Chapter Ninety-Six: Invitation
After dawn the next day, Liu Yifeng asked Jin Chengyou to take people into Jinshan City, first, to meet Feng Shuo and them to escort supplies, and second, to buy some food.
He asked Ao Bai to take a nap.
By the time Feng Shuo and the others arrived, it was already half an hour later, and when they saw that Liu Yifeng's team had expanded and there were horses, those who had been secretly looking at them in the dark withdrew their gaze one after another.
Jinshan City is not like Fushan City and Jishan City, the management system of the Maritime Safety Bureau from top to bottom has matured, and there are very few people who dare to commit crimes.
Originally, the folk customs of Jinshan City were also simple, all because of the appearance of Zhang Bandit, like rat feces falling into the soup, seeing that the pot of soup in Jinshan City was becoming more and more turbid.
Objectively speaking, Zhang Bandit was just the last straw that broke the camel's back. The fundamental reason why there are more and more people in Jinshan City who are considering taking risks is that there are too many people here who want to get rich. It's just that these people are super actionable, and their moral level is not very high, and they are the only ones who have nothing to worry about.
Their failures in the past few months have caused a lot of resentment and anger accumulated in their hearts, and Jinshan City just has no reasonable place for them to vent, and the management ability of the Maritime Safety Bureau has begun to be stretched day by day, so it is no wonder that they will take the idea of taking risks.
This is also the place where the two firms reminded them yesterday, Liu Yifeng was very useful, so after they came back with food, he immediately took out some of the parts to visit the two houses separately and sent food to express his gratitude.
The food he sent was not made by himself, but someone brought hot food at the time of breakfast, and the two firms naturally accepted it.
"The boy's surname is Zheng Zhilong, a native of Fujian."
Zheng Zhilong rolled his eyes, he knew that there would be this day.
"Brother, I am from Xuzhou, and my surname is Zhang Changgong."
"My surname is Sun Mingli, and the headquarters of the firm is in Suzhou, Nanzhili."
After Liu Yifeng, Zhang Changgong and Sun Li signed up with each other, they looked at each other and smiled, and found a place to sit down.
The three families are actually very similar, with at least 10 or more people, all of whom are 20-40 years old men. Everyone can see that it is not Shanzha, especially Zhang Changgong's team, his family has the least, only 11 people, but everyone can see that it is a Lian family, and everyone should have blood on their hands.
Liu Yifeng has the most people, but his people are obviously the weakest. After all, those Jurchens and Goryeo people have not experienced actual combat, and their aura is weaker. Moreover, the other two are mainly Han Chinese, unlike Liu Yifeng's side, there are only Han people, Feng Shuo, Li Hongji and Zheng Zhilong.
Lao Wang and the three dogs were left in the city, and Liu Yifeng assigned him another task, which was also their retreat after the failure to dig for gold in Jinshan City.
Originally, Zhang Changgong and Sun Li still looked down on Liu Yifeng's rookie here, but they didn't expect Liu Yifeng to smile slightly, which made several Jurchens and Goryeo people show their firearms, and more than a dozen firecrackers made Zhang Changgong and Sun Li's eyes stare like the deep-sea fish they caught in the sea before.
The two of them raised their evaluation of Liu Yifeng's team in their hearts, after all, there are more than ten firearms, and they are really good to fight, and it is possible to completely destroy their own side. Moreover, the financial resources and background behind more than a dozen firecrackers are also part of Liu Yifeng's strength, and they must be counted.
"I'm the youngest, so I'm called two older brothers." Liu Yifeng said familiarly: "Two brothers, have you just arrived in Jinshan City?" ”
Zhang Changgong can't tell how old he is, after all, he has a big beard, and it's really hard to judge his age, but he can see that he is still quite young, it should be less than 30. And Sun Li has a mustache, and he can clearly see that he is in his early 30s.
"Brother Sun arrived 5 days ago, and I will be one day ahead of you."
"The two brothers are also here to dig for gold?"
"Hahaha, people like us who know at a glance that they are not from a trading house, are we not here to dig for gold, are we here to take refuge in Zhang Bandit? Hahaha"
Sun Li's personality is obviously more aggressive, unlike Zhang Changgong. Zhang Changgong feels a little similar to Zheng Zhilong, he should have a good background, but he has his own pursuits and is a little rebellious, as evidenced by the beard that is seriously inconsistent with his age.
You must know that after the Tang Dynasty, beards were basically not popular, and the popular ones were Sun Li's well-worn beards. Just like the hairstyles of later generations, you have to dedicate yourself to the beard every day, and you have to wax it every once in a while.
"Brother Sun, why did you stay in Jinshan City on the 5th?"
Sun Li sighed and said, "It's not Zhang Bandit's making trouble. ”
Through his explanation, Liu Yifeng knew why Jinshan City was overcrowded during this time.
Last month, the gold mining firm's dart master cooperated with the Maritime Safety Bureau to design and capture a small leader under Zhang Bandit, who was a man who was on the same boat with Zhang Bandit last year, and had been following Zhang Bandit and was deeply trusted by him.
Through the torture of him, the Maritime Safety Bureau knew that Zhang Bandit was actually preparing to join forces with the Brown-skinned Savages to attack many trading camps, the reason seemed to be that the Brown-skinned Savage tribe that was allied with Zhang Bandit was also at war with other Brown-skinned Savage tribes, and Zhang Bandit needed to plunder enough people to participate in the war, and the Brown-skinned Savage tribe also needed enough iron weapons.
This news frightened those trading houses, and many of the trading houses with insufficient defense strength returned to Jinshan City, which led to the overcrowding of Jinshan City.
This is not over, Zhang Bandit didn't know where to get the news, knowing that his plan was exposed, he directly appeared near Jinshan City with his team, which only intensified the influx of people and explorers from various trading houses into Jinshan City.
"How many people are there now?" Liu Yifeng asked.
"It's said to be more than 1,000." Sun Li said.
"That's it!?"
Zhang Changgong asked: "Has the Maritime Safety Bureau done nothing in the past six months?" ”
"Who knows, I heard that many officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau in Jinshan City went north some time ago, and they don't know what to do. What is left behind at this juncture are people who can't call the shots, and it's no wonder that Zhang Bandit's people dare to touch the vicinity of Jinshan City. ”
Liu Yifeng can roughly guess why the senior officials of the Jinshan City Maritime Safety Bureau went north, they should participate in the ceremony to welcome Song Yingxing in Yushan City, and report to work by the way, it is estimated that they will not come back for a while.
He didn't expect Zhang Xianzhong, who didn't care so much, to give him such a big gift.
Sun Li saw that the heat was enough, and said: "Brother Zheng, Brother Zhang has already talked to me, and our two families already have the intention of uniting. I was already preparing to leave, but when I saw you yesterday, I discussed getting in touch with you today. Now that Brother Zheng has known about the trouble of Zhang Bandits, I wonder if he is willing to make a fortune with me and Brother Zhang? ”