Chapter 69: The Battle for the Wharf
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The trade between Han and other countries is mainly by sea, Guangzhou Port is one of the largest ports in the whole Han Province, and there are hundreds of large and small wharves in the port area of Guangzhou Port.
On the surface, these hundreds of terminals are under the management of the port authority, but in fact, the port authority only collects money from companies or individuals responsible for the operation of specific terminals on an annual basis, and does not care about specific affairs.
Customs has staff at each terminal to collect customs duties, which is too much to worry about.
After decades of fighting, port affairs have probably formed such a rule:
The operators on the surface of the dock are generally members of the gang, and a few are agents sent by the family or the military; Behind the gangs, there are more or less people in the political arena to help them, otherwise, no matter how powerful the gangs are, as long as the military and police are dispatched, they will only be scattered.
After the money earned by the wharf is handed over to the port authority, the rest is divided between the gang and the backers behind it.
There are rules and unspoken rules in place, but the dock still changes hands often.
Whenever people in the political arena rise and fall, or when the rivers and lakes are stormy, they will lead the wharf to change hands.
However, such changes of hands are generally in the local gangs in Guangzhou, that is, in the circle of local officials in Guangzhou, and there is no precedent for the wharf to fall into the hands of outsiders, which is also the biggest source of wealth for local officials in Guangzhou.
Even Jiang Wei and Wang Zhongzheng, who are now not involved in this piece of self-reserved land, can see that with the increasing power of the Socialists, the status of local officials in Guangzhou is declining year by year, and it is impossible for the local gangs to continue to monopolize the fat of the wharf.
Local officials and gangsters also know the general trend, but who will choose to retreat in the face of huge amounts of money? Therefore, they tacitly believe that they want to beat the first bird, and whoever dares to let outsiders come to take food will break their teeth. After all, you can't let the military police do the operation of the dock in peacetime, right?
In the port area, Xie Niancheng's two wharves No. 45 and No. 46 can berth 10,000-ton giant ships, and the gang that operates the wharf is the Pingbo Club, who is behind Xie Niancheng doesn't know, and he doesn't need to know, no matter who is behind it, Xie Niancheng is determined to win these two wharves.
Because these two terminals are in the busiest part of the port area, it is easy to hide if you take smuggling.
At noon every day, the busiest time in the port area, piers 45 and 46 are full of steamers, and hundreds of porters hired by the Pingbo Society are shirtless, sweating like rain, busy unloading cargo. Under the big parasol held up on the wharf, the cargo owner, the customs clerk, and the person in charge of the terminal company are chatting.
There was a busy scene all over the marina.
However, at this time, Bo Ge, the boss of the Pingbo Society, was sitting in the office next to the dock, sweating coldly.
What made him sweat in a hot day was the dark, rough-skinned young man opposite, who smoked cigarettes and ignored the pairs of eyes in the room that wanted to eat him.
In front of Bogo was a very short letter:
"One hundred thousand oceans, three days later to receive the dock. Hanxing Society. ”
This price is the market price at which the wharf changes hands, but this is often the symbolic price that the winner gives to the loser after the battle, 100,000 oceans, and you can earn it back by smuggling a few ships of valuable goods, how can it be the real value of the two wharf management rights?
The content of Hanxing Society's letter simply does not take the Pingbo Society seriously.
Brother Bo is very well-informed on the road, he knows that the name of Hanxing Society has been in the limelight in Guangzhou recently, and he has won three streets in a short period of time, and it is said that more than 100 lives have been taken!
Now the road is spreading, "Hanxing shoots out, and does not leave a living mouth." ”
And what about the Pingbo Society?
Pingbo will rely on the backer behind him, the dock business is booming, plus occasionally go a few private goods, the small life up and down is very nourishing, and he may not be able to move a few times a year.
Among the so-called hundreds of brothers, most of them are related households stuffed in by various immortals, and I am afraid that few of them will go if they are asked to unload the goods, let alone let these people go to fight with Hanxing Society.
Brother Bo estimated that if he ordered everyone to fight with those outlaws in Hanxing, before those people saw Feige, the boss of Hanxing, he himself would be hacked to death by the families of the various immortals who were against the water.
Such a killing god finds himself, how can Bo Ge not be afraid?
The water ghost smoked a cigarette leisurely, saw the panic of Bo Ge, and also saw the anger of the other people in the room, and he was infinitely emotional.
Not long ago, he and his brothers in the Hanxing Society were still at the bottom of society, and now just a letter can make the previously unattainable Bo Ge tremble, all because of that tall young man.
After smoking two cigarettes, the water ghost spoke: "Carry the handle, let's reply, if we can't get the dock in Hanxing in three days, we will take the dock in the future, but we won't give a cent." ”
Bo Ge forcibly suppressed his anger: "This brother, I can't be the master of this matter, you know, the dock is not a trivial matter, I have to ask the owner." ”
The water ghost stood up: "That's your business, I sue you, at this time in three days, our Hanxing Society will take over the port, if you don't leave at that time, you will bear the consequences." ”
Leaving this cruel sentence, the water ghost went out the door humming a little song.
"Damn, these guys are so arrogant!" The person next to Bo couldn't help but scold.
However, they also dared to fight with their mouths, and it was no secret that the Hanxing Society had hundreds of guns in Guangzhou.
Being able to have hundreds of guns and kill hundreds of people on the street without anyone caring about this matter clearly tells everyone that there are people above the Hanxing Society.
The people in the room didn't even dare to say anything too heavy, as if the people of the Hanxing Society had ears for the wind, and if the voice was loud, it would be heard by the people of the Hanxing Society.
Hanxing came to ask for the dock this time, and he took the number of rivers and lakes, so Bo Ge could only hurry up and go to the dock guild for help.
