Beyond the Great Wall of the Ming Kingdom is the prairie outside the Liaodong Pass, which is the area where the Jurchens live and is also a paradise for nomads. The grass here is fertile and the water is beautiful, and it has been the area where nomads live since ancient times, and it is also the main source www.biquge.info of the invasion of the Central Plains by the northern ethnic minorities.

A large caravan from the south, with its own fleet, after more than half a month of travel, finally came to the mouth of the Supin River in eastern Liaodong. The Supin River is located in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province, which is now the Suifen River, which belongs to the Ming State of Nuergan Du commanded the envoy to lead the Binjiang Wei jurisdiction. However, now in the Ming Kingdom, whether it is party strife, Qing talk and misleading country, eunuch party strife, or Mongolian, Jurchen, and Renchen disasters, the strong Ming Dynasty is like a sick old man, and it is already a look of internal and external troubles. In the previous Wufeng Captain Rebellion, a large number of elite soldiers of the Ming State were transferred to the south, and the Jurchens were even more ready to move.

The mouth of the Supin River is a border market between the Ming and Jurchens, which was originally established by the Jurchens to distinguish it from the Fushun Bazaar opened in the Ming Dynasty, which was dominated by the Ming people. The Supin River Estuary is basically dominated by the Jurchens, and the main trade of the Jurchens here, especially the eight Jurchens of Jianzhou, was completed here.

"Brothers, look, the Supin River Estuary is ahead, and we're finally getting there!" When one of the caravan guards saw the market, he smiled at his companions.

"Yes! After a few days of wandering at sea, I finally saw a place where there were people. The other guard also looked very happy.

"I don't know if there's a place to have fun."

"Brothers, you all give me a serious point. This time the volume of goods is large, and there must be no mistakes, you know? If there is any mistake, let alone you and me, even if it is Xu Weixue, Lord Xu, you can't pay the difference with the young master, you know? The person who shouted was the young man who Kuroda Shigetaka rescued back then, Xu Weixue's subordinate Zhang Jiangfu.

Zhang Jiangfu, who was still a young man at the time, is now a middle-aged man in his forties, and he is kind and kind, steady, and has excellent language talent, so he will be reused by Xu Weixue. And because Xu Weixue had to sit in the Harima State to protect the county territory, and Xu Shouguang needed to preside over the daily life of the navy, Zhang Jiangfu had always been responsible for the smuggling of the Ming Dynasty in recent years.

When the guards heard Zhang Jiangfu's words, everyone quickly stopped laughing, and they all lowered their heads and continued to hurry with the goods. Because what Zhang Jiangfu said was not wrong, even if it was the first time for them to escort goods of this scale, they really couldn't make any mistakes.

This Supin estuary is indeed a lively place for the mutual market, as far as the eye can see, there are large merchants, lone hunters also have, and the shouting and drinking of various languages are mixed together, which is very lively. The goods in the bazaar range from basic grain and cloth to iron ore, salt, horses, cattle and sheep, and even tiger skins, bear skins, mink skins, and ginseng.

The main means of exchange was money transactions, and even the Jurchens had gold, silver and copper coins, but most of them were wealth stolen from the Han Chinese. There is also bartering, but relatively speaking, bartering may often be unfair to one party to the transaction, so it is relatively rare, but there are still many such transactions.

"Lord Zhang, don't you see that there are still wealthy businessmen in Jinzhong in Huizhou? We seem to have seen them before! I heard that there was a famine in Sichuan and Shaanxi, how did they sell all the grain to Liaodong? A guard asked Zhang Jiangfu.

"It's not that they can sell it here for a price, the so-called merchants are profitable, they only have gold and silver in their eyes, but they don't care about the safety of the country and the life and death of the people, so it is normal for them to sell grain here." Zhang Jiangfu said helplessly.

"This guy is right! These merchants are indeed really hateful, and when I came here before, I also heard that some of the troops in the northwest border have run out of food, and many of the people have starved to death. At this time, a young scribe ran out of nowhere, and said very excitedly.

After all, Zhang Jiangfu and his party had a special identity, and when such a young man suddenly appeared, they were all vigilant.

"Everyone, everyone, Xiaosheng doesn't have any malicious intentions, it's just that what the old brother said just now is too right, so Xiaosheng is just angry for a while, and please don't be surprised." The young scribe said.

"This son, we are just rough people who transport goods, and my brothers and I just said it casually! Childe has a saying below, there are some things that I can say on the surface, but some things that I can't say. There are some things that have just been said, and it is absolutely not appropriate to delve into them. After all, the country is already like this, and there are some things that can't be stopped, what does Childe think? Zhang Jiangfu said with a smile at the young scribe.

"Having said that, the actions of these people are still very infuriating." The youth said.

Zhang Jiangfu didn't have much feeling for the words of young people, after all, in his heart, these young Confucian students were all talkers, and after learning some superficial things, they began to needle the disadvantages of the times, dare to make irresponsible remarks, and stir up public opinion, these people Zhang Jiangfu didn't like in his heart. If it weren't for these people, the powerful Daming would not have fallen to the current state.

Seeing that the people in these caravans just looked at him coldly and didn't say anything, the young scribe was a little dumbfounded.

"By the way, where are you from? Listen to the accent is also from Fujian! ”

"We are indeed Fujianese, and we are all poor people who eat at sea. So, Gongzi is also from Fujian? Zhang Jiangfu asked.

"My words, to say that I am a person from Penglai, Shandong, but Xiaosheng grew up in Fujian, and he can be regarded as a Fujianese! It's just that you just said that you are people who are begging for a living at sea, are you a widow? The young scribe looked at Zhang Jiangfu and the others with some vigilance.

"Childe and the Japanese have a grudge?"

"I myself don't have any hatred with the Japanese Invaders, but this Japanese Kou was originally instigated by the smugglers of the Ming Kingdom, and brought some Japanese people to my Ming coast to cause trouble, and I don't know how many innocent people have died along the coast of the Ming Kingdom over the years, and my Ming soldiers don't know how many have died, so I don't have much good impression of the Japanese Invaders. (To be continued.) )