Poor family mother and son

Chapter 322 Attempt to Rent a Car
After 25 days of water travel, I finally landed today.

Xiaobao felt that he was not used to not shaking his feet.

Taking a boat is what my mother said, "people are drifting in the rivers and lakes". They are down-to-earth.

This canal did not lead directly to Kyoto. It is said that the reason was that the founding emperor of Daxuan believed in some sorcerer's "water avoidance theory".

No one dares to judge whether this kind of legend is true or not. Anyway, Xiaobao and the others are now ashore in Youzhou Mansion, which borders Kyoto.

It will take about three to four days to go from here to Kyoto. Of course, if you are alone, it will take less than two days.

Chu Yuan only allowed Xiaobao to step on the ground near the boat, and he didn't allow to go to crowded places at the ferry, so he asked Xiao Sining to take two Sanshun brothers to find a place to rent a carriage.

Xiaobao was helpless, who asked Chu Yuan to use Chu Qing's words to suppress him: "Your mother can tell you, when you go out, you have to listen to adults! I am an adult, you are not!"

No way, since the establishment of the Sanshun Escort, all transportation routes have been mainly in the southern region, and they have never stepped into the northern border.

This time is considered as the farthest mission of Sanshun Escort Agency.

He was not familiar with the place, and he had to protect the goods and ensure Xiaobao's safety, so Chu Yuan couldn't let the manpower be dispersed, so he had to wrong Xiaobao.

Daxuan's escort agency is still in its infancy, and it was completely "forced" by the post station.

Daxuan's post station is relatively well-developed. According to the speed of logistics, it can be divided into three categories: step, horse, and express delivery. Among them, express delivery is the fastest, with a daily travel of [-] miles, and it only serves for the transmission of military information.

In terms of logistics and transportation methods, it can be divided into three types: land station, water station, and both water and land.

The distribution of post stations is also very extensive. There must be a post station every fifty or sixty miles on all the main roads between Kyoto and the state capitals.

Five or sixty miles is the distance that a person can go back and forth on foot in a day.

Even in uninhabited places with no roads, such post stations must be set up, but the distance between post stations will be longer, which is the distance that a horse can run in a day.

According to the statistics of Daxuan's post stations across the country, there are about 30 to [-] stations, with [-] horses, specially used for imperial envoys.

The post houses of the post station are the most luxurious, with large rooms, many houses, and exquisite decoration, which can be called a seven-star hotel.

It can be seen from this that Daxuan has invested a lot of money in the "state-owned enterprise" - the post station, so the cost of maintenance is also extremely high.

Since the cost is high, the post officials have to welcome and send various officials, and they have to accept the behavior of officials who don’t even give money for food, so how to balance the accounts?
You can't use the poor salary you get from the local government to subsidize it, can you?Then profit from the people.

The post station will pick up some postal business, but the cost is extremely high, and the exploitation of the common people is extremely severe.

For example, if a commoner wants to send a letter, the post station can deliver it to you, but you are just a commoner, not a department-level official, so you charge a high amount of silver, which is calculated in taels of silver, not in copper coins.

Or say that merchants have to change their household registration after sharpening their heads, so that their children and grandchildren can study and take the imperial examination. As long as you become an official, you can drive high-paying post stations at public expense.

Let’s use an analogy: a person goes out to catch an exam. At this time, he is still an ordinary citizen. He walks to the capital with his legs and brings his own money.

When this person is admitted to the top prize and becomes a department-level cadre, he can use the country's post when he returns home.

It has been less than 30 years since the establishment of the Daxuan Escort, and it has experienced a turbulent period when the old and new emperors alternated in the middle, so the development is very slow.

The vast majority of Escorts do not have long-distance transport experience, especially Sanshun Escorts.

Switching from the waterway to the land route is completely possible if it is within three or four state capitals in the Jiangnan area.But in the north, there is no handover site.

Everything needs to be started from scratch, such as finding accommodation, renting a car, and so on.

Chu Yuan asked Xiao Sining to take people out to rent a carriage, mainly because Xiao Sining was the first batch of people who went to Xinlunzhou to "open up the market", and he was familiar with many customs in the north and south, so he could avoid some troubles.

The reason to bring two Sanshun bodyguards is to consider that they have experience as bodyguards, they have their own methods for handling lease procedures and making friends with martial arts people, and they are asked to investigate the possibility of setting up a branch in the local area.

