Chapter Forty-Seven: Throwing Stones and Asking for Directions (Asking for Collection)
The headquarters of Hsieh's shipping was located in Guangzhou, so Xie Niancheng quickly found a suitable warehouse in the wharf storage area and collected the first batch of munitions.
With a gun in the warehouse and money in the pocket, the next thing is naturally to find someone.
Guangzhou will be a transit point for the Xie family to receive overseas supplies for a long time to come.
Arms, machinery, supplies, medicines......
With so many complex categories, if you go through customs, from an economic point of view, just paying taxes can make you suffocate internal injuries, not to mention that some good things will inexplicably "drift".
From a political point of view, what do you want to do when you import so many arms from a company in the Xie Group?
Xie Niancheng decided to "go to the water".
Judging from the information learned by the Guangzhou branch of the Xie Group, there are now hundreds of large and small smuggling gangs in Guangdong, and if Xie Niancheng only makes things for himself and does not sell them to the outside world, he should not touch the interests of those big gangs and will not cause too much trouble.
Without the risks on the rivers and lakes, things will not be too difficult to do, as long as you can find someone who can drive a boat and dare to play with your life.
Of course, the employees of the Xie Group cannot be transferred, even if they are not allowed to come forward, even Xie Niancheng does not plan to let himself come forward directly, but asks Zhang Chengyue to come forward and set up an organization to unload goods from the high seas to the warehouse in the reservoir area.
Early in the morning, Xie Niancheng and Zhang Chengyue went to Guangzhou Baiyun Wharf to recruit people.
When they arrived at the place where the dock workers gathered, Xie Niancheng and Zhang Chengyue began to walk around, talking loudly in Sichuan, to the effect that there was a big business or something, in order to attract the attention of the workers from Sichuan.
Recruiting people in Guangzhou, of course, is to find a more reliable place to live in Sichuan, and work hard in other places, can you still count on outsiders without relying on local people?
There are not many people who go to distant Guangdong in the western Sichuan Plain, but there are many people in the mountainous areas of eastern Sichuan, northern Sichuan, and southern Sichuan, and many young and middle-aged people go to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong to seek a living.
Working at the wharf and at sea is more expensive than ordinary factory wages, which is a good choice for people who come from poor mountainous areas and are used to suffering.
As Xie Niancheng expected, within a few minutes of the two of them, two people who were not tall and had yellow muscles and thin muscles timidly stopped them: "Fellow countryman, Wow from Sichuan?" Come and talk, come and talk. ”
Several people found a place where there were fewer people, Zhang Chengyue took out a cigarette and lit it, and gave one to each of them.
"Yes, brother, it's good, it's a big wave, it's okay, we usually wrap our own tobacco leaves."
Xie Niancheng didn't want to show his face in the rivers and lakes, so his identity was Zhang Chengyue's follower, and in order to facilitate communication, he was also full of local accents:
"Two fellows, this is Brother Da Fei, we just came out of Sichuan, we want to go back from Guangzhou on the hour, we asked the price everywhere, and they are a bit burning, so I want to get some first-hand goods from foreigners, and now I can't make it?"
The person who replied pulled some submissive fellow villagers next to him and bent over to Zhang Chengyue: "We are just porters, so we don't know much about these things." ”
Xie Niancheng took out two pieces of ocean and handed them to them: "Please do you two a favor, and call the fellow who knows about this matter to come and put a little bit of a problem with us." ”
When the porter's business was not good, he couldn't earn a big ocean a day, and the two skinny porters turned out to be very happy and turned back to the crowd.
Xie Niancheng and Zhang Chengyue sat on the cement pier and waited.
This is a cargo terminal, dirty and messy is inevitable, the air is filled with a stinky water, garbage, stinky sweat mixed with an unpleasant smell, Zhang Chengyue said: "Captain, why don't we find a clean place to wait?" ”
Xie Niancheng shook his head: "If you want to recruit people here, what are you doing if you can't stay here?" Just wait here. ”
Zhang Chengyue nodded, silently remembering Xie Niancheng's words in his heart.
It didn't take long for a man in his twenties, who was taller and more stocky, under the leadership of the two porters who had taken the ocean, to come over.
His face is very different from Xie Niancheng's fairness, he is already a little dark, it seems that he has been in Guangzhou for a long time, his beard is unkempt, his eyes are full of vicissitudes, although he is young, he is already a little bent when he walks.
Taking Zhang Chengyue's cigarette, he sniffed it deeply: "It's a good smoke, I haven't tasted it for a long time." ”
Julang is five cents a pack, which is not something that ordinary people consume, and the common cigarettes among dock workers are only three or five cents a pack.
Hearing "I haven't tasted it for a long time", Xie Niancheng became interested in him, it seems that this is a person with a story.
"This is Brother Da Fei, my surname is Chen, brother, are you?"
The swarthy man lit a cigarette and took a few puffs, and said casually: "Just call me Lao Hei, how about it, what business do you two want to do?" ”
Zhang Chengyue said: "I want to get the goods back to Sichuan, I have found a dock here, and there are also supplies outside, but I have only been here for a short time, and I don't know how to do it." ”
"Brother Da Fei, do you want to get a vote? Or do you want to do it for a long time? How much? ”
"Of course, it's a long term, and it's hard to say the amount, at least a few thousand tons a year."
The old black's cloudy eyes suddenly brightened a little, and the whole person was also in good spirits, and his back was straight. "Brother Fei, do you mean you want to pull a pole and set up a dock here?"
Zhang Chengyue nodded, "That's right." ”
"How many people did you bring with you?"
