[Big Chapter, Ask for Votes]

"What's going on?"

Hu Hai's people heard some news, Yang Yuanxi's people bought a lot of lamp oil and dry firewood on the market, and then looked at the autumn, this gang of splashes doesn't cook, and they don't keep warm, why do they buy these? In addition to setting fire, Ma Qian Shanghai could not think of any other use. And this group of people has been quite bold recently, and it looks like the people behind them are about to jump off the wall.

"If you don't do a good business, this Guo Xingshou's brain is caught by the door?"

"Maybe the gift given last time was too big, and Guo Dongzhu was excited for a while, which is also some......" Qian Suiting quipped on the side.

Hu Hai has long been accustomed to Chief Qian's humor, and continued: "There is another case, there have been rumors in the market recently, saying that we Wantong now have tens of thousands of taels of silver, and we are empty, which is a good opportunity. ”

"This strategy is vicious, let's not talk about it, if the Shanghai station is really coveted in the dark, it will not be very easy to do."

"It's not just coveting, if a few people are kidnapped, it will be enough for us to make it difficult for us, and you forgot about the Guangzhou station so quickly?"

Speaking of which, if it weren't for Huang Yuluo's matter, the elders would not have been so nervous.

"Don't worry about kidnapping tickets, several chiefs are all equipped with martial arts, and they have good weapons to defend themselves, and seven or eight splashes don't want to get close, and they are all in the mansion at the moment. It's nothing more than a few of us running away, and even if we are tied up, it doesn't matter the overall situation. ”

When Ma Qianhu saw Hu Hai say this, he also thought a little higher of him.

But it seems that the preparations that should be made also need to be made in advance, according to Hu Hai's statement, because of the prosperity of commerce and trade in Zhejiang, and the early years were subjected to the Japanese bandits, there is definitely no bandit with a large share, even Wang Zhong and Wang Jin, who are not enough to see in Fujian, can also be listed in Zhejiang. But there are no small number of sporadic splashes and even gangs on the canal. These people are either a gang of 351 or a gang of 100 people, and if they really want to be tricked by the gangsters to collect money and do things, they can still do it to disrupt the market in Songjiang. Of course, no one would do this kind of thing of killing chickens and eggs in the past, but now that there are such rumors, it is difficult to prevent others from dying and breaking the net, just to do business, they have to kill people and set fires, and now this lower limit is indeed too low.

Putting down his mind, Ma Qianhu shook his head, "Nanjing or Hangzhou is not richer than this Shanghai County, these people are very interested." ”

"These people are very afraid of death." Hu Hai did not shy away from saying, "Wan Tong has only been here for three or two years, where do those people know the methods of the chiefs, and if they really know, they will not die like this." ”

"The means are naturally to be used, but we must not be unguarded, the industry of Shanghai Station is now large, and there are many places that need to be paid attention to."

"Please show me, chief."

"How many people do you have in your hands now?"

"In recent days, the villain and his younger brother have also been stepping up their exercises, and there are more than 100 people who have to use them."

"It's enough to have some dart masters here on the counter, and all your people have been transferred to Hailan Hall, and now all the weavers who have been collected have settled down, right?"

"I built some shacks first, so I let them settle down first, but there was no special plan."

"That's right, property is naturally important, but people's hearts can't be lost, to put it bluntly, this time Songjiang Mansion is actually fighting a battle of people's hearts, you can write it down."

"The villain gets it."

"And ......," Ma Qianhu added, and Hu Hai immediately stopped when he heard this.

"Although the Zhangjia bandits and the Wang family's gang have all been annihilated, they still have relatives on land, and after so many days of gift-giving, it is difficult to guarantee that Guo Zengfu will not go to the news. Especially Wang Zhong and Wang Jin, if there is no tongue in the city, how did Guo Zengfu get on this line? Although he didn't dare to report to the official, it was not certain to put a few foolish men and women to find trouble for us, and those people who had some benefits on weekdays would naturally hate us now that they were cut off from their financial routes. ”

"It's a must-have." Hu Hai nodded and said meaningfully.

