The Nine Cauldrons

Chapter 39: deliver goods

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"No problem." Teng Qingshan replied.

Teng Yunlong repeatedly reminded: "You guys prepare more wild animal furs, so that you can wrap the Bihan knife at that time, and the hunters will sell the animal skins in the city. This should not attract the attention of robbers and bandits." Teng Yunlong is very interested in this business. attention, after all, too much money is involved.

Maybe it's just a drop in the bucket for the big salt merchants, but for Tengjiazhuang, it's almost the whole village's power.

"Grandpa, don't worry, whoever dares to use Bihan Dao, I will kill one." Teng Qingshan said.

"Okay!" Teng Yunlong patted Teng Qingshan's shoulder with a smile, and then he got up, "Okay, I'm going to work with your father too, so you go back first. Wait a while, ask your mother to give you lunch father."

"Um."

Teng Qingshan glanced at his father not far away who was concentrating on making weapons, turned around and walked out of the weapon shop.

*****

Early the next morning, the sky was still very dark, and most people in Tengjiazhuang hadn't woken up yet. The hunter team members, the chief of Tengjiazhuang, the marksman and other important members gathered outside the weapons shop.

"Ten Bihan Knives are bundled into eighteen bundles, and the last bundle is twelve Bihan Knives!" Teng Yongfan commanded from the side, "Qingshan, you all wrap each bundle of Bihan Knives with wild animal furs. Alright, then put it in a cloth bag. From the outside, it doesn’t look like there is a weapon!”

The members of the Hunter team are carefully wrapped.

A large number of furs obtained from hunting wild animals in the past were taken out at this moment, and in a short while, one hundred and eighty-two Bihan knives were all installed.

"Yongfan, Qingshan." Teng Yunlong walked over and looked at the two of them, "You must be careful along the way! Don't make mistakes!"

"Yes, Grandpa." Teng Qingshan smiled.

Teng Yongfan also said: "Master, just wait for the money we brought back."

"Qingshan, let's go!" Teng Yongfan said, Teng Qingshan immediately gave an order, and the hunter team members were holding sharp spears, some of them were carrying bows and arrows, and a group of people left. But Teng Yunlong, Teng Yongxiang and other people in the clan watched this scene from a distance, and they could only hope that the journey would go smoothly.

After walking for half an hour, the genius was completely lit.

On the wide road, the hunters of Tengjiazhuang kept an eye on their surroundings and strode forward.

"Father, look." Teng Qingshan pointed ahead, and there was a corpse faintly beside the road in the distance, "Everyone, be careful." There were twelve corpses, all men.

The dried blood had already turned black, and the twelve people had been looted long ago.

"They were robbed. Looking at the body, it happened in the middle of the night last night." Teng Yongfan took a look, "Okay, don't look, let's continue walking."

Teng Qingshan asked as he walked: "Father, no one collected their corpses?"

"Of course someone collects the corpse! There are so many people dying every day in this world, and the corpses are not collected and burned. The plague has already occurred." Teng Yongfan just looked at the corpse, but there was no change in emotion. He smiled lightly, "This place Which Zhuangzi belongs to, the people of that Zhuangzi, when they come out to cultivate and find out, they will take away those corpses."

Teng Qingshan frowned and said: "Bandits are so rampant, we won't encounter robbers on our way, right?"

"Qingshan." A middle-aged man next to him smiled and said, "This bandit also depends on the target when he kills. If the target is few and rich, of course they will snatch it! If there are many people, but with a large amount of gold and silver, they probably will They will also join hands with people and horses. Poor hunters like us, at first glance, don’t have much money. Moreover, if they want to kill our hunters, they will die more. It’s not worth it, they won’t do it!”

Teng Qingshan nodded secretly.

Robbers will also think about whether it is worth it. Poor hunters do not have much gold and silver, but they are extremely difficult to deal with, and robbers seldom mess with them.

"Let's go quickly, it's better to enter the city early." Teng Yongfan said.

Along the way, gradually, people can be seen working in the cultivated land on both sides of the road.

Tengjiazhuang is not too close to Yicheng, nor too far away. If you rely on two legs, it usually takes nearly two hours to arrive.

Outside the gate of Yicheng, a team of hunters dressed in animal skins appeared, it was Teng Qingshan and his group. They set off before dawn, and now, the sky and the earth are already bright, and Teng Qingshan and his group finally arrived in Yicheng. Thankfully, no robbers were encountered along the way.

"It's finally here!" A smile appeared on Teng Qingshan's face, this was his first time entering the city.

Because the world is too chaotic, the children in the villa have no chance to enter the city.

"Two copper coins per person." The guard at the gate of the city said lazily. The entrance fee is also charged by the person. Hunters like this are barbaric and poor, and they don't bother to pester them.

After paying sixty-two copper coins, Teng Qingshan and his group finally entered the city.

"Haha, it's still lively in the city." Teng Qinghu's eyes lit up next to him, "Look, Qingshan, how many people are on the street. There are vendors on the side of the street, and you can't see the end at a glance! Tsk tsk, in our village, when will you see?" There are so many vendors and so many fun things.”

Teng Qingshan also felt the prosperity here, the hawkers' cries, and the voices of some inns and restaurants attracting customers, it was bustling.

