It's just that Haishang City at this moment is completely different from when Chen Zhang came to Haishang City for the first time, the current port of Haishang City is desolate, and many coolies are sitting aside, looking around boredly, with a trace of sadness and anger on their faces, and even despair.

"What about the boss? There has been no business for a whole month, and if this continues, I am afraid that all the brothers will be starved to death, and now the price of rice has risen, almost several times, and we will not be able to live at all. “

In the harbor, the coolies in the author's work area sighed, saying that as they were not capable of anything, they were all coolies

Originally, the three major families in Haishang City and some other wealthy merchants, they came here after sailing to make money, and soon they will need someone to carry them, they are the ones who complete the last meter of work, but the current situation is completely beyond their expectations, the three major families have been wiped out, so that most of the merchants in the entire Haishang City have become poor ghosts, and it can be said that Haishang City has lost a lot of money for a while

Even if there are some merchants who want to organize their teams to trade at sea again, the problem is that they don't have so much money.

Second, they were also afraid of being treated by pirates.

Just kidding, 11 merchant ships of the three major families were robbed. Do you think a merchant ship like them, a makeshift patchwork or two, can survive pirate attacks?

I'm afraid this is simply not possible

Not to mention the three major families. Under the impact of the angry merchants, the dragon king's large number of connections and resources have been scarce, which has caused the overseas trade of the entire Haishang City to reach a bottleneck for a while.

.. Even some people who want to go to sea can not find any way, and even if there are, there are only one or two people

For the entire port-deep coolie, there is simply not enough to eat and not enough to eat

"Okay, okay, don't be like this, what's the use of even if it's cold, can you put the so-called curtains. Did the merchants call them all? ”

"Who would have thought that the merchant ships organized by the three major families together would be wiped out, and no one would believe it when they say it now?"

The coolie leader smiled wryly. He never thought that such a thing would happen in Haishang City, and besides that, Haishang City was in chaos everywhere now

In the past, although there were three major families of oppression, it is undeniable that relying on the sea of the three major families, there are many people who can eat, such as a large number of merchants and other merchants who have come here to stay, to eat and consume, the ninth floor of the teahouse Qinglou can be said to carry a lot of people, provide a lot of jobs, economic circulation, so that as long as the people here are not too difficult, not to mention other drills to eat, there is no problem

Even coolies like them were able to get some food every day by pulling boats to carry goods, or at least to have enough to eat, which was completely without any problems

But now the three major families have been completely destroyed, the merchant group is no longer here, the goods are gone, and the restaurants have almost been wiped out.

In the face of such a situation, many businessmen and commercial stocks are also unable to make loss-making transactions on their own, and in the face of such a situation, they can only throw money into the ground.

In the end, the money became less and less, and the ordinary people who relied on it for their lives in large numbers fell into a state of despair in an instant, and they could only find ways to find money without seeing them. And if they don't find a way to find money and don't have a good life skills, the best way is to rob

, now the entire Haishang City can be said to be in chaos, and there are robberies everywhere. It's all messed up, messed up like a mess, and it's creepy enough. At night, every family did not even dare to open the door, nor did they dare to go out for a walk, for fear that if they walked well, they would be snatched away on the way

The whole city of modern Shanghai is in a state of chaos.

Fortunately, the government of Haishang City has great control, otherwise God knows what would have happened?

But even so, the environment of the entire Haishang City has become quite bad, and the trend that can be seen by the naked eye is constantly decaying, and it is conceivable that if no one continues to find a way to continue to improve, the consequences will be really unimaginable, but the problem is that sailing is not an easy thing.

These coolies in the harbor can only carry the harbor every day, waiting, waiting, that there may be merchant ships that will appear, but may never appear. The brow was almost furrowed

"Okay, let's stop talking about this, arrange for a few people to stay here, and the rest of the people go back, think about it, if there are other things that can be done, do a little, no matter how you are always alive, it is impossible to be suffocated by urine."

"It would be too sad if that were the case, at least we had to survive"

The coolie leader smiled bitterly and said that there was no way, without merchant ships, all they could do was to do some other work selling coolies, and it didn't matter before when they were replaced, but now there is no way to do a lot of coolies, even if the wages have fallen to an outrageous level, they can also do it, after all, they can only live if they have money to earn, and they can't live without money.

