Han ride

Chapter 153
Not to mention the conspiracy and calculations between the two in the back residence of the General Military Mansion, but in the Fan family of the eight great families, Fan Yongdou and other heads of the eight great families gathered together again.

"Unexpectedly, Li Xin is so powerful. Hou Shilu and Lin Danhan are not Li Xin's opponents together, and let him severely damage the coalition forces. What should we do?" Jin Liangyu said with a sigh.In this battle, he was so frightened that he almost couldn't escape from Lin Danhan.

"This time he was lucky." Wang Dengku snorted coldly.

"Things have come to this point now, Li Xin's tens of thousands of troops are gathered outside Zhangjiakou, and the situation is getting more and more complicated." Fan Yongdou said softly: "Right now, we may have a problem."

"Brother Fan, what do you say?" Tian Shenglan asked softly.

"The reason why Hou Shilu sent troops this time was, in the final analysis, because our eight great families wrote a letter. In the end, we offered a plan to persuade Lin Danhan to deal with Li Xin together. But in the end, Lin Danhan fought with the imperial army, causing the imperial court to lose troops. Do you think Cao Huachun will let us go?" Fan Yongdou sighed, "It would be a good thing to win this battle, but if he fails at this time, how will he explain to the court? This scapegoat will definitely not escape."

"Could it be that he can't deal with us?" Wang Dengku said disdainfully: "Our eight great families sit in Xuanfu, and the strength in the court is not comparable to that of Hou Shilu or Cao Huachun. How will they deal with us?"

"Actually, I'm worried that Li Xin's special envoy has already arrived in Zhangjiakou." Fan Yongdou sighed, "Li Xin will not give up this opportunity. In the imperial court, but he didn’t, and came to the grassland instead, this time with the help of the imperial court, Lin Dan Khan’s power was weakened, Li Xin’s strength can already unify the grassland, he will not let us go.”

"Then what should we do?" Zhai Tang and the others changed their expressions, and said, "What should we do? We can be what we are today because we transport the goods from the Central Plains to the grassland. If Li Xin can unify the grassland, Then how should we transport the goods? What should I do with the Eight Great Aristocratic Families?"

"This is also a problem." Fan Yongdou also frowned, and said: "There are three roads before us now. The first road is to change the way we used to be. We will focus on the Central Plains. The second is to Continue to be an enemy of Li Xin, and do everything possible to deal with Li Xin. The third is to attach to Li Xin, or to buy Li Xin. Everything we get from Jian Nu will make up for our losses."

"Nowadays in the Central Plains, there is the Mi family in the south, the Xiao family in the north, and the Fang family among them. The merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are not very compatible with our Shanxi merchants!" Wang Dengku was silent for a while, and said: "And with Li Xin If the enemy is the enemy, we will win over the tribes on the grassland that have not yet been collected by Li Xin, integrate them, and pose a threat to Li Xin. This method means that we will be in a long period of time. Any gain. The loss is unknown.”

"You want to attach yourself to Li Xin?" Zhai Tang said slightly dissatisfied.

"What else?" Wang Dengku sighed, "The reason why we are called Shanxi merchants is actually to send goods from the Central Plains to the grasslands to obtain huge profits. Now that Li Xin is sweeping the grasslands, in the near future, The prairie will be surnamed Li. We Shanxi people used to be poor and afraid, so we came to Zhangjiakou to find good opportunities for the development of our Shanxi merchants. We lost the huge market of the grassland. Without this road, we are nothing. Soon he will be persecuted by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River."

"We have done a lot of things against Li Xin during this time, do you think he will spare us?" Fan Yongdou sneered.

"Brother Fan, he has no choice but to use us." Wang Dengku said with a confident look, "Li Xin occupies the grassland and is inherently at a disadvantage. If he wants to be normal, he must need materials from the Central Plains. If he has ambitions, he will need us all the more. The intelligence and supplies of the Central Plains all need merchants like us, are you right?"

"Compared to Jiannu, I still don't believe in Li Xin. Jiannu has his own nation, but what does Li Xin have? It's just a temporary unification of the grasslands, and the foundation is shallow. I'm afraid it will be bad for us to cooperate with him!" Fan Yongdou pondered Said for a moment.

"Don't we do this kind of thing?" Wang Dengku swept the crowd with a smile and said, "Isn't Lin Danhan the same? We can't beat Li Xin as Lin Danhan." Everyone was silent for a while. , it was also Lin Dan Khan who unified the grassland back then, didn't the Eight Great Aristocratic Families do business with Jiannu?

"That's not bad." Fan Yongdou thought for a while, and said, "Brother Wang is a little bit reasonable, I don't know what you think? We have to pay more to rely on Li Xin, and of course we will be the same as before, and we will also be able to earn money." Many of them can even continue to do business with Jiannu. If they disagree, we have to find another way to go to Jiannu. Or open up the road to the south. Now it's up to you to choose."

"So what? Can we still choose the opportunity now?" Zhai Tang finally sighed softly: "Without relying on Li Xin, we can only develop southward, and the gentry in the south will not let us enter the south." And here to send goods to Jiannu, where can we find a way? Shanhaiguan, that place is not something we can conquer with money, and the imperial court will not allow our things to pass through Shanhaiguan.”

"Then who is willing to see Li Xin, what do we have to pay?" Fan Yongdou glanced at the crowd, seeing that they didn't speak, he could only speak lightly.

"The heavy snow is coming, Li Xin has just defeated the imperial court and Lin Danhan, and I don't know how many soldiers he has gathered. Li Xin has to feed so many people, how can he do it without food and grass? What do you think of a million stones of food and grass?" Fan Yongdou lightly He said softly: "If we can pay this time, we will get more in the future. Everyone, what do you think?"

"Apart from this method, do we still have a choice?" Everyone could only shake their heads secretly.The so-called power cannot match swords and guns. Li Xin has an army of nearly [-]. If the eight great families want to continue to do business, they must pass through the grassland. Li Xin controls the grassland, which is equivalent to controlling the veins of the eight great families. , you have to agree to Li Xin, you have to rely on Li Xin.

(End of this chapter)