The servants brought hot tea.
"You go down first." Zhang Guangkun waved his hand to the servant guarding the room.
"Yes." The servant bowed and retreated from the room.
Shopkeeper Huang, who was sitting on his seat, picked up the tureen on the table, blew in the hot air inside, put it to his mouth and took a sip, and said with a smile: "The tea is good, only one person in Tumut can drink this tea. Han merchants and a few Mongolian Taijis on the grassland.”
"How do the Mongolians understand the tea of us Han people? They drink tea purely by chewing peonies. To them, good tea and inferior tea are the same." Zhang Guangkun said with a smile.
After living on the grassland for so long, he knows that Mongolians don’t pay much attention to tea, and they can’t tell the difference between good and bad tea. Most of the tea on the grassland is poor tea cakes or medium tea, and there are very few truly good teas. Will flow into the grassland.
Shopkeeper Huang smiled and said: "How do the Mongolians understand that the tea ceremony of the Han people is extensive and profound? Just like this grassland, if it is handed over to the hands of the Han people, it will not take long to turn into fertile fields. In the hands of the Mongolians, it will only have a few Everyone has been promoted to land, but the people who farm the land are still Han Chinese."
"It is a pity that so much land is used for grazing by the Mongols. If it is used for farming by the Han people, there will be no shortage of food on the grassland." Zhang Guangkun agreed.
Although the Mongolians graze on the grasslands and also eat beef and mutton, they also have a great demand for food. As a Han merchant, his main business is the food business.
Shopkeeper Huang took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "It won't be long before this grassland becomes the land of us Han people."
"I wonder when Tiger Character Flag plans to take action?" Zhang Guangkun asked curiously, leaning forward slightly.
It turns out that shopkeeper Huang is none other than Huang Hong, the deputy director of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau.
Huang Hong said with a smile: "Don't be anxious, Boss Zhang. Our Tiger Character Banner will definitely capture the Tumut Grassland in the coming year and return this land to the embrace of our Han family."
"Oh, there's no hurry!" Zhang Guangkun sighed and said immediately, "Today, the Huang Family Master and the Wang Family Master, I met with the old man of the Zhao family, and my Zhang family went into a shop again."
Huang Hong said with a smile: "The shop is a dead thing and cannot be destroyed. When my Tiger Flag army enters Qingcheng in the future, we will help Mr. Zhang get back the shops that Mr. Zhang gave away."
"That's all it can do." Zhang Guangkun sighed again.
He knew that it would be difficult to get back the things he had given to the Zhao family, so he could only get the chance to get back the shop he had given to the Zhao family when the Tiger Character Banner took over the Tumut Grassland.
Huang Hong blew the hot air from the tureen and said, "I wonder if the Zhang family has attracted more Han businessmen these days? I am not a solitary person, but I am still willing to cooperate with the Han businessmen in Bansheng City. Cooperation like that with Dongzhu Yang Jingyang and the others.”
The Han merchants in Bansheng City are a considerable force, and many Han people living on the grasslands have some relationship with the Han merchant circle.
As the top person in charge of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau on the grassland, Huang Hong's mission in coming to Bansheng City was to win over these Han businessmen and influence the Han businessmen living on the grassland through these Han businessmen, so as to make the people living on the grassland Han merchants are committed to the tiger-character flag. Even if they cannot do this, they must ensure that the Han people living on the grasslands remain neutral and are not hostile to the tiger-character flag.
"To be honest, before I had time to discuss with other Han merchants in Bansheng City, the Zhao family knew that you people from Tiger Character Banner had secretly contacted my Zhang family. As a last resort, my Zhang family could only reluctantly hand over a room. Shop to prove the Zhang family's loyalty to the Mongols." Zhang Guangkun said with a heartbroken face.
Although the Zhang family is one of the powerful Han merchants in Bansheng City, they only have two shops in Bansheng City. One is given to the Zhao family, and they only have one shop left.
Huang Hong faced Zhang Guangkun and said, "The Huang family and the Wang family are also going to the Zhao family. I wonder what these two families gave the Zhao family in exchange for peace?"
"The Wang family gave more than 300 shi of food, and the Huang family suffered the most. The last batch of fur goods in the family was given to the Zhao family. The Huang family will not have an easy life this winter." Zhang Guangkun said.
But in my heart, I felt pity for the Huang family in the following days.
The Huang family, the Zhang family, and the Wang family were one of the three major Han merchants in Bansheng City. Now that the Huang family had met such an end, it made him somewhat sad.
Huang Hong clicked his tongue twice and said: "It seems that the Zhao family has suffered another big blow. As Han merchants with the Zhao family, you not only have to support the nobles among the Mongols, but you are also oppressed by the Zhao family from time to time. You The life of Han merchants in Bansheng City is not easy either!"
"Although the Zhao family is a Han merchant, the old man of the Zhao family does not think of himself as a Han. He has always regarded himself as a Mongolian." Zhang Guangkun said with sarcasm.
The old man of the Zhao family was given the identity of a Mongolian by Anda Khan. Since then, he has considered himself a Mongolian. The entire Han merchants in Bansheng City know that the old man of the Zhao family has never admitted that he is a Han.
"It's a pity that Mongolians may not really recognize his so-called Mongolian identity." Huang Hong said quietly.
As the top person in charge of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau on the grassland, he naturally knew about the situation of Mr. Zhao, the leader of the Han merchants in Bansheng City.
Although the old man of the Zhao family has always called himself a Mongolian, in the eyes of real Mongolians, the old man of the Zhao family is still just a Han and a slave of their Mongols.
Zhang Guangkun said with a hateful expression at this time: "Although the Zhao family is hateful, the person who leaked the news that your Tiger Flag secretly contacted me is equally hateful. If someone hadn't leaked the news, the head of the Wang family and I would be And the head of the Huang family will not go to the old man of the Zhao family to plead for mercy."
The Tiger Character Banner and the Tumote tribes were in a confrontation. At this time, someone leaked the news that the Zhang family and the Tiger Character Banner had met. This was destroying the Zhang family, and they were despicable.
He hated this kind of people with a passion.
"Don't be upset, Boss Zhang. In fact, I arranged for someone to leak it to the Zhao family." Huang Hong said to Zhang Guangkun.
After hearing this, Zhang Guangkun's expression darkened, his voice became cold, and he said: "Shopkeeper Huang, I, Mr. Zhang, promised to cooperate with your Tiger Flag, but you betrayed my Zhang family. Do you want to give me a explain."
After hearing that the person who leaked the news to the Zhao family was from Tiger Character Banner, the anger in his heart hit Tianling Gai.
"Actually, I did this just for the benefit of proprietor Zhang." Huang Hong said.
Zhang Guangkun frowned and said: "The Zhang family is still doing it for my own good after betraying me. How can there be any truth in the world? Don't you think it's too much to bully others by doing this?"
Snapped!
He slapped his hand on the table.
The table shook, and the lid of the cup, which was leaning on the tureen, fell to the table.
