readsfreenovel Chapter 233 Hard Work
Chapter 233 Hard Work
After his daughter left, Dong Zhenchang went to the homes of his fellow apprentices who had worked as escorts with him in his early years to visit them one by one.
He did not earn any share of the money from these fellow disciples; he gave all the fifty dollars in reward to them.
Nowadays, hot weapons are rampant, and most of the coastal areas are occupied by the Japanese. The soldiers are living a hard life and they all agree to the escort agency's reward of fifty oceans.
After all, the escort industry itself is a life-threatening business, and they have long been accustomed to it.
On the other side, Hou Xiaoge did not rest either. He rode his horse quickly back to the transaction site and began looking for a cave.
Fortunately, there are caves everywhere in China, and there are caves and cave dwellings in every mountain valley.
From dawn to dusk, Hou Xiaoge finally found a suitable cave in a mountain forest relatively far away from the village.
He used his mental power to clean the cave and widened the overgrown dirt road outside, making it look like a relatively flat road that had been visited recently.
After cleaning up, they found a huge rock that was almost the same size as the cave entrance and blocked most of it, leaving only a one-meter wide width for people to pass through.
After doing all this, Hou Xiaoge didn't put anything there. He would put it there before bringing people to guard it tomorrow.
After resting for a night in the space and having a delicious roast suckling pig the next morning, Hou Xiaoge started another busy day.
"Alas! If it weren't for the fact that local people have difficulty in getting food, the price of food is high, and I earn a lot, I wouldn't be doing hard labor." Hou Xiaoge sighed helplessly while riding on a horse.
"Sir, you are here. I took the medicine you gave me again last night, and my little Felt's fever has gone down. Thank you so much." After seeing Felt and his group, Felt excitedly ran over to hug Hou Xiaoge.
"That's great. Let's hope the little guy can get well soon." Hou Xiaoge also pretended to be surprised.
After the two of them exchanged greetings, Hou Xiaoge treated everyone to breakfast, then called a few carriages to take everyone off.
It has to be said that these foreign devils are really firearms lovers. Each of them carries two pistols with them. If Hou Xiaoge had not forbidden them to bring submachine guns, they would probably have been able to get them.
Because they were going into the Japanese-occupied area, they had to be careful and rigorous. Hou Xiaoge told the coachman the location and asked several carriages to take the foreigners to their destination in batches and at different time periods.
This went on for a while, with some interrogation from the Japanese, and it wasn't until the afternoon that everyone arrived.
When Hou Xiaoge and the people from the escort agency arrived at the cave, they felt much more at ease when they saw that Hou Xiaoge was accompanied by a group of foreign guards.
"Manager Dong, you guys stay here first. I'll go pick up some customers." Seeing that the time was almost up, Hou Xiaoge led ten foreigners out of the mountain.
At this time, on the other side, Qiao Yuanmao and Boss Hu had already brought hundreds of people to the agreed place outside the town, including dozens of gunmen.
"Brother Hu, Brother Qiao, you are here. This lineup is great!" Hou Xiaoge looked at the people holding torches and greeted them with a smile.
"Brother He, this is amazing! Your subordinates are actually foreigners." The two men were also shocked and fearful.
"Oh! They're all the same." Brothers, let's go and take a look at the goods.
"it is good!"
The two of them nodded and took thirty people to follow Hou Xiaoge up the mountain.
After all, they had only known each other for a short time, and the transaction was taking place in the wilderness, so they were naturally wary of each other.
When going up the mountain, Xiaoge deliberately walked with the two of them, to reassure them.
"Brother, have you hired a bodyguard?" After seeing the escort agency's flag, the two men were obviously relieved. This brother should be a serious person.
"After all, many things are inconvenient for foreigners, so I hired some people from the escort agency?" Hou Xiaoge laughed.
"Yeah, things will be easier when we have the help of local bosses when we are away from home." The two nodded in agreement.
"Let's go in and take a look at the goods." Hou Xiaoge took Qiao Yuanmao's arm and went into the cave.
The cave was brightly lit up by torches all around, and the goods were clearly visible once you entered, with mountains of baskets and sacks for loading and unloading grain.
The two men walked around inside with their men, and then checked and sampled the goods.
"Brother, the goods are all fine. Let's go down the mountain and talk slowly while the people downstairs count them!
Just weigh and check, after all, you gave us such a big discount." The two looked at the quality of the goods and nodded in satisfaction.
"Anything works!"
Hou Xiaoge didn't care, as he always bought the correct amount of goods.
In the tent set up at the foot of the mountain, the three of them toasted each other until around two in the morning, when the dozens of men brought by Qiao Yuanmao and his companions finished counting the items.
"Brother, I have a request. I wonder if you can agree to it?" Boss Hu said after listening to the report from his subordinates.
"Brother, tell me whether you still want to make a request or not." Hou Xiaoge waved his hand.
"This batch of goods is really too much. I'm afraid we can't transport it all tonight. Can you leave tomorrow?" Boss Hu said with a smile.
Hou Xiaoge was stunned for a moment, then he understood. It turned out that these two old people were afraid that they would be given eye drops after he left.
"Okay, I'll stay for another day and chat with you two more." Hou Xiaoge also agreed.
When the two saw Hou Xiaoge agreed, they smiled with relief, and one of them asked someone to bring in a wooden box.
"Brother, this is 157,000 oceans exchanged for US dollars and gold. Please count them." The two men put the things on the table and pushed them in front of Hou Xiaoge.
When you open the box, the first thing that catches your eye is naturally the golden gold, followed by three stacks of US dollars.
Hou Xiaoge counted them and found that there were 28 large yellow croakers and 100 small yellow croakers. It was really hard to control oneself under the candlelight.
After the gold was inspected, three stacks of US dollars were left, two of which were thicker and one was thinner. Hou Xiaoge counted them and found that there were more than 26,000 US dollars in total, which was equivalent to 100,000 yuan.
"No problem, thank you both brothers for taking care of our business." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile.
"No, no, we are the ones who took advantage of you, brother." The two men smiled and waved their hands.
Nearly 300 tons of cargo is not a small amount, it requires a lot of manpower, but it also shows the strength behind these two bosses.
After the first batch of goods was moved away, another forty or fifty laborers came one after another, each carrying a shoulder pole, and forty or fifty horse-drawn carriages also started to rush over to transport the goods.
Hou Xiaoge's men were on guard and checking the surroundings, and the laborers were not allowed to bring guns up, only carrying shoulder poles.
By dawn, half of the nearly 300 tons of supplies had been transported by hundreds of workers.
The laborers of that era were really hardworking. One person carried more than 200 kilograms of cargo more than ten times in more than three hours along a mountain road that was nearly two miles long.
"Brother Hu, you laborers are amazing! How much do you pay per day?" Hou Xiaoge was sitting at the entrance of the tent, watching the laborers carrying loads and walking quickly with admiration.
"We look for the most reliable people and give them more. We give one pound of corn per trip." Boss Hu said with a smile.
"As expected of a capitalist, awesome!" Hou Xiaoge secretly gave a thumbs up in his heart.
Earning more than ten pounds of corn in the middle of the night, which is food that cannot be bought with two dollars outside, anyone would work hard for this job.
After daybreak, there were too many people and everyone was resting, so there was no transportation. When it got dark at night, these carriages and porters appeared from nowhere.
By just 11 o'clock in the evening, nearly 300 tons of supplies had been transported.
Looking at the laborers who were tired and panting while sitting on the ground drinking water, Hou Xiaoge really admired these people.