On the wharf of the South Canal, chickens and dogs jumped, hundreds of people chased each other, and the surrounding slender men and merchants cheered loudly, lest they not be chaotic.

One side of the brawl is the Yaojin branch of the Wendeng Tobacco Company represented by Deng Keshan, and the other side is the Yaojin branch of the Linqing Tobacco Company.

"Brother Deng, I brought it in!"

"What's in?"

"Five dozen lines!"

Deng Keshan waved his hand, "Every two taels of silver will be given to Lao Tzu." ”

"Brother Deng, I've brought it in too!"

"What's in?"

"Ten neighborhoods!"

"Every time you put in a tael of silver, give it to Lao Tzu."

"Brother Deng, I'm here."

"What's in?"

"Ten turtle males!"

"Every ...... Fuck off, Turtle Gong is here to carry the night pot, fuck off. ”

"Turtle Gong can also fight it, Brother Deng, you give five coins of silver, and ensure that the Linqing Tobacco Shop will be ruined."

Deng Keshan gritted his teeth, "Then also ask them to copy the guys." ”

A steady stream of ruffians and hooligans from the interior of Yaojin City came, and Deng Keshan was mixed in Yaojin, and he was abducted and deceived for more than 20 years.

The shape changed rapidly, nearly two hundred green-skinned hooligans held sticks and knives, chasing the thirty or forty people on the side of the Linqing tobacco shop, and some of them were chased to the river, and they plunged into the canal with no way out. A few small boats that usually solicit passengers leaned over, and the captain on it shouted loudly to Lin Qingjin, who was fluttering in the water: "One or two pieces of silver come on board." "Whoever falls into the water shall bring money and pull him into the boat, and he who has no silver shall say that he shall not go on anything."

Seeing that Linqing was all down, Deng Keshan laughed, took out a gilt fan and opened it with a bang, and walked to the front of the tobacco shop in Linqing. A group of turtles rummaged through the counter.

Deng Keshan glanced at the shop, which was full of boxes, he went over to open one, and picked up a package casually, it was produced in Linqing, called Linqingxiang, the packaging was very rough, and it had been selling to nearby villages recently, competing with Wendengxiang for the low-end market.

Deng Keshan snorted, turned to the back to look through it, opened another box, was stunned for a moment, and then scolded: "Your mother, Lao Tzu said that it was a fake you made, and this time Lao Tzu caught it." ”

He ran out from the back, took a pack of cigarettes that were exactly the same as Wen Dengxiang's packaging, and kicked and beat the shopkeeper on the ground again and again, "You dog, didn't you say last time that you couldn't get a fake one, you want to rob Lao Tzu's business, bad Lao Tzu's reputation, and I'm going to kill you today." ”

Deng Keshan beat and kicked the shopkeeper until his mouth and nose bled out, but he was just a ruffian, not an outlaw after all, looking at the shopkeeper was very miserable, but in fact, the injury was not serious. Deng Keshan shouted to those green skins after fighting: "Move the cigarettes to the dock and burn them all." ”

The hooligans agreed, and took out the cigarettes of Linqingdian, piled them all on the river embankment outside, and put a few packs into their arms.

Several turtles ran away diligently, found some tung oil to sprinkle on the pile of cigarettes, and other ruffians took the opportunity to desperately grab cigarettes, these are all cigarette consumers, and even the custom of meeting and distributing cigarettes in Wendeng has also spread to Yaojin, the number of cigarettes they smoke is not low, although it is now a fake Wendeng, but it can also top the smoking addiction, naturally it is to get some easily.

Deng Keshan frowned, grab one more pack here, these will buy one less pack, which will affect his income, and immediately scolded loudly: "Don't rob it, these are fake Wen Dengxiang, and I can't take a woman after smoking it all night." ”

Where would the group of green skins believe him, the hippie smiled and continued to take it, and from time to time threw it at the slender man who was watching next to him, causing bursts of cheers. Deng Keshan was anxious, not waiting for those turtles to finish pouring, snatched the torch and threw it up, the onlookers next to him all let out a pity sigh, Deng Keshan was triumphant, this time he was considered to have defeated the Linqing tobacco shop, this smoke shop has something to do with the governor yamen of Yaojin, but his relationship is also good, Song Wenxian has to walk around the governor of Yaojin every year, the sailor and the Qing army hall, and the chief officials are all taking care of it. In addition, the Wendeng camp had been stationed in Yaojin for a long time after the Battle of the Four Cities, and it had a great influence on the people of Yaojin.

The level of officials is Deng Keshan's strength, the Ming Dynasty's zhèngfǔ agency is very simple, there are only a few civil servants in a county, and they can't manage so many things at all, and the parents and officials who have come out of the examination are also very common, so they can only recruit a group of subordinates, including the law enforcement officials, who are basically temporary workers, and there is no establishment.

Yaojin was originally a military guard here, and there was no county government to say, and later the number of households increased, and a Qing military hall had to be set up, which actually played the role of the county government. The Qing Military Department naturally also has to recruit a group of officials to serve on errands, many of these are natives of Yaojin, who have known Deng Keshan since childhood, and served as a fast hand, a prisoner, a petty official, a helper, and so on in the Yamen. With these mutual assistance, the Four Seas Trading Company is in Yaojin Black and White, which is the best place to develop along the canal.

The smell of burning tobacco spread, and the surrounding slender men, porters, and the surrounding shopkeepers approached one after another, took out their chimneys and smoked the white cigarettes.

