Section 71 Sweet Harbor Wind and Cloud - Black Clouds Overpower

Sun Kecheng knew that the proprietor had a big hand, but he was still startled when he heard that he was sending two hundred taels, and hurriedly said:

"It's too expensive—"

"One-life-life is gone, and what do you say about breaking the bank." Guo Yi said: "This matter has to trouble Shopkeeper Sun." Also, if the ship's injury doesn't matter, call him and the dart master together and make an appointment to talk! He thought for a moment, "Pick a few more sailors to come and talk to each other!" ”

"Yes, I'll do it!" Sun Kecheng immediately agreed, "I don't know where the owner Guo is?" ”

"Just ask in the dart game. Right away. Guo Yi originally wanted to go directly to the Gaoguang Inn, but when he thought about it, there were many people there, and it was not the place to ask.

Half an hour later, everyone arrived. Guo Yi personally questioned the ship's boss, the dart master and the sailor. Knowing that it was five or six small sailing boats ambushing the Guang Bing on the seashore, they jumped over to fight more and less, and were soon controlled by the boat, but the other party seemed to have a lot of leeway, did not kill or injure anyone, and did not take away the boat, but only loaded the sugar into a few boats to take it away.

According to the injured dart master, the pirates should not have been a few "big gangs", but small single households, temporarily banding together to buy and sell tickets.

"What's the accent of the person coming?"

"Back to the proprietor's words: they are all local accents in Leizhou, and they should be local villains."

In this way, there is a great possibility that this matter was instructed by Hai Yitang. Guo Yi nodded: "You guys have a good rest, and I will pay for all the expenses." ”

After getting out of the dart game, he hurriedly got on the sedan chair and ordered: "Go back to Huifu Street!" He calculated that he had to immediately send a telegram to the South China Plant and Lingao to inform the past, and this matter was probably not a simple robbery at sea. Although the form is not completely clear now, the actions of the other party are extremely targeted. The matter of transporting sugar must be put on hold for a moment -- and this involves how the Lingao Executive Committee is prepared to deal with the threat at sea.

The telegram from Guangzhou was tantamount to giving Wen and others a slap in the face. The content of the telegram was both happy and worried, and the good news was that Guangzhou clearly informed that there was no problem with the silver needed, and South China only needed to let go of the courage to buy it; The worry was that the sugar boat had been hijacked -- not only was it a matter of missing 500 stone of sugar, but it also showed that Hai Yi Tang had begun to move into a stage where he explicitly used illegal means against them.

The most feared thing in the world is that the fish dies and the net is broken, and the dog jumps off the wall in a hurry, Haiyitang has nothing to do now, and the chances of winning if it drags on are getting smaller and smaller, and the possibility of using such unsightly means - sex - is getting bigger and bigger.

How to deal with it is a difficult problem. Just as he was hesitating, Wen Xiu came in to report: "Shopkeeper Liao is here." ”

"Which shopkeeper Liao?"

"It's Liao's shopkeeper."

That is the mighty Liao Dahua. He hurriedly said, "Please! ”

The news brought by Liao Dahua was even worse, saying that the dart masters had inquired clearly, and the sugar workers in Xu Wen County, including some of the sugar workers in Haikang, had all been connected in series in recent days, and they were ready to burn incense in the Zou Monk Temple three days later and swore to eradicate the "demon weapons" of the South China factory and "do their best".

This is simply a heart-wrenching punch, and Wen Tong almost didn't get angry - grabbing the sugar boat doesn't count, this time it's just going to smash the factory directly!

"This, Lao Liao, can you ask the government to come forward to town?" Last time, I had already seen the power of the yamen, and if the yamen was willing to send some people to suppress it, the workers might not dare to make trouble.

"The eldest man in the county, he can't wait to make something to fight a lawsuit, and he has to collect money at both ends." Liao Dahua warned, "The workers in the sugar squatter also have something to say -- after all, they are ruining people's jobs." Now that the crowd outside is raging, it is very likely that South China will suffer a big loss. We can win the lawsuit, but those workers are poor and white, even if they cut off a few heads, what will it do? ”

"Yes, yes, you said yes." Wen Tong knew that counting on the government in this time and space was basically a fantasy.

"For the sake of today, it is better to plan early." The so-called early planning is actually a routine of preparing to escape. Liao Dahua whispered that he had already arranged a courtyard in Xuwen County, and if something happened, he wanted them to flee directly into the county seat.

