From time to time, steamboats dock at the pier in this not spacious river, and pick up some passengers who are eligible for this high fare. Of course, when docking at these docks, there are also many passengers who are in a hurry to disembark, which also indicates that the other party has arrived. As for Xu Bin and his party, they need to get off the boat at the terminal. Therefore, we need to be more patient with time.

After nearly three hours of sailing, the steamship finally entered the terminal of mooring, the river terminal of the City of Heroes. Looking at the coolies walking back and forth on the wharf, Xu Bin can also see that the river transport wharf in the capital city of Gannan Province was still a busy scene in the past!

Looking at the busy scene of this wharf, Xu Bin felt that the taxes and profits that this wharf could earn every day must not be a small amount. And to Xu Bin's surprise, on the other side of the pier, he also saw several small gunboats cruising in the river.

As can be seen from the sailors standing on these gunboats, the management of the canal is probably in the hands of foreigners. Because most of the sailors standing on the gunboat have different skin colors from those of Longhua. It can be seen at a glance that the other party should be a US sailor who has the right to manage and tax this canal.

Why Xu Bin is so sure that these sailors standing on the gunboat will be from the United States, the main reason is that most of those sailors seem to be white-skinned and blue-eyed, plus the gunboat still has the flag of the United States on it. Thinking about what he learned when he got on the boat before, Xu Bin could judge that this kind of gunboat used to maintain the safety of the canal was probably formed by the people of the United States who controlled the canal.

Looking at these foreign soldiers who were also crowned as 'foreigners' by the people of Longhua and Xu Bin, who was rampant on the river belonging to Longhua and had a somewhat angry personality, the feeling in his heart was somewhat uncomfortable.

Judging from the construction of these gunboats and the equipment visible to the naked eye, Xu Bin felt that it was not impossible to solve the other party in such a relatively narrow canal. Therefore, after glancing at the other party's two gunboats hatefully, Xu Bin quickly followed Uncle Du, who was temporarily pretending to be a housekeeper, and walked out of the river transport dock slowly.

Walking out of the dock and coming to the street, those rickshaws that could be seen everywhere in the previous Republic of China period can also be seen everywhere on this street. Most of the coachmen, who were only wearing a small vest, saw Xu Bin and his party, and enthusiastically stepped forward to ask Xu Bin and others if they needed rickshaws. The price is relatively cheap, and each rickshaw only charges about ten copper plates.

After inquiring with Uncle Du, after staying at the hotel next, Xu Bin called four rickshaws in one go. Except for Wang Er's largest scar, one person sat in one, and the other six people were two people in one car, followed the old Uncle Du who started the head, and went to the Dachang Hotel on Yanghang Street in Hero City to check in.

With this old Uncle Du, who had been to Hero City with Xu Bin's father and Xu Yizhong before, Xu Bin and others were also exempted from the dilemma of asking and taking the wrong road. was directly pulled by four rickshaws to the door of a hotel that seemed to be in relatively good condition.

Telling Uncle Du to pull a car for these people, almost all of them were sweating, knowing that it was not easy for these people to make money. Xu Bin asked Uncle Du to give the leading coachman a dragon ocean, and the rest of the extra money was distributed to the other three coachmen. In this regard, the four coachmen, who looked like they should all be in a group, were grateful for it, and only then did Xu Bin walk into the Dachang Hotel with Bai Mulan in his arms.

Originally, with Bai Mulan's temperament, she would not let Xu Bin hug her like this at all, but she was fooled by Xu Bin. said that if she didn't do this, it would be easy for people to see through her identity, and it was the first time for her to go out so far. For this reason, Xu Bin acquiesced to hugging her little waist. Who called her current identity, it is the young lady of the young master of the Xu family!

After coming to the hotel, Xu Bin asked Uncle Du to book four first-class rooms. Originally, according to Uncle Du's meaning, he and the other four bodyguards only needed to open a medium-sized room, and the room with five beds could be squeezed. There is no need to live at all, which requires five Longyang one night of the upper class.

It is rare to bring these people out, and Xu Bin naturally will not treat the other party badly in this regard. Therefore, he directly asked for four first-class rooms, one of which was nominally for him to live with Bai Mulan, and the other three were for the housekeeper and four bodyguards. But when it was time to stay, in Bai Mulan's somewhat flustered eyes, Xu Bin laughed evilly twice, and then gave Bai Mulan the middle room of the four rooms to live alone.

As for Xu Bin, he lives in the same room with Wang Erjiao, and Uncle Du lives with the two dogs who usually have the most relationship. The other upscale room was assigned to Tian Youliang and Zhao Tielin, who were the most kung fu masters, and it just so happened that both of them were about the same age. Along the way, Xu Bin also found that Zhao Tielin, who had a relatively silent personality, was not disgusted with Tian Youliang, who had just enlisted in the army for a few days.

