Chapter 184: The Battle for Opening the Market

After that, Huang Laifu and San Niangzi and others went smoothly. The Mongolian people did not have a deep understanding of land. They often used up their pastures in one place and nomads to another grassland. They did not have much concept of land cultivation.

Although they have learned to settle and farm in recent years, in traditional concepts, they still value grasslands more. When Huang Laifu promised to collect all their wools, and the Han people only focused on farming and would not seize their pastures, and allowed a large number of Mongolian merchants to enter the pass and trade, everything was not a problem. As for the large number of Han people going out of the frontier, this was something they could not control, so they had to turn a blind eye.

Both sides had a great conversation, but Da Yan sat aside and was depressed and secretly hated Huang Laifu.

It was evening when the third lady invited Huang Laifu to hold a bonfire meeting outside Guihua City. It was interesting to eat roasted beefs and watch Mengren singing and dancing. When the bonfire was over, the third lady invited Huang Laifu to rest and also selected the most outstanding women from several tribes to serve.

Huang Laifu originally wanted to taste the exotic flavor, but looking at the so-called Mongolian beauties sent by these so-called Mongolian beauties, each with trolley legs, a large bright plateau red on his face, and a strong sheep smell on his body, he immediately lost his appetite. At that moment, he refused righteously.

The third lady secretly praised her. Huang Laifu was not a lustful person. What the third lady admired the most was the charity of men. When she married Altan Khan's eldest son Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji had more than 100 wives and concubines, all of which were driven away by the third lady.

Gu Dadao also secretly praised her uncle (Gu Dadao should call Huang Laifu the uncle, not his uncle, so I would like to thank the book friends for reminding me.) She is such a gentleman. When she went out of the frontier, her aunt secretly told her that she seemed to be really worried.

Only Yang Xiaolu took a few Mongolian "beauties" without hesitation, which made Huang Laifu secretly admire his taste.

The third day later, Huang Laifu led his hundreds of model soldiers to bid farewell to Altan's business partners. After a few days of itinerary, he returned to Ningwu Pass.

However, on the way to Shanxi Town, Huang Laifu read the newspaper of the mansion, saying that Bu Situ of the Hetao tribe led tens of thousands of people to invade Guyuan. The guerrilla Shishi died in battle. Yansui general Ma Gui led his troops to fight. After losing several guards, he drove Bu Situ out. The news came out, and the entire Ming Dynasty was shocked. Regarding the invasion of the Hetao Mongols, Guyuan and other places suffered heavy losses. Regarding the responsibilities of all parties, the officials of the Ministry of War were fighting for it.

In fact, this summer, Li Chunguang, the governor of Yansui Town, once reported: "The department has been paying money for a long time, and since Ming'an was killed, the enemy hated deeply, the Xixia party rebelled and the tribute market was broken, and Yanzhen has been in trouble for many years. Now, the eastern and western divisions are begging for money, but the Tu Shitu has ulterior motives, and the border leaders have few soldiers, so it is difficult to control the control. It is advisable to observe the enemy's situation and judge the current situation. If the enemy invades, there will be bloody battles, and occasionally some minor mistakes, and the officials should discuss the discussion. If the enemy is sincere and obedient, the camera will discuss the pacification, and you should not forget the preparations for the war."

At that time, Emperor Wanli ordered the Ministry of War to order all sides to strictly regulate the border, but the incident of Bushitu's troops invading Guyuan still happened. Soon, the governor of Guyuan was removed from office and was arrested by the Jinyiwei.

After seeing the newspaper, Huang Laifu thought to himself: "For the safety of his Shanxi Town, it seems that the Mongolian tribe of the Hetao tribe really needs to be resolved as soon as possible!"

After Huang Laifu returned to Ningwu Pass, outsiders wondered why Huang Laifu went out of the frontier and burned the wasteland so quickly. He said that after Huang Laifu returned to the general's mansion, it was noon that Gu Yunniang happily invited Huang Laifu to take a shower and change his clothes, and then called Gu Dadao aside to discuss in detail.

During lunch, Gu Yunniang, Qu Xiuhe, and Liu Yumei all accompanied each other with a smile. Huang Laifu talked about some interesting stories about the grassland. Gu Yunniang giggled from time to time after hearing this, but when she looked at Huang Laifu again, she looked quite strange. Even Qu Xiuhe and Liu Yumei had a resentful look on her face.

