Lu Ming

Chapter 343 Opening of Port ([-])

Comrade Liao Shuangding is undoubtedly a man of unsteady will.There is not a trace of fearless revolutionary spirit in him, but the corruption and cowardice of the lumpenproletarians are vividly displayed.

After the little chicken crossed the river, he confessed everything about the underground tunnel and the burning of the building in the middle of the night.

Later, when he fired a cannon at himself, in order not to become Liao Wuding, Liao Shuangding quickly confessed the man behind the scenes who instigated him: Old Guai.

After adding a hidden program of "Hand-cranked power generator and iron pestle attacking chrysanthemums", Liu Wang quit the job after discovering that there was really nothing to hide.In the early morning of the next day, he begged to see Xiong Dao immediately and reported what had happened last night.

"Tell me about your judgment." Xiong Dao brushed his teeth while beckoning Liu Wang to continue.

"Liao Shuangding is not an ordinary thief, but came here to set fire. From this point of view, I guess he was sent by Mr. Wu."

"Is there any evidence?"

"Not yet. It was Lao Guai who gave Liao Shuangding the order. He didn't mention Wu San."

"After being burned on the trestle bridge, it is human nature to want to burn the house back." Xiong Dao smacked his lips: "I also tend to be caused by the third master."

"However, you'd better ask the old abductor who ordered it. After all, we still need to speak evidence; don't wrong a good person, but don't let a bad person go."

"Yes, this subordinate will do it."

"Well, bring more people there, there are quite a few thieves in that group."

……

Outside the county seat, by the North River, Yuewang Temple.

As the deputy general manager who sits on the ground and distributes the spoils, is in charge of a hundred thieves, and controls the theft business, Lao Guai is naturally a cunning rabbit.

Recently, due to the increase in business and trade after the beginning of spring, Laoguai has set up his den at the Yuewang Temple beside the Beihe River: organizing people to steal from foreign business travelers is the highlight of every spring, looting along the river and diving on board boats are both It's a common trick used by thieves.

At noon, Liao Shuangding came to the Yuewang Temple with a strange walking posture, with a wry smile on his face, buttocks between his legs.

Yuewang Temple is an abandoned temple, otherwise it would not have been selected as a den of thieves.It is backed by the Beihe River, with bamboo forests on both sides, and a slope in front. You can see people coming from a distance, and you can retreat from the bamboo forest and Beihe River at any time. The location is not bad.

There will naturally be someone letting the wind out in front of the den of thieves.So when the two thieves saw Liao Shuangding, they greeted him casually—they didn't know about Liao Shuangding's mission yesterday.

After saying hello, the guard asked by the way: "Brother Liao, are these two new to each other?"

Yes, behind Liao Shuangding there were two smiling men in costumes.

"Look for someone to talk about things." Liao Shuangding nodded slightly, and led the two men into the temple.But just as everyone passed by, the two men took out the daggers in their sleeves and quickly inserted them into the guard's jaws.

At the same moment, one of the men ignored the guard who was still struggling in his hands, and lowered his head to his collar and said, "Clear!"

After a while, more than 30 men rushed up from the bottom of the slope.Most of these people are peripheral action players trained locally in Hangzhou and belong to Hangzhou Station.10% of them are the official field personnel who have been trained by the headquarters.

Most of the action team members wore short knives in their waists and held T-shaped crutches.In fact, in ordinary cold weapon fights, the T-shaped abduct, which was widely used by the police in later generations, completely defeated those messy weapons.

Of course, the premise of this statement is that there must be professional training and hollow steel pipes.

These two conditions are hardly considered conditions in later generations, but it was different in the 17th century when the total wealth of society was relatively scarce.Even the servants and soldiers under General Xungui usually exercise once every three days. Few forces can support hundreds of men, and they can train hard every day.

In addition, hollow steel pipes, which are both lethal and dexterous, were artifacts in the 17th century—even though the walls of these pipes were uneven, they were actually souvenirs after the steel mills failed to tackle the problem of seamless steel pipes, but in this era Still an artifact.

