Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Clay Jar Sells Cigarettes
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While Zhang Renjie sent someone to contact the Tang family, he also found the Xia family. However, you can't treat the Xia family like you treat the Tang family, after all, the ten Xia families together may not be able to catch up with one Tang family. It is all because the development time of the Xia family is too short, and the main business is only in Andong County. The total value of "Smoke" soil told by the Tang family is 150,000 or 60,000 taels of silver, and it is no problem to supply the large "Smoke" museums in the Tang family for two or three months.
But for the Xia family, they just said that there were 50,000 taels of "Yan" soil, which was enough for them to use for two or three months in a county town in Andong. 50,000 taels is the low price that Zhang Renjie put out, which is 30% cheaper than the goods before his family. After many contacts, it was decided to deliver the goods at this Qingjiangpu terminal. Zhang Renjie set a time with him, which was later than the Tang family, after all, the Tang family was the head snake here, if Zhang Renjie's people started with the Xia family first, there was a chance that the Tang family would find some clues.
And the Xia family is different, their power in Qingjiangpu can almost be said to be nothing, and it is far from being comparable to Andong County. Although the dock transaction was a bit of insurance, Xia Liangui did not come in person, but sent his eldest son Xia Zhiqing over. Similarly, the Xia family also brought more than 20 heavily armed guards, but unfortunately it was not ordinary people who calculated them, and they did not alarm anyone, and the Xia family's guards were also wiped out one by one.
"Come here, pull out these harmful things, destroy them all!"
"My lord, how do you get this? Is it ignition and burning? Tian Kui, a special combat player, was the first to ask. Although his uncle died because of smoking big "cigarettes", he also hated these big "cigarettes" and the people who sold big "cigarettes", but he really didn't know how to destroy big "cigarettes". The other team members didn't know that in their impression, wouldn't it be over if they just burned it down!
Zhang Renjie shook his head: "Let me tell you, what I want to teach you now is the method used by Yuan Fugong back then, that is, when Lin Zexu sold "Smoke" in Humen. Don't you wonder why I asked you to prepare so many large water tanks in the first place? ”
Everyone nodded, until now Zhang Qishi and the others still don't understand that when they first arrived in Qingjiangpu, Zhang Renjie ordered to buy 20 large water tanks, which are all large water tanks with a diameter of one meter and five, and it is no problem to hold two tons of water in one tank.
"The water tank is filled with water, did I let you put a bag of salt in each tank?"
"These are all done, do you want to put this "smoke" soil into the salt water?" Tian Kui asked suspiciously.
Zhang Renjie nodded: "Well, that's right, I asked you to prepare a large vat and salt water, just to destroy these "Smoke" soil, but salt water alone is not enough!" Big Niu, you take the brothers and pull these quicklimes over by the way. There were more people in the third company, so they were fortunate, and they chopped all the "smoke" soil into small pieces with knives and scattered them into twenty large vats. Let the "smoke" soil soak for an hour, and then immediately put in quicklime, this thing you have seen when you build a house for other people's houses, quicklime is boiling when it encounters water, and the "smoke" soil can't stand it, and it will soon dissolve. But remember, when the quicklime was put in, and the brothers were asked to keep mixing it with a big stick, a wooden rake, or something, I estimate that in about a quarter of an hour, the "smoke" soil should have completely dissolved into the water. Do you understand? ”
"Understood, I know that quicklime is terrible, and if it were to be splashed on people, it would really be burned to peel off the skin. It's just, battalion commander, what about after the "Smoke" soil is burned? I mean the water in those vats? Zhang Daniu added.
"Well, I thought about it, and when I was done burning, I dug a small trench in the ground, and then broke the vat, and channeled all the remaining water into the river. In short, you just want to completely eliminate this harmful thing, which is a good deed! Go for it! ”
"Yes!" Zhang Daniu and the soldiers of the three companies behind him were all in high spirits, and such an opportunity was not easy to get. Of all the soldiers, there is no one who does not hate the big "Smoke", and no one who has any relatives who have been ruined by this big "Smoke" soil. The destruction of this lot of "smoke" soil is really a good thing to accumulate virtue, and you can't ask for it.
Zhang Daniu took the soldiers of the third company to start moving, put on the carriage and carried the boxes of "cigarette" soil into the car, at this time Zhang Qishi next to him leaned into Zhang Renjie's ear and asked: "Battalion commander, the people of the Tang family and the Xia family are still locked up in the backyard!" ”
"It's not time yet, the young master of the Tang family is a person who understands, and he will send the silver. His house is not far from here, and we will know what is going on immediately. Let's go, let's go see the young master of the Xia family first! Zhang Renjie waved his hand and called Zhang Qishi and the others to walk towards the backyard together.
