Wang Tong understood and hurriedly responded. d-m

After Dong Ce explained, he turned around and went to Fan Jienian and the others again, and asked, "Why did you transport two silver balls to Naturalization City?" ”

Fan Jienian glanced at him proudly and said, "My lord, these two are helpless, in fact, they are not transported to Guihua City, but to Shenyang." ”

It turns out that these two silver balls also have a regular name, called helpless.

Speaking of which, this is helpless, it is still the invention of Jin Shang.

Jin Shang is a very shrewd group and very creative. They set up money banks, and in order to work capital, it was inevitable to transport gold and silver and other precious metals back and forth between the banks, even if they did not open money banks, when a large caravan pulled out to sell goods, it was necessary to carry large sums of gold and silver with them.

Such a situation has promoted the development of the dart industry.

For example, the famous friends of the Qing Dynasty in the capital, that is, the table dart bureau of the fifth king of the big sword, as well as the bodyguard Hou Yang's family, etc., these are the famous dart bureaus, that year, there are more than 80 dart bureaus in Beijing alone, the main business of these dart bureaus is to escort silver cars and trucks for the silver number. Beijing at that time the most famous ticket number four Heng, issued a silver ticket through the eight northern provinces, businessmen use more silver tickets to make large payments, which also reduces the circulation of silver in the market, large amounts of silver expenditure is often through the same city between the silver number to complete the payment, large money often in several central cities with a silver treasury, such as Beijing, Tianjin, Baoding, Taiyuan, Jinan and other places, shipped nearby, reduce the risk of transportation.

And another way to prevent robbers and bandits, they melted the silver and cast it into a large silver ball weighing 3,000 catties or 5,000 catties, one of which was the size of a large urn, and this thing was called helpless. In this way, even if they were robbed by bandits on the road, those bandits were in a hurry to leave, and they couldn't carry such heavy objects at all, so they could only sigh helplessly, and then leave quickly. When the time comes, follow the location and look for it, and the big silver ball will still be there.

The name of helplessness is really worthy of the name.

In later generations, especially in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, relying on Zhangku Avenue and the commercial port of Zhangjiakou, the Jin merchants have achieved a great leap forward, and their financial resources far exceed those of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, as long as the money bank was larger, it would make two of them, so they would be placed at the door of the money bank, and no one would be sent to take care of them. This kind of behavior is purely a display of financial strength.

It is said that in the Tongguang years, the great Shengkui, there is a capital of hundreds of millions of taels, and the annual income is tens of millions of silver. However, Da Shengkui likes to cast silver into the shape of square bricks, one by one stacked neatly, I don't know how many, countless thousands of pounds are helpless, think about it is spectacular, dazzling people's eyes.

After the convoy reached Guihua City, Dolgon would give them a batch of Mongolian specialties, and most of the cars would carry these specialties to Horqin, where they would make another purchase transaction and then transfer back to Zhangjiakou Fort. In this way, although this trip to transport grain is purely for the benefit of Houjin and does not have the idea of making a profit, it is still possible to use these Mongolian specialties to recover losses, at least without losing money or earning.

The remaining ones had a few cars going to Shenyang, the capital of Houjin, and the reason why they had to transport two of them was because they had to open a money bank there to facilitate the exchange of silver money for those merchants who had access to do business on the Houjin ground.

Now in Houjin, there are already some money banks, but most of them are opened by high-ranking officials and nobles to lend usury, which is small in scale and has a poor reputation. Fan Yongdou was very keen to discover this and was ready to take the lead.

Dong Ce nodded, signaling that he understood.

He couldn't help but sigh lightly, this is really helpless, it is really helpless, it is his bad luck to encounter this thing, if these are scattered silver, a person can easily carry it away with a pack, but such a big silver ball, now it can't be cut, but it makes Dong Ce difficult.

These two silver balls Dong Ce are absolutely unwilling to stay, but it is not easy to take them away.

After interrogating the two of them a few more times, and after making sure that he couldn't ask anything more, Dong Ce suddenly showed a weird smile on his face, he snapped his fingers, and said to Fan Jienian: "Do you want to survive?" ”

Fan Jienian nodded like pounding garlic, his eyes were full of hope, and he said continuously: "Yes, yes!" ”

"Then kill him." Dong Ce pointed to Fan Jieqiao.

"Why? Why? Fan Jieqiao shouted in horror: "My lord, I said everything you asked me, why did you kill me?" Why do you want to kill me? ”

"Why?" Dong Ce said lightly: "As I said just now, the two of you can only live one...... And this guy obviously knows more. ”

Dong Ce threw a waist knife that Fang had just picked up to Fan Jienian, he didn't want this guy to dirty his knife, and shouted: "What are you doing in a daze, and you don't do it?" ”

Fan Jienian's eyes lit up the hope of living, he took a deep breath, knowing that Dong Ce was letting himself vote! He had heard of such tactics. He also knew very well that once he killed Fan Jieqiao, there would really be no turning back, even if he fled back to Fan's house, what was waiting for him was a dead word.

