Chapter 103

Liu Bu said to him, "uncle Liu, did you just say that liaozuo's business has been run by eight major commercial firms across the river, and the water can't be poured into it. How can you intervene?"

Liu Fuqi said: "the business outside the pass is really occupied by the eight families, and only they can send the goods to JianNu. Have you heard of the fan family, master fan yongdou, who is a well-known rich man in the world. They occupy the land of Zhangjiakou and the currency and wealth of liaozuo for a long time."

Fan yongdou, why hasn't Liu Bu heard of it? This man is a famous traitor who made great contributions to the destruction of Daming.

Fan traitors always fight, people of the Ming Dynasty and Miao people of the Han Dynasty, but during the national war, they do not seek to benefit the country and a hair, but pay attention to the trust of one of the Qing people? No one cares more about the survival of the Han people than the privacy of a family and forgets the great righteousness. Would the Qing people rise so rapidly without the benefit of iron? The real thing is to send a sharp blade and hate the bandits. The beginning of the 10th day of Jiading's three massacres of Yangzhou began with the hands of such traitors and businessmen, although it is difficult to eliminate this hatred forever.

This is the evaluation of fan yongdou by later generations.

Liu Bu was reborn here. There were several people. He must have cut off his head. Fan yongdou was listed as the top three.

Liu Bu flashed a cold light in his eyes that Liu Fuqi couldn't see. He said, "what have you heard?"

Liu Fuqi said: "master fan attaches great importance to the output of our salt, wine and grain. He is willing to buy it at a favorable price. As long as it is sent to Zhangjiakou and then transported by him outside the customs, the quotation is very favorable. If we agree, it can increase the profit of our business by 20%

Liu Bu asked him, "what did dad say about this?"

Liu Fuqi said to him, "master, he said JianNu is our great enemy of life and death. We can't sell materials to them, so this business is over."

Liu Bu privately gave his father a thumb and praised him. Although he said that his father was a corrupt official and beheading was not unjust, he had no problem in building slaves. He was a man.

Liu Bu was worried that his family's business was so big, and he also did business outside the customs overseas. He would sell things to JianNu and make great contributions to the destruction of Daming, but his father was reliable and reliable at the critical time. He was a man.

Liu Bu said, "since daddy has made a decision, he can't look straight at the money in front of us. JianNu is our great enemy of life and death. One day they will kill us with knives and guns, so we can't do business with them."

Liu Fuqi said to him, "young master, you can rest assured that since the master has given orders, the old slave will resolutely implement them."

Referring to fan yongdou, Liu Bu said, "I heard that master fan is very rich?"

Now he is the most lack of money. Since fan yongdou has made so much immoral money, can he think of a way?

Liu Fuqi didn't know what Liu Bu was thinking. He introduced the fan family in detail.

Shanxi merchants made a lot of profits in salt business. They were well-known all over the world and dominated by rich families. Xinan was pushed in the south of the Yangtze River, and Shanyou was pushed in the north of the Yangtze River. Shanyou refers to Shanxi, where the rich people gathered at that time.

Fan yongdou, whose ancestral home is Jiexiu, Shanxi Province, did business in Zhangjiakou and Mongolia as early as the early years of this dynasty. After seven generations, fan yongdou became a rich Han businessman in Zhangjiakou's trade with Manchuria and Mongolia. At that time, he was called "Jia Yu in the border city and wrote with faith".

Fan yongdou's father's name is fan Ming. When fan Ming was ten years old, his mother died. After his father continued playing, he gradually ignored fan tomorrow. Once he picked some unripe green dates to eat, was beaten and scolded by his father, ran away from home in anger, and ran to Zhangjiakou to do business with the female Mongolian.

Nuerhachi was very kind to these Jin merchants. Fan Ming met many friends in the local area and met many young girls, really Belle and Fujin. The grain and iron he sold were military supplies that the real woman longed for. Silk, satin and other novel things were loved by the king's family, so the business grew bigger and bigger.

In fan yongdou's generation, the fan family is basically tied to the interests of the female immortal. With the expansion of the ambition of building the slave regime, they need more and more things. Iron, gunpowder, fire guns and military intelligence are the key commodities purchased at high prices.

The JianNu regime also relied more and more on the Jin merchants like the fan family, who had done business with them for a long time. All the gunpowder, 80% of the grain and more than 60% of the metal of JianNu were provided by the Jin merchants. Even information about Gyeonggi, detailed to the names of the guards at each pass, the number of soldiers and the list of equipment, was provided by Jin merchants.

