On the long Taihang Mountain Road, the caravans trekked. After arriving at the gates, everyone was about to pay a full pass to enter Hanoi.

But the defenders who had been trapped in the gates, saw countless refugees coming from afar and left the city and gave up the natural dangerous gates for nothing. This surprised the merchants for a while.

There was nothing to say next, and everyone just stayed among the mountains and ridges to their destination in Yanmen County.

Although there is no thieves who are chasing and there is no embarrassment of insufficient food for the time being, the mountain roads are difficult to walk along the way, and the weather is cold and cold.

Therefore, some refugees were killed and injured, and some were left behind. There were dozens or dozens of employees every day. When they arrived at Shangdang County and were in charge of the Li Family Escort Agency, there were only more than 2,300 refugees left along the way.

Although he was the head of the Li family's escort leader, his business was at the end of the Party's escort agency. Only Wang Mahan was left to guard him, and Li Hu and Su and others were not there.

Li Hu has always been in charge of the Yanmen Escort Agency, which has now replaced the head office. It is not only the most profitable among the three Escort agencies, but also the largest. Outside the Yanmen border, the caravans that want to leave the grassland from Bingzhou all have to go to Yanmen County and Mayi County.

As for Su Su, he is currently in the Jinyang Escort Agency of Taiyuan County. Jinyang of Taiyuan County was the prefecture of Bingzhou in the past. Although the imperial court abolished the prefecture and established the two systems of county and county, although there was no name for Bingzhou in the official position, the people still used to this name.

As the county governor and the center of the powerful government power, scholars like Su Su need to deal with people in the government. Su Su is a subordinate of Hefen, with many classmates. In addition, money is a way to open the way, so he also has a protective umbrella for various businesses of the Li family escort agency in the officialdom.

Therefore, the importance of Taiyuan and Yanmen escort agencies exceeded that of the earliest Shangdang escort agencies.

However, at the Shangdang Escort Agency, the caravan, and the refugees finally got settled and rested here.

The escort agency had large empty rooms and rented houses, which was enough for everyone to squeeze in. Wang Mahan had seen Li Chongjiu and said that he would not mention his feelings about his relationship.

The escort agency hosted the caravan, and the refugees used hot wine and good meat, and each of them had a plate of fragrant prison pills (note 1), which washed everyone's hardships.

Everyone can finally get rid of the worry that they were being chased by thieves and the goods were stolen along the way, so they slept peacefully here.

After everyone rested peacefully here for two days, a merchant from Shangdang County wanted to send bulk goods to Yanmen County to hurry. This is also the rule of the escort agency. If you have new orders, then you will be two escorts, one escort, save manpower, earn two portions of money, and save costs. This is why they have worked hard to set up branch escort agencies in various places.

This is the most basic operation in modern logistics, but it was a pioneering move in the Sui Dynasty. You should know that the earliest escort agency in China only appeared in the Ming Dynasty and was only prosperous in the Qing Dynasty.

So the caravan started to go back on the road in the heavy snow. As for the refugees, it was not suitable to be rushing around, otherwise they would not freeze to death and would be exhausted. Li Chongjiu asked Wang Mahan to entertain them well at the Shangdang County Escort Agency, and he led Tanzong and more than a dozen people to follow the caravan to Yanmen County.

Everyone traveled for more than ten days, and finally arrived at Yanmen County at the end of November.

All the caravans were waiting in front of the Li Family Escort Agency of Yanmen County. Lin Dangfeng and other merchants were in charge of the business, marveling at the vastness and grandeur of the Yanmen Escort Agency.

A river surrounded it, and under a row of willow trees outside the door, there were a row of clear horse-tie piles.

The doors were painted red, with copper nails cast on them, and large stone lions stood on each side, with their teeth and claws.

In front of a huge screen wall, hundreds of escorts and escorts from the escort agency were all waiting at the door. They were all neatly dressed in soap robes and their belts were tied tightly, full of energy.

The first old man with a kind face is not Li Hu, the chief escort leader of the Li family escort agency. Who else can he be?

Li Hu looked at Li Chongjiu first, but smiled and greeted Lin Dangfeng and several caravans. He was very familiar with the manager. It was obvious that some people had dated before.

