Chapter 26 Business It was Zhu Tutu who came, and Zhu Tutu, who destroyed a city in a day, couldn't even stop the mighty cities like Huai'an, Gaoyou and Yangzhou from his full attack.
The earthen wall in Jiaozhou City is only over 17 feet high.
In front of his old man, he is just a little dirt bag.
No one has nine lives.
How could he listen to a few words of a fool and go to beat his old man?
Must In the blink of an eye, the officials and soldiers on the enemy towers and city walls were all gone.
Duo Tu, who could not be saved by anyone, could not accept the facts he saw with his own eyes.
He squatted on the ground, covered his face with his hands, and howled loudly, "Woo, woo, woo.
Mongolians, you put the Mongols' faces, you How can" From a young age, what he heard was how his ancestors were brave and good at fighting, how they integrated the grasslands with one force, and then destroyed countless countries to the west, and destroyed the Jin and Song Dynasties to the south, making them invincible.
But he never expected that when he really needed to show courage, his father, uncle and compatriots would actually run faster than the other.
The huge gap between perception and reality made him dare not open his eyes again.
He would rather squat on the city wall until he was killed and chopped into pieces by the Red Turban Army.
"Okay, don't cry.
Wipe your eyes quickly and stand up.
There are still things that you have to do."
As he was crying until the sky was dark, the voice of Zhang Zhao, the chief manager of Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, came to his ears.
With a bit of anxiety, but more of helplessness.
"You" Duotu raised his head in surprise and saw the latter handing a face towel in front of him.
It is a cotton jacquard face towel produced in Huaiyang.
It is much softer than the common cotton on the market.
It also uses a special technique on both sides to form two thick layers of cotton velvet.
It is extremely comfortable to wipe your face with.
It's a pity that the price is a little expensive, and ordinary people simply don't have the courage to ask.
As the eldest son of the Daruhuachi family, Duotu would certainly not be shocked by a piece of facecloth.
He was shocked that Zhang Zhao, the chief executive of the trading company who usually nodded and bowed to everyone he met, had the courage to stay on the city wall with him to wait for death.
Turning around to take a closer look, he found that not only Zhang Zhao, but also many generals, nurses and clerks brought by merchants had also stayed.
Everyone was holding their weapons tightly, with fear on their faces.
"Anyone who is an official can run away.
Anyway, as long as you take care of yourself, you can still be an official in another place."
As if he guessed what Duo Tu was thinking, Zhang Zhao, the chief manager of Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, sighed and explained with a wry smile, "But those of us who do business , but the monk cannot escape from the temple.
So Master Duotu, you have to take charge of the next thing.
After all, you can be regarded as an official, unlike me, who are all small businessmen."
"You, what kind of small traders do you think you are?"
Duotu grabbed the towel, wiped it on his face randomly a few times, and sneered.
His father, Jiaozhou Daru Hua Chi'er, always told him that he could bully anyone, but he must not bully the dozens of Han and Semu traders near the West Market.
Although the latter's status is not as high as his, the people standing behind him are all dignitaries in the capital city.
It really made the other party anxious, not to mention him, even his father, Daru Huachi from Shangzhou, had to suffer the same fate.
"We all work for others, we can't get on the stage ourselves."
Even though his identity was revealed by the other party, Zhang Zhao, the head of the commercial bank, did not feel embarrassed at all.
In the Yuan Dynasty, collusion between officials and businessmen was an open matter, and only country bumpkins would find it strange.
Therefore, he calmly cupped his hands and continued, "It's like you, you were born with a salary and position, and you are a first-class person wherever you go."
The word "first-class person" was bitten hard by Zhang Zhao.
After Duo Tu heard this, he inevitably sarcastic again.
However, thinking about his father's shameless act of leading the escape, no matter how loudly he talks as a son, he can't earn much face.
Unconsciously, he sighed again and responded in a low voice, "Okay, stop talking nonsense.
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Now the people on the city wall belong to you.
Do you want me to do anything you want me to do?
I dare not agree to it.
Let me cut off my head and let you please."
Enemy troops.
It’s better to escape with everyone, I’ll just come down.”
"Young Master Duotu is indeed both wise and courageous," Zhang Zhao, the chief executive of the commercial bank, clapped his hands several times and praised loudly.
"In this case, I will not beat around the bush.
The enemy is about to attack outside the city gate.
Please ask Master Duotu to lead us and wait together to advance and retreat together."
"What do you mean by advancing and retreating together?"
Duo Tu became more and more confused as he listened.
He stared at the other party's old face full of frowns and asked hesitantly.
"It's very simple.
If pirates come here, let's support Master Duotu and wait for help together."
Zhang Zhao took a deep breath and responded loudly.
"After all, your father is Daru Huachi from Jiaozhou.
If you, Master, can lead everyone to defeat the pirates, whatever he did tonight will be easily covered up."
"Okay, that's settled."
Duotu thought for a while and nodded vigorously.
