There are two mountains in the north of Guizhou, towering and towering, their shapes are similar, stand next to each other, all become north-south direction, and stretch out for dozens of miles. Among them, the one in the east is called Fuqi Mountain, and the one in the west is called Tangyan Mountain.

However, although the situation of the two mountains is large, but the posture is mediocre, that is, there is no strange shape, and there is no precious green wood, so it is only a little-known genus in the mountains in Guizhou. However, although the mountain is nameless, the "Split Sky Gorge" under the two mountains is famous.

This "Split Sky Gorge" is a long and narrow passage folded out at the foot of the two mountains, runs through the north and south, its length is about more than ten miles, because from the bottom to look up at the sky only see a slit, so it is named "Split Sky" two words.

However, the wonder of this road is not only the peculiar terrain and unique scenery, but more importantly, it is through this road, you can go directly from the north of Guizhou to the central hinterland, which is more than twice as fast as the time taken by ordinary paths.

As the saying goes, "Efficiency is gain, time is money." ”

Therefore, this road has slowly evolved into a business road, but all the businessmen who come and go from the south to the north will also choose this road to pass through, for a time, the business road pedestrians are endless, so lively!

However, on the road of businessmen, it is inevitable that there will be strongmen who make money by tyranny. They set up barricades on the road, or they extorted threats, or they acted by force, but in short, the merchants who came and went on the road had to pay their accounts if they wanted to pass safely.

However, there is never a shortage of competitors in profitable transactions, not to mention that the geographical location of the "Splitting Heaven Dao" is in the hinterland of the mountains, and it has always been far away from the emperor, and the local government has acquiesced to this place as a place outside the law and does not intervene in the management. In this way, the ownership of this road also depends on the competition of force of all parties, and only depends on whose fist is hard in the end, and this road belongs to whoever governs.

In the face of this big pie, three groups of strong people rushed to hear the news, after a fire, the weak group was the first to be eliminated, and the remaining two groups were equal in strength, and they fell into a fierce battle, both sides held their breath, that is, to divide the winner and lose, but also to determine the ownership of the business.

During this period, both sides won and lost, and the victors naturally took control of the trade routes, and at the same time began to collect money from passers-by to buy the road. But often the good times do not last long, but it will not be long before the losing side will regroup and come back, and at that time, the defenders will often be defeated again, and they will have to give up the trade routes that have not yet been hot.

After several years of such a struggle, the two groups of strongmen have discovered a common problem, because the two sides will inevitably have to fight on the road when competing for the trade road, during which there are many innocent things that accidentally injure the innocent. And the consequences of this are also extremely bad, because even if they have worked hard to win the "Heaven Splitting Dao" from the other party, the benefits will not be enough to make up for the losses spent in the process of fighting.

With the passage of time, the bigwigs on both sides feel that they can't bear it, after all, the people who make a living from the bandits also have to calculate the cost account, and everyone feels that if they continue to fight like this, they are only afraid that they will fight with each other, and then they will be cheaper for nothing. So on a sunny afternoon, the two bigwigs finally met under the mediation of the middleman.

The so-called barbarism breeds civilization, and this is not false at all. Once the two bigwigs met, it was rare not to look at each other, but to complain to each other about their bitterness, and they each talked about their own difficulties, and finally sighed together: In these years, it is really not easy to be a big brother!

After this exchange, the bigwigs of the two sides actually had a feeling of sympathy, so the subsequent talks continued in a harmonious atmosphere. Subsequently, after several rounds of heart-to-heart consultations, the two bigwigs finally reached an agreement and decided to join hands to jointly operate the "Splitting Heaven Dao".

So, in a warm and harmonious atmosphere, the two bigwigs joined hands to announce the resolution to their subordinates: "Split Sky Gorge" will share resources for everyone from now on, and from then on, they will share profits and losses, and work together with one heart and one mind.

As for the specific management rules are also extremely simple, since the road is divided into two mouths, then each guard one end, and the implementation of one-way collection of road tolls, no matter which end has paid the toll, out of the other end only need to show the bill, you can go unimpeded; and in order to prevent a certain crossing from causing uneven interests due to more and less into the dispute, the two sides have also made another provision, requiring a change of mouth every month, to achieve harmony and wealth, benefit sharing.

Once the agreement is reached, the two sides jointly order and prohibit it, and the fighting scenes of the past will no longer be seen in the business road. In addition, the bandits also put down their swords and clubs, bent down and shouldered hoes and mud shovels to carry out infrastructure projects, first leveling the uneven places on the road, then widening and widening the narrow places, and finally removing some hidden dangerous obstacles. In the end, with the efforts of the bandits, the "Split Sky Gorge" was also able to take on a new look.

However, after a long time, the merchants learned the news that the "Split Heaven Road" was safe, and gradually some people returned to this road to pass, after all, spending a few dollars at will can avoid the pain of detouring long distances, and no one will be stingy.

So far, the pedestrians have also reached a tacit consensus with the bandits, everyone takes what they need, the autumn is not guilty, after a long time, the reputation of the bandits to abide by the rules has slowly spread out, and attracted more people to take this road, since then, the "Split Heaven Road" has shown a more prosperous scene, and has been prosperous for a long time, until today.

However, as the saying goes: "The Tao makes money." If you want to say who is the biggest beneficiary of this prosperous trade road, the bandits and pedestrians can only be ranked second, and the first person to sit in the first place is Liu Qi, who runs the "one-of-a-kind" restaurant on this road, and Liu is the shopkeeper.

Liu Qi is now fifty years old, he is a northern man, he has a national face, he looks very Zhou Zheng, and he is born with a burly body, no matter who meets him, he can't help but shout in his heart: "What a big man!"

But Liu Qi is not only a thoughtful person, but also a lively mind. Before he ran the "only family" restaurant, he was doing a small business of reselling goods from the north and south, only because when he went to Guizhou, he was led by a friend to take a trip to the "Split Sky Gorge", during which he found that this road was far away from the town, and there was no restaurant within a radius of dozens of miles for people to supply and rest, when even if he moved his mind, he knew that his opportunity to make a career was coming. Because he wanted to build a restaurant on this road.

But if you want to make a living on this road, you must first obtain the consent of the two gangs of bandits on the road, so he used some means to connect with the two bigwigs, and finally met.