Chapter 768: Blue Boat Bandit Association
"What is it?"
Song Siyuan sat in the guest room and looked at Zhu Fushun's face, this person's face was very embarrassed, as if he was nervous, which showed that the things on Yugou Island were very tricky, and he became more and more curious about the things that appeared on Yugou Island.
"It seems to mention that there is an official bank."
Yue Guanchao listened to Zhu Fushun's words, his eyes brightened, and he and Song Siyuan glanced at each other.
They had just talked to Luo Hengsen about the theft of official silver, and they immediately heard that there was silver under Yugou Island, and it had to be said that it was a coincidence.
"Brother Zhu, you speak slowly."
Zhu Fushun took out a package from his arms, and took out a calligraphy made of parchment from inside, the pages of the book were mulberry paper for bookkeeping, slightly yellowed curled edges, and the dark blue book cover on the outside was bound with twine, but it was too rough to do, and the paper edges were not cut evenly.
"This book, I found it from the old man's relics, I told you that the old man used to be a bandit's account room, and he usually has the habit of keeping accounts and writing books, these things are usually in the calligraphy and painting posts he kept, when we rummaged through them, I thought it was an old account book, and I only knew when I opened it that it was the old man's previous post, and it seemed to be called the Qingchuan Club."
Song Siyuan took the post and carefully browsed the records on the pages of the book, and as she deepened her understanding, the past of the Qingchuan Club surfaced along with the official bank.
The Qingchuan Club is a white-handed gang near Hunan Province a few decades ago!
What is the White Hand?
In ancient times, there were powerful eunuchs, and there were also three religions and nine streams, and the powerful eunuchs were heavenly people, and it was inevitable that they would be in high places, and if they wanted to do things, they didn't know how many people were staring at, and they would even be deliberately distorted to form evidence of attack.
If they want to do something, they can either buy the Jianghu people to do it, or they will raise the white-handed gang themselves, which is like the white gloves of the powerful, but all the dirty work and tiring work that they are not willing to do with their own hands can be pushed to the white-handed gang, so as to isolate themselves from the matter and not stain the dust.
If one day the East Window incident happens, as long as the White Hands Gang is cleaned up, they are still heavenly people who step on lotus flowers and wear stars on their heads, in short, it is equivalent to raising a dog that can do things and can bear the guilt!
The Qingchuan Club is the entrance of the hall pulled up by Zhu Qinghe, the old man of Zhu......
At that time, there was still a Ding Wuqi famine, and the drought in the north caused locust plagues and plagues one after another, and the common people could not even grow food, and most of them had no livelihood, so they either sold themselves as slaves and changed children for food, or they robbed their homes and became bandits.
These bandits on Dongting Lake are not having a good time, they all rely on robbing boats to survive, under several disasters, the Dongting boats have decreased a lot, but most of the people who come to the boats have saved their lives, and they can't grab much food from their mouths.
Some Dongting boat people began to go ashore, and set up martial arts halls, dart bureaus, boat shops, foot walks, and even made people to be slaves in the courtyard, Zhu Qinghe was young and strong at this time, although he was a little thin, but at least his brain was bright.
He knew that after the Dongting bandits came ashore, there was no one to do dirty things for the government, and most of these officials were unwilling to dirty their hands, and this demand would never be reduced, so through the previous relationship, he contacted the local banner man in Yueyang to supervise Fu Lu, worship under Fu Lu, and become his eagle dog.
Under the care of Fu Lu, Zhu Qinghe established the Blue Boat Club, which is nominally a boat company, but in fact it is a white-handed gang, whether it is killing people and goods, planting blame, excluding dissidents, or seeking wealth and goods, doing things for thousands of miles, and buying contacts, they can make a difference through the white-handed gang.
In exchange, these members of the Qingchuan Club will be given preferential treatment by the big men to support them, and this money is enough for these people to support their families and even buy land and property, and at the same time, their names and books have also been deliberately erased by the government, which means that all the boat people have been registered and controlled by the government, but they have no name and no register, and the government cannot find their traces.
In this way, it can not only let them get away with it, but also avoid having traces after being exposed, which is a win-win and reciprocal condition.
In the more than ten years since the establishment of the Qingchuan Association, Zhu Qinghe has done countless dirty things for the old nobles of the banner led by Fu Lu, and he has also seen the suffering of the people that ordinary people can't see, and he almost joined the Taiping Army and the Twist Army.
The most outrageous thing that these old aristocrats made them do was to rob the Hunan officers' silver.
A year in Qingzhi County, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, these big men are both bureaucrats and banner people, the old nobles, they have long been greedy, and the military salary of the whole battalion is only 3,000 taels of silver per month, which is not a fraction of their corruption and perversion of the law.
At that time, the government of the previous dynasty still respected itself as the superior country of the Celestial Empire, but the Celestial Empire was backward and ignorant, and as soon as the Westerners' strong ships and cannons came, they immediately cried and lost like a papier-mâché tiger.
And some people have been frightened by Western technology to wake up from a big dream, and finally open their eyes to the world!
Under the control of the Westernists, the shipbuilding, textile, military, mining, coal, and automobile transportation industries in the southeast have appeared in various parts of China in the form of joint factories run by officials and businessmen, and the Hunan army is a new type of regimental training of the Westernists, and because the Hunan army is much better than the soldiers of the Eight Banners Battalion, and has made the greatest contribution to the Taiping army, it is inevitable that it will arouse the eyes of the old school.
For Fu Lu, it doesn't mean much whether he is greedy or not for this money, and it is the most important thing to affect the reputation of the Hunan army through the theft of military salaries.
Zhu Qinghe is in Yueyang, how can he not know what it means to rob the military salary, but since he chose to lean back against the big tree, he will inevitably have to bear this price.
However, Zhu Qinghe is not stupid, he can also see that the Westernists have gained the upper hand over the years, and even, the southeast has the meaning of mutual protection, if he guards these old nobles, sooner or later he will have to accompany them to the funeral.
After thinking about it, Zhu Qinghe decided to leave these old nobles, and at the same time, he also found a new way out for himself, although he did want to do this for Fulu, but he also left a back hand for himself - if this thing is done, Qingchuan will cut it off with the old nobles, and the two will not owe each other from now on.
After Fu Lu agreed to this, he let the gang of the Qingchuan Club move, and after the official silver was looted, it was immediately transferred to Yugou Island through the secret passage in the water, Zhu Qinghe and several henchmen sealed the location of the official silver directly, and no one could guess where.
After that, they went to Fu Lu to restore their lives.
In their plan, this is the last time they will make white gloves for the old nobles, and they will completely stop after doing this time, and at the same time, as long as these old nobles let them go, they will exchange the official silver position of Jade Hook Island and hand over these silver taels.
Some people died, but not completely......