The boat and the side of the boat, where there is a big fart, what is there to play?
Xiao Bao, whose freedom of movement was restricted by Chu Yuan, was bored sharpening a kitchen knife on the bottom of the jar.

Seeing that he was pitiful, Chu Yuan came over to talk to him: "San Shun, which jar did you use? Not the one from Gan Lai? This is a sharpening kitchen knife for cutting things into your mouth!"

Xiao Bao didn't raise his head and didn't open his eyes: "Well, it's the one from Gan Lai, who didn't even brush it. If you don't believe me, you can hear it!"

Gan Lai was startled, and immediately went back to his cubicle on the boat to look for pots, and soon came out again, with a bamboo brush for washing pots in his hand, and beat them both head-on and face-to-face: "I'll make you two cheap!"

No wonder Gan Lai was not confident, the jars used as ambushes on the No. [-] ship were the same, just for the convenience of deceiving people.

Just making noise like this, I also feel that time passes slowly, and waiting is always the most difficult thing.

Xiao Sining and the three of them didn't come back until dinner time, but there was nothing behind them.

"What's going on?" Chu Yuan asked.

"Don't mention it!" Xiao Sining grumbled in a rough voice: "You can't rent a carriage in the entire county, obviously there are carriages, but you say there is no, and you are talking nonsense!"

Sanshun's bodyguard also said: "Obviously they don't rent it to us, and they don't rent it even if the price is raised. It's really strange! Are all northerners doing business like this?"

Zhou Xiaochuan thought for a while and asked, "Have you found out how many car dealerships there are in the county, and what kind of gangs are there? I heard that there is a 'poor family shop' near Gyeonggi. Have you heard of it?"

The ass decides the head.

People in leadership positions collect and analyze various information more than others.

As soon as the word "poor family line" came out, everyone was dumbfounded.

Zhou Xiaochuan explained: "The Poor Family Walk" is the name of the Beggars' Gang in the north, and I heard it too. It's just that the Beggars' Gang seems to be more popular in the south, and it's a bit unknown in the north."

Chu Yuan nodded: "Well, I haven't heard of it either."

Xiao Sining didn't even feel interested in eating, the chopsticks in his hand were only wrapped around his fingertips, and he didn't pick up the food: "At first we thought we couldn't do it, so we went a little farther and went to the next county, but we forgot that it was dark in the north. It's early, it's getting dark after we haven't gone far, so we have to come back."

Zhou Xiaochuan patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, we'll have time, I'll go look for it with you tomorrow morning."

I took a few mouthfuls of rice without any taste, and no one ate much except Gan Lai.

Gan Lai picked up the rest of the food and put it in an iron basin, preparing to make "stewed dishes" for everyone when they were hungry.

These brats now treat Gan Lai as a woman, and as long as Gan Lai cleans up the dishes, they all just leave their hands and watch, and no one will help.

"Hey! A group of old men bullying other little girls?" A clear female voice came.

Except for the torches beside the boat, there were no lights in the distance, only five or six people were walking towards them, and only the last person was holding a lantern, so that they saw five or six moving black shadows.

Zhou Xiaochuan grabbed the torch vigilantly and lit it forward, shouting: "Who is it?!"

Xiaobao froze for a moment when he heard the voice, and immediately jumped down from the boat: "Sister-in-law!"

There is only one person who can be called Xiaobao's "sister-in-law", Bai Jiaxing's daughter-in-law.The other sister-in-laws all called their elder brothers by their names first, and then added the word sister-in-law.

If there are many brothers, there will be many sister-in-laws.

The sisters-in-law would also tease Xiaobao: "Why are you called sister-in-law with Xiaorou? Xiaorou is younger than us? Even Baijiaxing is not the oldest?"

Xiao Bao defeated them all with one sentence: "Because their family name is the biggest!"

Yes, the surname "Baijia", can it be bigger than this?

Don't look at Zheng Xiaorou's young age, but she has the "fan'er" of a sister-in-law, no, she is "fan'er" when she speaks.

I saw that she bowed down to everyone in a graceful manner, and then said in a bright and calm tone: "Are these brothers from Sanshun? Hello, I am Xiaobao's sister-in-law, Zheng Xiaorou."

(End of this chapter)