"Brother Wei, they are here."

In a forest, Chang Wei ambushed with more than a hundred people. If the caravans from the four major chambers of commerce refused to take the cement road and pay the fee, they would be forced to leave.

Being born as bandits, they know very well what these caravans are afraid of. Our big brother asked people to build a road for you but you refused to take it and insisted on taking the dirt road. Then don't blame us.

"Brother Wei, Big Brother won't blame us if he finds out, right?"

Li Kui spoke with some concern. Pei Yun went to the trade market and was not in the Qianhu Office, so they sneaked out to make a move.

They robbed the caravan without Pei Yun's permission, and they didn't know if their eldest brother would blame them if he found out.

Chang Wei smiled and said, "As long as no one of us tells anyone, Big Brother won't know."

Pei Yun asked them to escort the caravan along the cement road, although there should be no bandits from Ruifeng County to the trade market.

But since money is being charged, the service must be provided. Chang Wei accepted the task and is now taking this opportunity to teach the caravans from the four major chambers of commerce a lesson.

On the dirt road, the caravan of the Shu County Chamber of Commerce was moving slowly. In order to avoid running back and forth, this caravan was carrying a lot of goods. There were dozens of horse-drawn carriages, all loaded with goods, lined up in a long queue, moving forward on the bumpy dirt road.

The caravan was huge, and everyone was talking and laughing, looking very relaxed.

"Old Zhou, we are going to make a lot of money this time." The shopkeeper stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Cloth is very rare in the southern barbarians."

The shopkeeper, known as Lao Zhou, also smiled and said, "Yes, we can make a lot of money by selling these goods at the market. We should take this dirt road. Although the cement road is good, the toll is too high."

"Yes, that cement road was originally the official road from Ruifeng County to the border town. Pei Yun renovated it, but he actually charged for it. It's unreasonable. It's the same if we take the dirt road. We can carry more goods at one time, which saves time on the road."

Everyone agreed.

Before the establishment of the trade market, this road was sparsely populated, with no caravans passing through, and naturally no bandits. Their caravan had made two trips back and forth, and had not encountered even a single thief, so they were all very relieved.

This way, you can even save the money on hiring a bodyguard.

I feel that Pei Yun's sending of a road protection team was just for show, just to scare them. Fortunately, they were smart and didn't take the cement road, thus saving the toll.

As everyone was talking and laughing, a flock of startled birds suddenly flew up from the woods ahead.

Immediately afterwards, an arrow flew through the air and hit the shaft of the leading carriage with a "dong" sound!

Then more than a hundred masked men rushed out of the jungle.

"I built this road, I planted this tree, if you want to pass through here, you have to leave money for passage!"

Chang Wei shouted loudly, stood in the front, shook the steel knife in his hand, felt a little excited, and felt that his youth had returned.

Li Kui also held two axes, with a look of reminiscence in his eyes. What a familiar word.

I don’t know how many times he had said these words in the past, but he has never said them again since he followed the boss.

This is full of memories.

The caravan was stunned when they saw the bandits suddenly rushing out.

I just said that taking the dirt road was just as safe and there would be no bandits, but then a group of them jumped out.

Shopkeeper Zhou's legs went weak and he almost fell off the carriage. How could there be so many bandits? It didn't make sense.

Everyone in the caravan was trembling. Without the escort, the caravan had no confidence at all.

Chang Wei stepped forward and kicked over the cargo box on the carriage, and the cloth scattered all over the ground. "Either pay up obediently, or I'll send you to see the King of Hell."

Li Kui cooperated by swinging his axe and chopping down a small tree as thick as a bowl beside the road with one axe: "If you know what's good for you, pay up!"

"Please spare my life, sir!"

An older merchant tremblingly took out a purse and said, "This... this is a small gift from me..."

Chang Wei took the purse, weighed it, and threw it on the ground, "This is just a small amount of money, you're only giving it to a beggar!"

Shopkeeper Zhou calmed himself down and said, "My dear, how much do you want?"

Chang Wei grinned, "One thousand taels!"

Everyone was shocked. Shopkeeper Zhou said with a bitter face, "Good men, we don't have that much money. Can you please be flexible? I have 50 taels here. I will buy some wine for you good men."

Li Kui banged the axes in his hands together.

"If you don't have money, then use the goods as collateral. Brothers, take these carriages away."

The crowd rushed forward, kicked dozens of merchants to the ground, and tried to take away the carriage.

Shopkeeper Zhou shouted, "Give us the money!"

The value of these goods is more than 1,000 vehicles. If they were taken away, we would be bankrupt.

"Everyone come together."

The others also knew that the goods could not be lost, so they took out all the money they had.

"Good man, this is all we have, can you please let us go?"

Shopkeeper Zhang held nearly seven hundred taels of silver in his hands and spoke pitifully.

Chang Wei took the money over, and Li Kui said, "Boss, these people are pulling cloth, and they are poor at first glance. They can't be compared with the Pei family who did silk business in the past. Why don't you let them go?"

"When they come back from selling the goods, we'll ask them to pay the difference."

Chang Wei nodded, "Since you said so, let's let them go. Brothers, let's go!"

Then a group of people ran into the woods.

Manager Zhou and the others felt like they had survived a calamity. They wiped the sweat from their foreheads and realized that they were so scared that they almost peed their pants.

A shopkeeper said, "I've heard of them. They robbed the Pei family of a batch of silk and later sold it at a low price. This incident caused a lot of uproar at the time."

"I've heard about it, but weren't those bandits at Wolf Head Mountain? Why did they come here?"

Shopkeeper Zhou sighed, "Don't you understand? They must have known that the trade fair was open, so they came here to rob."

Another shopkeeper said, "They just said that they would ask us to pay back the money we owed when we came back. What should we do?"

"Why don't we take the cement road when we come back? Paying 30 yuan for the toll is better than being robbed by bandits."

Everyone looked at each other and nodded.

This time I really suffered a big loss. In order to save 30 taels of silver in tolls, I ended up paying more than 600 taels of silver.

No wonder Pei Yun arranged a guard team, there really are bandits here.

"Send a letter to the guild leader, asking other caravans to take the cement road. Otherwise, they will suffer even more losses if they are robbed by bandits."

Others also sighed, and this was all they could do.

…

In the woods, Chang Wei and others did not leave, but waited for the arrival of other caravans. The carriages of these caravans with chambers of commerce all had flags on them to indicate their presence.

This caravan is from Shu County, and there are chambers of commerce from three other counties, and they also want to intimidate them.

I don't believe they don't walk on cement roads.