Chapter 347: Li Zhao's suspicions
Liu Feng didn't think about it so much, he got into the car and leaned directly on the box of the carriage.
The horse pulled was a dragon horse that was said to have the blood of a divine dragon, but Liu Feng didn't see that compared with the horses on the earth, the horses in the Earth Immortal Realm were indeed much bigger, stronger, stronger, and faster.
But to say that it contains the blood of the divine dragon, I'm afraid it's a bit of a boast.
The carriage is not the ancient version of Liu Feng's imagination, the kind of carriage made of all wood, which cannot be seen in the earth fairy world, although the board is still a wooden plank, but the wheels and bearings that rotate forward below are all iron.
This iron, lighter than the rest of the earth, is much more useful, stronger, more resilient, and does not rust.
I don't know if Huaguo fell into Dongsheng Shenzhou, which affected the development of Dongsheng Shenzhou, there are shock absorption on the carriage, of course, it is impossible to have the same level of shock absorption on the earth, and it is impossible for monks to spend their efforts for ordinary people, ordinary humans build it themselves, and the craftsmanship cannot be accurate.
Three or five men shouted and put dragon horses on the carriage, and the movements were extremely skillful, but in a quarter of an hour, the convoy of fifty-four horses was ready to go.
"Smack!" There was a crisp sound, and the palm whip sitting on the wheel of the head carriage reached out and shook the long horse whip in his hand, and there was a crisp sound in the void, and the whole convoy seemed to have received a signal, and even the horses were well-trained and took steps neatly.
The convoy slowly walked out of the city gate, outside the city gate was a wider farmland, and there were many caravans waiting to enter the city on both sides of the avenue, and there was no end in sight.
Liu Feng's city is not managed at all except for the witch guards on duty at the city gate, and there is nothing such as poll tax, commercial tax, city gate tax, etc.!
It is precisely for this reason that Liu Feng's city will become the center of the prairie, and the caravan would rather run farther and trade here, because here, neither party to the transaction needs to pay that transaction tax, and naturally earn more.
In this feudal era, the transaction tax is the most important tax for merchants, as long as a city collects one percent less than other cities, there are countless merchants gathering, not to mention that Liu Feng doesn't collect any of them here, and the businessmen are not happy and crazy!
Of course, if the caravan is too dense, it will naturally breed another class, and that is banditry!
Naturally, these bandits did not have the courage to attack Liu Feng's city, but they would set up an ambush on the road far away from the city, ambush the caravan, and do that unprofitable business.
These bandits have dens in Liu Feng's city, and their role is only one, which is to deliver news.
There are some big caravans, even the bandits can't afford to provoke, and if the guards hired are a little stronger, the bandits may be completely destroyed.
Therefore, what caravans can be provoked, what caravans have to hide far away, the bandits naturally have to figure out, and Liu Feng's city does not even collect a city gate tax, and does not check anything, the bandits can naturally easily buy a house in the city and nail a few nails, how easy it is.
The caravan also knows very well that such a thing happens, so even if they recruit guards, they are all looking for those witch guards, but unfortunately, there are very few witch guards who are willing to be guards to make extra money, and even if the caravan is careful, it will inevitably recruit the eyes of the bandits.
Li Zhao has this feeling now, and he feels that Liu Feng, who is two meters tall, may be the eyeliner of the bandits.
The body is majestic, the eyes are indifferent, there is no love for life, looking at anyone is like looking at a dead person, it is indeed very much like a horse bandit, Li Zhao feels that his caravan may be targeted by horse bandits.
He really wanted to dismiss Liu Feng directly, but think about it, if Liu Feng is really a horse bandit, then his caravan must be targeted, even if Liu Feng is dismissed, it will be useless, and it will startle the snake.
Li Zhao has been in business for nearly ten years, and he has encountered many thieves, and there are not a few horse bandits.
This is also one of the disadvantages of inconvenient information circulation, that is, there are many bandits, it is not easy to suppress bandits, and the officers and men run away too many times, so they are naturally reluctant to go again.
Many thieves among the thieves are the kind that pay attention to thieves and have a way, and give a toll, so you can lead the team unscathed.
Such thieves are liked by all caravans, and they don't have to do anything, and the money given by the caravan to buy the road is not enough even for the pension for the death of one of the guards, so they are naturally happy.
Although the money collected to buy the road is small, but there are more caravans, there is a lot of money, such as the bandits on Liu Fengchengchi Avenue, who like to set up cards and charge.
When the caravan encounters such bandits who don't want to die as long as the money is killed, they are also very honest to give money, of course, how much they give depends on the number of guards in the caravan.
If you don't bring a single bodyguard, it's ridiculous, the bandits don't want your life, but the goods don't belong to you.
If you have enough guards, and even bring twenty or thirty monks who know how to do real fire to show off, you will give you a copper plate, and the thieves will let you pass as well.
