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Text 780 [The Rise of Khalkha Mongolia]

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    Zhen Juan 1 Sleepy Shoal 780 Fei Ruhe returned to Beijing to report on his duties, with 300 soldiers by his side.

    After several years, Fei Ruhe was quite moved to experience the prosperity and prosperity of the south again.

    He has been stationed in Datong before. Although people's livelihood has recovered rapidly, compared with the areas south of the Yellow River, the population is still too sparse.  After all, Shanxi had been in a drought for ten years and was repeatedly ravaged by bandits from the Northwest, officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and Manchurian Tartars.

    Hearing that Xu Ying was in charge of Jiangsu, Fei Ruhe stopped in Yangzhou.

    The guards were not allowed to enter the city at will, and the soldiers were left stationed outside the city. Fei Ruhe only brought a few personal guards into the city.

    Xu Ying heard that Fei Ruhe was coming, so she hurried to greet him, and the two met on the street.

    "Haha, Old Xu, you have become a great official of the frontier." Fei Ruhe laughed before he got close.

    Xu Ying smiled and jokingly said: "You are a military commander who leads the army. On the way to report on your duties, you will meet with a provincial chief in private. You will be impeached if you put it in the Ming Dynasty."

    "Whoever wants to impeach, let him impeach. I can't even come to see my old friends?" Fei Ruhe didn't care about that.

    This guy has been in Shanxi for several years, and he belongs to the absolute emperor of the land. Local officials worship him as an ancestor.  His temper must have grown, and he was not afraid of anything, and even wrote a letter to ask a brother of his family to go to the border of Shanxi to start a fur business.

    Violation, but not illegal.

    He did not use his soldiers to do business, and he paid taxes normally.  But his clan brother was able to prosper in business, and he had to borrow Fei Ruhe's power and influence.

    This is very similar to Gan Tangshu letting her in-laws do business, the difference is that Gan Tangshu has illegal operations attached to it.

    For example, they colluded with the Jiangsu Salt Affairs Department to close down a Shanxi salt merchant, and then transferred the Shanxi salt merchant's salt sales license to their in-laws at a super low price.  Moreover, his in-laws did not have a transport fleet, so it was impossible to meet the qualifications for salt transportation. At the beginning, they had to hire a transport team from outside.

    Fei Ruhe was much smarter, he didn't touch the Yanzheng, nor did he touch the Tianzheng, he just let his clan brother sell furs.

    Don't underestimate the fur business, it's very profitable!

    In the Ming Dynasty, high-grade furs were considered luxury goods.  In particular, the fur of sable, sea otter, and lynx is forbidden for common people to enjoy. The Ming court reiterated the ban four times.  It wasn't until the Longqing period that leather goods from the grasslands increased due to the tribute paid by Alta, and the price dropped slightly, but the rebellion of the Tartars caused the price of leather to skyrocket.

    Even now that Mongolia and Northeast trade routes have been opened, and the price of fur goods continues to drop, if you want to buy a piece of sable fur in Nanjing, the price is at least three hundred taels or more.  Excellent quality sable fur can easily cost five hundred taels, and it is possible to sell for thousands of taels of silver, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it.

    The bulk of the fur trade is still dominated by sheepskin, and the amount of precious fur caught is too small.

    In order to make up for the gap in the market for high-end products, many Mongolian tribes racked their brains and set their sights on the most vicious cat in the world¡ªthe cat cat.

    In the past few years, the price of catkin fur has also been raised, starting at at least two hundred taels of silver when transported to Nanjing.

    In addition, the fur trade in Taiwan Island and Hainan Island is also extremely prosperous.  Taiwan sika deer, Qiongzhou Eld's deer, have been hunted in large numbers.  In later generations, this is an act of destroying the ecology, but in today's world it is beneficial to the development of the frontier.

    For example, the capital of Heilongjiang has not yet been established, and merchants are the first to respond.  Because the most precious furs can be obtained in the Heilongjiang and Songhua River basins, and the sable and sea otter skins come from there.  Well-informed businessmen have already gathered in Liaoning, just waiting to follow the army to Harbin to open a trading post.

    All the way to the back house of the chief secretary's yamen, Fei Ruhe called someone to fetch a gift: "This is agate fur, for my younger siblings."

    Xu Ying glanced at it. This fur is extremely exquisite. It requires at least three pieces of rabbit skin to make, and the labor cost will not be cheap. The price in the southern region must exceed one thousand taels.  He quickly waved his hand and said, "The gift is too expensive, I can't accept it."

    Fei Ruhe smiled and said: "I heard that you became the official butcher of Jiangsu before you arrived in Yangzhou. What are you afraid of? When I return to Nanjing, I will give His Majesty a gift list.  Let His Majesty take a look at which ones you have. Don¡¯t worry, I won¡¯t cause you any trouble. Old friends can¡¯t give gifts when they meet?¡±

    Xu Ying still shook her head: "I accept the favor, but the gift cannot be accepted."

    "You people are really boring!"

    Fei Ruhe murmured, and didn't treat himself as an outsider, walked into the living room and sat down.

    Xu Ying personally made tea for Fei Ruhe and asked, "Is the situation outside the Great Wall unstable?"

    Fei Ruhe said: "There is nothing on the Shanshan side, only Li Zicheng is fighting with other ministries. Across the Gobi desert, the Khalkha Mongols in the north of the desert can't beat it."??Suddenly laughed again: "Hey, Zhang Tieniu's sons and daughters are worse than my pair of sons and daughters. I don't feel ashamed to have him at the bottom, and I can play with him next time we meet."

    Xu Ying suddenly came to her senses: "If you appease all the tribes in the grassland and attack Khalkha Mongolia together, do you need to appease Li Zicheng?"

    "That depends on your Majesty's will," Fei Ruhe said, "It's been a few years, and everything has faded away. It's not easy to have a Han Chinese force in Hetao. In my opinion, it's better to appease him."

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