Chapter 293: Recruiting Thieves

Door-to-door delivery is an iron rule of doing business in ancient times, often after the business negotiation between the two parties, the seller organizes manpower to carry out the goods handling and deliver them to the place designated by the buyer. The whole process of delivery is in place, considerate, no additional fees, and its service quality is much better than today's certain pass and a certain Feng.

The term casual worker is not new, and when a firm has a big business, the shopkeeper will always instruct one or two small stewards to go outside and recruit laborers. Most of the recruited laborers are idlers in some county towns, or bankers who come from the countryside to find a job in the county town.

Most of these laborers do some coolies such as carrying goods, cooking and distributing porridge, and the merchants take care of their food and drink, and then give them a little money when the business is done, and then they are dismissed, and when there is a time to work next time, they will be recruited back, and so on, and so on.

Of course, coolies are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, such as moving goods and racks are the dirtiest and most tiring work, which is unbearable to do, and men without some strength can't do it at all. Cooking porridge is the easiest job, because it not only does not require too much effort, but also can eat and drink enough in advance, and it is a fat difference.

Zhang Meng stuffed a lot of copper coins into the steward in charge of labor before he got the fat difference for porridge. At noon that day, after distributing rice porridge to the laborers, he had diarrhea and got on the cargo ship from the dock alone, and began to look around.

After more than a day of handling, the cabin is almost full, and there are countless kinds of goods, but because different goods use different bags, although there are many goods, they also appear to be in order.

After Zhang Meng looked left and right, he walked to the front of a batch of goods, looked around and saw that there was no one around, and immediately untied a rope to wrap the goods, and suddenly the white rice flowed out. Zhang Meng grabbed a handful of rice, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, his eyes showed a trace of greed, and then he heard a voice coming, and quickly bandaged the rice bag again, and left in a hurry.

After leaving the cargo ship, Zhang Meng did not return to the place of porridge, but got on a fast boat with a warehouse, and after talking to the boatman for a few or three words, he left in a hurry on the boat.

Three hours later, it was getting late, and the clipper finally arrived on the island. Zhang Meng got off the boat with a tired face, and walked quickly towards the island by the moonlight.

Liusi Island used to be inhabited by people, about a fishing village of more than 100 people, and then the thieves came, and of course there were only thieves left on Liusi Island.

In the southeast near the coast, there is a village, although it is dark at this time, the village is also bright, all the high places are full of torches, bandits set up bonfires, around the bonfire to drink wine and barbecue, noisy, many of them are full of Dongying ronin, drinking and having fun.

A strong man walked to a table with a wine jar, poured the wine into the wine bowl on the table, and whispered in the ear of Huang Jiong, who was sitting at the table: "Huang Sanye, Zhang Meng is back, waiting in the lobby, saying that he has something important to report!" ”

Huang Qiao pursed his lips, nodded without a trace, picked up the wine bowl on the table, and drank it all. Then, he wiped his mouth carelessly and followed the strong man out of the hustle and bustle.

"Zhang Meng has seen the third master!"

As soon as Huang Wei walked into the lobby, Zhang Meng got up from his chair and bent down to greet Huang Jiong. He is just an ordinary bandit on Liusi Island, and Huang Qiang can easily decide his life and death if he says anything on the island, so he is not afraid of respect.

Huang Qiang glanced at him lightly, walked to the chair at the top of the lobby and sat down, "What's the matter?" ”

"Third master, there is a fat ......"

Zhang Meng said respectfully: "A few days ago, a big fat man came to Qingjiang County, and he made an extremely generous move, not only buying up the Qingjiang rice in the entire county, but also buying all kinds of goods, and tens of thousands of ...... of silver alone were scattered."

Huang Qiang smacked his lips and said, "Tens of thousands of taels of silver...... It's really a big fat head, have you found out where this person came from? ”

"Back to the third master, the villain invited a guy from the business in Qingjiang County to drink, and found out the truth of this person, this person's surname is Pan Mingfu, from Nanjing, is a rich man who has just gone out to take care of business.

If you want to talk about this person, he is really different from ordinary people, I heard that he has a solar eclipse of rice, a strong body, a big waist and a round waist, and a fat brain. The villain was curious for a while, and took a look at it from a distance, and sure enough, he was a famous person, and the powder in the kiln was far away, and his big belly was bigger than the mother-in-law who was pregnant for ten months......"

Zhang Meng said that he was rising, but found that Huang Kui glanced up at himself, and suddenly a spirit was excited, and said: "The third master forgives the sin, and the villain has said a lot......"

Zhang Meng saw that Huang Kui was speechless, breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "According to the business guy, this fat man Pan is a rich man, he used to be a son who didn't touch the spring water with ten fingers, and his father just died in the family a while ago, so he was forced to go out to do business.

After this Pan fat man arrived in Qingjiang County, he was like a boy who scattered money, spending money like running water, spending tens of thousands of taels of silver in just a few days, and the whole Qingjiang County knew about it, and now everyone looks at him as a fool.

However, the goods he bought were genuine, and the villain personally went on the ship to investigate, and the goods on the entire ship were good things, and they could be sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver as soon as they changed hands, and as for the silver taels carried by this fat man, I am afraid it could not be less. ”

Zhang Meng showed a trace of ruthlessness on his face, and said: "Third master, the villain also found out that Pan Fatzi is going to return to Nanjing by sea from Qingjiang County in the next two days, if you can eat him, our brothers on the island can also have a fat year this year......"

"What's the recent movement of that Qincha in Qingjiang County?"

Zhang Meng smiled and said: "That Qincha has been running in Qinchun Building a few days ago, since I bought the top card in Qinchun Building, I don't even go out every day, and now I am afraid that he has drunk to death in Gentle Township." ”

Huang Jiong said lightly, his fingers tapped on the table, he didn't know what he was thinking, and only after a while did he speak: "Go down and drink, if the news you brought back is true, this third master will inevitably reuse you in the future!" ”

Zhang Meng was overjoyed, and immediately swore to die for Huang Jiong, seeing Huang Jiong waved his hand, he respectfully retreated.

When he left, a handsome young man walked out of the compartment and sat on a chair casually, if he let the rest of the island see it, he would definitely be able to recognize that this young man was the son of the Jiang family who had been at odds with Huang Jiong on weekdays, because he was a concubine and was not liked by Jiang Entropy, so he was sent to the island.

"Uncle, Zhang Meng is the fourth person to come back to tell the truth, and what the previous three people said is the same, it seems that the news they brought back is true.

Uncle, are we going to do it? ”

Huang Kui nodded and said, "Naturally, we have to do it, if we don't secretly accumulate power, how can we fight with your uncle and your father?" The sea is our world, and the king of heaven can't control us, and there are many businessmen who die in the waves every year...... By the way, Huaiyuan, how are you getting along with Toyotomi? ”

Jiang Huaiyuan, the young master of the Jiang family, frowned and said: "No matter how close I am to Toyotomi, he doesn't pay much attention to me, and if we want to get Toyotomi's help in the future, I'm afraid it's impossible!"

Uncle, how did Huang Bing's old thief recruit Toyotomi in the first place? ”

Huang Jiong shook his head and said: "I don't know the specific situation, it seems that Huang Bing saved Toyotomi's life...... Don't care about him first, I'll go out of the island to fish in the past two days, you stabilize Toyotomi, don't let him spoil our business, wait for me to come back, and then worry about him ......" I want to talk about "Daming Qingshi" with more like-minded people, WeChat pay attention to "excellent reading literature", talk about life, find a confidant~