Chapter 21 Alone
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On the road from Liangwa Town to Baofeng County, this two-zhang wide road maintained by the big households in Liangwa Town is not worse than the official road in Lushan. As the porcelain-making center of Lushan County, Liangwa Town does not know how many truckloads of porcelain to be transported outside throughout the year. How can you walk on a bad road?
In the past two months, the bone china of the Chen family has become famous in Ruzhou, because of the output, the bone china has not yet threatened the status of Liangwa Town in the Lushan porcelain industry, but its edge has been seen by everyone.
Tumen bone china wins by quality, and they enter the market with unmistakable mid-range porcelain boutique price and style, and have been recognized by this market. Although Liangwa Town is the center of Lushan porcelain, 99% of their products are inferior coarse porcelain, and only some fine products can only reach the threshold of the mid-range, and the gap with Tumen bone china cannot be calculated.
As more and more bone meal, especially beef bone meal is sent into Tumen, the output of Tumen bone china is steadily increasing, and the accumulation of experience also makes the quality of Tumen bone china improve a little bit, and it will sooner or later replace the position of Liangwa Town in the Lushan porcelain industry. Or three years, or five years, it's just a matter of time.
To say that the entire Chen family's suspicion of the 'Chen Ming kidnapping incident' is the biggest one is the big porcelain manufacturers in Liangwa Town. Bone china recipes they should be the most urgently needed. In the past two months, they have sent people to Tumen more than once to contact the craftsmen and masters at the kiln in private. They were all taught a hard lesson by the Chen family and driven away.
It's a pity that the identities of the two corpses are from Qingtiaoling, Baofeng County, and the tails of the big families in Liangwa Town have not been found. But can this prove that the big porcelain families in Liangwa Town are innocent? .
Chen Hui only knew that there were five families surnamed Zhang, Ding, Xu, and Liang in Liangwa Town, and each of them seemed to have dealings with Qingtiaoling. There are three trade routes in Liangwa Town, one is to the north - Ruzhou, one is to the south - Nanyang, and then to the east - take the Shahe waterway.
Among these three outlets, Ruzhou is the most important trade route for porcelain in Liangwa Town, and 80% of the annual porcelain production in Liangwa Town is transported to Ruzhou. The weight of the two trade routes to the south and east is simply not comparable to that of Ruzhou.
Therefore, Qingtiaoling, which is located between the northbound trade roads, is a hurdle that Liangwa Town cannot bypass.
This wave of bandits hiding in Qingtiao Ridge and even being able to survive several encirclements and suppressions of the Green Camp are like a greedy sitting tiger, and whoever wants to pass through his sphere of influence will have to peel off a layer of skin. The five families of Liangwa Town have paid tribute to Qingtiaoling every year.
This is not collusion, but an unspoken rule, an unspoken rule that has been circulating in China for thousands of years. Otherwise, you think that the king of the mountain eats, drinks, and is dashing, and all depends on going down the mountain to rob.
You have to be clear, now is the heyday of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if the people on the Qingtiao Ridge frequently go down the mountain to loot, and are stabbed to Kaifeng City by a report, they don't need to go to Beijing, only under the order of the governor of Henan, even the king of heaven and Laozi can't protect them. Therefore, 'eating tribute' is the real foundation of maintaining the livelihood of Qingtiaoling.
At this moment, a group of people sent out by the five families of Liangwa Town are being surrounded by another group of people. Chen Erbao held the steel knife in his hand and looked at Liang Quan with hideous eyes, "The surname is Liang, leave all the things, and then roll back to Liangwa Town for Lao Tzu." ”
"Go and tell your lord that if you want to go to Qingtiaoling to pay a birthday to the person surnamed Zhao, you will take the money to Baofeng and Ruzhou for a birthday ceremony. Out of sight is pure, and my Chen family is not so domineering as to reach out and hook Baofeng and Ruzhou. But in this Lushan County, who dares to take a red box and carry a color box to Zhao Chuan's birthday, that is to slap my Chen family in the face! ”
"slapped the Chen family in the face, then don't blame the Chen family for not giving face."
