Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 720
Jiang Lang is a well-known wealthy businessman in Taiyuan Prefecture. His business is to buy medicinal materials from all over Shanxi, and then sell them on the grasslands. The profits are extremely high.

Medicinal materials are life-saving things, whether they are for people or livestock. People like witch doctors and shamans on the grassland use animal feces or even human secretions to make those medicines that will have no effect at all. Well, compared to these rubbish, Daming's traditional Chinese medicine has miraculous effects.

Like most businessmen in Taiyuan City, Jiang Lang has a huge village outside the city. The village is full of large warehouses, and the goods sent to the grassland are stored in the warehouses.

With Jiang Lang's status, there was no need to go to the grassland to deliver goods and collect money in person. His eldest son, Jiang Tuo, was the commander who led the team out of the border.

The profit is almost huge, and the Jiang family is willing to spend money to manage it. Every time Jiang Tuo goes out of the customs, the generals of the customs are very polite and respectful to him.

When Jiang Tuo arrived, the guard guards prepared the tables and chairs first, and brought out tea and snacks to treat him. Mr. Qian, who was on the side of Killing the Tiger's Gate, stood beside him with a smile on his face. He saw the soldiers inspecting the carriages one by one , Jiang Tuo frowned, and said:
"Have the members of this month been delivered? Don't let the people below not pay attention to their errands and delay the brothers' tea."

Mr. Qian was stunned, shook his head and said with a smile:

"Mr. Jiang is thinking too much. Look at Kazi, there is not a person wearing a flying fish suit. It is said that there is a big man coming over from the capital. You can’t slack off, you have to keep busy to some extent.”

After saying a few words, Mr. Qian leaned closer and said:

"Jiang Gongzi, did you bring anyone this time, let the brothers avoid it!"

Jiang Tuo also shook his head with a smile, and said:
"Girls in Datong are not willing to serve the Tartars, and it is not easy to hire doctors who are willing to go to Guihua City, so I can bring people out this time."

After looking through it, there was nothing to see. Jiang Tuo dropped ten taels of silver, said "Come back for a drink", then got on his horse and left, staring at the guards in brocade clothes who came over here, took two taels of silver and left. The frontier soldiers who got the checkpoint kept cursing secretly.

The reason why this medicine business is so prosperous is because Jiang Lang also spent a lot of money to attract doctors to Guihua City. This is a good way to deal with it, and there is another problem. The nobles of the Alda tribe in Guihua City are tired of playing with the women from the Western Regions and Mongolia. The Han women who were captured were either fierce or mediocre. The beauty of the Han family, since the Jiang family can get the doctor who came to see the doctor, this beauty can naturally get the Guan.

Both left and right are doing business. The Jiang family really bought beautiful women from Datong and other places to go to Guihua City. The medicinal materials are huge profits, and this human trafficking business is even more huge profits.

However, it is easier for medicinal materials to go out of the frontier, but it is difficult to traffic women out, but there is also a way to make these people dress up as fellows who follow the team, and then the soldiers in the border card will pass through with ease.

It was already late autumn, and the grassland was all yellow. It was said that there was a light snowfall before the Jiang family’s caravan went out, but it didn’t last. The business of other families was off-season by now, but the Jiang family’s medicine business was not. Divided into off-season and peak season, many wealthy chieftains from various tribes on the grasslands are willing to buy more and go back to stockpile, and the medicinal materials are not worried about selling.

In the evening, they rested in that small tribe as usual, and the head of the Jiang family caravan asked puzzledly, saying that the old Ke Liao of this small tribe had gone there, and someone in the tribe replied that he was going to Guihua City to do business. There are quite a few other familiar faces. People in such a small tribe on the grassland come and go not regularly, and everyone is relieved to have familiar faces.

This small tribe built huts for the passing merchants. They lit a fire outside at night, and it was warm and comfortable inside. Don't treat yourself badly, there is a tent set up for him.

We all know that Young Master Jiang doesn't like greasy food, and he also buys special vegetables from Taiyuan Mansion. Young Master Jiang also has a reputation as a scholar, and he always reads books at night. Of course, the servants don't know that these are all legendary pornographic words. article.

Calculating that he will be able to arrive at Guihua City in a few days, Jiang Tuo has a good Mongolian lady in Guihua City, who is different from the women of Ming Dynasty. When Jiang Tuo thinks of this, his heart is very hot. In the tent, there is a special cupronickel heater, which makes the felt tent quite warm.

Jiang Tuo fell asleep in a daze, but woke up from the cold in the middle of the night. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the tent had been lifted, and several people were standing in front of him.

This small tribe has always been at ease, not to mention that he has a few capable guards with him, how could something happen, Jiang Tuo subconsciously yelled.

The shrill cry of help quickly spread throughout the small tribe, but no one came to rescue them. In the open space where the carriage was parked, the torches were brightly lit, and the Jiang family's men were tied up and thrown on the ground.

