Volume 1 Chapter 46 Human Traffickers
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Beginning in the ninth month of the solar calendar, Wu Ming's anxiety and helplessness became heavier and heavier, he thought that his self-control and self-regulation ability were good, but with the intensive reporting of the chaotic situation in Northeast and North China by newspapers of all sizes in Hangzhou, Wu Ming could no longer maintain a calm and unhurried mentality.
At noon on the 6th, it was the day for everyone to return.
Fang Youchun finished everything and went to the provincial party headquarters and the provincial security office to resign and came back, but he didn't see the shadow of Wu Ming and the others, and he couldn't help but be a little anxious.
It was less than three hours before the departure time, and Wu Ming came back in a hurry, followed by two strangers with thieves' eyebrows, which made Fang Youchun's family puzzled.
Unexpectedly, Wu Ming just nodded and said hello, and directly invited the two strangers to enter Kuiyuan's room and sit down, picked up the teacup and began to bargain.
Fang Youchun didn't want to disturb Wu Ming's reception, but when he heard a few words of conversation coming from the house, he was immediately annoyed, and directly broke into the room where Wu Ming was, staring coldly at the two strangers: "Little brother, what's going on?" ”
Wu Ming saw the two guests standing up in a panic, and hurriedly went up to pull Fang Youchun out of the room, and when he arrived in the next room, he didn't explain, and directly asked Fang Youchun to borrow money: "Can the eldest brother lend me 2,000 oceans?" ”
"What are you doing?"
Fang Youchun is not reluctant to pay, the two ships ordered by Wu Ming were discounted because of the early payment, but they also spent 45,000 oceans, Fang Youchun didn't frown and helped Wu Ming pay in advance, how could he care about these two thousand oceans?
Wu Ming had no choice but to answer truthfully: "I can't hide it, I saw thousands of Shandong refugees in the Chenghuang Pavilion in the south of the city, and there were many children among them, and these people lived quite a difficult life every day relying on a meal of gruel from businessmen and gentry. So I thought, our Maoliangwu population is small, but we have land and minerals, and it would be good for everyone to bring some people back......"
"At the beginning, I thought that I could directly lead some people back, which could not only increase the manpower and labor of Mao Liangwu, but also allow the displaced people to support themselves, have a place to settle down, and life will gradually get better after earning money, who knows that the underworld and military police in Hangzhou have already secretly controlled all this, and would rather let the homeless people starve to death there and can't take them away, so they can only pay for it, five oceans for young and strong, two oceans for women and children, and I have no choice but to pay for it."
Fang Youchun was shocked: "You are ridiculous! Do you know the crime of human trafficking? ”
"Big brother, if I don't buy people, these homeless people can live? I can see clearly these days, seven or eight starving corpses are pulled away every day by a straw mat, since there is a way to kill two birds with one stone, why not do it? Saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, let alone the lives of so many people! Big brother, can you count on the officials of the Zhejiang Provincial Government and the Hangzhou Government to extend a merciful hand? Wu Ming asked rhetorically.
Fang Youchun didn't know how to answer, he also knew what kind of world it was now, in the past five years, disasters in the northern provinces have been frequent, either floods or locust plagues, every year thousands of victims begging all the way south, and wandering to Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou and other rich areas, especially during the Central Plains War, the entire Jiangnan disaster victims were overcrowded, and there were 70,000 displaced people gathered outside the city of Hangzhou alone, no one could do anything about it, but for a while he couldn't accept Wu Ming's behavior.
The last thing was that Fang's sister-in-law was really good, and took out two provincial passes of 1,000 yuan from the suitcase and handed them to Wu Ming: "Take it, hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to catch the ship." ”
"Wait!"
