The ministers submitted a request to make their power smaller, and there was nothing the emperor did not allow for this request, so why not do it?

The memorial of Li Chengliang, the general of Liao Town, was quickly approved, and Emperor Wanli gave the general a great face. Although he set up a special deputy general in Liao Town, he did not mix sand to choose outsiders, and directly used Li Chengliang's confidant Sun Shoulian as the role.

In the eyes of outsiders, Li Chengliang asked himself to do good things and Emperor Wanli was very happy. Both sides had face and inner self.

Naturally no one would know that the Li family had a motion to take Sun Shoulian down. This motion was still alive, and of course no one would have thought of so many twists and turns in it.

Li Chengliang was so tactful that the imperial envoy sent to Liao Town to investigate and investigate naturally could not find anything. He stayed there for a few days, returned after several banquets, and after returning, he found out that he had no matter. Liao Town was loyal to his duties.

On March 21, 14th year of Wanli, the adopted son of Li Chengliang, the general of Liao Town, Li Pinghu, led his army out of the border wall and began to ask for advice from the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe who caused harm to the side.

The first battle was to win. He marched quickly to defeat the Donglu group while he was unprepared, beheading more than 30 enemies, and the enemy was defeated. As for the Shangshang on the side wall, he heard that the beheaded people were not from the Jianzhou division, but were the good people who moved there from other divisions, so this was not widely circulated.

For the Tianjin Wei business group, Bei Shoulian was granted the title of deputy general, and was also in the area bordering Liaodong and North Korea. The impact of this news is in all aspects.

First of all, the prices of various specialties outside the pass, which have risen by 30% to 40%, have dropped rapidly. Don’t wait for the whole family is a person from Tianjin Wei. Since his power in Liao Town has increased, all the goods must be coming.

Like the news of Sun Shoulian's promotion, the Li family in Liao Town promised that in the future, the news that the Tianjin merchant group's treatment in Liao Town was like local merchants will spread rapidly. This also means that the trade between Tianjin merchant group and Liao Town will be very smooth, unlike the artificial obstacles that have been caused by humans for this period of time.

The prices of goods outside the customs fell, and several merchants with Liao Town background lost money. They kept hoarding, but unexpectedly, the situation suddenly changed.

The prices of goods outside the pass fell, but only the big wood rose instead of falling. The big wood transported by water in Liao Town was used as buildings and shipbuilding, which were all first-class good materials. Once the trade route was blocked, the price of big wood immediately soared, but the stock in the wooden yard was also quite large, so they were all stocked up in order to sell at a high price.

According to the saying that this time the ban is lifted, a large amount of wood will come to the waterway. The price should be reduced. But in fact, after the ban is lifted, the public and private shipyards immediately began to purchase wood from the wooden yard, and the more it is, the better.

Liao Town has now opened the door to Tianjin Business Group, which means more business opportunities and more trade. In order to deal with this, there should be enough transportation capacity to support it. Everyone needs ships and more ships. The demand is rising, so the price naturally also rises.

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The various craftsmen in Tianjin Wei’s shipyards suddenly became busy like Tianjin Wei’s shipyards because the orders from the naturalized city commercial groups increased significantly.

The firearms and armor produced by Tianjin sanitation are indeed of excellent quality, but the price is also not low. Although the merchant group in Guihua City has made a fortune due to trade on the grassland, they still have to make careful calculations when purchasing these armors, but now they have made it.

When purchasing firearms and armor, the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang people must review it, and the buyer must have a guarantee, so that no trouble can occur. However, the people who came to buy this time were in Guihua City, a large business in Shanxi, and had complete certificates. The buyer of this guarantee was either a nobleman or a senior official, or a local big family in Dahuang, which often had some retired Shangshu Shilang, etc., and they were all the top major families in the local area.

It can be imagined that in addition to the busy weapons and armor workshops, the workshops that build large trucks are also busy, and the demand for wood in large trucks is also strong, which further drives the rise in wood.

The wealthy merchants who came to purchase also put forward conditions that it is best for craftsmen to go to the Naturalized City and can pay extra money. If they cannot, please deliver the goods at Zhangjiakou Fort in Xuanfu.

Wang Tong received almost the same news that the price of grain and fodder in Xuanfu has risen because there are merchants who are shopping there and storing them in warehouses near the Saikou, and they seem to have some long-term plans.

Compared with these, Tianjin Wei, to be precise, it was the entire military town of Northern Zhili. People of all kinds began to recruit brave men and women, saying that they were serving as guards of caravans. The price was not low, and they also promised various benefits.

There were a large number of soldiers who were abandoned in Xuanfu and Jizhen, including Miyunwei in the north of the capital, and were mainly veterans. These people were abandoned for the same reason, attracted by the generous rewards and the free days on the grassland. This is not a false deception.

