Quick Wear: I am the shopkeeper at the Merit Pawn Shop

"But doesn't your Sun family have its own guard team? And now that the traitor has been found, you don't have to worry about anyone causing trouble in the future." Shen Mo was surprised.

"No, my brother, you don't know. Let me put it this way. Although I am the legitimate son, merchants do not attach great importance to the concept of legitimate and illegitimate sons. Our Sun family adheres to the policy of the survival of the fittest. They believe that as long as they can bring benefits to the family, illegitimate sons can also become legitimate sons."

Shen Mo looked at Sun Youtai with sympathy. Being in a wealthy family and being the legitimate son of a wealthy family is really not a good thing.

With Sun Youtai's financial and network support, Shen Mo's next plan went much more smoothly. He asked his brother-in-law to keep an eye on the store, and Shen Mo went to challenge the lairs of the thugs in the city.

There is no other way. It is too troublesome to recruit people. People who are too rule-abiding are not acceptable. People who are reckless and stubborn are not acceptable. People who are too smart are even less acceptable.

Don't think that it is just about escorting goods. One needs to develop one's eyesight and physical skills in an all-round way. Once a carriage and horse business is opened, not all goods will be escorted.

If the company was caught by the government while selling something under the guise of selling mutton, the one in trouble would be the carriage and horse business.

The hooligans come into contact with all kinds of people. Many of them become hooligans because they can't find suitable jobs, while some don't want to suffer too much and think it's better to just hang around.

There are all kinds of people here.

Shen Mo defeated all the thugs in the capital in three days, and then selected twenty of them who had not made any major mistakes.

Some of these people have offended others and cannot find a job, some are unwilling to do manual labor and continue to hang around, and some are deceived into forming gangs and feel powerful and so they voluntarily degenerate.

But when these people saw their boss being beaten to death by Shen Mo in one move, they all began to doubt their lives.

The best way to deal with thugs is to beat them down. If one beating doesn't work, then give them two beatings. A good son is born under the stick. The same goes for conquering younger brothers. Conquer them with your fists, then give them sweet dates after a beating. They will find the sweet dates especially delicious.

After the fight, when Shen Mo took out a neatly stacked tray of silver, these people's eyes lit up.

"Are you willing to follow me? I won't say that you will have a good life with me, but your family will be able to live a good life. What for? If you are willing, sign your name and seal your name. If you can't sign, just put your fingerprints on it. Each person will get 10 taels of silver to settle down first."

What is the concept of ten taels of silver?

Ordinary people earn less than a hundred coins a day from working.

These ruffians don't have work every day, and usually go hungry.

When the eldest brother had meat, they could only have a small sip of soup.

Now Shen Mo gave them ten taels of silver. No matter what happens in the future, they only care about the present. At least the family’s expenses for most of the year are taken care of.

Without exception, these people chose to sign and seal their documents in exchange for silver.

Before the carriage and horse business opened, Shen Mo took his people to train in the mountains.

Shen Mo asked them to train together in groups of ten, so that the twenty people were divided into two groups.

An assessment will be held three months later. Each member of the winning group will receive ten taels of silver, the team leader will receive twenty taels of silver, and the losers will only receive five taels of silver.

For the sake of money, this group of people also trained hard.

After Shen Mo personally led the training for ten days, he finalized the training arrangements and handed over full authority to the two selected captains.

Then he challenged the thugs in several cities and recruited about a hundred people and gave them the same training.

Money is spent like water. Actually, it’s okay to give these people money, but the main thing is the food and drink for more than a hundred people.

Physical training and nutrition must keep up, so Shen Mo took out the rice in the space for them to eat. In addition, rice alone is definitely not enough and meat must be supplied.

With more than a hundred people, the daily meat consumption is a considerable figure.

Three months later, the first batch of personnel were trained and divided into black team and blue team for a competition, using black and blue clothes to distinguish them.

Sun Youtai came over to watch the competition out of curiosity, and he also added a prize to the competition: the winner could go to Chunxiangju for a meal.

The team members cheered enthusiastically and the whole crowd was excited. You have to know that a table at Chunxiangju would cost hundreds of taels of silver.

The two teams were almost blood-thirsty, and if Shen Mo hadn't been watching, there would have been a loss of life.

In the end the black team won.

But the black team's victory was quite tragic.

Almost everyone was injured.

The losing team of the blue team suffered even more.

Sun Youtai felt embarrassed when he discovered that the people Shen Mo had trained in three months were more powerful than the guards he had at home.

"Shen Mo, you are really amazing. You are amazing, and you are also amazing at selecting and training people. I envy you for having so many amazing subordinates."

"Don't say that, the little bastards still have a lot of room for improvement, and they fight well mainly because of their tacit cooperation." Shen Mo would not say that his training method was the training method for training special forces in later generations. Cooperation is the first priority, but individual players are not too outstanding.

Although the blue team lost, Shen Mo did not treat these people badly in terms of food. In addition to daily food, he also brought a few jars of wine to reward everyone.

You should know that during these three months of training, Shen Mo forbade these people to drink.

Now seeing the wine, their eyes all lit up.

Soon Shen Mo's "unconventional" carriage and horse business opened for business.

At first, the merchants in the city still had many doubts, but as the Sun family handed over the goods to this carriage and horse company for escort, many merchants in the city began to cooperate with the carriage and horse company.

Many of these were arranged by Sun Youtai.

With the establishment of one outlet after another, this "Tianma Xingkong" carriage and horse company gradually spread silently throughout Daliang.

When major businesses want to transport goods, they basically think of "unfettered imagination".

Otherwise, transporting the goods by yourself and maintaining a caravan would be a considerable expense, especially for some small and medium-sized businesses. In the past, they relied on large caravans to purchase goods. Not only would they have to pay a large sum of money every time their source of goods was known by the large caravans, but they would also have to pay a large sum of money to transport the goods.

If something goes wrong, the first things these big caravans will abandon are the goods of small merchants, without any guarantee at all.

Now that "Tianma Xingkong" has emerged, the small merchants are the most excited. They just need to send someone to follow the goods.

Shen Mo was extremely busy this year and almost forgot about Shen Xing until he attended a banquet with Sun Youtai.

Many banquets like this are held in the capital every year. On the surface, they are hosted by a certain noble family to appreciate the beautiful spring scenery and hold some activities, such as poetry competitions, Cuju, and Touhu. The food is served as a buffet, which is very lively.

In fact, it is to connect the relationship between the most famous businessmen in the capital and their backers.

Another thing is to help some new businessmen to make connections at banquets.

Shen Mo didn't need such matchmaking. He had met many officials in this year, and the one he dealt with the most was the Prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture.

The reason was simple. When they were transporting goods, they were robbed by many bandits. Among these people, there were some who had become bandits and were wanted criminals on the imperial court's bounty list.

Just the reward for wanted criminals, their carriage and horse business had received several thousand taels from the Jingzhao prefect.

However, Shen Mo was also very sensible. Every time he received a reward, he would distribute part of it to his brothers who caught people, return the bulk of it to the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, and use a small portion to treat the yamen runners to drinks. This way everyone was happy.