Dozens of boats parked next to the river are very eye-catching, and the more than 1,000 people in the boat can't stand it, and they are better when they sail, but as soon as the boat stops, these people who sit on the boat can't bear the loneliness, and the noisy sound covers most of the river.

"Ziqi, what is the boundary ahead?"

Yang Meng also knew that sitting in the boat was boring, plus practicing guns, no matter how good the military discipline was, it would inevitably make a sound, and it seemed that he could only find a small port to dock.

"Sanshui County in Foshan, a one-day waterway away from Guangzhou City. It can be reached by land in half a day. ”

"Tell me to go down, stop at Sanshui County, you send someone to fight the front station, and if you encounter water bandits and sea bandits, you can detain what you can, and do it if you resist."

Sanshui is a good place, Guangzhou can be reached by water and land, and there are bandits on the road ahead, so you have to be careful when you act yourself.

The fleet had just arrived at the small wharf in Sanshui, and Yang Fuliang's men and horses had also arrived.

"Master! The pirates on the Pearl River waterway are coming to our house, do you want to kill them? ”

Yang Fuliang's gangsterism did not change, and after he came up and kowtowed, he directly put out murderous words.

"Don't be in a hurry to kill first! The stakes are very high, tell me, which of these pirates on the Pearl River were hired? What is the purpose of blocking the waterway? ”

"It is said that it was hired by several merchants and foreigners, and the purpose was ......"

Yang Fuliang looked at his third master, but he couldn't say the words later.

"Say!"

As soon as he saw Yang Fuliang's situation, Yang Meng knew that things were not good, and it seemed that he had sought to seize the monopoly this time, which touched the mold of many people.

"Intercept and kill the caravan from Yunnan, and there are several bandits, and the goal is very clear. Intercept and kill the caravan with clouds of smoke. It's not just the river. All important intersections by land. It's all blocked. ”

Yang Fuliang is also a member of the gangs now, so he can talk to most of the gangsters. When he heard that someone was going to intercept and kill the Yunnan caravan more than half a month ago, he also paid attention.

After knowing that these bandits dealt with the Yang family, he also sent a letter to Yunnan, but unfortunately he went by land and staggered with Yang Meng's team, but fortunately, the third master was cautious, otherwise he would fight with the bandits on the river. The people of the Yang family will definitely suffer.

"Fuliang, you have remembered these sea bandits, water bandits, and mountain bandits clearly, the matter in Guangzhou is over, one village after another, under the banner of the Yang family, to sweep them away for Lao Tzu.

If you encounter those who are powerful, you can find Master Pan and use the people of the government. There is only one request, and if there is a mistake, you will not let it go! You're going to do this for a few days. ”

It seems that the prestige of the Yang family in Liangguang is still too small. Take this opportunity to stand up.

"Ziqi, put down the goods directly in a few houses rented in Sanshui, and the empty ship was directly parked at the dock in Guangzhou, ready to return at any time. The others changed their clothes and approached Lixiangyuan by land in batches. sent someone out of the gang to fight the front station, and when he met someone who couldn't open his eyes, he killed him. ”

The complexity of the matter is far beyond his imagination, he seems to have offended the Qing Dynasty and the foreign devils, and now he is fighting with the bandits, and he has fallen into the trap of others, so let's go to Lixiangyuan to explore the situation first!

Now you can't send someone to contact Lixiangyuan directly, if the group of people you bring is targeted, it can only be a scuffle, before the situation is unclear, you still have to be cautious, whether you can reach Lixiangyuan smoothly, it depends on the ability of your own group of people.

The march at night was definitely not successful, it was easy to be exposed, and it could only march towards the city of Guangzhou during the day. The manpower left by Yang Fuliang played a big role, and more than 1,000 new troops, dressed in the name of Guangxi bandits, successfully approached Lixiangyuan.

