Early the next morning, the Fengming Chamber of Commerce packed up and set off, Fei Cai did not break his promise, and took Xiaotong and the three of them to wash up and got into the car of the Chamber of Commerce. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This Fengming Chamber of Commerce is worthy of being a powerful chamber of commerce in the Chu State, and the dozen or so carts full of goods alone are enough to illustrate the problem, Fei Cai noticed that there were some scattered people following behind the convoy, some pushing carts, and some only carrying a burden.

"Shopkeeper Fan, what's the situation with those people?" Fei Cai asked curiously.

Fan Li glanced back and replied with a smile: "Most of those people are individual merchants or ordinary people who are in a hurry, it is relatively safe to follow our convoy, these are just a gesture, and I never drive them away." ”

"Why, is there such a big trouble in the countryside?"

"The immortal chief came from overseas, and I don't know that most of the bandits in this countryside are just civilians who can't survive. Ten years ago, when King Chuwei ascended the throne, he attached the most importance to the army, and added a lot of military expenses, which added a cent of tax on the top, and the bottom could be increased to ten points. ”

Fei Cai frowned, "Doesn't this King Chu Wei care?" ”

"Ugh." Fan Li looked around and lowered his voice, "As long as King Chu Wei collects military expenses, he doesn't care much about other things, most of this private tax collection is handed over to the True Water Sect where the queen is located, and since the True Water Sect has mastered this power, the wealth of the sect has tripled." ”

"Don't you care about the other sects in this Chu country?"

"This, seeing that the immortal chief is not from this place, I will tell the truth, but the immortal chief must not say that I said it." Fan Li was ruthless, since he planned to pay the money, he needed to show all his sincerity, "Most of the major sects of the Chu State have disciples serving in the army, and most of this military expenditure has flowed into the major sects through them, as vested interests, how can they care about these idle matters, and in this way, the children of the entire Chu State with a little bit of qualifications regard joining the sect as their only way out, and it is too late for them to be happy." ”

Fei Cai heard the resentment in Fan Li's words, and said with a smile: "It seems that Shopkeeper Fan is also quite dissatisfied with this move." ”

Fan Li smiled bitterly, "I still let the Immortal Chief hear it, there is a Guangjin Chamber of Commerce under the name of the True Water Sect, which has expanded more than ten times in the past ten years, and the market of this Chu State is so big, and it is not us who have no background who are excluded." ”

Fei Cai nodded and didn't speak again.

After walking for most of the day, the convoy stopped and began to bury the pot to cook, and the scattered people in the distance also spontaneously set up a temporary camp next to the caravan camp, and even some people came here to peddle some food and earn some loose silver.

Looking at this scene, Fei Cai had doubts again, "Shopkeeper Fan, aren't you afraid that there are robbers among these people?" ”

Fan Li smiled, "The immortal chief doesn't know, our Chu country is rich in products, and most of those bandits are mainly farming in the mountains and wilderness, and the number of people who really make a living from looting is scarce, and they definitely don't dare to fight the idea of a convoy of our size, but I heard that the bandits in those inland countries are different, and there are even some scattered immortals in the town, which is also a spectacle." ”

Sure enough, in the evening, some ragged men with vegetables appeared in the mountains and forests in the distance, and they were still holding some sticks and kitchen knives in their hands, but they saw the scale of the convoy from a distance, and they also retreated into the mountains and forests with interest.

Looking at these people, Yin couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Compared with these people, Xiaotong and I are lucky." ”

Haoyu also took over the conversation, "Hehe, otherwise you think that the second young man of the Liu family is brutal like that, why no one in the stone village has left, it is not because the outside world is more dangerous, but there is no need to worry about anything else in the sphere of influence of the Hanging Sword Sect." ”

Xiao Tong is still young after all, looking at the two sighing and sighing, he couldn't help frowning, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly said loudly: "I've decided!" ”

The three of them turned their eyes to him, and Fei Cai asked with a smile, "What decision did Xiaotong make?" ”

"I have decided to only be a junior brother in the future, unless you accept a disciple younger than me, the world of you adults is so tired, I don't want to be a second senior brother." Xiao Tong announced with words, and then pounced on Fei Cai's thigh, "Okay, Master, I'll be a junior brother, not a second senior brother." ”

"Hahaha." Fei Cai touched Xiao Tong's head, "Okay, okay, Xiao Tong can do whatever he wants, you are the biggest among us." ”

"Hehe, the master is the biggest, and I'm the second." Xiao Tong also touched his head and smiled, and then solemnly Chong Yin and Haoyu arched their hands, "Senior brother, second senior brother, junior brother is polite." ”

Looking at the laughter and laughter here, the shopkeeper Fan couldn't help but be amazed, he had also seen many monks, whether they were famous sects or rural cultivators, and they had never seen such a harmonious relationship in the sect.

The disciples in those sects are all afraid of the master like a tiger and cautious, while the master regards the disciples as his own servants, and often beats, scolds and exploits, and only those disciples with excellent qualifications can get the master's blue eyes and get different treatment from other disciples, so the disciples in those sects are also full of deceit and mutual exclusion.

It was getting late, and everyone went to rest after dinner, only a few guys were on duty around the cart for the night, and the anti-thieves were secondary, mainly because they were afraid that some of the merchants next to them would have unclean hands and feet.

Therefore, most of their attention was focused on the merchant's camp, but they did not notice that there were more big men in tawny clothes in the mountains and forests in the distance, and one of them was a big man with a somewhat different style from the others, standing on a high place, and there was a man in black beside him.

"That's the team down there, isn't it?" The yellow-clothed leader asked, seeing that he was not particularly old, about thirty years old, and what was impressive was that he had a scar on his face, extending from the right corner of his forehead to the left corner of his mouth, making his expression slightly hideous.

"Yes, as we said before, after the matter is completed, in addition to the commission, we will purchase all the goods according to the value of fifty percent." After saying that, he seemed to be afraid of being seen, so he hurried down the mountain and ran away on horseback.

The scarred man glanced at him and said contemptuously: "The rats who hide their heads and tails will only use this kind of indiscriminate means. ”

The big man next to him asked, "Big brother, then why do we still have to cooperate with them?" ”

"Damn, I'm embarrassed to say it." As soon as he heard this, the big man with the scar was furious, "It's not you stupid, what do you say that robbing a tribute is enough to eat for a lifetime, but what kind of shitty thing that Qi Guogong is, not even five thousand taels of silver, and he also released words to say that we robbed a tribute worth 500,000 taels, and we are wanted together in Zhou and Qi, and even the other waves of people in the desert look at us with green eyes, don't you run out and want to be surrounded and killed there?" ”

The big man scolded and scolded, but he didn't make a move, and the subordinate who spoke touched his head embarrassedly, and said with a smile: "It's all fake news from those black-hearted businessmen, but this businessman of Chu State may not have any good intentions, and he purely uses us as gunmen." ”

"Nonsense, I also know that they are not good things, but we are not familiar with each other, what can we do without relying on these people, this Chu country is full of rivers, and it is difficult for us to move an inch without them. In short, let's finish this deal first, and let's take a step at a time. With that, he set his eyes on the camp with the bonfire.