Qiao Ruichen heard the other party's purpose from the general leading the team from the Western Regions.
The general was probably certain that Qiao Ruichen and his group of more than 100 people could not escape the encirclement of thousands of people, so he spoke very frankly.
"Dayue is blocking merchants from doing business, which is a violation of the alliance. Not only that, Dayue is also using military force to intimidate neighboring countries. His ambition for hegemony is obvious. We are simply taking the initiative."
Qiao Ruichen and all the guards who were protecting him formed a circle. He did not panic too much, but asked calmly, "Who are you?"
The Western Regions general laughed. He spoke Chinese very well and said, "No one will sit still and wait for death."
Qiao Ruichen understood, that is to say, everyone, including small countries such as Xifan, Northern Mongolia, Western Regions, Dayuan and Chitao.
He and all the soldiers untied their bags, took out their bows and crossbows, and pulled out their muskets from their waists. "Then let's try and see if you can stop us here."
When the first scream was heard, Taotao and Miao Wan had just entered the county town. The mother and daughter fell asleep while swaying along the way, and the moment the carriage stopped, they almost fell off the soft seat.
The mother and daughter sat down and rubbed their chests in unison, both feeling a flash of discomfort and fear passing through their hearts.
Cheng Shao did not remove Qiao Ruichen from his position as General Yunhui, so after Miao Wan arrived in the county town, she continued to live in General Yunhui's mansion.
After arriving at the mansion, Achun quickly arranged the daily living matters for the master and the little master.
Now she replaced Aya and the other three as the leader of the new assistant ladies. Knowing that she was not as capable as Aya and the others, she was particularly careful about small matters and arranged all affairs very appropriately.
Miao Wan and Taotao were both feeling a little unwell, so Achun helped them take a nap.
In the afternoon, Ah Chun came over and asked, "Boss, do you want to send invitations to the companies we have booked today?"
Miao Wan covered her chest, her brows furrowed. "Not yet. Please help me deliver a message to the General's Mansion. I want to visit the General and his men in the evening. Is it convenient?"
Ah Chun was a little confused. It was the boss who was anxious, but it was also the boss who was not anxious. Seeing the boss's serious expression, she didn't say much and hurried to ask someone to deliver the letter.
Maybe there really is such a thing as telepathy and blood ties. Even Taotao was a little listless in the afternoon. When he learned that his mother was going out, he cried and sobbed in a baby voice and refused to stay in the house alone.
Miao Wan simply carried Taotao to the Dingbei General's Mansion. Taotao stayed in his mother's arms all the way and didn't talk much.
Cheng Shao was a little unhappy. "What did you say in Xining Town? You came back and chased me. Do you have any chance to live?"
Miao Wan glanced at Gu Shuyao's slightly swollen lips: "..." She seemed to know something extraordinary.
This made Miao Wan feel a little embarrassed.
It's not that she's shy, but she feels a little guilty towards Cheng Shao. She finally gets a chance to eat meat, but the mother and daughter come here to act as a third wheel, which is really a bit unethical.
She quickly got straight to the point, "I've been feeling restless all day. I didn't feel anything when I left home this morning, but when I got to the city gate, I started having palpitations. I also had nightmares during my nap."
Cheng Shao snorted, "What? I'll ask two Taoist priests to perform a ritual for you?" He and his wife are not the young lady's parents. How can she talk to them?
Miao Wan sighed. The guilty conscience only lasted two seconds because General Dingbei was so mean.
She looked at Gu Shuyao pitifully, and watched with satisfaction as her golden finger kicked the sword general.
Cheng Shao remained silent.
Gu Shuyao knew Miao Wan was busy and wouldn't come over to chat. "Do you remember what you dreamed about?"
She thought Miao Wan might be worried about Qiao Ruichen who was away from home. Going out of the border was not an easy task and no one could guarantee his safety.
Miao Wan didn't really think too much about it. She shook her head and said, "I don't remember anything. I just remember the overwhelming bloodiness. You know me... right?"