After the team that came to the gate separated a small number of people to guard the temple walls on both sides, the rest of them uttered a shout and rushed into the temple one by one.

At the same time, on the North River at the back gate of Yuewang Temple, two flat-bottomed boats sailed to the left and right, with people holding hooks and crossbows on them.

... When the enemy rushed in, some of the thieves were dividing up the spoils: last night's harvest needed to be counted in time and classified to find a buyer.

Others who stay up late are sleeping.

More than 20 elites rushed in and beat everyone they saw. The more than 50 thieves in the poor temple didn't react at all, and they were beaten and fled in all directions.

Having said that, these things who are used to stealing and looting, even if they are prepared, they must not be opponents of elite personnel.Whether it is morale, equipment, or training, there is no comparison between undisciplined ordinary people and paramilitary action members.

So when Liu Wang, who was carrying a pistol, walked slowly into the temple gate, the remnant enemies were already chasing and suppressing inside.

There was not much blood on the ground, and only a few brave men who drew out their knives to resist would be brutally beaten. Most of the thieves were curled up there at the moment, clutching their stomachs and screaming from their broken crutches.

It didn't take long for the intruders to take control of the situation.All the people in the temple were searched out, packaged and thrown in front of the temple gate, and then seven or eight people who escaped over the wall were also taken in. It was a den of thieves, and there were quite a few with high agility values.

Afterwards, they ran away from Hebutou at the back door, which included the target person of this operation: Laoguai.

It was expected that Laoguai, the thief, would run away.Such people have been on the run almost all their lives, and they cannot be expected to be as indomitable as a bandit leader.

Laoguai, who was escorted to the apse with his hands tied, was soaked and his face was covered with blood. It was obvious that he had been fished out of the river after being beaten by oars.It is a little surprising that Laoguai is not the cunning old man with triangular eyes and gloomy face as everyone imagined, but a tall, fat, bald, and fleshy man.

But these are not important anymore.At this point, unless Lao Guai turns into Batman, no matter how much meat there is, it will be useless.

After being escorted in, when the inexplicable Laoguai saw Liao Shuangding with a wry smile on his face, he immediately understood the source of today's disaster after having been in the rivers and lakes for many years.

After figuring out the situation, Laoguai gave Liao Shuangding a resentful look at first, and then he opened his mouth and shouted: "But Master Xiong is in person? There is a wronged person and a debtor, and the business is also entrusted by others. There is no need to complain about this matter." people."

"Hehe, it seems that you have a debt in your mind, Laoguai." Liu Wang stood up from a bag of groceries in the corner of the hall at this time, and walked over slowly: "There is an injustice and a debtor, well, brothers and sisters Who should I go to ask for a debt?"

"This..." Laoguai got stuck first, and then he said with an apologetic smile: "How can a petty person like me know about this matter, and the left and right are just listening and doing errands. If you don't believe me, you can ask my master." .”

"Use Deng Hu to scare our men?" Liu Wang said with a smile: "Deng Hu is the pick-up, we all know this, so don't worry, he can't run away."

At this point, Liu Wang stretched out his hand and patted Laoguai's bald head vigorously, then went around to his ear and asked, "Isn't it strange that you don't use crutches since you are called Laoguai?"

As soon as Liu Wang finished speaking, someone next to him hit Laoguai's knee hard with a T-shaped crutch. After the sound of "click", Laoguai groaned miserably, and he sat down on the ground.

"Old Guai, this is the right time for you, and I'm afraid you will need a crutch in the future." Liu Wang squatted down with a smile, stared at Lao Guai who was covered in cold sweat, and continued to ask: "What do you think of now?"

Laoguai looked at the big man who was eager to try, and stared at the big man on his other knee, and couldn't help but be out of his wits.

