Lu Ming

Due to the slow expansion of the port construction, adjacent fields like the Zuojia Farm will still exist for a while.Exactly when this area will be turned into a residential area and an industrial site will depend on the development speed of the port.

In short, after spending a lot of resources, the land acquisition work on the "experimental site" of Zuojia Village has achieved initial results.

This is the first time in the history of the crossing forces to transform the original ecological social environment in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and the whole thing is of great significance.So even though this matter seems to be presided over by the natives of the Ming Dynasty, the transversal people hidden in the dark are still very concerned about the development of the situation.

Throughout the transformation process, the spirit of resistance and strength of resistance embodied by various classes in the Ming Dynasty were the focus of some people's research.

Xiong Dao has collected a lot of information and sent it back.In the future, according to the development of the situation, there will be continuous social information to be summarized. These are the basic information that will be used in the large-scale social transformation of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and are very precious.

Of course, the transformation of Zuojia Village is only the first step in the Long March.This ordinary village does not represent the whole of the Ming Empire, and there are still problems such as gentry and urbanization waiting for the traversers to overcome.

In addition, because the speed of information dissemination in the Middle Ages was quite slow, Xiong Dao didn't dare to be careless.The follow-up impact of the land expropriation incident is currently fermenting. He must keep his eyes open to keep an eye on the public opinion to prevent the situation from rebounding—a large farm has been opened in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. This news is bound to attract the attention of interested people.

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Before you know it, the time has come to the end of April.When Zuojia Village came to an end for the time being, the confrontation between Master Xiong and Deng's gang in the county was about to come to an end.

To be honest, from the bottom of my heart, Mr. Deng is unwilling to be right with Mr. Xiong.The hostility between the two parties, in the view of the big shopkeeper Deng Hu, is purely a misunderstanding + laying a gun.

Yes, Daxing received Zhang Sutan and Wu Meng's order to send people to set fire to Xiong's house, but isn't this a normal business transaction?There shouldn't be any personal grievances involved here, right?If you, Mr. Xiong, pay for it, we men will do it for you like Wu Meng! ... Shopkeeper Deng thinks this is a simple business, and Xiong Dao shouldn't keep his hatred on Da Xing, let alone hold on to it—Wu Meng has already fled to Taihu Lake, and the thieves have also been copied Old Wo, isn't that enough?

However, Master Xiong said: Not enough.

For Xiong, who has a comprehensive plan, since he wants to open a local port and establish a state of China, any forces that may pose a threat to the new area in the future are on his clean-up list.So now it's not a question of whether Deng Hu wants to stop, but a question of whether Master Xiong will let him go: want to run after pretending to be aggressive?

So the follow-up of this matter was deliberately made bigger by Xiong Dao.

When Wu Meng ran to Taihu Lake and Deng Hu once again asked the middleman to come to the door with a gift to make peace, the request made by Mr. Xiong was still so vicious-the thief who set the fire on that day stole the heirloom glazed bicycle from the master. He was carried to Taihu Lake by Wu Meng.Since you shopkeeper Deng wants to make peace, you should either bring a car or pay 1 taels of silver in compensation.

Deng Hu didn't know what Lao Shizi's glazed bicycle was, but he knew that Xiong Zhai didn't lose anything that night.So shopkeeper Deng completely discarded his illusions, and started a stalemate with the people in Xiong's house.

In the beginning, the two sides still had offense and defense against each other.There were a lot of idle people around Xiong's house overnight, and people began to throw torches and incense sticks into the walls to harass them at night.

However, those who went to make trouble at night never returned.When the secret sentry on the wall identified all the outsiders, even in the daytime, these people all disappeared.

What frightened Deng Hu the most was that these people disappeared without a sound, without making any noise at all, and even the secret whistle specially arranged by him could not be found... Deng Hu, who lost more than a dozen elite brothers The download stopped completely, he sealed the news tightly, then suspended all business, and began to prepare for the other party's revenge.

The tense confrontation between the two sides lasted for nearly a month, and then Deng's Daxing couldn't hold on.

It is said that underworld organizations like Daxing must start working after all. What will the brothers eat if they don't start working?So after fighting for a month, Deng Hu finally couldn't hold back the voices from below when he found that his opponent hadn't taken any excessive actions, so the brothers started to pick up orders again.

