Zhang Zhongde, who was short and sturdy, had a flat face, and returned the salute to the other party.

"Everybody, please get out of the car." The guard in the town said: "The Chamber of Commerce has issued a convening order, which is licensed by our prince, and the Chamber of Commerce can convene the Chamber of Commerce to conduct group exercises, and the guards, including the soldiers of the government who are visiting relatives and returning home." ”

Lu Wenluo got out of the car first, and behind him were many government soldiers, and of course Zhang Zhongde was the only one among the guards.

When getting off the car and lining up, Zhang Zhongde could only line up alone, and he couldn't help but shrink his head.

"What happened?" Lu Wenluo said to the guards in the town: "We also discussed the affairs of Jianzhou before, but we also know that the bandits on the Jianzhou side dare not come to Nan'an, and now they have become bolder?" And the Chamber of Commerce, can the Chamber of Commerce command our army? ”

"There will be officials from the other courtyards coming, so you can wait."

Lu Wenluo and the others could only wait, and the bustling crowd in the town suddenly disappeared, and most of the people ran to the west of the town.

A group of government soldiers were anxious with fire on their heads, but fortunately, after a while, a large group of left-behind government soldiers came out from the courtyard in the east of the town, which was of course called group training, about more than 100 people, and more than 200 guards.

The commander of the left-behind army was originally Wu Weisan, and now he has changed to Gao Huairen, an old general from another courtyard, who has always been Wu Weisan's deputy, and his martial arts are excellent and energetic, which is more than enough to train recruits and stay behind.

The military camp of Gao Huai Renjia Mansion is under the command of him, and the rank is not low, and the guards are also under his command, and the other two are cooperating.

Amid the loud sound of military trumpets, everyone turned their faces to the left and lined up in order.

After the queue was arranged, another officer gave the order, and everyone sat down on the spot and waited for the military order.

Gao Huairen glanced at the government army who came back to visit relatives, and grinned: "I told you to hurry, but don't worry, we are cooperating with the Chamber of Commerce to practice, and if we really fight, those dogs are not our opponents." ”

The officers began to gather, each leaning on their swords and laughing, and it seemed that it really didn't matter.

Lu Wenluo and the others also relaxed, and Zhou Huaiyong said to a government soldier beside him: "What happened?" ”

"There is a group of people called the Jianzhou General Regiment in Jianzhou City, and they set up tax cards on the spot from Nan'an to Shuikou, my mother-in-law, but we have been miserable."

Everyone became interested, and Lu Wenluo said: "What is the general group, is it because the Jianzhou mines have been crossed, and there are too many bandits over there, and the group is bombing the place?" ”

The government army in the town spat and scolded: "If you bomb a bird, they will bully good deeds, first search for passing merchants, collect taxes, and then collect money from all passers-by, and never let any of them go." If there is a slight mistake, they will beat and scold people, and now they simply collect donations during the day and pretend to be bandits to rob and kill people at night, which has become a scourge in Jianzhou and our Nan'an area. ”

"If it's like this, the government doesn't care? Who got this state-building group? ”

"It's not the Li brothers' pair of dogs? Feudal official? The benefits of their looting and looting were not given to the prefect of the king, which government would take care of it? Fu Jun was also very angry when he mentioned this, and he spat and scolded.

"That's right!" The Nan'an Mansion army sat upright, raised his face and said, "Before, except for the people from our Nan'an Hou Mansion, they stopped everyone. Recently, they have become bolder, and our carriages, horses and people have been stopped a few times, can we let him? I've fought with them a few times, and if it weren't for the pressure from above, we would have slaughtered these beasts a long time ago. ”

When they heard this, they were furious.

"Nan'anhou Mansion they stopped and tried, and the was all beaten out for them."

"This is really fucking fun, Jianzhou to Nan'an Town, who dares to mess with us?"

"Who are the Li brothers?"

"Li Fuwen, Li Fuwu, was originally the owner of the mine in Jianzhou, and he was not good at running the mine, but he later voted for Wang Yue, and the Wang prefect handed over the mining plants to them to operate, and they ran a yellow man, and now they have a general regiment, saying that it is to protect the mine and impeach and suppress the bandits, but in fact, it is to collect donations and rob the people's property." The government army is a native of Taniguchi, originally a native of Jian'an County, Jianzhou, and when he mentioned the matter of Jianzhou, his chest rose and fell in anger, and he was already really angry.

