Chapter 220: Twenty-three, forty-five
The hall master and the deputy hall master, the first and the deputy,.。
When I was in Jinling, I deeply experienced this. Nowadays, whether it is the Sihe Hall or the Six Doors, the implementation is the hall master responsibility system, and the deputy hall master has no authority, of course, if he makes a mistake, he has no responsibility, so it is easiest to be mixed up with the deputy hall master.
First of all, the deputy hall master is a leadership position, and there is no need to do specific affairs. Secondly, the deputy hall master only assists in management, as long as he shouts that the leader is right at the critical moment, the leader says it well, and the task assigned by the leader is given to the people under him, and it will be over.
The main body presides over the work, leads the overall situation, is the decision-maker, is the leader, the greater the responsibility, the greater the ability, the greater the pressure.
Li Laohu was not far away, it seemed that he was waiting for us on purpose, and when he saw me, he said with a strange aura and a strange qi, congratulations to Hall Master Jiang for becoming the hall master of the Thief Hall! I said that Deputy Hall Master Li spoke so sourly, when can you remove the sub-word, I will also give you congratulations.
Li Laohu said that it was not far away.
I nodded and said, when that day comes, I will let the whole world know that you have contracted all the fish ponds in the capital, Master Litang!
Li Laohu's martial arts are not as good as mine, and he can't get any advantage in the battle of words, and when he saw someone calling him not far away, he glared at me viciously and turned away.
When Gongsun Shu and I walked out of the Mingyue Tower, it was already noon.
Originally, according to the agenda of the meeting, there would be a year-end dinner after the main church meeting, but it was disrupted because of Xu Ruonan's entry into Beijing. Seeing that the time was not early, I invited Gongsun Shu to Wangjiang Tower for dinner, after all, he was the deacon of the Sihetang Executive Committee, and I was counting on him to announce my appointment.
Generally speaking, this kind of new appointment must be sent to the post by a person of high moral standing in the Sihetang. For example, the inner four halls are sent by the hall master himself, while the outer eight halls are generally sent by the head of the main hall to a certain deacon, and the person who sends the person and the recipient are somewhat similar to the protégés and masters in the imperial examination.
Although the robbery hall belongs to the outer eight halls, it mainly manages all pickpockets and thieves in the capital. Dealing with this kind of person all day long, it is no wonder that Bai Yunfei spends his days in office. The hall master of the hall thief sounds majestic, but his status is not even as good as some of the deputy hall masters of the four inner halls, as for the income, let alone the two.
Gongsun Shu is the deacon in charge of manpower, and Kankan is also the core figure of the Sihetang, and today Zhao Jiuye did not call him at a small meeting, but sent him to announce my appointment, so he was a little unhappy in his heart.
The Yellow River carp in Wangjianglou is more famous.
Now that the Yellow River is frozen, the Yellow River carp has been consumed for a winter, and the meat is delicious, and the dishes made are very popular in the capital.
In the cold winter of Layue, the fishermen use ice to dig holes in the Yellow River and lower the nets, put the caught fish in the ice water, and transport them to the capital, so the price is also very touching.
Of course, this is just the rhetoric of the guys in Wangjianglou, I don't believe it.
When I was robbing the Holy Gate, every year in March and April, when the Yellow River opened up, I and a few senior brothers had to go to catch the Ling carp. After a winter of dormancy, the Yellow River carp is slender and, unlike the common carp, which has four whiskers, has only two whiskers.
The carp in the Jianglou can be seen as a straw belly and a round belly with fat intestines, and it is a Xibei cargo at a glance. However, in order to invite Gongsun Shu, I deliberately pretended not to know, two people and one fish, asked for three or four vegetarian dishes, drank some roasted knives, and spent nearly five taels of silver on me.
After a few glasses of wine, Gongsun talked more, saying that the robbery hall was a mixed bag of fish and dragons in the entire Sihe Hall, the most difficult department to manage, and it was also a branch hall that was rotten to the bone. However, the worse the place, the easier it is to produce results, this time the Ninth Master sent you over, it is not without the intention of exercising you, you have to seize the opportunity to make some convincing results, Brother Jiang, everyone is staring at you.
While toasting, I made a statement of gratitude, saying that my younger brother had just arrived, and I would have to ask Deacon Gongsun for more advice in the future.
But he didn't think so, and after half a month of entering the Sihe Hall, the development of things had exceeded Lu Zhongyuan's expectations. There are Northern Zhou spies in the Sihetang, which may be true, or it may be that there are people in the inner village who do black market business. This kind of thing, once it is done, it is enough to directly mobilize officers and soldiers to come over to encircle and suppress it, and my career of continuing to stay in Sihetang as an undercover agent can end early.
But after thinking about it, I promised Shen Wushuang to help her take out the living note and hand it to the east gate to pull wax. Shen Wushuang said that the east gate was in the inner village. When Ximen blew the lantern and asked me to come to the capital, he asked me to contact this person, but this person seemed to be missing. It seems that I have no choice but to consult the first senior brother in this matter.
Gongsun Shu is very old in Sihetang, he followed Zhao Jiuye to fight the rivers and lakes back then, and his loyalty was no problem, but due to his ability, Zhao Jiuye did not give him a particularly important position. This made him very depressed, and he mentioned the things when Lao Tzu fought the world with Jiu Ye at every turn, and said some things about Zhao Jiu Ye, I was inconvenient to comment, and I waited on the side.
