Although this Fan Yudong is not Fan Yongdou's biological grandson, he is Fan Yongdou's grandnephew and the biological grandson of Fan Yongdou's brother Fan Yongkui.

If Fan Yudong was in this caravan, and he was just one of the front liners, then one can imagine the scale and importance of the goods carried by this caravan.

"The caravan is in Hongmiaozi. It is said that it will arrive here before sunset today. It will camp in Tuchengzi. It also plans to cross the river from here to the east after the arrival of the Aohan tribe's support personnel before noon tomorrow, heading to Mu

The elm trees on the west bank of the Ke River!"

The Mongolian conversation between Li Ma and the young man in Chinese clothing had not yet ended. Hu Touge, who had returned to Yang Zhen earlier, had already translated the key content to Yang Zhen in a low voice in unskilled Chinese.

At this moment, when they mentioned the location of the caravan, an evil smile instantly appeared on Hu Touge's dark face, and his eyes shone, as if a hungry lone wolf in the prairie had smelled the smell of blood and seen it.

Like fat prey.

However, Hu Touge did not mention the identity of Fan Yudong that Yang Zhen was most concerned about, and he did not care at all about the role of the person caught this time.

After Yang Zhen heard what Hu Touge said, he felt comforted in his heart. The stone that had been hanging in his heart finally fell.

No matter who the young man in colorful clothes in front of him is, at least he now knows the location of the caravan and the general itinerary of the caravan.

While Yang Zhen was thinking about these things, he was preparing to ask Hu Touge further about his name and identity. Just as he was about to speak, he saw that Li Ma had already turned around, still holding the man in his hand.

A small rectangular sign was just presented to me by a young man in a colorful suit.

At first glance, it looks like a waist badge.

Yang Zhen took the bronze waist badge about the size of a child's palm from Li Ma's hand. When he took a quick look, he saw that the two Chinese characters for the waist badge were cast in horizontal inscriptions on the top of his head, and in the middle were the words issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in vertical inscriptions.

There are five slightly smaller Chinese characters, and below that are several lines of tadpole characters cast in a vertical line.

The tadpole script is not any other script, but the so-called Jurchen script created by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties after imitating Mongolian script.

Yang Zhen looked at the front of the waistband and couldn't see anything surprising, so he turned it over and took a closer look, and he was immediately overjoyed.

On the back of this belt, apart from a few lines of Jurchen writing that looked like ghostly drawings, there were three small and dense Chinese characters named Fan Yudong engraved in inscriptions.

Sure enough, it was the descendants of their Fan family who came in person, and it turned out to be the Fan Yudong whom I had just guessed!

When Yang Zhen saw this, a bright smile finally broke out on his face, and he smiled and looked at the young man in fine clothes who was still kneeling on the ground and did not dare to move.

The young man was lying on the ground. Occasionally he looked up and saw Yang Zhen smiling at him with his waistband. The previous nervousness was gone, and he nodded quickly with a smile on his face.

This young man in fine clothes is none other than Fan Yongdou's great-nephew and Fan Yongkui's grandson Fan Yudong.

Seriously speaking, in terms of age, Fan Yudong can actually be regarded as the eldest grandson of the Jiexiu Fan family.

However, it is a pity that although the Fan family of Shanyou Jiexiu has been in business for several generations, the person who really carried forward the Fan family business was Fan Yongdou. Now the real decision-maker in the Fan family is Fan Yongdou, not the house he came from.

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Even his grandfather Fan Yongkui himself was just a big shopkeeper who held a small share in the Fan family's business map created by Fan Yongdou.

Therefore, although he was the grandson of Fan Yongkui and the grandnephew of Fan Yongdou, he did not have the capital to pamper himself and had to take risks and walk outside the Great Wall in person to earn a share of the family fortune for himself and his mother, who had been widowed early.

This was his first major trip, and it was also his first trip to the Qing Dynasty.

However, under his arrangement, the entire caravan traveled smoothly from Zhangjiakou to Duolun, from Duolun to Haraqin, and from the Prince's Mansion in Haraqin to the Hongmiaozi on the banks of the Yinjin River.

I was full of confidence in this trip and relaxed my vigilance.

He thought that it was not far from Hongmiaozi to Tuchengzi, and that it was not far from Tuchengzi across the Laohua River and then east to the Aohan Prince's Mansion on the Muke River. Once he contacted the nobles of the Aohan tribe, he would

If the Aohan tribe sent out cavalry to protect them like Duolun and Karaqin did, then the trip would be basically a success.

