In Taiyuan, Shanxi in April, green willow leaves swaying on the banks of the Fen River, poplar floes flying all over the sky, and these annoying white furs float with the spring breeze.

Two teams met in the distance in the suburbs. Xia Wanchun led the Hunan Barracks to fight in Sichuan for a year, and was quite familiar with Yang Zhan.

"Brother Duan, don't be fine." Yang Zhan's tone was very kind, but his expression seemed a little indifferent. This was definitely not the face of seeing an old friend who fought side by side to form a deep friendship. He pulled the reins.

Xia Wanchun knew very well that Yang Zhan led his troops to Datong, and was about to join Yan Yingyuan in the process of conquering Liao, but was transferred back to Sichuan. Anyone would have been confused. He shimmered his eyelids and said, "Brother Yuliang's style is better than the past. When he came, he heard the prince muttering about you, saying that it would be best to go to Jinling to meet you if he had no time for a long time."

Yang Zhan was a little excited and asked, "The prince still talked about me? Haha, after we parted in Chengdu, the prince and I haven't seen each other for two years."

Seeing that he had successfully led him to this, Xia Wanchun continued, "This time the prince married the daughter of Qian Gong in Hangzhou. Brother Yuliang might as well go to Jinling, and come to congratulate him and reminisce about the past. Why not do it?"

Yang Zhan smiled bitterly and evacuated Shanxi with Sichuan soldiers, replacing them with 130,000 Hunan soldiers.

Taiyuan is the leader of the nine major towns, and together with Ji and Liao, formed a front to defend against northern alien races. Now it is even more important because of the plan to conquer Liao.

Xia Wanchun regained military power, and his past passion did not reduce at all. He was still the young man who went north to fight against the Qing Dynasty on his wedding night. He was eager to make achievements and fight on the battlefield, although this time he came with a special mission.

Hong Yizhuo came out of the cavalry, watching Yang Zhan's team gradually fade away and disappear on the horizon, then turned to look at the majestic Taiyuan City and said, "Marquis of Xiangxi, since we have come, we must do it as soon as possible. These people are all local rich people, and if they resist, I hope they will help them."

"Since it was the prince's order, I know." Xia Wanchun's tone was not happy. To be honest, he once highly praised the potential camp. Various information during the war made the Northern Expedition Army more powerful, but after the Northern Expedition, they completely became institutions for cleaning up and killing, somewhat similar to the Jinyiwei in the early Ming Dynasty.

Hong Yizhuo saw his expression in his eyes, and his heart was like a mirror. He only smiled secretly, but there was no expression on his face. He said lightly: "Since that's the case, I'll say goodbye first. If there is any trouble, I'll bother you." After that, he left. Hundreds of spies from the Qianxiang Camp followed behind him and raised a burst of dust on the outskirts of Taiyuan City.

There is no doubt that Shanxi is Shanxi of Shanxi merchants.

How powerful are the Shanxi merchants? "Pingyang, Ze, Lu, the rich merchants and great merchants are the best in the world, and they will not be rich unless they are hundreds of thousands." This sentence once became popular in Beijing: "The great merchants in the capital have several Jin people."

The wealthy merchants in Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty first recommended Hui merchants, and the merchants in Shanxi were not at all inferior to them. There are many similarities between the two.

For example, they all rely on the Ming Dynasty’s “Kaizhong system” to use salt to make a fortune.

The so-called "Opening-Chinese system" means that the production and mining of salt is firmly held by the court, and selling private salt is extremely guilty. The court regularly or irregularly based on border military needs. The merchants who are recruiting must transport the government's grain, tea, horses, beans, wheat, silk, iron and other materials needed by the government to obtain a special license for selling salt - salt. Then, they use salt to lead to the designated salt farm to support salt and sell it within the scope designated by the court.

Shanxi merchants are still the best businessmen who can unite and make money together.

The Dongjiao system was one of their major initiatives. At first, it was invested by well-capitalized merchants to hire local local merchants and jointly operated them. The Penghe profits became a loose group of merchants. Later, it developed into the Dongjiao system, similar to the joint-stock system, which is an important reason why Shanxi merchants can last forever.

In any aspect, Shanxi merchants are no less than Jiangnan Hui merchants.

Even Hui merchants like to raise Yangzhou thin horses, and Shanxi merchants were not willing to fall behind and developed a "Datong Poetry". The "Yangzhou thin horse" is mainly characterized by its thin body and showing the heroic spirit of men, while "Datong Poetry" has plump breasts and buttocks, and is famous nationwide for being more charming and superior to others. Like the thin horse breeders in Yangzhou, the brothels of Datong Prefectures and counties in the Ming and Qing Dynasties bought beautiful girls from poor farmers. In addition to teaching piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, words and deeds, they also asked them to sit on the mouth of the wine jar every day from the age of eight or nine to practice women's charming skills. After long-term training, their pelvis can sway as they please.

Hong Yizhuo and his group entered the world of Shanxi merchants and prepared to make a big fuss.

"Boss, which family should we start?" asked a young spy. His name was Zhang Hao, one of the two thousand people who fled with Hou Xuanyan in Jiading. At the age of twelve or thirteen, he followed Gong Zifang to the sea as a pirate, and now he has entered Hong Yizhuo's hidden elephant camp.

Hong Yizhuo also took good care of this fellow villager and took him by his side for nothing. After hearing this, he said, "Shoot the horses first, and capture the thief first. Since we are going to slaughter Shanxi, we will start with the hardest bones and deal with Fan Yongdou, the leader of the eight great imperial merchants, and the rest is not to be afraid."

Fan Yongdou's notorious reputation was that when the Northern Expedition failed, Hong Yizhuo was as thunderous as before.

Without him, the Qing Dynasty would have been unlikely to develop, and it would have been completely punished to death in the Ming Dynasty's blockade policy.

Fan Yongdou first saw the business opportunities in it, bribed officials and bribed the ministers in the court to watch him. He sold countless iron tools, food, armor, etc. to the Jiannu of Manzhou. The rewards he received were the property plundered by the Qing Dynasty, which was filled with the blood of his compatriots in the capital, Liaodong and Shandong. This made Fan Yongdou rise rapidly and became the leading luxury merchant among the Shanxi merchants.

Datong Prefecture, Shanxi, is located in the northern suburbs of the Ming Empire, and is adjacent to Mongolia. It has always been a severely affected area for foreign races to move south.

But on the boundary line, there are many merchant families like Fan Yongdou who are active. They are free to go between two deadly races and rely on endless money.

Fan Yongdou's house is full of black tiles at first glance, which looks simple and solemn, reflecting light in the sun. It covers an area of ​​half of Weixian, and more than 4,000 houses form the old nest of this traitor. The exquisite mansion door is connected to the sky, with rockery, artificial lake, and thousands of screen walls, wood carvings, brick carvings, and stone carvings.

Hong Yizhuo was on Gaogang, looking at the amazing Fan Mansion, waved his hand and said, "This kind of home is not something that we, ten people, can do. This is a fucking big job, Wuliang Tianzun." As the so-called leader of the eight imperial merchants, Fan Yongdou was indeed well-known. Before he showed up, he relied on a yard, which scared the commander of Qianxiang Camp.

"Boss, what should we do?"

"Go to Taiyuan and invite the army of Xiangxi Hou."
Chapter completed!