This time the order was very ordinary: Butcher Zhang in the west of the city and Yuanwai Xie were fighting for the "pig way", and both sides recruited troops to prepare for a big battle, so Butcher Zhang invited his acquaintance Deng's to fight for the fight.

According to the words of later generations, "pig road" is "the channel for buying and selling live pigs".In a super-rich county like Jiading, the annual sales of live pigs are over [-], so this is a big business.

Guilds were everywhere in the Middle Ages, and pig trading was no exception.Butcher Zhang is the head of the "Meat Stall Alliance" in the west of the city.He and his dozens of meat stalls monopolized nearly a quarter of the slaughter and sales of pigs and sheep in the west of the city.

And Xie Yuanwai is the proprietor of the "Yan Ke Lou" in the west of the city.Xie Yuanwai is a professional restaurant chain owner, not only has business in the county, but also opened several branches in Suzhou and Hangzhou. He is the leader of the local catering industry and can be regarded as a wealthy man.

The quarrel between the two parties because of the "pig way" is an old contradiction: the restaurant alliance wants to lower the price of live pigs, and the butcher alliance will naturally fight hard.

Such commercial disputes are common.Just like the NBA's labor negotiations, the supply and demand sides must show their horses and horses every once in a while, use all means, and fight while negotiating until an agreement is reached.

So this time, in the "anti-restaurant alliance price reduction operation", Zhang Tuhu invited the familiar Deng's gang to back him up, and was going to play a big game with the surnamed Xie.

Why play bigger this year?Because this time Xie Yuanwai put forward an idea: the restaurant alliance will set up an internal pig-killing organization, and from now on, it will get rid of Zhang Butcher and his gang as channels.

... This kind of idea of ​​drawing salary from the bottom of the pot is naturally unbearable to the channel business, so Zhang Tuhu is going to make a few tough moves in this negotiation, and let the surname Xie know how powerful it is.

The plan went well.

When the shopkeeper Deng Hu Deng took the order, he first brought his brothers and the butchers under Zhang Butcher together to fight twice with the thugs invited by Xie Yuanwai.

Both sides suffered casualties during this period.But this is all expected, and the employer has money to settle the family and the government, so the morale of both sides is still high, and the fight will continue.

The next thing is the butcher's stroke of genius: after Deng's people got the accurate information, they accurately intercepted the restaurant alliance's team returning from buying pigs from the east of the city on a night when they couldn't see their fingers.

After hacking dozens of live pigs to death and throwing them into the stinky mud pond, and then breaking the legs of all the villagers and guys who transported the pigs and throwing them on the official road, the elites of the Deng family's fighting business were victorious.

... After returning to the west of the city, everyone was warmly received by Butcher Zhang. Not only were they rewarded with large sums of money, but they were also served with fine wine and braised pork knuckles.

Then the next morning, Zhang Tuhu and Deng Hu were stunned by a shocking news: Yuanwai Xie died.

Chapter 354 Opening of Port (twenty)

Xie Yuanwai spent the night in his own house last night.

Time went back to this morning, when the excrement collectors woke up and found the door of the Xie family's outer house was ajar, the long-term worker Li died in the gatehouse, and there were more dead people in the front yard, they immediately reported to the police.

When Cao Butou of the yamen walked into the courtyard with a group of servants and foremen, he found that in this second-entry courtyard, corpses could be seen at intervals.

These corpses are divided into two types: one is masked in black, and the other is guarding the bodyguards in ordinary short shirts. There are three corpses on each side.

From the scene, it is clear what happened last night: the killers in black broke into the house and fought fiercely with the nursing home along the way.After paying the price of three lives, the killer finally managed to get rid of the bodyguard, then found Xie Yuanwai in the inner house, and killed him in the house.

There were bloodstains, daggers and corpses along the road, and after Cao Butou of the county government came to the inner house, he saw Yuanwai Xie lying on the ground at a glance.

Xie Yuanwai was stabbed into the back with a dagger and bled to death.His body was at the threshold, with his head facing the door, and there were pools of blood and crawling marks under his body; it could be seen that Mr. Xie went through a period of struggle and hard work before he died.

