"As far as I know, it has only been in the past four or five years that the Youth Gang in Hongze Town has become a climate, and it was all scattered small boat gangs before. Four or five years ago, Qu Hong took control of a boat gang and slowly annexed several other small boat gangs, which later became the Qing Gang. This guy is insidious and cunning, quite means, has always controlled the transportation of grain, and has really made a lot of money. Over the years, we have often done business with him, but we have nothing to do with each other, but this time I don't know why I suddenly attacked him, and it has been quite puzzling so far. ”

Between the boats, Fei Bao told everyone about the Green Gang.

"Brother Fei Bao is right, this green gang became a trend four or five years ago." Shangguan Yi echoed.

"What is the origin of Qu Hongke, otherwise how can he control the trade of oil and water in the transportation of grain."

Gu Haotian knew that a big oil and water business like Caoyun would not last long if there was no official background.

Shangguan Yi and Fei Bao fell into deep thought together, and after a while, Fei Bao suddenly remembered something.

"I remembered an incident, that guy once went to Taihu Lake as a guest, drank too much wine, and boasted that he was a brother who had a life with the county master, I don't know if it's true or not."

"In my opinion, this statement is definitely true, and it just proves what the petty official just said." Xiao Jiasui immediately concluded that this statement was credible.

"Hongze Town is under the jurisdiction of Huaiyin County, and the Huaiyin County Order, as far as I know, has been transferred from other places in the past two years, so it shouldn't have much to do with Qu Hong."

Shangguan Yi thought about it for a while and felt that this matter was unlikely.

"Who was the Huaiyin County Commander four or five years ago?" Gu Haotian asked.

"It seems to have been transferred from out of town." Shangguan Yi recalled and said.

"That's weird." Gu Haotian was also quite puzzled in his heart.

"Hey, it's him." Shangguan Yi suddenly remembered someone.

"Who!" Several people looked at Shangguanyi together.

"Qiao Zhengxian is now the county commander of Xuyi, and five years ago he was the lord of Huaiyin."

"That is, he is correct, although the grain shipment is under the jurisdiction of the shipping envoy, but Qiao Zhubo is in charge of money and grain, and he is the head snake of the land, and the neighboring counties are all talking about it, and the shipping envoy is smooth transportation, and often has to borrow some face, if there are interests to come and go, then what can the main Bo do. Besides, now it's the county order again, and the county lord said it. ”

Xiao Jiasui knew the darkness of officialdom and decided that what Qu Hong said was Qiao Zhengxian.

"This is a little wrong again, but the transshipment place of the grain is in our Sizhou, and the county order does not move the Qing Gang to Xuyi County, but puts it in Hongze Town, isn't it in vain to increase the cost." Shangguan Yi had some incomprehensions.

"Otherwise, when he was in Huaiyin, he was not the chief official, and others couldn't think of him when he controlled Caoyun, but now he is the chief official here, but Caoyun is run by outsiders, and it has nothing to do with him, this is where he excels."

The rest of the people listened to Xiao Jiasui's analysis and also echoed it, but Gu Haotian thought more, if the speculation was true, then the matter of Zhao Zhuang, the grain ship robbed by Xiao Jiasui, and today's robbery on the lake, is there an intrinsic connection, he thought for a while, and felt that although there is no clear evidence at present, it is very possible, and he will only wait to go to Hongze Town to see it.

Due to a delay on the lake, it was not until late afternoon that the boat arrived in Hongze Town. The town is located on the shore of Osawa and is a veritable land and water wharf, and even during the disaster, there were many ships coming and going.

A few people walked along the lakeside street for a while, and Shangguan Yi pointed to a house and said that that place was where the Green Gang was located.

Gu Haotian looked in the direction he pointed, but the front was a two-story house, a gatehouse in front, in the middle of which was written "Hongze Boat Travel", and a couplet was written on both sides, the upper couplet said "The boat travels on the five lakes regardless of the east, west, north and south", and the lower link reads "Cargo through Jiuzhou regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter", and there are two men in Tsing Yi guarding under the gatehouse, and some people enter and exit from time to time.

"Little official, do you want to go in now?" Shangguan Yi asked.

"No need, everyone hasn't eaten at noon, so let's find a restaurant to have some wine and food first."

Gu Haotian knew that he could no longer use the ships of the Qing Gang to transport the victims, but he was not in a hurry.

Shangguan Yi was quite familiar with this place, and led everyone into a hotel next to it, chose a private room by the lake, ordered a table of lake fresh and bought two bottles of good wine, and several people were also hungry, so they ate and drank separately.

After a while, I heard that a few people also came in the private room next door, and then Xiao Er brought in wine and food. After that, there were successive conversations, Gu Haotian had a keen sense of six things, and at the beginning he heard the three sounds of "Three Gang Leaders", knowing that he was a member of the Green Gang, so he listened attentively.

"The three gang leaders went out to do things in the morning, and they haven't returned yet, the gang leader sent someone to look for that place for a while, only to see a mess of grass, and the rest of the news is missing, and now he is upset, Lai Er's house has no eyes, and he just took a big slap on the side."

"In our land, there are people who have calculated or not, and there are several times more people in the past, what can happen, I can't say that I have got a big bargain again, and I will be happy there."

"No, the three gang leaders won't be so impotent, you said that it's really strange recently, Naba Saburo took a boatload of grain to the west, and he should have come back, but there is no news so far."

"Hugh said, let's hurry up and eat, and go to the dock to take care of the boat."

