Chapter 211 Freight
Tan Bin, his ancestor was a teacher, but he couldn't be recommended for many years, and finally died of depression. There was no outstanding family member. Tan Bin started to practice literature and martial arts at a very young age. Unfortunately, he couldn't become a monk without cultivation talent. In the end, he only relied on Some blessings from the ancestors entered the Qianhu House of Xuanqing Guard in Fengri City.
Because of his literacy and quick thinking, he was selected as a clerical officer when the Black Flag Camp was established, and was later sent to be a street patrol.
The so-called tour is actually a kind of errand that walks the streets and alleys. It mainly listens to the daily gossip on the street, and reports anything worth noting. Its function is very limited, basically not much useful information can be obtained. And the detectives also evolved from the guerrilla scouts of the army, and the scope of authority for Xuan Qingwei is actually not suitable.
After Shen Hao took the position of Hundred Household Officer of the Black Flag Camp, You Tan was directly banned by him. Those who served as scouts before were retained, and entered the banners to continue to serve as scouts.
Not all the people in the Black Flag camp of Qianhusuo are monks, there are quite a few ordinary people in it. These people will not rush to the front line of fighting, but they are an indispensable part.
Cultivators have a true energy reaction, the lower the level of cultivation, the easier it is to be discovered, while ordinary people are all the same, and the chances of being exposed in the crowd are much smaller. The most preferred spies are ordinary people rather than monks.
This time, Tan Bin and two other companions were ordered to sneak into the convoy of Hengshun Carriage and Horse Company to transport a batch of pig iron to Haixia. The task was to record in detail all suspicious people and things along the way.
Tan Bin knows how to drive, and is very proficient, but it is his first time driving a mule cart. Fortunately, the two mules in his hands are honest enough, and he did not make a fool of himself. convoy.
The four-wheeled cart is called a cart. There is a flap on the cart for people to sit on, and the back is full of cargo boxes. A maximum of 1,800 kilograms of cargo can be carried at a time, and the distance will be appropriately reduced in consideration of the distance. This time it carried 1,500 catties. There was nothing strange about these things. The first thing that really surprised Tan Bin was the iron blocks that were loaded from the warehouse onto the truck.
Tan Bin had seen pieces of iron when he was a detective before. Generally speaking, for the convenience of transportation, the iron blocks are five to ten catties a piece, square and packed in thick wooden boxes.
However, the iron blocks brought out from the warehouse outside Xiaoshan Tieluzhuang were extremely strange in shape. The pig iron blocks were actually in the shape of stone locks, and each block weighed about fifty catties. There is no need to pack them in thick wooden boxes, and they are directly stacked one by one in the carriage, and then covered with thick cloth and tied tightly with ropes.
Fifty catties! Moreover, it is still in the shape of a stone lock. You said that this thing is suitable for cultivators to use for body training. Who doesn't rely on carts or horse-drawn carts to pull iron blocks? Does it really make people carry it with each hand?
From Licheng to Yucheng, Tan Bin didn't see any buyers along the way. But I saw the level of corruption along the official road on the road card. Actually, when they arrive, they can go directly by showing the name of the car dealership, without even looking at the cargo documents, let alone spot-checking the physical goods on the car. This kind of Luca is useless and outrageous to the extreme.
It's not even like Licheng, all the six road cards along the official road are like this. I don't know whether the Hengshun Chariot and Horse Company is really good or the people in the road administration office are really rotten.
After arriving in Yucheng, the convoy did not choose to enter the city, but detoured to the small pier in the south of Yucheng. The pier was on the edge of the Baijiang River. It was very small, and it was only enough for five or six boats.
When he arrived at the pier, Tan Bin noticed that a group of unfamiliar faces were approaching the team members. These people are well-dressed, with jade around their waists, and their belts are also of the best quality. And you can feel a slight sense of oppression from a distance.
Tan Bin, who has undergone special training, knows that the slight sense of oppression he feels comes from the opponent's cultivation. These faces are all monks. It's just that Tan Bin couldn't determine the opponent's cultivation base geometry.
Drive the cart onto the boat, and unhitch the mule to the lower deck. The goods are in the middle. People are at the top.
Those who don’t have cabins sleep on the deck or simply lie on the iron blocks in the middle. Tan Bin asked a few old people who had walked this route several times, and said that it would take at most two days to get to Haixia downstream, which is much faster than land.
However, when Tan Bin asked about those monks, the old man shrugged his shoulders and expressed his lack of understanding. He only knew that the buyer sent them to follow the goods. It's not every time I follow the boat, sometimes I can only see them when I go to Haixia. Faces are also changing, not sure who will come next time.
Before coming here, Tan Bin had seen a portrait and was asked to remember it firmly, but none of the monks who appeared on the dock with the boat was in the portrait.
After staying on the boat for two days, Tan Bin found out sadly that he was actually seasick! Although there were no big waves on the river, only some slight shaking still made him very uncomfortable. His head felt dizzy and he wanted to vomit but he couldn't. It wasn't until the next night when Tan Bin got off the boat at the next pier that he gradually recovered.
When you get off the boat, you will be in the world.
Although it was night, the pier was brightly lit, and the boat was unloaded and loaded overnight, and they continued south along the official road. In the middle of the night, I stopped at a fork in the official road, camped on the spot, and then continued walking after dawn.
When he got here, Tan Bin found that there were many more familiar faces with the team. There were more than 30 people, all of whom were monks. These people were very vigilant, and the shift workers kept wandering around the convoy, with their hands on the weapons at their waists, full of evil spirits.
Is this preventing thieves?
Tan Bin saw everything. He felt that the thirty people who followed the convoy at the second pier gave him a familiar feeling, like people in the army.
At dawn, the convoy did not continue on the official road, but turned onto a side road. The road conditions became much worse, and the mules had to work harder to pull them up, and they walked more slowly.
On the way, Tan Bin saw several fast horses coming and hanging far behind the convoy, and then disappeared after a while. He knew that they were horse bandits, but maybe he saw the banner of Hengshun Car and Horse Company or the sign inside. There are more than thirty monks, so there is no brigade to kill them.
In this way, it seems that Haixia is not peaceful.
After resting and walking on the sidewalk for three and a half days, I saw a landmark and reached the beach rock. It took another two days for Tanshi to reach Xiaochuan.
This road is actually not too far away, but there is no official road, the road condition is really bad, the car is heavy, and it is not fast at all, but it is the hardest part of the road.
There is no town in Xiaochuan, only a few small villages. The convoy had no way to enter the village and could only rely on the sidewalk along the road.
After looking around for a while, Tan Bin didn't see anyone here to pick up the goods, but why is the motorcade parked here? Several drivers who ran this line for the first time like Tan Bin asked about it, but they were told not to talk too much and just wait. Then all the drivers, including Tan Bin, were told to get out of the car and walk three miles to the east, and not to come here until they were called.
Tan Bin understood that this was to send the driver to pick up the goods.