Li Zhao didn't have that ability, he was a foot merchant before, and he only formed a caravan in the past two years, he couldn't afford to hire too many guards, and there were even fewer monks who could juggle, only four, and he belonged to a relatively low-level existence in the caravan. Don't look at the fifty-four carriages in total, in fact, only half of the goods belong to him!
The horses are well-trained, as long as they walk on the avenue, there is a head horse and a whip in front, the caravan will not get lost, except for the unbearable bumps, the scenery is unchanged, and it is a bit boring, everything else is fine.
Liu Feng didn't care about Li Zhao's gaze on him from time to time, he just looked at the prairie quietly, he didn't come out for a long time, and the monotonous scenery was also beautiful in his opinion.
The surrounding area is full of farmland, and in every piece of farmland, there are people sowing seeds, and the farmland after harvesting is actually quite ugly, but Liu Feng is still interesting to watch.
The avenue is very well repaired, and the large blocks of fired bricks pave the way for a width of 15 meters, on which the carriage can gallop, and the people sitting on the carriage will not feel too bumpy.
There are only sixteen such avenues in the entire prairie, connecting various cities, and finally turning into four, connecting the four huge city gates of Liu Fengchengchi respectively.
Now the place bordering Beiju Luzhou belongs to Liu Feng's city, and there is only one, and that is Wang Xiaoxiao.
The 100,000-li glacier, infiltrated little by little by the prohibition of mana condensation, condensed into an alpine glacier that looked like it was only ten thousand feet high, standing in the center of the city, this is the location of the Northern Xuanyuan Water Control Array.
Li Zhao wants to go to Beiju Luzhou, a road leads directly to this city belonging to Wang Xiaoxiao, it is very convenient, the dragon horse-drawn carriage, the avenue runs wildly, 800 miles a day, and you can get there in a month.
The avenue is wide, but it does not mean that it is safe, the bandits, the scale of thousands of children and eight hundred, the city is too lazy to send troops to sweep, the bandits have been arrogant enough to set up a card on the avenue to intercept and collect tolls.
Of course, the bandits don't dare to be too arrogant, and where they are close to the city, the bandits don't dare to blatantly intercept them, no matter how they say it, they are just thieves, and if they get too close and anger the army in the city, they will lose more than they lose.
Therefore, the journey for the first ten days was calm, and the familiar caravan did not even need to arrange a vigil for the first ten days.
Every eight hundred miles of the road, there are inns on both sides for the caravan to rest, and there are naturally thieves' eyes in them, all the merchants know it, but there is nothing to be done, it is impossible to rush day and night, people can stand it, and the horses will be tired to death.
In the past ten days, Liu Feng has eaten and slept every day, slept and eaten, nothing happened, and sat in the carriage in a hurry, very leisurely.
In the evening, Li Zhao gathered the caravan guards and the merchants who formed the caravan together for a routine speech on the night of the tenth day after leaving the city.
"The reason for bringing everyone together, I believe some veterans are already very clear, but we not only have veterans, but also some newcomers have joined in, so I still have to talk about the reason and give you a reminder.
All caravans know that the first ten days out of the city gate are easy and pleasant days, as if they were traveling, there is no danger, and it is easy to see the scenery.
However, from the eleventh day, the roads are no longer safe, because there will be bandits on the avenues, who will set up cards to intercept them and collect money for the road.
Bandits on this road, it is a tradition to ask for money and not to die, that is to say, give money to let you pass, meet such bandits, there is nothing to say, there are rules, each trader, according to the vehicle he owns, share the road fare.
In the past two years, there have been no major problems on this road, but we must not take it lightly, the bandits set up cards, the horse bandits are fatal, and the horse bandits who come and go like the wind, do not pay attention to the rules, which is the focus of our precautions.
How many caravans lose their men and money every year, abandon their corpses in the wilderness, and finally for the wolves, I don't say, I believe everyone has heard of it, so if you meet horse bandits, you don't have to leave it to chance.
If you are really unfortunate and meet a horse bandit, it is the moment of fighting for your life, no one wants to meet a horse bandit, and I don't want to, but I hope that if it really comes to that moment, everyone will obey the command!
If not, then rest for one last quiet night, and tomorrow we will embark on an adventure into the unknown for money. ”
Both the merchant and the escort obviously knew about this already well-known process, and everyone nodded neatly.
Wealthy and dangerous, these merchants with little power gathered together to form a caravan, relying on the adventurous spirit of taking advantage of the fire, naturally no one will back down, and no one will challenge the authority of an experienced and ten-year-old businessman.
Liu Feng didn't care about following everyone, he should nod in agreement, and he also nodded together, anyway, whether it was a bandit or a horse bandit, there was no danger to him.
The reason why he joined the caravan and became a guard was just to see the scenery along the road and browse with his own eyes, the tribe that belonged to him, the prairie that belonged to him.
Looking at the scenery, the glance through the magic flag, and following the caravan slowly, the feeling is different.