The lord was in no hurry to return to the realm.

In Changhe Town, Li Ang directly sent all the remaining troops in his hands out.

Some of the soldiers followed Sir Roland to Serenmis to escort back the lonely old man there, who was ready for the population and the peasants.

Don't look down on the elderly, when it comes to farming, they are actually more reliable than the young.

The other part is led by Anson to patrol other small villages in the surrounding area to see if there are any other places where the same tragedy has occurred, and if there is, a kind and loyal person like Anson will naturally bring the survivors back to the territory.

Lesri was also given a difficult task - to open a transportation company.

Of course, in this year, it should be considered as a complex of armed escort and logistical transportation.

In fact, Pander already has a fleet of mercenaries specializing in the transportation industry, but they are actually mercenary logic, which is considered to be some small independent car dealers.

These car dealers have no standards at all, and generally negotiate the price according to the value and distance of the goods, and the operation method is more like an ancient dart game.

Most of them provided services for valuables, such as transporting gold and silver money, luxury goods, alcohol, horses, equipment, and even prisoners, prisoners, and so on.

Occasionally, they would also transport heavy goods such as grain or ore, but such goods would take up too many wagons, and the transportation cost would be very high, and the price of the goods would greatly exceed the value of the goods themselves, and it would be difficult for employers and car dealers to negotiate with each other.

Generally, it is only possible for employers to close the deal regardless of the cost.

In addition, these convoys are generally small, with a few or dozens of vehicles, making it difficult to transport bulk commodities and defend against larger bandits.

Probably the only advantage is that these convoys are fairly professional, and there are very few cases of smuggling of goods. After all, most of them were commoners with families, and they couldn't afford to offend nobles and wealthy businessmen.

But there were also makeshift convoys of unruly people who could turn into bandits at any time - there were such gangs everywhere, and they were usually only foreign merchants, most of whom belonged to the Red Brotherhood.

This is the main reason why the business atmosphere in Pande is so different from that of Barkley.

The Pander continent had previously experienced a massive Red Death, with a massive depopulation of the population. There are also five countries coexisting, and there are constant wars and disputes. However, large-scale transportation is relatively lacking, which makes it difficult to circulate goods.

There are not many inland routes that can carry out large-scale water transportation on the entire continent, only the Sava River in the south and the inland sea of Shihu Lake in the north, but these two waterways are facing the same problem - two or even three hostile countries have been fighting for control of the waterways, and they have to face the enemy's army at any time to engage in water transportation, and the people dare not do it......

There are also horse-drawn carriages that specialize in passenger transport, but these carriages are much smaller and are basically self-employed.

The safety of the passengers is entirely on their own, and if attacked, the driver is likely to run away or even turn back on the water – in fact, sometimes the driver is also likely to make a cameo appearance as a robber.

So the transportation of Pande is a big problem, whether it is passenger or freight.

Ordinary noble lords and merchants can only organize their own convoys when they need to carry out large transportation, or hire multiple chariot dealers to go on the road together, and they also have to hire mercenaries to protect them all the way - it is equivalent to renting the carriage of the chariot of the chariot and actually transporting it themselves.

Other regular mercenary groups usually only take on the bodyguard business, that is, accompany them to protect the safety of the merchants, but they will not be responsible for whether the goods will be lost or not.

This leads to a very high cost of transporting goods, so it is normal for the price of goods on the west coast to increase by twenty or thirty times after they are taken to places like Changhe Town in the east.

But that's a huge business opportunity.

The lord had just received more than two hundred horses from Baron Leofric, and the Shield Fortress would have a steady supply of horses.

And seeing these large animals that specialize in pulling carts, the lord's first reaction is that logistics and transportation can be done.

Even passenger transport can be done.

And it's also a reliable way to quickly build up troops and populations – in these dangerous times, the logistics industry can only be done by brave and middle-aged people.

Of course, with Godric and the Horn Summoning Ranger in Long River, the eastern region is sure to be more secure now than before.

In fact, Leon had wanted to engage in the transportation industry for a long time, but he couldn't do it until the whole region was settled.

Because the market is clear - any noble lord and big merchant needs logistics and transportation, the market size is quite large, and bulk logistics can be considered a blank market at the moment.

In terms of passenger transportation, it is even more rigid, and anyone has a need to travel, especially merchants and nobles.

Therefore, the lord entrusted this important business to Lesri.

Lai Silky is very good at managing long-distance transshipment affairs, her previous business has been between Fog Cage City and Changhe Town, and she once ran a caravan in a week's time, which is an efficiency that no other caravan or army can match.

The transport company, named 'Changhe Express', is a subsidiary of Maixiang International, with both logistics and passenger services.

The name was of course used to make the people in the eastern region more relatable, after all, the main customer groups in the initial stage were the lords and merchants around Changhe Town.

Lesri was placed by the lord outside the garrison of the chief of military affairs in Changhe Town—in fact, outside the inner fort of Lady Bella, where the garrison of Changhe Town had surrounded the inner fort before.

Godric's chosen location for the chief of military affairs was the Inner Fort of Long River, and that small square was now the camp of Godric's personal guards.

