As soon as Wang Chong's ancient words came out, Ma Zili, Yang Junmin, and Shen Xin all stared at Qin Lin, as if they wanted to see a flower on his face.

Jin merchants and Jin merchants were first of all big businessmen, and then big bureaucrats and big landlords.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, commerce and trade gradually flourished, and in the words of the flood of later generations, "the germ of capitalism appeared", even if the profits obtained from the land rent were exploited to the extreme, how many taels of oil could be scraped from the mud legs? It's far less expensive than the merchants! Most of the income of the wealthy Jin merchants came from merchants, and the tax income was only a small amount.

As for being an official, glorifying the family and protecting the family is to a greater extent to escort their business activities and open up the situation, for example, the Jin merchants hoped to open a border trade market with the Mongolian tribes, and Wang Chonggu tried his best to support Zhang Juzheng to promote the tribute.

None of the four Jin business tycoons here are not old and cunning, and they know the weight of the four words of the Silk Road best - that is, Jinshan Yinhai!

The benefits that could be gained by reopening the Silk Road are hard to imagine, even idiots know that through the Silk Road, trade with Central Asia, which is rich in wool and precious stones, India, which has a large population, and the rich Persia and Rumi countries, the huge profits will definitely make people dizzy!

Therefore, once he heard that Qin Lin had a plan to reopen the Silk Road, even if the probability of success of this plan was slim to only one percent, the four bigwigs of the Sanjin Wealthy Family in Guanzhong would put down whatever they were doing and rush to the meeting without hesitation.

At this moment, they cast their eyes on Qin Lin, doubtful and eager, both a little incredulous, but also hoping that he could come up with a practical plan for telling the truth.

Qin Lin smiled slightly, the Jin merchant owners had this kind of reaction, which he had expected.

He wanted to do something for the fathers and villagers of Guanzhong Sanjin and for the country and the nation, and he also had his ideas for the reopening of the Silk Road.

The Jin merchants did a lot of bad things, and the two major forces that caused the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the tragedy of the fall of China in history have a close relationship with them: the displaced people in Guanzhong are everywhere, and the peasant army of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong is in full swing, forcing Chongzhen to hang the coal mountain. Jiannu was blocked outside the pass at first, and the blockade of the Ming Dynasty left them short of food, clothing, and weapons, and it was the Jin merchants who smuggled prohibited strategic materials...... However, were Jin Shang born traitors and traitors? Is it that the giant businessmen elsewhere just do business honestly, but the Jin merchants like to sell the country?

Not necessarily.

The business environment of the sixteenth century, to be honest, is not good, either the collusion of officials and businessmen, or the knife licks the blood, or even both, from the Wufeng maritime merchants to the later Zheng Zhilong Zheng Chenggong, are not good men and women, can you imagine that a group of pure businessmen can run to the land of Yueben to claim the king, and another group of businessmen can beat away the Dutch colonial army entrenched in Taiwan? As for the contemporaneous West, Queen Elizabeth I is giving wholesale privateer licenses to corsair ships, legal robbery in the name of Great Britain!

Why did the Jin merchants at the end of the Ming Dynasty betray the Ming Dynasty and our nation almost as a whole? Qin Lin pondered, maybe the root lies in the closed geographical location.

Historically, any interest group has an endogenous need for development and growth, and on the southeast coast, this demand can be easily satisfied, and the vast sea, the Goryeo, the islands of the South Sea, and the countries beyond can expand almost indefinitely, until they collide with the Western colonizers and form a balance.

But the Jin merchant group in Guanzhong, Shanxi Province, encountered a problem, westward is the deserted Silk Road, north is the poor Mongolian steppe, southwest is the poorer snowy plateau, to the southeast of the Heluo Central Plains is rich, but at this time the commercial center of gravity has shifted to Jiangnan, relative to the higher production level in Jiangnan, the Jin merchants' goods are not competitive at all - in fact, they mainly have to rely on the combination of government and business monopoly salt industry, in order to maintain a huge commercial empire.

As a result, the Jinshang Group, which was trapped in Guanzhong Sanjin, had no reasonable space for outward expansion, and if it wanted to develop and grow, it could only intensify internal exploitation or engage in illegal smuggling. The former caused fatigue in Guanzhong and laid the foundation for the Liukou bees in the late Ming Dynasty, while the latter fattened the Jianzhou Jurchens...... Defeat the Jin merchants? It's useless, even if Qin Lin's tiger body is shocked and knocks down the four families of Wang, Yang, Ma, and Shen, when the small and medium-sized Jin merchants take their place in the future, they will choose the same path, and Wang Chonggu still has a sense of justice, and he is afraid that it will be even more unbearable to be someone else.

Since the Jin merchants were just seeking wealth, Qin Lin pointed out a golden road for them, so that they could go back to the right path of external expansion from the evil road of internal squeezing and illegal smuggling. Back then, the old Taishan Zhang Juzheng could take advantage of the fact that the Jin merchants wanted to do business with the Mongols, and got the strong support of Wang Chonggu in the tribute, so why couldn't Qin Lin repeat his old tricks?

