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Chapter 210 Behind the scenes
Although Xiaopuzi joined the Fanji firm for a long time, he didn't stay with Fan Yongdou for a long time. Therefore, when Fan Yongdou and Wang Binghong talked secretly, Xiaopuzi didn't say that he had the opportunity to talk, and even stood on the spot to listen. There is no chance, so it is useless for the small shop to be anxious, and can only rack its brains to find a way to prepare to bring this news out.On the other hand, Fan Yongdou and Chen Dabin directly led Wang Binghong into the back hall for a banquet, and had a secret talk alone.

The wine is very good. There are Fenjiu from Shanxi that is a tribute to the imperial court and Luzhou Laojiao from Sichuan. You can choose at will. The mandarin fish and mandarin fish are all brought from the south of the Yangtze River, and half an hour ago they were fresh fish. It is not surprising that such dishes are worth thousands of dollars in Zhangjiakou.Faced with such delicious food and wine, Wang Binghong, who only had some dried fish on the dinner table during the Chinese New Year, of course had to shake off his cheeks and munch. Got an idea, after eating this meal, you won't have to eat for the whole day tomorrow, right? ——In fact, Wang Binghong did have this idea.

After finally waiting for Wang Binghong to eat a meal that can only be eaten by four people, Fan Yongdou, who had been smiling and waiting patiently, asked with a smile: "Master Wang, the meals made by the cook at my husband's house, Are you still appetizing? If you like it, tomorrow the old man will ask the cook to make another table and send it to the house, so that shopkeeper Wang Shao's family can also taste it."

"Thank you, shopkeeper Fan Da, the food and drinks are really good—but I have a lot of people in my family, can I send two tables?" Wang Binghong, who was belching, almost made the jaws of Fan Yongdou and Chen Dabin drop to the ground.After cursing inwardly, it is worthy of being the third pick in Shanxi, Fan Yongdou smiled and said: "It's easy to say, big cake, remember, I will send three tables of such wine and vegetables to the shopkeeper Wang Shao tomorrow."

"Thank you, shopkeeper Fan Da, now the younger generation's family will be blessed." Wang Binghong was overjoyed, thanked him quickly, and then said comprehendingly: "Treasurer Fan Da, Wu Erhua and Ma Jun opened in the bank account of the younger generation the year before last. After opening the account, the circulation of money in the past was not very large. It was not until some time ago that Zhangjiakou's defenders stepped up the investigation of smuggling, and the circulation of money in their accounts increased, and a large part, almost accounting for Fifty percent of the income in silver was transferred to a third, a stranger's account."

"Who is the owner of this third account?" Fan Yongdou asked quickly.Wang Binghong stopped talking, just looked at Fan Yongdou and smiled, Fan Yongdou was taken aback for a while, then came back to his senses, smiled and said: "If my nephew is willing to tell me about this account and everything my nephew knows, The old man’s bank account in Zhangjiakou will be exchanged with my nephew’s bank note tomorrow.”

"Treasurer Fan Da, divulging the secrets of customer officials is a taboo in our banking industry." Wang Binghong said politely: "Treasurer Wu Er and shopkeeper Ma Da are in the small bank, and now they are the two biggest customers. Official, the trumpet doesn't want to lose these two customers, so the big shopkeeper's general account in Zhangjiakou and the trumpet's bank notes can be deposited and exchanged. The bank in the south of the Yangtze River can deposit and withdraw the bank notes with the shopkeeper Fan Da's bank in the bank in the south of the Yangtze River, and the younger generation will be grateful."

Wang Binghong is indeed treacherous. His bank account is in Zhangjiakou and Fan Yongdou's bank deposits and withdraws bank notes. It seems to be beautiful, but the actual effect is not great. The customer who withdraws the silver is just one more choice, which does not bring much benefit to the weaker Wang Binghong, and Wang Binghong's bank account suddenly joins forces with Fan Yongdou's money account. If you are so stupid, you will not fail to suspect that there is something wrong, and if something goes wrong, it will immediately implicate Wang Binghong.However, Wang Binghong's bank account and Fan Yongdou's bank bank account in Jiangnan can deposit and withdraw money together, and the benefits will be much greater. It is like a local private bank in the 21st century. How much can raising cash help the business of this local private bank?Moreover, Jiangnan was thousands of miles away, so even if something went wrong with Wu Er and Ma Jun in Zhangjiakou, Wang Binghong would not be suspected.

