"The Fan family is already anxious to jump over the wall." Yang Yuan, who was standing beside him, replied.

Zhao Yutu was stunned for a moment, with a hint of confusion on his face.

Liu Heng explained with a smile: "The Fan family colluded with a business name called Xu Ji in Datong. They wanted to compete with us for the business road on the grassland through Xu Ji."

"Xu Ji?" Zhao Yutu frowned and said, "I have never heard of what Xu Ji's business name is in Datong. Could it be that the Fan family secretly supports this Xu Ji?"

Before he went to Xuanfu, there was no Xuji business name in Datong. If there were indeed merchants that could be smuggled with Beilu, he would not have known it as an important figure in the tiger flag.

If you want to smuggle the Northern Barbarians, your own strength is second-hand. The key is that the Northern Barbarians have their own relationship. Without the Northern Barbarians as recommended, the Ming caravans will only be robbed when they enter the grassland. Not only will the horse bandits on the grassland rob, but the herdsmen from various Mongolian tribes will also rob the Ming caravan.

"The Xu Ji in Datong is a deal for Xu Tong, the governor of Datong," said Yang Yuan: "Now it is difficult for the Fan family to buy enough goods from Xuanfu. Even if they barely gather them together, once they arrive at the grassland, they will only be robbed by our tiger flag. The Fan family chose to cooperate with Xu Tong, probably to erode the business road between our tiger flag and the Beilu through Xu Tong."

"If Xu Ji is Xu Tong's property, it will be difficult to deal with." Zhao Yutu frowned slightly.

Yang Yuan said: "It's not that there is no way, it's just a little more troublesome. People need to be arranged to keep an eye on Xu Ji at all times. As long as Xu Ji's convoy enters the grassland, we can send people to rob. As long as there are a few times, I think Xu Tong will give up the idea of ​​smuggling the Northern Territory."

"It may not be." Zhao Yutu shook his head slightly and said, "If someone else had given up, but Xu Tong might not have. Don't forget that the Fan family knows the profits of smuggling. Xu Tong is a person who loves money and will definitely not let go easily. Maybe he will forcefully attack our tiger flag to monopolize the benefits of smuggling the Northern Territory."

The wealth is moving. The business of the Tiger Flag smuggling Beilu brings millions of taels of silver to the Tiger Flag every year. With the closure of the Ma market in the Ming Dynasty, the profits brought by smuggling will only become more.

He didn't believe that Xu Tong would be unmoved after knowing such a large sum of money.

"If you say that, it's really a bit troublesome. Xu Tong is such a greedy person, with millions of taels of silver in front of him, he can't be unmoved." Yang Yuan frowned.

Since Xu Tong took over as the governor of Datong, he has collected taxes on bandit suppression and urged them to pay the white list. Many businesses in Datong Prefecture without a backend were confiscated by the governor's yamen through various means. Almost no one in Datong did not know that Xu Tong was greedy.

The local gentry in Datong also suffered a lot of losses from Xu Tong and lost a lot of money in vain. It is precisely because of this that some gentry with Beijing officials kept impeaching Xu Tong. It can be said that the impeachment of Xu Tong has never stopped.

Of course, there are also the tiger flag that is used to fuel the fire. Some censors who are bribed by the tiger flag are also constantly impeaching Xu Tong, the governor of Datong.

Although this could not move Xu Tong as the governor, as the voices of impeachment continued, the Censorate and the Cabinet already had a bad impression of Xu Tong, the governor of Datong.

The tiger flag has always wanted to get Xu Tong away from Datong, but things are not that simple.

Liu Heng was innocent. Facing the second-rank governor of Datong, he could only use a gradual approach to make the ministers in the court and even Emperor Tianqi dissatisfied with Xu Tong, and finally had the opportunity to transfer Xu Tong from Datong.

