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Chapter 80
On the long mountain road of Taihang Mountain, the caravan trekked. After arriving at Zhiguan, everyone was supposed to pay a full amount of customs duties and enter Hanoi.

But he didn't want the defenders of Zhiguan to abandon the city after seeing countless refugees coming from afar, giving up this natural dangerous pass for nothing.This caused the merchants to be stunned for a while.

There was nothing to say next, everyone just stayed in the mountains and moved forward, heading for the destination in Yanmen County.

Although there are no thieves chasing, and there is no embarrassment of food shortage for the time being, but along the way, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and the weather is freezing cold.

Therefore, the refugees were killed or injured along the way, and some were left behind. Every day, there were dozens of downsizing.

Although he is the chief rudder of the head of the Li family's bodyguard, the business of the Shangdang bodyguard is the last one.Only Wang Mahan was left to guard. As for Li Hu and Su Su, both were absent.

Li Hu has been sitting in the Yanmen Escort Bureau now, which has now replaced the head helm. It is not only the most profitable one among the three Escort Bureaus, but also the largest one.Yanmen borders outside the customs, and the caravans that want to go out of the grassland from Bingzhou all go through Yanmen County and Mayi County.

As for Su Su, he is currently in the Jinyang Escort Bureau in Taiyuan County. Jinyang, Taiyuan County used to be the state government of Bingzhou. so called.

As a county government, the center of the powerful government, it needs scholars like Su Su to deal with people in the government.Su Su came from Hefen's family, and had many classmates. With money to open the way, she also provided a protective umbrella for the various businesses of the Li Family Security Bureau in the officialdom.

Therefore, the Taiyuan and Yanmen Escorts are more important than the earliest Shangdang Escorts.

However, in the Shangdang Escort Bureau, the caravan, and the refugees finally got settled and rested here.

The Escort has a lot of large vacant rooms, and also rented private houses, which is enough for everyone to squeeze in.After Wang Mahan met Li Chongjiu, they each talked about their special feelings without mentioning it.

The caravans were entertained at the bodyguard bureau, and the refugees served hot wine and good meat, and each person had a plate of delicious prison pills (Note [-]), which washed away the tiredness of everyone.

Everyone can finally get rid of the worry of being chased by thieves and stolen goods along the way, and sleep peacefully here.

After everyone had rested here for two days, a businessman from Shangdang County wanted to deliver bulk goods to Yanmen County in an expedited manner.This is also the rule of the Escort Bureau, if there is a new order, then there will be two Escorts, one for cooperation, saving manpower, earning two copies of money, and saving costs, which is why they have worked so hard to set up Escort Bureaus in various places.

This is the most basic operation in modern logistics, but it was a pioneering work in the Sui Dynasty.You must know that the earliest bodyguard bureau in China only took shape in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty.

So the caravan braved the heavy snow and started to go back on the road. As for the refugees, it is not suitable to run around, otherwise they will die of exhaustion if they don’t freeze to death. There are more than a dozen people from Zong, and they headed for Yanmen County with the caravan.

The people trekked 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 Bureau in Yanmen County.Lin Dangfeng and other business managers were amazed at the grandeur of the Yanmen Escort Bureau.

A river flows around, and under a row of willow trees outside the door, there is a row of clear horse-holding posts.

The gates are all painted red, with copper nails cast on them, and there are big stone lions standing on the left and right sides, with their teeth and claws.

In front of a huge screen wall, hundreds of guards and guards from the escort agency were waiting at the door, all dressed in neat soap robes, with their belts tied tightly, full of vigor.

And the old man with a kind face at the top of the list was not Li Hu, the head of the Li Family Escort Bureau, who else could it be.

Li Hu glanced at Li Chongjiu first, but smiled and greeted Lin Dangfeng and several shopkeepers and stewards of the caravan. They were very acquainted, obviously some of them had already been in contact with each other before.

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

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

Afterwards, everyone entered the bodyguard office to talk, and turned around a huge screen wall. The ground was covered with blue bricks and polished water. The snow had been swept clean, and the ground was spotless.

Li Chongjiu looked at Lin Dangfeng and a dozen other businessmen, and he became more and more satisfied, so he couldn't help but nodded.

Seeing his knowledge, Li Chongjiu realized that it was not without reason that the Li Family Escort Bureau was able to establish its banner in Bingzhou in the past three years.Li Hu, Su Su, Wang Mahan, and Sun Erniang each took care of this huge property for four hundred brothers in Qiqian Village.

Entering the hall, the two sides exchanged greetings, and after a while, the six or seven servant girls who were serving them all came forward to serve buttermilk.Li Chongjiu couldn't help but lament that the bodyguards are ordering girls and servants.

And these maidservants seemed to know that Li Chongjiu was the head of the young escort, and all of them glanced at him intentionally or unintentionally, with smiles on their faces.

The two sides talked for a while, after Lin Dangfeng coughed, he brought up a topic, saying: "President Li, several of our merchants have agreed that we will deal with the Li family's bodyguard in the future, not overnight, but We have been friends for decades. We have an outrageous request here, how about we hope to become a shareholder of the expensive escort agency?"

Hearing this, Li Hu was speechless.

"For 300 million yuan, what if you want [-]% of the shares in the Li Family Escort Bureau?" Lin Dangfeng's words were immediately shocking.

Li Chongjiu saw that Li Hu's expression changed slightly. Obviously, the price moved him a little bit, but Li Hu was mature and prudent, so he didn't immediately agree.

Li Chongjiu thought for a while, now [-]% of the Li Family Escort Bureau is in the hands of Shan Xiongxin, and he keeps [-]% of it. At the earliest time, when Li Hu was in Qiqianzhai, the whole village only had [-] to [-] yuan.

Two and a half years ago in the Yuan family in Runan, the lion opened his mouth and planned to pay 30 yuan to [-]% of the money, leaving only [-]% to the Li family. This made Li Hu hesitate for a long time. The quasi-conditions were looser, and under pressure from the Yuan family, Li Hu handed over the bodyguard to the Yuan family.

And now these dozen or so merchants actually offered 300 million yuan to buy [-]% of the shares of the Li family. It really shows what kind of situation the Li family's bodyguard bureau has reached in Bingzhou.

300 million yuan, according to the rice price of ten cents and one bucket (Note 30), you can buy [-] buckets.

Five hundred cash for a piece of silk, 5000 cash for a walking horse, and more than [-] cash for Li Chongjiu to pay Chai Baochang the toll.

Li Hu still didn't agree, saying that he would give them time to think about it. On the next day, after Lin Dangfeng and the other managers of the Chamber of Commerce had a rest at the Escort Bureau, they went to visit Li Hu again, only to learn that Li Hu had gone out.

When Lin Dangfeng and the manager of the Chamber of Commerce went to find Li Chongjiu again, they learned that Li Chongjiu had gone out with Li Hu, and the two of them would not return until more than 20 days later.

At present, all the managers of the Chamber of Commerce are wondering why Li Hu, Li Chongjiu and his son disappeared together.

They were all surprised, even if they didn't agree, they didn't have to close the door to see customers. Fortunately, they were not in a hurry for the time being. Anyway, they would wait until the spring blossoms before going to Mobei. Good wine and good meat.

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

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

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

If there is no accident, this will be the place where Li Chongjiu started his family in the future.

Note [-]: Laowan is the current dumpling.Note [-]: The price of rice fluctuates greatly. In Zhenguan’s prosperous age, a bucket of rice was worth two coins. In troubled times, a bucket of rice and gold was not expensive. This article takes an intermediate value.

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