The closest road from Beijing to the northeast is to go through Jizhou and pass Shanhaiguan and then enter the northeast. However, after leaving Beijing, Zhu Hongsan immediately called Han Sanqiang from the Imperial Guard and asked him to turn around and go north to Yanqing.

Han Sanqiang was a soldier, and the emperor's orders must be followed unconditionally. He immediately ordered the vanguard troops to turn around and the entire army headed north to Yanqing.

Following Zhu Hongsan was Chen Mingxia, the foreman of the Military Operations Department. He was very surprised to see the emperor giving such a strange order and asked quickly: "Your Majesty, why are you going to Yanqing when you go to Liaodong to Shanhaiguan? "

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Haha, Mr. Chen is just following you, I want to make a small fortune!"

Chen Mingxia was confused when she heard the emperor say this. What wealth does the emperor have to make? In addition, what wealth can he have to make in Yanqing? Should he rob the Mongols? However, the Ming Dynasty has a good relationship with the Mongols outside the pass, not to mention that the Mongols are poorer than the Han people, and there is no other property except some horses. However, Chen Mingxia didn't dare to ask more when seeing the mysterious appearance of Zhu Hong's three gods, and there was no way to follow the orders.

Zhu Hongsan's team had a total of 70,000 to 80,000 people. After leaving Beijing, he wandered for three days before he arrived in Yanqing. When Zhu Hongsan arrived here, he told Chen Mingxia that his destination was, that was Xuanfu Town, one of the nine sides.

In order to deal with the threat from the north, nine towns were established from Liaodong to Ningxia, called the Jiubian important town. Each town had a general guarding the army with tens of thousands of troops under his command. These people were the main combat forces in the late Ming Dynasty. Of course, most of these people surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. In the Jiangnan period, the soldiers of these border towns made a lot of efforts.

After Zhu Hongsan occupied Beijing, most of the generals of the nine towns surrendered to the New Ming Dynasty. Zhu Hongsan did not take any ruthless measures against these two and five boys, but only dealt with a few people who were very resentful, and everyone else was retained for their original positions.

Xuanfu Town is one of the nine major towns. The Great Wall under its jurisdiction starts from Yongguan and Sihaiye in the east, and reaches the west of the Xiyanghe River in Yanggao County, northeast of Shanxi, and is 1,023 miles long. The geographical location is very important, second only to the General of Jizhen in the front of Beijing, so Zhu Hongsan selected Zhao Liangdong when he selected the general of the garrison.

This Zhao Liangdong was one of the four generals in Hexi. Later, Wei Xiaobao's eldest brother Zhao Liangdong was suppressed by the Three Feudal Rebellion.

Zhao Liangdong was originally a military household in Shaanxi. He followed Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi and went to Liaodong to join the Qing Dynasty. He was one of Hong Chengchou's iron players. However, after Hong Chengchou's death, Zhao Liangdong was captured by Zhu Hongsan and naturally joined the New Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Hongsan learned that this guy was Wei Xiaobao's elder brother, he immediately handed him over such an important place as Xuanfu Town to guard.

Zhao Liangdong was an old soldier of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally knew the importance of Xuanfu Town. After learning that the emperor trusted him so much, he immediately cried and sweared loyalty to Zhu Hongsan. In fact, what Zhao Liangdong didn't know was that Zhu Hongsan didn't like Xuanfu Town at all. Not to mention that Xuanfu Town only had more than 20,000 guard soldiers, even more than 200,000 Eight Banners soldiers were not the opponent of his new army. Therefore, as long as Zhu Hongsan firmly grasped the command of the new army, other local troops would be better to hand over to those capable people to lead them, and could still gain Zhao Liangdong's loyalty. Why not do it?

After learning that the emperor was about to arrive at Xuan Mansion, Zhao Liangdong quickly left the city fifty miles and knelt on the side of the road to greet the emperor.

Zhu Hongsan was watching this famous traitor general on the horse, but Zhu Hongsan did not mean to kill Zhao Liangdong. They had already done their best to be captured by Zhao Liangdong's military force. What else can you ask for these illiterate soldiers? So Zhu Hongsan was very magnanimous to those traitor generals, such as Ma Degong, Tong Guonai, etc., and they were all valued under Zhu Hongsan's hands.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhao Liangdong and smiled and said, "General Zhao, get up! This is the first time I have met you, get up and talk!"

Zhao Liangdong did not dare to look up, stood up and bowed and asked, "Your Majesty, the last general has not received the order from the Military Affairs Office, so we are late to welcome him. Please forgive me!"

"It has nothing to do with you. I originally planned to go to Liaodong this time, but suddenly I want to come to Xuanfu to do something, so I have a temporary idea!"

Zhao Liangdong didn't know what the emperor came to Xuanfu to do, but he didn't dare to ask, so he had to follow the emperor's horse queen closely.

Because Xuanfu is located in the border area and has a small population, the entire Xuanfu has only more than 10,000 people, but because it is close to Mongolia, there are many merchants.

Zhu Hongsan came to the city gate and saw the merchants kneeling on the ground, nodding and asked, "Zhao Liangdong, it seems that Xuanfu Town is doing well!"

Zhao Liangdong didn't know what the emperor meant, so he looked at Chen Mingxia beside the emperor. After all, Chen Mingxia and him were both old people in the Qing Dynasty, so they were considered to be somewhat intimate.

