The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 302

The richest person in Guangning City is Fan Sihai.

How rich is Fan Sihai?To put it simply, his house is the most luxurious and the largest in Guangning City and even Liaodong.Not to mention anything else, just how many houses there are in his house, no one knows how many people are there.

Because some yards in his house have seven yards in depth alone.It takes about half an hour to walk from the gate of the first courtyard to the back garden at the back, which shows how big his courtyard is.

Fan Sihai once drank and chatted with people, saying that his house was smaller than the houses in the Forbidden City in the capital of Ming Dynasty.

It is said that there are nearly 500 maids and servants in Fan Sihai's family.And he married a total of nineteen houses just because of his concubine.

Some people say that half of the shops in Guangning City are owned by the Fan family. There are grain shops, rice shops, silk shops, garment shops, pawn shops, restaurants, teahouses, brothels, etc., which can be said to be all kinds of businesses.

Moreover, it is said that the Fan family's property is not only in Guangning City, but also in Liaoyang, Gaizhou, and even Shengjing City.And some people say that these industries in Liaodong are still small, and the big ones are still in the customs, especially the capital and the Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. That is where the Fan family is really valuable.

The courtyard in Guangning City is at best a separate courtyard of the Fan family.

If someone wants to ask why a businessman from the Fan family is so rich, those who have good intentions will point to the word "Fan Mansion" hanging above the gate of the Fan family mansion to show you.

People who don't know why can't see what's famous, and those who do things will tell you carefully and mysteriously: "These two words are not ordinary."

What's unusual?It's not that these two characters are beautifully written, but that the identity of the person who wrote these two characters is unusual.

So who is the person who wrote these two words?It was Huang Taiji, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

In this way, people with flexible minds will understand: if this merchant from the Fan family can have the emperor of the Qing Dynasty personally inscribe a plaque, then he can only have one identity, and that is the imperial merchant.

When I think about it again, it reminds me of Fan Yongdou, a famous businessman in Shanxi.Fan Yongdou is said to be the uncle of this Fan Sihai.

Who is Fan Yongdou?This is a well-known leader of Shanxi merchants in the world. His business is so large that it spreads all over the world, and he does all kinds of businesses. The number of properties is as large as that of Fan Sihai's house.

The most famous industry operated by Fan Yongdou is the bank.The Yongchang bank he runs is said to have semicolons in every big city in the world, and it has an extremely good reputation and strength.

In any branch of the Yongchang Bank in any big city, no matter how much denomination banknotes you take to exchange for cash, they can all be exchanged for you within one day. This is the strength of Yongchang.

Based on this alone, half of the merchants in Ming Dynasty traveled around the world with bank notes issued by Yongchang Bank.

Moreover, it is said that many high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty, even the eunuch who was in charge of the ceremony and several eunuchs who held pens, liked to store their money in Yongchang Bank, not for anything else, just to save trouble and rest assured.

The plaque on Fan Yongdou's home in Taiyuan, Shanxi is said to be inscribed by the current emperor's Lao Tzu, that is, the previous emperor Ji Zhengde, whose temple name is Shizong.

Not for anything else, just because the Fan family pays about three to four million taels of tax to the court every year.Not to mention that the Fan family often lends money to the court without interest when the court is short of money.

Based on this alone, it is enough for the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to treat the Fan family with courtesy.

Although the emperor's courtesies were all false, that is, they inscribed on the Fan family mansion and gave Fan Yongdou a false title of sixth rank, and the errand was sponsored by the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau.

Of course, this errand has no actual authority, but for a super businessman like Fan Yongdou, it is a great amulet.

This made his business even more prosperous.

I don't know when, but the Fan family got on the line of Man Qing.Fan Yongdou's nephew, Fan Sihai, relied on helping the Manchus to do business, especially secretly transporting some strategic materials such as salt and pig iron, which were strictly prohibited by the Ming court, to Liaodong.

These things played a very important role in the rapid rise of the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong.And with Fan Sihai taking the lead, many merchants in Shanxi started doing business with Man Qing secretly, making all kinds of materials needed by Man Qing country flow in from inside the pass to outside the pass.

In the eyes of these merchants, the ban of the Ming court seemed to be empty and turned into a piece of waste paper.

Because of this, during the more than ten years of Huang Taiji's reign, Fan Sihai has become the most powerful, most prestigious, and wealthiest businessman in Liaodong from a grandson of the fan family.

