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Chapter 123 The extermination begins! Three thousand Tatar thugs entered Datong! The Sun family of Shanxi merchants was wiped out! !

The reason why the eight major Shanxi merchants are hated by many people at all times is because
It's because these people have no national spirit at all.

They started through the Kaizhong method in the early Ming Dynasty.

But they never thought about repaying the imperial court.

When the imperial court can bring them benefits, they will fawn over the imperial court.

When the imperial court had no way to provide them with benefits, they turned directly to the Jurchens.

Even in order to provide food, grass, ordnance to the Jurchens, they had to do it at the risk of their lives.

For example, now, we clearly know that once the Tatars enter the Central Plains, they will definitely burn, kill, and loot, and the people will be devastated.

But for them, this is just a business.

If the Tatars are introduced into the pass and cause casualties to the people, the soldiers at the border will definitely ask the court for reinforcements or for an increase in military pay.

How to exchange military pay for food was a business done by Shanxi merchants.

They gained huge profits from it and only gave part of their military pay to the soldiers at the border.
Most of the military pay was used as bargaining chips by themselves.
Even during this process, they made themselves complacent and thought that they had everything under control.
Even military and national affairs are not worth mentioning in front of them.

This shows how proud these people are.

They don't pay attention to the so-called national economy and people's livelihood at all. They only have interests in their eyes.

After the discussion, one Shanxi merchant even said directly: "Although this Chen Han is very hateful, he used Japanese bandits and pirates to massacre our partners in the southeast.

But it is precisely because of his existence that the chaebol smugglers in the southeast saw our value.

To put it bluntly, the Japanese pirates they attracted were just stragglers.

But the Tatars we attracted are regular troops. Their destructive power is several times more powerful than Japanese pirates and pirates.
The benefits they can bring are incomparable to those of Japanese pirates and pirates.

From this perspective, our Shanxi merchants are much more powerful than the southeastern plutocrats like them.

After so many years of overt and covert fighting, a strong and weak one was finally identified.

From now on, as long as Chen Han and His Majesty the Emperor are eliminated, our Shanxi merchants will be one step ahead of the southeastern plutocrats.
For this matter, we should celebrate. "

The head of the Qiao family said with no expression on his face, "Are all the villages that will be wiped out by the Tatars sorted out next time? If we wipe out a few more villages around Datong, we should let the Tatars go to Zhangjiakou.

The Chang family should pay more attention to this road. After all, the Chang family does the most business along Zhangjiakou.

Is the head of the Chang family okay with this? "

The head of the Chang family nodded: "Those are all from the old almanac. Our Chang family's warehouses are all along the route. Don't worry, all the officials along the way have taken care of it.

But after leaving Zhangjiakou, the Qiao family would have to handle it.

After entering from Zhangjiakou, you need to take more care of the Zhang family.

After all, Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, has a close relationship with the Zhang family. If we bypass his defense line, we will not get enough benefits. It will not be uncomfortable if we are given a counterattack in the future. "

The head of the Qiao family said: "Don't worry, the share given to Governor Xuanda will not only be included in the profits from the ginseng, deer antlers, and mink skin sales this time, but even after the things are done this time, he will be given a thousand taels separately." gold."

At that time, the ratio of gold to silver was one to six, and one thousand taels of gold was equal to six thousand taels of silver.

It may not seem like much, but you must know that even if Governor Xuanda is a high-ranking official, his annual salary is only two thousand taels of silver.

A family of four living a prosperous life will not spend more than five taels of silver a year.

You can imagine what the concept of six thousand taels of silver is?
After everything was discussed, these Shanxi merchants rested at the Shanxi Merchants Association and did not return to their respective families.

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At the same time, Cao Zhengchun had already asked General Ma Gui to plan the route.

Ma Gui also said hello along the way, and anyone who saw the signal must be allowed to pass without being blocked.

So Cao Zhengchun immediately led a total of 3,000 Tatar troops and marched lightly from Datong directly into Shanxi. The first stop is Sunjia in Datong.

Although the Sun family of Datong is not as rich in assets as the eight major families, it still has tens of thousands of dollars.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the entire Shanxi Province was built into a small independent kingdom by these Shanxi merchants.

They corrupted all officials in Shanxi through huge bribes.

Therefore, they can freely transport any materials within Shanxi and use Zhangjiakou, the border trade export to Mongolia, to trade with the Tatars and other Mongolian tribes in the north.

Why did Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, strongly advocate the Shanghai trade in Zhangjiakou with the Tatars in the north?
Among them are the interests of these Shanxi merchants.

Because even without Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, mutual trade opened up contacts with Tatars.

Over the years, these Shanxi merchants in Shanxi have also conducted a large amount of trade with the Tatars in the north through smuggling.

Wang Chonggu just saw that the smuggling trade was too rampant, so he had no choice but to suggest that the court open mutual trade.

In fact, during the Jiajing period, several governors who guarded the north suggested opening up mutual trade.

They also saw that the smuggling trade between Shanxi merchants and the Tatar tribe in the north was too rampant. Rather than letting these smugglers benefit, it would be better to normalize it, which would also be convenient for other merchants.

It will not be monopolized by Shanxi businessmen.

It's just that the emperor Jiajing didn't agree due to unknown reasons.

Until the Longqing period, I said that the Tatar Khan was a lecherous evil spirit who stole his grandson's lover, causing his grandson to run away to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty started mutual trade by sending his grandson back.

The person who promoted this policy was Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda.

That year was the fourth year of Longqing, and only two short years have passed since the beginning of Wanli.

It is said that it is a mutual market trade, but in fact it is still monopolized by Shanxi people.

The Sun family also relied on the great unity among Shanxi merchants. They came in and out together, and at the same time betrayed the country and made a fortune.

They made a lot of money by trading horses, cloth, salt, iron, etc. with the Tatars in the north in Zhangjiakou.

The Minghui Dian explicitly prohibited the sale of ironware to the north.

But they know very well that the more things the court prohibits, the more money they can make.

Therefore, the Sun family sold a large amount of ironware to the Tatars in the north, and even to the Jurchens as far away as Liaodong.

But this time Cao Zhengchun ordered his ten elite men to lead more than 3,000 Tatars directly south.

We passed the pass at nightfall and entered Datong City using a secret code at midnight.

Then he headed towards the Sun family without any obstruction along the way.

Then there was a howl of ghosts and wolves.

In the famous Sun Family Courtyard in Datong, a bloody massacre ushered in.

The people of the Sun family are very familiar with the Tatars in the north, and know their customs, clothing, and even their weapons.

The irony is that the weapons the Tatars held were probably made of the iron they smuggled over.

It took three thousand Tatars less than half an hour to kill almost all the dogs in the Sun family compound.

The next step was to empty out all the silver, gold, antique calligraphy and paintings, and other items stored in the Sun family compound.

A member of the Sun family who escaped by chance was very shocked.

Fortunately, the head of the Sun family ran away to the Taiyuan Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, otherwise he would have died...

(End of this chapter)