Some things cannot be brought out, but she and Gu Shuyao both know that they have traveled through time and space, and Miao Wan claims to be God's beloved daughter, so she still has some luck.
Such an obvious sign, she would rather believe it.
Therefore, Miao Wan said seriously: "I guess something big might be happening in the county town. We need to increase our vigilance."
Cheng Shao became more serious. "What big thing could happen? The spring plowing season is over. Xifan has no shortage of cattle and sheep, and Beimeng has no shortage of food and grass. It's the best time of the year. I haven't noticed any movement from them."
The scouts of the Gubei Army are not just there to do nothing. If there were any unusual movements, they would have reported it long ago.
Miao Wan rarely came up with any reason to refute, but she just felt something was wrong.
"Maybe they will take advantage of us thinking this way and suddenly attack us?" Miao Wan even brought up her daughter.
"Look at my daughter. She used to be a chatterbox, but she's been silent since she came in. She's completely listless. She must be feeling uncomfortable. There must be something wrong with her aura. It's always a good idea to be prepared."
Qiao Taotao waved his paws as they were being played with. His chubby face froze for a moment before he raised his head and softly retorted, "Taotao isn't tuberculotic! Be good, Taotao, you miss daddy."
Cheng Shao and Gu Shuyao exchanged a glance. They were more thoughtful than Miao Wan. If both mother and daughter were like this, it might not be the county city's problem. It could very well be Qiao Ruichen's...
Gu Shuyao agreed with Miao Wan, "You have a point. I have already placed a thousand large bows and crossbows at the high, secret sentry post below Goddess Peak. The Fire Gun Battalion has now expanded to five hundred people. We have a lot of fire bombs ready, and we have two thousand chili needles in stock. It won't be a problem to use chili water on the city walls. I will arrange for everyone to be vigilant and increase patrols."
She paused, "How about your Northwest Chamber of Commerce wait a while? Let me investigate and send scouts to investigate the movements of Xifan, Northern Mongolia, and the Western Regions. Then you can make arrangements. If a conflict really breaks out, it won't be safe for you to go to Anyong County or Lin'an County."
Miao Wan also thought so, "Then let's not go to the other two counties first. I will just ask the people from Xiping County to settle it first."
Cheng Shao nonchalantly chased the guest away, "Why don't you go back and prepare? We are a couple and a time apart is like a new marriage. Why don't you just stop hanging around here?"
It’s good to have something to do so that I don’t have to stay at home and think about random things.
Miao Wan: “…”
She covered her daughter's ears, snorted, and walked out.
After Miao Wan left the door, Cheng Shao smiled and took the kick from his wife, put his arms around her waist, held her in his arms, and kissed her hard.
"To be honest...hiss, don't bite. I mean, why not ask her to go back to Xining Town first? It's easy to defend there, and there are plenty of weapons. It's actually safer than the county town. Old Master Qiao is there too. If Zicheng...at least there'll be someone stable at home."
Gu Shuyao let him go, "Wait a while. If you let her go now, who knows how these two will scare me."
Both the big and the small are timid and cowardly. They are so weak that they might even perform the Song of Burying Flowers on the way back.
After Cheng Shao had eaten and drunk his fill, he immediately sent his secret guards out of the border, all the way to the special post station where the secret guards were in contact, to investigate Qiao Ruichen's situation.
Although Miao Wan was also worried about the county town and even more worried about her husband, she did not stop working on the things at hand.
Or rather, she deliberately kept herself busy to avoid being frightened by wild thoughts.
Taotao is lively and active, so Miao Wan specially asked the martial arts maid beside Gu Shuyao to teach Taotao how to exercise, as a foundation for future martial arts training.
God knows how much Miao Wan has envied the heroine since she was a child, but unfortunately she is a lazy person and has no athletic talent. She can only hope that her daughter will start to roll up her sleeves from a young age, and maybe one day she will dominate the world.
