In the afternoon, dozens of fast horses galloped from the port of Tulum.

From the port of Tulum to Loew Gang, in fact, it is only more than 20 miles, and the fast horse gallops, that is, less than an hour.

The knights poured into Loewgang, and then quickly dispersed into the streets.

Southwest corner of Loew Heights, Sweet Shrimp Tavern.

This is a very famous tavern in Loewgang, which also serves alcohol, dining, wind and moon, gambling, and has a small building in the backyard, with hundreds of comfortable rooms for guests to enjoy.

At this moment, in the hall of the tavern, long tables were placed side by side, and the tables were full of all kinds of wine, and the maids in bold costumes were running back and forth with all kinds of snacks and dishes, cursing loudly from time to time, and slapping off a certain salty pig's hand with a 'snap' palm.

The owner of the tavern, the tall, hideous-looking old Duoli, stood behind the counter, wiping his wine glass vigorously with a white towel, and looked at the hundreds of men dancing in the hall with a blank expression.

There were pirates, bandits, fugitives, local gang leaders, and even representatives of the large families in Loeffgang from the port of Tulum.

They were smoking cigarettes and drinking wine, some of them were worried and did not say a word, and some of them were loud and shouting, looking proud and complacent.

Lao Duoli grabbed a large wine glass, poured a sip of sweet wine 'Goodong', and muttered in a low voice: "Tulun Harbor has changed, yo, some old customers, I'm afraid I won't see you again." Merciful Mutheste bless me and bless my Sweet Shrimp Tavern to continue to prosper. ”

"Brothers, quiet, quiet." Bill grabbed an empty bottle and knocked it several times on the huge oak table.

The hall of the tavern fell silent, and a number of people either sat in their seats or simply stood up, cigarette rolls in their mouths, and looked at Bill coldly.

"In the last few days, everyone should have received the news. The Rittal family came to power, so there are no Rittal people here today. Bill said solemnly: "The Vettu family has come to power, and everyone knows that they have become more and more greedy in recent years, robbing us of a lot of business, and their methods are ruthless...... The tactics are ruthless and shameless. ”

"They have become the masters of the port of Tulum, will they let Löfgang this piece of fat go?" Bill shook his head and sighed: "If the claws of the Weitu family are stretched out, will we have so many brothers, will we still be able to live happily in Loewgang in the future?" ”

"Think of a way, brothers, think of a way."

Bill dropped the wine bottle in his hand and said in a deep voice: "This afternoon, Joe Rong Weitu, the second young master of the Weitu family, he came over with someone. He brought more than 100 policemen, after all, he was the chief of the Loehugang branch of the Tulun Port Police Department. ”

"If, our Young Master Qiao, governs Loewgang like Tulun Port, in the future, every barrel of wine, every bundle of linen, every vat of tea, and every bundle of silk must be taxed according to the imperial tax rate......"

Bill picked up the large solid gold pocket watch hanging from his chest: "Hey, dear brothers, look what this is?" Will there be a good life for us in the future? Do we still have money to buy these shiny cuties? ”

Shaking his head, Bill gestured to a slightly chubby man sitting in the far corner.

"Hey, Mr. Cali Jung Kaban, what do you think? You're the boss of the Kaban family in Loew Heights, you have something to say...... I heard that the battleships of the Garsica detachment shelled the Kaban family's estate? ”

"You have to say something, after all, you are like us, in Loeffgang, and there are so many brothers who rely on you for food?"

Dark-skinned, slightly chubby, and with a pair of small triangular eyes rather ferocious, Cali had a gloomy face, picked up his wine glass, and drained more than half a pound of rum in one gulp.

Slamming the glass on the long table, Cali said coldly, "Say what? What else can be said? My Kaban family ......"

'Bang', the spring door of the tavern hall was violently pushed open, and more than two dozen sturdy men broke in.

Kali stood up abruptly and waved his arm at the man who broke in: "Aha? Celli? Did you escape? ”

According to the news from the port of Tulun, all the members of the Kaban family in the port of Tulun were captured by the imperial army and the police, and all of them were thrown into the black prison of the police station.

Celli was also on the list of imprisoned members of the Caban family, and when he saw Celli who should be suffering in the black cell at the moment, Cali was happy and surprised, and he didn't know what was going on.

The "Langham ......" who was present, and the big boss in charge of the Haydn family's smuggling business in Loew Heights also jumped up at once, shouting his brother's name.

"Aha? Sigoff, my brother. Several of the Smugglers of the Duolun family also stood up in surprise and looked at the men who had broken into the tavern.

"All here?" Chelly Jon Kaban whistled, and he walked over to Cali, leaned into his ear and muttered a few words, then pulled a white note out of his sleeve.

Through the lights in the tavern, you can see that the white paper strip has a circular pattern of fire paint.

Langham and Sigerf also walked up to their brothers, and whispered in their ears.

