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Chapter 113 Escort
Section 110 Second Escort

Jia Shilu is the commander of the right guard of the hereditary navy. Most of the officers and soldiers of the Xinjiangkou Water Camp are from the two guards of the navy, so Jia Shilu can be regarded as a local snake.

Jia Shilu's boss, the chief officer of Shuiying, is the deputy general Yu Chengwu. Yu Chengwu was born in the Pukou Thousand Households Office, and heir to the Pukou Households. The Yu family has practiced martial arts for generations. Mr. Qian was finally transferred to Xinjiangkou Shuiying as the chief officer.

For Yu Chengwu, an outsider, Jia Shilu has always been worried, and really wants to squeeze Yu Chengwu away, because with Yu Chengwu around, Jia Shilu will not be promoted to lieutenant general.

But compared to Yu Chengwu, Jia Shilu doesn't have any justifiable capital. Yu Chengwu is a ruthless character. He was the general manager in Pukou a few years ago. Those who do not know geometry.

Suddenly he was cut from the general manager to the position of the thousand general manager, and finally added the title of guerrilla. After the bandits retreated, he was transferred to Xinjiangkou as the deputy general.

Jia Shilu's only advantage may be his own age. Yu Chengwu is approaching his sixtieth birthday, while Jia Shilu has just passed his forties, so he has plenty of time to wait.

Therefore, Jia Shilu actually has to worry more about the other competitors, the other two chief executives of Xinjiangkou Shuiying, the left chief executive and the right chief executive.

Mr. Qian on the left and right, like Jia Shilu, has no outstanding qualifications. Most of them rely on Yin Gong, seniority, and connections to be promoted to Mr. Qian, but the other two have a little bit of background. They are no worse than Jia Shilu, and they are all from the background of guard commanders, and they all have intricate official relationships.

To overwhelm these two people, Jia Shilu must have solid capital, and he thought Yang Chao had sent him this capital.

Yang Chao beheaded nine gangsters, which is not a small feat. Although it is not enough for Mr. Qian to behead nine people, Mr. Qian needs at least [-] heads to be promoted to one level, but this made Jia Shilu The others were far ahead in the competition. After Yu Chengwu resigned and returned to his hometown, he, Jia Shilu, would be the most qualified person.

Therefore, Jia Shilu valued this credit as much as Yang Chao. After Yang Chao found him, he immediately passed it on.

And if he uses his own relationship to make sure of this credit, he can also get a share of the credit.

But I didn't expect that some people didn't want this credit to be implemented. Not only did there not be any response to the letter of credit submitted, but after inquiring about it, they were reprimanded by an old family friend and elder, telling him not to get involved in this matter.

Yang Chao saw that Jia Shilu had nothing to do, so would Yu Chengwu, Jia Shilu's immediate boss, have something to do? Yang Chao went to find Yu Chengwu, but Yu Chengwu only said that he had handed over the scribes according to the regulations, and there was no response from him. He also politely agreed to help Yang Chao find out, and sent Yang Chao away politely.

Yang Chao knew very well that Jia Shilu knew something, and Yu Chengwu must also know something about it. Jia Shilu still felt regretful and gave some useful information. At least it was because some people didn't want this credit to be fulfilled, and some people didn't want Shuiying to suppress the bandits.

This shows that some of the high-ranking officers in Nanjing City had an affair with the Jiang bandits, so Yang Chao killed those Jiang bandits, not only was it not a merit, but he offended someone.

But Yang Chao couldn't tell whether this person was a group of people or just one person, and neither could Jia Shilu. Yu Chengwu simply pretended that he didn't know anything, and only played sloppy eyes with Yang Chao.

The only thing that is certain is that someone erased Yang Chao's military achievements.

Yang Chao couldn't help feeling a little depressed. He finally came across a chance for promotion, and he risked his life to get such a military achievement, but he was obliterated because some people didn't want to see the Jiang bandits being suppressed.

Yang Chao is not a person who is easy to get rich. Although he encountered this setback and felt depressed, he always believed that there are more ways than difficulties.

This time, from Jia Shilu, although I don't know who is tripping me up, but I can probably guess that it is a high-ranking navy official, a certain high-ranking official, or some high-ranking officials are involved, so Mr. Qian and the deputy general handed over the credit The document was seized by the navy.

There are not many high-ranking officials who can detain a lieutenant general's meritorious service document. They are either military officials, Jiang Xun censors, or the imperial censors of Qiandu.

To solve this problem, it is a way to unblock it level by level, but in that way, it will cost a lot of money, and it will not be solved at all for a while.

Either identify a certain link, and then go to the public relations, or go directly to the Ministry of War.

But the difficulty of poking into the Ministry of War is not as simple as unblocking it level by level, so the only way to find the real crux of the problem is to find out who is obstructing you and who is related to the Jiang bandit, and then whether it is to resolve the problem with this person The only way to accommodate him is to accommodate him, or directly bring this person down so that he can be promoted smoothly.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao started to move again.

