The most unlucky crossing in history

In fact, if Zhong Qiyun, the head of the family, hadn't required Zhong Qiyun to arrange such a large-scale mobilization of the Zhong family's fleet and caravan, then Zhong Qiyun would never have left Jingzhao and Xie Wenyuan at this time.

After Zhong Qiyun left Jingzhao City, he hurried to Jiangcheng. This was Zhong Qiyun's first river transport base in the inland after he got the river order, and it was also the largest Chengfengyi city among the cities along the river.

Jiangcheng, the state capital of Jingzhou, is located in the eastern part of the Jianghan Plain and along the middle section of the river.

Before Zhong Qiyun went to Shendu, he arranged for He Minqing to immediately set up a fleet river port and land station in Jiangcheng, so that the Zhong family's fleet and caravans could dock, transfer, and distribute here.It has also become the midpoint of Chengfengyi's message delivery in China.

As it happens, the flooded area this time happened to be a hundred miles south of Jiangcheng. Zhong Qiyun wanted to mobilize the middle and upper Zhong family fleets and caravans as quickly as possible. of.

Knowing that time was of the essence, Zhong Qiyun traveled day and night, and it only took him two days to arrive in Jiangcheng. During these two days, he barely slept. .

In any case, the orders that have already been accepted must be completed on time and on time. Integrity is the foundation of the Zhong family's development to the present.

Right now, the Zhong family has nearly 360 large and small river transport ships, 58 sea transport ships, and 69 caravans with more than ten people...

Near winter is the best time for the shipping fleet to go south to foreign countries. Zhong Qiyun made his fortune by shipping. He knows the huge benefits, so this year he has already signed the one-hundred-ship business, so the shipping ships cannot move...

As for river transportation and land transportation, although they have just started, they have annexed many fleets some time ago. He owns a lot of ships, and the Zhong family fleet has a good reputation for shipping, so there is no shortage of business.Fortunately, half of the delivery tasks are not heavy and can be deployed.

Calculating the amount of food that needs to be transported, Zhong Qiyun allocated some ships and caravans with light transport tasks that could absorb each other's transport tasks, and some parts of the country were vacated to transport disaster relief grain and rice.

In this way, he didn't breathe a sigh of relief until it was enough to win the rice grain task in one go.

On the day of Jiangcheng, he immediately

Dozens of letters were handwritten, and the deployment plan was copied and attached, and after it was affixed with the personal seal that only he owned, he was immediately sent to various places for immediate execution.

Zhong Qiyun's deployment was appropriate, taking care of many parties, and he promised to send additional tasks and pay three times the wages, which made the boatmen and team members happy, and of course there was no complaint when they took action.

——Hu Baiying, the Zhong family moved so fast that many merchants did not have time to react. Many people were even told that the Zhong family had unveiled the announcement and promised to deliver disaster relief funds free of charge when they learned that the imperial court called on caravans to help deliver disaster relief , to do my best for the victims of the two lakes.

——The evaluation of Zhong's family being virtuous, compassionate, and righteous has spread across the country.

Of course, there is Zhong Qiyun's handwriting in it. Although the loss-making business this time is for Xie Wenyuan and to help the victims, Zhong Qiyun will not be so stupid as to just do good deeds without publicity.This was originally an excellent opportunity to expand the influence and reputation of the Zhong family's transportation industry, and Zhong Qiyun certainly would not miss it.

After arranging the transportation work, Zhong Qiyun went further and called all the managers in Jiangcheng to brainstorm, and the next day, he formulated a plan and distributed it to various places, so that private storytellers, news passers, etc. could be privately hired to carry out infiltrating publicity.

It’s just that, in this ancient time when there was little such publicity, his charitable act of transporting tens of thousands of taels for free was a rare event in a hundred years. Everywhere in the news from the outside world got a freshly released topic of conversation. With all kinds of blessings, the instant impact was so great that Zhong Qiyun didn't expect it.

Even the voices talking about the Zhong family in the past few days have overshadowed the news of Jingzhaocheng's defeat that slowly came out.

Zhong Qiyun moved too fast, but after thinking about it, any businessman with a little brain could guess what he was going to do.

"Building reputation and expanding momentum, this kid from the Zhong family has too much taste, right?! With such a big fanfare, doesn't he want to take the opportunity to win all the land and river transportation in the middle school?!"

The heads of the six major caravans in the Central Plains rushed to Suizhou overnight and gathered in the inner hall of Yanliu Building.

"I heard that the old man Hu Yanzhang was tricked by this kid a few months ago, and he swallowed up a lot of fleets."

"So what? Mr. Hu doesn't care about river and land transportation at all, and he's not good at it. He just sees the kid's rampage, and he suppresses it when he sees it. It's not a defeat."

"Hmph, little yellow-haired boy, what do you know! In the past, he was able to monopolize the pie by mastering some shipping skills? Trying to beat me and the others?"

no? ! "

"Since the establishment of the Zhong family fleet, I have never come here to visit—two, is it because we don't exist?!"

