When the time enters July, you can often see the Great Mars deviating from the middle sky and descending from the west. This is the July fire recorded in the Book of Songs.

At this time, the sky was always high and the air was clear and the clouds were light. On the road from the Central Plains to the outside of the Great Wall, there were scattered caravans out of the Great Wall, and occasionally large caravans. The small caravans were mostly scattered merchants. Most of them passed the Great Wall and sold the goods in the tribes near the rear of Shangba. However, the large caravans moved from dozens of camel cavalry to carry goods, and they often rushed to the grassland further north to penetrate deeper.

After leaving the Jundu Pass, although there was Daning Pass further north, he had already entered the sphere of influence of Huaihuang Town along the way.

Near Erlong City, a team of patrols were patrolling this increasingly lively caravan. There were no bandits on the commercial road at present, and these patrols were more responsible for guiding the road and fighting wolves. The caravans who went out of the frontier were the two most afraid of, one was the bandits and the other was the wolf. It turned out that this area was full of the mountain church entrances of the Tiger League, and the caravans had to pay a purchase of roads almost ten or twenty miles apart, but now, no one in Huaihuang Town has bribed the roads. The cities in Huaihuang Town have also sent people to strengthen and expand the original business roads. Every time they entered the area of ​​Huaihuang Town, there would be a gate tower archway on the road first, and there was a checkpoint next to the gate tower archway.

The combination of the checkpoint and the gate archway is a firm checkpoint. From a distance, a team of people were standing in front of checking the passing caravans.

Sun Ping looked at the level he didn't have when he came last time and couldn't help but frown secretly.

"It is probably the one who set up a card to collect taxes." A Sun family's manager said.

"This is the territory of the Second Dragon City of the Tiger League. What taxes are collected can only be said to be the money." Sun Ping shook his head, "Be honest later. Don't cause trouble for the caravan. I heard that some time ago, Yi Sanlang and Daqingshan's Lao Daozhan had a big battle. Lao Daozhan and his son-in-law united hundreds of parish hamlets and tens of thousands of people to attack Yi Sanlang, but the entire army was defeated. Now all the villages in Daqingshan were wiped out by Yi Sanlang. From now on, Yi Sanlang said that it was Yi Sanlang who said it to the northern border. You can't offend him."

Sun Ping waved his hand and the caravan continued to move forward. Last time, Sun Ping went to Erlong City and visited Yi Sanlang in Huaihuang, and received Yi Sanlang's personal reception. After some observation, Sun Ping returned to Shanggu and told his views to the head of the Sun family. Although Huaihuang Town has changed a lot, it is a favorable side for the merchants. Huaihuang is building a big border city. They no longer robbed. Although Yi Sanlang is young, he is very kind to others and what he says

He revealed his vision. After hearing this, the head of the Sun family was very satisfied and relieved. However, some time ago, the head of the Sun family heard that Yi Sanlang and Daqingshan's old swords were fighting again, so he continued to watch until Yi Sanlang unexpectedly defeated Lao Dajie again. Seeing that autumn was already approaching, the head of the Sun family made up his mind and organized a huge camel fleet. He began to take all kinds of goods that had been organized long ago on the road.

The Sun family's Tuo team is a famous caravan that goes outside the frontier in the north. The Sun family uses camels to go out of the frontier. Eighty camels were divided into a gang, and 160 camels were a cargo house. Among them, five camels were a group, sixteen were a group, one was in charge of one person, and one was eighteen people, led by a gang leader and another Turkic man as the guide, so as to ensure that you will not get lost under any circumstances and you can find water sources and camping places.

In the gang, two other people who are pharmacological and medical, should be equipped with essential medicines to ensure the safety of people and animals. The Sun family said that the camels ran on the grass and called out the pluck. Each camel carried four or five hundred kilograms. Each group of goods had to be led by a small control and hired three or four guards. For safety reasons, each house was specially equipped with sixteen fierce dogs. This dog was tall and mighty, and was a good helper to deal with wolves and horse bandits on the commercial road.

This time, the camel caravan led by Sun Ping had ten houses, a total of 1,600 camels, carrying a large amount of goods of more than 6,000 stones. The total number of big managers, small managers, guards, camel workers, guides, doctors, etc. was more than 400, and there were also 160 dogs. This was a huge camel caravan. Among the caravans that went out of the frontier, the caravans of the Sun family could be regarded as a very famous one.