When Li Hu arrived in front of Li Chongjiu, he sighed slightly and said, "It's been three years, it's good to come back."

Li Chongjiu nodded, his eyes were moved, and he nodded and said, "Yes."

After that, everyone entered the escort agency to talk, turned around a huge screen wall, and the bright ground was covered with blue bricks and water-milled. The snow was swept away and the ground was spotless.

Li Chongjiu looked at Lin Dangfeng and more than a dozen businessmen on the side. The more he looked, the more satisfied he became, and he couldn't help but nod.

Seeing the tiny, Li Chongjiu realized that in the past three years, the Li family escort agency was able to build a banner in Bingzhou. Li Hu, Su Su, Wang Mahan, and Sun Erniang each took over this huge family for the 400 brothers from the Seven Thousand Villages.

When they entered the hall, the two sides exchanged greetings. After a while, the six or seven maids served came to the front and put on butterfly. Li Chongjiu couldn't help but sigh that the maids and servants were ordered in the escort agency.

And these maids seemed to know that Li Chongjiu was the young maid, and they all glanced at him intentionally or unintentionally, with a smile on their faces.

Both sides talked for a while, and after Lin Dangfeng coughed, he raised a topic and said, "Mr. Li, the head of the escort, we merchants have agreed that we will deal with the Li family escort agency in the future, not overnight, but decades of friendship. We have an adventurous request here, hoping to invest in your escort agency?"

Li Hu didn't say anything when he heard this.

"Three million yuan, how about you want 10% of your Li family escort agency?" Lin Dangfeng's words were shocked.

Li Chongjiu looked at Li Hu's expression and moved slightly. Obviously, this price made him a little excited, but Li Hu was solemn and did not agree immediately.

Li Chongjiu thought for a moment. At present, 20% of the Li family escort agency was under the control of Shan Xiongxin, and he left 80% behind. At the earliest, when Li Hu was in Qiqian Village, the property of the parcel was only 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

Two and a half years ago, the Yuan family in Runan, Lion spoke out loudly and planned to go 70% for 300,000 yuan, leaving only 10% of the Li family itself. This made Li Hu hesitate for a long time. If Yuan Siniang had not been too harsh later, the conditions might be relaxed, and Li Hu handed the escort agency to the Yuan family under pressure.

Now these dozen merchants have paid 3 million yuan to buy 10% of the Li family's shares, which shows how much the Li family escort agency has reached in Bingzhou.

For three million yuan, you can buy 300,000 yuan at the price of rice of ten cents per dou (Note 2).

A piece of silk was five hundred in pieces, a whip and a horse was 20,000 yuan. Li Chongjiu gave Chai Baochang the toll, more than 45,000 yuan.

Li Hu still did not agree and said he would give them time to consider it. The next day, Lin Dangfeng and the chamber of commerce manager were resting in the escort agency for a night and then visited Li Hu, but they learned that Li Hu had gone out.

When Lin Dangfeng and the chamber of commerce manager went to find Li Chongjiu again, they learned that Li Chongjiu had actually gone out with Li Hu, and it would take about 20 days before the two came back.

At the moment, the officials of the chamber of commerce were all wondering why Li Hu, Li Chongjiu and his son disappeared.

They were both surprised that even if they didn't agree, they didn't have to stay away from the guests. Fortunately, they were not in a hurry for the time being. Anyway, they had to wait until the spring was in full bloom before they could go to Mobei. During this period, they could raise good wine and meat in the Li family escort agency.

A few days later, Li Hu and Li Chongjiu were wearing felt clothes and braved the heavy snow, and rode their horses to a place a hundred miles away from Yanmen County.

Li Hu raised his whip, pointed to a mountain in front of him, and said, "Xiao Jiu, how do you think of this mountain?"

Li Chongjiu raised his head and thought to himself that it was for this mountain that he interrupted his practice in Shaolin Temple and traveled thousands of miles to return to Yanmen County.

If nothing unexpected happens, this place will be where Li Chongjiu started his family in the future.

Note 1: Laowan is the current dumpling. Note 2: The price of rice fluctuates greatly. In the prosperous Zhenguan period, one dou of rice was only two articles. In the chaotic times, one dou of rice and one gold is not expensive. This article takes a middle value.
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