Xiao Lingyue continued: "According to the caravan leader, smuggling iron ore is a fool's errand. They also know how powerful it is, so in order to prevent being discovered, they change the time and place of each delivery.

Moreover, the time and place of delivery are not determined by one party, but take turns.

The caravan decides the location, and the other party to the transaction decides the time.

The reverse will happen next time, with the caravan deciding the time and the other party deciding the location.

In this way, leaks of secrets can be prevented to the greatest extent.

Even if one of the parties is caught, as long as the time and place are wrong, it will be impossible to catch them all.

It can be said that they are extremely cautious!”

After hearing this, King Xiang's mouth twitched: "If you are so afraid of death, why do you still do such a thing?"

"People die for money, and birds die for food. Money and silk have moved people's hearts since ancient times."

Xiao Lingyue smiled half-heartedly, "For a profit-seeking businessman, as long as there are huge benefits, he is willing to walk a tightrope with his head held high!"

The middle-aged man in the caravan is a real businessman.

He is greedy for life and afraid of death, and greedy by nature.

After being threatened and intimidated by Xiao Lingyue for a while, the middle-aged man agreed to cooperate with her without much hesitation.

He is quite aware of current affairs, but he is just like a grassroots person.

The condition he proposed was that Xiao Lingyue must guarantee that he would not die.

Even if he spends his whole life in prison in Northern Qin, he must survive. It would be even better if he could serve his crime and not go to jail!

Xiao Lingyue sneered when she heard this and told him not to dream.

They are all smuggling iron ore.

The fact that he could save his life and avoid being implicated by the imperial court was due to his meritorious deeds and his willingness to confess.

He is still greedy and wants to avoid going to jail, pretending that nothing has happened?

It’s faster than dreaming!

The middle-aged man couldn't stop laughing when he heard this, and quickly said that he was joking, and then he said everything he needed to say, just like pouring beans through a bamboo tube.

Only then did Xiao Lingyue realize that this plain-looking middle-aged man turned out to be of mixed race.

His name is Zhong Ronggui, and his family is from Southern Yan. Three generations of his ancestors came to Northern Qin, married women from Northern Qin, and got married and established a business in Northern Qin, but the foundation of their ancestral business is in Southern Yan.

The family has been in business for generations.

Relying on the ancestral relationship in his family, Zhong Ronggui often traveled to Northern Qin and Southern Yan to do business, even during the war years.

In Northern Qin, they call themselves Northern Qin people, and in Southern Yan, they call themselves Southern Yan people. They have relatives on both sides, so they get along like a fish in water. They can even get along with the border troops and they know the terrain of the border between the two countries very well.

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In addition, he was quite good at doing business, so he caught the eye of a big shot in Nanyan.

It started about six years ago.

Zhong Ronggui began to work for Nan Yan's mastermind. He disbanded his caravan and reorganized a new caravan. On the pretext of doing wood and stone business, he began to smuggle iron ore between the two countries.

Xiao Lingyue was shocked when she heard this.

Six years ago…

It was almost the time when she died in Nanyan and was reborn in Northern Qin.

It turned out that this huge smuggling route had been taking shape from such an early stage, and Zhan Beihan had no idea about it.

This is not because he lacks ability.

But the business scope of the caravan happened to be the blind spot of Zhan Beihan's power.

Zhan Beihan is in charge of the military. Whether it is normal military affairs or espionage, they are very strict and secretive military activities.

But the caravan bypassed this area and started with the private sector.
Chapter completed!