"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!" Any gang has its own economic base, and without these economic bases, what can they do to maintain such a large personnel expenditure? They either control a certain industry, or occupy a certain trade route, or own a large piece of land, the Salt Gang belongs to the first type, the Pai Gang and the Tea Horse Gang in western Sichuan belong to the second type, and the former Shaolin and Wudang belong to the third type, and Chen Jialuo's treatment of these three gangs is also different.

The first is to protect as much as possible, those skilled workers under their command are rare wealth, so the Red Flower Society will not only not deal with them, but also provide them with technical support, and urge them to restructure, gradually spin them out of the rivers and lakes to form a modern company, so as to develop and expand their own industry.

The second depends on the situation, if it is just to occupy one side to extort business travel, it must be severely cracked down, if it is able to rely on its own strength to transport goods like the Pai Gang and the Tea Horse Gang, then it is necessary to support, after all, Chen Jialuo is the body understands the huge role of the logistics industry in promoting business and the economy, of course, they also have to restructure, strip off the identity of the rivers and lakes, and reorganize into a modern company; Presumably, without the oppression of the government and bandits along the road, their profits will also increase a lot.

As for the third one, it is not as good as the first two, if they can hand over a large amount of land that they can't use like Wudang, the court will not be stingy to give them a promotion in status, and guide them to invest their savings over the years into commercial activities, and their silver is also indispensable; If they still stubbornly hold on to the land, then they have to settle the accounts, presumably in the process of land management in the past, these sects have also done usury, forced tenants to die, and robbed people's daughters, then what awaits them is only a tragic end.

Before leaving, Wang Dajiang and others made an in-depth investigation and analysis of the Jianghu sects in Shuzhong, and classified these gangs according to the three types mentioned above. Then different response plans were formulated according to the classification, and the experience of the Pai Gang, the Dock Gang and the Salt Gang taught them that these methods are all feasible, no matter how lofty the righteousness of the rivers and lakes is, after all, it is not as attractive as the real benefits.

After the Salt Gang saw the trap salt making technology mastered by the Red Flower Society, they could no longer sit still, and Wang Dajiang followed the knowledge he had learned in Cheng Huaixiu's salt factory. Helping the salt to improve the salt production process, the quality and weight of salt production have been greatly improved, although it is still far from the level of the safflower society, but it is enough to prove that the process Wang Dajiang said is indeed true!

The Salt Gang had no doubts about Wang Dajiang, and immediately agreed to all the conditions put forward by Wang Dajiang, and they couldn't wait for the people of the Red Flower Society to come over, so they immediately selected a few loyal and reliable backbones of the gang with rich experience in salt making, and went to Nanjing to meet the Red Flower Society with the letter written by Wang Dajiang, wanting to start learning the advanced salt-making process immediately.

Get out of the Salt Gang. Wuchen Dao Chang and Chang's Shuangxia were convinced, and then on the way, they just used their own names to knock on the doors of each gang, and when they met the heads of each sect, the rest of the matter was handed over to Wang Dajiang and others.

With real interests in their hands, they are naturally invincible, and in the end, they have just entered the sphere of influence of a certain gang, and they are not ready to visit them. The leaders of the gangs waited at the border to meet them.

"Rest assured, although my Red Flower Society occupies Yunnan. Where the horses can get the tea-making technology in our meeting, the output of tea has indeed increased a lot, but we still know that your life is not easy, and we have not increased the share of tea transportation from Yunnan to Tibet! You still have business to do this year! In the negotiation with the Tea Horse Gang, Wang Dajiang said.

The Tea Horse Gang was divided into three forces. One was from Shaanxi to Gansu, and this route was still within the sphere of influence of the Qing court; One is from Kangding to Tibet, which is currently occupied by gangs that are negotiating with Wang Dajiang; The last one is from Erhai Lake to Lijiang to Tubo, which has now become an industry in the territory of the Red Flower Society, where the Tea Horse Gang is undergoing corporatization and reorganization. This line has the same destination as the Kangding line, and it is commercially competitive.

"Your Majesty has mercy on us and others, it is really benevolent and righteous!" The leader of the Tea Horse Gang hurriedly bowed in the direction of Nanjing to express his gratitude, and after getting up, he asked, "I have seen a few pieces of brick tea from Yunnan, and it is indeed better than ours; Therefore, this year, thanks to His Majesty's kindness, the share of Yunnan sent to Tibet has not been raised, but the price has still been pressed a lot by the Tibetans; I don't know what we need to do, Your Majesty will give us such technology? ”

"That's easier said than done!" , Wang Dajiang said skillfully, "I only need to help lead the way when my army enters Shu, and inquire about the distribution of the military strength of the Tartars; The second is to reorganize the gang into a company like the one in Yunnan! ”

"Yunnan is changing with each passing day, I have long wanted to do it, but I didn't dare to do it for a while without anyone to guide me!" , the Tea Horse Gang, which has competitors here, agreed to be even more neat, and finalized the cooperation in a few words.

"That's it?" When Wang Dajiang was talking to the bigwigs, he was boasting about his heroic deeds in the rivers and lakes with the escorts sent by the other party, but he was also very happy, and he just said that he was fighting the Qing army in the northwest, and he was inevitably a little depressed when he was interrupted when he was up.

The group entered Sichuan from Qutang Gorge, all the way from east to west, and now it is about to end when they arrive at the Tea Horse Gang, and then they should enter Yunnan and return to Nanjing from Yunnan.

By the time they returned to Nanjing, the intelligence department had already connected with the gang they had contacted before, and intelligence was sent from all over the country, and the distribution of the Qing army in Shu was exposed.

Based on this information, the General Staff formulated a corresponding battle plan, and all kinds of munitions were also transported to Shu under the cover of these gangs, and handed over to the Red Flower Society congregations such as Xian Xideng, Chen Boliu, and other members who had been lurking in Shu for many years and had developed a lot of power.

Although Ah Gui and other Qing army members noticed some clues, they did not have enough personnel to stop them, so they had to be vigilant against the attack of the Red Flower Society, and at the same time send their cronies to protect the main road from eastern Sichuan to Hanzhong. (To be continued......)