Chapter 041: Coming Away
After trading with Zhang Fei, Liu An also asked Zhang Fei if he wanted to help on the grounds that he had taken in some disaster victims and needed help.
Zhang Fei refused on the grounds that he had no ambition to do so.
Liu An is quite sorry for this, but he can understand it.
Zhang Fei is brave and ruthless, married a brave warrior, and does not pay attention to the affairs of ordinary people, how can Liu An succeed in this solicitation?
Of course, Liu An just tried it, and he didn't have hope at first.
After saying goodbye to Zhang Fei, Liu An began to think about two things: doing business with the Zhen family and arranging people to go to a 'foreign country' to do business.
It just so happens that it will take about 10 days for potatoes to sprout, and it is not too far to go to Zhongshan, and you can catch up with the planting time when you come back.
The five pigs were sold for 14,000 yuan, plus the leftover before, Liu An now has a total of more than 70,000 yuan.
There are too many days for merchants to go back and forth, and it is not cost-effective to rent a car.
And to trade with the Zhen family, if you want to transport the remaining fifteen pigs over, you also need a car, but the round trip is not long, but you can rent a few cars first.
Liu An thought for a long time and decided to rent five large carriages to transport pigs, and then buy five more carts to extract the ploughing cattle and pull the carts.
As for the extra 25 cows, Liu An is ready to let people secretly sell them to those families who dare to kill cattle privately on the way to 'foreign countries' to satisfy their hunger, and when the food is insufficient, they can also consider eating one or two.
It was illegal for the Han Dynasty to commit suicide by committing suicide, but the law obviously did not control powerful families.
Otherwise, there would not be so many families hiding slaves and raising soldiers for their own dignity.
And the price of cattle is not particularly expensive, a cow can be sold for up to 8,000 yuan, according to a cow of 1,000 catties, in exchange for the same weight of rice, it is almost more than 8,000.
Therefore, eating cattle on the road to save some food is not much different from directly using money to buy food.
The main reason is that there are too many cattle to eat, and Liu An really can't afford to raise so many cattle now.
After deciding down, Liu An took Liu Bei to the north of the city to buy five cars first, and asked the store to help find a few people to push them to the door of his yard.
After that, Liu An and Liu Bei pushed the cars into the yard one by one.
Then he went to rent five two-horse carriages, each of which was calculated at 300 yuan per day, and Liu An paid an advance payment for 10 days, a total of 15,000 yuan, plus a deposit of 5,000 yuan for exactly 20,000 yuan.
The reason why the big carriage costs 300 yuan a day, but the small carriage that Liu An rented before costs 30 yuan per hour, is because the way of renting a car is different, one is rented by the hour, and the other is rented by the day.
The second is that there is no need for grooms this time.
The third and most important reason is that Liu An rents a car on a daily basis, so he has to be responsible for the horse material himself.
A horse can feed four or five people, and even if it is possible to feed it without food, but hay or something, the cost of that day will cost dozens of dollars.
After solving the problem of the car, Liu An only had less than 40,000 yuan left.
Liu An asked Liu Bei to take the coachman to send the carriage and pigs back to the camp, and by the way, he dragged the five carts he had just bought behind the carriage and took them away.
And he himself drove the ox cart to buy a cart of vegetables, a stone of salt, and eighty stone of grain, and spent a total of 20,000 yuan.
Driving with the four vehicles responsible for transporting grain behind, Liu An drove towards the camp.
This time, the grain trucks were relatively large, and they loaded twice as much paddy, so only four trucks were used.
After returning to the camp and unloading all the supplies, Liu An began to make arrangements for his trip early tomorrow morning.
He called Liu Bei and Liu Ming, as well as the three team leaders and Chen Zhao, and selected two young men with high military strength to discuss together.
Before the discussion, Liu An first used the dead card for all the four people present who did not use the dead card.
And when Liu An used the first dead card, that is, the fifth time he got the dead man, the system came with a prompt sound.
[Ding - Congratulations to the host for recruiting a total of 5 Manor Dead Soldiers and gaining 3 Manor Contribution Points.] ]
Liu An was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that only 5 dead soldiers would be needed to get 3 contribution points.
Pressing the joy in his heart, Liu An said to Liu Ming:
"De Ran, tomorrow you will take Feng Yan and a few young men to go to the northern country to do business. Not a real businessman, just a seemingly businessman.
I'll give you 5,000 dollars, and you can buy some cheap supplies from my big man on the way north, and dispose of them at will near the border. Keep in mind that if you stay abroad for five days before returning, you need to pack something on the car and cover it when you return, and you can't let the city guards inspect it, with money or other means.
Early tomorrow morning, I will give you 30 ploughing oxen, 5 pulling carts, you can also eat one or two ploughing cattle on the road to satisfy hunger, and the rest of the ploughing cattle will be sold to the family, it doesn't matter how much money, but be sure to dispose of all the cattle except the cart. When I was about to arrive in Zhuo County, I was notified in advance, have you written down what I said? ”
In Liu An's view, it is the safest to arrange Liu Bei to do it, not to mention Liu Bei's ability, and in the end, he can become the master of a country, and it is not a problem to do this little thing.
But Liu An was ready to travel far away, and took Liu Bei, the person with the highest force value, which could make him feel more secure, so he had to hand over the matter to Liu Ming, who was second only to Liu Bei in terms of comprehensive strength.
Liu Ming recalled in his heart, and after making sure that there was no problem, he replied: "Ming has written it down." ”
"Feng Yan, you assist Deran." Liu An looked at Feng Yandao again.
"Obey orders!" Feng Yan responded with a fist.
Then Liu An looked at the other two team leaders and said: "He Guan, Wang Zhi, I will leave for a few days tomorrow, during my absence, the two of you are jointly responsible for everything here, and I will give you five thousand yuan later, if you use the money, you can use it." If there's something you can't choose, wait for me to come back, and you two can understand? ”
"Understood!" The two responded in unison.
"Others, early tomorrow morning, drive five carriages with me to Zhongshan!"
"No!" Liu Bei, Chen Zhao and others responded with their fists.
Speaking of this, Liu An suddenly remembered, can he control the horse? And it's still a double horse?
So Liu An went out to try to drive a carriage with two horses, but found that it was really not good, the horse didn't listen to him at all, and he made a mistake at the beginning.
Fortunately, Liu Bei and Liu Ming both knew this well, and Liu An, under Liu Bei's teaching, began to try to drive the carriage.
The three of Chen Zhao, who were traveling with them, also practiced together under the teachings of Liu Bei and the two.
At noon, Liu An arranged for someone to go back to inform his mother that he would not go back for lunch.
Liu An had lunch at the camp and continued to practice in the afternoon.
By evening, Liu An was already much more proficient in driving the two horses.
called Liu Ming and Liu Bei, and the three of them drove a carriage home.
The carriage was indeed much faster than the ox cart, and it took Liu An half an hour to drive the ox cart from the camp to his home, but it only took two quarters of an hour to take the carriage, saving half of the time.
When I got home, it was already getting dark, and Cui was getting ready to cook.
Liu An helped Cui's prepare things for cooking, and told Cui's about his long trip.
After Cui Shi asked Liu An where he was going and what he was doing, he didn't say anything, but just told Liu An to be careful on the road, and then handed over the matter of adding firewood to Liu An, and went to the house to prepare things for Liu An.
Liu An doesn't care about the Cui family, anyway, the family is surrounded by walls, and there is nothing to clean up.
Sure enough, after a while, Cui's came out, except for a delicate small cloth talisman in his hand, he only took a needle, and the needle was wearing a red thread.