In just a few breaths, before Bill could figure out what was going on, the people from Haydn, Carban, and Duolun, along with their downstream distribution partners, had already stood up and poured out of the Sweet Shrimp Tavern.

At this moment, the number of people in the tavern hall was nearly one-third less!

Bill looked at his deputy Feiyu Chuck blankly, and the two were stunned for a while, and Chuck hammered the long table hard: "Come on, go to Tulun Port, hurry up to Tulun Port, and tell me, what happened in Tulun Port...... What's going on? ”

Loew Ridge is to the north, near the mountains to the west.

A high hill with an altitude of more than 200 feet stands tall, and the high hill in the shape of a slight screen is two miles wide from east to west, and two miles away from the south is the avenue leading to Loew Gang, and the north and west sides are large areas of mixed wood.

A gravel-paved road is zigzag-shaped, leading from the foot of the hill to the top of the hill.

A high wooden wall stood at the end of the road at the top of the hill, and more than a dozen sturdy men stood on the top of the high wall with cigarettes in their mouths and looked around.

The roof of the hill is flat, and the wall of the civil engineering structure with a height of 12 feet and a thickness of 6 feet encloses a large piece of land, and in the middle is a wide one-story wooden storehouse and a two-story wooden building.

This is the Lotto's stacked warehouse in Loew Heights, and it is the transshipment center for the Vetul family's smuggling in Loew Heights.

From this stack warehouse to the northeast, there is a road leading to the province of Claude, but more than 200 miles, an ordinary convoy can work for three or four days to send the goods in the stack to the province of Claude and into the warehouse of the distributor.

From here, to the west, that is, a distance of more than 30 miles, you can directly enter the mountains.

There are numerous trails in the mountains, some of which lead to the United Kingdom of Nice, which, of course, is also a maritime power, and these ocean-going smuggled goods are not sold there.

Part of the trail leads to several large basins on the western side of the mountain, where there are several small kingdoms and small principalities, and they have no access to the sea, where these smuggled goods can be sold for sky-high prices.

If you are more daring, you can pass through those small kingdoms and small principalities to the north, and you will be able to meet the barbarians of the Highland Kingdom.

The tribal chiefs, elders, and warrior heroes of the barbarians will go crazy because of these smuggled goods.

The Delen Empire, a pound of good quality pepper, is now worth a pound of gold.

There were many gold mines in the mountains of the Highland Kingdom, where the daring profiteers could sell a pound of pepper for three pounds, or even five pounds; If you were more bold and lucky, someone once sold a hundred pounds of fine white pepper for a sky-high price of 1,200 pounds!

It's just that bandits are rampant in this mountainous area, and the backstage boss of many bandits is a big family in Tulun Port.

Therefore, if you want to safely pass through this mountainous area and obtain high profits, in addition to luck, the more important thing is strength.

Joe sipped a cigar and stood at the head of the parapet overlooking the town of Loeffgang to the south.

From west to east, the town is roughly arranged in a long strip, and the main body of the town is five or six miles wide from east to west, and two miles thick from north to south.

The ordinary inhabitants of Loewgang, as well as sailors, laborers, fishermen, and many other unknown people, mostly lived in the plains by the sea. The big men of Loewgang mostly chose to build luxurious villas in the north of the town, that is, in the slightly higher hilly areas, separated from each other.

Standing in Joe's position, he could see a large stretch of red roofs in the town of Löfgang a few miles away, and in the hills more than a mile to the south of him, surrounded by green trees, the red roofs of those villas were clustered in the east and west.

If you look into the distance, you can see the east and west sides of Loew Heights, and there are some looming buildings in the greenery near the shoreline.

It is a few small villages near Loew Gang, in addition to the three large loading docks of fish bladder, fish belly and fish maw, there are dozens of small wild docks near those small villages that can be used for small cargo ships to unload.

"Uncle Mule, I need to build a big sturdy mansion in the town of Loefgang. At least a large mansion that can accommodate 500 people, and the walls and buildings must be re-strengthened, and there must be more than two secret passages. ”

"Outside Loew Heights, I'm going to set up a few points. Each point should also be strong, strong, strong enough, as strong as a fortress. Each point should be able to garrison a hundred people. Well, there must be artillery emplacements, and I plan to install field artillery at both the headquarters of the sub-bureau and those few points outside. ”

Qiao was talking, and Lan Kiyo didn't know when, he was already standing behind him.

"Joe, the Haydns, the Dorens, and the Cabans have broken with the Wells, Turing, and Cecil." Lan Kikyo stood behind Qiao and said in a calm tone: "No accident, the people of those three families will come to you and pay their allegiance to you." ”

Qiao turned around suddenly, he frowned vigorously, and looked at Lan Bellflower very seriously: "In this case, we are going to get busy." We're going to get busy. ”