“走西口”成就晋商

　当年一代又一代的山西人走西口，走出了一部苦难史，也走出了一批历经磨练而精明强干的晋商来。如乔家大院的主人在鼎盛时期一度垄断了包头的一切贸易经营活动。而乔家由贫困通往大富的发展道路，就是由先祖乔贵发走西口开始的。包头，现在是内蒙古草原上最大的城市，人口超过两百万。在一百多年前，这里还只是个叫包克图的小村子。包头人说，因为山西人到这里做生意，才一点一点有了今天包头城的雏型，现在包头城里还流传着“先有复盛公，后有包头城”这样的说法。复盛公就是山西乔家在一百多年前开的商号的名称。

Go west mouth " achievement Jin merchants

In those days, generations of Shanxi people went west, out of a history of suffering, but also out of a group of honed and smart Jin merchants to.For example, the owner of the Qiao courtyard once monopolized all Baotou in its heyday.And the Qiao family from poverty to the rich development road, is by the ancestor Qiao Guifa west began.Baotou, now the largest city on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, with a population of more than 2 million.More than a hundred years ago, it was just a small village called Baoktu.Baotou people said, because Shanxi people here to do business, just a little bit of today Baotou city young shape, now bag Head city also spread the "first fu Sheng Gong, after the Baotou city" such a saying.Fusheng Gong is the name of the business name opened in Shanxi Qiaojia more than one hundred years ago.