Section 35 The Chamber of Commerce

When a wonderful raptor crossing the river was being staged on the sixteen-shop wharf in Shanghai, more than a thousand miles away in a small village in Pingyuan County, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, the dim oil lamp illuminated the area the size of the table, and the rest of the room was still black and hollow, but from the breath of the crowd, it could be distinguished that there were more than 20 people in this room, and the local Boxers were secretly assembled. "Senior brother, the chamber of commerce in Jinan Mansion is fat, this is what I have seen with my own eyes, I heard that there are tens of thousands of taels of silver in the daily flow of water in the Grand View Garden, and three or four cars are escorted to the ticket number with mules and horses at the checkout every day. And the chamber of commerce of those brain-full businessmen do not have a good thing, all day long to the people of Jinan Mansion cheating, clever robbery, relying on their own a few stinky money, donated official hats, and now set up a group, with the hundred and ten dogs with foreign guns, but also bullying men and women, all kinds of evil, the brothers in our altar are all benevolent and righteous men who do the way for heaven, and they should kill Jinan Mansion, rob the silver car, destroy the merchant group, kill the profiteers, and make trouble in the provincial city, so that the brothers in other altars can see how powerful our "plain altar" is. "A well-spoken black-faced man is doing his best to lobby the elder brother.

"Senior brother, we have a total of more than 300 people, all of whom are native country masters. Seeing this, I entered the Layue Gate, and the weather outside froze to death an old dog. "An old man is clearly not in favor of taking risks.

"I see that half of the brothers can't open the pot at the end of the year this year, anyway, it's a rotten life, just do the big one, and if you touch the right one, you can have a fat year, if you touch the stubble, you will die." The young boxers heard that there were 10,000 taels of silver in the daily running water, and their eyes caught up with the oil lamp, and they were anxious to hope that the senior brother could take everyone to make a fortune. Everyone was also discussing, and for a while, this dilapidated house was in full swing.

"Be quiet." A five-short man who looked like a leader stood up, took the soles of straw shoes and looked at the edge of the kang, "Everyone is quiet, there are thousands of people in the family, and there is one person in charge." Let's stop here, listen to the elder brother. Senior brother, if you say a word of faith, the brothers will listen to your orders. ”

"Ahem." A tall bearded man smoked a dry cigarette for a while, and didn't say a word, then stood up and knocked the cigarette pouch pot in the corner of the broken table on three legs, and slowly inserted it into the belt before he spoke, "I said that he Uncle Chen, you are always an old man in Jinan Mansion, you can tell me how many people are escorted every day?" Walk in and out of the city? Where are the members of this merchant group on guard? What brand is the guy in your hand? ”

"This." That Uncle Chen obviously didn't expect a country man to have such insight, but as soon as his eyes rolled, he replied casually, "Brother Li, the flowing water in the Grand View Garden is all stored in the ticket numbers of the Germans in the inner city, and there are not many escorts, there are always about thirty of them." As for the merchant group, they don't live in the city, they are stationed outside Ping'an Town, and as for the brand of firearms, they are all foreign yards. ”

"Hiss" Everyone gasped, more than 30 regimental members armed with Lianzi fast guns, and their own group of people may not be able to bargain, not to mention the commercial port in the polder wall, which can be regarded as a provincial capital, and there are also 100 regimental soldiers with guns stationed outside Ping'an Town. This guy is not a good man in Liangshan, and he has the ability to make trouble in Gaotang Prefecture with three or five people.

"What do you think, uncle?" The beard frowned though. I didn't have to be afraid of this, after all, he was the leading brother of more than 300 people, and he still had the bearing.

"Don't worry, Uncle won't let Brother Li's brothers suffer. I heard that the leader of Zhu Honglan Zhu of Eping Gaotang is also a close friend of Brother Li, and he also has three or five hundred brothers who are suffering hahaha, and it is not easy to come to Layue, so you might as well invite them to act together. In addition, the elder brother Meng Guangwen, who killed the foreign monk in Tai'an Mansion a few days ago, is also from Chiping, he and Wu Fangcheng, and several brothers Wu Jingmin also defected to our village. Our three-way soldiers will fight one in one, and the eight hundred strong men have also cleaned up the one hundred and ten regiments. I plan to do this, let Senior Brother Meng lead the brothers of the Great Sword Society to bluff and attack Ping'an Town, Ping'an Town will inevitably ask the merchant group for help, let the brothers of Zhu Honglan ambush him on the way to Ping'an Town, and take him by surprise, as long as he hits it back, it will be done. There are more than 30 guards left in the Grand View Garden, and the South Gate Battalion has to go to the Grand View Garden for ten miles, and there is no general who will not dare to send troops privately, and besides, if we don't fight Jinan Mansion, the government can't react so quickly. Brother Li, you and I and the brothers entered the city from the north gate earlier, just waiting for the escort group to go to support Ping'an Town, let's take a cold shot to Daguan Garden, grab the silver and leave from the west gate, burn more shops, the city is in chaos, we just disguised as a merchant group with silver in their hands, and fished out of the city in troubled waters. ”