Most border soldiers in various places have become guards of wealthy merchants in Guihua City, eating meat, drinking, looting and indulging. These beautiful prospects are too tempting for border soldiers who are capable of fighting.

Among the Sanjiang Commercial Bank Guards of Tianjin Guards, there were also a large number of people who could not withstand the "temptation" and went to apply for recruitment. There were also a group of veteran soldiers of the Huwei Army. There were even many people in the Jinyiwei Guards in the capital. This was naturally Wang Tong's arrangement in advance to lay his own foundation first.

In fact, this is too much news. Dongchang, Jinyiwei, Shuntian Mansion, and even the Ministry of Justice have news. However, there is something about Guihua City, which is related to Wang Tong. Moreover, Guihua City is still under the supervision of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, which is related to the palace. It is really sensitive. Everyone knows it, but no one dares to mention it on his own initiative.

It was still Emperor Wanli who asked Wang Tong privately after the court meeting. Wang Tong's answer was very simple: "These merchants are brave and want to attack the Korqin tribe, but according to my analysis, the chances of victory are at least 60%. I think that if these merchants go to fight the Tartars, there is no need to spend national treasury or damage Your Majesty's military. Why not do it?" In the question of Baiyi's loss, Wang Tong's answer was also very direct: "If you lose, you will lose. If you lose, it will be okay. If you lose a lot, you will definitely be killed or injured. At that time, Your Majesty will take the opportunity to destroy the Korqin tribe."

"...These merchants seem to be beasts with increasingly bigger appetites. They have robbed them on the grassland, and there is no need to rob them on the grassland. No matter what, the grassland is, it is not as good as the inland. What if they?" With the Ming Dynasty, the civil tyrants had such great actions. With such a courage, Emperor Wanli naturally had such concerns. Wang Tong's explanation was: "Your Majesty, there are only a thousand merchant guards, and the least they are less than a hundred people. They have their own forces behind them and belong to them everywhere. There are many contradictions. They are purely a mob, and they are still on the grassland.

If they can be united in the outside world, if they return to the Ming Dynasty, they will be hostile to compete with each other and are not worth mentioning in front of the court." "It is a mob, how can they compete with the powerful enemy of the clan?" "Your Majesty, the clan cavalry is even more mob than the caravan armed forces with firearms." Wang Tong said so much that he had never failed in his work. However, Emperor Wanli let go of his doubts, but after saying this, he had a vague meaning. If something messed up, Wang Tong would be responsible for this matter.

Wang Tong was naturally full of confidence in what had happened and what was about to happen. The emergence of firearms, big carts, square arrays, and other things was changed. The era has changed. Too many people, even those in it, did not realize this change, but Wang Tong saw and felt it.

The upcoming battle on the grassland is a battle between firearms and cold weapons, a battle between the powerful and prosperous handicraft and commercial support of the inland and the grassland and the semi-primitive animal husbandry. Perhaps there are fewer people on the natural city, and perhaps there are less combat experience on the natural city, but this battle itself is a contest between different levels of civilizations, and Wang Tong is indeed very confident and sure.

…………… The Guihua City is still preparing as thoroughly as possible. In fact, their preparations are quite well organized, because Sanjiang Trading Company and other escorts are involved in it. The escorts of these escorts are actually regular troops, food, weapons, and even the escorts of each company to participate in this operation have begun to add training volume.

At the same time, each family sent its own caravans to the east. There were not many cargoes in the caravans, but the guards were several times higher than the normal proportion. It was better to say that they were caravans. The task of these teams was not to fight, but to fight the front station well, and to find out the distribution of the Korqin tribe and the rest of the divisions as much as possible, and to the location of the water and grasslands.

But before this advance team, a small-scale battle had already begun. The tribes attached to Guihua City were more informed than other parts on the grassland. They also took the opportunity to catch up with troubled waters and began to migrate eastward, harass and loot the eastern tribes.

Because of the victory over the grassland several times, the various forces on the grassland contracted very strongly, and the response and judgment of the Ming Dynasty's movements were not so accurate and timely.

The Korqin tribe and the Halashen tribe did not pay attention to it at the beginning. In their opinion, it was just some bold wild dogs coming to poach.

In June of the 14th year of Wanli, more than 200 horse thieves attacked a small tribe on the grassland. This tribe was different from other places, with a lot of cattle and sheep, so it naturally became fat in the eyes of others.

But this was a trap. More than 200 horse thieves were surrounded by most of the cavalry sent by the Korchin tribe. Only a dozen people ran out. The killed horse thieves were pulled out and placed there for birds and beasts to eat. As a demonstration, on the third day, a caravan came over and changed the corpses into clothes and the clothes of the Han caravan.
Chapter completed!