Zeng Rui was led by local military intelligence agents and went north by Tielingwei near Tielingwei. He was discovered by a team of Eight Banners cavalry at the junction of the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty. He showed the token he had obtained from the Later Jin Sezuo and was then a small team of cavalry. The protection and surveillance site passed through the snow-covered Liaodong Plain, and passed the Songshan Fort, which had been occupied by the Later Jin Dynasty, and came to Jiefan City.

The Later King Kong just made Jiefan a temporary capital. This city is built on the mountain. It is about 150 steps long from east to west and about 30 steps wide from north to south. The huge stones built on the wall are extremely huge. However, the size of the whole city is just in Zeng Rui's opinion. Just a small village, Zeng Rui had no feelings about the strength of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty.

The Eight Banners Inlaid Blue Banner Cavalry, Zeng Rui, based on his experience in living in Liaodong for a year, judged that most of them were Mongolians, spoke Mongolian language to each other, and his equipment and dressed similarly to the Mongolians who served in the Ming army. However, it seems more energetic than the Mongolian soldiers in the Ming army.

When entering Jiefan City, Zeng Rui saw a team of cavalry wearing armor coming out of the city, passing through the city gate in a single column. The whole team was fully armed, and more than 100 people sat upright on the horse silently, with murderous aura everywhere filled with murderous aura everywhere. Around the surroundings, the team of mainland businessmen where Zeng Rui was located quickly crouched at a corner of the city gate to make way. After the team left the city, they quickly completed the formation transformation of a single column into a three-man marching column. More than 100 people urged the horse to start at the same time. , in the blink of an eye, disappeared into the vast snow, and no one made any noise throughout the process.

"This is a man in armor on the white flag,..." The accompanying military intelligence agent said in a low voice.

Zeng Rui nodded, wrapped in a leather hat and a scarf, only showed his eyes, and said in a vague and quiet voice: "Have you figured out the organization of the Eight Banners? This is a powerful soldier with a hundred battles," the new soldiers in the Chinese army Zeng Rui, who had participated in recruit training for several months in the battalion, understood the importance and operational difficulty of the troops' troop conversion, not to mention the conversion of the cavalry queue.

Jiefan City is placed in the mainland, and it is just a big landlord manor. However, at this moment, all the important officials and generals of the Later Jin Kingdom gathered here to celebrate the great victory of the Later Jin Kingdom in this year, which is also for the new year. Arrival and plan a new war.

That night, some mainland Han merchants rushed to Jiefan City Walled City one after another. Zeng Rui and other merchants sent several Ministry of Revenue sent by Jiefan City to gift lists and goods lists, and then registered their names. Hometown.

A pen letter tells everyone in fluent Chinese language: "My Khan said, "All the guys come here in ice and snow, and you will definitely not return empty-handed... In the evening, the Khan will give you a banquet, everyone will give you yourselves. Register the names of the population you want to redeem, and then King Khan will give you an answer,"

Zeng Rui turned around and saw that dozens of Han businessmen gathered in this simple house were mostly wrapped in layers of cotton coats and leather coats. Although there was charcoal fire in the house, no one was willing to untie the coat. However, although I can't see their appearance clearly, but I hear the accent of them is mostly merchants from local Liaodong and Shanxi.

"The Khan is generous here and has promised to hand over all the ginseng monopoly rights to my family next year," the speaker was a shopkeeper of the Qiao family in Shanxi.

"Does your Qiao family make less money from the Mongolian Tartars? Why do you come to steal the things from the Fan family in Liaodong? Our Fan family transported 7,000 kilograms of iron tools to Hetuala this year. The Khan should have martened skins. The sale of herbs is given to us,"

"My colleagues, ugly words are ahead. The ginseng, herbs, minks, our Huaxing Lianhao is included in the Jiangnan market,..."

The shopkeeper of the Chinese company's branch in Liaodong is shopkeeper Jin. Now the one who replaces him is a shopkeeper, who has also participated in the conversation between these businessmen.

This group of Ming merchants were arguing about doing business with the Manchu Tartars there, but Zeng Rui was very unhappy to listen to such conversations. Although he was from a business family, he was now doing something for the Chinese company and rebelling against the Ming Dynasty. I still look down on the Ming Dynasty merchants who competed for business with China Company from the bottom of my heart. Without the careful efforts of China Company and the integration of private channels, the Han businessmen except the Qiao family in Shanxi could not enter this Zhenfan City at all.

Zeng Rui is not dissatisfied with the company's internal business tendency like Zeng Shan. He just believes that selling a large amount of iron and other materials to the Later Jin Dynasty will help boost Nurhaci's strength, and does not think that it is completely wrong to conduct business with potential enemies. of.

Zeng Rui walked to the door and lifted the thick curtain. A cold wind blew in. Everyone in the room was in a state of chaos. Someone said, "Brother, close the door and freeze to death."

Zeng Rui ignored them and stepped out of the door. This was Nurhaci's temporary Khan palace, just a large mansion that only entered and exited three times.

