Chapter 341 Seven Doors
Fan Yongdou's seven-entry mansion was lined up in the huge cellar. Each door was full of surprises. The first door was food, which was enough for the soldiers of the three armies to eat military rations for several months.
The second door is silk cloth, with good silk cloth, which is priceless. More than 100,000 pieces of silk cloth can be sold at a good price.
I don’t know what good thing was in the third door that was anticipated. Ye Qing and Liu Hong became more excited. They couldn’t wait to walk out of the second door together. Then, they came to the third door.
In the first and second gates, the soldiers of the Huben Camp had already entered to count them one by one. The military officers and officials took paper and pens and carefully counted each item, and finally sealed it with seals.
This time, Ye Qing couldn't wait. He went over and picked up the axe of his soldiers and split the third door with an axe.
With a thud, before everyone could push the door, the third door didn't open. It turned out that an iron pot slipped out of the door.
The door was filled with iron pots piled up together. Ye Qing and Liu Hong looked at each other. Compared with the other two doors, the iron pot in the third door in the cellar disappointed the two.
They thought that there would be a lot of gold, silver, treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. But they thought it would be a pot of iron.
Iron pots were not valuable in the Ming Dynasty, but were rare for Mongolia and Qing dynasties. Especially the Mongolian grassland tribes, they were in urgent need of iron pots.
In the 14th year of Zhengtong in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, personally led an expedition to the Mongolian tribe Watami, and the Tumu Fort Incident that shocked history occurred. Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty was captured.
Why did the watts harass the borders of the Ming Dynasty mainly to seize daily necessities from the residents in the pass. Among them, the most important one is the iron pot, which is a necessity for daily life. Without the iron pot, the nomadic people could only use "storing skins, water, boiling meat as a means of feeding". The impact is imaginable. "The iron pot is used for daily use in the hunting of the enemy. The first time it attacked the city and captured the fort, and plundered it first, and obtained the pot as a strange product."
Before the rebellion, the leader of the Wastu tribe said to the Ming envoy: "We refused to ask for the items, and the envoys we went to buy and sell the pots, saddles and other items..." As a result, the two sides finally caused these Mongolian tribes to start looting again due to trade disputes and Wastu's political ambitions.
Why can't the powerful Mongolian tribes even make iron pots? What about their weapons? Not to mention that weapons are easy to make, even bows and arrows can be made. Only this iron pot requires craftsmen.
Iron pots cannot be used just by making them, but they will break if they are used a few times. And the craftsmen who can make iron pots are all in the heart of the Central Plains.
Therefore, despite mastering iron smelting technology, the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia have always been scarce for iron pots, and the Ming Dynasty directly canceled the mutual market for tribes that did not obey their own. Only those tribes that obey their own will open the mutual market.
Even if the mutual market is relaxed, iron pots are still limited. Without iron pots, it has always been the most troublesome thing for the grassland tribe and Huang Taiji.
Fan Yongdou solved this trouble for them, and Daming refused to trade with each other. He could save a cellar of iron pots, a total of seven or eight thousand.
Even if Fan Yongdou saved so many iron pots, he would not give Boritechi much every time he traded. As a profiteer, Fan Yongdou was well aware of the principle that rare things are expensive. The fewer iron pots you trade, the higher the price. Although he stocked up seven or eight thousand iron pots, he only gave Boritechi dozens of them each time. The reason is that iron pots are rare.
The third door disappointed the two of them. Although the iron pot is also valuable, it is really not expensive in the Ming Dynasty. No matter how poor people are, they also have iron pots to cook at home.
When Liu Hong opened the fourth door, he obviously wasn't that enthusiastic. Sure enough, the inside of the fourth door was pitch black and there was nothing.
No, there is something. But it is inside.
Ye Qing and Liu Hong looked at each other, and they walked in with torches. Suddenly, they were stunned together, and the soldiers following him were also shocked.
Everyone's face was filled with fear and disbelief. The fourth door was the largest and the most things inside were stored.
However, inside the fourth door, there was neither food nor cloth and iron pot, nor the gold and silver treasures they imagined, but military weapons!
That's right, there are mountains of armor, countless bows, arrows, swords, guns, swords, and halberds all over the ground, and even muskets and muskets. This thing is equipped with the most Shenji Camp, and Fan Yongdou actually got all the muskets.
Ye Qing and Liu Hong's eyes showed horror. If these military weapons were smuggled to Jiannu, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Inside this door, there are all kinds of weapons in the cellar, including swords, spears, swords, halberds, bows, crossbows and spears. There are also sacks of things on the ground, tied up tightly.
Ye Qing handed the torch to Liu Hong. He pulled out the short knife from his waist, walked over and took a knife to dissolve the sack. He wanted to see what the hell was inside the sack.
With a 'hula', the goods in the sacks were scattered. Nothing else, arrows.
That's right, sacks of sacks are all arrows, and arrows without arrows are easier to carry and transport. In the Qing Dynasty, you only need to prepare enough arrows. After these arrows are transported in, you can become a weapon for killing.
Ye Qing and Liu Hong showed anger in their eyes. It was not enough to die ten thousand times of Fan Yongdou's crimes. These military weapons were originally the military weapons of the Ming Dynasty. If His Royal Highness had not investigated Fan Yongdou, the tyrant merchant, these military weapons would have flowed into Jiannu and turned into weapons against the Ming army.
Once upon a time, I don’t know how many Ming soldiers died in weapons made by their own people. These Qing soldiers took weapons made by the Ming Dynasty and turned around to deal with the Ming army.
"I'm going to cut him alive!" Liu Hong jumped up. It was not an exaggeration to Lingchi, a beast.
Ye Qing grabbed him: "Tell the world his crimes and let His Highness deal with him."
That's right, even if you cut him alive, he will only relieve his hatred for a while. Leave it to Zhu Cihuang. Zhu Cihuang has a hundred ways to make Fan Yong deserve the crime.
The armor made by the Ming Dynasty would be worn on the Qing soldiers. The crossbows made by the Ming Dynasty would be used in the hands of the Qing soldiers. The swords, guns, swords and halberds made by the Ming Dynasty were used to kill the Ming soldiers.
Is there anyone else who is more hateful? The largest cellar is full of military weapons, densely packed, especially those arrows. I don’t know how many Ming soldiers would die at their hands. It is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of arrows. What a terrifying number. No wonder the Central Plains were taken away after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass.
Chapter completed!