Chapter 056: Tangled Ximen Xiong
"The right battalion is completely annihilated!"
Suddenly receiving this news, Ximen Xiong was taken aback, and the wine glass in his hand fell directly to the ground and shattered. Although the City Lord's Mansion has the power to mobilize the city guards, once such a situation occurs, as the main person in charge of the City Lord's Mansion, he will be held accountable.
What's more, this time the mobilization of the city guard army was not for the official business of Huangsha City, but because of his Ximen Xiong's selfishness. In this way, once this matter is exposed, he Ximenxiong will not be able to eat and walk around.
The city guard actually numbered 2,000 men and was divided into four battalions. The left battalion, the right battalion and the front battalion and the rear battalion, each battalion has 500 people, and a commander is set up. Therefore, the commander of the city guard army is actually equivalent to a 500 commander of the border army.
Now, the loss of a battalion at once is already a very serious incident.
"Who the hell is it? What the hell is going on? Ximenxiong almost roared, but no one could answer him, because no one alive had returned from there, and it was him and his henchmen who really knew about it.
"My lord, could it be that someone from the brewery did it?" The henchman said cautiously.
"Distillery? Have you checked it out? Who is behind the brewery? Ximenxiong turned to look at the henchman and said.
"My lord, I'm afraid things are a little troublesome!" The staff did not answer Ximenxiong's question immediately, but said with some concern. Because since the City Lord's Mansion was ready to participate in this matter, the City Lord's henchmen and staff had consciously gathered information about the brewery.
As a confidant of the city lord, although he does not have a nominal official position, the resources and power he controls are not simple. Therefore, it is not difficult for him to obtain information about the brewery.
It's no secret that Ma Shuo is the owner of the winery. It's just that the confidants didn't expect that the owner of this winery still had something to do with the City Lord's Mansion at the beginning, but he underestimated the other party a little at that time, and thus lost the opportunity to establish a close relationship.
The cooperation between the brewery and the Qianzhongfang was also known to this confidant. Even, at the beginning, Ma Shuo found Deshenglou first, and then was rejected by the young man in Deshenglou, he found out.
Because of the cooperation with Senjufang, the scale of the brewery is getting bigger and bigger, and it has attracted more and more attention from all parties. It's just that, because of the existence of Qianzhongfang, the ordinary people in Huangsha City don't dare to do anything to the winery. Because behind the Qianju Fang is an important person in the City Lord's Mansion.
The city lord's mansion in Huangsha City, although the main power is in the hands of Ximen Xiong, the city lord. However, in addition to the city lord, there are also two deputy city lords, one is called Qiao Shan and the other is called Sun Xuan. These two deputy city lords generally do not easily compete with Ximen Xiong, the city lord, but they also have their own territory, and in the absence of obvious conflicts of interest, they and Ximen Xiong are still in harmony, at least when the forces of the city lord's mansion are threatened by other forces, they can still stand together.
Sun Xuan is precisely the person behind the scenes of Qianzhongfang. And Qiao Shan is the controller of Desheng Building. The two deputy city lords, each with a large restaurant, already explained something.
It's just that when Ma Shuo's high wine was not born, there was a conflict between the two families, but it was not big. Now, because of its cooperation with Ma Shuo, Qianzhongfang has obtained the exclusive sales qualification of Huangsha City, and it has become popular all of a sudden, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a daily gold fight.
As a result, Desheng Building's business plummeted, and although it was an exaggeration that no one cared about, it was not easy to make money. In this case, Qiao Shan, as the boss behind the scenes, was naturally very angry, and first when he learned that because of the arrogance of a young man in his own family, he turned away the collaborator who came to the door first, and directly asked this young man to be beaten to death.
However, killing a guy doesn't solve the problem at the root. Originally, Qiao Shan also wanted to talk to Ma Shuo about cooperation again, but Ma Shuo left Huangsha City and went to Zhenmanguan. Later, he knew that Fan Zeng was the specific housekeeper in charge, so he found Fan Zeng again. Of course, Fan Zeng would not agree, and rejected the other party on the grounds that the head of the family was not there.
In this case, Qiao Shan was naturally furious. So, he instructed Qiao Zheng, who was the vice president of the Huangsha City Chamber of Commerce, to find a way to secretly clean up the winery. Qiao Shan knew very well that as long as the wine shop was solved, the problem of Qianzhongfang would naturally be solved. Therefore, there is no need to face the conflict with Qianzhongfang and Sun Xuan.
Including the fact that Qiao Zheng hired those mountain bandits to participate in the robbery of the liquor shop to support the convoy, this staff member already knew something.
After obtaining this information, his henchmen didn't take Ma Shuo and his winery too seriously, because he believed that as long as the city guards took action, this time they would definitely cause serious losses to the winery. However, I didn't expect the final news that I had waited for was that the right battalion of the city protector was completely wiped out.
At the same time, another piece of news recently made this confidant feel that he had underestimated Ma Shuo and the wine shop before. Just a few days ago, a border army suddenly came to the winery, and in addition to pulling away a few truckloads of tightly covered goods from the winery, they also hung a small sign at the door of the winery, which clearly wrote the words "The barracks are for the barracks", and there was also the mark of the barbarian army below.
This sign, the merchants who are qualified to hang in the entire Huangsha City, add up to no more than one hand. Once this sign is hung up, even the City Lord's Mansion will not dare to offend easily, because once it is offended, it means that the border army of the entire town will be faced.
"Are you sure it's a barracks-only brand?" Ximen Xiong was also taken aback when he heard the news, as the city lord of Huangsha City, of course he knew the significance of this seemingly inconspicuous brand.
I'm afraid that this time the total annihilation of the right battalion is really related to the border army.
Thinking of this, Ximen Xiong couldn't help but feel a chill in his back, and a cold sweat came immediately. I blame myself for being greedy, if I hadn't been greedy, I wouldn't have sent the right battalion to reap the benefits of the fishermen, and the current situation would not have occurred.
However, it was too late to regret it.
If you don't do it, you don't stop it. In the face of the entire border army of Zhenmanguan, he Ximen Xiong did not have the strength and courage.
Make up for it, then you can only make up for it.
First of all, seize the time to reorganize the right battalion. This did not make it difficult for Ximenxiong, so he first transferred some people from the other three battalions to set up the shelves of the right battalion, and at the same time asked the four battalions to seize the time to recruit new soldiers.
In this way, with a multi-pronged approach, I believe that the loss of the city protector can be covered up in the past.
Then, it's time to find a way to get closer to Ma Shuo, the owner of the winery. It's just that, where is Ma Shuo now? According to the staff's information, it seems that the owner of the brewery has mysteriously disappeared for a long time.
Just when Ximen Xiong and his henchmen were discussing how to quickly calm down this matter, a military order from the headquarters of the Zhenmanguan Zhenbarian Army had been quickly conveyed.