After the transaction with Zhang Fei, Liu An also asked Zhang Fei if he wanted to help on the grounds that he had taken in some disaster victims and needed help.

Zhang Fei refused because he had no ambition to do so.

Liu An is quite sorry for this, but understandable.

Zhang Fei is very brave and fights fiercely, marrying brave men, and does not pay attention to the affairs of ordinary people. How can Liu An succeed in recruiting him with this?

Of course, Liu An was just giving it a try and had no hope at first.

After bidding farewell to Zhang Fei, Liu An began to think about doing business with the Zhen family and arranging people to do business in 'foreign countries'.

It happens that potatoes still need about 10 days to germinate. It’s not too far to go to Zhongshan, and you can catch up with the planting time when you come back.

The five pigs were sold for 14,000 yuan. Including the remaining ones, Liu An now has a total of more than 70,000 yuan.

It takes too much time for businessmen to go back and forth, so it is not economical to rent a car.

As for doing business with the Zhen family, if you want to transport the remaining fifteen pigs, you will also need a car, but the round trip time is not long, so you can rent a few cars first.

Liu An thought for a long time and decided to rent five large carriages to transport pigs, and then buy five more vehicles to extract the cattle and pull them.

As for the extra 25 cows, Liu An planned to have people secretly sell them to those wealthy families who dared to kill cows privately to satisfy their greed on the way to trade in "exotic countries". If the food was not enough, he could consider eating one or two cows.

During the Han Dynasty, it was illegal to kill a cow privately, but the law obviously had no control over powerful families.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many aristocratic families hiding slaves and raising troops to respect themselves.

And the price of cattle is not particularly expensive. A cow can be sold for up to 8,000 yuan. Calculated based on the weight of a cow of 1,000 kilograms, if converted into rice of the same weight, it is almost more than 8,000 yuan.

So eating cows on the road to save some food is not much different from using money to buy food directly.

The main reason is that there are too many cattle to eat, and Liu An really can't afford to raise so many cattle now.

After making the decision, Liu An took Liu Bei to the north of the city to buy five cars and asked the store owner to help find a few people to push them to the door of his yard.

Then Liu An and Liu Bei pushed the carts into the yard one by one.

Then he rented five large two-horse carriages, each of which was calculated at 300 yuan per day. Liu An paid a 10-day advance payment for a total of 15,000 yuan. Plus the 5,000 yuan deposit was exactly 20,000 yuan.

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The reason why a large carriage costs 300 yuan a day, but the small single-horse carriage that Liu An rented before costs 300 yuan per hour, is because the rental methods are different, one is rented by the hour, and the other is rented by the day.

Secondly, there is no need for a groom this time.

The third and most important reason is that when Liu An rents a car on a daily basis, he has to be responsible for his own horse materials.

A horse can feed four or five people. Even if it can be fed with hay instead of grain, the cost for that day will still be dozens of dollars.

After solving the car problem, Liu An had less than 40,000 yuan left.

Liu An asked Liu Bei to take the coachman to take the carriage and pigs back to the camp, and he also dragged the five newly bought cars behind the carriage and took them away together.

And he himself drove an ox cart to buy a cart of vegetables, a load of rock salt, and eighty shi of grain, spending a total of 20,000 yuan.

Driving with the four vehicles behind him responsible for transporting food, Liu An drove to the camp.

The trucks transporting grain this time were larger and loaded with twice as much rice, so only four trucks were used.

After returning to the camp and unloading all the supplies, Liu An began to make arrangements for his trip tomorrow morning.

He called Liu Bei, Liu Ming, the three team leaders and Chen Zhao, and selected two young and strong men with high martial arts to discuss together.

Before the discussion, Liu An first used Death Cards on all four people present who did not use Death Cards.

And when Liu An used the first Death Soldier card, which was the fifth time he obtained a Death Soldier, a prompt sound came from the system.

[Ding - Congratulations to the host for recruiting 5 manor dead soldiers and gaining 3 manor contribution points.]

Liu An was overjoyed. He didn't expect that he only needed 5 dead soldiers to get 3 contribution points.

Repressing the joy in his heart, Liu An said to Liu Ming:

"Deran, tomorrow you take Feng Yan and a few young men with you and go to the northern country to do business. It's not really business, it just looks like it's business.

I'll give you five thousand dollars. You can buy some cheap supplies from me on the way north and take them with you, and dispose of them as you like near the border. Remember, you need to stay outside the country for five days before returning. When you return, you need to load things on the car and cover it.

You can live there without letting the city guards inspect it, you can use money or other methods.

Early tomorrow morning, I will give you 30 oxen and 5 for pulling carts. You can also eat one or two oxen on the way to satisfy your hunger. The rest of the oxen will be sold to the family. It doesn’t matter how much it costs, but you must get rid of the ones other than pulling carts.

When all the cattle are about to arrive in Zhuoxian, please send someone to notify me in advance. Have you written down what I said?"

In Liu An's view, it is safest to arrange for Liu Bei to do the business. Not to mention Liu Bei's ability, he can eventually become the leader of a country, so doing such a small thing is not a problem.

But Liu An was preparing to travel far, and taking Liu Bei, who had the highest martial arts value, would make him feel more secure, so he had to leave the matter to Liu Ming, whose overall strength was second only to Liu Bei.

Liu Ming recalled it in his mind, and after making sure there was no problem, he replied: "Ming has written it down."

"Feng Yan, you assist De Ran." Liu An looked at Feng Yan again and said.

"Follow the order!" Feng Yan responded with clasped fists.

Then Liu An looked at the other two team leaders and said: "Hey, Wang Chi, I will be away for a few days tomorrow. During my absence, you two will be jointly responsible for everything here. I will give you two five thousand dollars later."

, if you need money, just use it. If there is anything you can't decide on, just wait for me to come back. Do you two understand?"

"Understood!" they both responded in unison.

"Others, drive five carriages with me to Zhongshan early tomorrow morning!"

"No!" Liu Bei, Chen Zhao and others responded with clasped fists.

Speaking of this, Liu An suddenly remembered, could he control the horse? And it was a double horse?

So Liu An went out to try to drive a carriage with two horses, but found that it really didn't work. The horses didn't listen to him at all, and something went wrong as soon as he started.

Fortunately, both Liu Bei and Liu Ming were well versed in this. Under Liu Bei's guidance, Liu An began to try to drive a carriage.

Chen Zhao and his three companions also practiced together under Liu Bei's guidance.

At noon, Liu An arranged for someone to go back and tell her mother that she would not go back for lunch.

Liu An had lunch at the camp and continued practicing in the afternoon.

By evening, Liu An had become much more proficient in driving the two horses.

He called Liu Ming and Liu Bei, and the three of them drove a carriage home.

The horse-drawn carriage is indeed much faster than the ox-cart. It originally took Liu An half an hour to drive the ox-cart from the camp to his home, but it only took him two-quarters of an hour to get there by horse-drawn carriage, saving half the time.

When I got home, it was starting to get dark, and Ms. Cui was also preparing to cook.

While Liu An was helping Cui prepare things for cooking, he told Cui about his upcoming trip.

Cui asked Liu An where he was going and what he was doing, but she didn't say anything. She just told Liu An to be careful on the way, and then left the matter of adding firewood to Liu An, and went to the house to prepare it for Liu An.

Things to bring.

Liu An didn't care about the Cui family. Anyway, the family was in ruins and there was nothing to deal with.
Chapter completed!