Going east from Yiju is Yiwulu Mountain. After passing Yiwulu Mountain, you will reach 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 already begun, but because a large number of young and middle-aged people have been drafted into the army to fight for the Qing Dynasty and the Three Stars, the harvest is

The progress is not fast, only a small part of the wheat fields have been harvested.

However, close to the original Acropolis of Guangning, there is a large continuous wheat field that has almost been harvested. This large wheat field may be more than ten or two hundred thousand acres, all surrounding a huge farm.

This farm was built on the basis of a fortress from the Ming Dynasty. It was greatly expanded and transformed into a fortress-style farm. The walls of the village were high and thick, and two circles of trenches were dug outside. At first glance,

It’s really impregnable!

Living in this golden fortress is a large group of Shanxi people who moved from Xuanfu. Most of them are named Fan. The owner of the village is also named 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. However, his family's business plummeted during his mission and recuperation.

It can no longer support the facade of the number one imperial merchant.

In fact, the Fan family is not the only one who is declining. The so-called imperial merchants are originally linked to the royal family. If the royal family is doing well, the imperial merchants may not be doing well, but the good may be greater. But if the royal family is in bad shape,

, it would really be a miracle if these imperial merchants could do well again. Among the nine imperial merchants, the only one who created the miracle was Jiabus's Jiale Market... and the other eight imperial merchants all became

We visited Shunzhi, Jierharang, Chang Adai and Duduo and his son’s delicious meals.

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 thing was 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. If he had no money, he asked Sony to force the two imperial merchants to reimburse them, causing the two imperial merchants to be heavily in debt. In the end, in order to raise funds for living in seclusion, Shunzhi ordered Suk Saha to arrest

They captured Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu, tortured them, forced out the last bit of their wealth, and then killed them. After that, the two royal merchants Wang and Jin went bankrupt and owed huge debts (mostly to the powerful people of the two yellow flags).

Unable to repay, they were confiscated, 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 will not be slaughtered by Shunzhi, and Azige and Duduo are not easy to kill. After all, there is Dorbo.

Here!

However, Fan Yongdou's business could not continue, and was destroyed by the joint efforts of Jiale Market and the Ming Dynasty Navy!

In the past few 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, the merchant ships of Jiale Market could pass through for smuggling.

The Ming Navy blocked the ships at all levels. However, no matter where the Fan family's merchant ships went to sea, the Ming Navy would definitely rob them, including the people and the ship.

After more than ten times of smuggling, in which both people and ships were lost, Fan Yongdou became discouraged and handed Duduo a note, asking him to abandon commercial farming.

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 Duoni's land (of course it belongs to Duoni after Duduo dies), the farmers in Fanjiazhuang are not on the military conscription list. With enough labor force, coupled with Fan Yongdou, Fan Sanba and his son have good management

Fang, these 130,000 acres of wheat fields have now been harvested, and a total of 400,000 tons of wheat have been transported into Fanjiazhuang. Not only have all the granaries been filled, but even the yard of the Fan family's mansion has been piled up one after another.

Grain hoarder.

Sitting under the eaves of his house, looking at the grain stores one after another, Fan Yongdou also showed a long-lost smile on his old face.

The black land beside the Liao River is so fertile... The 400,000 shi here is already the amount after deducting the wages of the slaves.

400,000 stones of wheat are ground into flour, and there are still 2.78 million stones... If Doni is given 80,000 stones, and another 50,000 stones are scattered 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, we can always move eastward, right? 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, rolling and crawling. He even stumbled to Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba, who 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 the Xuanfu Ming army and presented it 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 moment.

"Ming Army! Ming Army is coming!" Fan Sanba screamed in horror.

"Ming army?" Fan Yongdou had seen the big scene, or 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, looking along the official road, can't see the tail of the team at all!"

"Cavalry..." Fan Yongdou still tried to maintain his composure, "Don't be afraid, you won't be afraid... Zhuangzi is strong, you won'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 imminent. Although his Fanjiazhuang had trenches outside and high walls inside, the trenches could not stop the elite soldiers and the high walls could not hold the cannons!

Fan Yongdou gritted his teeth and said, "Quickly, let's 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 away with it, just run away... Even if you go to Tianzhu or Risbania, it's better than staying in Liaodong!

It is a pity that Fan Yongdou's luck did not last long. Because when he and Fan Sanba took the people in Zhuangzi to eat pots of pulp and came to welcome 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 tens of thousands of people.
Chapter completed!