This time, he handed over a document requesting to fill in the vacancies and recruit soldiers. If he offended someone, someone above would stop him.

As long as Yang Chao finds out which level of senior officials have blocked this document, he can basically find the person who targeted him.

As for the trivial matter of inquiring about which floor a piece of official document is stuck on, Jia Shilu can do it. I haven't told him yet, and just ask Jia Shilu to inquire about it when the document is sent back.

Yang Chao continued to do his own work, helping people deliver goods and train soldiers.

Instead of encountering Jiang bandits and gaining military merits, the business grew bigger and bigger.

Since the last incident, shopkeeper Mao has handed over all the goods of their family to Yang Chao to deliver, and many of his friends also met Yang Chao through him, and also entrusted Yang Chao to help deliver the goods.

Now the price of a shipment of Yang Chao's goods has risen to 20 taels, 20 taels is just for crossing the river, and 40 taels for one round trip.

This was not enough, because there were not many boats that dared to cross the river. Although Yang Chao beat the Jiangbandits once, they were still rampant, and one could hear about a boat being robbed every three or two days.

In less than ten days, Yang Chao's freight rate has risen to 25 taels. General goods are not transported at all, only high-priced goods such as raw silk, porcelain, fur, etc., and consumer goods such as wood and grain are not transported at all by Yang Chao. .

But just like this, there is still a steady stream of customers. Yang Chao now runs twice a day, 50 taels for each trip, and earns 100 taels of silver a day. The reputation of being able to keep goods safe is just too reassuring.

There is really no way to finish the delivery, and finally a smart businessman came up with a way.

That is, Yang Chao protects their cargo ship across the river, and they are willing to pay a certain premium.

When Yang Chao heard that he was escorting a merchant ship, he immediately agreed.

After some negotiations, each large ship with a weight of more than 20 dan needed to pay Yang Chao ten taels of silver to cross the river once, and a ship with a weight of more than [-] dan would be given [-] taels.

As for small boats below [-] dan, Yang Chao would not accept them at all. If such small boats encountered Jiang bandits, they would lack protection, and Jiang bandits could easily board such small boats and kill the crew on them.

Even if it is a large ship, Yang Chao only accepts ten ships each time he convoys. Too many ships are not needed at all, because there are too many ships, and a long fleet will come up the Yangtze River. Yang Chao only has one ship, Gu Shou Regardless of the tail, I can't take care of it.

Even if there are ten boats, it is a huge sum of money. Even if the boats are five hundred taels, each boat costs ten taels of silver, and Yang Chao will get 100 taels of silver for a trip across the river. One round trip is 200 taels, twice a day. The escort fee alone is 400 taels of silver.

That's definitely a lot of money.

But businessmen will never suffer.

A boat of [-] dan, if it carries expensive goods such as silk, high-grade fur, and porcelain, it will be worth tens of thousands of taels. If it is robbed by Jiang bandits, the risk is too great, so it must be protected. For escorts, they draw points based on the value of the goods, one or even three for a hundred, and more than ten taels of silver can be spent on a trip.

Therefore, it is actually very cost-effective for the merchants to pay ten taels of silver for Yang Chao to escort, and Yang Chao is not at a disadvantage. Anyway, he has to cross the river, and it is just a matter of taking a fleet with him. Why not earn some extra escort fees? , so this is a matter of mutual benefit, and the businessman and Yang Chao are very happy.

Shopkeeper Mao helped organize the Xinjiangkou side, and Yang Chao paid the money to Shopkeeper Mao according to the rules of the brokerage firm. On the Puzikou side, Broker Su helped organize it. It went very smoothly, and he took ten boats with him in full every time he sailed. The big ship operated twice a day, and earned more than 1000 taels of silver in three days, which was much higher than the current income of Jinchailou.

But he never met Jiang bandits, and Yang Chao no longer followed the boat himself.

Because every time Wang Pu's team has to be on board, when Yang Chao is not around, Wang Pu is responsible for organizing the defense of the ship. The other three teams that are on board in rotation and their team leaders must follow Wang Pu's command.

Yang Chao stayed in the barracks to train the formation.

The soldiers have already trained well, the basic training is completed, and the skills training such as assassination is also completed, and the next step is the more advanced battle array training.

As for the battle formation, Qi Jiguang has compiled and practiced the mandarin duck formation. This kind of formation has shown extremely terrifying power in Qi Jiguang's hands. He often kills thousands of Japanese pirates with single-digit losses. In the north, it is based on this Formation method, beheaded 10,000+ Mongols.

Marshal Qi's mandarin duck formation in the north is still difficult for Yang Chao to learn, because it involves many chariots, and he needs to compile and train the battalion, as well as artillery, bird guns and other weapons, which Yang Chao can't get for the time being.

Therefore, Yang Chao decided to create a mandarin duck formation suitable for the south. Moreover, Yang Chao now only has a hundred soldiers, and it is not suitable for the northern car battalion mandarin duck formation with a group of thousands of people. The small mandarin duck formation in the south against the Japanese can be practiced practice.

(End of this chapter)