Everyone is either from Nan'an, or from Shuikou or Gukou, and when they mention the establishment of the state, they all shake their heads and sigh, or their faces are full of anger.

"You don't have to be able to call us out." The soldiers of the government army in Gukou Town said to Zhang Zhongde, Zhou Huaiyong, Lu Wenluo and others: "We have gathered many times, and the Jianzhou General Regiment has threatened to go to Nan'an many times to search for bandits. ”

"It's better to be on the move." Lu Wenluo gritted his teeth and said: "Although Lao Tzu is on vacation, he doesn't mind letting his horizontal knife see blood." ”

……

"That's nonsense, both of you." Yang Shizhi, Wei Jiuzhen, Lin Dingyi and others sat on the left side of the hall, and on the other side, Li Fuwen, Li Fuwen, Yang Zhao and other people from the Jianzhou General Regiment were seated.

Lin Dingyi is the head of the Chamber of Commerce, originally this position was of course Xu Zi sat first, and later Xu Zi first became a marquis, and became a court official, and this position was given to Lin Dingyi.

On such an occasion, Lin Dingyi was inconvenient to speak, so he just sat in the official hat chair and looked at the few opposite with cold eyes.

The Li brothers were originally considered to be a merchant family, but both of them were not good at learning, fighting cocks and dogs, drinking and playing money, they were good at such things, and they couldn't do serious things.

If it weren't for Wang Yue, I wouldn't know where to beg for food now.

Both of them were wearing cross-collared silk shirts, one yellow and one red, and both were embroidered with flowers, which looked extremely vulgar.

Yang Shizhi, Wei Jiuzhen, are all official gentry and wealthy businessmen with status, how can they look at the person opposite, Wei Jiuzhen did not speak, Yang Shizhi deliberately crossed his legs, and then said: "Say that there are fugitives, and there are no sea fishing documents, that is, there are sea fishing documents, this chamber of commerce is not an official government, and you are not a person in the official government, but a group training, how can you have any qualifications to arrest people?" This chamber of commerce is really difficult to obey, and there is no need to mention the matter of the general group entering Nan'an. ”

The atmosphere became very weird, Yang Zhao's eyes were red, and the beard on his chin stood up, he was a very brutal person, he had killed and injured people many times, and he was a well-known bully in the township.

This time, with an excuse, everyone gathered more than 1,000 people, and they were going to rush directly into Nan'an to search for fugitives, but the Li family brothers said that the chamber of commerce here was not easy to provoke, and they came to talk about it with the prefect's court, but the other party didn't give any face.

Think about it in Jianzhou, where did everyone experience such a bird spirit?

Wang Yue's post, whether it is an official gentry or a wealthy businessman, they are all going to be scared, and it is too late to flatter a few of them, who dares to be so hard-topped?

The Jianzhou General Regiment has become Wang Yue's private army, and more and more van troops have been reorganized into the General Regiment, and the number of the General Regiment is expanding dramatically.

For a while, Wang Yue put donation cards on several important official roads in Xianxia Pass, Gukou, Tingzhou and Shao Wujun, under the pretext that there were many bandits in the local area and began to collect group practice donations, which could have collected thousands of dollars every day, and everyone made a fortune from top to bottom.

As a result, in less than two months, business travel in Jianzhou was almost cut off, and the tax contribution of the general group dropped from a few thousand yuan a day to less than a thousand yuan, or even less than 100 yuan.

The big head also asked Wang Yue and his cronies to take it away, and the Li brothers and Yang Zhao and others didn't have a few dollars left, so they simply collected donations during the day and looted at night, resulting in the extinction of business travel in Jianzhou, and the people were forced to settle down to protect themselves, and the local people were already struggling to make a living.

These people do not reflect on their own killing of chickens and eggs, but envy the prosperity and wealth of Nan'an, as well as the stability and even growth of Nan'an's group donation.

Due to the chaos of Jianzhou, the business travel here in Nan'an Town has increased, there are many businessmen who originally wanted to go to Jianzhou, or through Jianzhou to moor in Nan'an, they buy goods here in Nan'an, although the cost will go up a lot, but compared to the tax cards and bandits everywhere in Jianzhou, it is much safer here in Nan'an.

What's more, the chamber of commerce here in Nan'an has expanded, from the original building of dock warehouses to now become a guild organization to safeguard the interests of local merchants, which makes many big businessmen join it, and then small and medium-sized businessmen are also eager to join.