In the following days, the atmosphere of Wan Tong became tense, especially around the warehouse where the flowers were stored. Several times they encountered sporadic fires that were thrown into the yard, but fortunately, the patrol dart master and Minzhuang were still safe and extinguished these fires one by one. But there are thieves who have been thieves for a thousand days, but there are no thieves who have been thieves for a thousand days. Although the arsonist has not yet been caught, from the news heard from the community, the leader of this group should be Yang Yuanxi, and the intelligence collected by many parties has further confirmed that this person is a playful leader who can speak to Guo Zengfu.

When it was discovered that the arson had little effect on the business and the barn, the people found another weak point - the temporary shack where the weavers lived in Hailan Hall. Although Hu Barong intended to set up a model, the weavers' residences in a hurry were only simple wooden frame grass houses, in fact, compared to their previous treatment, and the owner's willingness to provide accommodation was already a favor, but this also became a weakness in Yang Yuanxi's eyes.

Eventually, several shacks were set on fire one night, and the enraged weaver finally caught a slower-runner.

By the time Hu Barong arrived, the fire had been extinguished, but judging from the scene, a large part of the fire had also been burned, and several burned weavers and their families had already been carried out, wailing.

The arson was being grabbed by several young people, and it was obvious that he had been beaten on his face and body, and at this time someone had already recognized that this person had been fighting in the Xianmian Temple and was 'doing things' under Yang Yuanxi. Seeing that he couldn't get out, this person took advantage of everyone's distraction and grabbed his head on a wooden stake next to him, and his face was immediately covered with blood.

Seeing that this guy was rolling and howling on the ground, the weavers who had done it before stopped talking, and the faces of several young men who had beaten their heads were also gloomy.

At this time, Liu Jingting followed Hu Barong's side, and he whispered to persuade: "These splashes are very difficult, and now that the owner has the upper hand, it is better to calm things down, and when the things in the mall are over, it will be fine." ”

The splash skin also seemed to be aware, and his voice suddenly became much quieter, and he looked at Hu Barong with a hint of ridicule.

Hu Barong hesitated, these people are not afraid of killing, although they can be punished by sending officials for arson, but they will be closed for a few months, as long as the other party bites to death and accidentally misses, they will still be released in the end, not to mention that the money for selling their lives has already been taken. The key is that there is obviously more than one such person sent by the other party, and there are two times when there is a big trouble, but there is a demonstration, and it is estimated that this person's heart will be burned a few times, and the weavers are silent and have this meaning.

Sure enough, a strong man squeezed out of the crowd, and he said loudly: "Boss, this splash has burned our house, and Brother Chang's son has also been burned!" The little one asked the owner a word, does this matter matter or not?! ”

Hu Barong knew that this person's name was Su Ji, and he had some reputation among the weavers, so he was a leader. Since He Kun was sent away from Songjiang, this person has faintly had the meaning of a worker leader, but he is much better than He Kun, and the weavers also obey him. Listening to him today, it seems that if he does not care about himself, the weavers will have to make their own decisions.

Of course Hu Barong would not allow this kind of thing, he turned his head to look at Ma Qianhu's expression, and secretly made up his mind, a group of workers' hearts and a skinny life, if you want to choose, you don't have to hesitate too much.

"Tube!" Hu Barong recalled all kinds of experiences in his past, and he was ruthless, and he didn't have the slightest perfunctory, "Serve me well." ”

Ma Qianhu behind him had already understood, a gesture, the two elders flashed forward, and before the splash could react, he grabbed the man with both hands reflexively and kicked on his back. The splash who was still shouting suddenly suffocated, and the other person pressed his knee against the neck of the splash skin, with a crisp sound, and after a while, the person was paralyzed and no longer struggled, and a foul smell also came from near his lower body at the same time, and the two elders showed a trace of imperceptible disgust, but they still immediately rolled the body in a mat and quietly left under the attention of the onlookers and weavers.

