"Ah, it's snowing."

In the early morning, after the Jingniao opened the window, she saw snowflakes falling from the sky outside the house.

Out of her childish nature, she couldn't help but reach out to catch a snowflake and watch it gradually melt in her palms.

She turned around and wanted to tell Zhao Yu the news, but saw Zhao Yu on the bed wrapped the quilt tightly, making her look like a bloated fat bug.

She held back her laughter and went forward to wake Zhao Yu up: "Young Master, Young Master, it's getting late. Didn't the young master lead the caravan to Wancheng today?"

Zhao Yu mumbled at first, not knowing what he said. It was not until he heard the caravan that he opened his eyes and asked in a daze: "Jing Nu, when is it time?"

"It's almost the second moment of Chen Shiqi." Jingnv replied.

Chen Shier, he said it was not too early or too late, but considering today's task, Zhao Yu still sat up with sleepiness.

At this time, Jingnv also immediately closed the window to prevent her young master from catching a cold.

But Zhao Yu still noticed the snowflakes falling outside the window, and frowned slightly when he saw this: "Is it snowing outside?"

"Um."

The quiet girl nodded slightly.

In fact, she likes the flawless snow very much, but at this moment she dared not reveal her thoughts in front of the young master because she knew that this snow would affect the young master's plan.

Sure enough, after hearing her answer, Zhao Yu frowned immediately. He didn't bother to put on his clothes, so he got to the window and opened the window to observe the snowfall outside.

It's OK. The snow should have started falling in the middle of the night last night. So far, about two knuckles have accumulated outside the house. It's just that it's a light snow, which shouldn't affect their travel today.

Soon, with the help of Jingnu, Zhao Yu dressed his clothes neatly and immediately took Jingnu to the wooden building.

The house they lived in was Wei Pu, a wine merchant in Ye County, whom they met two days ago, on the second floor of the wine shop in the west of Yecheng City. After everyone dispersed on the county government that day, Wei Pu invited Zhao Yu and his group to the wine shop in the west of the city and talked with Zhao Yu about the "Lu Ye Masonic". When it was late at night, Wei Pu simply rested with Zhao Yu and his group on the second floor of the wine shop. Anyway, according to everyone's appointment, today we gathered outside the wine shop to form a huge caravan and headed to Wancheng.

The first floor of the wine shop was used to be used as a wine shop, but it has been closed in the past two days. When Zhao Yu took Jingniao downstairs, Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng were sitting on the bench inside the house, watching the people on the street outside the wine shop loading and unloading goods.

From the side, Cao Ju, the chief manager of the Township Marquis' Mansion, was talking to more than a dozen businessmen from Ye County, including Wei Pu.

"Second Young Master."

When they noticed that Zhao Yu took Jingnv downstairs, Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng immediately stood up to salute, while Cao Ju, Wei Pu and others also walked into the house and greeted Zhao Yu.

"Everyone."

Zhao Yu returned the greetings to these merchants and representatives of the aristocratic families in Ye County, and asked with a smile: "How are you preparing?"

Hearing this, Cao Ju stepped forward and said, "Second Young Master, given the hasty time, only Wei, Cheng, Chen, and Lu Liu families have prepared some goods today, mainly wine, and in addition, there are some cured meat, animal skins and other things, which are about twenty-three carriages."

There are actually quite a lot of goods filled with twenty-three carriages for a team of merchants, but if you look at the entire Ye County, this thing is really nothing.

Perhaps as Cao Ju said, the trade time this time was too hasty. In just two days, the merchants in Ye County had no time to transport the inventory of goods to this place; of course, it is also possible that the vast majority of merchants in Ye County were still watching and preparing to try the transaction with the military city to see if it was as Zhao Yu said.

It is precisely this reason that although the source of goods in this caravan is only Wei, Cheng, Chen, and Lu, the "unrelated personnel" who are preparing to follow this caravan to Wancheng are several times that of these six.

However, Zhao Yu didn't care about this. After all, being cautious is the practice of most merchants in the world, and it is not difficult to understand.

"Duke Wei, Duke Cheng."

Zhao Yu smiled and greeted Wei Pu and others.

Hearing his name, Wei Pu and others waved their hands repeatedly, saying that they dared not bear the title of "public".

In modern times, people who walk and sell goods are called "shang" and those who sell goods in stores are called "jia", collectively called merchants. Because of their wealth, some are called "heroes". However, in terms of social status, merchants are completely inequality. In modern times, farmers are not as good as farmers.

Zhao Yu praised them and respectfully called them the public, which made them fearless and feared that the names that did not match their identities would cause unnecessary trouble.

So in the end, Zhao Yu had to choose a more popular name: Lao Jia.

