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Chapter 129 Five days! Only five days! The Shanxi merchants in Datong Prefecture were wiped out with blood! !

Hearing the cry of the common man just now, the prefect of Datong began to cry in his heart.

Don't say you hope these Tatars leave quickly, even I hope so.

It's just a pity that they didn't leave so quickly.

Datong Mansion is so big, there are not only these two families, but also dozens of merchant families, large and small. They are also a piece of fat.

According to Cao Zhengchun's temper, he had to clear it out one place at a time.

It had only been three short days, how could it be so easy to leave.

Thinking of this, the magistrate of Datong almost wanted to use his other intact hand to slap the man in the mouth.

You'd better have a crow's mouth and be able to invite these plague gods to Shuozhou Mansion.

I really don't want them to be here for a day.

It's a pity that the prefect of Datong can only think so in his heart, and those wealthy households in Datong City.

Especially those families who were ruthless in seeking wealth, exploited the people, and even brutally massacred and suppressed the people together with Shanxi merchants, were even more frightened.

Why is it said that Shanxi merchants are the kings of this independent kingdom in Shanxi?
Just because they stick together.

The reason why they stick together is very simple, just one - if we have money, we all make money together, but when we do evil, we do evil together.

The reason why Shanxi merchants were able to control the entire Shanxi was that even what the government said was not as effective as theirs.

What does it rely on?
The first one is relying on money,

The second is to rely on gang-like methods.

Anyone who doesn't obey their orders will be killed directly.

Because when money reaches a certain level, it is more powerful than power.

This group of Shanxi merchants forced local people to produce raw materials for them for their own business needs.

Even in addition to the taxes collected by the government, Shanxi merchants had their own taxes.

If you don't pay, it's very simple and you will destroy your whole family.

The entire territory of Shanxi, from the governor to the county magistrate, in addition to receiving a salary from the court, can also receive a subsidy from Shanxi merchants.

Everyone in the world knows that nowadays, of the two official positions, the one with the best job has the most fortune.

One is Southeast and the other is Shanxi.

They are all places with money.

Even the wealthy locals in Shanxi may seem to be stingy, but they are very generous in bribing officials.

For example, the salary that a governor of Shanxi Province can get in a year, including all kinds of charcoal and ice gifts, is only one or two thousand taels of silver.

But the dividends received from Shanxi merchants can reach a huge amount of 20,000 taels every year.

With such an income, how could the governor of Shanxi not protect these Shanxi merchants?
The border defense generals along the route receive a considerable amount of income every year from the dividends from smuggling by Shanxi merchants.

Even the ministers in the capital can receive dividends every year.

To say that Shanxi businessmen control the finances of the entire world is a bit biased.

But saying that they controlled most of the Ming Dynasty's finances is not an exaggeration at all.

So why in later generations, even if a businessman in a certain state capital in Shanxi was confiscated, he could get hundreds of millions of silver.

Because these Shanxi businessmen do business not only in Shanxi, but also in Shanxi.
It's not just Zhangjiakou, the port of trade with Mongolia in the north.

They do business all over the country and even in foreign countries.

Therefore, the Tatars in the north and the Jurchens in Liaodong are all their trading partners.

Regarding national justice and national integrity, as long as the money is in place, they can provide weapons, food and grass, military information, conscience, and integrity.

Why did Emperor Shunzhi focus on rewarding the eight major families in Shanxi after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs?

Even want to include them as imperial merchants specially provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs?

Let's put it this way, when the Manchus entered the customs, they were able to capture the huge territory of the Han people in a short period of time. In addition to the internal fighting among the Han people, these Shanxi merchants also accounted for 50 to 60% of the food, grass and ordnance supplements provided by them. of credit.

Chen Han understood this, so he didn't feel any psychological pressure at all when killing these Shanxi businessmen.

Basically none of these people are innocent. So now these Shanxi merchants want to lure the Tatars into the pass and kill the people, thus warning the emperor not to act rashly.

Of course Chen Han took advantage of the situation.

You like to use Tatars as weapons in your hands so much, then you will have a taste of the fate of being wiped out by these Tatars one by one.

Usually you businessmen don't care at all about the people being killed by the Tatars and bleeding thousands of miles away, and you even deliberately collude with these Tatars to kill the people.

That's easy to handle, and you also have to taste this pain.

So, at midnight on the third day, another three thousand Tatars began to move.

The prefect of Datong has been controlled.

Datong's commander-in-chief, Ma Gui, was in charge of the army and was secretly coordinating the plan.

The nightmare of the rich people in Datong Mansion is coming.

That night, three more families were wiped out.

The chickens and dogs were killed but not left alive, and the blood flowed all over the place.

When everyone found out the next day, no one knew who was taking the lead, and they were beating gongs and drums on the street.

Then all the fireworks sellers in Datong Mansion made a fortune.

Because the Chinese New Year has not yet arrived, the fireworks and firecrackers are sold out.

The city was even happier than the Chinese New Year, with dragon and lion dances, fireworks and firecrackers bursting into shreds of paper all over the floor.

The magistrate of Datong hung one hand and began to preside over the action of dividing fields to households.

Secretly, the big landowners were filled with hatred, but they did not dare to act and could only discuss it in private.

"What should we do? What should we do? I seriously suspect that this Datong prefect is colluding with those Tatars to exterminate us all.

I didn't expect this guy to actually take the initiative to take charge of it and distribute the fields that had been destroyed by the family to the people.

This bastard has received so many benefits from us, but now he dares to act like this. Isn't he afraid that we will retaliate against him? "

Another person said: "Retaliation?! Don't look at our current situation. Let's wait and see if we can survive."

It is now the fourth day, and the news has probably reached the Shanxi Merchants Headquarters in Taiyuan Prefecture! "

"So what if the news arrives? Our family has a big business and has been here for dozens or hundreds of years. Can we still move away?"

A businessman said: "Forget about moving, that bastard of Datong magistrate actually closed the city? We people are not allowed in or out."

All the businessmen turned pale.

……

Day .

Another detachment of 3,000 Tatars moved out.

This time, all the Shanxi merchant families in Datong Mansion were wiped out.

Those families also united and mobilized hundreds of private soldiers trained by their own families to form a group.

But before they even encountered the Tatars, they were inexplicably killed by an incomparably powerful force, and they were killed in rivers of blood.

Under that powerful force, their private soldiers showed no resistance.

After the private soldiers were killed, the Tatars immediately pounced on them like mad dogs.

Then they cleanly evacuated all their property and killed all their people.

When those Tatars became obedient at the back, they didn't even need the elite Ming army to issue orders. They would rush in very neatly and kill people and ransack their homes. Then they would pack the boxes and stack them neatly, as if they were drawn on a ruler. .

Ma Gui could only watch mechanically as they started to get busy at midnight and rest during the day.

The three teams took turns to play, killing the landlords in Datong Mansion without any resistance.

In just five days, Cao Zhengchun used the Tatars to clean up all the landlords in Datong Mansion.

In the early morning of the sixth day, the head of the magistrate of Datong was also removed by Cao Zhengchun.

This Datong prefect is even worse than those landlords and should have died long ago...

(End of this chapter)