Chapter 7 Forced to marry by a bearded girl
Yinshan Town is an important market town on the northwest border of Zhongshan Kingdom, and it is also an important gateway for exchanges between Zhongshan Kingdom and northern nomadic peoples such as the Hu people. In this market town, the Hu people and other nomads are far larger than the locals. And there aren't many real locals.
Can you imagine how many locals are there in this main outward market town? Not to mention that robbery and murder cases occur every day, at least! There are one or two major homicides every year. Either the Hu people and other nomads came to the market town to loot and kill people, or the merchants and residents who lived here killed the barbaric foreigners.
So! The locals were either killed by the foreigners or were frightened away from here and fled to the interior. Most of the people who stayed here were merchants, and those who brought them to work, as well as those who came to pan for gold.
It's heaven and hell.
If you want to get rich, come over overnight and you will be rich. If you are unlucky, it will be in the blink of an eye. Every time there is a large-scale robbery or a rebellion by merchants, many people will die. Often, at this time, the gold diggers can go and rob the ownerless property. Even! Occupy the home of the deceased.
The government also has no way to take these people, and the occupier said that he is related to the deceased, so! When relatives and friends die, this place becomes their legal property. It is also said! He helped the deceased, and the deceased gave him everything here when he was dying.
So! When it comes to getting rich, sometimes it's easy.
The army of Zhongshan Kingdom is stationed in Yinshan Town, and ordinary robbers dare not come over. Furthermore! The nomadic merchants lived here, and they were able to sway the bad guys of their own people to rob them.
Relatively speaking! Living here, as long as you pay attention to it, don't fight with others, don't show off your wealth, and don't show off your wealth, you can be safe.
Often, when a caravan like Bai Gyu comes to the market town, it is easy for something to happen. But! Bai Gui's caravan never ran to such a dangerous place. His caravans were often stationed on the side of the capital, where they kept their goods in warehouses. And then! It was transported to various market towns in Zhongshan Province in a way that was broken into parts.
Only those businessmen who are stupid and wealthy will directly send the freight to Yinshan Town and other border towns. Often because the momentum is too loud, it attracts the attention of the nomadic villain. These wicked people will organize teams and come and rob them. If they succeed, they will return to the depths of their deserts and grasslands with the looted possessions. After getting rich, you can live a comfortable life for a lifetime.
Above the town of Yinshan, there is a warehouse in Baigui. But! Warehouses aren't the kind of retail that are open-door. For safety reasons, most of the time it is closed. It is a wholesale business, but it is not open for business with the sign of the warehouse.
Someone comes to talk about business, knocks on the door outside. There are young men inside the door who stand guard day and night, and when they hear someone knocking on the door, they will check the situation outside through the crack in the door or through the lookout. If you are an acquaintance, open the door quickly. If it's a stranger, be careful. After all! This is Yinshan Town.
The wicked often send a person to knock on the door first, and when you open the door, the person behind you will rush quickly. And then! Behind closed doors, do nonsense.
There is not much storage in the warehouse, and if someone comes to wholesale, they will deliver it from the capital. Or! Let the owner of the goods go directly to the capital to pick up the goods.
Plainly! This warehouse in Yinshan Town is just a point of contact.
"White officials!"
"White officials!"
"White officials!"
The shopkeeper and the young men of the warehouse were all surprised when they saw Bai Gui and Bai Guanren coming.
Although Bai Gui came to Zhongshan Country two years ago, he dealt with the affairs of the ranch. He lived in the capital for a period of time to deal with the affairs of the Zhongshan Mall, but he did not go to Yinshan Town. When I came to Yinshan Town, I still came to open the warehouse for more than five years.
"Prepare the food! Send someone to call those friends of mine in Yinshan Town! I have something important to discuss with them! "Baekyu doesn't want to stay in this unsafe place for long, he wants to solve it quickly.
To know! His reputation in the business world, that's too big. So! There must be a wicked person behind the scenes, how to kidnap him and where.
That night, five of the friends of the Hu merchants were invited.
Four of them, about the same age as Baekyu, were bearded men. The other one is about the same age. It's just that! She is a woman, a beauty among the Hu people. But! The years of living in Zhongshan have been long, and they have been "Zhouized", which is similar to the people of the Zhou Dynasty.
During the banquet, everyone rarely eats and drinks, but mainly talks about business. Bai Gui told the five of them his idea of starting a horse business, hoping that they would form a group or a partnership.
"With so many horses, it is impossible to transport them to Chu at once. There were at least five vassal states in between, and there weren't many horses left along the way. And also! If I directly said that I would sell a thousand good horses to the Chu State, the other princes would oppose it. That's no joke, a thousand good horses can make a strong cavalry. So! I only have to form a group or partner with everyone......"
Under Bai Gui's eloquence, an agreement was soon reached to do this business together. The five of them, not to mention 500 horses each, even 2,000, will not be a problem. Now the key is this: horses are not a problem. It's how to break up and transport these horses in batches.
More than 3,000 horses, that's not a joke, how long is the line?
So! Partial shipments can only be taken.
Bai Gui's more than 1,000 district horses took the lead, transported out of Zhongshan in three batches, and went to Zhao to pay bribes. And then! Then let their more than 2,000 horses be shipped out in six batches. Such! There are only a few hundred horses at a time, and the customs declaration exit is easy to pass through and will not attract official attention.
Furthermore! On the official side, someone has already made a point. The upper leaders benefited, and the lower ones objected to the invalidation.
"White officials! It's time for us to deliver on our promises! ”
As soon as the matter of transporting the horses into pieces was discussed, the bearded beauty cautiously proposed to Bai Gui and asked him to fulfill his promise.
"What promise?" Bai Gui didn't think about it for a moment and asked. He hasn't been to Yinshan Town for more than five years, where do you remember what promises he made back then?
The other four Hu people didn't know what agreement there was between the beauties of the same race and Bai Gui, and they all looked at Bai Gui with suspicion.
"My man was kidnapped and killed, and my family almost died. You saved us, did you forget? Hu Nu said.
"No?" Bai Gui said: "It's not that I saved your family, it's my brother who happened to meet and rescued them." ”
"You forgot? Back then, I decided to be your woman, but you didn't promise me, you said you had a wife. But as far as I know, you have several wives in Zhou! I said to you at the time, do you dislike me? You say no! I say! If you dislike me, then when my daughter grows up, I will marry my daughter to you, okay? You say it again! I'll talk about it when my daughter grows up! Right now! My daughter has grown up! So! It's time to make good on your promise. ”
"Ahh Your daughter? A Hu businessman exclaimed.
"Your daughter is the most beautiful woman in the Tianshan Mountains!" Another Hu businessman said.
"Your daughter is Tianshan Snow Lotus!"
"Would she like your daughter?" Another merchant asked suspiciously.
When the shopkeeper of the warehouse and others heard this, they were all stunned.