Going east from Yizhou is Yiwulu Mountain, and beyond Yiwulu Mountain is the endless Liaohe Plain!
Now is the time of harvest. Between Yiwulu Mountain and Liaohe River, you can see the golden sea of wheat everywhere. The harvest has begun, but because a large number of young and middle-aged people have been drafted into the army to fight for the Qing Dynasty, the progress of the harvest is not fast. Only a small part of the wheat fields have been harvested.
However, near the original Guangning Acropolis, there is a large continuous wheat field that has almost been harvested. This large wheat field may have more than 100,000 or 200,000 acres, all built around a huge farm. This farm occupies an original Ming Dynasty fortress as its foundation. It was greatly expanded and transformed into a fortress-style farm. The walls of the village are high and thick, and two circles of trenches were dug outside. At first glance, it seems quite impregnable!
Living in this golden fortress is a large group of Shanxi people who moved from Xuanfu. Most of them are surnamed Fan. The owner of the village is also surnamed Fan, and his name is Fan Yongdou!
Yes, that is Fan Yongdou, the leader of the nine imperial merchants.
His mission to Tianzhu almost killed him, but after returning to Beijing to recuperate for a period of time, his body recovered again. However, his family's business plummeted during his mission and recuperation, and he could no longer support his reputation as the number one imperial merchant.
In fact, the Fan family was not the only imperial merchant to decline. The so-called imperial merchant was originally linked to the royal family. If the royal family is doing well, the imperial businessman may not be doing well either, but the good may be greater. And if the royal family is going to be in serious trouble, it will be a miracle if these royal merchants can get better again. Among the nine imperial merchants, the only one who created miracles was Jiabusi's Jiale Shihang...and the other eight imperial merchants were Shunzhi, Jierhalang, Chang Adai and Duduo. A father-son meal.
Otherwise, how could Shunzhi lose his country and still have endless money to spend?
Because Fan Yongdou was the head of the imperial merchants and the "royal merchant" of Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner, he was not completely wiped out, and some dignity was left for him - the worst ones were Wang Dengku and Wang Dengku who served the two yellow flags. The Jin Liangyu family, because Lianghuangqi was in dire straits during the years when Dorgon was Emperor Ama, their imperial merchants did not have much luck.
After Shunzhi came to power, he continued to work hard to govern. When he had no money, he asked Sony to force the two imperial merchants to reimburse them, which made the two imperial merchants heavily in debt. In the end, in order to raise funds for living in seclusion, Shunzhi ordered Suk Saha to arrest He captured Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu, tortured them severely, forced out the last bit of their wealth, and then killed them. Later, the two imperial merchants Wang and Jin went bankrupt and owed huge debts (mostly to the powerful people of the two yellow flags) that they could not repay. They were also raided and the whole family was sold into slavery to pay off the debt...
Compared with Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu, Fan Yong's fate is much better. Dorgon's fat pig cannot be slaughtered by Shunzhi, and Azige and Duduo are not easy to kill. After all, there is Dorgon. here I am!
However, Fan Yongdou's business could not continue, and was destroyed by the joint efforts of Jia Le Shihang and the Ming Dynasty Navy!
In the years after Dorgon's death, there was no problem in selling ginseng, leather goods, and dongzhu from outside the customs to the Ming Dynasty through Jiale Market - even if there was a war between the two sides, merchant ships from Jiale Market could still pass through for smuggling. The Ming Navy’s layer upon layer blockade. However, no matter where the Fan family's merchant ships went to sea, they would be hijacked by the Ming Navy, including the people and the ship.
After more than a dozen smuggling incidents in which both people and ships were lost, Fan Yongdou became discouraged and handed Duduo a coupon, asking him to give up being a commercial farmer.
Duduo was easier to talk to than Shunzhi, and he did not wipe out the Fan family. He also allocated 130,000 acres of land near Guangning Acropolis for the Fan family to manage. Of course, the ownership of the land belongs to Duduo, and is only for the Fan family to manage. , the Fan family needs to pay Duduo land rent, and they have to pay 50,000 shi of flour every year.
