Listening to the shopkeeper's words, Fan Sanba shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I asked someone from the Guanning army a while ago. According to the people of Guan Ningjun, since the Far East occupied Liaodong, almost all the men, women, and children of the Houjin were slaughtered, and even Huang Taiji was cut alive in public. Moreover, it is said that the Far East is extremely fierce, and the Nen Korqin, Zalut, Bahrain, Naiman, Aohan, Karaqin, Tumut, Alu Korqin, Wengniut, Asuut and other departments in Lingnan have all been swept away by the Far East. I think we still don't want to do things absolutely and stop pushing the Far East and let them kill them in Shanxi. ”

The people in the room listened to Fan Sanba's words, and cold sweat came down. This Far East is really violent, not only destroyed the Houjin, but also swept the grasslands in the north, so it really can't do things absolutely.

"Ahem......"

Fan Yongdou coughed lightly a few times, and everyone in the room immediately closed their mouths. Fan Sanba hurriedly stood up and gently patted Fan Yongdou on the back a few times.

"The Taizu of this dynasty opened the salt law, and the West Gang rose in the Ming Dynasty by taking advantage of the "open law". In the 5th year of Hongzhi, Ye Qi, the secretary of the Huiren Household Department, used the "Open China Law" law to cheat and follow, so that the imperial court changed "Open China" to "fold color", and the two Huai merchant gangs took advantage of the situation to rise up, breaking the foundation of our Shanyou West Gang. But our Western Gang still relied on the imperial court to open the horse market, and opened up the situation outside the mouth. Now that the business outside the mouth is declining, if the Western Gang wants to rise again, they can only find another business opportunity.

Far Eastern commodities are sold all over the Ming Dynasty, and if we can get the marketing rights of the original Eastern commodities, this is also an opportunity for our Western Gang to turn over. As for how to get along with the Far East, it is still necessary to think of more ways. It is also a way to let officials from all over the country play a fold, and then say hello to a few cabinet elders in the court, so that Far Eastern commodities will not be able to move an inch in Daming. We will take this opportunity to contact the Far East and strive to win the right to market the Far East's commodities in Daming. ”

Fan Sanba listened to his father's words. couldn't help but pause, he hurriedly said: "Dad, the Far East is not easy to get along with, if you force them hard, will it ......?"

Fan Yongdou waved his hand and interrupted Fan Sanba's words. Shen Sheng said: "Now the Far East's goods sell well in the Ming Dynasty, I also specially asked people to go to Beijing, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places to check, they also brought back a lot of Far East goods, I think it is very good, this business can definitely be bigger." Now the top priority is to talk to the Far East, even if it offends them, it can't be cared about. As long as we talk to them, we will admit their losses, and we can compensate them several times. We have to do everything we can to get the goods from the Far East. Even if they give up a large amount of profits, they must snatch the goods of the Far East from others. ”

Just when the Fan's high-level leaders got together to study how to get the right to market goods from Far East, the Far East Company was already preparing to attack their eight traitorous merchants.

The various brigades of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment had already left the Luliangshan base area and took advantage of the darkness to advance to the vicinity of Yuci, Taigu, Pingyao, Jiexiu, and Pingyang in the Jinzhong Basin.

Previously, Song Tao had already led a special combat team to reconnoiter the situation of the traitors and Jin merchants in the Jinzhong Basin. The leaders of each brigade also led the squads in their respective target locations. I went on several field trips and was very knowledgeable about the situation in the target area.

Around noon. Several carriages entered Jiexiu City, although it is a year of great drought in Shanxi, all prefectures and counties have increased their vigilance, and the garrisons in various places have tried their best to drive out the displaced people gathered under the rule, but they are still relatively welcome to merchants.

Nowadays, there is a general drought in the north of Daming, and Jiexiu County has also been affected. Almost all the peasant households in the nearby villages have gone out to flee the famine, and even the county town has been depressed a lot.

Most of these villagers are tall and strong, and the weapons and blades in their hands are also very neat. There are many Jin merchants in Jiexiu, Yuci, Taigu, Pingyao, Pingyang and other places. Many Jin merchants are rich and wealthy. In order to resist the thieves who were wandering around, each big family paid for and hired a large number of guards, and also selected their young and strong people to form a village army in the city to help the government maintain local law and order, and when the thieves attacked the city, they could also help defend the city.

Li Ming was dressed in a green cloth gown, dressed as a businessman. He was accompanied into the city by more than a dozen special combat personnel, as well as several staff officers. Because Qin Ergou was a native of Shanxi, he also followed him into the city to deal with some interrogation and inquiries, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble with everyone's accent.

He looked at the situation in Jiexiu County as he walked, and from time to time he could see a few men wearing swords, all of them with fierce faces, and at first glance, they were Lian Jiazi, who should be the bodyguards of the nursing homes invited by various wealthy families in the city.

Qin Ergou and several officers and soldiers from Shanxi walked in front of the convoy and were responsible for everything. found an inn in the city, and chartered a small courtyard, and the group settled down. Probably because of the disaster year, the inn seemed very deserted, there were almost no accommodations, and the people at the inn were all listless. The tables, chairs, and benches in the inn were covered with a thin layer of dust, and it seemed that no one had touched them for a while.

After settling in several carriages, Li Ming and Zhang Yufei leisurely wandered around the streets, and the few lively main streets in the city in the past have now become a lot more deserted. The main street is deserted, but the shops are open. Here are some large shops, gold shops, silk villages, money villages and pawnshops, the façade is very exquisite, at a glance is the business of the Dajin merchants in the city.

There are several well-decorated restaurants on the main street, and at this time it is the time of the lunch, the door is full of cars and horses, the restaurant is full of customers, and the hall is full of people eating, all of them are well-dressed, and they look rich.

They had just turned into the alley after walking down the main street, and they could feel a dead silence in the alley, where the shops were closed, and the cool breeze of early autumn swept the dead branches and leaves on the ground, whirling in front of the closed shops.

This feeling of dead silence made people panic, Li Ming and Zhang Yufei looked at each other with solemn faces, and they were a little confused. Zhang Yufei frowned and said: "I came here a year ago, Jiexiu County is lively, there is a noodle restaurant in this small alley, and Lao Song and I have come to eat a few times." ”

Li Ming sighed and said: "It is estimated that the shops here will not be able to do it, in such a disaster year, small merchants and hawkers are not much better than farmers in the countryside, and now that food is so expensive, even a well-off family can be ruined." (To be continued......)