There was a large expanse of houses and open space outside the inner fort, where Alma had arranged for Lady Bella to keep an eye on, but now that they had left, there was just enough space to carry a large convoy.

This is the back door that Godric opened for Li Ang, he actually requisitioned this place as a military office area, and then gave it to Li Ang to open a company for private use - he is the majority shareholder of Maixiang International after all.

And that place is next to the central street of Changhe Town, just walk straight along the wide central street from the outer gate of Changhe Town, which is quite suitable as the location of the company's headquarters.

The first task that the lord gave to Lesri was to buy all the convoys of transports that could be bought in Changhe Town.

That's right, as long as it can be negotiated, you can buy it directly with the person and the car.

Li Ang will not think about how to start small and grow slowly at this time - he has money now, and he also has the ability to raise a large amount of money quickly, he can directly use the logic of capital.

To put it simply, it is to quickly monopolize the market at any cost, and then set the industry standard yourself.

In today's Changhe Town, no other nobles will interfere with this, and this time the big purchase went quite smoothly.

After all, the people engaged in transportation are all small convoys or self-employed people, all of them are commoners, and basically no nobles will do such hard work.

Godric had just become the chief of military affairs, and Leon was the county governor, and these civilian convoys were eager to climb such a tree.

In five days, the lord smashed out more than 400 wagons and more than 500 strong men with the dinars—all of them armed with their own weapons.

Because convoy transportation is often exposed to risks, basically those who engage in this industry will use martial arts, but they are no longer willing to fight to the death like ordinary mercenaries all year round - in fact, many regular mercenaries will be engaged in the transportation industry after they have families, and most of them are those mercenaries who have been in taverns for a long time a few years ago.

In the past five days, the lord has spent a full 100,000 dinars - he has finally spent all the gold coins in his hand, and now all that is left is the silver coins in the warehouse in the territory......

This Changhe Express, which has just been established for five days, has more than 500 employees at once!

There were also nearly seven hundred horses, all of which, of course, were pulls and pack horses.

Lesri was a little panicked about this—she'd never managed so many people before!

However, the lord apparently took this situation into account, and he has transferred Eric over to serve as the leading knight in the past few days - in fact, he is the head of the armed department of the Long River Express Company.

Eric has a nimble mind, but is not lacking in courage and loyalty, and such a person is often promising, and the lord will always think of him first.

Besides, the lord didn't assign him a knight lord, so he had to make up for it.

As an executive of the company, he can greatly increase his salary and dividends, and with Eric's income, it is not a problem to support more than a dozen servants.

Eric was a mercenary by training, and now he is officially a knight, and he is in charge of the rough men, and those from the car dealership will not have any opinion.

In fact, even if Eric is given a big knight to lead him now, he will definitely not be happy to change it - he can now manage five hundred warriors in charge of armed transportation, which is much more stylish than ordinary knights, and few nobles in the entire kingdom can have so many subordinates......

And with Eric in charge of these people, Lai Silky can be freed to concentrate on business operations and transshipment deployment, doing what she does best.

The Long River Express just forced it to work.

In fact, this is not a regular transport company - after buying most of the fleet in Long River, the lord changed their original way of thinking.

He asked Lesri to recruit a large number of people who could drive to serve as grooms, that is, temporary workers, so that these armed men who were fighting would no longer work as coolies.

The newly recruited temporary workers are the ones responsible for moving and driving, and they will use the company's vehicles, obey the company's unified management, and send a single bill to settle the payment.

And the armed men from the convoy were also divided into two parts.

Those who are not strong in combat but have a flexible mind, they will be in charge of receiving business and distributing orders, and this part is about forty people, which is managed by Lai Sili;

Most of the rest will be transformed into purely armed escorts, close to five hundred people, who will be managed by Eric.

At the same time, in the past few days, the lord has directly standardized the prices according to the distance and the number of vehicles in each county, and even made a table to publicize it.

And the pricing is low.

For example, from Changhe Town to Bailubao, a truckload of goods, no matter what the goods, only charge 10 dinars for freight.

From Changhe Town to Fog Cage City, a car only charges 80 dinars - according to the distance anyway.

The manpower dispatched is also standardized, and each vehicle is equipped with a driver and an armed escort as standard.

The reason for standardization is to make it easier to receive orders and get paid, and it will also be more convenient for customers.

Coachmen are not regular employees, they are only paid on a bill-by-bill basis, and they get 2 dinars for a total freight of 10 dinars.

This pay is actually very high, after all, the drivers have no equipment or supplies, and they do not need to fight.

Two dinars were enough to buy more than 100 catties of wheat, enough to feed a family for a month.

If it is to do other work, it will take at least half a month for ordinary employees to earn it.

But now, it only takes a week at most – a round trip from Changhe Town to White Deer Fort can take up to a week.

A round trip to the Fog Cage City, even if they couldn't do it to the same extent as Silky, it would take them a month, but they could earn 16 dinars a month, which was also a high salary that they couldn't get before.

This was of course done in order to reduce the cost of manpower and free up the people who could fight—many aristocratic hired peasants were very good at driving carriages, but they had nothing else to do before, and now they could run carts for a while while the farm was not working, earning some extra income.

