After only half an hour, the people from Xiajiazhuang left the city in two carriages.
It was already dark on the grassland at this time. Standing on the high platform behind the city wall, Song Liyun watched the lanterns disappear into the night.
Three steps away from her, Jian Fangtong bowed his head and waited for instructions.
"Wait until you cross the Zabu River before taking action, otherwise no lives will be lost!" came a faint female voice in the wind.
Now that the trade route belongs to Mida City, it is not appropriate to hurt other caravans anymore.
Jian Fangtong was so happy that she responded repeatedly and quickly summoned her two brothers to the side to discuss.
After following this young lady for a few days, he was always in a state of panic, wondering what he, a person who only knew how to dance with a gun and a stick, could do.
After receiving the errand, he immediately understood.
Five days later, Jian Fangtong came back quietly: "Master, Xia Pu's leg was broken, and the others were not moved!"
He didn't say much, and lurked by the Zabu River with his three brothers.
When the people from Xiajiazhuang came over, he broke Xia Pu's legs with just one blow. Even if they were connected, he would not be able to travel long distances.
Although there were dozens of tenant farmers in Xiajiazhuang, they were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy when faced with the horse bandits who covered their heads and faces.
Following his master's orders, he did not hurt anyone again, but only threatened him.
Song Liyun nodded: "That's good. They are also innocent. They just went to the wrong owner."
After talking about his official business, Jian Fangtong took out the money box again, which contained more than two hundred taels of silver.
Song Liyun took out five ingots and threw them back to him: "You gave up the living brothers and divided them. As long as you are obedient, you will deserve nothing less!"
Jian Fangtong was overjoyed with the money. Here he had food, accommodation, money, and no risk of being killed. It was much better than being a bandit.
All Xia Pu's money was recovered, and their trip was not in vain.
It is impossible to return the two carts and the four horses that were taken away from Mida City, and they are worth a hundred taels in total.
Qin Huai, who stayed in Mida City, did not see Song Liyun paying him any wages. Instead, he arranged work to build roads in the city. He suddenly understood that his group of people did not need to leave.
Song Liyun had only been here a few days when he came across the monthly big market in Mida City.
Since the new city was first built, the surrounding tribes have set up markets here. For the nomads who basically live a self-sufficient life, the largest commodity transaction is livestock.
The grassy beach outside the city is full of cattle, sheep and horses sent by various tribes.
In the city, several grocery stores and fur buying shops were crowded with people from various tribes. They were all exchanging the sold animals for daily necessities, tea, salt, cloth, and fodder brought by various tribes for trading to survive the winter.
Last time.
Lin Qingyuan set up a shop early, and several leather goods shops opened in Hecheng.
Risks always coexist with returns. As long as the low-priced livestock received in Mida City can be sent to Hecheng together, the price will be doubled several times.
The current Mida City has not yet been truly completed, and except for Lin Qingyuan and Wanjia, there are not many caravans coming.
Song Liyun's arrival brought new goods to the shop. Apart from the new fabrics, the rarest ones were probably the scented soap and powdered ointment.
It's a pity that all the people entering the city now are men, and no one comes to see the powder.
But the cigarettes and alcoholic drinks that Song Liyun brought were all sold out.
She has never thought about making money from soap and powder. This is just to increase the diversity of products, and also hopes to bring subtle hygiene habits to the Di people.
There is another special place in Mida City, which is the big bath.
It is close to the Mida River and has abundant water resources. In addition, with a large amount of cattle and sheep dung sent by the surrounding tribes as fuel, hot water can be used day and night.
The first people to enjoy it were the garrisoned Lei Ziying and migrant workers like Song Erlang.
After a tiring day, take a dip in the large hot pool and all fatigue will be eliminated.
Spring in the grassland comes silently and yet seems to come with great vigor.
One night, all the eyes were gray and yellow, showing green, but the grass blades were sparse, reflecting the sentence: the color of grass seems to be invisible even from a distance.
Following the spring breeze, there are also caravans.
In addition to as few as five or six to as many as a dozen large vehicles, each caravan also has at least fifty people as guards.
Now they don't have to be wary of horse bandits, but they have to be wary of wolves.
When we set out for Hecheng, we received news that it was spring now, and the wolves on the grassland were hungry, so they were most likely to be attacked.
These people know that there are many dangers on the grassland, which can scare the brave to death and starve to death for the timid.
Seeing the sudden appearance of live cattle and sheep brought back by Wanjia Furniture Co., Ltd. all winter, merchants in Hecheng were already greedy and panicked.
The Wan family told everyone that there was a city in the grassland, and you could go here to buy and sell things directly, without having to risk going to each tribe to trade with the chiefs who spoke Di language.
The small businessmen communicated with each other, and several families joined together to form a caravan to enter the grasslands to make money.
In the past, when the Qi family cut off the Di people's goods, ordinary merchants like them had no chance to enter the grassland.
Every time a caravan arrives, a wooden house needs to be built immediately.
Song Erlang and Qin Huai had to stop work and return to the city to build a house.
The board walls have long been pulled out and piled up in the city lord's mansion. Now it is very easy to build a house.
Moreover, the size, location, and even style are selected according to the needs of each caravan.
Under the eyes of the caravan, houses sprouted out of thin air overnight like mushrooms after the rain.
Those who come early can still build houses in empty commercial areas, while those who come late can only build houses one after another on the edges.
As the commercial area gradually filled up, and groups of Di tribesmen from outside came to pick out goods, the streets of Mida City became noisy and lively.
Small but complete.
Midacheng's wine shops, bathhouses, restaurants, and jade shops are also located next to each other.
The guards brought by the caravan can be spent here with silver, or can be discounted on goods.
Wanjia's leather goods business is booming, with Song Liyun and Hecheng garrison office joining the business, and they basically deal in fresh cattle and sheep.
Lin's Department Store, on the other hand, sells grain, oil and groceries, which do not conflict with each other.
Song Liyun monopolizes consumer industries such as bathhouses and restaurants on his own.
Some Touliang horse bandits and soldiers from the Wuda tribe were in charge of security in the city.
If they encounter any dishonest Di people who drink, they will be beaten up.
Everything on the grassland has been set at the lowest wholesale price early.
Mida City was also merciless to the merchants of the Wu Dynasty who wanted to deceive the market, and sent them directly to the city lord's palace to make plans.
Song Liyun's methods were somewhat violent. He beat up ten Wu Dynasty merchants in one day and controlled the price fluctuations for the longest time.
Outside the city was Zhao Tingduo's territory. He led the Leizi Battalion to patrol within a hundred miles of the Mida Valley. Whenever bandits were harassing the tribe in the middle of the spring to move their tents, he would kill them all.
Mida Valley is an unprecedentedly peaceful scene.
In the city lord's mansion, Song Liyun was dialing the abacus.
Some time ago, she was short of money in building the city and transporting the houses.
But as soon as the caravan came, the wooden houses were immediately exchanged for silver, and now the accounts began to become richer.
Just when she was feeling dizzy, rubbing her forehead and closing her eyes to rest, the servant girl who was serving in the mansion called outside the door: "Young madam, there is a merchant named Lin Qingyuan who wants to see you!"