That Luo Zhen was originally a broken settlement in Cangzhou City, because Cangzhou City has been a fierce folk style since ancient times, and martial arts have become a style, that Luo Zhen has practiced martial arts since childhood, although he is short and thin, but he is brave and ruthless, and he has a momentum of not wanting to die when he fights, and he is favored by the old man of the Qingmen in Cangzhou City, and he is accepted as a younger brother (apprentice), and he has become a hard hand in the Qingmen who is smoked in business (selling opium / tablets), and hard (using domineering to cheat money), and he is also treacherous by nature, and is good at making friends with the three classes and six rooms in the yamen, and he comes and goes. After the death of his master, Luo Zhen naturally became the old man of the "Tai" generation in the gang, and controlled the tobacco business in the entire Cangzhou City, that is, the Shucheng and Catch Fast in the Yamen of the State Mansion, and there are also many dry shares in the tobacco shops in Qingmen, and eat filial piety on time, so Luo Zhen is very good at black and white in Cangzhou City, whether it is a high roller who eats Jianghu rice, or an errand officer in the government, he will buy Luo Zhen's face, so as not to be killed by someone for no reason, and he doesn't know how he died.

After the short and fat man finished reporting to his house, he looked at Yang Yi and Wei Ergou with some smugness, which means that the master also has a back/stage, you can weigh it.

However, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou are not interested in Luo Zhen's origin, they are more like to understand what kind of intersection there is between Luo Zhen and Shen Ruchao, why Luo Zhen, as the boss of a gang, can be called a brother and a brother with Shen Ruchao, a dignified court official from the fifth grade, on an equal footing, what does he rely on?

Seeing Yang Yi and Wei Ergou asking like this, the short and fat man had a trace of contempt on his face, and pouted: "Thousands of miles to be an official, for food and clothing, what if Shen Ruchao is Zhizhou?" In today's troubled times, the best thing to use is not real money, but smoke. Presumably you also know that in our Qing Dynasty, this opium / piece can be more valuable than silver, it is also convenient and safe to carry, when those merchants come and go to traffic, they like to take opium / piece as silver money, and they are not willing to directly carry the money and silver that is easy to attract attention and attract gangsters, and this opium / piece can also pay for food and accommodation along the way.

Merchants outside the mouth are trafficking cattle and sheep goods back and forth, so can there be less tobacco and soil......

"Don't grind, when this is a teahouse and commenting on books, Sasa said stubbornly, what the hell is going on, say!" Wei Ergou saw that the short and fat man was talking endlessly, but he didn't say the key, so he couldn't help but feel on fire in his heart, and looked at the guy and shouted.

The short and fat man glanced at Wei Ergou, but in the end, he was still intimidated by Wei Ergou's sharp slap with a big mouth, so he had to continue: "But since Jiaqing Ye in our Qing Dynasty, planting and making tobacco and selling tobacco are the same crimes, and the main offender will be hanged and imprisoned, and the accomplice will be sent to the border

If the local officials connive at the sale, planting tobacco and privately opening tobacco shops, etc., they will be dismissed and never hired, then Shen Ruchao wants to eat chestnuts, but is afraid of being burned, what to do, the best way is that the government will turn a blind eye to the merchants who bring tobacco into the city, and the predecessors of Luo will come forward to collect tobacco and open tobacco houses, and everyone will have a share of the silver, so that Shen Ruchao does not have to bear the charge of dismissal, but he can sit and collect cash, how can he not look down on the predecessors of Luo, eh? ”

After listening to the words of the short and fat man, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were stunned at the time, never expecting that Shen Ruchao, who was full of benevolence and morality, loyalty and love for the people, would secretly collude with the underworld elements, and do the unreasonable deeds of selling opium/chips for profit.

The short and fat man took advantage of Yang Yi and Wei Ergou's stunned moments, his body slid and slipped out between the two of them, and he disappeared in an instant.

Yang Yi and Wei Ergou also had no intention of chasing the short and fat man, stood in the alley for a while, and it was not too early to see that it was not early, so they relied on their memories and walked slowly towards the Xiwang house, because they were thinking about the drug trafficking between Shen Ruchao and Na Luo Zhen, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou did not notice that there were suddenly more beggars in hemp felt around them, and they were like ghosts.

Let's say that after Yang Yi and Wei Ergou walked near Zhang Xiwang's house, they suddenly made a turn, turned into the alley next to them, walked out along the alley, spared a big circle, and after making sure that no one was following behind them, they dodged into Zhang Xiwang's house. What they didn't notice was that on the roof not far away, there were several thirteen or fourteen-year-old children named Huazi lying on their stomachs, and after seeing them enter Zhang Xiwang's house, those little children called Huazi climbed up from the roof like agile cats, stepped on the ridge of the roof and walked quickly into the distance.

Back at Zhang Xiwang's house, Zhang Xiwang and his only son went out to buy tofu, leaving his old wife busy in the courtyard to put firewood and coal, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou said hello, hurriedly entered Li Shu'er's room, and saw that Li Shu'er was incense on the spiritual seat of Fan Yingyan's mother and son, and quickly dragged Li Shu'er to the table, and told Li Shu'er everything he had just learned 1510.

