Chapter 1595 Ghost Sorrow

During the Hongwu period, in order to deal with the remnants of the Mongolian and Yuan forces, Zhu Yuanzhang built a defense system in the north relying on the Great Wall. Zhangjiazhuang, the predecessor of Zhangjiakou, appeared immediately; played an important role in the war against the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.

However, during the Longqing period, Altan Khan’s grandson sent Hannaji to Datong to surrender. Wang Chonggu, the governor of the three sides at the time, and Zhang Juzheng, a scholar, made peace and tribute, and Zhangjiakou became the core of the exchange market between Daming and Great Wall. , Shanxi merchants also relied on this trade route to accumulate massive wealth.

It has been 50 or 60 years now, Zhangjiakou has changed from a simple military fortress to a city that attaches equal importance to military and commerce, and in the next few hundred years, it will grow older and more prosperous. Provide a steady stream of wealth; until the Qing Dynasty, these businessmen still set out from Zhangjiakou, all the way north to extend the tentacles of trade to every corner of the grassland, and even as far as Kyakhta, and established trade channels with Russia.

But at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, these merchants committed their old problems again. Outer Mongolia tried to separate itself from the Central Plains. The Manchu Qing garrison issued weapons to the Shanxi merchants in Outer Mongolia and asked them to participate in the war. Some Shanxi merchants took their due responsibilities. However, Da Shengkui exposed his speculative nature. In order to protect his commercial interests and creditor's rights, he actually invested in Outer Mongolia and was hostile to the Qing Dynasty, so he was not affected much for a while and kept his wealth.

Later, General Xu Shuzheng recovered Outer Mongolia. It is reasonable to say that Outer Mongolia has experienced so many years of chaos, and it is time to recuperate. However, under the strong request of the Jinshang Group, Outer Mongolia launched a severe debt collection. Make a list of debts owed to the Mongols for usury.

This debt is equivalent to the total income of the entire Outer Mongolia for more than ten years. Now Outer Mongolian princes and aristocrats, down to ordinary herdsmen can no longer survive. Coupled with the support of Lao Maozi, Outer Mongolia launched a riot to drive these greedy All the merchants were driven out.

Shen Long never believed that pure and kind people could make such a big business. Shanxi merchants have a lot of dark history. ", "Da Sheng Kui" and other TV series, the Shanxi merchants in these works have become synonymous with diligence and kindness, which is really embarrassing; but it is not surprising, who makes the Shanxi merchants rich? tout.

Shen Long soon received his rewards. Lu Wenzhao and Li Hongji led the army to surround Zhangjiakou, took down all the traitors and profiteers headed by Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku, and found piles of grain, grass, iron and gunpowder in their shops. These were all prepared for Jiannu. In addition, there were countless blood-stained gold and silver, which Jiannu plundered from the people of Daming.

Jiannu exchanged the gold and silver he snatched from Daming with Fan Yongdou and the others for food, grass, weapons and intelligence, and then ate the food of Daming, and took the weapons of Daming to attack Daming to plunder wealth. How many Ming people.

Shen Long immediately ordered that the relics of the Ming people be sent to the capital; the imperial court designated a special place to display the blood-stained gold, silver and jewelry to the common people.

For a while, the people in the entire capital were outraged. The style of making these gold and silver jewelry was popular in Zunhua, Jimen and other places that had been captured by Jiannu before. Why did it fall into the hands of Fan Yongdou and others?

Some people even recognized their original owners based on the engravings on the gold and silver jewelry, and immediately knelt down and cried bitterly, "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow I gave him a golden lock with his name and birth date engraved on it! Unfortunately, the last time Jiannu entered the customs, all seven of my nephew’s family were killed by Jiannu! This golden lock must be a god-damned Jiannu killer! Abandoned my nephew's family,

Then I snatched it! "

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow? For a moment, the whole street was crying bitterly. While crying bitterly, these people scolded Fan Yongdou and others angrily.

These businessmen have completely ruined their reputation, and even the local people in Jin Province are yelling at them. You must know that Xuanda and other places are hot spots for the Jiannu and Mongol Tartars to attack, and the people in these places are not uncommonly harmed by them. In the past, they thought that Fan Yongdou and others were good people who benefited their hometown, but now they know that those Tartars and Jian slaves were all attracted by them, so will they still treat them well?

At this time, the criminal evidence of Fan Yongdou and others was also found out. From the beginning of Nurhachi's army, they were behind every defeat of Daming. They either supplied armaments, or sold information, and sometimes even their The fellow merchants would also act as spies to help Jiannu open the city gate.

Listing out the crimes one by one, Fan Yongdou and others are really unforgivable, and beheading them is too cheap, so Shen Long ordered Lu Wenzhao to cast these eight traitors alive into bronze kneeling statues, just like It was placed in the most eye-catching place in Zhangjiakou City to warn the later merchants.

After seeing what Fan Yongdou and others did in the Battle of Salhu, Lu Wenzhao was also furious. He even took the first spoonful of copper water and poured it on Fan Yongdou's head. Suddenly, screams spread throughout Zhangjiakou.

Soon, Ding Xiu and other Jin Yiwei who went to Jiexiu and other places to confiscate the properties of these profiteers also came back. Based on the information they had already obtained, they swept across most of Jin Province. Not only these eight profiteers, but the rest of them did the same thing The small businessmen in the country were not spared, as well as the officials who provided them with cover everywhere.

In most of Jin Province, civil and military officials were almost wiped out. In the past, they obtained countless benefits by providing convenience to Fan Yongdou and others. Now it is time for them to pay off their debts.

Those border towns were no exception. Many officers who had stayed in Xuanda and other border towns for generations were all taken down. They originally wanted to fight to the death, but it was a pity that Li Hongji led the elite of the Beijing camp to quickly thwart their plot and put Xuanda in prison. In the hands of the court.

Then Shen Long quickly sent support from the capital, and the officers of the Beijing camp will replace those officials who committed crimes to guard Xuanda, weed out the old and weak, and train elite soldiers.

Ding Xiu brought back tens of millions of taels of wealth, and Shen Long went to the treasury to see the accumulation of these profiteers. After entering the treasury, he asked curiously, "What is this?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this is a ghost's sorrow!"