The reason why Zhu Youjian spared Hou Shilu was because he had this person in his impression. He vaguely remembered that Hou Shilu was captured when he resisted Li Zicheng's bandit army. He would rather die than surrender the bandits. The father and son were both killed by the bandit army.

This person may be greedy for money and may be ordinary in ability, but in terms of integrity, it is better for the loyalty of the Ming Dynasty than for most civil and military officials. How can such people not be dissatisfied with each other?

Zhu Youjian appointed Hong Chengchou as the governor of Xuanfu temporarily and led Huang Degong's Zhongzhen Camp to Zhangjiakou to deal with the matter of Shanxi merchants selling their country and colluding with the enemy. Xu Xianchun, the commander of the Jinyiwei, went with him to assist Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou immediately led his troops to set off and arrived in Zhangjiakou soon.

Zhangjiakou is actually a series of fortresses located on the side wall. In the eighth year of Jiajing, the garrison Zhang Zhen opened a small door on the north wall of the side wall, which was to transport the inside and outside the door. The door was very small, and because Zhang Zhen opened it, it was opened.

Named Zhangjiakou.

The Longqing tribute was granted, and the trade between Kaima City and Mongolia in Zhangjiakou gradually flourished.

Horse City is located on the side wall and is a closed area surrounded by city walls. In order to prevent chaos, Mongolians are prohibited from crossing the side walls and can only trade in closed areas.

On the south side of Ma City, there is also a fortress, which is the Fuyi Department that manages Ma City. The Ministry of Revenue dispatches a chief officer to manage border trade affairs.

The south of the fortress where Fuyi Hall is located is the real Zhangjia Fort. It is called a fortress, but it is actually a small city with a radius of seven or eight miles. There are many warehouses in the city and it is the base camp of merchants.

And to the south of Zhangjia Fort, there is a series of more than a dozen small fortresses, which surround the Mashi and Zhangjia Fort in the middle, in order to prevent the Mongolians from sneak attacking the border walls through trade students.

However, after the tribute trade was reached, the Mongols were very honest and had never intended to break the wall to invade for decades, so these castles did not work.

There are fewer and fewer guards in the fortress. To this day, there are only a hundred people in each fortress. There are less than half of them on duty on weekdays. Most of the other soldiers go to do private work as merchants.

The court's salary was never paid on time, and after being deducted by the generals, the money and food they received were not enough to support their families.

On the fortress wall, soldier Li Ergou sat against the wall bored, with a rusty spear leaning against his side, looking around unconsciously, suddenly staring straight. A long strand appeared from the south

The team, with a scale of thousands of people, is moving quickly towards Zhangjiakou.

So many troops came from Xuanhua City, what are they doing here? Li Ergou thought, and soon saw the Xuanfu Governor's flag on the sky above the team, and there was a taller apricot yellow dragon next to the Governor's flag.

flag!

Could it be that the emperor came to Zhangjiakou? Li Ergou was shocked.

There are many warehouses in Zhangjiabao, and the warehouse of Jiexiu Fanjia is the largest, covering an area of ​​100 acres.

In front is a dozen shops, each with different goods. Behind the shop is a warehouse, where carriages full of goods come in and out through the side door.

Further behind the warehouse is a high wall, with a moon gate connected to the front, and inside is the Fan family's inner house.

At this moment, Fan Yongdou, the owner of the Fan Family Business, was sitting upright in the flower hall, listening to his shopkeeper reporting on the business.

Suddenly, a soldier wearing a mandarin duck jacket was brought in by the butler. Fan Yongdou was shocked and waved his hand to let the shopkeepers disperse.

The soldier whispered something, and Fan Yongdou's face changed drastically. He touched his body, took off a jade ring from his finger and stuffed it into the soldier's hand. The soldier bowed his hand and turned around and left Fan's house.

"Send someone to ride a fast horse to inform Sanba and ask him to go to Qili Fort quickly." Fan Yongdou called the housekeeper and quickly ordered.

The housekeeper was stunned for a moment and hurried out.

Fan Yongdou entered the inner room, drove out the concubine, flipped over for a while, stuffed a box into his arms, came out of the house, and ordered someone to prepare a car. Then, under the escort of more than a dozen health servants, he drove quickly towards the north gate.

When he saw the Fan family's carriage, the guards at the north gate let him go without asking.

On the way to Qilibao, I happened to meet my son Fan Sanba.

"Father, what happened? The child was discussing business with Director Shen in the Fuyi Hall, so why did he hurriedly send someone to call me to Qili Fort?" Fan San pulled up the carriage, looking unhappy.

"I'm talking nonsense about business. Our family is in trouble!" Fan Yongdou lost his former Zhizhu and sighed with frustration on his face.

"Father, what is a disaster coming?" Fan Sanba exclaimed.

"Just just now, the emperor's imperial guards drove into Zhangjia Fort, and your father and I almost let them block the city." Fan Yongdou sighed.

Fan Sanba said in shock: "Is it because the Liaodong incident happened? The emperor sent the imperial guards to capture our family?"

Fan Yongdou nodded and sighed: "It's probably true. The caravan was attacked. At first we thought it was done by the Mongols. After all, the attacked place was far away from Jinzhou. Now it seems that it was mostly done by the Ming army. Fan Aliu

Most of them fell into the hands of the Ming army.

As soon as the emperor arrived at Xuanfu, he summoned all the guerrilla generals and rumored to be under house arrest. At that time, I felt something was wrong, but I didn't think about us. We are just merchants, so how could we put it in the eyes of the emperor?

The emperor actually sent the Imperial Guards to Zhangjiabao, which was obviously because of the bad intentions of coming!"

Fan Sanba also said with a hint of luck: "What if it is not? Maybe the emperor wants to come to Zhangjiakou to have a look."

Fan Yongdou glared at Fan Sanba: "How dare you be lucky in such a thing?

Our father and son will go to Qili Fort to hide first. If something is wrong, they will immediately step out of the border wall from Qili Fort and enter Mongolia!"

Fan Sanba said in a trembling voice: "What should we do with our business? What should Yu Dong and other tribe members do?"

Fan Yongdou shook his head: "The matter is urgent, and it is too late to notify Yu Dong. Now there are a few people who can escape.

The emperor was too determined to kill. He killed countless officials and gentry in northern Shaanxi, and all of them had fame and fortune. A family like us is also considered the number one figure in Zhangjiakou, but what is it in the eyes of the emperor? How could he be ruthless!"

Fan Sanba said unwillingly: "We have been operating for more than 20 years to have this family business. Can't we just let go like this? My mother and several children are all in Jiexiu's hometown. Are you watching them helplessly.

Beheaded by the emperor?"

Fan Yongdou patted the box in his arms and sneered, "How is that easy? If the emperor really dares to deal with our family, I will make him lose money!

Which official general in the Xuanfu has not received the money from our Fan family? Mongolia outside the pass will not fall, and who doesn’t know our Fan family?

The emperor wanted to use his own strength to attack Zhangjiakou against Xuanfu, but he actually blocked all the generals' garrisons, which was simply bold and reckless!
Chapter completed!