After dinner, Huang Laifu went back to his room to take a nap. Gu Yunniang served Huang Laifu's clothes. When Huang Laifu was lying down comfortably, Gu Yunniang suddenly said, "Mr., you said that the custom of the Hu people is really strange. A woman married a father and son together. It is really unimaginable in our Han area."

Huang Laifu said: "As Hu people, that's it!"

Gu Yunniang gave Huang Laifu a blank look and said, "I heard from Dadao that when my husband was discussing affairs, the Hu girl named Sanniang Nu peeked at you from time to time. Is she interested in you?"

Huang Laifu was stunned and said, "Big Dao..."

Then he laughed again, looked at Gu Yunniang and said with a smile: "Look, where do you think of it? The third lady has passed four people, so I will be interested?"

Gu Yunniang said strangely: "What are four more pictures?"

Then she understood, but got angry: "What's wrong with Si Zhang? Will you even dislike me when I'm over forty!"

Huang Laifu saw her happy and angry, and said to herself, "Women are really unreasonable." He hurriedly comforted her and said, "How could it be, my wife, no matter whether you are forty or fifty, I love you the same!"

Gu Yunniang burst into tears and smiled, leaned in Huang Laifu's arms with a blush, and said angrily: "Good mouth and smooth tongue." She hugged Huang Laifu tightly, and her body became hot.

Huang Laifu felt relieved when he saw her turn anger into joy and thought to himself: "Fortunately, women all like these nonsense!"

Feeling the heat of Gu Yunniang's body, he was also excited...

After returning to Ningwu Pass, Huang Laifu invited Ma Jiuying's father-in-law and Governor Yang Fangluo to discuss trade with the Altan Ministry of the Frontier. Last year, after Huang Laifu opened a mine in Ningwu Pass, Governor Yang had once distributed mineral dividends. After getting the benefits, he held the money in his hands. Governor Yang could be said to be sweet in the taste of the sweet taste and was more enthusiastic about Huang Laifu's any way to make money.

After hearing Huang Laifu described the benefits of mutual market, Governor Yang even applauded, and Ma Jiuying's father-in-law had no objection. After a quarrel and determined each other's interests and power, in early September of the 22nd year of Wanli, Huang Laifu, Yang Fangluo and Ma Jiuying's father-in-law jointly submitted a report, demanding that the market be opened in Shanxi Town.

Capital, Wenyuan Pavilion.

In September, the city of Beijing is a little cool, and the scenery outside Wenyuan Pavilion is quiet. In Wenyuan Pavilion, under the statue of Confucius, there are several cabinet ministers with cranes flying on their chests and wearing big red ramie silk silk and qilin robes. There are Zhao Zhigao, the chief minister of the cabinet, Luo Wanhua, the Minister of Rites, Sun Piyang, the Minister of Personnel, Wang Lin, the Minister of Revenue, Shi Xing, the Minister of War, and Zeng Tongheng.

In addition to Wang Lin, Shi Xing, Zeng Tongheng, and others, the rest of the people of the rest are new faces for Huang Laifu.

The chief minister of the cabinet, Zhao Zhigao, had a white beard, he was over 70 years old this year, which made him look quite old. Zhao Zhigao was kind and had a little weak temperament. The heavy affairs of the cabinet made him overwhelmed, especially the dispute over the foundation of the country, and those censors who were like wolves and tigers made him very annoyed. He didn't want to do this chief minister of the cabinet, but Emperor Wanli insisted on letting him do it, so he had no choice but to work hard.

However, there are gains and losses. In order to show his support for Zhao Zhigao, Emperor Wanli awarded him a set of nine pythons and five-clawed python robes. This type of gift is a great honor and cannot be obtained by idle people. In the Wanli Dynasty, only Shen Shixing was awarded python robes in the 13th year of Wanli, and Zhao Zhigao was the second person.

At this time, Zhao Zhigao was wearing a python robe and a jade belt on his waist. He was staring at the joint memorial of Huang Laifu, Yang Fangluo and Ma Jiuying, "Please Open the Shanxi Town Memorial":

"Shanxi Governor Yang, Shanxi Governor Huang, Shanxi Governor Ma and others are very sincerely reported: Heaven's kindness is followed, the wise and wise are urgent, and the foolish sincerely pray, please open the Shanxi Town House... Opening the market is profitable, China's opportunities are beneficial to the people of geese, boring people in the market, and the soldiers and civilians along the border can make money to protect the enemy, avoid worrying about thefts. The enemy's nobles and poor people can also live in peace, and they can all be grateful for the emperor's kindness and joyfulness. The capital's money is opened, and the frost and dew fill the treasures of the treasury, but the breeding of the mainland is ineffective. In this way, the beacon is not alarmed, the three armies sleep in a slept, the people of the border guards protect each other, farmers and merchants walk at night. Be cautious with the wind, how can they be missed the people of Chi County? The emperor is as good as the heavens, and the ministers look away from afar, and the court is extremely sincere."