The Chamber of Commerce has also received unreserved support from the Nan'an Hou Mansion, which allows the Chamber of Commerce to organize its own group exercises, and if the Chamber of Commerce needs urgent help, after the directors issue an order, the Nan'an Mansion Army stationed in the Houfu Annex, as well as the guards who maintain the security of the Guanzhuang to the Annex, will also obey the command of the Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, this made the waists of Yang Shizhi and Lin Dingyi and others stiffen, at least in the face of the scoundrels in front of them, Yang Shizhi and Lin Dingyi were not even interested in perfunctory at all.

"Okay, very." Li Fuwen is the leader of the group, more than thirty years old, born with a roe deer's head and rat eyes, and his temperament is also quite obscene, he stood up at the moment and said: "Since it is said that Nan'an has no fugitives, let's not come in first, but if we find it outside the town, don't blame us for not giving Nan'an face." ”

Yang Shizhi said coldly: "Listen to it." ”

Several Jianzhou people rushed out of the yard, and in front of this place was the wharf, and there were patches of warehouse areas on the left and right sides.

Due to special reasons, there are several times more stops here than usual.

The wharf was full of large seagoing vessels moored, some of which were unloading their cargo, and the men carried the goods to the warehouse.

The storeroom area was almost invisible, and everyone knew that the tall stone houses were full of valuable goods.

The Li family brothers, Yang Zhao and others met with the attaché, everyone's eyes were extremely greedy, Yang Chao's eyes were red and said: "If we gather three or four thousand people, can we rob all of this place?" ”

"There is the Nan'an Army."

"It's just a hundred and ten people, and Nan Anhou is not here."

Yang Qiu's throat rolled twice, indeed a little jealous and afraid.

In the first battle of the river beach that year, Yang Zhao was one of the hired foreign rangers, who claimed to be rangers, but in fact, they did not produce every day, did nothing to make trouble, engaged in various illegal activities, and obtained benefits from them. What kind of chivalrous righteousness is not a shadow at all, Yang Zhao's favorite thing is to press the sword every day, at the door of the good business house, the businessmen in order to keep safe, generally will give some benefits, to avoid trouble, such as the Nan'an Chamber of Commerce such a tough place, Yang Zhao is still the first time in his life to see.

Thinking of this, the blood in the body of this former ranger scoundrel is qi was boiling, and he wanted to rush to the hall now, and chop those merchants into pieces with his sword.

"Brother Yang, don't be impulsive." Li Fuwen said to Yang: "We really want to arrest the fugitive named Wang Xinyuan this time, and we don't care too much about other things." ”

"What the hell does it matter with that bird?"

"The people here are not too clear, and I don't know very well, I know that this person came out of the house of Yang Dafu in Fucheng, and our Wang Governor wants to ask him to meet, ask about the situation in Fucheng, and take a look at which concubine by the way, but this guy has a stinky temper and refuses to come to the door. But he refused to come to the door, so he went into the sea to catch the clerks and take him...... By the way, Fucheng, Zhang, and Quanzhou are all under martial law, doesn't Brother Yang know the reason? ”

"Didn't you say there were pirates coming to attack the side?"

"Pirates aren't coming here." Li Fuwen smiled very proudly and said: "It's just an empty cannon set up in Fucheng, damn it, these big people look high-sounding, but in fact, they are also a damn belly of bad water." ”

Yang Yu was taken aback and said, "The pirates went to the Eastern Domain?" ”

"Yes." Li Fuwen squeezed his eyes and said with a smile: "Now let's call these guys proud for a while, as soon as the foundation of the Eastern Domain of Nan'an Hou Mansion falls, this side will become fat meat that everyone wants to eat." Lord Wang told me that when the time comes, let's not talk about any legal rules and regulations, and at night, under the pretext of chasing bandits, we will rush in with thousands of people and rob him of his essence. This side belongs to Fuzhou, even if the group practices donations, and runs a dock warehouse, this daily benefit is not up to us, grab a fine light, and then burn it, destroy the traces, and then put the benefits in hand. ”

Yang Zhao said gloomily: "When the time comes, I will cut Lin Dingyi and Yang Shizhi with a knife, and ask someone to kill their entire family in front of them." ”

"It's the little things." Li Fuwen smiled indifferently, revealing a mouthful of white teeth: "Isn't this kind of thing our brother's favorite thing to do?" We've done a lot of it. ”

Several scoundrels in official robes looked at each other, and then laughed together.

