At this time, I have to mention a means of transportation, the carriage! From the moment I returned to the capital, no matter in the train station or the safe zone, I could see horse-drawn carriages or donkey carts walking on the street almost every day.
Regardless of whether it is a horse or a donkey, using them to pull a cart is 100% more difficult than learning to drive a motor vehicle in the old world.
First of all, you have to be able to raise horses. This is a very advanced craft, and it is difficult to quickly master it without two or three years of in-depth understanding. Secondly, you have to be able to train horses. This craft is even more difficult, almost equivalent to car repair in the old world, maybe even worse.
In the end, you have to be able to bear the burden. If you really want to have nothing to do and don¡¯t cause trouble, and don¡¯t be afraid of trouble, if you don¡¯t say anything, you have to go in with a white knife and come out with a red knife at critical moments, without any hesitation.
Hong Tao himself knows a little bit about raising and training horses, which is thanks to his good brother Kerim who has died unjustly. During these years in Xinjiang Province, he lived with the herdsmen every day, even if he didn¡¯t want to learn, he could even watch it, not to mention that he was still curious about everything.
Not only Hong Tao can do it, but most of Hu Yang's group can do it too. Some people are superficial, and some are simply professional, such as Ben Zhu. He is a Mongolian. He was a herdsman before the zombie disease broke out. His family not only raised horses, but also camels, donkeys and sheep. He was also a master horse trainer.
It is not clear how high he is, anyway, according to him, he was a well-known horse racer when he was in his hometown. He often participated in nearby races and won a lot of money.
After becoming the adjudicator, most of his work was raising horses. It wasn't until the adjudicator made Hong Tao and the rebel army lose soldiers that no one could use them, so he was promoted to the front-line army to bring the old to the new.
Did you see that among these 9 people, there are at least 8 old drivers, and one who is good at repairing cars?
Of course, it would be even better if we could open an auto repair shop! Oh, no, it's a horse farm. It's a pity, there is no agriculture and animal husbandry in the safety zone in the south of the city. I don't know if there is any in the north of the city, and I can't get through it for the time being.
So far, the only industry that Hong Tao can think of, can achieve, and can satisfy both material and spiritual harvests is transportation. So despite the many uncertainties, he still wants to try.
If it is done, my group will not only gain a foothold in the safe zone, but also gain a relatively free space. What if it doesn't work? If you don't make it, you won't make it, and it's not about paying the money right away.
Didn't Shen Nan say that it will take a few days to write a letter? Then stabilize him first, and then use these few days to scan and listen to the inside story of the transportation industry, and then decide whether to do it or not.
At about 7 o'clock in the evening, Shen Nan appeared in the casino again, first exchanged greetings with some old customers, and then walked over to announce the start of the dinner, all the guests had already arrived, waiting for the two distinguished guests or the protagonist to appear !
Compared with the afternoon, his face has a radiant feeling. Hong Tao thinks that within these two or three hours, he must have exchanged views with most of the leaders of the local forces and reached a preliminary consensus, which is why he is so complacent.
The location of the dinner was just downstairs of the bar. There were twenty people sitting around the huge round table, old and young, men, women, middle-aged and middle-aged. Except for Mrs. Xiushan and Feihu Sun, they definitely didn¡¯t know any of them.
Shen Nan still performed the duties of the host very well, from the arrangement of the seats to the introduction of everyone, everything was carefully considered, neither making the guests feel unfamiliar, nor making the landlords feel too embarrassed.
?But this process is very cumbersome and hypocritical. No matter what you think in your heart, you have to put on a smile on your face, and you have to pretend to respect each other. Just because Populus euphratica's nickname Tiger and Sun Feihu's nickname is also a tiger problem, they pushed it over and let it go for more than ten minutes, and the final result was a big tiger and a small tiger.
Although the old world is gone, the new world is here, but the wine table culture does not seem to have changed substantially. After exchanging pleasantries, the toasting project began. There are those who are polite and cultured, some who play with beards and stares, and some who are half literate and half armed. There is only one purpose, to try my best to make the other party drink more and drink less.
In order not to destroy the more mature image of a fool, most of the exquisiteness and etiquette on the wine table in Hong Tao's mind is useless. But he couldn't just sit and watch people pouring wine, so he played the fool again and played Quan Wu Xing directly on the wine table.
