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Chapter 167 The Crazy Grassland

Good and bad spirits, Master Zhang’s Crow’s Mouth once again misfortune, Fan Yongdou’s caravan was robbed by the Alxa tribe on the night of October 23th, and on the afternoon of the 5000rd, Tumei, one of the big tribes on the Horqin Grassland The tribe dispatched thousands of cavalry, and aggressively rushed into the tribe in Alxa.The Alashan cavalry who had just completed the task and returned to the tribe with rewards were caught off guard, and were immediately defeated by the Tumei cavalry. For a while, the Alashan tribe was full of flames, crying loudly, and Tumei cavalry slaughtered everywhere. There are scenes of beheading women, young and old in Alxa and looting money, cattle and sheep.Seeing that the situation was not good, Taiji Sangba of the Alashan'e tribe had to lead the remnants of the defeated generals to protect the remaining old and weak women and children to escape from the grassland and flee to the end of the world. The cavalry snatched away.

Now that the Alashan cavalry had brought back their rewards, the goods of the ten carriages naturally meant that they had fallen into the hands of Wang Laojiao's firm.But fortunately, the Tumei cavalry also captured more than a dozen people alive. After some torture, Chen Dabin, who came to contact the Tumei tribe on behalf of Fan Yongdou, quickly figured out the whereabouts of the goods—as early as last night, Ala The good cavalry has already handed over ten carriages to the Wang Laochao Chamber of Commerce in Daji (now the southwest suburb of Hiraizumi)!After interrogating this confession, Chen Dahe immediately jumped three feet high, and asked Tumei Taiji, who personally led the army to raid Alxa's old nest, to move his troops to fight chickens and take back the ten carriages.But this time, Tu Mei quit.

"Shopkeeper Chen, I can't agree to that." Tu Mei shook his head and said, "The chicken fight was on the Harqin Grassland. I took Horqin's cavalry there. Besides, Alashan'e robbed your goods, and I sent troops to help you get them back, so no one can say anything, but now Alashan'e has sold the goods to Wang Dengku's caravan , that is Wang Dengku’s stuff. If I go to rob Wang Dengku’s caravan again, then I will be a robber. When Tuxie Tuhan (Ouba) or Da Jinhan pursues it, I can’t explain it to Tumei—— —You also know that Wang Dengku has a good relationship with Tuxietu Khan and Da Jin Khan."

"Tumeitaiji, those goods were robbed by Wang Dengku in collusion with the Alashan'e tribe. They are the robbers. It is legal and reasonable for us to take them back." Chen Dabin wiped his sweat and pleaded: "Tumeitai Ji, can you negotiate with Dalai Taiji of Harqin, and explain to him that we are going to track down a batch of goods, and we will leave his grassland immediately after we find it."

"No, I don't have that kind of friendship with Dalaitaiji. You'd better go directly to Dalaitaiji yourself." Tu Mo refused to offend Wangdengku, which provided Jiannu Horqin with supplies in short supply all the year round.And Tumei's words also reminded Chen Dabin that if Tumei's army went to the Karaqin Grassland to track down the lost property, the price would definitely be increased, anyway, it would be a price increase, so it would be better to go directly to someone who also has some friendship with the Fan family firm When Karaqin arrived, his army was a local snake on the Karaqin grassland, and it was more convenient to do things.Thinking of this, Chen Dabin hastily bid farewell to Tumei: "Thank you Tumeitaiji for your advice, then I will go to Dalaitaiji to try it, and I will leave first. Our boss promised Tumeitaiji's things, Tumei Taiji can send someone to Zhangjiakou to get it at any time."

"Shopkeeper Chen, walk slowly." Tu Mei was not polite, and directly bid farewell to Chen Dabin.However, when Chen Dabing got on his horse, Tu Mei asked curiously again: "Master Chen, what are the ten carriages that you have been robbed of? Find it, the things inside must be very precious, right?"

"No, it's nothing." Chen Da didn't dare to say that it was a new type of musket that beat Tumi to the point of killing his brother Ouba not long ago at the entrance of Xifeng. In fact, it’s all silver, about one hundred thousand taels, that’s why we’re in such a hurry. Thank you Tumei Taiji, let’s say goodbye.” After finishing speaking, Chen Dahe hurried away with his entourage, fearing that Tumei’s continued questioning would show his feet .

"10 taels of silver? Why is Fan Manzi transporting so much silver from inside the pass to outside the pass?" Tu Mei wondered, "If it was a horse trader, there would be tens of thousands of war horses. Now Lin Dan is in conflict with the Horqin and Karaqin tribes. So powerful, how dare that tribe sell so many war horses? What should Lin Dan do if he suddenly comes over?" Thinking of this, Tu Mei beckoned to two confidants, and whispered to them: "Bring a few people, make up Become an ordinary businessman, follow Fan Manzi to the Karaqin Grassland, and ask me carefully what kind of goods Fan Manzi lost."

