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Suddenly, Zhou Chen, who heard about the smuggling in Youyu County, couldn't help but cast a suspicious look at Tie Shaotang.

How? You Yulinwei is responsible for guarding the Shenhekou Pass. Can this also make the private students in Youyu County so rampant?

Is there someone in You Yulinwei collaborating with these smuggling businessmen, or is there something else?

Feeling Zhou Chen's gaze, Tie Shaotang's heart was immediately tightened, and he secretly said a bad cry.

For fear of Zhou Chen’s misunderstanding of his malfeasance, Tie Shaotang just stood up and said in reply: “Master of the Supervisor Mingjian, although the final general cannot guarantee the integrity of his sergeants, such as smuggling, etc. The life of the head, the final will dare to guarantee his life, this will definitely not appear in the final You Yulinwei."

Speaking of this, Tie Shaotang's complexion can't help but become thick. With an expression of helplessness, he sighed with a bitter face and said: "The end general has also heard about smuggling in Youyu County.

In fact, there are basically few contraband items such as steel ordnance. There are merchants who have the energy and are qualified to touch.

Most of these people smuggle some living materials such as salt, silk, sugar and tea, and these living materials will not pass through the pass. Passed.

Most of those smuggling businessmen spent money to hire people who are familiar with light cultivation techniques to cross the mountains and mountains, and forcibly smuggled these materials onto the grasslands.

If the smugglers were transporting these materials from the Shenhekou, they would be taken down by You Yulinwei."

After listening to Tie Shaotang’s account, Zhou Chen said this. Nodded slowly, he said in a deep voice: "The officer has some understanding of the smuggling in Youyu County.

What happened before, the officer will not go too much. I’ve got a deeper look.

But from now on, all trade and commerce facing the grassland must all be conducted through the exchange market that will be established at the joint port."

while speaking, Zhou Chen's gaze fell on the two Bright Gown Guard 100 households, Chen Yun and Xu Yan. He asked aloud: "Take a thorough investigation of all the merchants who smuggle through the borders of Youyu County. The officer must know everything about them. Intelligence."

Chen Yun and Xu Yan glanced at each other, and finally Chen Yun stood up and handed over to Zhou Chen to report: "My lord, in fact, Bright Gown Guard contains information about smuggling in various places.

Just like the situation in Youyu County, Humble and Xu Yan had already reported it.

It was just because of some reasons that the information was not submitted to the Imperial Front, making My lord, you don’t know it now."

As for the reason for this, Zhou Chen knows it even if he doesn’t have to think about it.

It's nothing more than that some people in Bright Gown Guard took bribes and helped the smugglers to cover up their intelligence.

As for what Chen Yun said, Zhou Chen had already expected it in his heart.

He just didn't want to pick these sordid Bright Gown Guard executives on the surface, so he pretended to ask Chen Yun and Xu Yan to find out.

However, what Zhou Chen did not expect is that Chen Yun and Xu Yan directly told him about the situation.

In this case, Zhou Chen naturally stopped concealing anything. He immediately asked Chen Yun and Xu Yan directly: "Listen all the information!"

"Understand the humble job!"

Chen Yun cup hand to hold fist gave a salute, and then he told the information he knew: "According to the information found by the humble job Look, the merchants who often smuggle through our Youyu County are basically the big merchants in this province.

Not only in Youyu County, it can be said that the entire Northern Frontier Frontier. There are silhouettes of smuggling by these big merchants in this province.

Among them, the scale of smuggling by eight major merchants such as Fan Jin Liangtian is the largest, and even affects thousands of adults at the Bright Gown Guard headquarters in Beijing. All the information about their smuggling was intercepted."

Listening quietly to Chen Yun's statement, Zhou Chen couldn't help flashing a little light in his mind, and he suddenly realized it.

Yes, besides Shanxi's native Shanxi merchants, there are those merchants who have the ability to smuggle at the borders of the northern border of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, as early as the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi merchants were nothing more than a cluster of sparks.

The reason why the Liaoyuan situation was able to form during the Ming Dynasty was that as early as when the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting the world, Shanxi merchants had supported Zhu Yuanzhang many times.

After Zhu Yuanzhang completely set the tripod and the Central Plains, he also gave the Shanxi merchants a "salt introduction" document.

Since then, Shanxi merchants can reasonably and legally carry out salt trade and livelihood, and thus develop step by step.

As the saying goes, all Xixi in the world is profitable, so the Shanxi merchants naturally hope that their business will grow stronger and stronger.

There is a good saying, relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to draft water!

Shanxi was originally close to the border of the Ming Dynasty, and the horses, cattle and sheep in the grassland outside the Guan were always in short supply in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the attention of Shanxi merchants was naturally placed on the trade facing the grasslands outside Guan.

Whether it is the Mongolian tribe on the grassland or the Jurchen tribe in the northeast, there are traces of Shanxi merchants.

At the moment, it is enough to acknowledge allegiance of the Jurchen tribe under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. However, in the current situation, Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty have cut off trade.

Undoubtedly, these Shanxi businessmen’s actions must be outright smuggling.

If Zhou Chen wants to truly handle the opening up of the mutual market, then these Shanxi merchants engaged in smuggling trade with Mongolia are the first obstacle that Zhou Chen will face.

Finger tapped the desk lightly, Zhou Chen quietly pondered for a few breaths of time.

He once again asked Chen Yun and Xu Yan, the two Bright Gown Guard 100 households: "I won’t mention other places for now, let’s talk about the number of Shanxi merchants who smuggled through the borders of Youyu County. Home?!"

This time Xu Yan stood up, and he bowed his hand and said: "Reporting to Sir, according to previous investigations of Humble Job and the others, we are smuggling through the boundary of Youyu County. The merchants are mainly Fan and Tian two of the eight major Shanxi merchants.

The remaining are some small-scale Shanxi merchants, most of whom transport the goods to Youyu County, and then Fan and Tian will act on their behalf.

While Fan and Tian are engaged in smuggling themselves, they also draw money from the Shanxi merchants of these small households."

Fan Family of Shanxi Merchants? Could there be a Fan Yongdou in the future who smuggled grain, grass, iron and munitions to Liaodong Jurchen, and sold looted property in place of the Jurchen tribe?