Xikou Tea and Horse Market was originally a market where Han caravans and Tumotes do business. After Lin Danhan captured Guihua City, he invaded and harassed him, forcing Emperor Chongzhen to give the Chahars rewards. This place became a market where Han caravans and Chahars traded.

The Chahars sent cattle, sheep and horses to the west entrance and exchanged them for salt, tea and grain from the Han people.

Compared with Zhangjiakou, the East Entrance is convenient, close to the capital, prosperous towns, and many businesses. Although there are also commerce at the West Entrance Khahukou, the West Entrance is in the minds of Shanxi people. The first thing they think of is a group of refugees without clothes. Whenever Shanxi is famine, thousands of refugees flee to the grassland to naturalize and become herd slaves.

But now it has turned around. When Li Guodong was still calling Li Laoer, he leaked the news about the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants to the Chahar people. He joined forces with the Chahar people to plunder the caravans of the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants, causing heavy losses to Shanxi merchants, which caused most of the merchants in Zhangjiakou to go bankrupt.

Moreover, because Li Guodong told Sun Chengzong that there was news that the Shanxi merchants and Jiannu were connected, although he did not seize the evidence, Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to relax. He specially arranged a Jinyiwei Qianhu Office in Zhangjiakou. The original eunuch of Xuanda was also removed. Emperor Chongzhen insisted on asking Wang Chengen to personally select his confidant to settle in Zhangjiakou and supervise the Jinyiwei Qianhu Office in order to prevent the Jinyiwei from being bribed by the unscrupulous merchants.

With a Jinyiwei Qianhu, staring at Zhangjiakou, the remaining forces of the Shanxi merchants and some local officials who had connections with Shanxi merchants did not dare to blatantly do business with the Later Jin Dynasty.

Losing business in Liaodong, the caravans of Shanxi merchants have had a hard time. After all, they dare not do Lin Danhan's business. Lin Danhan is the enemy of the Later Jin Dynasty. If he provided Lin Danhan with the goods that should have been provided to the Later Jin Dynasty, Huang Taiji would find out that these Shanxi merchants would not have been cut off by Huang Taiji?

The business in Liaodong was not completed, and the Tumotes were beaten into a betrayal dog by Lin Danhan and they had no nest. How could they do business with the Han people? Shanxi merchants in Chahar did not dare to do it. As a result, a large number of businesses in Zhangjiakou were withdrawn, causing a chain reaction. The businesses such as money houses, restaurants, brothels that served the businesses were also affected and they closed down one after another.

Now the west entrance is more lively than the east entrance. Wang Quan’s Dadewang business has become the largest business in Shanxi, specializing in Chahar people’s business.

Li Guodong came to the west entrance again because he was a general outside the Ming Dynasty, and a guest of honor for Yang Guozhu, the general of Datong, and Hu Dawei, the general of Shuozhou, so he was free to enter and exit, and no one dared to stop him.

"General Li, please come in and ask!" The soldiers at the gate of the General Datong Mansion saw Li Guodong's waist sign, quickly bowed their hands and put Li Guodong into the mansion.

When he heard that it was Li Guodong who arrived, Yang Guozhu walked down the steps and stood at the door of the living room to greet him.

"Hahaha, brothers Guodong, what gust of wind blows you today?" Seeing Li Guodong, Yang Guozhu laughed generously, walked up and grabbed Li Guodong's shoulder.

Li Guodong replied: "Didn't the West Entrance open a city reward against the Chahar people? I want to see which gods have taken over the management rights of this city reward. In addition, I opened a good friend at the West Entrance, and he also had some goods in his hand. He planned to sell at the West Entrance and then buy some goods from the Mongolians."

Yang Guozhu said: "The city reward management rights seem to have been given to Huiyuantong."

"Huiyuantong? Is Pingyang Kang's home?"

"Yes, the shopkeeper of Huiyuantong is Kang Siding and a person from Pingyang Mansion."

"How did this Kang Siding get the right to operate this city reward?"

Yang Guozhu scratched the back of his head: "As for this, I seem to have heard a little bit. Kang Siding spent a lot of money, and even Luo Yangxing had to deal with it. He gave a lot of money to the Jinyiwei and also to the father-in-law in the court, so he won the management rights of the Tongchahar people's city reward."

Li Guodong always felt that this was a bit strange. The Kang family did not run a money house? Why did he get involved in the Xikou business? I remembered that in my previous life, I had checked history and there was a rumor in the Kang family that the thief was defeated by Wu Sangui and the Qing army. When he fled from the capital, he passed through Shanxi and deposited a batch of stolen gold and silver treasures into the Kang family's money house. Later, Li Zicheng was killed, and this batch of gold and silver treasures were taken for himself by the Kang family.

In addition to opening a money shop and making money from profits, Kang's family is also a grain merchant, specializing in the low price of grain from Jiangnan and Huguang and transporting it to the capital for high prices. In recent years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have taken the opportunity to raise the grain prices in the north and make a fortune.

Li Guodong suddenly remembered that a lot of Fan Yongdou's food was actually a channel for Kang's family, purchasing goods from the south. Perhaps the Kang's family had a secret connection with Fan Yongdou!

The so-called market reward means that the Ming Dynasty provided goods to the Chahar people at a low price in the name of the government. However, the royal family and officials of the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to do business directly. If Emperor Chongzhen asked the government to open a business, he would probably be drowned by the civil servants the next day: whether to compete for profit with the people or how could the emperor go to business, he would be labeled as a fool such as Zhengde, Wanli, and Tianqi. He would even say that doing business in the government was a sign of a destruction of the country.

Because the imperial government did not allow business, the business of the city award could only be entrusted to Xikou Business.

The goods sold in the market are low and the profit is also low, but the base is large, and it can easily obtain tea and horse intake and salt intake, and can earn more needed goods at a low price, and also be protected by local officers and soldiers. Therefore, it is of great benefit to expanding the scale of the caravan. Although the unit price is low, small profits can be sold at a high price. Therefore, with its keen sense of smell, Li Guodong has already smelled the smell of Fan Yongdou behind the Kang family!

You should know that once the business rights of the market reward are obtained, the caravan can be expanded rapidly, which is a good thing for Fan Yongdou to recover his vitality, and the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants can also quickly recover their vitality.

Although there is no evidence that the Kang family is an agent introduced by Fan Yongdou, and Fan Yongdou contributed money behind the scenes and asked Kang Siding to win the market reward management rights, Li Guodong has decided that the Kang family will not feel good.

Not to mention, most of the grain shops in the capital were from the Kang family. After the Jisi Incident, the Jin invaded the capital, and the grain prices in the capital skyrocketed, and the Kang family made contributions. They made money for the unkind Kang Siding, who was rich and unkind, and made a lot of money. However, the land was barren and the people were living in poverty, but Kang Siding was reluctant to take out some food to help the victims. For this reason, Li Guodong wanted to punish him.

"Since that's the case, I'll say goodbye first, and I have something to go to Guihua City. My brother's goods also need to be taken. Although the amount is not very large, I can make some money." Li Guodong bowed his hand and said goodbye to Yang Guozhu.

Li Guodong came to Dadewang Business Hotel and prepared to take the caravan to Guihua City.

Wang Quan's caravan stayed at the Khukou for more than half a month. The caravan brought back grain and tea from Jiangnan and purchased a batch of salt from Lianghuai.
Chapter completed!