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Chapter 35 Opening up the Transport Line
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"Shouzhe, where did you get [-] or [-] dans of grain?" Gongsun Qiang took a deep breath and said in disbelief.

The Gongsun clan of Shanyang is also considered strong, with [-] to [-] mu of fertile land.But even so, the grain output in one season is less than [-] or [-] dan!What's more, the production of fertile fields of the family must be distributed to the tenant farmers, and the annual tax is paid by mu, in addition to the consumption of grain reserves and insecticides.

From this, it can be seen that the [-]-[-] dans of grain is an astronomical figure.Even if it is normal, it is extremely difficult to get so much food at once, not to mention the current situation in this world.

"I bought it from the Qian's firm through a friend's relationship." Wang Shouzhe said, "Uncle, it's not too late. Now go to [Jucai Village] first, and the carriage will follow."

Gongsun's carriage was specially reinforced for the purpose of transporting minerals.The horses that pull the carts are also sturdy and durable Northland heavy-duty horses. Each carriage uses four to five horses, which can easily pull thousands of jins.

Bought it through a friend?

Gongsun Qiang's eyelids twitched, where did this kind of friend come from, can you give me a dozen?With envy and jealousy and a little disbelief, he took the lead to follow Wang Shouzhe to [Ju Cai Zhuang].

Jucai Village is one of the Qian's industries, and it is specially used to store various bulk goods.Many bulk goods often cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, etc., and it is unnecessary to transport them to Changning Acropolis.

As for the fear of being attacked and robbed, that is just a joke.

Not to mention that the armed forces in this Jucai Village are not bad, let's just say that the brand of Qian's, a wealthy family in Longzuo, is placed there, and no one dares to move the slightest evil thoughts.

Seeking to see him through the door of Ju Cai Zhuang, after a short while, Qian Xue'an, the head of the money, came out with a dark face, looking like he didn't give Wang Shouzhe a good face.

Afterwards, he made a handover on behalf of Qian's family, and the two parties re-drawn a contract, Qian's "repurchase" the contract of killing insects from Wang Shouzhe.

The price is very reasonable, [-] dry gold in cash, and [-] dan of aged grain in stock.After the original [-] bags of insecticide powder were repurchased, Qian's can sell at least [-] to [-] dry gold, and naturally he would not lose money.

Regarding such "disgraceful" things, the shopkeeper of Qian's Changning Branch did not even want to speak out, and he entrusted everything to Qian Xuean.The shopkeeper, who never showed up, had obviously thought about it for a long time, and put the responsibility for all mistakes on Qian Xue'an, the head of the money.

Therefore, when Qian Xue'an was assisting Wang Shouzhe to go through the formalities, his face was "gloomy" to the point of dripping water, and he didn't want to say a word to Wang Shouzhe from beginning to end.

After everything was done properly, Wang Shouzhe threw a large stack of golden tickets and a road guide of [-] dans of grain to Wang Shouzhe, and left angrily.

Wang Shouzhe was stunned for a while when he saw the acting between the fake and the real.In his heart, he sighed directly that once Qian Xuean was promoted to Spirit Stage, he would definitely be an outstanding person in the future.

After finishing the formalities, Wang Shouzhe found Gongsun Qiang, who was waiting outside: "Uncle, the procedures for receiving [-] dans of old grain have been completed. When your people arrive, let's start transporting grains."

Gongsun Qiang's body shook and he was stunned. Really, he actually "bought" a full [-] load of grain. This big nephew is really incredible.

Soon, Gongsun Qiang's [-]-carriage convoy came slowly, along with [-] sturdy miners.

In the granary piled up like a mountain, all the grains are packed in rice bags, and a bag of rice is exactly one hundred catties per load.But those miners easily carried three or four bags and started loading them.

"Uncle, how much can a cart hold?" Wang Shouzhe had never seen such a large amount of food in his two lifetimes.Although he had already estimated in his heart, the size and number were still far beyond his imagination.

"Load it, even if it is, load it on a hundred tandem, our carriages are specially reinforced, and the heavy-duty horses in the north can't be pulled by a vegetarian." Gongsun Qiang's eyes are already starting to turn red, he has lived his whole life, naturally I have never seen so many grains piled together.

With the strength of the Shanyang Gongsun clan, [-] dans of grain are enough to hoard thousands of strong laborers for a year.The Shanyang Gongsun family's tenant farmers and miners and slaves, plus their family members, add up to a population of several thousand at most.

