Chapter 68: Entering the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce
Jeolla Chamber of Commerce is one of the two largest chambers of commerce of the North Koreans in Shuangyu Port, because most of the chambers of commerce are from Jeolla Province of the Joseon Dynasty, so it is named Jeolla, the president of the chamber of commerce is named Park Yuanjiang, is a middle-aged man with exquisite faces, and used to rely on desperately slapping up the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in order to survive under the pressure of many Japanese people in Beigang, but unfortunately as soon as the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce fell, he immediately changed his face, and turned to unite with the other two Japanese chambers of commerce with equal strength to carve up the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.
Park Yuanjiang took a fancy to the port in the hands of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, originally he wanted to annex Uncle Camel who held the interests of the port, but unfortunately the Ise Chamber of Commerce's Ise Likang relied on his strength to be a little stronger than him, plus the Shangquan Chamber of Commerce also helped the same Japanese Ishirikang, as a result, Park Yuanjiang had to retreat to the next best and turned his target to Sun Tong, Sun Tong's hands also controlled a part of the port's berths, although less is less, but it is better than nothing.
Today, Park Yuanjiang is very happy, because just this afternoon, Sun Tong sent him a message, asking him to have a good talk at the port tomorrow morning, and listening to the meaning of the other party's words, it seems that he has already taken the initiative to offer the port, which makes Park Yuanjiang feel that a big stone in his heart has finally fallen to the ground. It's a pity that he didn't know it, this was just an expedient measure by Zhou Chong to let him relax his vigilance, and the effect was beyond Zhou Chong's expectations.
In the evening, Park Yuanjiang invited several stewards from the Chamber of Commerce to prepare a table of good dishes, and a few dancers brought from North Korea to accompany them. However, just when Fu Yuanjiang was lying on the bed and falling asleep, the two groups of people led by Zheng Ling and Sun Tong had already touched the front of the gate on both sides of the water and land.
There are two exits in the port of Shuizhai, one in and one out at ordinary times, and there are sluices at each exit, and generally at night, the sluices will fall, and there are guards patrolling the towers on both sides. However, after all, the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce is only a group of Korean smugglers, and there are very few people who make trouble in Shuangyu Port, so the guards in the water village are also very lax, when Zheng Ling and their ships quietly approached the water village, the guards on the tower were dozing off with their weapons, and they didn't even notice that someone had touched them below.
Seeing that the guards in the water village were so lax, Zheng Ling was also happy, only to see him wave his hand, Zheng Longhai and a few brothers with good skills behind him immediately climbed up along the wooden wall of the water village, and soon climbed to the high tower where the guards were napping, and then suddenly turned over and jumped into the tower, his left arm wrapped around his neck, and the dagger in his right hand swiped on his neck, and a stream of blood spurted out, and there were two guards in each tower, but unfortunately they were all killed in less than a moment.
After solving the guards, the people below immediately turned over the gate of the wall, and then opened the sluice gate to let the outside boats quietly enter, and then put down the sluice again, and destroyed the sluice, because according to Zhou Chong's order, the entire Jeolla Chamber of Commerce could not let go of a single person!
Just when Zheng Ling and his people finally broke into the port of Shuizhai, Sun Tong on land finally started to act, and the two of them acted almost identically, they both sent good hands to touch the village, and then killed the guards and quietly opened the gate of the village. However, Sun Tong's luck was not good, when he opened the gate of the wall, he was discovered, and with a shout, many people from the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce were woken up.
Seeing this situation, Sun Tong immediately made a decision and shouted, "Kill Lao Tzu!" Then the first one entered the stockade. The two hundred people behind him are all the backbone of the Chamber of Commerce who dare to fight, and when they saw Boss Sun being the first to rush in, they were not idle, the people in front of him were holding long knives and following Sun Tong to kill them, but the people behind were carrying fire oil and torches, and then set fire everywhere in the stockade.
The people of the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce did not expect that there would be a sneak attack tonight, and when many people were awakened and rushed out of the house, they were completely naked, but they were greeted by the butcher's knives of Sun Tong and others.
"Kill!" Sun Tong cut off the head of a North Korean who was blocking in front of him with a knife, and then kicked the corpse that had not yet fallen to the side, and the blood spurting from the broken neck splashed his face, but Sun Tong reached out and wiped it indifferently, and strode inside again with a strange scream.
Now the entire North Koreans in the village have been caught off guard by them, and no one has organized a counterattack at all, which also makes their operation surprisingly smooth. It's just that Sun Tong doesn't know what to do, Park Yuanjiang himself got drunk with all the people in charge, and the people of the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce can't find the person in charge at all, so naturally there is no way to organize a rebellion.
