Section 342 Opening of the port (viii)

Wu Sanye, who was in a daze in the face of the broken bridge, quickly realized his negligence.

He responded to the matter according to the concept of turf competition in the rivers and lakes, but this time the opponent was different from the previous ones: the purpose of the people was only the land. As for this private port, what the third master didn't know was that it would definitely be bulldozed in the future, and then buried into a straight shoreline along with the island.

Therefore, the means of production that are incomparably precious in the eyes of the third master like the trestle bridge are waste products that must be dismantled sooner or later in the eyes of Xiong Dao.

This led to the third master's misjudgment: he thought it was coming at someone, but who knew that someone would smash the pots and pans first.

So what now? Build another trestle? Wait until it's repaired and then burn it?

Just when someone was confused, his subordinates reported: Duya is here again.

...... Continuing to stretch out his fingers to push away the sharp blade on his neck, Du Yaren said with a smile: "Third master, brushing horizontally in front of the Chinese people doesn't look like your style?" ”

Looking at the banter in Du Yaren's eyes, the third master swallowed a bad breath. After waving his hand to signal his subordinates to put away their knives, he asked viciously, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Alas, hard work, someone came from Master Xiong's side early this morning, so I still have a message."

"If you fart, let it go!"

"What Master Xiong means: Since this trestle is gone, half of the number I said before will be removed...... In addition, if you are willing to serve, Master Xiong is still willing to ignore his past suspicions. ”

"Third master, if you can't give a word, I'll go back and resume my life." After Du Yaren finished saying the conditions, he stared at the third master and waited for him to reply.

Wu Meng seems to be calming down a little faster today than yesterday, and it seems that it is still useful to burn the trestle. I saw that he raised his hand to stop the noisy demonstration of the brothers, and said slowly: "Please also ask Brother Du to go back and tell Master Xiong, and let Wu Meng think about it for a few days." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Du said goodbye."

......

Three days later, the inner courtyard of the Crane Tower.

Tonight is the last quarter of the moon, and the moon has only a crooked tooth, and the thick clouds in the sky make it pitch black all around, and no one can be heard.

After a "bang", Liao Shuangding's head stretched out of the pool, and there was still a green lotus on his head. After looking left and right, Liao Shuangding identified the direction, slowly swam to the lotus pond, and quietly ran ashore with his arms.

Liao Shuangding belongs to the county seat of the Deng family. He is a thief who is responsible for stealing chickens and dogs and searching for property.

Daxing was an urban gang organization that gradually emerged in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty.

In essence, there is not much difference between the gangsters and the underworld in later generations, both are illegal organizations that rely on violence to make profits.

As the name suggests, the main business of the industry is naturally fighting. Organized by urban ruffians, the gang was originally set up to rent out thugs – the government was dark and mediocre, and disputes between the burghers were sometimes resolved by hiring thugs to resolve them.

As a result, the development of the line from the most economically developed and the largest number of foreign migrants in the Suzhou, Song area.

The result of vigorous development is that the government can't stand it - during the Jiajing period, Suzhou patrol Weng Dali began to rectify the line, who had wanted to fight but ambushed people in the alley, and when Weng Dali passed by, "jumped out of his cheeks and withdrew like a bird".

Later, after the contradictions between the two sides were completely aroused, the company also organized manpower, robbed the prison late at night, and released all the people arrested by Weng Dali, and then rushed into the inspectorate, scaring Weng Dali and his wife to go over the wall.

Subsequently, he set fire to the public house, and then "led the people to rob the government", and was bravely resisted by the prefect Wang Daoxing. Seeing that there was no advantage to take advantage of, these people "cut the pass and fled, and entered the Taihu Lake".

...... The fundamental reason for such arrogance lies in the declining political environment of the Ming government.

First of all, the Ming Dynasty was notoriously re-endowed. In the Ming Dynasty, the fields in the south of the Yangtze River accounted for only 6% of the country, but the tax grain accounted for nearly 22% of the country, and the grain transported to the capital every year in the middle of the Ming Dynasty was 4 million stones, and the five prefectures in Jiangnan alone provided the top 13 of the total.

Hangjiahu is not only a high amount, and the proportion of shipping is as high as 90%, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, under the knocking of heavy endowment, Jiangnan "skin and bones have withered", the gentry and landlords can still pass on their burden to the small people, and the small people have to sell their sons and daughters, and then have to flee.

As a result, a large number of unemployed vagrants from rural areas have poured into urban areas, fundamentally undermining public order and providing a solid manpower foundation for the work.

Secondly, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the population became more and more prosperous, and those originally deserted towns in the Jiangnan area became a majestic town. ”

In this case, in the face of the sudden outbreak of the business environment, the government's original management resources cannot keep up. And at this time, the crackdown naturally came into being - think about the fact that if there is only one police station in a district, social security is bound to be no better.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the company had evolved into a professional criminal gang that set violent robbery, extortion, and group theft.

And Liao Shuangding, who emerged from the Crane Tower Pond today, is a habitual thief in the county town.