This will attract a large number of part-time employees in a short period of time.

Of course, even if they are not regular employees, they are not just casual sports cars.

The driver must first register with Silka to verify his identity and avoid any robbers.

Then the driver has to wait for the assignment in Changhe Town, and judge whether to take the order or not, and the person will definitely not be assigned if he is not on the scene......

It's like an extra on the set.

The armed escorts are regular employees, who will be responsible for the safety of the carriage and the road, and will also keep an eye on the driver to prevent him from messing around, and they are also paid more, more than 40% of a single order.

The reason why I say 'above' is because there will be subsidies for operations that need to leave the eastern region, because the farther away the more dangerous it is.

When transporting goods, the escort is responsible for handing over the goods to the recipient designated by the customer, and only after getting the receipt can they receive the salary - there is no money to take if it is not delivered.

The remainder, close to 40%, is the company's revenue. However, this is not a net gain, because if you have to pay the basic salary to regular employees, you may not make any profit in the early stage, and you may even lose money.

Since he was paid a base salary, Eric would also train his men. Of course, others will also come to help with training when they have free time, such as Sir Roland or Klose......

Anyway, the salary is paid by the big boss Li Ang.

However, the standardized service of Changhe Express does not guarantee the safety of the goods, and the company only promises to refund the freight if the goods are not delivered - after all, each vehicle only sends an armed person to accompany it, which cannot guarantee the safety of the goods.

If the customer wants to ensure the safety of the goods, they can use customized business, and if the goods are lost, the company will not only refund the freight, but also compensate according to the market price.

But the price of the customized business has to be discussed in detail with the special person sent by Lesli.

As long as the money is enough, the Long River Express can be escorted by 500 armed men at the same time - in the Pander continent, there is basically no one who dares to rob a security force of this size.

If you follow the traditional way of the previous teams, then you have to see what kind of goods this is first. If it's a high-value commodity, then charge more, and if it's low-value, it may not be accepted......

And it is also impossible to ensure the safety of goods, after all, a fleet of people is only a few dozen people at most, and no matter how high the price is, there are only a few dozen people.

In contrast, the new standardized operation mode of Changhe Express will naturally have great advantages. At least for conventional transportation, customers can clearly understand the transportation cost, and Changhe Express will definitely accept orders.

In the eastern region, the safety of Maixiang International's companies is also guaranteed, and accidents are unlikely.

If they were robbed, Baron Godric and Leofrick would definitely send troops to hunt down the robbers - they were shareholders of the parent company, Maixiang International, and they would pay dividends.

So the merchants would think that the cost was much lower than transporting it themselves—in fact, it was much lower, because it would cost more than ten dinars to just hire a mercenary to escort them from Long River Town to White Hart Castle.

In such a comparison, the cost performance of Changhe Express will be quite high.

But in fact, this is the lord who has changed the concept of those car dealers......

Originally, the people of the dealership would only be regarded by their employers as grooms or horse owners – and this is exactly what happened.

And now, these people are 'professional armed security guards', professional fighters.

They are even regarded by the merchants as more trustworthy warriors than ordinary mercenaries, after all, they are now under the command of Baron Leon, at least they will not suddenly become gangsters.

In this way, the cost performance has suddenly increased - in addition to the driver, each car is equipped with a professional armed security personnel as standard, does it mean that the work of transporting goods is given away for nothing?

In fact, people are still those people...... But after it was reorganized into a regular army, the effect was completely different!

In this way, businessmen will naturally take the initiative to generate a large number of orders - the price is completely standard, as long as they determine their own needs, they can generate orders, no need to negotiate, just go to the company's headquarters in Changhe Town to pay and sign the order.

You can even wait for the car of Changhe Express to come to pick up the goods - of course, the door-to-door reception is also based on the distance and the number of vehicles.

Merchants are the most considerate group of comprehensive costs, and they themselves have a good relationship and trust with Maixiang, and they will definitely take the initiative to control the operating costs again after measuring them - which will cause them to no longer support their own transport vehicles and drivers.

So where will the carriages of the dismissed coachmen and merchants go when they no longer need them - and where else will they go, join the Long River Express!

A positive cycle will quickly form, and more orders will be generated as merchants stop raising their own fleets.

And the large number of orders means that the brothers who join the Long River Express can always have a sustainable business to do.

Mercenaries used to be idle for most of their time because of business talks, waiting, various communication and dots, not finding a suitable business, industry competition, etc., and often could only do two or three high-priced businesses a year. In fact, most mercenaries are weak in their hearts, and their average income is not so high.

After becoming an employee of Changhe Express, there is a fixed basic salary every month, a commission for each order, and it is likely that there will always be work to do, which is of course more stable.

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And they don't have to do coolies, they just need to focus on security, which is very appealing to them - they used to be mercenaries, and no one would want to do coolies if they were not forced by life.

In addition, the scale of the company is large enough, bulk logistics can also be undertaken, and being able to undertake bulk logistics can ensure that there is a long-term business to do.

In fact, they did get busy from the start.