Liu Bu listened to Liu Fuqi's introduction. He was thinking that the other party did such a thing as everyone knows. What is Dongchang doing? What is royal guards doing?

If these people were in the early days of the Republic of China, they would have been killed by royal guards or East Hall. But now they make money openly and earn so much dirty money. They can enjoy it at home safely.

Liu Bu's eyes flashed like a beast staring at his prey. Even Liu Fuqi felt wrong. He said, "what's the problem, young master?"

Liu Bu said to him, "how can such people live so freely?"

Liu Fuqi said to him, "people have backers in the court and donated a lot of money to the big men in the court. Some big men in the court speak for them, so they have always been carefree."

Liu Bu said, "well, the other party is so far away from us in Zhangjiakou that there can be no conflict of interest."

Liu Bu said so, but secretly ordered his security bureau to immediately establish a special file and go all out to investigate the fan family's intelligence.

The person in charge of the security bureau is naturally Zhou Hui. Now he is presiding over the work here in Linqing, but Zhou Hui arranges an important subordinate to follow Liu Bu at any time to collect and report intelligence for him.

Now Liu Bu ordered his men to set up stalls to investigate the affairs of the fan family. Since he came, these demons would not be allowed to be so domineering and free.

Otherwise it would be blind. He came here.

Liu Bu was a little unhappy after he knew the acts and activities of the eight businessmen. No wonder Daming would lose so badly. This is because someone is digging their corner, and the central court minister turned a blind eye to it for some money.

If the previous emperors trusted the East Hall and the royal guards, they would always have some information when they went out to investigate. But the current emperor Chongzhen did not trust the East Hall and the royal guards at all. He had no own source of information and could only listen to the ministers of civil and military affairs, so he became blind in many ways.

But Liu Bu is different from him. He knows that he must have his own intelligence source, so when he was working as a grass-roots team, he had just established his security bureau to collect the intelligence he wants for him.

Although his Security Bureau spent a lot of money and occupied a lot of resources, it did a lot of credit for him. For example, they found Liu Zeqing's conspiracy, and now they also found the information that Liu Zeqing was going to start with her grandmother. They can collect these information, which shows that the security Bureau has a very strong working ability.

Because they inquired that Liu Zeqing was going to hijack his grandmother and threaten their Liu family, Liu Bucai would order Liu Zhongyong to lead the most elite troops to pick him up and prepare to give the other party a good look.

Now Liu Bu finds that traitors like fan yongdou have lost all conscience and earned so much money. There are many buildings and beautiful wives and concubines. He works hard but has no money to use. He worries about money every day. He is thinking that since fan yongdou has made so much money, why don't I spend it for him? He began to plan secretly.

Liu Bu thought that a large number of refugees would come in a while, but he was wrong. Not for a while, but only four days later, a large number of refugees began to flow here. He didn't know what spread the news. Many people know that it is said that the Liu family in Linqing, the richest in the world, is now opening warehouses to release grain and arrange people for employment, A lot of people are pouring here.

I don't know which tortoise bastard sent the news. The news of Liu's grain release seems to have grown wings and spread all over the east third house. Even the officials of the east third house are organizing refugees to rush to them. Liu Bu found that they received nearly 1000 refugees in one day. These people came along roads and paths, and with the cold weather, More refugees will come here.

Therefore, Liu Bu began to worry about where to get so much money and food to feed these people.

The influx of a large number of refugees put great pressure on Liu bu. He began to raise food desperately. Moreover, he knew that so many people poured in. If they didn't transfer food immediately but waited for food to be planted, it was estimated that the grass on their graves would grow out. Therefore, he had no choice but to apply to Liu Fuqi and use more manpower of their family, Transport more food.

Liu Fuqi was not happy. He said, "it's the government's business to relieve the refugees and the people, not ours."

Liu Bu said, "now we are the government, and the refugees come for the reputation of our Liu family."

Liu Fuqi said: "Fart officials, fart reputation, they just want to take advantage. They are not our sons. They want us to support them? If they want to manage, this is also the thing that the prefects of Jiaozhou and Laizhou want to manage. It is not our little Liu family who can manage it. Our Liu family can't support so many people! And even if we do it, it's hard to please. Others will say we buy it People's hearts, plotting against the law. "

Liu Bu said, "if we don't care about these people, they can't survive this winter."

Liu Fuqi still said that. He said, "if we Liu family take charge of all the affairs of the government, we will suffer the loss. Why does the news spread so fast? It's not that these officials spread it deliberately in order to shirk their responsibility. They all think we Liu family are a big family. Now they all come to eat us."