That's why he dared to live in the big courtyard of Qijin, which obviously violated the regulations, and he also got the honor of writing a plaque with Huang Taiji's own handwriting.

Some people saw it clearly and compared the Fan family with Fan Li, Lu Buwei and others back then.The other businessmen are investing in business, while the Fan family and the two above are specifically investing in the emperor.

People said that the Fan family saw that the tree of Daming was about to fall, so they made arrangements in advance and asked their nephew to take the line of Huang Taiji.At that time, no matter whether it is the Ming Dynasty that stabilized the world, or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, his Fan family will still be the same Fan family.

When Guangning City was breached, Fan Sihai happened to be in the city.

In the beginning, after he heard that the Jiang family's army broke the city, he was indeed apprehensive for a while, for fear that the rumored domineering Marquis Wu'an would ransack his house on impulse.

However, seeing that Marquis Wu An remained silent all this time, and he was strict with military discipline, sending people to patrol the streets without harassing the people, he wondered if this Marquis Wu An was afraid of his own identity, after all, he was still Marquis Wu An of Ming Dynasty, He was also a member of the Fan family anyway, so he couldn't help but give this face, so he slowly let go of this hanging heart.

Later, when he heard that Dorgon, the auxiliary king of the Qing Dynasty, came to counterattack with a large army, Fan Sihai was excited and anxious that a group of wives and concubines held a banquet in the mansion to celebrate, hoping that the Qing Heavenly Soldiers would quickly drive away the Marquis of Wu'an.

But I didn't expect that the [-] army of the Qing Dynasty would be defeated, and the defeat was such a mess that even the assistant king Dorgon was dead.

Fan Sihai panicked again, closed the door tightly, and hid in the mansion without going out.

Later, after seeing Marquis Wu'an issued a notice requesting big and wealthy merchants to pledge money and food, Fan Sihai's heart became alive again. 5000 taels of silver, the amount of a thousand shi of grain and grass, was donated.

This was both a statement and a test, he just wanted to test to see if the Marquis of Wu An dared to touch his Fan family.

It has to be said that after doing business with the royal family for so many years, the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties gave their Fan family a high look, which made Fan Sihai as bold as the sky.

"Let me put down your little worries. Our Fan family's business is so big, no matter who is in charge of this world, we can't do without our Fan family. With my master in charge, let alone Marquis Wu'an, he is the Emperor of Ming Dynasty Come, you have to give our Fan family this face. Go, call me the theater troupe bought from Jiangnan for 17 taels of silver last month. My master is going to listen to "Huanxisha" today, and have a look at Fan Li. How did Xishi and Xishi perish in the country of Wu?"

In the tall and spacious multi-colored stone pavilion in the back garden of Fan's house, Fan Sihai sat among a circle of Yingying Yanyan's wives and concubines. , confidently reassuring the restless wives and concubines.

The housekeeper who was waiting next to him hurried to find the theater troupe following his orders.

Dozens of maids and servants around knew that the master was going to listen to the opera, so they hurriedly brought up all kinds of exquisite melon and fruit snacks, and immediately filled the large stone table in the stone pavilion.

Opposite the stone pavilion is a specially built stage, and a group of servants are busy setting up the stage.

And at the intersection where the Fan Mansion was located, a group of black-clothed and black-armored soldiers drove over rumblingly. The leader of the group was Li Jian, the military commander under the command of Daming Wu'anhou Jiangchuan.

He was dressed in armor, with his hand on the hilt of his waist, looked up at the tall courtyard wall of the Fan family in front of him, turned his head and said to a centurion: "This is our first goal. You lead a team Go and guard the back door. Anyone who runs out will be arrested. Anyone who dares to strike will be killed. I will meet this Fan Sihai."

"The general obeys!" The centurion took the order in a loud voice, and with a wave of his hand, a group of people came out, followed him to the back door of Fan's mansion.

Li Jian left a group of people to block the intersections on both sides, and then led the rest of the people towards the gate of Fan Mansion.

　The fourth one arrives.There is one more.Thank you, dear boss, for the [-] reward of "I know what a name is good", and congratulations to the boss for being promoted to the Dharma Guardian of this book.There is also a cute little friend "Zhu Tuan" who gave a reward.Of course, I would also like to thank the brothers for their votes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)