In the evening of this day, the rotation convoy of Zhen's firm from the Central Plains slowly galloped into Hepu County, and An Zhongzhi and Bian Ji, who had just entered the city not long ago, watched the process, and Zhen Ding, as the person in charge of Zhen's firm in the South Vietnam region for the past three years, personally greeted the convoy at the city gate.

"Those guards are really elite." An Zhong praised directly.

In addition to those who specialize in business, the rest of the team is the huge escort team of Zhen's Commercial Bank, about three hundred people, wearing swords, although their faces are full of wind and dust, they all have fierce expressions, and they are looking forward to walking highly, which is indeed worthy of being elite.

Bian Ji nodded, with a look of understanding on his face.

Bian Ji is a celebrity in Hepu County, and he is even good friends with Taishou, and he knows much more about the Zhen family than An Zhongzhi.

The Zhen family is a big clan in the Central Plains, the world's grain merchants, the clan has more than 10,000 people, and the servants and vassals are even more unknown, the Zhen family business house from the guard, the guy to the shopkeeper, all have to be Zhen clan people, never outsiders intervene, it may be an exaggeration to say that the Zhen family is a monolith, but the Zhen family is indeed extraordinary.

In the past, Zhen's firm also rotated once every three years, but each time the number of convoys was not large, and the same was true for the guards, who were generally only about 100 people, but this time, the number of guards actually reached 300.

If it was before, Bian Ji didn't know much about the situation in the Central Plains, maybe Bian Ji wouldn't have thought deeply, but Lin Bei told him that the Central Plains would be in chaos next year, and the Zhen family had increased his guards, so he couldn't help but think about it too much.

"It seems that the Central Plains has been in chaos, so the Zhen family has to increase the protection of their respective firms, and at the same time show their own power, although these guards are not as good as the elite armor soldiers in the army, but they can also fight and kill, Zhen's firms are nearly 100, and there are 30,000 guards, which is really not to be underestimated."

In this era, it is not uncommon for wealthy families to privately raise family soldiers, and small squires and others must have at least a dozen thugs in their families, and there are more thugs in big families, hundreds and thousands are quite normal, Zhen is a big family in the Central Plains, with 30,000 family soldiers, Bian Ji believes that this is not the final number, of course, this is also the Zhen family, because they can afford to raise such family soldiers by collecting and selling food, and other big families will be dwarfed.

Zhen's convoy slowly galloped into the firm, after a while, there were many more carriages at the door of the firm, this is the county to meet Zhen's various businesses, every three years the rotation will make Hepu County merchants have a huge turmoil, some merchants take the opportunity to rise, some merchants have been suppressed, as for the rise or suppression, it depends on the public relations actions of these businesses these days, this time is also the most lively time in Hepu County, Zhen people will feast in the city every day, invite all the celebrities of Hepu County, in the past few years, Bian Ji is a guest.

"Let's go." Bian Ji said bluntly to An Zhong that he has no feeling for Hepu County now, and just wants to go back to Longtan after finishing the things here as soon as possible, because Bian Ji now feels that it is quite interesting to work with adults, which is far more fulfilling than being silent in Hepu County

Xu Shu and a few merchants walked out of the side door of the firm.

None of them are from the Zhen family, and they follow the Zhen family either to prepare to run a business, or they have something else to ask for, such as Xu Shu, who was originally preparing to study Daxian, but when he was on the way, he heard a demon dragon from Nanyue, so he followed, and when he arrived in Hepu, he couldn't stay.

At this time, there were many carriages parked at the entrance of Zhen's Commercial Bank, and there were many coachmen, all of whom were coachmen from various merchants, and they all knew each other on weekdays, and they were all there to proclaim each other, and when they talked about a certain lady of the Red Mansion, they all laughed heartily, and these coachmen were probably the happiest when they talked about this all day long.

This is the peddler pawn and the like, in martial arts novels, if you want to inquire about the news, you have to go to the inn, and here you have to ask these people, they are much better informed than most people.

