Volume 1, Mo Siliang Chapter 25 The storm is coming
Today's No. 76 to No. 79 streets are a little different from the past.
Because Gu Caotang's movements can't hide the eyes of most well-intentioned people, let alone in today's delicate situation.
When the Gu Caotang gang began to disband secretly, they began to be a little faintly aware of it at the first time.
Most people have long been accustomed to the change of forces taken over by the big and small streets in the city, especially some small gangs of comparable strength, for a piece of cake that is not too big, the confrontation between the two ends of three days is really sparse and ordinary.
It's just that he is afraid of the Gu Hall Master, who has a lot of prestige, and the murderous Chief Liu. Most people are restrained, even tempting to appear cautious.
However, there is always no shortage of 'stunned youths' who act as a way opener in this world.
In Uehara Castle, most of the streets are long and cover a wide area, and there is a 'pavilion guard' where it is usually separated by three or five streets.
This kind of 'pavilion guard' is a special local management method set up after the opening of the Dafeng Dynasty, and it is the same as the strange and fresh rules of the road signs, which are all attempts by His Majesty the Emperor.
It's just that, like most stillborn decrees, this is a new product that has not been verified by history after all, and it does not necessarily apply to the current situation.
The so-called northern orange and southern orange.
The peculiar existence of 'Pavilion Shou' was originally controlled by the government forces, but I don't know when it began to be taken over by the current gang forces.
These gang forces also regard this kind of 'pavilion guarding' as the 'city gate' of their own territory, setting up checkpoints to collect tolls, and identifying caravans and gangs that are not their own forces.
This has become the point of conflict between gangs that will inevitably bear the brunt of the conflict once there is a war between gangs.
At the entrance of No. 79 Street, there is such a 'pavilion guard', which has been taken over by Gu Caotang, which has gradually risen in the past two years.
The 'kiosks' who enter the street generally do not block pedestrians, but only for convoys carrying goods and vendors walking the streets.
It was only in the evening that after a motorcade entered the street, the guards in the pavilion did not feel that there was anything wrong at first, and the conflict became more and more intense.
In fact, last night, there was a very private meeting inside Gu Caotang.
The host of the meeting was the chief manager of Liu, and the content was about the departure and stay of everyone in Gu Caotang.
At the beginning, many people had a kind of trepidation about this sudden dissolution, lest there was a catastrophe coming.
The reason why they are like this is because most of Gu Caotang are from ordinary families in these four streets, and in order to make a living and not be exploited by the other street forces, they stick to the pure land of Gu Caotang.
Their persistence is simply because Gu Caotang can treat ordinary people well.
If even Gu Caotang is disbanded, then what kind of 'lawless place' will these four streets become?
Many of them grew up in this city, so how can they not know how much turmoil and purge they will cause whenever there is a change of power in a region? As members of the former force, they can imagine their fate.
Even if he joins the new forces, the treatment he receives is probably far inferior to Gu Caotang. Because they know too well how rare it is to have such a force as Gu Caotang who has compassion for ordinary people.
How can they calm down when they learn that such a hopeful being is suddenly going to dissolve and collapse?
As Gu Shuleng said: When expectations turn into disappointments, we can see all kinds of human nature.
Fear, restlessness, helplessness, reluctance and anger.
It's just that at that time, Manager Liu only said, "We, Gu Caotang, have never treated you badly, nor have we been sorry for everyone." We have a clear conscience. It's just that we're not strong enough, we're too weak. ”
Natural selection of the fittest to survive, this truth is understood by everyone.
It is because when the general manager Liu, who has always been very righteous, but is extremely strict, moves out a large box of gold and silver as severance pay, the result will be divided immediately.
Some left, others stayed.
The person who left naturally cleared the internal records, so that he could 'go out of the house' and go to the court.
There are also people who stay, according to Chief Manager Liu, they need to wait for the government to take over, and they will have a good future in the future.
At that time, in this city of this era, the word "government" would have a lot of authority. However, the county officials are not as good as the current management, and they must not underestimate the 'tacit understanding' between local gangs.
They have a myriad of 'legitimate' reasons why you might as well live as if you were dead, so that you can't survive.
Once it is annexed by the 'tacit agreement' before the government takes over, it is not difficult to guess the fate of those members of the original forces who remain in the same place.
At the moment when the result is separated, the number of people who stay is naturally very small.
This handful of people may be grateful to Gu Caotang, or maybe they are so famous that they can't wash away the records and leave. still reluctantly sticks to his post.
Before the government took over, the brief tranquility of the four streets was on them.
These three people in the 'Pavilion Guard' at the entrance to No. 79 Street are part of it.
They naturally also thought that after Gu Caotang began to dismiss this morning, these four streets would be unmanaged, and sooner or later they would be peeped at, targeted, and started a war by the rest of the forces.
I just couldn't have imagined that it would come so quickly.
What they didn't expect was that one of the parties from the conflict turned out to be a few clan shops in their own territory that had always had an excellent reputation and were not weak.
The reason was that not long after their goods entered the street, they were stolen, and several people were intercepted and killed.
Since Gu Caotang took over these four streets, such things have naturally been common at the beginning, and they can be described as inferior as a three-year-old child.
But this kind of thing can test the strength of the forces that take over a place.
In the past, at this time, only Gu Caotang only needed to show his strong force, whether you were really the victim or deliberately used it to provoke trouble. It's all suppressed, waiting for the water to come out.
At this moment, it is a time when it is overstretched, and things have come by coincidence.
In particular, when the last few shops are actually related to some forces next to them, the deep meaning of this becomes intriguing.
From the beginning to the end, this conflict naturally ended with the 'loss' of Gu Caotang's side without any surprise.
Naturally, the victor was ushered in.
Although it was farce, such a reasonable thing could not have happened in this city in the first place.
But if it is to test the reality of Gu Caotang, it will become normal.
If Gu Caotang could be as powerful as ever, those peeping eyes would become docile and honest. Once it is the opposite, it will show more tentative fangs, and even directly start a large-scale invasion.
It's a pity that when Gu Caotang's three pavilion guards were 'accidentally' killed by both sides of the conflict, they still didn't see Gu Caotang make any moves.
War is on the verge of breaking out.