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Outside Xia County.

Yanghe Chamber of Commerce, Huitong Chamber of Commerce, Hesan Chamber of Commerce, and more than a dozen small caravans' mules and horses were all pulled out of Xia County.

Li Chongjiu saw at a glance that this was almost a big horse gang of two hundred mules and horses, and the mules and horses pressed boxes on the left and right, all of which contained goods sold to the grassland.

For example, salt, Shu brocade, silk, Shu tea bricks, medicinal materials, paper, ironware, jewelry and jade, ceramics, are all in demand on the grassland that cannot be produced.

There were three hundred and fifty or sixty men from more than a dozen caravans, plus the stewards of each caravan, and some slaves brought by each of them, as well as many guards belonging to their respective caravans, You Fang Langzhong, and veterinarians, and even several people who were proficient in Turkic and various steppe languages as interpreters.

Coupled with the 100 people of Sun Erniang's bodyguards of the Li Family Dart Bureau, there is a huge caravan of nearly 700 people in total. Indeed, such strength is enough to deter the general Xiaoxiao in Taiyuan County. Li Chongjiu saw that he was a little more confident in his heart, and at this time, when he saw this big caravan going out of the city, he heard that he was going to Jiangxian County, and for a while, many caravans that were suffering from being in Xia County and could not move forward also came one after another and asked to join.

I watched the smoke and dust billowing behind for a while.

The Lin steward of the Yanghe Chamber of Commerce immediately drove his horse to Li Chongjiu's side and said: "Young dartheads, don't accept these people, the more people in the caravan, it is not that they take care of each other, but that the goal is more attractive, which makes the thieves happy." ”

Li Chongjiu looked at Sun Erniang, and Sun Erniang also nodded, supporting Steward Lin's opinion.

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "Don't worry, Manager Lin, I will make arrangements for this matter." ”

Steward Lin had a puzzled look on his face. Li Chongjiu explained: "There is also a team of nearly 3,000 displaced people in front of me, which I contained. ”

Steward Lin listened to Li Chongjiu's words, and thought that he had subdued a team of more than 3,000 displaced people, and immediately changed his opinion of Li Chongjiu and agreed. However, if Steward Lin learned that Li Chongjiu's team of displaced people were mostly old and weak women and children, I am afraid he would not think so.

At that moment, Steward Lin put down his worries and left to supervise the goods of his caravan.

But Li Chongjiu said to Sun Erniang: "Fifth aunt, you send people to collect the security money from those new traders, and collect every document, and then let them all join this big horse gang, so that I have a big caravan of thousands of people." ”

Sun Erniang said: "Xiao Jiu, your fifth aunt has always been trustworthy, but this is a large caravan of thousands of people, if something goes wrong on the road, even if our Li family's dart bureau is bankrupt, it is not enough, whether you are more cautious." ”

Li Chongjiu said with a smile: "Fifth aunt, you are right, but difficulties are also opportunities, if everyone can't do it, we can do it, this is called ability." It's also a way to market our game. ”

What is Marketing? Sun Erniang couldn't help asking. Li Chongjiu understands that he has recruited various caravans to join this time, which is also a hype for his Li Family Dart Bureau, the more people who join, the more he can spread the name of his Dart Bureau, and the name of the Li Family Dart Bureau in Bingzhou will be more resounding in the future.

As for the three thousand homeless people, it looks like a drag, but for the future of the Li family's dart bureau, it is of no use to gain a foothold in Yanmen.

The caravan procured a lot of grain and grass here, and it happened that the rice merchant in the city also had a horse of goods to be transported to Mobei, and Li Chongjiu promised him to transport the goods for him free of charge.

This rice merchant heard that the other party was the young dart head of the Li family's dart bureau, and he was not embarrassed at the moment, and sold it to Li Chongjiu and the caravan at a price of 50 wen a bucket of rice.

However, after spending this money, it is equivalent to exhausting the tap made by Sun Erniang's dart. However, Li Chongjiu is convinced that this money is definitely worth it.

After the rice was bought, he cleaned up the pot, and Li Chongjiu asked the caravan to borrow three large vats to cook the rice. The water of the river was poured into it, and the rice was dipped in, and the people, without being sent, each of them brought dry wood and set it on fire under the vat.

Everyone stared at the three large vats, swallowing their saliva, and the people took the broken bowls on their feet, looking forward to it.

It was their first meal after three days of fasting, and it was still an incomparably delicious rice, not corn and wheat, but rice found only in the south.

As soon as the water boiled, all the people got up, and several makeshift cooks continued to stir the rice in the vat with their sticks, and kept throwing in some wild vegetables, wild mushrooms, and a little raw salt.

Seeing this scene, Li Chongjiu asked the caravan for a few skewers of cured meat, cut them into slices, and threw them into the vat.