In addition to the maid in the side room, there is also a dead person in the house who is the concubine Hengxiang.The young and beautiful woman died on the bed.Beside her body was not only blood, but also messy jewelry and gold and silver lockets.

The scene was simple and clear: after the killer broke in, the soldiers split into two groups, one went to kill the maid, and the other killed Hengxiang with a knife, and then the killer inserted the dagger into the back of Mr. Xie who had climbed out of bed.While Mr. Xie was struggling to crawl out the door, the killer also raced against time to search the jewelry box next to the bed and took away some of the belongings inside.

However, the above reasoning is not important anymore, because the most important evidence is at Yuanwai Xie's hand: on the smooth green brick floor, the words "Murderer Deng Hu" in blood have revealed the murderer.

At this moment, the person in charge of caring for the corpses outside also reported another piece of news: the masked dead were all Deng Hu's subordinates.In fact, those few people and the guards were all acquaintances, so they were recognized immediately after taking off the black cloth.

By this time, the truth of the case seemed to be revealed.

The only thing that made Butou Cao a little puzzled was: when he visited the neighbors around, he found that no one heard the shouts of killing last night.But strictly speaking, this doesn't mean anything. Maybe the battle ended quickly?There are so many silent cases, and if something happens in the middle of the night, you can't ask the sleeping neighbors to hear something.

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When Butou Cao was visiting the neighboring houses, Bian Jing, the magistrate of the county government, had already placed all the corpses in the front yard, and began to undress one by one for inspection.

Bian Jing was young, fair and clean, and looked only in his twenties.Bian Jing, who was born in a family of writers, has followed his father to appear on the scene since he was a child, so he handled this scene with ease today.

It didn't take long for Bian Jing, who covered his mouth and nose with white gauze, to discover something - besides the knife wounds on the bodies of the three dead bodyguards, there were also small inconspicuous wounds between the eyebrows and the heart.After picking up an iron needle, the next moment, Bian Jing quickly pulled out the lead from the wound.

After seeing these pieces of lead, based on Bian Jing's experience, he immediately judged the truth: these few pieces of lead were the real weapon that killed the bodyguard.Then a dynamic scene appeared in his mind: the killer with the three-eyed gun first drove the lead into the escort's body, then took out a knife, and stabbed the deceased a few times.

After the screen got here, it suddenly got stuck, and then went back: "No! The three-eyed gun is not so accurate. Besides, even if it is accurate, why bother?"

Bian Jing, as a member of the Gongmen family, has three-eyed guns and bird guns, although he is not equipped with them, but he has always played them.So he was very clear in his heart: not to mention it was late at night, even in the daytime, the three-eyed blunderbuss would never be able to shoot so accurately, every shot was between the eyebrows and the left chest.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the environment in the front yard.The observation results confirmed his idea: In ancient times, for fire prevention, candles were extinguished at night.In Bian Jing's sight, there was obviously no trace of a lantern in the front yard, which meant that everything that happened last night happened suddenly in the dark.

Then Bian Jing couldn't figure it out even more: Even if a master killed the opponent instantly with the three-eyed gun, why did he need to make up the knife?Isn't it superfluous to make up for such a ruthless and precise killer?

Thinking of this, he lowered his head to check the knife marks on the bodyguard again.He guessed the truth again: the few knife marks were obviously cut randomly, and they were completely incompatible with the steadiness and ruthlessness of lead bullets.

... As far as Bian Jing's personal experience is concerned, whenever this happens, it proves that there is something hidden behind the case, or there are some details that he has not discovered.

"Isn't it right for the scene?" Bian Jing stood quietly in front of the corpses lined up in a row, closing his eyes.The clip of the killer holding a three-eyed gun killing people in the dark replayed over and over again in his mind, but there was always something wrong, so his film got stuck halfway through: "Could it be that you want to cover up something?"

Suddenly, Bian Jing opened his eyes.The sudden thought made him feel that he had grasped something, but his thoughts were like a layer of paper, so he couldn't get the point.

Quickly leaning down, Bian Jing touched the gun holes of the corpse with his fingers, and then slowly walked around where he first found several bodyguards.

"It's supposed to be hiding here." As Bian Jing walked, he found all the places where the bodyguards were hiding on duty at night, and then he stretched out his arms, imitating the killer's movement of raising the gun.

