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Chapter 166 Foresight
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"This... what the hell is this?" Looking at the aggressive Tatar cavalry, the people of Fan Ji Company were completely dizzy.If the suddenly killed Tatar cavalry came from the Chahar tribe, it would make sense. After all, since Altan Khan, the Chahar tribe has been trading peacefully with Ming Dynasty for more than [-] years, and they get along quite happily. In the Haer tribe, there even emerged Mongolian warriors such as Mangui and others who were loyal to Ming Dynasty.But this Tatar cavalry that came suddenly seemed to come from the deadly enemy of the Ming army, the Alashan Erut tribe in the Horqin Grassland—if this is not wrong, then the situation of this matter is too complicated up.

"Allah! Allah! Allah!" Amidst the strange shouts, the Tatar cavalry charged closer and closer.As for the more than 500 people in the Fan Family Company who were on foot and on horseback, with ten heavy carriages loaded with weapons, it was obviously impossible to escape directly.In desperation, Fan Yongdou could only yell: "Arrange to meet the enemy, unfurl the banner of our Fan family's company, and then hoist the white flag. No arrows are allowed without orders. I want to talk to the prince of Tatar."

Fortunately, the caravan of the Fan family company has been walking outside the customs for a long time, and the whole caravan has some experience in fighting the enemy. After Fan Yongdou's order was issued, more than 500 men quickly raised their weapons, drew their bows and arrows to aim at the incoming enemy, and shot out at the same time. Fan's business flag and white flag, said the request for negotiations.Fortunately, the sudden killing of the Tatar cavalry was more or less unreasonable. After rushing in front of them, they did not launch an attack. Instead, they surrounded the Fan family caravan heavily, and then a Tatar general stood up and spoke bluntly. shouted in Chinese: "Leave the carriage, let you... go! Otherwise, kill them all!"

"Is it a Mongolian warrior from the Alxa Erut tribe?" After careful identification of the accent, Fan Yongdou was sure that the person who came was the Tatar cavalry of the Alxa Erut tribe. The Ministry is just a small tribe that split off, with a small population, and is often bullied by the Ming army and Lin Dan army. It is closer to Horqin Auba's tribe—in other words, it is also closer to the eight major locust merchants of Mite Qing.So Fan Yong took the courage to stand up and shouted in proficient Mongolian: "We are the caravan of Fan's House in Zhangjiakou, and we have a very good relationship with you Samba Taiji. Please come out and answer."

"We are not the Alxa Erut tribe." The Tatar general denied it, but repeated, "Put down your weapons and carriages and let you go, otherwise, kill!"

"Fuck you, these bastards are determined to rob me." Fan Yongdou's heart sank—since the enemy categorically denied his identity, it was clear that he wanted to blackmail him.After a little calculation, Fan Yongdou saw that there was no trace of the enemy, so he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Go back to Malanyu and ask the defenders there for help!"

"Kill!" The Fan family caravan shouted, turned around and rushed back the way they came.Over there, the Tatar general of the Erut tribe in Alxa waved his hand, and the Tatar cavalry fired arrows, which rained down on the Fan family caravan, and the screams immediately echoed on the prairie.All of a sudden, arrowheads were coming and going in the sky, the Fan family caravan on the ground desperately broke through, and the Tatar cavalry tried their best to block it.And on the beacon tower in the distance, Young Master Zhang crawled on the pile of silver like a dog, while counting the gleaming silver, while listening to the dying screams of the Tatar cavalry and the Fan family's caravan guys, he couldn't stop laughing. They couldn't fit together.

After all, the Fan family caravan brought ten heavy carriages, and the speed of breaking through the encirclement was slow. They did not break out of the encirclement after several charges, and the caravan staff suffered heavy casualties instead.In desperation, Fan Yongdou, who had some battlefield experience, could only shout: "Leave the carriage and lightly ride towards Malanyu to break through!"

