zhangjiakou are generally relatively small.

"Oh, Patriarch Fan is here too?"

"Brother Yongdou is in good health recently?"

"Mr. Fan, please sit here, after all, many of you are juniors here."

"···"

From the enthusiasm of these people when they greeted each other, it can be seen that the Fan family has almost become a prominent family in Zhangjiakou now, with a good reputation and even more intricate connections.

Fan Yongdou is not arrogant, he greets everyone with a smile, and some of them even have a chat.

Chen Yu looked at this scene from a distance in the hall, smiled slightly, and thought: This Fan Yongdou is worthy of being the founder of the Eight Shanxi Merchants Groups, it is not easy.It's a pity that I went the wrong way.

After a while, when the clock in the hall reached nearly ten o'clock, an attendant came over and said in a low voice: "Xianzun, the bosses of the 73 permanent firms in Zhangjiakou are all here."

Chen Yu asked, "Has everyone come here?"

"Except for Fan Yongdou, the other seven families are all from the Young Master's family, so we're all here."

Chen Yu nodded, "Alright then, go and inform Xu Qianhu."

Now the military name of the Daming Guard is dead and no longer exists, so titles such as Xiaoqi, Zongqi, Hundred Households, and Thousand Households basically refer to the official positions of the personnel in several major intelligence agencies.

Chen Yu knew how much the higher authorities attached importance to this operation, because not only Xu Zhihu, the governor of Nanzhen, the famous Qianhu, came to direct the specific operations in person, but even Huang Degong came here secretly.

Zhangjiakou looks calm on the surface, no different from the past, but in fact, thousands of troops have been deployed around.

Such a vast network has only one purpose, and that is to wipe out all the smuggling gangs in Zhangjiakou that are dominated by the Eight Great Masters! !

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(End of this chapter)