Liu Jingting has been in the market for a long time, and in the early years, he also ran away from the countryside because of the punishment for committing crimes, but he still saw it for the first time when he killed people in such a clean and neat way and did not avoid the presence of outsiders, and he couldn't help but feel a little numb in his scalp, and then looked at Hu Barong's eyes with some awe.

The other weavers were at first in a commotion, but soon fell silent again.

"What just happened?" Hu Barong asked hypocritically.

Su Ji understood quickly, and bowed down hurriedly, "Back to the owner, it was the little ones who were careless in the candles, so that the stewards were worried." ”

"You have to pay more attention in the future, you take someone to clean up here, be careful."

"The villain saves." After saying that, he turned around and shouted again, "You all have to be careful in the future, understand?" ”

There was a response from the crowd, and Hu Barong asked about the child's injury, and Su Ji replied that the injury was not light.

He immediately instructed Hu Haidao: "Let the account office pay for the expenses of ten taels of silver, go to Fucheng to invite a better Langzhong first, and get some medicine from me later." ”

Ma Qianhu brought a lot of trauma drugs this time, and he also explained some to Hu Barong, and he vaguely remembered that the iodine wine effect should be good if he was burned.

The child's father knelt down when he heard this, and the rest of the crowd also sighed, looking at the weavers and relatives behind them whispering, all talking about the benevolence of the owner, and it seemed that this person's heart was now subdued.

But Liu Jingting fully showed his consciousness as a staff member, and continued to Hu Barong: "The proprietor, this matter can't be hidden, and there must be a strategy." ”

"I'll save it." Hu Barong nodded, and returned to Wantong with Ma Qianhu and the others, they went to discuss the matter of what to do to Yang Yuanxi.

Now that Guo Zengfu has lost an arm, the splash skin in his hand is the only means, but it is better to erase this uncertain factor as soon as possible.

…………

In autumn, the nights begin to get longer, allowing for better concealment.

After a dirt slope by the river beach not far from the Xianmian Temple outside Wunijing Town, Hu Feng and Su Ji had been waiting for a while.

During the day, they pretended to be ordinary machine owners, and turned around the front and back of the ancestral temple in the name of incense, although this place gradually declined because of the silting up of the canal, but the incense of the first cotton temple was still some, especially the machine weavers, which was not abrupt. In the past, many weavers gathered outside the Xianmian Temple, which was a large place to go, and because of this, it was necessary to investigate the good life, and the patriarchs always tried not to hurt the innocent.

The two waited behind the dirt slope for half an hour, and finally a small boat came to shore from the river, and several figures from the boat observed and quickly approached the dirt slope.

Hu Hai said vigilantly: "What person?!" ”

"Bad guys." The voice of the reply was low, but deep, with a northern accent mixed in.

Although he heard the chief's voice, he hesitated for a moment and asked, "Password......

"Realgar."

Su Ji looked at it at this time, there should be about ten people coming, and the leader seemed to have seen it in Hailan Hall last night, and his figure seemed a little taller at this moment.

Under the starlight, these people were all dressed in black, and they looked extremely energetic, and Su Ji subconsciously felt that they did not look like ordinary family members.

He knew that this was to deal with Yang Yuanxi and his gang, so taking him with him could be regarded as being promoted by the owner as his own.

Hu Feng reported the information he had collected during the day, and then drew a simple map of the Xianmian Temple on the ground, explaining the layout of the temple clearly.

