Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 19 Shanxi Merchants
During the Jiajing period, I Da once led troops to attack Daming because of the closure of the trading field on the northern border by Ming.At that time, the guards in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty fled seriously, and there was a serious shortage of frontier troops.The whole society is in a terrible state. Officers are good fighters on empty pay and blood, but they are a group of cowards when they fight.

At that time, Qiu Luan, the commander-in-chief of Datong, fled away after seeing the cavalry of Anda, so that Anda drove straight in and directly hit the capital.

The Ming Dynasty didn't have any other skills, but it had a bit of toughness.

The original purpose of Anda was to let the Ming Dynasty open a few more horse markets, but the Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty refused to agree.

In the end, it led to the most famous Gengxu change in history.

And Zhangjiakou's discussion field was born under such circumstances.

The birth of the Zhangjiakou Discussion Market has led to frequent exchanges between the grassland and the Central Plains.

The grassland cannot produce iron pots, grain and salt.And the Central Plains couldn't raise horses on the prairie, so the two sides took what they needed and traded on the market.

At the beginning, the transaction volume of the Zhangjiakou market was not large.However, after the rise of Shanxi merchants in the middle and late Wanli period, the scale of the Zhangjiakou market also grew.

Zhao Wen and others drove the carriage, staggeringly, and finally arrived at Zhangjiakou at noon on the fifth day.

Zhangjiakou is not too far from Xuanfu Town, less than a hundred miles away.

It can be said that it is under the nose of Xuanfu Town.It is precisely because of this that the Ming Dynasty was able to open the forum here with peace of mind.After all, with the army at his side, he was not afraid of the Tartars making trouble.

Looking at the not-so-high city wall of Zhangjiakou, Zhao Wen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It can be considered that I have come to this family's entrance. I almost died of exhaustion on this journey."

Zhao Daniu looked at Zhao Wen who was sitting on the cart, and said, "Are you still tired? Sitting in the cart every day, how tired can you be?"

Zhao Wen jumped off the cart, walked to the front of the cart, looked at the city wall of Zhangjiakou, and shouted: "Go, enter the city!"

The cart creaked and headed towards the city gate.

Before entering the city gate, several soldiers in tattered mandarin duck battle jackets guarding the city gate surrounded him.

"What are you doing? That caravan? Why haven't I seen you?" A lean man in his 40s stared at Zhao Wen and asked.

Zhao Wen was taken aback, and said, "We are in business, not from that caravan. We came here by ourselves. What? No way?"

The soldier looked at Zhao Wen, and then at the cart behind Zhao Wen.

There is a whole large cart of goods, and the flags of those large caravans have not been planted on the cart.Seeing this, the lean man immediately understood that this should be a chick, and he didn't know the twists and turns in it, otherwise it would be impossible to come to Zhangjiakou like this.

The man smiled slightly, showing his big yellow teeth, "Hey, you are not from those big caravans, so is this your first time in Zhangjiakou?"

"Yeah, what's the matter? Is there a problem?"

"The problem here is serious. Don't you know that you have to pay taxes when you enter Zhangjiakou? You don't know the city gate tax, do you? Seeing that you have such a large truckload of goods, I won't ask you more Yes, just five liang of silver." Da Huangya stretched out five fingers and waved them in front of Zhao Wen's eyes.

These soldiers guarding the city are soldiers in Zhangjiakou Fort, and they are usually responsible for guarding the gate of the city.Those big caravans have strong connections and great influence, and they give those officers a lot of money every year, so when they usually go in and out of Zhangjiakou, they don't have to look directly at them.Sometimes, the stewards of those big caravans did big business, and when they were happy, they would reward them with some money.

But rewards are not always there, that is, once or twice occasionally.

More often than not, there is nothing.

These soldiers jingled poorly, and all the guys on their bodies didn't even add up to a few cents of money. Usually they were hungry and full, and they often didn't have enough to eat.

Because of this, they often charge the city gate tax for small caravans entering and leaving Zhangjiakou or single-handed caravans like Zhao Wen.

It is said to be a city gate tax, but it is actually a blatant demand for money.And the money went directly into his own pocket.

Those grown-ups also turned a blind eye to this, after all, they have already been fed up by those caravans, and they should let their subordinates drink a mouthful of soup, otherwise, who would care about things.

"What? What? Five taels of silver? Are you crazy about money?" Before Zhao Wen could speak, Zhao Daniu quit.

This is five taels of silver, how much rice do I need to buy?How much salt do you buy?

When Da Huangya heard Zhao Daniu's words, his face turned cold instantly, "This is the rule. If you want to go in, you have to pay the tax obediently. Otherwise, don't go in. There are many businesses in this house. A cartload of goods can be sold for a lot of money. To you, this five taels of silver is nothing more than a drop in the bucket, why are you so stingy?"

As soon as Zhao Wen heard this, he felt that what Da Huangya said was somewhat reasonable, so he said, "Daniu, you give him the silver first, as long as we go in, we will sell all these goods. Then we will send !"

Da Huangya narrowed his eyes when he saw Zhao Wen's bold appearance.