It is also a trouble to enter Lixiang Garden, this manor is built on a hill outside the city, it is easy to be monitored, and it is not easy for Yang Meng to lead more than 1,000 people to hide their tracks and enter Lixiang Garden.

"Ziqi, send someone to secretly contact our steward in Guangzhou City, inform Lixiangyuan, let's go over in the middle of the night tonight, let the people of Lixiangyuan show their tricks, don't beat us as bandits."

Entering the Lixiang Garden at night, it is not easy to say but it is not easy to do, the defense of the Lixiang Garden must be tight and abnormal now, plus five hundred musketeers, if you don't say hello and bump into it, it is inevitable that the gun will go off.

Fortunately, some of the Yang family's business is still done by themselves, but they just scratched out the clouds and smoke alone, otherwise it would be difficult to find someone to go to Lixiangyuan to spread the word, and after getting the news of Lixiangyuan, Yang Meng also began to prepare for action.

"Ziqi, arrange people with small stature, good eyesight, and hard hands, starting in the first half of the night, along the only way to enter and exit Lixiang Garden, search, and when they encounter a living person, they will be directly knocked down, and a few more waves will be arranged.

In the second half of the night, we will do it, the musket must not be used, and the knife will be used. I'll open the way in front, and you'll be behind the back hall, don't miss a person of your own. ”

This batch of new troops of the Yang family, whether it is combat strength or loyalty, are trustworthy, but only one is not good, many people have poor vision at night, this is night blindness, although Yang Meng said that pig liver, sheep liver and fresh fish were added to the meal, but there are still a large number of people, and the sight at night is not very good.

The reason is also simple, that is, they are hungry, this group of new troops used to be mostly helpless singles, and it is not uncommon for them to suffer from night blindness after eating the last meal, and night fighting is a shortcoming of the new army in Yunnan.

This time entering Lixiang Garden was a secret act, although they had to slaughter some opponents on the way, as long as they didn't know the specific number of people in the road, he could catch them off guard.

The outpost swept the mountain road several times and slaughtered a dozen eyeliners, most of these people were members of the merchant gang, and it seemed that things were in trouble.

More than 1,000 people successfully arrived at Lixiang Garden, and arranged their subordinates with the steward of Pan Mansion, and Yang Meng saw Pan Shicheng, whose eyes were red and his expression was a little haggard.

"Xingdou, why are you here? Now this Guangzhou is tantamount to the Longtan Tiger's Den, the Huizhou Merchants and the Chaozhou Merchants want to join forces to deal with us, these bastards have hired a lot of bandits, Pan's business route has been cut off, and it doesn't make much use for you to come! ”

Pan Shicheng knows best from the beginning to the end of this matter, the gangs of thousands of people blocked the trade route of the Pan family, in addition to the thirty good hands of the Yang family, the Pan family also killed and injured dozens of people, and the loss of goods was even greater.

"It's okay! Father-in-law. I took two thousand new troops with me. All musketeers. I prepared for the worst before I came. Kill and fight! I'll let them see the Yang family's methods. Hum! The two major merchant gangs, I can't find the grave when I turn around and let them cry! ”

Pan Shicheng was put on the fire, these two big business gangs deceived people too much! The Yang family started by fighting blood, and those people are not opponents when they play this.

"Xingdou, you have to be cautious in this matter, it's easy to kill and it's hard to end up! These merchants are not white dings, and there are people in the family who serve in the imperial court. This time you must not be reckless! ”

If you can deter these merchants by force and spend some money, Pan Shicheng can invite the Guangzhou general, but people also have a backstage, so it will be difficult to end the matter.

The merchants of the Qing Dynasty are just a trivial matter, the most important thing is the East India Company, I didn't expect a monopoly proposal, so that the East India Company reacted so violently, and things came to this point, which Pan Shicheng never expected.

"Father-in-law. Why did this happen, is it just because of the monopoly thing? ”

The exact cause of the incident is not yet known. For a single cloud, it is impossible for the merchants of the Qing Dynasty to participate in it.

