Wu Shigong sat on the main seat of the inner hall and was silent. Xu Yanmu and the six hundred households sat aside, and they didn't say a word. They all thought that Wu Shigong was deliberately snubbing them, and because of their contempt for Wu Shigong this morning, they were disadvantaged by Wu Shigong in another way, and no one wanted to be the first bird to be shot at this time. As a result, the inner hall was very quiet. However, they all miscalculated, Wu Shigong was carefully brewing, how to speak to these people, because the first speech is very important, which will concretely reflect Wu Shigong's life plan.

In his previous life, Wu Shigong was able to grow from a gangster to a gangster in six years, not to mention his personal courage and intelligence, if you insist on using a compliment to describe him, it can be called both civil and military. And the way he acts always naturally and unnaturally reveals the style of the gang boss, and even some behaviors have become an instinct in his actions. (This Wu Shigong's underworld instinct is not unimportant, but a major criterion for his behavior in this work.) Therefore, the characteristics of his underworld instincts will be described in detail later. ）

Another very important reason is that Wu Shigong is very ambitious. Otherwise, don't say six years, even if it's sixteen or sixty years, the gangsters who are mixed in society are still a gangsters, and there are still a lot of people. The reason why other people will follow you is because you have a future and make money, not because you dominate the world or can stick a knife in the ribs for your friends, or if you are a gangster boss, you are all boxing champions. Although Wu Shigong's identity as a son-in-law is not good, Wu Shigong has no choice but to change it, but as a man, his ambition to do his own career will never be extinguished for Wu Shigong. Originally, Wu Shigong may have just crossed over and was not familiar with the situation, so he might look at the situation for the time being, and even be content to enjoy the current stable and wealthy life because he didn't have any good opportunities, but now Xue Lian pushed him to the position of acting commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division, which has a certain amount of power, with this platform, how can the fire of Wu Shigong's ambition not burn brightly?

Of course, there is another hidden reason, mainly because Wu Shigong is a little worried. Wu Shigong knew that he was young and unqualified, and the reason why he got this position was because he had a father-in-law who was the Marquis of Yangwu, Xue Lian, as a backer, and Xue Lian's backer was Wei Zhongxian. From the limited historical knowledge in his memory, Wei Zhongxian's fate is very sad, although he is now trusted by the emperor and is very beautiful, but as long as the new emperor comes to power, people will inevitably be wiped out. Without a backer, Xue Lian, who is Wei Zhongxian's cronies, and Wu Shigong, who is Wei Zhongxian's cronies, will end badly, and there is even the possibility of raiding the family and exterminating the clan. But when did the old emperor die? When will the new emperor come to power? What may happen decades from then may also happen tomorrow. What time it was, Wu Shigong didn't have any impression in his memory. Ignorance is not the scariest thing, knowing a little bit is terrifying. Therefore, before the new emperor comes to power, firmly grasp and even expand the power in his hands as much as possible, so that he can have the possibility of being encircled by the new emperor, or at least have the possibility of throwing a mouse, this is a way to save himself. Taking 10,000 steps back, if you can use the power in your hands to get enough money now, and use this money to bribe the cronies around the new emperor, it will be another way to save yourself.

Therefore, Wu Shigong's instincts, ambition and sense of crisis combined to determine his life plan for the next period of time. That is to seize the time, to win over the most people in the shortest possible time, to get the most power possible, to earn the most money.

Perhaps many officials have gained an impression of the underworld from the triad films and literary works abroad and Hong Kong, but unfortunately, after literary processing, many of the introductions of these works are one-sided or even grossly wrong. The introduction to the underworld could have been written as a special essay, but it has little to do with the novel. However, in order to better understand Wu Shigong's ideas and code of conduct, here, the author will also briefly introduce: What is the underworld?

In fact, in the official names of various countries and regions, there is no word "triad", and "triad" is mainly a popular name for the people. In official documents, they are referred to as "organized crime". However, the author still thinks that this term is not comprehensive, and believes that it should be called "a group of organized crime money-making organizations".

Therefore, all the actions of the underworld (for the sake of easy understanding, it is still called "underworld" in the text) revolve around the purpose of making money, and there is no one. The status of the leaders of the underworld in the underworld is also determined by the amount of money they make. Of course, these leaders must also have the ability to protect themselves. The underworld does not commit crimes for the sake of committing crimes, and if he commits crimes, it is only to make money, and the underworld will even play a role in maintaining normal social order in some specific places, completely playing a powerful supplementary position to the police. For example, the crime rate of several major casinos on Shijie is relatively low.

Especially the boss of the underworld, anyone who can be called a ** giant, is a master in running industries and making illegal and legal money. It is no exaggeration to say that every ** giant, except for some aspects (such as foreign languages), with his business talent and ability, is more than enough to be the CEO of any large enterprise. Wu Shigong, of course, is the same. However, on the other hand, in large enterprises, the big bosses who can call for wind and rain, especially those who can start from scratch, are also fully qualified for the position of the first giant. The difference between them is nothing more than different life experiences, so they have embarked on different paths.

