55 The spring of April was just right, neither cold nor hot. Tian Chuying does not want to stay in the shop, he likes to move a chair and sit under the locust tree by the pier, watching the passing pedestrians and the boats on the river come and go. He carried a knife and a teapot with a mouth by the side of his chair, and occasionally he would go to the shore and shout at the seller who was arguing with the tooth man, and more often he would just rest in the shade of the tree, which was fine.

This is Tian Chuying's new errand, he can feel the envy of other guys for him, but it is useless, except for Feng Yi, no one else is his opponent. He likes and adapts to this job, he used to show the casino, and now he is in charge of looking at the docks. On the wharf under the hot sun, from time to time, there are traders full of grain and fierce bargaining with the tooth people. The head of the tooth man has not changed, and now it is still led by Huang San'er, and there are seven or eight tooth people following him, they always try to keep the price down for various reasons, ruthlessly destroying the expectations of the grain sellers, and in the end, it is often Hesheng Grain Store that takes the grain away at a slightly higher price. Other grain numbers also broke the convention and sent people to wait at the wharf from time to time, and also planned to pass the tooth people to collect grain directly.

If you are not a businessman, you can't cross the tooth person and do business directly on the dock, which is a bad rule, not only the tooth person does not do it, but also Hesheng does not do it. But the rules are set by people, and they are also changed by people, on what basis, by fists. Even if you are a businessman, you don't have enough power on the dock, so you don't want to meddle directly in the transaction on the dock, so fights on the dock occur frequently. To put it bluntly, this is a jungle that speaks with sticks. If you are a caring person, even if you are an outsider, you will also find some subtle changes through frequent observation. Since the last brawl of dozens of people, Hesheng Grain Store has added five men again due to the shipping to the state city, and at the same time, their standards for recruiting men have not changed, they are still tall and strong, and their faces are full of meat, so fifteen or sixteen people are still practicing martial arts on the dock every day. If you don't know the details, you will see that they are selling grain, this is clearly martial arts. In this way, there are still two guys who choose to quit their jobs and leave, after all, working on the Hop Cyon Pier has become a high-risk occupation, facing fights and brawls all the time, injuries are inevitable, and the psychological pressure is not small. For this reason, Zhou Dao specially gave the men who worked on the grain number a subsidy of 40 wen per person per day, which was called a training subsidy, which made their wages double faster than others. In addition, these guys are specially selected to fight with strong and powerful bodies, and there is an environment of daily martial arts training and confrontation and the chicken blood that Zhou Dao and others fight from time to time, such as "You are the strongest!" Under the mutual support, people's hearts gradually stabilized.

On the dock, you pay attention to it, and slowly you will find that almost every time the grain is collected, the tooth people take the lead and work together to reduce the price, but in the end, it is often the people who take the grain away at a slightly higher price, and the tooth people seem to be indifferent to this.

In other businesses that the tooth people do, the people of Hop Sheng never participate in. Of course, the tooth people will also take some of the grain, add commission money and transfer it to the rest of the grain merchants. Those grain merchants can do without, but if the people who throw their teeth go directly to the dock to trade, then they can only fight. In the ensuing battles, which were not very numerous, the men of those grain merchants all suffered losses, and even if they called more than ten or twenty people, they were all beaten down. Quite simply, they no longer have to deal with seven or eight tooth people, but Hesheng behind the tooth people.

And Hesheng Grain Company also did something that everyone basically ignored before, and they were surprised to find that when several of their grain merchants united forty or fifty people to find the field again. Right on the wharf, without prior ambush or preparation, men about the same number of clubs were quickly assembled from all over the wharf, including the cargo ships docked on the shore. These people are porters and boatmen, and Hesheng sent a clear message to these men who live on the dock, and those who do not have the same heart as Hesheng Grain will not have to mix in the dock in the future. Second, only by following Halcyon can there be business to do and will get better and better. With the rapid growth of his grain business, in such a short period of time, the Hop Sheng family not only occupied half of the county's grain business, but also began to do business in the state city. Porters and boatmen are coolies, but they are sensitive to their own business, and they intuitively know which side to be on. The most realistic choice is whoever controls the docks and who they are on their side.

