A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 424: Starting an Escort Business

The arrival of Shi Jin and Lu Zhishen gave Lu Cheng two more powerful generals to use.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng introduced Wu Song to the two of them, and Wu Song quickly became familiar with them. They spent the whole day drinking and practicing martial arts together.

After a few days, Lu Cheng called Shi Jin and Lu Da together and asked, "What are your plans for the future, brothers?"

Lu Da laughed: "I haven't really thought about this. But now I have wine to drink and fights to fight, which is good and refreshing."

Shi Jin also nodded: "I haven't thought that far ahead. If Brother Lu needs me to do anything, Shi Jin will do my duty."

Lu Cheng was relatively relieved about Shi Jin. This kid was simple and innocent. Moreover, they had traveled together before, so Lu Cheng could arrange things for him to do without any worries.

Seeing this, Lu Da also said: "Since I have come to seek refuge with Brother Lu, I will naturally obey your arrangements and let you send me orders."

Lu Cheng nodded: "You have been here for a few days, and you should have seen that my Lujiazhuang has a lot of business. The more money I make, the more jealous some people will naturally be. If I want to expand my business outside, I will also need some people to be the leaders of the caravan to escort the caravan.

Before, I asked Wu Song to bring a group of servants to guard the house and help look after the business and transport the goods to the nearby counties. But Wu Song alone was indeed too busy to handle it.

Therefore, I plan to set up a special escort company and train a group of brave fighters to serve as bodyguards for escorting caravans. Moreover, after the escort company is established, I can also take on some business from other people.

For example, if someone needs to transport a batch of goods from Qingzhou to Jeju, we can assign corresponding bodyguards according to the type, value and weight of the goods, and then charge bodyguard fees based on the distance of transportation.

Nowadays, the world is getting more and more chaotic, with bandits everywhere. Many merchants have to spend a lot of money to transport goods, and they have to invest money to train people, but they may not be able to train good fighters.

If we can open this escort company and operate it for a period of time, and accumulate a good reputation, our business will grow bigger and bigger..."

"Brother Lu, do you want us to be the escort masters of this escort company?"

"Yes, to be exact, you are to be the escort leaders. You are responsible for training the escorts and following the caravan when doing business."

Shi Jin immediately agreed: "No problem, I'll take it."

Lu Da also agreed: "I took it too."

"Okay! There are now hundreds of servants in the manor, all trained by Wu Song. I will select sixty of them as the first batch of personnel for the escort company. As for how this will work, I will tell you more..."

The Lu Family Manor was now growing bigger and bigger, and there were many servants, but they were all just unemployed farmers who had never seen blood and could not be considered soldiers.

Lu Cheng opened a security company, on the one hand to protect his own business, on the other hand to pull these servants out for training and build up combat effectiveness.

At the same time, only by going out of Yuncheng and Jizhou Prefecture can we develop other external forces.

When the people from the escort company are out escorting goods, they are bound to encounter some bandits who block the road and rob them. At that time, they will kill some of them, keep some of them, and support some of them. They can run the escort company openly and run a stronghold secretly. The two sides can cooperate with each other and accumulate a group of people.

At the same time, Lu Cheng also planned to arrange Wu Song into the army and spend money to bribe him so that he would have the right to lead troops.

As for himself, Lu Cheng planned to be promoted from the provincial school to the Kyoto Imperial College and follow the path of a civil servant.

Some time later, under Lu Cheng's guidance, Lu's Yongchang Escort Company was officially established.

In order to ensure the normal operation of the escort company, Lu Cheng also gave some silver to the newly appointed county magistrate and reported the escort company.

As for the previous county magistrate of Yuncheng County, he had been transferred to a county in Qingzhou to serve as county magistrate.

After the escort company was established, Lu Cheng first asked Wu Song, Lu Da and Shi Jin to escort the escort together. They traveled around the surrounding trade routes such as Jingdong East Road, Jingdong West Road, Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, etc., to understand all the terrains and roads.

Afterwards, the three of them each led a group of people to escort the caravan of Lu's Trading Company, sell various products of Lu's Group, and purchase some medicinal raw materials from various places.

After establishing the escort company, Lu's Company's business quickly expanded to wider distances, and everything began to develop as Lu Cheng had expected.

As Lu's company's business grew bigger, Lu Cheng's reputation also became more famous. From time to time, some people from the martial arts world would come to join him or challenge him. As for those who had real skills, Lu Cheng would hand them over to Lu Da and Shi Jin, and he also added some manpower to the escort agency.

At the same time, Lu Cheng spent more than half a year to thoroughly consolidate his dark energy, and to flow it throughout his body, allowing him to control it with ease.

At this point, Lu Cheng discovered that the so-called transformation of strength was also a natural result after the dark strength reached its peak.

The original breathing method is to vibrate the internal organs, tendons and bones through breathing at a specific frequency and intensity, thereby exercising the five internal organs and tendons and bones.

After channeling the dark energy throughout his body, Lu Cheng combined it with the previous breathing method and began to further strengthen and cleanse his internal organs and tendons and bones.

When people eat grains, it is inevitable that some impurities will accumulate in their bodies. In addition, Lu Cheng's previous step-by-step practice also caused some minor damage to his internal organs and tendons.

After the dark energy reaches his whole body, Lu Cheng can not only control the dark energy to be emitted from any position to attack the enemy, but also control the dark energy to clean up some minor injuries in his body and clean up the "drug poison" left by the use of drugs.

During this training process, Lu Cheng also gained a detailed understanding of his own body.

In Chinese martial arts novels, the phrase "breaking the void and seeing the indestructible gods" does not refer to immortals, but the spirit in the human body, all the acupuncture points and nerves around the body.

"Break the void and you can see the gods" means becoming your own god, being able to control every acupuncture point and pore on your body, and then controlling the whole body. For example, if the body surface is scratched by a knife, you can quickly control the muscles and blood vessels in the relevant parts, speed up metabolism, stop bleeding quickly, and speed up healing. If you are hit by a bullet, you can control the muscles to reduce the damage of the bullet to the human body, and you can also make the muscles wriggle to expel the bullet from the body.

To put it bluntly, the so-called Chinese martial arts is to constantly strengthen the body and spirit, making one's physical body stronger and allowing one's spirit to fully and meticulously control one's physical body.

What is reflected on the system panel may be a double improvement in physical and mental fitness.

The process of exploring martial arts may seem complicated, but the goal is actually always clear.

In the autumn of the first year of Zhenghe (1111 AD), Lu Cheng gave a lot of silver to the governor of Jeju and made Wu Song a militia commander in Jeju, commanding 500 soldiers, which was equivalent to the militia battalion commander in later generations.

In the spring of the second year of Zhenghe, the twenty-year-old Lu Cheng was promoted from Jizhou Provincial School to Bian Jing Imperial College and became a student of the Imperial College.

So, Lu Cheng arranged everything at home and prepared to report to the Imperial College.

According to the original timeline, this is when Lu Zhishen goes to Xiangguo Temple, Gao Yanei flirts with Lin Niangzi, Instructor Lin mistakenly enters the White Tiger Hall, Lu Zhishen saves Lin Chong in the Wild Boar Forest, Instructor Lin goes to the snowy mountain temple, Lu Yuhou burns the hay barn, Instructor Lin goes to Liangshan on a snowy night...

However, Master Lu Zhishen has now become the escort leader Lu Dalu. Is Coach Lin still so lucky?