Therefore, when he went to the Aohan Prince's Mansion this time, he did not bring many escorts, but only a dozen personal servants and a dozen Karaqin cavalry who acted as guides.

To his somewhat surprise, their group had just crossed the Laohua River from Tuchengzi when they unexpectedly ran into the Qing cavalry who appeared out of nowhere on the east bank of the Laohua River.

It was just an accident. Facing the legendary Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Dynasty who were very ferocious, he did not dare to have any suspicion or provocation.

Therefore, when he accidentally saw this Qing cavalry coming out of the blue and galloping towards them, he had no idea of ​​​​riding and running away, nor did he have the courage.

In the end, they could only stand in place, not daring to move, waiting for the fake Qing soldiers led by Yang Zhen to surround them.

Fan Yudong has not yet been to the territory of the Qing Dynasty, but there are many people in the Fan Family Trading Company and the Zhangjiakou Shanyou Chamber of Commerce, whose main owner is the Fan Family Trading Company, who have been to the Qing Dynasty.

In particular, several of the elders of their Fan family, Fan Yongdou, Fan Yongkui, and Fan Sanba, had all been to the Qing Dynasty and had been summoned and rewarded by the current leader of the Qing Dynasty.

In Fan Yudong's opinion, this is naturally a rare honor for the Fan family, and he also dreams of becoming the first of the current Fan family's grandchildren to go to the Qing Dynasty and be summoned by the leader of the Qing Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this origin and this kind of thinking that Fan Yudong also understood the dress system of the Qing Dynasty under the earnest instruction of his elders.

This time, as soon as he saw the white armor with red edging that the visitor was wearing, he knew that the Qing soldiers he encountered this time were Manchu troops with white flags.

So, who is the owner of the white flag?

This is not difficult for Fan Yudong.

Although Fan Yudong had never seen it with his own eyes, he had long heard of the tyrannical reputation of the ten princes of the Qing Dynasty who held the white flag.

Therefore, when he saw the cavalrymen with a white flag, he did not dare to act rashly, for fear that he would get offended at any time and be chopped down with a knife by the masters of the white flag, who were always tyrannical and lawless.

Of course, he would never have expected that the team in front of him was not Manchu soldiers with white flags. But to him, especially to the caravan behind him, the team in front of him was not.

It is a hundred times more dangerous than the soldiers with white flags in Manchuria.

And he was destined not to reach the Qing Dynasty.

After finding out the identity of the other party, Yang Zhen, who was pretending to be a Manchu nobleman with a white flag, could not speak Manchu or Mongolian, but he could not talk directly to Fan Yudong.

They had no choice but to let Li Ma and Hu Tuge take their own people, first take the horses of the other party's group, disarm the other party's weapons, and take them to the other side to wait.

And he himself recruited Zu Keyong, Zhang Chen and others to discuss the next action.

Since by chance he had bumped into and intercepted Fan Yudong, the man in charge of the Zhangjiakou caravan's advance to Aohan, he could not let go of this great opportunity.

Speaking of Zu Keyong and Zhang Chen, they came to Yang Zhen on horseback. Without saying anything, Yang Zhen handed Fan Yudong's waist badge directly to them, let them look at it one by one, and then said in a deep voice:

"This Fan Yudong is not an ordinary person. He carries around a waistband awarded by the Qing Dynasty Internal Affairs Bureau. He must be a descendant of the Fan family, a giant businessman in Zhangjiakou Mountain!"

Now Yang Zhen cannot easily reveal his understanding of the Zhangjiakou Shanyou profiteer group. Otherwise, he will not be able to explain where his understanding of these people comes from, which will be troublesome, so he has to hide it for now.

But after he had that waist card, what he said was reasonable.

After Yang Zhen finished speaking about his judgment, seeing Zu Keyong and Zhang Chen nodded in agreement with his statement, they then whispered:

"In this case, we simply pretended to be Manchu Tatars until the end, and without stopping, we crossed the river to the west, went straight into their caravan, and deceived the proprietor of their group, or the leader of the group, into leaving.

The team is here!

"As the saying goes, if you shoot the man first, shoot the horse first, and if you capture the thief, capture the king first. Once the owner or leader of the caravan is killed, no matter how many people there are in the caravan, they will still be leaderless and will definitely fall into chaos. At that time, we will start the robbery.

The perfect time!”

After hearing what Yang Zhen said, Zu Keyong and Zhang Chen looked at each other and nodded again.

The slightly solemn faces of the two people had bright eyes, and they were obviously full of uncontrollable excitement and expectations for Yang Zhen's somewhat risky arrangement.
Chapter completed!