The group rushed out of Chang'an City and asked, and stopped at a road intersection. Qin Huaidao took out a map to check it. Cheng Chumo came over and said curiously: "Brother, I heard that someone went to Lingnan Road to search and returned empty-handed. Can we do it?"
"Do you know where they went to search?" Qin Huaidao asked.
Cheng Chumo looked around and whispered: "I heard it was only in the Jingchu area and didn't go too far. I guess he was afraid of death, but he lied and claimed to have searched the entire Lingnan Road. This matter cannot be spread randomly."
The Jingchu area is also Hunan and Hubei in later generations. Qin Huaidao remembers that Luo Han Guo seems to be produced in Hunan, but he is a little unsure. Hubei has not heard of it. Since some people have looked for it, I am afraid that it is not available in Hunan at this time. After all, the origin of Luo Han Guo is in Guangxi.
"Should we go directly to Guangxi? It's too far to go from Chang'an."
Qin Huaidao was calculating in his mind, looking at the map while understanding the maps of later generations. Gradually, a route was determined and he said: "Take Kugu Road, all the way south, pass Kuyu, Zhen'an, Xunyang to Ankang."
"What, Kugu Road?" Cheng Chumo's face changed, and he reminded: "This post road goes through mountains and ridges, so it is difficult to walk. Why not take Ziwu Road? You can also take Fengshui Road, you can go to Xunyang, and Xunyang goes south.
It’s health.”
"The waterway is too convoluted, too slow, and unsafe."
"What, the waterway is unsafe?" Cheng Chumo immediately disagreed and was about to refute. Suddenly he thought of the Wang family and Cui family that Qin Huaidao had recently provoked. The safest waterway might really become the most unsafe. He immediately reacted and said: "Okay
, the Holy One said, I will listen to your command."
The latter sentence was deliberately louder, obviously for others to hear, so as not to complain.
Qin Huaidao didn't expect that Cheng Chumo was quite considerate. No wonder the founder of the country died and was demoted, but Cheng Yao, Jin Qingsong, was not old. During the empress period, he became the first person in the Shangzhu Kingdom and the military. He had a son, which shows that his father
, the family seems rude, but in fact they are smart.
Qin Huaidao was not bad at winning people's hearts and mobilizing morale. He shouted loudly: "Everyone, the Kugu Road is difficult to walk, but in a straight line, you can avoid a lot of unnecessary mistakes. All the food and drinks along the way are included. You will have meat for every meal. You will not lose anything."
Everyone, if there is a silver reward when you come back, I will share my share with everyone. They all say that the Kugu Road is difficult to walk, so come with me if you are not afraid of death."
"Let's go, I'm afraid of getting caught——"
"The Duke of Yi is benevolent and righteous!"
Everyone shouted loudly and rushed to follow.
Cheng Chumo saw the sudden burst of morale, smiled at the back of Qin Huaidao who rushed out, and murmured: "It's the old guy at home who has a good eye. This brother really has something, so--"
The reins shook, the legs buckled hard, and the horse rushed forward.
The team rushed all the way, and before dark, they stopped at a small town closest to the entrance of Kugu Road. They rested for one night, purchased dry food for three days, and then continued on their way. They were all on small roads, and the road was very difficult to walk, and they could not walk fast.
We wade through mountains and rivers and stop when we encounter a village. If that doesn't work, we spend the night in the mountains.
They are all soldiers, fearless.
Stopping along the way, we finally arrived in Ankang. After two days of rest, Qin Huaidao went to major pharmacies and looked around the market, but couldn't find it. He continued on the road on the third day and arrived in Tongren, western Hunan more than ten days later. He was exhausted and had to stop again.
Come down and rest.
This time, the team rested for three days before recovering. Qin Huaidao searched for three days but couldn't find any Luo Han Guo. He simply continued south and entered Qiandongnan by water, but still couldn't find it. In anger, he went straight to Guilin County.
But it would be unreasonable to find the boundaries of Guangxi in later generations.
More than ten days later, the group finally came to Guilin County and saw a kind of herbal tea in a herbal tea shop, one of which was Luo Han Guo. Qin Huaidao was overjoyed and finally found it. After some inquiry, he learned that Yongfu County, southwest of Guilin County, is rich in Luo Han Guo.
, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
October happened to be the ripe season. The group came to Yongfu County and found the county magistrate who had issued the imperial edict. The county magistrate had never heard of Luo Han Guo. Seeing that they were looking for it under the edict, they did not dare to neglect it and quickly sent people out to inquire. Finally, they found it in a
A large number of Luo Han Guo are found in the mountains.
This mountain is owned by the county government. When Qin Huaidao found out that tens of thousands of acres only cost two thousand taels of silver, and the prices in the border areas were really cheap, he took Cheng Chu and had a secret talk. When he found the county magistrate, they had another secret talk. When they came out, they felt like family.
, Qin Huaidao had an additional land deed and a cooperation agreement in his arms.
The agreement stipulates that the county magistrate will be responsible for the future cultivation, management and production of Luo Han Guo, Cheng Chumo will be responsible for opening the store, and Qin Huaidao will be responsible for selling the Luo Han Guo. Although Luo Han Guo is good, without the county magistrate, a local emperor, to be in charge of the local area, it is easy for things to go wrong. The only way to make a fortune together is to make a fortune together.
News of the purchase of mangosteen fruits for a penny per catty was soon released from the county government, and countless people poured into the mountains. A few mangosteen fruits were worth a catty. To the locals, this amount of money was like pie in the sky.
Ten days later, Qin Huaidao and others returned, dragging the dried mangosteen fruit. A team of one hundred people had one hundred horses, and each horse carried one hundred kilograms, which was ten thousand kilograms of dried mangosteen fruit, which almost emptied Yongfu County.
When we returned home, everyone was no longer in such a hurry and just drifted along the waterway slowly.
More than a month later, everyone returned to Ankang. They could not continue climbing the steep and narrow Kugu Road with Luo Han Guo, so they took the Xun River instead. The Fengshui River was much closer, but the boats active in the Qinling rivers were not big. If the boat capsized, it would be dangerous.
As he was busy in vain, he led the team to the west, turned to Hanyin County, took Ziwu Road, and headed north.
The Ziwu Road is wide and is the first choice for caravans. It is much easier to walk than the Kugu Road.
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Qinjiazhuang, ancestral hall.
The temperature in Chang'an dropped sharply in November, and the cold wind howled, which was daunting.
Jia Youcai sat on the floor in the ancestral hall, guarding several large bags of money in the corner behind him. Since Qin Huaidao left, Jia Youcai moved into the ancestral hall and guarded the means of survival with Xue Rengui. No one has come back in the past three months. The Qin family
People in the village were in panic.
"Uncle Jia, it's cold, make a fire, don't freeze your bones!" Xue Rengui came in from the outside, covered in dust, and his face didn't look good.
"Still haven't caught those bastards?" Jia Youcai asked with concern.
Ever since the story of burning bricks with coal spread, the transport team suddenly encountered an assassination. The murderer was very cunning. They worked in groups of three or two, pretending to be people on the road, hunting, or even horse-drawn carriages pulling coal, specifically targeting those who had no one.
They killed people on the road and ran away without being traced. After two or three days, no one dared to haul coal anymore.
In order to ensure the needs of the brick kiln, Jia Youcai had to send out guards to escort him, so the murderer changed the route. Anyone who dared to pull coal would be retaliated against at home. A day later, no one dared to get out of the car. There was no carriage in Qinjiazhuang, so he wanted to go
I bought it, but the seller of the carriage was also threatened and did not dare to sell it.
Without coal, the brick kilns could not be fired, and only three kilns were fired. The other brick kilns were abandoned due to lack of coal midway. Jia Youcai was so angry that he fell seriously ill, but luckily he survived.
Xue Rengui was also very angry and said bitterly: "Uncle Jia, the news is wrong. Someone leaked it deliberately to make us angry. This trip was in vain. These bastards will kill them one day."
"Winter is coming soon. With money in hand, it is not a big problem for the village to survive the winter, but the side of Meishan may not be able to withstand it. This damn weather can freeze people to death. If it doesn't work, just withdraw. It's important to protect people, so
I don’t know where the young master has gone, it’s freezing cold, so I hope nothing happens.” Jia Youcai said worriedly.
"It's not peaceful recently, let's take a look in a few days." Xue Rengui suggested.
"That's okay. Thank you for your hard work during these troubled times." Jia Youcai smiled gratefully.