In the ramp.

On both sides of the road, there are layers of high mountains and trees, which are too dense for people to see.

Occasionally, accompanied by the breeze blowing, listen carefully, and some small sounds will come into your ears.

From time to time, there are bursts of roars of fierce beasts, which shake the mountains and fields, making people shudder after listening to them.

The winding path is uneven and rugged.

In the narrow road of the slope, there is a convoy slowly moving forward.

The long snake-like procession was moving slowly.

At a glance, the scale of the entire team can stretch for tens of meters, and it seems that the number of people is very large.

There were hundreds of Liangzhou horses in the crowd, and a large number of carriages behind them, on which a large number of sacks were stacked.

Even though the number of people is large, when moving forward, it seems to be very orderly, but due to the terrain, the speed of driving is not fast.

This is a smuggling team from Wei to Shu, and the men at the front are all riding tall horses, wearing valuable brocade clothes, and they have a lot of backgrounds at a glance.

The leader is a person with a delicate face, no merchant's philistine, but like a scholar, this person is the second young master of the Zhen family, Zhen Zhong.

This time he came, because the smuggling was very important, so he had to personally press the goods in order to put his mind at ease.

Zhen Zhong's left head is an old man in his fifties, with a chubby body, but his eyes are very small, habitually skimming from side to side, and he looks very shrewd.

Following Zhen Zhong to the right is Zhen Meng, the leader of the guards, who was born in the border army, but later joined the Zhen family and acted as the leader of the guards, and his martial arts are not bad.

A few people walked on the slope, looking around at the movements, not daring to take it lightly.

As one of the top businessmen in the Wei Kingdom, the Zhen family is basically under the control of this smuggling route.

Since the Zhen family swept Hebei in Cao Cao and quickly hugged Cao Cao's thighs, it can be said that they have risen to the top.

Directly from a big businessman in Hebei, he has become a top businessman with a semicolon all over the world.

With Cao Pi's successful ascension, the Zhen family, as the Zhen Mi family, has also ascended to heaven, and the binding with the Cao family has become deeper and deeper.

After Zhen Mi's son Cao Ei ascended the throne, the Zhen family soared into the sky, relying on Cao Ei's power, the Zhen family expanded its business scope to the entire Wei State, and became the most influential merchant family in Cao Wei.

The Zhen family not only has business in Shu, but also has their business in Wu, even in Liaodong, Xianbei, and even the Western Regions.

This is a veritable merchant family, whose business is all over the world, and they dare to meddle not only in the grain of war horses, but even in the most lucrative salt and iron.

It is because the Zhen family is now more and more powerful and wealthy.

It's just that the bigger the family, the bigger the family trivialities, and now Zhen Yao, the head of the Zhen family, is almost old, but he still hasn't designated a family heir.

It's just because Zhen Yao has four sons, but Zhen Yao doesn't like his eldest son very much, but the youngest son is the only one who is favored by him.

It's just that since ancient times, the inheritance of the family has been the eldest son, and Zhen Yao can't blatantly establish the youngest son, which delays the heir again and again.

In order to pass on the family business to his young son, Zhen Yao came up with a crooked idea, that is, to hold a competition.

Let each of his four sons be in charge of a caravan, and whichever son has the highest profit within three years will be given the position of head of his own family.

The third child was determined to be in his career and directly gave up the campaign, while the eldest child, the second child, and the fourth child joined this cruel competition.

Zhen Zhang, as the eldest son, had the support of the elders of the family behind him, and was assigned to the Central Plains region as the business scope of the caravan.

Zhen Jin, as Zhen Yao's favorite youngest son, was assigned to Hebei as the business scope, it can be said that Hebei is the base camp of the Zhen family, and Zhen Jin's winning rate has greatly improved.

Zhen Zhong, as the second son, was originally the son of a concubine, belonging to a concubine, and without the support of his mother's family, he was assigned to the remote Yongliang area.

Although Yongliang is very rich in the Western Han Dynasty, after the scourge of Han Sui, Dong Zhuo, Ma Teng, and Li Dao in Xiliang, it has long been much worse than before.

Not to mention that the region is not as good as the other two, the population and commerce are also inferior to the Central Plains and Hebei, which can be described as extremely miserable.

