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Chapter 604 Zhangjiakou (can you ask for a recommended monthly ticket)

On the second day, Zhang Cheng struggled to get up from the criss-crossing of Yingying, Yanyan and sleepy-eyed. Even though he was very sad in his heart, he didn't dare to linger, after all, the things these few days were too urgent and dangerous.

Sitting on the edge of the bed with his upper body shirtless, he recalled the turbulent waves last night, and it took him a long time to subdue the beast in his heart like a torrential flood. Jade arms gently wrapped around his waist.

A gentle voice came softly: "The commander-in-chief got up so early, why don't you lie down again!"

Zhang Cheng gently caressed a pair of jade arms, and finally took the pair of catkins and said softly: "The military is busy, I dare not sleep too much, you sisters will lie down again, and when the sun rises again, I will order my servants to prepare some supplements for you. "

At this time, the maids Chunlan and Xianglan who were sleeping in the wing room heard the voice, opened the door and came in to see if they needed to serve them. Seeing this, they wanted to turn around and leave, but Zhang Cheng stopped him and called him to wait for him to change clothes.

Although Chunlan and Xianglan were not the first time serving Zhang Cheng to change clothes, for some reason, when he looked at the two clever little maids, he felt that the youthful aura emanating from them was so alluring.

Zhang Cheng hurriedly shook his head, dispelled those strange thoughts, and thought to himself: What's the matter today, didn't you have enough to eat last night?

Although the two little maids also sensed something strange, they didn't dare to ask questions, they just accelerated the speed of changing Zhang Cheng's clothes.

On the contrary, Liu Ying, who was leaning on the bed, asked softly: "Is the commander uncomfortable?"

Zhang Cheng also felt that he had lost his composure. He turned around and caressed Liu Ying's tender little face, and replied casually, "I'm fine, you can sleep a little longer!"

After he finished speaking, he turned around and gently left the room of the sisters of the Liu family, and went straight to the back hall.

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At yesterday's banquet, Zhang Cheng tried his best to persuade Lin Dengyou and other town generals to stay in Chicheng for a few more days, so that he could fulfill the friendship of a landlord, but at first everyone was not very willing.

Only Liu Guangwu couldn't think of Shu, so he agreed on the spot, and he also urged the generals to stay for a longer time since they came to the North Road, and told everyone about the hot springs in the southwest of the castle.

Gao Jingong even took the opportunity to talk about the myths and legends left by Zuo Dudu and Ying Guogong Yang Hong during the Xuande period, "Fire dragons enter the ground and boil the roots of the mountains, and hot springs emerge from time to time".

He also mentioned that the Ruiyun Temple rebuilt by Yang Hong in the Tangquan Mountain in the west of the city is a good place to rest, and the Jingning Temple in the southwest corner of the castle is now the Changping Marquis Yang Gong Temple, and everyone can also bathe in the Tangquan for a few minutes In the future, come back and visit again.

Lin Dengyou and the others are all from the military for generations. If you want to talk about etiquette, integrity, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness to them, most of them may not be interested. Only gold, pearls and silver are their favorites. The altar worship general ranks among the princes!

Therefore, when Gao Jingong mentioned Changping Marquis Yang Gong Temple, they immediately went to pay their respects to Ying Guo Gong Yang Wuxiang's holy face, thinking that they would seek a military career, and they would also be conferred titles like Yang Wuxiang.

Because he drank until late last night, Gao Jingong came to the back hall this morning to send a message to Zhang Cheng. He, Lin Dengyou and other town generals agreed to go to Tangquan in the southwest of the fort together after lunch at noon.

Zhang Cheng got up early today, just to meet some wealthy businessmen from all over Xuan Town. He only had breakfast in the side hall of the back hall.

Zhang Chengfang came in and reported, "Diao Dacheng, the shopkeeper of Zuixianju Restaurant, has been waiting in the middle hall for a long time."

Zhang Cheng ordered his servants to remove the bowls and chopsticks, and then asked Zhang Chengfang to bring Diao Dacheng to meet him in the side hall.

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"Marshal, not only is the trade outside Dushikou getting more difficult, our caravan can't even get through Zhangjiakou." Diao Dacheng began to complain about the smuggling business with the Mongolian tribe as soon as he saw Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng asked suspiciously: "Didn't it be fine before, and it became even more prosperous when I led the army to help suppress Henan Province. Now it's only been a few months, how come it has reached such a point?"

"Ugh!"

Diao Dacheng sighed first, then turned his head to look at Su Yiyang, who was pretending to be his entourage by the carved window, and talked about the situation of Dushikou Border Trade and his caravan in the past few months: "Isn't it because of the robbery?" The business of those big merchants in Zhangjiakou..."

It turned out that Xuanzhen's trade with the Mongols was mainly concentrated in Zhangjiakou Baocheng, where there were several large merchants specializing in smuggling. Zhang Cheng also had some impressions of this.

In his memory, it seems that the merchants in Shanxi and the merchants in Zhangjiakou colluded with each other. Not only did they smuggle prohibited materials such as grain and iron materials through naturalization to Jiannu, they even sold Ming's military intelligence.

In the past, Dushikou Fort and Muma Fort on the North Road, and Heihanling Fort under Sihaiye on the East Road, etc. could trade with various ministries of Mongolia. The smuggling business here is the same as in Zhangjiakou, but the scale cannot be compared with that of Mongolia. Compared with Zhangjiakou, only those who are protected by local officials are eligible.

However, after Zhang Cheng left Zhenbei Road, he broke this invisible balance. He not only sent a caravan to Zhangjiakou for trade, but even directly guarded his own caravan for naturalization trade. This was obviously robbing Zhangjiakou of making money.

What is even more excessive is that Zhang Cheng built a market outside Dushikoubao, openly allowing Mongolian caravans to come to trade through Beizha Pass, and even broke the rules by forming a North Road caravan to deliver goods to Mongolian tribes. door to door.

Zhang Cheng's operation is tantamount to taking food from the tiger's mouth. The few big smuggling giants in Zhangjiakou have no background behind them, which can be said to be deeply intertwined.

They have been illegally operating smuggling trades in private for more than ten years, or even decades, and have already accumulated more than one million yuan in assets. Man can have nothing to do with them.

Even those big bosses in the capital were captured by them with beauties and silver bullets. On the surface, they appeared to be sanctimonious Confucianism masters, but secretly acted as their accomplices and umbrellas. Who didn't sit in court during the day? , sitting in the boudoir at night.

Although there is competition among these big smugglers in Zhangjiakou, after years of constant friction and collision, they have also formed a certain tacit understanding, which not only competes and suppresses each other, but also helps and supports each other.

Especially when they felt that their interests had been violated, they became even more tightly bound together, and mobilized their various relationships and forces one after another to make a concerted effort to the outside world.

It was precisely because of their obstruction that the smuggling trade caravan led by Diao Dacheng was not only unable to enter Zhangjiakou for trading, but also could no longer pass the customs to go to Guihua City outside the mouth to trade with the Mongols.

What's more, they also colluded with Guluge and Hanggao, the left and right wings of Tumed who were stationed in Guihua City, to prevent the Mongolian tribes outside Dushikou from trading with the Han people. The market has also become deserted.

(End of this chapter)