Zhang Chengyue pointed at himself, and then pointed at Xie Niancheng: "The two of us." ”
Lao Hei's newly lit eyes dimmed again, and his back bent down again.
Xie Niancheng asked, "What, Lao Hei, isn't it easy to do things?" ”
"The two of you don't know this Guangzhou, Guangzhou now has the Northeast Gang, the Two Lakes Gang, the Chaoshan Gang, and the local gangs, and the things in and out of this dock are in the hands of the local gangs, if the amount is large, they will definitely not be able to hide from the local gang, their rules are three out of ten, if you don't give it, don't think about doing this business."
"What if you just don't give it?"
Lao Hei laughed miserably, "A few years ago, our brothers from Sichuan got together and wanted to do some business on their own, just because they found out that they were attacked when they received the goods, and they robbed the goods, and they killed all the brothers present." ”
As he spoke, Lao Hei was a little excited, and when he pulled his clothes, there were two bullet marks on his body.
"Of the more than 20 brothers who received the goods that day, my life was the hardest, and God didn't accept me."
Xie Niancheng is still a little less experienced in the rivers and lakes, and underestimates the greed of the people in the underworld.
Things were a little unexpected for him, and it seemed that it was impossible to make a fortune in silence.
In fact, it's very simple to think about it, smuggling, a hugely lucrative business, if there is no gang to control it, it would be strange.
"Since I dare to come, I'm not afraid of this gang and that faction, tell me, what's going on with the rivers and lakes here in Guangzhou?" Zhang Chengyue is domineering.
"The local gang is actually just a collective name for the local gangs here in Guangzhou, they have their own business, but when they encounter foreign gangs, they often agree with the outside world, so everyone else calls them local gangs."
"The Northeast Gang and the Two Lakes Gang have set up some businesses in Guangzhou, and they mainly receive goods from here to sell them elsewhere on the dock side, and the Chaoshan Gang has some businesses in Guangzhou and a few docks, but most of the docks are still in the hands of local helpers."
"If outsiders want to do business, they have to go to the gang in charge of the dock to negotiate the price, and promise to let you do it every ten draws, in fact, the pumping is too high, so not many people do it themselves, so those who do business take the goods from them."
This condition is unacceptable to Xie Niancheng, but even if he can negotiate with Mandrian, it will take half a year to receive the goods at the earliest, and there is still time to arrange it calmly.
"And what's the origin of the local gang that controls the docks?"
"The control of this dock is called the Pingbo Society, there are hundreds of people, and there are a lot of hard guys."
Xie Niancheng nodded: "Brother Fei, it seems that this is the case, what do you think?" ”
Zhang Chengyue asked Lao Hei: "I want to recruit a group of brothers, are there many people from Sichuan here?" I want the kind of people who dare to do it, and forget about the faint ones. ”
Lao Hei thought for a while, "In the whole of Guangzhou, there are still a lot of fellow villagers, I estimate that there are tens of thousands of people, but I don't know how many people dare to mix on the road." ”
Xie Niancheng said: "Brother Fei, it's better than this, let's ask Lao Hei to contact the brothers who are willing to do things, how about finding a place to set up a wine and open the altar in ten days?" ”
Lao Hei's heart was shocked, he thought that Fei Ge just wanted to do some small business, but he didn't expect to open an altar, that is, to plant a flag in Guangzhou! For so long, there are only three families that can gain a foothold in Guangzhou: the Northeast Gang, the Lianghu Gang and the Chaoshan Gang, each of which has thousands of brothers.
Seeing that Brother Fei was full of confidence, Lao Hei also let go: "Okay, Brother Fei, if you believe in Lao Hei, let me contact you, but I don't know how many people Brother Fei needs?" ”
Zhang Chengyue tried his best to pretend to be a boss: "As long as you dare to work hard, I will come as much as I want, and those who come will be paid a hundred oceans first." ”
Xie Niancheng took out a silver ticket of one hundred oceans from his pocket: "Lao Hei, if you are willing to follow Brother Da Fei, this ocean is yours." ”
Lao Hei arched his hand: "No merit will be lost, see you here in ten days, and then I will lead Brother Da Fei's ocean!" But Brother Da Fei and Brother Chen, you still have to think clearly, I still want to persuade the two of you, the local gang is not easy to mess with. ”
Zhang Chengyue laughed: "Haha, it's not easy to mess with? Old Black, have you heard of the Great Black Mountain? ”
Lao Hei was born in eastern Sichuan, but who in the rivers and lakes in Sichuan would not know about the thousand-year-old bandit nest of the Great Black Mountain?
"You know, Brother Da Fei, you came down from the Great Black Mountain?"
"Now there is no big black mountain, and the bandits in the mountains have been exterminated by my eldest brother! Tell me, in front of my eldest brother, these Cantonese guys are a fart! ”
Lao Hei was shocked now, if Feige's eldest brother had the strength to destroy the Great Black Mountain, then it would be impossible to set off a storm in Guangzhou.
Lao Hei left in a hurry, and he didn't know how many people he would be able to find in ten days.
Leaving the dock, Zhang Chengyue lost the domineering spirit in front of Lao Hei, and asked cautiously: "Captain, can you do things here?" Even if we gather a group of brothers, but the strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, why don't you send a telegram to Brother Ha and ask him to bring more brothers over there? ”
Xie Niancheng waved his hand: "The matter over there is important, you can't draw someone over, it's not difficult to do things here." Chengyue, in fact, what you just said is very good: the underworld society? Rivers and lakes? It's not that I look down on these people, they can be regarded as a fart at most, you wait to see the show, I want them to see and understand, what is not a Raptor! ”
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