Liu Chengzong likes honest people, and he even prefers honest people who do business.
The full name of Changhexi Chieftain is Changhexi Yutong Ningyuan Xuanwei Envoy. The leader’s name is Muyajiabo. His lineage can be traced back to the Yak Kingdom of the Han Dynasty. There was still a lot of hesitation when he surrendered in the early Ming Dynasty. Finally, he was threatened by a document issued by the Ministry of Rites. Only then did he send someone to join him.
However, in the Ming Dynasty, the chieftains in Changhe West had always made achievements, so they were called Mingzhen in the local government of Sichuan. They were different from other barbarian chieftains, so they were also called Mingzheng chieftains.
In Liu Chengzong's opinion, although Mingzheng Tusi did nothing and did nothing, it felt much better than Jinchuan Tusi who spent real money.
Then Chieftain Jinchuan spends all day building forts at home, who are you trying to scare?
Not to mention joining or not, at least Tusi Mingzheng seems to be making friends.
Liu Chengzong decided to invite Chieftain Mingzheng to meet in Luhuo in winter to talk about the next development of the southeast.
It's true that Dajian Road is in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, but for Liu Chengzong, it was his southeast. In fact, he also wanted to find out how the tea-horse trade was run here. If the price was right, he also planned to send people to Dajian Road. Buy tea on the road.
There is indeed tea in Xining, but in order to curb pirates, the amount of tea given to Xining by the Ming Dynasty was very low, far less than the large amount of tea from the Diaomen Tea Horse Company, and it was not convenient to transport from north to south. In comparison, buying some Sichuan tea would not be beneficial to Xining. It helps a lot to boost the morale of the garrison.
The only problem is that Liu Chengzong is afraid that Mingzheng Chieftain will not dare to go to Luhuo. After all, if he is allowed to go to Dajian Road rashly... In fact, it is okay for him to go to Dajian Road, but if he is allowed to go to Jinchuan where there are many bunkers, he will definitely have to think more carefully. .
So when he set off, he sent a letter to Luhuo to inform his uncle and asked his uncle to invite Mingzheng Chieftain to live temporarily in Luhuo County and meet him when he arrived.
But it was true that he was overly worried about this matter. When the letter was delivered to Luhuo, his uncle Cai Zhongpan had already been out hunting with Mingzheng Chieftain for several days.
It was a mistake. Cai Zhongpan didn't have many skills in marching and fighting, but in his early years he traveled with the Shaanxi merchant caravan in the Sanyuan and Jingyang areas of Shaanxi, and he was well-informed.
Chief Mingzheng also moved closer to Liu Shishi subjectively, so it was difficult for the relationship between the two to deteriorate.
Of course, the most important thing is that both of them can speak Shaanxi dialect.
Because in Dajianlu, there is a group of powerful businessmen from Shaanxi.
When they received the news, the two were having a picnic by the Xianshui River in Luhuo County. Although it was freezing cold, the Lion Soldiers and the Danjian Lu singing and dancing team sang and danced around the bonfire, and everyone had a great time.
The attendant opened the letter in front of him. Cai Zhongpan read it carefully, nodded to the attendant, and then used a knife to pare the cold fragrant pork cooked in white water with a knife, cut it into thin slices, and put it into a celadon bowl.
There is a three-legged catechu pot on the grass, and the pot is being heated by the pot. Cai Zhongpan's tableware is packed in bags woven with fine wool, and he takes it with him wherever he goes.
Now there are four celadon bowls placed in front of him, containing Guokui, fragrant pork slices, hot milk tea and highland barley wine in order.
When the pot helmet is hot, make a slit with a knife, first take a sip of milk tea, then use the hot pot helmet to sandwich a few slices of fragrant pork without any condiments. The more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes, and finally take a sip of highland barley wine. .
This is really the best snack in the wild.
But at this moment, the Roujiamo was not fragrant at all in Mingzheng Toast's hands.
He waited eagerly for a long time, but found that Cai Zhongpan had no intention of chatting with him. He thought about it and felt itchy. Then he finally couldn't hold it back and asked, "Brother Zhongpan, has there been a letter from the Marshal?"
"Well, there's a letter. It's nothing serious. You go on." Cai Zhongpan nodded with a smile, took a sip of wine and asked with interest: "What's going on in Sichuan? The people of Chengdu want to burn down the palace of King Neijiang?"
Cai Zhongpan didn't want Mu Ya to know that Liu Chengzong was coming to Luhuo.
Because in Liu Chengzong's impression, he thought that Mingzheng Chieftain Muya was an honest businessman, but in Cai Zhongpan's perception, this was not the case.
A few years after Mu Yaxin took the throne, he had already secured his position as Mingzheng Chieftain. He had a large territory and strong strength. He had four thousand men under his command. If he wanted to fight, none of the chieftains around him could defeat him without the help of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, the distance between Dajianlu and Luhuo is 800 miles round trip. The Lion Army only has 600 troops stationed in Luhuo, and Liu Chengzong has to walk 1,200 miles from Nangqian.
So he planned to tell Mu Ya about Liu Chengzong's imminent arrival ten days later.
