Xuanfu.

One of the important towns on the nine sides.

But in later generations, the name Xuanfu was gone with the years, and replaced by the seemingly inconspicuous name Zhangjiakou.

In fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhangjiakou, the name Zhangjiakou did not exist in the important town of Xuanfu.

Until the Xuande period, some residents of the surname Zhang lived at the foot of the Great Wall of Wanquan Youwei on the northwest side of Xuanfu, and gradually formed a small town, which was named Zhangjiazhuang after the residents' main surname.

In the fourth year of Xuande, the commander of the Wanquan Right Guard, Zhang Wen, built a fort here and named it Zhangjiakou Fort.

Zhangjiakou, the name, officially existed in the Ming Dynasty's rule sequence.

Later, because Zhangjiakou is located in the border and close to the grassland, Zhangjiakou also built an important Xuanfu town with other border defense fortresses.

During the Jiajing period, due to the division of Mongolian tribes, Altan Khan's tribe had no source of supplies. So Altan Khan, the leader of this tribe, wrote to the Ming court many times, requesting that the two sides communicate with each other.

Finally, during the Longqing period, the court approved the policy of mutual trading, and from then on, the Ming and Mongolian tribes began trading on the border.

The location of the mutual market is located in Zhangjiakou, an inconspicuous small fort.

Therefore, this inconspicuous small fort has also developed rapidly under the mutual market between the two countries. It has transformed from a military center to a commercial center that can be regarded as a commercial center in the entire Ming Dynasty!

The rise of Shanxi merchants is naturally inseparable from Zhang Jiakou.

After all, without the exchange of exchanges organized by the court and without the opening of the court, secretly reselling supplies will be just a thief and will not become a great man.

The court opened this hole in person, and as time went by, interest groups naturally formed.

With the help of the whole country, Zhangjiakou has now become the world of the Shanxi merchants. The so-called ban in the court is useless here.

Every moment, the caravans in Zhangjiakou that traveled between the Ming Dynasty and the grasslands were like flowing water and had almost never stopped.

It is also obvious where these caravans are loaded with supplies to eventually be delivered.

The Ming Dynasty was rich and there was nothing to be lacking, but the Mongolian tribes on the grassland and the bitter and cold Liaodong were nothing to be lacking.

A city in Zhangjiakou supports all the enemies in the north of the Ming Dynasty and also fattened up a large number of desperate Shanxi merchants!

It is completely conceivable how important the city of Zhangjiakou has to the Shanxi merchants!

Nowadays, for Shanxi merchants, the situation where they were originally covered by one hand also showed flaws.

The previous general of Xuanfu was defeated and died, and the new general of Xuanfu was already in office.

And... the oil and salt are not in!

Their previous methods of winning over and corrupting were useless to this general of the Xinxuan Mansion!

If it were in the past, such people would have many means to make them surrender.

For example, impeaching him and resigning him from office in the court, excluding him and not cooperating with him, making him difficult.

But these methods were ineffective against the general of Xuanfu.

Impeachment of the court?

But no one in the court knew that the general of the Xuanfu was a close confidant of Zhenbei Hou who was almost covered with his hands. Who could impeach him?

And exclude...

With Li Xiu's support behind the scenes, Zhou Yuji doesn't have to worry about any unspoken rules.

If you are obedient, everything is easy to say. If you are disobedient, it is easy to put anyone on charges of cheating the enemy and stolen the country in the name of the General of Xuanfu.

After all, although Zhangjiakou's current commercial attributes are far greater than its military attributes, no matter what, Zhangjiakou is under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu Town!

Yu Xuanfu took office and started to reorganize the recruitment army. After the situation in the capital was slightly stable, Zhou Yuji, under the instructions of Li Xiu, held high the imperial decree and ordered to maintain and supervise the order of the trade, led his army to Zhangjiakou and personally took charge of it. He easily held the treasure land that the Shanxi merchants had been operating for many years in his hands.

The facts once again prove that any interest relationship is false in the face of an unreasonable soldier.

However, any action that breaks the unspoken rules of interest groups will naturally be backfired by the interest groups they are in.

Nowadays, Zhangjiakou, which was originally shouldering the heavy responsibility of mutual trading, was as prosperous as Zhangjiakou, the most popular in the north. Now...

Officials are not in charge, merchants are not in transactions, and there is a shortage of supplies...

The entire Zhangjiakou has fallen into an unprecedented depression.

The responsibility of trading has tended to collapse.

Obviously, this is a counterattack against Zhou Yuji's entry into Zhangjiakou and directly infringing on their core interests.

The matter of mutual trading is related to the court's major strategies!

Nowadays, the markets are in turmoil, all because Zhou Yuji led his army to Zhangjiakou.

The Shanxi merchants had thought about the crimes for the court officials, and they acted recklessly, disrupted the trade, disrupted the peace of the border, and even colluded with enemies and treasons...

This kind of guilt is obviously to let Zhou Yuji take it.

The facts would not exceed the expectations of Shanxi merchants. When the news reached the capital, the courtiers who had long been overwhelmed by Li Xiu suddenly lit up.

If you can't defeat you, Li Xiu, can't you cut off your arm?

With the same interest demands, these court officials obviously don’t mind working with Shanxi merchants.

So, the court, which had just calmed down for a while, suddenly became smoky again.

All kinds of seemingly reasonable and well-founded impeachment memorials emerged in the court. Fortunately, this time, after some operations by Li Xiu and Zhu Youjian, the court was no longer full of rebellion.

However, many things do not mean that the emperor can do whatever he wants after he masters the court.

The four words of interest demand are the true meaning.

Therefore, this storm is not small.

But this time, Li Xiu did not ignore it as usual, as if he was out of the matter. Although he did not end up in person this time, under his instructions, the nobles, the Jinyiwei, and even a small group of civil servants also made a voice of Li Xiu in the court one after another!

Li Xiu himself also sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, fiddling with the chess pieces on the chessboard bit by bit, fiddling with the fate of the Shanxi merchants who were entrenched in Shanxi and treacherous in the country!

The Jinyiwei sent out elite troops under the arrangement of Li Ruolian, and was already on the way to Shanxi.

Zhou Yuji was ready to sharpen his knife and was about to kill him so that he could feel frustrated during this period!

Of course, everything is ready and there is still a wind in the east, that is, this wind in the court.

After all, killing is easy and plundering is equally easy, but the aftermath is still inseparable from these officials in the court.
Chapter completed!