So when several grain merchants who had united together came to the wharf with sticks and some idle hands to pay their contracts. In the face of the people of Hesheng, these can be regarded as well-trained and strong labor, and the results are often not suspenseful. In addition to being injured in the fight, they also have to face the malice of the officials, who let them take the initiative to come to the door to fight and cause trouble? Not only do you have to taste the disaster of prison, but you also have to ransom people with money.

In this case, several businesses are also adjusting their countermeasures, while preparing for the dock. Prior to this, they avoided direct trading on the wharf, but sent people to the countryside and went deep into the villages and towns to actively bid for large households to buy grain. This move has still achieved certain results, but the mentality of active purchase is not quite the same as that of directly receiving and delivering grain to the door, which affects the asking price. At the same time, the labor cost will also increase, the grain on the road can not be stored for a long time, considering the convenience of transportation and the amount of grain collected, in addition to the fluctuation of grain prices at any time, this kind of door-to-door grain collection can only be applied to some large grain growers along the river. Whether it can be collected can basically be negotiated on the spot, the bargaining method is not advantageous, and it is not convenient to operate in addition to water. Although the local purchase price will be cheaper, it is also cheaper to collect grain and transport it back to the county seat than to collect grain from the people at the wharf. Therefore, for the dock that was dominated by Zhou Dao, we have to continue to fight.

Both sides are continuing their efforts, ready to knock each other down in one fell swoop. But relatively speaking, Zhou Dao is on the passive side, he is waiting. There is a special need to gather people to fight, and the place where the score is scored, in the city, under the nose of the county magistrate, no one dares to mess around, and the city gate is not a joke. Let's spend it, although the surplus grain is rich and rich, but there is still a surplus after Zhou Dao's livelihood is cut out of various additional expenses, "Time is on our side." "He was afraid, and he was not afraid.

In the current situation, Pan Ye is generally satisfied. Although there are often armed fights at the wharf outside the city, for Pan Ye, the head catcher who is directly in charge of public security, his face is a little unsightly, but the county lieutenant Fang Xu, who is always in charge of the county's public security, does not think that there is anything unsightly, and Li Hui and Lord Yu above should not know, so what else is there to say. During this period of time, there were many people in prison, and they were able to increase their income from time to time, and they were basically satisfied with this. However, the situation has changed recently, Pan Ye got the news that several grain merchants are ready to get back the big ones, they found Xu Shiyi and the bastards from other counties, gathered a few to contact hundreds of people, and prepared to completely paralyze and drive Hesheng out of the local area!

There are many people with mixed mouths, and at least such a big movement can't be hidden from Pan Ye. Pan Ye took Qiu Er and Huang Kui directly into Yu Liangji, and when he found Yu Qingtian, he asked him, "How are you prepared for the fight?" "What about fighting?" Pan Ye ignored him, and continued, "I think you shouldn't be ready yet, you let the grain numbers clean up all the soft in the store." Looking at Yu Qingtian, who was expressionless, Pan Ye said, "Lord Yu asked me to bring a word, if someone dies, it will make a big fuss, and the house will be raided!" Start with your home. No matter who wins at that time, there will be no more surplus grain in this county anyway. ”

Pan Ye rolled his eyes and looked at Yu Qingtian, "What should be said Lao Tzu has already been brought." Then he turned and left. Huang Kui and the others stood there, looked at Yu Dongjia, glanced at each other again, and hurriedly followed Pan Ye. Yu Qingtian stared at their backs with resentful eyes and walked far away, until he turned the corner and didn't see him still nailed to the door, his right hand clenched into a fist, the green tendons on his forehead were exposed, and he held back for a long time before he roared out, "Dog officer!" ＂

"How?" Xu Wei asked in his backyard, where three chairs were set up, and there were three people sitting in Xu Bian, Pan Ye and Zhou Dao. "I've told him everything." Pan Ye replied, as for Yu Qingtian's reaction in the future, and whether he will gather people to fight, it is his own business. "You still have to be fully prepared, if there is any trouble, the person you installed must report it in time." Zhou Dao nodded and said, "I guess they will stop, at least the families will not be so united." As long as he is not crazy, he will have scruples. But we have to do it, and if we want to fight, we will accompany us at any time. Xu Wei nodded, "You can try to win over another family and divide them." ＂

"There is one more thing, Yu Dacai got the news from the state city: Dali's country has been conquered." Xu Wei was very serious, "Ah." Zhou Dao was caught off guard when he heard this, and he was suddenly stunned, and fell into silence for a while.