It is not difficult to understand that some of the lucky ** giants who have not been caught, after their unremitting efforts, in the second and third generations of smooth whitewashing, and after their own words and deeds and the huge wealth they have accumulated, they have transformed their families into business giants and wealthy families (a certain national diving star married into a wealthy family, which can be seen from the shares of their family in Macau casinos).

Another characteristic of the underworld is that its ways to make money are very vague. Weishenme says so? Of course, the underworld makes a lot of money through crime, but it can also earn a lot of money through legal channels, after all, who doesn't want to make money legally? But this money is not the bulk of all the money it earns, and the biggest source of the way it earns money is those gray areas, which in plain terms, are loopholes in the law. For example, in the current underworld, there are not many simple and crude methods that directly collect protection fees, and it can be seen at a glance that it is a criminal act, but it is very common to send a few people to collect viewing fees. Because the collection of viewing fees can be seen as a disguised collection of protection fees, but it can also be justified as a legal collection of security fees. This act is difficult to define in a legal sense. A lot of the income of the triad comes from similar marginal areas of the law.

Ironically, this has also brought about another evil consequence, that is, as long as those countries and regions with relatively sound laws, the underworld can get the soil and space to thrive. For example, the United States and Italy in the West, Japan and Hong Kong in the East...... Of course, now due to the attention paid by various countries and regions to the phenomenon of the triad and the targeted crackdown, the triad has been effectively controlled. Note! It is control, not elimination. In a dictatorship that does not pay much attention to the law, the underworld cannot develop. For example, under Mussolini's Italian fascist government, the mafia was brought to life by him. Not to mention Hitler, under the weight of the Gestapo and the direct threat of concentration camps, there was absolutely no room for gangsters in Germany under Nazi rule.

Another characteristic of the underworld is its organized nature. On the surface, the underworld, especially its peripheral members, is very loosely managed, but the way its core members are managed is extremely strict, and a certain "corporate culture" has been formed, and its uploading, issuing information and order transmission, and its capital management and transmission have strict requirements. Moreover, for the centripetal force of the members of the organization, there are many strict rules and requirements, for example, we often see in Hong Kong underworld films, not to play the brother's "second sister-in-law", is such a rule. However, this is not absolute, even if some members break some small rules, others will turn a blind eye, such as this person has a very background (where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and people in the rivers and lakes are no exception), and for example, this person is very good at making money (this situation emphasizes that the underworld is a money-making organization).

Because of the organized nature of the underworld, its members are very disciplined. Basically, the core members of the underworld will not disturb the people, as long as ordinary people do not have anything to do with the underworld, the members of the underworld will basically not go to him for trouble. Of course, if you insist on finding death to borrow usury from the underworld and don't pay it back, don't blame them for writing red letters at your door and pouring poop. For example, the head of the Triad Society, the largest yakuza organization in Japan, sends bodyguards to clean the streets around his house every day, and bows and greets his neighbors when they meet them. This makes the behavior of the members of the triad very deceptive among ordinary people. Of course, when the underworld commits crimes against the people, it is basically to make money for itself.

Since the members of the underworld are basically born at the bottom of society, they want to make money and have no start-up capital at all, so the methods they take, in addition to the methods of crime and wandering on the edge of crime, often use the most effective method to make huge profits, that is, monopoly. The most common type of land grabbing to collect protection fees is to monopolize the right to collect protection fees in this area. In a sense, leaving aside the factor of crime or not, there is essentially no difference between the monopoly guaranteed by the underworld and the monopoly of Microsoft's bundling on Windows.

One of the characteristics of the underworld is that it has an inextricably complicated relationship with the outside world. Needless to say, the peripheral members of the underworld are all kinds of people who do all kinds of work. is that there are many core members of the underworld who even have a normal family and normal work, which can effectively cover his identity. In addition, through bribery, bribery and other means, the underworld has effectively maintained a good relationship with officials, especially those of law enforcement agencies, resulting in a so-called police and bandit family. Of course, this is also a means for the underworld to reduce its own operating costs, after all, if it is completely hostile to the law enforcement agencies, it is too late to run for your life every day, so where is the time to make money? This has caused the social harm of the underworld to be particularly huge.

From this point of view, Wu Shigong's life plan is nothing more than these points: internally, it is to grasp the organization and the core, and the key is to make money; To the outside world, it is to send backers and routines, and to maintain good relations with the outside world, of course, today these do not need to be raised at the meeting with Xu Zhimu and these six hundred households.

Wu Shigong finished carefully brewing, cleared his throat, let them focus on themselves, and began the first ideological unification meeting of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division. It should be said that the success of this meeting made the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division a collective with combat effectiveness, and also made Wu Shigong a well-deserved leadership core of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division for a period of time to come.

(In the following pages, there may be chapters like this one that should be included in the materials.) But the author still thinks that they should be put in the text, because they all play an extremely important role for readers to understand the background of the origin of the characters and the historical background of the late Ming Dynasty. ）