On February 26, everything was ready, only the east wind was owed. Zhao Chongyang, under the escort of Fang Tianjie, Qian Xiaoan, Yuan Lang and others, set off to the official road of Xiangyang with 300 carriages, 400 land transport troops, as well as Hu Tianxiong, the head of the Hu family, and dozens of business assistants.

For more than half a year, the reputation of Wantong Chamber of Commerce has been shocked. Along the way for three days and two nights, although they passed through two hills, the people on these two hills did not move, but only sent a small number of people to follow them for a while. At about four o'clock in the afternoon of the third day, their convoy came to the Longjia compound two miles east of Xiangyang City, and after putting all the goods into the warehouse, all the people and horses also lived here.

This courtyard and hundreds of acres of wasteland near it were bought by Hu Tianxiong, the head of the Hu family, who came to buy it, and said that it was actually Hu Tianxiong who promised to give the monopoly rights to the two counties near Xiangyang of the Longjia family, and it was given to the Wantong Chamber of Commerce.

But the Wantong Chamber of Commerce has obtained these lands for great use, the wood on the mountains can be used to make furniture, paper, flat land and low slopes, can be reclaimed to grow corn, and the grain produced can be used to make wine. Of course, close to the side of the Long family's compound, a Wantong Xiangyang Trade City covering an area of 50 acres will be built within eight months. In the future, if the Huainan area wants to distribute the goods of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, they will come here to purchase.

Several major merchants in Xiangyang went to Nanyang to buy goods, but because they did not ask the Wantong Chamber of Commerce to send someone to escort them, they were all robbed in the end. Now, the Wantong Chamber of Commerce has delivered the goods by itself, and several major merchants, including the Long family, who arrived at the yard to give them, have divided up the goods except for the glass water jade.

Now, the four little beauties have something to do, and this time they didn't forcibly ask to follow them to Xiangyang. Yuan Lang and Fang Tianjie led the escort team to escort the goods of each family to the prefectures and counties under Xiangyang Prefecture. Only Zhao Chongyang and Qian Xiaoan have nothing to do, and they are playing in Xiangyang with the escort team, and when they have nothing to do, he also reviews his homework and writes a few articles "Romance of the Gods......

stayed in Xiangyang City for several days in a row, and it was not until the beginning of March that Yuan Lang and Fang Tianjie finished delivering the goods shipped by the major merchants to various places. Due to the strong intervention of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, the green forest bandits within a radius of several hundred miles from Xiangyang felt that their survival was hopeless, and some of them went north to Huaixi to seek refuge in Wang Qing, and some of them fled to other places. There are three large groups with a total of more than 2,000 people, and under the leadership of the three young leaders, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, and Gong Wang, they directly surrendered to Zhao Chongyang, and asked Zhao Chongyang to reward them with a bite to eat. Zhao Chongyang knew that these three people needed to be very brave, but after all, they were skilled in martial arts and could be deputy generals on the battlefield.

Anyway, now that we have more than 6,000 acres of land, we need a lot of people to cultivate it, and when we come, most of them can use it to farm for us. Based on this idea, Zhao Chongyang agreed to adopt the three people. Zhao Chongyang selected 300 elites from each of the three people to form an escort team in Xiangyang, and the remaining 1,500 people planted the 6,000 acres of land that had been newly acquired in the past few days. These 6,000 acres of land were paid by the other three major families in Xiangyang and the Long family, the Bai family, the Ding family, and the Du family, to the Wantong Chamber of Commerce for monopoly fees in various places. In this way, Long Baidingdu, the four richest men in Xiangyang, got all the monopoly rights of the Wanshang Chamber of Commerce around Xiangyang.

Zhao Chongyang asked Hu Tianxiong to send people to buy hundreds of cattle, according to 10 people per cow, form a farming group, and allocate 30 acres of land for them to plant. According to 300 catties of grain (corn) per mu in autumn, the wages and rations that cannot be reached will be deducted, and the excess wages will be doubled. Tools are uniformly distributed by the Chamber of Commerce, housing is built uniformly, pots and pans are also uniformly issued, a single set is issued in spring, a set of summer clothes is issued during the Dragon Boat Festival, and a set of winter clothes and autumn clothes are issued during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Ten teams are a team, with one captain and one deputy team leader, and everyone is arranged to work in a unified manner.

The Xiangyang Independent Battalion of the Huaixi Detachment of the Escort Force was established, with Mu Hong as the battalion commander (now acting by Qian Xiaoan), and Mu Chun and Lu Fang as deputy battalion commanders, with four companies under its jurisdiction and a total of 800 people. The first company commander Mu Chun, the second company commander Lu Fang, the third company commander Guo Sheng, and the fourth company commander Gong Wang.