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His thinking has undergone a fundamental change.

At the beginning, Chen Chu just had the mentality of giving it a try, to see if he could make Li Chengqian and his brothers more harmonious.

Now it seems that it has been more than half successful.

He patted Li Tai on the shoulder and nodded.

……

Outside the city of Shanzhou.

A huge convoy of more than 300 carriages is ready to go.

Li Tai personally sent Chen Chu outside the city.

Not far from the convoy, there are a large number of Shanzhou people.

Everyone came to see off Ping Xibo.

These people all knew that the prosperity of Shanzhou today was all because of Chen Chu.

If it wasn't for Chen Chu, Tang and Tubo would have already fought.

And Shanzhou borders Tubo, and bears the brunt, and it is the common people who suffer.

The poem "Prosperity, people suffer, death, people suffer" was engraved above the gate of Shanzhou City.

The feelings of the people are simple and natural.

Now, Chen Chu was leaving Shanzhou to return to Chang'an, everyone spontaneously came to see him off, each holding a lot of things in their hands.

It's just that Ping Xibo's guards had an order not to accept anything, so everyone didn't dare to send it forward.

Chen Chu took a carriage and came outside the city.

Just as he was about to set off, he saw a group of knights suddenly appear in the city.

This group of people escorted Li Ji, the head of the Hexi Road army, out of the city.

"Boy Chen stay behind."

Li Ji shouted loudly on the horse.

Chen Chu turned around.

Li Ji got off his horse and said, "Boy Chen, I have a few words to tell you..."

"it is good."

Chen Chu followed Li Ji to the side.

Ever since Li Ji fell out with him, Chen Chu didn't bother to talk to this guy, so he never went to the General's Mansion afterwards.

Even if he left, he didn't bother to say hello to Li Ji.

Although Shanzhou was under the control of Li Ji, so what, with Yue Wang Li Tai in charge, Chen Chu didn't worry about Li Ji's small tricks at all, and Li Ji wouldn't either.

What he didn't expect was that Li Ji would chase him out of the city.

Came to a remote place.

Li Ji gave Chen Chu a complicated look, and suddenly bowed to the end.

Chen Chu was taken aback, quickly helped Li Ji up, and said, "General, why are you doing this?"

Li Ji said: "This is an apology from the old man. At the beginning, it was the old man who misunderstood you... But I don't know your good intentions. Now, the truth of the matter is revealed. This apology must be said..."

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Chapter 326 Carrying the Army

Seeing this, Chen Chu thought that Li Ji must have guessed his purpose.

But this kind of thing can be done, but it cannot be said.

If the rumor goes out, people will know that I, Chen Chu, used the fake news about the Huoyanshan gold mine to deceive people from all over the world to come to Shanzhou to pan for gold.

I'm afraid it will become a public enemy.

So he asked with a confused face: "General, what are you talking about, why can't I understand a word?"

Li Ji smiled slightly: "You boy, you are really a cunning... Forget it, don't worry if you don't understand, I'm here, and I want to discuss with you..."

Chen Chu touched his nose: "General, please tell me."

Li Ji said: "You also know that my people have been living in the Hexi area for these years. They are living a decent life, but they are not very rich. Now that I am old, my sons are not good enough. Now, I see Your West Datang Company is developing like a sun, making money every day. I wonder if you can let some of my clansmen go to the West Datang Company, so that we can learn a lot? I hope you can help me with this, so that I can go down the mountain of swords and the sea of ​​fire in the future. , the old man will not hesitate."

With that said, he bowed deeply to Chen Chu.

Li Ji planned to use Chen Chu's Western Datang Company to strengthen his family.

The first step is to let your clansmen enter the West Datang Company to learn the experience of making money.

Chen Chu looked at the old general, thought for a while, and said, "The general is serious, I am a businessman, and businessmen are all after profit... Do you think that letting the clansmen enter the Western Datang Company can strengthen the Western Datang Company?" The strength of the company, this is a good thing, how could I disagree, but this is not the best way."

"Oh?"

Chen Chu explained: "I have a solution, and it depends on whether the general can do it?"

"Please tell me." Li Ji was a little excited.

Chen Chu said: "In the future, I plan to build Shanzhou into the largest distribution center for goods in the world. Countless goods will be collected here from the east and west. Come to move and load cars, etc. This place is naturally within my fief, but there is still no manpower for moving, the general may as well keep an eye on this area and prepare manpower in advance, it will be of great use in the future."

When Li Ji heard this, he was surprised and said, "You mean to move the goods and give them to my people?"

"Exactly."

"But, how much profit can this make?"

Li Ji was a little confused.

Isn't cargo handling just a matter of finding a few people to unload, stack, and load the cargo?

This is coolie.

What's the benefit?

He thought Chen Chu was joking.

However, Chen Chu laughed, shook his head, and said, "Whether you believe it or not, I am willing to let you do this part. If you don't do it, someone will naturally fight to do it... That's all, let's just rely on it." The general chooses, you can first prepare ten moving teams, each with 500 people, and try it out."