"Boss, this is 25 taels of silver!" Chen Dabin who was beside him exclaimed.Fan Yongdou slapped Chen Dabin's face fiercely, and shouted: "If you lose the goods, you can get them back. If you lose your life, you will lose everything. Protect me and go back to Malanyu, and let the old eunuch Fu send troops to help us get it back." Goods!" Chen Dabing suddenly realized, and hurriedly commanded the cavalry to protect Fan Yongdou, and Qingqi rushed back to Malanyu to ask the Ming army for help.The target of the Tatar cavalry was only the ten carriages, they did not chase and kill the Fan family caravan, but turned around and ran away after grabbing the ten carriages.

After throwing down [-] or [-] corpses, they managed to break out of the encirclement and rushed back to the Malanyu Pass covered in blood. The lights on the Malanyu Pass were already brightly lit, and thousands of Ming soldiers were standing guard to prevent the Tatar cavalry from attacking the pass.Before the Fan family caravan got close to the closed wall, someone shouted, "Stop! If you don't stop, you will shoot and shoot arrows!" Fan Yongdou hurriedly shouted: "Don't shoot arrows! We are Han people! We are Merchants in Zhangjiakou! We were robbed by Tatar cavalry, please ask Fu Gonggong, the supervisor of Jimen, to come out and answer!"

"Only one person is allowed to come here!" The general of the Ming army who closed the gate shouted and ordered.Fan Yongdou had no choice but to wave his hand to stop the buddy, and ran to the bottom of the closed wall alone, shouting at the top of the closed wall: "Fu Gonggong, Fu Gonggong, I want to see Fu Gonggong, I have something urgent." The Ming army did not make things difficult for Fan Yongdou, but quickly replied: "Wait a while, Mr. Fu has already rested, let's go invite them. Don't move around, or we will shoot arrows!"

I don't know how long it took before Fu Yi, the supervisor of Jimen, appeared on the wall and shouted at Fan Yongdou, "Why are you back again? What happened, and you're still covered in blood?"

"Eunuch Fu, we were robbed by the Tatars." Fan Yongdou remained calm and did not question whether the Tatar cavalry outside the pass colluded with the Malanyu defenders, but shouted and pleaded: "Eunuch Fu, please send troops with General Yang, Help us get the goods back!"

"Snatched by Tatar? Why are you so unlucky?" Fu Yi asked with an exaggerated exclamation.Fan Yongdou was sweating profusely in anxiety, and shouted: "I don't know where the problem is. I don't know what happened. The Tatar soldiers in Alashan knew that we were trading today, and they had arranged an ambush beforehand. Stolen our goods! But they haven't gone far, please help Eunuch Fu and General Yang, send troops to help us get the goods back, our Fan family will definitely have a big thank you!"

"Send troops to help you get it back? This matter... is not easy." Fu Yi hesitated.Yang Haichuan, the guard of Malanyu, stood up and shouted to Fan Yongdou: "This is impossible! Tell the shopkeeper Chen that if the goods of your Fan family are robbed in the customs, then we will definitely send troops to help you get back the goods." But if your caravan is robbed, we won’t be able to send troops—otherwise, in the future, once the military supervisor investigates it, we will definitely be suspected of smuggling in Malanyuguan!”

"General Yang, isn't your supervisor in Jimen standing next to you?" Fan Yongdou's nose almost turned out of anger.Yang Haichuan looked at Fu Yi in surprise, and smiled awkwardly: "I really forgot, Mr. Fu, what do you think we should do? Should we send troops?"

"This is really difficult." Fu Yi said with a embarrassed expression: "It's okay if it's in Gubeikou or Xifengkou, but Malanyuguan is not a border market. Our family sent troops to help the caravan get back the goods. Our family Don't you have to be charged with colluding with unscrupulous businessmen to smuggle prohibited materials? Besides, we agreed at the beginning that our family is only responsible for sending the goods to Malanyuguan for trading, and it will no longer be our business after that. In this way, you call the shopkeeper Chen Dabing, and our family will discuss with him face to face."