After lunch, Gongsun Shu was a little drunk, and the two came to the outer eight halls to rob the hall. The robbery hall is near the Guangqu Gate, relatively close to the Panjiayuan, as the hardest hit area of theft, the robbery hall is located here, from the perspective of convenient business, the site selection is quite scientific.
After entering, I found that this courtyard was in tatters, which looked like the main hall of one of the eight outer halls, even if it was a rudder of the beggar gang, it was more elaborate than here.
There were more than a dozen congregations sitting in the room, and in the middle of winter, there was no stove even burning, and none of the stools had four legs intact. An elderly congregation recognized Gongsun Shu and shouted, "Deacon Gongsun, you are here!"
Gongsun Shu's status in the Sihetang is not low, but these people in the hall do not shy away from it, and they do not have the consciousness of getting up to give gifts, but they coax and say, Gongsun Master, today's hall meeting, the master of the white hall went early in the morning, saying that today's year-end bonus, the brothers waited for a long time, and did not see a shadow, and finally put the lord in your opinion, lord, you are bringing the bonus to the brothers?
Gongsun Shu looked disgusted, coughed twice, and said, I didn't bring the bonus, I brought you a new hall master!
Everyone sighed, knowing that there was no bonus, so they wouldn't waste time here and waste time. As he spoke, several people began to disperse.
I felt as if I had been treated as air, and before I came, I had prepared an impassioned, righteous speech, and was ready to influence the congregation with my incorruptible tongue, and it seemed that they were not prepared to buy it.
I shouted, "Stay here!"
Those few people looked back at me and said, "What's the matter, new hall master, what's your name, are you going to give bonuses to your brothers?"
Gongsun Shu didn't want to get involved in the internal affairs of the robbery hall, so he smiled and said, I have done everything I need to do, and I will leave the rest to you.
I sent him out of the gate, and then sealed the one hundred taels of silver tickets, and handed it over quietly, saying, It's the New Year, it's a little meaning, not a respect.
Gongsun said, how embarrassing is this. I said it just meant, not anything else. Gongsun Shu excused himself, put the silver ticket in his arms, and before leaving, he said, "The deputy hall master surnamed Zheng in the robbery hall, you have to be careful."
Back in the robbery hall, everyone's eyes were on me.
As the saying goes, born from the heart, and have been engaged in the theft industry for a long time, these people are described as sneaky, their eyes are erratic, and they are not good at first glance. No wonder, Bai Yunfei would rather be demoted than stay in the robbery hall for one more day.
I was born as a thief of the Holy Gate, and I was also a closed disciple of the thief of the Holy Simon blowing the lamp, after apprenticeship and thesis defense, both technical and theoretical skills, and a stealing art is unparalleled in the world, how can I be compared to you wild pickpockets?
I took out a stack of silver tickets from my arms, not long ago Zhang Youqian gave me 20,000 taels of silver tickets, and I spent part of them, and this silver ticket will now be more than 10,000 taels.
I said aloud, the congregation did not give money, but the silver, I have!
I put the silver ticket in my bosom and said, later, I will give you a chance, I will walk among you, as long as you have the ability to let these silver tickets leave my body, these silver tickets are yours!
Everyone's eyes were full of fanaticism. The world is so big, I'm afraid that only silver can make different people's blood boil at the same time.
As soon as the words fell, the group of people began to gear up, and a few people were even discussing in a low voice, what blades, hooks, flying claws, steel tweezers and other crime tools were in their hands.
One person asked, surnamed Jiang, can you speak a word?
I said that my time is precious, and I am idle with you, so I might as well go to heaven and earth to sleep with a girl!
Now that I have confirmed my identity as a flower thief, it is better to accept it calmly, and my speech has become vulgar, and everyone burst into laughter. After a while, it is estimated that someone heard about the matter here, and more than a dozen people returned to the headquarters of the Robbery Hall.
Gongsun said that in the entire capital, there are more than 200 professional thieves registered in the robbery hall, but the actual number is far more than this, and most of the people who can enter the robbery hall have established their own power, and need the political resources and background protection provided by the Sihetang, such as wandering criminals, thieves who steal chickens and dogs, and lone thieves will not join the robbery hall.
It didn't take long for forty or fifty people to come to the ruined courtyard of the headquarters of the Thief Hall, and nearly a quarter of the thieves in the entire capital came, which is exactly my purpose.
Since you can't understand it and use it to make sense, let's just have a technical competition and see the real chapter with them. I took out more than 10,000 taels of silver as bait, but I want to try the overall strength of this pirate realm in the capital.
I asked, "Are you ready?"
Everyone roared, always ready!
I tidied up my clothes and released the True Yuan in the Star Sea in the form of a spider silk formation, and suddenly, all the situations in front of me, front and back, left and right, up and down, were reflected in my mind one by one.
The sound of people's rapid breathing and the sound of fingers rubbing in their pockets all showed the madness of this courtyard.
From the inner hall to the door, there are twenty-three zhang in total.
From the entrance to the inner hall, there were forty-five people in total.
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