The result was unexpectedly satisfied, and the weavers who had originally gathered around the Xianmian Temple went a lot because of the recruitment of Wantong some time ago, and the rest of the people dispersed when they saw that they had no hope. Although the first cotton temple has been dilapidated for a long time, but the regulation is still big, the front and back are separated, I heard that Yang Yuanxi gave the Taoist officials some benefits, every night the splashes will be in the front hall of the two compartments of the eaves of the eaves of the house, the Taoist officials will be in the middle of the door to close the irrelevant until dawn, that is, at night there is only one main gate in and out.

Ma Qianhu quickly made a plan and divided the people into three groups, "This mission is to completely exterminate them, fight quickly and never be discovered, and the equipment that should be recovered must be recovered safely, and do not leave obvious clues, all understand." ”

Everyone nodded and hummed, Ma Qianhu put down the hood and night vision goggles, and urged: "Let's go!" ”

It didn't take long for the team to come to the outside of the Xianmian Temple under the leadership of Hu Feng and Su Ji.

said that it was leading, in fact, Hu Feng and Su Ji followed far behind him in the second half of the journey, especially Su Ji was extremely puzzled, at this time the sky was completely dark, the clouds covered the starlight, and he couldn't see his five fingers, but how did these family members run like flying in such a dark night? Could it be that they have all opened their eyes?

When I arrived at the place, the ancestral door was hidden, and Ma Qianhu was observing, but the door creaked open.

Two sneaky men leaned out of the door, carrying lanterns and seemingly carrying something, and when they came out and closed the door, they didn't even choose the main road.

But in this way, I happened to hit the muzzle of the bad guy, and I was worried that I didn't have a tongue to ask about the situation inside, and there were two of them this time, which was much easier.

The torture method of killing one and leaving one is the most effective, and in less than ten minutes, the situation in the ancestral temple was clearly investigated.

Ma Qianhu learned from the mouth of the splasher that the recent series of arson was indeed instigated by Yang Yuanxi, and it was not surprising that it was Guo Dongzhu behind the scenes, Guo Zengfu gave Yang Yuanxi how much silver he gave to the splashers It is not clear, but just looking at the foot money of one or two trips and the reward of ten taels of silver after the successful arson, this money should be given a lot.

Because of this, the Xianmian Temple has also been very lively recently, Yang Yuanxi and twenty or thirty henchmen have been eating and drinking in it all day long, and now they have not rested at this hour, but they are playing money in the palace at night. As for these two, they are also going out to set fires, and there were originally four or five of them who went out today, and they all left first, after all, there are still twenty or thirty miles to catch. But these two people had just lost money in gambling and owed a lot, so they were reluctant to be sent out, but they lost their lives in vain.

After burying the two splashy corpses, leaving Hu Feng and Su Ji to watch the wind outside, Ma Qianhu himself took two groups of people to quickly climb the courtyard wall by taking a human ladder, and then successfully touched the back of the front hall. The temple is in disrepair, but the front yard is more dilapidated than the back, so there have always been many beggars and idlers gathered in the past, and recently many weavers have come to join in the fun, which was originally considered a good governance of the place. But after Yang Yuanxi and his gang occupied, everyone else was dispersed by them, and even the previous weavers could only find another place to set up a shop outside the ancestral hall.

At this moment, the front hall is still brightly lit, through the broken windows, Ma Qianhu soon found the two Yang Yuanxi described in the mouth, at this moment several people in the hall are gambling money, Yang Yuanxi is among them, and some are drunk and snoring on the ground at a glance, and the straw used to pave the ground is all over the ground. Turning his head, he looked at the base of the gable outside the hall, but there were many dry firewood torches, and some pottery urns and clay pots, which were full of cottonseed oil when analyzed by the spectral analysis of the tactical lens. This is a good calculation, cotton is already produced here, and cottonseed oil is often used for lamp oil lighting, and there is no need to make up reasons for transporting it to this cotton temple for storage, but it is the patriarchs who have cheapened the bad people, and added a little certainty to the plan.

When the other group of people took care of the few who slept at the gate, Ma Qianhu also gave the order to do it.

