On the grassland on the banks of the Silamulun River, a caravan was staggering eastward.

Fan Yongdou sat upright in a carriage in the middle of the caravan. He looked depressed and decadent. At a young age, he was half white in his hair.

For the past year and a half, Fan Yongdou has been too unlucky. Since the horse thief named Li Laoer appeared in his sight, Fan Yongdou has been in trouble. First, he was robbed of a caravan. Then the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants were looted by Chahars when they approached Guihua City. The caravan was wiped out and his father was also killed. But the matter did not end like this. The horse thief named Li Laoer seemed to be eyeing Fan Yongdou. Fan Yongdou's business in Tongzhou and other places was seized by the government, and the carefully organized intelligence network was cracked by the Jinyiwei, causing heavy losses. Later, Fan Yongdou's caravan heading south to transport grain was robbed by the horse thief in the Central Plains. In order to turn around, Fan Yongdou had to spend money to get the right to reward the city for management, but who knew that he had lost all his money.

What Fan Yongdou is certain is that the Chahar people plundered the Shanxi merchant caravan and his father was killed. The two things that followed seemed to have nothing to do with Li Laoer, but Fan Yongdou swears in his heart that those things must be related to Li Laoer!

If it weren't for the loss of the market reward this time, Fan Yongdou wouldn't have to go to Liaodong this time. When he went to Liaodong, the fortune and disaster were unknown. He was afraid that Amin and Dorgon's young men would cut him down in anger, and there was nowhere to seek justice.

"Li Lao Er! Why? Why do you have to be enemies with me again and again? Where did I provoke you?" Fan Yongdou sighed to the sky with grief and anger.

In the caravan, Guest Liang, one of the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants, rode a tall horse, but a hint of excitement was faintly on his face. Although the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants were headed by Fan Yongdou, everyone was partners, and it was a relationship of prosperity and loss, Guest Liang at this time felt secretly happy for Fan Yongdou's fault.

Humph! Fan Yongdou is dead this time! He violated the taboo of Khan and actually did business with Lin Dankhan! Who is Lin Dankhan? But Khan's mortal enemy! Fan Yongdou actually took over the market for rewards! This incident violated Khan's rebellion. As long as Fan Yongdou was finished, he could become the leader of the eight major merchants! And when Huang Taiji was happy, he might reward Fan Yongdou's caravan and goods to him. Guest Liang said to himself secretly.

In fact, as early as when Fan Yongdou won the right to operate the city reward, Guest Liang had already sent someone to inform Huang Taiji. At that time, he thought Fan Yongdou could make money, restore the caravan and pull up the intelligence network again, which might calm Huang Taiji's anger.

But now, Fan Yongdou lost all his money, but he still wanted to go to Liaodong to die. No one else could stop him. This was a good opportunity for Guest Liang.

The caravan entered Shengjing City and had not been to Shengjing for more than a year. Fan Yongdou found that Shengjing was becoming more and more prosperous. Various shops sprung up on both sides of the streets like mushrooms after a rain. The Han people, Jurchens and Mongolians were bustling with each other and they were constantly coming and going. This was already a prosperous big city.

In fact, the prosperity of Shengjing was based on the blood and tears of the Han people! During the Jisi Incident, the Jin Kingdom plundered a large amount of population and materials from the Ming Dynasty, and slashed several times on the already weak Ming Dynasty, bleeding the Ming Dynasty, but it drank the blood shed from the Ming Dynasty, thus causing Shengjing's prosperity today.

Huang Taiji was in a very good mood. Last year, the Jisi Revolution robbed more than 200,000 Han people, a large amount of gold, silver, treasures, grain and livestock, which were valuable resources. After the Han people were sent back to Liaodong, they were immediately incorporated into the coating. After more than a year of labor, the newly captured coatings had been harvested, which solved the famine problem for the Great Jin Kingdom. The Great Jin Kingdom, which was once disasters in the Little Ice Age, quickly recovered its vitality.

But it's strange. When he heard that Fan Yongdou came to Shengjing, Huang Taiji was not in a hurry to summon Fan Yongdou as before, but left him in the inn for several days.

Fan Yongdou lived in Shengjing's inn for more than half a month. On this day, the Ministry of Revenue of the Dajin Kingdom, Chengzheng Ying and Oerdai came to the inn where Fan Yongdou lived.

Every time Fan Yongdou was transported to Liaodong, Ying'erdai was responsible for the acquisition. Ying'erdai gave Fan Yongdou a large amount of gold, silver and treasures according to Huang Taiji's order, and provided Fan Yongdou with Liao ginseng, Dongzhu, deer antler, mink and other goods for Fan Yongdou to take back for sale. In this way, the eight Shanxi merchants could make huge profits every time.

It can be said that Ying'erdai is Fan Yongdou's financial backer.

"Sister, please see you!" As soon as he saw Ying'erdai, Fan Yongdou quickly patted his sleeves, put his knees on the ground, and crawled on the ground to bow.

"Hmph!" Ying'erdai snorted coldly, "Fan Yongdou, you have known about the trade with Lin Dankhan! I just returned from North Korea yesterday! Khan was furious when he heard about this! Fan Yongdou, you should consider the consequences yourself!"

"Sir, please spare me!" Fan Yongdou was so scared that he was sweating heavily and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Fan Yongdou, don't beg me for mercy. What do you mean? Let's talk about it when you see the Khan!" Ying'erd snorted coldly.

Then Fan Yongdou followed Ying'erday to Shengjing Palace to meet the Saint, and Guest Liang was also summoned to go with him. Along the way, Fan Yongdou, who had already sweated profusely, thought to himself: Who told Da Khan about the trade with Lin Dankhan? Although Fan Yongdou came to Shengjing this time, he originally wanted to tell Huang Taiji in person that he would trade with Lin Dankhan for the sake of the caravan. However, he told this matter himself and told others that he would first let Huang Taiji know about it, but the consequences were completely different.

I took the initiative to say that it was honestly admitting to the Khan; if someone sued the secret, it would violate Huang Taiji's taboo!

Fan Yongdou felt that his feet were as soft as when they were stepping on cotton, and his mind was blank. But at this point, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and meet Huang Taiji. If he didn't go, he would have nowhere to escape in Shengjing anyway.

Ying'erdai told Fan Yongdou: "I am going to North Korea, and the Koreans have agreed to open the trade market to our Dajin, and promised to sell food, cloth, silk, cotton, iron ore and other items to Dajin! With the goods provided by the North Koreans, Fan Yongdou, the goods of your caravan are no longer important to our Dajin."

Fan Yongdou was even more scared and trembled all over. He was a profit-oriented businessman, but in Huang Taiji's eyes, he was just an obedient dog. If a dog is useless to his owner, wouldn't it end up turning into a pot of dog meat?

While talking, he had already arrived at the gate of the palace. Fan Yongdou looked up at the gate of Shengjing Palace, his whole body trembled like a sieve, and his legs were trembling. He was a little afraid to go in, but now that everyone has arrived, how can he not go in?

"Bring Fan Yongdou here!" A eunuch had already reported to Huang Taiji.
Chapter completed!