"Huapi itself is from the mountain barbarian bandits, and under their rule, bandits from other forces should not be allowed to haunt them, or these Huapi absorb those bandits into the gang like the rebels in the north, so that there will be such peace......"

Zhong Shuqing slandered these flower skins, trying to find some excuses for himself to comfort himself, but he didn't expect that Wang Du didn't care what he was thinking in his heart, and then slapped his face and then said:

"After paying the management fee, not only do you not have to worry about being robbed by thieves on the territory of Huapi, but if you encounter any natural disasters, those Huapi will also reach out to help you. One day in the autumn of last year, there was a sudden rainstorm, and the flash flood caused the river to rise sharply, and several small boats from other places who had just entered the Huangla River did not know the water conditions and hit the reef in distress......

At this time, some people said to find the flower skin, because the flower skin is the best way to save those people, because the sudden fast boat is small and the rush of the rapids is small, and the speed is fast and can run fast without manpower. But outside, those officials don't care about your life or death, and everyone just has the idea of giving it a try to find Huapi, and guess what? -- Those skins actually drove out that kind of sudden clipper, and there were two of them!! ”

"With those Tutu Clippers, those people were quickly rescued, and everyone was fine, but they were soaked in the river for too long and suffered from the wind and cold, and the flower skin directly sent the people to the doctor they set up in Zhongdu, and it was ginger soup, potion and a warm stove, and the thick quilt was cured......"

Speaking of this, Wang Du's face is a look of envy, I don't know whether I envy the treatment these people have received, or envy those people who can actually get on those Tutu clippers, you must know that these Tutu clippers have been able to move automatically without wind and oars every time since they appeared on the river, so that the passing boatmen are not envious, if their boats can be like this without manpower to swing the fence automatically, how good it would be......

"Little brother, what's the back? Those flower skins didn't take advantage of this to extort money from those people?! ”

Zhong Shuqing interrupted Wang Du's fantasy and asked about the result, Zhong Shuqing knew that it was not difficult to let those officials and soldiers save people, it was nothing more than to make more money benefit, thinking that after those people were rescued by the flower skins, it was a lot of money.

"Money?! Those who were rescued really wanted to give money, but they didn't want to pay anything, saying that since you have paid the management fee, then you should be managed and protected by them when you enter the territory of Huapi, and they call this responsibility, and they will be responsible for your safety after receiving your money! Listen, since this incident happened and spread, as long as the merchant fleet entered the flower skin field, they were all vying to pay the management fee, and they were willing to pay more in order to come to the rescue of themselves as soon as possible when something happened to them, but people would not charge less and no more, and they would pay as much as they wanted! In their words, everyone who comes is a guest, and does not judge the high and low by gold and silver!! ”

Zhong Shuqing, who was slapped in the face again, felt very uncomfortable, chewing on several key words and key parts in Wang Du's words.

Zhong Shuqing has read a lot, and he can naturally understand the meaning conveyed in these key words, and he feels that the flowers not only use the word responsibility well, but also use their own actions to do it well! However, he seems to have realized something new from the word responsibility, but this realization seems to be very vague......

"Little brother, you are sailing on the Luoqing River, if you are as you said, the officials are very rich, but there is no such behavior in the flower skin, all the boatmen are thinking that the flower skin is good, but after all, the flower skin is a chaotic territory, and the soldiers are in chaos, and the people and goods in and out must be limited, why does the little brother still want to go there to find a living?"

Hearing Zhong Shuqing's question, Wang Du laughed, although he also knew that it was indeed rude to laugh like this, but he really couldn't suppress the smile in his heart, even the old boatman with a heavy stern couldn't help but have a smile on his face. Just when Zhong Shuqing was so laughed that his face couldn't hold back, Wang Du finally stopped laughing and explained to the scholar who had been in the government for too long:

"Look at this guest, you know that you have never been to Liuzhou City, and now the territory controlled by Huapi, especially in Liucheng County, where the boatmen have goods to run every day, not afraid of no goods, just afraid of no ships! Although the hired money given by Huapi is not much, it is better to pay in full without deduction, and this alone can make many shipowners wait for the goods to be transported while waiting for Huapi......"

There are only two reasons given by Wang Du, there are many goods and the ship is fully paid, and these two are enough to make many boatmen who rely on boats to eat rush to find a living; More goods means that there is enough business for themselves to do, and although the wages and wages paid are not much, they are better than not deducting, and there is no right and wrong along the way, and there is no layer of official exploitation, as long as there is a small ledger in the heart, everyone can understand that it is much easier and more stable to make a living in Huapi than outside.

"Then Liuzhou Water Camp doesn't stop it?"