The second-rank governor is already the pinnacle of local officials. He is in charge of the country and the court will not easily transfer it at will unless his term expires. Just like the previous governor Liu of Datong, his term of office is long enough and it is no longer suitable to stay in Datong.

Liu Heng looked at Zhao Wu on the side and said, "In the name of the Military and Political Department, the warriors with the tiger flag on the hills everywhere began to attack the gentry and royal family in Datong, select a few notorious ones and kill a group of them."

"Yes." Zhao Wu agreed.

When Zhao Wu left, Zhao Yutu said, "Isn't it good to kill the royal family? It's very likely to cause anger from the court."

Liu Heng smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of the court being angry. Even if the court is really angry, it's still aiming at Xu Tong, and it has nothing to do with our tiger flag."

Yang Yuan next to him said coldly: "There are not a good thing in these royal families. Most of the fertile land in Datong is in the hands of the Dai Prince's Mansion. This is not enough. He also has to occupy the land of the people and force many people to destroy their families. It is not because of their identity as the royal family. Many times, even the government dares not offend these royal families."

"That's right." Zhao Yutu said, "It's said that our tiger flag is the richest business in Datong. In fact, the richest one in Datong is probably the Daiwang Mansion. Not to mention the fertile fields of the Daiwang Mansion, just the salt intake will make the Daiwang Mansion rich."

At this time, Li Yunqi from the attendant department walked in from outside.

"The boss, this is the news that the secret spy from the governor's yamen has just been sent back."

As he said that, he brought a bamboo tube to the desk in front of Liu Heng and then retreated aside.

The bamboo tube was sealed with wax oil. Liu Heng twisted it with his hand, broke the seal, pulled out the plug on it, and then pulled out a piece of paper from the bamboo tube.

The notes were rolled together and formed a long stick. He pinched one end with his hand, pulled it hard, and straightened the notes completely. Then he looked at the content above.

There are very few words on it, only a few sentences, and you can read it at a glance.

After reading it, he said to the others in the room: "It seems that Xu Tong can't help but take action. The news that had just been sent back from Datong Mansion said that Xu Tong was preparing to dispatch troops from Fubiao Camp to Daliangshan to suppress the bandits."

"There will be action so soon." Yang Yuan was startled and immediately said, "Cao Guang and the others in Daliangshan just robbed the Xuji convoy. Not long after Xu Tong was about to go to Daliangshan to suppress the bandits. It seems that Cao Guang and the others have not solved it completely, leaving behind a living."

Liu Heng nodded slightly.

If the Xuji Convoy had not survived, he would have thought how Xu Tong would have known so quickly that the bandits who robbed Xuji Convoy were the bandits in Daliangshan.

"Have you received the news from Daliangshan?" Liu Heng asked Li Yunqi.

Li Yunqi said: "As soon as the news of the bandit suppression came out, it was sent to Daliang Mountain."

Zhao Yutu on the side said, "Have you found out how many troops the Fubiao Camp sent to Daliangshan?"

"Even if all the troops in Fubiao camp are sent to Daliangshan, Cao Guang's brigade will not be a problem." Yang Yuan said, "Cao Guang's brigade is now nearly 400, and Xu Tong's Fubiao camp has only a total of 1,000 people. Four hundred of our Tiger Flag soldiers will compete with the Guan army, and we must win."

Zhao Yutu nodded in agreement.

Every soldier with the tiger flag is an elite soldier in the border army, and is not inferior to the personal soldiers and servants raised by the border generals. Even if Cao Guang's brigade has many new recruits joining, he is still stronger than the soldiers and horses of Fubiao Camp.

A warrior with a tiger-shaped flag, just his armor, kettle, large tea tank, leather boots, felt hats, gunpowder, lead bullets, and many fragments of things combined, all of which were no less than a dozen taels of silver. It can be said that he was a warrior who was piled up with silver.

The tiger flag made a lot of money, but the expenses were also high, and a large part of it was spent on the warriors.
Chapter completed!