Shanxi Chief Envoy Department, Pingyang Prefecture, Puzhou.

As the New Year is approaching, every household has to visit relatives and friends. As a big family in Puzhou, the Zhang family is naturally not exempt from this custom.

Today, Zhang Siwei warmly received batch after batch of visitors.

Regardless of his status, he was always polite to merchants, scholars, officials and gentry.

Even in the presence of the proletarian red people outside the Great Wall, Zhang Siwei still sat facing each other and served tea politely.

"Today Bansheng has a population of tens of thousands, spread out for dozens of miles, 40,000 horses, 23,000 cattle, and 50,000 hu of grain..."

Lv Nanchuan has excellent business skills and summed up Bansheng's development this year in a straight-forward manner.

Zhang Siwei leaned forward, spread his hands on the charcoal stove, stared at the ground under his feet, and listened very seriously.

He interrupted from time to time and asked detailed questions.

There were only two people in the study, and their voices were not loud enough that the words could not be heard clearly when they were heard outside.

After Lv Nanchuan finished speaking, Zhang Siwei smiled and said, "It's almost time to catch up with your father's original grand occasion."

At the beginning, Zhao Quan and Lu Xichuan gathered tens of thousands of people, 50,000 horses, and 30,000 cattle in Bansheng to build a palace with nine halls. It was a great time.

After Xi'an Da Khan defected to the imperial court, he trapped and killed Zhao Quan, Lu Xichuan and dozens of others.

After that, King Shunyi took the court's face into consideration and no longer allowed Ban Sheng to recruit exiled Han people as he had before.

Now that more than ten years have passed, it is time to restore the old outlook.

Lu Nanchuan nodded in agreement: "Since King Anda Khan of Shunyi went westward, the Tatars have been living in exile. They have been shooting in two places, and the restrictions on Bansheng have been much reduced, so we can recruit exiles on a large scale.

"

After saying that, he respectfully got off the stool and poured tea for Zhang Siwei: "Of course, it is also thanks to the generous help of my adoptive father."

Zhang Siwei's smile did not diminish and he declined: "We are just talking about business."

The industries of Fengzhou people, such as tobacco leaves, miscellaneous grains, and the manufacture of oil, wine, tobacco, etc., without the tax collected by the court and without tariffs, the cost is much lower. In addition, the special products such as camels, horses, cattle, and sheep are of better quality outside the Great Wall.

, attracting frequent business trips from Shanxi.

As a result, local businessmen and people in Bansheng gathered together and gradually formed a market.

In this way, even if Zhang Siwei gave some guidance to Shanxi merchants, it would still be regarded as smuggling in name at most - there is no such thing as generous help.

After Lu Nanchuan poured the tea, he paused for a moment before holding his sleeves and sitting back.

Zhang Siwei kept turning his hands over, rubbing his palms and backs back and forth, and warned earnestly: "Take your time, don't be eager for quick success, let alone show your sage in front of others. When Zhao Quan became king, his father called him Taoist ancestor, which shocked the court and made the same mistake before."

"

Lu Nanchuan naturally continued to be educated.

He followed Zhang Siwei's words and explained: "My adoptive father is right. The name Bailian is just for gathering people in private. After Anda Khan returned to Huacheng from Qinghai, we changed our name to Baoshan Group.

Have no fight with the world.”

The Caotai Group's cult has a completely different spirit whether there are scholars involved in its organizational construction.

The name of the Merchant Protection Corps is very good. It protects public security and escorts business travelers. With such honest duties, even if the barrier of Guihua City is lost in the future, there is still a future for Zhao'an.

Zhang Siwei shook his head: "That's not what I'm talking about. It's your rallying slogan. Stop spreading it."

"Prime Minister Li gathered the White Lotus Sect in Henan, robbed homes and houses, and nothing happened for several years. In April this year, once he wrote a demon book and shouted slogans, the army came to crush the country and turned him into a powder."

He sat up straight: "There are some things you can do, but you must not make a big deal about them."

As power expands, everyone will eventually have more ideas.

At that time, Lu Nanchuan's father's idea was to encourage Anda Khan to proclaim himself emperor and call himself Taoist ancestor.

And the leader of the White Lotus Church became more and more eager to recruit Dingkou from within the pass, and even shouted the slogan "Born within the pass, raised outside the barrier, not a job, no food, everyone will have a happy life".

There is no official leadership in Bansheng, and the people really don't have to work as errands, nor do they have to pay for food.

This is naturally very attractive to the people of Jiubian who have been abused.

But precisely because of this, if this slogan really reaches the eyes and ears of the imperial court, this kind of slogan will inevitably be provoked to strike hard.

The slogan is the outline. Whoever dares to shout it will no longer be a small-time refugee bandit in the eyes of the government, but an outright rebel!

As soon as Lu Nanchuan mentioned the point, he was startled. He seemed to understand this point clearly. He immediately got up and said, "Father, I will stop chanting when I get back!"

Zhang Siwei waved his hand, not paying much attention.

