In the Yunshui Restaurant, on the second floor, a table of people is eating and drinking, while staring at the noisy river. Most of the flotilla that had almost blocked the river had disappeared, and only a few rows of flotilla leaned against the wooden gate, and the sound of shouting and scolding could be faintly heard, and the situation was tense.

"As the saying goes, the predecessors beat the dogs, and the descendants eat meat, haha......"

One laughed heartily.

"Before, I had to supply it to the factory, but now I can save it. The guy surnamed Peng fought and suppressed a ruthless person like Jiang Zan, but his appetite was too big, and he led a group of small businessmen to collect money from us? Dream! ”

The other flicked his fingers, looking rather disdainful.

"I heard that Li Banxian is behind Peng Xianzhong, it is the head snake of Yingde, it is better to be cautious."

Someone else frowned and said, look at the knuckles he is tapping on the table and wearing a huge and surprisingly large ring, others wave their hands inadvertently, they can also see this thing, people in business should be able to see that this is the seal ring of the business, and everyone here is the shopkeeper of the big business.

"Li Banxian, Banxian? What kind of thing is that, half a province is not afraid! Let's not say that the owner of my Chunhui line is the master of the Internal Affairs Office, behind you are either the ministry or the governor, and then climb up, the brothers can talk, which onion is he!? Isn't it, Shopkeeper Han? ”

The disdainful man asked the person knocking on the table, and everyone else agreed.

"Shopkeeper Chen, we are doing business, not fighting knives and guns, and the owner doesn't like us to be too out of line. What happened to Zhang Yuanlong in Jiangnan, you have also seen it. The Kali behind him is the Governor of Liangjiang, the brother of Long Live Lord! Zhang Boxing said that he would kill him, and Kali had to pinch his nose and admit it, and he couldn't even protect the Long Live Lord. In front of the national bureau, it is uncertain who is big and who is small. ”

The shopkeeper Han said with a worried face, listening to the noise on the river getting louder and louder, he added: "Let's follow the previous rules and send a money to cross the river." ”

"Why can't we let that local merchant surnamed Peng ride on us......"

The shopkeeper Chen was unmoved.

"It's not that Peng Xianzhong, this matter should have been planned by Li Banxian, this Li Banxian ...... It's not simple. ”

The other man spoke, and everyone looked at him, and bowed his hand to the shopkeeper, and asked him to continue.

"I have heard in Hunan that this trend of disruption is not a temporary achievement of Peng Xianzhong before, but has a origin. Half a year ago, Yingde Yang Chun made a rebellion and killed the committee members and many scribes here, and then it was the weak-crowned young man named Li Shi, who suppressed the scribes here with the momentum of black and white, and helped the Peng family sell his glass goods to Hunan. During that time, the scribe patrols were very honest, and we still stained him. ”

The shopkeeper said leisurely, tasting people like wine.

As soon as Jiang Zan came, this Li Shi shrank back, originally thought that he was really avoiding Jiang Zan's edge, but he didn't expect that the scribe was pressed for half a year, and then he was forced by Jiang Zan, so that he put a lot of effort into the merchants who crossed the river, and only then did he make a disaster of thousands of people rushing to the pass. Then Peng Xianzhong jumped out, took out a detailed statute of the association, and entangled the businessmen to subdue Jiang Zan, and the joints in it were immediately figured out. ”

Yu Shopkeeper's eyes flickered, and he said in a deep voice: "This is obviously what Li Shi did by retreating and pushing and pressuring!" You must not underestimate him! Although this man is young, he asks for ......"

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden fluffy explosion on the river in the distance, and when he turned his head to look, he saw several clouds of green smoke rising from a large sand boat.

"You have to ask for anything, you have to see if you can answer the shotgun! The ones who helped me protect the boat were the soldiers of Hunan Fubiao! If it weren't for the fact that the official ship couldn't be busy, he wouldn't have been stopped at this small pass. ”

Shopkeeper Chen breathed a sigh of relief and waved to everyone: "Come on, eat ours!" It is estimated that the ship is about to pass, these Guangdong barbarians, is it possible that they dare to make trouble!? ”

The other shopkeepers all smiled and moved their hands, and the shopkeeper Han and the shopkeeper Yu glanced at each other, shrugged their shoulders slightly, but they didn't take it seriously, and were about to raise their chopsticks, when a person suddenly appeared outside the door of this private room.