Due to the time difference, even if Muya had evil intentions, it would be too late to deploy troops.
Muya had a hunch that Liu Chengzong must have said something in the letter, but Cai Zhongpan didn't say it, so he had no choice but to follow the previous topic, smiled and said: "This is normal, Sichuan people are so temperamental, Wangfu There are so many of them, and they often run rampant and lawless. The officials are busy helping the powerful landowners do whatever they want, and the common people go and burn down the prince's palace. Is it okay?"
Cai Zhongpan laughed when he heard this: "Look at what you said!"
"Really, man, I have been surrounded by Shaanxi people since I was a child. We are half of the township party. Shaanxi people do not lie to Shaanxi people."
Mu Ya waved her hand and said: "Just last year, there was Ni Sihui in Ba County, the Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing. His son was Ni Tianhe. He was in cahoots with the prefect Yu Xinmin in Chongqing. He said that when Fan Long attacked Chongqing, there were insiders in the city, so he used the excuse to investigate. Destroyed hundreds of good homes.”
Cai Zhongpan took another sip from the wine bowl and said, "Is the public resentment boiling?"
"Then the public resentment is boiling." Muya really looks like a Shaanxi person. Anyway, even if he doesn't look like a Shaanxi person, he definitely doesn't look like the leader of the tribe. He waved his hand and said: "There is another tyrant in Ba County, his name is Wang Yingxi, and his brother is the right minister of the Ministry of Rites. Wang Yingxiong, you don’t know what’s going on in Sichuan.”
Mu Ya said: "In Sichuan, the roads are blocked. Since Wanli's time, there has been a shortage of local officials. The power of each county has often been controlled by committee members."
Committee member means appointed person.
For example, Fushi County did not have a magistrate, a county magistrate, a chief registrar, or a historian. Liu Xiangyu, a country sage, wrote to request the appointment of officials. However, the Yan'an prefect could not find anyone, so he appointed Liu Xiangyu as a committee member of Fushi County to act as county administrator.
"During Lord Longqing's reign, Master Yan was on patrol in Sichuan. He deeply hated the powerful and aggressive officials, and was eventually dismissed. At that time, the governor had to be forced to leave whenever he came, not to mention the military chaos that lasted for who knows how many years. "
"Sichuan is a little better, and the people can survive as tenants." Muya clapped her hands at the end as if telling a story: "It's a pity that in the end the people of Chengdu didn't burn it into the palace of the feudal prince, and were persuaded to leave by the prefect Sun Lan. "
Cai Zhongpan looked at Mu Ya steadily: "Do you want Sichuan to be in chaos? Or... do you want to enter Sichuan?"
Mu Ya shook her head like a rattle: "Forget it, if there is another war in Sichuan, I do have this idea; but I would never dare to think about it when entering Sichuan!"
Cai Zhongpan didn't believe it: "Why is this?"
Muya shook her head: "Sichuan raises people!"
Mu Ya really wants to cause war in Sichuan, but this is not because it is not a big deal to watch the excitement, but because she hopes someone can hold back the Sichuan officers and soldiers.
The center of the tea-horse trade market is not in Dajianlu, but in the hands of the Lengbian and Shenbian chieftains on the east bank of the Dadu River.
The imperial court officially stipulated that Leng and Shen should be the tea trade centers on the south roadside, restricting tea merchants to purchase tea in Yazhou and Lizhou, and transporting tea to Luding and Leng and Shen before trading.
Moreover, Tibetan merchants from Tibet, Kham and other places must go to Leng and Shenlai to purchase tea.
What is the name of Muya's Tusi Yamen? It's called Changhexi. The business center is in the hands of the two little chieftains from Changhedong. They make a lot of money every day. Their Dajianlu can only do some B&B business and provide food and accommodation for passing merchants.
His father did something before his death: he blocked the barbarian merchants to the west of the Dadu River and was not allowed to cross the river; he bribed the Han merchants to bypass the east of the river and boycott the Leng and Shen markets.
Contacted the Diaomen Tusi, who has a long history, to smuggle Bian tea and destroy the legal Bian tea trade market in Leng and Shen areas.
At the same time, he also launched a war and destroyed the Leng and Shen Forts, directly overcoming the two chieftains and causing a new chieftain to succeed to the throne.
But the two Mongolian chieftains were protected by Sichuan officials. The new chieftain Yu Jingdong of Shenbao and the chieftain Lengbian blocked the Dadu River and halted the imperial tea and horse trade for three years.
The Dadu River is lying across there, and no one can do anything about it. Even if there are 400,000 troops, not to mention the four thousand soldiers, the Dadu River is still the Dadu River.
In the end, Changhexi Chieftain had no choice but to relent. On March 11th, the forty-fifth year of Wanli, he sent his steward to Shenbianbao and signed an agreement with Chieftain Leng and Shen, various leaders, and merchants from the five provinces to re-establish the Leng and Shen are commercial markets.
Then Muya's father was furious.
Muya didn't want to open a B&B. Real life forced him to have no other choice. He could only open a B&B, not a market.
