Chapter 647: The Salt Gang's Effectiveness and Foresight
"Okay. "Besides, I had to take the key, but it was still an important matter.
Compared with Li Xiangjun, he is more reluctant to go to the Salt Gang every day to see the helmsman, or let the people of the Salt Gang come to his house every day, which will cause a lot of unknown unnecessary troubles.
"But is it convenient for me to come to you?" he asked.
"What's inconvenient, you can come at any time, even at night. Li Xiangjun's last sentence lengthened his voice.
"What if you have guests?"
"If there are guests who are afraid of anything, Yahuan will inform me when you come, and I will naturally find a way to send them away. Oh, you mean the guests who will stay with me? There are no more such guests, and now they are all regular customers, that is, eating tea, gossiping, playing chess, talking about poetry, calligraphy and painting, etc. Sometimes they will come to set up a few tables of flowers and wine, and it will be heavenly, and there are a few regular customers, who need to be accompanied by me, and I will go to their house, not in my own place. Li Xiangjun said generously.
Besides, there are still people who do this in business, no wonder they are famous prostitutes, and their business model is different from others.
"I'm going to take it slowly. Li Xiangjun suddenly sighed.
"Why? Do you want to marry someone and do you want to be good?" he asked.
Famous prostitutes are naturally to be good, find a good person to marry early, and they will be stable for a lifetime, although they may not be as happy as the career of famous prostitutes, but they have finally settled down for a lifetime.
"No, I just feel that I am old and I don't want to do it anymore, and the money I have earned in the past few years is enough to support myself. Li Xiangjun smiled faintly.
"How old are you, in your prime. "Besides, I remember that she should only be twenty-three years old this year, and if she compares with those Qingqi people, she is naturally older, but as a famous prostitute, it is the period of luxury.
If you want to be good, you naturally do it as soon as possible, if you don't want to get married, but just make money, you have to be over thirty years old, and you will consider collecting the mountain when you have earned enough money.
Isn't the famous prostitute in Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing" also a "boss marrying a businesswoman"?
"I don't know, maybe I'm old. In addition, I also want to collect the mountain and live an ordinary life, so maybe I can chat with you if I have nothing to do at that time. ”
"Now you can chat too. I'll move in in a few days, and you can go play when you're fine. Besides, he laughed.
"What you said is true?" Li Xiangjun said happily.
Besides, nodding, it was always inconvenient for him to come here too often, but Li Xiangjun didn't say anything when he went to the house as a guest, which was also the custom at that time.
He walked out, and a carriage was parked at the door, and it was Xie Wu who was driving the car.
Besides, he didn't speak, and went straight into the car and sat down.
He had just sat down when the carriage started at once, and it galloped quickly.
The carriage walked through the streets, walked the alleys, and twisted and turned along the way, and he was not familiar with the streets of Nanjing, and he could not distinguish the route, he only occasionally recognized a few places.
He didn't know if this Xie Wu was deliberately trying to make him dizzy, for fear that he would recognize the final destination, but this scene really looked like an underground party connection.
He immediately rolled over a number of subtitles in his mind: As for it, selling illicit salt is like an underground party.
In fact, the danger of selling illicit salt is no less than that of the underground party, and as long as it is caught by the government, it is basically a death sentence. Despite this, the Salt Gang was able to openly establish rudders in major cities, and there were many trading industries under their names, and even more grandiosely, they opened a rudder in Yangzhou to compete with the state-approved salt merchants, and the reason behind this is intriguing.
Could it be that the imperial court accepted the lessons of the Tang Dynasty and didn't want to push these smugglers too hard, lest one of them pop up again if they were not careful?
But who would have thought that Huang Chao of the Ming Dynasty was not born as a smuggler of salt, but as a postman - King Li Chuang of Shaanxi. It seems that there are champions in every industry, and there are strong masters in every industry. If the smuggler can't afford to provoke it, can the postman provoke it?
The carriage stopped in front of a money village on Gulou Street, and after Xie Wu walked into the money village with him, a guy was already waiting there, and immediately led the two of them inside.
Passing through the back room, I entered a small door, behind which was the courtyard of a family.
"Son, you are here, and you are not welcome. A middle-aged man with a rich appearance, dressed in satin, and holding a jade snuff box in his hand, greeted him with a smile and a fist.
"Don't dare to be. "Besides, I don't know who he is, but it is estimated that he should be the helmsman of Nanjing.
Could it be that Nanjing's helmsman is a money boss?
This is not surprising, although the salt lord is a member of the underworld, but the requirements for the branches they set up in various places are quite high, most of them are local gentry with legal status, as for why these people want to join the salt gang, he does not know, nor does he want to investigate the reason.
"Under the money Ruofu, he opened this small business, which made Guo Gongzi smile. You inside please. ”
Besides, looking left and right with a little doubt, Xie Wu nodded to him, meaning that he had reached the ground.
Besides, he nodded in response, understanding that the person who introduced himself must be the helmsman, not someone else.
The two of them walked into the hall, and one of the servants withdrew after serving tea, and there were only two of them in the hall.
"Gongzi, I didn't expect you to come to us for such a long time. We've been waiting for you for a long time. Qian Ruofu smiled.
"Excuse me, what do you say?" said him.
Qian Ruofu explained how they specially invited Li Xiangjun over and how they planned to establish a special channel for him to transmit news.