"You're so interested, I, Peng Xianzhong, am late."

A young man in his twenties, with an elegant demeanor, not like a businessman, he signed up, and more than a dozen shopkeepers present were stunned.

"Peng's family, are you here to ask for the soup and medicine? Don't worry, the death and wounded are all mine, open an order, and you will have to see the banner of my Chunhui Hall in the future, the temper of the soldiers on my ship is really bad. ”

Shopkeeper Chen spoke very angrily, and everyone else looked over, and Han Yu and the others also looked at Peng Xianzhong with interest, waiting for how this rookie, who had become famous in Lianjiang, would respond.

"Chunhui Hall's shopkeeper Chen? Ah...... That's why you're here, but you have to get the people on board to stop it, or it's going to be a problem. ”

Peng Xianzhong's tone was in a hurry, but his face did not change, which was a little weird.

"Stop when you open the door, children should know this truth, if you are afraid that something will happen to the people you entangle, you should be sharp."

Shopkeeper Chen sneered.

"Something? Of course, if your people don't stop, something is going to happen. ”

Peng Xianzhong sighed and shook his head, and the person who followed him disappeared.

What he said tasted wrong, and the shopkeepers were tasting it, but they heard a burst of gunshots, and it was more than ten rings that converged into one sound, and suddenly a river of water birds flew away.

"These rabbits, why did they bring so many shotguns out......"

The shopkeeper Chen turned his head while nagging, but he happened to collide with another row of guns, and white smoke rose from the riverside, forming a long line.

Not only was Shopkeeper Chen stunned, but the other shopkeepers were also staring at each other, unable to believe what they were seeing.

"Alas...... Sure enough, something happened......"

Peng Xianzhong's sigh came from behind everyone, and before he could react, there was a thunderous roar, and a column of water rose in the river, as if the river water had also poured into the private room, and the shopkeepers' bodies were all frozen.

"This ...... It's ......"

After a while, Shopkeeper Chen opened his mouth tremblingly.

"This is a warning, the next shot will directly bombard the ship."

The voice younger than Peng Xianzhong sounded with the sound of iron nails slamming on the ground, and Peng Xianzhong stepped aside and showed a figure. At the age of ten **, his eyebrows are clear and his eyes are beautiful, but his gaze is not like the year of a weak crown, with an elusive depth. He scanned the crowd, and a wonderful coercion that was both soft and suffocating diffused came out.

"Li Ban ......"

"Li Shi?"

The second shopkeeper of Han Yu relaxed his breath and asked in unison.

"You are Li Banxian!? DID YOU KNOW THIS...... This is a rebellion! ”

Shopkeeper Chen blinked his eyes and came to his senses, this Li Shi in front of him actually dared to shoot at his ship!?

"I, Li Shi, am just a small soldier under the inspection of Xun Xun Liu, and I am here to ...... Oh, Chen Shopkeeper Notice. ”

Li Xian pulled the identity that couldn't be more hypocritical, and Peng Xianzhong whispered the origin of this person, and then looked at the shopkeeper Chen.

"Your ship is carrying prohibited weapons, blocking the difference and resisting taxes, from now on, people and ships will be detained, and it is a felony to hurt people with a shotgun just now! Hurry up and write your last letter home before you go to prison! ”

Li Shi's heavy drinking made the shopkeeper Chen gasp for several breaths before he settled down.

"Don't ...... Don't talk to me about this official article, I have soldiers and guns on my ship, this is the old rule! ”

The word rules came out, and Li Xi smiled.

"You're going to talk about the rules!? This is Yingde! What I Li Shi said is the rule! ”

There is no need to dwell on what ship, what soldier, what background, the shopkeepers look at each other, and they all understand that this "rule" is the rule of the rivers and lakes.

