Chapter 16: The Sea Dragon King
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Hongze Lake is one of the fourth largest freshwater lakes in China. In the lower reaches of the Huai River in the western part of Jiangsu Province, on the west side of the central part of the North Jiangsu Plain, it is now within the scope of Huai'an Province. Zhang Renjie has not been to Hongze Lake until now, but there is a Hongze Lake embankment connected to Hongze Lake on the pier. The Hongze Lake embankment is an important river basin flood control project in the lower reaches of the Huai River, starting from their wharf town in the north and reaching Zhangdazhuang in Xuyi County in the south, more than 130 miles. From the beginning of the construction of the embankment, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the earth embankment was gradually added as a masonry wall. It was not until the 47th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, that is, 100 years ago, that it was basically completed.
The biggest feature of the lakes in the land of Kyushu is that the endless reeds are swinging, and the reeds in the TV series soldier Zhang Ga have made a deep impression on people, and the reeds on this side of Hongze Lake are not inferior to the reeds in Baiyangdian. At the southern end of the long Hongze Lake embankment, opposite the Jiangba Town Lake, surrounded by reeds that cover the sky and the sun, is the entrenched place of the Sea Dragon King.
"Big brother, big brother, I'm back!" A man with the size of a bamboo pole shouted loudly as he walked quickly into the room.
"Oh, it's the third Wangshui who is back! Third, what did you find? The Sea Dragon King asked. The Sea Dragon King was about fifty years old, slightly chubby, with a long goatee, a melon-skin hat, and a satin gown, not so much like a bandit, but more like a landlord and an old fortune.
"It's a landlord in Wharf Town, Zhang's family held a group exercise, and I heard that I bought more than 20 quick robberies from Shanghai, all brand-new German-made, thousands of bullets, good guys! It's just that there are a lot of them, and I've been practicing for two or three months after recruiting a hundred people, and I'm pretending to be passing by and secretly watching from the side, and I'm so good at practicing that we can't get much in the past! Zhang Yulang, the white strip of the three masters, said. When I was a child, I listened to the storyteller Jiang Shui Margin, and he liked the white strip Zhang Shun in the waves very much, and his water nature was also very good, so he called himself this nickname. Don't really say it, his name is Yulang, and he is very white, and the white stripes in the waves are really not wrong.
"Third brother, don't always grow up others to destroy your prestige! Who is the leader of the Zhang family group training? The fourth master, Chen Heita, shouted in a rough voice.
"There are twenty foreign guns, it seems that this Zhang family has a lot to do with it! It's not like you can buy a foreign gun if you have the money! What do you say, brand new? Did you read that right? The Sea Dragon King asked.
Zhang Yulang grabbed his brain and smiled: "I didn't see it, but the people in the nearby Zhuangzi know that the Zhang family didn't hide it." I don't think you can go wrong! Oh, the leader is the young master of the Zhang family, I heard that a while ago he alone killed eleven bandits who rushed to the dock to rob, this person should not be underestimated! ”
"More than 20 foreign guns, still brand new, it seems that they must have a way in Shanghai, Lao Tzu's new guns are not as many as his Zhang family. Over the years, we have guarded our own one-third of an acre of land, rarely go out, and there is no good way to buy a gun. I finally bought it, it's still second-hand, it's really fucking annoying! How old is the young master of the Zhang family, and the words of murder are all nonsense, and the letter is broken, when have you ever heard that a rich young master can kill a bandit? If that were the case, we wouldn't have been killed sooner. The Sea Dragon King slammed the table and said angrily, his punch was so strong that the teapot on the table was shaken and jumped an inch high.
"Hey, big brother, let's go and get the gun back. This Zhang family is only a hundred people, and they have only been practicing for three months, and they are all a group of raw melons and eggs, and they must not have even seen blood. Let's fight over there, it is estimated that the Zhang family will have to obediently sacrifice the gun! Chen Heita grinned and laughed loudly, he looked down on those group exercises, and the big families around him were not recruiting people for training, so he thought that he could take care of the family and nursing home when the time came, but as soon as they arrived, they were all intimidated.