Xu Shu and the others found a coachman who looked younger, and people of this age were outspoken and fast-talking, and they were the most prone to leaking their mouths.

"This little brother is invited."

"Ah, a few big brothers are invited, what's the matter?"

"We are a foot merchant who came with the Zhen Firm, and I happened to hear a news about the land of South Vietnam, I don't know if it's true or not, so I want to ask the little brother?"

"What's the news?"

"I heard that there is a demon dragon in the land of Nanyue? Is this true? ”

The coachman immediately laughed: "Of course it's true." ”

"Oh?" Xu Shu and the others originally thought that these people would be secretive, but how could they know that they could ask casually: "Is there really a demon dragon?" ”

"Nature." The young coachman nodded with a smile and said with a foaming mouth: "This matter has to start from Xishan Township." ”

"This is a few hunters in Xishan Township, they saw the demon dragon when they went into the mountains to hunt, this demon dragon is eight feet long, knows people's words, knows people, and will not eat people."

A merchant said strangely: "How can monsters not eat people?" ”

The young coachman shook his head and said, "I don't know, anyway, that demon dragon really didn't eat people, but started a business with people." ”

"Doing business? Itinerant trader? Xu Shu asked in surprise.

"Yes, at that time, I also asked the Xishan villagers to catch the locusts in the fields, saying that five liters of locusts were exchanged for one mountain goods, but in two days, the Xishan villagers caught about six or seven thousand liters of buckets, and the demon dragon also kept its promise and gave the villagers mountain goods."

"Listening to what you say, that demon dragon is a good one? And then? ”

"Later, this demon dragon asked a master in the township to build a school, saying that there should be no class of teaching, as long as he is of full age, anyone can enter the hall to study, and he will not hide a few, and when the Xishan Township School is repaired, I also plan to go to the school."

"And this?"

"This is absolutely true, now the people of Xishan Township are cultivating the school, and it is rumored that every day the demon dragon will catch cattle, sheep and deer and other beasts, so that the people of the school are fed, recently, the people of Xishan Township have caught dozens of proboscis beasts, which is also done by the demon dragon, because of these things, the people of Xishan Township are also preparing to build a shrine for the demon dragon, and worship it every day."

"It's all the work of the demon dragon?"

"Naturally, oh yes, even the big shopkeeper of the Zhen family has been to Xishan Township several times, and he has also met the demon dragon, since a few people have traveled with the Zhen family's firm, as long as they ask casually, they can know if it is true." The coachman thought that a few people didn't believe it, and finally even the Zhen shopkeeper threw it out.

"In this way, that demon dragon is not only harmless, but very good to people?"

Hearing what the coachman said, Xu Shu only felt incredible, whether it was folklore or ghosts, monsters were extremely evil, evil in the world, for the common people, and eating people was even more common, but now this monster is living in peace with people, and what the coachman said, this demon dragon seems to be still helping people, which really subverts Xu Shu's cognition.

Xu Shu was afraid that this young coachman would not be reliable, so he asked several coachmen present, although they all described the demon dragon differently, but they were all the same words about what the demon dragon did, and finally, Xu Shu had to be sure that this demon dragon was really different.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Xu Shu and a few people were hungry in their stomachs, so they wanted to find a place to fill their stomachs first, just walked to the street, they heard the gong of the small officials, and shouted while knocking: "Feng Taishou Lord decree, Xishan Township under his jurisdiction needs to build roads, specially recruit 3,000 people, 300 craftsmen, as long as you go, a qiē meal is prepared by Xishan Township, and there are more 300 yuan a day. ”

"Commanded by Lord Taesho"

The little official shouted while beating the gong, and if there was a person who was puzzled, he would ask about it, and the little official would explain it in detail, and he heard that he didn't have to pay for his own food, and there was more money, and there were many followers, Xu Shu's heart moved, and he decided to go and see it tomorrow, maybe he could see the demon dragon in person.

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