"Hmm." The bearded man groaned for a long time, looking at the eager eyes of the brothers, thinking in his heart that most of the brothers would not be able to survive this winter, and it was a sin of grabbing grain and rebelling, and it was better to seek wealth and danger. Gritted his teeth, "It's dry." Please Uncle Chen as our military advisor, in charge of the three armies, from my more than 300 brothers below Li Changshui to entrust your life to the old, after the deed, please be our big boss, with everyone to run for food and clothing. ”

"Yes, yes. But Brother Li, what do you think of the old man? I will temporarily assume the role of this military advisor, as for the big boss, it is naturally your Senior Brother Li Da*, even if I and my three inferior disciples burn incense in our altar, we will be your brothers under Senior Brother Li in the future. Since everyone is in favor of doing a big job, I will go home, pick up with Senior Brother Meng, and ask Senior Brother Li Da* to contact Zhu Honglan and them, if there are brothers from other altars who are willing to participate, they will also bring together, and gather in Chenlou Village, Shuangquan Town, Changqing in five days, how about it? ”

"There is no old mother above, and the apprentice Li Changshui accepted the incense of Senior Brother Chen and the four on behalf of his mother. Okay, just take the plan of the military advisor, and we'll see you in Chenlou Village in five days. Li Changshui, the bearded man, slapped the table, "Brothers, pick it up, leave some bottom goods for the family, we are also going to do an earth-shattering thing, and we will leave early the day after tomorrow and disperse the action." If anyone informes, the brothers will give him three knives and six holes, and they will not spare him without cutting him in pieces. After speaking, Gu Dong poured a steamer of hot water, and got up while it was hot and ran to Chiping to find the senior brother Zhu Honglan.

Not to mention the secret calculations of Li Changshui and Uncle Chen, the insurance regiment looks like a group of more than 100 people, but it is actually because the brothers of a detachment of the old battalion are on duty and running laps every day, and the other two detachments have been pulled out to the shooting range in the depths of Lashan for field training, after all, it is really difficult to get along with the local area by firing guns and guns twice on an official road, and it doesn't matter if you move to the shooting range, anyway, in addition to the stones within a radius of ten miles, there is a barren slope, and the nearest Daliuchang Village has more than 20 miles of land and is separated by a mountain. As for the task of protecting the factory and store in the city, in addition to the recruit teaching team, two squads are drawn on duty every week, and they are the children of Liu Han's two dart heads. In fact, almost 100% of the business of the two major dart shops is the business of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce, so the dart shop has little meaning to exist. Liu Han and the second master also understood, anyway, now life is better, after going to the insurance group to teach martial arts, the apprentices don't like to wear the short dress of the executioner, and they swarm into the iron gray military uniform of the insurance group, many people have also been admitted to the insurance group, and the remaining forty-odd dart masters and some apprentices who are not successful are also rushing to the insurance group. As soon as the two brothers discussed, they simply joined the Chamber of Commerce, but I and Meng Lao Miao thought that the brand of the dart line did not have to be picked, but it could expand the scale of recruitment, and the provincial recruitment office of the insurance regiment was simply set up in two dart bureaus, all of which entered Jinan Mansion, not only to use people for convenience, once there was an accident in the city, there would be a hundred and ten people gun to protect the Chamber of Commerce, and each factory and store had its own home Ding Nursing Home was also incorporated into the dart shop, and more than 200 reserve soldiers were trained, most of these soldiers were older, Therefore, they will not supplement the insurance group, but the trained family nursing home has increased the power of the Chamber of Commerce in Jinan Mansion, and it has also better maintained the safety of the family property of the members of the Chamber of Commerce, which can be regarded as a benefit for the Chamber of Commerce to its members. Now the gangs in Jinan Mansion are about to be squeezed out, the Knife Handle Gang simply broke up two days ago, and the Big Knife Club and the Long Whip Society have also moved down Zhangqiu and Yucheng, and there are only two or three kittens left in Jinan Mansion.

Therefore, Li and Chen thought that the Jinan Chamber of Commerce would only have an insurance regiment of 150 people in addition to the family members, but in fact, how could they have thought that the insurance regiment is now stationed in various places, and a detachment of the old camp in Ping'an Town is left behind, two detachments are secretly trained in Lashan, and the recruit detachment is also trained at the shooting range, and there are two squads of recruits and more than 100 children of the two major dart bureaus in the city (not the official establishment of the insurance regiment). Of course, if it is activated, the Chamber of Commerce can also organize more than 200 guns in the home guard, and the remaining more than 50 rifles and more than 200 workers in my standard factory have also been trained in the military, and the more than 50 strong young men in the factory protection team can easily defeat three or four times the cold weapon opponent. This time, the revolutionary pioneers of the great anti-imperialist patriotic people's @ Boxer movement obviously made the mistake of left-leaning blind activism, by the way, Brother Chen is not among the revolutionary pioneers, this guy is actually a veritable feudal Taoist leader, a capitalist and a bully landlord, and a traitor and thief who broke into the revolutionary ranks, by the way, you guessed the true identity of this dog-headed military advisor, right? Hehe, this Xiaoqiang will not easily withdraw from the stage of history, so let's listen to his identity next time.