Chapter 20 Travel
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They must go to Liaodong around the Spring Festival! Lu Fuyou was almost certain that Fan Yongdou and the others would never dare to backlog so many goods, and if they couldn't get rid of it, it was possible that even the firm would go bankrupt.
More than a year of business slump has caused many small businesses to withdraw from Zhangjiakou, and even the Lu family is feeling a lot of pressure. The business has become bigger, and it also has its own difficulties, thinking about people like Lu Fuyou and Fan Yongdou, I am afraid that they will not be able to leave Zhangjiakou in this life.
"Even if the Chahar people are unwilling to cooperate with me, they will not let such a large caravan go to Liaodong!" Lu Fuyou is patiently waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.
A month ago, a horse thief suddenly attacked his caravan, there was no doubt that it was Fan Yongdou's conspiracy, and he even linked this matter to Ge Feng. In the past, Ge Feng's connection with the horse thief was his means of fighting against dissidents, but he didn't expect that the means that he had once imposed on others now let himself taste it.
The split of the Zhangjiakou firm is a lose-lose situation, this set can only speak with one voice, and the two sides can only contain each other, which can only make each other restrained. Both Fan Yongdou and Lu Fuyou want to end the dispute as soon as possible.
After staying in the set for half a month, Zhai Zhe returned to Xuanzhen with a new mission, and then turned back into the grassland again, and returned to the old camp of horse thieves in the valley.
Only Fan Yongdou and his brother knew his secret in the set, and before the Lu family was defeated, this secret would bring huge trouble to the Zhai family if it was leaked.
The valley is as quiet as a prairie in the old camp.
After the capture, the newly absorbed horse thieves felt the superior conditions of the cottage, and they all obeyed \u
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67od post. If the news spreads here, there will definitely be a lot of horse thieves who will come to you. But the conditions here were not enjoyed in vain, and it was impossible for them to sleep until the sun at noon before they did.
Xiao Zhiyan has arranged a secret whistle ten miles away from the valley, no matter rain or snow, no slack off, violators will be punished.
In the earthen house, a simple parchment map is placed on the table. To put it simply, it is actually a few lines outlining the topography map around Zhangjiakou, which Xiao Zhiyan drew according to his memory.
Xiao Zhiyan pointed to the map and explained in detail: "To block the road from Zhangjiakou to the grassland, you don't need too many people!" A team of several hundred people could not be ambushed in the grassland, and it was easy to be noticed by the patrolmen of Chahar, and when the time came, they were asking for trouble! ”
Zhai Zhe touched his chin, frowned and thought, and said, "It's a big deal, you can't make a little mistake!"
"I know, but I think that even if the Lu family wants to report to the Chahar people, they will not do it blatantly, and there will only be a few people who will come out!"
"As it should be!"
Xiao Zhiyan curled the corners of his mouth and said, "Leave this matter to me!" Fifty people with good archery skills from the cottage are sent over, you just have to rest assured! ”
Zhai Zhe nodded and said, "Brother Xiao has such a certainty, then I will rest assured." ”
This was exactly Zhai Zhe's mission - to block the passage from Zhangjiakou to the grassland after the caravan traveled, and to block the Lu family messengers. What Lu Fuyou wanted to do was expected by Fan Yongdou. The people who once relied on the Eastern Tumut have been defeated, coupled with the betrayal of Ge Feng and others, the Lu family has completely become deaf and blind in the grassland, and Fan Yongdou has been planning for a long time.
The days of the caravan were the biggest secret among the eight cooperative firms, and no one except Fan Yongdou and Zhai Tang knew about it. The men and guards selected by the eight major firms have been waiting in Xuanzhen for nearly ten days, and they are on standby at the branches of each firm.
The twenty-third day of the lunar month is the day when the king of the stove is sent to heaven.
In the evening, the wealthy families of Xuanzhen will set off firecrackers and hang red lanterns at the door. After midnight, in the Da Shengkui semicolon, the shopkeeper Ke gave an order, and the messengers went to various places to convey the order: "Prepare the caravan!" ”
In their sleep, the men were woken up, dressed in cotton clothes, and put on their whips; The guards packed up their swords, guns, bows and arrows and headed straight for the storehouse of the firm. In the silence of the night, the shops carefully assemble the goods in the warehouses onto pack horses and trailers, and cover them with outer layers.