After dividing the room, Xu Bin called Wang Erscar and the others to the room and asked them to rest for a while today. After lunch, don't be too anxious about the specific purchase of arms in the Yanghang Street of this hero city.

Although it is not difficult to buy guns and arms with money these days, it is very likely that Xu Bin, who can buy a standard weapon for a regular company as soon as he buys it, is very likely to attract the attention of these foreign arms dealers. Even if you are not careful, let the intelligence spies all over Gannan nail, the consequences are unimaginable.

When he came out, Xu Bin specially inquired about the precautions for the procurement of arms from his second uncle, Xu Yizhong, according to the second uncle's words. If you want to buy a few or even dozens of guns, as long as you pay for them, the foreign company will not ask you what you are buying these arms for. But once the number exceeds 100, some foreign companies with strict requirements will make you show proof and the reason why you need so many arms.

If you don't have a suitable reason, they will either inflate the price before selling you, or they will report you to the Governor's Palace, where the plainclothes agents will interrogate you. If there is no reason, then the fate waiting for you is definitely a loss of talent, and it is very likely that you will be nailed to the chaos and rebel and be raided and destroyed.

In order to ensure the smooth procurement of arms, Xu Bin had already considered when he came that as the capital of Gannan Province, Hero City often circulated intelligence information about the domestic situation relatively quickly. Xu Bin, who knows the reason that the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass, brought Uncle Du this time, to a large extent, in the hope that he would set up an intelligence station directly under his jurisdiction in this hero city.

As Uncle Du, who has worked hard with the two Xu brothers since he started in Heifeng Village, he can be trusted. Of course, it is not ruled out that Uncle Du will betray Xu Bin to some extent in the future.

It's just that Xu Bin knows very well that in these years, whether it is bandits or ordinary people, the word betrayal is still relatively taboo. Therefore, before there is a suitable replacement, it is still very suitable for this old Uncle Du, who can be trusted by the second uncle, Li Chengbing and others, to inquire about the news in the City of Heroes.

And he was worried that if he made a purchase with the foreign company tomorrow, it would attract the attention of the foreign arms dealers and the intelligence troops under the governor of Gannan, and Xu Bin must have a safe place to hide after realizing that something was wrong. Therefore, Xu Bin decided that after lunch, he and Tian Youliang went to this foreign street for a stroll.

As for Uncle Du, he was accompanied by Wang Erscar to buy a house in a relatively secluded place in the city. First, it will be used as their hiding place, and secondly, it will also be convenient for Uncle Du to live in this hero city in the future. Considering the problem of funds, when Xu Bin asked Uncle Du to choose a house, he mostly chose it near the suburbs of Hero City.

Although it is a little far away from the center of the city, the situation there is relatively complicated, even if they are targeted by spies in this city, it is easy to get rid of the other party, and it is not easy to be directly arrested by the other party. As long as they can't catch anyone, those greedy spies can't do anything to Xu Bin and the others.

Seeing that Xu Bin had even considered a way out, Uncle Du naturally had no opinion. Moreover, he knew very well that at his age, he could work in the cottage for five or six years at most, and he would only be eliminated from the mountain. If he has a little money to spare, maybe he can buy two acres of thin fields after going down the mountain and wait for the day when he closes his eyes.

But since the formation of the Xu Jiajun, although he has been eliminated, he doesn't have to worry about going out to act again, and he can still enjoy a Long Yang's salary every month. This is undoubtedly an extremely rare treatment for these old people.

This time, after learning that the second master and Xu Bin, the young master, had entrusted him with such an important task, Uncle Du was undoubtedly very moved. There is a saying that 'a soldier dies for a confidant', and this is also the case in banditry, and he is still very touched to be so trusted by the leaders of the cottage.

Moreover, Xu Bin also promised that when Xu Jiajun really has a certain strength, he will find an older woman to start a family for him according to Uncle Du's work here. If you are lucky, Uncle Du, who is over forty years old, may be able to give birth to a son to inherit the lineage. Therefore, after receiving this task, he was still grateful to Xu Bin from the bottom of his heart.

In addition, this start-up intelligence station is to a large extent to go to the teahouse street to inquire about the news, and pass some useful information to Xu Bin through letters or people. As circumstances permit, Xu Bin even wanted to purchase a few expensive radio stations in this procurement project to serve as an intelligence station and communicate with Xu Jiajun, who was about to set up a team in Xiashan.

You must know that Xu Bin, who is temporarily impossible to lay telephone communication, can think of a means to quickly transmit intelligence and news, and only a radio station that few people can buy in these years, and there may not be a radio station!