Chapter seven hundred and twentieth horse thieves rampage
Jiang Lang is a very famous luxury businessman in Taiyuan Prefecture. His business is to purchase medicinal materials from various places in Shanxi and sell them to the grassland. This profit is extremely high.
Medicinal materials are life-saving things, both for people and livestock. People like witch doctors and shamans on the grassland use animal feces or even human secretions to produce drugs that will not have any effect at all. Compared with these garbage, the Chinese medicine of the Ming Dynasty is equal to miraculous effects.
Like most merchants in Taiyuan City, Jiang Lang has a huge farm outside the city, and the villages are full of large warehouses, and the goods sent to the grassland are stored in the warehouse.
With Jiang Lang's status, there is no need to go to the grassland to deliver goods and collect money in person. His eldest son Jiang Tuo is the commander who led the team out of the border.
The profit was almost huge profits, and the Jiang family was willing to spend money to manage it. Every time Jiang Tuo came out of seclusion, the soldiers and generals at the level were extremely polite and respectful to him.
Jiang Tuo came, and the soldiers guarding the card prepared tables and chairs first, took out tea and snacks to treat them. Qian Zhengze, who was on the side of the tiger's mouth, stood by with a smile. Seeing the soldiers checking one by one, Jiang Tuo frowned and said:
"Have you sent this month's participants? Not to mention that the people below did not care about their work, which delayed the brothers' tea."
Mr. Qian was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said with a smile:
"Young Master Jiang is thinking too much. Look at Kazi, there is not a person wearing a flying fish suit. It is said that a big man should come over in the capital. The Jinyiwei is very nervous. He comes to watch and let everyone work. The brothers below cannot slackewer, and they must be busy with some things."
After saying a few words, Mr. Qian approached and said:
"Young Master Jiang, I didn't bring anyone this time, so let the brothers avoid it!"
Jiang Tuo also smiled and shook his head, and said:
"The girls in Datong are unwilling to serve the Tartars, and it is not easy to invite the doctor who is willing to go to Guihua City. Then I can bring people out this time."
After checking it over, there was nothing to see. Jiang Tuo left ten taels of silver, said, "Come back for wine", then got off, stared at the Jinyi Guards here and came over and took two taels of silver, which made the border soldiers at the checkpoint curse.
The reason why this medicinal material business is so prosperous is that Jiang Lang also used a lot of money to recruit doctors to Guihua City. These doctors naturally sold the medicinal materials quickly for the nobles of the Tartars, and the relationship between the upper and lower levels was also used to make comprehensive efforts. Another thing is that the nobles of Altan from Guihua City were tired of women from the Western Regions and Mongolia. The Han women who were plundered were either strong or beautiful, and wanted to find those beautiful and charming Han beauties. Since the Jiang family could get doctors to see a doctor, this beauty could naturally get out of seclusion.
All the people are doing business. The Jiang family really bought beauties from Datong and everywhere to Guihua City. Medicinal materials were profitable, and the human trafficking business was even more profitable.
However, it is easier to get out of the border village, but it is difficult to traffic in women. But there are ways to make these people dress up as men following the team, and then the soldiers on the border checked and then passed.
It was already late autumn, and the grassland was yellow. Shao said that before the Jiang family's caravan went out, there was a light snow, but it was not retained. The other businesses were off-season at this time, but the Jiang family's medicinal materials business was not divided into off-season peak season. Many wealthy chiefs from various tribes on the grassland were willing to buy more and stock up on the medicinal materials, and they didn't have to worry about selling them.
The photo was resting in the small tribe at night, and the Jiang family caravan asked in confusion.
He said that Old Kliao from this small tribe has gone there. Someone in the tribe replied that he went to Guihua City to do business, but there were many other familiar faces. There were not a fixed number of people coming and going in such a small tribe on the grassland. Everyone can rest assured that they have mature faces.
This small tribe built shacks for past merchants. At night, they set up a fire outside, which was warm and comfortable inside. However, Jiang Tuo was born in a rich family and had never suffered any hardships since he was a child.
Of course, I can't treat myself badly when I come out to deliver the goods, so I have a special tent for him to set up.
Everyone knows that Mr. Jiang doesn’t like greasy, and he also specializes in vegetables from Taiyuan Mansion. Mr. Jiang also has the reputation of a scholar, and he always wants it at night. Of course, people don’t know that these are all pastime articles such as legendary erotic poems.
He planned to arrive in Guihua City in a few days. Jiang Tuo had a Mongolian lady in Guihua City. She had a different style than the Ming Dynasty women. When Jiang Tuo thought of this, he felt hot. Jiang Tuo had a special white copper warming stove in Jiang Tuo's tent, which made the felt tent quite warm.
Jiang Tuo fell asleep in a daze, but he woke up from the cold in the middle of the night. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the tent had been lifted and several people stood in front of him.
This small tribe has always been relieved, not to mention that he also brought a few capable guards, so why would something happen? Jiang Tuo subconsciously shouted.