"Hey, in the city, don't do it unless necessary." Teng Yongfan reminded, "Even if you meet some bastards, do it. Remember, don't kill anyone! Killing people outside the city is fine, but in Once someone kills someone in the city, as long as he runs slowly, if he is caught, he will go to jail, and his life is over."

Everyone understands that the power of the government only controls the inside of the city. As for the outside of the city, no matter how rampant bandits and bandits are, the high-ranking city lord is too lazy to take care of it. There are not enough people to manage it.

"This time, everyone, don't run around. After we sell the goods, we will go back after a little shopping, understand?" Teng Yongfan said.

"I know." Everyone in the clan nodded.

Usually, when you come to Yicheng once, you will have a lot of fun, after all, it is rare to go to the city. For example, go to the casino and play a few games. But this time, the amount of gold and silver involved in the delivery was too large, and no one dared to take it lightly.

*****

In a quiet wide street, there were very few people coming and going. Teng Qingshan and his group were walking on this street.

Teng Qinghu next to him smiled and said: "Qingshan, don't look at the lack of people here, but at night, this is the busiest place in Yicheng. Look, do you know where that three-story building is? Haha, you I'm sure I can't guess, the women in that place have tender faces, each of them can drip water when pinched!"

"Haha..." The clansmen next to them laughed out loud.

"Qinghu, have you really pinched those mothers?" Teng Yongfan said with a smile.

Teng Qinghu wiped his nose: "This place is good, but it's too expensive. It costs a tael of silver to go in and have a cup of tea! It is said that if you want to find a woman, it is even more expensive and frighteningly dark."

Teng Yongfan laughed and said: "Qinghu, don't you think about it, the three brothels around are the three highest in Yicheng. And they are built next to the major chambers of commerce. What are they doing? Their customers are those rich businessmen .Not us people."

"Qinghu, if you want to have a taste of being a woman, go to that tofu shop in Qianjie, and you'll pay a lot of money just once." The clansmen joked.

"Go, go!" Teng Qinghu scolded with a smile, "I haven't married a wife yet."

"Okay, stop talking, we will be at the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce." Teng Yongfan said.

In Teng Qingshan's previous life, he was in the modern society. He has seen too many big cities. It takes an hour or two to drive across the city in those big cities. Is that what Yicheng can compare to? Of course, all the buildings I saw in my previous life were reinforced concrete buildings, but the various buildings here are full of ancient style.

"In this area, there are various chambers of commerce, among which the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce occupies the largest area." Teng Yongfan pointed to the front and said, "That is the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce."

Teng Qingshan glanced over and couldn't help but gasp.

The gate managed by the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce is more than ten feet wide, which can accommodate twenty or thirty people in parallel. The two tall blue stone lions glowing with golden light at the door increased their power even more. Teng Yongfan sighed: "Qingshan, those two stone lions are both made of lapis lazuli. They are so big, each stone lion must have thousands of stones. It weighs a catty. These two stone lions alone are worth thousands of taels of silver!"

The salt merchants in Yangzhou are rich and rich, and it is by no means a lie.

"Go away." One of the four guards at the entrance of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce shouted at Teng Qingshan and a group of people.

"We are delivering the goods. Master Li from Jiangning County ordered the goods from us!" Teng Yongfan said.

"Master Li from Jiangning County?" One of them frowned and said, "You guys just wait here, and I will inform you."

Teng Qingshan and a group of people waited quietly at the door, and after only a moment, two men in black ran over, glanced outside, saw Teng Yongfan, and one of them said loudly: "It's from Tengjiazhuang, come in!" With that said, he turned his head and walked ahead, followed by Teng Qingshan and his group.

Outside the chamber of commerce, that is just the tip of the iceberg of luxury in this chamber of commerce. Only when you enter the interior, do you know the life of a giant merchant.

"Be good." Teng Qinghu's eyes widened.

Teng Qingshan also took a deep breath, the roads are all paved with huge bluestones, so many uniform bluestones, how much manpower will it take? Many of the various plants and flowers next to it are not local to Yicheng, and are definitely transplanted from the ground. There are also various water systems such as the large pond next to it, and there are even artificial springs flowing.

"The luxury villas of future generations are nothing more than this." Teng Qingshan thought inwardly, "And this is just a chamber of commerce."

The salt merchants in Yangzhou are number one in the world, and only the giant merchants in Yuzhou can compare with them.

The buildings in the chamber of commerce are large mansions.

"Be careful all of you, if you break things here, you can't afford to pay for it." A black-clothed man who led the way said, "There are also surrounding mansions, some of which are inhabited, and all of them are inhabited. You are a big man like our master, if you collide with any one, you group of people, don’t even think about leaving alive. Be careful.”

"Yes, we understand." Teng Yongfan said with a smile.

However, the clansmen were obviously a bit cautious. The Yangzhou salt merchants were a super-rich group that could be related to the eight major sects of Kyushu. If they killed some people, even the city lord of Yicheng might not care.

"That's it." One of the black-clothed men said, "This kind of small business, just talk to the housekeeper. Don't go through the main entrance. If you disturb the master, you will be miserable. Come with me and enter through the back door." Along the alley between the two large mansions, we came to the backyard gate of the mansion.

There are many servants and guards living here.

"Oh, you're here." The cavalry leader who went to Tengjiazhuang to place an order was sitting on a chair, and glanced at Teng Qingshan and his group, "Come in, take out all the goods and put them away on the ground."