Soon, the caravan of the World Comptoir set off again.

It's just that this time the front and rear of the team were followed by more than 1,000 town guards, whether it was an escort or an escort, the town guards led the caravan to the Sanzhi area.

"Hello, where are we going? Isn't it supposed to go to town? ”

On the carriage of the caravan, Han Tian watched the army take them away from the route to the town, turning to another road that seemed to have only been built for a long time, and asked the town guards on the side with some trepidation.

"The caravan will not enter the town again, there is a place for you." Next to the carriage, a town guard replied with a smile.

"A dedicated place?"

Hearing this, Han Tian was a little puzzled, and his heart was even more full of doubts and curiosity, what happened in that town?

......

It took some time, and under the leadership of the town guards, the caravan came to the inn square that Xu Chuan had set up for them.

At a glance, Han Tian's eyes widened, staring blankly at this so-called 'special place'.

Here, there were several apparently newly built buildings, each four floors long, and a large square, fairly leveled to stop their hundreds of caravans, mules and horses.

Not only that, there are also some old people in the square carrying bamboo poles or pushing homemade tricycles, parked in a uniform by a white line painted with lime, the burden and the cart are still steaming, he walked around and looked at it, these seem to be all kinds of food.

On the road not far away, there were people carrying things and rushing over one after another, as if they were waiting for them to come.

"This ......." Han Tian stared, as if Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden, dazzled.

He was a little stunned, he had never seen such a place after so many years of traveling north and south, and at a glance, it felt too strange.

But before he could come to his senses, an eight or nine-year-old child ran over with a bamboo basket.

"Uncle, buy a few pancakes, freshly baked, delicious, only three copper plates each."

The child carried the bamboo basket and ran to Han Tian, and handed him the bamboo basket in his hand with a smile.

Han Tian was stunned for a moment, and looked at the bamboo basket, there was a clean white cloth in the bamboo basket, and there was a stack of pancakes on the white cloth, which was indeed freshly baked, and it was still steaming and faintly fragrant.

"Three coppers, I can buy three elsewhere." Han Tian replied with a smile.

"I only sell one, but my grandmother made it herself." The child seems to be very bold, smiling and bargaining with the other party.

As a businessman, Han Tian had the feeling of being slaughtered by someone, and he was slaughtered by a child, but he still smiled and spent three copper plates to buy a pancake, and kept hurrying, when he suddenly smelled the fragrance, and his stomach was indeed a little hungry.

The child grinned and took the copper plate, carrying the basket and selling his pancakes to the others.

Han Tian shook his head and browsed the square while eating the pancakes.

There are indeed a lot of old people and children here, and even women are picking up things to sell, but they are all within the white line, as if someone has already planned the purpose of this place.

Seeing this, he became even more curious about this small town in the Sanzhi Zone.

Calling Lao Li, Han Tian shook his fat and whispered: "Lao Li, you arrange a few clever guys to investigate, these three towns are very different from before, there must be something wrong." ”

"Besides, let everyone take a break, get some food, and if you need anything, you can buy it in this square."

Lao Li nodded, responded, looked at the surrounding situation, hesitated for a moment and said: "Shopkeeper, let's leave a few hundred people on guard, in case ....."

Han Tian said: "It's okay, if the other party wants to hit our attention, they have already killed us before, not to mention bringing us here, everyone has been on the road for so long, it's time to take a break." ”

Lao Li nodded, and soon went down to arrange things, while Han Tian continued to stroll.

After a while, a somewhat thin young man stopped him as he wandered around asking for news.

"You are the shopkeeper of the world's trading houses, Han ..... Wait a minute, I'll take a look, Han Tian's shopkeeper, right? The thin young man stopped in front of Han Tian and asked.

"It's me, you're it?" Han Tian stopped his young man with some confusion and asked.

"I'm the caretaker of the inn today." The young man pointed to the red cloth on his upper arm on his right hand, on which the word 'management' was written in black ink.

"Oh, hello, hello, is there anything you want me to do?"

Han Tian hurriedly asked, over the years, the smoothness of a businessman has long been integrated into his bones.

"We just counted, your Tianxia trading house has 683 heads of mules, horses, cattle and other livestock here, and you have already reported the personnel, 2,267 people."

The young man frowned as he spoke, and wrote and drew on the straw paper with the pen in his hand, as if calculating something.

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

Han Tian asked strangely, glanced at the young man in front of him, and noticed the pen in his hand at a glance.

Completely different from the brush, this one seems to be made of wood, with a little black on the tip of the pen, and a black line on the papyrus.

This made him a little distracted, this thing seems to be much more convenient than a brush for writing.

After half a ring, the guy understood when he wrote and painted, raised his head and said, "Collect health fees." ”

"The health fee for a livestock is three copper plates a day, one copper plate a day for a person, two thousand and forty-nine copper plates a day for livestock, and two hundred and sixty-seven copper plates a day for a person, adding up to four thousand three hundred and sixteen copper plates, and you can count four thousand three hundred copper plates."

"A hundred copper plates for a tael of silver, and four thousand three hundred copper plates for forty-three taels of silver."

"Give money, forty-three taels of silver a day." After calculating for a long time, the thin guy finally finished calculating, and after reporting to Han Tian, he stretched out his hand and asked him for money.

Han Tian was confused and asked suspiciously: "This, what is this sanitation fee?" ”

"More than 2,000 of you, hundreds of mules, horses, and beasts, you have to eat, drink, and lazar here every day, and we have to clean up the urine and feces that you pull out.

The young man said confidently, and continued to stretch out his hand to ask for money.

The corners of Han Tian's mouth twitched, and he smiled helplessly: "Okay, okay, let's pay, forty-three taels a day, right, let's pay for three days first." ”

After saying that, he greeted a young man from a caravan and took silver taels to the thin guy.

This rule is set by the other party, and people have a strong army to ensure that the rules can be enforced, and they are outsiders, and they have to abide by the rules of others.

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