50 goals, Shanxi salt merchants

Since Zhu Yong had decided to attack some salt merchants next, he had to know in advance what major salt merchants were distributed in the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Then, Zhu Yong can choose the most suitable starting goal.

This, the old man Sun Chengzong, had already thought about it for Zhu Yong.

After Sun Chengzong returned to his residence, he sent someone to the palace to send Zhu Yong a piece of information. It was the message of several major salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty at this time.

"It seems that the old man Sun Chengzong has been staring at the salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, otherwise how could he have investigated so clearly in advance."

After reading the information of the salt merchants sent by someone from Sun Chengzong, Zhu Yong smiled slightly and said to himself.

According to the salt merchant information sent by Sun Chengzong, Zhu Yong had a relatively in-depth understanding of the salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Among them, there were two main groups of the largest salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty, one was the Lianghuai salt merchants, and it was also the largest group of salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty.

Nearly one-third of the salt intake issued by the Ming Dynasty every year were brought to the hands of the salt merchants in Lianghuai.

In addition to the salt merchants in Lianghuai, the second largest salt merchant collective is the Shanxi merchants.

Zhu Yong’s impression of Shanxi merchants was actually bad.

Because, Zhu Yong saw some documents in later generations, that in this era, the Ming merchant who secretly traded the most with the Outer Mongolians of the Tartars was the Shanxi merchant.

This is mainly due to the geographical location of Shanxi where the Shanxi merchants are located, which is very important.

In this era when the country is still very weak, it is absolutely impossible to expect these Shanxi merchants to give up their family's interests for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, the rise of salt merchants among Shanxi merchants was also related to the policies of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, Shanxi is close to the border, and southern Shanxi is a grain-producing area. In order to support these Shanxi merchants to transport grain to the border, the court used salt as the "transportation fee" to pay them.

In addition to policies, Shanxi was originally a salt-producing land.

Shanxi Jiezhou Yanchi is an important salt-producing area in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. The salt produced every year not only meets the consumption of local people, but also supplies it to other areas.

Even the Tartars and Mongols outside the pass had to secretly purchase salt from Shanxi merchants.

The salt sold by Shanxi merchants to the Tartars outside the pass was extremely high, which was simply huge profits. This is the main reason why Shanxi merchants risked the imperial ban to secretly maintain trade with the Tartars outside the pass.

"Since that's the case, I'll take a few Shanxi salt merchants this time, and it's time to remind them."

Zhu Yong's eyes were cold and he whispered.

Zhu Yong attacked Shanxi salt merchants, on the one hand, to make money, which is the most important thing.

At the same time, Zhu Yong also gave Shanxi merchants a warning to help them restrain their transactions with the Tartars.

Even when Luo Yangxing's Jinyiwei is fully rebuilt in the future, Zhu Yong will send more Jinyiwei to Shanxi to secretly investigate the merchants suspected of dealing with the Tartars.

At that time, one will be found to kill another, completely breaking the secret transactions between the Ming merchants and the Tartars.

Since the Tartars could block the Ming Dynasty from the source of war horses, the Ming Dynasty could also cut off the Tartars outside the pass and obtain the sources of iron and salt and other materials.

Zhu Yong believed that if there were no war horses in the Ming Dynasty, at most cavalry could not be formed.

He wanted to see how the Tartars had no iron materials outside the pass, and how they made weapons, and what were they eating without salt.

At the same time, it was prompted that Zhu Yong did not attack the salt merchants in Lianghuai, but was preparing to attack the salt merchants in Shanxi. In fact, there was another reason.

That is, the salt merchants in Lianghuai were much more powerful in the court than the salt merchants in Shanxi.

Moreover, due to the geography of Lianghuai Salt Merchants, many Donglin Party officials in the court have close ties with Lianghuai Salt Merchants.

At this time, although Zhu Yong has arrested many Donglin Party officials in the court with the help of two inquiry orders in the past six months.

But at this time, the number of officials from the Donglin Party in the middle of the imperial court was still large, and it was still the largest clique. In a short period of time, Zhu Yong could not completely eliminate the power of the Donglin Party.