The dock guild is a loose organization, which can be said to be the gang fraternity that controls the docks. The change of hands between the docks, and the daily emergencies, this guild will come forward to coordinate, and in general, it has been a good coordination of the task of distributing the interests between large and small gangs over the years.
The current president of the dock guild is from Dongxing, and the vice president is from Hongxing, not long ago, the bosses of the two gangs suddenly ascended to heaven, and now the internal struggle between the two gangs is very fierce.
These two bigwigs in charge of dock affairs are considered high-level in their respective gangs, and their energy at the moment is mainly focused on the gang, and they dare not rashly agree to Bo Ge's help.
The two had the same idea:
This Hanxing Society has a posture of a fierce dragon crossing the river, it is estimated that the force behind it will not be small, and now the rivers and lakes in Guangzhou are being reshuffled, if at this critical time, if the second- and third-rate small gangs like Pingbo Society offend the Hanxing Society and attract a big enemy to their own gang, it is really too unwise. If you don't do it well, your position in the gang will not be guaranteed.
Bo Ge's dead face entangled, the two had to hold an industry meeting of the dock guild, and several other big gang bosses saw that Hong Xing and Dongxing did not dare to come forward directly, naturally no one dared to come forward, but they were not willing to let Hanxing Society take the dock like this, and finally after discussion, they gave Bo Ge a somewhat vague statement:
"This is a matter between the Hanxing Society and the Peace Wave Society, as long as it doesn't disrupt the normal operation of the dock, we can't take care of it......"
The hidden meaning of these words is that other gangs will not deal with Hanxing Society on the surface, which is the same as the judgment reached by Xie Niancheng after convening a group of subordinates to discuss at that time, that is, they will only make a trick behind their backs, and will not prevent Hanxing Society from seizing the dock head-on.
In the minds of the industry association bosses, as long as they do it behind their backs, even if Hanxing Society takes the dock, don't think about smuggling. At that time, I will think of some way to interfere with the legitimate business of Hanxing Society, so that Hanxing Society has been losing money, and Hanxing Society will naturally withdraw if it loses too much, so why bother to fight hard?
As for the loss of the Pingbo Society, anyway, the dead friends don't die in the poor way, it's our business, I don't know if after the withdrawal of the Hanxing Society, I still have a chance to get involved in these two docks!
Where does Bo not understand the door in the middle? But what about knowing?
Brother Bo returned to the dock and began to ponder, is it to organize the brothers to prepare for the desperate work immediately? Or take a slow step, hand over the dock first, and slowly fight with Hanxing Society?
Several middle-level members of the Pingbo Society arrived in the conference room one after another, and Bo Ge circulated the letter from the Hanxing Society to everyone.
"I went to the industry association, and no one over there will come forward for us, let's talk about it, what should we do next?"
These people usually beat and scold the coolies on the dock, and bully and bully the bitter crew members on the ship, but if you want to fight with people with real knives and guns, especially when the other party still has a large number of firearms, none of them have the courage to do so.
"Damn, fight with them, this is not Xinghua Street, this is the port, I don't believe they dare to use long guns and short cannons." Someone shouted.
"Even if they don't dare to use firearms, what about knives?" Some people can't get used to seeing him talk about his weakness, and they ridicule each other.
After a few words, it reached an impasse, and everyone here knew that Pingbo would not have the strength to fight hard, and in the end, Brother Bo had to make a decision: "First accept the 100,000 oceans sent by these guys, and the future will be long, and the future will ......be long."
Seeing that no one dared to work hard as expected, the words "put to death and come back to life" appeared in his heart. As the leader of the Pingbo Society, Brother Bo knows that the people below are used to living a comfortable life, and it is impossible to let them work hard, so it is better to let the dock out first, everyone will have no income, and then they will be afraid of being poor, and then organize people to counterattack, maybe they can have a fight with Hanxing Society.
Pingbo Club is full of gloomy clouds, and in the study in the backyard of the bar, the people of Hanxing are also discussing, listening to the water ghost, Zhang Chengyue faintly seemed to be a little disappointed: "They reacted like this?" It's too soft. ”
Xie Niancheng was very satisfied: "This is called a person who knows the times as Junjie, forget it, bring the money to collect the wharf in three days." ”
Lao Hei was not so optimistic, "Brother Cheng, I think even if you get the dock, there are still a lot of things behind it, and it's not easy to do." ”
Xie Niancheng took out a few letters of appointment from his arms and spread them out on the table: "Look, what is this?" ”
Zhang Chengyue grabbed a slip with his name written on it and read: "Zhang Chengyue is hereby appointed as the deputy captain of the special anti-smuggling team of the Guangzhou Marine Police, October 9, 2012, Guangzhou Municipal Government. ”
Xia Na, Lao Hei, Mangzi, and Water Ghost also took up the letter of appointment, and the four of them were respectively appointed as the "Captains of the First to Fourth Squads of the Guangzhou Marine Police Special Anti-Smuggling Team".
The water ghost was surprised and delighted: "Brother Cheng, how did you get it?" ”
With this title, you can do whatever you want on the water and on the dock, and it can be said that this is a murder license with unlimited braking force.
With this, Han Xing can use guns and other weapons at any time to thwart any conspiracy that is secretly causing evil!
Xie Niancheng seemed to have some pity for the 100,000 oceans: "Hehe, now I can only hope that the people of the Pingbo Club will be tougher in three days and help us save 100,000 oceans." ”
The crowd was a little petrified.
Brother Cheng spent 100,000 oceans to buy two docks and still felt expensive, this Nima really went his own way, so that others had no way out.
However, following such a boss is cool.