Chapter 466: The Beginning of Civil and Commercial Rise (4)
"Are these people...the caravan of the nobles of Wei State?"
The meson owl looked at the large-scale caravan in the distance in surprise.
I saw that this caravan had about a hundred carriages filled with goods, which was not comparable to the mere carriage of Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziguo brothers.
Moreover, the captain of the caravan, a middle-aged man who looked well-dressed, also had a very cruel and arrogant attitude. When he heard that the soldiers of the Chenggao Army refused to allow their caravan to leave the customs, he arrested them fiercely.
He picked up the armor of a soldier and said viciously: "You little soldier, do you know whose caravan we are?"
However, the attitude of the Shang Shui sergeant was also very calm. He waved his hand. Suddenly, there was a loud whooshing sound, and an iron arrow as thick as a knuckle hit the man with great force.
The ground around the caravan captain was still humming after the nails were driven into the ground.
The merchant captain was startled. He looked up and was horrified to see dozens of ferocious-looking war weapons pointing at him on this section of the city wall.
"Line...Line crossbow!" The caravan captain's face turned pale. He subconsciously dropped the hand of the soldier in front of him and took two steps back in fear.
"Liannu?"
Jie Zigui looked up at the war weapons on the city wall, and then looked at the Chenggao sergeant. He saw that the other party calmly patted the place where the caravan captain had caught him, and then said lightly: "Who cares?
Who? If you don't allow it, you don't allow it! ...Want to cause trouble here? Have you figured out where this place is?" After that, he shouted loudly: "This is Chenggao Pass!"
At this moment, the fierceness on the soldier's face was far more fierce than that of the caravan captain just now, full of murderous intent.
"Dare you make trouble here? Are you tired of living?!"
Following the shouts of this Chenggao soldier, a group of soldiers suddenly poured out of the gate on the city wall, intimidating the big and strong men in the caravan who did not dare to cause trouble.
"These people...have killed people!"
Jie Zigui swallowed his saliva, because he saw that the Chenggao sergeant walked towards him after frightening the caravan captain.
After only a dozen steps, the Chenggao sergeant came to Jie Ziyu and said in a deep voice: "Didn't I ask you to pay the money?"
Jie Ziyu was startled and said quickly: "My companion has already gone."
"Oh." The Chenggao sergeant was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
At this moment, Wen Shaobo came to Jie Ziyu with his head lowered. As if he had not seen the Chenggao soldier, he said in frustration: "Jie Zi, we were robbed of a hundred big coins... That group of people
robber!"
Jie Ziyu secretly glanced at the sneer-faced sergeant Cheng Gao next to him, and asked cautiously: "Then...can I leave the seclusion?"
"That's enough." Uncle Wen lowered his head and sighed.
After saying that, he noticed the Chenggao sergeant. A flash of panic flashed across his face, but he still muttered stubbornly: "He's just a robber, robbing us of a hundred big coins."
While Jie Ziu was frightened, the Chenggao soldier grinned and cursed: "Get out!"
Does that mean you can leave the customs?
Jie Ziu was doubtful, but it turned out that after paying the customs clearance fee of 100 yuan, the soldiers of the Chenggao Army did not stop him.
However, before leaving the customs, Jie Ziyu looked back.
He was surprised to find that the captain of the caravan, who was so arrogant just now, was chasing the Chenggao soldier and begging him repeatedly, saying that he was willing to pay ten times the customs duty, but the Chenggao soldier ignored him.
Ignore this person and continue to "extort" a hundred coins from another businessman who only has a carriage.
"Not only did the Ministry of Revenue provide convenience, but Chenggao Pass also participated in it... You are sparing no effort, King Su."
Jie Zizi sighed secretly.
"Did you see it?" After leaving the customs, Tao Hong also drove his carriage and approached, pointed at Chenggao Pass, and said something meaningful to Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziguan.
Unlike Wen Shaobo who complained angrily about Chenggao's soldiers forcibly extorting a hundred large sums of money from them, Jie Zizi lowered his voice and said: "I see, King Su is suppressing the caravans of those big nobles... What does Brother Tao think?"
Tao Hong snorted softly and said with a smile: "The wealth in the world will eventually be calculated. If the nobles lose one point, we people will gain one point... But I don't know how long King Su can last."
There was a flash of strange color in Jie Ziyu's eyes, and he said deliberately: "Brother Tao, do you think King Su can't last for a long time?"
Tao Hong glanced at Jie Zizi and said with a smile: "Brother Jie Zi is not honest." After saying that, he put away the smile on his face and said with emotion: "King Su is making an enemy of the entire Wei aristocracy.
, Although King Su’s prestige is at its peak now, if faced with the joint protest of those nobles, King Su will have no choice but to compromise in the end... King Su is too impatient, and now is not the time to touch those nobles."
"Foolish brother, I don't think it's because King Su is impatient." Jie Ziyu shook his head and said seriously: "I think it's because King Su is supporting us people, because King Su knows very well that without his secret support, we people
, it is simply impossible to buy in those expensive
They compete for food from the merchants supported by the clan... I don't doubt that with King Su's power so far, he can only compromise with those people in the end. But this is not because he is impatient, but because King Su gave us an opportunity to fight with those people.