Qin Lin smiled, stretched out his hand and slapped his face: "The two Buddhas, Jebel, come out!" ”

The thin King Ved wore a white robe with flowers and a hat of Pilu, the wealthy Sonam Gyatso wore a red robe and a pointed hat, Jebe wore a feather armor, carried a sweaty scimitar on his waist, and carried a stubborn horn bow and carved arrows, and the three of them staggered out.

Qin Lin introduced with a smile: "This Weide Dharma King, everyone is an old acquaintance, the Buddha Sonam Gyatso is a great monk of the Yellow Sect, General Jebe is a heavy general under the command of the three ladies of the Tumut Department, and a famous condor hero in the north. ”

The four Jin merchant owners said that they had admired for a long time, and the three of them were also very polite, and Jebel said in a rough voice that Wang Taishi was supervising the teacher on the Xuanda line back then, and now the name is still resounding outside the plug, which is really admired.

Ma Zili, Yang Junmin, and Shen Xin still didn't understand it, they just felt that Qin Lin was particularly good at pulling around, and getting the Buddha and Mongolian generals of the Yellow and White Sects into his home, which was really beyond the reach of others, and he was replaced by another person to do this, and saw that Sonam Gyatso and King Weide would not be turned upside down?

Wang Chonggu was the most scheming, his dim old eyes flashed, and he shook his head again and again with his snow-white beard: "General Qin really does what he says, if the Tumut Department and the Wusizang Sect are willing to help, the reopening of the Silk Road has been half successful!" ”

Ma Zili and the others were stunned at first, and then overjoyed.

In fact, who wouldn't want to reconnect the golden road of the Silk Road? Benefits can be shared!

For example, the Yarkand Khanate, which now dominates the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, has repeatedly sent envoys to the DPRK in the hope of opening up trade.

The reason why this road is not passable is only because all the seven guards of the Ming Dynasty at the west end of the Hexi Corridor, such as Hamiwei and Andingwei, have been lost in the hundred years from Hongzhi to Jiajing, and now the Ming army cannot ride out of Jiayu Pass, and the west end of the Hexi Corridor, an important node of the Silk Road, has been blocked.

According to it, the Yarkand Khanate, which nominally controls these places, also very much hopes to be able to open up commerce, and its successive sultans have repeatedly sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to make pilgrimages, but it is a pity that the situation of Hami and other guards is too chaotic, the Yarkand Khanate, the local Western Regions tribes, the descendants of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the Dzungar tribe in the north, the Usi Tibetans in the south, and the large and small tribes in the southwest of the Mongolian steppe.

But with the support of the most powerful Tumut tribe among the Mongolian tribes, as well as the Yellow and White Sects that control the situation in Us-Tibet, they sandwiched Hami and other guards in the middle of one north and one south, King Weide and Sonam Gyatso restrained the Us-Tibet tribes in Qinghai, and the three ladies sat on 200,000 people who controlled the strings, and crossed the desert and went west with a strong army, who could be it? Such a pincer offensive launched from the north and south is absolutely as irresistible to those large and small forces in the Western Regions!

What's more, Qin Lin didn't want to occupy his land and kill his people, as long as it played a deterrent role, it was enough to control the situation and open up the trade routes, and the various departments along the route would have more or less some benefits, and the Western Regions would not resist desperately.

As long as they don't really occupy the land, I'm afraid that the Yarkand Khanate will turn a blind eye to the temptation of the interests of the Silk Road, and take the initiative to act as a setter, transporting goods across the border to Persia, India, and Ottoman Turkey.

Taking a small part of the huge profits and exchanging them for daily necessities such as bricks, tea, cloth, porcelain, and iron pots that Mongolia and Usizang urgently needed, as a reward for the Mongol Usizang forces that contributed to it, this mechanism can be effectively maintained for a long time, and the continuous temptation of wealth will extend this golden road all the way to the west...... Qin Lin looked at Wang Chonggu and smiled without saying anything, at this time, everything was self-evident, with such a big benefit, no matter what he said, Jin Shang dared to follow him.

Wang Chonggu was not living in vain at a great age, so he immediately decided: "General Qin is so talented, but he was slandered by his ministers and deceived me into having no loyal people?" The old man is an old minister of the three dynasties, and there are still protégés and former officials all over the government and the opposition, and he has been the official of the restoration of General Qin since he became the top table! ”

Ma Zili and Yang Junmin also understood, and said busily: "I wish to attach Mr. Wang's tail." ”

Qin Lin smiled evilly and raised two fingers: "First, when today's temper, everyone knows that if this matter is to be successful, he must be allowed a sum of silver." ”

Needless to say, the main merchant of Zhongjin patted his chest and said that there was no problem, Shen Xin was talking about business, saying that General Qin's share should not be less, how to calculate the accounts and how to divide them in the future, and then we will negotiate slowly, and we must not lose General Qin.

Qin Lin only had one finger left, and everyone looked at it with blank eyes, waiting for him to say something.

"Reopen the Silk Road, the transportation burden from Jiangnan and the Central Plains to Guanzhong must be extremely heavy, and the Bianhe River and the Weihe River need to be dredged and dredging for ships to pass, are you ......" Qin Lin smiled, this pit is also obvious, but all the heads of the family can only jump in without hesitation, wow Ka ~~

(To be continued)