"Fuck, little fox!" Of course Fan Yongdou understood what Wang Binghong was thinking, and after cursing secretly, Fan Yongdou said with a smile: "Nephew, your bank is jointly operated with the old man's bank bank in the south of the Yangtze River. It's not that it can't be discussed—it's just that the old man wants to know, is the information in my nephew's hands really of such great value?"

"It definitely has such a great value." Wang Binghong nodded solemnly, and said with a smile: "If the shopkeeper Fan Da doesn't believe the younger generation, then the younger generation can reveal one more thing - when the third person opened an account in the trumpet, there was a Tell me, no matter how much money you earn from this account, half of the money must be transferred to the fourth account! Moreover, when I was interacting with shopkeeper Wu Er and shopkeeper Ma Da a few days ago, they were at the wine table and accidentally I said a few words about shopkeeper Fan Da."

"There is a fourth account that also participates in the sharing?!" Fan Yongdou was surprised again, then his eyes rolled wildly, and he began to analyze whether Wang Binghong's words were fake.Wang Binghong observed Fan Yongdou's intentions and said with a smile, "Of course, empty words are useless. If the shopkeeper Fan Da doesn't believe you, you can send someone to the account of the small account to directly check the money transactions in the four accounts." ——This junior is really lucky, the fourth account happened to be opened in a semicolon of this junior."

"Shopkeeper Wang Shao is indeed a cheerful person. If the old man refuses to agree this time, then he really can't trust my nephew." Fan Yongdou finally believed Wang Binghong's words, nodded and said: "Well, as long as my nephew knows what's going on, there is The situation of the third and fourth accounts is told to the old man, all the bank accounts of the old man in Jiangnan will be jointly operated with the bank accounts of my nephew in Jiangnan, and all the bank notes will be deposited and withdrawn!" - Fan Yongdou's move was also accepted He had no choice but to know that Wang Binghong wanted to take advantage of it, but the matter was so important that Fan Yongdou had no choice but to agree.

"Thank you, shopkeeper Fan Da." Wang Binghong saluted with great joy, and then said frankly: "To tell the truth, shopkeeper Fan Da, this third account was only set up in the trumpet on the [-]th morning of the twelfth lunar month a few days ago. It was a fake name, and the money was withdrawn with the seal. A few days later, shopkeepers Ma Da and Wu Er began to deposit their silver into this account. But it is strange to say that the person who opened the third account , just confessed that he transferred half of the income from his account to the fourth account, and since that day, he has never shown up again, and he has not withdrawn a tael of silver from the trumpet!"

"The eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month?" Fan Yongdou's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously thought of the private visit of Young Master Zhang in Zhangjiakou's WeChat account that day. At the same time, he began to suspect, could it be that the owner of the third account is that little mad dog Zhang Haogu?After a little hesitation, Fan Yongdou asked again: "What about the fourth account? What is the name of the head of the account? When and where was it opened?"

"The fourth account has been opened for a long time. It was opened in April of the first year of Tianqi in the capital branch of Xiaohao." Wang Binghong recited it back and forth, "At that time, there was only 15 taels of silver in the account. Withdrew 11 taels of silver three times, leaving only four taels of silver, and then did not deposit or withdraw any silver. It was not until the third account began to transfer silver to this account a few days ago that the amount of silver in this account increased. The owner of the account is a woman, whose name is Yang Li, it may be her real name, and it may not be ruled out as a pseudonym."

"In the past few days, have you withdrawn money from the fourth account?" Fan Yongdou asked nervously.Wang Binghong shrugged his shoulders and replied: "So far, not yet. This woman named Yang Li opened an account in my Beijing branch, and the money transferred to her account was sent to the capital and deposited in her." For the account, it is estimated that she will go to my capital branch to confirm after receiving the news, or wait for the third account to get a money order from the trumpet and give it to her, and she will use it to withdraw the cash."

"Very good." Fan Yongdou said quickly: "Nephew, after the joint operation of your two bank accounts, can I let the old man send some staff to work in your capital branch to keep an eye on all the circumstances of this account?"

