Chapter 15 Methods for Leaving Hongzhou (continued)
"Brother Jiang, do you really have a way?" While working, Huang Chong took advantage of a gap to walk up to Scarface and asked weakly.
"What, you want to leave Hongzhou too?" Scarface was obviously stunned when he saw Huang Chong.
He still had some impressions of this child with a green mark on his face, but he didn't expect Huang Chong to want to leave Hongzhou as well, "Dog Egg" is a name Huang Chong gave himself, which is very down-to-earth.
"Hmm." Huang Chong pursed his lips and nodded, and said with a somewhat uneasy expression: "Last year, my father and mother died, I didn't want to stay at home before I came to Hongzhou, listening to what Brother Jiang said, Hongzhou is not safe now, Brother Jiang, please, can you help me." ”
Scarface didn't answer, but looked Huang Chong up and down carefully for a while, this is his habit, he wants to judge how much money he can pit the other party, the most eye-catching thing is the large piece of green mark on his face, which is considered an ominous symbol.
Suddenly, a fine light flashed in Scarface's eyes, because he found that although Huang Chong was dirty, because of sweat and handling, several delicate skins on the back of his hands were exposed, and he didn't look like a child from a poor family at all.
"Of course, a hundred wen." Scarface rolled his eyes and stretched out a finger to speak, not loud, only the two of them could hear.
"One hundred wen!" Huang Chong covered his mouth and exclaimed in a low voice, then folded his hands and pleaded: "Brother Jiang, see if you can make it cheaper, please, Brother Jiang." ”
Although it is said that in conversion, one hundred yuan is equivalent to twenty yuan, but you must know that even in different periods, the purchasing power of RMB is different, in this era, money is very valuable, Huang Chong's salary is only seven yuan a day, and the food expenses of ordinary people are only three yuan a day.
"This ......"
After hesitating for a while, Scarface said: "Okay, whoever asked you to call me Brother Jiang, and I have no father and mother since I was a child, big brother, I will treat it as a good deed this time, thirty wen." ”
"Thank you, Brother Jiang, thank you, Brother Jiang." When Huang Chong heard this, he said with a grateful look.
"Tomorrow at noon, meet at the west gate of the city, remember to bring money, if the money is not enough, then don't blame Brother Jiang and me."
"Yes, yes, you must remember, thank you Brother Jiang, thank you Brother Jiang!" After Huang Chong repeatedly expressed his gratitude, he continued to work.
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"Brother Jiang, what are you?" Looking at Huang Chong, who was leaving, the thin man who was sitting next to Scarface before walked up to him and asked puzzledly.
"Hehe, I just found out that this kid has fine skin and tender meat, he must be a child of a rich family, after work, you will quietly follow him."
"No, then how could he do such a job?"
"Who knows, maybe it's running away from home, whatever."
"Also, then he must have something valuable on him, which can be used as Brother Jiang's apprenticeship."
"Hehe, even if you don't have anything valuable on you, you can sell him to Meixiang Pavilion as a turtle prince, but it's a pity, if you don't have that piece of Qingji, you can still sell it for a good price, I heard that many rich people are good at this."
"Gao, Brother Jiang is really high."
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"Bang." Huang Chong put the sack on his shoulder on the ground, panting, although Huang Chong's martial arts practice, especially after practicing internal strength, his strength has increased a lot, but Huang Chong is still just a child after all, and it is indeed a little difficult to do the work of an adult, but fortunately, because of the mixed yuan gong, Huang Chong's recovery ability is relatively strong, so he persevered.
"My acting skills are really getting better and better, if I have the opportunity in the future, it should be no problem to win an Oscar." Seeing Scarface who was carrying a sack, Huang Chong was secretly happy in his heart, he thought that his acting skills had successfully deceived Scarface and made him pay a lot of less, Huang Chong always thought that Scarface actually wanted to make more money.
With the team of the long-term cabinet shop, it should be much safer, and it is not easy to be discovered, and you don't need to go to Yangzhou, just find a suitable opportunity to break away from the team halfway.
Cabinet shop, is the Tang Dynasty specializing in coins and valuables storage and lending institutions, similar to the bank, the main business is to keep gold and silver property on behalf of merchants, collect a certain rent, merchants need to use the time, with the post or token extraction.
Behind all the cabinets have the support of the big forces, and only in this way can the cabinets have credibility, and the long-term cabinets are one of the largest cabinets in the southern region, covering Jiangnan, Lingnan, Jianghuai, Shannan, Jiannan.
The voucher of 100,000 taels of silver in the cabinet that Huang Chong took from Lu Yan's house belonged to the long-term cabinet shop, and as long as Huang Chong took that voucher, he could exchange it for 90,000 taels of silver in any store in the long-term cabinet shop.
Why not 100,000 taels?
This is the rule of the cabinet - ten into nine take, which means that when you withdraw money, you must pay one-tenth of the interest, so you can only take away ninety thousand taels, if you put it in the twenty-first century, this is definitely a high interest, but in the Tang Dynasty, this interest is not high, ordinary people's loans, three-tenths of the interest is considered normal, so use one-tenth of the money in exchange for the safety of funds, many people are willing to do this.
In addition to the business of keeping money and goods, there is also an escort business similar to the dart bureau, after all, the goods of some big customers and the gold and silver of the cabinet also need to be transferred, so a special guard team has been formed, and the security of the escort cargo team is naturally very high, and even the safety and efficiency are more than the official team.
In this era, the biggest concern for a person going out is his own safety, so the best way is to follow these teams escorting goods, with their protection, it is undoubtedly the safest.
According to common sense, it is impossible for the team of the cabinet to escort the goods with ordinary people, ordinary people are burdensome, you don't see in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Bei was dragged down by 100,000 people in Xinye, and was caught up by the tiger and leopard.
In addition, no one knows if there will be some ill-intentioned people in the team, which is too risky, after all, the safety of the goods is the first place.
However, the reason why people are human is because they know how to be flexible, and those guards who escort goods also want to make some extra money, so they have come up with a way to deal with it.
It is to gather the people who need to go out in the vicinity in advance and let them follow the escort team, so that the number of people is large, and there is an escort team, ordinary robbers do not dare to attack them.
Of course, it doesn't mean that you can follow the team if you want to, first of all, you must pay a certain protection fee, and secondly, you must be recommended by the cabinet shop insiders or the head of the group, so as to reduce the risk.
The so-called group head, in fact, is a bit of the boss of the black club, every city, industry has large and small collectives, the boss of these collectives is called the head of the group, and it can be regarded as a force to maintain regional stability, why Huang Chong chose to live with the land lord, is because the land temple does not belong to any group head, will not cause trouble.
In the same way, Huang Chong has no collective of his own, so he can't find a way to find a way in the group, and it is impossible for him to know anyone in the cabinet, so he can only find Scarface who claims to have a way.