The gate of Xuanzhen out of the fortress is closed every day at the time of Shen, and it is open at the time of the day, and the thunder cannot be moved. In the middle of the night, no one can go out of the jam to deliver messages.
At midnight on the 24th, it was dark, and the caravan preparing to leave the fortress lined up at the gate of the city for nearly a mile.
The soldiers guarding the gate opened the gate and urged: "Hurry, hurry!" "They had already been notified by their superiors that they had not checked the goods again.
For the business in Zhangjiakou, as long as it does not offend the big people in the government, it is never a problem to transport contraband out of the customs, and I am afraid that this gate will always be open until the imperial court makes up the salaries of the border soldiers in Xuanda Town.
The snow on the ground was not thick after more than ten days of melting, and the road was frozen and solid in the early morning, and the caravan walked without hindrance.
The night's busyness did not affect the state of these people in the slightest, here were the most capable men and the most experienced guards of each family, and Shopkeeper Ke was the leader of this caravan.
Halfway through the hour, in the middle of the morning, the mighty caravan arrived at Zhangjiakou, and without stopping at all, it went directly to the grassland.
By this day, there were not many people left in the set, but the streets were still full of people, and there were really empty alleys to watch.
The messenger of the Lu family could not go out of the customs last night to report the news, and was blocked by the caravan early this morning, and only informed Lu Fuyou one hour in advance.
Lu Fuyou couldn't tell if the caravan would rest in the set, so he decided to wait and see what happened, the caravan was not walking fast in the grassland, and it couldn't escape the tracking of the cavalry, and it was not too late to report the news when the caravan entered the grassland. Such a large caravan! Lu Fuyou, who was hiding upstairs and watching, was secretly surprised, he was not ten percent sure, how could Fan Yongdou dare to be so bold, if this team was hijacked in the grassland, the eight families would be greatly damaged.
Out of Zhangjiakou, the caravan headed east at the junction of grasslands and mountains and forests
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26d rpm. Within the sight of the steppe, there were more than a dozen cavalrymen, who were Erruzhuo's men and horses, carefully monitoring the Chahar patrol that might be approaching to the west. Xiao Zhiyan's people were ambushed in the forest to the west, and the two had a clear division of labor.
In order to avoid the sight of possible patrols, the caravan chose a steppe passage with somewhat sparse trees.
After entering the grassland, the road is even easier to walk, and the turf on the ground will not be muddy due to the freezing and thawing of the midday temperature as in the mainland. The caravan traveled eastward, but in the middle of the afternoon it found a place with thin snow for the mules and horses to eat and drink.
The road has been trodden many times by seasoned fellows, and it is clear where to rest and where to eat.
Eruzhuo's men and horses caught the eye of the Chahar patrols, and it was not until the caravan had completely turned into the jungle that a dozen cavalry fled northeast, escaping from the Chahars.
Xiao Zhiyan's centaurs have been hiding deep in the woods.
In the afternoon, the sun moves westward, the temperature gradually drops, and the woods become a little cold.
In the middle of the afternoon, two knights appeared on the road from Zhangjiakou to the grassland, walking hurriedly.
"Someone's coming!" A minions that were staring closely at the intersection reported to Xiao Zhiyan.
Xiao Zhiyan turned over and got on his horse, watched the two of them pass from the ambush site, about 400 steps away from him, and urged the war horse to take more than a dozen people from the back bread, blocking the way for the two to return to Jizi.
"Where are you going?"
Xiao Zhiyan sped up his horse, and the birch short bow was held in his hand.
"Horse thief!" The oncoming two panicked.
On a sunny day, the light was very good, and the knight on the left could see clearly, and suddenly shouted: "I know you, you are the guard of the Zhai family." "The tavern is one of the favorite places for the guards in the collection, and Xiao Zhiyan used to haunt it a lot, so it was not surprising that he was recognized.
"Not bad!"
"You also robbed our caravan last time?" The knight suddenly realized.
"Clever!" When Xiao Zhiyan's words fell, he urged the horse forward, and a short arrow flew out, hitting the man's chest. The other man turned his horse's head and tried to escape, but it was too late, and a dozen cavalrymen behind him rushed up, and long arrows flew wildly, and they escaped only a dozen paces away, and they were also shot by several arrows and fell under the horse.
Xiao Zhiyan put away the bow and ordered: "Drag all the corpses into the forest and clean up all the blood stains here!" ”
After a few moments, the intersection was calm again.