"It's my nephew's honor to work for Master Fan." Wang Binghong agreed with a smile.Fan Yongdou heaved a sigh of relief, and after thanking him, Fan Yongdou hurriedly asked again: "Nephew, you also said that shopkeeper Wu Er and shopkeeper Ma Da once said something related to the old man at the wine table, what are they talking about?" , please feel free to enlighten me, the more detailed the better."

"I have to ask Master Fan Da to forgive me for this point. The younger generation was really drunk at the time, but I just vaguely heard some of their drinking conversations, but I didn't hear all of them clearly." Wang Binghong smiled wryly, and said in detail: "The younger generation and their On the day of drinking, it was the night of the 21st of the twelfth lunar month. At that time, they came to personally explain to transfer the money to the third account. By the way, they invited the younger generation to drink, and the younger generation agreed. As a result, they seemed to be in a good mood and got drunk in the Fuxing Building. Afterwards, they started bragging, saying that it would take three years at most, or two years at least, that the two of them would be able to replace the Eight Great Masters of Zhangjiakou, and the shopkeeper of Fan Da, the eight of you, would have to help the two of them earn money. Yinzi, or let them get out of Zhangjiakou!"

"Get out of Zhangjiakou, what a big tone!" Fan Yongdou snorted coldly, but he was really vigilant in his heart - if Zhang Haogu's little mad dog continued to spare no effort to support those two live treasures, after three or two years, those two live treasures would be as long as It's not really too stupid, there is still hope to replace us in Zhangjiakou.After the tension subsided, Fan Yongdou asked again: "Nephew, have you asked them how they asked our eight families to help them? Or how to drive us away from Zhangjiakou?"

"Of course my nephew asked, but my nephew also asked very strategically." Wang Binghong was also very good at building relationships, so he leaned into Fan Yongdou's ear and whispered: "My nephew told them, Uncle Fan, you have established a big root in Zhangjiakou in the eight families. Shen, there are people in the court who support you, they want to drive you away, I'm afraid it's just bragging. As a result, Wu Erhua, who likes to steal other people's wives, immediately snorted, saying that it is their backstage, which is hundreds of times bigger than your uncle's backstage If you are obedient and let them take a cut from the business of your eight uncles, then you can still spend money to buy peace and stay in Zhangjiakou to make a living! If you are disobedient and don’t give them a cut, then you Take a smuggled goods once, and their backers will catch the smuggled goods once. Even if you have backers in the court, uncle, you will not be able to kill your heads for a while, but once you catch it, you will be fined twice, or three or five times. Let you go bankrupt!"

"Zhang Haogu, little mad dog, you are really ruthless! You kill people with a soft knife, and want to cut us to death slowly!" Fan Yongdou cursed in his heart, and asked again: "Nephew, what else did they say?"

"Ma Da shopkeeper said this again." Wang Binghong replied in a low voice: "He wants me to keep an eye on you, saying that their people have stopped your private goods in the pass, and you won't be able to take it any longer. I have to take the risk, as long as I find out when you ship the goods and report to them in secret, they will reward me with money when it is done!"

"These two live treasures are not without brains." Fan Yongdou's face was gloomy, and he thought: "These two live treasures are backed by Zhang Haogu's little mad dog, and they are determined to eat the eight of us, or force them to eat us." If we give them a hand, they will definitely stare at us and catch us. Since they let Wang Sangou stare at us, it is very likely that other companies in Zhangjiakou will also stare at us. Our Bajia used to be in Zhangjiakou. Covering the sky with one hand, but offending a lot of colleagues, if most of the companies in Zhangjiakou act as eyeliners for them, it will be more difficult for us to smuggle goods."

"Nephew, what else do you know?" Fan Yongdou tentatively asked Wang Binghong again.Wang Binghong shook his head and replied: "What my nephew knows, I have already told my uncle. If my nephew receives any news in the future, I will report it to my uncle immediately."

"Very good, then thank you, nephew." Fan Yongdou stood up and said with a smile: "Da Bing, you can send nephew Xian back to his bank account, look at the two accounts, and discuss it with nephew Wang by the way. Let’s discuss the specific details of the Jiangnan Bank, and after discussing it, I will write to the bank in Jiangnan, asking them to join forces with the bank of my nephew, and the bank notes can be deposited and withdrawn.”

