Lu Ming

Chapter 680 Returning to the North ([-])

The emergency dispatched team from Yixinlong Company arrived at Liuziwan in the first batch, relying on the familiar and well-conditioned convoy.

At this time, some Port Authority employees, including accountants, had arrived on horseback in advance, and arranged the scene.

The current situation is: the fleet blocked in Liaozi Bay by the bad sea conditions in the north urgently needs to transfer the cargo to the shore. Although it has not been frozen like Tianjin Port, there have been a lot of ice floes on the side of Liaozi Bay.It seems that tomorrow night at the latest, tonight at the earliest, Liuziwan will also be frozen.

So now is the script against the clock.If it is slower, the fleet will lose the opportunity to evacuate to the south.

Thus, from the first carriage that arrived, the emergency unloading operation began.The only two small trestles in the private port are now occupied by ships calling at the port.The boatmen opened the deck, took out various cargo packages from the inside, and passed them to the guys on the trestle.

The guys quickly carried the goods to their own carriages, and then drove away from the narrow trestle to make room for the next carriage.

Yi Xinlong's motorcade entered the field second after the Goldlion caravan.

This position has brought great benefits to Yixinlong.You must know that the cargo in the cabin, which is relatively bulky and worthless, is all in the bottom cabin.And now the priority rush shipment must be the valuable goods in the upper cabin.

This includes the "Huang An San" that shopkeeper Wu has been thinking about.

Just as Yixinlong's convoy was loading cargo, a large number of port workers in blue thick cloth double-breasted overalls arrived.

The arrival of the workers has accelerated the speed of cargo transshipment: there is no mechanical auxiliary loading tool in the material port, and all goods can only be carried by primitive manpower.

At the same time, a cargo ship washed up on the beach with thick black smoke.

In a hurry, the ship was doomed to run aground on the beach.In this way, it is equivalent to having three piers, and subsequent cargo ships that are still outside the port can use this ship to transfer materials.

With the participation of a large number of professional dock workers, Yixinlong's fleet was fully loaded with goods in an hour.

After counting all the supplies in the car, shopkeeper Wu bowed his head and received a shipping receipt with a red seal from the accountant of the Port Authority wearing wide-rimmed glasses.

Next, the convoy embarked on the road back to the city.

At this time, in order to save animal power, everyone, including Wu Fazheng, would follow the car and walk back to Tianjin City step by step.

Just as Wu Fazheng and the others were halfway there, in the distant sky, the Tianjin private car brigade, which was belatedly aware of the oncoming traffic, arrived.

By this time, the sky had already darkened.However, today is a special situation. It is impossible for the convoy to spend the night in the field, and the goods must be transported back to the city overnight.

Fortunately, the team leader Yixinlong has rich experience in long-distance logistics, and he will rest and drink horses in time along the way, so as not to delay the combat effectiveness.Depending on the situation, they will be able to rush back to the city around midnight.

As for the bandits that ancient merchants feared most in the wild, there is no need to consider this at all.

After Master Cao Qinwang, he stayed in the Feihu Camp in Tianjin, and started a vigorous military training operation with the win-win idea of ​​actual combat training and "assisting the recruitment of the Port Authority".

Over the past few years, Feihuying has taken Tianjin as its center and wiped out all illegal armed groups in the surrounding areas, including but not limited to horse bandits, mountain bandits, robbers, private villages, rogues, refugees, etc. according to law.

Generally speaking, after Feihuying broke through a certain bandit village, it would generously distribute the seized supplies to the local poor.

In this way, Feihuying took away the construction workers urgently needed by the Port Authority, while in the local area, they left a great reputation for being eager for justice and donating money.

Therefore, in this place not far from Tianjin City, all convoys leaving the city will not have any safety concerns.

This point was quickly confirmed after nightfall: the officers and soldiers of the Flying Tiger Camp holding torches kept patrolling along the line to maintain order.

Finally, Yixinlong's convoy arrived at the brightly lit Tianjin City at midnight.

Iron street lamps lit with kerosene guided the convoy all the way back to the familiar dock area.The warehousing system here, when the fleet arrives, originally loads and unloads materials around the clock, so the goods are quickly put into storage.

At the second watch, shopkeeper Wu, who finally received a receipt, was exhausted and joyful, and beckoned everyone to go back to the firm for a rest.

Early the next morning, Shopkeeper Wu greeted Young Master Wu excitedly, and went to the Port Authority in the four-wheeled carriage used by the firm to support the facade.

When we got to the ground, we first settled last night's freight with the documents.Next, after some negotiations, shopkeeper Wu spent a lot of time talking, and finally was able to buy a box of Huang'an San, which was in short supply and under control, at a high price.

Sitting in the carriage on the return journey, Wu Fazheng looked carefully at this box of treasures that shopkeeper Wu regarded as his life.

The box is made of tinplate, the size of a vanity box, with a silver-white appearance, a bit like the high-end snack boxes that Wu Fazheng saw in Jiangnan.

On the top of the box, there is a piece of delicate white paper with black simplified Chinese characters printed on it: medical Huang'an powder.

Below is a string of small characters, indicating a series of content such as its place of origin, efficacy, usage, dosage, and side effects.

Wu Fazheng, a scholar with a diploma, has no pressure to read simplified characters.He has seen the information format on these boxes many times in the past few days. In fact, almost all products produced in the south will have such an information label in an inconspicuous place.

