Zhao Xinggang said to Simao: "This boat, and all the people on this boat belong to you, take the brothers to do a good job for the yamen."

Simao is so alert, he has already discovered that everyone's faces are wrong, although he doesn't know the reason, but he has roughly guessed a few points, maybe there is a story behind this boat, although he understands it in his heart, he still pretends to be confused on his face: "Apprentice remember Master Zhao's teachings." As he spoke, he saluted.

"Senior Brother Zhao is so generous, he deserves to be the only one in San'an!" Lu Huzi took the lead in opening his mouth, and the four words "San'an is dominant" were bitten very hard, and there was a drag sound.

Zhao Xinggang remained silent, and said with a tense face: "Don't dare to be the only one, you can still afford to send the boat, as long as you don't let friends in the rivers and lakes laugh at it."

"It's beautiful, it's a boat, why didn't you say these cool words when you killed your fellow disciples for this boat?" Lu Huzi immediately retorted.

Zhao Xinggang's reaction speed was not slow: "Is that what the is going on?" Talking about hitting hard and grabbing Lao Tzu's anchor, he will not let a single one, and the rust will sink in the dock of Lao Tzu's house if he wears through the Shen River. Talking about friendship, Lao Tzu gave away the whole boat without blinking, just beat *** or not. ”

"Zhao Xinggang, you took the opportunity to smash Lao Tzu's face today, right? Who the fuck are you? Lao Tzu is your Lao Tzu........"

Yan Xingji, Liu Heipi and Liu Ba and others saw that the opportunity was wrong, and immediately swarmed up, and after separating the two, they pulled and dragged and dragged them into different cabins, and the solemn and solemn scene just now was immediately shattered into chicken feathers.

Simao grew up on the side, and his mouth couldn't close for a long time, angry and funny. It's angry that pies won't fall out of thin air in the sky, and it seems that there must be some pit buried on this boat, maybe it's a hot potato. The laughing thing is that these two gangsters are the same as the rogue gangsters on the street, when they are scolded on the street, Lao Tzu before and after Lao Tzu, and the scene in their imagination does not match at all!

When he was thinking about it, Simao saw Liu Heipi coming out of the cabin at a glance, and immediately pasted it over, and asked quietly: "Uncle Heipi, you have to help me, can this boat not be accepted?" We can't do anything about Mars! ”

Liu Heipi looked at Simao carefully, and only spoke for a long time: "Have you heard any rumors about this boat?"

Simao smiled bitterly: "Where is this, I have been blowing the north wind all morning, and no one has told me what mysteries are buried in this boat, and I am not a prophet of immortal intelligence." But Uncle Heipi, your question is true, this ship is a bane, I resolutely don't want it, or I will give it to you in front of several masters? ”

When Liu Heipi heard this, he couldn't cry or laugh: "I can understand it, Lao Yan really doesn't know whether it is a blessing or a curse to accept you as a closed apprentice." Your kid is a loach that sees cheapness, hides when he sees trouble, and pits when he sees people. ”

Simao grinned and said: "Look at what you said, you are an elder in the gang, and you are highly respected, I can't rely on your big tree to enjoy the shade when I first arrive, right?" How dare you have a cheating on your mind. ”

"Less sycophants." Liu Heipi said with a straight face: "There is a sentence you remember, no matter what grievances and entanglements there are between your three masters, it has nothing to do with you, and you can't meddle and stir up, one generation will take care of the affairs of one generation." You must be sincere to each master and follow the teacher's orders. ”

"Understood, the first master fights with each other, I can only stand by and watch, don't get involved. The second master hit others, and I had to rush into the head. ”

Liu Heipi frowned: "Why does it become unhumane when it comes to your kid's mouth?"

Simao smiled and said, "Uncle Heipi, to be serious, can you tell me about the things behind this boat?" I can't be cheated and still have a foolish account, right? ”

"I didn't expect that your Master Zhao would use this boat to make a fuss today, this boat can carry several lives!" Liu Heipi sighed and told Simao the ins and outs of this boat, in fact, the root lies in the conflict of interests.

Although the Cao Gang is a gang organization, there is still a difference between the underworld and the underworld. His official identity is a large logistics group composed of loose small logistics companies, the largest customer is the Qing government, the main goods of logistics are grain and salt, the direct destination of logistics is Beijing, and the delivery place of logistics is all over the provinces, so the problem comes, first of all, logistics tools, that is, where does the ship come from? During the Ming Dynasty, the transportation was in charge of the troops, and the ships were of course given money and distributed by the central government, so the largest shipbuilding base in the world was formed in Qingjiangpu in Huai'an. Since it is the era of big pot rice, no one will think that they have fewer boats, because there are fewer boats, so they don't have to work more. But in the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court outsourced logistics, and the era of big pot rice came to an end. Of course, this distribution rule is still a bit complicated, such as buying a part of the ship, a part of the local yamen, and then a part of the money and grain from various fires, and a part of the logistics company, but these are not important, the important thing is that there is a ship and there is business, and there is business and silver, so the second problem is immediately followed, each logistics company in order to grab more business, more land, The battle for the ships began to intensify, and in the end, the human brains became dog brains, and even the government could not figure it out.

The Cao Gang of the three towns of Chukou and the Cao Gang of Jiabai were originally three logistics companies next to each other, and the supervision and distribution of the Cao boat belonged to the Jiangning Shipbuilding under the Yamen, the governor of Huai'an Caoyun, and during the Yongzheng period, the government-run shipbuilding gradually declined because there was no full appropriation from the central government, and sometimes a new ship could not be added a year, so in the case of more wolves and less meat, the tearing war rose to close hand-to-hand combat. At the beginning of last year, the Jiangning shipmaster finally came out with a new ship of 3,000 stones, and the three Cao gang bosses began to spend money in the shipmaster's office, and they did not give in to each other.

The bosses of the three logistics companies pinched each other behind closed doors for a day, each did not give in, and could not talk about the results, and finally Zhao Xinggang proposed a way, willing to take out eighty percent of the freight of the ship to the two families, divided into three years, three years later, two clear, and willing to set up the following calligraphy and painting pledge. Yan Xingji and Lu Huzi settled the accounts, and the ship was in their own hands and then pasted people to chew grain, which could not make much more than this method, and when the three years arrived, the maintenance of the ship had to be affixed with a lot of expenses, rather than working hard, it was better to earn less, and eat for nothing and get it for nothing, so he nodded.