Because they farm the land owned by Duduo (of course it belongs to Duoduo after Duduo dies), none of the farmers in Fanjiazhuang are on the military recruitment roll. With enough labor and the good management of Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba, the 130,000 acres of wheat fields have now been harvested, and a full 400,000 kilograms of wheat have been transported into Fanjiazhuang, filling all the granaries. , even in the courtyard of the Fan family's mansion, there were piles of grain hoards piled up one after another.
Sitting under the eaves of his house, looking at the grain stores one after another, Fan Yongdou's old face also showed a long-lost smile.
The black land beside the Liao River is too fertile... The 400,000 shi here is already the amount after deducting the wages of the slaves.
Four hundred thousand stones of wheat are ground into flour, so there are still two hundred and seventy-eight thousand stones... Give Doni 80,000 stones, and add another fifty thousand stones to spread it up and down. The Fan family can still get 150,000 stones!
The old man had already settled the accounts, and said with a smile to his son who was waiting on the side: "Sanba, our hard work this year has not been in vain! Fortunately, I didn't listen to you, and the whole family moved to the edge of Xingkai Lake to open up wasteland. .”
Fan Sanba, who is in his twenties and looks smart and capable, frowned: "Dad, when all the wheat here is ground into flour, can we move eastward? Although the land here is fertile, but... ..."
He had just finished speaking when Fan Fu, the housekeeper of the Fan family, suddenly opened the courtyard door and rushed in, tumbling and stumbling in front of Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba. He was thinking about moving to Xingkai. The two father and son by the lake were startled.
Fan Fu had a steady and down-to-earth temperament, and he was old. When he and Fan Yongdou collected information about Datong and Xuanfu Ming armies and presented them to the Qing Dynasty, they encountered many dangers, but he never looked like this!
"Uncle Fu, what are you..." Fan Sanba asked.
"Master, Master Wang is here!" Fan Fu said with a trembling voice, "Master Wang is already here..."
"Master Wang? What Master Wang?" Fan Yongdou, a bit old and confused, didn't react for a while.
"Ming Army! Ming Army is coming!" Fan Sanba screamed in horror.
"Ming army?" Fan Yongdou had seen the big scene, but his expression remained unchanged, "Where are they?"
"Already outside Zhuangzi..."
"How many people are there?" Fan Yongdou asked.
"I don't know," Fan Fu said. "The cavalry of the brigade look over along the official road and can't see the tail of the team at all!"
"Cavalry..." Fan Yongdou still tried to keep calm, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid... Zhuangzi is strong, don't be afraid."
"Boom boom boom..."
As soon as Fan Yongdou finished speaking, "thunder" came!
Old Man Fan quickly looked up at the sky. Of course the sky was blue...
"Boom boom boom..."
Three more roars!
This is Master Wang firing!
Only then did Fan Yongdou feel that the end was coming. Although his Fanjiazhuang has trenches outside and high walls inside, the trenches cannot stop elite soldiers and the high walls cannot hold cannons!
Fan Yongdou gritted his teeth and said, "Quickly, get people ready to eat and drink, and prepare some generous gifts. Let's go to welcome Master Wang!"
At this time, Fan Yongdou was still lucky. Master Wang was passing by. Master Wang could not know that Jiexiu Fan Yongdou lived here in Guangningwei, so he could still get away with it.
As long as you can get through it, just run away... Even if you go to Tianzhu or Rizbania, it's better than staying in Liaodong!
Unfortunately, Fan Yongdou's luck did not last long. Because when he and Fan Sanba took the common people in Zhuangzi to eat pots of pulp and came to greet Master Wang, a senior official of Master Wang who spoke with a Tianjin accent came up and asked: "Who is Fan Yongdou and who is Fan Sanba?"
"General, general," Fan Fu, Fan Yongdou's housekeeper, said bravely, "Well, we don't have Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba here..."
"No?" The person who asked the question was Tian Yiqing. Of course he knew that Fan Fu was lying, so he immediately raised his voice and said, "You customers of the Fan family are all obedient. Jin Yiwei has long found out that this is Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba." This is the residence of two traitors and traitors, so the emperor ordered me to arrest you... If you don't hand over Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba, then I will capture all of you and exile you to tens of thousands. The Gulf of America inside and out!”
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