Nowadays, thieves also have companies. Some famous "thieves" "lured stateless gangsters from all over the world, raised them at home, searched in the market at leisure, and drilled cabins on the river road at night, which greatly harmed the people." ”

This skill of keeping thieves has even been passed down to later generations, both at home and abroad - it is very vividly portrayed in the orphans of the fog capital.

The reason why he was sent to the crane tower to "do the task" today is because Liao Shuangding is very familiar with the terrain here: this goods used to be a servant in the crane tower back then, and later because he stole the property of the master's family, he was severely beaten and driven out of the crane tower.

Liao Shuangding, who was dressed in cowhide water, quickly ran out of the lotus pond, and then he pinned the pig urine bubble used to store gas in his hand to his waist, and ran forward with his cat waist.

In the dark night with only a glimmer of light, Liao Shuangding's movements are accurate and fast: he has cleaned every inch of land here back then, and he has sweated on it, so he can find his destination with his eyes closed.

However, after running a distance, he felt that something was wrong: where had all the plants gone?

His current position, in theory, should have passed through a cluster of flowers. Opposite the flower bush is a long corridor, after turning over the long corridor, running along the railing to the end, and then passing through a moon gate, is the purpose of his trip: the library pavilion.

However, tonight was ghostly, until Liao Shuangding turned over the corridor, he didn't see the flowers and trees that flourished in the past.

This situation made Liao Shuangding highly vigilant: flowers and trees are the best cover, and if there is an empty field of vision now, it will be quite unfavorable to himself.

Fortunately, the flowers and trees are gone, and the other buildings are still there. Although Liao Shuangding muttered in his heart, he still ran to the end of the corridor smoothly and hid under the corner of the wall to observe carefully.

Normally, guards patrol at night. Therefore, Liao Shuangding had to wait until the guards passed by the Moon Gate before he could rush in, so as not to be bumped into head-on - after all, he had been out of here for a long time, and the guards' patrol time must have changed a long time ago.

But as he leaned down and waited for the guards to pass by, something unexpected happened: he did it.

After trotting all the way out of the lotus pond, coupled with the time of waiting in the lurk, the water droplets on Liao Shuangding's body were gradually dried up and evaporated, so he did it.

Liao Shuangding, who didn't think that what he did would have any effect, waited for the two black-clothed guards who came out of the Moon Cave Gate not long after. After the guards walked by, Liao Shuangding quietly "bent down and walked forward quickly" and entered the moon cave door.

What Liao Shuangding didn't know was that at the moment he drilled into the moon cave door, the heat emitted from the surface of his body showed the outline of his body on a pair of infrared lenses.

So when Liao Shuangding ran to the door of the library pavilion, took out the sealed leather bag in his arms, and was about to take out the tools to pick the lock, he suddenly heard the wind behind his head...... Then he pounced.

"Whoa", a basin of cold water was poured on someone.

Liao Shuangding, who was instantly woken up, quickly began to struggle, but he was already tied to a Taishi chair. The most terrifying thing is that he is now naked and naked.

The bright kerosene lamp illuminated every corner of the house, so when Liao Shuangding looked up in horror, he found himself in an incomparably familiar place: the firewood house where he had fought and lived.

Of course, he is not familiar with the few big men with lewd smiles on their faces in front of him.

"Boy, tell me honestly, from which horn did you get in?"

When a dark, thin man who spoke Huainan dialect saw that the prisoner was awake, he reached out and patted him on the cheek and began to interrogate.

At this moment, Liao Shuangding's terrifying memories were all revived - he was hung up and beaten in this firewood room after stealing the owner's belongings.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the little ones came in over the wall." Liao Shuangding repeatedly told forgiveness: "I was arrested before I could do it, and I hope to spare Xiaoxiao's life, there will be a retribution!" ”

"This kid is not honest."

At this time, someone behind Liao Shuangding spoke.

"Tight-fitting leather clothing, waterproof leather bags, pig urine bubbles for gas storage, and things and oilcloths for fires." A slightly chubby young man rummaged through the clothes on the table at this time, and said, "This kid came in from under the water, and it seems that it is not for money, but nine times out of ten he wants to set it on fire." ”

Liao Shuangding said in his heart, this is terrible. The waterway that enters the Crane Tower Pond from the small river outside the wall is a secret passage that he has kept for many years, in order to get into the Crane Tower one day to get a big ticket. Originally, he planned to return the same way tonight by lighting the library pavilion, but he didn't expect to be arrested this time, and the secret was exposed.

"Boy, you still dare to talk nonsense at this time, it seems that if I don't teach you a lesson, you don't know how powerful our masters are."

The black and thin man picked up an iron ruler at this time and slapped Liao Shuangding's work twice, then he turned his head and said to the young man: "Team Leader Liu, why don't you show everyone a hand?" Let us also see the results of the training at the headquarters......"

When the young man heard this, he smiled and showed a mouthful of ultrasonically washed white teeth: "Hehe, the headquarters doesn't have time to learn so much, so the total number of people learned to cross the river with the chickens at me...... Anyway, the night is still long, and it's fun to practice this kid today. "Hundred Plating" Luming Claw Book House" The latest chapter is free to read for the first time.