After so many years, Qingjiangpu has long become a rule, all the work of the carriage and horses are assigned by the seven tooth shops, the tooth shop itself does not have a carriage and coachman, and the coachmen who ask for work near Qingjiangpu go to the tooth shop to hang a name, and then distributed by the tooth shop, and the income of the foot money is distributed according to the proportion.

The tooth shops are doing fairly, otherwise the work will be snatched away by others, but there is also a general division of the scope, distribution area and whereabouts, the two largest firms, one is Tongbei, this is the same direction as Caoyun, to Shandong and North Zhili, one is the Central Plains line, this is to Henan, the other is Xu Fengxiang, this is to go to Xuzhou Fengyang, the land route is these places, and the rest of the few or take over special business, for example, a few large businesses in Jiangnan that do silk and cotton cloth are dedicated to a certain one, There are also going to other prefectures and counties in the south of Zhili and Jiangbei, and there are also undertaking piecemeal work, specifically for pedestrians.

This doesn't have to think about it to know the way, to be able to connect the work of the North and Central Plains, naturally it is more profitable, run for a few months at a time, a few trips a year is enough, Xu Fengxiang is relaxed, you can run a few more times, as for the other families, it is better than not to be stronger, and finally have a job plan to support yourself and the carriage and horses.

Nearly 10,000 cars, nearly 10,000 drivers, in addition to those big businesses and all aspects directly under them, there are thousands of left, so many big cars, who doesn't want to take over those jobs that are easy to do.

Tongbei and the Central Plains line two places, at least a dozen cars out of the car, there are martial artists on the road, the state capital cards along the way are also well done, when you go to the foot money first three percent, after sending to the destination, you can also arrange the work, the foot money settlement is also timely, so naturally easy to do, run a few years to buy a new car, as for this Xu Fengxiang, the distance is close to walk, you can come back after running a lot to pick up more work, luck to go to Xuzhou, if you can bring a few jars of Hanjing famous wine back, this trip will make a lot of money.

As for going to other places, the good luck to pick up the business of those big merchants, the bad luck can only take those odd jobs, with goods through the state to go, the road is not good, there is a ditch and stream blocked, there is a lot of trouble in the past, along the road can not talk about dots and the like, when encountering bandits and horses, you can only consider yourself unlucky, sometimes you have to be blackmailed by the people along the way, what is more troublesome is that the tooth shop itself will cit people, a little careless, livestock and carts are not their own.

Catch up with the car to pull the goods, the goods in front of you naturally can't be put in this way, the food transport always has to be deducted dozens of hundreds of catties, and other goods are inevitably plucked, but occasionally once or twice is fine, things have been done more, the owner and the recipient of the goods found, directly found the tooth line, the tooth line has connections in the official face and the rivers and lakes, after a few lessons, everyone has converged a lot, but there is no way to make up for it, people are legitimate, but the days have become difficult.

Everyone wants a good business, no one does the bad business, naturally to fight, at the beginning it was just a strong first, but later there were several big gangs according to the geographical division, this is the so-called "big car gang", after the fight to win, monopolize the registration rights in Tongbei, Zhongyuan Bank and Xu Fengxiang.

At the beginning, the guild of these coachmen was just seeking justice, but hundreds or thousands of people formed a group, so they were naturally dissatisfied with just taking the lead to seek justice, and the tooth shop could not do anything, and the four smaller tooth shops could not do it, and the work was gathered towards Tongbeihao, Zhongyuan Bank and Xu Fengxiang, and the strength of the inflated tooth shop and the coachman gang formed a new balance.

After the big car gang will be killed and annexed, there are two gangs, one is the Shandong gang, the other is the Henan gang, the Shandong side is mainly Qingzhou people, and the Henan side is the people from Runing and Guide, these two gangs undertake the transportation of the three tooth shops and other commercial goods, and it will be difficult for the coachmen in these two gangs to live.

It is natural for the tooth line to draw this, but if it is not for the two gangs of people in Shandong and Henan, the car money for pulling feet and transporting goods will have to be given to these two gangs, so calculated, even if they receive a good job from Tongbei and Zhongyuan Bank, they will only be able to make a living, and even the car money will be deducted and driven to work in vain.

It's just that the hands and feet of the driver who drove the car were not clean, and now the hands and feet of the big car helper are not clean, and sometimes the goods of the small cargo owner are often missing halfway, but the small cargo owner often follows the car, and he has to lose both people and money

Shandong and Henan gangs, each of which has thousands of gangs, anyone who has a few thousand gangs is powerful, and they will not only settle down to take over work from the side of the tooth shop, but also pay money to these two gangs in some inns, gambling houses and prostitution houses on the periphery of Qingjiangpu, otherwise the business will not be able to continue.

