Chapter 39 Plans

Liang Jiu didn't expect Ma Xie to agree to himself so readily, and thought that Ma Xie was born chivalrous and wanted to help his brother avenge.

In fact, Ma Xie also wanted to use Liang Jiu to lure out Lu Mai behind Xu Hu. Lu Mai has only recently broken through, and he should be the easiest of the three disciples of Yunhai to deal with.

A few people left the broken temple, found a small path, and continued to march towards Tianwu City.

Ma Xie also asked Liang Jiu about Ye Shiqi, and Liang Jiu said that he had heard of this person's name, but this person was just a poor gentleman who wrote letters on behalf of others, and he had no fixed residence, not necessarily in Tianwu City.

"But the Stone City Lord asked me to find this person, there must be his deep meaning, I still have to look for it. Ma Xie made up his mind and continued to discuss with Liang Jiu.

Liang Jiu told Ma Xie all the information he knew about Lu Mai. It turned out that Lu Mai was only an outer disciple of the Tianwu Sect before, and it was not until he was in his twenties that he broke through to the acquired realm, plus his father had sacrificed his life for the Tianwu Sect, and an elder of the Tianwu Sect accepted him as a disciple in order to promote him, and Lu Mai entered the inner gate of the Tianwu Sect.

But Lu Mai's talent is really average, and he has been unable to break through the acquired realm, originally a person like him would become a deacon of the outer gate as soon as he passed forty, who would have thought that he had a sense recently, and it was obviously about to break through.

After a cultivator breaks through, he needs huge financial resources, elixirs to increase spiritual power, formations to gather spiritual power, and advanced exercises...... All need a lot of money, and in order to accumulate wealth, cultivators will have some means of their own, and Lu Mai obviously takes a fancy to this "business" that his brother does.

If Lu Mai breaks through, according to the ban of the Tianwu Sect, he can no longer participate in these affairs in the rivers and lakes, otherwise he will be expelled from the division if he is found by the master.

"Hmph! Cultivators don't participate in the affairs of the rivers and lakes? Didn't Yun Hai's eldest disciple Fei Shao kill my master in the same way?" Ma Xie secretly hated in his heart, Yun Hai and his three disciples did not have a good thing.

According to Mu Xunfeng's recollections, Fei Shao originally recognized him as a "little uncle", but Fei Shao still killed Mu Xunfeng without hesitation, and this Lu Mai and Duanmu Xuan also made a lot of efforts at that time.

"Wait, I'll let the three of you bury my master. ”

Liang Jiu didn't know what Ma Xie was thinking, so he continued to introduce Ma Xie to the basic situation of this Tianwu City.

Tianwu City has a population of about three million people, and there are about 10,000 troops in the city, and these troops are directly under the orders of Taishou. Tianwu City and Tianguang City are the trade centers of the northern Jin Kingdom, and they have the best trading markets for medicinal materials and leather goods in the Jin Kingdom, so there are many merchants coming and going, which also breeds underground forces such as the Yaksha Gang and the Flying Tiger Gang.

However, it is difficult for Taishou to meddle in this kind of affairs, because with such a large population, it is impossible to control it by relying only on Taishou's own people, so there is a very tacit understanding between Taishou and these gangs, and all those things that are shady and difficult to eliminate, such as smuggling, casinos, secret prostitution, and conflicts between merchants to compete for interests, are handed over to the "gangs" to deal with.

As long as the gang doesn't cause big trouble, as long as those big merchants in Tianwu City are not affected, as long as it seems to be thriving on the surface, the Taishou Chen official of Tianwu City will be considered to have completed his mission.

This is also the state of most cities, and even the royal capital has its own underground world.

The people and things in the underground world are not something that can be managed, they have even existed since the establishment of a city, and they already have their own set of rules of the game, no one can easily destroy this kind of rules, even in the world of cultivators, there is the same underground world, which is darker and more cruel.

Liang Jiu gave Ma Xie a detailed explanation of the many affairs of the gang.

According to Liang Jiu, the gang is not very complicated, it is nothing more than three things:

potential, wealth, strength.

Momentum is the general trend of the world. The most taboo thing for gangsters is to go against the trend, and do whatever they want to make money, so no gangster is willing to farm honestly, and what gangsters do is a profitable business.

For example, more than a hundred years ago, the hottest business in Tianwu City was to resell grain, because at that time, the relationship between the Jin State and the Qin State was tense, and the Jin State caught up with the famine, which led to the soaring price of grain, and once the grain was more expensive than meat.

That's what most gangsters are for. People die for money, birds die for food, and a group of outlaws can be gathered, and these people will naturally not engage in charity together. And the most members of the gang are actually the low-level residents of Tianwu City, some are farmers who have lost their land, and some are residents who do not have any industry, and most of them are engaged in the lowest level of labor. For example, leading the way for merchants, carrying goods for merchants, delivering letters, and so on.

In order to get more opportunities to make money, these people unwittingly relied on blood, geography, and other complex ties to gather together and form various early gangs, but with the same purpose: to make more money for these people who had nothing.

Force, taking advantage of the situation to accumulate wealth, but how can we take advantage of the situation? This requires force, pure force. In this lawless area, only force is the most effective and direct means! To say that the Yaksha Gang was completely defeated this time, in fact, it was because of the huge gap in force, and there were many masters called by Lu Mai, and it was estimated that they were all disciples of the outer sect of the Tianwu Sect who had a good relationship with him, so that he could get a lot of money, and even if it was discovered, it could also be said that he would "punish evil and promote good."

"In that case, the defeat of your Yaksha Gang is inevitable, so how do you get back into this game?" Qi Nanfeng asked.

Liang Jiu frowned and said, "It's too difficult...... I'm going back now, first of all, to gather the old ministry and use our hidden power. Secondly, I will contact my previous partners in the hope that they can help me, after all, after the Flying Tigers grabbed our territory, their interests have also suffered a huge loss. Finally, it's the government. ”

"Official, do you still want to rely on that Taishou?" asked Ma Xue.

"It's not about whether you want to, it's about having to. Liang Jiu said solemnly: "Without the power of the government, this matter would not have been possible at all." ”

Qi Nanfeng asked, "Then why does the government want to help you? Didn't you say that the Flying Tiger Gang is no longer in the business of human trafficking?"

Liang Jiu said: "This is the situation I just said, as far as I know, the Flying Tigers have not given up their old business, but they are more hidden. They uprooted us in order to completely occupy our previous trade routes! They are going against the trend, and the government will definitely help me!"

Qi Nanfeng nodded: "Then do you have any evidence of human trafficking from the Flying Tiger Gang? ”

Liang Jiu arrived: "I went back to Tianwu City this time for this matter, I already have some clues, and when I find the evidence, it is time to launch a counterattack! When the Flying Tiger Gang is destroyed, Lu Mai will not look for trouble anymore, after all, Taishou is not something that he can afford to provoke as a small disciple of the Tianwu Sect. ”