In order to make enough profits, Zhen Zhong can be said to have staked the lives of his whole family this time, bought all his belongings with grain and war horses, and prepared to make a windfall in Shuzhong.

Zhen Zhong knew that Shuzhong had just gone through a big war, and it was when there was a shortage of war horses and food, and he would definitely make a lot of money when he entered Shuzhong at this time.

And then transported back to Shujin from Shuzhong, you can make a lot of money in Guanzhong, which can be described as a bumper harvest.

If this continues, it is not yet known who will kill the deer after three years.

This was Zhen Zhong's first smuggling trip, and he was cautious along the way, not daring to be careless.

After all, it is all his own hard work, if he really loses, I am afraid that he will never have the day to turn over.

Zhen Zhong had a nervous heart, his brows had never been loosened since he started, his face was even tighter, his eyes looked around, and he carefully observed the surrounding situation.

Looking at Zhen Zhong's overly cautious look, Zhen Ran was completely unimpressed.

As the patriarch of the Zhen family, Zhen Ran was very contemptuous of Zhen Zhong, and he sneered in his heart, but his mouth was fake and relieved:

"Childe doesn't have to be so nervous, I don't know how many times I've walked this road, and there won't be any problems."

Zhen Zhong didn't dare to agree with this, this is related to his future, no one can be more cautious than himself, and along the way, he didn't dare to make a mistake at all.

Zhen Zhong's eyes were still sweeping around, and he didn't look at Zhen Ran, and he emphasized in his mouth:

"The stakes are high this time, and we must not be sloppy."

"This time, we invested tens of thousands of taels of silver, if something goes wrong, it's not good to explain it to the head of the family."

"You may even be punished by the head of the house, but you don't want to be kicked out of the house by the head of the house."

Zhen Ran heard Zhen Zhong's reminder, but he didn't care, because he knew that the reason why Zhen Zhong was so cautious was not that he was afraid of being punished, but that he wanted that position.

It's just that, in Zhen Ran's opinion, Zhen Zhong has no chance at all, and he really doesn't understand what Zhen Zhong is still looking forward to.

Zhen Zhong is not like Zhen Jin, he is favored by the master, and he has no backstage support, if he had given up, he would have given up a long time ago.

Seeing Zhen Zhong's appearance as if he was facing a great enemy, Zhen Ran said casually:

"Childe is too cautious, no one dares to touch us at all in our relationship in Shu Han."

"Childe, it's better to go to the carriage and rest for a day, and tomorrow we can arrive in Hanzhong."

"Someone will come to meet us."

Zhen Zhong didn't dare to relax in the slightest, and only he was most concerned about his own affairs, so he immediately waved his hand and refused:

"I'm not tired, if I'm tired from work, I can go and rest first."

Zhen Zhong didn't rest as a son, how could Zhen Ran be qualified to rest.

But this way, Zhen Ran is indeed tired, he used to walk this road by himself, he can rest as much as he wants, and he can also get some oil and water from it.

Now along the way, with Zhen Zhong's existence, he can only follow Zhen Zhong with a strong spirit.

Originally, Zhen Ran still had some respect for Zhen Zhong, after all, he was the second son of the Zhen family.

But finding that Zhen Zhong was nothing more than that, plus he was tired enough to choke after walking all the way, but he still didn't catch anything, Zhen Ran couldn't help complaining in his heart, and he unconsciously started a complaint in his mouth, saying:

"Do you really think that the second son has won the eldest son and the fourth son?"

"Isn't it good to be a rich man at home? Why do you have to travel and suffer on the road? ”

Although the tone of inquiry, the meaning of the words was self-evident, and Zhen Zhong had no hope at all.

But after hearing this, Zhen Zhong lowered his eyes and was silent for a while.

He knew he had little hope, but he had his own reasons for winning.

There are some things he must do, and only in this way can he live up to this life.

No matter what, he can't give up, even if there is a glimmer of hope, he has to fight hard.

With Zhen Zhong's silence, the team suddenly fell into silence, and the atmosphere gradually became depressed.

And what they didn't know was that when they entered the slope, there was a pair of eyes staring at them.