Besides, I realized that Li Xiangjun moved here specially for him, and I couldn't help but feel sorry.
"Although I did a little bit of help to your gang at the beginning, you also gave you a generous gift in the next place, and also gave you a token in the next one, which can be regarded as a debt of mutual affection, but I don't know why the leaders of the Gui Gang are so kind to Zaixia?"
Dealing with these outlaws is as dangerous as demolition*, and you have to be especially careful.
"The love and admiration of the sons of several big leaders of our gang is beyond words, and of course they are just to make friends with their sons. Qian Ruofu said with a smile.
"How can he be in Xiade, I really dare not take this commission. He shook his head and smiled.
"Childe don't have to be suspicious, we do have a place to ask for a childe, but not now, not in recent years, but more than ten years later, if there is a time to ask for a son in the future, I hope that Childe will not hesitate to do a small favor. Qian Ruofu saw that he repeatedly asked about their intentions, and he knew that he could not avoid it, otherwise it would be self-defeating to mistakenly think that they were weasels giving New Year's greetings to chickens.
"What's the little favor?" he asked.
"This ...... Actually, it's not a small favor. Haha, we want to develop overseas in the future, so I want Childe to help open up an overseas business route. Qian Ruofu's expression flickered for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and said it.
"Open up overseas business routes?"
Besides, he was shocked, he didn't expect the Salt Gang to fight this and the idea, and he really had a foresight.
Do they have a deep understanding of who they really are?
He only recently learned that he had a special relationship with people overseas, or that he was an important person in an overseas organization, and the specific position was still a confusing account.
Since the Salt Gang has this idea, of course, they have an in-depth and detailed understanding, so they will work on him.
"How do you know that you can do it in the next place, aren't you afraid that the bamboo basket will be empty?"
"Childe said with a smile, as long as Childe is willing to help, it is naturally not difficult to do, of course, Childe is now in the inland, many things are inconvenient, but there must be opportunities in the future, of course, our principle is win-win. ”
Besides, he didn't continue to ask, and said with a smile: "Your gang is really a lion's mouth, this is not a small favor, right?"
He didn't know how to help the Salt Gang open up an overseas business route, which was almost equivalent to asking him to help a person get the top prize. However, who are these salt lords of the Salt Gang, since they have identified the target, they must have his reasons, and it seems that compared to the Salt Gang, they are still in a state of ignorance.
"Of course, this favor will not be in vain, and our gang will pay the same price. This is, of course, for later, and it is too early to tell. In addition, only a few big leaders of our gang can discuss specific matters with Gongzi, and Xiao Ke does not have this weight. Xiao Ke said this just to let Childe know that our gang purely has a friendly attitude towards Childe, and has no other thoughts. ”
"Well, let's not talk about this for the time being, this time I do have a request from your gang. ”
Childe said. ”
"I have a token given by your gang leader in my hand, so let's use that token for this help. "Besides, I don't want to owe the Salt Gang affection, so I say so.
Although the token was in Zuo Ling's hand, he didn't expect the Salt Gang to pursue this.
"Everything depends on Childe's words. Qian Ruofu agreed very happily.
The other party agreed so happily, which made him feel a little unsupportive, he still thought that the salt gang was very big, and everything now was just to invite you into the urn in the future as a foreshadowing.
However, he no longer had time to weigh the pros and cons of this, not to mention that he couldn't figure out the specific situation here. Knowing himself and knowing the other does not occupy either of the two, just like a blind man shuttling through a labyrinth.
The most important thing now is Zuo Ling's matter, and when the time comes, if he really has the kind of ability that the Salt Gang thinks, he is naturally not the master that the Salt Gang can handle at will, even if he doesn't have that ability, in the area of Nanjing and Suzhou, he is really not afraid of the power of the Salt Gang.
What he wanted to rely on this time was not the power of the Salt Gang, but he was borrowing their information system to keep track of the situation in Zuo Ling.
"In the next time, I would like to ask your helmsman to send a message to your gang's rudder in Fengyang, asking them to pay attention to Miss Zuo Ling's movements at any time, and send her news every day. ”
"Miss Zuo?" Qian Ruofu was a little surprised.
Zuo Ling is a popular figure in Nanjing, and the limelight is by no means less than that of her mother, and Qian Ruofu naturally knows these situations. As for the relationship between Zuo Ling and Besides, all kinds of gossip and legends have long been boiling, and there are also many people who know about it.
"Well, I'm worried about her, I heard that she is in some trouble with Fengyang. "Besides, tell me frankly.
"It's not that hard, and you can do it if you ask yourself. Qian Ruofu pondered for a moment and agreed.
"Also, if Miss Zuo is in danger, your gang's rudder in Fengyang will do everything in its power to protect her safety. And added another one.
"It depends on what the trouble is, and we can only guarantee to do our best. Qian Ruofu said with a smile.
"That's enough, as long as the information can be transmitted in time, she can stabilize the situation for a few days when she is in danger, and then she has her own way to solve the problem. Besides.
"Okay, Xiao Ke will send a message right away, and the news there will come the day after tomorrow. From the day after tomorrow, it will be troublesome for Gongzi to go to Miss Xiangjun every day to receive news. Qian Ruofu said with a smile, and when he said the end, his eyes were quite ambiguous.
Besides, he smiled faintly, thanked him and got up to say goodbye.