"I am the biggest shopkeeper of Fan Ji Company, Fan Yongdou!" At this point, Fan Yongdou couldn't care less about keeping his identity secret, and shouted, "Eunuch Fu, please ask for a price. How much money do you want? Are you willing to send troops?"

"Aren't you shopkeeper Chen's attendant? How could it be Fan Yongdou Fan Da shopkeeper?" Fu Yi asked with a face full of surprise.At this time, Chen Dabing also bravely ran over and testified for Fan Yongdou: "Eunuch Fu, he is really our shopkeeper Fan Da! It's just that he was inconvenient to show up a few days ago, so he pretended to be my entourage! Eunuch Fu, hurry up and make an offer, if the Tatar cavalry run away, they will chase after them!"

"Shopkeeper Fan Da, this is not mean to you." Our father-in-law Fu became angry and shouted: "Our family sincerely trades with you, but you still hide your identity and refuse to reveal your identity. Who do you think our family is? Forget it." , your money, our family doesn't want it anymore, you go, our family has already delivered the goods to you, so there is no need to snatch the stolen goods back for you!"

"Eunuch Fu, Eunuch Fu, it's the grassroots who are not good, and the grassroots shouldn't hide your identity from you!" Fan Yongdou was really anxious. He jumped off the horse and bowed and bowed, and cried with a mournful face: "How about this, Eunuch Fu, the grassroots are willing to honor the father-in-law 1 taels of silver! I just ask my father-in-law to forgive me and send troops to help!"

"1 taels? Where is the 1 taels? Why didn't our family see it?" Eunuch Fu, who had been greedy for money since ancient times and was about to cut off the relationship with the Fan family business with a straight face just now, put away his face and asked Fan Yongdou again. .Fan Yongdou wiped off his sweat, and shouted: "Caomin doesn't have any now. When Caomin returns to Zhangjiakou, I will definitely send one or two taels to Eunuch Fu! Don't worry, Caomin has always kept promises in Zhangjiakou and Shanxi. One sentence is accurate, and I have never relied on other people's debts!"

"But shopkeeper Fan Da, when you gave our family a deposit of 1 taels of silver, our family issued a receipt for you." Thinking of the fact that I had been worrying about that handwritten receipt for a few nights and couldn't sleep well, Fu Yi took the opportunity to explode and said, "Master Fan Da, don't say you don't know about this matter, since you don't believe our family is here First of all, why should our family trust your verbal promise?"

Fan Yongdou was speechless, at the beginning his chamber of commerce asked Fu Yi to write a receipt in order to avoid Fu Yi's repudiation, but now Fu Yi forced him to write his own IOU, which can be regarded as reciprocating retaliation.After some calculations, Fan Yongdou gritted his teeth and said, "Grandpa Fu, please put down the Four Treasures of the Study, Caomin will write you an IOU - Caomin borrowed 1 taels of silver from you tonight!"

"2 taels!" Fu Yi said slowly, "Shopkeeper Fan, our family can't let the soldiers of Malanyuguan go to waste, can they?"

With things at this point, what room does Fan Yongdou have for bargaining?However, Fan Yongdou still hesitated when he pressed his fingerprint on the IOU written by himself, and he hesitated for a long time before pressing it down.When Fu Yi was wondering, Young Master Zhang, who was sitting next to Fu Yi with his back against the arrow stack, said lazily: "Grandpa Fu, he is suspecting that the Tatar cavalry outside the pass were arranged by us to eat black people." , I am afraid that we will eat the last one and eat the next one, so you just make it clear and tell him to forget about it. In order to prove your innocence, you don't chase this batch of goods and let him send someone to investigate Where the goods are going."

"Tan Hua Lang is really clever." Fu Yi agreed with a sly smile, and then pretended to shout angrily: "Master Fan Da, it seems that you are suspicious of the Tatar soldiers outside the pass, and our family arranged to eat you." Since you think so, let’s forget about this matter, you can send someone to check the whereabouts of the goods yourself, and our family doesn’t have to worry about the crime of sending troops out of the customs without permission! Farewell!” Say it, turn your head and leave .

