The two saluted the incense boat, and then noticed the situation in the house, it turned out that there was a circle of people in the house, but just now Yi Yun saw the incense boat and didn't notice them, most of these people are dressed as sailors, but everyone is dressed up in a high grade. It can be seen from the clothes on their bodies that they are one level higher than ordinary sailors, and they are obviously the best among the sailors.

Seeing the Grim Reaper Girl and Yi Yun saluting to the incense boat, it was quite polite, and these people all showed a more harmonious expression on their faces.

On the first seat in the room, there sat a little Lori, about eleven or twelve years old, very beautiful, as cute as a pink carving, but the expression on her face was very depressing, because her face was solemn, and there was no expression at all, she said to Sister Death and Yi Yun: "Welcome to your guests, what kind of wind is this blowing that blew the pavilion master of Sanjiang Pavilion to my small place?"

She said this in an old-fashioned manner, how can she have the slightest taste of little Lori, just like a little adult.

The girl of death smiled: "Zhou Lanye, I'm here to find you to deal with the widows!"

It turned out that the leader of the Cao Gang was named Zhou Lanye, and Yi Yun kept this name in his heart.

"Dealing with the Japanese Invaders?" Little Lori Zhou Lanye shook her head: "Not much interest! This matter has nothing to do with me, this is a matter of the imperial court, and our small gang transporting grain can't get involved in national affairs." ”

"You don't come!" The Grim Reaper girl said seriously: "How much does it cost to be willing to help, report the number, anyway, I'm just an intermediary, after you make a price, I'll quote the price back, and you can discuss the follow-up yourself." ”

"Cut! You Sanjiang Pavilion want money to death, do you think that our Cao Gang is also dead asking for money?" Zhou Lanye shook his head very unhappily, the expression on his face still didn't move at all, and the whole person had a dead face: "Our Cao Gang is a good gang with ideals, pursuits, and enterprising, don't talk about money, you talk about something else, something practical." ”

"Okay. I know what you want!" The Grim Reaper girl spread her hands and said, "Five hundred handsome guys, is it enough?"

"Not enough!" Zhou Lanye shook his head and said, "Such a little person, you want to ask me to help? ”

"A thousand!"

"Plus!"

"Twelve hundred! The Grim Reaper girl shook her head and said: "According to the market price of the population, the cheapest handsome guy needs twenty taels of silver to buy one, and I will buy you 1,200 handsome guys, at least 24,000 taels of silver, which is already a very huge expenditure, and I can't add anything more." ”

"Come less!" Zhou Lanye snorted coldly: "I don't know you yet? You charged at least 100,000 taels of intermediary fees." According to your temper, you must have prepared a deposit of 100,000 taels in advance before you were willing to give me 24,000 taels of handsome guys, you look down on me too much. Plus!"

Yi Yun laughed loudly when he heard it next to him, the Grim Reaper girl did ask for 100,000 taels of intermediary fees from Cai Rou, and took 100,000 taels of commissions, and she was actually guessed by this little Lori, this guy is really a character, and everyone in the rivers and lakes has two brushes.

The Grim Reaper girl spread her hands: "You really know me, I will understand, I did get 100,000 taels of employment money from my employer, but this money is not only used to ask you to help." I also have to ask the beggars to help, so I can't give it all to you, let's just pay a price, 2,500 handsome guys, equivalent to 50,000 taels of silver, you can do it if you want, and pull it down if you don't want to. ”

"That's right. I do. Zhou Lanye jumped up from the chair and shouted to the sailors next to him: "Order all the people at Yuhang Wharf to prepare to fight with the Japanese for the sake of two thousand five hundred handsome guys." ”

Evan: "......"

He wiped a handful of sweat and whispered to the Grim Reaper girl, "What is this little Lori doing with so many handsome guys?

The Grim Reaper girl pinched him angrily, and said in a low voice: "People don't want handsome guys to do that, she wants to use handsome guys to form a handsome guy group of Cao Gang." ”

"Handsome guy sailor group?" Yi Yun was shocked.

"You've seen the boatmen on the docks, haven't you?" said the Grim Reaper laughed, "all of them are ugly." When transporting goods, it can often scare people. Zhou Lanye wants to change the rude image of the Cao Gang and re-look a group of handsome and handsome sailors, which is called building a brand image. ”

Evan: "......"

To create a brand image, Yiyun understands, this is a concept of later generations, such as airlines choosing flight attendants. Ugly women are not allowed to be wanted, and they are specially selected to be tall and beautiful, so that passengers are willing to choose the airline's plane next time they take a plane. But he hadn't heard of the sailors on the grain ship also picking handsome ones, which is too good for spoofing, right?

"If you want a handsome guy, you won't recruit? Why do you use this method to get it? "Ivan Daqi.

