Beijing Outer City, Xuannanfang.
An inconspicuous mule cart rumbled through the bustling streets of Beijing's outer city and turned into an alley near Luomashi Street.
This alley is full of shops selling mules, horses, cattle and sheep. They sell livestock brought from abroad. These days, due to the fierce fighting outside the country, all the exchanges along the Great Wall are closed, so most of the shops here are closed. open. Even the ones in front of them were still open, but they were all very bleak. There are no good products, and of course there are no customers coming. But since the shop is open, the waiter has to greet the customers. So as soon as the two mule carts entered the alley, they were immediately greeted by waiters from several open shops. But he left with hope and returned disappointed. The passengers on the mule cart ignored everyone and headed straight for a business with a plaque at the end of the alley that read "Wang Denku Mule, Horse, Cattle and Sheep Shop".
The Wang Dengku Mule, Horse, Cattle and Sheep Shop is a well-known old shop in Luoma City. Because this old shop has a very reliable supply of goods in Zhangjiakou, it still has some goods on hand during this period, and its business is also booming. Better than others.
The mule cart currently visiting Wang Deng Ku's Mule, Horse, Cattle and Sheep Shop was obviously carrying a big customer. When it stopped near the front of Wang Deng Ku's shop, he saw a group of clerks and stewards trotting out to greet them. Finally, they saw the owner of Wang Deng Ku's shop. Dong Weng, Boss Wang, who is famous as "Wang Dengku" as a businessman, also strides out to welcome him.
At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the driver opened the curtain of the car. Two people walked out of it. The first one came out was a businessman in rich clothes with a smile on his face. He was none other than Fan Yongdou, the old boss of the Fan family in Zhangjiakou.
After Fan Yongdou got off the mule cart, he did not greet Wang Denku immediately. Instead, he turned around and invited a great monk out of the mule cart like a filial son serving his father.
This monk was none other than Fan Wencheng, the first disciple of Hou Jin Dynasty.
Fan Wencheng really has a connection with Buddha. Last time he played a lama, this time he played a monk. He also had a scar on his head, and his gestures gave him a bit more of the aura of an eminent monk.
Wang Dengku seemed to have gotten to know Fan Wencheng. When he saw him getting out of the mule cart, he immediately clasped his hands and bowed down. He was so pious!
Fan Wencheng's brows were furrowed, and he could tell that he was in a bad mood. The reason for being in a bad mood is that there is no food to eat! Of course it's not that Fan Wencheng, the great monk Fan, has nothing to eat... He is Huang Taiji's slave, and he can't be hungry no matter what. Moreover, he also sent foreign missions disguised as monks to the Ming Dynasty to contact profiteers such as Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku. The profiteers are all rich, how can they not feed Fan Wencheng? But Fan Wencheng's one slave was full, but thousands of slaves outside his mouth and customs were still not full.
It turns out that drought and war in the area outside Kouwai and Guanwai (the Mongolian tribes outside Kouwai are fighting) caused a grain harvest failure, and a spring famine broke out this spring. In the original history, because Yuan Chonghuan sold grain to the Thirty-six Karaqin tribes, he helped the Mongols outside the country and the Manchus in Liaodong overcome difficulties.
But this time the situation was different. Zhu Youjian issued strict decrees in March, April and May - not to sell grain to Mongolia and Jianzhou... nor to recruit Karaqin from outside his mouth. Mongolia and Inner Khalkha Mongolia!
If they want to vote for Jianzhou, they can vote for it, but they can't sell grain. Zhu Youjian certainly knows that no matter how much grain the Ming Dynasty sells or sends to the Mongols, they will still surrender to the Donglu when they are full, and they will still take the Donglu to the entrance. Burn and kill! Because the Ming Dynasty provided food, Donglu killed people!
The kindness of giving food cannot be worth the threat of death!
Moreover, the Karaqin Mongolia and the Inner Kalkha Mongolia could get a lot of spoils by following the Donglu entrance, so why not?
Therefore, Zhu Youjian was determined to embargo this time. In order to implement the "grain ban" policy, he also sent his cronies Cao Huachun to Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan to supervise the closure of mutual markets. He also gave an order to Yuan Keli, who was in charge of the food supply of Pingliao Army (Dongjiang Army), and asked him to block Mao Wenlong's military rations... It's not that he didn't believe in Mao Wenlong, but that he didn't believe in Mao Wenlong's few good grandchildren.
