Three hundred and sixteenth town three mountains nine
"Wu He's escort drove away at once, and Jianghu returned safely in half a year—"
Huangling County, north of Heqing County in Suzhou, has been a fertile land since ancient times. It has hundreds of miles of fertile fields and many medicinal gardens. Many local people are doing business in this area. The quality of several kinds of precious medicinal herbs produced is second to none among the sixteen states of Dayao.
, the best among them were even used as tributes by the Yao royal family, and the powerful Suzhou family even purchased them.
Huangling County, which has accumulated considerable wealth for generations, is the most prosperous in Suzhou. Its county is also known as "Xiao Wuhang" among the people of Suzhou. Its wealth is also evident. Even affected by the famine a few years ago, here
The number of merchants who came to buy medicinal materials was less than 70% of the peak in previous years, but it still made the restaurants in Huangling County overcrowded. Even the inns near the county city were often booked by merchant teams and hung out signs saying they were full.
In desperation, many merchants who did not find any vacant inns had to camp outside Huangling County. These merchants who carried large sums of cash and banknotes with them to purchase medicinal materials, even if they spent a lot of money to hire road guards and bodyguards, they would not be able to do so every year.
There are always a few caravans of merchants who have disappeared on their way back and forth, many of which are time-honored caravans that have hired a large number of guards. The entire group has disappeared without a trace in Suzhou, and the government has not been able to find out why. The records are still in the archives.
There is still a backlog of files on dozens of unsolved cases.
Even though some of their colleagues disappeared from the world in Huangling County every year, merchants from the sixteen states of Dayao still came one after another. The merchants pursued profits, which can be seen.
Zhang Bashun narrowed his eyes, intending to see clearly the direction of the next twenty miles on the dusty and noisy road. However, the road was filled with endless lines of merchants, and the dust raised by the horses' hooves and carts made the Wuhe Escort Agency's bodyguard feel worried.
I was a little anxious, but I couldn't show it in front of my bodyguards and my employer.
"It's bright and clear in broad daylight, so no one will come to rob the escort. Please be at ease, escort leader." The young escort nearby rode forward, "We have avoided all the hills where bandits are entrenched along the way, even though we have walked a long way.
It’s a journey of more than a hundred miles, but there’s a lot of peace and quiet along the way, not to mention it’s only more than twenty miles outside of Huangling County. I want to come..."
"How can we take everything for granted in our line of work?"
Compared with the man who was still high-spirited when he first met Wei Changpan a few years ago, now his temples are mostly white and his face looks haggard. He patiently explained to the escort next to him who was just a fledgling escort for the first time; "Huangling County.
The city is not far away, but it is by no means close. It takes forty miles to go back and forth for twenty miles. If something happens to you, even if you can escape and call for reinforcements, you will have to spend a lot of time on the road.
I can only do some work of collecting corpses."
"To be cautious and cautious, in the eyes of you young people, is really aggrieved, but in the end, holding one's life in the palm of one's own hands, taking pleasure in grudges, in the eyes of you young people, is a first-class heroic act, but it can be done happily
As long as you live, you may die happily one day."
The young escort seemed to understand what he heard, but this escort leader Zhang, who had come back after his retirement, was the first-class veteran in Wuhe Escort Agency. However, when he was working as an escort in Suzhou, he had a big accident.
The mistake resulted in a serious loss of manpower for the escort. As the head escort, he had to bear the blame. Recently, the escort agency was extremely short of manpower, so he was recalled to serve in the escort agency. His first experience was with such a fat sow escort, and he also received
The fact that the two teams in the escort agency were capable of manpower made Wu and the other escort chiefs in the escort agency jealous.
There were bursts of pain in my back, but I couldn't reach out to hammer in front of all the escorts. I knew this well.
The sinister Zhang Bashun looked back at the group of heartless brats behind the carriage, and couldn't help but sigh. The escort agency really gathered the two teams into one team, and assigned such high-minded horses to come down, really it is for you.
Is it used by a kid to show off his power?
Except for him, only a few of the escorts are old escorts, and the rest are all young and strong escorts. They may seem impressive to outsiders, but Zhang Bashun knows it well.
The most reasonable combination is to occupy half of the country, but if there are enough old escorts in the Wuhe Escort Agency at the moment, there is no need to ask him to come out...
Zhang Bashun, who was the boss of Huafu in Haqing County, had never drank alcohol since he left Jinzhou. In addition to the fact that the escort had to take care of everything big and small, the escort leader was also worried about the little boys of the green escort in the middle of the night.
Unable to resist sleepiness, I spent almost every second half of the night with the bodyguards who kept watch until it was dark in the east before I dared to go back to rest.
Wuhe Escort Agency's escort flag drooped languidly on the flagpole, just like Wuhe Escort Agency's current predicament.
From then on, Suzhou seemed to have become a dangerous place for the Wuhe Escort Agency. In the past three years, six or seven escorts were robbed in Suzhou. The compensation paid by the Escort Agency to the cargo owners alone amounted to a small amount of 100,000 taels of snowflake pattern silver, which almost cost the entire company.
The past six or seven years that Wu and the Escort Bureau had been running around were in vain.
If it's just to rob the escort goods, that's it. You don't have to worry about running out of firewood to keep Qingshan. With the reputation of Jiwu and the escort agency in this industry, you don't have to worry about no customers. However, those local snakes in Suzhou who rob escorts seem to run away every time.