The girl of death smiled and said: "How can there be a handsome guy who wants to be a boatman? Isn't it more to be a little white face? Zhou Lanye went around recruiting handsome guys and watermen, but he didn't find a few for several years. Later, she was ruthless and decided not to recruit him, but to buy it! Anyway, with the handsome guy's deed of sale, he told him to go east, but he didn't dare to go west, and he was more obedient! It was more reliable to buy it, and after several years of hard work, now the Cao Gang has bought thousands of handsome guys and sailors, who are responsible for pulling business and greeting customers in several important segments, and the effect is not bad......

Evan: "......"

The Grim Reaper girl continued: "The poor Cao Gang is a gang of poor ghosts, and the sailors in the gang are all poor ghosts, and they can't afford to buy handsome guys, so ...... Other gangs often use handsome guys to offset their accounts, and they want the Cao Gang to help with the work. ”

Iyun felt like he was on the verge of collapse.

Zhou Lanye was jumping up and down very excitedly, but even when she jumped up and down, there was no expression on her face, and she had a dead face alive, and it was really rare for little Lori to control the expression on her face like her. She said loudly to the gangs around her: "Everyone, pay attention, this business can earn 2,500 handsome guys, which can greatly improve the image of our Cao Gang, there will definitely be more businessmen asking us to help transport food and goods, and we will also carry out the service of transporting people, in addition to grain ships, and then develop special passenger ships, so that we can make more money, and everyone can live a good life!"

"Yes! Gang Leader is wise!" cheered the others.

Zhou Lanye walked to the incense boat in the hall, saluted respectfully to the incense boat, and said seriously: "The ancestors of the Cao Gang are above, and I, Zhou Lanye, swear here, that I must let the Cao Gang fly to Tengda in my generation, so that the 100,000 people can distribute more monthly silver every month...... Everyone is living a good life. ”

In fact, the Cao Gang is not a poor ghost gang as the Grim Reaper girl said, and the monthly turnover of the people is also very high, after all, the transportation of grain in the north and south is all in the hands of the Cao Gang, and they also have to transport some groceries, but the problem of the Cao Gang is that there are too many gangs, and the 100,000 gangs are just for outsiders, in fact, the real number of gangs is as high as 200,000, so many people, each person will pay one tael of silver per month, which will cause an expenditure of 200,000 taels of silver. Not to mention the huge amount of money spent on repairing ships and managing gangs.

The Cao Gang was overwhelmed by the huge burden, so she tried to find a way to develop her business, she didn't care about money, but took on a small task, and earning one or two hundred thousand silver would not help such a big gang.

In addition to transporting grain, the Cao Gang tried to carry out the service of transporting people, but the sailors who looked like water bandits were so fierce that the guests did not dare to board the ship...... This business has never been big, so I have to develop handsome guys, which is really difficult to describe. ...,

After worshipping the incense boat, all the Cao Gang members in the hall dispersed, and it didn't take long for the sound of high and low trumpets to sound on the edge of the dock, which sounded like a boat trumpet, but was actually an emergency mobilization order of the Cao Gang...... All the boats on the dock seemed to come to life, and many of the boats were jumping out of the boat, and it didn't take long for the dock to be densely packed with people, all of whom were men in sailor clothes.

Yi Yun and the Grim Reaper girl followed Zhou Lanye and walked to the edge of the dock, standing in front of these men, Yi Yun roughly counted, there are about two or three thousand sailors and men here, quite a lot. In fact, this is not a lot of people for the Cao Gang, but the Cao Gang's gang is scattered along the entire channel of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and there are not many permanent people in Yuhang.

Zhou Lanye said loudly: "There is no combat profession, or the profession is first-order, take a step back!"

At least 2,000 people retreated in order, leaving only a thousand people in the field.

Zhou Lanye glanced at the remaining more than 1,000 people, and said loudly: "Okay, let's listen carefully! Let's take on a task to help the officers and soldiers in Hangzhou deal with the Japanese invaders, and if you are too timid to go, take a step back!"

"Coax!" This time no one retreated, and everyone stood firmly.

"Helper, we've been trying to fight with the Woko for a long time! ”

"Gang leader, fuck those stupid wretches!"

"Helper, when are we going to do the Japanese robbers?

More than 1,000 people shouted in a chaotic manner.

Zhou Lanye glanced at the Grim Reaper girl beside her, and said in a low voice: "I've gathered the people, what are you going to do next, you can say it." ”

The Grim Reaper girl tilted her head and said, "The first thing I want to ask you to do is to go with me and ask the beggar gang to help, and use your ship to transport the beggar gang's troops into the city!"

"Huh?" Yi Yun said strangely beside him, "Isn't the beggar gang in Hangzhou?

The Grim Reaper girl and Zhou Lanye glanced at each other, and said at the same time: "That person's tooth gang, the helm is in Suzhou!"

When Yi Yun heard this, he suddenly realized that Suzhou was in the northeast of Hangzhou, which was the direction of the focus of the Japanese blockade, and Yi Yun came from this direction, but he was blocked in the Tongxiang Oasis and could not continue to move forward. Since the helm of the beggar gang is in Suzhou, it will be very difficult to invite reinforcements from the beggar gang......

It doesn't work by land, take the waterway!