"The cause is the matter of the monopoly, the battle of Gengzi six years ago, it was instigated by the East India Company to break the monopoly of the Thirteen Lines, and now I bring it up again, of course they don't want to.

I was busy with officialdom over the years, and my business methods had also regressed, and when I negotiated with the representatives of the East India Company that day, I was quick to say that I would cut off the supply of cloud smoke, which was the root cause of the East India Company's trouble.

Star Dou! In the past few years, I have built ships and mines, I thought that England would be jealous, but I never thought that it would be self-defeating! ”

Where did the battle of Gengzi start, Pan Shicheng knew that he had been in a good position in the past few years, so he despised the commercial representative of the East India Company, and he was strong, but he didn't expect that people were not meat heads.

The East India Company directly used the monopoly as a weapon to instigate the Huichao merchant gang to attack their own Pan, and when it was time to sit on the wax, it was too late to regret it.

"Huh! This time, my decision was wrong, I didn't see the purpose of the foreign devil clearly, and I didn't familiarize myself with the beginning and end of the battle of Gengzi, so it would be serious for us to say that we were guilty. It's already happening, and this time it's not an opportunity, maybe we'll take the opportunity to turn things around!

What is the Huichao Merchant Gang for? It's nothing more than profit! Let's join forces with the three parties to jointly dominate this monopoly right, what does my father-in-law think? ”

His father-in-law is responsible for this, but his responsibility is even greater, and the monopoly is reckless, and the situation of riding a tiger must be broken. This Huichao merchant gang is the key to breaking the situation, the foreign devil knows that the Dao uses the Huichao merchant gang to put pressure on the Pan family, can't he do the opposite?

"There should be no problem with the Huichao merchant gang, but this East India Company is a big trouble, they are different from us merchants, they have ships and cannons in their hands, they are afraid that the Huichao merchant gang will be taken by foreigners. Wei, the battle against the water! ”

Cooperate! Pan Shicheng didn't think about it, but the Huichao merchants are not fools, now the Pan family is at a disadvantage, and if the Pan family is defeated, it is a whole business route in hand!

The object of buying and selling is nothing more than foreigners, choosing between killing Pan's and fighting foreigners, the benefit of killing Pan's is the greatest, and those Huichao merchants understand this account, so since the incident happened, Pan Shicheng didn't make peace with them, there is no certain deterrence, and finding Huichao merchants will only be humiliating!

"Father-in-law, you are responsible for dealing with the Huichao merchant gang, negotiating with them, choosing a few of the most powerful, and squeezing others who have no power and power directly to death! There are no good people in these things, helping foreigners deal with their own families, and the son-in-law is already giving face if he doesn't go to them.

As for the East India Company, we have to hurt him first, the loss of nearly 100 people, let's take his 1,000 lives, these days you appease the Huichao merchant gang, I will directly attack the ships of the East India Company.

After the East India Company was weakened, the Huichao merchant gang was speechless, and the five merchants accounted for half of Guangzhou and Shanghai, and the other ports were allocated to the rest of the ports. ”

The Huichao merchant gang is not small in the imperial court, and now is not the time to turn around, with the strength of the Pan and Yang families, they occupy half of the Guangzhou market and Shanghai, whether it is capital or financial resources, it is enough.

"Don't be reckless! Killing more than 1,000 foreigners is not a trivial matter, it will trigger a national war, and once the war starts according to the attitude of the imperial court, it is bound to compromise and appease. When the time comes, the land will be divided, and we will lose the most.

Revenge can't be rushed for a while, and when we are strong, we will kill all these foreign devils. But now is the wrong time, and you must not use the sword without permission. ”

On the issue of hands-on, Pan Shicheng and Wei Wu agreed on the same opinion, go to war! Now is not the time, and acting blindly will only invite trouble. (To be continued......)