But soon, he raised his eyebrows again, stared into Zhang Zhao's eyes, and continued to ask loudly, "What if it's the Red Scarf Army who came?
Just now, didn't you say that it was the Red Scarf Army who came under the Zhu Thief's Tent?"
"Then please ask the young master to hold a white flag and lead everyone out to welcome the surrender."
Zhang Zhao nodded and added unceremoniously.
"It's a beautiful thought, I'd rather die."
Duo Tu immediately jumped up, pointing his finger, and said angrily, "If you want to surrender, you won't let me, a stupid kid, come forward by yourself.
What's the point of you people cowering behind?
" "We are all ordinary people.
You are the eldest son of the Daruhuachi family and you still get a salary for a thousand households."
Zhang Zhao, the chief manager of Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, was not angry.
He took half a step back and responded with a smile.
"If you go out to open the door for the Red Scarf Army, you will be more respectable than us anyway.
Once your father escapes, even if he reaches Yidu safely, he will inevitably have to go to Dadu to take care of everything.
We will provide money and effort at that time , are you still afraid that you won’t be able to save his old man’s official position and life?”
"You, you guys" Duotu was immediately choked up and his face was covered with bruises.
He breathed for a long time before murmuring in response, "You are shameless and you have to go on your own.
You are opening the city gate anyway, so you don't care who opens it."
"That's really different."
Zhang Zhao shook his head and continued to persuade, "Master, take everyone out to show off.
People outside don't know that all the officers and soldiers in the city have fled.
We can still bargain and get them to agree to enter the city.
If you don't rob, you won't kill.
But if we, the common people, just open the city gate, the merit of dedicating the city will be lost.
After people come in, they can do whatever they want."
"This" Duotu is only sixteen years old this year.
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No matter how precocious he is, he still can't guess the true thoughts of several old businessmen.
But the reason given by the other party was too far-fetched.
His eyes as big as bells widened, hesitant.
He has been reluctant to stand up for everyone, but the "pirates" outside the city will not wait for him to make a decision.
Soon, the light came outside the east city gate.
They stopped suddenly two hundred steps away from the city wall, then quickly changed direction and shape, and formed an array on the spot.
"If Master Duotu is willing to come forward to negotiate with the enemy, your future official position will be entrusted to my master."
Zhang Zhao, the chief manager of Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, did not dare to waste any more time.
He gritted his teeth and offered the highest condition he could give. , "If he can't do it, Master Duo Tu will kill or chop him into pieces behind him, and Zhang will never dare to fight back."
"My grandpa wants a Shangzhou Daruhuachi from Liaoyang Province."
Duotu knew that he actually didn't have much choice.
He also gritted his teeth and bargained loudly.
Liaoyang Province is far outside the Great Wall.
Although it is a bit colder, the oil and water are far less than Jiaozhou.
But there was no harassment from the red scarf thieves.
With his father's soft-hearted character, he could just hide there and have a good time.
"Okay" Zhang Zhao nodded without hesitation.
"Pick up the torch for me, let me see who is coming from outside the city first."
Seeing that the other party agreed happily, Duo Tu simply went ahead and gave the order without hesitation.
Zhang Zhao and others were afraid that no one would be their puppets.
Since Duo Tu was willing to come forward, they didn't bother to worry about other details.
Immediately let the guys light up all the torches and lamp balls on the watchtower, lighting up and down the city gate as bright as day.
"The son of Daru Huachi in Jiaozhou, the grandson of the Marquis of Wuning County in the Dayuan Dynasty, hereditary family with thousands of families, who is here, and quickly become famous?"
The young man immediately entered the role, and walked to the brightest star with a bit of tragedy.
Under the lantern, he opened his voice and announced his door.
"The son of Daru Huachi in Jiaozhou, the grandson of the Marquis of Wuning County in the Dayuan Dynasty, and hereditary family with thousands of households.
Whoever comes here will be famous quickly."
Zhang Zhao, the head of the trading company, winked.
Immediately, countless clerks, big and small, gathered together.
Qi repeated loudly at the top of his voice.
The officers and soldiers of the Huai'an Army outside the city obviously had no idea that all the officials and defenders in the city had fled, just as Zhang Zhao had judged before.
He was preparing to wait for the siege equipment to be pushed over, and immediately drill holes and blast the city wall according to the method of attacking Baoying.
Hearing the shouts from the enemy tower, he was stunned and responded at the top of his voice: "We are the fifth army of the Huai'an Revolutionary Army.
People in the city listen carefully and open the doors to surrender immediately.
We, the Huai'an Army, are the army of benevolence and righteousness." , never killed prisoners, nor looted any cities."
"You are really the Huai'an Army."
Duo Tu's heart sank at first, and then he felt relieved.
It was all over.
If the pirates came, according to the agreement he had just reached with Zhang Zhao and others, he would still have a chance to fight to the death.
Since Lai De was from the Huai'an Army, he had no other choice but to negotiate surrender terms with the other party.