Take the wine merchant Wei Pu as an example. Old Jia Wei was finally a little more polite than Wei Jia.

On that day, after using some food in Wei Pu’s tavern, Zhao Yu led the caravan to leave Ye County in a mighty manner.

Although the caravan was loading only twenty-three carriages, the carriages they were riding with were barely reaching this number, which made the carriage particularly large, so when leaving Ye County, the county people in Ye County rushed to watch and secretly guess where these people organized this caravan to go.

In late October, the temperature was quickly and cold. Even when sitting in the carriage, Zhao Yu felt the cool breeze pouring in.

Although Jingnu kindly covered a blanket in the carriage for Zhao Yu, touching Jingnu's cold hands, Zhao Yu finally let her cover it himself.

"This should be the first and last time this year, the military market has been traded with General Wang."

Looking at the snowflakes falling outside the window, Zhao Yu said with some regret.

In late October, it was a little late. If he had been confident that he would gradually build the Luye Freemasons through several trades with military cities and gradually tie the merchants in Luyang and Ye County. In this way, it would be interesting to wait until the spring of the next year and wait for the merchants in Rushui counties to learn about Wang Shangde's military city and take the caravan through Luyang and Ye County.

But unfortunately, this matter is probably going to be coming year.

There was nothing to explain during the caravan's journey to Wancheng. The only thing worth mentioning was that their caravan was once called to stop by the soldiers under Wang Shangde's command.

The purpose of those soldiers was visible at a glance, and they could see that their caravan was huge and wanted to take the opportunity to gain some benefits.

To be fair, this kind of thing is not uncommon, especially for some military gangsters who have been involved in the strokes, they may not be completely unfair to the villagers of the local neighbors. When they encounter caravans, they may not give up on their plans to make a fortune. Anyway, ordinary people dare not provoke them easily.

Unfortunately, the soldiers never expected that they would hit the iron plate this time.

When Zhao Yu showed the certificate given by Wang Shangde in front of the soldiers, the soldiers were so scared that they did not dare to say anything. Not only did they let go, but they also privately begged Zhao Yu not to inform General Wang of the matter, and they did not know whether these people misunderstood Zhao Yu as Wang Shangde's son and nephew.

Seeing this scene with his own eyes, Wei Pu and other Ye County merchants were deeply moved.

You should know that in previous years, when they were doing business, they were garrisoned by local troops and county soldiers, which was common. Most of the time, they were considering that it was better to have less than more things, so they could only allow those people to blackmail, give them benefits, and build good relationships.

Today, Zhao Yu just showed the certificate given by Wang Shangde, which scared the soldiers under his command so that they did not dare to offend. In terms of interests, this really saved a lot of money. After all, they used to blackmail them by relying on their identities, but they were not just a group of people.

When Zhao Yu and his group of caravans arrived in Wancheng, they encountered a total of three groups of soldiers deliberately in a difficult situation. However, after Zhao Yu showed that certificate, no one of the three groups of soldiers dared to act rashly.

When we arrived in Wancheng, the date was October 22, and the snowfall had become particularly severe. When the convoy of people arrived in Wancheng, the snow on the road had accumulated more than two inches. According to this situation, as Zhao Yu judged, it should be impossible to organize the second decent business this year.

Of course, if you don’t mind the cold weather and the road is blocked by ice and snow, that’s another matter.

When they arrived at the city gate, Zhao Yu showed the certificate issued by Wang Shangde. In fact, the soldiers guarding the city gate might not be able to understand the words on the certificate, but at least they could understand the general seal on the certificate. Without saying a word, Zhao Yu's caravan was placed in the city.

Because he had been to Wancheng twice, Zhao Yu and his group naturally no longer had the initial curiosity about Wancheng, but Wei Pu and other merchants in Ye County couldn't help but look at the city carefully.

When they saw the depression in the city, these Ye County merchants were quite unbelievable.

After all, this is Wancheng, which was once the most prosperous county in Nanyang County, and it is even more prosperous than Ye County, but I never thought that it would fall to this point today.

However, no matter how emotional they are, they dare not comment casually. After all, everyone knows that Wang Shangde has made an indelible contribution to Wancheng and even the entire Wanbei have fallen to this level today. Now, these people are in the place where Wang Shangde is stationed. If they say something unpleasant and it is passed to Wang Shangde, they may even lose their lives.

So, they followed Zhao Yu honestly and did not dare to leave the team without authorization.

When they learned of the arrival of Zhao Yu's caravan, the officials in charge of the military city immediately came to contact Zhao Yu and others. This person was Kong Jian and Kong Wenju, the former governor of Nanyang County.
Chapter completed!