There is a road from Datong to pass through the gates, two hundred miles north. There is a place outside the border called Jining. It is at the foot of Yinshan Mountain and has many names that are fascinating.

The Ming people who went out of the border called it Xinghelu, which was its name in the early Ming Dynasty.

The Mongolians who stayed here called it Jining Road, which was its name in the Yuan Dynasty.

Earlier, this was Dai County of Youzhou, which was Yunzhong, Bingzhou. Wang Changling said that he was flying general in Longcheng, and did not teach Hu horses to cross the easternmost end of Yinshan, which was Daqingshan here.

Walk west along the valley and then walk up two hundred miles, you will be the key place of the entire Mongolian grassland in the towering mountains, Guihua City.

The land of the Ming and Jin Kingdom was extremely fertile. Surrounded by mountains, there were three hundred miles of Bansheng and endless grasslands. Looking from the north to the south, Guihua City was not so much a city of Altan, but rather a pass at the northernmost end of the Ming Dynasty, because Tumochuan was the ancient Chilechuan.

It is rare to have tall mountains like Yinshan on the flat plateau, and coupled with the curve of the Yellow River in the south of the mountain, it makes Shannan extremely superior in grazing and farming.

Altan's death brought this grassland into a new era.

The era when the Han people made great progress northward.

In Jining, this place where the first inn last year was found, it welcomed its first permanent shop, called Exit Firearm Shop.

The store owner is a young Beiyang Army small banner official, from Yuncheng, the son of Shanxi salt merchants, named Wang Yue. His family is engaged in the salt, grain, coal, silk and iron smelting industry. He has been fond of dancing guns and sticks since he was a child, and learned martial arts skills from his martial arts. Before he could even adults, he followed his family to transport the coal trade route to the capital, waiting to grow up and take over to manage this business. As a result, Wanli got the coal stuck.

In a fit of anger, Wang Yue was also very interesting. In a fit of anger, he actually followed the recruiter who came to recruit soldiers from Beiyang.

This kind of soldier with a wealthy family and well-educated family is a good seedling in the eyes of officers and can be a general in the future. Therefore, he has devoted himself to training. He has learned a lot of new things in Beiyang in two years, and has mastered the techniques of drawing and Mongolian. As a result, the situation has changed in the past two years. As soon as he left the Beiyang training ground, he was given the position of a small flag official, and he led his people to follow the caravan to exit.

The flag army he brought was not the Beiyang army, but a small flag was drawn from the Tianjin Guard. A general flag made him raise a small flag and barely pass by the elite man, and drove ten large cars to Jining to open a firearm shop.

This firearm, which belongs to the Beiyang Military Mansion, does not look lonely on the grassland. Next door is the newly built Jining Post Office in the Ming Dynasty. Not far away is the Songlin River, which flows all year round. Under the arch of the domes of the herdsmen around, the firearm shops, barracks, grain shops and warehouses in deep ditches and high towers guard the station.

There were more than a dozen large trucks parked outside the high wall. There were no Beiyang specialty packages in the convoy, which meant that this was a caravan that completed the delivery task of the Naturalized City. Wang Yue, who was holding his hands behind his back, narrowed his eyes and squeezed his nose, and smiled: "I knew you had to come back."

"You don't know. At that time, the hundred households asked me to choose whether to choose Ji Ning or Guihua City to open a shop. We fell in love with Ji Ning at a glance. Why? Because it is not easy to walk on the road north of Guihua City. You have to cross the mountains. It will be different when you turn back from Ji Ning and then walk north. It's easy to walk."

"No, you're back now."

Wang Yue laughed, opened his arms and walked to the door, and asked, "How about it, your caravan has five gun tickets, and it's not peaceful on the grassland in the north. Where can I do business without a few firearms to defend myself? How many?"

In front of him was a caravan from Shanxi. The leader of the caravan was very bitter and grieved, and he took out five wrinkled gun tickets in his arms. He ignored Wang Yue, the small banner official, and discussed how many guns he wanted to buy.

