In the first year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, in early autumn, Yulin City.

This famous city in northern Shaanxi is not only a military stronghold overlooking the Hetao in the north and covering the three Qin in the south, but also an important commercial town connecting the interior of Shaanxi and the Hetao grassland, as well as the south, north and west of Mo. After the king moved to Yulin and reached a five-year agreement with the Ming and Qing dynasties, this city, which had fallen into a dead silence due to years of war and massacres by the Qing army, was restored to life in a short period of time. Skins and cattle from the Mongolian tribes, tea, ironware, silk, and cotton cloth from Huguang and the southeast, and salt from Huamachi in Ningxia (just on the edge of Yulin Town, now owned by the Imperial Palace) all meet here—just inside the Yulin Acropolis!

Unlike the Ming Dynasty officials who guarded Yulin Town before, who carefully placed the mutual market under the Zhenbeitai fortress, about 10 miles north of Yulin City, the Dai Wangfu who now rules Yulin is very bold, and is not at all worried that the Mongolian Yikezhao League outside the Great Wall will take advantage of the opportunity of the mutual market to loot or seize Yulin City.

In fact, in the summer of the first year of Hongxing, the Daiwangfu, which was facing a shortage of food due to the drought, sent troops to Hetao and fought a battle with the six banners of the Yikezhao League (the banner of the nomadic Mongols). Where is the opponent of the Yizhaoke Alliance, which has been in peace for many years, from Datong Mansion and Luliang Mountain? At the touch of a button, all the banners of the six nomadic Mongols were broken by the Dai army, and the Mongol princes of the Yikezhao League were forced to pay tribute to the Dai Wangfu, and only then did they pick up a life.

Therefore, the Mongols who now enter the Yulin City to trade are very honest, although they all have knives pinned to their waists and arrowbags on their shoulders, but none of them dare to draw knives in the Yulin Acropolis.

The soldiers of the royal palace who patrolled in Yulin City, Datong, were all fierce gods who fought with the Manchurians in Datong for three years, and finally escaped death!

Genghis Khan's Mongols in Nobunaga's life may not be able to defeat them, but how can those Mongols who believe in Tibetan lamas be their opponents?

Although there were fierce Ming soldiers in Yulin City, the Mongolian lords of the Yikezhao League were still willing to send stewards to trade horses, cattle and sheep, and leather goods. The reason is that the "goods" in Yulin City are too complete.

Not only can you buy high-quality iron materials and even cold weapons that were strictly controlled in the past, but you can also buy firearms, gunpowder, armor, and other weapons and equipment that even the Qing Dynasty strictly controlled and was unwilling to export to the grassland......

Of course, in order to get such good things from Yulin, the merchants of the Yikezhao League also had to come up with their good things - high-quality Hequ horses and Mongolian horses!

For a long time to come, the merchants of the Ikzhao League would buy good horses from other tribes in the steppe, and even from the Wara Mongols, and sell them to the profiteers of Yulin City. They then bought advanced firearms from them and resold them to the Khalkha and Warat Mongols—a considerable part of which were resold to the Dzungar tribes, which Zhu Cihong was very jealous......

And this kind of "horse trade" will also promote the local military production in Yulin!

Many gunpowder factories and gunpowder factories invested and opened by Qin and Jin merchants will spring up in Yulin, Yan'an, Suide, Mizhi and other places.

However, in the autumn of the first year of Hongxing, the Qin and Jin merchants in Yulin had no intention of investing heavily in "industry", and their interest was not even in the trade with the Mongols, which would bring them huge profits.

Now there is only one business that really interests them, and that is high-level finance.

Well, to put it in layman's terms, it's usury.

The Acting Prince's Mansion has posted "debt repayment notices" in various prosperous areas of Yulin City, declaring that it has received a holy decree and will lead all creditors to Wuhan Mansion to meet the Holy and discuss with the emperor about repaying debts......

Looking at the meaning, Emperor Hongxing is ready to pay off his debts for his own brother His Royal Highness!

That's great!

So since the beginning of July, the "good creditors" of the Ming Dynasty have gone to the palace to sign up, ready to go to Wuhan to collect debts together......

Collect debts from the Ming Emperor!

Of course, if you can't collect your debts, you won't make this trip in vain.

