What did the Eight Imperial Merchants who betrayed the Ming Dynasty do? It is so resentful.

Wars in Liaodong were frequent, but a group of special merchants were active on the border between Liaodong and western Liaoning. Although they were all citizens of the Ming Dynasty, they smuggled various prohibited items, gunpowder, grain, iron, salt, cloth, military weapons, bows, arrows, armor and other strategic materials to the Qing Dynasty outside the pass, and transported the treasures and specialties stolen from the Han people back to the mainland. At the same time, they also used various information they collected in the Ming Dynasty to provide various information for the Qing Dynasty who slaughtered their compatriots.

It was these unscrupulous merchants who betrayed the nation that created the rise of the Qing Dynasty and ultimately unified the world. It can be said that these unscrupulous merchants made great contributions to the rise of the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the Qing Dynasty would certainly not forget them. Later, the eight imperial merchants of Emperor Shunzhi convened Beijing, gave him a banquet for the Forbidden City, named him the imperial merchant, and gave him a residence in the Internal Affairs Office, wearing a yellow jacket, which was incredible.

Fan Yongdou, a representative figure of Shanxi merchants in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was from Jiexiu, Shanxi. He inherited his ancestral property and did business in Zhangjiakou and Mongolia. He was a wealthy merchant at that time. After the rise of the Qing Dynasty, a group of Shanxi merchants represented by Fan Yongdou began to smuggle iron and grain and other urgently needed materials to the Qing Dynasty. It strongly supported the development of the Qing Dynasty when the small glaciers in the Ming Dynasty were everywhere.

The eight great imperial merchants represented by Fan Yongdou were considered to be the "meritorial officials" of the fall of the Ming Dynasty and were veritable traitors. Later, Fan Yongdou's grandson Fan Yu-jin was granted Fan Yu-jin as the Minister of the Taipu Temple in the Qing Dynasty and used the second-rank uniform. From then on, Fan Yu-jin was also a high-ranking official and famous. This was rare in the history of the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years. Fan Yu-jin was the only merchant to enter the "Draft History of Qing Dynasty".

With the Liaohe River as the boundary, the Liaohe River east is Liaodong and the west is Liaoxi; however, the Ming Dynasty often regarded the entire territory of Liaoning as Liaodong and regarded it as the Liaodong front.

At this time, Zhangjiakou, the underground trade connecting the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty was in full swing. As the most powerful businessman here, Fan Yongdou made the smuggling trade prosperous.

Zhangjiakou is located at the intersection of Taihang Mountains, Yanshan Mountains and Yinshan Mountains. It is the junction of the North China Plain and the Mongolian Plateau. It is the only fortress connecting the Mongolian Plateau region and the Central Plains. Its unique geographical location determines the important economic, military and cultural status of the city of Zhangjiakou.

The Yuanbaoshan area outside the Dajingmen of Zhangjiakou gradually formed a border trade market called "Gongshi" and "tea and horse market" in history. Livestock, fur, medicinal materials, wool fabrics, silverware, etc. from the Mongolian grasslands and the European hinterland were replaced with silk, tea industry, porcelain and white sugar, and outside the Dajingmen became an inland port for international barter trade in northern my country.

Fan Yongdou's trade was extremely hidden, and he bribed officials from surrounding counties and counties. All Fan Yongdou's goods were given a green light all the way. This also made Fan Yongdou increasingly expand. For him, there was nothing that he could not sell.

As long as you want, I can get it for you. This is the most satisfying thing about the Qing Dynasty. Even the gunpowder armor, Fan Yongdou has a way to deal with it.

Fan Yongdou passed through Mongolia to Shengjing, Shenyang, the Qing Dynasty, and solved many urgent needs of Huang Taiji, especially various military weapons and daily necessities.

Of course, what is more important is intelligence. For example, the situation of troops stationed in the Ming Dynasty and the Ming army's defense maps at the Ming Dynasty checkpoints.

Before, Huang Taiji detoured through Mongolia and rushed into the city of Beijing. Later, he made trouble in Shandong. He abducted countless people in the Ming Dynasty and various materials, food, gold and silver, and intelligence information was particularly important. It was because Huang Taiji obtained the Ming army's defense map that he went south as if he was entering a nobody.

Fan Yongdou made great contributions to this. The person responsible for contacting Fan Yongdou was the Mongolian businessman Boritechina. This person was one of the representatives of the Qing Dynasty.

After Huang Taiji became emperor in Shengjing, Shenyang, he had been married to Mongolia. This marriage began in the era of Manchu and Mongolia, and Nurhaci. The entire Qing Dynasty continued. This was a very obvious political marriage. The Huang Taiji era developed to the extreme. Marriage became the national policy of the Qing Dynasty at that time. When the Qing Dynasty had wars, this marriage system was even reflected.

This Mongolian businessman Boritechina represented the Qing Dynasty and Fan Yongdou to conduct various dirty transactions.

Fan Yongdou trafficked various contraband products in the Ming Dynasty, while Boritechi exchanged various commodities in Manchuria and Mongolia. Among them, Fan Yongdou made a fortune in the national crisis and made a lot of money.

At this time, a team of merchants quietly sneaked into Zhangjiakou Fort. This person was portrayed by the soldiers of the Hu Ben Army led by Ye Qing and Liu Hong.

Since it was the first special forces of the Ming Dynasty, the Hu Ben Army was not only good at fighting raids, beheading and assassinating, disguising, spying on intelligence, jungle and mountain, desert and ocean, and amphibious.

Pretending to be a team of businessmen and performing special tasks is one of the daily training subjects.

A qualified soldier cannot be seen from his appearance. He is big and strong, powerful and domineering, and is not suitable for the soldiers of the Hu Ben Army.

This army that was selected from thousands of people seemed to be extremely powerful. But in fact, some of the soldiers of the Hu Ben Army were indeed majestic, but some were wretched and short, and even had crooked noses and squinted eyes, which looked like good people.

However, everyone has their own unique skills. The soldiers who can enter the Hu Ben Army are not ordinary people.

Therefore, this team of merchants selected, with only 20 or 30 people, is as tall as Wu Dalang with a three-inch dead bark, as thin as a head-on old man, as well as a terminally ill old man, and a sissy-like slutty-skinned beauties.

In short, no one can suspect that this caravan was dressed by a soldier at first sight. Otherwise, if you choose a fierce soldier to pretend to be a businessman, it will be easily seen through.

The group of merchants, loaded with seven carts, entered Zhangjiakou Fort. Strangely, they were not intercepted by officials along the way.

Soon someone told Fan Yongdou the news. When Fan Yongdou heard this, he was shocked.

This is here to grab my job. I have been working hard for decades and finally opened up this business line. I don’t know how much money I have spent to manage officials from all over the country.

Suddenly, such a caravan came to Zhangjiakou and wanted to steal his business. It was unbearable. If he didn't kill these people, he would still be able to do his business in Zhangjiakou.
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