Knowing that he had encountered a hard stubble today, Laoguai couldn't help feeling extremely regretful at this moment. He knew that he might lose his leg. Although he didn't know Kong Yiji, he had seen too many people with that crawling style, so he didn't want the other leg. The legs are also finished.

Then Laoguai remembered everything: "It's Mr. Wu from the riverside who pays money to hire the people in the bank to do things. The little one just listens to Mr. Deng's yelling. It's not a small matter. If you are good guys, please spare your lives."

"That's right..." Liu Wang clapped his hands and stood up from the ground: "That's what you want."

……

After tidying up the crutches, Liu Wang first said a few words into the walkie-talkie, and then he began to inspect the Yuewang Temple.

Since Yuewang Temple is a den of thieves, there must be plenty of stolen goods.In the apse there are not only all kinds of groceries piled up, but also the money and jewels that Laoguai has amassed in the past period of time are stuffed in the hidden compartment in the underground.

After roughly looking at the silk, cotton, paper, and raw silk wrapped in linen, Liu Wang couldn't help shaking his head: some of the goods had dark brown blood stains on them, and some had water stains on them, so The origin of these stolen goods can be imagined.

"Leave [-] people, and the rest will leave by boat." After estimating that the time was almost up, Liu Wang waved his hand to let some people go through the back door first.

After another half an hour, there was a commotion outside the mountain gate.

A large number of people entered the door.The leader is Cao Dianshi from the county government, followed by Kuaiban catcher and a group of government servants, followed by apprentices and white bodies of various government servants, the whole team is mighty, more than 100 people.

...Not long after Laoguai was settled, the master who had arranged in advance got the news, swaggered into the county government office, and begged to see the county magistrate with Xiong Dao's post.

It stands to reason that Xiong Dao's white post is useless, but now it is not the same as before, at least the county magistrate knows that Xiong can take out a few posts from the gentry to see him at any time, let alone carry it out behind his back. That big guy——Cao Chuan's post is for seeing the governor, and the county magistrate is not enough.

After seeing the county magistrate, regardless of whether the relevant people in the county government are willing or not, this is considered a formal report.Then the Dian Shi, who was specifically in charge of public security in a county, and the fast class, who was in charge of apprehending the criminals, had to be dispatched.

Chapter 344 Opening of Port ([-])

The urban hooligans are the most hated group of people in any nascent regime.

This class usually commits crimes and commits crimes, and is itself a parasite of society; whenever there is turmoil, taking advantage of chaos, burning, killing, and looting become a must-have repertoire for hooligans.This situation will lead to the new regime having to spend precious time and troops to suppress and restore social order.

The most troublesome thing is that the transformation of this class in the future is also extremely laborious.

You can't expect a hooligan to be a painter or fitter honestly. They are different from farmers and handicrafts. They cannot seamlessly integrate into the new society. They are also tumors in the new society, and they must spend extra resources to transform. out of class.

In fact, the traversers have long experimented with cleaning up these gangsters in the city.In Hangzhou, it started with the rectification of the beggar gang, and then gradually extended to the underworld gangs. Nowadays, there is no living space for these people in and outside the city of Hangzhou.

However, this so-called social experiment is actually of little significance: the Hangzhou station mostly uses the excuse of fighting for territory to crowd out and disperse these gangsters, and they cannot catch these cancerous tumors on a large scale and throw them into the mines in Taiwan.After all, this kind of refugees are not unattended refugees. They have families, relatives and friends in the city, and the government will intervene in massacres and disappearances.

But to really "digest" this group of people, you have to wait until the time travels to govern the city in the future.Therefore, although the time-traveling people who appear as "masters of the country" don't like to see these urban hooligans, but because they don't directly control the political power, they can only be handed over to the government.

……

When hundreds of people from the Jiading County Government entered the Yuewang Temple, the next process could only be done in a business-like manner. After all, all the stolen goods were taken, and the most important arrest operation had already been done by someone else.So even though some of the people lying on the ground and screaming were usually acquainted with the yamen servants, they were all tied up by the stern-faced officials and brought to justice.