But what is that? As long as I can live now!

"Yes, live! I don't want to die! ”

Fan Jienian muttered a few words nervously, suddenly let out a beastly roar in his throat, turned over and jumped up, grabbed his waist knife, and slashed at Fan Jieqiao with red eyes.

He was not Fan Jienan's opponent at all, but Fan Jieqiao's arm was injured, his movement was also very inconvenient, and he was unarmed, where was Fan Jienian's opponent? Soon, he was cut to the ground, and he let out a loud scream, but Fan Jienian seemed to be obsessed, this kind of killing made him excited, and it could also make him forget the despair of his current situation and the humiliation he had just received. He let out a frantic roar and slashed without stopping.

The screams faded away, and only Fan Jienian's heavy gasps and the tooth-aching sound of knives slashing against flesh and bones could be heard.

"Stop!" Dong Ce drank lowly, but Fan Jienian didn't hear it at all, Wang Tong went up and kicked him in the arm, and directly kicked the knife away, Fan Jienian woke up like a dream, he looked at Dong Ce with blank eyes, then looked at Wang Tong, and finally looked at Fan Jieliang, and suddenly screamed.

Fan Jiejiao has already been cut into an inhuman shape, his upper body, neck, and head have all been cut to pieces, his flesh and blood are blurred, and he can't even distinguish his face, which is extremely terrifying.

Fan Jienian suddenly sat on the ground, holding his head and crying. He didn't cry Fan Jiejiao, but cried himself, feeling that he was so unlucky, when he encountered this incident, the glory and wealth were gone, the wine and food were gone, the wife and concubine were gone, and he didn't know what to do in the future.

He regrets his death now, and Liu Shoubei, who was guarding the fort, originally proposed to personally lead troops to escort them, but was categorically rejected by Fan Jienian. Now that I think about it, if I had said yes......

It's just that in this world, there is no regret medicine to buy after all.

Fan Jieliang is dead, there are no competitors, Fan Jienian feels that he will definitely survive now, and he can be qualified to vent his emotions a little, and he will not be able to do anything if he thinks about it.

It's just that when he heard Dong Ce's sentence "Go and call Fan Caibao", he suddenly realized that what he thought seemed to be wrong.

"My lord, what's this?" He asked, muttering.

Dong Ce ignored him, and soon, Wang Tong came over with Fan Caibao, and when the latter saw Fan Jienian, his eyes almost erupted with fire.

Dong Ce handed him the waist knife and raised his chin at Fan Jienian: "Go, return your wishes." ”

Fan Caibao glanced at Dong Ce gratefully, took the knife, and strode towards Fan Jienian.

The screams rang out again, but this time the owner changed.

Fan Jienian died, and was hacked to death by Fan Caibao. This young man is extremely ruthless,

He obviously hadn't used a knife before, and his movements were still very jerky, not standardized at all, but he was strong enough, and he was ruthless and resolute enough. What's more, he turned out to be expressionless, not extremely excited or extremely angry, so his hands were steady. He first chopped off Fan Jienian's limbs, then cut off the puff under Fan Jienian's crotch with a knife, and then cut off Fan Jienian's nose, then stabbed him blindly, and then cut off his ears. She didn't cut off Fan Jienian's tongue because she wanted to hear his screams. After listening to Fan Jienian's hissing and heart-splitting wail for a while, he cut Fan Jienian's neck with a knife.

Dong Ce has never seen a person who has never killed anyone, he is so calm when he kills, and so indifferent after killing, as if he has just killed a chicken.

Although there are a few shortcomings—for example, if he were replaced by Dong Ce, he would have blinded Fan Jienian's eyes first, because in the case of not seeing, the pain would be doubled and magnified—but overall it was good. So Dong Ce is also a pity, if Fan Caibao can survive, he may be able to succeed in the future. It's just that, after all, it's just an if.

The nature and significance of what Dong Ce did determined that not a single living person could be left in the caravan. He can't gamble his net worth and life just because of just one Fan Caibao and block his official future.

I can't do it.

So Fan Caibao also died, and was stabbed through the heart by Dong Ce, and before he died, he still covered his wound and said to Dong Ce: "My lord, you are a good person." Dong Ce had never been commented on like this by the person he was about to kill, and he smiled a little bitterly. called the family to carry these corpses to the corpse pile, Dong Ce also walked over there, Wang Tong followed beside him and said: "My lord, Fang Cai's subordinates haven't finished talking yet, in addition to what Fang just said, there are also more than 1,400 taels of property found from the corpses, in addition, a total of four tickets were found from under Fan Jienian's carriage and Fan Jiejiao's saddle, totaling 1,500 taels. ”

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