As for saying that Sichuan nourishes people, this is actually another way of saying that the Sichuan people are strong. As a foreigner, the Mongolian army entered Sichuan and fought a war for fifty-two years. Only when they had a bad brain would they want to invade Sichuan.
The terrain of Sichuan is a closed arena, and the war will not end until everyone dies.
It was Cai Zhongpan's question that made Mu Ya very curious: "You don't plan to go to Sichuan? The fertile land of Shu is thousands of miles away, with royal fields ranking seventh, military fields ranking second, and powerful families ranking one, so don't you want to go to Sichuan?"
Cai Zhongpan chuckled and said, "It's up to the Marshal's Office to make a decision on this matter. I have no control over it. Don't try to trick me."
But having said that, after today's conversation, Cai Zhongpan was in an extremely good mood. With so much public dissatisfaction in Sichuan, the work assigned to him by Liu Chengzong should be easy to complete.
After thinking for a moment, he said seriously to Mu Ya: "To get down to business, can you introduce me to a businessman, preferably from Shaanxi, who has been doing business in Sichuan for several years, and the share capital should not be too large. Are there any such candidates?"
"The share capital is not large, so how much is not big? Is one or two thousand taels considered big, or is one or two thousand taels not big?"
Muya thought for a while and said: "There is a man from Weinan, Shaanxi. He used to be the shopkeeper of the Zhao family in Xiaoyi Town in Chengdu. Last year I heard that he wanted to go it alone. If you want to see him, I can help you find him, but it may not be possible when he comes. You can find it, but if you find it, he may not be willing to see you."
"You don't want to see me..." Cai Zhongpan asked, "Why is this?"
Muya held the porcelain bowl of milk tea, blew on the hot air and took a sip. She was very satisfied. She glanced at Cai Zhongpan and said, "Your reputation is not very good for merchants."
"Don't ask merchants to come over to see you. Just when the commander-in-chief captured Baili and his troops reached Luhuo, more than 40 merchants from the five provinces who were stationed in Lengbian and Shenbian packed up and fled. Even Shaanxi in Chengdu Prefecture Many merchants have also left, leaving only one shopkeeper here, which is a way to gain wealth through danger."
Cai Zhongpan tapped his head with his knuckles in distress. How should I put it? It was almost inevitable that he would ignore it.
Because merchants are not just merchants. When they earn money, they will buy land, let their descendants take the imperial examination, and then join the official career. In local areas, these people are powerful landlords.
The commercial centers of Shaanxi are in Sanyuan, Jingyang and other places. Liu Chengzong has never been to those places, but Wang Er, Wang Zuogao and others have repeatedly attacked Weinan and Weibei.
Sichuan people may lack understanding of them, but to Shaanxi businessmen, the Qinghai Grand Marshal is equal to a bandit.
"In this way, you find this person first. If he wants to come, come over. If he doesn't want to, just tell him not to leave. If it doesn't work, I'll go to Chengdu."
"Are you going to Chengdu Mansion?"
Muya's eyes widened: "What is your identity when you go to Chengdu Mansion?"
Cai Zhongpan spread his hands and smiled at Mu Ya: "The Changhe West Xuanwei Envoy was sent to Chengdu Prefecture to purchase... what to purchase?"
Muya understood almost instantly, waved her hand and said: "No, it's the steward sent by Chieftain Mingzheng to Jinguan City to purchase Shu brocade."
"Yes, he is the steward sent by Chieftain Mingzheng to Jinguan City to purchase Shu brocade..." Cai Zhongpan tried hard to give himself a name, and finally clapped his hands and said: "Steward Basang!"
"Hey, I noticed that you guys, why do you all like to give yourselves a false name, Basang?"
Muya was stunned by the name and said: "The cavalryman who first came to Mingzheng Chieftain to deliver the news couldn't speak to my local soldiers. He was Basang Basang, and he is also called Basang to you."
Cai Zhongpan shook his head with a smile. He couldn't explain the reason, so he could only say: "Anyway, just remember to find that person for me. It's best to find him before the year. I have a big deal to discuss with him."
"Big deal?"
Mu Ya was just about to keep his words a little more reserved, but when he heard this word, his DNA was directly touched, and he quickly asked: "Do you need to smuggle in my territory? I tell you, as long as the commander is willing to demarcate the border with me, it doesn't matter. For Mingzheng matters, I guarantee a smooth journey from Mingzheng to Songping Pass in Lizhou."
He raised a finger and pointed to the east: "I have only one request. We are all township parties. We must bypass the two Mongolian Tatars in the east of Changhe River. We must not let them earn this money!"
Cai Zhongpan thought to himself that it would be very magical for me, a native of northern Shaanxi, to discuss the rural party with the Xifan chieftain who made Jianlu.
But that's not important. What's important is that this smuggling trade route was a harvest that was completely beyond his expectation.
The business he originally wanted to talk about was not about buying and selling things. It was about investing in merchants and using shops as a base to penetrate into Sichuan while doing business.
"I will tell the commander about this."
Cai Zhongpan made a guarantee, and then warned: "We must find this person. We can build a big trade route from Xining to Chengdu. We have a lot of skins that cannot be sold in Xining."
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