Zhao Yan brought 20,000 police troops and a brigade of troops to Datong. When Lu Xiangsheng learned that Zhao Yan was coming, he left Datong early to greet him.

"How are the governors and governors recently?" Zhao Yan asked with a hearty smile when he saw Lu Xiangsheng.

"Fortunately, Zhong Jian, you have made things too big recently. The situation is very unfavorable to you! The scholars and landlords in the world have a bad impression of Shandong." Lu Xiangsheng smiled bitterly, referring to Zhao Yan's confiscation of Confucius' mansion and the collection of agricultural taxes in Shandong.

"If they like, just do whatever they like!" Zhao Yan said indifferently, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but shook his head helplessly, "Let's go to the city first."

"Okay." Zhao Yan nodded, and then took his personal soldiers and Lu Xiang to Datong.

Datong is an important military center of the Ming Dynasty. The whole city is covered with bricks and the city wall is more than four meters high. Lu Xiangsheng also erected Shandong artillery on the top of the city, which is as solid as a god.

After entering the city, Zhao Yan began to plan specific cooperation with Lu Xiangsheng for the battle against Mongolia.

"This time the conquest of Mongolia, Shandong troops will be commanded by Liu Heng of course, and he will be fully responsible for dispatching the armies." Zhao Yan introduced to Lu Xiangsheng, "Zhang Zhize serves as the deputy commander-in-chief."

Currently, the General Staff is headed by Liu Heng, who is good at combat command, while Mao Yuanyi is good at making suggestions. Zhang Zhi is considered a rising star.

Zhao Yan was used to sending Liu Heng out as commander-in-chief, and Liu Heng also showed his strong command ability. Last year, Liu Heng launched the "Winter Offensive" in Liaodong and recovered the entire territory of Liaodong in just 18 days.

Zhang Zhi has no experience in command yet, so this time he was transferred to Liu Heng as his deputy so that he could learn his command ability well.

"Ji Jian is not going to lead the army to the expedition in person?" Lu Xiangsheng asked in confusion.

"There are many things in Shandong, and it is not convenient for me to fight in person. This time I came to Shanxi, because the cabinet did not have the money to repair the Southeast water conservancy, so I had to come and search the house." Zhao Yan smiled bluntly, Lu Xiangsheng had already known about this.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't say much about the house search. He could not tolerate what the Shanxi merchants did. However, the Shanxi merchants were quite powerful in the court and he did not dare to touch them before. Now that Zhao Yan is here, he is not afraid of the Heavenly King, and he just happened to copy all the Shanxi merchants.

"Then I will follow Liu Heng to fight for Mongolia!" Lu Xiangsheng thought for a moment and decided, but Zhao Yan did not object.

As a radical leftist, Lu Xiangsheng naturally would not miss the opportunity to participate in the conquest of Mongolia. Moreover, during this conquest of Mongolia, the Shandong Army was responsible for the food and grass of Xuanda's soldiers and horses.

The next day, Lu Xiangsheng then took Zhao Yan to the schoolyard outside the city to read Xuan Da's army.

Xuan Da had a total of 50,000 soldiers, of which 20,000 were cavalrymen. The officers in the army were all dispatched from Shandong, and the equipment was also provided by Shandong.

The 50,000 Xuan Da soldiers and horses were arranged in neat formations and walked past Zhao Yan. After two years of training, Xuan Da soldiers and horses had already taken the prototype of a strong army.

This is an army with deep friendship with the Shandong Army. It has fought side by side with the Shandong Army several times, and both sides are not unfamiliar with it.

Xuan Da Bingma not only had the Shandong Army as an officer, but also often received assistance from the Shandong Army. Both sides were basically one.

Zhao Yan supported Xuan Da's army mainly to establish a barrier to resist bandits in Shanxi so that the capital would not be raided by bandits.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng is also a historical figure that Zhao Yan admires. His courage and radicalism were unique in the late Ming Dynasty.

Under the joint management of Lu Xiangsheng and Zhao Yan, Shanxi was already a bandit and bandits disappeared.

After reading Xuan Da's army, Zhao Yan took 20,000 armed police officers from the official road to rush to Zhangjiakou on the third day.

Lu Xiangsheng followed the Shandong army and Xuan Da's troops and horses to advance north together.

...The armed police force marched faster. Because there was no baggage, it took only one day to arrive at Zhangjiakou at a speed of 200 miles a day.