With the first doubt, there will naturally be a second doubt. Chen Daping hurried to the Karaqin Grassland, and after finding Taijida from the Karaqin tribe to explain his intentions, Dalai immediately questioned: "What kind of goods did you lose?" Of course, Chen Dabing still didn't dare to tell the truth, and only said that what was lost was cash.Dalai was skeptical, and after hesitating for a while, seeing that the food, tea bricks, salt, cloth, weapons and other supplies of his tribe needed the help of the Fan family business, Dalai reluctantly said: "Well, I can send troops to fight Chicken, help you find these ten carriages."

"Thank you Taiji." Chen Dabing was overjoyed and hurriedly expressed his thanks.But Dalai waved his hand again and said: "Don't worry, listen to me. I have something to say first. I can help you find those ten carriages, not help you get them back! At most, I will be a host for you." , as long as you can prove that the ten carriages belong to you, then the people from the Wang family firm will obediently return them to you. If it is proved that the carriages belong to you, the Wang family still wants to renege on their debts, so I have a reason to do it, right? "

Chen Dabing was nervously calculating—if Da Lai was asked to be the judge to determine the ownership of the carriage, then the cargo on the carriage would definitely not be exposed.But if he just forced Dalai to help him snatch the carriage back, Dalai would probably not agree to anything. After all, Wang Dengku's chamber of commerce also had connections on the Karaqin Grassland, and the Fan family's firm would also be bullied among its peers. notoriety.Thinking of this, Chen Dabin had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Thank you Taiji, but Taiji only needs to help us find the whereabouts of the ten carriages. We, the Fan family, can figure out how to get the carriages back."

"It's definitely not silver on the carriage!" Dalai was also Kalaqin Taiji, who was canonized by Jiannu. Hearing Chen Dabin's words, he naturally came to his senses—if it was really silver, there was nothing to be ashamed of. ?As long as he reported the amount of silver taels and the stamp on the silver ingot, he could help the Fan family get the silver back with a single sentence, and Wang Dengku, who was wronged, couldn't say anything.But now the Fan family doesn't even want to let the host do it themselves, if the money is still pulled on the carriage, it's really a ghost!Thinking of this, Da Lai hurriedly ordered the troops to be assembled, and he himself led the troops to go to fight chickens to find out what happened.

Two days later, a thousand cavalry led by Dalai arrived in Daji Town, and soon found Wang Dengku's little Wang Yaohua and his nephew Wang Guohua in the inn of this market town, but the ten carriages of the Fan family shop were nowhere to be seen. gone.At this point in the matter, Chen Dabin didn't care about the politeness and hypocrisy among his peers, relying on the Dalai army to temporarily stand by him, pointing at Wang Yaohua and Wang Guohua, he roared, "Wang, you are ruthless!" , You can even do black and white things! Tell me, where are the goods from our Fan family? Honestly hand it over, you can say anything, play tricks, our Fan family is playing tricks on you, Wang Laojiao!"

"Chen, keep your mouth clean!" Wang Yaohua scolded unceremoniously: "Your Fan Mao's goods have been robbed, so it's none of my business? I'm here to sell chickens and sell goods, you What evidence is there to prove that the goods are yours?"

"Yes, what evidence do you, Fan Maojia, have? Do you want to show another wine jar to prove it?" Wang Guohua echoed in a strange way.The two nouns Fanmao and Jiutanzi are Fan Yongdou's culprits. When Fan Yongdou was young, he went to Zhangjiakou and worked as a clerk to study business. The daughter-in-law who stayed in Shanxi's hometown couldn't bear the loneliness, so she put a cuckold on Fan Yongdou and hooked up with others. , gave birth to a child, the child was quietly strangled to death and buried, and Fan Yongdou's widowed mother secretly dug out the dead child and soaked it in a wine jar in order to preserve evidence. As a result, Fan Yongdou's original wife and adulterer disappeared for no apparent reason.This incident caused a lot of trouble at the time, and Fan Yongdou lost a lot of face. Fan hats and wine jars became the two taboos of Fan Yongdou's business—of course, they also became the two favorite words of Fan Yongdou's enemies.However, they are not sworn enemies, and generally they would not mention these two words in front of Fan Yongdou.

"Old Wang, I'm fighting with you!" Chen Dabin was really enraged, and rushed forward to wrestle with Wang Guohua.Da Lai next to him curiously asked Wang Yaohua who was watching the fun with a sneer: "Master Wang, what are you planning to sell when you come to hunt chicken? Why didn't you see your goods?"

