Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 355 Are you new here?

  Hedong convoy arrived before the suspension bridge in Shanjin. The military guard guarding the suspension bridge rolled his eyes, glanced up and down at the convoy, and waved his hand slightly, asking several soldiers to come forward to check.

  Hedong's team leader hurried forward to greet him, smiling all over his face, and presented the money bag that had been prepared to the leading veteran.

   "What's on the cart?" The veteran asked casually as he turned the purse up and down, and then threw it to the soldiers beside him to count.

  The caravan leader laughed and said, "It's just some common food and grass, nothing prohibited."

"Oh? Grain? Are you new here?" The veteran laughed a few times, and without waiting for the leader to answer, he asked the soldiers to randomly check a carriage. When they saw that there were no problems and no nonsense, they went back to report to the military officer, and then Just let the convoy pass.

The team leader was thankful, but at the same time he was wondering, usually, even if there is no problem, these people would still have to find some problems, and even if they couldn’t find any problems, they would go around in circles around the horses and horses and would not let them go. How much more blood is needed to get through, why is it so strange today, even the second prepared money bag is not required to be released? And what's new about that sentence just now? What exactly does that mean?

   It was strange in my heart, but I didn't dare to say anything more. The caravan set off quickly and passed the long Shanjin pontoon bridge.

  Not far from Shanjin, there is a trumpet-shaped valley. On the wider side near Shanjin, there is a huge temporary trading market surrounded by wooden fences. It is extremely simple but very lively.

The trees used to build the shed didn’t even clean up the bark completely. A frame was roughly built like that, with the four sides empty, and then the thatch was used to pave the roof a little bit. Outside of some overhead wind, rain and sun, nothing works.

However, under such dilapidated conditions, many merchants in plain silk were like flies staring at carrion, buzzing and buzzing under the huts, rushing from one hut to another, Waving the document in his hand, as if he had received tens of millions of money, he was cautious and proud, and the leader of the Hedong caravan trembled slightly...

   This is what big business looks like!

  The running figures, the truckloads of goods piled up under the thatched shed, it seems that on this piece of land, there is a charming fragrance of copper coins everywhere...

The team leader took a deep breath, as if he wanted to inhale the smell of copper coins in the air into his lungs, then opened his eyes wide, and recognized that the largest thatched hut was for trading grain and grass. A little flush of excitement appeared on his face, he hurriedly explained a few words, and then strode towards the grass shed.

  Before the leader rushed to the straw shed where the grain and grass were traded, he was stopped by soldiers maintaining order outside. He didn't say much, and pointed to a wooden sign beside him.

  I saw four large characters written on the wooden sign, "Only sell, not sell"!

what!

  The team leader looked bewildered, there was no food collected here!

  Why don't you collect grain?

  How could it be possible not to collect grain?

  Then where will I sell the food and grass I brought?

The soldier seemed to know what the leader wanted to say, so he pointed with his finger, and saw a small lonely shed not far from the official road outside the fence of the market, with a table under the shed, and a middle-aged man Just beckoning here, there is a small wooden sign beside the table, the wooden sign is too small to notice if you don't pay attention, there is only one word on the wooden sign - "籴".

  Looking at the extremely lively scene in the big market, and then turning his head to look at the lonely and slightly bleak little shed, the team leader suddenly had a bad premonition, as if the next bleakness would be himself.

   "Are you new here?" The middle-aged man in the small shed asked with a smile.

   "Why do you say that again? Also, why don't you collect grain and grass?"

   "Because this is the only place to collect grain." The middle-aged man smiled, his eyes were full of joy like a big bad wolf seeing a cute little white rabbit.

  The team leader cupped his hands and said, "Dare to ask how much the grain is?" Although he was a little confused, as long as someone collects it, it doesn't matter if the grain is sold to everyone, isn't it the same?

  The middle-aged man took out a wooden sign from the table, pointed to the price marked on it, and asked the team leader to see it for himself.

"650 yuan per big stone beam! Only 500 yuan for millet! 390 yuan for wheat! 420 yuan for millet! You are playing with me!" It just happened to be almost the freight of the carriage...

  The price of grain in Sili is not less than a thousand dollars. I have worked so hard to collect grain and grass from Hedong, is it just to earn a carriage fee?

  The leader of the team was furious and left in a huff. There is no food here. Does it mean that Sili doesn’t collect food everywhere?

  The middle-aged man in the thatched hut was still smiling and did not speak. He watched the team leader leave angrily and did not dissuade him.

To go from Shanjin to Shanxian County, you have to pass through a trumpet-shaped valley formed by a natural mountain. All caravans need to pass through this valley to reach Sili. There are also soldiers maintaining order, so although the caravans of various companies are backlogged at the intersection , but it will not be too messy, but will be passed in order.

  The team leader is also waiting in line with the team.

   "Are you new here?" Suddenly, an old man in a caravan nearby said.

   "Ah? Why do you say that?" The team leader was very surprised, did I have the word "new arrival" written on my face? Why do you ask me this question?

  The old man smiled, then pointed to a small triangular flag hanging in front of his convoy, and said, "You can't get out without this flag..."

  The team leader looked around, only to find that there was basically a small flag on the convoys of merchants queuing up all around. On the small flags were words such as "Yihai", "Ding Chou", etc., like serial numbers.

   "Ask my husband, how to get this flag?"

  The old man pointed to the market behind, and said: "At this time, there are documents for buying and selling, and then you can go to the straw shed at Yingkou with the documents to collect them, and hand them over when you pass the valley before you can pass."

   "Old man, dare I ask you what you bought?"

   "Hehe, of course it is grain and grass." Now in Sili, there is no more popular commodity than grain and grass.

  The team leader rolled his eyes. Since he has no flag and no way to go out, can he—

   "It is also food and grass among the horses that get off the carriage. If the old man wants to..."

Before the team leader finished speaking, the old man was furious and said: "If the things you have passed are not in accordance with the documents, the lesser ones will be destroyed, and the more serious ones will be chopped off! I kindly remind you, why did you come to harm me? Humph!" The sleeves go away.

  The team leader was stunned for a while, then turned his head to look at Taniguchi with the trumpet mouth in front of him, feeling like a rabbit caught in a trap...

   Say an interesting detail:

   In Chapter 23 of the Romance, Boss Cao praised his civil servants and military generals in front of Mi Heng, saying, "Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Li Dian, etc. are all enemies of ten thousand people..." Barabara, etc.

   Then I was ridiculed by Mi Heng's big move...

   This is not the point. The point is that Zhang Liao of Baimenlou surrendered to Cao Cao in the 21st chapter. Why did Boss Cao mention Zhang Liao first? Could it be that in Boss Cao's mind, this newcomer Zhang Wenyuan ranks ahead of his old buddy Xu Chu and his confidant Li Dian?

   The reason is that "there is only Zhang Liao around" at this time...

   Anyway, that’s how it is, as for how to interpret it, it’s up to you all...

  (end of this chapter)