Taotao had someone to accompany her, and Miao Wan missed her two sons at home, so she had to speed up her efforts to contact merchants in Xiping County.
In the middle of summer, Ruan Jialin sent a letter from the interior.
The Qiao family's goods have become popular in the capital and Jiangnan, especially from the palace. The emperor and Concubine Jin both like to use Qianjinlou's goods, and the products of Xining Town are even more sought after.
He wrote to ask Cheng Shao to send a guard team to deliver some goods to the south of the Yangtze River.
The main reason was that he had received many orders in Jiangnan and even further south in Guangzhou, so he had no time to come back.
Many traveling merchants have come to the northwest. The Jufu Inn is full every day. The people living next to the inn and the two small inns on the commercial street have become busy. Groups of unfamiliar traveling merchants are rushing to Xining Town.
If Ruan Jialin had wasted time traveling back and forth, there would be no more business for the Qiao family caravan in the future.
Anyone who has money but doesn't make it is a fool. In just the first half year, Miao Wan's liquidity from caravans, supermarkets, commercial streets and business centers exceeded seven figures.
Adding in the money from bartering and the unpaid military supplies for the Gubei Army, the amount would be around eight figures by the end of the year.
Miao Wan didn't even feel anything, but she had already become the richest woman in the northwest.
She knew about this because of the merchants from Anyong County and Lin'an County. They learned the news from the merchants from Xiping County. Without waiting for Miao Wan to go find them herself, they took the initiative to come to Xiping County and wanted to join the Northwest Chamber of Commerce.
Miao Wan was a little surprised. She had thought it would take some effort.
You know, at the beginning of the Anyong County National Challenge, there were quite a few people causing trouble.
She was also thinking at the time, is this Miao Shiren starting to follow Miao Aotian's path and getting ready to slap someone in the face or something?
After all, since she started making money, she has never encountered any major setbacks except for the misappropriation of money.
As a result, all the preparations for the slap in the face were made, but there was no movement below, which is puzzling.
Liu Ming, who had just returned from Lin'an Prefecture, laughed and shook his head. "With Minister Qiao and General Qiao here, it's only natural that Madam Qiao's business is going smoothly. They've done more for Madam than you could imagine."
It has been like this since the time when there was only Jufu Restaurant in Xining Town.
Qiao Shengwen and Qiao Ruichen were responsible for making suggestions and exchanging resources with the Wuliangha clan, or arranging transactions with these traveling merchants through the Wuliangha clan. Whether in the town or inside the pass, everything was arranged properly.
Boss Zheng once helped the Qiao family and the Ruan family deal with the Jiangnan restaurant.
The father and son also kept Chen Sixu, Qin Mao and others’ embarrassment, calculations and exploitation at bay, giving Madam Qiao the greatest freedom to realize her own ideas. That’s why Jufu Restaurant is so popular and Qianjinlou has to be snatched away by merchants many times.
But Boss Liu shouldn't tell these things. Mrs. Qiao might know about the family's affairs.
He only reminded Miao Wan, "Most merchants claim to be extremely wealthy, but in reality, besides gold, silver and money, they also have a wealth of wealth accumulated over generations. Although the Qiao family's wealth may not be as good as that of families with a long history of business, they still have a say in the court.
This has made up for her background, enough for us lowly people to pay attention to. Moreover, if we talk about the gold and silver items that can be moved, there are probably few in the northwest who can catch up with Madam Qiao. Madam Qiao does not need to put herself too low.
If you want to give something away, then... ahem, don't be so generous like you were in Xining Town. You still have to take what you deserve.
Otherwise, if you have other thoughts like Boss Zheng, you really can't blame others entirely. Businessmen are profit-driven and huge profits are attractive to people. This is their nature.
The northwest is bitterly cold, and the rich are poorer than those in the interior, and the same is true of their wealth.
Even if a wealthy man in the interior of China has a fortune of millions and can move tens of millions of taels of silver at once, he is considered a tycoon.