Zhao Daniu had a bitter face, and said in a low voice: "We don't have money, how poor are we? Pay back five taels of silver, I can't even get one tael of silver."

Wang Qi also nodded, expressing that he had no money on him.

When Da Huangya heard that he had no money, his expression changed instantly, and he said angrily: "You bastards, if you have no money, get out. You don't even have capital, what kind of business are you doing? If you want to learn from those big caravans, I advise you Just save yourselves."

Zhao Wen looked at the big yellow teeth, and his face turned cold instantly.

"What did you say?" Zhao Wen put his hands on his waist, looked at Big Yellow Fang coldly, murderous intent in his eyes.

Da Huangya looked at Zhao Wen's face full of evil spirits, and involuntarily took two steps back.

"Why, you still want to kill people?" Da Huangya pointed to Zhao Wen's hand touching his waist, and said with a vigilant expression.

"Kill you? You are just a pig and dog. Killing you is worse than killing a pig. I advise you to let us in, otherwise, be careful of your life." Zhao Wen threatened coldly.

That's what Zhao Wen said, scaring the big yellow tooth in front of him.

After all, this is the territory of Zhangjiakou, and I am not familiar with the place where I was born. If I really killed someone here, then I will never even think about stepping into Zhangjiakou again.

The entire Xuanfu Town is just such a discussion area. If he doesn't come here, where should the remaining truckloads of goods be sold?Could it be that the goods really rotted?

Da Huangya's face was a little panicked, but he thought again, this is Zhangjiakou, only a few tens of miles away from the important town of Xuanfu, plus there are countless soldiers in this family's mouth, what is he afraid of?

Thinking of this, Da Huangya straightened his chest, and said coldly to Zhao Wen: "If you don't pay the city gate tax today, don't even think about passing here."

Zhao Wen looked at the big yellow teeth that couldn't get in, and didn't know what to do for a while.Is it possible to really go back?
For a moment, the two of them froze there.

"What's going on? Why is the city gate still blocked?" Just then, a deep male voice sounded.

A middle-aged man wearing a melon cap and long robe walked over.

"Oh, it turns out that the God of Wealth is here, and I kowtow to you."

When Da Huangya saw this person, he immediately put on an extremely flattering expression, bowed down and was about to kowtow.

The man waved his hand and said, "What's going on? Why is the city gate blocked?"

Da Huangya took advantage of the opportunity to stand up and said, "Uncle Fan, you have mud legs. I wanted to do business like you, but I couldn't get the money for the city gate tax. I didn't want to leave, so I stopped here Already!"

Uncle Fan glanced at Zhao Wen and felt that this man was very handsome.Although he was wearing coarse clothes, the temperament on his body was not comparable to that of ordinary people.

Such a person shouldn't be unable to come up with this little money, right?

Uncle Fan looked at Zhao Wen and said, "Little brother, what kind of trouble did you encounter?"

Zhao Wen turned around, looked at the middle-aged man, and said, "It's nothing, just a little thing."

Uncle Fan looked at Zhao Wen and Da Huangya, and instantly understood what was going on, so he laughed twice and said: "A penny is hard for a hero, it seems that my brother has been a little tight recently. .This is 50 taels of silver, if I don’t mind it, I will treat it as a friend.”

Uncle Fan took out a money bag from his pocket, weighed it in his hand, and handed it to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen looked at the money bag he handed over, looked at the man with a look of surprise, and thought: "There are such people in the world? It's the brains of this person to give money to someone he doesn't know for no reason. broken?"

Uncle Fan looked at Zhao Wen with a surprised face, and said with a smile: "I don't mean any malice, I just want to make a friend because I see my brother's extraordinary temperament."

"Hey, then I'll be disrespectful." Zhao Wen chuckled and took the money bag over.

As the saying goes, if you have an advantage, don't take advantage of the bastard.

Zhao Daniu looked at the money bag in Zhao Wen's hand, his eyes brightened.This is 50 taels of silver. If it is all used to buy food, how much can you buy?

Zhao Wen took out a piece of broken silver from the money bag, and threw it directly to Da Huangya regardless of how heavy it was.

"Can we go in now?" Zhao Wen looked at Big Yellow Fang in disgust.

Big Yellow Fang picked up the broken silver from the ground and bit it with his teeth.He looked at the tooth marks on the broken silver, and said with a smile on his face: "Master, you can go in."

Zhao Wen packed up the money bag and cupped his hands at Uncle Fan, "Then we will go in first. Oh, by the way, I haven't asked the gentleman's name yet!"

Uncle Fan waved his hand, and said casually: "Don't dare to be, I am Yuan Fuxiang's big treasurer, Fan Zheng."

"My surname is Zhao Danzi, one word." Zhao Wengong cupped his hands, said his name, and then called Zhao Daniu to drive the carriage into the city gate.

Fan Zheng looked at Zhao Wen who was leaving, and said in his heart: "Neither humble nor overbearing, with a free and easy manner, he will definitely be a man of influence in the future. I have become attached to him at this time, and he will definitely be a great help to Jiexiu Fan's family in the future."

This Fan Zheng is a treasurer in charge of the Fan family, the head of Shanxi merchants.

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