Hearing this, everyone's faces became solemn, because this was something that had not been considered beforehand. And Chu Dali's eyes widened, feeling that this matter was completely out of step with the matter of talking about and discussing, but he was always convinced by the eldest brother, so he didn't interrupt him.

At this time, I heard Chu Dayuan continue: "If you usually run away and grab guns, you can call a lot of people with one hello, but there are less than a thousand core concubines who can really drive us."

At this time, Chu Dali couldn't hold back his temperament and said, "Big brother, what are you talking about this?"

Chu Dayuan waved his hand to signal him to be quiet, and then continued, "I don't know if you noticed? In the past few months, more and more people have left our River Gang, and they are all the most ordinary gang members! To put it bluntly, it's the ones who make a living through gangs!"

Chu Dali said angrily: "These people are all ungrateful things that eat inside and out, sooner or later they want to look good! Why don't I send men and teach them a lesson?"

Yu Wansheng smiled bitterly and said, "Second master, don't come up and fight and kill! Now there are people from Wu Ninghou inside and outside the city, and as soon as you start here, the inspector will come over! If the inspector can't manage it, he will blow the whistle and call people, and we can't beat those who are soldiers!"

Chu vigorously snorted and said, "Then I won't introduce jobs to them in the future, let them starve to death!" Sooner or later, they'll come back to our gang!"

Yu Wansheng said: "The second master, the problem is here! They joined our River Gang because they couldn't find food to eat, and now they leave the River Gang because they found food to eat, and this is where the big bosses are worried!"

Just like Yu Wansheng said, the River Gang is slowly and continuously disintegrating! This is already an imminent matter in front of several family members!

At the beginning, Liu Haojia treated the River Gang as a big enemy, but Zhang Shunping offered him a plan, that is, to go with the flow and solve the River Gang by hiring people! So Liu Haojia announced a lot of rules after opening the sea, one of which is that people working in his fiefdom are not allowed to have gang backgrounds! This move is hitting the River Gang's life gate all of a sudden!

The main income of the River Gang is to help people deliver goods on the canal, and at the same time monopolize some related industries. They profit from these industries while also collecting protection fees from small and medium-sized businesses. Another big income is the donation of the congregation!

Among these three items, those industries along the river have been affected to a certain extent after the opening of the sea, but fortunately, the response is not large. The boats that travel from the south to the north can still bring a lot of business. As for the protection fee, it is not much, because their main force is still on the canal, so they do not charge much.

But the income of this kind of gang is shrinking sharply! And it shows one thing, and that is that the number of people they have is shrinking!

You know, their river gang itself is formed by the large number of people! If the gang is gone, where will the river gang come from? And those core gangs with more than 1,000 people are all out of business. They have to guard the territory, collect debts, collect protection money, stand up for others, fight, and concentrate on martial arts, which costs a lot every day!

And what these people consume is to pump water from the gang! It can be said that the average number of people in the River Gang here is one core gang for three gangs, and with subsidies from other industries, the number of nearly 1,000 people can be maintained. Therefore, the loss of ordinary gangs directly threatens the status of the core gangs.

And where are these gangs gone? A large part of the enclosed territory of Liu Haojia became the wharf, the coachman, the man, etc. and was directly hired by Liu Haojia as a service staff. Even the better ones were directly hired as officials, and even directly added to the Wu'an Army. The current Wuhan Army has approached 8,000 people after expansion, and it is a real behemoth!

After these former gang members of the River Gang found new jobs, their salaries were higher than the original, not to mention, they were also exempted from being pulled out by the hall masters above, and more money fell into their pockets, so they naturally wanted to get rid of the control of the River Gang. Therefore, the River Gang is losing more and more quickly, and it has threatened the foundation of their survival!

Now there are fewer people in the river gang, and many jobs cannot be taken up, so they can only be picked up by others, and there is less pumping. The most important thing is that when there are fewer people, the momentum is weaker

, you can't resist the invasion of other gangs! What's more, there is also a Wu Ning waiting to stare at them! Having said that, everyone understands what is going on, the life and death crisis of the River Gang is coming!

So in the end, Chu Dayuan concluded: "So, it's not that we don't want to mix and don't mix, but people have already forced to come to the doorstep!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Yu Deli and said, "Actually, I also agree with the rule that the people don't fight with the officials, but now we have to fight! We can't give up the River Gang! Don't forget how many people we've offended over the years, and if the River Gang is gone, will they let us go? Which of your family's savings or your family will you keep?"

When everyone heard this, their faces turned pale, and they were speechless for a while. They all know that it may be possible for them to wash their hands without doing it, but they can't afford to do so.

Thinking of this, everyone was still a little shaken, and their minds immediately became firm! They had been in Tianjin long enough, but they didn't want to go to another country with their money. Take a lot of money and settle down somewhere else, that's the meat on the chopping board! The local gangs and government will not miss the opportunity to blackmail them!

Chu Dayuan saw that everyone's expressions were firm, so he said with a smile: "And this time, it is not that we are dealing with Wu Ninghou alone, but that there are big people in the court who support us!" It seems that there are a lot of people who have offended Wu Ninghou on weekdays, and this time someone has come to target him!"

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this! In their opinion, this is a good opportunity to get on the line with the imperial court! In the past, although they had a relationship with the government, they spent more money to keep them safe. Now that there is such an opportunity, they naturally want to seize it.

But what everyone didn't see was that their second master, Yu Wansheng, changed his face when he heard that a big man in the court was intervening! However, he quickly changed his face, with a fake smile on his face, but his eyes kept rolling.

At this time, I heard Chu Dayuan get up and say, "Mr. Wang, please come out and meet you now!"

As soon as the words fell, the curtain leading to the back hall was raised, and a middle-aged scholar dressed as a scholar walked out with a smile, and then he casually bowed his hand. Everyone saw that his appearance and dress were very ordinary, and they all felt that he didn't look like a person in the court, so they naturally had a little more doubts!