Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 1537: Chapter 350: You Don’t Even Know Grandpa Chen? How Can You Escort Goods?

Outside the city, the Xu family’s caravan heading to Tianshui was already prepared, and this time, the Xu family’s third daughter was responsible for procuring the goods.

The Xu family is a prominent trading family where everyone, regardless of gender, must learn business acumen, and among them, especially the eldest daughter and the third daughter have the greatest ability to generate wealth.

Currently, the eldest daughter’s business involves ironware from the Northern regions, reportedly connected to King Qi Residence.

Meanwhile, the third daughter, Xu Caijin, finding the main family business controlled by her elder sister, decided to take a different path by trading in fabric.

Traditionally, profitable businesses are centered around clothing, food, housing, and transportation, with clothing being the foremost concern, which speaks volumes.

While trading ordinary fabric yields limited profits, the high-quality cotton fabric from Huangzhou offers the greatest profit margin.

Therefore, Xu Caijin directly chose to come to Huangzhou Prefecture to trade fabric.

Xu Caijin was now seated in a rather luxurious carriage, lifting the curtain and looking at the old steward behind her, she said, ”When are we leaving?”

Upon hearing this, the old steward replied, ”Miss, the escort agency insists on waiting for someone, saying we will leave shortly.”

”What kind of escort agency operates like this? Can’t we switch to another one?”

Upon hearing this, the old steward smiled apologetically and said, ”Third Miss, the northern region has been unstable lately. People in Huangzhou Prefecture are well-off, and there are few willing to escort. It took the old servant a long time to find this agency willing to take on the job.”

Xu Caijin looked displeased and said, ”That’s ridiculous. How could Huangzhou Prefecture not have a single poor person? How is Chen Jiusi governing this place?”

The old steward replied, ”Indeed, Huangzhou Prefecture is quite peculiar. The common folk live too well, and if the old servant were from this prefecture, I might not want to leave either, considering the turbulent times.”

Xu Caijin, hearing this, said, ”Alright, stop complaining. Go ask the escort agency if they’re leaving or not; they’re dragging their feet.”

Upon hearing this, the old steward immediately obliged and went to find the people from Zhen Nan Escort Agency.

Zhen Nan Escort Agency had one escort leader, one vice leader, five escort masters, and forty runners, totaling forty-seven people—this was the entire team of the escort agency.

They were heavily invested in this particular escort job, as they stood to earn five thousand taels of silver, making it quite a lucrative deal.

At this point, one escort master complained to the escort leader, ”Why hasn’t that person slipped into the team yet? Aren’t they delaying our business?”

”Yes, escort leader, shouldn’t we depart? The owner has urged us twice already.”

”No, wait a while longer.”

At this moment, the escort leader spoke up. He was a thirty-year-old Han man, also a native of the old Huangzhou Prefecture.

He well knew that the person added to the team was put there by the manager of the Huangzhou Prefecture textile factory, and although it’s not a significant official position, for an escort agency, who would dare provoke such a household? After all, many people rely on the textile factory for a livelihood.

Upon hearing the escort leader’s words, the talking escort master looked at the vice leader and said, ”Vice Leader, what do you think about this?”

Upon hearing this, the vice leader glanced at the escort leader and then stood up, saying, ”If you want to wait, you wait. As an escort agency, you can’t keep the owner waiting. Come on, brothers, get ready to set off.”

”Alright.”

Upon hearing the vice leader’s words, a group rose up en masse and followed the vice leader, completely ignoring the escort leader, leaving the escort leader visibly embarrassed.

Yet there was nothing he could do, but be angry; a few trusted subordinates remarked, ”Escort leader, this Ma person doesn’t seem well-intentioned.”

The escort leader said nothing, a pained expression on his face.

No choice, the new Ma escort leader was a master of the Wolf Smoke Realm, and he was not originally from Huangzhou Prefecture but from Huanggang Prefecture. Later, when Chen Jiusi traveled to Wushan and dispatched Wu Daojun to reclaim Huanggang, he emerged and later joined their Zhen Nan Escort Agency.

But upon arriving, he immediately swayed the people’s hearts in the escort agency, and there was nothing to be done since the escort leader only possessed Holding Core Realm.

The escort industry is very pragmatic, whoever is stronger is followed. So who is the strongest?

There is no need to ask; it must be the vice leader who is stronger. Therefore, the escort leader was essentially sidelined.

Pitiably, his life’s work could very well be taken over by others in the end.

Thinking thus, the escort leader noticed the vice leader had already approached Xu Caijin’s carriage, meeting the old steward on the way. The old steward said, ”Leader Ma, when will we depart? The owner is anxious.”

Hearing these words, the vice leader stepped forward and said, ”We’re departing now; don’t worry.”

”Let me introduce you to the owner.”

At this moment, Vice Leader Ma arrived in front of Xu Caijin’s carriage, saying, ”Owner, don’t worry, we’re departing right now.”

Upon hearing this, Xu Caijin said, ”Alright, then I leave it to Leader Ma.”

Upon hearing these words, Vice Leader Ma’s lips curved upwards, ”No trouble, no trouble.”

As he spoke, Vice Leader Ma glanced into the carriage, a smile playing at his lips, then turned and said, ”Brothers, prepare to set off.”

Seeing the vice leader behave in this manner, Xu Caijin furrowed her brow and asked the old steward behind her, ”Is Zhen Nan Escort Agency dependable?”

The old steward said, ”Should be reliable, they were recommended by people from the Huangzhou Prefecture textile factory.”

Xu Caijin said, ”Alright, make sure our men are cautious. By the way, how is Master Li’s injury?”

Upon hearing this, the old steward said, ”It should be fine now.”

”That’s good.”

Master Li, the Xu family’s resident martial master, also possessed Wolf Smoke Realm abilities, and such strength may be unimpressive to major powers, but to an average household in commerce, he is considered a very formidable individual.

After all, according to the world’s power classification, at the county level, Energy Transformation is the peak, and Holding Core can generally dominate in a county.