The high-level leaders of the two gangs have also become the leading figures in the rivers and lakes in this Qingjiangpu, and the middle-level leaders and others are also fat and rich, with a majestic style, and the gangs below can barely eat enough, and they will not be bullied outside, and it is unbelievable to bully them inside.

As for the coachmen and porters outside who were not in the gang, it was very hard that day, not to mention being angry and bullied all day long, and they couldn't make any money.

There are big gangs, scattered oppressed coachmen also have to hold together, there are two gangs of Henan and Shandong occupied, in addition to these two provinces to come to the defection will be accepted, from other provinces have gradually become extinct, and only the people of Nanzhili here rely on the advantages of their hometown to do things, there are also many areas in the north of the South Zhili River is the water network vertically and horizontally, and the carriages and horses are inconvenient, so the local coachmen who came to Qingjiangpu here are only from three places, the north of Fengyang Prefecture, the northwest of Huai'an Prefecture, and Xuzhou, to put it bluntly, it is the area of Xuzhou plus neighboring prefectures.

They are native to their hometown, familiar on the ground, and the asking price is low, and several dental shops, especially Xu Fengxiang's side, like to use these coachmen.

It's just that in this way, it touched the interests of the two gangs of Henan and Shandong, and directly released the rumors, who dared to do the work of transporting goods and pulling feet for these people, then they couldn't get out of Qingjiangpu.

As soon as the car went out of Qingjiangpu, it was surrounded by people on the road, and the car was directly overturned, the goods were scattered all over the ground, and the driver was also beaten.

The days are difficult, but in order to support the family, you have to do work, some people secretly take the work, but the two big gangs have a lot of eyes and ears, there are only a few roads in Qingjiangpu, it is still easy to block them, after a few times, someone's cart was pushed to the side of the road and set on fire, and the livestock were also slaughtered on the spot

This is a completely desperate way to live, the retail drivers who have been swallowing their anger can no longer bear it, and they want to go out of their way to fight, and go to report to the officials first, but Shanyang County is too lazy to pay attention to the things outside the city, and the household department does not care about the local security, as for the chamber of commerce, guilds and the like, they are already in collusion with the two big car gangs, and it is too late to protect, how can they ask.

In the winter season, the livelihood of Qingjiangpu water stopped, but the goods gathered here need to be sent to all parts of the provinces by carts and horses, one is the New Year's goods, the other is to prepare for the next year, Qingjiangpu will also have the New Year's leisure in the first month.

But at this time, burning cars to kill horses and beating people has intensified, retail coachmen can't make a penny, not to mention, the family to support the family will be destroyed, some people have found a short-sighted, more people are discouraged and return to their hometowns, and some people can't bear this breath, huddle together to protect themselves, and are ready to fight with the big car gang in Henan and Shandong.

At that time, these two big car gangs started with people, and they won each game to get to today, and the retail drivers were also invited to fight after the group, and everyone fought to find out the winner and lose, and set a rule for the future.

The gold drying field in the west of Qingjiangpu, for a place like Qingjiangpu, where every inch of land is valuable, it is rare to have such an empty field, with a radius of 100 acres, and there is nothing empty.

However, this is only at this time when it is empty, and as soon as the canal opens, it is full of large quantities of goods gathered from all over the place, and the carriages and horses flow endlessly.

On the west side of the empty field, more than 100 men gathered, holding big sticks as tall as Qi people, wearing tattered cotton jackets and leather robes, staring nervously into the distance.

Standing in the head of this group of people is a man in his thirties, this man has a sallow face, a sparse beard, a few scars on his face, looking quite resolute, his sheepskin jacket is bald a lot, a rope is tied around his waist, and a felt hat with ear protection is buckled on his head, which can be recognized at a glance by people who have been in Qingjiangpu for a long time, this is the dress of a coachman who drives a big car.

This man is of medium stature, if he is not very conspicuous in the crowd, he can obviously look like a leader, among the more than 100 people, that is, he is quite determined, and the others are a little panicked, and they can't help but look east.

"Dagang, the two gangs of Henan and Shandong add up to more than 10,000, we are only so few people, we can't beat it!" Behind this man, a thin middle-aged man in his early forties said, his tone was very nervous.

The man showed a stiff smile and said in a muffled voice: "The sum of the two groups of them is only five thousand, and there are a lot of old and hard-working people, it would be good to be able to pull out five hundred people in one family, these five hundred people still have to guard those scenes, and they have to watch out for each other, it would be good to be able to come to our side for two or three hundred, besides, these two or three hundred people usually enjoy a lot of happiness, so dare to work hard, there are more than 100 of us, all of them are of one heart!" ”

The thin middle-aged man whispered, "Those two must add up to six or seven hundred."

"Lao Wang is right, those people are all bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, we are going to subdue them this time, this place of Nanzhi still has our Nanzhi to say!" A young strong man standing on the right side of Wang Dagang said in a rough voice.