Goldfinger of the Heavens

Chapter 15 Ways to Leave Hongzhou (Continued)
"Brother Jiang, do you really have a way?" While working, Huang Chong took advantage of a gap to walk up to Scarface and asked weakly.

"Why, Goudan, you also want to leave Hongzhou?" Scarface was obviously taken aback when he saw Huang Chong.

He still has some impressions of this kid with a green mark on his face, but he didn't expect that Huang Chong would also want to leave Hongzhou. "Dog Dan" is a name Huang Chong gave himself, which is very down-to-earth.

"Yeah." Huang Chong nodded with his lips pursed, and said with a somewhat uneasy expression: "Last year, my parents died, and I came to Hongzhou because I didn't want to stay at home. According to Brother Jiang, Hongzhou is not Safety, Brother Jiang, please, can you help me."

Scarface didn't answer, but looked Huang Chong carefully up and down for a while. This is his habit. He wants to judge how much money he can cheat the other party. The most noticeable thing is the large bruise on his face. Remember, this is considered an ominous symbol.

Suddenly, a gleam flashed in Scarface's eyes, because he found that although Huang Chong was dirty all over, but because of sweating and carrying, the delicate skin on the back of his hands was exposed, and he didn't look like a child from a poor family at all. If you look closely, you can't really spot it.

"Of course, one hundred coins." Scarface rolled his eyeballs, stretched out a finger and said, the voice was not loud, only the two of them could hear it.

"One hundred Wen!" Huang Chong covered his mouth and exclaimed in a low voice, then put his hands together and begged, "Brother Jiang, can you see if it can be cheaper, please, Brother Jiang."

Although in conversion, one hundred Wen is equivalent to RMB 20, but we must know that even in different periods, the purchasing power of RMB is different. In this era, money is very valuable, and Huang Chong’s daily salary is only seven Wen. That's it, ordinary people spend only three Wen on food a day.

"This……"

After hesitating for a while, Scarface said: "Okay, everyone will call me Brother Jiang, and I have no parents since I was a child. Brother, I will treat it as a good deed this time. Thirty cents .”

"Thank you Brother Jiang, thank you Brother Jiang." Huang Chong said with a grateful expression after hearing the words.

"Tomorrow at a quarter of noon, we will meet at the west gate of the city. Remember to bring money. If you don't have enough money, don't blame Brother Jiang."

"Yes, yes, I must remember, I must remember, thank you Brother Jiang, thank you Brother Jiang!" After expressing his gratitude repeatedly, Huang Chong continued to work.

……

"Brother Jiang, who is this?" Seeing Huang Chong leave, the thin man who had been sitting next to Scarface walked up to him and asked in confusion.

"Hey, I just found out that this kid has soft skin and tender flesh. He must be a kid from a rich family. After work, you should quietly follow him."

"No, then why would he do such a job?"

"Who knows, maybe he ran away from home, don't care."

"That's right, then he must have something valuable on his body, which can be used as Brother Jiang's apprentice ceremony."

"Hey, even if you don't have any valuables on you, you can sell him to Meixiang Pavilion as a tortoise. It's just a pity. If you don't have that green note, you can still sell him for a good price. I heard that there are many rich people. This one."

"Gao, brother Jiang really is tall."

……

"Boom." Huang Chong put the sack on the ground on his shoulders, panting heavily. Although Huang Chong practiced martial arts, especially after training his internal strength, his strength increased a lot, but Huang Chong was still just a child after all. The work of adults is indeed a bit strenuous, but fortunately because of Hunyuan Gong, Huang Chong's recovery ability is relatively strong, so he persisted.

"My acting skills are really getting better and better. If I have the opportunity in the future, it should be no problem to win an Oscar." Seeing the scarred face carrying the sack, Huang Chong secretly rejoiced. He thought his acting skills had successfully deceived After the scar face, he saved himself a lot of money. Huang Chong always thought that the scar face was actually just wanting to make more money.

It should be much safer to follow the team of Changyuan Cabinet, and it will be less likely to be discovered. I don't need to go to Yangzhou, just find a suitable opportunity to leave the team on the way.

The cabinet shop is an institution specializing in the storage and lending of coins and valuables in the Tang Dynasty. It is similar to a bank. Its main business is to keep gold and silver properties on behalf of merchants and charge a certain rent.

All the cabinets are backed by powerful forces, and only in this way can the cabinets have credibility. Changyuan cabinets are one of the largest cabinets in the southern region, covering Jiangnan, Lingnan, Jianghuai, Shannan, and Jiannan.

The certificate of 10 taels of silver cabinet that Huang Chong took from Lu Yan’s room belonged to Changyuan’s cabinet. As long as Huang Chong took that certificate, he could exchange 9 taels of silver in any store in Changyuan’s cabinet.

Why not 10 taels?

This is the rule of the counter shop - ten into nine withdrawals, which means that one-tenth of the interest must be paid when withdrawing money, so you can only withdraw 9 taels. If you put it in the 21st century, this is definitely a high interest rate, but In the Tang Dynasty, the interest rate was not high, and three-tenths of the interest was considered normal for ordinary people's loans, so many people were willing to exchange one-tenth of the money for financial security.

In addition to the business of keeping money and goods, the cabinet workshop also has an escort business similar to that of an escort agency. After all, the goods of some big customers and the gold and silver in the cabinet workshop also need to be transshipped, so a special guard team was formed to ensure the safety of the cargo team. Naturally, it is very high, and even exceeds the official team in terms of safety and efficiency.

In this day and age, the most worrying thing for a person when traveling abroad is his own safety, so the best way is to follow these escort teams, and it is undoubtedly the safest to have their protection.

According to common sense, it is impossible for the escort team of the cabinet workshop to bring ordinary people. Ordinary people are cumbersome. Don't you see that in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Bei was dragged down by [-] people in Xinye before he was caught up by Tiger and Leopard Riders. .

In addition, no one knows whether some malicious people will be mixed in the team, which is too risky, after all, the safety of the goods is the first priority.

But the reason why people are human is because they know how to be flexible, and the guards who escorted the goods also wanted to earn some extra money, so they came up with a way to deal with it.

It is to gather the people who need to go out in advance and let them follow the escort team. In this way, the number of people is large, and with the escort team, ordinary robbers dare not attack them.

Of course, it doesn't mean that you can follow the team if you want to. First, you must pay a certain protection fee, and second, you must be recommended by the insiders of the cabinet or the group leader, so as to reduce the risk.

The so-called tuantou actually means the boss of a black society. Every city and industry has collectives, large and small. The reason why he chose to live with the Lord of the Earth is because the Temple of the Earth does not belong to any group leader and will not cause trouble.

In the same way, Huang Chong didn't have his own group, so he couldn't find connections with the Tuantou, and it was even more impossible for him to know someone inside the cabinet, so he could only find Scarface who claimed to have connections.

(End of this chapter)