"My father has friendship with the magistrate of Taiyuan Prefecture, and my family is also related to the general of Yunshanwei. If you arrest me, you will cause disaster."

The men of Jiang's family were terrified, and a few old-fashioned ones were even more frightened when they heard what Jiang Tuo said. In this way, don't they think that they have lived a long life, and they will kill if they don't.

"A character like a rabbit, the grandpas are happy on the grassland, and the officials of Ming Dynasty are like birds!!"

The accent of this person was like that of Liao Town. He had just opened his mouth, but Mongolian words rang out on the other side. Some of the Jiang family's guys knew Mongolian, and they could understand that the meaning was to shut up the person who yelled.

There are Mongols and Han people. It seems that this is not the team of that family. This is the horse bandit. The place between Keguihua City and Datong Town is jointly protected by the Khan of the Alta Department and the general soldier of Datong Town. , Those who want to sell here without capital will be chased and killed by both sides to death without a burial.

Hearing the Mongolian words, Jiang Tuo thought it was a trick, and yelled again:
"I also have friendship with Senggedu Guleng Khan"

Before he finished speaking, he was caught and thrown to the ground, and he took the scabbard in his hand and beat him several times. Jiang Tuo had suffered so much before, and he was beaten and rolled all over the floor immediately. There were screams.

"Be honest and don't move, whoever dares to mess around, I want money and life!!"

Looking at this group of extremely vicious robbers, who dares to talk too much, can only watch helplessly as those robbers search everyone for their belongings, and the carts drive away.

In the end, everyone in the convoy had their eyes tied with black cloths. I don’t know how long it took. At dawn, someone came to take off the black cloths from their eyes. It turned out that they were people from this small tribe. That old Ke Liao also came out busy, and after asking, he found out that the day before yesterday was surrounded by hundreds of horse bandits, and all the dishonest people were tied up. If you lose your guard, solve them one by one.

"You also said that you were a soldier for Sun Daying, and that thieves did tricks, so you can't see it!"

"...When they came in, I was awake. I picked up the knife and put it right, but I was punched down. Damn, what kind of horse bandit has such a skill."

Jiang Tuo didn't hear the discussion of his leader and guards at all, he was frightened and angry at the same time, these bastard horse bandits, dared to touch the Jiang family's goods, dared to beat him in front of so many people, these medicinal materials made people feel sick. Going to Guihua City, at least 5000 taels of net profit, now being robbed by someone, how will I explain it when I go back.

"Master, what should I do?"

"You go to Guihua City on horseback, go to the nobles, and tell them that the medicinal materials you gave them were snatched by the horse bandits. Let's go back to Datong and sue the officials!!"

Jiang Tuo understood that when things got to this point, their Jiang family could do nothing more. As for how to sell these medicinal materials, it was really easy for those horse thieves. The small tribes on the grassland were willing to take cattle and horses for all kinds of medicinal materials. In exchange for gold and silver, in order to make it easier for the Mongols in Guihua City, the Jiang family took many medicines that can be used directly. These things are urgently needed by all tribes.

Jiang Tuo's face was contorted with anger, he gritted his teeth thinking that when the horse thieves were caught, he would have to see these horse thieves being cut into pieces on the grassland to feed the wolves.

On the other side of the small tribe, some people were already beating their chests and crying, and the few businessmen who partnered with Jiang's convoy naturally couldn't get any good. , I left the carriages and horses for the return journey for everyone.

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Since August, caravans traveling from Shanxi to Guihua City have been repeatedly robbed. The famous Huang's merchants in Shanxi and the Jiang family were all robbed by horse bandits on the grassland. They were all looted, and those small and medium-sized businessmen below were also robbed.

I answer and Daming have a joint agreement. It is legal for merchants to go out of the border to trade. They encountered thieves on the grassland. You can only go to the government to file a complaint.

Complaints and appeals are piled up in the government's value house. Fortunately, the actions of those horse bandits are quite regular, and the lives in their hands are less than ten, so it's fine to ignore the petitions of small and medium businessmen, but there are a few wealthy merchants, but there is a faint shadow behind them. The background of the appointment is amazing, but it doesn't matter whether it is.

And now a big man came from the capital, after all, such things are disgraceful, and if they fall into the eyes and ears of that big man, it will discredit everyone. If this master comes back to the capital and says a few words in front of the emperor, then everyone will Then it was unlucky, and it was necessary for the yamen and the government to discuss with each other and come up with a way to deal with it.

Wang Tong arrived in Taiyuan at the beginning of September. He first summoned the corresponding officials in the Shanxi Governor's Office. The Shanxi Governor, Shanxi Governor, Taiyuan Prefecture Prefect, and Datong Prefecture Prefect all came.

(End of this chapter)