Xiong Tingbi said: "Actually, most of the Liaodong caravans are still good, and it's not OK without these caravans."

Through Xiong Tingbi's introduction, Gao Shixin realized that the caravans coming to Liaodong were of great significance to local military households. The Ming Dynasty court paid the military pay to the soldiers and paid the silver. As a result, a large amount of silver flowed into Liaodong, causing the prices in Liaodong to soar. At this time, the grain price in Liaodong was already twice as high as the capital, and it was still rising.

It was the soaring rice prices in Liaodong that gave Shanxi merchants the opportunity to make a fortune. Therefore, at least dozens of caravans of Shanxi merchants came to Liaodong to sell grain to local military households.

In order to curb grain prices, local governments have made rigid regulations on the grain prices of these grains, so that their prices cannot exceed too much in the capital. In this way, the less profitable part of Shanxi merchants is regarded as paying taxes.

Most of the Shanxi merchants did as required by the local government, but a few Shanxi merchants saw business opportunities instead. They secretly transported the food to the Later Gold for sale, exchanged for fur, ginseng, deer antler and other goods, and made huge profits.

Of course, Gao Shixin knew that according to the historical process, dozens of Shanxi merchants who listened honestly to the Ming government could not support them later, but the eight Shanxi merchants who sold grain to the Later Jin Dynasty made a fortune. The eight Shanxi merchants already had their list in Gao Shixin's mind, namely the eight Shanxi merchants headed by Fan Yongdou.

Xiong Tingbi told not to take the caravan randomly. The eight names of Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang and Huang Yunfa were arrested one by one by one on the list. There would be no mistakes.

But Gao Shixin showed the names of these eight people to Xiong Tingbi, but the old Xiong was so scared that he gasped: "Gao Baihu, are you sure that the eight of them are right? You must know that these eight people have a good reputation in Liaodong and they still have people in the court. If we do not directly arrest people based on real evidence, we may all be impeached."

"The wise man, as long as you take down the person first and send him to the Jinyiwei Zhao Prison, are you afraid that they will not be able to recruit him?" Gao Shixin said.

Xiong Tingbi shook his head: "No! If there is no evidence, they will take people, and they will not admit it. If you torture them one or two in the imperial prison, then the censors in the court will take advantage of the problem! If even I am impeached, who else can support you in Liaodong like me? However, since Gao Baihu believes that they are suspected, then target them. Isn't it much easier to investigate the case? You can send people to mingle into their caravan, or you can send people to pretend to be Jiannu and bait them. After finding the evidence, I will not be afraid of the group of people in the court."

"Thank you, Master Xiong, for your advice!" Gao Shixin quickly stood up and thanked.

Although Xiong Tingbi had a bad temper and was rather rude, he was a scholar after all, and he was a smart scholar, and had many ideas. He dated Gao Shixin and did not look down on this martial artist just because he was a civil servant. On the one hand, he was the identity of Gao Shixin as the Jinyiwei. On the other hand, the two often talked all night long. He found that Gao Shixin not only knew literacy, but also knew a lot of things, and his literary aspects were not bad, so he had a good impression of the Jinyiwei family.

"In fact, with your talent, you can definitely take the exam for fame and fortune." Xiong Tingbi said.

Gao Shixin felt very embarrassed. Not to mention taking the exam for fame and fortune, it is good for him to make a pronunciation of traditional Chinese characters and classical Chinese, and he can also get a fame and fortune in the eight-legged articles. On the contrary, his good brother Zhang Yongruo really took the exam for fame and fortune and could still get a Jinshi.

"Minister Xiong has won the award, what is the virtue of the last one?" Gao Shixin stood up and bowed.

Before Gao Shixin began to arrange a secret investigation of the businessmen and Shanxi merchants, the court sent people again. Gao Shixin's Liaoyang Xinzhen opened town, and the court ordered the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War to send officials to Liaodong to investigate the number of registered soldiers in Liaoyang Xinzhen and check the weapons and equipment.

"I didn't expect Gao Guerrilla to have no empty salary. The rank of guerrilla general can command 3,000 troops. Gao Guerrilla's command is full of 3,000 people, and there are 123 more." The small officials sent by the Ministry of War praised Gao Shixin's practice of not rushing to have no empty salary.

As for the issue of servants, the original Gao Shixin didn't want servants, only the personal soldiers. But since we came to this era, we could not do differently from other military generals, otherwise it would be easy to attract jealousy. Just imagine that if others support servants, you can fight better than others when you don't support servants. If you are angry all day and ask civil servants to thoroughly investigate the empty salary, then the generals whose vested interests have suffered will not be cruel to him? So he reported the names of the thousand scouts as servants.

After the town was officially opened, the court was preparing to send an eunuch to serve as a military supervisor.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers in the army were not disgusted with the eunuchs and military supervision at all, but cheered. After asking the reason, they realized that the military men of the Ming Dynasty were actually not disgusted with eunuchs. What they disgusted with were civil officials. That was because the military men of the Ming Dynasty were bullied by civil officials. There were very few civil officials like Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong who did not bully military generals, and there were too few.

On the contrary, eunuchs do not bully military men, eunuchs and civil servants have never dealt with each other. Eunuchs are people around the emperor, and their books do not need to go through the Tongzhengsi. In this way, military merits and grievances can be directly reported to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. The civil servants will not detain their merits or be divided up by civil servants.

The soldiers were originally pleased that their chief was a Jinyiwei household, and they were even happier when they came to another eunuch. Eunuchs and Jinyiwei were symbols of justice in the hearts of military officials. Factory guards were symbols of framing loyalty and harming the people in the minds of civil servants. Civil and military officials looked at problems in the opposite direction.

The only drawback is that the eunuch who came to serve as a military supervisor was not Gao Shixin's good brother Zhang Yong, but a family member. The Jinyiwei around him had already helped Gao Shixin investigate clearly. The father-in-law who came was a young father-in-law named Gao, and it is said that he was also similar to Gao Shixin's age.

My young father-in-law is of the same age, and Gao Shixin is worried that the person who comes will not be Gao Qiqian.

The more you are afraid of, the more you really come.

Gao Qiqian brought more than a dozen Dongchang men to Liaodong, but what surprised Gao Shixin was that when Gao Qiqian saw him, he acted respectfully: "Gao Baihu, our family was originally just a small ebony sign in the palace. It was only because they were lucky enough to be attracted by the prince. When they came to Liaodong, they hoped that Gao Baihu would take care of him."

"Eunuch Gao, you are a military supervisor, and you are a military general. You should be the one who takes care of me, right?" Gao Shixin didn't dare to get too close to this guy who cheated Lu Xiangsheng to death.

Who knew that Gao Qiqian had a smile on his face: "What is Gao Baihu? Your guerrilla identity is not important, what is important is the hereditary Jinyiwei! In fact, your Jinyiwei is the same as our father-in-law, and they are all doing things for the emperor. If you say care, how can Gao compare with you? You are not only the emperor's personal army, but also your uncle and brother are all celebrities in the palace now!"

Gao Qiqian is still an unknown eunuch. Since the defeat of Sarhu, the eunuchs in the palace have been afraid of coming to Liaodong to supervise the army, and are afraid that they will be killed in Liaodong by accident. However, Gao Qiqian felt that this was a good opportunity. He left many relationships and finally left Wang An's relationship and came to Liaodong.

From Gao Qiqian's mouth, Gao Shixin learned that it was his little brother Zhang Yong who had always come to Liaodong to supervise the army, but unfortunately the little carpenter refused to let him go, so he couldn't come.
Chapter completed!