"When you enter the county seat, the people will not dare to chase you in easily, otherwise it will be a rebellion. The shopkeeper can rest assured. Liao Dahua patted his chest, "As long as you are in the city, you can win the safety of everyone." ”

Wen Tong hesitated: "No, do they dare to kill?" "Besides, there is still so much sugar in the machinery and equipment in this factory, and we must not leave it alone, otherwise how will I explain it to the Executive Committee in the future?

"It's hard to guarantee-" Liao Dahua's expression was solemn, "Recently, someone has been buying 'stand-ins'!" The market is eight hundred taels and one. ”

"Stand-in?"

"Yes," Liao Dahua nodded. He explained that the government does not care about civil disturbances or armed fights on the spot, but after the fact, the injured people will be compensated, and the dead will be compensated. In order to let his subordinates have no scruples, every time the person who initiates the organization will buy a "stand-in" in advance, and when the government investigates it, let the stand-in surrender, and the matter can be over.

Since someone is buying a stand-in, it means that the organizers of this riot and chaos are ready to kill people. Wen Tong suddenly panicked, he was just a member of a sugar factory, and he originally felt that there was a crossing group behind him, and there was a powerful dart bureau in the local area to guarantee and hand over to the government. In Xu Wen and even Leizhou, he is also a well-known big man. Even within the crossing group, Lingao and Guangzhou have been operating around South China recently--I feel quite "king-overhead". This time the opponent was going to use a knife and a gun, and then he thought that a few of his people were hanging here alone, and they could only rely on the people who played the dart game and a few pistols, in case a group of mobs really came to kill them, Wen Desi and Ma Qianzhu were cowhide blowing into the sky, and they didn't have the ability to immediately send an army over to save their lives.

couldn't help but feel cowardly: it seems that Shopkeeper Liao is right, you have to prepare a route to escape...... Didn't Mr. Wen deal with us: "Only survival is the highest." ”

Although I made up my mind about it, I thought that I felt that the matter had not come out yet, and I was already thinking about running for my life, which was a little too timid, and if it was seen by others, it would be a big laughing stock in the future. He pretended to be calm and said:

"Don't hinder, let's come and discuss first, this South China factory is also a big family business, and it can't be ruined for no reason."

At that moment, someone invited Chen Tianxiong, Mei Lin, Xiao Gui and others to come. Liao Daxing took care of the business in front, so he didn't call him, and no one in the store could preside over the situation at the moment.

"The shopkeeper of the north is also there, do you want to invite him?" Wenxiu asked in a low voice.

"He's back?" Wen Tong was most relieved when he heard this, and with such a special soldier here, his sense of security was greatly increased. "Please, of course."

Bei Wei came back from a staff trip with people and was resting in the sugar shop. He also heard that there has been some unstability outside recently, and he originally planned to come and talk together in the evening.

Hearing Liao Dahua say everything again, Wen Tongdao: "This thing is done like this? Hai Yitang made two ruthless moves in a row, and it didn't seem to be ready to compete fairly with us. ”

Everyone held their breath and did not speak, this is a matter of great importance, about the survival of South China. Don't say it, if South China is really destroyed in their hands, in the future, in the crossing group, at least an impression of "overwhelmed responsibility" will be left for everyone, and then there is no need to think about the administrative position alone, you can only be honest for a lifetime.

After a long time, Chen Tianxiong said: "Things have come to this point, and we have to prepare for the worst." First, the other party called the door to do this? Do we have the ability to keep the factory and the goods? Second, if we can't stop them, can we guarantee the safety of ourselves and our subordinates? ”

Xiao Gui said: "Actually, if we really want to fight, we may not necessarily be opponents, but there are more than 100 Ding Zhuang in the sugar factory, and a militia team has been trained, and there are some dart masters, so it's no problem to resist." ”

"There are a lot of people," Mr. Liao said, adding to the workers in the squatter as well as their families. It is estimated that Haiyitang will also send some rotten boys to be mixed in, at least a thousand people. "There is another thing that must be guarded against, there is a lot of money in the sugar shop, this is known to everyone, once the matter is troubled, there may be someone who wants to take advantage of the chaos - start ......"

Bei Wei also nodded in agreement with Liao Dahua's judgment. If it is a long-established, well-trained, and united team like the militia of Yanchang Village, it is probably no problem, but it is unrealistic to expect a rabble like the militia of the sugar factory to be able to withstand a mob ten times more than ten times as long.

"Don't we have a dart master, and there are people from Beiwei......" Wen Tong thought of Beiwei.

"Please, we scouts are also human, and we are not Kenjiro." Bei Wei smiled bitterly, "Even if you can fight, you may not be able to defeat a hundred." ”

"As soon as the bird goes off, isn't it okay?" Because of Liao Dahua's presence, Wen Tong spoke a little more implicitly.