Compared with the situation that silk, salt, wood, weapons, and money houses are controlled by the five majors, although the Daqing Dynasty Central Caravan has not formed a situation where several companies are dominant, there are also situations where several companies have united to form a group. The team group is the six families of the Central Plains.According to the past practice, many newly-built caravans respect him more than three points, and the new owners all come to curry favor, so that the goods can be transported smoothly across the country.

Except Zhong Qiyun.

Zhong Qiyun had never seen them in the future, let alone giving gifts to curry favor.But even so, Zhong Qiyun's fleet, caravan, Chengfeng Station, Chengfeng Pavilion, etc. have all developed rapidly, and they have blossomed everywhere in the court in just two years, and the momentum is like a broken bamboo.

Because Zhong Qiyun—started to make his fortune by sea transportation, and never relied on them for the silver and gold he earned from foreigners, and they had nowhere to take any benefits they wanted.Even when Zhong Qiyun set foot in the country, he directly obtained the Xinghe Order and the Xingjiang Order because of his meritorious service to the court, which made the six families gnash their teeth in anger.

But also because of Zhong Qiyun's example, several new caravans this year followed suit and stopped visiting as usual, and these six caravans had long-standing grievances.

The old man with white beard snorted: "Let this old man teach him what is humility and what is ability."

With a middle-aged short and fat man hugging the beauty beside him, he laughed: "Boss Pu is going to..."

The old man called Boss Pu squinted his eyes and said, "Teach him how to behave, teach him how to respect the seniors."

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

The six people in the Yanliu Tower laughed and clinked glasses together, drinking and having fun.

In fact, Zhong Qiyun had expected that someone would take the opportunity to do something.

It is a good thing that the publicity effect is good, but I am afraid that the opponent will react, and the tricks behind the scenes will not be worth the loss.At present, Zhong Qiyun has a lot of capable people, but most of them are experts in the transportation industry. Before the fallacy of the Zhong family appeared, Zhong Qiyun had already drawn up a countermeasure.

Therefore, even if Zhong Qiyun wanted to return to Xie Wenyuan again, he could only stay in Jiangcheng and sit in the town in person, first step home, publicize the whole process of this transportation activity, and let people explore the words circulating among the people overnight, —If something is wrong, deal with it immediately,

Every link has put an end to rumors and troubles caused by those who have a heart.

Twelve days have passed since everything has been dealt with and the food transported by the Zhong family has been transported from all over the country.

Jiang Sicheng, who came from Hangzhou to help Zhong Qiyun handle these matters, reported the news collected from various places recently to Zhong Qiyun.

"As my boss thought, someone did take the opportunity to slander me. The day before yesterday, I made people follow the vines and found the person behind it. It is Pu Xiaode, one of the six masters of the Central Plains Land Transport."

Zhong Qiyun knew about Pu Xiaode. The old caravan owner in the Central Plains was more powerful than Lu Huang.He also knew the "rules" established by this person and the other five companies. He was colluding with each other and used the opportunity to squeeze the surrounding caravans all the year round, so that the new caravan could not maintain its business and closed down.

It can be said to be a model of a businessman with bad conduct.So Zhong Qiyun didn't intend to have too much intersection with them from the beginning, and there was no need to have intersection.

Now that the size of Zhong's family is no longer comparable to these few, Zhong Qiyun doesn't care about it, thinking that this time he only acted in private when he was angry with him for a long time.

"Boss, do you need to give them some warning? Although there is no disadvantage at present, if they are allowed to act like this, it will be scary." Jiang Sicheng asked again.

Zhong Qiyun shook his head. These old people have been "respected" for too long, and they have long lost sight of the current transportation situation. They have guarded their own forces and have not changed for decades, but they don't know that this attitude has already fallen behind.Even without him, Zhong Qiyun, their family would soon be replaced by someone else.At the end of 70 years old, let him live in a dream and give advice.

Thinking in this way, Zhong Qiyun said: "No need, we have more important things to do here, so we don't need to waste time and energy dealing with them." Zhong Qiyun paused and said: "It's good now, they Now there is still leisure to target me, I am afraid that in a few days, I will be too busy to take care of myself."

Jiang Sicheng nodded.

Zhong Qiyun said again: "Brother Jiang, yesterday I asked you to select 50 capable subordinates, but the arrangement is proper?"

"It has been arranged, and they are all able to fight well."

Zhong Qiyun nodded, not knowing what he was thinking of, and he said again: "I've been lingering here for too long, tomorrow you will make him disguise himself as a stevedore and go to Jingzhao with us in the north."

"Yes."

Just like what Zhong Qiyun said, in less than two days, Pu Xiaode will - okay, there will be no

Kong went to spread rumors about Zhong's house again, because news came from Jingzhao that General Xie was defeated, the northwest fell, and the Uighur army moved south.

The whole country was shaken, and people were panicked and frightened at the time.

The merchants who donated rice grains are now full of regrets, but there is nothing they can do, because a large amount of rice grains has been sent to the cities and towns of the hardest-hit states in the two lakes.

But Zhong Qiyun, who was sad on a fast horse, was blocked by the officers and soldiers assigned by Wei Hechao at the mouth of the Xunyang River, unable to take another step forward.

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