After speaking, Sanjiangshui turned around and walked towards the dock. Li Ang followed behind him without saying a word, and his eyes looked at the busy dock.

In fact, before coming here, Zhou Sheng had introduced the situation to Li Ang on the small ferry.

Senior brother Sanjiangshui has been in the triangle wharf for many years, and now he has about 300 coolies under his hands, mainly doing work similar to that of a contractor.

That is, to load and unload the cargo on the cargo ship of the Chamber of Commerce.

Occasionally, he also works part-time as a broker to introduce experienced crew members to the owner's manager.

At this time, Sanjiangshui, who was walking in front, opened his mouth and asked:

"Did you work on the docks before?"

Ang Lee thought for a while and responded:

"Not really, but when I was thirteen I sold newspapers at Yau Ma Tei Pier."

At that time, Li An was lonely, young and no one asked him to help, so he could only take newspapers from newspaper sellers to sell them at the docks.

A newspaper sells for a dime, takes eight cents for the goods, and earns two cents.

Every time a small ferry docks at the port, when the customer disembarks, he will come forward to sell it.

Generally, citizens have the habit of reading newspapers. When he was lucky, Ang Lee could sell nearly 200 newspapers a day and earn more than three yuan, all of which caught up with the wages of white-collar workers.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and within two days of selling the newspaper, he was kicked out of the dock by the members of the club who managed the wharf, and then he was taken to work in the restaurant by Li Jianguo.

While talking,

The two came to the pier one after the other.

As far as the eye can see, sacks of goods are neatly stacked on the concrete floor of the wharf, like hills.

The shirtless coolies came to the stacked goods one by one, and after receiving the small wooden stick-shaped chips from the organizers, they carried the goods to the freighter docked at the dock.

On the left-hand side, the unloading coolies walk across the five-meter-long gangplank, get off the freighter, and neatly place the goods on their shoulders on the pallet trucks that transport the goods.

Busy, spectacular at the same time.

Everything seems to be in order, revealing a fresh smell of fireworks in the world.

"The dock is where many new immigration stories begin. Hong Kong Island's rise from a small fishing village is inseparable from the wharf, the boatloads of new immigrants who come ashore from the wharf, and the boxes of goods that stay and leave are inseparable. ”

Sanjiangshui's tone was a little emotional.

"In the early days, this pier was just a haven for fishing boats and pirate ships.

After the opening of the port, the wharf came and went repeatedly, mainly opium, ordnance, foreign companies, and ghost guys, and the port was also docked by ghost warships and foreign merchant ships.

If you look at it now, most of the freighters docked at the port are Chinese-funded commercial firms.

The goods transported have also changed from opium to the specialties of the northern and southern provinces of the interior, as well as medicinal materials from Southeast Asia. ”

Sanjiangshui paused, stretched out a finger and pointed into the distance and asked:

"Do you know what that place is?"

Ang Lee looked in the direction of his finger, and the outline of the highest peak on Hong Kong Island was faintly visible.

"Taiping Mountain?"

Sanjiangshui nodded lightly, and then said with a straight smile:

"Do you know what Taiping Shan used to be called?"

He didn't expect Ang Lee to answer, and said to himself:

"Pull the flag mountain! Just listen to the name, a smell of bandits' lair...... Pulling the flag, that is, the pirates and bandits gather, the flag fluttering.

Taiping Mountain? It's just that the group of ghosts changed their names because they didn't sound good after they moved over.

...... However, it's the same whether you change it or not, the current ghost guy is no different from the pirates in the past, but it matches the flag mountain very well. ”

Sanjiangshui stretched out his finger and pointed to the sparkling sea, and looked at Li An with serious eyes:

"In fact, the wharf is just like the sea, the ups and downs are only the appearance, eternal and unchanging, always the pull of different forces...... Of course, it's not just the docks, as long as there is a place of interest, it's the same. ”

Hearing this, Li An was a little surprised that his titular senior brother could say such philosophical words.

Sanjiangshui patted Li An on the shoulder.

"You are also my junior brother, otherwise I wouldn't have told you so much."

"Got it, senior brother."

Ang Lee nodded slightly.

"Brother Shui!"

The voice was followed by a young man dressed as a coolie in a short shirt and a sweat towel around his neck.