"Eunuch Fu, wait!" His thoughts were seen through, and he recalled that there was indeed a deep blood feud between the Alashan Erut tribe and the Ming army, and the possibility of being bribed by the Ming army was extremely small. Fan Yongdou finally gave up his mind and pressed Called Fu Yi to stop with his handprint, held up the IOU and shouted: "Eunuch Fu, the IOU has been written by the grassroots, please send troops."

"Send a thousand troops, be careful about the safety of the army." Young Master Zhang said darkly, "Let the Tatar soldiers take away the goods. If you can catch a few survivors, they will be handed over to Fan Yongdou for interrogation."

With the help of a thousand soldiers of the Ming army, the Fan family caravan immediately turned around and rushed to the scene of the robbery, but the cavalry of the Alxa Erut tribe had already run far away, and the Ming army was a mixture of infantry and cavalry, and their mobility was far inferior The Tartar cavalry, coupled with the Ming army's soldiers had hinted that they should not work too hard, so although the Ming army pretended to chase them for more than 30 miles, they still let the Alashan Erut tribe's army slip away with their goods.When chasing to the watershed, Yang Haichuan, the leader of the team, refused to chase after saying anything, "Retract the troops, withdraw the troops, the whole army turns around and returns to Malanyu."

"Why didn't you chase after him?" Fan Yongdou rushed to ask Yang Haichuan when he realized that the team had stopped.Yang Haichuan pointed to the sun that had already climbed the top of the mountain, and said with a wry smile: "Master Fan, the time has already passed, and the brothers have not had water or rice all night, so they have a little dry food on their bodies. If they continue to chase, they will be shot by the Tatar cavalry." The ambush, my more than 1000 people will not be able to go back."

"But what about my goods?" Fan Yongdou roared with bloodshot eyes.Yang Haichuan shrugged his shoulders and replied: "You can't ask me about this. The shopkeeper Fan Da should go to Fu Gonggong. By the way, you can't ask Fu Gonggong. The shopkeeper Fan Da should find another way."

"What?" Fan Yongdou was about to explode on the spot.Fortunately, at this time a team of Ming cavalry scouts rushed back, threw a tightly bound Tatar cavalry in front of them, and reported: "General Yang, we caught a horse who was injured and left alone. Tatar soldiers."

"Are any of our people injured?" Yang Haichuan was more concerned about this.The scout of the Ming army replied: "A brother was hacked by him. Fortunately, the injury is not serious and has been bandaged." Yang Haichuan heaved a sigh of relief, and then turned to Fan Yongdou and said, "It's okay, shopkeeper Fan. I'll catch you." When you arrive at a living victim, the whereabouts of the goods, and who else is behind the scenes, you go and torture yourself. Farewell, we have to go first."

"Retreat, retreat, return to the pass!" Amidst the shouts, more than a thousand soldiers of the Ming army turned around and lined up, following Yang Haichuan's flag and marching away, leaving Fan Yongdou and hundreds of employees of the Fan's firm in a daze.Full of resentment, he looked at the departing Ming army, and then gritted his teeth at the Tatar cavalry prisoners who were tied up like rice dumplings. Fan Yongdou squeezed out a sentence through his teeth, "Take the prisoners and go back to Zhangjiakou! Find out who is behind it. Whoever did it, I will kill him all over the house!"

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Leaving aside the fact that young master Zhang, Fu Yi and other profiteers were distributing the money at the entrance of Malanyuguan with a smile that could not close their mouths, it is just that the Fan family company took the captives back to Zhangjiakou. On the way, Fan Yongdou couldn't wait to torture the captives. .Fortunately, the prisoner quickly revealed the truth after being whipped more than a dozen times—the goods were indeed stolen by the cavalry of the Alxa Erut tribe, and the instigator was Fan Yongdou's business enemy, Wang Dengku's nephew Wang Guohua !

