In fact, Li Guodong guessed that Kang Siding was the agent introduced by Fan Yongdou, and the boss behind him was Fan Yongdou and others.

Fan Yongdou himself could not come forward in this matter. First, the Jinyiwei stared at them, and second, Fan Yongdou was also afraid that Huang Taiji would find out about the trade with Lin Danhan, and there would be big trouble. However, they had to win the market reward. Fan Yongdou, who had been hit hard many times, had to take advantage of this opportunity to turn around. As for the Later Jin side, it was impossible to find out about Fan Yongdou's agent of Kang Siding. After all, the Later Jin intelligence system in the Ming Dynasty relies entirely on Shanxi merchants.

Five days later, a group of Mongolians came to the west entrance and purchased goods from the city and asked the caravan to send them to Guihua City. This time, the Mongolians waved their pen and ordered 20,000 stones of grain, 7,000 kilograms of tea, 10,000 kilograms of cotton and 5,000 kilograms of salt in one breath.

The Mongols were so crazy about shopping that Kang Siding was overjoyed. He felt that it was his chance to make a fortune. As long as he did such a few more business, not only would he, Kang Siding, be able to make a fortune, but the Fan family, who supported him behind the scenes, would be happy and rewarded a lot of money. Although the Fan family suffered setbacks, the Fan family's strength was still there, and all kinds of connections were all money.

Who knew that Kang Siding looked very ugly after returning from naturalization this time.

Kang Siding left the west entrance and entered Datong City. He looked around and found that no one was following him. Then he turned into an alley, walked to an inconspicuous yard, grabbed the copper ring on the door, and knocked on the door gently.

The door was opened, and a man looked at Kang Siding from the inside, then opened the door and put Kang Siding in. The man also stuck his head out, looked at both sides, and saw that no one was following him, and then closed the door.

Kang Siding walked into the yard and was taken into a study room in the inner courtyard.

"Boss, I'm sorry for you!" Kang Siding walked into the study and knelt in front of a young man wearing a fur cloak and a fur hat.

"Shopkeeper Kang, what happened?" the man turned his head and asked word by word. This person was Fan Yongdou who had disappeared for several months!

"Our boss, Lin Danhan is really cheating!" Kang Siding said with a sad face, "This batch of goods was sent to naturalization. Lin Danhan suddenly turned his face and tried hard to lower the price. The price he had agreed to at the west entrance before did not count! This was like a robbery! Later, Lin Danhan changed the silver to a war horse, and the price was even more amazing!"

"How many war horses are exchanged for?" Fan Yongdou asked hurriedly.

Kang Siding replied: "So many goods were only converted by Lin Danhan to 30,000 taels of silver! He insisted that the price of one stone of grain during the Tianqi period was nine cents of silver, and calculated for us at this price. The war horse he sold us was ridiculously high, and a horse actually counted fifty taels of silver!"

"What?" Fan Yongdou felt a pain in his heart.

Now during the Chongzhen period, the price of grain has been rising steadily, from nine cents of silver per stone during the Tianqi period to almost two taels of silver per stone! During the Jisi period, in the capital, grain could even be sold for four taels of silver per stone!

Shanxi merchants have their own purchasing channels. The price of grain imported from Huguang is much cheaper, but the purchase price of one stone at the place of origin is also six cents of silver. In addition to the transportation costs on the road, the loss of being robbed by horse thieves. After being sent to the west entrance, the price of one stone is almost one tael of silver. Then send it to naturalization, Lin Danhan only counts the price of nine cents of silver!

If Lin Danhan just lowered the purchase price, it would be fine. Fan Yongdou regarded it as a waste of business. At worst, he would not make money, but being able to expand the caravan would be considered a reward.

But Lin Danhan not only lowered the purchase price, but also raised the selling price!

Lin Danhan insisted on saying that it was a top-notch horse and sold it to the Kang family at a price of fifty taels of silver. You should know that even a top-notch horse was only about thirty taels of silver for trading in Zhangjiakou, and an ordinary war horse was only about fifteen taels of silver.

Kang Siding and Lin Danhan argued with reason, but Lin Danhan was full of misunderstandings: "You horse breeders in the Ming Dynasty are probably all thieves? Now there are wars and it is normal that the price of war horses is high! Even if many people have money, they cannot buy horses!"

In the end, Kang Siding had no choice but to return to the west entrance with 600 war horses. These horses were to be sold to the court. If Kang Siding really dared to offer the court fifty taels of silver per horse, I am afraid that Emperor Chongzhen, who was so empty in the warehouse that he could run away, would even chop him down!

But even if Emperor Chongzhen was really willing to pay a high price of fifty taels of silver per horse, Kang Siding and Fan Yongdou, behind him, still vomited blood. They spent more than 10,000 taels of silver to manage their business rights just to win the market reward. In addition, they had to spend money to manage their border officers and soldiers, and various civil servants in Xuanfu, Datong, Xikou, and all kinds of border officers.

Fan Yongdou quickly thought: If this war horse was sold to Daming, it could only be sold at most at thirty taels of silver. The numbers on the surface were already losing 12,000 taels of silver this time! With the previous cost, nearly 30,000 taels of silver were wasted!

Moreover, the city rewards have to continue to be carried out. If the city rewards are cut off and Lin Danhan leads troops to invade again, I am afraid that a large group of officials in the court will be in trouble, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not confess Fan Yongdou. As long as they are recruited to confess, their previous crimes will be dug out, which is the serious crime of extermination of the nine clans!

If the loss-making business is tied down and continues, because a large number of horse farmers have been thieves, it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to obtain war horses from horse farmers, but a large number of war horses fell into the hands of the thieves. The Ming Dynasty currently needs war horses to be around 10,000, and buying and selling a war horse will lose at least twenty taels of silver. By the time they finish these businesses, the losses on the books will reach 200,000 taels of silver. In addition to other expenses, all kinds of losses will be lost, and more than 300,000 taels of silver will be lost.

If it were the original Fan family, it would be better to make trouble like this. Now it is different. The Jinyiwei is very close to it, and the business in Liaodong has basically been cut off. The Fan family only has the money to go out and no money to come in every day. Even if the Fan Yong fights the family has a great cause, he cannot withstand such trouble.

"Boss, what should we do?" Kang Siding asked with a sad face. Their Kang family's property is not as good as the Fan family. If they continue to trade with Lin Danhan, their Kang family will soon lose all their money. But he did not dare to confess Fan Yongdou behind the scenes. After all, the Fan family is too powerful. If they offend Fan Yongdou, they may cause genocide to be destroyed at any time.

Fan Yongdou was also very troubled. He originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to obtain the right to operate the city and restore the Fan family to its vitality, but he did not expect that Lin Danhan had such a move, which made the Fan family sink deeper and deeper in the quagmire.

But Fan Yongdou also knew that there was no way to reason with Lin Dankhan. Originally, Lin Dankhan was an unreasonable guy. He only advocated the prejudice of the weak on the grassland. Whoever had a big fist was right. Moreover, Lin Dankhan just happened to catch the weakness of the Shanxi merchants, making Shanxi merchants unable to say anything.
Chapter completed!