Hundreds of load?That's tens of thousands of kilograms of grain...

Wang Shouzhe was a little surprised for a moment, this is really a fantasy world, not only ordinary people are much more powerful, but even this kind of heavy horse drawn in the north is so powerful.Moreover, this is not a spirit beast-level warhorse, otherwise it will be even more powerful.

Those miners were obviously also used to heavy work. Every four people were assigned a carriage, but it took six or seven trips to load the carriage.One after another, the special mine carriages were overloaded with grain.

But even so, it was only two thousand dan.

According to this model, can't pull thirty times?Come on, let's pull it slowly, anyway, I don't expect to finish this batch of grain in a short time.

Fortunately, at this time, Qian Xuean appeared again, and he still said with a cold face: "Our Qian's firm pays the most attention to goodwill and will never embarrass customers. You can rent our heavy-duty carriage, including the driver. Twenty coppers a day, including the rations for the coachman and the heavy draw horse, you need to be responsible for loading and unloading."

Obviously, Qian Xue'an took a risk and came to assist.

But the eldest uncle Gongsun Qiang on the side almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. Although the price given by the other party was reasonable, it also weakened his hard work, right?
Originally, Gongsun Qiang wanted to take advantage of this help, and had the cheek to ask his nephew to give him some food.

"This way, you will have money and money." Wang Shouzhe said happily, "Then let's rent another [-] carriages."

The number of carriages owned by Qian's firm far exceeds that of Gongsun's, and their business is spread all over Longzuo. Of course, the carriages have a very high cargo capacity, which is not inferior to Gongsun's carriages.

When all fifty carriages were fully loaded, they drove out of Jucai Village all the way.

Jucai Village is only ten miles away from Changning Ferry, and under normal circumstances, a carriage can arrive in less than an hour.However, there are many people at Changning Ferry, and Wang Shouzhe does not want to make a big splash for the time being to avoid extravagant branches.

After the carriage passed the three forks, it was on the road to Shanyang, and after another two or three miles, it turned a corner in the direction of Anjiang, and arrived at a dense forest.From here, the carriage can no longer go in.But within a hundred steps of the dense forest, there is a vertical cliff with a height of five or six feet, and there is a natural inlet of twenty or thirty feet wide under the cliff.

At this time, Wang Dinghai, the sixth uncle, had already received a letter from his family, and led a fleet to wait here, and set up a sloping temporary plank road.Those boats included fishing boats and ferries. In short, they brought all the boats that the family could use.

Although such transportation is laborious, it is very concealed.

From the carriage to the dense forest to the cliff and the boat, it takes about 250 steps. Wang Shouzhe asked the miners and the generals to stand in a good position, and each person took three steps to deliver the grain by relay.

As soon as everyone got used to it, they discovered the advantages of this simple human transportation line, which is stable and orderly, and the efficiency is gradually improved.The speed of loading the ship can finally reach a load of one or two breaths, and it saves the time and physical strength of running back and forth.

In just over an hour, all the food for fifty carriages was magically loaded and unloaded.Subsequently, the carriage team returned to Jucai Zhuang to get the next batch.Wang Shouzhe followed the fleet and crossed Anjiang all the way to the [Fenggu Gate].

There are more people in Fenggu Farm, there are two hundred tenant farmers, and it is easy to draw 150 strong laborers.Using the same method, the rice was transported through the gate of Fenggu and temporarily stored in Fenggu Farm.

There are not enough boats in the river. There are only five or six boats. They have to move slowly on this last line.

The successful development of the transportation line made Wang Shouzhe relax, but he was also strongly dissatisfied with his own transportation line.

The first is the over-reliance on public ferries and the lack of privately developed and concealed small piers.

Secondly, it is inconvenient for Anjiang to go to the inland river, because the water levels on both sides are inconsistent, and the single gate cannot be opened for a long time at will, otherwise it will cause waterlogging. In this regard, we must find a way to build a ship lock for ships to pass through.

Furthermore, the family has obvious shortcomings in ship transportation and carriage transportation.Perhaps with the existing scale of the Wang family, this shortcoming is not very obvious, but as the family continues to grow and expand, this shortcoming will seriously hinder the development of the family.

It seems that the establishment of its own and perfect transportation channels is also imminent.

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(End of this chapter)