"Dali's kingdom was conquered, and this happened at the end of last year. The Tartar army attacked Dali with three routes in the east, middle and west, leaving Wang Dechen and the Han army to confront Yu Shuai all the way in the Jiazhou area of the Song Realm to defend the flank. The Dali army was led by Prime Minister Gao Taixiang to deploy defenses along the south side of the Jinsha River, and the two armies formed a confrontation on the Jinsha River. At the beginning of December, the commander of the Tatar West Route Army, Wuliang Hetai, led the army westward to bypass the Dali army defense line, crossed the river with a sheepskin raft and then went south into the deep mountains, and then crossed the Dandang Ridge. The Wuliang Hetai Department did not stay, and coerced some troops to raid the main force of the Dali army from the flank, and the Jinsha River defense line of the Dali army collapsed, and Gao Taixiang led the main force to retreat to the capital, and met the battle at Longshou Pass, the throat of the capital. The Mongolian army crossed the river in the east and the middle of the road and joined forces with the west route army outside Longshou Pass. After a day's rest, the prince Kublai Khan personally supervised the battle, so that the eastern, central and western three route armies continued to attack on the whole line, and the second day broke through, annihilated the main force of the Dali army, and took advantage of the victory to break through the capital of Dali on the 28th. Duan Xingzhi, the lord of Dali, and Gao Taixiang, the prime minister, fled. ”

Xu Wei said slowly, and Zhou Dao Pan Ye listened silently. "I heard that Kublai Khan issued an order to stop killing, and the Mongols did not slaughter the city, but sent troops around to attack the city and chase it. The last news came out that Gao Taixiang, the prime minister of Dali, had been captured and beheaded in Yaozhou. After Xu Wei finished speaking, the three of them were silent, as if they were still reminiscing and pondering. Holy shit, so fast. Pan Ye came and said, "Tartars have indeed experienced harm!" The foundation of Dali for hundreds of years is gone, and there is not even a movement. Zhou Dao looked at Xu Wei's eyes with a serious expression, and asked, "Have you noticed that the destruction of Dali happened before Yu Shuai's victory over Wang Dechen in the first battle of Yu Shuai's victory over Wang Dechen as mentioned in the Di newspaper?" ”

"Huh?" Pan Ye didn't react, Xu Wei nodded and took over, "The Mongols captured the capital of Dali and the surrounding walled cities in late December last year, and Wang Dechen attacked Yu Shuai in Jiazhou in mid-January, what is the relationship between the two?" He didn't wait for anyone to answer, but continued, "It shows that after the Mongol army conquered Dali, they blocked the news, and ordered Wang Dechen to take the initiative to attack Yu Shuai as a test, so there was a small battle, and the Mongols also tested the military strength of our Great Song Dynasty in Jiazhou." Marshal Yu led the army to gather on the front line of Jiazhou, and was obviously ready. ＂

Xu Wei continued, "Now that it is April, the Mongolian army did not take advantage of the defeat of Dali's main force, and immediately turned around to join the Wang Dechen army in Jiazhou to fight against the Song army, which shows that they have no chance of winning, or that there is no chance of winning on both sides, so they are still deadlocked in Jiazhou." However, the Mongols had achieved their goal of defeating Dali and forming a flank attack on the Great Song Dynasty. "Then what about Yu Shuai taking the initiative to attack now? Maybe the Mongolian army is also suffering from a big injury in Dali? Zhou Dao asked unwillingly. It's a little late, at least it won't be a good time, I think this Yu Shuai will take care of it. Of course, without the authorization of the imperial court, it is not easy to send troops across the border for such a big thing. Hey... Blame Dali for being too angry, the Mongols ran so far and long, Dali not only failed to drag the Mongolian army into the quagmire of being unable to advance or retreat, but died in a battle, failing to win the opportunity for the Song army to send troops. Hey... Is Dali too weak, or is Mongolia too strong? Xu Wei shook his head and sighed.