Zhangjiakou was prosperous in commerce. In 1551, a "Horse Market" was opened outside Dajingmen, and the official Mongolian Tatar horses such as cloth pots and peaches were officially renamed. In 1570, the Tatar leader Altan surrendered and was enfeoffed, and Zhangjiakou was designated as a "place of mutual trading" between Mongolia and Han. In 1613, Laiyuan Fort was built on the side of Zhangjiakou Fort. Based on Zhangjiakou Fort and Laiyuan Fort, Zhangjiakou gradually developed into the center of Mongolian-Han ethnic trade exchanges. At that time, there were many paved houses and merchants gathered. Outside Laiyuan Fort, commercial trade was very prosperous.

Most of the furs in the Ming Dynasty were traded in Zhangjiakou.

As soon as Zhao Yan arrived in Zhangjiakou, he immediately asked someone to surround the "Zhangjiakou Fort" and "Laiyuan Fort". At the order of Zhao Yan, 20,000 armed police directly surrounded the two forts.

When the Mongolians and Shanxi merchants in the thousands of Mongolian tents outside Laiyuan Fort suddenly appeared, they panicked when the incident occurred.

The Mongolians pulled out their Mongolian swords, stepped onto their horses, and glared at the armed police forces surrounding them.

The Shanxi merchants suddenly felt an unknown premonition. They knew these soldiers and horses, and they were the inspection brigades in Shandong. It would definitely be no good for them to come to Zhangjiakou.

The official army in the fort was obviously scared, and quickly sent someone out of the fort to inquire.

"The general has an order that everyone will put down their weapons, otherwise they will be killed without mercy."

"Oh, why did the General come to our remote place? Sir, please reveal what you are going to do!" Qianhu from Zhangjiakou asked humbly.

There are probably 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers coming to Zhangjiakou this time, but there is no room for resistance among the hundreds of people in Zhangjiakou.

Of course, those businesses have been engaged in smuggling activities for a long time and have their own private armed forces, but they have only three or four thousand people organized.

"The Shanxi merchants treasoned the country and colluded with the enemy. The general came here to search for the Shanxi merchants in person. There was no need to be afraid of anyone else."

"Quick, open the door, open the door, everyone put down their weapons." When the Qianhu heard Zhao Yan coming in person, he hurriedly ordered the military households under his command.

Soon the fort gate opened, but the Mongolians outside the fort were still on guard.

"It is better for everyone to put down their weapons and kill them on the spot." Several armed police officers rushed forward and warned the Mongolians.

The armed police behind had dismounted, holding rows of muskets and aimed at the Mongolians who were holding swords.

"Let me fire." Zhao Yan was impatient from behind and ordered directly.

"Open the fire."

The armed police immediately pointed the Mongols and pulled the trigger. After a bang, the Mongols fell directly from the horse, and the horses fell into a pool of blood.

As soon as the armed police opened fire, they immediately became in chaos. The Mongolians rushed out in groups, looking like more than a hundred people.

"Second row, fire."

The musket exploded again, as the smoke rose, bullets flew out of the gun chamber, and the rushing Mongolians were shot down directly. More than a hundred Mongolians died and only a dozen were running in confusion.

“Free shooting.”

The remaining dozen Mongolians were soon shot and fell to the ground by musketeers behind them. Each Mongolian was at least two or three eye-catching.

The blood outside Laiyuan Fort immediately made Zhangjiakou and the people in Laiyuan Fort settled down and put down their weapons under the violent roar of the armed police.

The armed police immediately stepped forward and controlled all the people outside the fort.

"Enter the fort." Zhao Yan loved the one who waved his hand, and the armed police and a large number of accountants entered Zhangjiakou and Laiyuan Fort. The armed police rushed into the fort like wolves and tigers, and arrested people when they saw them.

"Hold your head, squat down and don't move." The armed police pointed the musket at the people in the fort and pressed the confused people on the corner of the street.

The police team rushed into the shop, and the shopkeeper inside the shop shouted in horror: "What are you doing? What are you doing?"

"ah!"

After a while, a woman's scream came from the shop. A policeman pulled a woman out of the shop. The woman screamed all the way, but the plot she expected did not happen. He was taken to the crowd on the street corner by the police outside and threw it in.

Just as the armed police forces arrested people everywhere, Qianhu in Zhangjiakou was brought to Zhao Yan with a look of fear. Seeing one of the young people being protected in the middle, it was guessed that this person must be Zhao Yan. He immediately knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, shouting: "The lower official does not know that the general is here, so he is negligent. The lower official is guilty of death and the lower official is guilty of death."

"I didn't blame you, I was so nervous." Zhao Yan looked at the Qianhu with a funny look and said to him: "Get up and talk!"