"There is absolutely no reason to make up the knife!" When he found a piece of brown blood among the flowers, his heart couldn't help but beat violently.

This rose bush is in the center of the courtyard, the area is not big, just big enough for a person to hide in.The blood in the center of the flower bushes indicated that one of the bodyguards had been shot here.

However, the reality is: the bodyguard died outside the flowers, and beside him lay the dead body of a killer with knife wounds all over his body, which seemed to be a fierce battle.

"Why do you want to drag someone out of the flowers to make up the knife? What are you trying to cover up?" Bian Jing was very sure at this moment that the bodyguard was shot between the eyebrows first, and then dragged out of the flowers to fake it.So he walked into the middle of the flowers, faced the courtyard door, squatted down slowly, and closed his eyes again.

The silent movie in my mind began to play again: In the dark night, a group of black figures walked in from the direction of the courtyard door. Under the starlight, the first person raised his hand and fired from more than ten meters away. After a gust of blood, he fell down.

Then the group of ghostly shadows dragged the bodyguard out of the flowers, and then they pulled out their knives, slashed a few times on the bodies of the bodyguard and a shadow that came with them, and then left the body and walked away...

"No, no! Since it was a one-shot death, why did you kill your own people for a show?"

Bian Jing’s films couldn’t be put down here: the logic doesn’t make sense.However, the next moment he jumped up from the flowers: "The killer is someone else! The one who did it was planted!"

Bian Jing suddenly understood at this moment.He didn't need to close his eyes to see scenes flying by before him: after the man in black shot the bodyguard, he quickly brought in three gagged, tied hands, still struggling. Hit people.

In order to cover up the weird marksmanship and create the illusion that the two sides fought each other to death, the killer hacked all the fighters to death and threw them together with the bodyguards.

... These people are veterans. In order to prevent the wounds of the deceased from being seen, they spared no effort to bring "live luck" to the scene...while the blood is hot...to kill now.

Bian Jing, who had guessed the truth, was drenched in sweat at this moment. At the same time, a huge sense of fear also enveloped him. Even in the daytime, Bian Jing felt his hair stand on end.

Immediately afterwards, he ran quickly to the corpse: the above are all speculations, and he needs evidence.

However, when Bian Jing took a look at the black clothes that Da Xing wore, he was dumbfounded—there were no traces of binding on the wrists and ankles of these people.

"Is it because I guessed wrong?" Bian Jing fell into the myth again at this moment: the five gangsters who have been fighting for many years are all strong and strong men. Did you detain this generation here quietly, and then kill them all?

"It's probably Mongolian sweat medicine." Thinking of this, Bian Jing couldn't help sighing: even if there was Mongolian sweat medicine, he couldn't detect it.So up to now, even though he is very confident in his own judgment, Bian Jing, who can't produce strong evidence, has no way to report the truth to the head arrester.

Bian Jing was born in a family of Wu Zuo, and he is too aware of how dull and dark the current Yamen is.This kind of "story" lacking evidence, once he told the head arrester, it would be provocative: should the head arrester investigate or not?

Since there is such a powerful killer behind this, the water must be very deep.If the head catcher is able to investigate, if he kicks the iron plate, he will be executed later; if the head arrester does not investigate, maybe the mysterious killer has already received money from the mysterious killer, and his shaking away is the way to death.

... Therefore, Bian Jing, who is well versed in the joints, can only secretly suppress the doubts in his heart and report the case in the normal way before there is any solid evidence.

In other words, what he finally reported to Butou Cao was the superficial situation that everyone could see: it was a gangster who rushed in and killed someone.

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Ten people died in the city in one breath. The key is that if Xie Yuanwai died, then the headhunter could not be the master. The county magistrate got the specific news immediately.

In this era, there is no such thing as confidentiality regulations, not to mention the county government, even the inside of the imperial city is like a sieve.So as the news spread, everyone who should know or not should know.

The Xie family immediately became fussy.Although he is not a gentry, the Xie family also belongs to the rich and powerful family; now that Mr. Xie has been slaughtered by thieves, his uncles, brothers and several adult sons who work as shopkeepers in the semicolon are naturally relentless. The government asks for an explanation.