Now that the imperial court insists on going its own way, and the New Deal has reached the stage of consolidating the land, it must not look back until it hits the wall.

This was followed by a fifty-year battle over tax law reform.

The emperor and Zhang Juzheng almost reproduced what Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi did, intensifying the conflict between the central government and the pillars of the dynasty to the extreme.

If he, Zhang Siwei, were still in the center, there was no way he could still bring order to the chaos and advocate for the suspension of the new law to live in harmony with the people.

It's a pity that the emperor is ignorant and immoral, and cannot distinguish between loyal and traitorous people... With refugees everywhere, it is bound to be a matter of time for him to lead the way for the king.

At that time, it was Lu Nanchuan's opportunity to make a slogan.

Zhang Siwei shook his head, suddenly remembered something, and talked about another thing: "Has Shangshu settled down?"

Lu Nanchuan nodded and was about to elaborate.

Zhang Siwei immediately interrupted: "Don't tell me how you settled down. If things are not kept secret, it will be harmful. Liu Shiyan's family was killed before. The bad thing is that you didn't silence the people sent by Li Xiang to do things. Otherwise, how could you be killed by Jin Yiwei?"

Follow the vine and touch the melon?"

Lu Nanchuan stopped abruptly.

Mentioning this matter, he couldn't help but show a guilty look on his face.

"You will gain wisdom after suffering a hardship. Let's talk about the situation outside the Great Wall."

Zhang Siwei gently dismissed the accusation.

Lu Nanchuan took a deep breath, quickly regained his composure, and brought the topic back to business: "Yes, foster father."

"After Anda Khan failed to recover, Eastern Mongolia has essentially become alienated."

"The month before last, Xin Ai and Huang Taiji separated and started a new family."

"Songshan Bintu, his wife and other chieftains are wandering at sea, and there is no news from them."

"Last month, Wei Zheng was shot to death by an arrow for robbing a student. His body was burned and his bones were taken back to his suitcase."

"Copy Hu'erqing, Bao Du'er Kusai, Ai Musu Aji's eldest brothers, uncles and nephews, Du'er his divination bag, Mang Su'er his divination bag, Yaya begging Qingshan for his divination skills, Wei Zheng his divination king

Badu'er and other tribes gathered tens of thousands of horsemen, seven hundred miles away from Jiayuguan, intending to attack Oara after the beginning of spring and advance westward."

"News came this month that the chieftain brothers took advantage of the situation and occupied the pond."

"..."

"Today, only Sanniangzi, in the name of the Great Khan's wife, has firmly controlled Guihua City and ordered not to disobey Huang Taiji and others."

"However, before I came, Sanniangzi had already left for Yanghe. It was said that the emperor had issued an order to urgently order King Shunyi and Sanniangzi to enter the capital."

Yanghe is the residence of Governor Xuanda. Since Sanniangzi has gone to Yanghe, she is obviously preparing to enter the capital.

At this point, Lu Nanchuan paused: "Father, I'm a little worried. The Third Lady has always been friendly to the court. Should we do something..."

The better the relationship between the imperial court and the Tatar right wing, the less space the Han people would have to move around outside the Great Wall. Lü Nanchuan understood this.

Sanniangzi, when the peace was negotiated in Longqing, she firmly persuaded the peace, and thereafter restrained the various ministries and presided over the matters of paying tribute to the imperial court.

Even the construction of Guihua City and obtaining the name from the imperial court were all advocated by Sanniangzi.

It is not a good thing for Lu Nanchuan to have such a low profile now and go to Beijing in response to the imperial edict.

Zhang Siwei heard this but did not respond immediately.

Silence fell in the study room.

Lu Nanchuan felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

Finally, Zhang Siwei slowly turned his head and looked at Lu Nanchuan: "Simon Gu Tuman Khan integrated 30,000 households on the left wing, combined into 24 troops in eight camps, and 200,000 warriors, starting from Liaodong in the east and reaching Taohe River in the west.

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"Hold high the "Tumen Khan Code" to restrain the tribes and make the tribes in Monan make pilgrimages to the Great Khan again."

"With the momentum of the Hulitai Conference, we forced Horqin, Nei Khalkha and other tribes to surrender."

"He was also promised the position of great power to bribe the grandson of Anda Khan, Chekeli, and then used the Yellow Sect to win over the right wing and cut off Huang Taiji."

"If it hadn't been for the majesty of the Third Lady, the scattered sands of Dandong Mongolia would have been swallowed up immediately, and the old scene of Dayan Khan would have reappeared."

Zhang Siwei looked at Lü Nanchuan and shook his head solemnly: "The Han family's affairs will be settled by the Han family."

"Sooner or later, the Tatars will be the enemy of the Han family. You and I will use the Tatars as minions. It is okay to serve as a pioneer for the king, but we must not let ourselves sink and become a wedding dress for others."

The words were neither fast nor slow, and the two looked at each other quietly.

a long time.

Lv Nanchuan smiled awkwardly: "My foster father has great insights, but I was wrong."
To be continued...