After reading this memorial, Zhao Zhigao pondered for a while and asked Sun Piyang, the Minister of Personnel next to him, and said, "Old Sun, what do you think of this memorial from Shanxi Town?"

Sun Piyang took the memorial expressionlessly and started to read it carefully.

He was just over 60 years old and was a stubborn old man from Shaanxi. He had a stern face all day long. He was known in history as being honest and honest, and was indomitable. No matter who wanted to find him to go through the back door, he would be disappointed. However, Sun Piyang was not afraid of anyone, but he was afraid of eunuchs. Thousands of civil servants dared not ask Sun Piyang to go through the back door, but the eunuchs dared. The eunuchs kept asking him to arrange fat and shortage for his confidants. Sun Piyang did not make arrangements, but he refused, so he invented the method of drawing lots. Regardless of whether the officials were wise or foolish, they all had to draw lots by luck. From then on, the eunuchs could not get through the back door.

Sun Piyang was good at choosing people, and people at that time said that they were selfless. However, later Minister of Rites Yu Shenxing and Gu Yanwu, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, all accused Sun Piyang of selecting officials for bamboo sticks. He believed that the lottery method created by Sun Piyang was very dangerous, so how could the important task of identifying and using talents be handed over to the brainless bamboo sticks?

Anyway, this is a controversial person.

After reading it, Sun Piyang said: "Shanxi Town has no place to trade, but there are all towns in Yu. Now the town needs to set up a city office, so I believe the emperor will agree!"

After seeing it, Luo Wanhua, Minister of Rites, Wang Lin, Minister of Revenue, Zeng Tongheng, and others agreed with the views of Sun Piyang, Minister of Personnel. However, Minister of War Shi Xing sighed and said, "The report said that the mutual transactions are run by Shanxi Town alone, I am afraid that Taipu Temple will not agree!"

The chief minister of the cabinet, Zhao Zhigao, certainly knew the reason, but this was a dispute between their Ministry of War. He slowly said: "It's up to the emperor to decide. But in a few days, the subordinates must be quarrel again!"

When the memorial was handed over to the Donghunting Pavilion, Emperor Wanli also agreed to Huang Laifu and others' request to open a market in Shanxi Town. Ma Jiuying's father-in-law had already come up. If Shanxi Town and Altan's department traded with each other, it would be easier for Huang Laifu to acquire wool, so that the Wuzhaibao Wool Mills would produce more profits, in other words, Emperor Wanli's income paid more dividends. Moreover, most of the nine sides have traded, not only Shanxi Town, there will be no safety concerns.

However, in the report, Shanxi Town officials asked them to run the city alone and Taipu Temple under the military department would definitely not agree. Let’s take a look at the situation first.

Sure enough, the Taipu Temple minister angrily wrote a letter, accusing Shanxi Town of unreasonableness. He said bluntly that if Shanxi Town did this, the Taipu Temple would never agree.

In the Ming Dynasty, Taipu Temple was under the Ministry of War, which was in charge of raising horses, managing horse affairs in various places, and supervising the use of horses in various military forces. Not only that, the horse trading in the markets of each border town is also under their charge, and it can be said that it is full of fuel and water.

In the official market of border towns, among the horses sold by Mongolian tribes, each of the top Mongolian horses only costs more than eight taels of silver, more than seven taels of middle class, and more than six taels of lower class, while the discount for one horse is as high as twenty-four taels of horses. Even if officials of Taipu Temple dismounted the horse and resold it to merchants, they could earn a difference of more than ten taels of silver. In addition, the transaction volume of horses in the markets of border towns is increasing, and after the second year of Wanli, it reached more than 30,000 horses a year.

Such a big difference and such a huge transaction were a very considerable income for Taipu Temple, which managed Ma Zheng. According to records, at the beginning of Wanli, the old warehouse of Taipu Temple accumulated tens of millions of taels of silver, of which the silver borrowed by the Ministry of Revenue alone reached more than 7 million.
Chapter completed!