The creditors have prepared enough furs and horses bought from the Mongols, and are ready to take advantage of the opportunity to go south to collect debts and make a lot of money!

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"Shopkeeper Jia, you also want to go to Wuhan Mansion to ask for debts?"

In the Xi'an Jin State Mansion, Wu Sangui, who was preparing to enter the court, also met a big creditor, that is, the great shopkeeper of Jia Busijia, one of the nine great imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty.

"How can you not ask for it?" Jabus has now changed into a Han costume, a square scarf robe, even though his head is still bare, and a small braid on the back of his head is hidden in a square scarf.

This looks like I'm going to Wuhan...... Of course, it's not that you can't go.

Now that the Ming and Qing dynasties had reached a five-year peace, of course, the merchants of the Qing dynasty were allowed to set foot in the land trade of the Ming Dynasty.

In Yulin City in northern Shaanxi, you can see the Jin merchants who are affiliated with the green flag - as soon as Dolgon's method of entering the green flag came out, the situation in Shanxi immediately stabilized a lot. Many Jin merchants who didn't go to Yulin spent 500 stone flour into the flag, and hung up the identity of a flag person, it is easy to be an official, and it is also convenient to do business, killing two birds with one stone!

Of course, the 500 stone flour is just a "flag fee", and you have to pay the exemption money later - the flag people do not pay food, they are not bad, they are not adjusted, but they have to serve in the military. The new green flag is a gang of old pits in Shanxi that do business, and they are also sent to death when they go to the battlefield. Therefore, Dolgon simply asked them to pay money to be exempted from military service, and a banner man with a green flag paid 12 stone of flour a year (300 acres of land in Datong Province when entering the flag) could be exempted from military service.

About 13,000 banners (i.e., 13,000 households) were recruited under the green flag, and 156,000 stone of flour fell into Dorgon's pocket a year.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty also allowed the green flag to be donated as an official...... That's another income!

So these "shaved merchants" (nicknamed by the Qin and Jin merchants in Yulin) were on the side of the Great Qing Kingdom, and they are still mixing well.

But no matter how good it is, it is also on the side of the Great Qing Kingdom, and when it comes to the Ming Dynasty, it is still a second-class and third-class businessman who is "a low-class businessman", how dare he follow Wu Sangui to the Ming Emperor to ask for an account?

"Hundreds of thousands!" Jabbs gasped and lowered his voice, "There's also Prince Yu's dark stock inside...... When Prince Yu returns from fighting the Mongols, if I can't fill this hole, Jiale City (the trading house of Jabus) will be gone, and maybe even my head will have to be moved! ”

"What? King Yu ...... Duoduo? Wu Sangui was stunned and stunned - Duoduo lent himself money to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and now he has to ask the Ming Emperor for debts......

"By the way, you said that Duoduo went to fight the Mongols?" Wu Sangui suddenly turned his attention to military affairs again.

"yes!" Jabus nodded, "I brought 30,000 people to deal with Tengjisi and Tengjite of the Sunit Ministry, and most of the Khalkha Mongolian Ministries will also side with the Sunit Minist......ry."

At the same time as Dolgon and the Ming Dynasty negotiated peace, they began to deploy a crusade against the Khalkha Mongols, and the commander of the troops against the Mongols was his most capable brother Duoduo.

"Can you win?" Wu Sangui asked.

"King Yu is full of confidence and says that he will win!" "Otherwise, I wouldn't be in a hurry to get the account!" Guogong, you can't deny it! If you don't admit it, I'm dead! ”

Wu Sangui waved his hand: "Lao Jia, what you said, who are the two of us!" Don't worry, as long as you can get money from the emperor, you will definitely settle your accounts first! ”

Wu Sangui is still more trustworthy, and Jabus is a profiteer who has helped him a lot! He can't be ungrateful and watch people hacked to death by Duoduo, right?

But he wasn't sure if he could get silver from Zhu Cihong?

Emperor Zhu won't be so easy to speak, right?

Thinking of this, he sighed again: "Lao Jia, you also have to be prepared...... What do you do if you don't have to go into debt? ”

Jabbs sighed: "If that's the case, Jale City won't want it...... I'm going to vote for you! ”

"Good! Deal! Wu Sangui patted his chest boldly, "If you don't have money, I shouldn't be the king of the northwest, go to Nanjing to be a rich and noble prince, and then we will do business together!" ”