flstandardbreds Chapter 395
Chapter 395
Qin Song didn't expect that it was because of this reason, and he felt somewhat helpless.
Mocheng is a special place, it is different from other cities.
New merchants coming in to do business do not visit the local chamber of commerce, but instead visit the local underworld society.
Yu Bashan is the leader of this organization.
This is mainly because Mocheng is a border city, where merchants from the three countries meet, and then various business frictions occur.
When such incidents happened too often, the government no longer wanted to intervene, so some merchants turned to powerful local tyrants for help.
Gradually, the local Chamber of Commerce became non-existent and was managed by the local gangs.
In Mocheng, as long as you get the consent of the local boss and pay "tribute" regularly, there will be no problem in doing business here.
Otherwise, you won’t be able to even open a store, because if you open a store without prior notice, every store you open will be hit hard.
However, the other party's meeting with Ye Xi was indeed just the beginning of his willingness to talk.
Although the final result was not as bad as Ye Xi expected, most of the profits had to be handed over to Yu Bashan.
The other party promised to take good care of her store and not let anyone cause any trouble.
In this desert city where public security is in disarray, such promises are more useful than those from the government.
Ye Xi spent another five days in Mocheng, mainly deciding on the store location and subsequent business plan.
Along the way, I followed Yu Bashan to visit some local celebrities. Of course, none of them were good people.
Since Ye Xi started doing business, he realized that no matter how legitimate the business is, he has to make friends with some powerful "bad guys" in secret.
Because without these people to "protect" them, businessmen would have difficulty moving forward.
Basically everything was done in five days. Ye Xi was going to take Lin Yan back to Beijing, leaving Qin Song to follow up on the subsequent store opening matters.
In order to protect Qin Song, she left him half of her guards, led by Lin Yan's deputy.
When Lin Yan heard that Ye Xi wanted to leave half of the guards behind, she disagreed, but she could not resist Ye Xi's insistence and finally agreed.
Ye Xi had always thought that with Wei Jue's guards protecting her all the way, and given the smooth journey here, there wouldn't be any problems on the way back to Beijing. However, accidents often happen when one least expects them.
They were attacked by a group of masked men on a section of official road between the two cities.
The enemy's number of troops far exceeded the number of guards brought by Lin Yan. They ambushed on the road before appearing and shot and killed many guards with bows and arrows.
After the two sides started fighting, Lin Yan's people suffered a lot. Lin Yan kept Wei Jue's instructions in mind and vowed to put Ye Xi's safety first.
So while dealing with the masked men, she pulled Ye Xi from the carriage onto the horse. She shouted, "Run separately!" and then rode forward with Ye Xi on horseback.
"Catch that woman, she's the owner of Xinwei Restaurant, the ransom could be as high as ten thousand taels!"
"Catch her!"
Lin Yan heard the words of the masked men behind her, and her heart sank, realizing that she had encountered robbers.
The other side seemed to understand military tactics. They actually set traps for them first to reduce their numbers and then captured them.
There were some guards following Lin Yan, mainly to ward off those who were chasing him.
Soon Lin Yan realized something was wrong, because the guard following behind her had always been quite skilled, but unexpectedly he was no match for the other party.
She looked back several times and saw that they would soon be caught up.
In order to cover Ye Xi's escape, when she turned a bend blocked by a stone wall, she signaled the two remaining guards around her to follow her.