These large caravans start to set off every year in autumn and do not return until winter.

There is still a distance away, and several people are already greeting the level.

"Oh, this is not Manager Sun. Wow, the Sun family's camel caravan is amazing. There must be ten houses, right?" The person who came was also Sun Ping's old acquaintance, Duan Zhian from Erlong City.

Sun Ping smiled and stepped forward, "Brother Duan has changed his clothes again, I feel much more energetic. Could it be that he has been promoted?"

Duan Zhian reached out to dust off his body and said proudly: "I've been promoted to inspectors. There's nothing left. Compared with the imperial official position, it's probably considered the ninth rank, and it's not worth mentioning."

"What is this inspection responsibility?"

"Inspection is a newly established position in our Huaihuang Town. The full name is the Inspection Department. The one I am responsible for is the Inspection Department of Erlongshan Inspection Department. No, the checkpoint behind me is the Erlongshan Inspection Department. All the caravans and pedestrians passing by must check and register here. Brother Sun, come on, I will help you register in person." Duan Zhian said, and pulled Sun Ping over.

Sun Ping couldn't help but be pulled away, thinking in his heart that he might have another blood. Now Yi Sanlang has unified the line of Yinshan Mountain in Yanshan, and this is his only one family. It's up to me. The establishment of a pass and a card is probably to collect money like the court, which is similar to the original toll, but it has a more court-like style.

Duan Zhian pulled Sun Ping to a table in front of the pass, and asked for a form from his subordinates to hand it over to Sun Ping.

"Brother Sun, just fill in this form."

Sun Ping picked up the form and saw that there were many grids on the white paper, and then there were words in the grid in the front, and spaces behind it. He swept it roughly and wrote about the name of the caravan, the name of the manager, the number of people and animals in the caravan, and the number of goods. While he was amazed at the meticulous work of the form, he was thinking about how to fill it out.

Duan Zhiping poured him a cup of tea and said, "Actually, filling out this form will be of great help to Brother Sun."

"Oh, what do you mean?"

"Brother Sun may not know that now we have built various cities in Huaihuang. It is very lively. Especially in Sanlian City in Huaihuang, there is even more lively. I heard that Yi Shuai has built a trading market, mainly to face you big merchant groups. If you provide a list of goods for them, they will immediately help you put the goods on the exchange, and then the caravans from all over the country can bid directly as long as you need your goods. I don't know much about the specifics. In short, I heard that the Wang family caravans from Taiyuan, Hedong, have the goods of ten houses. They just put orders directly on the exchange and sold them all in just ten days. They didn't even leave the dam."

"Taiyuan Wang Family Caravan, which caravan is the shopkeeper of Wang Dexi?" In fact, there will be no second Taiyuan Wang Family Caravan, which can afford ten houses, will be the only one. But Sun Ping was still surprised and hard to believe it. You know, the more north they went, the higher the profits the goods brought by the goods. He was a little confused about the Wang family's actual caravans that sold the goods in Huaihuang. This was not only a matter of selling goods, but also the caravans who walked on the grassland sold the goods brought by the Central Plains to the tribes deep in the grassland, and then brought back various fur and livestock from the grassland. This time, there were two transactions. If they were sold in Huaihuang, they would definitely be difficult to sell at a good price. Secondly, can Huaihuang buy the goods brought by the grassland?

He frowned secretly. Could it be that the goods of the Wang family caravan were snatched by Huaihuang? Thinking about it, I think it is unlikely. The Wang family in Taiyuan is one of the top wealthy families in Shandong. Although their family is not as prominent as before in the new dynasty, they are still top-level clans. Since Yi Sanlang was recruited by the imperial court, he dared not rashly buy the goods of the Wang family.

"Even their family, I can't tell the details. But I heard that the shopkeeper Wang Dexi made a lot of money and couldn't stop laughing. When he went back, he was said to have brought a total of 5,000 horses back to Taiyuan. When he left, he said that he would organize goods immediately after going back to the dam."