One thing that satisfied the public was that a large amount of stolen goods and silver coins, as well as some jewelry, were recovered at the scene.

Now everyone's enthusiasm is different.Originally thought that the oil and water were taken away by Master Xiong's servants, but unexpectedly it was still there.It seems that big families are different. They are particular, and they look down on so many goods.

With the stolen goods, the attitude of the yamen servants changed immediately.Amidst the shouts, the thieves were put on neck ropes, and all the white servants pulled them away.The well-organized government servants began to direct the apprentices to dig three feet to search for the stolen goods.

In fact, it would be good if one-tenth of these stolen goods could be returned to the sufferer.According to the usual practice, the "relevant people" up and down in the yamen will eventually share this sum of foreign money without any trace or interest.

And this kind of situation is exactly what Master Xiong needs: since the stolen goods have been swallowed, everyone will have a taste of an offensive and defensive alliance, so the punishment room will not easily let these thieves go.

Xiong Dao's purpose is very clear: if it is inconvenient for him to make a move, it is the same to borrow the government's knife.Since there will be a wealthy "port free trade zone" in Jiading in the future, it is better to start attacking these ghosts early.

After sending all the more than 50 thieves into the county government prison, within two days, the county magistrate came to Comrade Fang Wei, and under the impetus of some mysterious force, all the unlucky people were convicted.

Since all the stolen goods were obtained, and the criminal evidence obtained by the yamen servants after being tortured in the prison, the county magistrate is not polite: the old abductee who was murdered and a few small bosses were executed in autumn, and the rest of the small thieves were exiled There are all kinds of tricks in exile, beating the board and going to prison, and none of them escaped.

Now everyone gets what they need: a guy like Laoguai will be extorted from his hidden property by the yamen servants before autumn comes.

Generally speaking, if the operation is done properly, the old abductee will be sentenced by the government to be the marquis of beheading before being beheaded, that is, death with a reprieve.However, due to the intervention of a certain mysterious force this time, Lao Guai, who was kept in the dark, is destined to go to the vegetable market to sing a cool song in autumn.

The raid on Yuewang Temple undoubtedly caused an uproar in the world.Since the existence of thieves, the government has never caught so many thieves at one time, and they have stolen both.Generally speaking, even if they want to be arrested, the two parties have negotiated and sent a few people to deal with the errands, so that it will not be so tragic.

Regardless of the crowd eating melons from all walks of life, the one who was really beaten and swollen in this matter was Deng Hu, the big shopkeeper of the shop.

Deng Hu, who never thought that things would turn into such a ghostly situation, has been in a state of schizophrenia these days: sometimes he wants to use his hands to find Xiong Dao to recover the situation, and sometimes he is suppressed by the inquiring about the other party's details. It made him dare not act rashly.

Deng Hu's anxiety was allayed soon after.

What led him to finally recognize the situation was a hooligan who came from Hangzhou.This person was originally a gangster in Hangzhou, but at the end of last year, after Hangzhou gained a firm foothold, he began to intentionally or unintentionally crack down on gangsters. After this guy couldn't stay, he came to Jiading to join his rogue friends.

After two days of trouble, this guy was shocked to hear that Hangzhou's shopkeeper Xiong had come to Jiading, so he hurriedly asked Deng Hu to see what Xiong Dao and his group had done in Hangzhou.

After Deng Hu heard this, cold sweat broke out on his head: The sworn brother of the leader of the Hangzhou Beggar Gang?Behind him is a big man with tens of thousands of pirates?

…In an era when there is no Internet, no TV and newspapers, and the transmission of news depends on travelers with letters, ordinary people are actually extremely closed, even the so-called urbanites.

So unless Deng Hu has a news network and transmission channels at the level of a gentry, and he has to care about professional news as far away as Hangzhou and Fujian, otherwise a local stick like him in the county will not be able to find out the details of Xiong Dao.So this time he was lucky, he happened to have someone who knew the details of Xiong Dao, otherwise...