With a large number of Tubo people coming to Shanzhou with their families, and a steady stream of Datang people coming from all over the country, the staff of the West Datang Company has become saturated. few.

After finishing speaking, Chen Chu bid farewell and left.

The huge convoy departed from Shanzhou and headed for Chang'an City.

……

Here in Shanzhou.

When Li Ji returned to the mansion, he immediately called for his second son Li Siwen, and briefly explained the conversation with Chen Chu.

Li Ji has only two sons, the eldest son Li Zhen, who went out to be an official.

Only the second son Li Siwen was by his side.

His clan is not many.

When Li Siwen heard this, he frowned and said: "Father, that Ping Xibo is clearly humiliating us. It's unreasonable how much profit can be gained from this transporting job. He is clearly bullying us. Haha, such things are simply impossible." Tolerate……"

Li Ji thought for a while, then shook his head: "Ping Xibo and Chen Chu have always been weird in doing things, but they have their own rules. At the beginning, our general's mansion tried every means to dig gold mines, but was stopped by Chen Chu. At that time, my father also thought that Chen Chu didn't give me face, but it was later discovered that he was protecting our interests. Now, since he said that he would give up the transportation work in the entire Shanzhou, he had a certain deep meaning, but we still guessed Seeing his intentions, Siwen, take out your family savings, and according to what Chen Chu said, first set up ten moving teams, each with five... 300 people."

What Chen Chu explained was 500 people in each team, that is 5000 people.

Li Ji felt that it was not safe, and planned to reduce the number of people in each team by 200.

That's 3000 people.

Li Siwen was surprised and said: "Father, there are 3000 people here, and the porters are all young and vigorous. These people's daily wages and food, if it was okay in the past, as long as they are full, it will be enough. When Tang Company came, it raised the wages of the employees, so it was a huge expense..."

The General's Mansion is not rich either.

It is indeed stressful to raise so many people.

But Li Ji chose to trust Chen Chu.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, this time, let's take a gamble."

Li Siwen reluctantly agreed.

Immediately, Li Siwen left the General's Mansion, and with a lot of savings, he summoned more than a dozen shopkeepers of the subordinate businesses of the General's Mansion and announced the recruitment of porters.

However, on the basis of Li Ji's request, he reduced the number of people by 1000 and only planned to recruit 2000 people.

Today, Shanzhou City is overcrowded, and 2000 people were easily recruited.

The Li family supported the transport team of 2000 people. It was okay at first, but after a few days, it became a little urgent.

Because the salary is settled on a daily basis, plus food and housing, there is a large amount of daily expenses.

But there was no business at all.

Li Siwen approached Li Ji many times to disband the team.

But when Li Ji thought of Chen Chu's words, he hesitated.

In a blink of an eye, ten days passed.

General's House.

Li Siwen cried: "Father, our mansion has spent a lot of money and food in these ten days, we can't wait any longer, otherwise, the mansion will be wasted. The most important thing is that there are already people in Shanzhou City who are laughing at us." The Li family said that our majestic General's Mansion has raised a bunch of idlers. Dad, you didn't see that the two thousand porters were all slick and fat, and they ate every day, didn't they? To sleep is to hang out in Shanzhou City, which is more comfortable than the life of a general like you..."

Li Ji: "..."

By this time, Li Ji could no longer calm down.

He thought for a while and said, "Why not..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the housekeeper came running in and reported: "My lord, His Royal Highness the King of Yue has come to the mansion... It seems that there is something urgent."

King Yue?

One hundred thousand in a hurry?

Could it be the Western Datang Company, or something changed in Tubo?

Li Ji didn't dare to neglect, and brought his son Li Siwen, Li Ji rushed to the main hall.

Sure enough, Li Tai was seen walking back and forth in the main hall like ants on a hot pot.

Seeing Li Ji, Li Tai hurried forward and asked, "General, you finally showed up. I heard that your Li family has formed a transportation team of several thousand people, is it true?"

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Chapter 327 Chen Chu returns to Chang'an

Li Ji nodded in confusion: "Yes, Your Highness knows about this. In fact, I was tricked by Chen Chu for doing this. Your Highness must not laugh at me..."

He thought Li Tai was here to laugh at him.

Unexpectedly, Li Ke looked excited, grabbed Li Ji's hand, and said: "It's really great, more than 20 caravans from the Western Datang Company arrived together today, and they brought too many goods. I'm worried that I can't find someone to carry it, now, let's leave it to the Li family's moving team..."

What?

Li Ji was stunned.

Li Siwen was dumbfounded.

Really need a moving team?

Then Chen Chu, is he a prophet?

Li Ji came back to his senses and asked, "Dare to ask Your Highness, how many goods are there?"

Li Tai waved his sleeves: "Don't dawdle, hurry up and bring the transport team with me. The goods are piled up like a mountain. If it is later, the caravan of the Western Datang Company will be stranded in Shanzhou, and the loss will be even greater... "

Li Tai was extremely anxious.

Li Ji and his son looked at each other, their eyes lit up.

Li Siwen asked: "Your Highness, how many porters are needed?"

Li Tai said: "The more the better, at least 5000 people."