You let me drink, Cheng, I will wrestle with whoever starts, and whoever loses will drink!
At first, some people looked at his slightly gray hair and beard stubble, and thought that this old Qingpi was bluffing. But after a few rounds, except for Feihu Sun who won one round, all of them had no choice but to bow down and saved a lot of bowls.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the bustle and bustle on the wine table lasted for about 2 hours. During the banquet, no one mentioned the word Youlong Company, as if it never happened at all.But don't think that this is the final result. The real drama is after the meal, and the wine table is just a warm-up. And how to grasp the rhythm? Mrs. Xiushan is the timer.
After she got up to evade old age, frailty and alcoholism, and was about to leave the table first, Shen Nan took advantage of the opportunity and invited everyone to the bar on the second floor to listen to his newly trained singers sing.
It is true that there are singers, and they are indeed young, and they can sing fairly well, anyway, they are better than Hong Tao. But no one, including Shen Nan, was listening to the music. They were all sitting or standing around the sofa in the middle, listening to the conversations of the big guys in the middle.
It wasn't until then that Hong Tao could roughly distinguish who among these people was the real boss and who was just making up the numbers. It was said that there were only 20 people, but in fact only Sun Feihu, Bai Side, Shen Nan, Jin Yongshun, Wang Xiaobo, and Pu Zhe could make big decisions. There are also seven Mrs. Xiushan.
Others also operate independently, and dominate their one-acre three-point land. But as far as the six security zones in Nancheng are concerned, they can only be regarded as branches or affiliations of these seven companies, commonly known as the younger brother.
However, there is one person who is quite special. His surname is Jiang, but I don¡¯t know what his name is. When Shen Nan introduced him, he only mentioned Boss Jiang, and didn't mention anything else at all, as if there was some kind of tacit understanding.
From the wine table to the bar, Hong Tao had observed this person many times, and soon discovered an interesting phenomenon. Everyone present was chatting and laughing with him, but it was just chatting and laughing. They were familiar on the surface, and there was no more interaction, which seemed very polite.
Hong Tao originally wanted to find an opportunity to go over and have a chat, to find out the bottom of this person himself, but unfortunately he never found a suitable excuse. In about half an hour, the boss Jiang left early.
After coming out of the bar, it was past 12 midnight, Shen Nan insisted on sending a car, Hu Yang and Hong Tao couldn't refuse. Fortunately, it's not far away, and there are no too remote places on the way, so just drop it off.
To say that the scalper is really obedient, except for the thin monkey and the water snake, everyone else is waiting in the small building. Taking advantage of the fact that his identity has not been exposed, Fei Yang simply returned to the new sixth district, took out the sidearm buried under his shed, and secretly sent it into the small building.
Now there are six pistols, an automatic rifle, more than a dozen grenades, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. They planned to find Hu Yang and Hong Tao back at the appointed time, so they would find another month of dark and stormy nights to start revenge from Xiushan Apartment and Feihu Company, killing him seven in and seven out, and then taking the remaining weapons Ammunition entered the red zone and continued to flow south.
Hong Tao was not surprised by this result, and he couldn't stop it even if he wanted to. Due to environmental factors, these gold diggers were forced to fight for justice, and they followed the principle of revenge and revenge. This style has been integrated into the blood, and the first thought when encountering danger is to risk one's life!
"Heilong, why haven't you gone back yet?" But there is someone who shouldn't be here, Lu Wei'an!
"I asked him to stay here. We are all blind here and need a guide." Seeing that the two elder brothers had returned, the scalper was confiscating the weapons one by one, and he didn't intend to hide it after hearing Hong Tao's question.
"Then who will take care of your son?" Hong Tao was a little helpless. He gave Lu Wei'an the title of Black Dragon. Wasn't that to make him feel at ease? When did he say that he could be treated as his own? But you can't say that now, you have to pretend to care.
"We went back at dinner time, the little guy is very obedient. Heilong is usually taken care of by his neighbors on business trips, and it's the same this time." The scalper stopped talking, and the pony picked it up. The two of them made the arrangements for Lu Wei'an very clear. ?