Liao Wenhuo explained in detail the situation of the caravan she was in, and only then did Ye Fan understand.
Martial cultivators conduct strict inspections when entering and exiting Imperial Valley City, but in many cities, due to the strong demand for large-scale trade, large caravans will be given some "privileges", such as "fast passage rights, tax reduction rights", etc. , caravans can enter and exit most cities very conveniently, and members do not need to be subject to harsh interrogations by guards.
The leader of the caravan is responsible for checking the identity of the caravan members. If something goes wrong, go directly to the leader.
Because of this, merchants like to form large caravans and gain many conveniences in groups.
Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue discussed briefly and decided to join Liao Wenhuo's large caravan. Being among such large caravans is also good for concealing their identity.
Moreover, apart from mixing in the caravan, Ye Fan could not think of any other better way to get out of the customs and go to Zhongzhou for a while.
Liao Wenhuo took Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue to find the leader of their large caravan, a middle-aged wealthy businessman with a big belly, Li Qingyun.
"Brother Li, these two are my friends from my hometown. We met by chance in Imperial Valley City. I will be their guarantor. I wonder if I can let you two join the caravan and go to Zhongzhou with us?"
As a guaranteed introducer, she recommended the two of them to join this large caravan.
"You two want to join our caravan? But you two don't look like businessmen!"
The wealthy businessman looked at Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue with doubtful eyes.
His caravan is recruiting merchants and bodyguards to prepare for long-distance trade between Dongzhou and Zhongzhou, and it still lacks some manpower. But not everyone will be recruited into the caravan.
The wealthy merchants did not suspect that Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue had any intentions when they entered the caravan.
Liao Wenhuo and Liao Hai are also relatively well-known wealthy businessmen in Dongzhou's business community, and they have made quite a name for themselves. With her guarantee, these two people will be fine.
He just felt that Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue had extraordinary looks and noble temperaments. They looked less like businessmen and more like pampered ladies and young men from aristocratic families.
There is no philistine atmosphere unique to businessmen, and they clearly look like a couple from a wealthy family traveling.
The most important thing is that Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue deliberately lowered their cultivation level and only showed Wu Hou's later cultivation level. Wu Houqi's cultivation would not make the wealthy businessman feel uneasy.
"The two of us have just studied business and are not very familiar with business. We plan to go out and do some business. But our family is not very supportive, so the two of us plan to go to Zhongzhou to have a try. Please take care of me, Brother Li."
Mark showed a bit of embarrassment on his face and explained.
The middle-aged wealthy businessman saw Ye Fan's embarrassed look, and suddenly he guessed something.
The family does not support them very much!
Could it be that the two of them eloped? It's just hard to say it!
Some aristocratic families in Dongzhou objected to the marriage between their children because of feuds between the families, or the families were not well matched. As a result, the children of the family simply eloped to Zhongzhou to avoid the obstruction of the family.
If you elope and go out to live, of course you have to do some small business or something to make some money to live.
He would not get to the bottom of this kind of thing.
"Oh, are those two planning to join the caravan as merchants or as bodyguards? As merchants, they must be wealthy merchants with more than 100,000 yuan stones or goods. Without capital, they can't do business at all. Guards do not need to have property, but have money to earn. It is enough to have a cultivation level of Wuhou level or above, but if you encounter any danger, you must rush in front of the caravan."
The wealthy businessman said.
For wealthy businessmen, it is normal financial resources to have more than 100,000 yuan stones.
"Businessman status! We all have some savings and are ready to do some business!"
Ye Fan smiled.
The wealthy businessman further confirmed the identity of the two people, "Our caravan is leaving Imperial Valley City and going to Black Heart Bay in Zhongzhou for a long-distance trade. You know, places like Zhongzhou are very chaotic, and dead people are common. And the caravan will take one-tenth of the profits you make from doing business with the caravan to hire bodyguards."
"It doesn't matter. Both of us are Wuhou cultivators, so we have some ability to protect ourselves! It's also appropriate to pay for bodyguards."
"Okay! Since we have Miss Liao's recommendation, our caravan still has a few merchants' quotas for the two of us to join. However, you two should not cause any trouble to the caravan, otherwise we can only ask you to leave on your own. I'm Li Qingyun, the leader of this caravan. If you have any questions, you can contact me directly. Miss Liao, tell them more about the rules of the caravan so that they don't do something wrong!"
The wealthy businessman agreed that the two of them should join the caravan and warned them.
"Understood, thank you Brother Li!"
Liao Wenhuo thanked him repeatedly.
Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue successfully joined this large caravan and became two "businessmen" under the recommendation of Liao Wenhuo.
The scale of this caravan is quite large, with hundreds of wealthy businessmen of all sizes. In addition, there are four or five Wuwang-level bodyguards and more than a hundred Wuhou-level bodyguards.
Unlike bodyguards, merchants do not need to undertake combat missions.
The more merchants there are in the caravan and they raise money together, the more bodyguards they hire.
The larger the team, the better it can resist various disasters and risks of bandits. Therefore, many caravan leaders are willing to recruit more merchants to join the caravan.
After the caravan gathered enough people, the leader of the caravan, Li Qingyun, prepared to pass through Imperial Valley City with this huge caravan.
Imperial Valley City is the only safe passage between Dongzhou and Zhongzhou.
There were too many people queuing up to enter and exit Imperial Valley City, and the city guards had to verify the identities of many martial arts cultivators, making customs clearance very slow. The long line of people lined up for dozens of miles and slowly moved forward.
Although large caravans can clear customs without checking the identity of each member one by one, they are not allowed to jump in line and can only wait slowly behind.