A shrill voice of life-saving quickly spread throughout the small tribe, but no one went to rescue him. In the open space where the carriage was parked, the torches were clear, and the Jiang family's friends were tied and thrown to the ground.
"My father and the prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture have a friendship, and my family also have a kid with the gangster general of Yunshan Guard. If you arrest me, you will cause trouble..."
The guys in the Jiang family were all terrified. A few mature men were even more afraid of Jiang Tuo's words. So, don't you think you live long? You have to kill them even if you don't kill them.
"A person like a rabbit husband, grandpas are happy on the grassland, and the Ming Dynasty officials are considered birds!!"
The man's accent seemed to be from Liao Town. As soon as he spoke, there was a Mongolian voice on the other side. Some of the Jiang family's friends knew Mongolian and could understand this meaning to shut up the shouting people.
There are Mongolians and Han people. It seems that this is not the team of that family, but this is the horse bandits. But the place between the Qihua City and Datong Town is jointly protected by the Khan of the Altan tribe and the general of Datong Town. If you want to be a sold person here without capital, you will be chased by both sides until you die without a burial place.
Hearing this Mongolian saying, Jiang Tuo thought he was planning to do so and shouted there:
"I have a friendship with Senggedu Gulen Khan..."
Before he finished speaking, the man who was caught was thrown to the ground, and he thrust hard with the scabbard in his hand and beat it a few times. Jiang Tuo suffered this pain and was immediately beaten to the ground, screaming in pain.
"Everyone is honest and don't move. Whoever dares to do anything randomly, I will have to pay for money and life!!"
Looking at this gang of robbers, who dared to talk and act more? He could only watch the robbers searching the fine and soft things on each person, and the big carts were driven away.
In the end, everyone in the convoy had black cloth tied up on their eyes. I don’t know how long it took, but at dawn, someone came to take off the black cloth from their eyes. When they saw that it was people from this small tribe, the old Cliao also came out to work hard with a weak expression. After asking, he realized that the day before yesterday, he was surrounded by hundreds of horse bandits and tied up all the dishonest people. He made such a game at night, and when everyone fell asleep, they lost their guard and solved it one by one.
"You also said that you have been a personal soldier for Sun Daying and you can't tell the thief!"
"When they came in, I was awake. I took the knife and put it on the right side. I was knocked down with a punch. Damn, what kind of horse bandit has such ability..."
Jiang Tuo didn't hear his head and guards' comments at all. He was both scared and angry. These bastards dared to touch the goods of the Jiang family and dared to beat him in front of so many people. These medicinal materials were brought to the Naturalized City, and there was at least 15,000 taels of net profit. Now they have been stolen. How can they explain when they go back?
"Young Master, what should I do?"
"You rode a horse to Guihua City and went to find noble people. You said that the medicinal materials you gave them were robbed by the bandits. Let's go back to Datong to sue the official!!"
Jiang Tuo understood that when things got so far, the Jiang family could not do anything. As for how to sell these medicinal materials, it was really easy for those horse thieves. The small tribes on the grassland were willing to exchange cattle, horses, gold and silver for various medicinal materials. In order to facilitate the use of the Mongols in Guihua City, many of the Jiang family took direct medicines that could be used. These things were urgently needed by each tribe.
Jiang Tuo's face was twisted in anger. He gritted his teeth and thought that when the horse thieves were caught, he would see with his own eyes that the horse thieves were cut into pieces and cut into pieces on the grassland and fed to the wolf.
On the other side of the small tribe, someone was already pounding his chest and stamping his feet and howling. Naturally, a few merchants who were engaging in the Jiang family's convoy could not get it. The goods were stolen all. Fortunately, the horse thief had the most basic measure, leaving everyone with a carriage and horse for the return trip.
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Since August, caravans from Shanxi to Guihua City have been repeatedly robbed. The Lai Shang, a famous merchant in Shanxi, such as the Huang Family Trading Company, and the Jiang Family, were all robbed by horse bandits on the grassland, and the small and medium-sized merchants below were also robbed by people.
Altan and the Ming Dynasty had a collaborative discussion. It was legal for merchants to go to border trade and were thieves on the grassland. The wealthy merchants looked for their relationship on the grassland and went to the government to complain, while those small and medium-sized merchants could only go to the government to complain.
The complaints and petitions were filled with the government's duty room. Fortunately, the horse bandits' actions were quite regular, and the lives of the people were only ten. It would be fine if the petitions of small and medium-sized merchants ignored them, but there were a few wealthy merchants, but there were vague backgrounds behind them, but they were not allowed.
And now a big man has come from the capital. After all, this matter is not glorious and falls into the eyes and ears of the big man. It would be a shame to everyone. If this man comes back to the capital and says a few words in front of the emperor, everyone will be in trouble. He must ask the government office of the government office to discuss with each other and come up with a way to deal with it.
Chapter completed!