Wu Fazheng likes this kind of clear product label very much. In his notes, he has some thoughts on this label and the system behind it.

"One hundred packs, be more frugal, and you can get sixty or seventy lives back from Lord Yan!"

Just as Wu Fazheng was staring at the words, shopkeeper Wu made a "click" and unscrewed the nose button of the iron box.Open the lid of the box, and there are a hundred small paper packets neatly stacked inside.

Reaching out his hand to take out a pack from the box, shaking his palm, shopkeeper Wu's eyes flowed at this moment: "I have suffered a trauma, I washed it with strong wine first, and then applied this. If you want to be safe, take another dose internally. , life saved the wound from festering, it's amazing!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Fazheng nodded solemnly: "I've also heard that this thing works wonders. If that's the case, then our family should also prepare some, so we might as well sell them all."

"Hehe, good fortune is hard to give up!"

Shopkeeper Wu shook the small paper bag in his hand, a little helpless and a little self-deprecating: "As long as you go out of the closed wall, you can only exchange a dose of twelve taels of pure gold ingots. As for the farther boundaries, hehe, there are no counts." gone."

The physical gap between Huangan San's light and small size and the twelve-weight gold ingot gave Wu Fazheng a deep intuitive feeling.

"Huh, life is worth a lot!" Even Wu Fazheng, who had seen the world before, was surprised by this kind of profit.

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With this box of Huang Ansan, Yixinlong's return team this year is considered to be fully stocked.

In the days that followed, shopkeeper Wu began to select personnel, form a team, and make a series of preparations before the trip.

On November 11st, it is the light snow festival in the lunar calendar.Shopkeeper Wu felt that everything was in place, so he ordered the door of the firm to be closed.

At the same time, the table set from Yanxi Tower was also placed in the courtyard of the firm.

This meal not only means the year-end reunion, but also serves as a practice for the caravan that is about to depart—start now, and if everything goes well, the caravan can return to their hometown in Shanxi to celebrate the New Year before the new year.After the next year, there will be another caravan carrying goods from Tianjin, which will be exported for border trade.

With the banquet, the atmosphere of the group worship that day must be very warm.Most young guys can only eat one such super meal throughout the year, so everyone is burying their heads in eating.The targets of their fire are all specially ordered hard dishes: elbows, hooves and so on.

As for the leadership at the table at the top, Young Master Wu, the eating style is much more elegant. Everyone's fire targets are specially ordered seasonal vegetables, just like the four big brothers in Tsim Sha Tsui.

In other words, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the clever ancestors of the Han nationality had the "Wentangjian", a primitive agricultural institution that used geothermal heat to grow off-season vegetables.

And in this plane, the central boiler heating system + brick house + glass ceiling trinity standardized steam greenhouses, bringing a stable supply of supreme winter gourmet enjoyment to wealthy families in Beijing and Tianjin.

Like today's Wu Fazheng, he is devoted to a plate of candied tomatoes on the table and chopsticks frequently.The shopkeeper Wu next to him also kept eating a plate of stir-fried rapeseed, and dismissed the red braised pork.

During the lively banquet, shopkeeper Wu, as a person in charge of Tianjin, naturally cannot do without the existing routines such as handing out year-end awards and commending advanced ones.

As the young master, Wu Fazheng participated in the whole process with a smile, and made a few enthusiastic speeches impromptu to build morale.

After the banquet, Yixinlong officially closed down, ending this year's business.

The next day, the established caravan members began to make final preparations.At this time, Wu Fazheng, as the young owner of the same company, also changed into a short robe, and followed shopkeeper Wu to check the personnel's carriage for the last time.

In the stable, Young Master Wu met a buddy he had a good impression of: this man was called Huo Gui, and he had been rewarded by the young master for his hard work before.

Today's Huogui is sharpening a dagger hard.Seeing the shopkeeper and his host entering the door, Huo Gui hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Wu Fazheng wanted to come over and have a look at this weird dagger with great interest.I found that the blade of this knife is the same as the ordinary short knife, but the handle is cylindrical, which is a bit weird.

"Not bad, it looks very refreshing!"

After Wu Fazheng swung it a few times, he returned the knife to Huogui.

Huo Gui wiped the blade of the knife with his clothes cherishingly: "This knife is easy to use. It was bought by the young man from the seaman at the dock! I have saved money for food for two months!"

Wu Fazheng glanced at Huogui, and asked with a half-smile: "With a knife, do you dare to go up and fight for your life when you meet bandits?"

Huogui blushed when he heard the words: "Where did the boss come from! Huogui's existence today depends on the shopkeeper taking care of him! Look, if you encounter bandits on the way back, Huogui and the thieves will not die!"

"Okay, okay!" Wu Fazheng was overjoyed, and stretched out his hand to pull out a square handkerchief from the armhole: "Wrap this on the handle of the knife, it will absorb sweat and won't slip your hands."

This fast men's cotton gray Scottish plaid woven bandanna is Wu Fazheng's favorite style.He was at an embroidery shop in Suzhou that day and bought a dozen at a time, and used them as sweat towels on weekdays.

"Thank you, Dong's family!" The next moment, Huo Gui happily took the handkerchief and wrapped it around the cylindrical knife handle.

(End of this chapter)