Lianchang Automobile Dealer, as the name suggests, is a business that specializes in freight transportation. There are hundreds of such businesses in the capital!
Rice in the capital is expensive. Since ancient times, the economy of China's capital has required support from outside materials. Counting on the fields around the capital, I am afraid that even the people in the city cannot satisfy the vegetables, fruits and poultry!
Not to mention coal from Shanxi, timber from the Northeast, tea and silk from the South, and cattle, sheep and horses from various Mongolian tribes!
The capital of an empire requires the continuous input of resources from all over the country to maintain its apparent wealth and prosperity!
Since goods need to flow, then you need to run a transportation business. In the past, it was called a cart dealer. It specialized in raising various horses, mules, and walking donkeys, and then hired cart-type caravans to travel everywhere!
This kind of business requires both black and white. You have to have a good relationship with the government and local powerful gangsters in your trade route. And when necessary, you need escorts from the bodyguard agency!
Finally, you have to be proficient in business, only then can you secure your job!
Lianchang's carts travel along the trade routes in Shanxi and Mongolia. Hundreds of tons of coal from Shanxi are transported to the capital every year. Cattle and sheep from outside the country are the main business of this Lianchang cart. In the capital, A large part of the beef and mutton that people eat in the winter needs to be transported by big truck dealers like them!
Since the Qing Dynasty, the relationship between Manchuria and Mongolia has been very close. The Mongols were originally part of the Eight Banners system, so the court took great care of this group!
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mongolian beef, mutton, furs, and herbs have been treasures presented as tribute to the emperor. What the superiors offer must be followed! Whatever the emperor likes, naturally the nobles in the palace below cannot lag behind!
The habits and hobbies of high-level officials will naturally affect the people, so the Manchus have always regarded eating cattle and sheep from Outer Mongolia as a treasure!
Yixuan may have forgotten that this habit left by his ancestors is actually a way to win over the various Mongolian tribes!
The economy of any region cannot be rigid and must be fluid to achieve long-term stability. Generally speaking, the Mongolian Plateau is very dependent on the goods of the Han Central Plains!
Not only tea and silk, but also salt and ironware are highly dependent. Even some rice and wheat grains are also very dependent on imports from the Central Plains!
It is this strong dependence on the goods from the Central Plains that makes the northern nomads continue to harass the Central Plains. After all, this is the only way for them to survive!
The Ming Dynasty never stopped imposing economic sanctions on various Mongolian ministries, but the more economic sanctions... cut off trade, the more aggressive Mongolia became!
On the contrary, when the trade route was opened, the border became much more peaceful!
The Manchu Qing Dynasty learned from the experience and lessons of the Ming Dynasty, and adopted a strategy of win-over with Mongolia. Not only did they provide high-ranking officials with generous salaries, but they also focused on the economy!
The continuous import of Mongolian cattle, sheep and leather goods actually helps the Mongolian plateau make up for its trade deficit!
The Han people used the goods from the Central Plains to make away the wealth of the grasslands. You must also give the goods from the grasslands a channel to flow into the Central Plains to make money!
Otherwise, the deficit will continue forever, and the various Mongolian ministries will have nothing to gain!
The main business of this CIMB dealership is the import of beef and mutton. Of course, they are not trading live animals, but are mainly engaged in frozen goods!
The emperor in the capital and the high-ranking officials in the royal palace, these rich people of course like to eat freshly killed live cattle and sheep. These are the top quality carefully selected from Mongolia and driven all the way to Zhangjiakou by herdsmen!
Generally, these cattle and sheep will start their journey in July and August. When they arrive in the Huairou area of Changping, it happens to be October. At this time, the cattle and sheep are fat. They have been raised here for the whole winter. The nobles in the capital eat and kill them now. What they want is Such a fresh taste!
However, the capital consumes hundreds of thousands of cattle and muttons in one winter, and it is unrealistic to expect them to be eaten alive. Therefore, every year when the cold outside the customs begins, Han merchants go to buy the cattle and sheep from the herdsmen, slaughter them on the spot, and then freeze them. Like stones, they are continuously transported to the capital by this big truck dealer!
This is the real delicacy that ordinary people can enjoy during the Chinese New Year. Although it is not very particular, it is more affordable than before!
Isiha suddenly lowered his voice as he spoke, "My lord, this interrogation really revealed the treasure! Lianchang Automobile Dealer is mainly engaged in the frozen meat business this winter!"
"And in order to stack more goods on the car, they also invented meat rolls, which are muttons that are killed outside the mouth. They are rolled tightly together and tied with hemp rope. The cold wind can freeze them into meat rolls in one night. !”
"It's easy to transport, and one cart can pull a lot...but there's something wrong here!"
"Room B just interrogated a guy who runs a big car shop in Lijiaqiao and dug out a piece of news from him! This CIMB big car shop is not a good man and a believer. They use this frozen meat business to smuggle!"
"Huh! Smuggling?" Yixuan was stunned.
"That's right, my good prince, it's smuggling. They can put a lot of things in these frozen meat rolls! Indian horseshoe soil, Dongzhu, which is prohibited from trading by the imperial court, and even firearms obtained from overseas!"
"The boy from this big car dealership has been working for seven or eight years. He once stole meat at night and found a pistol hidden in a meat roll! Isn't this smuggling?"
"Weapons that are difficult for the imperial court to obtain, can these big car dealers get them? The imperial court has explicitly banned the purchase of Dongzhu, and no one in the private sector is allowed to collect it privately!"
"These are the treasures that Prince Baylor wears on his hat. How can a pariah be allowed to own them? But this big car dealer, CIMB, even dares to carry this out for takeout!"
Yixuan's temples ached with anger, "Okay, okay...how brave are you to turn a deaf ear to the court's ban? If you don't kill a group of people to establish your authority, do they really think that the court is trying to control you?"
"But what does this have to do with our case?"
Yi Siha slapped his thigh, "Good Lord! This is a big deal. The address noted by the government for this Lianchang Automobile Dealership is Tongzhou. His main business is overseas, so the Qinghe area is the business route they are familiar with every year!" "
"For those who dare to smuggle and traffic arms, Dongzhu, and opium under the emperor's feet, do you think it is possible without the support of big forces behind him?"
"My slave was following this clue to investigate, and finally got information from other interrogation offices! It turns out that on the night of the riot, this guy from Lianchang Automobile Dealer appeared in many places!"
"Haha, familiarity has its advantages and disadvantages! It is easier to win people's trust when you have a familiar face, so people will believe you when you talk nonsense in a crowd!"
"But the disadvantage of having a familiar face is that you can't hide your body. As long as we put in all the effort to interrogate, we can find these instigators!"
"Now multiple confessions have proven that the 50 or 60-year-old guy at CIMB Automobile Dealer was the one who caused the most trouble that night, and they also spread the most rumors!"
"It's very possible that they got those banned arms too!"