In the northwest, anyone who can move several million silver coins can be called a wealthy businessman.
Based on Liu Ming's understanding of the Qiao family, Jufu Supermarket has a monthly turnover of at least 10,000 taels thanks to the National Challenge event. The three supermarkets have a turnover of nearly 200,000 taels in half a year.
The logistics center is larger in size. The commission and sales profit from the goods traveling back and forth from the south to the north can be tens of thousands of taels when it is low, and hundreds of thousands of taels a month when it is high, like now. In half a year, the three logistics centers can earn millions.
Therefore, Liu Ming didn't pay much attention to his own business. The profit he made was several times more than what he had earned in the past six months.
This is not Miao Wan's most profitable business. Her base is in Xining Town.
Not to mention the Xining Town Commercial Street, just by shipping goods from Xining Town, several factories would roughly earn millions a year.
Liu Ming has been doing business for many years and has a rough idea of the profits.
Miao Wan’s prices for most things are not high, and merchants can get discounts if they buy more, so the profit is probably not too high.
If it were lower, and the profits were distributed to others, the Qiao family would have earned at least one million.
But based on Liu Ming's understanding of Miao Wan, she is not someone who would suffer a loss. If the profit is higher than he expected... in just these two years, he doesn't know how much gold and silver he would have made.
Whenever he thought of this account, Liu Ming became more enthusiastic about cooperating to take over Henan Road. He felt that the opportunity for the Dengzhou Liu family to become a wealthy family lay here.
This was the reason why he explained to Miao Wan all the secrets between businessmen. He had some conflicts with the Qiao family in the past, and being honest was his only chance.
Miao Wan and the employees around her learned a lot from Liu Ming.
After Liu Ming left, Miao Wan was in a daze for a long time, so long that Ah Chun became a little worried and came over to ask, "Boss, are you unhappy?"
Miao Wan covered her chest and sighed deeply.
Ah Chun and the maid who came to serve her were even more worried. "Madam, are you feeling unwell?"
Miao Wan shook her head and sighed, "So, without realizing it, I've become the richest woman in Northwest China. How could it be so sudden? I didn't even have the chance to make a few more bowls of soy milk."
So that she can experience the arrogance of drinking a bowl and throwing a bowl... for her daughter.
Everyone: "..." Inexplicably, everyone knew what Versailles meant, and they were all a little choked.
What Miao Wan didn’t say was that she thought she still needed to work hard for this day, and she thought... this kind of achievement could be shared with her family.
But her parents-in-law were not around, her twins were not around, and her husband was not around either... Miao Wan didn't know why, but her nose suddenly felt sore, and Erquan Yingyue started playing in her mind, making it a little painful to breathe.
Only Taotao was by her side, and she suddenly wanted to see her daughter very much.
Miao Wan suppressed her inexplicable sour feeling, took a deep breath, and stood up with a loving mother's face, "Where's Taotao? Where's my precious daughter?"
Speak of the devil, and here he is. Miao Wan didn't have to look for him, as her chubby daughter rushed in.
Taotao raised his chubby little hands, his face full of excitement, "Mom, look! Bugs are pushing a cart! Bugs are pushing a cart!"
Although Tao is four years old and has passed his birthday, he is still so young and in the stage of horizontal development. It is not easy to cross the threshold.
When he stepped over, he didn't hold the bug firmly in his hand, and it flew into Achun's arms.
Ah Chun looked down and saw that it was a dung beetle. She had been afraid of this thing since she was a child. She was terrified and flew away with a shake of her hand.
Miao Wan was also afraid of this thing. Seeing the insect falling towards her, all the sadness in her heart disappeared. The sharpest scream in history was heard from General Yun Hui's mansion.
“Ahhhhh——Qiao Aqian!!!”
A rumbling sound slowly came from the sky.
The northwest is dry and it only rains in summer. After spring plowing, people look forward to rain so that the crops can grow better.
The muffled thunder and the screams echoed each other very well. No matter from which perspective, this rain was especially timely.
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