Dominate the Country

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This world has never been only light, no darkness.

When the Qing army was fighting against the Chen army, Fode sent a small force to attack Wuyang, and at the same time spread the news throughout Ruzhou, stirring up local gentry and local tyrants to resist the Chen army. This is a kind of darkness.

And the Chen army sent Chen Guang and Chen Liang to operate a secret intelligence system, which is also a kind of darkness. For example, Zhoujiakou now.

After receiving the pigeon letter from the intelligence system named Dark Camp, Chen Liang, who was aliased as Lu Ming, estimated the time. In the morning of that day, the inn and warehouse of Shunfeng Company were closed. Only six or seven of the more than 20 people in the entire Shunfeng Company were left to see the goods, and the rest disappeared without a trace.

At the same time, a letter was delivered to the shopkeeper Zhang Yunhe on the counter of Chen Yihe Company in Zhoujiakou.

The letter was not signed, but Zhang Yunhe could tell at a glance that it was written by Lu, the shopkeeper of Shunfeng Company. The letter did not say much, but just said that there was a major epidemic that was about to sweep Zhoujiakou recently, and it was better for Chen Yihe's company to close down. Moreover, the epidemic was extremely dangerous. If Zhang Yunhe trusted him, he could just put a red flag with a yellow five-pointed star on it outside his own company.

Zhang Yunhe's face changed. This Shunfeng company came from the south and only established itself in Zhoujiakou in late spring this year. It was engaged in the medicinal materials business. This was not surprising. Zhoujiakou was a commercial town in southeastern Henan. It was the intersection of the three rivers of Shahe, Yinghe and Jialu River. It was a metropolis for water transport and a thoroughfare for land and water transportation. It was an important hub for the circulation of goods connecting Beijing, Tianjin and Jiangnan in eastern Henan. It is an important tea distribution town on the Tea Road from the mainland to Moscow and St. Petersburg via Kyakhta. It is close to Yuzhou, one of the four traditional Chinese medicine capitals. You can find dozens of shops doing medicine business in Zhoujiakou.

But it is rare that a shop that has just established itself in Zhoujiakou can make Zhang Yunhe, Chen Yihe, the head of the old shop in Chenzhoufu, remember its name.

Why can Zhang Yunhe remember Shunfeng Shop? It is not because the types of medicines sought by this financially rich Shunfeng Shop are all ordinary goods. The medicine business is not only profitable for high-end goods such as ginseng and ganoderma lucidum. There are many shops that sell ordinary goods. What really makes Zhang Yunhe remember Shunfeng Shop is the greedy attitude of Lu Minglu towards sulfur and saltpeter.

No matter how much sulfur and saltpeter you bring, Shunfeng Shop will swallow it up.

As the local boss of Chenzhou Prefecture and a time-honored Chenzhou Prefecture company, Chen Yihe had a good relationship with Shunfeng Company because of sulfur and saltpeter. Lu Ming bought more than 1,000 taels of silver worth of sulfur from Zhang Yunhe. Although Lu Ming also bargained and was picky about the quality during the transaction, he took all the goods and only lowered the price instead of being picky. Shunfeng Company also reached an agreement with Chen Yihe to set a bilateral sulfur trading agreement at a price that made Chen Yihe quite profitable. Soon after, it also set a saltpeter trading agreement at a more generous price.

To this day, Shunfeng Company has taken away more than 10,000 kilograms of sulfur and saltpeter from Chen Yihe's Zhoujiakou store, totaling more than 3,000 taels of silver. [The exact price of sulfur cannot be found] And Shunfeng Company has never been seen selling to the outside world. You can only see them transporting the medicinal materials away in trucks. Those sulfur and saltpeter were mixed with Ding and left Zhoujiakou together in the sequence of medicinal materials.

Zhang Yunhe knew that something was wrong with Shunfeng Company. Thinking of the Lushan bandits not far away - Chen's army was mostly called Lushan bandits in Chenzhou, the reason was obvious, Zhang Yunhe reported the matter to the owner behind it at the end of April, and the owner's answer was "do business in peace".