After coming to the two of them, he first glanced at Li An curiously, and then stretched out his finger to point to the simple pergola on the dock not far away.

"Oguchi Ying is here, I've been waiting for you for almost an hour, saying that I have something to look for you."

Sanjiangshui raised his eyebrows: "Dongfuhe's?" If you don't run a smoke shop on the pier, what can you do with me? ”

The young man guessed and said:

"Are you here to move the rescuers? I heard that in recent times, Dongfuhe and Heyitang have fought several times in order to compete for the land on the dock. ”

"Just ask."

Sanjiangshui smiled. led the two of them towards the pergola.

As soon as he entered the pergola, he asked the strong black man sitting at the wooden table:

"Hello? Hidei Oguchi! Applejack says you're looking for me? ”

Sanjiangshui said, pulled over the bench and sat down, and then motioned for Li An behind him to sit next to him.

Oguchiying looked at Li An, and a hint of discoloration flashed in his eyes.

Then he hurriedly got up, took the teapot on the table, poured two cups of herbal tea and put them in front of the two.

"Brother Shui, you know, this Triangle Wharf has always been our Dongfuhe territory, and Heyi Tang is in the minibus business in Xihuan, and it is completely against the rules to come to the Triangle Wharf to grab land."

Sanjiangshui glanced at him and said casually:

"There are 12 cargo terminals at the Triangle Wharf, and there are not 10 but 8 small characters for mixed rice here. Are you sure it's your territory? ”

“...... Belch. Oguchi Ying paused, a little embarrassed.

Sanjiang Shui drank the herbal tea in one gulp and played with the cup:

"I know that I'm not a mixed name, so I don't care about your turf grabbing. Just say what's the matter with me? ”

"Borrow." has all said this, Oguchi Ying is also straight to the point, directly explaining the meaning.

Sanjiangshui put the cup on the table and looked at each other.

"Old rules! If you go through the motions, twenty, if you do it, the price will be doubled, and you will be responsible for what happens. ”

Oguchi Ying thought for a while, nodded and responded, "I want fifteen people tonight." ”

He took out Hong Kong dollars from his trouser pocket, counted three hundred Hong Kong dollars and put them on the table, and then left with Ma Tsai.

"Applejack, take the money and find fifteen people as he asks. You ask anyone who wants to go, just give them the money. ”

"Got it."

The young man known as Applejack answered, took the money from the table and walked to the chipmaker who distributed the chips.

Seeing that there was no one else, Li An got up and refilled the tea for Sanjiang Shui, and asked curiously:

"Senior brother, if Master finds out about participating in the club to compete for territory, will he be angry?"

Hearing this, Sanjiangshui smiled.

"The ruthless man with a mixed name, which one has not practiced fist and foot kung fu? As long as we don't mix with the community, don't bully others, and oppress ordinary citizens, Master will naturally not be angry. As you can see, I didn't take any of this money, and since the people below are willing to fight, I naturally won't stop them from making this money.

"Senior brother, aren't these societies claimed to be tens of thousands of people? How can you spend money to hire someone to compete for land? ”

When Li An heard this, he no longer dwelled on this matter, but took this opportunity to prepare to learn more about the affairs of the club.

After all, if he does business in the future, he will definitely have to deal with the people of these associations.

"See the coolies loading and unloading?"

Sanjiang water gestured to the coolies who were busy on the dock.

Then he said:

"Nine out of ten coolies here are people who have joined the community, as well as the hawkers and rickshaw drivers on the docks.

What Fuyixing, He'anle, Heshenghe, Liangongle, Changle Club, there are a lot of these messy clubs, and some are small clubs that I haven't even heard of.

But what's the use of this, they're just ordinary people who beg for a living in the name of the club, who will sell you your life if you don't give money? It also costs money to raise a beater, do you know how much it costs to raise tens of thousands of beaters? I can't afford to sell those club brothers.

As soon as Ge Zhaohuang died, the surname Xiang was sent out of the country, and the community was like this.

There are tens of thousands of members, and you still need to look at those plainclothes and the detective's eyes? Can the ghost still sit still? Fool it. If the community really wants to be so powerful, the Governor of Hong Kong has to salute when he sees it! ”