"Thank you General, thank you General." After hearing Zhao Yan's words, Qianhu finally felt relieved and stood up with a panic look on his face. "I wonder if the general has any orders?"

"This general came to Zhangjiakou to arrest the Shanxi merchants who traded with Jianlu, and he was missing a guide." Zhao Yan said.

"The emperor is willing to serve the work of a dog or a horse." The Qianhu immediately knelt down halfway and showed his loyalty to Zhao Yan.

"Take him down and recognize people." Zhao Yan said to the people below.

"yes."

Soon the thousand-household family was taken down and began to recognize people among the crowds that gathered together.

All Shanxi merchants will be arrested and all Shanxi merchants' industries will be seized.

The military and civilians in Zhangjiakou and foreign merchants were selected and released first. As for the Mongolians, they were pulled out and cut them off to save trouble.

Zhao Yan was unreasonable this time. As long as the shops of Shanxi merchants were to be confiscated, especially the fur industry, he wanted to play monopoly.

The fur in Zhangjiakou accounts for more than half of the Ming Dynasty. At present, Zhao Yan has controlled Liaodong and North Korea. He can get a lot of fur every year, then wipe out Mongolia and control the fur transactions in Zhangjiakou, which is basically equivalent to monopoly.

Of course, this time Zhao Yan wants to clean up all the Mongolians on the Mongolian Plateau, and the supply of goods in the north will inevitably be affected in the future.

But with fewer things, the price will naturally be higher. If you really have no goods, you can just not wear fur. Just change to a cotton jacket!

What this kind of luxury product requires is to monopolize, which is very prosperous.

...In Zhangjiakou, the people in the two forts in Laiyuan were quickly divided, all the soldiers and civilians in the fort were released, and all the merchants from other places were released.

The Mongolians were pulled dozens of meters away and chopped one by one at the beginning.

As for the Shanxi merchants, they were controlled and waited for interrogation.

At the same time, the search began soon. Which Shanxi businessman operated which business is very easy to investigate and has been listed on the list.

Each business has sealed it and then searched it one by one.

The silver in the merchants were first concentrated, and then the goods were concentrated, and the goods were classified uniformly... The soldiers who saw the soldiers coming and going were all desolate.

While raiding the house, Zhao Yan met the shopkeepers of those shops. The shopkeepers of hundreds of Shanxi merchants looked confused. They were really scared. Zhao Yan comforted them with warm words.

These shopkeepers are also relatively valuable talents. They have been operating shops in Zhangjiakou for a long time and are very familiar with the business here in Zhangjiakou.

Zhao Yan is very eager to seek talents. If these shopkeepers can be recruited, the Commercial Department will definitely be able to enrich them.

...The search lasted for three days, and three days later, both Zhangjiakou and Laiyuan Erbao were completed.

"The cash-cut silver was 3.6 million taels and more than 200,000 furs were collected, with a value of about 5 million taels, and the remaining goods were about one million taels." The accountant reported the counted number.

"It's almost tens of millions, haha! Not bad." Zhao Yan smiled, "Leave the furs in Zhangjiakou and continue to be sold, and move all the other things away."

On the fourth day, Zhao Yan left Zhangjiakou.

He left a thousand people in Zhangjiakou, controlled Zhangjiakou, and left several staff members from the Commercial Department here to take over shops and fur workshops.

There are more than 600 shops searched this time, and there are more than 40 fur workshops searched. These workshops have very high leather making skills and are at the top level of the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhao Yan decided to return, he set up a leather processing technology research team. Now the Navy has already sold out. In the future, more and more furs will be shipped overseas, but the processing method is not very advanced.

Zhao Yan brought 19,000 armed police back to Shanxi, escorting hundreds of Shanxi merchants and many other goods in the team.

If you search a house, you will have to search such a big business, and it will indeed make people rich.

Just searching the Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou will cost tens of millions of taels of silver.

Shanxi merchants have always been accustomed to guarding a lot of silver and dressing in a "twistless manner" and don't enjoy it. They are a real rich man.

And this style is available all over the country.

Many landlords have thousands of acres of fertile land in their homes, and they can wear the worst and eat the worst. They spend all their thoughts on expansion. They have a strong awareness of money, which is also one of the reasons why they are richer than others!

But there are more local rich men in Shanxi, but not all those rich businessmen are like this. They are just more economical than merchants in other regions and will not be as extravagant as salt merchants.

...While Shanxi is silent at this time, it is in a terrifying atmosphere of house searches. This atmosphere is undoubtedly extremely terrifying for those Shanxi merchants.
To be continued...