……

"Brother Wei is from Fucheng, what is the latest news?"

"Not yet."

Wei Jiuru said to Lin Dingyi and Yang Shizhi: "The thief is going to the Eastern Domain, this can be determined." However, there is no new news about Nan'anhou's condition, and the only thing that can be determined is that there has been no major change in the Eastern Domain for the time being. ”

Lin Dingyi and Yang Shizhi glanced at each other, and they could see the worry in each other's eyes.

They are very grateful to Xu Zixian for supporting the Chamber of Commerce, just a few scoundrels came in, and more than 200 group training personnel of the Chamber of Commerce were on guard, which was the confidence of the Chamber of Commerce.

Many small and medium-sized businessmen are willing to join it when they see that the Chamber of Commerce has such confidence, although they have to pay a certain percentage of membership fees every year, but in comparison, everyone is still willing to join it.

And where the real confidence of the chamber of commerce lies is not the group training of these chambers of commerce in front of them, nor the more than 100 government troops in the town, but Nan'anhou who is far away on the Eastern Domain.

Touching the Nan'an Chamber of Commerce is equivalent to reaching out to Nan'an Hou, and you should be careful to meet Xu Zixian head-on...... This is an adventure that King Zhao is not willing to try.

"The news is confusing." Lin Dingyi smiled bitterly and said: "The soldiers of the government army who have returned to Nan'an for vacation in the past two days should be the last batch to come today, and there will be no more after that, the pirates will invade the territory, and they will not release people back to Nan'an." I'll send someone to inquire, but I guess they don't know anything. ”

"Now you can only calm down and don't panic." Wei Jiuzhen said in a deep voice: "We have contacted many parties, and the Marquis of Changwen Mansion has never planned to give up, and most of the rest of the families still support the Marquis Mansion of Nan'an. The prince is in his prime, and he should be fine. ”

Yang Shizhi said: "Do you want to send more people to find that doctor named Wang Xinyuan?" ”

"No need." Lin Dingyi said in a daze: "He doesn't know where to hide now, but he really met him, and he really did it with the Jianzhou Tuanlian?" It's just a doctor, Yang Dafu thinks he's useful, in fact, there are dozens of famous doctors in the Eastern Domain, and a doctor can rejuvenate himself? I don't think I need to rush to the doctor. ”

"Yes."

Wei Jiuzhen also said: "If you encounter it, hurry up and send it to the Eastern Domain, in two days I am afraid that no ship will dare to go over, pirates can come at any time these days, now I see that the Min River is full of sea ships taking refuge, and there are a lot of hiding here." If the Eastern Domain can survive, these sea ships may hide in the Eastern Domain in the future, if they dock in Quanzhou in the future, or take refuge in Mingzhou, Minjiang, and Jiangling. ”

Everyone is nodding, that's obvious.

This time, the two major pirate leaders led the main force to attack, if the Eastern Domain could survive, under the premise that the Great Wei Naval Division had been abolished, the coastal defense power would fall into the hands of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and the Eastern Domain would be the safest port in the entire southern Wei Dynasty.

This gold-lettered signboard can only be hung up if it is filled with human lives.

This battle must not only be fought, but also fought beautifully, not only to win, but also not to pay too much price.

If everything goes well, the operation of the Eastern Domain by the Nan'an Hou Mansion will quickly leap to a big step.

Yang Shizhi looked up to the sky and sighed, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to have deepened a little: "If the prince is not sick, it will be fine." ”

The Nan'an Chamber of Commerce is usually presided over by Yang Shizhi and Lin Dingyi, and there are several veteran directors, and everyone is discussing many affairs in the port warehouse area. But Yang Shizhi's sigh still made people understand, no matter what, the real core of this chamber of commerce is still Nan Anhou.

"It's going to be fine." Lin Dingyi seems to have added a few more gray hairs, and the previous personable businessman was also a rare bitter face, the Nan'an Chamber of Commerce and Nan'an Hou were very deeply bound, and now Lin Dingyi's income, a large part of the Lin family's income comes from Nan'an.

The Lin family's shipyard was also cooperating with the Dongfan Shipyard, and at this time, Lin Dingyi's family also bought and sold tea, as well as salt and sugar, which were all big deals to cooperate with the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

If the Eastern Domain crosses, there is really no hope for the future.

The two great merchants stood up, walked to the offering table in the main hall, offered incense to the bronze statue of the Bodhisattva to be enshrined, and prayed sincerely.