"Tiger Flag"
Mr. Zhao frowned and said, "You are the tiger-character flag who wants to come to the grassland to do business."
"Exactly." Li Shuheng said with a smile.
The maid in the pavilion picked up a peeled grape and fed it into Mr. Zhao's mouth.
Mr. Zhao chewed the grape seeds a few times in his mouth and spat the grape seeds into the palm of the maid on the other side.
He said, "I've heard about your tiger-character flag. It's the merchants from the Ming Dynasty who came to do business on the grassland. I don't know why they came to my house. The tea is cold."
The maid on the side took the bowl and stepped back.
Li Shuheng said, "I heard that the Zhao family is the leader of Han merchants in Mongolia. I came here this time hoping to cooperate with the Zhao family."
"Cooperation." Mr. Zhao frowned and said, "How do you want to cooperate?"
Li Shuheng said, "We, Tiger Flag, will open shops all over the grassland. The shops here in Bansheng City, I hope to cooperate with Mr. Zhao and the Han merchants in Bansheng City, either by investing in shares or getting goods from us." , if you get the goods directly, the price will be much lower than what shops sell to herders."
The Mongolians only know how to herd cattle and are not good at farming, so farming and doing business are all done by the Han people who came to live in Mongolia.
There are many Han merchants in Mongolia. Although not all of them have the strength of the Zhao family in Bansheng City, they add up to a considerable force.
The Tiger Banner came to the grasslands to do business, open up business routes, and open shops, which was tantamount to poaching the interests of these Mongolian and Han merchants. These people may not be able to accomplish anything, but they can do bad things.
He came to Bansheng City this time hoping to cooperate with Mongolian Han merchants, and the old man Zhao in front of him was the leading figure of Han merchants in Bansheng City.
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Mr. Zhao snorted coldly and said, "This is nonsense. How can you Ming people open shops in our Mongolian areas? The Great Khan and Taiji will not agree. You go, I will not fight with your tiger-character flag." cooperate."
As soon as he mentioned the cooperation, Mr. Zhao immediately chased them away and expressed his dissatisfaction with Tiger Flag's opening of a shop on the grassland.
Li Shuheng, who was standing outside the pavilion, frowned.
He didn't expect that Mr. Zhao would be so excited when he heard that their Tiger Flag had opened a shop on the grassland, and the words of Mr. Zhao also made him feel uncomfortable.
Although this old man Zhao said that he had lived in Bansheng City for decades, he was a Han after all, but the implication behind his words was that he clearly regarded himself as a Mongolian. He simply forgot his ancestors and who his ancestors were.
"You two, please," the servant of the Zhao family next to him said to Li Shuheng and Tan Zaiwang with a stern face.
Li Shuheng raised his hand to Mr. Zhao in the pavilion and said, "My Tiger Flag's opening of shops on the grassland has been approved by the Great Khan and all Taiji, so Mr. Zhao can rest assured on this point."
Mr. Zhao sat upright and looked at Li Shuheng with a straight eye for the first time.
"You are saying that you have obtained permission from our Great Khan and Taiji to allow you to open shops on the grassland of the Tiger Flag."
"Exactly." Li Shuheng said.
Mr. Zhao said, "Although I don't know why the Great Khan allowed you to open a shop on the grassland, the Great Khan has his own considerations, but my Zhao family will not cooperate with you."
"Why is that?" Li Shuheng frowned.
Mr. Zhao said, "My Zhao family has been working for the Great Khan and Taiji for decades. I was personally summoned by Anda Khan. You Han people came to the grassland just to earn the wealth of our herdsmen, so I I won’t help you.”
"Mr. Zhao, don't forget, you are also Han." Tan Zaiwang beside him couldn't help but say.
"Nonsense." Mr. Zhao's face sank and he said coldly, "I used to be a Han, but I was given the title of Mongolian by Ada Khan decades ago, so don't use Han people to insult me."
At the beginning, An Da Khan supported a group of Han merchants to earn wealth for themselves. The Zhao family was one of the leading figures, and the people of the Zhao family were also granted the title of Mongols by An Da Khan himself.
It is a pity that the Zhao family is still Han in the eyes of the Mongols and is not looked down upon. Just because the Zhao family has always been able to earn wealth for the Mongolian nobles, their status is better than that of the poor herdsmen. For this reason, the Zhao family is complacent and has always regarded The Mongols consider themselves.
"Since Mr. Zhao doesn't want to, I won't bother you anymore and leave." Li Shuheng cupped his hands and turned to leave.
The servants of Zhao Mansion led the two people back along the original road.
Standing outside the gate of Zhao's house, Tan Zaiwang spat fiercely in the direction of the gate of Zhao's house and cursed, "What the hell, you don't even recognize your own ancestors, bah."
Li Shuheng's face was also very ugly.
Before coming here, he thought that the Zhao family was Han Chinese and a leading figure in Mongolian Han businessmen. There was a great chance that they could cooperate together, and it was a cooperation method that was beneficial to both parties. As long as the person in charge of the Zhao family was not stupid, No one should refuse such a good thing.
Who would have thought that the old man of the Zhao family would be like this. He would not even admit his Han identity. He always thought that he was a Mongolian and even criticized their Tiger Flag.
"Let's go" Li Shuheng got on his horse.
Tan Zaiwang on the side said, "Deputy Director, where are we going?"
Li Shuheng thought for a moment and said, "Since the Zhao family is unwilling to cooperate, I believe there will always be Han businessmen who are willing to cooperate with us. I don't believe that all Han businessmen are so short-sighted."
"Except for the Zhao family, the only relatively powerful Han merchants in Bansheng City are Zhang, Wang, and Huang. Which one should we go to?" Tan Zaiwang asked.
"Let's go to the Zhang family first," Li Shuheng said. "After going to the Zhang family, we'll go to the other two families."
"Yes." Tan Zaiwang agreed.
"The boss really wants to go to Baicheng"
The speaker was a woman in her thirties, wearing a wooden hairpin on her head, with a worried look on her face.
A man in the yard nodded and said, "We have already discussed with the other companies and we will try to get back from Baicheng before it snows."
The woman said worriedly, "It's such a long way to Baicheng. There are many horses, bandits and wolves along the way. It's too dangerous."
The man smiled and said, "Don't worry. On this trip to Baicheng, there will be quite a few people from all the families together. The ordinary horse bandits can't do anything to us."
"Alas," the woman sighed, and then said, "It's all the fault of the tiger-character flag. It's okay to come to the grassland to do business. What kind of shops do we need to open? Isn't this pushing our family to a dead end?"
In her words, the woman expressed deep resentment towards the Tiger Flag.
The man smiled bitterly and said, "There is nothing we can do about it. The Great Khan and all the Taijis have agreed. Han merchants like ours who work for the Mongols can only accept the situation. Fortunately, the other companies have the same idea as me. While the shops in Tiger Flag haven’t opened yet, let’s go to Baicheng to open a new business road. Although it’s a little more dangerous, it will at least allow the people at home to fill their stomachs and avoid starvation.”
Many Han merchants on the grasslands obtained things such as grain and cotton cloth from the border areas of the Ming Dynasty, and transported them to Qingcheng or Bansheng City to sell them and make profits from them.
Although not as much as those smugglers who came directly from the Ming Dynasty, it was enough to support their family.
As soon as the convoy of the Tiger Flag arrived, they opened shops and sold goods directly to herdsmen. The goods carried in each large vehicle were far more than those of ordinary Ming smugglers, which made many Mongolian and Han merchants feel confused. A layer of haze.