Hearing this, there was no more sound, but Gu Haotian heard two important messages, the one who died in their hands in the morning should be the three gang leaders of the Qing Gang, and more importantly, another information, Xiao Jiasui robbed the owner of the boat, and it was Ba Sanlang unexpectedly.

Then Gu Haotian asked Shangguan Yi if he knew where the Qing Gang stopped the boat, and Shangguan Yi said that he knew. So after eating, Gu Haotian only went out with Bian Xiang and Shangguan Yi, and the rest went back to the boat first, especially Fei Bao was too conspicuous, and it would be a big trouble to expose the stuffing.

The boats of the Qing Gang are all parked in a river, Gu Haotian and the three of them as tourists, slowly walked over, only to see a large number of boats parked densely inside, roughly estimated, there must be forty or fifty, and they are all big ships, more than twice as large as the current ships in Liangshan, the large load is at least eight or nine hundred stones, and the small ones are also two or three hundred stones. Gu Haotian looked at it with enthusiasm, thinking that if there were these ships in Liangshan, why should he be so nervous about transporting the victims, he had to think of eating these ships. It was inconvenient for the three of them to stay longer, so they turned around and returned to the boat.

Along the way, Gu Haotian thought in his heart, since he couldn't come back empty-handed, it would be good to go into the Hongze boat tonight to explore, and now that the time was not there, he decided to go by himself. Although light skills are not as good as the times, since taking the Erxian Mountain Medicine Pill, he has also been confident in his kung fu after practicing hard for more than a year. When he returned to the ship, he called Shangguan Yi and Fei Bao, two people who had been to the Qing Gang, and inquired in detail about the relevant deployments inside.

Bian Xiang sensed Gu Haotian's intentions, and he didn't let him go even if he was killed, even Xiao Jiasui didn't approve of his danger. Gu Haotian said that in the end, Xiao Jiasui put forward a plan, using the Qinggang clothes that he took off in the morning, everyone pretended to be a gang, after Gu Haotian sneaked in, he first dealt with the guards at the back door, Bian Xiang and Yuan Lang guarded the back door, and Xiao Jiasui led everyone to respond to the door. If the backdoor control is smooth, Gu Haotian will continue to infiltrate, and if it doesn't go well, he plans to cancel the return.

Seeing that everyone valued themselves, Gu Haotian was also moved in his heart, so he opened his mouth and agreed.

At the beginning of that night, Gu Haotian thought that everyone would sleep if he went in late, and there was no news to explore, so he changed into the clothes of the Green Gang and led a group of people to disperse towards the backyard of the Green Gang.

In the middle of the night, it was rainy again, and there were no people on the road. When he arrived at a remote fence in the backyard, Bian Xiang stood against the wall, and Gu Haotian was about to step on his shoulder, but he saw Bian Xiang looking at him fixedly with a pair of tiger eyes, but there were two drops of crystal liquid shaking in the corner of his eyes in the dark.

Gu Haotian was moved in his heart, he patted Bian Xiang's shoulder, stood up, tapped Bian Xiang's shoulder with his toes, and jumped over the wall in one fell swoop.

The backyard of the Green Gang is not big, except for a courtyard gate, and there are only a few scattered trees in it. Gu Xitian happened to fall under a tree, he hid his body and watched for a while, and found no secret whistle, so he followed the wall and touched the courtyard gate.

There was no one in the courtyard gate, Gu Haotian immediately saw a line of light leaking on the side, and after a closer look, there was a gatehouse, so he sneaked over and listened to it, and immediately listened to the earth-shattering snoring, and tried to push the door, but it was not locked. Then he gently squeezed in, and saw that there were two dead pigs sleeping on the bed inside, and he knocked them twice on the necks with his palm and sent them into the Black Sweet Country. Thinking that this was too easy, he turned around and opened the door, and in a moment Bian Xiang and Yuan Lang came in.

"These two people take care of him, and it is useful to stop hurting his life." Gu Haotian whispered to the two of them, turned around and wanted to go in.

"Little official, if you don't come out for an hour, I don't care what happens, I'll bring someone to kill it." Behind him, Bian Xiang's deep voice came.

"Brother, just rest assured, I will come out on time." Gu Haotian sighed in his heart, and then burrowed into the ink-like rain curtain.

The residence of the leader of the Qing Gang was in the house of Erjin, Gu Haotian had already asked, and he didn't go anywhere else, so he sneaked there directly. There were also several groups of patrol officers walking along the way, but they all seemed to be routine, and Gu Haotian easily avoided them. Then he saw a light in a room on the second floor of the second floor of the house, and then he saw two guards guarding the stairs, and he thought that this was the place. When he was waiting for school, he was looking for a place to climb up to the roof, but he saw that the door of the room on the second floor suddenly opened, and under the light curtain, a one-armed man and a middle-aged scribe walked out.

"Remember, the helper, prepare your boat in five days and go there."

"Master rest assured, Qu knows in his heart, and he will not miss the master's business."

The two said goodbye at the staircase, the master went to the guest room with the two subordinates to rest, and the lights on the second floor were also extinguished, Gu Haotian secretly said that it was a pity, thinking that if he came a quarter of an hour earlier, I am afraid that he would also gain a lot. He dived for a few more moments, and when he saw that there was no more movement, he realized that there was no point in staying any longer, so he turned back. Along the way, he was preoccupied with the two sentences of dialogue, but when he entered the house after passing by, he accidentally kicked down the clay pot under the eaves to catch the rainwater. I only heard a crisp sound of "dang", which was particularly harsh in the quiet night.

"Who?"

Immediately, there was a loud shout from the house next to it, and then there seemed to be a sound of getting up.

Gu Haotian was also shocked, and blurted out a reply.