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Fan Yongdou and Wang Binghong had a secret talk on the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month in the eighth year of Tianqi. At about the same time, in Dingliao City, which is controlled by Jiannu in Liaodong, which is closest to North Korea, a surprisingly large number of Jiannu Qingqi suddenly quietly left the city. After the assembly was completed, the Jiannu Qingqi, which numbered more than [-] people, suddenly marched eastward. Under the cover of night, with only a few siege weapons, they rushed to the frozen Yalu River overnight. At another time, he crossed the Yalu River and suddenly appeared under the city of Yizhou controlled by Mao Wenlong's army.Mao Wenlong's army, who was still immersed in the joy of the New Year, was caught off guard, and the city gate was opened by the Jiannu secret agents who had been ambushing in the city for a long time. Chen Jisheng, the deputy commander of Dongzhen in Yizhou, organized a small number of troops to resist in a hurry, but he was unprepared. He was killed by Jiannu in less than half an hour and was forced to abandon the city to break through. Countless unarmed defenders were forced to surrender. At the time of Quanliang, Jiannu had completely controlled Yizhou. Li Sheng, the head of Yizhou County in North Korea, died in the rebellion. Judge Cui Mingliang refused to surrender after breaking through the siege, and committed suicide.

After Chen Jisheng led a small number of remnants and defeated generals to break through, he fled overnight to report to Tieshan Port in North Korea where Pidao landed, but what Chen Jisheng never dreamed of was that the slave building army led by Dai Shan and Huang Taiji would learn from Master Zhang. With the lightning tactics, only a small number of troops were left behind in Yizhou, and the whole city was bloodbathed. The main force took the surrendered troops as the vanguard, and quickly marched eastward, aiming directly at Pyongyang. Arriving at Tieshan Port, Kong Youde, who was guarding Tieshan Port, was short of troops and did not dare to stand firm. He had to abandon the port and flee to Phi Island. The German army suffered a disastrous defeat. Chen Jisheng, who managed to escape to Tieshan, was killed in battle, Kong Youde was wounded and escaped on a single boat, and the defenders of Tieshan Port were almost wiped out.

After receiving the report of Kong Youde's defeated army, Mao Wenlong was shocked. He hurriedly wrote to Ning Yuan for help, and at the same time assembled the army to divide into two groups, counterattacking Tieshan Port all the way, trying to regain the port, and landing in Liaodong from Donggou all the way, intending to cut off the food for Jiannu Dao and the back road, besieging Wei and saving Zhao forced Jiannu to give up his plan to attack Pyongyang.But what made Mao Wenlong yell at him was that Jiannu not only learned Master Zhang’s lightning tactics, but also learned a lot about Master Zhang’s madness of not wanting food and roads and retreating. Mao Wenlong’s plan to divide the troops and land in Liaodong not only failed, The division of troops led to a shortage of troops, and the battle of landing on Tieshan's counterattack was also affected. The landing army was defeated by Jiannuhan and Mangurtai, and they could not land on land. one slice.On the other hand, Mang Gurtai relied on the Tieshan food that Kong Youde had no time to take away, and at the same time sent out troops to attack Yanzhou and Tieshan City, plundered the Korean people on the spot to supplement the army rations, and defended Tieshan with war, and would not give up anything. Mao Wenlong's army landed—it is worth mentioning that in order to solve the problem of insufficient military food, the old and weak North Korean women and children captured by Jiannu and North Korean soldiers who refused to surrender all became the dishes of the Manggurtai army. The North Korean men who surrendered were also forcibly shaved off their hair, tied their pigtails, and became cannon fodder for the slave army—a wicked trick they learned from Master Zhang.

