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A long silence later, the brawny man finally said in a heavy, helpless voice, “People of our trade never know if we might live to see another day. One might even say that we’re trading our lives away for money. Old Zhou, Old Wang and Young Li knew that death was a possibility. Everyone here knows this as well, don’t we?”
The brawny man’s name was Wang Shengkui. He was a horse caravan leader. A horse caravan originally referred to a group of horse wranglers herding a train of mules. Over time, it referred to merchants who mainly used horses to carry and transport goods. He and his companions were in the latter category.
Theirs were no ordinary horse caravan either. They were merchants responsible for transporting goods across countries, and they mainly went between Chu and Yan.
They were Chu people who lived in Northern Xinjiang for generations. To the north Northern Xinjiang and bordering the Gobi Desert and the Bitter Snow Plain was Yan.
At the beginning after the fall of the You Dynasty, Yan and Chu shared good relations with each other because of the camaraderie they built...
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