The sound of an order echoed in the headset, and several windows in the hall were broken open at the same time and many porcelain vases were thrown in.

This kind of porcelain bottle is an ordinary wine bottle in this time and space, but the content in the middle has been slightly transformed by Qian Suiting, and the porcelain bottle has shattered after it landed, and the flames immediately rose into the air. As soon as this extremely strong adhesion of the high-temperature flame body touched the straw in the temple, it spread, and one of the incense cases in the middle was used as a gambling table, and the splashed burning material stained the faces of the crowd, which immediately caused screams, and the hall was suddenly in chaos.

'Gone water, walked water......'

'Go get water in the back......

'Silver, my silver......'

In the midst of the chaos, the splashes had all eaten and drunk, but they thought that someone had accidentally knocked over the candle.

Just about to run out of the hall first, but many bamboo tubes were shot in, the bamboo tubes touched the ground and collapsed, and the gray-white dust inside exploded all over the house, and the earth-made 'tear gas' splashed skin instantly couldn't figure out the east and west, north and south, and even more spicy sneezing in it, coughing and sneezing continued to come from the smoke and dust, and the figures were only bumping into the hall.

At this time, Yang Yuanxi still didn't understand, where was someone careless, it was clear that he was here to seek revenge, and the identity of the other party was unknown, and his wine was also nine points sober. It's just that the splashers are usually brave and ruthless, but because of the concern of seeing the knife as a murderer, he did not carry a blade around him, at this time he touched a whistle stick to find a way out, but he was cold and a swarthy thing was thrown at the front door, he waved the stick easily, but the thing was a clay pot, and after the sound was broken, a jar of lamp oil was poured on his chest, and he immediately felt bad. Where is this to seek revenge, it is clearly to kill people and set fires, he wanted to remind his subordinates, and was about to shout, but several porcelain bottles exploded around him, and the fire was together, and the original reminder became a scream.

When some splashes finally touched the temple gate, the third team piled up the outside with firewood early, and the raging fire didn't know how long it burned.

It didn't take long for the fire gong in the town to be struck, but the screams in the hall had gradually ceased.

According to Hu Feng's words, there are only about 20 firefighters in the three fire shops in this town, and they are all old and weak, such a big fire, if you don't wait for the general armor to come forward to gather the brave people of the township, it will take about ten minutes to arrive at the earliest. The observation post at the head of the wall was also reporting that the Taoist in the backyard was leading people to pour water on the door, but he didn't plan to come out. In this way, there were no witnesses, and Ma Qianhu carefully sorted out the actions of the party, and the situation summarized at each point was only a few porcelain bottles and bamboo tubes, and those things that caused fire would not arouse suspicion, and there were already a lot of piles here.

In this way, Ma Qianhu waited for a while, and after the hall was silent and the fire became bigger and bigger, he decisively waved his hand, and all the staff returned the same way, and the boat of Wan Tong was still waiting on the bank of the river not far away, and after everyone boarded the boat, they went all the way downstream.

After getting on the boat, everyone found a place to sit down and rest, leaving a team member to use high-powered night vision devices to continue to observe the movement in the direction of the Xianmian Temple, but it was also very calm.

Among these people, only Su Ji was still stunned, although he had not seen the things in the palace in person, but in such a short period of time, the people of the owner family were able to treat others in their own way, which really made him secretly cry out a few times in his heart.

And after calming down, he was shocked by the decisiveness of the proprietor and the ability of these families, and even the experience of following Hu Feng during the day to 'step on the spot' made him feel that this 10,000-pass person was very famous. He felt that he had finally made good fortune to keep up with such a proprietor, and not only to the workers very well, but also to give the workers a head start for these things, although he would not talk nonsense about the events of the night, but his heart was always happy.

And after experiencing this time, he also seemed to have vaguely grasped something, it turned out that things could still be done so happily, so he secretly made up his mind that once he got on the boat, he would never plan to get off in the future.

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