For a while, inside the vat, it was steaming, and a fragrance seduced some people's tastes, and Li Chongjiu himself couldn't help but be moved.

"Don't rob! Don't rob me! Everyone has a share, and a woman with a child stands in front with a bowl, one bowl per person, and only one bowl, and everyone has it, and she is not allowed to grab food for me. ”

This porridge is very thick and the portion is sufficient, not the kind of clear soup with little water, Li Chongjiu according to his promise, everyone lined up and got their own bowl of rice.

A six- or seven-year-old child, ignoring the hot porridge, held the bowl in his hand, circled around his hand, and took a sip from time to time with his head beside him.

"Mom, I have a piece of meat here." The child's surprised voice attracted the envy of everyone.

"Well, eat more." At the same time, the mother sandwiched a chopstick and wild vegetables from her bowl into her skinny child's bowl.

"This mushroom is so fragrant!"

Many people hold their hot porridge in their hands and make such an exclamation.

With a bowl of porridge to cushion the stomach, although the people are far from full, they are already extremely comfortable. When Li Chongjiu walked by, they all bowed down and thanked him, and said loudly: "Thank you for the grace of the young dart!" ”

"Xie Shao's head gives you food!" Voices like this suddenly came and went.

The homeless people have been running around for more than ten days, and after eating porridge and resting for a night, everyone is full of energy at the moment. After resting that night, the next day the people began to set out on their way.

The caravan of more than 1,000 people, plus a team of more than 3,000 displaced people, was now merged and gathered by Li Chongjiu for integration.

Li Chongjiu ordered Sun Erniang to take a hundred children of the dart bureau, carrying the dart flag, shouting the dart number, and opening the way in front; The caravan's big horse gang, followed by it, the caravan must be the top priority, as a protection, in the third queue, there are nearly 300 people led by Li Chongjiu Tanzong, and the last is an army of 3,000 wanderers.

Before leaving, Li Chongjiu ordered the homeless people, regardless of men, women, old and young, to put their hair tied up and put on turbans to hide people's eyes and ears, and everyone looked disgraced, everyone was holding a wooden stick and bamboo cane, even if they stood close and looked carefully, they could not tell whether they were men and women or old and weak for a while, which made people confused about the truth and falsehood.

Li Chongjiu ordered that when he marched, he was not allowed to speak, and it was even more hidden at the moment, and at first glance it looked as if 3,000 young men had crossed the border. On this day, the homeless people were all fed, and they were mentally ready to walk, and their walking speed was greatly accelerated.

Li Chongjiu rode on horseback, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that the road was full of soap-colored turbans tied with sackcloth, with his head buried in the loess and his feet on the loess, and his eyes were full of smoke and dust.

Li Chongjiu couldn't help but show a satisfied look, and Steward Lin also stopped his horse in front of him at this time, looking at Li Chongjiu with an appreciative look. Originally, the forest manager and several business leaders were very dissatisfied when they saw that Li Chongjiu was going to bring 3,000 old and weak women and children with him, which affected the speed of travel.

But when I saw that Li Chongjiu actually used this trick to conjure up 3,000 'male soldiers' out of thin air, they all admired Li Chongjiu.

When Steward Lin waited for Li Chongjiu to follow on horseback, he said: "Young dart, it's really a good idea, tomorrow I will order the caravan to tie this sackcloth soap towel together." ”

Salap soap towels?

Because of his actions at this time, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but think of the Yellow Turban Army and the Red Eyebrow Army, both of which were peasant rebels, with low status and no flag as a identification between friend and foe, so they used this to deserve it. And the soldier soap towel, this is the cangtou, it is more appropriate to call the cangtou army.

In the historical records, Su Qin said that the death of the king, there were 200,000 warriors, 200,000 cangtou, 200,000 fighters, and 100,000 disciples. And Chen Sheng also has a Cangtou army under his command, presumably Cangtou is such a person with a soap towel on his head.

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "Steward Lin, thank you so much." Steward Lin said with a smile: "They are all mutually beneficial and mutually helpful, how can there be a word of thanks, by the way, the word in the following table is the front, if Brother Li can afford it, the name can be called in the following table." Li Chongjiu nodded at the moment and said: "Good name, sword drawn, want to be a brother of the front, the ambition is not small." ”

Lin Dangfeng smiled and said: "I'm ashamed to say that I also studied and practiced martial arts when I was young, and I wanted to be a person to join the ground, but my family is in the middle of the road, and I must have a business in the future, and I want to have a place to show my ambitions." ”

"It's too far, let's talk about the freight road Yanmen County first."

Then Li Chongjiu and Lin Dangfeng chatted a few more words, and Lin Dangfeng returned to his caravan to be busy.

The journey was very fast on this day, and by night, everyone had already set up camp in Jiangxian County.