Wang Tao sighed leisurely, he was in his 30s when he was young and strong, but in fact, he was already a little powerless, now he stood up and patted the dust on his clothes, today's whole day was almost in vain, but there is no way, he has no life skills except to be able to come here to carry coolies, there is no other thing to do, even if there is a other party, he will not hire himself at all, there are many more young and powerful than himself, why do you have to give it to yourself?

Thinking of this, he sighed, turned around and prepared to leave, if he really can't do it, he will go to the vicinity to dig some wild vegetables, at least he can be a treasure, and he will not let himself starve to death, even if those wild vegetables are difficult to eat, at least he can be full, isn't it

？ If you really can't do that,

Then you can only eat Guanyin soil, in fact, Guanyin soil is very terrible, once you eat it, the whole may be strangled to death, but what can it be, at least they can live, living is the only thing they can want to do now

If you can't live, then it's useless to say anything, it's not easy to live, let's go earlier, at least in the case of a large number of people, everyone can have a support

Yes, at least everyone can have a coolie to rely on on the side, the alliance said, now even digging wild vegetable leaves is a very dangerous thing, and it is only the first to come first to win people in a hurry, not to mention others,

Even if it is killing people, setting fire to and eating people, it is something that can be done by complete classmates, and in the face of such a situation, the only way to do it is probably only one, and that is to keep warm in a group

As long as you have enough people, as long as you have enough people, even if you are a robber, you must at least retreat.

I didn't care about the surprised voices of my companions in front of me

At this moment, he stretched out his hand and pointed his fingers forward, and his voice became quite fine, sharp and excited

"Look, look, what's that?"

"What's that, that's a merchant ship"

When the rest of the people heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and their faces were full of evil deeds, obviously they really didn't expect this to be the case.

"What surprised you so much?

The rest of the people hurriedly turned their heads to look, and the next moment their mouths opened wide, and then they let out cheers of surprise

"Come and see, a ship is coming, a ship is coming"

"A merchant ship is coming"

"What ships are coming, there are merchant ships coming,"

"Either is it fake or fake?"

Everyone shouted loudly in an instant, and some coolies who were already about to leave were instantly stunned, as if they had heard some call, and rushed over quickly. There was a look of surprise in his eyes, looking along the coastline,

But I saw that there were indeed three big ships on the coastline, and these three big ships were slowly moving towards this side, although they seemed to be very far away, but in fact they could reach it quickly, and everyone's tone became quite agitated in an instant.

"Oh my God, it's really three merchant ships, it's really three big merchant ships, I didn't expect it to come on board"

"Great, great, we have a job"

"We have a job, we can make money, we can make money"

"That's great."

Many coolies were overjoyed, their eyes revealed a look of surprise, it was obvious that for them, as long as there was a legend, it meant that they could have a job, and a job meant that they had money to buy food, and money to be able to buy food.

Compared with the many coolies, they made a sound of joy, and looked at the three merchant ships that appeared on the coastline, and they were very excited, all they thought was that if they survived, they would be able to have jobs, and if they had jobs, they would be able to have physical objects, but the mine boss did frown tightly, and there was a humanity on the side

"What's wrong with the boss? Isn't it a good thing to have a merchant ship coming? Why do you have such a look? ”

The coolie boss shook his head and said, "Of course, it's a good thing that a merchant ship is coming, but don't you think it's strange?"

"Strange"

The rest of the many coolies were stunned for a moment, with a bright and excited look on their faces

The coolie boss shook his head

"It's very simple, in the past, we had a caravan of three major families here, plus a caravan composed of some other merchants, it can be said that we are all very familiar with it, but now it is completely different. Saying that, he shook his head slightly, and now our Haishang City has appeared, and now the caravan composed of the three major caravans has been wiped out, and some small merchants do not have the ability to organize merchant ships, so the question is, who are these merchant ships that appear now? Why did they come to us?"

"Can you be sure? Are they caravans or do they belong to pirates? ”