Deng Keshan is too lazy to care about these in, anyway, Linqing Yanxing has lost face, and it is estimated that he will not mix in Yaojin in the future, without Yaojin, their way to the north and Liaodong will not work, and they can sell more goods.

Deng Keshan thought of the ferries he just said, and he couldn't help but be angry, he dared to play tricks under his Deng Er's eyelids, anyway, now he is shouting, Da Khan "There are also a few boatmen who help Linqing solicit passengers, all of them are caught and beaten by Lao Tzu." ”

A group of green skins grabbed enough cigarettes, and ran to the place where the ferry docked, and several boatmen over there saw that they couldn't see it well, and hurriedly supported the penny offshore, Deng Keshan was about to chase after him, and suddenly there was a pat on his shoulder. Deng Keshan was on the rise, and scolded without looking back: "Get out of the way, Lao Tzu has something to do." ”

"Deng Dajin is really expensive, and his old friends ignore it." A familiar voice came from behind, but he didn't remember who it was for a while, and quickly turned his head to look.

"Brother Zhou, are you back, Mr. Song said that you have become a director, what is the director? Brother, I have been thinking about you recently, but I said that I would take a boat to Wenden to see you in two months, and you will come back first. ”

Deng Keshan was overjoyed, and diligently patted the dust on Zhou Shifa's clothes, just like when he dragged Zhou Shifa to make a fire hoard.

Zhou Shifa let him take a picture with a smile, looked at Deng Keshan's dress, his whole body was full of high-end goods, and couldn't help laughing: "Deng Er, you are really a big boss." ”

Deng Keshan nodded and said: "It's all General Chen, Mr. Liu, Brother Zhou, otherwise how can the younger brother get the southern goods so smoothly, to say that the Four Seas Commercial Bank is really good, the price of the goods is half a percent less than the lowest." Brother Zhou, how long will you stay when you come back this time? It just so happens that I'm giving you my share of what I should have given you last year. ”

"I'll leave Ming, first go to Jingshi to make a trip to Chen Dajin, and arrange some things. There aren't many people anyway, you change it to a silver ticket, and I'll get it on the way back. ”

Deng Keshan was surprised: "Chen Dajin is back, then why don't you look for the little brother, you are also just coming and leaving, are you all promoted and rich, you can't look down on the little brother, do you know how hard the little brother thinks about you." ”

Zhou Shifa knew that he was full of nonsense, so he just smiled and pointed to the pile of burning cigarettes and asked, "The goods from Linqing?" ”

"It's O, Brother Zhou, how do you know?"

Zhou Shifa's face turned cold, this time Sihai Trading Company distributed equity, and he also had a thousand taels of shares as a high-level executive. Zhou Shi found that he worked secretly in Qianzhu, had a lot of time to use his brain, and most of the time he also needed the cover of shops and so on, and he slowly had a sensitivity to business, he felt that this trading company might be able to make a lot of money, and cigarettes and smuggled goods from Liaodong would be unique to Wendeng in the future, and Wendeng happened to have channels to get very cheap southern goods from the south, which were all things that Jiannu craved.

The southern merchant ships came to Jinghai to bring southern goods, Wendeng Ying exchanged southern goods and cigarettes for silver and special products from Liaodong, and the southern merchant ships were filled with Liaodong specialties and cigarettes and returned to Jiangnan, and the same way was done along the canal. Any direction is a very profitable trade, and this year a new direct trade in the northern border towns has been opened, Zhou Shifa is very optimistic about the prospects of the Sihai Trading Company, since the Sihai Trading Company is to help him earn money, he will never allow to go in and out to grab business.

"It's the Linqing Gang again, but don't worry, I promise they won't come back next year." Zhou Shifa smiled and said a sentence, Deng Keshan felt a gust of wind passing by, and felt that there seemed to be a lot of coldness in this sentence. In the past, Zhou Shifa was not like this, but he was a little ruthless among the ruffians, and strictly speaking, he was also one of the ruffians, but now he seems to be the most cold.

Deng Keshan felt a little chill in his heart, and no longer dared to pat Zhou Shifa's clothes, so he stopped and said with a smile: "Brother Zhou, if you are free at night, my brother will pick you up." ”

"No, I accompanied Chen Dajin to visit the governor here just now......"

Deng Keshan exclaimed exaggeratedly, "O, Zheng Zongzhou? ”

Zhou Shifa said without excitement, "It's just a governor of Yaojin, but now in front of Chen Dajin, there is no martial arts in the local area, and the ordinary officials are very polite." Or about the affairs of the trading company, Zheng Zongzhou promised to take care of it, and you will be better off in the future. For something like this, it's okay to kill one or two. ”

Deng Keshan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he screamed loudly every time, but he really didn't have the courage to enter, so he hurriedly diverted the topic and asked: "Brother Chengdong in the evening, how about you and Chen Dajin for a drink?" ”

Zhou Shifa shook his head, "Ming rì is going to Jingshi, today rì is going to raise the jīng god, and I will come back to look for you on my return trip." Chen Dajin doesn't want to socialize, he lives in the original courtyard tonight, you can come over and talk at night. ”

Ke Shan agreed, and when he looked up, Zhou Shifa had already walked away, and with Deng Keshan's experience in the rivers and lakes, he found that there were at least three people around him who left in turn from the group.

Deng Keshan looked at Zhou Shifa's back, and suddenly felt that this brother who had grown up together since childhood was so strange.