After figuring out that he had kicked himself onto the iron board because he took on a small job, Deng Hu immediately invited the middleman—Du Yaren to bring a gift to Mr. Xiong to apologize.

However, there is no such thing as him at all.When Du Yaren came out of Helou, the garden now called Xiongfu, the news he brought back was very cold and hard-core: take the head of Zhang Sutan and Wu Meng to make amends.

"That red guy from a foreign country bullies people too much!" After hearing the news, Deng Hu slammed his fist on the table.

……

On the seventh day after the thief put Laoguai Lingdang in prison, Zhang Sutan's Mr. Wu finally ushered in a phased ending.

In the early morning, a large number of people came to Zhangsu beach.

Most of these people are Xiong Dao's subordinates, and a few are officials and civilians in soap clothes.And when Wu Sanye heard the news and came to wait and hide in the pasture, what greeted him was a puff of black smoke.

Yes, these outlanders are starting to burn.

A group of peasants with their mouths and noses wrapped in wet cloths began to burn the grass with long torches.It didn't take long for a large area of ​​fire and billowing black smoke to appear on Zhangsu Beach—after the trestle was burned, the other half of the means of production that Wu Sanye depended on for his survival was also finished.

The barren grass beach is an important means of production. It can block sight, hide private salt and fugitives, and allow Wu Meng and his gang to run amok and dominate in it.

Now the weedy beach is gone.The burning operation lasted only three days, and Zhangsu Beach was wiped out including the surrounding grass.

Wu Meng, Mr. Wu, is not even qualified to negotiate now, because the tricks played before have ruined his character: He said he would think about it for a few days, but he went to the bank to buy the business of burning the building, and now the building has not been burned , I started to sit up by myself.

Originally, the third master and his gang planned to be reckless.However, after the burning, on the sweeping river beach, the third master and his men were hit hard by the dog legs sent by the landlord: 400 meters away, five muskets easily beat the third master so hard that he was so terrified that he ran away with his head in his arms.

The aggressive confrontation was temporarily over in this way.

The reason why I say temporarily is because Wu Sanye did not die under the musket, but ran all the way to Taihu Lake with the remnants, hid among the bandits, and slowly licked his wounds.

But now that this incident has evolved, Deng Hu, who is playing the game, has become the most injured one: Mr. Wu can run away, but he, who has a big family and a big business, can't.

Shopkeeper Deng Hu Deng undoubtedly thought that he had taken a gun at this time... Isn't it just a trivial matter of burning down a building?This person was also caught by you, the building has not been burned down, and dozens of thieves have been picked up, so why is he so stubborn?

However, what he didn't know was that the people who traveled through the city attached great importance to the matter of eradicating the city's hooligans.If you don't start now, the damage caused by these goods will be multiplied when the port is built in the future.

This is called the mouse pulling the shovel with the big head behind.In fact, Mr. Xiong didn't expect that it was Wu San's and his gang's business, but in the end it would involve Deng's gang... Well, it's just a matter of taking over.

Ever since, Deng Hu, who had no hope of communication, was forced to enter a state of cold war with Xiong Dao.

Daxing has raised its vigilance now, if Xiongdao can't catch the current situation, there is no way to fight in the county, so it can only be a temporary cold war - wait for the flaw to be found, the example of Laoguai is there.

……

When Mr. Xiong was demolishing and cracking down on local hooligans, the land acquisition operation headed by Yu Bende was already in full swing.

Compared with Master Xiong's side, Yu Shuban's side has more retail investors, so the tasks are still relatively heavy.But the good thing is that Yu Shuban is playing accounts, money and land deeds here, which is not the same as Xiongdao's fighting and killing.

The first one to be stationed by Yu Shuban's land expropriation team was Zuojia Village not far from Gaoqiao.