After listening to Yang Yi and Wei Ergou's narration, Li Shu'er was no less shocked than the two of them had expressions at the beginning, and after a while, he looked at Yang Yi and Wei Ergou and said slowly: "It's really a human heart, Uncle has been dating that Shen Ruchao for so long, and he has been blinded by his hypocritical face of false Taoism, I didn't expect that Shen Ruchao would actually do such a criminal act behind his back, it's really infuriating me!" ”

Li Shu'er took a sip of tea, You Zi couldn't calm the anger in his heart, got up and paced, and scolded hatefully in his mouth: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect that in this Cangzhou City, there is such a realm where filth and dirt are hidden, the government and the gang have a nest of snakes and rats, and they are embarrassed. ”

"Eh, no, no, no......." Uncle Li suddenly frowned after venting, and said to himself: "The guy you asked may be telling the truth, but he still didn't tell the whole truth, for this Qingmen and Hongmen, Uncle has been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and he still knows a little bit about these big gangs that are as famous as the Heaven and Earth Society, and it is true that Qingmen originated from Hongmen, but what you don't know is that there are also some inextricable connections between Hongmen and the Taiping Army......"

Hearing that Uncle Li had linked the Hongmen to the Taiping Army again, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were surprised, and couldn't help but look at Uncle Li and asked, "You didn't drink a bar in the morning, let's make your mind clear, why do you sound so messy......"

Li Shu'er thought about it for a while, and it was estimated that he was really thinking about it, and only then did he tell Yang Yi and Wei Ergou that Hong Xiuquan was an important member of the "Heaven and Earth Society" in Guangdong. In the sixteenth year of Daoguang, Hong Xiuquan and his fellow villager Feng Yunshan wanted to contact Hongmen people in various places to destroy the Manchu Xinghan, but those people who had been the people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years were a little obsessed and did not dare to come out to "rebel". And Hong Xiuquan, who jumped up and down, attracted the attention of the Keguan government and sent troops to arrest him.

There is no way, Hong Xiuquan is blessed to the soul, so he pretends to be crazy, talking nonsense all over the world, and the Qing soldiers don't care about him when they see that he is a madman. And those foolish villagers, Hong Xiuquan is really a madman, whenever he talks loudly, everyone comes to see the excitement, and as time goes by, the madman's babble really sets off a wave of rebellion.

This is also a coincidence, in June of the year when Hong Xiuquan went crazy, a God religion was popular in the south, and the missionary's surname was Zhu Jiutao. Preaching to the people of the country about God and Jesus, Paradise and Hell, and the faith of the countrymen is more than one day at a time. Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan discussed and decided to use the Cult of God to promote the rebellion into the city. Moreover, the Religion of God is the religion of foreigners, and those who believe in the Religion of God are the people, and the people can be protected by foreigners and are not punished by the laws of the Manchu Dynasty. This is indeed a great opportunity for Hong Xiuquan and them.

As a result, after Hong Xiuquan himself joined the Church of God, many Hongmen brothers also joined one after another. In this way, in the name of missionary activities, the two provinces of Guangdong and Guizhou cannot be counted in the name of missionary activities. After Zhu Jiutao's death, Feng Yunshan and other public officials recommended Hong Xiuquan to become the leading boss of the Church of God, and recruited Yang Xiuqing to join the Church, and organized the rudimentary "Taiping Army" in the name of founding the League Training Bureau to attack bandits. Not only that, Hong Xiuquan's subsequent siege of the city was indispensable to contact the Hongmen in the city, the Tiandihui, and the gang members of the Triad to make internal responses, which unstoppably hit Nanjing City, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and became the king of heaven who embraced left and right, and was a powerful and blessing.

Listening to Li Shu'er's words, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou immediately understood Li Shu'er's intention to talk about the relationship between the Taiping Army and Hongmen, since the original Taiping Army itself was born from a branch of Hongmen, then, this Qingmen and Hongmen are just two sides of the same coin, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Ji Wenyuan, and Zhu Xiyan outside the city are all old teams in the Guangxi Jintian Uprising, in other words, they are either Hongmen disciples, or they are also inextricably linked with Hongmen. In order to occupy Cangzhou City, Ji Wenyuan and Zhu Xiyan inevitably had to try to establish a relationship with Luo Zhen, the leading boss of the Qing Gate in the city, and bribed him to echo with the Taiping Army inside and outside, and took Cangzhou City in one fell swoop.

However, why didn't Luo Zhen assist the Taiping Army to take Cangzhou City, but because of the business partnership between him and Shen Ruchao? It doesn't seem to be very similar, then there is a naked interest relationship between Luo Zhen and Shen Ruchao, if the Taiping Army breaks the city, with the care of Brother Hongmen, Luo Zhen's tobacco and soil trading can be made bigger, and there is no need to give the government a piece of the pie, why not? So, why didn't Luo Zhen do this, could it be that there is some kind of suffering that is not enough for outsiders?