The Later Jin Kingdom of Manchus is still in its inception stage. The upper and lower ranks and lower ranks within the Eight Banners are very particular, but the relationship between the upper and lower ranks within the Manchu family is still relatively harmonious. There are many people coming and going in the so-called Khan Palace, most of whom are wearing helmets and armor. There were also civil servants who were dragging big braids and wrapped in long gowns, and many children and women walked around, not knowing what they were doing.

Zeng Rui judged based on his own experience that the current atmosphere of the Jianzhou Jurchens is very similar to the Chinese company's victory in the counterattack of Manila City. They are full of joy, full of energy and confidence. The Manchus in Jiefan City, no matter the adults. Children are not afraid of the cold, and they also have smiles on their faces. They wear shirts inside and then put on thin cotton coats. The outer part of the cotton coat is leather coat, and the fur of the leather coat is facing inside, and the outer part is made of silk and satin. Ministers wear velvet clothes. Most of the furs are minks, and the plush is very soft and delicate. In Liaodong, such a dress can only be bought with 20 or 30 taels of silver in the pass. Most civilians wear sheepskin clothes. , they all wore fur coats on the upper body and cotton pants on the lower body. The hangings were also made of fur. It is obvious that if the Chinese army went to war with these Manchus in winter, the cold climate alone would make the Chinese army's combat effectiveness compromise. , and the combat effectiveness of the Manchus in front of him was doubled.

The dinner was held in a lobby. Nurhaci did not show up, but a strong man named Beile came out to speak.

Zeng Rui from Quanzhou, Fujian had no appetite for the food in front of him. The food on the table also included chicken, fish, pig, beef, and mutton. However, the Manchu Tartars cooked the meat and added some salt. The sauce is not even added with salt at all. The dishes are cooked first and then soy sauce is added. The Manchus also use a kind of soy sauce to cook. The main food is millet instead of rice, and sorghum is used to make wine. Although Zeng Rui stayed in Liaodong for a while After more than a year, I was still not used to local food. Zeng Rui was even more afraid of this and did not dare to put the chopsticks on the large pieces of pork and beef that the Manchu Tartars had eaten without dipping salt.

Zeng Rui knew in his heart that from such simple food, it can be seen that the Manchu Tartars had a great advantage in logistics food and supplies over the Chinese army when marching and fighting, and it can also be seen that the Eight Banners soldiers were extensive and barbaric.

During this year's war, hundreds of merchants from mainland China who came to Liaodong were plundered by the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty. After New Year's Eve, most of the hundreds were released, and the shopkeeper Jin was successfully redeemed. Nurhaci sent someone to spread a message and said that he would welcome him. Everyone came to the Later Jin Dynasty to do business again. The Khan King sent a document covering the Manchu and Han Chinese characters with Nurhaci seal to the Qiao family, Fan family and Huaxing Lianhao, and other three Han merchants. Tokens entering the Later Jin.

The prisoner of the Battle of Sarhu, Zhang Qichu, the chief official of the Liaodong Dusi of the Ming army, was also sent over from a Nurhaci Wangzhuang by the Liaohe River. Zhang Qichu was indeed the nephew of Zhang Chengji of the Liaodong Dusi, but he was completely Unknowingly, he was used by China Company. Although Zhang Chengji received several secret letters from Zhang Qichu, they were written by Zhang Qichu, but they were copied and rewritten by the military intelligence department using the company's movable type printing workshop.

Zhang was inexplicably stuffed into the businessman team of China Company, and then was carried all the way to Jinzhou Wei Lushun Port. Only then did he realize that it was not his uncle who came to rescue him, but the businessman of China Company.

Zhang was only about 30 years old. He was a hero of Zhu Di in the early Ming Dynasty. He was just an ordinary military clan. He relied on his uncles of the same clan and became a small officer in the Ming army. Simply put, he was purely planning to Ordinary people who are scrambling in the army.

He was wrapped up by two gloomy men on the left and right and left and left, leaving Jiefan City, and passed through the Tielingwei area and came to the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, most of the people from Huaxing Connect went to Liaoyang and Chenyang, and the slender leader in this business team continued to lead him south. At this time, the man who watched Zhang Qichu was replaced by two servants. The two men dressed up, wrapped in a cotton hat, only their eyes exposed, heard that they were from southerners, and they rode their horses, one left and one right, and looked closely at Zhang Qichu. After all, Zhang Qichu had experience in military service, and felt that they were in the bodies of these two people. Hiding a strong evil spirit, I also saw one of them holding a dagger in his arms in the wind and snow coat. Moreover, Zhang Chu had already keenly discovered that there were several mysterious figures with the leader of the southern merchant, and they often had Disappeared from the team, and then suddenly appeared in front, back and left and right of the team. These people were with the scouts in the Ming army, who were catching newbies. At first, Zhang consciously dispelled all his thoughts about running away from the middle. Follow the team very honestly and headed south.

Huaxing Lianhao is the semicolon of China Company. I didn’t know this at first, and he did not participate in the Battle of the East Suburbs of the Capital during the war against the sea ban two years ago. He knew that the Liaodong Army was defeated by the Chinese Army there, but how did it? I didn't expect that the kidnapping and holding people over me would be related to China Company.
Chapter completed!