Chen Erbao was recalled by Chen Hui from Xiangcheng as quickly as possible, and there were more than 30 big men who came back together. Now they are either holding bird guns, or wearing cuirasses, holding knives and guns, like robbers, they are surrounding the team of the five families of Liangwa Town who went to Qingtiaoling to worship their birthdays, although there are sixty or seventy people in the group worship team of the five families, how can these sixty or seventy people compare with Chen Erbao's group!
Chen Erbao has shotguns, knives and guns, and many people also wear iron armor, which is a cuirass made of a hydraulic forging hammer, weighing 10 catties. Because there is only one piece in the front, the back part is replaced with a rattan armor. It is almost half as light as the European cuirassiers of this era.
Chen Erbao's men and horses are all young and strong, everyone is five big and three thick, Kong Wu is powerful, and the 10-pound cuirass is not affected at all. And it gives them more confidence.
More than 20 people surrounded sixty or seventy people with knives and guns, all of them fierce and vicious, and regarded the people of Liangwa Town who were surrounded like chickens and dogs.
Liang Quan is Liang Xiancheng's housekeeper in the second Liang of Liangwa Town, and he is also a figure with a head and face in Liangwa Town on weekdays, and he was of course extremely annoyed when Chen Erbao pointed his nose and scolded him like this. But the situation is pressing, they are in a group of sixty or seventy people from five families, don't look at the number of people, but they didn't bring knives and guns at all, only the sticks in their hands can be used. On the other side, they want firearms and firearms, and iron armor and iron armor. Seriously, Liang Quan himself was stunned, it was not unusual for the Chen family to have shotguns, but the Chen family actually came out with iron armor. Daring, bold!
"Old man......" ran back to Liangwa Town in embarrassment, and Liang Quan looked at Liang Xiancheng. The Chen family has iron armor, and the Chen family has iron armor, this is a capital crime!
Liang Xiancheng sighed, "You go to the account office to allocate two hundred taels of silver, and take someone to Baofeng to buy a birthday gift." ”
"Old ??!!" Liang Quan looked at Liang Xiancheng in astonishment. Is that all?
"Or else? How do you want to? ”
"Go to the government to file a complaint? Is there any evidence that you can get your hands on? ”
"What do you think Yue Wenhai will believe in whatever you say?"
"The Chen family took out their firearms, took out their iron armor, and they were drawing a line -- they were playing for real. It's not a joke, it's not a momentary moment. The Chen family wants to drive out Qingtiaoling in Lushan County! ”
"The Liang family is a businessman, and businessmen make money. So I can make offerings to Qingtiao Ridge and worship Zhao Chuan. Then why can't you give the Chen family a face today? ”
"Is it my Liang family who can overpower the Chen family? Or is my Liang family's face louder than the Tumen Chen family in Lushan County? ”
Is Liang Xiancheng really angry in his heart? Angry that he could say so much to a housekeeper? He also has anger in his heart, but the situation is stronger than people. The Chen family has Chen Erbao's class of men who dare to fight, but the Liang family does not; The Chen family has Chen Hui's many years of operation in the county government, and he has the dignity in front of the county master, but the Liang family does not. In the final analysis, the Liang family is a businessman, a small businessman who has not yet completed the transformation into a gentry landlord.
Small businessmen may be rich, but they have no status in the Qing Dynasty.
If the five families surnamed Zhang, Ding, Xu, and Liang in Liangwa Town join forces thoroughly and sincerely, they will be able to fight with the Chen family. But Liang Xiancheng is absolutely unwilling to get involved, he is not a lonely person with no sources. In the past few days, the Chen family's attitude and the Chen family's suspicions about a certain aspect have long been reported to Liang Xiancheng.
Seriously, even Liang Xiancheng himself was a little suspicious that the use of Qingtiaoling's hands as minions and the kidnapping of the Chen family's only seedlings were not done by the other four families. Because the bone china involved in this is too closely related to the economic lifeline of Liangwa Town.
Anyway, Liang Xiancheng didn't do this, he just wants to be alone now, and admit it, but he is unwilling to join forces with the other four families who may do it. Don't fall into the crotch of your pants when the yellow mud comes, it's not but.