Chapter 355 Opening the Port (21)

The advantage of being a magistrate in Fu County is that you don't have to worry about growing up, and it is easy to make friends and accumulate contacts.The downside is that everything is complicated, and the rich and powerful are arrogant and domineering, making it difficult to do things.

After the case happened that day, the county magistrate Lai, who received the preliminary case report, realized that the case was serious, so he personally came to the scene in a sedan chair.

After watching the scene from beginning to end, and listening to the report of the case by Butou and Wu Zuo, the county magistrate returned home.As the first county magistrate in Fuzhou City, he knew that this matter was endless.He doesn't need to draw conclusions now, it's better to figure out the entanglements in this case.

Back at the county government office, the county magistrate, accompanied by the master Xing Mingshi, first summoned the well-informed Cao Butou alone.After the two sides talked in detail, Mr. Lai finally understood the cause and effect of Xie Yuanwai's murder.

After dismissing Butou Cao, he often had to handle various robbery cases. The county magistrate, who had long hated thugs, slapped the table severely: "It's these bastards again! This time, Deng Hu must be dealt with severely!"

"Dong Weng." The famous criminal master beside him twirled his beard: "Then Deng Hu is a cunning person, whether to deal with it strictly or not, let's wait for the news. If the gang of suffering lords are not relentless, Dong Weng will take advantage of the situation to make a move."

Master's meaning is simple: don't act rashly.

Because Deng Hu is not so easy to handle.This generation has been doing evil for many years. In the words of later generations, it is very capable of evading the government's attack.Deng Hu was not only connected with various yamen servants, bandits, evil gentry and litigants, but also had many gangsters with tanks under his command, so although the county government often arrested Deng Hu's younger brother, he never arrested Deng Hu himself.

For a big thief of this level, let alone the county magistrate does not have a death certificate. The cases supervised by the provincial department can only be handled by the county bureau under the weak control of the feudal society, which is very difficult.

"Oh, I can't use it well." The county magistrate was deeply touched by this kind of social situation where hands and feet were tied, so he also sighed.It is really difficult for a great thief to have to consider so many things.

"According to the students, then Deng Hu is in trouble this time." At this time, Master Xing was more confident than his master.

"Oh, how do you say that?"

"Dong Weng, don't forget about the gang of thieves who were organized a few days ago."

"Oh..." Lai Fang Wei was stunned for a moment before he realized the meaning of the master: "Lack of morality and help? Hehe, let's see..."

So the county government entered the normal case-handling procedure of tepid: go through the process.

Then the pressure from all sides was quickly transmitted.

Regarding the murder of Xie Yuanwai, the other proprietors of the restaurant alliance were more excited than the family members.

It was an ordinary business competition before, but to put it bluntly, it was a tacit game between the rich: throw some dirty water on each other, use some tricks, kill a few ants, and win the bargaining chip for the final negotiation.

And when Xie Yuanwai died, the nature of this matter changed... Competition without a bottom line?Labor negotiations Ewing pushed Stern down the stairs?This is too fantasy!

Yet it is so.

This kind of bad behavior has already touched the bottom line of the proprietors. Under the sorrow of the rabbit and the fox, these people also formally reported the matter to the government.

Reporting to the official is a gesture, which shows an uncompromising attitude of exposing the incident: the proprietors no longer plan to play tricks with Zhang Tuhu, Deng Hu and his like, this time they want to meet the official, and would rather spend huge The price is to kill those who dare to threaten their lives.

So following the Xie family's bitter master, the county magistrate cordially received the representative of the restaurant alliance in the flower hall, and expressed that he must punish the murderer severely, and return the proprietors to a bright future.

The next door-to-door is interesting: Zhang Tuhu.

If he had known that things would turn out like this, then Tuhu Zhang would not have gone to Deng Hu for work even if he was killed.

Although Zhang Tuhu and his gang are suspected of bullying the market, fundamentally speaking, their main business is to kill pigs and sell meat.All the members of the butcher's shop are butcher shop owners, and they are good people who live a life. They are completely different concepts from Deng Hu's underworld.

So when Zhang Tuhu, who was tall and fat, with a mighty image and went straight to the town of Guanxi, learned that Yuanwai Xie had been fucked by Deng Hu, he scared him to pee on the spot.