Chapter 270 Her Plan
It can be in the city or outside the city, as long as the place is wide and flat enough with convenient transportation.
The shipping routes developed by Zhong Jing are running very smoothly, and money is pouring in. Sooner or later, the Guangzhan Port Terminal will be connected to the provincial capital.
Zhao Liya prepared for the future and planned to find a large piece of land to build a bulk commodity trading center.
Large quantities of materials brought from Jiangnan by the fleet are traded here. At the same time, large quantities of local materials collected here are also transported to Guangzhan Port and then transported to Jiangnan by the fleet.
Once this material trading center operates smoothly, not only fleets but all bulk materials can be traded here.
They can even purchase various local specialties and sell them to traveling merchants.
So, the place must be big, very big.
Relying on the fleet, Zhao Liya is confident that once this trading center is built, it will quickly become popular and will naturally attract countless merchants to come and trade.
By then, you can make a lot of money just from the price difference and rent.
Zhao Liya briefly told her father and Uncle Hu about this matter. Uncle Hu's eyes lit up and he rubbed his hands excitedly. He smiled and kept praising Zhao Liya, which made Zhao Liya feel embarrassed.
Uncle Hu felt that he was at a loss for words and had not praised himself enough.
"Aya, this is a great idea! As long as the shipping routes and fleets are there, the trading center will definitely make a fortune. It's better to plan ahead and look for a good location so that you can seize the opportunity when the time comes. A place like this can be built quickly and it's a permanent foundation! It's a guaranteed profit!"
Zhao Xiang didn't quite understand these things, and although he didn't expect it, he immediately understood that this was a brilliant idea as soon as Zhao Liya said it, so he smiled and nodded, "Aya is thinking long-term, so let's do it. You have to go to the provincial capital, so be careful and don't let anyone know your whereabouts."
Otherwise it will always be a troublesome thing.
Although the scourge Mao Dexing is no longer with us, we still have to be on guard.
Zhao Liya smiled and said, "Don't worry, Dad. Big Brother Lin has redeemed his sins. When he gets there, just let him handle everything!"
Zhao Xiang smiled and nodded.
That's true.
So, it's a good thing that everyone in the family is slowly redeeming their sins. It's a pity that my family members can't redeem themselves at the moment, otherwise it might attract attention. Otherwise, Aya should redeem herself quickly.
Zhao Liya and Shu Yan simply dressed up in men's clothes, took two servants with them, and set off with Lin Mo.
He hired a donkey cart in the county town, but didn't hire a driver. He let the servants at home drive the cart. In this way, there was no outsider.
This wasn't the first time he'd taken this route, and with Lin Mo by his side, he felt at ease. At a normal pace, he could stay overnight in a small town along the way and arrive by midday the next day.
Although November is almost here, the weather remains beautiful, with bright sunshine and neither too hot nor too cold, except for the fact that the leaves on the mountain have become more colorful and you can occasionally see a variety of ripe wild fruits of all sizes when you lift the corner of the car curtain while driving.
It is quite comfortable for people to travel in such weather.
Around five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone settled down in Jiahe Town, where they usually stopped to stay.
The only inn in the town is not big, but it is very clean. The proprietress is also a good cook and her home-cooked dishes are very delicious.
After spending the night here, everyone got up early the next day, ate a bowl of hot rice noodles, and continued on their way.
Unexpectedly, just over ten miles away from the town, when passing through a forest, a child rushed over from the side road and was almost hit by the donkey cart!
Fortunately, the road in the woods was bumpy and the donkey cart was moving much slower, otherwise the child would definitely have been hit, and that would have been a big accident!
The driver screamed in fright, and Zhao Liya and the other two people in the car staggered backwards and almost fell.
"What's going on!"
"What happened?"
The driver was about to reply when the six or seven-year-old child, despite the pain, climbed up from the ground, lay down beside the carriage, and looked at Zhao Liya and the other two who had lifted the curtain to look out and were asking what had happened.
"Brothers, please save me! Please save me! Someone is trying to catch me!"
Zhao Liya and the other two were stunned. The two coachmen who were about to curse at each other also froze. They were about to scold the kid angrily, but now they turned to look at their three masters at the same time.
Zhao Liya hurriedly said, "Don't be afraid, little brother. Where are you from? Who wants to arrest you?"
The child cried and said, "My home is in the provincial capital. My parents live in a big house. I met a kidnapper. I——"
Before the child could finish, he saw a couple in their thirties, with thick waists and strong arms, running towards him from the path. The child's face turned pale when he saw them, and he cried out in fear: "It's them! Wuuwu, it's them who caught me! Please, brothers, save me, save me!"
"Don't be afraid, if it's true, we will help you." Zhao Liya and Lin Mo looked at each other and got off the carriage together.
Shu Yan didn't know any martial arts, so she didn't move in the car, but she was also very nervous and worried.
"Brother!" The child was delighted and quickly threw himself on Zhao Liya, clutching her sleeve tightly as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw. His little face was full of pleading and fear, and trembling slightly.
He was obviously terrified of the couple.
The couple ran out anxiously, and when they saw the child they were immediately delighted and ran over.
The woman scolded, "You child, you are so angry. Why are you running around? What will you do if you run into some bad guys? Come quickly and go home with me!"
The child trembled even more violently, clutching Zhao Liya's sleeve tightly, almost tearing it off, crying, "I don't know you! You are not my parents! You are kidnappers and bad people! Brother, don't believe them."
The man glared fiercely, his thick black eyebrows moving like two worms. He pointed at the child and cursed, "What nonsense are you talking about, you little idiot! You can make a fuss, but your grandparents are waiting for you at home. Come back with me now, or I'll break your legs!"
The woman glared at him and said unhappily, "Alright, alright, as a father, stop being so mean to your child. Can't you just talk to him nicely? If you weren't so mean all the time, the child wouldn't be like this! Ah Yan, stop making trouble with your father. With your mother here, he won't dare to hit you anymore. Let's go home quickly. Don't lose your temper anymore."
The woman scolded, glared, and comforted the child at the same time, looking like a real mother. As she spoke, she even stepped forward and took the child's hand.
The child screamed and hid behind Zhao Liya: "No! No! I won't go with you! You are a bad person, you are all bad people, not my parents! Brothers, you must believe me!"
The child was anxious and frightened, and spoke with a crying tone.
"Nonsense! You're losing your temper! You're such a willful kid!"
The woman glared and became impatient, and she grabbed the child without hesitation.
(End of this chapter)
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