Therefore, if Zhu Yong wants to attack the salt merchants in both Huaihe River, he faces much greater pressure than to attack the salt merchants in Shanxi.

The persimmon still has to be soft, even if Zhu Yong is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty at this time, this principle will still be tried.

After choosing the target, Zhu Yong needs to select one or two unlucky guys from many Shanxi salt merchants.

"Great companion, I'll send Luo Yangxing to let him enter the palace to see me."

Zhu Yong naturally had to hand over this matter to his best tycoon Luo Yangxing.

Soon, Luo Yangxing entered the palace and Zhu Yong expressed his meaning to him.

"Yes, Master, I will do this as soon as possible."

Luo Yangxing took Zhu Yong's order.

Just after Zhu Yong took advantage of Chongzhen's clone and issued an order to Luo Yangxing in the palace, Zhu Yong's consciousness returned to his main body and also changed the route of bandit suppression after the New Year.

Originally, Zhu Yong planned to take two new military camps to Henan to suppress bandits and train troops ten years later.

But now, Zhu Yong decided not to go to Henan, but to Shanxi, and cooperate with his actions against Shanxi salt merchants this time.

Zhu Yong even wrote an edict in the name of Chongzhen to Lu Xiangsheng, who was in Xuanfu at this time. When necessary, Lu Xiangsheng would also send troops.

Zhu Yong was worried that this time he attacked several Shanxi salt merchants, which would lead to some turmoil in Shanxi and would require force to suppress it.

Don't underestimate these merchants and landlords. They dare not do anything to protect their own interests.

Rebellion is not impossible.

"The whole army gathered."

In the new army camp in Baoding, before dawn was dawn early in the morning, with the sound of horns, a soldier quickly emerged from the military tents everywhere.

A New Year passed, and as the wounded soldiers who were injured in the bandit suppression before the New Year returned to the team, the first battalion of the new army added a small number of troops.

At this time, the two new military camps under Zhu Yong were all fully organized, with each battalion of 3,800 people, 3,000 combat soldiers and 800 baggage soldiers.

The logistics department was newly joined by Zhu Yong.

Because in actual combat, Zhu Yong discovered that the new military camp had a very demand for transportation tools.

After all, the Musketeers Division in the new military camp needed to carry artillery and ammunition, as well as food and medicine, all of which needed a carriage.

Therefore, Zhu Yong set up another logistics department in the new military camp to be responsible for the transportation of materials for the entire battalion, equipped with more than 30 large trucks and more than 50 donkeys and mules as transportation capacity.

"I won't practice in the morning this morning, and the two battalions returned to pack up their troops and supplies, gathered again after half an hour and set off."

Zhu Yong stood in front of the new soldiers and shouted loudly.

Five days later, the two new army battalions led by Zhu Yong were also walking through Zhending Prefecture, entering the well path, passing Guguan, entering Shanxi, and temporarily stationed in Shouyang area.

Zhu Yong also knew that Luo Yangxing would not be able to investigate the situation of Shanxi salt merchants in a short period of time.

Therefore, Zhu Yong decided to go to the southern part of Shanxi to suppress the bandits. At this time, there were many bandits in southern Shanxi, most of which were bandits from Shaanxi.

Especially Pingyang Prefecture, adjacent to Shaanxi, was full of bandits. It was a grain-producing area and a salt pond in Jiezhou. Naturally, the imperial court could not give up easily.

Therefore, Pingyang Prefecture has always had many imperial soldiers stationed to protect important areas, such as the Yanchi in Jiezhou.

But other places, such as ordinary rural areas, cannot take care of the government, which has caused the people here to be ravaged by bandits.

It would be nice to expect them to defend the county town and salt-producing land. It would be impossible to expect them to come out and eliminate the bandits.

After taking a short rest in Shouyang, Zhu Yong and his friends supplied food and grass and continued to go south and headed straight for Pingyang Prefecture.

A week later, the two new military camps led by Zhu Yong were Xiangling, and further south were Jiuyuan Mountain and Ji Mountain. The terrain was complex and there were many bandits hiding.

Zhu Yong decided to use this place as his first stop to suppress bandits in southern Jin.

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