After further questioning, Fan Yongdou found out that the Alashan Erut tribe was often bullied by the Ming army and Lin Dan Khan's army in turn because the tribe was thousands of miles away. This small tribe, whose fertile grasslands are often robbed by other Mongolian tribes, has a very difficult life. Even if they want to buy some smuggled goods, they don’t have much money to exchange for cattle and sheep—only Wang Dengku’s penny-pinching old man Willing to deal with the Alxa tribe, even a horse and a cow can be directly traded with the Wang family firm, so among the eight traitor firms, only the weaker Wang Dengku has the best relationship with the Alxa tribe.This time, Wang Dengku's nephew, Wang Guohua, offered the Alxa'e tribe a high price of 5000 taels of silver and [-] shi for grain. Of course, the Alxa'e tribe, who were so poor that they were shorts, were willing to serve, so this was the scene of the robbery at night.

"Old Wang, you are ruthless!" Faced with this confession, Fan Yongdou almost fainted out of breath, and roared, beating his chest and feet, "I spent nearly 30 taels of silver planting peaches, and you picked them up as soon as you stretched out your hand! If I don’t take revenge, I swear I won’t be a human being!”

"Boss shopkeeper, take revenge!" Chen Dabin, who was also furious, shouted: "Go back to Zhangjiakou, mobilize everyone immediately, and wipe out Wang Laogou's family!"

"Slap!" Fan Yongdou slapped Chen Dabin's face hard, and roared with a livid face: "Revenge in Zhangjiakou? Are you just a show for the barbarian army in Xuanfu? On the line of the little barbarian, the old eunuch Wei opened his mouth, Qin Shiwen, the governor of the Xuan Mansion who just built a living temple for the old eunuch Wei in Xuan Mansion, can immediately lead the barbarian army to wipe us out! How can I be so stupid like you buddy?"

"Then..., then take care of Wang Laogou outside the pass." Chen Dabin covered his red and swollen face and said, "Anyway, we all know the line of Wang Laogou outside the pass, and send people to destroy all his caravans one by one. Already!"

Fan Yongdou tried to think calmly, and finally shook his head and said, "No, it's too slow! Since more than 500 new muskets fell into the hands of Wang Laogou, whether it is Nurhachi Khan, Daishan Dabeile, or Horqin The famous Tushetuhan Ouba and Sibeile will definitely regard him as a guest of honor and deliberately win over him. By then, Wang Laogou will become a tiger's butt. If we attack his caravan, Wang Laogou will definitely They will in turn instruct the army of these people to attack our caravan!"

"Then, what should we do?" Chen Dabing asked with a sad face.Fan Yongdou made some calculations and shouted: "Send someone to contact Tumeitaiji's tribe immediately. His grassland is the closest to the Alxa Erut tribe. Ask him to send troops to help us get back the goods and destroy the Alxa Erut tribe! Remember, don't let Tumeitaiji know what we lost! Also, find the killers in the rivers and lakes for me, and spend money to kill Wang Laogou!"

"Yes, I'll arrange it now!" Chen Dabing quickly agreed.But Fan Yongdou shouted again: "Wait a minute, buy a few more killers, and cut off the head of Zhang Haogu's little dog by the way! Damn it, this time Wang Laobao can know the location and location of our transaction." Time, nine times out of ten is the wind of this little dog!"

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"Every man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade. I am afraid that the Alxa tribe will be in bad luck this time." At the same time, on the wall of Malanyuguan, after basically finding out that the tribe bought by Wang Dengku was the Alxa tribe, Young Master Zhang expressed emotion.After some calculations, Young Master Zhang ordered: "Shitou, find some Mongolian businessmen and ask them to bring a message to Samba Taiji of the Alashan E tribe, telling them that when they are desperate, they can submit their families to my Ming army. I guarantee the safety of the lives and properties of their tribesmen!"

"A small Tatar tribe, it's time to die. When did you change your temper and become so kind?" Song Xiance asked with his mouth curled.Young Master Zhang smiled and replied: "If I don't set an example of surrender, in the future when I take the initiative to attack the treacherous tribes who have colluded with the slaves, where will I go to find the cannon fodder army?"

(End of this chapter)