"Boss, I think you can try! Don't go to fight first, send a brother to find the old man of the Zhang family first and say, let him hand over the gun honestly. No matter how powerful this Zhang family is, how can it compare to Wang Yuanwai's family in Jiangba Town, isn't there also a hundred and ten people in Wang's family? Don't pay us a tribute every month! Little Zhang's family, let's ask them for a gun to give them face, if he Zhang's family gives face, then we don't have to be polite! "Zhu Wu, the military advisor under the command of the Sea Dragon King, is also the second master, and he didn't squeak just now, and this voice almost helped the old Sea Dragon King to set up a plan.
"It's okay, then send something over first, and you don't need to meet, just insert a note."
"Big brother, should we think about it again!" The third Zhang Yulang still felt that something was wrong, he felt that this Zhang family was not easy to mess with, just after looking at the way people trained for a while, he felt that those people should have good combat power, if this Zhang family did not obey, I am afraid that they will knock out a mouthful of teeth after eating the Zhang family! "Based on my feeling for many years, this family should be a hard bone, and it's hard to mouth!"
"Come on, third brother, you're getting less and less courageous, now you don't even let us rob those merchant ships, just go to those ship owners and pay a few money to buy the road, how much can it be? The brothers below have a problem with you! Chen Heita remembered the old things a while ago, several times in a row they found a merchant ship full of goods passing by the Huai River waterway, but because the fleet was guarded by a lot of guns, he didn't let his subordinates do it, but just sent people to negotiate and got some money to buy the road. But who is not interested in the whole shipload of goods below!
"You fourth, you have the ability, you go, your third brother, I'm tired and have no energy!" Zhang Yulang was angry in his heart, and said unhappily, and then Wang leaned back on the chair and stopped talking.
The first sea dragon king looked at the two of them and said that there was no way, these two always liked to pinch each other like this. "Boss, I think let's do it like this, if the Zhang family is not stupid, they shouldn't go against us!"
"Dad, what do you think about this?" Early in the morning, as soon as it was dawn, the old man who went out to buy vegetables found the dart on the door, and a letter was nailed to the door.
"This Sea Dragon King's group of guys are also short-sighted, they want guns, do they have to use robbers? They have money in their hands, they don't have a way to buy guns, they can find us to help. You know that robbing is not a climate! Look at the tone of this letter, and know that your family has bought twenty new foreign guns, and the Sea Dragon King is very kind, and hopes that we will take the initiative to offer it. Even twenty guns are red-eyed, and it seems that they don't have much good goods in their hands. "Zhang Youde is an old man, and you can feel a lot of useful information from between the lines." However, it's not the right time for them to come, if you train these 100 people well, I'm not afraid, but you're still half-, in case the Sea Dragon King brings people into the village, you can't resist it, then our village will suffer! I guess the patriarch won't agree to you fighting with the Sea Dragon King if he finds out! ”
"Anyway, I'm not going to hand over the guns, and I'm going to fight outside when I don't fight in the village, so I was ready to train them to trouble them and eliminate harm for the people, but I didn't expect them to take the initiative to come to the door. Dad, don't worry, the Self-Defense Forces have almost practiced well, but there are some minor problems with marksmanship, but I estimate that those water thieves are not much better, even if there are more guns than us, we are not afraid, we ambushed them in advance, and we were caught off guard. ”
"This, if you don't give them the guns, I'll find a way to get some back, and after two months of your training, we won't be afraid of them!" Zhang Youde was still worried about his son, so he said.
"Dad, you gave him a gun, didn't they grow stronger, besides, you used your old connections last time you bought a gun, and in the end you only bought twenty guns, and this relationship is not very strong. Even if you buy another twenty strokes, these thieves will come to ask for it. If you give it the first time, they'll come and ask for a second time, and it's going to get harder and harder. You don't have to worry about the team, after three months of training, it will definitely be much stronger than this gang of water thieves, just take this opportunity to let them see blood, otherwise this army will never grow. ”
"Okay Dad, that's it, I'll go to the company and talk to the team members." Zhang Renjie stopped what Zhang Youde had just opened his mouth to say, turned his head and left to go to the training ground.