In short, Zhu Youjian is determined to starve Huang Taiji to death this time!
However, Huang Taiji could not starve to death. Not only did he not starve to death, he did not even lose weight due to starvation. Moreover, none of the Eight Banners generals and family members under Huang Taiji starved to death. Those who starved to death were all Baoyi slaves and Mongolians from the Karaqin, Nei Khalkha and other tribes.
And Huang Taiji, the empress Jin Tiancong Khan, could not completely ignore the life and death of his slaves, so he asked Fan Wencheng to burn a few scars on his head and go to the Ming Dynasty to find ways to buy food.
Fan Wencheng, a slave, found his own boss Fan Yongdou again. Fan Yongdou worked very hard, so he took him to Beijing to find a way out - there was a war going on in Datong Town next door to Zhangjiakou, so the border wall was under martial law! Although it was not so strict that Fan Wencheng couldn't get in, tens of thousands of stones of food couldn't get out. Moreover, Hou Shilu, the headquarter of Xuanfu, has taken up his post again. The three fires have not been burned out yet, so of course there is no way to get through.
So Fan Yongdou had no choice but to take Fan Wencheng to Beijing to find out, and also found his good friend Wang Dengku. Today, Fan Yongdou accompanied Fan Wencheng to visit the back doors of several martial artists, but for some reason, they were all rejected.
It’s not that I didn’t help, it’s that I didn’t even see anyone!
What exactly happened here? Do these dandy boys know something? Beijing is Jin Yiwei’s hometown!
Fan Wencheng was worried and followed Fan Yongdou into Wang Denku's shop. He did not sit down in the lobby in front of the door, but was invited into the inner hall. When he arrived at the inner hall, Fan Wencheng realized that something was wrong. There was no one in Nuo Da's inner hall, and no one was serving tea. I don’t know where the clerk from Wang Deng Kupu has gone? Inside the hall were Fan Wencheng, Fan Yongdou, and Wang Dengku.
what 's wrong? Fan Wencheng saw that something was wrong with the atmosphere! A group of uniformed guards won't rush out in a moment, right?
Just when he was nervous, Wang Denku suddenly came up to him mysteriously and bowed, "Master, I wish you the best of luck!"
Congratulations? Fan Wencheng was not sure, "Shopkeeper Wang, have you bought the way to get the food out of the customs?"
"No, no," Wang Dengku said with a smile, "Something big happened! The little emperor who led the expedition himself was defeated in Datong... he was probably captured by Hutu Dun Khan! The Ming Dynasty is coming to an end! "
"What? What did you say?" Fan Wencheng couldn't believe his ears.
Wang Dengku had already taken out an envelope and handed it to Fan Wencheng with both hands, "Master, you can read it for yourself... This is a memorial jointly written by the Daiwang of Datong City and the eight princes of the Daiwang Palace to the imperial court. Transcript."
It turns out that the memorial that deceived King Dai and the eight princes of Datong was sent to Beijing!
Needless to say, this false news immediately caused an uproar among the upper echelons of Beijing... The sky was about to fall! Fan Wencheng and Fan Yongdou were rejected for a day because of this incident.
Fan Wencheng quickly took the envelope, pulled out the letter paper inside, and read it hurriedly. The more he read, the more excited he became, and he was shaking with excitement.
"Is this news reliable?" Fan Wencheng asked.
"It's reliable," Wang Denku said with a smile, "Widow Xu brought this news from the palace, it can't be wrong!"
"Who is Widow Xu?" Fan Wencheng asked.
"She is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Huaiyan Bai family..." Fan Yongdou said with a smile, "She is a woman with great hands and eyes. All the Shanxi merchants in the capital are headed by her. If she really got this memorial transcript, then You can’t be wrong! Master, it seems that the Ming Dynasty is about to run out of energy... We, the Kingdom of Jin, will soon take over the Central Plains!"
Wang Dengku on the side reminded: "Widow Xu also said that Ji Zhen and Xuanfu will soon be under martial law... By then no one will be able to leave!"
Fan Wencheng thought: If martial law is really enforced in Jizhen and Xuanfu, it means that what is said in this memorial copy is true!
He immediately said to Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku: "I have to leave the confinement immediately and bring the news to Tiancong Khan! Can you two help me get out of the confinement?"