Sun Tong had come to the water village of the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce more than once, and naturally knew that Park Yuanjiang's residence, if he had rushed in and encountered resistance, I am afraid that he would not have the courage to go directly to Park Yuanjiang, but now he sees that the people of the entire Jeolla Chamber of Commerce are in a mess, even if there is resistance, they are fighting on their own, and there is not much threat at all, which makes Sun Tong's heart greatly increased, and he led people to kill Park Yuanjiang's residence desperately, as long as Park Yuanjiang can be caught or killed, then half of the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce will be destroyed.
At the same time, Zheng Ling, who touched the port, also saw the fire on the land stockade, as well as the shouting and screaming of the Koreans over there, knowing that Sun Tong had already made a move, and Zheng Ling's father and son were not idle, and immediately divided into two roads, among which Zheng Longhai landed with people, killed from the port to the land, and Sun Tong attacked on both sides, which made the North Koreans fall into greater chaos.
Zheng Ling rowed the boat to set fire everywhere in the port, but did not burn those big ships, first, these big ships are often loaded with goods, and they are also very valuable, and second, the big ships are not easy to start, especially in this chaotic situation like now, so they burn some easy to start small boats, so as not to be escaped by the fleeing North Koreans, of course, sometimes the big ships and small boats are too close, inevitably some big ships are also ignited, this is also no way, for a time the port was on fire, the entire Shuangyu Port was alarmed.
In a water village with the same style closest to the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce, a North Korean man in his thirties climbed the tower of the village, frowned and listened to the miserable howl of the man of the same clan before he died, but after a while, he sighed and said: "Brother Park, I advised you not to be too greedy, but if you don't listen, now you will cause a fatal disaster, and the younger brother will not be able to save you!" ”
In the east of Beigang District, on the corner tower of a house with an obvious Japanese style, a middle-aged Japanese man with a short stature stood there, his eyes quietly looking at the firelight in the distance, and then he suddenly spoke: "The direction of the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce, it seems that there is another old opponent in the Beigang District, but I don't know who has the courage to go directly to the lair of the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce?" ”
"It seems that Longhai and they are doing well, and Beigang is going to be chaotic again!" At the same time, on a tall tower in a camp in Xigang District, the farthest away from Beigang, a tall young woman held the long knife at her waist with her right hand, looking at the fire in the distance very excitedly, looking at her face full of eager expression, as if she wanted to take someone to kill her.
Zhou Zhong and Xie Lingyun stood side by side at the bow of the boat, their eyes reflecting the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce Water Village not far away, which was completely shrouded in firelight, and there were screams and slashing weapons in their ears, neither of them spoke, each thinking about their own thoughts. And behind them, Sanniang and Uncle Camel stood there with excitement on their faces, since the day before yesterday the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce killed their two brothers, the other party has become their mortal enemy, and now they are naturally very happy to see the revenge of the great enemy.
Listening to the sound of fighting in the distance, Zhou Chong suddenly seemed to return to those days in his previous life, when he was fighting with others with a knife in order to mix a bite of food, he was also the same as the people in the Chamber of Commerce in front of him, and his idea at that time was very simple, it was nothing more than to earn enough money to pay off the mortgage, and then wash his hands and not dry up to marry a wife and have children, and live a peaceful life, but unfortunately the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, this simple wish was not achieved, he was drowned in the sea.
Remembering that when he first came to Daming and found himself in a rather advantageous environment, Zhou Zhong was very excited, thinking that he could finally realize his dream in his previous life and live an ordinary and prosperous life. Unfortunately, there was a change in his family, and his rich life was gone, and he had to rack his brains to support his family.
However, even in the most difficult period at the beginning, Zhou Zhong has always insisted on being an ordinary person, and rarely uses some illegal means to solve problems, because he wants to draw a line with his previous life, and he doesn't want to walk on that gray life that is neither black nor white. And he also firmly believes that with those thoughts in his head that are hundreds of years ahead, he will be able to make himself and his relatives live happily again.
But slowly Zhou Zhong found that he was wrong, and it was very wrong, no matter what era it is, as long as you want to come out and have the strength to protect yourself and your relatives, you must use some illegal means.
I remember that he read a passage that said: In this materialistic world, life is really hard enough. You want to be an honest person who has no quarrel with the world, and people will use you to bully you. If you have a little talent and good looks, people will be jealous of you and exclude you. If you give in generously, others will infringe on you and harm you. If you don't want to fight with others, you have to have nothing to do with the world, and at the same time, you have to maintain your strength and prepare for a fight. If you want to live peacefully with others, you have to deal with them first, and you have to be prepared to suffer at any time.
Zhou Zhong doesn't want to suffer, let alone be a person who is bullied by others, but this requires him to have strength in his hands, and it is obviously useless to simply rely on business, because even if he has money, he only needs a small county order to bankrupt him, so in addition to money, he must also have a more reliable force, and this strength is best in his hands, so that he does not need to be afraid of anyone in the future!
"Once you take this step, there's no going back!" Zhou Zhong looked at the tragic scene of blood and fire in the distance, and muttered to himself, and the look in his eyes slowly changed from complex to firm.