"It's the Huai'an Army, otherwise the team wouldn't be so neat."
"I have seen their flag, it should be the Huai'an Army" "Hurry up and talk to them, don't waste your time.
Even if they offer some labor funds, we will accept it.
It is impossible to stop them."
The discussions behind him came one by one and fell clearly into Duo Tu's ears.
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Faintly, there was actually a bit of joy.
As the saying goes, peaches and plums are silent, and they create their own mistakes.
The Huai'an Army's good reputation seems useless.
At this moment, the resistance of all kinds of people in the city was greatly shattered.
Anyway, even if a Mongolian official falls into the hands of Butcher Zhu, as long as he has done no serious evil in the past, his family can spend money to redeem him.
We are all ordinary people, so what we have to worry about is the loss of some property.
Moreover, the Huai'an Army has never had any precedent of taking advantage of the situation.
"The general can open the city gate, but your army must ensure that after entering the city, Qiu will not commit any crimes."
He knew that even if he ordered to resist, no one would listen.
Duotu took another deep breath and shouted loudly to the city.
It felt uncomfortable to surrender voluntarily, but at least he saved his father.
Of course, all this is based on the premise that Zhang Zhao and others keep their word.
If the merchant regrets later, perhaps Duotu will have no choice but to become an assassin and secretly repay the blood debt for the whole family.
"The general can open the city gate, but your army must ensure that after entering the city, Qiu will not commit any crimes."
"The general can open the city gate, but your army must ensure that after entering the city, Qiu will not commit any crimes."
"The general can open the city gate, but your army must ensure that after entering the city, Qiu will not commit any crimes."
Because they knew it was the Huai'an army, the guards of the trading house and the big and small guys shouted with extra confidence.
Amidst the shouts, the river of lights outside the city began to change rapidly again.
A road was separated in the middle.
A famous general, holding an expensive glass lantern, strode up from behind.
Speaking in fluent Mongolian, he shouted loudly, "Who is Brother Duotu in the city?
Do you recognize me?"
Your grandpa, are you okay, Mr.
Eryou?"
"Who are you?"
Duo Tu was waiting for the other party's reply.
Unexpectedly, there were Mongols in the Huai'an army, and they seemed to be very familiar with him.
He was stunned, leaned out of the city wall, and widened his eyes to take a closer look.
"Who are you" "I am Timur, from the Xiu family of tens of thousands of households.
Don't you recognize me?"
The red scarf general outside the city walked closer and closer, and in a blink of an eye he was within the precise shooting range of the crossbow.
But he refused to stop at all.
"Duotu, you little brat.
You're itchy again, aren't you?"
"Brother Timur, how could it be you?
I recognized you.
You are, you are Timur of the Boyawu family in Yuli."
A simple and honest smile immediately flashed in front of Duotu's eyes.
Timur, the uncle of Xiuyi's family, took him to the sea to touch shells with his brother since he was a child.
One day, the emperor ordered his house to be raided and taken to an unknown place.
He has not been heard from since.
Unexpectedly, after losing contact for many years, the two brothers would meet again tonight in front of the two armies.
Note 1 "Hurry up and open the city gate for me.
Stop pretending to be a big onion.
How have you ever heard that our Huai'an army used to kill people and set fires?"
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Yu Tonghai wiped his face hard and shouted loudly in Chinese.
"Hurry up, don't waste your time.
Our chief manager is a real hero and has never treated anyone badly.
There are no ranks among the people under his command.
As long as you have real ability, no one will dare to take your credit.
Come here, we two brothers will protect him.
Don’t be fooled by your actions.
Believe it or not, I will collapse the city wall for you now, and it won’t even take half an hour.”
"Timur, you are Timur's brother."
Duotu suddenly felt aggrieved, shouted at the top of his voice, and ran towards the horse track, crying.
"Open the door, open the door, open the door to Timur.
He is also a Mongolian, and he is now the general of the Huai'an Army."
When the "big steward" saw Duo Tu's figure about to rush down the city wall, the family general next to Zhang Zhao quietly pulled back the horn bow and asked for instructions in a low voice.
At this point, the matter has completely escaped the control of the trading company.
So the best choice may be to kill Duotu, and then everyone escapes from the west gate before the Red Scarf Army attacks.
"No need to worry."
Zhang Zhao, the chief steward, shook his head very calmly and rejected the other party's proposal.
"Send a few people to open the door first.
Zhu Chongjiu's people have heard about our conditions just now.
This business may not be impossible to continue."
"Yes."
The general bowed in agreement, quickly chased after him, and led the men towards the city gate.
The city gate creaked and was opened from the inside.
The city of Jiaozhou, which was making money every day, was completely exposed in front of the Huai'an army.
Note 1: In official history, Yu Tonghai’s father, Yu Tingyu, had a Mongolian name of Xiuyi.
He is a hereditary noble, Yuli Boya Wu family.
But the father and son were forced into desperation and had no choice but to become water thieves.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who later took refuge, became the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty
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