Now that Li Shi is in charge of this muddy factory, he is a bully who blocks the river, and he has to bite the meat down. There are indeed royal businessmen and official businessmen in the proprietors behind the shopkeepers, but if their shopkeepers can't even settle this little thing, and they need to use the relationship at the top, they will have no value in existence. Besides, whether the upper echelons really have the heart to do something for this little thing, things have to be said.

"Shopkeeper Chen...... The momentum has changed, so let's sit down and talk calmly. ”

Shopkeeper Han persuaded Shopkeeper Chen, whose neck was still stiff.

"Yes, everything is easy to discuss, the emperor is far away, everyone goes out to do business, all they talk about is harmony, and they ask for favors."

Shopkeeper Yu took out all the words of the land darts.

Han Yu compromised with the two shopkeepers, and the other shopkeepers also put on smiling faces, so the shopkeeper Chen had to grit his teeth and endure this breath.

"Do you have to fire a cannon to know that the sky has changed here? What a waste of my time! ”

Li Xian reprimanded angrily, turned his head and said to Peng Xianzhong, I will leave it to you, and left directly, leaving a room of shopkeepers speechless.

"It's better to be a businessman, know how to weigh and calculate profits, although it's a wall-riding faction, but I like it."

Li Xi was relieved while going downstairs, when he talked to Duan Hongshi about this "Hun Mode" before, there was actually a flaw missing, that is, he supported the protective film, but there were still businessmen who followed the surname of Profit-seeking Heaven and did not want to be covered by this film, such as imperial merchants and official businessmen.

In the past, even if it was the imperial merchant and the official businessman, because this was the tax pass of the imperial court and even the emperor, they still had to pay some taxes and make a little money, but they would not be too tightly stripped by the scribe patrol. Now that Li Xi has cut off the tax customs and the imperial court, they want to take advantage of this limelight to completely avoid taxes, which is a result that Li Xi does not want to see.

If you don't pull these guys in, your outer circulation will not be a closed system, and you won't be able to turn around. Before he can find the secret weapon that stirs up the capital, he can only use underworld means to establish his order, otherwise the outer circulation he isolates is still ventilated on all sides, and the capital behind these big businesses is the target of stirring, and he can't let it go.

So when Li Xi learned that some officials and businessmen were unwilling to join Peng Xianzhong's customs meeting and did not want to pay tariffs, he directly brought Siwei over with a cannon. The flood guard of Xun Xun Xun is the henchman arranged by Zhang Ying, plus Liu Xingchun's inspection department. Lian Yong, Patrolman, or Xun Bing, as long as the number is not too eye-catching, his guard will be whatever identity he wants. At the moment, he is wearing the uniform of the flood soldiers, and it is not taboo to use guns and cannons at all.

Now the ship-carrying shopkeepers of these big businesses want to tell him about the rules of the rivers and lakes, which is exactly what he wants, isn't he just a super version of the road rage, and wants to pass by from now on and leave the money to buy the road...... But what he wants is not money, but order, which belongs to his order.

"Don't panic, if he opens his mouth, it's just a chance for us to report and clean him up."

Shopkeeper Han comforted Shopkeeper Chen.

"If the price is fair, there is no need to cause more trouble, this kind of local snake is ruthless, although the owner has a way to deal with it, but it will suffer us who handle it."

Shopkeeper Yu also took everyone to set the bottom line, Shopkeeper Chen bowed his head speechlessly, after all, he is doing business, not fighting the dock.

"Tell me, what are your rules?"

The shopkeeper Han became a leader and talked about the price with Peng Xianzhong on the spot.

"Rules...... Right here. ”

Peng Xianzhong smiled and raised his hand to unfold two booklets, "Xunhuan Tariff" and "Xunhuan Customs Contract".

"After signing this agreement, we will do it according to the rules of the imperial court, there is no customs faction, no bad rules, this is ......"

Peng Xianzhong looked at the shopkeepers' suspicious and stunned faces with satisfaction, according to the tax rules of the imperial court, only regular taxes were collected, and the silver they had to pay was actually not much, and it might even be less than the money used to clear customs. This is called a slap and then give sweet dates, you have to hand over the sweet dates first, these guys are not rare.

"That's our rule, yes, you, you, plus me, the rules for all of us."

(To be continued)