The mules and horses neighed and the wheels rolled.
Six long-distance carriages drove out from the south gate of Chengdu and merged with the trucks gathered in the market outside Chengdu to form a huge convoy, meandering towards the south.
The motorcade drifted away, leaving the tall city walls of Chengdu behind.
The war in the south does not hinder the desire of businessmen to make a fortune. In other words, the more war-torn a place is, the easier it is to make a fortune.
Under today's circumstances, not to mention precious specialties such as pearls, just selling grain from the south to the north would be a huge profit.
Several prefectures in the south are important grain-producing areas of the Chu State. Now they are in war. It is foreseeable that the price of grain in the Chu State will skyrocket next year. Not to mention the profits from selling grains, just to quell the panic caused by the lack of food is enough to make the King of Chu Tingtao allowed some merchants to go to the south to trade.
However, risk and profit are directly proportional. There is no two or three. Taking the initiative to go to a war-torn place is to give up your life.
This convoy dared to run to the war-torn south, so it naturally had its own support.
Wu and Chu were feuding, but there were also businessmen who had great skills and were able to maneuver both sides - for example, a person who was nominally from Chu, but was actually the eldest son of a great merchant from the Wu Kingdom with the surname of Lu.
In the motorcade, on an inconspicuous carriage, a young man with a short beard stretched out his hand to lift the curtains and poked his head out. He was a little distracted as he looked at the city gradually going away.
This person is none other than Lu Wu's eldest brother Lu Song, but here in Chengdu his name is Lu Song - this is the rule of the Lu family. Whenever you go out to train your children, try not to use your real name.
The core children of the Lu family go out to explore and work hard, not to make money, but to hone their abilities and experience the cruelty of the world. If they use the Lu family's name, it will not have any training effect.
Five years ago, when he was only sixteen years old, he came to Chengdu with his close friends from the Lu family. He sharpened his head and worked hard to establish a camp, colluded with the officials, and finally opened up the situation. Now he can only leave it behind and exchange it for some wealth. .
Of course he has no regrets.
Although it was a pity to abandon the situation that he had finally opened up, if his identity as Lu Wu's eldest brother was discovered by the Chu people, it would not be a matter of losing some property.
Compared with his own life, the efforts of the past five years are naturally nothing - in fact, this was his test to inherit the position of the head of the Lu family. No matter how good the business was, he had to hand it over. , he went back to inherit the position of the head of the family.
What's more, now that he returns, will he inherit the position of the head of a mere merchant family?
That is the aristocratic class, the class jump that the Lu family has been longing for for hundreds of years. It is not a scholar, but a doctor - a doctor who cannot be punished as a doctor!
However, did fifth brother Lu Wu really do such a big thing?
No, such a big thing was really done by the fifth brother who spent all day eating and waiting to die?
Is the fifth brother so fierce?
My parents said back then that my fifth brother was lazy and had no success in studying literature or martial arts. He would only be a playboy in the future. His greatest contribution to the Lu family was probably to be a tool to carry on the family line. Now -
"Young Master—Young Master?" Lu Song was in a daze, but his thoughts were interrupted.
But Zhang Guan and Lu Song were riding in the same car. Seeing Lu Song lost his mind, he called out.
"Ah, Uncle Zhang, what's the matter?" Lu Song came back to his senses and asked.
"Young Master, don't worry, you have done a good job in the past few years. There must be a reason why Lu Gong sent a message to the Young Master to return to the Kingdom of Wu." Zhang Guan consoled him.
If something is not kept secret, one will lose one's virginity. The person who informed Lu Song to put down his business and return to Wu immediately was Lu Jinhe's close confidant Chen Zi. Apart from Lu Song, he would never tell anyone else such important news.
In fact, when Chen Zi set out from the State of Wu, he only brought news about one and two officials of the Lu family. After passing Lanshui, he discovered that Lu Wu had actually raised troops to attack the city in the State of Chu, so he brought Lu Song The news is that Lu Wu rebelled in Chu State - as for Lu Wu's appointment as uncle, it is not something ordinary people can get the news about.
If there was only the news that the Lu family had ascended to the noble position, Lu Song would not hide it from Zhang Guan, but with the news that Lu Wu had raised an army, the fewer people who knew about it, the better - this was Chengdu after all.
Although Zhang Guan was Lu Song's right-hand man, Lu Song did not tell him the news.
"Uncle Zhang, don't worry. It's just that something happened at home, so my father urgently recruited me back. It's not a bad thing." Lu Song said with a smile.
"We left in such a hurry, what should I do to explain to the next doctor Xia Chong?" Zhang Guan stroked his long beard under his chin, and his face still looked a little worried.
Zhang Guan was about forty years old, with a square face and long eyebrows, and the three long strands of beard under his chin were already graying. Lu Jinhe paid a lot of money to hire him to assist his eldest son.
The cost of establishing a business in Chengdu, Chu State, is not small, and the trade routes between Wu and Chu are increasing day by day. If they can persist for a few more years, and when the trade routes are completely stabilized, Lu Song's position in the Lu family will be unshakable.
Their biggest supporter in Chengdu was Xia Chong, the senior official. In order to open up the door, Lu Song spent a lot of money on him. Now he left Chengdu in a hurry without saying hello to this senior official. It is very likely that he was Your Majesty, please make a note.
Lu Song shook his head and said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, if the news brought by Chen Zi is true, we don't need to look at Dr. Xia's face anymore."
Not to mention just a junior doctor, so what if he is a senior doctor? Naturally, it was not his turn to make the fortune that his fifth brother had built, and he was not shameless enough to inherit his brother's family business. However, his father was named a senior doctor, and he would become a senior doctor a hundred years later.
Of course, it seems a bit unethical to think so.
However, rising from a common merchant family to becoming a high-ranking doctor is something that is rare in a century, and it really makes Lu Song think about it.
From a businessman to a nobleman, a bright future is waiting for the Lu family. As the number one heir of the Lu family, Lu Song will also be a high-ranking official in the future.
Where will the Lu family's fiefdom be? Who will take care of the fiefdom? Who continues to run the Lu family business? Should he ask his father to manage the fiefdom or take charge of the business?
How did nobles do business? Should I use one?
"In that case, why do you have any nostalgia for Chengdu? I also miss my grandson. I think the master and his wife are also thinking about the young master." Zhang Guan was relieved, but he did not ask what Chen Zi brought. News, he just twirled his beard and said with a smile.
"Exactly, I just feel a little regretful when I think of our hard work over the years." Lu Song patted his thigh lightly, showing a longing smile.