"Is Dalai Taiji interested in buying a few of the new muskets of the barbarian army in Jimen?" Wang Yaohua didn't shy away, and asked Dalai directly with a smile.Dalai was taken aback, and asked in doubt: "New-style firearms? What new-style firearms..." At this point, Dalai, who was married to Horqin Oba, suddenly came to his senses, and exclaimed: "New-style firearms! Could it be Zhang? The new musket that the old barbarian killed Wu Keshan at the entrance of Xifeng?!"

Dalai's body and voice trembled when he said this. Although his army did not participate in the attack on Xifengkou, when Oba's army passed through his grassland, he sent a guide to guide Oba's cavalry. , so the guide was able to witness the power of the new musket with his own eyes - it can kill people invisible from a distance of more than 300 steps, and he also pointed at that and hit that without missing a shot!In the battle of Xifengkou, the Ming army only used two new muskets to kill nearly thirty senior generals of the Horqin cavalry!The Horqin army was terrified, and the generals ran away with their heads in their arms, and were forced to end the sneak attack.Such a terrifying weapon, if Dalai's army can have hundreds of them, who else can be the opponent of the Harqin cavalry on the prairie?At that time, Oba may turn to Feng Dalai as his brother!

"That's right, it's that new musket!" Wang Yaohua nodded triumphantly.Da Lai jumped off his horse, grabbed Wang Yaohua's sleeve and asked in surprise, "Where are you new guns from? How many are there?"

"Of course it was bought from the barbarian army." Wang Yaohua said triumphantly: "The quantity, there are 540 in total - Dalai Taiji, and there are only more than 500 in the barbarian army. Oh, we spent a lot of money. With less capital and hard work, I finally got it. How about it? If Dalai Taiji wants to buy it, I can make it cheaper for you, and I can even give you some projectiles!"

"I want it all!" Dalai waved his hand excitedly and shouted, "Where are the goods? I want all 540 pieces!"

"Da Lai Taiji, that's from our Fan family!" Chen Dabing was also anxious, got up from Wang Guohua, and yelled: "The 540 new-style muskets cost our Fan family a few 10 taels of silver." I just bought it, if you buy it, you can only buy it from our Fan family!"

"Shopkeeper Chen, didn't you say that the carriage you threw was full of silver?" Da Lai asked angrily.Chen Da was at a loss for words, Wang Guohua got up too, and said with a sneer, "That's right, since the carriage you lost was full of silver, then of course our new muskets will not be fan hats. Da Lai Taiji made it." As evidence, we have ten carriages pulling goods, but the carriages are full of new-style muskets and bullets, not Fan Mao’s wine jars and silver.”

"Yes, I can testify for you." Da Lai was not an idiot either. He rolled his eyes and said, "You two shopkeepers Wang Shao, where is your musket cart? Please take it out, and I will testify for you. If the ten carriages are loaded with new-style muskets, it proves that the ten carriages belong to you; if the ten carriages are filled with silver, it proves that they belong to the Fan family. It will be done with justice."

"Damn, if you take it out, you Tatars won't take it all away?" Wang Yaohua and Wang Guohua groaned inwardly.After exchanging glances, Wang Yaohua smiled and said, "Dalai Taiji, it's not that we don't believe you, it's just that these new muskets are too important and expensive, so we hid these ten carriages in a place that only our Wang family company knows— If you want to buy Dalai Taiji, we will spend as much as you buy."

"Damn, these barbarians are really cunning." Dalai cursed secretly, but his face changed into a smile, and he asked tentatively: "Wang Shaodong's family, how many taels do you plan to sell?"

"2000 taels of silver each!" Wang Yaohua raised two fingers and said slowly, "Each new musket will give you [-] bullets! You can pay cash, or you can exchange horses, cattle and sheep."

"So expensive?! A musket is worth more than 200 horses?" Dalai gasped.Wang Yaohua smiled and said: "There is a reason why you are expensive. Don't Dalai Taiji know that Zhang Haogu was at the entrance of Xifeng, but two of these new muskets defeated the tens of thousands of Tuxietu Khan's army! Come to Taiji, please think again, if you have dozens or even hundreds of these muskets in your hand, who else can be your opponent on the prairie? Are you afraid that you won’t be able to get back this capital?”

"Yes." Wang Guohua echoed, "Dalaitaiji, you are lucky enough to catch up. If Tuxietuhan and Dajinhan know that we have these new muskets, no matter how expensive they are, they will buy them all. no?"

"You two shopkeepers Wang Shao, can you have less? 2000 taels of silver is too exaggerated." Da Lai asked in a begging tone.Wang Yaohua shrugged his shoulders, first glanced at Chen Dabin who was glaring beside him, and then replied to Dalai: "Dalai Taiji, for the sake of our previous friendship, the price can be negotiated, but before that, please ask Dalai Come to Taiji to protect our safety, and we will negotiate the price slowly. Also, please come to Taiji to drive away those who don’t like us from playing chicken.”

