Chapter 466 Buy Ming Goods from Liaodong and Ship Out? This Group of Merchants Has a Problem!
Dorgon heard words from Hong Chengchou that were relatively satisfactory to him. The Ming army may not make big moves in the direction of Liaodong this winter. Although he can't hold back at the moment and wants to do something with the Ming court. But he can find it by himself.
Trouble with others and trouble caused by others are completely different concepts, and the initiative is different.
After nearly two years of recovery, the current situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is much better than after the previous war in southern Liaoning. The loss of men and horses has been made up for by further control of the northeastern region. In terms of economy, the situation has recovered.
It seems to be better. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dorgon felt that he had a greater glory. Just by trading in urala grass and timber, he exchanged more than two million taels worth of goods from the Ming Dynasty.
Especially this year, we got two to three hundred thousand shi of mixed noodles. When the two to three hundred thousand shi of mixed noodles arrived in Liaodong, they could feed a population of over 100,000 people.
With this income, Dorgon even considered building a standing army of about 50,000 people. Money comes quickly from doing business. Without trade, where would there be so much income in a year?
Mixed noodles are not a good product in Ming Dynasty. Most of the stuff sold by supply and marketing cooperatives are bought by urban civilians for food. People with a little bit of conditions will not eat this stuff. It is regarded as a basic life support material.
After this thing arrived in Liaodong, it became a popular commodity. Most people in Liaodong usually eat worse rations than mixed noodles. The mixed noodles taste really not bad in their mouths. The key is that they are still full after eating.
It also lasted a long time. Some Manchu nobles began to enjoy the mixed noodles!
Just wait and see what happens. If the Ming court does not make any big moves in Liaodong this winter, Dorgon will plan to make big moves. He will have a good fight and wipe out all the bad luck accumulated in recent years. As for the strategic direction, the current
The idea is to use troops in Daning to recapture this gold-producing treasure land, or to use troops against North Korea to regain control of North Korea. I heard that the Ming Dynasty helped North Korea build a customs in the past two years.
He also helped train the new army, but these two tasks did not go smoothly, and the North Korean court did not cooperate well. This was good, because he could just pick the peaches when he had the opportunity.
No matter which strategic direction you choose, the prerequisite is to first understand the movements of the Ming Dynasty this winter, so the top priority is to have the intelligence department step up the collection of internal and external intelligence. Hong Chengchou said that by observing the activities of domestic merchants
, and can also get a lot of information. The Mingting Jinyiwei's intelligence network in Liaodong is mostly built by businessmen. If you put some effort in this area, you can definitely fish out the fish. Can you put more burden on Lao Hong in the future?
He paid more attention to intelligence work and felt that he was more experienced in this matter than Fan Wencheng.
In Shenyang City, Manchu Qing secret intelligence officers Yang Dake, Li Shiqing and others received a task from above, asking them to be careful about the Han merchants in Shenyang City. If there are businessmen who behave abnormally, take action immediately, and it is likely that they will be exposed.
The banners of Tingjin Yiwei!
What kind of behavior is considered abnormal? Yang Dake and others are a little confused. The instructions from above are also quite unclear. They really don't know how to act during the specific operation. But the superiors are pressing hard and they have no choice but to do so.
They had no choice but to throw people out on the street to try their luck. This kind of thing seemed abnormal to every businessman, but after careful inspection, it seemed to be quite normal, which made many spies feel a little nervous.
"Shit, it seems that the brothers have really focused on a few businessmen who behaved strangely in the past two days." In the evening, in a remote public room, his spies reported the latest situation to Yang Dake and others like they were taking credit.
"You guys are asking for trouble, please tell me what's going on. Don't do what you did a few days ago, where you just made a lot of noise, but nothing happened, and Brother Li and I were punished."
"It shouldn't happen this time! Brothers, we noticed that a group of Shanxi merchants have bought a large amount of obvious goods from the officialdom these days, and most of them are expensive!"
"This is such an anomaly! It looks like you guys are going to get slapped. Are you feeling itchy after not being spanked for a few days? Someone will give you a few gongs later to help you remember better."
Is buying goods in a mall considered abnormal? Yang Dake felt that his gang wanted to be beaten.
"After my subordinates finished speaking, selling things is not abnormal. What is unusual is that they hired a lot of trucks. The driver said that they were going to Huludao Pier. In other words, they were planning to transfer these goods to Huludao Terminal.
Shipped out of our territory in the Qing Dynasty. The subordinates and others think that this is definitely an abnormality. How can normal businessmen buy goods from our shopping malls and then transport them out? If they transport them to the northeast, it will be quite profitable.
Picture, but they have to go by sea. The goods sold in the Imperial Shopping Mall are much more expensive than those in the market, so why don’t they just buy the goods directly from the market in Huludao?"
"Hey, this is really a weird thing! There is no businessman or treachery. This is definitely a loss-making business. Are these businessmen mentally ill? This matter is indeed quite weird! The question is why do they do this? I have some ideas
I can't figure it out." Don't say that Yang Dake and Li Shiqing can't figure it out. Anyone with a normal mind can't figure out this kind of ridiculous operation.
"The Beauty of the Sun and the Moon"
"Brother Yang, if something abnormal happens, there must be a monster. We have to take action against this group of businessmen." Li Shiqing, who was obedient next to him, couldn't sit still. There must be something wrong with such an abnormal thing.
"Gather brothers, let's go meet these guys to see what they are planning! Could it be that the Ming Dynasty wants to rely on merchants to buy up the Qing Dynasty's goods so that the Qing Dynasty will be short of goods?" Yang Dake thought.
After a long time, I could only think of such a rather unreliable reason.
With about thirty people, he went straight to the residence of the group of Shanxi merchants mentioned by his subordinates. Regardless of the situation, he first took custody of the group of people and their goods.
"My lords, we are serious businessmen. I don't know where I have offended my lord, so please show your respect! We are following the path of the imperial merchant Fan Dong's family and are absolutely loyal to the Qing Dynasty." The leader of the group saw that the person coming was full of emotions.
People from the upright government quickly came out to beg for mercy and brought out Fan Yongdou's name!
"Fan Yongdou's way? What are you guys doing? Hurry up and recruit them truthfully."
"Sir, we really haven't done anything bad. Please investigate."
"Are you dishonest? You didn't do any bad business? Why did you buy so many obvious goods? I heard that you are going to Huludao to transport them! Although I am not a businessman, I also know that businessmen will not take the initiative to make unprofitable losses.
Buy and sell. Come here, take the bones of these thieves to the prison cell first and then torture them. I want to see what the hell they are going to do."
After searching for a long time, nothing of value was found, but Yang Dake has determined that there is definitely something wrong with these businessmen. The problem is that there are too many open goods piled in their yard. Everyone knows that the open goods from Shenyang will arrive.
Huludao, the more you buy, the more you will lose. If there is no inside information, all his years of intelligence work will be in vain.