Nowadays, "Fan Ji" in Taiyuan Prefecture has become the general name of Fan Ji. Not only has a lot of manpower been transferred from the Fan family's old house in Zhangjiakou, Fan Yongdou has always been stationed here.
Every detail of the matter is taken care of, one by one.
The Fan family's business involves many industries, but the main business has always been salt and grain. It can be seen from the scale of Fanji in Shanxi that there are more than a dozen grain shops. This is only on the surface what the Fan family wants to do.
What people see, secretly, there are actually more things that the Fan family doesn't want people to see.
Of course, for Fan Yongdou now, it doesn't matter whether people see the secret transactions or not.
It actually didn't take much time from the confrontation with Commander Jiang of the Nanhai Guard to Fan Yongdou's crisp surrender. During this process, Fan Yongdou's character of never letting go of any opportunity also allowed him to see
A hint of the Tailai flavor.
Commander Jiang didn't dare to say that he knew everything about what he was doing secretly, but the other party definitely had real evidence. He was very sure of this. He, Fan Yongdou, even in Shanxi and even the border army, was considered to have great hands and eyes, and countless connections.
, However, his connections will never reach Jin Yiwei or the palace.
For the Nanhai Guard commander who was not inferior to the Jinyi Guards and even only obeyed the orders of the supreme king in the palace, he really couldn't even think of a confrontation. It was not that he had not considered moving the entire family outside the pass.
However, he probably knew the Hou Jin people outside the pass better than other people inside the pass. He knew very well that if he left the Ming Dynasty, he would become a house without a foundation. For those Hou Jin people,
It won't have much effect.
After the whole family moved out of the Ming Dynasty, he really couldn't control the family's life and death.
Of course, in the Ming Dynasty, the life and death of his Fan family is now in the hands of Jiang Wan, but since he can't control his own life and death, why choose those foreigners instead of the Ming Dynasty!
Can the Fan family make more money just from those foreigners?
Now it seems that following Mr. Jiang can make similar money, so why doesn't he follow Mr. Jiang? Maybe, it's not certain that one day, his Fan family will be cleared and become a hero of the imperial court.
uncertain!
With money to make, a backer, and no need to bear the reputation of colluding with foreigners, Fan Yongdou would never make a mistake in making such a choice.
The quality of the green salt exchanged from Yan'an Prefecture is not too high, but the advantage lies in its large quantity. These salts are slightly reprocessed, and then packaged in exquisite porcelain jars and sent to Jiangnan, which is at least ten times more profitable.
Buying food from Jiangnan is just a matter of convenience.
What's even more amazing is that in such a transaction, the Fan family doesn't even need to invest any more. The channels and connections they use are all ready-made. Even if there are some slight shortcomings, the relationships and connections of other companies are still there.
It can also come in handy.
As for the government's troubles in the past, he had to spend a lot of money to deal with them, but now he doesn't need to. His goods can be directly labeled as "military" and can flow unimpeded on the trade road.
And even in this situation, if there are still blind people who want to make things difficult, then they can only ask people from Jinyiwei to come forward. To be honest, Fan Yongdou never thought that one day he would use Jinyiwei so smoothly.
This is something that he would never have dared to do in his previous dreams!
What he did the most was probably the Jinyi guards who kicked open the door of his Fan family aggressively and came to arrest people with ferocious looks.
"Dad, the road to Yan'an Mansion is open!"
Someone hurriedly walked in. He raised his head and it was his youngest son Fan Nian.
"Wang Jiayin of Qingyang Prefecture was defeated. Nanhaiwei killed countless enemies. It is said that thousands of corpses were buried and burned!" Fan Nian said: "Big brother sent a message over here, asking us to increase the number of grain transporters here.
Strength!"
"Yeah!" Fan Yongdou nodded: "There is no need to be too concerned about the rogue thieves. If Jiang Wan's Nanhai Guards can't even deal with the rogue thieves, then we have made a wrong bet. The emperor dares to send them to this mud pit in Shaanxi.
, they can definitely fight!"
"The elder brother also said one thing in the letter!" Fan Nian frowned and said: "Yan'an Mansion is recruiting a large number of experienced miners, and we don't know what they are going to do. He reminded us that if we can pay attention to this
This thing might also be a business opportunity!"
"What do you mean, Yan'an Prefecture is recruiting miners?" Fan Yongdou was stunned: "It's to digest the refugees. There are too many refugees accepted by the government. We can't keep them in vain. Find a few mines for mining. It's similar to the method of boiling salt.
!”
"That doesn't seem to be the case!" Fan Nian said: "The miners recruited by the government are only recruited from the local people of Yan'an Prefecture. Those who do not have the household registration of Yan'an Prefecture are not accepted. That's why he felt strange. Moreover, except for the miners near Yan'an Prefecture,
Salt, what else can be mined?”
"If this is the case, we really can't get involved. Forget it, ask your eldest brother to ask Mr. Jiang if you need me, Fan Ji, to do anything in it. I can provide people or money. Now that you know about this, let me say something.
Neither is nor is it appropriate!”
"That's how you reply to brother!" Fan Nian nodded and walked out!
Fan Yongdou pondered for a moment, making sure that he made no omissions, then slowly sat down and looked at the ledger in his hand again.
However, he didn't know why, but he couldn't calm down, and he always felt uneasy that he had overlooked something.
"Yan'an Prefecture, miners..." He simply closed the account book and thought carefully: "What kind of mines are there near Yan'an Prefecture? This one doesn't seem to have much of an impression."
There was a faint sound of voices outside the door. It was the people from the grain team who had returned from Yan'an Prefecture, chatting with the shop assistants.
"The firearms of the officers and soldiers are really amazing. I was on the roof and saw with my own eyes how the officers and soldiers killed the bandits outside the city. When the firearms were set off, it was so shocking that it could be heard in the city.
There was a sound like thunder, and those thieves were dying in droves. It was so tragic, those who were killed by firearms, not even the whole body was left behind..."
"Firearms!" Fan Yongdou was stunned for a moment, and a thought flashed through his mind: "Yes, firearms require gunpowder to launch, and making gunpowder requires a large amount of saltpeter. In the poor area of Yan'an Prefecture, there are not many other salt mines and saltpeter mines.
It’s quite a lot!”
Salt is okay, but saltpeter is not used in large amounts, and it is troublesome to mine. It is even more troublesome to transport it out in the northwest. There are not many people doing this business. That is, the big families use some when they need to make ice on hot days.
, there are usually a few households that can use saltpeter.
Even the Fan family has never been involved in this kind of thing. If you can't make any money and have a lot of trouble, who is willing to do this!
However, if the Yan'an Prefecture is currently planning to make large quantities of gunpowder, this deal may be a bit overdue...
He smiled slightly and wondered if he should find an opportunity recently to meet Mr. Jiang in person to see if the Fan family could do anything about this matter.