Although Wang Du understood that the Huapi fought Liuzhou City once last year, causing heavy casualties to the defenders of the entire Liuzhou City, and also knew what the surnames of these military households in Liuzhou Shuiying were, he still couldn't help but ask; In his opinion, even if the officials in Liuzhou are not good, at least the façade of the inspection must be done, just let these flowery cargo ships run freely?

"Water camp?! They are not even as good as a dog except for being rude to us flat-headed people!! ”

When he mentioned Shuiying, Wang Du spat into the river, because the word made him feel a little disgusted, but then, his young face smiled brightly, and his eyebrows fluttered.

"Those bastards in the water camp still dare to scream? Now although there are still boats in the water camp on the Liujiang River, these guys have long been wilted like lost dogs, if they dare to stop the ships transported to the Huapi realm, then the fast will be said, and the slow will be the second, and the sudden fast boat of the flower skin will rush to attack and blow up the special mother with a thunder! ! ! The current water camp is completely deaf ears - ornaments!! That is, those who are soft-hearted, and from time to time they also give some food money to these officials in the water camp, so that they can cruise around Liuzhou City to the river at the mouth of the river (town) to maintain order, otherwise in my opinion, they would have starved to death to death of these bastards!! ”

What Wang Du said made Zhong Shuqing very surprised, he didn't expect that the sergeants below had collapsed like this, and even had to get money and food from the hands of these flower skins......

Just as Zhong Shuqing lowered his head and was thinking silently in his heart, the shout of Wang Du, who was holding the bow of the boat, woke Zhong Shuqing, and followed the direction he signaled, it turned out that unconsciously, the boat entered the Huangla River, and there were two small boats in the distance leaning towards him, Wang Du told himself that these two small boats were the water inspection boats of the flower skin, but they were not the kind of fast boats that could break through.

Because it was the Chinese New Year, there were not many ships coming and going on the river, standing on the boat, Zhong Shuqing watched the two small boats leaning towards him.

"Where did you come from?!"

Zhong Shuqing's eyesight is not bad, before the boat of the flower skin comes up, he observes these rumored flower skins from a distance, these flower skins are indeed dressed in colorful clothes, standing on the side of the boat with wooden planks, a flower skin soldier only shows half of his body and shouts to himself, and the other boat that is farther away does not come up, a soldier is squatting behind the plank, only showing a head to look, although he can't see what this flower skin soldier is doing behind the plank, but Zhong Shuqing knows, This flower-skinned soldier must be holding that legendary heavenly thunder in his hand, if there is any change in his ship, the other party will not hesitate to fire and attack directly.

Because even if there is a distance of ten zhang away, Zhong Shuqing can clearly see the sharp gaze of the other party, this kind of gaze Zhong Shuqing has never seen in his life, even when he went to Beijing to take the exam, he has never seen such a sharp gaze in the Praetorian Guards in the capital, these people are all soldiers who have seen blood and been in battle!! It is rumored that the flower skin is not only sharp in firearms but also uses the life of the soldiers, although he has not really seen the bravery of these flower skin soldiers in battle, but from this sharp gaze alone, Zhong Shuqing can already feel the fierce spirit exuded by these flower skins!

And glanced at Wang Du, who glanced at the bow of the ship, his eyes had already been pierced on the bodies of those flower skins, although these flower skin clothes were fancy, but I have to say that wearing them on the body is to show that this person is in good spirits, and compared with the loose and tattered mandarin duck jacket of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of flower clothes is much more pleasing to the eye and comfortable......

"Sir, we came from Guilin Mansion and were hired to send people away."

It was not the first time that the old boatman at the stern of the boat had come here, and he answered the other party neatly after understanding the other party's process, and consciously stopped the boat long ago so that the other party could jump to check.

The shouting flower skin flexibly jumped on the boat where Zhong Shuqing was, just as Wang Du said, the flower skin's inspection hands and feet were very clean, and after checking the few items on the boat, the flower skin turned to Zhong Shuqing's body. Although Zhong Shuqing did not wear an official uniform, the scholar's elegance and ability to charter a boat show that this person's identity will not be an ordinary person, if such an obvious important person is missed, then this flower-skin soldier is either blind or stupid.

"Who are you?! What do you do when you go to Zhongdu? The tone of the flower skin soldier is very businesslike, but with a trace of indisobedient majesty, a small soldier can have this kind of momentum, Zhong Shuqing can't help but think highly of these flower skin's military management methods, and more importantly, he has a strong curiosity about other people in the territory under the rule of flower skin.

Arching his hand to make a regular salute, Zhong Shuqing said to this flower-skin soldier in a righteous voice:

"Please also ask this chief to report the trouble, in the next Zhong Shuqing, entrusted by the governor of Guangxi, please see your big leader!" (To be continued.) )