Chapter 192: Yuncheng Shan Family
Shen Xiao then told the whole story, "Mr. Shan is the grandson of the Shan family in Yuncheng."
Yuncheng is located in the south of Dajin. It has convenient water and land transportation and a prosperous economy. Half of Dajin’s annual taxes come from here. It has always been known as the "Southern Capital", which shows its prosperity.
The Shan family started out in the fur business and became wealthy fifteen years ago. They then gradually expanded their family business to cloth, porcelain, tea, spices, jade and other industries. Ten years ago, they became the richest man in Yuncheng.
Shan Mancheng is the only legitimate grandson of the Yun family in this generation. He started to get involved in the family business at the age of fifteen.
Although he looks like a weak young man, he has a heart that yearns for the vast world. At the beginning of this year, he followed his family's caravan and embarked on the trade route between Dajin and Dayuan.
The Shan family's caravan was naturally not an ordinary small caravan. The entire team carried a large amount of goods of great value, and they also specially hired an escort agency to escort them throughout the journey.
Everything was going smoothly until we passed by Jiayu Royal Court on our way back.
According to convention, the Shan family caravan will do some business with the Jiayu royal court, and if everything goes well, they will be able to return in three days.
But this time the atmosphere among the Jiayu tribe seemed very tense. Shan Mancheng made a prompt decision to abandon the transaction and lead the caravan away directly, but who knew that this would sow the seeds of disaster.
The caravan moved slowly, and after a day's journey, Shan Mancheng ordered them to stop and reorganize. Just as they were sorting the goods, a team of 300 Jiayu people surrounded them.
Shan Mancheng was very smart since he was a child and had a photographic memory. The head of the Shan family held him in the palm of his hand and hired many teachers to teach him. Because the Shan family was engaged in multinational business, Shan Mancheng learned some of the languages of several small countries that the Shan family had contact with.
The language of the Jiayu people was one of the languages that Shan Mancheng understood. When the caravan was surrounded, Shan Mancheng stepped forward to negotiate, but the other party asked him to put down all the goods and money.
Shan Mancheng obviously did not want to accept such a result and argued with reason, but the other party did not listen at all. Seeing that he did not agree, he directly ordered people to kill and rob.
Shan Mancheng was young and had never encountered such a thing. He was injured in the ribs before he could react. The most powerful escort in the escort agency protected him and escaped, while the rest of the people fled in all directions.
Naturally, all the goods were lost, and only the 500,000 taels of silver notes on Shan Mancheng's body were left.
These 500,000 taels of silver also brought Shan Mancheng a fatal disaster. Later, he was chased to the northern border of Hubei, and because he had a pass, he hurriedly entered the customs.
At that time, Shan Mancheng was already a little unconscious. He only knew that he had to escape, so he ran all the way into the valley that Shen Qingqian and the others had cleared. He collapsed when he could no longer hold on.
The above is the entire experience narrated by Shan Mancheng himself.
Shen Qingqian and the others knew almost everything that happened afterwards, but they still had some questions.
"Brother, has no one ever suspected that he was lying?" Shen Qingqian was the first to raise the question.
Chen Xiao said, "Of course there were, but one of the general's personal guards happened to recognize this Mr. Shan. Plus, he had the travel permit, various caravan documents, and the 500,000 taels of silver notes, so no one suspected anything anymore."
In particular, after meeting the General Zhenbei, the first thing Shan Mancheng did was to donate the 500,000 taels of silver notes on him to the Hubei Northern Army. After confirming that his identity was correct, the general certainly did not say anything else.
You should know that the current salary of ordinary soldiers in the Hubei Northern Army is three cents of silver per month, which is only three taels and six cents per year. The 500,000 taels alone are enough for the entire year's salary of the Hubei Northern Army's 100,000 troops.
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