Wang Yue interrupted again and said, "I would like to remind you that you can only use the gun ticket once. Whether you buy five guns or one gun, you have to give me five tickets to prevent smuggling firearms from outside the border."

"It's also smuggling out of the Great Wall!"

It would be fine if Wang Yue didn't say anything. As soon as he said this, the merchant widened his eyes and said angrily: "You go smuggling, a broken musket sells five taels of silver. You smuggle one for me, how do you smuggle it!"

This export firearm shop is an official industry and is priced by the court. The people cannot hold firearms. Therefore, this arms shop is the only shop in the core country that sells firearms to the people.

The conditions for sale are not harsh, but very complicated. First of all, the merchant must hold a certificate issued by the magistrate of the place where he is registered to prove that he has a fixed industry, a fixed clan, a wife and a child are all in his hometown, including the industry, hiring caravan leaders and other information.

Only with this certificate can we receive the supplies escorted to Guihua City in Beiyang based on the scale of the caravan. At the same time, they need to prepare a certain number of knives, spears, bows and other weapons according to the scale, and bring the gun tickets issued by the Beiyang Military Office to Datong. The Datong government will stamp the gun tickets. At this time, those who hold this gun ticket can legally purchase firearms.

No matter where the merchants would sell the goods, the imperial court divided several areas outside the Great Ming Dynasty. First, it was the Jin Dynasty. Each tribe stationed in the pastoral areas had local commanders of the Ming army, and the main roads were stationed at post stations. There were stations in the Ming and Jin garrisons between the stations.

It is relatively safe, and the corresponding goods price cannot be sold too high because there are too many caravans coming.

If you want to make money, you have to leave the Ming Jin Kingdom and sell it to the north. Most of the tribes grazing in those places only have some contact with the Ming army. The merchants go to less, and the goods sold are at high prices, which is also dangerous.

If there is danger, we need to defend ourselves, so the court issued a ticket to guns.

However, there is no place to recognize gun tickets in the Great Wall, and no firearms are allowed to be carried when leaving the customs. There is only one firearm shop in Jining, which is Wang Yue's shop.

The gun ticket only means that the holder has the right to buy firearms. To buy them, you still have to use silver. Beiyang Ye Mengxiong prevents merchants from smuggling firearms out of their mouths, which is simple and crude - not prevented.

He knew that he could not defend himself. Once he arrived in those places, the most valuable goods on these merchants were the firearms they exchanged for with gun tickets.

Therefore, Ye Mengxiong chose to let the court get a piece of the pie from smuggling.

No matter if you smuggle or be stolen, it would be enough for the court to earn more money than the firearms that were thrown away.

Bang!

Seeing the merchant discussing and planning to come and see the goods, Wang Yue happily attacked with both hands and said, "Please come with me and come into our store and have a good look."

"I was not satisfied with the Yongle musket when I came last time. It doesn't matter. The shop has recently entered better goods."

The one placed on the table was an old-fashioned musket: "The Wanli magic gun was specially used by the manufacturer of the 10th year of Wanli in the Beiyang Military Weapons Bureau. Compared with the old-sized musket, the gun pipe has a large caliber, with more materials, more charges and more ammunitions. Compared with the Wanli magic gun, I prefer to call it Lieutenant Zhenshuo, because it is a small hand-held General Zhenshuo."

"Are you afraid to see a shirtless horse bandit riding a horse and raising a sword outside the frontier? You're afraid, but if you have it, you don't have to be afraid! With our special small shotgun, you can guarantee thirty small iron balls within thirty steps and let the horses cover him with blood."

"The best Lieutenant Zhenshuo, I will give you ten fixed-packed gunpowder splices, and you will be a good product to go out to the frontier!"

Wang Yue raised his eyebrows and looked at the merchant: "As long as eleven taels of silver, it will be yours."
Chapter completed!