Mao Wenlong's main force couldn't go ashore here, while Daishan and Huang Taiji's main slave-building main forces were advancing crazily on the Korean land, and the Korean soldiers with low combat effectiveness fled like facing the Japanese army more than a hundred years ago, and could not form a powerful force at all. Resisting, states and counties along the way surrendered in fear; although Mao Wenlong's army stationed in North Korea had some combat effectiveness, it was seriously ill-prepared and lost command. Several times of blocking were easily defeated by Jiannu, and Xuanzhou, which was the most resistant in North Korea, was also defeated by Jiannu With the surrendered troops as the vanguard, they attacked fiercely. After a day of bloody battles, Jin Jin, the pastor of Xuanzhou, surrendered in fear. The deputy envoy Qi Xie refused to surrender.The guards of other prefectures and counties in North Korea were terrified when they heard the news. They either surrendered in Kaesong or fled the city. As a result, it took only seven days for the slave army to cross the Daedong River, which was also frozen into an iron ball, and approach the city of Pyongyang. .

On the one hand, Jiannu had already reached the city of Pyongyang, and on the other hand, his main force could not go ashore. In desperation, Mao Wenlong had to send a second urgent letter for help, begging the governor of Liaodong Xiong Tingbi and the governor of Liaodong to send reinforcements quickly, all the way by land Attack Liaoyang and take the sea route to reinforce Pidao and North Korea.But unfortunately, what Mao Wenlong didn't know was that the first emergency letter he sent to Ningyuan City was not delivered to Xiong Tingbi, and his second messenger landed in Ningyuan by sea. A courier mysteriously disappeared with a letter and a messenger from Haizhou. At the same time, an urgent letter from Haizhou was delivered to Xiong Tingbi. It is possible for Haizhou, and it is even possible to bypass Haizhou to attack Jinzhou. I hope Xiong Tingbi will distribute food and grass quickly, so that after Jinzhou is besieged, the defenders in the city will have no food to use.At the same time, the governor of Liaodong also suggested that Xiong Tingbi contact the Karaqin Mongolian tribe to discuss the establishment of slaves...

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The screen turned back to Zhangjiakou. On the same day that Mao Wenlong sent Ning Yuan his second request for help, that is, on the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month in the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty, the eight major locust merchants in Zhangjiakou held a banquet at Fan Yongdou's home. 'The important minister who built slaves Ning finished and I spent the Lantern Festival together.During the banquet, Ning Wan and I had to ask about the raising of grain, grass, and pig iron from the eight major locust merchants. Fan Yongdou smiled and agreed: "Mr. All ready."

"What about the Mongolian grassland? Did those Mongolian tribes who betrayed Dajin agree to give way?" Ning Wan asked me.Fan Yongdou nodded and replied: "There has been news from Karaqin Selen, as long as we maintain the previous business and give him another 5000 taels of silver, he will never stop our caravan passing through the Karaqin Grassland." It’s just that Horqin is too far away, and there’s no news yet.”

"Very good." After Ning Wan, I breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "As long as the Karaqin Grassland side is fine, there is no need to worry too much about Horqin's side. It's okay for the traitors Ukeshan and Oba to let them go. , if they dare to disobey, our Dajin cavalry can enter the Horqin Grassland at any time. Even if the Horqin Grassland is really difficult, as long as we pass the Harqin Grassland, we have a second way to go."

"The second way? Could it be there!" Fan Wencheng was startled, but thinking that Jiannu was already in a hurry this time, it was not impossible to use that last hole card.At this time, Fan Yongdou's right-hand man, Chen Dabing, suddenly came in from the door, and said to Fan Yongdou, "Master, there is news from the capital that a fourth account has been opened at the capital branch of Wang Binghong Bank." Who is the owner, we have already found out."

"Who is it?" Fan Yongdou and several other locust merchants who knew the inside story jumped up and asked.Chen Dabin said mysteriously: "Boss, all shopkeepers, don't be intimidated when you hear this—the owner of this fourth account was originally named Li Ruhua, but after marrying a man surnamed Yang, he changed his name to Yang. Li, she has changed her surname to Yang Wei, also called Wei Ruhua."

"Wei Ruhua? What's so strange about such an earthy name that can scare us?" Fan Yongdou was puzzled.Chen Dabin replied with a smile: "The shopkeeper, Wei Ruhua's name is Tu, which is nothing unusual, but her father is famous. His father used to be called Li Jinzhong, but now he changed his name to Wei Zhongxian. Tian Qiyuan When she opened the account in 15, Wei Zhongxian hadn't gained power yet, and she hadn't changed her surname, so she saved [-] taels of private money, and her name was Yang Li's."

(End of this chapter)