"This is the Ming Dynasty, not South America, and the natives of the Ming Dynasty are not Indians, thinking that we are gods descending from heaven. It's easy to go off as soon as the gun goes off, but people also know that you are a bird gun and not an artifact," Bei Wei said, "Besides, how can it end up killing someone in the sugar factory?" ”

"Then we'll directly 'behead' ......" Seeing Wen Tong's expression of wanting to speak, Liao Dahua hurriedly said, "I'll go outside first and take a look, and then come to greet the shopkeeper if there is something." ”

"It's really not going to work, that's the only way to do it." Bei Wei nodded, "It's a pity that I didn't bring a sniper rifle - I didn't even have a rifle, otherwise I would have directly shot the third master with a headshot from a distance." He groaned, "Either I'll take two men and go in and kill him at night." ”

"In this way, I'm afraid those people in Haiyitang will be afraid of pee-pants." Everyone had a feeling of exhilaration.

Bei Wei thought for a while: "But we don't know the situation in Haiyi Hall, and we don't even know what Zhu Sanye looks like, so we have to scout it in advance." In the evening, I will first take people to touch the situation and be the right to train the troops. ”

Someone is willing to contribute, and everyone is naturally happy. But Merlin was not enthusiastic about it, and said, "Can't we win over the workers?" I believe that they were also forced to be taken advantage of......"

"It's certain to be taken advantage of, but to win them to change their attitude, it's only a few days, I'm afraid it's too late."

"In the end, there are still three or four days, if you definitely go for it, there is still a chance to turn around." "The workers are nothing but blind," he insisted. In the end, we also smashed their jobs, and they had no choice but to rise up and fight......"

People don't like to hear this, and they make a fuss like all evil capitalists, even though it is true. Wen Tong said: "You mean that they are doing the right thing, smashing it well, and it is a revolutionary action." ”

Merlin hurriedly said: "This is naturally not, after all, it is the interests of the crossing group that are the most important." Seeing that the atmosphere in the room was not good, he hurriedly argued, "This is also for the sake of the South China factory and the great cause of crossing." I went to Leizhou for a short business trip, and I left after building the house. South China is in Xuwen and Leizhou, and it is going to continue to open, and now that the foothold is not stable, it is not a long-term solution to provoke enemies. ”

That makes sense. But Bei Wei disagreed. Since there is a conflict of interests, unless the two sides can fully reconcile and reach a satisfactory plan for the distribution of interests, there will always be enmity. I also have scruples about this, and I am also worried about that, so don't do anything.

Chen Tianxiong said: "What Merlin said also has some truth. Well, let's do a little bit more to prepare. It was so soft and hard that it had to be prepared, and it was necessary to take into account the matter of transporting sugar to Guangzhou. ”

"Still shipping sugar to Guangzhou? This incident shows that Hai Yitang is making trouble inside, and as soon as our sugar boat goes out, it is not in vain. ”

"Otherwise," said Chen Tianxiong, "I am afraid that Guangzhou is now taking a great risk in transferring funds for us, and it is reasonable that South China must also transport the sugar to them as soon as possible." ”

"But what about security? Now we have enemies on both shores and seas, and we can take care of one end but not the other. Wen Tong said urgently.

Chen Tianxiong said: "Rice should be eaten in one bite, and things should be done one by one. He pondered for a moment, and counted his fingers to list the things to be done one by one:

"The sugar store is to speed up the purchase," Chen Tianxiong suggested, "since Guangzhou said that silver is not a problem, let's add a few more people who have passed the scales, and the faster the sugar is harvested, the more stable the sugar cane farmers' minds will be, and the order at the door will be improved." Lest anyone muddy the waters, touch, fish, this is one. ”

"That's a good idea," said Xiao Gui, "and sugarcane farmers have the hope of selling sugar at a high price, and they will never allow people to destroy the sugar factory!" ”

"Good, good!" Wen Tong's spirits were greatly lifted, "There are many more cane farmers than sugar workers. ”

"This is just talking." Bei Wei shook his head, "The sugar workers are organized to make trouble, and they are not the same thing as the sugar farmers. Xiao Gui said it was a little interesting, but it couldn't be trusted. ”

"It's better to have someone to help than no one to help," Wen Tong urged Chen Tianxiong, "What about below?" ”

"Organizing the militia to prepare for the guard, preparing a set of plans in case things get up, this is a precaution." Chen Tianxiong said, "In case the militia can't resist and run, I personally think that it is better to save my life." Where there is life, there is hope. ”