Zhang Yunhe was not a fool, and he could guess the owner's thoughts after thinking about it. Chen Yihe's company couldn't afford to get involved in such things. Even if you report to the government and let the government arrest all the people in Shunfeng Company, what would happen? Can you catch their big backer? As long as Lushan bandits are still jumping around - not very sure, assuming - can Chen Yihe still do business? Will the lives of his boss Zhang Yunhe and his family be alive?

With the bravery and strength shown by Lushan bandits, what can Chen Yihe do if he sends people to burn all of Chen Yihe's semicolons? The bandits of Lushan sent people to sneak into Chenzhou Prefecture City, broke into the gate of Chen Yihe's boss's house and killed people. Will your boss, Chen Yihe, also suffer? They can't fight with the bandits of Lushan!

Zhang Yunhe could only choose to turn a blind eye to Shunfeng Business, but today he actually received this letter. "Big epidemic? Sweeping Zhoujiakou, can the Chen family army still rush into Zhoujiakou?" Zhang Yunhe looked at the letter in disbelief. Where did Guide Town and Yunyang Town plus thousands of militias go? Can't you stop the bandits of Lushan if you can't beat them?

Yancheng is only a hundred miles away from Zhoujiakou.

How dare Zhang Yunhe "not care"? He immediately called a confidant and asked him to go to the Tongpan Yamen in Zhoujiakou-the residence of the Tongpan of Chenzhou Prefecture, to inquire about the battle situation in Yancheng. As an honest businessman, Zhang Yunhe felt like he was facing a great enemy at this moment.

The clerk soon got a report that Henan Provincial Governor Lord Ford had led his troops to retreat along the Shahe River to Xihua. The Chen family army stopped at the Shahe River, and the bandit leader was busy sending troops to sweep Wuyang and clean up Yancheng.

The Tongpan Yamen did not receive the urgent report of the Lushan bandits advancing eastward, but does this prove that Zhang Yunhe was worrying too much and that Lu Ming was trying to scare him? No. Not only that, on the contrary, it made Zhang Yunhe's hair stand on end at that moment.

Don't just look at the fact that the Tongpan Yamen did not receive the urgent report, you also have to see that Ford led the officers and soldiers to retreat to Xihua along the Shahe River, which means that the officers and soldiers gave up the road to the east of Yancheng. As long as the Lushan bandits are willing, they can kill Zhoujiakou directly from the east!

If Zhang Yunhe remembers correctly, just three days ago, the Tongpan of Chenzhou Prefecture escorted a batch of newly raised money and grain to the army to reward the soldiers. At that time, the adult swore to everyone that Zhoujiakou was as safe as Mount Tai. Even if the government troops could not drive the Lushan bandits out of Xuzhou for a while, they could still drive them into Chenzhou.

The voice was still in his ears, and Ford led the team to Xihua and exposed Zhoujiakou to the teeth of the Lushan bandits.

If Ford stood in front of Zhang Yunhe at this time, Zhang Yunhe would definitely slap Ford twice and then ask him: Zhoujiakou, the resident of a prefecture, is not as good as Xihua County?

Zhang Yunhe was also confused by anger and forgot the Guide Town troops that had passed through Zhoujiakou before, and the large and small artillery on the ship.

Ford could not have left all the 20 or 30 large and small artillery behind when he retreated. He had to take these things with him and bring them to the next resident of the army intact. Otherwise, if the Chen family army attacked, wouldn’t he be in trouble again? The power of the flying thunder cannon was too great. The rolling package-like shells, more than 10 to 20 kilograms of gunpowder and several kilograms of iron sand and broken iron, could kill or injure people within 30 to 50 feet.

So the Qing soldiers could only retreat to Xihua by water.

The butt determines the head. A very vulgar sentence but very philosophical.