Fang Youchun stopped Wu Ming: "Even if you buy people, how can you send people to Changshan?" There are inspection checkpoints set up by the security team at the intersections and wharves all over the river, how do you get through? ”
Wu Ming smiled bitterly and said: "Big brother, you are knowingly asking, in addition to the fact that when you were in power, Quzhou and Changshan could achieve strict military discipline, is there any other place in Zhejiang where the security forces do not accept black money?" I'm not afraid to tell you that in the past few months, Mao Liangwu has bought nearly 100 long and short guns and a large number of bullets from the Quzhou security forces...... If you think about it, even the guns that soldiers regard as their lives dare to sell privately, what else do you dare not do? ”
"Don't look at these traffickers as inconspicuous, but they are pervasive for the sake of profit, and what ordinary people think can't be done is just a gesture for them, so I only need to pay them a deposit of 30%, and they will send the person I want to Changshan to me and hand it over to me."
"Little brother, you must not be careless! If they swallow your two thousand oceans, who will you go to? Sister-in-law Fang asked worriedly.
Wu Ming smiled: "Sister-in-law, the rivers and lakes have their own rules, I still have this confidence, if they really have the courage to swallow my money and not do anything, I have the ability to make him spit it out ten times...... Okay, don't worry, yesterday I have entrusted them to transport eleven horses, five tons of wire, ten tons of steel and other purchased tools back to the north wharf of Zhaoxian Town, Changshan, this business is calculated separately, and I will send them away when I give them the money later, and we will not delay us on the ship. ”
Wu Ming left after speaking, obviously unwilling to entangle with Fang Youchun anymore.
Fang Youchun looked at his wife incredulously: "You say, where did this guy come from to be so bold?" I don't understand him more and more now, in less than 20 days in Hangzhou, he not only traveled all over the city of Hangzhou, met with countless factory shop owners, but also took the time to make an appointment with Lao Zhong to go to Qianjiang Shipyard to do things, and now he has found so many ghosts, snakes and gods on the rivers and lakes, and quietly does human traffic, if he is not short of money, I am afraid we are still kept in the dark by him, and we don't know how many other situations we don't know, lawless him! ”
Sister-in-law Fang was also worried: "I guess I learned badly from the bandits in Mao Liangwu, you have also seen that the bandit leader and the leader of the She clan in Mao Liangwu dare to hand over their son to him and take him out to walk around, which shows that those people have long regarded him as their own, alas!" It's useless for you to be anxious now, let's go back and talk about it, go back and keep him firmly by your side, and after a long time, it is estimated that you can get rid of his gangsterism. ”
At half past three in the afternoon, Fang Youchun's family and Wu Ming's master and apprentice finally bid farewell to the prosperous and chaotic city of Hangzhou, boarded Zhong Changqing's passenger ship, and returned to Quzhou against the current.
Zhong Changqing congratulated the old chief happily, and as soon as the ship left the dock, he had to set up a wine to celebrate.
Wu Ming understands this very well, the old chief's comeback after winning the lawsuit is undoubtedly the greatest wish and future reliance of these old subordinates, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them at this time with their eyebrows raised and refreshed.
The celebratory banquet didn't end until the sun went down, and Fang Youchun was drunk and let a group of men carry him back to the cabin to rest.
When everyone relaxed, Wu Ming sent the gift that had been prepared before to Zhong Changqing and the other five people, thanked them for their help and care for him, and humbly said that I am afraid that there will be a lot of trouble for you brothers in the future.
Zhong Changqing was holding expensive imported cowhide shoes, and was moved, they all knew Wu Ming's ability and weight in the minds of the old chief's family, and they no longer regarded Wu Ming as an outsider at the moment, and when they went back to put away the gifts, they took Wu Ming to the top deck to drink tea and chat.
During the chat, he couldn't resist the strong demands of Zhong Changqing and others, Wu Ming had to briefly tell everyone how Fang Youchun won the lawsuit, and there was nothing about him Wu Ming in the words, and all the credit was given to Fang Youchun's old commander, General Lin Wei, a senior counselor next to Commander-in-Chief Jiang, and Xu Enzeng, the head of the investigation section of the Central Party Department who was approachable and resolute.