There was an empty room in the backyard, and when the door was opened, Zhang Renjie walked in, and Xia Zhiqing, the eldest young master of the Xia family, was blindfolded and couldn't see anything, and when he heard the footsteps, he stood up in fear and hurriedly said: "Good man, good man, what conditions do you have?" Want money? How much? Even if you open your mouth, as long as you don't ruin my life, it's easy to say, it's easy to say! Originally, he said that he was knocked unconscious, but after he woke up after being locked up here, Xia Zhiqing knew that the other party must have something to ask for, otherwise there was no need to lock him up here at all, just kill him? Why do you still bother to knock him out and lock him up here?
Zhang Renjie walked over and pulled a chair to sit down, untied the rope on Xia Zhiqing's body, handed over the fritters wrapped in oil paper and said with a smile: "This matter is not in a hurry, come, eat something first, the eldest young master's body is expensive, wouldn't it be beautiful if he starved?" But the fritter is already cold, so you'll just have a little bit! ”
Hearing Zhang Renjie's words, Xia Zhiqing's heart was bottomless, but he became more and more sure that the other party definitely had something to ask for, if it was to ask for money, the amount would definitely not be small, but in any case, life came first, generally speaking, if the kidnappers couldn't get the money, or if the ransom period expired, they were likely to tear up the ticket, so Xia Zhiqing decided to save his life first. I was frightened and really felt very hungry, but eating cold fritters, there was no taste in my mouth at all, swallowing three fritters like jujubes, Xia Zhiqing couldn't eat anymore, wiped his mouth and said: "Hero, I'm done!" What conditions do you have to mention directly, as long as I can meet it, it is absolutely unambiguous, just ask you not to ruin my life after taking the money, I heard that the heroes on this road are all about the rules, take money to ransom people, the two have nothing to do! ”
"Hahaha!" Zhang Renjie laughed: "The eldest young master understands people, we don't want much, it's still 50,000 taels of silver, which is the same as the price of this batch of goods!" Well, it's fair! ”
Xia Zhiqing's face changed: "Fifty thousand taels? Good man, you are too big, you have already got 50,000 taels, and it is really terrible to ask my family to take out 50,000 taels, besides, my father is not only my son, he may not give it! ”
"Hehe, it's because your father has more than one son that he only asked for 50,000 taels, if you are the only seedling of the Xia family, it will be far more than 50,000 taels!" Zhang Renjie was still kind and pleasant just now, with kindness in his voice, but now he seems to be about to kill. "I didn't kill the steward you brought, you hurry up and write a letter for him to take back, and tomorrow night I will deliver it in the pear forest outside the northeast gate of Anbei! We received the money. I'll let you go home right away! ”
Xia Zhiqing was so frightened that his face turned pale at first, thinking that Zhang Renjie was going to tear up the ticket, but when he heard the latter sentence, he calmed down a lot, so he hurriedly said: "I write, I write!" I've been in charge of a lot of things at home over the years, and my dad won't abandon me! ”
After just a short while, Xia Zhiqing wrote the letter and handed it to Zhang Renjie tremblingly.
"Well, that's pretty concise, not bad! But there's something missing! Zhang Renjie smiled.
Xia Zhiqing hooked his head and asked scaredly: "Okay, good man, if there is anything missing, you can mention it, I will change it immediately!" ”
"Hahaha, what can you do without a little thing on you, without a little token? Stone, cut off his left ear! ”
"Hey, I can't, a good man spares his life, I can't!" Xia Zhiqing was so frightened that he couldn't give up, but Zhang Qishi didn't care about him at all, went up and held him down with only a slight touch, and then cut off his left ear. Xia Zhiqing screamed in pain and fainted again.
In Zhang Renjie's opinion, the people of the Xia family or the Tang family should really say that they deserve to die, but what he is doing now is kidnapping tickets, and if he gets the money, he must no longer do such indiscriminate things as tearing up tickets, this is a matter of principle. Principles still have to be adhered to, people without principles have no bottom line, and they will never be productive! But in Zhang Renjie's heart, these people have already been sentenced to death, and after this incident is over, sooner or later someone will have to send someone to take their lives, because these people are not worthy of life. This is also the reason why the last time the Sea Dragon King was exterminated, there was no way to live, and those who committed great evils can only be repaid with their lives.