Chapter 503 8.22 The Caravan Enters the City

Chapter 503 22 Caravan Enters the City

The "Hash Caravan" stepped on the afterglow of the sunset, and after two days of fast trekking without sleep, they finally entered the ancient desert city of Memphis.

Despite the hard work, no one complained along the way.

They got so many red goods in the desert by means of careless light. Although the yellow sand would cover their footprints, if they met a large caravan from other countries in the riverbed, the only 50 people in the caravan would still be in great danger.

Therefore, they had to be fast.

Crossing the riverbed through the heavy yellow sand, the closer to the city, the thinner the wind and sand. Although everyone was a little tired with gray faces, when the two huge gates of Memphis appeared in front of them, they still held up torches and burst into cheers.

Being able to transport more than 100 cars of goods to the city, the Hash Caravan's gamble has already won half of the victory.

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The ultimate goal of most large chambers of commerce to go through the sand mouth is the city of Memphis.

After entering the city, the porters will carry their goods to the exclusive warehouse of the Chamber of Commerce, and then the store owner will trade with the desert freemen.

No large Chamber of Commerce will choose to go deeper into the Black Desert.

Although going deep into the desert and entering the villages of freemen can exchange for better red goods, the high casualty rate in the process of crossing the Black Desert has made large Chambers of Commerce stay away.

It is common to lose both people and goods.

All those who dare to enter the Black Desert are poor people with nowhere to go, such as the "Hash Horse Gang".

Compared with large chambers of commerce, the scale of the Hash Horse Gang is small enough to be ignored. This time, he will inevitably attract the attention of all merchants in the city with such a large number of goods.

Old Hash, who is very experienced in the streets, knows that "hiding" in this situation is impossible. Pretending to be pretentious will easily expose his true intentions. Instead of doing so, it is better to walk in with a big horse and a golden sword.

He commanded the horse team to walk through the wide streets of Memphis with their heads held high.

"The Royal Academy of Sciences of Constantinople?"

"Oh my God, in this era, have the scholars of the Academy of Sciences also started to do business? Shouldn't they do it every day..."

The apprentice hadn't finished speaking when the master beside him immediately stretched out his palm as big as a palm fan and slapped him hard on the back of his head.

"Tsk tsk, too much nonsense!"

"Look at their carts of goods! In the past ten years, there have always been rumors that the scholars of the Royal Academy of Sciences have begun to imitate the Tang Dynasty in the East and win over scholars from all over the world."

"Don't look at the scholars who are powerless, their status has been rising year by year. Isn't it expensive to support so many people?"

"Doing research continuously and making money at the same time, this is what a wise man does!"

Although the city of Memphis in the desert is closed, the many merchants make the news here quite well-informed.

The master standing at the door of the store patiently popularized science for his apprentices with interest, and the old Hash who passed by almost laughed out loud.

It was his last second idea to remove the "Hashma Gang" on the side of the carriage and paint the "Royal Academy of Sciences" night owl logo before entering the city.

It's still the old saying - it's good to take shelter under a big tree.

The city of Memphis on the edge of the desert is by no means a livable city with "simple folk customs and good public security". It would be difficult for him to protect more than 100 carts of red goods with only 50 people under his command.

The brave free people, the small caravans that lost their goods on the way, and even the patrol soldiers of the Ramses Principality stationed in the city may come to trouble him on a dark and windy night.

If it is found that the Hashma Gang relied on good luck to "pick up" more than 100 carts of goods from the desert, there are many thieves in this lawless city who will steal their goods without anyone noticing.

Therefore, he must try to gild his own face.

At this time, the scholars of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Constantinople waiting for him in the city are the best backers.

"Why does this horse team look so strange?"

"Yes! How could the proud Byzantine scholars find a group of Arab merchants as porters? I once passed by the Royal Academy of Sciences and saw many Donglu scholars with iron chains hanging around their necks walking in the university!

"The Roman scholars have such a good relationship with the Tang people. Even if they want to find someone, they will hire Tang sword cultivators."

"Also, where did these bearded men buy the Tang people's plow carts? !

This kind of carriage is also equipped by the old Hash dog?"

Most of the merchants who can cross the desert and walk to Memphis have basic eyesight. As more and more merchants walked out of the inn onto the street, talking and pointing, Ma Feng and the porters behind him began to speed up the pace of their horses.

It is indeed as the merchants said. If you observe carefully, there are too many flaws in this team.

"Walk slowly, why are you in such a hurry! "Hash gritted his teeth and whispered to his subordinates.

"The calmer we are, the less likely these guys will see our flaws. If we panic, it will make people suspicious!"

Hash knew that their flaws would not last forever.

As long as they entered the "Shahu Inn" in the city and contacted the Byzantine scholars, as long as the two sides could get together, they would be safe for the time being.

Don't forget that at this time, the two large chambers of commerce, "New Moon Chamber of Commerce" and "Hengcheng", are also waiting for the arrival of the caravan. They may not be suspicious within three or five days, but after a long time, they will definitely suspect Hash.

By that time, there will be more than a dozen blond and blue-eyed Romans in Hash's team, and he needs to hide under their wings to escape this disaster.

Hash is not afraid of the other two chambers of commerce. His real fear comes from the East Land woman who is waiting for the contact of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. In a foreign country, this woman dares to unite with the mortal enemy of the Tang Dynasty and swallow the goods of her own chamber of commerce.

Such a person must be a cruel and unscrupulous villain.

Hash has a hunch

that the goods may not be what she wants.

The real target of this East Land woman is most likely the East Land girl who is tightly tied up with iron chains.

At this time, she is in the RV, sitting opposite Loki.

The reason why Loki was left alone to talk to the mysterious girl was because among the 50 people in the team, only Loki could communicate with the girl proficiently using the "Chinese" commonly spoken by the Tang people.

However, what the Arab bearded men outside the car did not know at this time was that Loki was staring at the Donglu girl in front of him for more than half an hour.

Finally, he broke the silence and asked about the rice paper in front of him for the sixteenth time.

"Little sister, do you know this word?"