Hearing this, Zhang Dengguan's eyes were about to split, and his angry head was about to burst into white smoke.

Did he sell himself voluntarily?

He was voted out by the people in the village!

Not only does the money from the sale of his body not belong to his own hands, but the money he will earn from working in the forest farm in the future does not belong to him.

Don't run, don't you run, stare and wait for death?

Because of these few words, Zhang Dengguan hated this group of workers who blocked his path to freedom and revenge.

You ask him why he doesn't hate those dart masters?

Isn't this a bit too big about the difference in force between the two sides......

As a result, Zhang Dengguan, who no longer had a chance to escape, was pressed by a group of people onto a merchant ship docked on the dock of Liaocheng.

The size of the fleet was not small, and there were a total of 12 ships heading to the Huairou wharf in the capital.

Among them, there are two large storage merchant ships, and the rest are medium-sized.

Even the bottom warehouse of the pilot manned ship in the fleet can stock up on another one or two thousand catties of draft.

Therefore, this scale of transportation is very important to the caravan.

After the first family entered the wharf and entered the ship, they connected with the people of the grain boat gang on the side of the wharf.

This grain ship gang has been very prosperous since the previous dynasty, not to be exact, since the establishment of the Cao Yun Channel, they have gradually prospered.

It's just that because of the bad situation in the past two years, the imperial grain and grass that was transported by the officials before the fall of the previous dynasty was ruined by the people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so the business of this grain boat gang has also become a little colder.

Several of the gang's bigwigs felt that they couldn't just rely on this waterway to eat, so they pulled the ...... on the dock The brothers who fought against the bag to do work in their spare time, and grabbed the ground with knives when they were busy, went to land.

However, in the past seven or eight years, it has made a great reputation in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and there is a newer and more profitable industry, and the name of the gang has also been replaced by a more concise and not so simple name: that is, the Green Gang, which now has a little reputation.

When they mixed up on land, they naturally did not forget the foundation of the gang, and followed the previous route to open a civilian transportation route.

The seventy-two and a half wharves of the old generation have been continued vividly, and their own large and small gangs have also been erected on the corresponding wharves.

In line with the hidden mind of the Caoyun business, the group of people walking on the waterway are still turned into money and food gangs by these merchant compradors.

If you want to take a big trip to the dock, it is still necessary to say hello to these people, stuff filial piety, and bow down to the entrance of the hall.

Not to mention the side, on this water, only a dart board and the flag of the trading house are planted, but nothing is used.

What's more, they started in Liaocheng, which is a serious all-transportation wharf in this Caoyun.

Until he arrived in Tianjin, he needed to be escorted by the money and grain gang.

And this matter of greeting the money and grain gang can't just send a person in charge to do it.

According to the usual practice, in order to show the importance of the master of the branch hall, this trip was personally led by the chief steward of the first family.

He was followed by two customary students, carrying a small box of nanmu red lacquer in their hands.

There was a yellow padlock hanging on the box, and the matching key was pinched in the hands of the chief steward.

The three of them hurriedly entered the courtyard of the main hall with only two or three rooms on the side of the pier, and discussed for half a moment, and when they came out again, they were already empty-handed.

But looking at the face of the chief steward, with a slightly relaxed smile, and the few people waiting in the line to hear from him, he dispersed the anxiety in his heart.

"What do the people over there say?"

Steward Wu, who had cooperated with Steward Zhou for most of his life, welcomed people into the team, and handed a gray scarf to the one in front of him by the way.

Steward Zhou, who was asked, took it casually, wiped the two or three drops of sweat on his head due to the hurry, and returned with a sigh: "Come on, the master gave a lot of points, and he specially gave a festival gift to several hall masters on this dock a year ago." ”

"Things are not thick, but they are in the face, and those who walk on the road want this heart. ”

"Today, I just reported the door of the trading house, and the three hall masters, one lord and two deputies, all met in the hall. ”

"The annual insurance fee in the box, they didn't even look at it, they only waved our hands to let us feel at ease to transport the goods, and they didn't even ask about the number of ships coming and going, and what they were carrying. ”

"The start of this trip has a good sign, and it is not in vain that we have to go through such a journey during the Chinese New Year. ”

After speaking, Steward Zhou handed the towel to the little follower behind him.

Hearing that Steward Wu was also happy, he had a few words in his heart, but he also knew whose territory this was, so he only leaned over and said to Steward Zhou: "It's just a group of coolies, holding together and gaining momentum, can you win the respect of the first master, don't be flattered?"

Hearing this, Steward Zhou hurriedly looked around, and saw that everyone was busy with their own affairs, so he hurriedly blocked the topic of his old friend: "Sincerely! In this world, the power of the Money and Grain Gang is comparable to that of a small warlord who dominates one city and one pool. ”

"Some of them had knives in their hands, and those above their heads hooked up with the most powerful people. ”

"No matter how big the family business of the first master is, he can't stand up to this group of people, don't talk about it in front of others, you don't have to cause trouble to the master's family!"

Steward Wu, who was almost covered by Steward Zhou, hurriedly nodded.

The two of them looked at each other and put down the words.

When all the goods were loaded into the cabin, the group carried more than 100 peasants to the two large ships headed by them.

It's mostly empty, and it's not the goods that are pulling, but the people.

A few dart masters who were escorted in front of the people followed this group of people down, and when they came up again after the house was assigned, even these masters who were used to seeing life and death and looking for money on the knife couldn't help but sigh at the benevolence of the first family.

In the past, they had not pressed manpower to go north.

Even if there was a ship, it would be a bilge stuffed with one or two hundred people, like a can of sardines from a foreign company, and it would be stuffed to the brim.

But the bottom of this boat that transported people at the beginning was not only clean, but also divided the people into several compartments.

There are only twenty people in one compartment, and if there are more, there will be no more stuffing.

This is probably the reason why there are two large ships in the trading house.

When the peasants who volunteered to land the land were finished, the wealthy ones filled in the hard labor, and the remaining half went to another cargo ship.

By the last few people at the end of the line, who had stuffed Officer Zhang into the corner of the compartment like an anti-sack, all the decks of the ship were also sealed.

It stands to reason that the helm should have set sail with a trumpet.

But up to the steward, down to the small worker, but no one mentioned it.