After killing all the generals and escorts, less than twenty-three out of ten of the six or seven escorts were able to return to Jinzhou intact and round the city.
For this reason, Song Yanchao, who is the chief bodyguard of Wuhe Escort Agency, has not asked people in Suzhou to investigate the matter thoroughly. After all, Wuhe Escort Agency has a wide range of contacts. The reason why it has been able to endure for a long time is because of its ability to take both black and white.
Not counting the money handed over, many guest escorts in the escort agency are well-known figures in every state and county before joining the escort agency. The good relationship accumulated by one or two people may not be of much use.
However, the Sixteen Prefectures of Dayao are full of old acquaintances. Anyone who wants to rob Wu He's escorts must consider whether they can withstand the reckoning between Wu He's escorts and the local forces.
The number of green escorts has nearly doubled. Among the young men in Wuhe Escort Bureau, they are considered to be highly skilled young men. Among them are many retired warriors from the army and frustrated warriors in the Jinzhou arena. This is on the surface.
Since Song Yanchao allowed such a strong team of escorts to openly display the banner of the Wuhe Escort Agency, which was the greatest reliance on the bodyguards, he wanted to demonstrate to those who dared to attack the Wuhe Escort Agency several times.
If Zhang Bashun was asked to make another choice, even if he was so depressed that he went to the streets to beg after his retirement, he would not take his own bodyguards to accept the invitation of the Heqing County government. He knew in his heart the reason why the bodyguards of the Wuhe Bodyguard Bureau repeatedly
The attack was probably related to the former king of Woniu Mountain, Wu Erlang. You must know that although Wu Erlang's brother was accidentally killed by him, in the final analysis, he was still with Wu Erlang.
It is actually not an exaggeration to die at the hands of Wu He Escort.
"In the past two years, the Escort Bureau's books have been tight, so we can only temporarily focus on the management of the routes with the most frequent traffic of the Escort Bureau. Nowadays, there are many companies that change their name every one and a half years. The Escort Bureau has worked hard to win over those people in these years.
Most of the kings have moved their heads. It seems that all the money that the chief escort has spent over the years has been wasted...
."
The person who spoke was one of the few escorts who was still in charge of the escort agency under Zhang Bashun. After getting that windfall, many escorts resigned from the chief escort Song Yanchao. Some went back and used money to cover the three-in-three.
In a big tile-roofed house, he lived the magical life of his wife and children on the hot bed. He also couldn't control himself and fell into the bad habit of eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. After squandering all the money on hand, he had no choice but to return to the escort agency. Zhang Bashun died.
The person in the carriage was the latter. If he hadn't been a skilled man and had been hanging out with his former escorts for nearly ten years, he would have owed hundreds of taels of silver in brothels and gambling houses.
By the way, Zhang Ba will never let him return to his bodyguard. Even if he is allowed to go back, he will never let him get involved in the more important things in this bodyguard.
It is the scholar's opinion that a person who has no faults and knows his faults can improve a lot. Zhang Bashun is not a scholar. He is a reckless warrior. If he does something wrong, he should have his hands and feet cut off.
Twenty years later he was a good man again.
He did something wrong in Suzhou, and he brought someone back to take care of it.
"The chief bodyguard spent all that money just for the sake of the escort agency's relationship management. You spent the money to win over those gambling house madams?"
Zhang Bashun, who had no sympathy for the escort, glanced back at the dozen or so carts in the center of the convoy. The medicinal materials purchased from Huangling County were very different in their medicinal properties and storage conditions, so there were often more than ten carts carrying the medicinal materials.
In addition, there are several large vehicles and escort flags carrying the personnel and supplies of the Wuhe Escort Bureau. It is quite an eye-catching procession even on Suzhou Avenue.'
The escort who was scouting the road came back on horseback and said that two large cars had collided in front of him and blocked the entire road. Seeing that there were still people trying to steal the road, it seemed that it would not be clear for a while. Zhang Bashun said this.
He put his hands on the side of the carriage and took advantage of the situation to climb onto the roof and look out from a high place. Sure enough, as the escort said, a line of more than a hundred carts had gathered not far away. The collision of the carts would completely destroy the whole car.
The two sides blocking the avenue were seeing each other going from yelling at each other to trying to steal the guy, and they showed no intention of taking a step back.
The owner of the cargo was worried that the bumpy road would damage the quality of the medicinal materials, so he tried his best to slow down the journey, which made the already not fast journey much slower. Zhang Bashun, who was a little anxious, turned over from the roof of the cart and called to the horsemen on the side.
The escort asked the cargo owners of several large trucks behind them if they could change lanes.
Having been in the bodyguard business for half his life, Zhang Bashun vaguely felt that there was something strange about the two large cars that collided in front of the avenue, but he couldn't explain why. If it had been in the past when the situation between Wu and the bodyguards was serious, he wouldn't have been able to tell.
He was free to mediate, but now his line of work is like a clay Buddha crossing the river, so he has no spare time to meddle in other people's business.
So the first large vehicle with the flag of Wuhe Escort Company turned into a fork in the road, followed by more than ten large vehicles.
At this time, Zhang Bashun would not know that it was his instinct to seek good fortune and avoid disaster that brought him and the men behind him to death.
The tall grass and bushes not far away should have been the color of vegetation, but at this moment there was an iron light flashing.
Wu He drove away with the sound of an escort, and the Jianghu people did not come back for half a year.