"Success, success, the two young storekeepers will live in my golden tent outside Daji Town, and keep you safe." Dalai agreed, then pointed at Chen Da and shouted: "Come on, return this guy to me." With his entourage, drive them all away from me!"

In order to dominate the grassland, and in order not to suffer from Oba’s uselessness, he had to yell at Oba’s affectionately one by one, and for Oba’s army to step on his own grassland no longer sent guides to lead the way, and even more aggressively. Xifengkou swept Shuntianfu (Beijing)!It can be said that Dalai has risked everything, even his old friend Fan Yongdou has lost face!But what Dalai never imagined in his dreams was that before he had settled the price with Wang's firm, Tumei's cavalry first stationed at the edge of the Karaqin Grassland, and Tumei's envoy also rushed to Daji covered in dust. , to submit a transaction request to Wang's firm.Then the envoys from the neighboring Tumote Ministry, Bushitutaiji envoys, and tribal envoys with some influence in the Neikalka Grassland also came. They pretended to invite old friends Wang's business to visit their big account, but in fact they wanted to What to do—Dalai can guess it even if he thinks with his toes!As for why the news spread so fast and spread so widely, Da Lai couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to—the conscience of heaven and earth, it was all created by the Wang Dengku Chamber of Commerce himself, and Master Zhang really didn't play tricks in the middle this time!

With so many people staring at the muskets of the Wang Dengku Chamber of Commerce, Wang Guohua and Wang Yaohua's cousins, holding the sweets in their hands, naturally no longer let go easily, and they will no longer give in at the price of 600 taels of silver!But Dalai Taiji, the land snake, did not find the burial place of the new musket after digging the mountains and holes near Daji. He also heard news that Oba’s envoy was already on the way, and also heard that there was an envoy from Lin Danhan, who seemed to be the best in Mongolia. It seemed that he was rushing here, and Dalai finally couldn't bear to show his cards - he bought fifty pieces with 8 taels of silver, with a down payment of 3 taels, and the remaining 5 taels. !Brother Wang Guohua, who was equally shrewd, told Dalai that if Dalai really couldn't afford so much silver, then we could sell 3 of them to Dalai's army at a price of [-] taels of silver!The condition is that the Harqin army must ensure the safety of the Wang family brothers in the Karaqin grassland, send troops to escort the Wang family brothers back to Zhangjiakou in the future, and allow the Wang family brothers to negotiate with Lin Dan, Auba and Nurhachi on the Karaqin grassland Trading—these three are the ones who can eat the remaining [-] new muskets!

The well-known Iron Rooster Wang's firm took the initiative to make concessions and offered such favorable conditions. Dalai was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly patted his chest to agree to all the conditions of the Wang brothers, and seized the time to prepare to entertain the distinguished guests.But what Dalai and the Wang family brothers never imagined in their dreams was that before the envoys of Oba and Lindan arrived in Daji, a huge bad news came first. The Jiannu army with the best relationship with Fan Yongdou crossed Changshan Town and entered Horqin Mongolian Grassland, led by Yue Tuo, the eldest son of Dabeile Daishan, led the main force of the Xianghong Banner and Xianghuang Banner, and came to the Harqin Grassland aggressively!The banner of the teacher is to maintain fair trade in the market!Punish illegal profiteers!After hearing the news, Horqin Oba and Mongolian Lindan Khan were not to be outdone, and dispatched elite troops to the Karaqin Grassland under the banner of protecting the legitimate interests of merchants and ensuring smooth trade routes!

"Is this grassland crazy? More than 500 model guns for training can make such a big noise?" This is Young Master Zhang's evaluation of these situations.At the same time, Young Master Zhang was secretly surprised, "Although those model guns are all made in a one-to-one ratio, in order to let the soldiers know the weight, even the barrels are drilled, and the weight error is not more than half a tael, but as long as you fire one shot, you Do you know if it’s true or not? Could it be that after Wang Dengku’s son and nephew got the model gun, they were so urgent that they didn’t even try to shoot it, so they just hid it?”

"Since everyone is crazy, I will also be crazy and add fire to you. If you can fight, the pressure on Jimen's defense line will be relieved a lot." After talking to himself, Young Master Zhang called Zhang Shitou came, and he whispered in his ear: "Shitou, send someone reliable back to the capital, and bring a message to my elder brother Liu Ruozai, asking him to come forward to impeach the Jimen supervisor, Fu Gonggong, who stole the Jimen firearm secretly. Ku's new muskets were sold to the Tartar tribes...."

"Master, are you crazy? We sold those muskets together with Eunuch Fu! What if the imperial court sends someone to find out the truth?"

"Don't worry about it, when did something go wrong with your young master and me?"

(End of this chapter)