Never give us a chance."
Tao Hong was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he said in surprise: "Brother has thought it through."
Jie Zigui smiled humbly, and then said seriously: "Maybe soon, Sanchuan will no longer belong to us alone. Maybe King Su will try to delay us as much time as possible, but in the end, we still have to rely on ourselves to take advantage of this opportunity."
King Duan Su fought for us to create as much wealth as possible and keep up with King Su’s pace...Bolangsha, Brother Tao, have you been there?"
A strange look flashed in Tao Hong's eyes, and he lowered his voice and said: "To be honest, brothers, there are private rumors about Bolangsha. The Smelting and Construction Bureau has insufficient funds and is raising money. Those who want to rent out Bolangsha seem to
What kind of "shop land" is used to obtain money... However, some people may have rumored that in fact, the nobles in the country are rushing to contribute funds to support the Smelting Bureau. However, King Su resisted and ignored these people...
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"..." Jie Ziyu recalled in his mind the scene where the Chenggao sergeant had just dismissed the caravan. He had some strange thoughts in his heart and lowered his voice and asked: "What's the price? I mean, what's the price?"
Bolangsha rental shop.”
"It is said that it is about ten thousand gold in ten years." Tao Hong said in a low voice.
When Jie Zizi heard this, he almost gasped in shock and said to himself, Ten thousand gold? I have never seen ten thousand gold in my whole life.
However, deep down in his heart, he still secretly kept this precious information in mind, because he had already deduced that Su Wang Hongrun was vigorously supporting the domestic private business forces. As long as he could take advantage of this strong wind, the man next to him who was still working for
The brother who thought in vain that "being "robbed" of a hundred large pieces of money by Cheng Gao's army" could realize his ambition and become a wealthy businessman in the Wei Kingdom with tens of millions of dollars.
"In my opinion, Bolangsha is by no means a short-term project. Before that, we can only do our best to make money..."
Jie Ziyu and Tao Hong looked at each other and nodded to each other.
After leaving Chenggao Pass, they arrived at the border of Sanchuan. Not long after, Wen Shaobo, Jie Ziyu, and Tao Hong drove a carriage and saw a group of foreign cavalry.
It has to be said that Wei people are generally not short. For example, Wen Shaobo was about eight feet tall. Jie Ziyu and Tao Hong were a little shorter than the former.
However, almost all of these foreign cavalry are nine feet tall, with a strong back and a strong waist. They are tall and strong. At a glance, you can tell that they are extremely capable men.
When the foreign cavalry approached, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu were a little frightened.
After all, Sanchuan was still at war a while ago, and the two parties fighting it were King Su and these foreigners. Who knows if these foreigners were the enemies of King Su?
What I didn't expect was that after the foreign cavalry approached Wen Shaobo and others, the leading cavalry captain asked them in blunt Wei language: "Who are you...?"
"It's good to be able to communicate!"
Jie Ziyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but not far away, Tao Hong quickly said: "We are Wei merchants who came to Sanchuan to do business."
Hearing this, the foreign cavalry captain frowned and asked: "Where is your... flag?"
"Flag? What flag?"
Jie Ziziu was stunned when he heard this, but Tao Hong from the side seemed to have remembered something. He slapped his forehead and quickly pulled out a small flag from his carriage, which had several words they couldn't understand.
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After seeing this flag, the alien cavalry captain no longer had doubts in his eyes, nodded and said: "Hang... on the car."
After saying that, he turned to look at Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu.
At this time, Tao Hong quickly reminded: "Brother Wen Xian, Xian brother Jie Zi, that flag is the flag given by Cheng Gao's army."
Jie Zigui quickly woke up Wen Shaobo who was still thinking casually, and the latter also took out a small flag from his arms.
Seeing this, the foreign cavalry captain turned around and pointed in one direction, and said in blunt Wei language: "Here... Luodi."
After that, the group of cavalry quickly left.
"The Sanchuan aliens... are so easy to talk to?"
Wen Shaobo, Jie Ziyu, and Tao Hong looked at each other because he didn't see any hostility in each other's eyes.
"King Su conquered this land with force, but these foreigners have no hatred towards the Wei people...it's strange."
Tao Hong murmured to himself.
No wonder, after all, the one with the deepest emotion among the three was this man from the old Song Dynasty.
Thinking back to the time when Wei and Chu teamed up to attack the Song Dynasty, the people of Song Dynasty still hated the Wei and Chu people quite a lot.
However, when Wen Shaobo, Jie Ziyu and Tao Hong arrived in Luocheng a day and a half later, they finally understood why the aliens in Sanchuan were attacking the Wei people and King Su who conquered them with force.
No resentment.
"Oh My God……"
Driving the horseman to a place some way away from Luocheng, Wen Shaobo looked at the densely packed transport ships hanging from the Wei Dynasty's household on the banks of the Luoshui River, and at those who were transporting or unloading goods among these ships.
of labor, with his mouth wide open in astonishment.