After hearing this, Sun Ping was a little confused, but when he thought about his ten-house goods this time, there were goods from the two major families of Qinghe Zhang family and Cui family. The Zhang family and the Cui family were both Hebei families, especially the Cui family, which was the grand emperor's mother's family. Yi Sanlang dared not rob the Queen's family of things. Thinking of this, Sun Ping finally filled in carefully according to the form. Anyway, even if these things were not filled in, they could still figure them out if they wanted to check them.

After filling in the form, he handed it over. One of Duan Zhiping's subordinates quickly filled out another form and handed it over to Sun Ping.

When Sun Ping took it, he saw a charge slip. The details were clearly stated on it. The charge name was tolls. The charging standard was not based on the person or the value of the goods, but on the means of transportation. Sun Shang's ten houses camels, with a total of 1,600 camels. Each camel was loaded with goods, and each camel was transported by about four stones. Therefore, a camel costs four cents, which totaled 6,400 cents. Apart from that, there were no other fees. It was only six cents and four cents, which surprised Sun Ping. In the past, even if they had only about ten trucks of goods, they had to buy at least ten cents, not to mention the common examples of each year.

Regarding Sun Ping's doubts, Duan Zhian smiled and said, "That's right, this number is all stipulated above, one stone, one cent, no matter you are a car, donkey, horse, or ox, you should follow this number. Your camel is calculated based on the amount of four stones per camel, and one stone, one cent is exactly four cents per camel. You can pay the money once here, and you can manage one hundred miles. There are still four hundred miles from here to Huaihuang. You have to pass three inspection stations along the way and you have to pay three more money. In addition, if your camel caravan wants to enter the city, you have to earn additional city expenses."

Sun Ping nodded. He didn't care about the fact that he had to collect three more money along the way. How could he care about the small amount of money for ten houses paying 6 guan and 4,000 yuan for a hundred miles? Besides, he also saw that Huaihuang Town sent people to broaden and level and maintain this commercial road, which made it much easier for them to walk on the camel caravan, and there were no bandits on the road. There was no need to buy money for the road again. In total, he saved a lot of money.

"Brother Sun, it seems that it's getting late, do you want to replenish some supplies here and have some food or something. Next to our inspection department is a residence, which can be eaten and stayed."

The dial has many functions, including inns, hotels, warehouses, and even dentists and trading banks. It is most suitable for such a caravan. Sun Ping looked at the sky, nodded and asked the caravan to rest temporarily, eat here and provide some supplies. In addition, Sun Ping also intends to stop here first and send a few deli subordinates to Huaihuang Town first to see what the exchange is going on there.

When Sun Ping set off, he brought corn, cold cakes, yam, pickles, dried meat and other dry foods. However, now that there is supplies on the road, he doesn't have to eat these things.

The caravan spent a night in the diner and started to set off again the next day. As soon as the road was slow, Sun Ping slowed down and had not completed the 100-mile road. Before the second inspection department checkpoint, several people sent to Huaihuang to rush back and brought back a message that surprised Sun Ping. The Wang family caravan did sell all the goods from ten houses in Huaihuang, and then bought a large number of horses and salt back to Hedong. It is said that they made a lot of money, no less than what they had earned in the depths of the grasslands in the past. This news surprised Sun Ping, and the guy also brought back a message, "There are many grassland tribal caravans going south to Huaihuang, and there are even Turkic merchants who came from the Turkic Khan Court in the west. They brought a lot of goods. They are now putting orders on sale in that exchange, and all kinds of goods are sold very quickly. Also, the excellent snow and ice salt newly released in Huaihuang Town has been stolen now. I heard that there is no price."

When Sun Ping heard this, he was a little anxious. Although he was going to go out of the brigade this time, the head of the Sun family also gave him a task, that is, when he passed by Huaihuang, he bought a batch of Huaihuang snow salt and ice salt from Huaihuang Town, and bought as much as he could. It would be best to sign a long-term contract with Huaihuang Town. The group of salt that Sun Ping bought back last time was very surprised after seeing it, and took it out and put it in his shop to sell it in his shop. It was sold out at once. Many rich families even asked about this kind of salt and wanted to buy it.

"Camel fleet speeds up, let's go to Huaihuang!" Sun Ping is now impatient to see the market in Huaihuang City, especially in that exchange. He is becoming more and more interested in it. He wants to know how magical this transaction is!
Chapter completed!