Chen Mingxia heard the emperor say this and quickly stood up and explained to the emperor: "General Zhao, don't worry, Your Majesty is just thinking about the prosperity of Xuanfu's business roads, and it's meaningless!"

Zhao Liangdong felt relieved after hearing Chen Mingxia's explanation. You should know that although the court has no war with Mongolia, it is still an enemy country in name. Now that the emperor saw that Xuanfu was doing business with Mongolia with great fanfare, Zhao Liangdong naturally did not dare to answer casually.

However, it is easier to deal with Chen Mingxia's commentary. Zhao Liangdong bowed and said, "Your Majesty, although the Xuanfu in the former Ming Dynasty was greatly impacted, the merchants were all seeking profits. The main war stopped and they would come back from Xuanfu to go to Mongolia to conduct business!"

Zhu Hongsan knew that the Ming Dynasty was a confusing account of such border trade, and the court could not collect much tax on border trade, so this time he came to Xuanfu to turn this kind of private smuggling into a state act.

"Okay, it seems that business here in Xuanfu is booming. I am planning to reopen the mutual market in Xuanfu. In the future, Zhao Liangdong, your work will be aggravated!"

Zhao Liangdong was very happy to hear the emperor say this. He has been in Xuanfu for three years. In the past, this kind of smuggling was sneaky. Of course, Zhao Liangdong, as the general, was naturally beneficial, but the benefits of collecting black money were more likely to be collected openly.

"Your Majesty, I will guarantee that as long as the border trade is relaxed, the scale of the merchant gang can be expanded three times!" Zhao Liangdong quickly expressed his loyalty in front of the emperor.

Zhu Hongsan stepped forward and patted Zhao Liangdong on the shoulder and smiled: "Okay, I'm going to open three exchanges on Jiubian, and I'll leave this Xuanfu Town to you!"

Zhao Liangdong, a Qiu Ba, was born. He didn't dare to imagine that he could be patted by the emperor on the shoulder. Now he feels that his whole body is a few pounds lighter, so he quickly kneels down to ensure that the exchange market is done well.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Okay, get up! I heard that there are eight major merchant gangs in your Xuan Mansion, such as Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and others. They are all experienced people. You must learn from them!"

Zhao Liangdong quickly replied: "Your Majesty, there are eight big merchant gangs. They are Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa. They are all living in Xuanfu now. Finally, they will call them to bow to His Majesty!"

Chinese businessmen have never had a status, so Zhao Liangdong asked them to come to pay homage to the emperor was really thinking about them. With the amulet of the emperor, these eight families could sway across the ground of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Hongsan shook his hand and said, "No, no hurry. I am tired today. I want to take a break in Xuanfu tonight. Let's go tomorrow. I will invite them to dinner at noon tomorrow and ask how they do business!"

Zhao Liangdong usually collects money from these eight families, and now he is very happy to be able to fight for the eight families to have an opportunity to have a meal with the emperor. After asking the emperor, Zhao Liangdong went to the city to arrange residence for the emperor, and at the same time went to deliver letters to the eight families, striving to receive red envelopes.

Seeing Zhao Liangdong entering the city, Chen Mingxia was very puzzled by the fact that the emperor was so noble, so why did he invite a group of low-ranking businessmen to dinner?

"Your Majesty, these merchants have low status. Why should you condescend and have dinner with them? Isn't it over to let Zhao Liangdong go and order them?"

Zhu Hong twisted his beard with three hands and smiled: "Hehe, Mr. Chen, you don't know. What I told you about is their money!"

Chen Mingxia understood as soon as he heard this, the emperor was going to quarrel. But that was true. Chen Mingxia, in charge of the Military Affairs Office, knew that the emperor paid the money he paid for this Northern Tour. If he didn't use any means to collect some costs, he wouldn't pay him to death!

After Zhu Hongsan said that, he brought the 10,000 Jinyiwei into the city, and the other personnel stayed outside the city. After all, Xuanfu was just a city of government level, and it could not accommodate 70,000 to 80,000 people to enter the city.

After Zhu Hongsan entered the city, of course he moved into the General Office of Xuanfu. In fact, the original Xuanfu had a governor, but Zhu Hongsan was the governor of the general and was not an official of the former Ming Dynasty who was of imperial envoy. So now the biggest official in Xuanfu is General Zhao Liangdong, and his chief was the Governor of Zhili in Tianjin.

The arrival of the emperor made the entire Xuanfu area boil. Especially after hearing that the emperor wanted to let go of the trade, all the big merchants around the Xuanfu gathered in Xuanfu to get a share of the feast. As the leader of the merchants of the Xuanfu, the eight masters naturally wanted to occupy important shares in the trade, but they were not worried, because General Zhao had just arrived to inform them that the emperor would invite them to dinner tomorrow and would like to ask about the trade.

The heads of these eight families came to the General's Mansion early the next day to wait. They were not afraid of not having enough food if they came late, but the Inner Palace Superintendent informed them last night and asked them to come earlier today to learn the intra-verbal etiquette.

It is not a waste of time to eat with the emperor. That kind of etiquette is enough for you to eat the dish first, what the emperor says, what the emperor should say to you, how to kowtow, etc. The study this morning made the eight heads of the family confused, but they thought that they would see the emperor immediately, and they were still very excited.

The imperial banquet was set up in the lobby of the General's Mansion. When the auspicious time came, the eight people were dressed in costumes. Under the leadership of the eunuch, they bowed and walked into the lobby in small steps, and then knelt on the ground and waited for the emperor to arrive.
Chapter completed!