The merchants in the caravan have long been accustomed to this, and are not anxious, while making friends and chatting with each other. Many wealthy businessmen even showed off their financial resources intentionally or unintentionally during conversations.
Ye Fan just listened, not saying much, just secretly amused.
Jia Xu, who was originally quite talkative and always liked to show off his abilities, became much quieter. He really didn't dare to show off anything in front of Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue.
Only Liao Wenhuo was chattering excitedly, talking about the many interesting things she had encountered in various vassal states in Dongzhou over the years. Over the years, she has gained a lot of experience as a businesswoman.
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In this large caravan, several senior businessmen couldn't help showing a bit of joy when they saw two newcomers entering the caravan, and exchanged glances with each other.
This kind of new businessman who is not familiar with the situation in Zhongzhou is most likely to be slaughtered by experienced hands. In the business world, it is normal for the big fish to eat the small fish.
One of the middle-aged businessmen suddenly had a smile on his face, walked towards Ye Fan, and said with great enthusiasm: "I am Miao Sheng, who often travels to the Zhongzhou trade route. This brother seems to be familiar to me. He must have never been there." Zhongzhou, right? I wonder what my brother is called?"
"Miao Sheng, these two are my friends, what do you want to do? Are you trying to deceive people again?!"
Liao Wenhuo suddenly became alert and stared at the middle-aged businessman with wide eyes.
Although Shenwu Dongzhou has a large territory, the business community is connected, and the information in a circle is very well-informed. People of the same class can know the details of others with just a little inquiry.
The reputation of Miao Sheng and others is not good, and they often deceive newbies. It's just that the method was very clever, and those who were deceived suffered a loss and had no evidence to accuse him.
Miao Sheng's face suddenly became solemn and he said seriously: "Miss Liao, what are you talking about? You can't talk nonsense without evidence. I am a businessman, so of course I am talking about business. If you know more businessmen, you will naturally have a wider way to do business." , and earn more money. You can't cut off other people's wealth just because they are your friends, right?"
His words left Liao Wenhuo speechless.
"My surname is Ye. This is my first time to go to Zhongzhou for business. Brother Miao often goes to Zhongzhou. He must be very familiar with the situation in Zhongzhou. Please ask Brother Miao for more advice in the future."
Ye Fan didn't mind Miao Sheng and said calmly.
"Oh, it's my first time there. No wonder I haven't seen Brother Ye before! There are many business opportunities in Zhongzhou and the profits are extremely high. If you transport a batch of urgently needed goods from Dongzhou to sell them in various places in Zhongzhou, you can get 10% of the profit for a small amount, and 10% profit for a large amount. Then even profits of more than ten times are normal. However, the war-torn land of Zhongzhou is very dangerous, and life is often in danger. Therefore, the vision of picking goods is very important. Be quick, accurate and ruthless, and you have to earn enough at one time. Make a trip to earn Tens of thousands of yuan stones is just a small amount of money, and hundreds of thousands of yuan is also common. If Brother Ye is interested, I have a way here in Blackwater Bay, but it requires a lot of people to do it! We already have one here Several wealthy businessmen are ready to take action, I wonder if Brother Ye is interested?"
Miao Sheng said with added jealousy.
"No, we're doing our own business!"
Liao Wenhuo suddenly became a little anxious and winked at Ye Fan frequently, telling him not to get involved in Miao Sheng's business, for fear that Ye Fan would be cheated and suffer a loss.
Ye Fan didn't seem to hear Liao Wenhuo's hint and asked with a smile: "I wonder what kind of business Brother Miao is doing?"
"First, purchase a batch of mysterious weapons and elixirs from Dongzhou, sell them to Blackwater Bay in Zhongzhou, and earn about 10% of the profit. Then, purchase some high-quality rare ores from a place in Blackwater Bay that specializes in rare ores, and return to the east. If you resell it in the state, you can make huge profits! This is a very high-quality ore with a very high price. A piece of this fourth-level ore can earn thousands of Yuan stones if you change hands. With one trip, you can easily get tens of thousands of Yuan stones! Even the mine owner in Zhongzhou refused to sell in bulk, and was only willing to sell thousands or tens of thousands of these mines in batches at a time. We wealthy businessmen couldn't handle that much, so we thought of finding more people to batch the goods together. . Let's make money together!"
Miao Sheng showed a piece of red ore that was almost dripping with blood from his storage bag and showed it to Ye Fan, "Here, this is it. I brought back a fourth-level rare ore from Blackwater Bay last time. You know this?" What kind of mine is it?"
Ye Fan took it over and looked at it carefully, his eyes brightened slightly, his expression moved slightly, and he began to ponder.
"I know about mining, let me see!"
Jia Xu quickly took the red ore in Ye Fan's hand from the side and fiddled with it a few times.
Then he sniffed the smell of the ore carefully.
Soon, he showed contempt, smiled proudly at Liao Wenhui and everyone around him, and said loudly: "Miao Sheng, who are you trying to fool? Isn't this just a fourth-level fire candle mine? Although it is also a rare mineral, But it's of little use, and it's only worth forty or fifty yuan stones at most. Do you still want to sell this piece of shit for thousands of yuan?"
When Liao Wenhuo heard this, he immediately became excited, "Miao Sheng, you said you were not trying to trick people! If Brother Jia didn't understand mining, we would have almost been fooled by you!"
"Is this the Huozhu Mine? Is Mr. Jia really so sure about the identification of rare ores?"
Miao Sheng smiled with cunning eyes and was not in a hurry to refute. He just smiled so much that Jia Xu felt scared.